Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-24
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1 A. N. Primrose; a Newhall hardware
and implement dealer. is facing bank
| ruptcy. His liabilities amount to $780,
600. AS near as can be learned the
banks at Norway and Blairstown and
the International Harvester Company
are the heaviest losers. 1t is expect I'd
Mr.. Primrose will file a petition in
bankruptcy.
Museatine.
In session which was brief but
was made spectacular thru verbal de-
| nunciations and oratory of the usual
brand the Muscatine. city council
Thursday evening by a vote of four to
three passed the appropriation ordi-
nance by which the sum of $1,000 is
appropriated for the purchase of a hay
market site.
Wilton,
With great crowd in attendance
and with the track in fine shape con-
sidering the recent assaults upon 1t by
the weather, and with exhibits out
stripping those of former years, the
first days program of the Wilton fair
was big success. Thousands. in
Guiding many Muscatine people were
present to see the interesting race pro-
gram and the other attrac tons Of the
fair.
Muscatine.
Mrs. Mary Trueman, mother OF
Mrs. Adam Wigim, 403 West Second
street. was painfully injured Friday
morning when she fell cutting a large
cash in her forehead. DR.. E. B.
Fulliam attended the injured woman
and dressed her wounds. Altho the
injury is not necessarily g. serious one
it's effects are felt more keenly owing to
the advanced age of the patient, who
is almost 80 years old.
Belle PLANE.
With a large amount of threshinS
completed it is now possible to get
some kind of an idea as to what the
yields of oats are making. Fred Nc
Culloch has had his threshing outfit
out for several weeks and in looking
over his day book we picked out twelve
different fields that he had threshed.
The aggregate acreage was BAT acres
and the total yield, machine measure,
was 9,07S bushels or 1872 bushels to the
acre. The best average was a field OF
20 acres which went 400 bushels to the
acre, while one field of 70 acres only
made 21.9 bushels
ottumwa.
That Iowa cattle. and especially that
raised in the vicinity of Pleasantville.
is banner stock for the packing trade
is shown in the sale Of several carloads
of beef cattle to the local packing house
of John Morrell & Co. here a few days
ago. One consignment with seventy
head of beef separated the packers
from $4,000. The stock firm selling
this prize beef is Hardin Brothers, Of
Pleasantville, who ship cattle to Nor
relIs frequently. The last consign-
ment shipped here recently contained
seventy head, averaging about 1900.
and they brought q market Of $3.50 per
hundred, or $4,000 for the bunch.
Museatine.
Joseph Farirer, laborer, residing
at the Palmer Hotel, on Cedar street.
was painfully injured the other even-
ing about o'clock when he was struck
by swiftly moving freight train a few
feet east of the Mad creek bridge Mr..
Farirer was walking along the west
bound Rock Island track when he heard
the train approaching. Thinking the
train was on the west bound track he
crossed over to the east bound track,
and was Immediately struck by the
swiftly moving train. He was thrown
clear of the track and picked up in
few minutes by some men who were
nearby DR.. F. r. Halstead who wat
passing near the place at that time