Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-23

New Hampton.
City Assessor A. H. Stake has COM
pleted his final and official report OF
! the census of New Hampton. which
shows a population of 1854. gain OF
S79 since 1910.
New Hampton.
| During last Friday night burglars
entered the Carmen and Forkenbrock
! hardware store thru a rear window ana
made their getaway with several re-
volvers and knives. There is no Gle"
to the theft.
vinton.
Real estate holds its own L. A.
Grimm Of Garrison. purchased forty
acre farm OF Peter Busler. situated two
| miles northwest OF Garrison. paving
so4s Der acre. The farrl is well i'm
proved Mrs. Emma G.. Ambrose Oh
! Jackson township sold her 16G-acre
farm to Thomas Hanson foT $3.50
per acre. ssls Hanson bougaf this farm
for his son.
Sioux City.
Mrs. Abby Louise Day. an Iowa resi-
dent for sixty years. died at the home
of her granddaughter In this city, aged
IS years. Mrs. Day was born IN Maine
and travelled overland in covered
4, wagon when she came west with her
husband in 1850. They We're forced to
! ford streams and in the latter part OF
their adventurous trip troubles with
the Indians were not the least they had
to put up with.
Mason City.
| Three carloads of cattle which have
been raised on the county farm west
of the CITY have been sold for 5,991.22
1 to the Decker Packing Company of this
city and the Van Norman Packing
Company of Chicago. A. n. Grimm dis
Iposed Of the cattle on behalf of the
| county. The cattle were sold to the
Van Norman Company of Chicago for
s4,S1916 and the hogs were disposed
of to the Decker Packing Company OF
this city for S1,172.O6.
Mason City.
A strawberry that measured four
and one-half inches in circumference
was taken from her garden by Mrs
Marshall, at 1922 Second avenue. The
lberry is ripe and there are more OF
them lust as good on the vines where
this one came from. The weather has
|been of special advantage to straw
Iberries this season. While they have
grown rank, the cloudy days have hello
them back and has preserved the flavor
land body. There will be a great yielG
this season.
Fort Dodge.
Leonard Edward Smith. relie
agent for the Great Western freish
lagent at Lehigh left suddenly by auto.
mobile last Friday night and has no
been seen since. He is supposed tt
IL Is oh
his accounts Of $1s5.60 belonging to the
railroad and Of $50 in Wells Fargo ex'
press accounts has already been found
according to reports current there. The
lagent was on his job for about three
days, 1t is possible that the shortage
may be found to be greater than thu
present figures.
Cedar Rapids.
william Harrison, formerly connected
with the Central American Land ant
Development Company. has filed sui
against the company In the superio
court to collect $1.723,33 alleged to b.
due as commissions on land in Contra
America that he has sold in the Vicin
ity Of this city. r. r. Glass. manage
of the company, Is made party to tn
suit. Writ OF attachment have beel
1
accounts Of the company, by Harrison
to insure the collection OF his fee in tn
event he wins his case.
Manchester.
R. NJ. Marvin who has been for man
years the census enumerator for tn
independent school district of Man
leicester, who by reason Of these year
OF experience and close knowledge 9
;. the population Of the city. question
the accuracy of the returns made b
the assessor. D. o. Chamberlain. a
returned to the county auditor the frs
OF the week. According to the as
SCISSOR the city Of Manchester has
population OF 3.0S7. Last year whe
Mr.. Marvin was taking the census 70
the school district, the city counc
authorized him also to take the censu
of the population OF the city. merely a
source Conformation as to the actua
number OF residents. According to hi
sngures Manchester had population Q