Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-24
Northern Io1ua Items

bers bought calves until there was a
total of eighty head. These calves
have been placed out at pasture and it
is expected that when they are mar
keted two years hence they will bring
in a nice sum to the church.
Lake Park.
p E. Guertin received from the
Canadian government at Ottawa this
week 500 in money and handsome
silver medal as a reward for services
rendered Canada at the time of the
Fenian raid in 1866. Older people will
remember the scare at that time and
how the Irish in the United States
planned to invade Canada and take it
from Great Britain. Mr.. Guertin was
a resident of Canada at that time and
served in the Twentieth battalion. The
medal is Of solid silver about the size
of a silver dollar. On one side is
stamped an English flag and the
words: "Fenian Raid. 1865: and on
the other side there is a fine profile
head Of Queen Victoria, the then ruling
English sovereign.
North McGregor.
Carl Anderson, superintendent of the
United States fishery here and his
crew of men are still gathering up
the small fish from the sloughs. The
government fish house here is fully
equipped with tanks and running wat
err. where the small fish are kept until
shipped in the fish cars from the
bureau of commerce and labor, and
placed in other streams. Mr.. Ander-
son usually comes here every SUNNI er
about June L. and superintends the
work and shipping until its close the
latter part of November During the
winter he Is stationed at the govern
ment fish hatchery at Manchester.
Spirit Lake.
John Burnham, OF Dallas county.
was caught with the goods Thursday
morning and taxed $50 and costs. Mr.
Burnham has been at the lakes for
some time fishing and hunting and
/ evidently the temptation to catch lot
of big ones was too great to resist.
He had put out something like fifteen
or twenty throw lines with from one
to four bats each the night previous
gathering his catch about daybreak the
| next morning 1t happened that Dep
uty Dave Nelson CHANGED to appear on
the scene just at the proper time to
find the gentleman, fourteen pike and
the lines. Mr.. Burnham was brought
before the warden and seven charges
filed against him. The case was turned
| over to Justice Price with instructions
to use his Judgment in pronouncing
the penalty.
Cedar Rapids.
1t has been said that the man who
! makes two blades Of grass grow where
only one grew before IL benefactor
to mankind to greater extent
than generally Is realized. BY the
same system Of reasoning the man
who makes three potatoes grow on
ground where other men could grow
| only one is entitled to a place in the
hall Of fame. Ernest Brown, of Palo
makes specially Of potatoes. This
year he raised LOO bushels on q trac,
of ground comprising less than five
acres. He has sold all except 200
bushels Of tubers at IS cents bushel
and has ready market for the re-
mainder at the same price. He plant
ed sixty-two bushels of seed worth so
cents n bushel, and did all the worI,
himself except harvesting The gross
receipts from the tract was therefore
$715, and the net profits $G65.4O. or
$1S3.2s an acre, figuring the tract at
five acres and not deducting the
!! ground rental. y