Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-06
Northern Io1ua Items

I general betterment Of pay for teach
ers. Women teaching In the city and
| town schools now draw an average OF
$40 monthly, while the average for
women In the rural schools Is $i6.5S.
Men teachers in the towns draw an
| average remuneration Of $3.50. The
value of school buildings, exclusive of
Sioux City. is placed at $19S.495. The
rural school buildings are valued at
$91,250. The balance is represented in
school structures in the various small
| towns. The schools have been operat-
ed on an average OF nine months dur
ing the last year. Attendance figures
have shown slight gain in the coun-
try and a large gain in Sioux City and
towns of the county.
Dubuque.
This is not n regular fish story
| it is the truth. catfish. weighing
seventy-five pounds and measuring
approximately four feet from tip to
| tip, was caught with a common hook
and line early Thursday morning by
d. Meyers and William Singrin. The
fish is still alive or was Thursday
noon. and is on exhibition at Hen
nessy's saloon on Eighth street. be-
said by many persons who viewed the
large fish that the catch was the larg-
est they ever had seen or heard OF
around this city.
Ida Grove.
w. r. Abel and his wife are the
premier strawberry raisers in Ida
county. Their patch commenced bear
ing the latter part Of May and for sew
eral weeks the yield was so heavy that
| it formed the entire local output OF
| enc of the Ida Grove stores. But their
plants didn't stop with the arrival of
summer as the old kind used to do.
They are of the Everbearing variety
ard have borne nice, juicy fruit all
season. Last week, Mr.. Abel brought
| TO the Pioneer office a box of these
berries and the editor and his family
had a feast on them. They We're Of
delicious flavor beautiful appearance
and scarcely a one was less than an
inch in diameter.
Webster City.
Last Saturday night in the Water
man neighborhood northeast of Web
ster City child was lost in the corn
| field. The 3-year- old baby boy of Mr..
and Mrs. Claude Allen wandered into
| the field. near the house, about 4
o'clock in the afternoon. When they
went to look for him he could not be
found. SO they called for help and
about sixty neighbors responded. They
worked faithfully and cheerfully until
about / o'clock Sunday morning when
John Loux. Oliver Elefson and David
Kastler found him sitting in the corn
| field. about mile from the house. The
parents OF course. were very anxious
and alarmed, and there was much re-
| ioicing when the little fellow was
found.
EstherviIle.
It now seems to be a settled fact
that Ryan lake must go. The board has
| let the contract for the drainage OF
the same. Attorney General Cosson
had made the statement that he would
en1oin the board from doing the work
He met with them some time ago and
made the statement that the state
would not pay any portion Of the as
! sessment. This will throw about s1S.-
! 900 on the remainder Of the property
holders to make up, The board seemed
to be willing to quit the drainage II
| there was any means OF paying back
the money already collected from the
| tax payers. The attorney general knew
Of no way to accomplish this, and the
matter was up to the board. The first
bids were too high and Engineer Smith
was empowered to let the contract
which he did, and which was approved
by the board.