Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-02
Northern Io1ua Items

amount Of the company's claim. The
board also directed that suit be brought
against the ex-county treasurer, who
cashed the warrant, and his bondsmen.
to reimburse the county for the loss.
The amount involved was due for
furniture installed in tho new court
house.
Fort Dodge.
The regular monthly meeting of the
board of education will be held FRI
day night instead Of next Tuesday
night. the regular meeting. time. Be-
sides the usual business to come be-
fore the board. some discussion is ex-
pected on the housing Of pupils in the
public schools next year. According r.
a member Of the school board this
morning, 1t will be impossible to handle
all Of the pupils with the present school
Accommodations for next year. He
said that it would be necessary to rent
outside rooms. Another important
matter to come before the board is the
question of using the third floor Of the
Lincoln school. 1t is claimed that this
Is dangerous because OF fire. The board
may decide not to use it,
Eidora.
That Hardin county land is not go
Ing backward in value was evidenced
this week when A. w. Mitterer dis
posed Of two forty-acre tracts Of
Upton township land at 1925 per acre.
One forty-acre piece was purchased
by Herman Orgle. while John l.. b.
Sheldon bought the other tract. The
land is unimproved, but both
pieces lie adjacent to the farms
Of the purchaser and are there
fore possibly worth more than IL other
wise situated. Mr.. Mitterer bought this
land in the Eighties" at $50 per acre.
but he has tiled and renewed the farms
to considerable extent by systematic
and diversified rotation of crops until
today the land is equal in productivity
to any Hardin county SOIL
Hampton.
Walter T. Robinson has sold his
eighty-acre farm two miles south Of
town to F. H. Mahncke for $3.50 an
acre. Mr.. Mahncke. who resides west
Of town, expects to take possession OF
his new place next March and will
occupy it with his family. This farm
was owned for many years by Ed Slee
William White also sold his l60-acre
farm on Bankers avenue to Ed j..
Knoll for s235 an acre. This Is an
other good Franklin county farm that
has been setting the price OF land
around here for the past few years
When w. L. Brown sold it to Thomas
Groom for $3.50 five or six years ago
everyone wondered whether Groom
needed guardian or not, and when he
sold 1t two years ago to White for 1908
an acre people quit wondering, and
now that White sells 1t for $235 every,
body says that 1t will surely he worth
1890 in few years--and Il Will.
Sheldon.
Contractor Lovejoy is getting his
machinery in shape for the new court
house building operations. The giant
concrete mixed operated by steam
power IL in place and a ninety-foot
crib built tower Is being erected. The
concrete as mixed will be elevated to
the top Of the tower and from there
distributed to the various parts Of the
building as needed for the work. The
building when completed will be sixty
feet high and the concrete distributing
tower will be thirty feet higher to give
fall for the flowing concrete thru dis
tributing tubes. Something like 1000
yards OF sand used for concrete
foundations is being purchased locally
from sand pits on the Armstrong and
Peterson farms. This sand. however.
will not do for the concrete doors and
upper parts Of the building. For this
nothing but washed sand will be per-
mitted and it will be shipped ip by
railroad probably from Cherokee. The
gravel will also be shipped In.