Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-08

Lansing.
Willard Cunningham, at English
| Bench, reports that. his corn will ay-
erage eighty bushels to the acre.
sibey.
The Sibley State Bank of Sioicy has
increased its capital from $4,000 TO
| $4,000.
| Waukon.
! D. ]. Murphy is having a huge cold
! storage plant erected near the depot
| for storing the cheese products Of the
| different cheese factories Of the county.
Sioux City.
An accident snuffed little Tony Ab-
| don's life out as he was going blithe-
| somely to school Monday morning. A
! telephone pole to which movers had
tied their team was snapped and
| era shed down on Tony's head.
Spirit Lake.
Several corn pickers from over the
| county have already started on making
| the record for 1916. The first we have
| received was of the work Of Charley
Gray who is picking for Louis Stetzei.
| On Monday he picked and cribbed his
| 100 bushels. Some of Mr.. Stetzels
| corn is running as high as sixty five
! bushels to the acre. On the same day
| Miss Lucy Vodraska, 17year-old
! daughter Of ]. J. vodraska, of Lake
! vile township. picked sixty eight
bushels, which seems to be high notch
for lady pickers.
| Manchester.
For the first time in the memory Of
| the Oldest resident Manchester passed
| Sunday without the sound Of church
| bells. The churches were closed be-
| cause of a number of cases, Of scarlet
fever, some Of which have not been
| properly treated or quarantined and
until the full extent Of the prevalence
of the disease Is determined 1t was
| thought best to avoid public gather
| ings So far the cases have been mild
and confined to children or young per-
| sons and no great alarm Is felt. The
Manchester public schools will be
closed thruout this week.
! Waterloo.
Luscious strawberries in November.
| Sounds rather suspicious doesn't 1t,
| but nevertheless It's fact e. 2. Zim-
norman, proprietor ofsthe New Hart
ford fruit farm in the northeastern
part Of the city, brought a box Of
Americas variety berries to newspa-
per office so that his statements would
| be accepted without question. The
plants were set out last spring and
yielded the first picking last August.
| They will continue productive until
extreme cold weather arrives and the
ground closes up. Mr.. Zimmerman has
been selling the berries to local grocers
for 40 cents box.
Spirit Lake. l'
L. B. Stephenson. ~;ho has been as
sisting in the county highway engi-
neer's office several months, was given
the position of county highway engi-
neer vice C. s.. Arthur. On October 49,
and will hencefor'th have charge OF all
the county road work. Mr.. Stephenson
| is a graduate OF the state university OF
| Iowa. For two years he was assistant
| county engineer Of Webster county.
For several months early this year he
was assisting in the work in Emmett
county. He Is a young man who comes
into Dickinson county With the very
best OF recommendations as 20 his
| ability.
| Waterloo.
| Millions Of game Ash are being saved
thru SEEMING ponds and other shallow
waters iniowa, according TO w. e. Al
bert, Of Lansing, superintendent OF the
Mississippi river division, who passed
thru here yesterday with 10000 youne
Ash. which will be placed in the Cedar
] river at Nashua. The fish were seinet