Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-16

C. e. Purdue has sold his paper, the
Pierson Progress, to Fred c. Freeman
of Correctionville.
Central City.
Word was received at Central City
of the death Of Otto Wolmott son OF
AR. and Mrs. James Wolmott, who has
been at training camp in Georgia
The body was brought to Central City
Tuesday evening.
Mount Vernon.
John r. Mott, foreign secretary Of
the international Y. NJ. c. A. commit
| tee. who was to have spoken at Cor
jrell College last week, has been sud
denly called to service in Europe. HIS
received a telegram last week aftel
completing arrangements for his bee
ture here
Lanesboro.
| Byron Van Raden, Company 8, 16St7
Infantry, who has been killed in action
lii France, enlisted when he was IL
years old. He was anxious to serve
and in order to be accepted declared
The was Is. He enlisted in April. 1911
He is survived by his parents, -four
sisters and younger brother.
Parnell.
Edward Knowles and brother, z. A
Knowles, of Melrose, purchased F>ranh
Cooks bank stock in the Parnell Saw
! lgs Bank and henceforth will make
their home in Parnell. They come here
highly recommended as bankers and
| usiness men and Parnell takes pleas
| re in welcoming them to our COM
munity
McGresor.
DR.. o. NJ. Enger, n representative OF
the bureau of animal industry OF the
United States department OF agrlcu!-
ture, will have office room in McGregol
and spend portion of his time here
this summer in his work of fighting
,fog cholera DR.. Enger is to have
jurisdiction over the four northeastern
counties. Clayton. Allamakce, Winnie
shiek and F'ayette.
Waukon.
Floyd Laughln, a young farmer
from near Usage who is a graduate OF
the state college at Ames, has been
engaged for the coming year as the
county agent of the newly organized
firm bureau in Allamakee county, and
has already assumed charge. The gov
eminent pays his salary, the state di-
reefs his work and the county organ
fi.ation bears his travelling expenses
and office expenses. The county agent
does not go into a county with the idea
Of teaching the people how to farm, but
to make himself useful to the farmers
of every community. His office is in
the Barthel opera house.
Waterloo.
One of the biggest road improvement
contracts ever given to an Iowa con-
Germ has been awarded to the Bryant
Paving Company. Of this city, by the
state of Arkansas 1t involves work to
the value of s1,121,0c0. The total
amount represented in the contracts
was s2.0o0,00o said to be the largest
for this class of work in the county.
The highway to be improved lies be-
tween Little Rock and the Louisiana
state line, a distance Of 1853 miles. The
Bryant company will pave sixty miles
Of the road. The contracts are the
elimination of long and spirited
campaign for better highways In Ar
kansas.
Rock Rapids.
A. H. Beckhoff was secured by the
farmers of Lyon county as county
agent and for the last two months he
has been a very busy man, as he was
Lyon county's first agent. He has
found much to do and the most impor-
ant business now is to find seed
wheat. Last yearlthere was only about
90 acres Of wheat raised in Lyon
county, but many farmers are planning
to SOW wheat, and aside from the seed
now in the county, the county agent
has already ordered for the farmers
for seed 1900 bushels Of seed wheat
from Minneapolis, and has orders for
about another LOO bushels. Many
farmers intend to SOW from ten to
thirty acres Of wheat. He finds that
the seed corn situation in Lyon county
is not as bad as in many other coun-
ties In Iowa He estimates that 1t will
require 1000 bushels Of seed to plant
the estimated acreage in the covHts