Rock Rapids Reporter (Newspaper) - March 19, 1903, Rock Rapids, Iowa VOLUME ROCK MARCH NUMBER Postponed Public m II On account of disagreeable weather Wednesday 1 the sale of the estate of James 1 il has been postponed until 1 March 24 I j WILL BE A DO YOU Want a Good Farm with well and other im where you find good fine water and ex grass for your cattle where you can make more than a comfortable and where the land will more than double in value in a few years IF YOU DO TIMES OF Rock Island System TIME ROOK IOWA The Right Road to and from and between CHICAGO LOUIS MEMPHIS PEORIA OMAHA DENVER COL SPRINGS FORT WORTH PAUL Come up and examine our We Treat Everybody Right We Sell What we Show You We Deliver What we Sell We Have Acres All improved farming mostly in Campbell South the Famous Hard Wheat Belt i These farms were never before placed on the and are situated near the new extension of the SOO LIKE from to the Missouri river in Campbell and near the now extending its line northwest from On account of these two going through our land is certain to double in value very Take advantage of the present Low prices while you have the opportunity i KANSASCITY and everywhere RAINS LEAVE ROOK RAPIDS AS FOLLOWS Except am p m am Juily Except u m iv m For sleeping car apply to any Hock Island Ticket General Passenger Lines East of Missouri rf WE HAVE The richest The purest The best grass in the and the land to sell you at prices that will sur prise to per Acre We have several Very Choice farms joining town sites of the new which are now but we will let them go with the rest at tempting The distances from railroads is from one to six miles and mostly from one to four Our lands ore nearly all and are absolutely fine Come early and get your We invite Best of General Agt Rock Iowa Rubber Boots I wade around in the mud and spoil a good pair of shoes and get save a doctor a pair of Snag Proof and Crack Rubber Boots V t Remember new Three municipal Tickets of a Two and a treasurer are to be elected at the annual municipal election March and that the af fair will not be entirely uninteresting is shown by the fact that there are al ready three tickets in the and if the plans of certain democrats do not miscarry a fourth will be added to the official The socialists were first In the field with their and they have named North to succeed His running mate is while the cilice of treasurer was not The next to shy their castor were the who hold their caucus Monday The meeting was called to order Miller Church was named for chair Smith was selected for secretary and Parker and Norton as Nominations were called for and the names of Hampe and lioon were placed before the A ballot was had and resulted as follows 43 32 25 The nomination of Cox and Hampe was made For the office of city treasurer but one that of was sug nomination was made by Miller was contin ed as committeeman for another year nd he was authorized to fill any vac noy that may occur on the The citizens caucus was held at the house last evening and for alder lan Cottam and Egbert ere The meeting was called o order by Roach in the absence f the regular George ilman was named for chairman and Smith for A call was made for nominations and Cottam and Ramsey were Roach stated that Ramsey was absent from the city e would take it upon himself to state lat the latter did not desire a place on ic ticket and asked that his name be This was complied with nd the nomination of Cottam nd Egbert was made by or city treasurer Smith was amed and tils was also by Committeemen or the ensuing year were chosen in le persons of Bradley from the camp and Roach from ic The meeting then ad Illinois NORTH Sioux Falls nm Local am SOUTH Local Local p m Chicago p m 002 makes close connection at Tara for Paul and 000 close connection at Storm Lako 1ura for Des and the NORTH I SOUTH am I pm Time Table Great Northern Railway From GOING m Sioux m n GOING m Sioux Except m Except m Through sleeping car service dally to ant rom and Great Northern at Trains depart from as follows GOINO Might am Day nrn GOING Dally except p m except Local A PHYSICIANS AND BOOK Office over Kaplans Drug Call promptly attended day or Telephone 60 Carters residence 118 PHYSICIAN AND BOOK Office over First National and Homeopathic Physicians and 01 floe ut one block west ot electric Ugh over Iowa C office Office ove er oppo Hours f rota pp tp J owe Blood eredm hasm Fireman Elect Eckliff was reelected chief of lie fire department at the meeting eld Friday For first assistant hief Nagle was and for he position of second assistant was The differ nt companies also reported their new Ulcers at the same time and they are follows Hose Company foreman assist ant foreman Frank Hose Company fore man assistant foreman Hook and foreman assistant A committee eom of Dietrich Penman was appointed to wait upon the city council and request hem to allow the chief a salary of not ess than per which was also asked in a resolution unanimously adopted by the The com having in charge the late annual ball of the department reported the net receipts to be which was divided among the several com After the serious business of he evening had been disposed of the newly elected officers produced the necessary funds for a banquet and for some time there was a feast of reason and a flow of the bottoms south of Libbys stables were Before the water was Most of the ice that remained in the river went out during the night but there was no damage although the Rock Island lost a couple of cars of timbers that had been used by the bridge men at the time of the recent installation of their new steel struc ture and which had not been removed from the bank of the Some of the timbers lodged in the trees and can be recovered when the water re but much of it down the river and will make good fire wood for the farmers who live along the The Rock Island lost u piece of track between here and Lester and so far there has been no trains over that line from the It was also said that they suffered some near the tow n of Lester and also near Granite where their track follows the course of a small stream for some The Illinois Central was about on but passengers from Sioux Falls reported several places where the track was in bad shape and the train was compelled to run very The Omaha was not bothered to any considerable extent and the Doon train went north as Had a Cousin Rock Rapids people who have been reading in the daily papers the ac count of the murder of the man Bur dick at will be to know that the gentleman was a full cousin of Pierce of this city and was well known by the latter gentle who had visited at the Burdick home during a trip to the east in re cent At the time of the visit Pierce was shown over the home of the and describes it as finely furnished and apparently containing all that human hearts could He visited the den where the killing occurred ahd where the murdered man was in the habit of spending much of his time while at While at the Burdick home Pierce did not meet but nothing in the con versation of the cousins or of any other of the relatives hinted at a dis agreement of the husband and which has been so prominently men jn and Pierce was impressed with the idea that it was a very pleasant He is thoroughly of the from an intimate acquaintance with the dead that the story cir of his being on terms of inti macy with members of other families is and that this is not the reason for the Shipped Stock Keck Wold shipped to their North Dakota ranche yesterday four hundred head of young cattle which they have had in their yards north of town for some and which were picked up in small bunches in Sioux City and in this The cattle were an extra fine lot and aver aged 873 pounds each at two years The cattle were driven to Lester and shipped from that point over the Great The owners also took with the herd five of the eight head of thoroughbred Herefords re cently purchased in and will place them on the In the lot were three bulls that were possibly the finest specimens of the breed ever seen in this One of the ani twentyfive months tipped the scales at another somewhat younger at and a yearling weighed The remaining three animals of those purchased have been disposed of to local Nearly a The rain of last night was one of the heaviest which has ever visited this section so early in the year and owing to the fact that the frost has not yet gone out of the ground the water caused no little inconvenience to many There was a par heavy fall of rain between 8 and 10 oclock and soon after the water la Moon creek went on a tear and many of the inhabitants of the flats were compelled to move out for a Some of the houses had as much a foot of water over the floors and con damage was done to carpets Boating was good a time and removed several of the residents of the low ground to a dry spot and he was also the means of stock of several of the v This morning the water In the river id lit nan Extraordinary Newspaper The Iowa State not only Iowas greatest but one of the great weeklies of the and paper which should be in every home of the has invited us to assist in gaining new subscribers for that Until April 15th we are enabled to offer you the Iowa State Register and the Reporter for pe This offer is good only to Apr Send your order at Those who have paid already for the Be porter we will send the Iowa State Register one year for 25 if order is received at To the Township Clerks of Lyon The Board of Supervisors have pro vided a set of books for each to carry into effect the new rood law Also the new road law itself in pom These books and the set should be secured an placed before the trustees at the meeting which will enable each board to start oat right under the as these books contain all the informa tion there is on Call for them at the Auditors office County Auditor COUNTY terns From of Interest Gleaned County Larchwood Leader The Logan Telephone have ordered for thirteen miles of their There are seventeen members in he new company which has been and officers talk of a band and a ball nine tor 10 coming The town nd wants We have a good ase ball and a good band the town The ons are now for Doon Press Gillin have sold stock of general merchandise to of The inven ory is now in progress and will be tomorrow after which the ew proprietor will take marriage of Otto to ora Lewis at the home of the brides arents on Wednesday afternoon was a cry happy About thirty vc invited guests were present to con the bride and groom and all enjoyed the delicious and well such as the good of farmers know howto The young couple are well and highly respected in this and have the best wishes of many friends and relatives for a long nd happy They will remain on Lewis farm the coming Little Rock FreeLance A number f pieces of mail were received at the ocal last Saturday that had een opened by the robbers at Cedar So far as known no one here ost any thing of ciis reant who has no fear of a womans the law or punishment in the ext visited Argos en house last evening and four of her fine blooded caving in their stead one measly without tail Savings bank will open for next at which ime the state bank examiner will be ere to see that the requirements law have been The afe for the bank yesterday and was placed in the building the where the bank will do fo ilot is certain y finely constructed and and it would seem that it is absolutely burglar In wood Herald Ax of the Inwood us that this institution will business in the near an enforced idleness of several owing to a few hand separators being put in on his best milk Nordmark believes that it will be to the farmers as well as to begin making butter few years ago the Inwood creamery lid a thriving of ounds of milk were received every and the money paid to the farmers within its which extended or many miles in every amounted to several thousand dollars During the summer and the town would be filled with farmers bringing in their milk from early morning until noon and 3ut quite a number on the best routes began testing the hand separa and making butter at This was the real cause of closing the Not enough separators had been placed to justify Nordmark establishing a cream and yd enough were in operation to cripple the milk Nordmark thought best to close down for a few years until farmers began to realize the mistake they were making in Abolishing the dairy and ing her with the beef Hives are a terrible torment to the little and to some older Easily Doans Ointment never Instant permanent At any drug 50 THE OLD
