Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-19

DeniSon.
A local dealer was in Council Bluffs
this week, where he was trying to buy
sleighs and hob-sleds. He received a
| shipment of sleighs last week, but Gus
toners hardly waited to tear the crates
! off before hitching on to them. The
sudden demand for runners has caught
| the factories short and as a result local
dealers can not supply the demand.
MccaiIsburg.
| C. C. Harris had a very narrow es-
cape from serious accident the other
day. AS he was standing on the steps
of the coach of the train on the new
road as 1t was pulling into the sta
ton, he was holding his baby on his
arm, when his feet slipped and he and
the baby fell between the car and
platform Luckily neither was injured
but it was a very narrow escape.
| Reinbeck.
Some of the experiences of rural
mail men are not cheering, as notice
| this from the Courier: M. l.. Brown,
rural mail carrier on route 2, had quite
| q bitter experience last Monday. He
was making his regular trip and was
returning home near w. S. Kern's when
the blind horse he was driving became
frightened and swung around in the
road SO quickly as to upset the cutter
and burying M. L. under the robes,
mail, cutter, ETC., and when he finally
got out he found his horse tangled in
a wire fence. Before the animal could
be gotten out of the fence 1t had sus-
tanned several severe cuts on the legs
Aside of the injuries to the horse there
was no damage done, but Mr.. Brown
and the mail had a narrow escape
from being burned from the upsetting
of the lantern which he was carrying
to keep warm.
Messena.
The editor of this paper knows how it
feels to be quarantined. Abuot two
weeks ago w. B. Hill and Mark Hewitt
We're taken sick with what was at first
pronounced severe cold or la grippe,
but which was a few days later pro-
nounced mild form of smallpox. The
board of health took their situations
under Amusement and Immediately
placed a quarantine upon the infected
homes and also upon those individuals
who had been exposed to the disease
numbering eight or ten. About the same
time Miss Myrtle Willoughby who lives
two miles west of town was taken mildly
sick with the same disease and her
home is also under quarantine. Almost
two weeks have elapsed and no addi-
tional cases have appeared and owing
to the precautions of the board of
health there reed be no fear of it's fur
Their progress.
Carroll.
The Carroll Muzzle Co. has ordered
three car loads of wire to be shipped
within the next few days. This is the
largest shipment of smooth wire ever
shipped to Carroll and it will be all
manufactured here. Plans for the en-
largement of this work during the com
ing year are in progress, and it is
thought that the three car loads are
but the beginning of such shipments.
Miss Alice Manning has the dis
tinction of receiving the first car load
of freight shipped to Carroll over the
new Chicago Great Western line. 1t is
a load of Lehigh coal and came in a
Great Western car No. 104S0 and is the
best looking coal coming to Carroll
this winter. Miss Manning made up
her mind some time ago that she was
going to be the pioneer shipper over
the new road, and she has succeeded.
She is the only woman coal dealer II
more than gallantry in shipping her
this car. She had no trouble In selling
every bit of the coal.