Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-06
ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

knocked to the ground and quite badly
stunned by the bolt. There clothes were
torn to shreds and their lower limb
were quite severely burned. For a time
their lives were despaired of but they
are COW on the a to reco very the
still quite sore. The and all its con-
tents except the horses burned.
Mapleton.
Charles z. Chrisman, eX-mayor OF
Mapleton, and a man who has beer
identified with the best interests of the
town for any years, is preparing TIC
move to Ortonville, Mimi, where he has
established a land, law and banking
business with r. M. Wells, formerly OF
Mapleton.
Missouri Valley.
The laying of the cornerstone for the
new NJ. e. church at Beebetown, a few
miles southeast of here, will take place
on Saturday, May 3. Rev. w. l.. Doug
las of this city will deliver the ad-
dress. The building will cost over ST.
been raised.
Centerville.
Photographer o. w. Winters, who
accidentally shot himself some time age
still carries the bullet in his body, the
x-ray showing it to be in the back part
of the abdominal cavity. 1t causes him
only slight discomfort now and In time
will probably become encysted and not
be noticeable.
Charles City.
Mrs. Matilda Waller has returned
from Washington after spending abe
winter with her brother at Seattle. She
is very much pleased with that country
She brought home a potato weighing
over three and a half pounds that is a
sample of the crop raised on land pur-
chased at $3.50 per acre.
Russell.
The workmen engaged In raising the
new smokestack at Eikenberry G. Co.'S
mill had a narrow escape from serious
injury Monday. A chain supporting
the stack parted, letting it fall to the
ground. BY quick action they were
able to keep out of the way OF the bro
ken sections as they fell.
Sioux City.
In accordance with the announce
ment given three months g the board
OIL TRUSTEES I'll lie WdtC u 10 SeiA
celed $4,000 of the bonds which We're
issl ed in 1854 by the Sioux City Water
Works Company for the construction OF
the original plant, n were ssumed
by the city. This reduces the bonded
Indebtedness of the waterworks from
$685. 0 to $4,000.
odebolt.
Superintendent Huttan has devised 4
plan whereby all the rooms of the en-
tire school building can be dismissed al
the same time. This is an excellent
plan, as 1t renders possible to clear the
building in a comparatively short time
in case Of fire. He has drilled the
schools in fire alarms, so that the pu-
pills will not know whether it a true or
false alarm.
Cedar Falls.
Friday was the day for minor acct
dents in this vicinity. The little A.
year-old son of w. 1. Secor, while play
ing In the yard in front of the lawn
mower, caught his hand in the machine
and cut two fingers off at the first
joint. The little daughter Of James
Shelley, while going about the neigh
pOTnoOu Oh Her HoiHe VIII soiiie So''
panions, hanging May baskets, fell into
a hole by the side of the walk, sustain
ing a fracture of her right arm.
Denison.
Last Wednesday Mr.. Hans Christian
sen met with an accident while at work
in Scott Wheeler's blacksmith shop. He
was sharpening a plow shovel on the
emory wheel when the shovel slipped
from his hand and was drawn down
wardby the wheel. The loint of the
shovel went thru his foot just above the