Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-06

I Iowa City.
Charles H. Warner a rural mail car
rier was seriously injured in a runa-
way accident Wednesday morning. He
was badly cut about the head and
| face.
keokuk.
Louis Thorpe the civil engineer from
Boston, who has been in the city the
past several days looking over the con-
ditions favorable to the water power
is still engaged taking soundings at
various places on the river.
Dubuque.
Ben LANCE, aged eighteen years. re-
| siding on the Broadway extension, did
not know his gun was loaded, and now
| he has badly furrowed cheek and a
ball passed BlooJ'tpoisoning is feared
Mt. Pleasant.
Wililam Hall, the colored boy who
was indicted by the grand jury for
stealing a suit case from the passen-
ger station recently, plead guilty in the
district court this morning and was
sentenced by Judge Smyth to the
state reformatory.
Sexton.
A family named Myers north of
Sexton have been found in destitute
circumstances and relieved at the
county expense by Supervisor Hall. A
mother and seven small children and
an old man of 81 constituted the fami-
! ly since the departure of the wretch
of husband and father after he had
sold off the years crop and pocketed
the money.
Denison.
Sand, just plain ordinary Iowa sand,
promises to make Deloit in Crawford
county famous. Sand by the carload
is being shipped from that point daily
] to the great glass factories of Pitts
burg, Pa. 1t is declared to be the
! finest in the world for making glass.
Deloit is one of the Oldest towns in
the state, it was settled by the Nor
mons in 1876, and for years was the
county seat Of Crawford county.
Whiting.
Thirty young men Of this city en-
joyed Coon supper here Wednes-
day night that proved to be quite All
event Walter Patterson, local
butcher, had prepared a 36-pound
coon for shipment to Sioux City, but
the animal was purloined and after
the animal had been prepared for the
table the owner was invited over to
participate in the feast. Speeches were
made and a general good time enjoyed.
Fairfield.
Jackson j. Parsons, one of the oldest
re- Of loft
ty, died at his home in this city the
evening of Thanksgiving day, after
protracted illness. The lease
on the new hotel which the Stubs
Bros. are erecting on North Main
street has been assigned by Sylvenus
Cornell to F. S. Cooper. 1t is three
story structure with twenty seven
guest rooms and will be opened about
February LIST.
ExIine.
i T. w. Oden met with a painful acct
dent Saturday while working in the
timber with his two boys making
props. He was at work little dis
tance from the boys who were saving
a small tree down and they let the
tree fall in the direction of their fa-
ther, not thinking it would strike him.
He was nearer than they had calcu-
lated and was hit on the head and
knocked down and was unconscious
for spme time. A cash was cut in his
Burlington.
Twenty-four years in the service of
one railroad without missing MONTH
~ pay check in all that time is the
remarkable record of w. G. Wagner,
the new Iowa division freight agent of
the Burlington road In addition,
Mr.. Wagner's railroad career has been
entirely with the Burlington, and De-
cember /, the day that he came to
Burlington to succeed w. H. Hill,
marked the twenty-fourth anniversary
Of his railroad service, which he start
ed as a messenger boy in the office at
Shenandoah.