Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-01

Baxter.
Mrs. j. B. Darr, while crossing the
street to the garden, unfortunately
stepped into hole in the ground and
fell, breaking some Of the small bones
and ligaments Of her foot, causing her
much pain and suffering.
Nevada.
A ground hog that weighed forty
pounds was killed out at the Joe Beach
place the other day. He put UP a fight
that outclassed two or three dogs and
Beach had to step in with a shotgun
| to complete the job. He says that it
was the largest one that he ever saw.
Gidden.
The Greene County Telephone COM
pany is making survey this week for
| the laying of an underground cable, to
serve as trunk for all their lines in
| the north and east part of the city. The
| cable will run from their office thru the
alley north to the Smith & Son grocery
thence east past the Bee office and no.
4 tel Jefferson to the opera house. The
cable will do away with all poles and
exposed wires In the business district
1t will be incased in fibre conduit,
to protect it from the weather.
kanawha.
The original writer of an item from
Kanawha to the effect that an agent
and his wife selling pictures among
farmers in northern Iowa had an
"easy" method of paying bills by offer
| ing in payment bills too large for the
housewives to change. then leaving
| with a promise to send the due, which
would never come, has recanted. The
correspondent in question made affl-
davit that a single instance furnished
the basis for the item, and that the
Indebtedness was later wiped out ac-
cording to promise
Grand Junction.
Some one threw large torpedo
against the upper part of one OF the
large plate glass windows in the W.
ID Morey & Co. clothing store which
/ exploded with such force as to badly
shatter the glass. Pieces Of the glass
were blown clear across the length OF
the room An examination Of one OF
these torpedoes that had failed to ex-
/ plode disclosed the fact that they are
i filled with gravel and nitro glycerine
They are more dangerous than the fire.
cracker that is so generally con-
demned.
Cedar Falls.
4 Cedar Falls will soon have q new and
up-to-date boathouse that is being
RAPIDLY constructed at the foot OF
Franklin street. Seward Highly and
Henry Jordan are constructing the
building, which when completed, will
be one of the largest lighthouses on
the Cedar 1t is frame building, 1886
and has two stories, the lower floor to
be converted into waiting room, re-
pair shop and boat livery. 1t is not
vet determined as to how the second
floor will be used. At present there are
thirty boats in the livery and when
the boathouse Is completed the service
will be uneQualed.
AIgona.
A. F. Tienan, Of swea City, Is hav.
ing a hard time of it. The early par
| of last week he ran nail into his foo
and had just become able to hobbls
around again when he repeated thu
performance with vengeance. Thurs
day while working at some carpentel
work a piece of scanfling with a nal
in the end of it fell from his hant
, driving the nail into the top OF thu
same foot At the time his foot wa:
resting lightly on an upturned nal
and the fall of the scantling forced
the nail to penetrate the foot from be
, low. Thru the care of physician tn
, gentleman Is reported as on the roa'
, toward recovery.
Cedar Rapids.
81 The Two Harbors fMinn.) Iron News
> of June 26 contained the following: -
!, party of nineteen persons, all of Ceda
: Rapids. Ia, accompanied by o. 8
5 Johnston. Of that plaza. arrived o.