Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-15
Northern Io1ua Items

Livermore.
The Fred Eells farm east of Liver
more, which has been run by Seymour
Hunt the past season, was sold this
week to p. G. Davis, who has been
rnning the John Hooper farm, near
Ottosen. The farm consists of 24O
acres. and sold for SIS per acre. Mr..
Davis takes possession next March.
Mason City.
A. w. Harris, agent for the Iowa
Central, was held up neal. the depot at
o'clock in the morning by two men.
He was struck a stunning blow over
the head with a club but was able to
get away and ran to the depot. He
had returned ON a, midnight train from
to his residence.
Sac City.
A farmer near Sac City recently de-
livered twenty-nine dozen eggs to a
Sac City merchant, who found that
seventeen dozen of them were bad. e.
G. Hinshaw, state food and dairy in
spector, who heard of it, caused the
farmers arrest and he was fined So
and costs. 1t pays to be careful about
what kind Of eggs are offered for sale.
Hawarden.
An effort will be made by the friends
Of Albert E. Crane of Hawarden, one
of the seven West Point cadets dis
missed for THE hazing Of Robert Sutton.
to secure his reinstatement OF the
eight dismissed two years ago for
haZing, six were afterward reinstatsd
and this fact gives Cranes friends
hope that President Taft can be in
duced to allow him to complete his
course.
Renwick.
There have been accidents galore
within the past week: Charles Baggs,
of Hardy, broke an arm and rib;
George Carlson caught his thumb in a
corn shelter and had it torn and dis
located; Henry Hefty fell and badly
sprained his ankle and otherwise in
jured his leg; Verle Winter, while fix
ing 'wringer, caught his foot in the
cogs and lacerated it badly; Ben
Bjornson had his hand badly torn by
getting it caught in corn shelter.
Waterloo.
Members of the Chamber Of Com
merce and Waterloo Club and the citi-
zens of Waterloo west generally have
accommodations for the travelling pub
lie. Petitions to be presented to the
management of both the Rock Island
and the Great Western railways are in
circulation, praying that an enlarged
present Inadequate structure on Bluff
street, between Fourth and Fifth
streets west.
Sioux City.
Creeping out across the running
beard of a. swiftly moving engine on
the Omaha railroad, Fireman M T.
Chilson stepped upon the pilot and
grabbed a 7-year-old boy from the
middle of the Floyd river bridge, saw
ing him from instant death. The train
was running about twenty-five miles
an hour when the engineer spied the
lad in the middle of the bridge. He lp-
piled the brakes but they failed to
work. A movement is on foot here to
secure Carnegie medal Tor Chilson.
Spencer.
Trying to do the Good Samaritan
act for a fellow townsman got Editor
Robinson of the Royal Banner and Mr.
Scoop. cashier Of the bank in Royal,
into trouble at Spencer. Injunction
proceedings had been brought against
Royal citizen for the illegal dispen-
sing Of liquor and the case was up be-
fore Judge Coyle in the district court
at Spencer for trial when Messrs. Rob-
dson and Scoop appeared on THE scene
with lengthy petition from their horne
town praying for leniency in favor OF
the accused. The judge did not take
kindly to the Interruption and AFTER The
petition had been read to him, sur
prised the bearers thereof by assessing
a fine OF $25 against the banker and
giving the editor severe tongue LASH