Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-08
Rock Rapids.

Rock Rapids.
Postmaster Smith has received the
plans for the new fittings for the post
office.
Smithand.
The 3-year- old son of Ira ,Stratton,
drank q half pint of Kerosene and for
two Gays his life was daspaircd Of The
little one is out of danger.
Ireton.
Wednesday will be good roads day III
the Farmers Institute at Ireton. The
proposed good roads law will be dis
cussed Farmers Will seek its adoption
by the next general assembly.
Danhury.
[ BY the latter part of this week the
new Danbury electric lighting plant
will be in full operation. The plant
now is complete except for the switch
board, which is on the way.
/ Nc Gresor.
| The police of Dubuque have been no.
tilted TO help find the young daughter
! of Mrs. Lucy Mann, who ran away
| from McGregor last Wednesday night
| in company with a man whose name
has not been divulged.
correctionville.
| Prof M. d. smith. who has been act
| ing paste. of the Correctionville Con-
gregational church. has rendered his
designation and suggested to the con-
gregation that it now is strong enough
I to cali a regular pastor. Ills sugses s.
| ton was approved.
| Mason City.
Five cars of honey for California and
one car of machinery for Japan. passed
thru the city Friday over the Milwau-
kee just a sample of the coast wise
freight which is now coming this way
because of the tangle between rail-
roads and switchmen in the northwest
Dubuque.
! Both the Burlington and Chicago
milwaukee, & st. Paul railroads car
ried two coaches each on passenger
trains which passed thru this city
Friday night, bound for Minneapolis
The men. so it is learned from anthem
tic sources, were shipped thru tic
take the place of the striking switch
men i'm the Twin Cities.
Dubuque.
A new scale of wages as pertains
to the printers has been agreed on be-
tween the employers and the employees
under which an advance of 81 pei
week will be paid the men in the diff
ferent lines of work. This includes
the lob printers as well as the men en-
ployed in newspaper offices, In fact in=
cludes every member of the Dubuque
Typographical Union.
EstherviIe.
/ o% on1Y nj Sr
started to husk corn again. He hao
been patiently waiting for the snow nc
diappear, and when 1T did the ra1r
started in so it was Impossible to PICK
as the corn was too damp. 1t is ne
}lieved that half of the Emmett county
coarn crop is in the field yet. But {
few good days from now on will WORK
wonders for the farmer.
Storm Lake.
work on the Park Bros, and Major
Lacey business block mas Deen com
pleted. Park Bros, have leased the
first floor of their part 29x90. to the
government for a postoffice for a tern
1 of years. w. l.. Geisenger contemplate
buylnx the old First National Banl
building on Lake avenue and Fiftf
/ street and will rebuild it into one of the
finest store and office buildings il
Storm Lake.
Northwood.
In a. fall between two freight cars
while the train was moving, A. P. Hill
a brakeman on the Rock Island, hat
his side torn open and ribs and elbow
broken near here. His train was jus
leaving. the station and he was running
on top of the cars toward the engin
when he caught his toe and pitches
headlong down between the cars. HI
struck the coupling In such manner a
To shunt off free from the wheels. III
was taken later to his home in Ceda
! Rapids.
Traer..
Poseph Snider who owns and live
on the Theodore Ralf farm southeast O
Traer. may feel thankful he is alive
Recently he was returning home fron
I Jacob -Arter's, on horseback when j
some manner he was thrown from hi
horse. His family became alarme