Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1909-02-05
IOWA
NEWS

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sold for $7s.72o.
| Manchester is to have revival ser
vices conducted by former yegg-
man.
4 There were go of the $500 inhabi-
tants of Madrid at booster banquet
at that place few evenings ago.
The horse lovers Of Mason City are
arranging for race meeting next
summer. Some $1,000 will be offered
| in prizes.
l. During the year 1908 the creamery
at Woodward received l0,50S cans Of
| cream and paid out in cream checks
s75,S75,97.
The government has decided to To-
cate a clam hatchery at Fairport, near
Muscatine, and will spend $4,000 on
the plant.
Word has been received In Iowa
that the tenth annual picnic Of the
Iowa Association of Southern Califor-
uia viii be held on Monday. February
%, at Los Angeles.
A campaign has been started by
Iowa, Dakota, Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin Germans of the Methodist de-
| nomination for anu endowment fund
| for Charles City college at Charles
City.
The city campaign is warming up
in Iowa City for the election on
| March 49, The adoption of the Gal.
weston plan is to be considered IL the
| legislature amends the law, making
| it applicable to cities the size Of Iowa
City. ...e
The Newton Daily News has pub.
lished document which was made
out in 1876, locating the seat Of JUS
tice. 1t Is the report of the commits.
sioners selecting the site, being an
affidavit sworn before a justice Of
| the peace.
Spontaneous combustion caused
| tire to start in coal bunker in the
| basement OF the Fleming building,
| the tallest building in Des Moines,
| and for nearly six hours the janitors
| worked to extingrlish it The build
| ing filled with fumes from the burn
| ing ccal, but few occupants knew the
| cause. There were eight tons in the
Will Mitchell, son of David Mitchell
Of Murray, one of the pioneers of
! Clarke county, was buried in SNOW
| slide in the mountains of Idaho
| January 8, and his body was not
| found until January %. He was herd
ing sheep and was evidently resting
with his PONY in the lee of noun
tain when the slide caught him.
| Emery, a small station which has
been located midway between Mason
| City and Clear Lake, has about pass
ed away. At one time it boosted OF
population of seventy-fve persons.
| The power house of the interurban
| railway and other buildings Of the
| read are about to be removed. The
postoffiCe has been discontinued and
many OF the inhabitants have moved.
An unsual operation was accom-.
! plished at the Ottumwa hospital
portion of his tongue removed. Not
withstanding the loss the patient was
able to tell his physician how he felt
and is able to taste as well as ever
The cause leading to the operation
| is thought to be cancerous growth
at the side andl toward the back of
the tongue.
In the resurrection whose wife
shall she be" was not only puzZler
to the Sadducees, but just as puzZ-
ling to DR.. w. w. Carlton of the
Methodist Episcopal church of Mason
City when he was called upon to
preach a funeral sermon where two
husbands Of the deceased wife were
present as mourners The doctor
didn't exactly take the above for a
text but he had great trouble in d.
secting his thoughts in another chan
mel. .E
T. J. Kleven, who resides near
Joyce, was blasting stumps with
rowder, using ground rock as a slug.
He had lighted fuse but it did not
go and he thought it was out and
stepped up to examine it. AS he was
bent over the explosion occurred and
his face was terribly lacerated and
it ives at first thought he was blind
ed. It is now thought barely possible
that partial sight of one eye may be
saved and he has been taken to Iowa
City for treatment.
Vernon Westlund of Davenport
still has two good feet under him in
spite of the fact that he was recent
| ly reported to have LOST both legs in
railroad accident near Brighton
Thereby hangs a tale. Vernon has a
rival for the good graces Of a young
lady to whom the letter came an
nouncing Vernon's misfortune. The
rival evidently thought the young
woman would have no use for man
with two wooden legs. The letter
called young Westerlund's relatives
post haste, only to find him alive and
we'll. He came home with them, anG
his rival-the villain of the drama
has made his exit from the stage.
A Mr.. Wagner. a representative Of
DR.. Gunsaulus of Chicago, has been
in Clear Lake trying to arouse inter
est in the establishing Of a summer
Bible school similar to that at Win
ona Lake. DR.. Gunsaulus promises
to attend and bring quartet choir
with him.
The Iowa house committee on rules
has drafted new section forbiddine
tipping The rule was caused by re
ports that some of the pages were
asking to have their palms crossed