Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-03
Southern Io1ua Items

Elliott.
Ray Ritner. the popular assistant to
Manager Mclean al the Green Bay
Lumber yard. had the misfortune TO
have both bones in his right ankle
broken by being struck by bunch of
shingles.
Mt. Pleasant.
Nj. Pleasant Is livening up. A new
high school building and a theater are
under way. an ice plant. cannery and
a mi.t.n factory have been installed
his summer and preparations are be-
ing made for street paving.
Montrose.
Charles Brown. sr.. who resided
three nilas west Of Montrose died at
his nome of dropSy He came 70 Lee
I county in 1S.4 and had resided on his
farm near Montrose for the past fifty
FEARS He had q family of eleven chill
d-sa, several of whom are living. He
was 80 wears old al the time Of mis-
death
4 sisourney.
! The sigourney Electric Light &
Power Company have sold their plant
and everything pertaining thereto TO j.
/, f Bray Mr. Bray viii start isnnle
Fdiately after taking possession, con-
structing an entirely new electric light
ing system in the city. with twenty
four hours electric lighting and SER
: vice. The new plant VIII be located
IN the vicinity of the Rock Island de-
+ pot.
Sidney.
Sidney suffered fire last week
when the home Of William Splitter
was consumed by blaze of unknown
origin Mrs. Splitter and children
were away from home and there had
been no fire in the house for several
days. Mr. Splitter was awakened by
the neighbors barely in time TO save
him from incineration. A small por-
ton of the furniture was saved, but
il is a heavy loss.
Eclarnda.
Thomas Coon, OF Clarinda, who has
been in the employ of the Clarinda
Butter and Egg Company, has con-
tessed 20 the theft Of large quantities
of postage stamps, and his father has
made good the cornpanys loss TO the
extent of $500. There is still said to
! be a deficit in the stamp supply OF
about 500. Young Coon is under
bonds awaiting the session of the
grand jury.
years.
Bonaparte.
Joe Chenoweth has retired from his
duties as mail clerk on the D. NJ. and
K. He was not only a veteran mail
clerk. but a veteran in the civil war.
He served his country in war and in
peace and he did his duties nobly and
well. The position which he held was
not or1e ii rrhich he would come in
contact with many people along the
line, but those whose acquaintance he
: formed, postmasters, and deputies
railway men and others, are his
friends. They like Joe Chenoweth. 1t is
said that he has been economical and
II that he has home and enough to keep
! him comfortably during his remaining
Fairfield.
NJ B. Humphreys of Cedar township
reports wheat yield of eighteen bush
els and an oats yield of thirty-four
bushels. Ed S. Thomas, of Cedar, had
a field of oats which averaged thirty
eight bushels to the acre and then
, much of 1t was lost because it could
} not be cut until over-ripe. Vance Palm
! of Center. had sixteen acres Of oats
[ which gave an average yield of thirty
) three and a third bushels. j. NJ. Fish
, er's oats, Center, averaged thirty.
; three bushels. Steward Moses Kiger OF
7 the county farm. had an average OF
twenty-tw bushels Of oats from thir.
+ y acres.
! Des Moines.
Before the Mortified gaze of the
] crowd standing on the corner of Sixth
and Locust streets a horse belonging
Ito George Grier, 1907 Fifth street. was
struck by a broken trolley wire ane
instantly killed, while Grier narrowly
escaped an awful death. Under TIL
stress of the heavy traffic of the pas
few days. the trolley wire at tina
place had become defective and while