Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-14
Southern Io1ua Items
LynnviIIe.

lynnviIIe.
C. w. Wildman, the postmaster at
Lynnville, is the new editor of the
Lynnville Star. He takes the place of
Clark Brown, who has edited the pa
per for several months.
Bloomfield.
While Amos White was threshing at
the farm of resident of this COM
munity spark from the engine fell
in hay stack and the separator and
500 bushels of grain were burned. The
loss is estimated at $500.
Shenandoah.
]. @. Guthrie has just returned from
Utica, N. Y, where he purchased two
car loads Of Holstein F'resian cows
for Alba dairy. Mr. Guthrie purchased
these COWS to supply the increasing
demand for his milk in Omaha and
Council Bluffs.
Des Moines.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Preston, esS
Eighteenth street, celebrated the If
tieth anniversary of their wedding
Sunday. Many friends called during
the day and extended their congratu-
lations. They were married in Cen
eseo, I'LL.
Maxwell.
An improvement boom has struck
Maxwell; H. j. Garlock, Ed Robinson,
Marcus Smith, c. B. French, DR.. Min
gle and Ed Ernest are announced to
have the erection Of dwellings or barns
in prospect, and minor improvements
denote commendable progress going
on.
Davenport.
A young woman by the name OF
Blanche McClain, residing at 6O7 West
Second street, had the misfortune to
break her leg while roller skating at
Lafayette square. Miss McClain, who is
about II years of age, was In the
square with some friends, and they
were roller skating on the sidewalk
In some way she managed to slip
while she was going at considerable
speed and fell, breaking the limb.
oakdaIe.
Work on the cottages at Oakdale,
for the inmates OF the hospital for
tuberculosis is almost at a standstil
because of the inability to get car
penters to do the work. The contractor
has been sending to the far corners OF
the state to get men, but at the present
time. but two or three woodworkers
are at work, and all the efforts to get
masons have completed their work
with the exception of some parts which
must wait upon the buildings.
Cedar Rapids.
Tuesday night Detective Patterson
and Officers Kvapil and Murphy ar.
rested George Norris and Harry Graf
for breaking and entering the Kurt
coal office last fall. The case had beer
almost forgotten by everybody but de-
tective Patterson. After the burglar,
he discovered who had done the job
He hidea his time and when he saw two
men in town Tuesday night h,
promptly placed them both under ar.
rest. The information against TIL;
two men was sworn out before Jus
tice Nugent last fall.
Muscatine.
Filled with a strange foreboding thai
something terrible was going to hap
pen, Orville Black Of Muscatine, on q
trip thru the west as his honeymoon
awakened suddenly at 1880 a. m. in his
train near Spokane. He could not rit
himself of the idea and changed his
plans, deciding to stay at Spokane 8
week. Two hours after he left the
train, 1t crashed into a freight, TWEEN.
ty-nine were killed, 1875 seriously in.
jured, seventy-four legs and thirteen
arms were amputated at the hospita
and nearly every passenger wa.
manned. He writes of the disaster te
a friend in Muscatine.
Woodward.
another election, to- be- held Sep
TENDER 6, for the purpose of agai,
voting pm waterworks bonds has beef
ordered by Mayor Armstrong. TIL
election notice is published in thi
i~s''e Th" veil for the waterwork
had already been sunk, and the tub
ing placed In it, before the compan,
who contracted tor the bonds discov
cred al error IN giving proper motto