Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-22

AdaviIle.
Otto kastner died at the home of
his son. Albert kastner. near Adaville.
on Tuesday, after three days illness
following stroke of paralysis. He
was about 60 years of age and had
lived in Plymouth county for thirty
five years.
Mason City.
So weak that he could not walk.
Oliver >Skeveland, was taken to the
hospital almost dead from nose blead
which malady he has been the victim
of for three weeks. Several physicians
have been in charge of the case and it
seems impossible to check the hem
orrhage.
Ida Grove.
During q storm lightning fired and
burned fine new barn on the farm
owned by Mrs. Matthew j. Foster in
Garfield township. About eighteen tons
of timothy hay was burned with the
barn, but no live stock was lost, as the
cattle and hogs in the barn all ran out
Of the burning building. The barn was
insured for 5000.
Akron.
hobees and toughs coming in from
South Dakota. They stop off at Ak
ron, get full of booze and then want
to run the town, but they can't do it
as long as n. s. Moore is mayor and j.
W. Anderson marshal All the prison
ers in the county Jail at present have
been sent over from Akron.
Lone Rock.
The most interesting action thus
far taken by the court was the inn
position of a fine of S25 and costs
upon Hugh Bronson of Lone Rock
for contempt of court. Bronson is de-
PENDANT in a foreclosure of mortgage
| case wherein E. j. Murtagh is nominal
plaintiff, the Lone Rock Bank being
the real party in interest. Plaintiff sues
on five promissory notes.
coIfax.
| Corn huskers who boast of their abil-
ity to crib the yellow nubbins should
listen to the testimony of Iva Brock
a farm hand on the Meckley farm four
miles southeast of Colfax. One day re-
Gently he husked and cribbed 147 BUSH
els of corn in ten hours, and declared
that he will forfeit 800 to any man
in Iowa who can defeat him in an old
fashioned corn shucking contest.
GAINESVILLE.
| 1t looks as tho the efforts to save
game fish. made recently by Warden
Yordy and local fishermen, were al
thrown away, for the river rose or
Monday ITO the highest point it has
been this year, thru the heavy, con-
! ~oi, oF no la
| fish have been enabled to get into the
low. places on account of the overfiows
and will be left there to sreeze. The
same thing holds true at other point.
where the warden has been at work
LeMars.
Marshal J. w. Anderson, of Akron
was in LeMars in charge of a pris.
oner, James Carroll, whom he turned
over to Sheriff Arendt. Carroll wa.
sentenced to thirty days Imprisonment
in the county Jail on a charge o.
drunkenness and disorderly conduct
He is a big tough and when Mayor
N. S. Moore went to arrest him, in ths
iabsence of the marshall Carroll slugget
his honor. He was overpowered ant
placed under arrest and given trial
Pomeroy.
B. r. Legg recently suffered a los
that runs into big money. Twenty-fou
head of sheep, fifteen of which wer
full grown and ready for market
Z We're killed by dogs within a few
nights. One morning he discovered si1a
several of the animals We're dead, AM
the next night he watched for TIN
marauders, but none came. Anothe
night he stayed up until - o'clocl
when he concluded that the dog
would not be back, But he had jus
retired when he heard a disturbanc
in the sheep lot He wasn't able t
shoot any of the dogs.
4 Fonda. ~
Jake Spielman and Basil Riley wer
A putting some finishing touches
the bottom of a cistern Will
others were filing in around tn
d arch with clay. which was, prets
Wat aud haavv az o. sns1dan r.aL