Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-10

Knoxville.
The May term of the district court
has opened at this place with Judge
Nichols on the bench. The docket en-
braces thirteen criminal, 1874 civil and
IS probate cases.
Creeton.
Idle men are being recalled by the
Burlington road and put to work on the
Creston division. Two steel gangs have
recently been sent out. and it is eX-
pected almost 100 men will be added to
the section force.
Altoona.
Will Casebeer who IS sinking a shaft
on his farm west of town discovered
mark of the glacier period the other
day AT depth of about eighty-five
feet they struck what turned out, up
on investigation. to be a tree standing
in a perpendicular position and per-
fectly preserved in every way. Mr..
Casebeer intends removing the tree If
possible without destroying any of its
parts.
Rome.
The woodmen of the World at the
White Oak cemetery unveiled the
monument OF the late Sovereign John
Ford. The lodge marched in a body
to the cemetery, after which the un-
yelling ceremony was read by Council
! Commander r. w. Swales, after which
! Master of Ceremonies. A. Lieb of Bur-
lngton, unveiled the monument. In
few we'll chosen words the Rev. C..
H. Schleh, of Omaha, made the adj
dress.
Riverside.
1t is proposed by our school board
to make some radical changes in the
school curriculum. They will eliminate
such studies as they deem of but little
! if any use to the ordinary Individual.
They say that a diploma from this
school will not admit to S. U /. nor any
probability is that at no time will
lnow and therefore make the changes
with one teacher.
New London.
! Messrs. Tom Walton and Bud Rem
ner of Lowell and Henry Morgan and
Louis Hunter of New London We're
| fishing the skunk river at Lowell with
a dipnet when when they We're appre-
hended by the game warden and his
deputy and cited to appear before JUS
tce Burton of Mt. Pleasant. They
were given a light fine and the costs,
as it was their first offense. The boys
are wondering why the dozens of 9TH
ers who have fished in the Skunk river
the same way have never been caught
Waukee.
William Mishler, Waukee farmer
was married in a hurry Thursday
night Corn crops We're calling for his
attention and he couldn't wait until
morning. He reached the city at 6:3l
to'clock but found the clerks office
closed. He received the assistance OF
DR.. Gibson and together they routed
out Deputy Click Charles Rossiter, who
issued license at 10 o'clock. After
which they hunted up a minister, who
made Mishler and Alice Ikeal, Des
Moines, man and wife. They went
back to the farm on the next train.
RutIedse.
Before the eyes of his comrade
John Cammarata, and a number of EN-
ployes of the Milwaukee city yards
in ottnmwa, Pietro Russo, an italian
miner employed at Rutledge, met /;
! caught by the pilot Of incoming pass
enger No. 8. The body was rolled. tori
: and nangled along the track for dis
lance of fifty feet altho the form wa
, preserved intact from the waist u
i and the shoulders and arms and fac
were scarcely bruised when picked Ut
The body was severed at the waist, tn
right leg cut in two pieces and the lef
leg severed at the trunk.
. OttumWa.
. If any one had any doubts Of sprin
! having arrived, a visit in South OF
tumwa one morning recently woul
/ have dispelled the doubt. The sight q
paririe schooners travelling alon
Church street headed for the Mort
\ Side was evidenced that the balm