Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-17
Southern Io1ua Items

winter was $135. 1924 Deducting this
amount from the sum total given above
it is found that the expense of running
Iowa for the first half of the present
year, exclusive of the legislative ses-
sion. was s1,7s2 ,054.59. Multiplying
this sum by two. the approximate cost
of running Iowa for the year 1909 is
shown TO be s3,5s4,109.O4. This sum
can be taken as a fair estimate of the
cost per annum of government in Iowa
when the legislature is not in session.
OF course 1t will vary somewhat each
year. but the figures presented give a
fair idea of what the taxpayers of Iowa
are paying per year for their magni-
ficent system of state government.
Woodward.
An accident in which a number of
Milwaukee bridge men came near los
ing their lives or receiving permanent
injury happened between Woodward
and the Dies Moines river bridge Ten
men employed in the bridge depart
ment of the railway were riding on a
hand car when upon rounding one of
the sharp curves for which this piece
of track is noted, they saw not more
than four rail lengths away a freight
engine bearing down upon them They
all jumped for their lives, not having
time enough to remove the car. None
of the carpenters We're injured except
for a few slight bruises The engine
carried the car a quarter of a mile be-
fore it was thrown out of the way
EddyviIIe.
A picnic was held at the Sand Ridge
school house, in the Given disrist
Quite a number of residents of that To-
cality We're present. and ice cream.
boiled ham and other picnic delicacies
We're freely partaken of. That evening
many of those who had eaten of the
picnic dinner took sick. their suffer
ing varying in degree and some suffer
ing quite severely, while others were
only slightly ILL., Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Whitsel and their little son were the
worst sufferers, and they We're sick Tor
several days. We understand that
the ice cream was homemade and the
ham was purchased at Oskaloosa. 1t
is not known just what article of food
was contaminated, but it is thought
to have been one OF the above men
toned articles.
| Muscatine.
To find a twenty-four grain pearl
| anu Sell 1t LOT 400 anu return No Tue
same pile of shells one week later and
find a twenty-siN grain pearl valued
at even more is the good fortune of
Walter Tibbi4s, Ill Bismarck street
MIR Tibbets returned from shelhng af-
ter a days hard work with a small
batch of shells, probably worth 81 and
after cooking the shells he dumped
/ them onto a sorting bench, much dis
gusted with the fruit of his days work
but in an instant he was the happiest
man in South Muscatine, for there be-
fore his eyes, was a large pearl He
brought it to the city in the evening
and sold the twenty-four grain gem
to w. F. Bishop for s2S5. Tuesday af-
ternoon Tibbets went down to the river
shore intending to clean up the same
Il old pile of shells valued at 81, anc
get ready to return to the daily tolls
of Smelling. After weeks rest, he
opened several clans and threw the
meats away and was in the act OF
opening another when another gen
dropped to the bench. He found 1t t.
, be even more beautiful than the ont
) found a week ago. 1t weighs twenty
six grains and the luster is much more
!, beautiful. He was offered 1928, bu
turned down the offer