Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1909-02-05
IOWA
NEWS

| A 640-acre farm near Yale mas Deen
sold for $7s,720.
Manchester is to have revival ser.
vices conducted by former yegg-
man.
There were 22O of the $500 inhabi-
tants of Madrid at booster banquet
at that place few evenings ago.
The horse lovers Of Mason City are
arranging for a race meeting next
summer. Some $4,000 will be offered
| in prizes.
!. During the year 1908 the creamery
at Woodward received 1O.5oS cans Of
cream and paid out in cream checks
s75,S75.97.
The government has decided to To-
cate clam hatchery at Fairport, near
Muscatine, and will spend $4,000 on
the plant.
| Word has been received in Iowa
that the tenth annual picnic Of the
Iowa Association Of Southern Califor-
MIA will be held on Monday, February
%, at Los Angeles.
A campaign has been started by
Iowa, Dakota, Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin Germans of the Methodist de-
nomination for anu endowment fund
for Charles City college at Charles
City.
The city campaign IL warming up
in Iowa City for the election on
March 20. The adoption of the Gal
weston plan is to be considered if the
legislature amends the law, making
it applicable to cities the size Of Iowa
City.
The Newton Daily News has pub
lished document which was made
out in 1916, locating the seat of JUS
tice. 1t is the report of the commits
sioners selecting the site, being an
affidavit sworn before a justice of
the peace.
Spontaneous combustion caused
ire to start in a coal bunker in the
basement of the Fleming building,
the tallest building in Des Moines,
and for nearly six hours the janitors
worked to extinguish it The build
ing filled with fumes from the burn
ing ccal, but few occupants knew the
cause. There were eight tons in the
Will Mitchell, son of David Mitchell
of Murray, one of the pioneers of
Clarke county, was buried in a SNOW
slide in the mountains of Idaho
January g, and his body was not
found until January %. He was herd
ing sheep and was evidently resting
with his PONY in the lee of noun
tain when the slide caught him.
Emery, small station which has
been located midway between Mason
City and Clear Lake, has about pass
ed away. At one time it boasced of
population Of seventy-five persons.
The power house Of the interurban
railway and other buildings of the
| road are about to be removed. The
postof1iCe has been discontinued and
many of the inhabitants have moved.
| An unsual operation was accom-
plished at the Ottumwa hospital
when j. A. Lanham of Keokuk had a
| portion Of his tongue removed. Not
withstanding the loss the patient was
able to tell his physician how he felt
| and is able to taste as well as ever.
| The cause leading to the operation
| Is thought to be a cancerous growth
| at the side andl toward the back of
the tongue.
I'm the resurrection whose wife
shall she be" was not only puzzler
to the Sadducees, but just as puzZ-
ling to DR.. w. w. Carlton of the
Methodist Episcopal church of Mason
| City when he was called upon to
preach funeral sermon where two
husbands of the deceased wife were
| present as mourners. The doctor
didn't exactly take the above for a
text, but he had great trouble in d.
recting his thoughts in another chan
mel.
T. j. Kleven. who resides near
Joyce, was blasting stumps with
rowder, using ground rock as slug.
He had lighted fuse but it did not
go and he thought it was cut and
stepped up to examine it. AS he was
bent over the explosion occurred and
his face was terribly lacerated and
it YVES at first thought he was blind
ed. It is now thought barely possible
that partial sight of one eye may be
saved and he has been taken to Iowa
City for treatment.
Vernon Westlund of Davenport
still has two good feet under him in
spite of the fact that he was recent.
ly reported to have LOST both legs in
railroad accident near Brighton
Thereby hangs tale. Vernon has a
rival for the good graces of young
! lady to whom the letter came an
nouncing Vernon's misfortune. The
rival evidently thought the young
woman would have no use for mar
with two wooden legs. Tho letter
called young Westerlund's relatives
post haste, only to find him alive anG
| well. He came home with them anc
his rival-the villain of the drama
has made his exit from the stage.
| A Mr.. Wagner. a representative Of
DR.. Gunsaulus Of Chicago, has been
in Clear Lake trying to arouse inter
est in the establishing Of summer
Bible school similar to that at Win
ona Lake. DR.. Gunsaulus promises
to attend and bring quartet choir
with him.
The Iowa house committee on rules
has drafted new section for5idding
tipping. The rule was caused by re
ports that some of the pages were