Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-19
Southern Io1ua Items

dismissed to prevent a directed YER
dict in favor Of the defendant The re-
tition recites seven counts and In each
count asks for $4,000 damages with
interest and costs. This is the case
where Miss Harmon brings Mrs. Wells
into court for statements said to have
been made against her character while
she was employed oas teacher of the
district school in the district wherein
Mrs. Wells is a resident.
Denison.
While driving with his sister to the
William Vogt place in Paradise town
ship after the German day dance, Carl
Christensen was badly injured in a
runaway accident. While going down
the hill near the Gaffey farm the team
became unruly and Carl finding he
could not control them, told his sister
to jump This she did and thus as
capped injury The buggy struck the
hill and christensen was thrown head
long out of the vehicle, falling into
the creek number of feet below. His
left leg was broken near the hip, the
hip was thrown out Of joint and the
hip bone broken. The consequence of
| the fall may be very serious and last
ing.
Des Moines.
Whisked out Of married life in d.
vorce court by Judge McHenry, and
whisked right back by the same Judge
in less than five minutes is the remark
able record established at the court
house Friday by Mrs. Golden Oberly.
1t was Mrs. Oberly's first wedding an-
niversary. She observed it by getting
divorce from Howard Oberly on the
grounds of cruelty. Five minutes later
she was the wife Of Sanford Fair Of
| Sigourney, her witness when she test
fed to the cruelty Of husband No. 1.
While Deputy Clerk Rossiter record
ed her divorce decree, Deput Clerk
Baldwin wrote out the marriage IL
cense. Then back to Judge McHenry
for the nuptial knot went the twain.
Upton.
Before leaving for his present home
IN Pasadena, Cal, DR.. G. s. Focht
arranged to make gift Of his medical
library to the Upton library The
only conditions OF the gift were that
the books are to be kept intact and
used for reference only, not being al
lowed to circulate. The library board
accepted the books under the condi
lions named and they will be placed
on the discretionary shelves. The COL
lection comprises about eighty volumes
for the most part modern text books
on medical subjects by writer's of the
highest authority. The books represent
an original cost OF several hundred dol
lars, and were collected by DR.. Fochr
during the years Of his active prac-
tice in Upton.
Council Bluffs.
County Superintendent Jackson Is
making use of pictures in his cam
paign for better conditions in the rural
schools of Pottawattamie county. On
his visits to the schools he carries a
kodak, and has taken many views of
exteriors and interiors OF school build
/ tngs, and the pupils and their teachers
In and out of the schools, making their
school flower gardens, pursuing the
4 study Of forestry, etc. 1t is his purpose
to group these views In a booklet, IN
i contrasting good and bad conditions
Copies Of the booklet will be sent to all
boards OF school directors throughout
: the county. Some Of the pictures show
charming and well kept surroundings
I while others show school buildings
Z with broken steps, unkept yards and
4 delapidated looking coal sheds and
y outbuildinGs.