Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-25

suffering and disappointment and hard
knocks. Her husband deserted her ano
she has been raising "a family of fou'
boys by taking IN ~washings. a few
months ago she stepped on a nail and
| suffered severely from blood poisoning.
Then her son, Arthur, who Is her main
stay, left home. and she had the chief
| detain him here until she could come
| and return home with him. Mrs. Hook
| ert-left the station with her son in a
happy frame of mind.
Cedar Falls.
The claim department of the Rock
| Island Railway Company. 1t is reported.
are beginning to make settlements with
the administrators of the estates of the
| fifty-two persons killed in the Rock
| Island wreck near Gladbrook on March
II of this year. They are said to have
| made overtures to the administrators
OF the estate of the late L. w. Parish
to settle on &c basis os $4,000 or there
abouts. Several settlements are re
ported to have been made on this basis
and some of them considerably less,
The matter With the administrator of
the Parish estate is still pending
Dubuque.
~
surprised at any time to see an air
ship lowering over them For on an
island little distance down stream
there is an airship that was built by
Mr.. F. o. FarweH, of this city, who is
waiting to try it out For some time
Mr.. Farwell has been working at the
airship and little while ago it was
completed 1t is an enormous affair
constructed Of The q Inv, Tn, rrn
and stretched with an especially pre-
pared canvas. The lines are much along
those adopted by the Curtis Brothers
| in their successful models and Is ca
pable of high speed.
Dysart.
AS the motor car was going east the
other morning it ran into a drove of
cattle at the Dan Gahan crossing a mile
east of town and killed and injured
seven of the animals Fortunately
the car was left standing on the track
but some of the machinery was broker
by the impact and the engine could not
be started again. The passengers. q
full carload, and some twenty-five of
them from Dysart walked back 10
town. The cattle were in the road
and being driven across the tracks by n
herder The heavy steel car was but
slightly Jared by the accident and none
Of the passengers was injured
Dubuque.
Smoke believed to be drifting from
the Idaho fire belt rides high over Du-
Abuque. Two things of late have point
ed directly to this, the appearance of
the sun and of the moon. The COR
geous sunsets Of the last few nights
and the red. red moon so wonderful and
densely shut in by clouds. have proved
the smoke theory as has also the fact
that clouds could be seen passing
across the moons face at lower level
On Monday night the moon hung like
yelled thing in the sky, Il yellowis.
white glow thickly bathed with clouds
The appearance attracted the atten-
ton of DubuquerS in special way
Alden.
W. L Lesser and wife, who live a
half mile south of Alden, had an excit-
ing experience while driving to Iowa
Falls. While coming up the hill on
the Alden road at the corner just west
of the Woodland farm they saw an ap-
preaching automobile. AS soon as the
horse saw the automobile it took fright
and commenced to run. When the
people in the auto saw the horse was
scared they stopped the machine and
rushed forward to assist the man in
getting his horse past the machine.
Mr.. Lesser turned the horse to one side
of the road along rather a steep bank
where the buggy was upset and both
occupants thrown out just as the men
from the auto reached the horse. In
the fall Mrs Lesser had her collar bone
broken and her body severely bruised
In several places