Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-16
Southern Ic1ua Items

Newton.
The board of supervisors of Jasper
county has called a meeting of the
township trustees. road superintendents
and everyone who is interested in good
roads. 10 be held in Newton Friday,
March Is.
Guthrie certer.
Another land mark OF Guthrie Cen
ter has been removed a maple tree
standing at the northeast corner of the
W. H. Cahail lot was cut down. II is
supposed that Elias kostenboder plant
ed it there over forty years ago.
Northboro.
Mrs. Daisy Rochefort took off 142
little chickens from her incubators last
week This was her first experience
with an incubator and she is very well
pleased. Mrs S. J. Bedding had one
batch about the same time and got III.
Fontanel'e.
A seed corn test made by H. W.
Adams here does not give very encour-
aging results. OF thirty eight samples
OF the 1908 crop only eighteen gern1i-
mated; Of seventy-eight picked last fall
forty-eight terminated; and of thirty
eight taken from the crib this spring
eighteen proved good.
Newton.
While working around her home last
Thursday evening. Mrs. Nathan Ham
mer had the misfortune TO fall and
break her hip. The injured member is
causing her considerable pain. and for
one of her age it will take some time
before she can be able to be around
again. Mrs. Hammer resides in Adam
son Grove.
Dunlap.
Work has already begun on the
farms here. The upland in particular
has dried out and is in good condi-
ton. Good seed corn seems to be in
great demand. Parties having 2-year-
old corn found to be good for seed are
selling it readily for So and SO per
bushe1 The indications are that quite
an amount of small grain will be sown
here this season.
Des Moines.
Judge William McHenry of the dis
trict court has decided the case brought
by the Chicago, Milwaukee G. st. Paul
Railroad Company against the Des
Moines Union for possession of a mile
of terminal track here valued at ST.
100000 in favor of the Des Moines
Union. This takes away the Milwau
KEGS only way OF entering the city.
The case will be appealed.
Burlington.
That the farmers living west OF the
city appreciate the pavement on
Agency street is evidenced by the fact
that Mayor Unterkircfer has just re-
ceived letter thanking the mayor and
city council for the improvement.
They add that with the cooperation of
the board Of supervisors. they expect
the pavement to be continued farther
into the country. The note is signed
by E j. Swords, II. c. Bowman and
Henry Becker.
Knoxville.
Walter L. Smith and wife, of the
Concord neighborhood, four miles south
of Knoxville. are the parents Of the
la rgest baby ever born in the county.
This prize specimen arrived March 8
and weighs fifteen pounds. DR.. E. 7.
Mclaughlin is authority for the weight
statement. He says it is as large as the
average child OF fiv. months. Babies
Of fifteen pounds weight and upward do
not happen more frequently than once
in every 10000 births
Mt. Ayr.
In a paper contributed to the
high school newspaper. which was
read as a part of the program given
by the Lowell Literary Society, James
Lawhead, son Of County Treasurer and
Mrs. r. A Lawhead, describes the
wireless station upon which he and
Warren Hardaway have been working
since last September. The young men
have studied faithfully and worked in
dustriously and few weeks ago an.
nounced that they had succeeded in
sending messages by wireless.
keokuk.
short time before passenger train
No. came bounding along Monday
morning switch engine and fiat car
collided with huge bowlder that had
fallen TO the track from ledge of. rock
on the bluff above Keokuk. The pas
senger train from the north is due in
keokuk at 12:45 a. M, and the pres
ence of the obstruction on the main
track and. which would undoubtedly
have caused a wreck. was detected a
ssioft time previously O.: the frnnt
end of the fiatcar, which was being
pushed by the switch engine in the dr.
rection Of the depot, were sitting Fore