Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-05

4, at a salary of $50 per month. S. A.
Cohagan, who is business manager of
the Normal Eyte, was notified that he
had been chosen principal of the
Blakesburg school at a salary of sS5
per month. Hsrs
Sioux City.
High school athletics from three
states will contest, for honors at the
in~terscholastic track meet OF Bass
field Friday under the auspices of the
M club of Morningside college. over
100 entries have been received. and il
conditions are favorable several new
high school records may be made. En-
tries have been filed from Sioux Falls.
S. D., Centerville, S. d., Coleridge,
Neb., Cherokee, LeAfars, Hawarden,
Salix. and Battle Creek.
| Waterloo.
The Waterloo milk inspection ordi-
nance. the first in Iowa to provide that
only milk, cream and buttermilk from
cows tested for tuberculosis can be dis
pensed in the city, is to be tested in
the courts, judging from the indications
at present regarding a suit brought
by the city against an ice cream max
err. The defendant admits he has sold
ice cream made from cream that was
bought from INFESTED cows, but pleads
not guilty Of violating the ordinance,
and the hearing will be before Police
Judge Caldwell.
Iowa Falls.
Quite a number Of farmers in north
Hardin were soaked" in an oil deal
this spring. A number of weeks ago
:, a smooth agent came along n looked
up people who contemplated doing
some painting this season. He claimed
he had a superior flax-seed oil and
could sell same at bargain-counter
prices. A number Of farmer and sew
eral people in town took the bait"
and when he oil came it was found
to be at least half gasoline and other
stuff far from good oil. The farmers
who were swindled in this deal are now
up in arms and may max it interest
ing for the parties who deceived them.
Sioux City.
M. Langstadt, leader of the Orpheum
orchestra, has remained CALAMITY az
his stand, playing two performances a
| day. seven days a week, in spite Of i'll
health, which time after time render
| ed him so weak that he would fall in a
faint from his chair. He had made up
his mind to stick it out to the end of
the season-only q few weeks off-so
not to ~discommode his employers. But
things got to the jumping off place this
week. and DIR. F. C. Leytze.. house ply
stefan at the Orpheum, old Lankstadt
he must not delay the necessary opera
ton for gall stones another day. So
he went to the German Lutheran hos
| pital where the operation was success
fully performed yesterday.
Waterloo.
Iowa genius is equal to any emery
| ency and a hero has risen to receive
the plaudits of the great army of po-
tato buggers. He has went a ma
+! chine to do the work that has been done
by hand since the first potato was
brought over from Ireland and planted
for the rising generation of American
| bugs. He is a one-armed man. and
iivas &. Orange township Back Hawk
| county. His machine is a simple but
curious appearing device, judging from
the picture of the model he sent to the
patent Office 1t looks like a. cross be-
tween a flying machine and q grain
harvester, and is drawn by two horses
| that straddle the potato row. "A fan
like device revolves at high speed and
draws the bugs off the vines by its cy-
clonic force, something after the man.
ner that a cleaner jerks mi
crobes out Of the carpet. Just below
and at the opposite side is a tin recep-
tacle into which the bugs tumble, hors
On cnrnhat. into q hath Asce ke-c.e:s..
which speedily kills them.