Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-07
Northern Iowa Items

| ously injured. Mr.. Hoon was driving a
new horse which was not very gentle
and when at the southwest corner of
the college grounds the animal took
! fright and started for a run getting
the advantage of the driver. In turn
ing the corner Hoon was thrown from
his cart against a telephone pole. strik-
ing with his breast against it. He was
knocked unconscious. A. telephone
message was RECEIVED at the office, and
the assistant postmaster chartered an
automobile and vent to the scene of
the accident. Mr.. Hoon had been car
ried into a house but was still uncon-
scious. Doctors We're sent out and they
ordered the ambulance which went out
and brought Hoon to his home, where
he is now resting nicely with prospects
of Il speedy recovery.
Waterloo.
Thomas p. Mccormick, formerly an
Illinois Central engineer and a well
known citizen of Waterloo, died at
his home Wednesday evening. Mr. Nc
Cormick was forced to give up his
work on the road some ten years ago
owing to an attack of locomotor ataxia.
This trouble gradually became worse
and to a partial paralysis was added an
attack of dropsy with heart trouble
that kept the patient confined to his
bed for the past three weeks. Thomas
Mccormick was born in Dubuque,
Iowa, March IS, 1859. and had lived
in Waterloo the past thirty-five years.
Hampton.
Surveyors have been al work the
past week laying out the mile track
property and land adjoining it, belong
ing to Mrs. H.. A. Hartman, of this
city, for the purpose Of having the
property subdivided into small acreage
tracts. 1t is expected that Reeve street
will be continued north of the Great
Western depot for eighty rods n the
road running east and west will be
opened up from there. The tract will
then be divided into two and five acre
lots facing or Reeve street and the
east and west road.
Ida Grove.
A short lime ago Fred Ebert traded
his farm in Battle, the old Rickleton
place, to a party. named Wilbur john
ston for a farm east Of Galva and the
past week Johnston sold the Ebert
farm to Claus Thomson, who owns n
farm adjoining, for s143 per acre.
Ebert purchased the farm three years
ago from Rickelton for 500 per acre.
Noah Williams has bought the cd
Bradshaw home from S. O. Osgood,
and MI. and Mrs. Noah Williams. Jr,
will make it their home. The O%sgoo,ls
have sold their farm to H. w. Schmidt
for 1924, 900 and will move to their plan
tation in Arkansas.
Iowa Falls.
Two Iowans are beneiciaries in the
thirty-two awards of medals for hero
ism made by the Carnegie hero fund
commission at Pittsburg, Pa. One Of
the awards was for Archie p. Brake, Of
Iowa Fails, deceased, and the other to
Frederick w. Sizes, of Monticello.
Seven silver and twenty-five bronze
medals were ordered struck off for the
fortunate ones, while monthly pen
sions aggregating 1896. death benefits
of $4,s9O, and special awards totaling
S13.O 900 were made. The ash awards
were to liquidate mortgages and other
indebtedness, anu fvr 1uoa@oua' pu:
poses.
Story City.
Miss Hattie Larson, an elderly lady
who has lived and worked around here
for many years, was picked up or the
Northwestern railroad track, east of
Gramstad's place, in an unconscious
condition recently. The section men
discovered her lying prone upon tho
tracks and hastily summoned assist
ance. She was taken to- the Gralnstad
home, from whence she was brought to
town by Mayor Henderson and placed
in the home of Mrs. Jacobson. A doc
Tor was caii.Sg.a4s aslo.o.oa 49, ssc
had suffered from a stroke, caused by
the bursting of a blood vessel in The
brain. She is resting a 3 now and
will probably recover.