Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-19
Southern Io1ua Items

savers, are that it is extremely mex
pensive, simple and compact. 1t will fit
any automobile, no matter what size
of wheel and is opened so easily that
a child can lift> the heaviest of cars
off the tires, and it is very light.
Clinton.
That the local shortage of hard coal
is not merely temporary condition,
due to slow deliveries by the railway
companies, but is likely to continue for
weeks, probably turnout the balance of
the winter, is a fact which developed
Saturday afternoon. A circular letter
sent out by the western agency of the
Scranton Coal Company, the biggest
producer of the anthracite fuel, is ex-
| ceedingly pessimistic in tone.
| keokuk.
| Work on the Mississippi river dam
will go forward within the next ten
days, when it will receive a great
laborers from ST. Louis. The first con-
signments of these foreigners arrived
Monday afternoon the second is ex-
pected Thursday, while the third will
set foot on the Illinois shore next Mon
day. About fifty men are now at work
and the three detachments will boost
the number to 1875.
| Vinton.
A. DAWN, OF Polk township, while
under a shed at his farm, was badly
injured by the roof of the shed being
crushed by the heavy weight of snow.
He managed to crawl out and to the
mouse with help. physician was
called and on examination it was prov
en- that no bones We're broken, but Mr.
Dawn was suffering from q severe
muscular strain. 1t could not be deter
mined as to whether there might be
| internal injuries A spike struck him
in the head and cut the scalp but not
seriously.
Ces Moines.
The hunters and fishers of Des
Molnes are going to extend an invita-
ton to Gov. b. f. Carroll and the
members of the executive council to
attend meeting of the local branch
| of the State Game and Fish Protective
Association. a resolution to this effect
was passed at a meeting of the local
branch last evening held at Hopkins
Bros, store. 1t took the members of the
association long time to decide what
to do. Some were anxious to have a
committee appointed to call on the
governor and inform him that the local
nimrods are in favor of spending the
| 100000 taken in from the hunters of
the state by licenses for the propaga-
ton of game and fish, and not merely
900, as some think the governor
/ proposes to limit the expenditure to-
1t was feared by some that the gov
4 ernor would consider this in the nature
Of an affront so 1t was decided to ask
him to attend Il meeting of the local
branch and to hear first hand the view <
of the hunters and fishers.
Mt. Pleasant.
The other evening it entered the
heads of about forty of Iowa Wesleyan
| University's fair co-eds that it would
be an awfully good stunt to leave the
| dormitory and go to the auditorium to
see The Girl From u. S. A." Just for
the sport of the thing. At any rate
not long after supper someone called
at the box office and ordered forty
seats for Hershey hall girls, and almost
! Immediately there was a stream of
! girls. each trying to Guido the other
| in giving vent to lot of pentup en-
/ ergy, vending its way toward the audi
forum, where they filed up one di-
vision of the balcony. But the great
est surprise Of all, perpaps, came the
| following evening when President
Schell and Dean Lymer announced to
the transgressors just how hard their
| way was to be. when they declared
that all those who had gone to the
show would thereby forfeit their rights
to any more shows or entertainments
Of any sort for the next two weeks,
| meaning that they can not even, have
dates for that time.