Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-10
Southern Io1ua Items

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Shenandoah.
| Rev. L. J. Golightly preached his
farewell discourse Sunday evening at
| the Christian church, and his connec-
| ton with the church as it's pastor was
severed by contract.
Iowa City.
| Under the leadership of certain
clergymen Of Iowa City a new club Of
university men and town residents has
been formed which will have for its
purpose the discussion of topics relat-
| ing to ethics and religion
Clinton.
For keeping sixty head Of cattle in
cars for more than forty-one hours
without food or water the Chicago.
Milwaukee & ST. Paul railroad was
made the defendant in a suit for $1,000
damages by Jerry Brodersen Of Clin-
| ton.
Des Moines.
The month Of January, 1910, was the
lightest in the history of the Des
Moines police department. for the past
ten years. The monthly report filed by
Chief Miller with superintendent
Hamery shows that there were only
4S3 arrests made during the month.
Ames
| Prof. w. H. Stevenson, of the soils
department of the Iowa State College
and secretary of the Iowa State Drain
age Association, has arranged the pro-
gram for the annual convention of the
association to be held at Fort Dodge
Feb. Is and 16. A special effort has
been made this year to secure speakers
who have had wide experience in
dra image work and who will bring to
the members of the association, facts
and data of the greatest interest and
Importance.
Pennington.
| Harry Steeples was stabbed and at
| first thought to be fatally injured dur
| ing a party which some OF the men
were having in room on Front street
| in this town. The participants are very
reticent about the matter and it is diff
ficult to arrive at the facts. 1t appears
there was an alteration over a game
or about the refreshments and that
during the scrap Steeples was stabbed
in the abdomen. Both participants are
married; Steeples has two children. 1t
is now stated that Steeples will recover.
Des Moines:
Iowa is the greatest Aberdeen-An-
gus state in the union" said Charles
Gray, of Chicago, secretary of the
Am erican .Aberdeen-Angus Breeders
Association, at the third annual meet
ing of the Aberdeen-Ang BreeoerS'
Association of Iowa. THE first Aber-
deem Angus cattle were imported in
1876 and since that time Iowa has grad
ually assumed the lead among the
states as the home of the best bred
and finest cattle of that stock" About
forty Aberdeen breeders were in at
tendance at the meeting yesterday.
Newton.
At the last meeting of the Newton
Motor Car Club the good roads ques-
ton was taken up and arrangements
inangurated for the improvement of the
roads leading into Newton ]. H. Hise,
of Monroe: L. d. Baum, of Newton,
and G. Craven, of Kellogg, were APP
pointed a committee to confer with the
board of supervisors and the county at
torney upon this question, and the fol-
lowing delegates were elected to attend
the good roads convention to be held
in Des Moines: Charles Greenleif, Don
Miles, c. w. Craven, DIR. Harry Engle,
G. H. Warner and L. D. Baum.
Muscatins.
+ BY almost a miracle, Lester, the
9-year -old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Simpson, of Lake township, escaped
losing the sight of both eyes The lad
was coasting on a hill near his home
and was lying on the sled face down
ward, when the sled swerved from its
course and went into a barbed wire
fence at full speed. Lester striking the
sharp bars with his head and face. He
suffered severe gashes about the face
and especially across the left eye. the
lid being badly lacerated. His nose
and the forehead just above the right
eye also received bad cuts. The pupils
Of his eyes were not injured.
sisournsy.
A sensation was created In the trial
of G. S. Xix. the Hedrick grocer, for
writing black hand" letters. in the dis
trict court here when Judge A. c.
Steck. OF Ottumwa, appearing for Xix.
declared to the jury that the evidence
would show that florence Reynolds.
the chief witnsss agaAnst Hix, wrote -