Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-06

sufficient feeling of caution in the mat
ter to follow along, and when the ac-
cident happened she was accordingly
in position to rendeH instant assistance
in the matter off smothering the fire
upon Mrs. Winsett.
Kingsley.
Much complaint has been made by
farmers residing north of Meadow
township. about trespasses on their
goods and chattels. Cattle have been
stolen from one, hogs from another,
and lately the chicken 'marauders are
operating. OF a big flock of chickens
the widow, Mrs! Fred Numsen, had two
weeks ago, not one is left and Will
schut, who had three hundred fowls,
has scarcely two dozen left him. The
work of the thieves is done at night
While Mr.. Schut was with his wife in
the hospital at Sioux City, his flock of
egg producers was carried off.
Sioux City.
After falling headlong from the
third floor of the Chicago house here
and thru a skylight and landing on a
table in sample room on the first
floor, Mrs. w. Yunker of Sioux Falls,
S. D., is feeling fine. The tumble took
place just after midnight. Mrs. Yum
ker believes in fresh air and was trying
TO raise a window. The window was
frozen and stuck as she got it part
way up. Mrs. Yunker does not know
just exactly how it happened, but
the first thing she knew after she
had given it an especially hard yank,
she was flying thru space-going down
faster than the mercury itself, and that
was some. She was not severely hurt
Clare.
This village has been severely hit as
a result of the coal famine, and fol
the past two weeks the supplies OF
the local coal dealers have been ex.
hausted and they have been unable t.
replenish the same. One of the dealers
last week 'phoned to Fort Dodge offer
ing to pay the regular retail price for
, car load if it could be delivered t.
him at once, but the offer was turned
down by the Fort Dodge dealers, VIII,
have only a limited supply on hand fo
themselves. AS a result of the short
age in this village many families hav
! practically exhausted their supply an,
unless change of better traffic con
) ditions results so as to allow the ship
5 ment of fuel here there will be con
! siderable suffering
Dubuque.
; Sam Stein. a we'll known travelin,
man, was the VICTIM of roI,ber New
e Years day While Sam was calling OF
Z friends with greetings Of the day, an
other entered his room at his boarding
= house and annexed all of Sans loos
wearing apparel The same consiste
of one good suit of clothes, two shirt
ready for the laundry and two neck
e ties. But for the fact. that Sam ha
e most of his clothes locked in a trun
X ne would Dc ";ti;ci.. {. change nf I'M
a derWear. The thief was strange
Is who had just engaged a room in tn
e. house for a week. The robbery wa
is not discovered until Sam wished to pr
n on the stolen suit Sunday evenin
re preparatory to calling on lady frien.
Is No trace of the thief has been foun,
IS Fl. Dodge.
=. Work on Ditch 81 has been ten
" porarily delayed by the sinking Of ii
big dredging machine when the bars
upon which it Aoated, sprung a lea
fAiiu PbAN ~ III leH le6L VI WdbE
ly Housemovers with quantities Of bloc
1T and tackle and all manner OF pars
ne phernalia that might be of use in raj
ne ing the big machine, are being employ,
D in the effort to restore 1t to It's pro-
ID, er place and 1t is hoped to remedy u
". difficulty shortly. The accident hal
Sc pened in Cooper township near Indu
er try on the ditch which has Its outl
IF. near the Cardiff mill. When the LEI
is. began to work havoc with the m
to chine, it sank quickly. the depth Of t
ad water being great enough, according
ng report to put out the fires on t
en- dredse and to render it absolutely US
Jet less for the time being. Help was sur
pK moned at once from Fort Dodge 81
work has been going on conatahtiy.