Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-25
Northern Io1ua Items

GIidden.
Marvin Fearin. working on the farm
of Mr.. Armstrong near here, in one day
husked las bushels Of corn.
Cherokee.
| Citizens of Cherokee chartered a
special train and accompanied their
high school football team to LeMars
for the Thanksgiving day game.
Washta.
The Odd Fellows building at Waslita
I has been completed and the members of
the order will open it with appropriate
ceremonies.
Storm Lake.
| A campaign for 100000 endowment
| fund for Buena Vista has been begun.
Carnegie will give $4,000. and the
Presbytery OF Iowa $4,000, and this
city promises $4,000 to the fund
AureIia.
Irving Brewster. former Morningside
College football star and coach of the
Correctionville high school team for
the last two years. will quit athletics
and has moved onto farm near Aur-
ella.
Lake City.
Ed Wilson, who was arrested in
IOmaha short time ago after he had
been traced there, for the theft of val
liable furs from local store pleaded
guilty before Judge Powers and was
| ten years.
Fort Dodge.
| The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of Judge r. NJ. Wright and
Pat Driscol was guilty of humane
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near this city This decision ends a.
long drawn out litigation which follow
ed a wave of great feeling in Jackson
| township, where DriscolPs treatment of
his stock was noticed by neighbors.
Mason City.
Mary Corey, superintendent of schools
| in Webster county. bewails the scarcity
of pedagogues in rural schools. NO one
wants to board the teacher in a rural
school," says Miss Corey. Il do not
know why but every one seems TO want
some one else to take the teacher in as
a boardcr. If conditions would permit.
many teachers would live in the school
houses. More money must be paid
teachers in the rural districts. else more
pleasant and remunerative pursuits will
claim the instructors
Spencer.
| Business interests in towns along the
line of the Chicago. Milwaukee & ST.
Paul Railway Company thru northern
Iowa are making vigorous protest
against the service the company is
giving. Commercial interests of Spen-
Ger have asked for a mass meeting Of
representatives of all towns along the
road from Mason City to Spencer to
discuss the situation. 1t is claimed
that not more than % per cent of the
trains make schedule time and that
they are from one-half hour to three
hours behind schedule time.
| Dubuque.
James Howarth, % years old and re-
siding at 427 Clay street. fell thru a
hatchway on the large transfer boat
| Frisco at the ice harbor at IL o'clock
| Tuesday morning and was badly in
jured His left ankle and arm were
fractured and his head and face were
badly cut and bruised. HoWarth is a
painter and was getting ready to do
| some painting on the second deck of the
boat. He was stretching a large can
vass over the deck when he backed in
to an open hatchway and fell heavily
to the deck twenty feet below
Manchester.
All efforts to identify the body dis
covered on the C. j. Murray farm. near
Hopkinton have proved unavailable so
far, but further examination Of the
effects found on the body furnishes
many clues which it is thought will
lead to an immediate Identification. AL
ready it has been established beyond
a doubt that the man Is the same one
who passed thru that section of the
country in the early part OF September
stopping at several farm houses and
conversing with the people on several
occasions. At these times he gave no
name. That the man killed himself Is
the belief of all who have viewed the
remains. In the temple OF ua skull
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