Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-29
Northern Io1ua Items

Sac City.
c. L. Canning, Sac City. has paid
$273 per acre for a tract Of land neal
Jefferson and will move onto it.
Spencer.
Rev. j. D. Collins, Of Sac City has
received a call to the passionate of the
Baptist church at Spencer, and will ac-
cept.
PauIIina. ri
The contract for Paullina's new cleo
trio light plant has been let to the In
terstate Supply Company. OF Sioux City
for s11,50o.
cartana.
The sun shining thru a plate glass
window ignited display of fireworks
and the fire which followed Quilted the
store Of r. T. Thompson. s,r
Ida Grove.
Ben Todd, crack halfback Of last
years football team at Ida Grove. has
been appointed to stop the rush at the
general delivery at the post office.
Storm Lake.
= o. e. Atkinson. secretary Of the Y.
NJ. C. a. at Buena Vista county. has
resigned. and will act as secretary OF
the Y. NJ. C. A. in Calhoun county for
the coming year.
Waterloo.
Samuel P~Turpening was thrown
from an automobile just before the rain
at the intersection of Logan avenue
and Franklin street. and received SER
ious injuries on his left side.
Storm Lake.
The Methodist Episcopal Sunday
school at Storm Lake gave s1,150 to
foreign and home missions this year.
This is the largest amount given by
any Sunday school in Iowa
Muscatine.
Three driving horses, which were
hitched to the fence at the baseball
park here, We're killed outright Sunday
by lightning Rain broke up the game
between Muscatine and F'reeport in the
third inning. Several people were
stunned by the lightning. One house
was struck by lightning and complete
ly destroying by the resulting fire.
Oskaloosa.
The lightning of Sunday afternoon
put out of commission the wires that
supply power to several industrial
plants in the south part of town. Only
about one half the normal power could
be supplied Monday and by agreement
among the plants the Hanna Garment
factory remained IDLE to enable the
Oskaloosa creamery to churn big ac-
emulation Of cream.
Dubuque.
Much of the time Of the two days
session of the supervisors was taken
up with the approval Of claims for
bounty on ground hogs and gophers
Up to date this year, s492 has been paid
out for ground hogs and $175 for goph-
ers OF these amounts s407 was paid
for ground hogs and SOB for gophers
in June. The bounty Is 25 cents for
ground hogs and 20 cents for gophers.
Fort Dodge.
Sunday evening National Organizer
John. II. Dbrr instituted a nest OF the
Order of Owls in the city with a MEM
bershfp of 115, sevsnty-five Of whom
were in attendance at the initiation
ceremonies on Sunday evening. In
the work Of starting the new order in
the city Mr. Dorr was given every as
sietance by the degree team Of the
Sioux City nest.
Cedar Falls.
AS the result Of little alteration at
the Dick Hudson home on West. South
street Sunday afternoon Tracy Hudson,
according to his fathers story, pulled a
gun and had it not been for the earn
est ,pleadings of the, elder negro he
would have killed his. aged parent.
Shortly after the turmoil ;. the elder
r1,,drr~,, DoftfRed ftha voIlcn and srroex,
was taken in, custody. and placed in the
county jail, to. await hearing
Webster City.
The experiment Of flushing the
streets, tried out by Commissioner
satisfied that Official that
his theories in regard to sanitation
were correct. Ali Of the accumulations
of fifth that the street sweeper can not
touch were washed away and the
streets left in perfectly clean condi-
tfon. However, the plan Of flushing
the pavement will only be followed at
Of from one 10 two vveAhs