Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-08
Northern I01un Items

, in Des NIOiues has been made SO the
checking Of the disease can not be laid
to the serum. Tests have been made
Of hogs that were exposed to see If
they were afflicted, and If the tests
were unsatisfactory the animals were
| isolated.
| Clarepee.
! The six members Of the Hasenbank
households who reside on y farm near
| Clarence. had an extremely narrow es-
| cape from death Saturday evening.
when their house burned to the ground.
Mr.. HaSenbank awoke at about IL
o'clock and found the entire house in
| flames and Immediately warned the re-
naming members of their danger. The
flames had gained SO much Roadway by
| this time that none OF the residents OF
the house were able to secure bit OF
their clothing and were compelled to
hurry from the house in their night at
tire. rha house which burned 10 the
grouud. vas insured for $1,000.
Sioux City.
Teachers Of the Sioux City schools
who attended the convention of the
State Teachers Association in Des
Moines are enthusiastic about the sue
cess In securing tentative promise
convention Of the Northwestern Iowa
Teachers Association. which will be
held In this city March 8. 10 and II of
next year. The forester has not given
definite announcement as to his COM
ing, but the committee which invited
him felt that he will decide to accept.
II Is believed that with Mr.. Pinchot on
the program, the local gathering would
be the biggest in the history of the as
ISOLATION.
DEBORAH.
Ii there is an old gentleman in the
state Of Iowa who has passed the
ninety seven year mark. who wants
to run IA race or do a walking stunt.
for money or marbles. he can find a
ready taker in Mccormick MCGEE. He
lives about eight miles out of .Decora h
and thinks nothing of walking to town
and back again the same day but
the other day he took a notion that he
wanted to see an old friend at Hair
mony. Mimi, and at the time he want
ed t. go there Were no trains running
III that direction. So he set out on foot
and covered the entire distance in five
hours. he was as fresh as "A June rose
when he arrived. And he is JUS, as
much on speed as he is on endurance.
His friends here will pit him against
the world.
Charles City.
1t viii be recalled that a repor, Of an
experiment in corn raising by T. L..
Lambert. Of this city. was made last
year The experiment was one In which
a test was being carried on under di
rections from Washington to see
whether. more corn could be r,,ised by
tending with q hoe than could be Sc
cured from An equal amount of ground
when the corn was tended with a cul
,ivator. The experiment last year car
ried OF under the direction OF the Unit
ed States department OF agriculture.
showed yield OF 16 per cent more for
the loed corn than the corn tended
by cuItivators. The test last season
was on clover sod Four rows were
left IN the field ten rods long. These
rows were not tended In any way. The
only attention was to have the weeds
clipped once a week with hoe. The
corn on either side was at the same
time tended with surface cultivator.
During the fore part Of the season
when the dry weather was prevalent Il
looked IA tho the corn which was be-
ing tended with a hoe would not
amount to much, but when the rains
came on later 1t gained greatly and at
husking time the one eighteenth OF an
acre which had been tended with a hoe
yielded just 246 pounds Of corn. exactly
;.s sa:..c ar,:... ~. which
had been cultivated