Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-04
Southern Io1ua Items

nishing stories regularly for their
paper.
| Let's.
John Fry. a restaurant keeper, took
rat paste, presumably with suicidal in
tent. His condition is regarded as
grave but there is said TO be every rea-
son to believe that he will recover
| Fry lives in the rooms over the res
| taurant and last night about 8: 80
O'clock while alone he ate the paste
He was found by his son and DR. T. l.
Eland was hastily summoned to at
| tend him. Fry is married and has sew
eral grown children. Domestic trouble
! it is irHimated, was the cause of his
act.
/ EIdon.
| Fastening TO heat some water as a
| first aid in the treatment of her in
jured son. Mrs. Thomas Dial, ST., threw
coal oil into the stove and in the ex-
plosion which followed was badly
burned about the face and neck. Mean
while the son was lying in an ad-
joining room unconscious from injur-
| les sustained in an accident at
O'Clock yesterday morning in the Rock
Island yards. Thomas Dial. Jr., was
coaling an engine at the Rock Island
coal chute when he fell into the pit
the coal falling on him and severely
crushing him about the chest and
tstomach. He was rendered unconscious
and still remains in that condition. He
| is injured internally. but the extent OF
| his injuries can not as yet be deter
| mined.
| Ottumwa.
| Restored to her mothers embracing
arms and feeling the maternal kiss
was the happy conclusion of an unus-
ual experience of little Luelma Nef.
when an attendant on Burlington No
| 3 wl1isked her from her parents and
little sister and carried her to Abba
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Neff of Hedrick
parents Of the little girl, were at the
/ union depot in the morning prepare
! tory to boarding Burlington No. 3 ant
igoing to San Diego, Cal. to spend the
winter A misunderstanding between
| the Pullman car conductor and the
| tourists in connection with some res
|ervations made by the Neffs resulted
lin only little Leulma safely boarding
the train, and before the misunder-
tanding could be Strengthened out the
! train pulled cut uf tine station and lef'
the frantic parents with their other
daughter, Miss Florence, behind on the
platform. a telegram was Immediately
sent to Abba. and little Luelma was
again united with her parents and sis
| ter when she returned on Burlington
| No. 17S at HIS a. m.
| Manchester.
F. D. Joseph. superintendent OF
schools of Delaware county, has in
mind project which is bound to result
in lasting benefit to the farmers of this
section. He proposes to interest the
boys of the rural schools in the grow
ing of oats and for this end has select
ed special variety to be experimental
with This variety has been known to
produce 10 bushels per acre. and the
average yield where farming is carried
on in a scientific way is about seventy
| five bushels per acre. This forms
strong contrast to the average yiele
now obtained in this section OF Iowa
! and Mr. Joseph has recognized this and
| will try to educate the young men Of
! the county in cultivating this import
ant crop more intensively. For this
purpose he will distribute seed to about
sixty boys, allowing each one-ha
busl1el Each boy is to do all the wori
OF cuItIva,ing and keep record or now
much ground was used, the amount o.
fertilizer usand any data that VIII be OF
value. At the end Of the year the oat.
viii be exhibited and prizes AWARDED
/ to those securing the Dese results Mr.
/ Joseph plans to increa6e the scope o.
this work each year. = = = = 8