Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1910-09-02


substitute at Eagle Grove.
John e. r. Hochestier has been ap.
pointed postmaster at Sherman, Har.
din county, vice o. w, Topp, resigned.
j. II. Long, a long time resident OF
Webster City, dropped dead at his
home from an attack Of heart trou.
BILE. ,
The four year old son of Adolph
Goyette, who lives near Milford, died
of infantile paralysis. The child WAS
sick only two days.
Anton Zeke, farmer living on a
leased farm about six miles south Of
Tama, committed suicide by hanging
himself in the barn
Henry Gravert, 16, was instantly
killed at a department store in Dav.
export when he jumped on a rapidly
moving freight elevator, ASA
Howard Williams has been APP
pointed and has accepted a position
as Y. NJ, c. A. secretary for the state
! university at Iowa City.
L. H. Smith of Liscomb, has filed
suit against F. L.~Meeker, administrae
tor of his fathers estate for $29,l40.
which he claims is due him. .
Two families, that of r. c. Brooks,
a teamster, and family of relatives,
were dangerously poisoned at TT.
Dodge by eating spoiled bread. :.
During heavy wind and rain
storm at Iowa City the Chautauqua
tent was blown down. Fortunately
no one was in the tent at the time.
William Van Orsdol. a member Of
| one of the old and wealthy families
of Buchanan county, died at his home
in Rowley, after an extended illness.
J. NJ. Carl, chief of police of Cedar
Rapids, was elected president of the
Iowa Association of Chiefs of Police
at it's annual meeting at Des Moines.
Farmers report that the dry
weather of the early spring and sum.
mer will be the cause of an extra
large crop Of rabbits throughout
Iowa.
The proposition to grant the cleo.
trio light company of the town Of
! Malvern a non-exclusive ten year
franchise carried by a close vote Of
6S to e..
Florence Mimi of Forshell, one Of
the victims of the Rock Island wreck
near Gladbrook last March has
brought suit against the company for
damages.
| John Morrison. aged Ga, well
4 known manufacturer and capitalist
formerly of a pump manufacturing
firm at Dubuque, died suddenly at his
home of appoplexy.
Pensions have been granted Iowans
as follows: Henry Allen, $40; John
w. Curry, SIS; friedrich Eberhard,
SIS; Jacob Markle, SIS; Hugh Reed,
$24; James M. Kicks, SIS.
After the fire department had ex-
tinguished blaze at the Garfield
house at Dubuque, fire broke out
again five hours later and completely
destroyed the building. The loss is
$4,000.
Small grain is yielding more bush.
els to the acre around Bridgewater
than for several years. The corn
crop will be one of the largest for
years past, notwithstanding the dry
weather.
A contract was let at Correction.
vile for the erection Of new Meth
odist Episcopal church to replace the
frame structure which has done ser.
vice for that congregation for over
thirty years.
The Iowa supreme court issued an
injunction to restrain the state rail.
way commission and the attorney
| general from enforcing the orders of
the commission relative to the Daven.
port coal car case.
The first fatality from infantile par
alysis in Marshall county resulted
five miles northeast of St. Anthony
when Reba, the 10-year-old daughter
of P. w. Dunn, farmer, died after
an illness of just one week.
Raymond Sandhouse of Monticet
10 has heen awarded valuabld
scholarship at Harvard University
known as the Parson scholarship.
RAYMOND was graduate of the Mon
ticello high school with the class OF
1910. ao
Samuel Adamson, member Of the
Marshalltown soldiers home from
Casey, Guthrie county, is dead OF
paralysis at the home hospital. MT
Adamson was So years old, and was
a veteran of Company M, Eighth
Iowa Cavalry.
/ Rev. w. F. Osgood, formerly pastor
of the Baptist church at Roseville
ILL.,, and before that in charge OF
churches at Des Moines and Falls
River, Mass, has accepted call tc
the pastorate of Liberty Park Baptist
church of Spokane. r
Eldora is experiencing building
boom this summer and more new
houses are being erected and more
business blocks built than for twenty
years.
/ Clifford S. Pinchot Will come to
/ Des Moines Saturday, Sept. 10, and
will speak that evening.
The homecoming committee Of
Brooklyn have arranged to have an
i automobile tour Of Powesshiek county
4 to advertise their homecoming week
held Sept. 5 to Ii.
The population Of Sioux City Is