Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-29
Southern Io1ua Items

! have been disposed Of The lot and tent
sale opened Saturday morning at the
| office of Attorney John \. Higlin and
there We're twenty-five tents spoken for
at that time.
Fairfield.
| 1t has just been discovered that
there are 27S widows in Fairfield Many
of them are young and pretty and not
a few are we'll off financially. Fairfield
has always had the reputation of be-
ing the home of many nice looking
women, and the fact that this number
Of widows resided here astonished
Herring, who recently made a canvass
of the city in the interests Of a new
city and county directory, which he has
just issued this week Mr.. Herring also
discovered that Fairfield had only
eight available houses for rent six
weeks ago.
Council Bluffs.
some excitement was occasioned in
section OF Montgomery county near
| Frankfort. former county seat of the
county, over the discovery on the farm
| Of John w. Donohue, of four foot vein
| of Venetian red pigment such as is
used in the manufacture Of paint. Mr.
| Donohue. who lives in Red Oak. says
| that he is going to investigate the mat
; ter thoroughly and develop the deposit
Fifty years ago. according to report, a
similar find was made. but an entry in
| a history of the county says that the
! peculiar formation was not regarded
as of any commercial value.
! Newton.
The little beer garden Just north of
| Nn1f
| evening Harry Cove made a drive to
| Cofax and returned with Albert Mat
thews. the chief bartender and seven
| cases of beer in the back seat of the
machine. Matthews had a government
license and was located In tent one
miles north Of Colfax just across the
river bridge. Matthews appeared in
court and was bound over to the grand
| jury with his bond fixed at 5000 In
| the meantime the fire water will rest
| in the cellar of the county bastile and
in all probability vii! later he poured
out on the turf OF the sheriffs lawn.
Atlantic.
While employed with threshing
crew on Nelson Bros farm about three
miles southeast of Bra yton, Lawrence
| Nelson was seriously injured when he
| jumped from the top of the water
tank, whittier he had climbed for the
purpose of drinking from the water
| jug and lighted upon the end of a
broken pitchfork handle which was
standing erect with the tines stuck into
, tho ground. The broken handle struck
Mir. Nelson between the hips, penetrat-
ling for length of about ton inches
land horribly decorating the intestines
MIR. Nelson's mother is a widow liy-
| Ing at Elkhorn. The young man is I'M
married. He was accompanied here for
an operation by his brother and a
brother in-law.
Red Oak.
| S. d. Gillisgie. who now lives on the
old George Mitchell farm in West
township. had occasion to be thankful
| that he had an autom obile the other
day. Mr.. Gillisgie and his boy were
driving some cattle from one field TO
another. the route leading across the
road. Just as they were crossing the
road man came along in an automo-
bile. going at a merry clip. and ran
| into some OF the cattle yearlins
| steer was Knocked down and had a leg
| broken, but the driver did not stop, but
sped away, evidently hoping to escape
| detection. Mr.. Gillisgie's son took the
number of the automobile, in case the
man escaped But 1t happened that Mr..
| Gillisgfe had an automobile himself
and 1t also happened that 1t was a
| four cylinder car with more or less
| speed. He FASTENED to the house,
cranked the trusty machine and fol-
| lowed in hot pursuit of the man who
had crippled his steer. He drove at top
| speed, and in the course of four or five
miles overlook the man who had
caused the accident, and before letting
him go recovered $25 damages,