Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-06-29
Southern Io1uu Items

Jansen to Mary Groenevielt and dated
March 2S. 1881. being over thirty years
old. Altho the names Of the grantees
in the deeds are spelled differently,
they are the same person. Evidently
Mrs. Groenewold did not understand
! that these instruments should be filed
! with the recorder and recorded in that
office. as she died about two years ago
without ever having had the deeds
placed upon record
Fort Dodge.
Sergt. II. Frederickson OF Company
G, of the Fifty-Sixth infantry located
| in this city did some shooting out at
the company rifle range that eQualled
the scores made at the national shoot
held annually by the crack shots Of
| the army and navy. F'rederickson was
! shooting 500 yards and out OF q pos
sible score OF 125 he made score Of
121. getting twenty-one bulls eyes
| and four As.
LsMars.
During the electrical storm on Sun
day the barn of Frank Mahlke. with
six teams. was destroyed by lightning.
| Loss $1,000. The barn of Watson &
Stokes. southeast OF town, was struck
by lightning and burned, loss $1,000
Fred Harms, Of Grant township, had
four head of horses killed by lightning,
one team valued at $500. The Farmers
| elevator and the Central school house
| In town were struck by lightning. The
! damage was slight.
Lake City.
In moving the Chafee house from
town to the Moseley farm eight miles
southeast Of town the movers made a
distance OF one mile one day last week
in forty minutes. Clayton Ressler, OF
Lohrville, is the mover. and he had
Stokes and Winter pulling the building
with their traction engine. When the
engine gets stuck a rope and capstan
is used to pull the building along until
level going Is reached. The building is
24x2S, two stories high. The barn on
the Chafee lot is to be moved to the c.
I o. Hutchinson place.
Aisona.
One of Charles Notes hens Is moth
ering five little English ringneck pleas
ants that she Matched Friday. 1t took
twenty-four days for the hatch His
female pheasant lays an egg every
| thirty-siX hours In season. She is now
| busy on a hatch of her own, consisting
Of ten eggs. Milt Moore turned his
pheasants loose some weeks ago but
they still come with his chickens to
be fed. Neither Mr.. Moore nor Mr.
Nolte has ever been told by the state
fish and game warden what disposi-
tfon to make OF the birds.
Lake Park.
While Hiram Goodell was l1itching
up team Of colts to q two seated bug
gy preparatory to driving to town,
quite an accident occurred which might
have been much more serious. The
little Is months old son sat in the front
seat and unnoticed took hold Of the
lines and at that instance the colts
started while Mr.. Goodell had Just
hooked up the tugs on one side and
quick as flash tore around the yard, he
grabbing desperately at the child. but
was unable to get him out Of the buggy.
The colts went over a stone pile, box
Of sand, large evergreen and a clothes
line and at last managed to get
loosened from the buggy. Mr. and Mrs.
Goodell were frantically following the
buggy. The baby had been thrown in
the back end OF the buggy and not q
sound came from him. but when finally
rescued the only bruise that could be
found was q bad bruise on the bridge
Of the nose. The buggy top was badly
broken and some damage to the har-
ness. Tho colts were caught IN the
! garden lot nearby.