Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-03-09
Northern IO1Ua Items

,vit,, tho Y w. g. A.. of the east. has
lately turned her attention toward the
western states and was impressed by
the reports OF the advancement OF
Morningside College.
Fort Dodge.
Fort Dodge has an opportunity TO
secure the next biennial meeting OF the
Iowa Federation OF Womens CUBS
which meeting this year is to be heid
! at Sioux City next week and 1t Is es-
sential that this city extend an Invita-
| ton for the holding of the 1913 meeting
here and that is all that is necessary to
secure the meeting. This is made plain
| by the fact that the president or 10
| cal club is in receipt of letter from
Miss Julian Richards. president OF the
/ Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs. ex
| pressing a desire to hold the next bi-
ennial meeting in Fort Dodge.
| Waterloo.
| John Mullany lost a check by theft
| from his clothing and the negotiable
| paper was cashed by Nathan Conn
proprietor of a clothing store. The
check, which had a face value of 500
was taken to the bank and there pro-
nounced a forgery. the clerks OF the
bank having been warned to look out
ing been stopped by Mr. Mullany as
soon as he discovered his loss It is
| believed by those Interested that a
Young man who had been working on
the Mullany place stole the paper and
| forged the endorsement.
! Waterloo.
Altho she is not an attorney. Yer
Mrs. Ida Burkitt. humane officer.
| needed no assistance in prosecuting a
! case in court before Judge Caldwell
against Giles Sage. charged with cruel
| ty to dumb animals. Mrs. Burkitt con-
! Quoted the direct and cross-eXamina :
| ton. She brought out the points in
| the testimony from a number of wit
nesses who testified that Sage uses
horses on wagons in collecting garbage
about the city that should be in veteri-
nary hospitals. Tho witnesses mcn-
| toned observed the drivers whip the
! horses and exceed the speed limit in
driving along the street.
Ida Grove.
Will c. Stewart, ono Of Ida county's
| farmers who always carefully selects
! his seed corn in the fall and as careful
| ly tests it every spring. has just made
| a remarkable test in which the 100
kernels he tested in seed tester OF his
own invention produced 10l sprouts.
one Of the kernels producing two
sprouts. The double sprout was sent
to Professor Holden at Ames. and in a
letter he says 1t was a freak OF nature
such as Is found once In n long time.
| but can not be explained. He says the
test Of Stewards corn showed remark
able results and the Iowa state college
asks for a price on some OF his seed.
| Boone.
a peculiar case Of illness Is reported
from the home OF Henry Won Krog. in
which his 11-year-old daughter Is the
| sufferer The entire family with the
exception OF Mr.. Won Krog have been
i'll for the past several days. but all.
| with the exception of the daughter
mentioned. have recovered. The daugh-
ter some time ago swallowed a brass
headed tack. 1t lodged itself In the
right lung and there remained The
lung seemed to commence dying and
has been gradually getting worse. a
few days ago the young girl was ia nt,''i
to Des Moines to specialists. They
located the tack by the use OF the x-ray
and have a problem now on hand to
remove 4. The case e 9 most peculiar
one 49,