Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-03
Southern Io1ua Items

way. While returning from a funeral
near Lewis the team ran away. throw
ing the driver. young lady and DR..
Braun out OF the carriage. leaving the
minister with badly injured hip In
which the ligaments are torn. and 1t Is
feared bone may be broken. DR.. Braun
was taken to Lewis and brought home
on the train sitting in wheeled chair
! in the baggage car. His brother con-
Quoted the services in Audubon Sunday.
Shenandoah.
H. A. Whistler owner Of tho farm
south Of town known as the Tyler farm
and formerly the Link Henderson
place. has sold two tracts OF the farm
at high figure. Frank Law son bought
fifteen acres Of unimproved land pay
ing 1910 an acre. Phillip Mes bought
forty acres. which included the home
place. paying $3.50 an acre. This is
about the highest price yet paid for
land. The farm is located just two
miles south Of the >ollege and is in the
best locality near here.
Burlington. tr
Carl Swanson. lad IL years OF age,
was rescued from drowning by Thomas
Treeharne, a boy but little older. living
! here. The Swanson boy had been
skating near the Illinois shore during
the afternoon and while enjoying the
sport he failed to notice he was ap-
preaching an airhole. The boy plunged
into the icy water. He struggled to
keep a1oat. but disappeared from sight
twice. Thomas Treeharne made his
way out to the edge OF the hole and
thrust a shiny club to the struggling
boy, who was fast becoming exhaust
ll,1
| out.
keokuk.
Judge Mcnamara has rendered his
decision in the prosecutions brought
against ten employees OF tho moving
picture shows in Keokuk. against whom
:nformations were filed charging them
, with performing Labor" on Sunday that
was not that Of necessity or charity"
The court holds that selling theater
tickets. ushering people to their seats
and operating moving picture machin-
cry is labor" and within the meaning
Of the law and hence he found the de-
PENDANTS guilty. assessing ir each case
the nominal ine OF 81 and costs. The
defense gave notice of appeal to the
Iowa supreme court.
Logan.
Lawrence Clark, a son OF Seward
Clark OF the Jeddo neighborhood. ap-
parently has the record we believe for
corn husking this fall for the state. In
forty-flve days he has picked 1850
/ bushels Of corn, most Of 1t is weighed,
! so there is no doutt about the amount,
and all of this he has shcveled from
F., the wagons himself He has lost but
two and one-half days, exclusive Of
Sundays. since he commenced to work.
Tho largest days work was 1853 BUSH
els and the average for tho forty-fve
days was 10S bushels. almost. The
young man Is only 20 years OF age but
he has the knack Of getting out the
corn.
AdeL
Joseph Messmer, prosperous farmer
living about eight or nine miles north
west Of the city, died as the result o.
| injuries received Dee. 10, while hauling
wood. While on his way home with a
load OF wood he stopped part way up
| the hill to rest his horses. blocking the
| wheels with stick. In some manner
in starting the stick struck him. He
| was thrown beneath the hind wheels OF
| the wagon. which started with the
team down the hill backwards. pushing
him ahead Of the wheel as It turned.
Finally the hind wheel passed over his
body and he was similarly dragged
with the front wheel. As the result he
was badly cut and lacerated. the skin
scraped almost entirely on his body and
ave ribs broken, one OK which penesrat-
ed the lungs. Il was thought for sew
eral days that he would recover, but he
died from injuries . TN days aGo.
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