Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-19

. the Adams farm. just west Of the city.
an automobile with only one front light
| approached her. Thinking that the APP
proa ching automobile was q motorcycle
Miss Hilton turned to the side OF the
road leaving, as she thought, plenty of
room for the motorcycle. The driver
of the car, however, seemed to fancy
the same side of the road and the result
was q collision. The horse Miss Adams
was driving plunged into tho air and
landed, on the hood of the machine.
breaking the dash of the car and
plum ging thru the windshield The fly
ing glass badly cut the horse and
gashed the face of the driver.
Algona.
Reports Of loss of stock from heat
orr ailments incident to sun stroke are
reported occasionally and to those there
are added the deadly work of lightning
which has been very frequent this
summer The latest instance Of the lat
ter kind is the killing Of a fine Swear
old mare belonging to Henry krentzel
of the SWea City neighborhood.. The
animal was drinking at tank near
windmill when lightning struck the mill
killing the horse instantly The horse
was valued at not less than $3.50 and
IL VII. TAItulLti TGCelNeu his llSlT-
ance of $3.50 he carried on the mare. it
is said that he was willing to add twice
as much more to be able TO replace
the animal with one equally as good
Manson.
Death came to Tommie Leith In a
swift and terrible form. when a kick
from horse crushed his skull. He died
in less than a nhour. With his father
and brother. Donald. he was milking
the cows. His father and brother fin
ished their milking sooner than he did
and went to the house for breakfast.
After reaching the house, MIR. IIeath
concluded to return to the barn to give
the horses some salt. When he walked
into the alley in front of the animals
he heard a groan and Immediately in
vestig ted. finding his boy lying behind
them with cash In one Of his temples.
The boy was carried to the house and
medical aid summoned. but nothing
could save the injured lad, as his skull
was badly crushed.
Anamosa.
Mr.. r. Mihle, who recently visited
here at the home OF DR.. NJ p. Sig
worth and who served thru the civil
war with the doctor, was we'll known
as sharpshooter. He gained a consid
cradle amount of renown on account of
an incident in his military career, ac-
cording to a story told by DR.. Sig
worth. Mihle was one day sent out by
his commander to do some sharpshoot-
ing. Upon returning to the camp that
evening he told his companions that
he had picked off twenty-seven men
during the days firing. They scoffed at
rebel camp was rounded up and most
Of them captured, some Of the prison.
ers told of the havoc wrought by Il
sharpshooter who had occupied a GER
tain clump of trees two days before
hives tigation brought out the fact that
twenty-seven Of the rebels had fallen
before the deadly fire OF the invisible
si,arpsi:oote-. Mr. NIihles story could
his men Alright.
Charter Oak.
Fred Kortmanr has worked out
system for watering his fruit trees that
is worthy OF notice. He knew his trees
would drop their fruit unless given
water, but how to supply the water
so it would be taken up by the
deep tree roots and distributed thru
the tree was a puzzle. Back about IL
foot from each tree he dug a small hole
perhaps six inches deep. Into this he
set a joint of stove pipe into the hard
ground at the bottom OF the hole He
then tanped dirt in around the pipe.
Digging the hole enables him to set the
pipe deep enough so 1t Will not topple
over when loaded. Driving it into the
hard ground keeps 1t from leaking BY
laying a board over the pipe the driv-
ing may be done without bruising the
iron. When all Is done the pipe is
filed with water. Mr.. Kortmann finds
that it holds about a pail OF water, and
after the first few filings. this lasts
several hours. He has lost very few
apples from his trees since he inaugur-
ated his peculiar irrigating plant. On
the contrary they are hard and vigor-
ous and one small branch carries a
lucky cluster OF thirteen large apples.
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