Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-11
Northern Io1ua Items

Charles City.
Information charging that there was
in the Hildreth hotel here considerable
quantity of liquors. Sheriff White. on
making a search. found ten barrels, two
Of which contained bottled beer. The
proprietor claimed that the beer is
owned by private parties.
Fort Dodge.
Negotiations were concluded Friday
whereby E. ]. Breen becomes the own
er Of the Wolverton farm near the city,
for the consideration OF $3.50, or $40
an acre. The property in question adj
joins the Pearsons farm and is a small
piece Of land comprising eighty acres.
Sioux City.
During the past year the various 'r-
CARNATIONS Of the Presbyterian church
have raised 320.750. OF this s7,o4s has
gone into the building fund. $9,474 into
the current expense fund, $1,000 into
the improv ements on the McCltntnck
Memorial chapel, and $2,139 into the
foreign mission work
Cedar Rapids.
Cedar Rapids council. No. 900,
Knights Of Columbus. will initiate
class Of seventy in this city April %,
the first Sunday after Easter. The mi
tiatory ceremonies will conclude with
a banquet in the evening at the Ameri-
can auditorium Several speakers Of
note will appear on the banquet pro-
gram.
Ida Grove.
Clinton.
Miss Missouri Dozier. colored. a
graduate Of the Clinton high school
of the class of 1900, was married here
to George w. Slater. Jr., OF Aurora. Ill,
for sixteen years a minister in the Afri-
can Methodist church. and at present
lecturer and reformer. Both are high
~ educated. the bride attending the
Howard University at Washington at
ter completing her studies in Clinton
Mason City.
His cab splintered, Engineer William
Barbour, of the Northwestern, escaped
with his life Friday morning when a
crank pin of his engine broke and a
flying side rod stripped the locomotive
Of all it's fixtures on that side. The
train was moving at rapid rate OF
speed down grade at a point twenty
miles north Of here.
Fort Dodge.
Fort Dodge has population Of s19,-
2e0 according to the 1911 Polk direc-
tory now being distributed 70 s!.h-
scrtbers. The volume contains, 30 the
preface says, 1915 names Using the
multiples Of two and one-half to rep
resent married women and children
who are represented by the, heads IT
families, indicates the population CIV
en-. The 1910 federal census gave H.
54s population to Fort Dodge.
Waterloo.
John g. McGlade. bricklayer. resid-
ing at 31s Glenwood street, had his
foot crushed by a Highland car at 5: 10
Thursday afternoon. The foot and an
kle were in such q condition th3t am
putation was necessary. This was per-
formed at the Presbyterian hospital
where the injured man was taken soon
after the accident. It was necessary to
sever the lower part Of the left leg At
a point dve inches above the ankls.
odsboIt,
While dttching on the Ba1nsy stan.
Eel farm last week, James Level un-
earthed q gruesome relic Of early days.
About four feet below the ground at
one time IVES evidently the body Of
a man Of ,arse stature. The sksle.on
vas stretched out on . log with two
logs on top Of 1t. Tho head. arms and
shoulders and the limbs from the hips
Gown were all there, but the bsdy
had decayed until nothing tangible re-
manned. None Of the early settlers re-
member Of . burial having been made
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