Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-13
Northern Io1ua Items

people with the intention of giving the
exhibition in = school house in the
neighborhood., He had been refused
the use Of the opera house here for
some unexplained reason Last Mon
day evening the rehearsal was at the
point where Hesseldahl was supposed
to shoot Blair. Both boys supposed
that the revolver contained blank cart
ridges. Blair had, just, examined 1t to
see 1t 1t was all right. But it proved
otherwise. When the shot rang out,
Blair sank to the floor and died in fiji
teen minutes. Hesseldahl was not
more than four feet away when he
fired.
Aigona.
At meeting Of the Tuesday Club
at the home Of Representative and
Mrs. G. B. Huthcins last Tuesday eve
ming twenty gentlemen. members of
the club or guestss participated in a
straw vote on president. The result
was five to one victory for Senator
LaFollette, who received four -fifths of
the total vote. or fifteen votes, Taft
received but three votes, Governor
Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey one,
and Attorney A. Hutchison one.
Nashua.
G. w. Smith exhumed potato
weighing three pounds. He took the
giant murphy in his arms and carried
1t home. being careful lest it fall upon
and crush his feet. The father wagered
his son, Harold. that he could not eat
the tuber at one sitting, and the lad
accepted the bet. The single potato
was pared. cooked and served, steam
ing hot. It's soft sides burst open and
the cooked vegetable appeared like a
miniature snow bank. The boy ate and
ate and ate. Finally the last of the
three-pound tuber was slowed away,
but the lad did not ask for any dessert.
He said it would take more than a
silver dollar to induce him to repeat
the performance.
Webb.
For the first time within the men,
DRY of white men the Big Slough"
west Of town. burned on last Monday
afternoon. According to old settlers
the grass all round the edges OF the
slough burned aboiit thirty years ago.
but this time it male a clean sweep Of
grass. PUSHES. muskrat houses and ev-
erything from the Rock Island rail-
town The fire started about noon and
is supposed to have been set by Rock
Island train directly west of Main
street. The area burned was about a
section. where for forty years men
have hunted ducks in the spring and
fall and trapped muclirat and mink in
the winter. Early residents who have
!, moved away can hardly realize the
change it has made where they used to
pole boat thru the rushes while hunt
ing ducks.
Ida Grove.
Henry Schutt. a well-known farmer
in the western part Of the county, and
Barney Epson. young farm hand be-
came involved in fight several weeks
ago and as result Epson was bound
over to the grand jury by Justice
Spots. Of Garfield township, the pre-
liminary hearing taking place last
THURSDAY Yopng Epson gave bond for
his appearance and is at large. The
fight was over the possession Of team
Schutt had mortgage on and which
; Ipson was driving along the highways.
In the fight Epson used a buggy neck
yoke on Schutt. and from the differ
er1ce in size OF the two parties az rep
resented by an informant, Schutt be-
ing the larger man by half, Epson was
Obliged to use something. beside his
fists in order to protect himself from a
severed rubbing. Schutt received q
| hard jolt from the aforesaid neckyo4<e
hut as he was not seriously or perlna-
nently injured the grand jury will
hardly find any serious crime against
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