Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-20
WAukon,

Waukon.
At a meeting Of the board, Super
intendent Of Schools W. H. Ray, was
reelected unanimously for the fifth
year. but as he has an opening in a
larger field he has resigned, to take
effect June 10.
Ames.
J. G. Emerson, of Burchinal and j.
s. Dodds have been elected editor-in-
chief and business manager. respect
| lively, Of the /. S. c. Student for the
coming year. The Student is the Of
fetal paper Of the college.
Ida Grove.
$. M. COrrie, former state senator
from this district. had a narrow escape
from death when one of his horses
kicked him in the face. Mr.. Corrie was
found lying unconscious in one Of the
stalls and remained unconscious for
several hours. but is now getting along
nicely. 1t is thought there will be no
serious developments, req
Waterloo.
That pigs squea1 is we'll known to
biologists. 1t is also equally evident
TO Ed Brundage and Ernest Blanch-
ard at present confined in the county
Jail for the theft of two prime sterl-
ing loauacious young porkers. Accord
ing to information filed before Justice
F. F. Knapp by Giles w. Sage, Brund-
age and Blanchard are charged with
the theft OF two red pigs valued at SIS.
Ida Grove.
The committee in charge of the nine
ty-second anniversary celebration of
the Maple Valley Odd Fellows, to be
held here April 26. has closed arrange
ments for special train to leave
Whiting at a. IN. and arrive at Ida
Grove at $3.50 a. M, picking up the
various delegations along the route.
Returning the special will leave here
at II o'clock at night. Over 500 del
egates are expected and an elaborate
program is being arranged. Jerry
Green, OF Marshalltown, will make the
principal address.
Dubuque.
Tom Kelly. a tramp. was brought
to the police station from South juno
ton Monday afternoon, suffering with
an injured leg. Kelly was stealing a
ride in a box car loaded with ma
chinery and one of the machines fell
on his leg, badly twisting and bruis-
Ing it, but no bones were broken. It
was but few weeks ago when this
same Kelly was brought to the police
station suffering with several frac-
tured ribs. He was attended to by the
county physician Monday and sent to
Jail to recuperate.
Dubuque.
In building the big vault in the wat
er department and the office of the
city recorder it was thought nice
thing to do to place. somewhere in the
walls Of the vault. a record OF the city
hall as it exists at the present time.
Accordingly the various officials made
up a record box In 1t Is contained
the letter heads Of the various depart
ments recent council proceedings. the
| names Of all city hall officials ana
board of health and such other data
as it was believed would be of interest
| many years hence
Cedar Rapids.
The corner stone for the new Elks
club house which Is being built at
First avenue and Fifth street. was laid
Monday afternoon with impressive
ceremonies. The principal address was
delivered by the Rev. Joseph Newton,
pastor Of the Liberal Christian church.
1t had been the intention to make the
corner stone laying quite an event but
the contractor nIllSnSu IHe basement
work sooner than he expected and mo-
titled the EIks that the work would be
DELAYED If the corner stone was not
in place Monday
Dubuque.
Irene, the little daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. William Miller. OF French Set
Element in Table Mound township
while eating a cracker Sunday swal-
lowed a pin which had been cooked
into the cracker and before 1t was re-
moved from her throat came near
strangling to death. The pin, lodged in
her throat. lying crossways and the
struggles Of the. little girl to loosen it
caused the points to dig into her
throat, causing much bleeding and
tearing OF the flesh. 1t was necessary
to send to Dubuque for a physician In
order to save her life.
Waterloo.
Is $500 the value of finger? Eu-
gene Eagle. OF Waterloo, says it is for
he has commenced an action against
the Iowa Dairy Separator Company In
which he asks Judgment In the sum OF
$4,000 for the loss Of the first three fin-
gers from his right hand. which he
claims were anpu bated by draw press
in the company's factory, where he
was employed. In his petition filed in
the district court Eagle states that the
Eaccident Happened Sept. q 1910, follow
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