Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-07
Southern Io,ua Items

aged to get under the Citizen ONCE room
and located the people above by the
sound OF footsteps on the floor. Mr..
Gifren and the boys heard cries for help
and imagined it was in the street. The
more they hustled around looking fcr
the yells the more the boys in the cellar
howled. Finally 1t dawned on MI. Gill
fen what the matter was and he teie-
phoned to the bank that there Were
burglars in the basement. Thomas
Whitney called on the janitor and
asked him what he meant by leaving
people In the building. ,The'j anitor said
he didn't believe that anyone was
there. In the meantime Ray and Harry
were getting warmer under the collar
every minute. The janitor thought best
to get the aid of Marshal Bosley before
he attempted to catch the burglars.
The captives finally made their identity
known by poking their noses out thru
cellar window. They were quickly
released
Blanchard.
The track-laying gang on the Iowa
and Southwestern railroad are progress
sing very rapidly with their work con-
sidering the time they have been de-
have the track laid over half way to
College Springs and would be there by
| the middle of the week il the bridge
men could keep out of their way, but
| they will probably be delayed as II will
take the bridge gang seven or eight
days to complete the large bridge at
Mil creek
Let's.
Sheldon Parsons, a we'll known resi-
dent Of this vicinity. passed away al
the home of his sister, Miss Ruth
| Parsons, here, after lingering illness
during the last eight weeks OF whicf
he has been hedfast. Tumor OF tht
stomach and complications caused hi!
death. The blow to the family is In
tensified following as 1t does the dea Il
OF his sister Mrs. Martha e. Cline. las
Friday 4 brother, David Parsons, wh.
| at the present time is seriously i'll, ant
his sister, Miss Ruth Parsons. are tn
only members Of his immediate fam
lily surviving.
Council Bluffs.
Gordon Mahoney,, 14-year-old son o
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Mahoney. is lynn
; in Mercy hospital in serious condition
as the result Oh DelDS ACC1OeNtdily SLO
in the right leg with a shot gun in tn
hands OF Ralph Johnson, Sunday al
ternoon, when the boys were out hunt
ing about two miles north Of Mynste
springs. Johnson. who owned the CUR
started to open it to extract the shell
when the firearm went of within on
foot OF Mahoney's leg. Two holes, on
: ! where the discharge entered, |,h!c
Is about two inches in diameter, an
, the other where it came out, about fou
inches in diameter. were torn in tn
boys leg by the shot. The shot barrel
/ missed one Of the large leg arteries.
keekuk.
:. A prominent Lee county farmer
speaking OF the stock situation in tn
!, section says that there are less cattl
here now than any other time in n
business experience. He blames II
losses Of hogs by the cholera and II
{ great scarcity of roughage for the Gait
9 | as the reason. He predicts there wi
o be an excessive increase In prices
K cattle and haxs as result Of this III
: fortunate condition before another ye:
v rolls around. There ID not one-fouv'
Q Of the cattle being raised today IN u
:. section when compared with that
p formW ysArs. This il . ssrious eossd
t. tea not merely because ofthS loss !,
q the cattle but because of tbs loss
i fertility to the soil