Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-17
Northern Io1ua Items

switchman, who vas riding on the rea
end of the train. The mans head, the
only part OF the body to show effects
of the ,accidente was crushed to a pulp.
In speaking Of prize ears of corn,
William ~Brenneman, one of the sub
stantial farmer of Ashton township,
this county, has an ear gathered out
Of his field this season that is some
corn. The ear is eleven inches long, ten
inches in circumference at the butt,
seven inches at the tip, has twenty
eight rows. sixty kernels to a row, or
just 1850 kernels in all. Who can beat
it?
Waterloo. "a
Preparations are being made by the
Waterloo. Cedar Falls & Northern of
the cqlipping Of the local and interur-
ban electric service with pay-as-you-
enter cars on and after Jan. /, 1912.
According to present plans ten modern
doutie-track cars, longer than the ones
now liz service. will be added to the
equipment. City lines having the great
es. patronage will be given the new
cars. These will probably be the East
Home Park and Litchfield-Ga l-
loway lines.
Dundee.
Jacob Lopez, a Richland township
farmer, filed suit Monday in the dis
tr!ct court at Manchester against the
c. G.. w. road for $3.50 damages for the
alleged destruction OF a crop or his
farm which a wiped out by a fire
started by the sparks from a passing
locomotive. The plaintiff declares the
blaze was due to negligence upon the
part Of the defendant company in not
properly equipping the locomotive. w.
III. Norris, Of Manchester, is his attor-
nny.
Waterloo.
The report has reached Waterloo
that DR.. William Thompson. As years
ola. the government expert who was
sent to this city when the council
adopted the milk inspection ordinance,
| whereby dairy cattle were to. be sub
I;ected to the tuberculin test, and later
inspector for Iowa, Nebraska, and Mis-
souri,, died in South America where he
had been sent as a veterinary expert
by the government. 1t was q strange
coincidence that the inspector should
die Of tuberculosis. the disease which
he spent 30 many years in combating
in dairy herds.
Spirit Lake.
Over fifty men Of Dickinson county
were out all day making q search for
| Peter Howe, the, man who fell from
a moving auto and mysteriously disap-
peared Thursday night near 500 VAL
lev. No trace Of him has been found.
The swamp about 100 rods from the
scene Of his fall 10 frozen. md 1t may
| be he will be found there when the ice
thaws out. Mrs. Howe and child left
!! for Elkton, s. D., to be with her par
ents. A brother of the missing man has
been hunting night and day and can
find no cause for such q sudden dis
appearances.
Sioux City.
High school girls with ambition to
be fascinating should hope for moth
Ing unless they regularly 60 to bed by
10 o'clock at night. High school boys
are too young to call on the girls. They
too should be in bed at the same
hour, and neither sex should patronize
the modern theater. The company OF
mother is more to be desired than the
thSater or the picture show, and good
| morals could be served by less novel
! reading and more attention to cook
| ing and sewing. These are q few OF
the ideas conveyed to the student body
OF the high school by Mrs. b. F. Car
roll. wife Of the governor. in an adj
! dless in. tie assembly room.