Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-12
Southern Io1ua Items

ftennial of the Monroe church which
was held Aug. 10, at the church.
splendid program was prepared. and
Rev. j. H. Gibson. former pastor.
was present to give the address of the
| day. All former members OF the con-
gregation were invited and 1t was q
great day In the history Of the Monroe
church.
Muscatine.
Almost four thousand barrels of ap-
pies have been received and large
part shipped out Of Muscatine within
| the last three weeks. The orchardist
has been busy hauling the fruit to the
market and the commission houses OF
the city have been unusually busy
handling the flood Of apples OF the eat
ing and cooking variety. Not in many
years has such a bounteous crop been
| encountered and every resident of the
locality upon whose property several
| apples trees are growing, has visited
| the commission houses to dispose Of
the surplus product.
Burlington.
Burlington's city treasury is not a
gamer by the visit OF Buffalo Bills cir
l GUS LILO SHoN p<lsu n iiSSiSo NV Va
$50, but 1t cost the city more than this
sum to repair the pavement on Madi-
son avenue. The heavy wagons dam
aged the curb for two blocks in the
vicinity Of Madison avenue park. The
heavy wagons drove sections Of the
pavement down under the curling for
! that distance also. This was due to the
fact that trench for gas mains had
| = lo, IN
order to avoid tearing up the paving
for the two blocks. BY reason OF the
trench, the ground gave the curbinG
and paving no support against the
pressure OF the heavy wagons.
Columbus Junction.
Fire was discovered about 2:30
| o'clock Sunday afternoon in the W. +.
Hall & Co. dry goods and grocery
store The fire was very difficult to
| locate, as dense smoke poured out
from both the front. and rear OF the
building. The flremen soon had three
| streams playing on the store room, and
| after Il time succeeded in locating the
blaze at the rear Of the store on the
side Of the building next to Hill & Co s
/. store. The blaze was extingu!shed aft
err stubborn fight. but only after the
Hall stock had been practically ruined
by smoke and water Some damage was
done to the Hill & Co. stock In the adj
joining store room. The fire was dis
covered just as people were on their
way to the chautau1ua grounds. and
a big crowd gathered to watch the fire.
| men at work.
Belle Piains.
Walter Ruhl. of the Pleasant Hill
neighborhood, got hurt pretty badly in
a runaway accident. He was going
along the road with his horse and bug
~, accompanied by his neiEhbor. W.
A. Wilson. Mr.. Mikota was coming
| some distance behind him with a load
Of hay and his daughter. a young lady
| OF sixteen summers. was doing the
! driving. The team she was driving be-
| came frightened and In a moment were
unnianageable. Mr.. Ruhl drove out to
one side to let the runaways pass but
instead Of keeping straight ahead they
followed Mr.. Ruhl. and struck his bug
gy with great force. The buggy was
badly wrecked and it's occupants
| thrown violently to the ground Mr.
Ruhl was badly hurt about the should
ers but an examination proved that nc
bones were broken. At the time OF tho
| accident Miss Mikota was thrown from
the load OF hay and landed on her feet
unhurt Just behind the busy and as
she fell the lines went with her and
the team went on up the road in their
mad career with Mr.. Mikota on top OF
the load and helpless to guide them
as the lines were on the ground They
Al-
struck tree near the house and could
lgO no further. Luckily no damage had
been done and nobody hurt