Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-15

The lamp was torn from the auto, the |;
tenders injured and the hood scraped. !
The front wheel Of the motorcycle. the
front fork and handle bars We're also |
badly ruined. AS both of the vehicles
were going at something like twenty
miles an hour the impact was pretty !
severe.
Sioux City.
Helen Blood, 13-year- old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Blood, s23 Ninth
street, was heroically saved from
drowning in the Big Sioux river last
Wednesday afternoon by Florence
Ludlum. SIC jackson street, also Is
years old. The girls had been in
boat moored to the Riverside Boat Club
dock. In getting out the Blood girl
tell into twelve feet of water. She
went down twice. With rare presence
Of mind the little Ludlum girl grasped
post with one hand and leaning out
reached beneath the water and caught
her drowning companion by the arm.
She assisted her to the dock. where she
soon recovered from the shock
Sioux City.
The arbitration beard which was
appointed to fix scale OF wages for
Job printers and foremen decided 10
raise the minimum scale Of SIS, now
| in force for journeymen. to $50, ana
! the minimum Gale Of $22 for fore
men to $2+50. Only eight men are ar
fected by the finding. as the other
! twenty-eiyht union printers In the Joo
| shops already are receiving more than
the new minimum. 1t was found from
I government reports and statistics that
\ the cost Of living in Sioux City had
7 increased II per cent In the last SIX
years. The arbitration board was COM
posed Of c.. c. Hamilton, NJ. H. Sam
mons and E. c. Wiley.
Maquoketa.
| Fred Peters, driver for the Fritz
Stemmelae Brewing Company, was
killed at $3.50 o'clock Saturday after
noon and Bert Conway had a mira
culous escape from serious injury,
when team driven by Peters ran
away on North Main street Peters In
Humping from the wagon struck his
lhead on a rock He died at the Iowa
sanatorium a few minutes afterward.
A loose bride was the cause OF the
RUNAWAY, The team started its Wild
dash down the street and when the
two men saw that they had lost con-
troll of the frightened animals they
both jumped to the ground. conway
lescaped uninjured Peters leaves w1e
land two small children.
MeGresor.
To run down a pair Of wolves In 4
seven passenger auto on the north
Iowa pike, the main Travelled road thru
northea stern Iowa and the proposed
river to river automobile highway. was
the novel experience of H. Reeves OIL
McGregor and q party consisting OF
Mrs. Reeves, Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Dau-
beuberger. Miss Betsy Larrabee. Miss
Gretchen Daubenberger and MISS
Frances Perkins. AS the car was NOV
ling along rapidly near the village o.
Giard about o'clock in the evening
two gray wolves were suddenly shown
bv the headlight standing side by SIDE
in the middle of the road. EVldenti!
dazzled by the glare of the electric
seq chlieht they did not move as the
automobile bore down on them. anu
: the body of the big car passed directi!
over both. Mr.. Reeves backed az
quickly as possible but the wolves hao
| d;sanneared. AS the wheels did no:
touch them it IS probable that they es-
Icaped uninjured. Tho wolf Is oc-
! casoinally killed In the woods In TINS
iyicinity in the winter 1t has been many
wears since one has been seen in the
: open.
, Sioux City.
The hot sun of July day never
beamed down more pleasantly on
little Polish sdrl than it did Friday. Fol
is not Mary Moriss queen OF the 1or
eipn colony, a buxom lass and pretty
to he wed to stalwart Pete Plaskeo'
:. yichkv he who stops not. tho dan
: per and bad men thwart his path? Il
oil came about when pretty Mar,
asked Judge David Mould to quash hel
Il oo0 breach OF promise suit agains
p,a.koevichky. She paid the costs
ana Pete's money, which was tempo
rari,v tied up in two banks. Is released
3 for his use. Pete did not have quit
Y a. 600 but then s357.70 is not sucf
!. had sum to start of married life
d pete and Mary will be legally unitet
< within the next few days at the BRIDE
{ home 519 Steuben street, and tn
i wedding feast, which grew cold on tn
!. n HE three weeks ago. will once NOR
v await the couple. Three weeks ag'
pate was arrested on his wedding da!
!. nm a warrant sworn out by Jo
e 1,honisky charging him with assault
e md battery. Morris kroioff. as u
e good samaritan, procured Petets re
{ lease from Jail and the marriage plan
n w.rs al, prepared. Then Pete failed t
0 make his appearance at the time se
. for the nuptials. The next day Mar!
/. sa!sd suit.