Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-18
Southern Io1ua Items

for cents a pound. Cattle brought
Chicago prices. Horses sold for $3.50
and $3.50 a team. One horse sold fo1
$272.50. Mules brought all the way
from s425 to S475 a span. Mich COWS
sold for SIS and $50 per head and suck
ling colts went as high as $3.50 head
Red Oak.
William Colbert. who lives in Sher-
man township. met with an accident
which might easily have resulted IA
tally. While preparing to return to
his home from the home of a neighbor,
John Peterson. living short distance
away. he mounted his pony, and while
reaching to the ground for a box. the
pony SHE'D, causing Mr.. Colbert to
lose his balance and fall to the ground.
One foot was caught in the stirrup OF
the saddle and the pony ran, dragging
him around over the barn yard. He was
wearing pair of high top boots and
the only thing which saved him from
being dragged to death was that the
boot allowed him to pull loose from the
frightened animal.
sisourney.
John Fisch, 15-year-old son OF
| Michael Fisch, living in the west part
Of town, shot himself accidentally thru
the upper leg the other evening. He
had a 32-caliber revolver he was fixing
and had loaded it after the folks had
gone to bed, intending to try it out
He pulled the trigger but one shell
failed to explode. Then he got the gun
In hand and laid the barrel on his leg
and it went off. the ball passing thru
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and on into the other rooms. His little
nephew was near him, but did not
happen to be in range. His leg is badly
swollen, and the doctor can not tell yet
whether the ball went thru the bone or
not.
Abba.
]. H. Casters residence on South
Main street came very near being de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday morning.
Sparks from the chimney set the roof
on fire and had it not been for the NJ.
& ST. l.. train crew that hauls water
to the mines south Of town the house
would probably have, burned to the
ground. The conductor noticed the fire
and stopped his train and went to
Casters and informed them that their
house was on fire and If they would tell
him where to get a ladder he and his
crew would put the fire otit as they had
a train load of water to do 1t with
Mrs Easter told them where to get the
ladder and they had the IRE extin-
guished in less time than it takes to tell
the story. About Ave feet square was
burned in the roof and the loss is COW
cred by insurance.
Perry.
Street Commissioner John Fox and
his gang of men and teams went down
to Otley avenue and started hauling
away a part Of the famous paving
which had been laid on that street dur
ing the summer and fall. The work is
being conducted under the direction OF
the street and alley committee which
has found that the sand. gravel and
tar which forms the top Goa: fc- the
two. blocks between Second and Fourth
streets is worse than nothing. The
removal OF the tar coat and the sand
and gravel is but another chapter In
the paving history Of Otley avenue. It
will be remembered that 1t was found
after the contract was let and the con-
crete laid that the tar covering was
not practicable Two blocks OF the
paving was covered with this substance
and then settlement was made which
resulted In the discontinuance Of the
contract and the city paid 5000 out of
its funds for the filling Of the cracks
with bitumen and the laying Of the two
blocks Of covering.