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

Anita. !,
Anita will vote. at special election
on Aug. ii. on the proposal to issue
$4,000 bonds to extend the water
works system.
Dee Meinss.
| Two dine horses were burned to death
In q IRE Of an unknown origin which
destroyed the barn on, the Thomal
Egan premises at 117s Eighth stree
early Saturday.
si9eurnsy.
| Ola Hermanstorfer. daughter Of
Louis. ives caught in the hay hoist las,
Thursday. and had some Of her fingers
badly crushed. 80 that she was taken
to Cedar Rapids, where she had one OF
her fingers amputated. She 10 home
again and recovering nicely.
Guthrie Center.
Emmett Purdy. II years old, was
fatally injured while riding down one
Of the steep hills between Guthrie Cen
ter and Panora when his bicycle struck
q culvert. piercing the skull and break
ing other bones In the head.
Lost Nation.
Prof. NJ. H. Dake. Of Epworth, has
been secured az principal for Lost Ma
ton high school for the ensuing year.
Mr.. Dake is q graduate of Cornell Col
lege and has studied several years at
Harvard. He comes highly recon-
mended.
sieournsy.
Two Of this county have been be-
fore the insane commission lately. Mr..
William Kauble was taken to Mt.
Pleasant. He has been in falling health
and was hard to keep at home. so was
taken to the hospital for treatment.
Mrs. veach is the other, coming from
Delta. They formerly resided here.
Ne. Pleasant.
Roy Wilson. a young farmer living
south Of town. had his leg cut badly
while mending a threshing machine.
His leg slipped while he was working
on the machine and a severe wound
was inflicted by the band cutter.
Charles iIooIlum, young man living
on a farm north of town. had his foot
badly mashed while raking hay.
kirkviIis.
Mr.. and Mrs Samuel Fullmer cele-
brated their fifty-seventh wedding an
niversary recently. They have lived
in this vicinity nearly forty years Mr..
Fullmer served nearly five years in the
Twenty fifth Independent battery, light
artillery. Seven sons and one daugh-
ter have been born to this couple. Only
three Of seven sons now are living.
Shenandoah.
Henry Field, wife and seven chill
dren. will leave Wednesday for an
trip thru Missouri. Kansas
and Arkansas. Mr.. Field has a large
touring car in which the whole family
will ride. and he has had trailer
built in which they will carry the bag
gage, tents and food kit. They will
camp along the way.
Dee Moinss.
George Cosson. attorney genera
will be asked to define a cigaret. The
Iowa Humane Society at Des Moincs
has had fourteen small boys under arr
rest for smoking, which the boys con-
tend are not cigarets, but tissue paper.
which they found folded about tobac-
co. The anti-cigaret law does not de-
fine what constitutes q cigaret.
shenandoah.
Duane. the little 2-yeae- old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Denny Martin. gave his
mother q bad fright Wednesday eve
ming and had what was perhaps Z mar
row escape from stransi:ng. A neigh
Dor had paid back" for some kerosene
that she had borrowed and Mrs. Mar
lin had left the cup Containing the oil
On the back porch. MS. Martin missed
The baby and went around the house
TO investigate ana when she found MIN
he was Strangling. Mrs. Martin could