Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-22
Northern Io1ua Items

Charles City.
August Leek, a city mail carrier sus-
tanned broken leg when he fell thru
q coal hole in the sidewalk. He was
glancing over letters for the next pa
,, tron when he stepped into the hole
EstherviIie.
The water mains have been flushed
and the new supply of drinking water
for the city has just been turned in.
Four wells were sunk close together,
averaging in depth twenty-three feet
and supplying, 1t Is estimated, about
5000 gallons per minute.
Msssrvsy.
Mr. and Mrs. c. L. Abel were badly
hurt and their carriage was smashed
when they collided with A. Koenen. a
neighbor. who. with an auto. met then,
near turn in the road. Both were
thrown from their conveyance and Sc
| riously bruised. Mr.. Keonen was not
hurt.
Dubuque.
| The firm of Harger & Blish cele-
brated the fiftieth anniversary Of the
founding Of the institution B. NJ.
| Harger, senior member Of the firm,
opened a small music store in Dubuque
/
the concern now is operated in Des
Moines.
Algona.
The paving boom has struck Algona.
At meeting of the city council 1t was
voted to pave fifty-two city blocks next
year. Algona paved nineteen blocks
on the main street this summer, and
, it has met with such satisfaction that
property owners are urging the city
fathers to continue the work.
Cherokee.
Albert S. Crabb. who retired from
the Cherokee Times recently to be-
come a farmer in Dickinson county,
has disposed Of his interest In that
paper to Robert H. French, young
farmer of Liberty township. Cherokee
county. Mr.. French will assume the
mana gement of the paper. He is with
out previous newspaper experience.
Webster City.
Excavation has been begun on SEN
eca street on the lots recently pur-
chased by the Penticostal church Of the
Nazarene, preparatory to the erection
of a church building. The building
is to be of frame covered with sheet
steel, and will be 30x50 feet in dimen-
sions. The foundation wall will be Of
concrete with cement blocks above
ground, the basement not being fin
ished this year more than what will
be necessary for the accommodation
of hot air furnace.
Boone.
Thursday forenoon. the 2-year- old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ingles-
by, living eleven miles east of the city
sat down in a pan of hot water which
had been placed on the floor for only
moment The little one. 1t appeared
at first was fatally burned and ply
stefan hurriedly summoned from this
city. Frank Wiley made the trip in
twenty minutes including one stop.
The child was not as seriously burned
as at first feared and word from their
home in the afternoon was to the eff
feet that she would recover.
shellsburs.
/ The wyant. Dickinson, Heath Com
pany stores were entered by burglars
early Thursday morning. Entrance was
gained at the rear of the grocery de-
partment by digging a hole thru the
solid 12-inch brick wall underneath one
OF the windows. Night Waterman
John happening discovered the rob-
bers in the building and gave the alarm
to the entire store force but while do
ing 30 the culprits made their escape.
The loose change In the cash regis
ter, probably about s., was about all
that was missed. There is no clue at
present as to who the parties were.
Williams.
Carl, the 10-year-old son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Johnson, had the mis-
fortune to fail one day last week while
playing in the barn, and bruised the
lower end OF his spine. The bruise was
OF a serious nature, the attending ply
sician having to perform very diff