Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-23

Rockwell City.
Actual work laying the foundation
of the new court house at Rockwell
City was commenced last Monday.
: The material used is "slush concrete
Duhuqus.
(, Lightning struck the residence OF
Ada NJ. Collier Tuesday morning. set
ting the house on fire and damaging
it to the extent of $1,000.
Lake City.
/! Five red foxes which made their
family home in the F'ulkerson timber.
north Of town. were shot this week
for their scalps. Albert Ripley and
Leslie Fulkerson shot one and Harry
Betenbender three on Monday. On
i Tuesday afternoon Betenbender bagged
the fifth one after a not chase on
! horseback.
/ Alden.
Supervisor Heslop was at the county
seat last week attending to official
duties, one of which was to consider
the letting Of the contract for the Ia
j Dor and tile for the big drainage ditch
known as No. SO. The estimated cost
of the ditch is $4,000. 1t will be sit
uated between Macy and Robertson,
this county, and with the main ditch
and It's laterals it will be twenty
miles in length. OF these twenty-five
miles of tile, something over 5000 feet,
will be Of forty-two inch tile. The i'm
provements is TO be let in eighty sec
tons
| Bristow.
| Joe Cough. Jr. while Harvesting a
! horse in the barn Saturday. was kicked
| on the back of the head by the animal
and very painful wound inflicted. He
was brought to town and Dr.. Reeve
found 1t necessary to take small
stitches to close up the wound and
! it seemed as tho he met with very
close call Joe has been very unfort-
innate in meeting with accidents, as 1t
will be remembered how only few
months ago he very nearly met death
| in a gravel pit which caved in, and he
spent several weeks in the hospital at
| Nayerly recovering from the effects of
| that.
Jewell.
+! Last Friday afternoon Mrs. Magnus
| Johnson was very seriously Injured by
falling down stairs, sustaining severe
cuts and bruises about the head and
wrenched ankle Her baby had fallen
against a stove slightly burning one
hand, and Mrs. Johnson had gone up
stairs to get some materials for band
aging the hand In hnrrying back
downstairs she fell from very near the
top of the stairway to the floor below.
The injuries about the head we're the
most severe and for some time she re-
ma med in semistupor, but is now
recovering nicely.
Monticello.
The Washington township line fence
case was decided by the supreme court
last Tuesday in favor Of the defend
ant. John Heery. The case has been Of
special interest to those involved be-
cause the costs Of the litigation taxed
in the district court amounted to $1.-
61O The action was commenced nearly
two years ago by Andrew McGovern.
Loes Bros, Hugo Weber and Frank
Takes against John Heery, James
A. Gavin, Charles A. Gavin, Mrs.
Hugh Dixon and Jones county. The
plaintiff declared that certain govern
ment corners in the sections wherein
the land of all the parties was located
had been lost, and they asked for the
appointment of a commission Of sur
veyors to locate and establish the lost
corners. The commissioners. who were
appointed. found against John Heery
on his plea Of acQuiescence and run
new lines slicing several acres from
his land. but he filed exceptions to
their report. and Judge Treichler re-
versed their decision, and 20 far az
the Heery premises were concerned