Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-07-31
Northern Io1ua Items

! Custer. on the John Foss farm in Har-
din township last Tuesday. The animal
was seen in the barn yard at noon, ev-
identity foraging for chickens. Will
Birss threw club and hit it in the
! leg, and it showed fight turning toward
pitchfork. It was of brownish color
and weighed about twenty pounds. The
Clusters have been losing a good many
chickens and believe that the badger
has been taking them. The fact that
| it was a young animal leads to the be-
| lief that there are others in the vicin-
ity.
Hopkinton.
H. L. Ram, of the Manchester Press.
| has given notice in his last issue that
! he has brought action against w. s.
Beels. editor Of the Hopkinton Leader,
| claiming $4,000 as damages for al
! legged malicious SANDER. He also In
cludes County Attorney e. p. Stiles In
the suit. The case grows out Of pleas
antries shot back and forth between
i the two rival publishers. Ram re-
= ferred to the figure of Beels as about
4; the same appearance as sack OF
Early Rose potatoes,~..o which BeelS
retorted that Ram recently was en-
| cased in an inner tube while out with
an auto party to keep him from get
ting wet in a thunder shower.
| Spencer.
Last Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Willoughby and family of Grun-
dy Center, were on their. way to the
lakes in an automobile, when they
came to the spur of the Milwaukee
that runs out to the Spencer Tile
factory, the engine was backing into
; the factory but without giving any
signal or ringing the bell. and the
| view not being good they were almost
against the engine before they saw
it, 1t was then too late to turn or
swerve, so there was nothing to do
but run into the engine head on. A
little boy was thrown clear of the
car, and all were badly bruised. but
no one seriously. The car was badly
wrecked and put out of commission.
Clear Lake.
Playing in the yard of his fathers
farm home, five miles northwest OF
Clear Lake, Dale Cook, 5-year- son
Of Ernest Cook, came near the hoofs
Of a horse he was touching up with a
whip and received a kick on the fore
head, which tore the skull wide open.
DR.. n. A. Phillips was called and the
child was removed to the Phillips hos
pital, where an operation was per-
formed by Drs. Phillips and Swale the
latter Of the Park hospital in Mason
City A small amount of brain It's
sue was lost. The child is getting
along nicely The part of the brain
injured has been found the easiest to
repair. in the experience of physicians
The case Is similar to the gun; shot
wound Of Roy Felt, year ago. July 4.
DR.. Swale successfully performed an
operation on the year-old child sew
eral years ago in which large amount
Of tissue was destroyed. The child sttll
lives and is apparently healthy and in
possession OF all its mental faculties.
Mount Vernon.
There are numbN' Of changes to be
made in the faculty Of the college this
fall on account Of the withdrawal Of
several present members. Miss Elisa
beth Platner has completed arrange
ments to teach piano at the state
teachers college. New Instructors II,
piano secured for Cornell are Miss
Leila NJ. Niles Cornell conservatory
graduate, later pupil Of Lhevinne In
Berlin. and Miss Edna Traxler. grad
uate of Oberlin. Mrs. Julia Shaw, a
former instructor Of violin returns here
after two years of study abroad. Mr..
Edward d. Beach, also graduate OF
Oberlin, has been chosen to assist Miss
Marguerite Hughes In the voice de-
partment. In the college proper sew
eral additions will be made to the
faculty as the departments OF agricul-
ture and domestic science are new. The
instructors of these branches will be
announced later. Prof. Paul II. Dixie,
who has done such excellent work in
the physics department and who goes
this fall to the university of Missouri,
witt be succeeded by MT. Orrin2 II.
Smith, lately OF the university OF 1llI-
nois.