Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-10
Northern Io,ua Items

| persons. The drys had a large force
OF workers at the court house Monday
copying off the names of the slgners.
| The anti saloonists have ten days In
which to check over the lists, find any
| irregularities In the names and obtain
| Withdrawals.
Hawarden.
| H. NJ. Angle lost about thirty mead
of fine steers on his farm near Elk
Point, from supposed corn stalk pofs-
oning. Mr.. Angle shipped in several
carloads of steers from western South
| Dakota a couple of weeks ago and eX-
pected to rough feed them in the stalk
fields In the vicinity Of Elk Point. Last
week they commenced suddenly to die
off from some unexplainahle cause. Dr.
w. II. Madison was called down Sunday
and veterinary was also summoned
/, from Sioux City and they came to the
conclusion that the cattle were pois-
oned from feeding upon the dry corn
stalks.
Fort Dodge.
DR., A. T.. Burgfried received let
! ter Saturday from his aunt in Ger
many the first letter to come since
war was declared. 1t was dated Nov.
3 and came from Germany by way of
London, bearing stamps which showed
that 1t had been read by both the Ger
man and English censors. IT was writ
ten apparently with this In view for
1t told very little about conditions now
prevalent in Germany and merely
stated that the writer's husband and
four sons had enlisted and that one
of the sons had been killed month
ago and that another had not been
heard from since he left for the front
in August. At the conclusion the let
Ter said, 1T will be very sad Christ
mas for us this year in Germany"
Clinton.
Fire did considerable damage Mon
day afternoon in the rear of the Snow
White drug store on Second street.
The store Is conducted by John Mat
thiesen. The flames started when bot
ties of carbolic acid, which were placed
on q stove to dissolve the acid, broke
and scattered flames about the rear
room. The blaze quickly spread to the
stock room, and for a time the whole
building was threatened. In response
to summons the central fire company
was quickly on the scene. After at
tempting to put out the fire with the
use of chemicals the firemen realized
that water was necessary. and
stream was thrown into the blazing
room, quickly extinguishlng the blaze.
altho the water caused much havoc
among the bottles and phials in the
stock room. The fire was kept out Of
the store room.
Fort Dodge.
A. c. Boogs is home from hunt for
big game In the Canadian woods, and
he succeeded in getting what he went
after. AL says that in the Rainy valley
country where he and party hunted,
there is big game enough to last for Il
thousand years, and that any one who
can pull q trigger and sight at all can
make q killing, but the trouble is to
get the game out after killing It, AL
and party had thrilling experience
, in bringing back to civilization part
of the game killed. Owing to mild
weather the rlvulets. streams and
Doggy places were not frozen hard and
as walking was the only way they
could get to the head waters they had
to drag their game and stumble along
on uncertain ground. When their port
was reached they set forth In a sort
of skow propelled by a motor. with
the waves running from ten to twelve
ieeI HisH anu tHe poat ro!uHB IN All
directions. One OF the party had a bad
case of sea sickness during this ride
of over thirty miles. The second stage
of their water trip was in :, much bet
ter boat and smoother water but on a
treacherous stream on account of con-
cealed reefs. After the Journey was
half made they had to turn back on
account of a heavy fog. making 1t dan
gerous to proceed. They finally got
thru in five hours, a distance of forty
eight miles.