Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-08
Southern Io,va Items

A rope was quickly lowered by fellow
Workmen. but the victim was buried
| almost to his shoulders before it could
be tied securely around his body. 1t
| took the full strength OF Ave men to
pull him out. Altho pretty sore from
the severe strain he was able to be
around town the next day.
Avoca. #4f s2&s& So
! Marenso. -.t '@~'"7> "NN 81.
The prospect is for ajlively session
Of beekeepers at the convention which
| meets at the commercial club rooms in
in the Shops building at Des Moines,
on Monday. Dec. 10, and continues I'M
til Wednesday afternoon, President
Bartholomew Of Ames has secured an
| unusually strong list of speakers this
year. Among the prominent men from
| outside the tate are c. P. Dadant. edi-
| tor OF the American Bee Journal: e.
K. Root, editor of Gleanings In Bee
Culture; Prof. FranciA lager of the
Minnesota Agricultural College. and
DR.. E. F. Phillips of the United States
department of agriculture. Iowa Is
rapidly becoming an important honey
producing section. and various meth
| DDS of marketing will be considered by
&! the bee men. Problems relating to
combating disease and to wintering the
bees will also be discussed. ..-
| Avoea.
Fire, which apparently started be-
tween two buildings about o'clock
Monday morning. the buildings being
| separated about two feet, caused con-
siderable damage to the BUSINESS struc-
lures owned by NJ. w. Derby and the
John Dolen estate. The Derby build
! ing was occupied by the Tire Repair
! Company. managed by Carl Tanke.
i They had a supply OF new tires and
. other accessories and machinery and
tools. all Of which were more or less
damaged or burned. They had no in
surance. The building was damaged
about $50 and was insured. The
! Dolen building was occupied by Her
1 man Schneider's carpenter shop. The
! about $500. The cause of the fire is
not known. The prompt work Of the
| fire department prevented further
damage.
| Muscatine. 49,.
! The movement to establish the city
manager plan OF government in NUS
catine was dealt discouraging blow
at a meeting Of citizens at the Musca-
|
Attorneys H. D. Horst, and w. r..
Jayne raised a serious doubt as to
whether the law passed at the last
| general assembly was applicable to
! special charter cities The statute does
, not make the act specifically applfca-
BILE to special charter cities and as
Museatine operates under special
| charter. legal opinion expressed was to
the effect that such a change In gov
| eminent here would necessitate an
amendment to the city manager stat
ute which could not be obtained until
the legislature meets In 1917 II this
opinion IL substantiated nothing can
be done for nearly three years
Mount Pleasant.
| Four steers owned by Herbert Hills
we're run over and one was killed out
right Saturday afternoon, while three
| more were injured 80 that they had to
be killed. The cattle which were in q
! large bunch. were being driven toward
town and had started to cross the
4 tracks and about a dozen mad got
across when No. 49, the local passen-
ger train from the west due here at
1:Ia. Diowsa thru the bunch and :a;iieti;
one instantly and injured three others
50 that they had to be killed. The cat
4 tie were worth In the neighborhood Of
i So00. Dan McKane. coIored man,
employed by Mr.. Kills. who was help
ing to drive the cattle. was also in
5ured. just how badly cannot be ascer-
tanned at the time OF going to press.
He stated that the engine threw one
III the steers In such a way that 1t fell
! ! g: hin :.t=s:ng his leg, The train
was about ten minutes late at the time
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