Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-20

Dubuque.
Thirty -four head of cattle and seven
| ty head of hogs afflicted with loot anu
mouth disease Wednesday were slaugh-
tered and rolled into trenches on the
Broessler farm near Epworth- Inc gov
eminent allowed $50 each for the cattle
| $50 for the calves and market value TOR
the hogs.
Stone City.
A very sad accident happened at a
dance held here on Monday night. VIII
liam Whitfield fell down the stairs from
| the hall and at first he was not sup
posed to be seriously hurt. He was
taken to his home, but he died before
morning. His age was about %, and
he leaves mother, two brothers and I,
sister.
| Fort Dodge.
| One cent weighed so heavily upon
! the conscience of a Rockwell City man
that he sent Postmaster Risely the PEN
nv with the information he had re-
ceived one cent too much a year ago in
change. The Rockwell City postmaster
started a conscience fund with the
penny.
| AIsona.
The Urch school house, located
about two miles east of the city was
destroyed by fire last Wednesday mig ut
about IL O'Clock. The cause Of the fire
is unknown but the presumption is that
it caught from a defective ffue or was
set on fire by tramps who have been
known to sleep there a number of
times. Miss Helen McEnroe is the
teacher in this district.
Clinton.
Miss Mary Olson. of Calamus, 1S
years old, won the sweepstakes at the
Clinton county farmers institute, for
the best loaf of bread offered in COM
petition. She had entered the contest
in the girls class, and it ranked not
only at the head of that class, but out
ranked the best production in the gem
eral class, where first prize was won by
Mrs. C. n. Peterson, also of Calamus.
Clinton.
Over 900 guests attended the annual
masked ball of the German Dramatic
Association of Lyons, and the Germans
proved their neutrality by admitting
yisitores dressed as French maids and
Belgian peasants. A group of German
Red Cross nurses, however, won first
prise. Kaiser Wilhelm was present, en-
throned in wheeled chair altho this
vehicle had no metaphorical signifi-
canoe.
Mason City.
William F'iala, aged Is, had his arms
severely burned Tuesday night when
lamp he was filling suddenly exploded,
and his clothing caught fire. Frank
F'iala, his father, who was in an ada
cent room, heard the explosion. rushed
into the room and soon smothered the
flames. Mr. Fiala stated later that the
explosion was caused by gasolene being
placed in a kerosene can at the gro
Gerry store The arms of young Fiala
were reported to be healing from the
burns.
Cedar Falls.
P. A. Lund of the Benson Cow Test
ing Association, shattered all records
for average butter production for an
entire herd during the month of jan
uary when his herd of fourteen COWS
average forty-eight and one-half
pounds Of butter each-nearly 2-3
pounds per day for each COW. He also
had high individual COW with one pro-
ducing eighty-six pounds Of butter dur
ing the month-almost three pounds OF
butter per day.
AIgona.
Last Friday as Frank Longley, who
resides at the foot of bloomington
street, was going home he noticed sew
eral small pieces of steel lying near the
railroad. He investigated and discov-
cred that they were pieces of a rail and
! that about four inches had been broken
off the-end of one of the rails and it
had split several inches farther. He at
once. telephoned the Milwaukee depot
and Agent Whitney had men put in a
new rail. It is said that had train
undertaken to pass over the broken rail
it would probably have caused a wreck
This Is bad place and trains usually
pass this point at fast rate OF speed.
Cedar Rapids.
On being arrested by Detective Ser
geant Joe Kroulik, George Studebaker
admitted that he stole two loads Of coal
from the Baptist church. Last fall
Studebaker vas employed by Mr..