Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-20
Northern Io1ua Items

Warner as teamster His work was TO
! haul coal from car to the Baptist
church. Studebaker, it is charged, sold
two loads of the coal and kept the
money. He was given plenty of time to
pay for the COAL but as the money was
not Forthcoming, he was arrested on
charge OF larceny. 1t is expected that
the case will be settled very soon, as
Studebaker is said to be making ef-
forts to get the money to pay for the
coal.
DEBORAH.
Last Thursday forenoon DR.. Stabo's
big dog took a scouting trip over on
the hills east of DEBORAH and wandered
off down on the Teskey farm. Victor
Hoeg and his brother have had couple
of traps set in the woods &c catch
wolves and fox. and the doc stepped
into one of the traps, The dog is big
and strong and in his efforts to-ser lose
broke the chain holding the trap and
came over town with the trap clamped
on his right foot. In front of Leon
hearts restaurant several men caught
the dog and removed the trap from his
foot, and he trotted off as if nothing
had happened and we wager Mr.. Dog
will not go looking for game in that vi
entity again.
AekIey.
A practical joke of nature was perpe-
trated on Henningsen Bros, of Dixie,
when one of their pure bred polled
Durham cows gave birth to freak calf
with five legs. The calf is fully devel-
oped. full sized, and leg strong and
healthy The extra leg grows out from
the neck just in front of the right
shoulder. 1t grows out forward and
then bends toward the head like big
hook and having just one claw at end
of the leg. This claw the calf sucks at
times like child sucks it's finger. The
extra leg has four movable joints and
it can move it up and down and 1t
moves IT in unison with the other leg
when walking. AS the calf is of pure
bred parentase it is entitled to record
in the herd books.
Waterloo.
George Brannan, 522 Iowa street, was
crushed to death between cars on the
Illinois Central railway near Duncombe
Wednesday night. Mr.. Brannan left
Waterloo Wednesday morning at 6: 80
aboard freight train No. SO with Con-
ductor William Riedell. At 9 o'clock
Wednesday night they reached Dun
conbe and it was while engaged in his
duties as brakeman that Mr.. Brannan
met with the accident. MIR. Brannan
was about 80 years old and had been
employed with the Illinois Central for
years. He had passed the examination
of conductor, but was working on this
trip as brakeman in place of the regu-
lar man. He is survived by widow
and four children, two boys and two
girls. The children range in ages from
to IA years.
Fort Dodge.
Oakdale Queen, the champion milk
producing heifer in Webster county.
is owned by Dana Thomas, manager
and owner of the Oakdale dairy of
Fort Dodge. This youthful mammal.
at years, is producing twice as much
milk as her older sisters. For the last
month she has averaged twenty-one
quarts of the lacteal fluid each day. her
production on some days being as high
as twenty three quarts. The queen is
as pretty a little Holstein as you would
wish to set your eyes upon. She Is pure
bred, tho not registered. The milk pro-
duction of the next best COW of the
sixty on the farm is sixteen quarts a
day. The COW giving this quantity OF
milk is years old. On account Of the
rapidity Of her concentrating apparatus
it is necessary to milk her three times
q day.