Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-01
Atlantic.

/ Atlantic.
/ The city council, at a meeting held
i Saturday evening for the purpose OF
hearing objections to the proposed paw
/ ing program, overruled most of the OBJ
] iections and decided TO pave two miles
:! of streets and alleys this year. The
4 paving will be of concrete. June IA is
| the date set to receive bids. When the
paving to be put in this year is COM
I pleted. Atlantic will have more than
j, sixteen miles of paved streets and
alleys.
! Dubuque.
! William Dolter, carpenter residing
at 106 West Twelfth street. was as
saulted and held up near the library,
| Eleventh and Bluff streets, by two I'M
known men Saturday night at about
! 80 o'clock. The footpadS were un-
/ successful. Dolter, however, suffered
an ugly wound over the left eye, which
appears to have been inflicted by a
! pair Of brass knuck1es. At an early
/ hour Sunday the police had made no
arrests The victim was rendered
! partially unconscious by the blow and
was unable to give description Of the
hold up men.
Des Moines.
| Prisoners who are injured while in
! mates of the state reformatory or peni-
/ tertiary can not recover under the
/ workmen's compensation act, accord
! ing to an opinion given out by Welker
! Given. secretary of the Iowa indus
! trial commission. The act, Mr.. Given
declares, is only intended for those
/ who voluntarily enter into contractual
that n iS =
ent between the state and a prisoner
The decision arose over an injury re-
ceived by an inmate of the Anamosa
reformatory while working in the shops
there.
OskaIoosa.
Dallas Boyd, son of Mr.. and Mrs
W. J. Boyd, Of this city, has made good
with the big United States military
band that has it's home station at Fort
/; Dupont, Delaware. 1t is conducted by
Band Master V. s. Safranick and he
is en- tour with the organization, play
| ing at present at the California -ex-
position at San Diego. He will be a.
San Francisco later and then goes for
| season to Honolulu before returning
| to the east. Dallas, who is only Is
years of age. is the only young mem
| DER o. Ile InlllldTy OAHU, al olHeIS DS-
ing old or middle aged players.
Muscatine.
Lest the peard -mussel industry
should subside the bureau of fisheries
has planted almost 200, 100000 young
mussels at the Fairport biological sta
! ton during the last year. According
to reports received here. 100,00O,0 0(
have been planted in Lake Pepin
/ Mimi. and 100000 near Lacrosse. The
bureau is said to have it's eyes on an
other pool in the Mississippi, known
as Lake Cooper, above the big dam al
Keokuk. The bureau is making study
on the effect which the dam, locks and
turbines have on the movements Of
migratory fish.
Muscatine.
That the loss suffered by the farmers
Of Muscatine Island during the pas
fortnight is almost inestimatble wa:
discovered when it was announced thai
great part of the cabbage, sweet po-
tato, melon and other truck plants
had either been destroyed by the SAND
storm, the cold and wet weather re-
Gently experienced or by cut worms
The sand storm before the recent rains
destroyed fifteen acres Of sweet pc.
tato plants on the James Figg farm
near Fruitland, as well as six acres Of
sweet potatoes on the J. E. Hope!
farm near this city. and five acres o.
4 egg plants on the same farm. The lat
ter can not be replaced. The few casei