Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-15
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/ Roland Hamm, aged 16. the son of a
prominent farmer, while speeding rar
into the Comet cuivert west OF town
and sustained two broken arms, tw1
broken ribs and number of bruises
The car was demolished.
Waterloo.
Work on the s1s1,oOo Improvement
and extension Of the local Illinois Cen
trail shops will be started Immediately,
according to orders received from the
general Offices of the company in Chi
| cago. In these orders Waterloo Off
Gals of the Illinois Central are in
formed that the contract has been
! awarded to L. S. Leake & CO., of Chi
cago.
Waterloo.
| August H. Brandhorst, aged 10, son
| of a well known farmer living eight
miles northwest of Hudson, was killed
Saturday evening in a runaway acct
dent. Angus. and his brother, Chris,
were working in field with a team,
The team started to run and August
was thrown between the team and the
wagon. The wheels passed over his
body and he died twenty minutes later.
Aekey.
In mis- efforts to turn out and avoid
co,lidiro with on automnhile that was
approaching from an opposite direc-
ton. Henry Johns. a son of Mrs Johns,
residing in the southeast part of town,
was thrown from the buggy IN which
he was seated to the hard ground; the
result was that his knee cap was
broken or cracked, the result of which
will be tina. he will be obliged to keep
from work several months.
Parkersburg.
A new Gould deep we'll pump was
installed at the city plant last week
and is now at work pumping all the
water that is used by the people o.
parkersburg. The pump head alone
weighs "a ton and hall ana the pump
works so quietly that it can not be
heard outside of the open door OF the
pump house. The pump was operated
approximately sixteen hours ana IN
that time pumped in the neighborhood
IF fortv-fye thousand gallons of water.
Webster City.
In a straightforward talk OF almost
an hour, Prof. D. NJ. Kelly. superin-
tendent of the public schools. made 1t
plainly felt that the "hazing' OF high
school freshmen had no place in Wen
ster CITY school life and furthermore
nothing of this sort would be tolerated
IN the future. This talk resulted from
the action OF several sophomores
Monday evening, and as result OF
their antics one freshman was some
what injured and several more were
treated roughly.
Cedar Rapids.
That representatives OF several OF
the warning nations have been In this
city endeavoring to get local manufac-
turing plants to take orders for muni'
tions it was learned when the manager
Of one of these plants admitted that
his concern had been approached by
Japanese with tempting oher to make
shrapnel foy. the allies. The Dearborn
Brass Company has had several oners
thru correspondence to engage In the
manufacture of brass caps Tor shrap-
mel hit all of these offers have beer
turned down.
Cedar Rapids.
! A great deal Of Indignation is being
expressed among local fishermen re-
rarding extensive SEEMING operations
(which are seia to have been conducted
near the Iyanhoe bridge, about fifteen
miles south of the city, last Monday
One man who saw the seiners at work
said that a wagon box in which the
fish were thrown after h1Rk E1DAIAe