Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-08-31
IOWA STATE
]. n NEWS
/ I'M Late Happening.
\ Throughout the
III Commonwealth

Albert SHOEMAKER, of Keokuk, is
asking for a divorce from his wife.
He alleges that she threatened to
blind him by throwing carbolic acid
in his face; that she borrowed re-
volver with which to shoot him; that
she bit his wrist and that she cut
him with a razor. Strohmaier claims
that he was a dutisul husband, and
asks that the bonds OF matrimony be
severed.
John Wierling, Of Boone, was in
stantly killed on the Fort Dodge, Des
Moines & Southern railway, just out
side the city limits of Ames, when
steam shovel tipped over and rolled
down a steep embankment. Wierling
was caught beneath an overturned fiat
car. Ray Thompson of Boone, fire
man on the steam shovel, stayed at
his post and escaped with few minor
injuries.
The citizens Of Grinnell defeated
proposition to build an additional
building for high school purposes. It
was proposed to vote a tax to raise
100000 for the structure. The meas
ure was defeated by vote Of about 3
to l. A few years ago the city built
building at cost of $4,000 and
this the taxpayers thought should be
sufficient for the present.
Ed Kratzer, section hand at Cedar
Rapids. seems to have all sorts OF
trouble with robbers. It is becoming
. regular event for him to appear at
the police station and explain that he
was robbed. During the past few
months he made three such reports.
The last one he complained of was
that he was assaulted by four men
and robbed of $25.
The Few telephone company at
Jefferson has completed three new
toll lines connecting with Boone, Per-
ry and the country to the north Of
Jefferson. This makes total of nine
new lines owned By this company.
The number Of ton calls during the
past month reached $500 and were
distributed among 1873 different towns
and cities.
j. o. Robertson was drowned at
,nI.n. ~. 49,, ~. ni'e,si.y powe.
then said as he Jumped into the wa
ter. You can keep my clothes in re-
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tnousnt ne was JOKING Dut When
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e piie VI "ood mas Deen purchas-
anu ~ y pIoposeu 10 make Inc
plsoneS prePsNe II lor use next
winter
neoAuH was slsleeu Win a $lo,O0o
80. , ,se ~ ueiec.lve wiring m tne
s. COMPANY ciorning
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field and war. MT rny.saa rn.,, 49,,
failed ~ coma to atrnsr .v,,sn 49,
,vere tound da.s M.,-,t, -. -,
known farmer ana 1870. +.r,,-
while ONE rohhar rs.s,tsrss ~ ~ ).
a,.vornor. 49,, :. $50 ~ ~ ~.
Mt night another d-aw 49, .ns
held I'M Night clerk r w p;s.., and
robbed the cash. dr.v., - ea7 pn.h
escaped
David A Younp rro,,,.,+ g.
county for over . cror+a- =, -
tury. died at the home ~ HE SON
w. N Young. in Keokuk He Mad bo.r
i'll for more than a vear
George Rver mamhor =, +ha n,
buoue fire department for +war,v-opa
years. died after an acc;dant .,s.a;,
ed while MAKING a rnr IN rasnonsa
to what proved to be a false alarm