Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-12
Southern Io,ua Items

mix that followed. mower, horses and
driver slipped over the bank into the
ditch. Mr.. Goehring was cut and sus-
tains numerous other injuries and one
of the horses was SO badly hurt that
it had to be shot. being ;disemboweled.
I-Mr. Goehring was brougl1t to town for
attention.
Hamburg.
1t is setting back the hands Of time
good while to think OF a farmer go
ing into his wheat field with an old
| fashioned cradle. But H. c. Brown
has quite long memory OF how they
used to do things. When twelve-acre
field Of nice wheat was ready for cut
ting and water covered the land so as
70 make the harvester impossible he
| took down the old cradle from where
1t had rusted these many years in the
! locust tree and ground 1t up. AS he
| swung the cradle the boys followed.
bound the grain. loaded it on the wagon
and hauled It to the high ground for
stacking. By perseverance the whole
patch was saved from natures ugly
mood.
| The three Italians who were ar
rested recently by the local officials
were charged with maintaining Ii
| quor nuisance in separate injunc-
| ton suit filed in the district ocurt
Monday. The proprietors of the store
are Angelo Cirivello, sol East Second
street: Louis Gaeto, 107 Iowa avenue,
and j. and B. Manjoine. 226 Walnut
street. An Injunction seeking to re-
strain the accused proprietors from
handling liquor is sought Attorney
II. B. Betty, of Davenport legal coun-
sci for the Law Enforcement League.
filed the suit. 1t is said the defendants
will fight the injunction on the grounds
that the liquor which they had on
hand. other than near beer" was for
their own private use.
West Liberty.
Results from the vanguard of thresh
ings in this vicinity. give the lie to
the solemn faced prediction that crops
were &c be failure, owing to the con-
tinued rain. On the Albert Anderson
farm, southwest of town, the oats
yield averaged eighty-one bushels to
the acrc--the best record reported thus
far This farm is well located and the
yield probably is above the average.
Harry HaZlett's yield of wheat was
close to the thirty five bushel aver
age and his oats ran about fifty-fiye
bushels to the acre. Mr.. Hazlett's
fields are on the bottom lands south
east of town and two weeks ago were
SO badly beaten down by the wind and
rains that it was feared the crop would
be total failure. Barley, which suf-
fered greatly because of the rain and
in many fields had started to sprout,
is yielding close to fifty bushels in
many instances.
Lakonta.
The tanning Construction Company,
which was formerly operated under
the name Of Lanning Bros. Lumber
Company. at Lakonta. Is new con-
Germ just recently organized. The new
company is composed Of c. e. and F.
D. tanning, who will continue to OPP
crate a retail lumber yard at Lakonta,
altho there are now really two con-
Germs, the new company being organ
lied for the purpose Of taking con-
tracts for construction work, particu-
larry at mining camps in southern
Iowa. F. D. tanning will have the
management of the new company and
will look after its interests in the fu-
ture. The new construction company
has closed contract with the Central
Iowa Fuel Company, Of Des Moines,
for the furnishing and construction Of
fifty miners cottages at their new
mine fifteen miles south of Charlton.
In addition, the new concern also has
the contract for large store building.
two ice houses, mule barns, etc, which
contract will amount to little more
than 420 900. i;.
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