Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-06
Northern Io1ua Items
North McGreaor.

North McGregor.
Ten Greeks who have been working
for the Milwaukee company here at
the roundhouse and coal chutes, de-
parted Monday for their home country
for military service.
Sioux City.
! DIR. Clara Whtmore for the last
four years house physician at St.
Johns hospital here, departed Mon
day for Shanghai, China. to enter the
Margaret Williams hospital. DR.. Whit
more will have charge of the depart
ment of surgery and gynecology.
Sioux City.
!; Paddy Fargo. an express horse that
drinks beer and eats onions has been
taken to San Francisco to participate
in a parade in connection with the
Panama Pacific exposition. Paddy has
drawn an express wagon in Sioux City
F.! for many years. He fell from grace
when he made route that called for
! the delivery of packages to saloons
each morning for several years. Bar
TENDERS used to give him beer, and soon
afterwards he showed an extreme
fondness for onions.
Cascade.
Cascade has taken steps to stop
automobile speeding within its cor
porate limits. Automobiles are
warned that officers have been ordered
stationed on the east and west APP
proaches of the city on Sundays armed
with stop watches to time passing
AUTOMOBILES Those found exceeding
the Cascade speed limit will be prose-
har pf
iinfractions of the regulations and auto
mobilits both local and from abroad,
were warned that they were danger
,ously near the limit of speed.
/ Waterloo.
/; At the W. NJ. Powell farm. iii East
Waterloo township, Saturday after
noon. lightning struck the barn and
killed three horses and a colt. The
bolt entered the building and followed
the mangersF but did not ignite the
! building. a daughter Of Mr.. Powell,
who had been feeding the horses. had
just left the building. She felt the
shock. but was not injured. At the w.
I c. Leland farm, nearby. lightning
struck a tree in the yard about the
same time. The men in the yard and
the women in the house felt the shock.
Boone.
! Lewis Reinking, age 90. was fatally
| inquired Sunday morning at about $50.
He was walking along the c. & \. w.
! tracks near the stock yards and COM
ing toward the station. He was on
I the east bound track but got too close
to the west bound track and was
struck by the pilot beam Of the engine
on No Is He was taken to the
Eleanor Moore hospital where he died
about 1915. The unfortunate man
was single and lived at 1924 Fourth
street He was employed as car re-
pairer by the c. &. n. w. Funeral
arrangements has not yet been made.
Nashua.
! Harry Crossman. one of the promi-
nent farmers of this vicinity. met with
a painful accident. He was assisting
o. d. Yetters in filling the silo and was
driving the corn binder. The machine
became clogged and in trying to clean
it out he caught the middle finger OF
| the left hand in the gearing, crushing
it badly. Frank Smith was passing
at the time and he took Mr.. Crossman
to doctors office where the finger
was removed below the first joint.
Harry Beck another farmer here.
met with a similar accident the day
before in similar manner. but was
not hurt so badly. only the tip Of the
finger being crushed.
Sioux City.
d Migrants who heretofore have been
sentenced in police court to serve six
months in the county Jail. may obtain
their release after thirty days in
carceration by application to the dis
trict court, if ruling of Judge w. G..
Sears, made Saturday. is carried out.
Judge Sears increased the available
space in the county Jail by liberating
nine "vags" sent up from police court.
None of the men turned loose had
served more than a day or two over a
month, The nine men We're repre-
sented by counsel. Don Mullan, as
sistant county attorney, represented
the state at the hearing. No police
I evidence was introduced.
Cedar Rapids.
Instead of grinding up hops the
Masnus brewery after the first of next
January will he grinding hops for the
| manufacture OF dry yeast. Negotia-
tions are under way. it is understood,
between the directors Of the National
Yeast Company, and the owners of the
brewery to convert the beer factory in
to a yeast factory when the Clarkson
law goes into effect which makes all
of Iowa dry The yeast company is
now quartered in a building which is
amply large enough for all purposes,
b.. the fact that the brewery ma