Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-10
Northern Io1ua Items

I dollars worth OF work free of charge
to the county, believing that the sur
| faced highway will be an asset to
them as well as public benefit. If
this example was emulated all over the
state Iowa would soon be in posses
sion of roads good enough to stop all
demand for high priced hard surfaced
| roads.
Fort Dodge.
| Webster countys bill for road drag
sing. including the amount spent by
| the townships, will be about $4,000
| This seems large amount merely for
maintenance and argues in favor of a
more economically maintained surface
than dirt. The county roads will have
about $1,000 spent on them for drag
| ging. This comes out of the county
road dragging fund. The bill last year
on county highways was $4,000. The
extremely wet season has been re-
sponsible this year for the larger eX
penditure. The townships levy is l
mill tax for road dragging which pro-
duces $4,000 in revenue.
Sioux City.
| Whats the name of your youngest
child?" Numbered Fl. A. Wilson feder-
al examiner, when questioning Johannes
Wilfred Carlson. who was seeking citi-
zenship before District Judge w. G..
Sears. 81 don't know" was the reply.
| what? You want to be a citizen of
the United States and don't know the
name of your Youngest child?" Carlson
meekly assented. Why don't you know
it?" was the next demand of Wilson.
I'VE haven't named it yet sir.'-and
~
the thirty-four applications before the
court, Judge Sears held up half
| dozen. declaring that the admission of
the applicants that they spoke their
| native language exclusively in their
homes gave rise to serious question as
to their fitness for citizenship.
| Waterloo.
| An accident OF a nature more SEN
sational than serious occurred We'd
nesday forenoon on Fourth street west
when ladder on an improvised scat
| fold slipped out of position. George
| Bovee one of the decorators, who was
standing on the scaffold about eight
feet above the cement floor of the
| room on the ground floor of the Black
Hawk National Bank building, which is
| being redecorated for the new occu-
pant the Thorson Optical Company,
| was thrown violently to the floor. white
one of the planks forming the scaffold
; was precipitated thru the upper por-
ton of the large plate glass window.
The crash of the shattering glass on
the pavement outside drew a large
crowd to the scene. Mr. Bovee was
! severely shaken up and suffered
much pain. but examination showed
that he had sustained no broken bones,
and he was removed to his home. BIG
Baltimore street, in the physician
automobile.
Usage.
More new buildings for Main street.
George Birum. the Buick man. will put
| up modern garage and A. L. Hunger
ford will rebuild his livery barn. The
new garage will be located adjoining
the Press-Journal building on the west,
Birum having purchased the two east
lots OF the Hungerford property. On
the two west lots Of the property. A. l..
Hungerford will put up modern livery
stable. Work OF dismantling the
I, livery barn has already begun. That
portion of the barn which stands on
the Birum lots will be first removed.
With that out of the way work on the
new garage will begin. Birum has
/, plans of a garage building 44x132 to
cost over $4,000 Building tile will be
used. The structure will be built ac-
cording to nEdern methods. There will
not be post III It, arched roof sup
ports being used. A front corner will
be partitioned off for stock room and
office. The stock room and office will
be SUBJ divided by low partition. For
the present, the work shop will not be
partitioned from the storage floor, but
this may be done later. A steam heat
' Ing plant will be built into the build
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