Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-28
Northern Io1ua Items

I to Britt accompanied by E. H. Arnett
! a brother. Funeral services were hello
| from the home in Britt Saturday aft
| ernoon in charge of Rev. w. w. Tyrreil
of the M. r. church. Mrs. Arnett and
children left with the body of the hus
band and father. going to. lewiston, Ill.
where burial will take place. Mrs. f. A
Stone accompanied them.
Hampton.
Roy Sawyer. who Is employed with a
county road gang constructing con
crete bridge near Bows, was buried be-
meath large amount of dirt and de-
bris last Tuesday morning when the
bridge caved in. He had arrived at tire
scene before the men with teams in or
der to clear out some OF the dirt which
had been thrown up by a charge OF
While working, both sides caved in,
except his head, with a heavy load of
dirt. The rest of the gang arrived soon
after the accident and quickly dug
Sawyer out. He was hurried to this
city, where it was found he sustained
many painful injuries. His collar bone
was dislocated, two ribs broken aud his
left arm badly bruised and wrenched.
He was taken to his home where bs Is
recovering as rapidly as possible.
r;ton::>a. y
The F'airview Consolidated Indepen-
dent school district is no more. 1t
passed out of existence Monday after
noon at p. m. Notices to vote back
to the original civil township had been
posted ten days prior to the election
held Monday afternoon at the Turner
schoolhouse. Only thirty voters regis
tered. Twenty-Five of those voted adj
versely to consolidation and eight for.
The patrons of the schools in the south
half Of the township are for consolida-
ton as the vote showed at the first
election. Their territory was too small
and the number of pupils living within
the territory made it impossible to have
q school of the first rank. A CONSOLE
dated school with less than 100 pupils
would be failure. 1t would be hard
to comply with the statutes and get
state aid. In order to get state aid the
school must have twelve grades. The
patrons of the schools in that section
saw their mistake.
Cedar Rapids.
SeAnu OH I!!c IOtaN. cppO.
site the John Wild home, two miles
east of Marion, caused great distress
to Mr. and Mrs. l.. r. Learick, of
bloomington, ILL.,, when their car over
turned and their eight months. old
baby suffered a broken thigh, at $3.50
Thursday afternoon. The young cnu-
pie had been visiting Mrs. Learick's
sister, Mrs. L. r. Stone, of -Anamosa,
who was accompanying them to Cedar
Rapids. All three Of them, and the
baby, were in the front seat of q Ford
roadster. When the car struck the
sand it swerved. but the dress Of one
of the ladies was over the brake SO
that Mr.. Learick could not get his foot
upon it. He thought the car was go
ing to hit telephone pole and gave the
wheel quick turn. Then the car over
turned. He and Mrs Stone were thrown
clear of the car, but his wife and baby
fell beneath 1t. Mr.. and Mrs. Learick
were not injured and Mrs. Stone es-
capped with only few bruises.
vinton.
The hosting engine which Is to be
used by the Vinton Sand and Gravel
Company for hoistins sand from the
river arrived the first of the week and
was moved from the depot to the COM
pany's land on Wednesday by the Cook
Transfer Company. The engine weighs
II, 200 pounds. or little over seven
tons This great weight could not be
carried on any wagon in Vinton so a
special wagon had to be sent down
from Waterloo from the Shores Trans
fer Company. The.wagon weighs 1000
pounds. or three and one-half tons.
When the engine was placed on the
wagon the combined load was a
little over ten tons and it took six
horses to pull it. The engine is thirty
horse power. two cylinder type. one
cylinder being placed on each side of
a steam boiler and runs two large
drums to which the hoisting cable Is
attached. The car or scoop in which
the sand 10 carried will hold one-half
Of yard of sand or Just one-half
Wagon load. It scoops up the sand and
dumps 1t into bins automatically.
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