Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-13
Southern Io,ua Items

onions. The state entomoloslst mas
been given specimens and, is at work
seeking 10 identify the bug Present
belief is that it will be propagated and
spread thruout the onion districts of
the state. .f.
Perry.
D. W. Davis, former resident of
this vicinity. making his home 1t
R:ppey. Idaho. is one of the candidates
for governor having the backing and
support Of the dry element. The Ma
tional Daily, the official American
organ of the antisaloon league, is
supporting Davis and from the reports
he is the most prominent Of the four
candidates in the race. Mr. Davis has
been actively gagged in the fight
against liquor selling in Idaho for Il
number Of years. He led the fight in
his own county, in which The city OF
American Falls is located. and when
in the state Legislature was a hard
worker for statewide prohibition.
Abba.
The annual Eisteddfod will be given
at the King opera house in Abba
Thanksgiving dav. 1916. There will be
three sessions of the meeting, in the
morning at $3.50, afternoon at 1870 and
evening at Z o'clock. The 1915 Els
teddfod was one Of the best ever held
in the state, and the aim Of those in
charge is to make the one this year
the best ever held in the west. Prof.
E. r. Groeger, of st. Louis. has been
secured to act as adjudicator Of music.
Professor Groeger is a we'll known
musician and one Of rare ability, nav
ing acted as adiudicator Of music at
the international Eisteddfod held at
the exposition in San Francisco, 1915.
Ottumwa.
The fox hunt which started last
Monday at the Joe Leinhauser farm,
east of the city, was finished Friday
night land the hunters and their
hounds have broken camp for home.
A number Of the dog owners will enter
the chase at Coatesville which starts
this week. The next chase of the OF
tumwa association will be held at
Unionville, this time next year. The
chase last week was not as executing
or interesting as the hunters had an
ticipated. The dry weather is partly
blamed for the dogs not being able to
strike warm trails, but the local dog
owners are pleased with the success
Of the first chase in this vicinity The
association will make an effort to In
crease it's membership to 300 and a
more successful hunt is expected next
year
Museatine.
T. B. Holcomb, Of 900 Maple Grove
read, is now patient at the Bellevue
hospital as the result Of severe in
juries which he received Saturday
morning by leaplng From high
trestle over the slough near Garden
City. when he found himself trapped
by a Muscatine, Burlington & South
ern PASSENGER train. He sustained
badly torn lieaments In the right arm
pit and MANY body bruises Holcomb.
who Is retired truck grower. stated
that he had gone fishing and was
crossing the trestle from one side III
the slough to the other and did not
notice an approaching train until he
was half way across. He does not
know how he got oef the, trestle. hnt
the snppnsition is that he .iumpad and
was not sIrrck III tfi- train. NJ, sit
resscs could he found that had wit
neesed sthe accident. Holcomh .was
picked ND and carried abnard the ira in
and trcu~ht to Mu-rstins and taken
to the Bellevue hospital .5