Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-15
Northern Io1ua Items

Fort Dodge. 8 Il, o q o, EE IL
Twenty applications for divorce
have been, filed in the county clerk 5
office SINCE March TO- This is the !arg
est number, ever fled in Webster coun
ty in that length of, time. A total mum
Der of. ISL s petitions have been filed in
the clerks office since March 10.
Jefferson. Eo3
For record breaking yields of oats.
Austin Elvn, northwest Of town, Is
carrying the banner since threshins
last week He reports az .5S bushel
Yield from ten acres, or. a trifle oVes
seventy five Jbushels7to the acre. Alber
Mears, in the same locality. had yielf
of sixty seven bushels to the acre from
field of forty acres.
Sioux City.
A Milwaukee passenger train Thurs
day morning hurled Sam Dimsdale a
Jefferson, S. D.. merchant, fifty feet
thru the sair, sswhen Dimsdale's moto.
car was struck at a crossing at North
Riverside. Dimsdale received serious
abrasions but will live. His car is A
total wreck. Failure Of the brake to
work caused the accident. 1@
Sioux City.
When surgeons cut into the body or
Walter Holsapple,s aged IS, of Howard
S. D., to remove the disease appeh-
dix they found it on the wrong side OF
the body Holsapple died and further
examination Of his body showed his
liver instead of being on the right side
as in normal person was on the left
side and his heart on the right side
Other organs were similarly reversed.
Holsapple was normal mentally and
had always been in good health. TX
Sioux City.
Thomas P. Mallon, of Massachusetts,
who in the fall Of 1914, was musician
in the regular my, doing outpost duty
at Sierra Blanca Tex, gave himself UP
as a deserter to Sergt. Charles A. But
Ter, of the local army recruiting sta
ton and will be sent to Omaha. NAL
lon said he deserted the army during
a period of inactivity. Stories of bor-
der trouble have. caused him to long
for the old life and he expressed his
willingness to take his medicine and
return to the ranks.
MeGregor.
A man who gave his name as John
Wallace was taken to the county home
Friday with smashed foot and will
probably have a toe amputated. The
man has been at work with the steam
shoveling crew at North McGregor.
Monday night, he says, he went to
Prairie du Chen and got drunk. Com
ing back to North McGregor on the
launch he fell into a fight with an
other drunk over bottle Of whisky
and in the fight some way got his foot
caught in the crank shaft of the en-
CINE.
Boone.
Nina Avonne, the 17-months- old
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Mar
low, died after suffering from burns
which she received when she fell back
ward into dish of scalding water. The
mother was scrubbins the floor at the
time of the accident and the little girl
came toddling along and backed into
the dish. She was burned from her
neck to her knees, the burns being so
deep that the flesh and skin came off
with the clothes. The little girl was
badly burned early this summer when
she put both hands into dish Of hot
CanOy, anu SIG Hdu AoA My SCSOVC1Co
from the injury and shock Of that acct
dent, when the fatal one occurred.
Waterloo.
Three years ago Gus Patera was
obliged to leave his native home in
the Isle Of Samos because Of condi-
tions brought about by the Greek war.
Thursday there was happy reunion
in the streets here when Grammatika
Patera, his mother, and Miss Anna. his
sister, arrived from Samos in search,
for him. For three years they worked
night and day. denying themselves the
comforts of life, that they might save
enough to buy passage to America. the
land Of promise. They set sail July s.
The mother remembered her son had
said he might come to waterloo. They
came. directly mere from New York
while proceeding uptown they met the