Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-12
Northern Ioua Items

ports Of chicken thieves in this part
Of the county in late years and chicken
raisers were beginning to feel that
their tiocks were free from depreda-
tons Of. that sort, but it is evident that
it will pay to Keep good dog and
loaded gun handy II you have chickens
| on the place.
Tama.
The 9-year- old son of Peter Roth
one of the most popular farmers in the
vicinity of Tama, lost a toe az re-
suit of playing with a calf in the farm
yard last Monday. The calf was a
pet and very fond OF the little boy. but
while Roth Jr.. was enjoying it's friend
ship the animal accidentally stepped on
his foot, cutting one toe and crushing
another. The doctor was called, and
found that it was necessary. to ampu-
tate one toe.
Webster City.
experience with a patient the other
day. A farmer had a troublesome
tooth which he wished extracted and
was told by the dentist to take gas. as
he would then fall asleep and the tooth
could be removed without his knowl-
edge. The farmer consented and drew
out his purse, when the dentist in
formed him that he need not pay until
after the tooth was extracted The
farmer replied he was not thinking
about paying him, but thought he
would like to count his money before
he took the gas.
Sioux City.
George w. Kephart. Sioux City, at
torney for Henry Won Hagerdorn, Rock
Rapids has filed suit at Storm Lake
for $4,000 damages against the MAYOR.
city marshal and the town of Alta, ac-
according to an announcement made by
kephart. The action against the Of
metals and the town was filed at Storm
Lake. Last spring Won Hagerdorn was
arrested at Alta and charged with dis
turbing the peace. He was confined
In Jail at Alta. That night the mar
shall. Kephart claims. built fire in the
stove in the Jail. The stovepipe was
defective, kephart asserts, and Won
Hagerdorn was suffocated. He was
found in an unconscious condition in
the Jail, the Sioux City attorney claims,
Keystone.
Prof. Richard Lidner, who has been
conducting a German school at Key
stone for the past few months, leaves
soon for New York where he expects
to obtain passage back to Germany.
Professor Lidner was an officer of the
German army and at the beginning of
the present struggle he was in Canada
where he was interned with other Ger
man citizens. but managed to escape
from the detention camp and made his
way to Spokane, Wash. where he
stayed for while and then came to
Keystone. In times of peace he was
professor of mathematics in a Berlin
high school. He hopes to obtain pas
sage either on a submarine or some
vessel sailing to a neutral port.
Reinbeek.
Herman Strohbehn, a farmer near
Reinbeck, realizes we have been hay-
Ing some hot weather He attempted
to drive eighty head OF fat hogs nearly
two miles to market with disastrous
results. Before he realized the ami
mails were over-heated, nine of them
were dead The big herd was saved
from much heavier loss by a creek
near the road AS soon as Mr.. Stroh-
behn realized the hogs were perishing
he rushed them into the water, where
they spent most of the day. The ami
mails were fat, averaging ESQ pounds.
They were started early in the morn
Ing, before the heat of the day, but
progress was slow and long before
the town was reached the burning sun
got in its work. The loss was over
5000 But for the creek it might have
been nearer $4,000.