Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-10
rMEsREPUBIICAN alARsHAILrowN IOWA: AUGUST 10 1917
Sparks are the ones whose birthdays

Sparks are the ones whose birthdays
come in August.
A workman named Grow, fell from a
scaffold ten feet high to the concrete
floor below In the new, Masonic temple
was severely bruised and taken to the
hospital but was able to leave there
yesterday without prospect OF any per-
manent injury.
There Is a scarcity of labor at the
college work on the mems dormitories
and Manager Phelps has issued call
to the men who plan to come to college
in the fall and want to earn their eX-
penses in whole or in part, offering
So cents an hour and constant labor
until college opens in September. Forty
men are needed at once.
| The city authorities seem to have
settled the city's present difficulties
and removed all fear of water shortage
by the proof that an elevation of the
tanks to furnish greater capacity and
the introduction OF an air pressure
pump will furnish all the water needed
from the wells now in use and thus
De the expense of making new
welt
Mrs B. j. Carney was hostess to Miea
Eleanor Johnson and Miss Marjory
Rahe both of Waterloo, who came in
the Johnson car Miss Johnson IL to
teach here next year in the English
department of the college and Miss
Rahe is a graduate of 1914.
II. B.. Booknau shipped from the
Malcom elevator carload of corn that
brought $4,000 on the Chicago market
and is said to be the costliest load OF
corn ever shipped out Of Poweshiek
count.
| Manager Hessen paid $2.S5 bushel
| for some old wheat. at the NewburS
elevator and would be glad OF more
wheat at the same price If the quality
Is as->good. Work is going on in the
building ola concrete elevator there of
large size
| The city council has about decided to
build a horse for the safety and com
fort Of a caretaker Of the filtration beds
at the>Qutlet of the sewer, that he may
be constantly at hand ready for any
emergency.
| Miss Mary Rule has been obliged to
| so to Rochester Mimi. 70" consulta-
ton regarding her health, which has
was accompanied by her sister, Miss
Nellie Rule.
Samuel Decatur is thankful to be
alive even. tho he is lying with a leg
broken in two places. He was at the
Mark Sturgeon farm driving the team
attached to a stump puller when the
sweep broke loose and flew back with
such violence as to throw him some
twenty feet and break his leg. He
lives at Gil Prairie street and is now
resting fairly we'll
| Mr.. and Mrs. George c. Murray, with
their three daughters. who have been
visiting al the homo &c Mrs.. Mmrray's
brother near Davenport, are again at
their home in this city. They went in
their own car and were accompanied
| there by Mrs Murray's sister, Mrs
Rebecca Shea, Of Brookings, S. D. The
Mckee families, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas
Mckee and their daughter Sadie, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Mckee and Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Robson also took the same
| trip in the Mckee car.
Miss Stella Bartlett, assistant to the
| Congregational pastor here, has been
| taking vacation in the far west but
| is now reported as being on the way
home. She was to be joined at Seattle
by Miss Clara j. Anderson, of this city.
who will return with her