Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-03
Northern Io,pa Items

carloads of corn day will cost about
10000. The machinery cost Is about
half of that amount, the balance be-
ing the cost of constructing building
big enough. to house the plant. The
farmers present, were much impressed
with the need Of drying plant. Guy
F. Wilde, has purchased ground across
the street from his office and it Is his
intention to build one next year. MI.
Wilde. however, would take stock IN
a farmers company II one should be
organised.
North Mc6resor.
When the men in charge Of putting
in the municipal water works mere
were laying the mains on one OF the
back streets, a few feet below the sur
face; imbedded in the sand was found
an Indian tomahawk. When this por-
ton of the state was the home OF the
Indians mounds were built on top OF
the hills. and in the valley. When
North McGregor was the Spanish re-
serve a huge Indian mound was in the
valley between the present site OF the
railroad track and Main street. When
the railroad was built the mound was
leveled and used for grading,
Sioux City.
Deputy United States Marshal Mil
ton Perry Smith planned to make
trip to Hawarden Thursday afternoon
to take into custody one Herman Witt,
81 years old, who had been reported
to have made offensive remarks to
Red Cross workers in Hawarden. He
was not required to make the trip.
however, as the man, having learned
he had been reported and that he was
wanted in Sioux City, came in during
the morning and reported to the dep
uty marshal. He was taken before the
commissioner, where he waived pre-
liminary hearing and was bound over
to the grand jury in the sum of $4,000.
Waukon.
Fred Bryant, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. H. Bryant, who has been in train
ing at the officers training camp at
Fort Oglethorp, Ca, has been appoint
ed first lieutenant in the regular army
with headquarters at Chickamauga
Park, Tenn. Attorney Curtis, who
gave up his law practice here to take
I'D training at Fort Smelling. received
the appointment Of first lieutenant.
Francis feeling and Carl Hanson OF
this county who are at Camp Dodge
have been made corporals Of Company
I, and Joe Roman has been promoted
from corporal to sergeant in the
mounted gun detachment at Camp
Dodge.
Mason City.
A machinist and carpenter Of the
Lehigh force made a Thanksgiving
haul Of furs that II It does not keep
them in doiiars for some tim. viii
keep them in scents. They discovered
the lair Of those musterline mann
mails Of the Mephitis family and pro-
posed that some Of their near kin
should wear Alaska sable when the
cc!a weather Gomez ON apace. Dof-
Ing their overalls they sailed forth
armed with grub hoes and prepared
to grubstake their claim. They re-
ported to nave secured eight of the
fur bearing animals with swishy tails,
but from the olfactory evidence they
must have bagged forty. When they
returned from the hunt and sought
the bath there was quick and sud-
den retreat Of every comrade en-
gagged in the laundering Of their
hands and faces and disposition was
unanimous to give them absolute pos
s.sston Tho hunters may have to cut
out ali social functions for few even
ings for 1t seems to be with them as
Wit, the poet who sang, You may
break, you may shatter polecattus II
you win, but the scent OF the sable
win hang round 'sm stu"