Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-24
Southern Io1ua Items

from sharks from a passing Ife!Snl
train. Leo Summers, agent at the AT
don station. sustained personal loss
| of about 5000 in automobile tires, bat
teries, etc. The depot was not insured
In order to handle traffic until new
station can be built, a tent has been
raised and is being used as freight
house and telegraph office.
oskaIoesa.
| Tom Whaland Rock Island engineer
! was picked up in an unconscious con-
dition Friday morning, lying beside MS
engine in the yards at Evans. NO one
knows what occurred or how the accl-
| dent happened, but it Is surmised that
he was hit over the heart by the re-
| bound of heavy hammer he was u.s.
ing. Whaland left his engine to make
| a minor repair or adjustment on his
engine. He was alone at the time ana
no one witnessed this mishap He was
hurried to Oskaloosa, was met at the
station by the ambulance, and hurried
to the Mercy hospital for treatment. he
has not regained consciousness.
Keokuk.
Why 20 to Michigan or the noun
| tsins for your hsE fever. when Iowa
offers a cure right in the HawKeye
stateo w. G. Blood, an attorney OF
| Keokuk, is bothered with hay FEVER
He usually goes away to escape It's
| tickling. This year he decided to stay
| at home and secure room on the
| seventh floor Of a local hotel. He oc,
cupies that room at nights, with the
| windows all open, and Is so far I'M
| proved in health that he is able to take
| care of his business affairs in the Gay
time. The high altitude Of the room
| and the balmy Keokuk climate are be-
lieved to be the ingredients of the nay
| fever cure by Mr.. Blood.
Muscatins.
! Clyde Leach. residing on Cedar
street, had a narrow escape from pos
sible death early Friday morning, when
a string of box cars, on which he was
riding, ran thru a derail at the Culver
tower in South Muscatine and turned
over in the ditch. Leach Is employed
by the Rock Island and has charge OF
the night switch engine. They were
doing some work near the Culver tower
and in coming out, the string OF cars
ran thru the derail. with Leach ridins
one of the cars. The only thing thai
prevented his serious injury or pos
s,hle death. was the fact that when
| the cars started to roll. he Jumped IN
the opposite direction from which the
cars were turning. He sustained
badly sprained left ankle, but other
| wise was unhurt.
oakvilIe.
Wednesday afternoon. while Oakville
people were preparing to go u
Wapello and take part in the patrlotle
exercises in Difference to the eoiolers
about to depart for their different sta
lions, word came that H. F. HAYS,
farmer residing between Oakville anI
Wapello had said that he would shoot
any man placing United States fias
on his house. At o'clock n the after.
noon the people of Oakville, in fit,
automobiles. started for Wapello, ant
on the way they stopped at Hays resi-
dence and, soldiers about to so to war
/. with the help Of citizens, placed fas
on the residence and instructed MT
Hays to leave It wave. During tn
exercises word came that he had tori
down the flag, and the report was
authenticated by parties driving to hi
home. On the way home about l.
o'clock, twelve cars filled with Oakvill'
people stopped at the house, havins
brought Hays from Wapello with them
and made him kneel and kiss the flag
salute it, wave 1t above his head ant
repeat that twas his flag and that NJ
would stand by it: also made him nal
It to his house and promise to see tina
\ 1t remained there. His wife. making
4 some deprecatory remarks, was force'
to kiss the flag and promise to protec