Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-02
Northern Io1ua Items

|, ed and piecS2 Of broken bone which
were depressing the brain were remov-
ed. He is reported as resting easy and
physicians state that his condition look
ed promising. This is the second seri-
| GUS accident at the plant in three days
and the third; Injury which has result
ed in fracture Of the skull in the last
two weeks. Jerry Crowley was killed
when he fell at the asugar plant satur-
day morning: John Brasser had his
skulEscrushsa ma faIl &at local sand
plant1 recently and James Patterson
street car conductor died from a skull
| fracture three weeks ago
Alta.
Henry Bletzer, German farm hand,
| is sadder. but wiser man. Also he is
| thankful, or should be. Bletzer. while
| in Alta, is alleged to have remarked
he would rather go back to Germany
and fight for the kaiser than to be
drafted and fight for the United States.
Everybody in the vicinity tried to hit
him at once. He was finally rescued
| from the mob by Marshal Farrow. He
| was fined $50 for disturbing the peace.
Half Of the fine was RENTED to his
wife. He was then held as a federal Of
| fender and taken to Storm Lake, where
| he was released and told to go back
| to his job
Sioux City.
Miss Hannah Sather. first girS to
walk thru the business section in pair
| of womens overalls, has been fired
from her boarding house and her posi-
ton in factory. The trouble came
when the Rev. o. N. Olson living next
door to where Miss Sather boarded saw
her come home in boyish garb. Rev.
Mr.. Olson was shocked. He straight
away went to the boarding house and
demanded Of the landlady that the girl
| be ordered to take off the pants"
| Miss Sather refused to don regular
womanly garb and was ordered to find
another boarding house. She did this,
but on coming down to work next day
found that she didn't have any job
Today she is at another factory, where
she has been informed she may wear
overalls as long or short as she wishes.
Waterloo.
! An automobile driven by Mrs. FL
win Jenness, 40 Lafayette street, turn
ed turtle on the steep approach to the
temporary bridge over the Dry Run on
the southwesterly edge Of Cedar Falls
late Monday afternoon Mrs. Jenncss
was driving the car up the approach
when the engine stopped and before
she would work the brake the machine
had backed down the side and turned
over imprisoning the driver and her
mother, Mrs G.. F. Byers, and two 9TH
er women beneath. Their escape from
death was miraculous, the mother of
Mrs. Jenness being the most severely
hurt. She was badly cut and bruised
and the others suffered slight injuries,
The top OF the car was demolished.
Cedar Rapids.
Startling revelations were contained
IN report submitted to the city council
by City Chemist L. H Goebel in which
the city's milk supply was shown to be
grossly impure. OF milk samples from
ten dairies tested only one was any
where near the required standard. The
other samples, according to the city
chemists figures, were not sanitary
Milk to be appropriate for ordinary
home use should contain not more than
$4,000 bacterias to the cubic centimeter
and should In many instances be as low
as 10000 Chemist Goebe1 informed the
council. In his report the Sterling dairy
was nearest to those figures, with 2s, :
600 bacterias and two other diaries
had as high as 1850, 900 and ITO. 900
bacterias to the cubic centimeter. Ac-
cording to Mayor Roth, the city author
tiles are without jurisdiction to reg
ulate the. milk situation, action being
up to the pure food inspector at Des
Moines. The council, however hopes to
better the situation by affording pub
licity to the milk concerns which dis
tribute impure milk.