Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-06
Northern Io,ua Items

overcome by gas fumes escaping from
defective stove in the bath room at
his home, Az Lafayette street. When
found by members Of his family he
was lying unconscious on the bath
room floor. Physicians were called
and the firemen notified. The latter
responded with the lungmotor and as
sisted in reviving Mr.. Pierce. He was
unable to give a coherent account Of
the accident. Reports from the home
were to the effect that Mr.. Pierce was
resting as comfortably as could be eX-
pected and unless complications ensue
he will recover Mr.. Pierce is SO years
of age and a pioneer resident of Wa
terlOO. assoc. s.
Clinton.
Seventeen million square feet of
wire fabric is manufactured annual
~ at the plant of the American Wire
Fabrics Company in Clinton. Over
100000,000 square feet of wire cloth is
produced annually by the company's
three plants, at Clinton, Mount Wolf,
Pa, and Niles, Mich. In the Clinton
plant is made 80 per cent of the
worlds production of wire cloth for
ters. The latter fact is due to an in
vention. conceived, perfected and pat
ented by Clinton man., NJ. L. Chris
tan, manager of the Clinton plant,
which makes it possible to make two
webs Of the fly sWatter fabric on one
loom at the same time, materially re-
ducing the cost Of production. The
product of the Clinton plant recently
was declared superior to that of any
other wire fabric by a committee Of the
English manufacturers, who visited
this country, secretly purchased sam
pies of the wire cloth made in the vari-,
Gus factories in the United States and
tested them. ,..
Cedar Falls.
XII KluX Khan methods Of the re-
construction period in the south were
revived to discipline a wife beaten in
the little town Of Dixie, near here re-
Gently. Police authority was noticeably
absent when a band Of white masked
figures silently paraded the streets Of
the town escorting the guest of honor
to a tar and feather party. It had
been noised around that the man-who
ia a barber by employment-got drunk
and "beat up his wife. In the dead Of
night a band Of white caps" suddenly
appeared at his home. A sack was
placed over the mans head and he was
taken to the stock yards, tarred and
feathered until he looked like the title
character in "Chanticleer." The vig,-
lantes admonished him to treat his
wife as a human being in the future.
Apparently the barber is living up to
instructions. The little, town Is buzz
ing with excitement with rumors that
the white caps is to be a permanent
organization for the regeneration Of
recalcitrant husbands.
Fort Dodge. ~
Forty-six years Of service to the
residents Of Fort Dodge were brought
to q close Tuesday evening when DR..
Harley G. Ristine, one Of the pioneer
physicians Of the city, succumbed to a
general breakdown, with which he has
been suffering for several months, and
which, last fall, forced him to give up
the practice Of medicine. DR.. Ristine
has been closely identified with the
city of Fort Dodge since 1871 as one Of
the leading physicians and surgeons.
His activities were not confined to the
professional life, however, for as a
civil war veteran he belonged to the
Fort Donclson post and has for years
been one Of the elders in the First
Presbyterian church. He was one Of
the first members Of the Webster
County Medical Society. He was born
In Charlottesville, Ind., OH MAY 81,
1888, He lived there until, upon grad
uating from Wabash College In 1861,
he enlisted in the Eighty-first infantry
Of Indiana. For two years he served
with his company in the civil war. re-
ceiving a wound in the leg from which
he never entirely recovered. at the
close of the war he entered Rush
Medical College, from which he grad
uated in 1869 to take up the active
practice Of medicine, So.