Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-11
Missouri Valley Z.

Missouri Valley
=. Hughes, a farmer living near here,
has purchased a machine for husking
corn. even the price OF ifteen cents a
ous2lei for men 70 husH corn failing
10 get rhe desired help. These ma
chimes are very expensive and require
four horses and al least two men TO
operate.
Mount Pleasant.
The Iowa Wesleyan College band,
under the supervision Of Claude Heck
man. Of O.tumwa- which made such
good record last year was badly
d!so-ganized in consequence Of the war.
II was reo-ganized last wreck and it
vas found that out Of thirty members
sixteen had enlisted.
Cumberland.
The explosion Of a big thresher en-
CINE belonging to Sothman brothers.
at the farm OF Dave Ravens, caused
fire which consumed the threshing ma
chine and grain STACKS. entailing q
heavy loss with no insurance. That
no one was injured was considered re-
rnarkabIe.
Knoxville.
Wilbur Morgan died in the insane
hospital at Mount Pleasant. TWO years
ago he fired a load Of buckshot into
the room of Miss Mary Maloney. the
load entering the pillow beneath her
head. She has been living two years
in mortal fear Of the man When she
learned Of his death thru the Sheriff,
she breathed teryent Thank God.
Bedford.
While attempting TO release squeal =
ing pig which had become caught in
a machine wheel, Mrs. J. D. Bediey was
attacked by the pigs angered mother
The entire drove Of hogs joined IN ne
attack, knocked Mrs Bediey TO the
ground. severely BIT her and trampled
over her She was rescued by her SIS
ter, who heard the commotion fnc
saved Mrs. BedIey IN the nick OF time
Knoxville.
Mystery surrounds the strange dis
appearance of H. N. Stern. manager OF
the opera house here. who has beer
missing from mis- home for the last two
weeks. Investigation has produced the
fact that he has two motion picture
machines at the opera house WORTH
$500 and has accounts in two locad
banks. Relatives in New York have
been appealed to, but declare they
know nothing Of his whereabouts.
Keokuk.
The American Cement Machine Com
pany OF Keokuk is making eighty eiec'
| tr;c hosting engines for the French
government. These engines will of
used by Stone & Webster. engineers ir
the construction Of an ordnance build
ing IL COS: sas, 900 900 Just outside OF
Paris. Besides the eighty engines al
ready being constructed, the keoku'
company expects to bid the first OF th'
week on an additional $50 and possibly
on s;xty-six cement mixers.
Davenport.
AS the interurban car leaving Dav'
ennort at Has O'Clock Tuesday fore
noon approached the Haisleigh cross
| ing at Muscatine, 1t struck the aut"
mobile Of Henry Blessing. The aut'
was hurled a distance OF fifty feet an
landed in a cornfeId adjoining tn
road. Here 1t caught fire and burne'
I'm Mr.. Blessing was rushed to Her
shey hospital, where 1t was found N
was suffering from conclusion OF tn
brain. He is not expected to live.
Anderson.
The Caudell Brothers stock OF hard
4 ware and implements was burned earl
i Sunday morning together with the
building, which belonged to Tom Hut
Gibson. The stock and building wer
insured. but not sufficiently to cove
y the loss. which Is abont 1900 on stoc
i and several thousand dollars on build
lines The pool ball Atood between tn