Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-29
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST TWENTY.
FIVE YEARS AGO IN MARSHALLTOWN
Hoy gave q select reading, and Mr.
and Mrs. Bert Parr q violin duet.
Monday, Jan. 80, 1898.

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and Mrs. Bert Parr q violin duet.
Monday, Jan. 80, 1893.
District court was adjourned by
Judge Hyatt from II o'clock until 2
out Of respect Of the memory OF James
G. Blaine, whose funeral took place
that day.
In attempting to step over a con-
veyor in the glucose works Thomas
Manning, aged 80, missed his footing.
His right leg was caught in the ma
chinery and broken in several places
and the flesh was stripped from the hip
to the knee. Physicians amputated the
leg at the hip. Manning died as re-
suit Of his injuries at the Arlington
Hotel the following morning at 9:35.
Those new cottages at the soldiers
home, ten in number. are about COM
pleted and will soon be made ready
for the ceremonies of dedication to be
held Wednesday, Feb. 81
At a special school election to vote
on the question for bonding the dis
trict for $4,000 for q new high school
building. only 1s1 votes were cast and
only eighteen were against the pro-
posal.
Mrs. Sarah Hardin, colored, aged rs,
died at her home, sos North Third
street.
Tuesday, Jan. 81, 1898.
THE accident on the Chicago Great
Western two miles west Of Kent, ILL.,,
Saturday afternoon, was n very I'M
fortunate affair in which thirty eight
people were seriously. two fatally in
jured, and one killed. In all $50 were
more or less hurt. Mr.. A. A. Moore, the
well-known lumber dealer OF Mar
shalltown, was in the baggage car at
the time and had a narrow escape
From report in the Pioneer Press the
following is quoted: 1.-The hero Of the
occasion from all accounts was A
Moore. Mr.. Moore was in the baggage
left Of 1t found himself covered with
blood from head to foot. His face
looked like a raw beefsteak, but re-
gardleos Of his own sufferings he i'm
mediately took charge OF the work oi
rescuing. He begged the excited crowd
to be calm and personally directed the
work, ordering men here and there and
leading in every effort to relieve the
imprisoned men. His own injuries
were cuts about the head and face
The passengers on the wrecked train
500 In number. were members Of q
lumbermen's excursion and guests OF
the railroad.
"Messrs. Frank Pierce and Harry
Cammack are full-hedged Knights of
Pythias now. having taken their third
a ~ Inht
ing Of Cosmopolitan lodge. No. 49,
Miss Ella Mech, aged 81, died OF
consumption at the home OF her father,
A Mech, four and one half miles
south Of the city.
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 1893.
1T came with a vengeance. That
January thaw terminated in a bowling
February cold wave, just as the Wash
ington weather makers prophesied.
Mercurlal spirits. SO to speak. de-
scended TO II below during the night
and didn't begin to rise percepibly after
the night WA over, for At $3.50 only Is
had been reached aud at noon the TOM
perature was II below. This extreme
ly GOLD snap-the worst of the season
coupled with a stinging north wind,
made tho prudent people. who didn't
have to stir abroad stay at home and
hug their fires. while. those who were
forced out-like the proverbial ground
hog-wore all the clothes they could
find and rode in the street cars"
Train service on all the roads was in
terferred with greatly as a result Of
the cold snap.
Thursday, Fob. 2, 1893.
THAT gay ground hog that was go
ing to carry an umbrella today so that
he couldn't see his shadow has been
wandering about with great delight
unscorched by the SUM-"
Weather Observer L. s. Kilborn,
IN a summary for January. showed the
mean temperature for the month to
have been 1913. The maximum, 50,
was reached on Jan. "a. and the mini
mum, IA below, was reached Jan. 10.
The snowfall during the month was
4.5 inches. tho depth on Jan. IL, being
four inches, and at the end OF the
month three inches. During seven
teen Of the thirty-one days the mer-
curry descended below zero, and on
several OF the other fourteen days 1t
lowered close to zero. ION the whole
january, 1898. was the coolest month
we have had for many years." No one
need talk about old time winters
when it used to be cold'"