Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
Northern Io1ua Items

, be no more evil cases heard by jurles
before fall.
AIsona.
Last Wednesday, while Mrs. r. c..
Fry and two daughters and little son
were coming to town, a dog jumped
over a fence andr:isa-reported to have
| frightened the horse. causing a run
away They were thrown out of the
buggy near the Bird home. L.. L. Grill
fin happened along with his car and
picked them up bringing them to the
| hospital Ethel was severely bruised
and unconscious. Mrs. Fry received
fracture of the collar bone and was
also seriously bruised. The others es-
capped with a few minor injuries. They
we're able to be taken home Thurs
day and are improving.
Whittemore.
A. w. Hass the we'll known con-
! tractor and builder at Whittemore
was instantly killed Monday afternoon
about p. m. He was working in
| cistern at the new Albert home. "A
son who was assisting his father. let
down some material. when Mr.. Hass
! told him to be careful as pieces were
| falling upon him, when all at once, the
| entire top fell in. His neck was broken
and death resulted instantly. Mr. Hass
was about fifty-five Years Of age and
one of the leading citizens Of that
city He leaves a wife, two sons and
u daughter and has brother living
near Elmore. The family has just
| Icen relieved fro,n a smal'poS quaran-
tine.
Cedar Rapids.
Mrs. Martha Malecky. Cedar Rap
| ids, first woman bootlegger, is in the
tolls again. She was arrested as she
stepped from an interurban train
carrying two grips which contained
forty Eight pints Of whisky She broke
the contents of one grip before the
police could get hold of 1t. Mrs
Malecky thought she had worked a
neat trick on the police. She went tc
Fulton, ILL.,. by train and on her re-
turn left the train at Lisbon and took
an interurban car to the city and was
alighting at the outskirts when ar
rested Mrs. Malecky has been arrested
and the next time 500. She paid both
\ fines. She is locked up.
Onawa.
Miss Emily Leach, of this city, has
established speed record in Rec
| Cross knitting, which so far as is
known here, has not been excelled ir
the state, she having completed q
sweater in 10 hours. She has knitted
rs sweaters and six pairs Of socks
besides a number Of miscellaneous
articles. Miss Leach accomplishes
her work during the evenings and al
odd hours, she being employed during
office. Mrs. Henry Maennel, also a
worker in the Onawa Red Cross
branch, is one Of the few American
women who has mastered the art OF
knitting socks according to the Aus
tralian method, which is to knit two
socks on one set of needles at the same
time. However, she uses both hands
which differs from tho manner in
which it Is usually done, this being ar
original idea Of her own. In an inter
view she gave the following explana
ton of her plan: Use two balls OF
yarn, one for each sock the work be-
ing started by casting on stitches from
each ball alternately. The semi-double
heel, narrowing and all of the work tc
the Kitchener toe, is carried out on
the one set of needles. The dis
tjnguishing feature of the way In
which she works out the plan is the
carrying of thread Of yarn in each
hand, knitting first with the right
then with the left hand, rather an am
bidextrous feat but Mrs. Maennel
claims that there is considerable ad-
vantage in doing it this way, because
any confusion Of the yarns i thus
| avoidsd