Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-25
Northern Io1ua Items

TripoIi-The annual meeting Of the
Bremen County Old Settlers Associa-
ton will be held this year at Tripoli
and Friday, Aug. 8, has been selected
as the date for this reunion.
| Cedar FalIs-What Is believed to be
the highest salary ever paid to any
high school teacher for nine months
work by community under 5000 pop
ulation in Iowa will be drawn by Miss
Henrietta Radell Of this city the COM
ing year.
Emmetsbura-Tony Frigo. an Italian
Carthy street paving force, was
drowned in a sand pit close to where
he was working. He went in to battle
after supper and could not swim. He
has no relatives living in this country.
He was single man. es
| MISUNDERSTANDING to the returns
that the Bremen county auditor has
made of the farm crops Of the county,
the average wages paid to farm hands
during the past year was $45.27 a
month. Maxfield township took the
lead in paying the highest wages, the
| report showing that the average per
month in that township was $54.
Iowa FaiIs-Two automobiles were
smashed to pieces on the Jefferson
| highway about six miles south Of the
city when head-on collision occurred.
A badge car owne by farmer resid-
ing northeast Of the city collided with
a Chevrolet owned by a man in Rad
cliffe. Both cars were badly damaged.
| A baby in the Dodge car was slightly
injured.
Charles city-A pearl weighing 64S
grains was found in a clam shell in
the Cedar river few blocks below the
Main street bridge by Elmer Eddy. It
is rosebud pearl about the size Of
butternut, Of irregular shape and
rosecolored. Several pearls have been
found here this season altho for a
number of years they have been very
scarce at this locality on the Cedar.
Boone-Mr. and Mrs. Louis Goeppin-
ger, Sr., have been married sixty-two
years. The afternoon Of the anniver-
sary was given over to relatives and
friends and the evening to family re-
union. Both are in good health. Mr..
Goeppinger Is the president Of the
City Trust and Savings bank and Is
also the senior member of the saddle
ry firm Of l. & III. Goeppinger, the
oldest firm of this kind in the state.
Britt-Excavation work on the new
school house here has been started
and the construction work will begin
as soon as the excavation Is completed.
The work was started Monday. The
work will be pushed to the limit in or
der that the construction men can
commence as soon as possible. When
completed Britt will have modern
school house all latest equipment being
installed.
Spencer-Hard surfac cling having car
ried in Clay county by good stiff ma
jointly. the supervisors will Immediately
receive bids for paving the lakes road
north Of Spencer. Paving carried by
$50 majority in seventeen out OF
twenty two precincts and the PROPOSE
ton to issue $500, 900 bonds carried by
about 500. The proposition to pave
country precincts.
Mason Ciity-The Webster Brothers
Lumber company, which has been To-
Gated At wancoma for, tne many years
past, will move to Mason City soon
and locate the head Office here accord
ing to the announcement made by the
new members Of the firm. T. A. Potter
and q. N. Clark. The movement Of
this concern to Mason City will bring
more than 400 people to Mason City
and will bring also a railroad COM
missioner here as Charles Webster, q
member Of the railroad commission
will make this his home.
Wavsriy-Allesing that she was III
in the hospital and was knowledgeless
of farm values, which resulted in her
signing q contract TO sci! her 40 acres
Of land in Dayton township. Bremen
county, for $4,000. when it was actu-
ally worth $4,000 to $50. 900, Mrs.
Kathyrn Miles Of Oelwein has started
suit in Creme: county district court
for cancellation Of the contract. In her
petition Ahs agrsess to Est4yn e the