Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-18
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News Of Iowa From Hun.
dreds Of Different Towns
and Communities.
TOWN IMPROVEMENT.

IAlba Union.l
The Abba Improvement Association Ii
making active preparations for its sum
rner campaign against dirt. The city
has been canvassed by the members
and householders requested to Join with
one or more neighbors in providing q
box or barrel to be placed in the alley
convenient to all in which shall be put
such rubbish as must be carried away. In
larger cities fund is provided to pay
scavenger to haul away such stuff
but Abba has no such fund. The I'M
provement Association has taken charge
of the matter and intends to pay for
having this done this spring. The as
ISOLATION numbers 40 members but as
the membership fee is very low (25 cents
year) 1t will be seen that the ex-
penses will far exceed the income and
that it will be necessary for the asso-
citation to make money il it is to carry
out its designs. 1t is with this purpose
in view that the Domino social win be-
given at Harmony Hall next Friday
evening.
IOskaloosa Herald.l
Mayor Wray gives notice that the al
leys about your premises must be
cleaned up at once or the city will do i,
and charge 1t up against your property
Now don't go TO growing about the
matter and wait till your neighbor
cleans up first. You clean up your all
ley and then growl at your neighbor
until he does likewise.
INDIGNANT FATHER AFTER sA-
LOOMS
[Council Bluffs Nonpareil.l
John German. whose daughters are
alleged to have been ruined in saloons
in this city yesterday took another jah
at the saloon men thru Mayor Jennings
and Chief of Police Albro.
Notices We're served on these officials
Informing them that every saloon in the
city was running contrary to the muIct
law and asking them to either enforce
the law or close the saloons.
a large number of saloons are named
in the notice. When asked what would
be done about the matter the mayor
said that he did not propose 10 do much
of Anything He minated that the
notice amounted 10 but little and was a
matter that did no interest the city
Chief Albro said that he had no au-
thority TO close the saloons and that
the notice should have been served on
the county attorney. He is the one
to look after matters of this kind said
the chief II the saloon men were
violating some ordinance and a com
plant should be made / should feel it
my duty to investigate the. matter, but
this is purely a state mstter,''
The Eotices served yesterday grew
out of the suits now pending in the dis
trict court which We're brough. by
German against Under & Filter and S.
Madison. He has sued these Two firms
for $500 each, alleging tina. his two
daughters We're ruined in the their sa-
looms on the night of June last year.
HOW "TAM.A JIM" WAS CAUGHT. &
lNaterloo Reporter.l
a decision Saturday in the supreme
court of Iowa turns the calcium ligSt Of
publicity on Blackhawk county.s fam
Gus insurance case. a litigation which
cost in the neighborhooc of $4,000 and
the dregs of which still remain for set
Element in two cases on the cour. cal
endar of this county. The State Reg
lister OF yesterday morning says.
The supreme court. in decision
made Saturday, gave a certificate of
character to the Citlzens, Mutual IN
surance Company. of Waterloo which
was organized in 1887 and when as
signed in 1891. The decision was in a
suit by William Elliott Smith to coll
lect a claim from the indiyidual guar
antors of the concern on their personal
guarantees. The supreme court sus-
tains Judge A. S. Blair in his direction
of verdict for the guarantors If the
company, holding that the association.
was legally Incorporated and the pri
vate property of the incorporators ex
empted from corporate debts.
But the real question in the case was
the liability of the Stockholders as
guarantors. In both Corey VS.. Sher-
man, 96 Iowa, ia, and Berry vs. Fire
Insurance Company. 81. Iowa, 1876. ii
was held. and in this case the supreme
court sustains its holdings in those
cases, that the establishment Of the
guaranty funds there at issue was not
with the organization or
purpose of u mutual insurance COM
pany
I 1t appears that Secretary James Will
son had two notes In the litigation and
the Reporter thus refers to them.
An amusing side light of the case
was in the effort 10 collect from
'"Tama Jim" now secretary of ag-