Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-10
Southern Io1va Items

days and nights are not far off. All the
usual paraphernalia such as horses,
mules, dogs, etc, We're trailing behind
the covered wagons, in which families
were quartered. Stoves, cooking uten-
sis. bedding and household effects
were display features of the caravan.
Coupled with this springlike sight
numerous moving vans filled with
household goods lent to the springlike
appearance. Thus even if the robins
were here a month ago, spring was not
Shenandoah.
The Shenandoah lodge of Elks at
tended st. Johns Episcopal church in
a body, at the special invitation of it's
rector, Rev. Mr.. Ellerby, he being the
chaplain of the lodge. Nearly 100 mem
loers We're in attendance, and they dis
played their appreciation for their
/ brother rector by surprising him with
a large collection. When the plate was
passed each member threw in 81, which
was probably the biggest free will COL
lection of the kind ever taken in To-
cal church here, amounting close to
$500 The text of the sermon was the
Golden Rule" the same being one of
| the tenets of the Elk fraternity.
| lama.
| Henry Toedt is preparing to improve
his farm three miles south of town this
spring by the erection of house and
| barn. When the buildings are built
the place will easily be worth $100 an
acre. The farm consists Of 12O acres
and Mr.. Toedt bought it in 1875. For
| forty acres on which there were some
buildings Quilt, by the way, by the
| late John Henry Schroeder and his
brother, Fred, now living in Colorado)
Mr.. Toedt paid s25 an acre. For an
other forty-acre tract he paid $3.50
and for the third forty acre piece he
paid $40. Mr.. Toedt owns another
eighty-acre farm a mile east of town,
(the Newcomb farm which he bought
for $35 an acre as late as 1892 and
which today would sell quick at 500.
OskaIoosa.
F.! Charles Lewis. husky farmer mailing
! from down near Richland, who would
stand over six feet in his stocking feet,
has refused to work on the streets of
Oskaloosa. Lewis was picked up by
| the police for intoxication and when ar
raigned before Mayor Bacon he pleaded
guilty to the charge. He had no funds
to pay fine and when told by his
honor that he would have to spend five
days working on the streets of Oska--
loosa, he stated that he was not able
bodied and could not work and that he
would not do it without pay Mayor
Bacon informed him that if he would
refuse to perform manual labor for his
lodging he would have to spend the five
days in Jail on bread and water, and he
burger to return him to Jail.
Des Moines.
Officials in the state treasurer's Office
are mystified by the receipt of twt
anonymous letters enclosing bank note.
and postage stamps and requesting
that the money be turned into the gen.
eral fund Of the state. The first lettel
came more than a year ago, in Feb.
ruary, 1908, and contained a S. bill
neatly wrapped in a piece Of news
paper. With it was this note: Mr.. Nor
row: Enclosed find S. which use IL
general expense account of the state
> (Signed) Cash. The letter was ad
dressed in woman's handwriting an,
bore a Des Moines postrnark. Deput.
Treasurer @. A. Willis placed it in TIL
vault and there dt has remained unit
recently, when the second letter. writ
ten in a different hand, arrived iron
Oskaloosa. It was wrapped in the sam
manner and contains a So bill and $1.1
in and 1 cent stamps. The not
reads: State Treasurer: Find enclose
money to be turned into the genera
}. expense fund (Signed) Cash. The tw
> notes are closely written by differen
! persons, also the signature and tn
manner Of writing indicates that tn
money is from the same source. Th
8 1913 will be turned into the genera
= fund and credited to "consciene
d money" Mr.. Willis believes that TIL
+ money comes from an employee of tn
g state who had overdrawn his accoun
h and whose CONSCIENCE has begun t
y Trouble bin;