Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-06
Southern Io1ua Items

Avoca.
Mr.. Davis, Of Avoca, has secured
enough signers to guarantee a short
course this winter at Avoca. Several
of the professors from Ames college
will give lectures on agriculture and
instruct the classes
Seymour.
Erni Mayors, "a, was killed when a
car of coal was overturned, falling on
him in mine here. He leaves a wife
and two children. He was a member of
the Odd Fellows and had local rep
utation as ball player
Council Bluffs.
Reports from the various workers in
the field indicate that the religious cam
Vass now in progress in the city is over
two thirds completed. The canvassers
have until Monday to complete the
work and at that time reports will be
made to the Ministerial Association.
Corning.
Rev. Jay Kirkendall accompanied by
about thirty boys from the Methodist
Sunday school went on an opossum
hunt. Then went to the H. K Given
place and returned about 3 O'Clock in
the morning, tired but happy. They
killed two opossums and captured one
alive.
keokuk.
Keokuk's mayor. Mr.. Off, got of
without even a reprimand in superior
court, where he was tried on a charge
by the cashier of the Worth Savings
Bank of unnecessarily trying
to quell family row in the Nor
rissy home. 1t was shown that Mrs.
Morrissy was deaf and that Off had
to talk loudly to make her hear,
Bartlett.
A third chapter in a Bartlett tragedy
has just been enacted. Last winter Guy
Eyler committed suicide as a result
of domestic trouble. A few weeks later
Mrs. Eyler died, leaving an infant son
6 months of age. The child was the
occasion of a law suit between the two
sets OF grandparents as to its posses
sion. The babe died recently at the
William Eyler home in Bartlett.
Missouri Valley.
Considerable fun was had at the ex-
pense of one of the merchants of this
city Wednesday night. When the night
marshal was making his rounds he
discovered a door unlocked. To give
this merchant a lesson that he won't
forget soon, he was called by telephone
and told that burglars were in his store.
They say he made the twelve blocks
from his residence to the store in
twelve seconds.
Des Moines.
Ernest is no longer near; he has
gone away, and Tuesday his wife,
Grace L. Near, was granted divorce
by Judge McHenry on the grounds of
desertion. Grace became Near in 1905,
and after two years-years in which
she avowed always to remain near
Near-he deserted her and has not
been near her since. Grace told her
story to Judge McHenry and the dee
cree was signed without question.
Hastings.
j. d. Robbins is building large
baln OF cement blocks ar his farm
north Of Hastings, and it is probably
the first one in Mills county to be
constructed of this material. The floor
will also be of cement. There will be
fourteen double stalls or enough to
house twenty-eight horses. There will
be two granaries on the first floor and
room enough in the second story to
stow away seventy-five tons of hay.
Big Rock.
The congregation of the Catholic
church at Big Rock which Father Gill
lespie has attended as an out mission,
while he has been located at Mechan-
icsville, has presented the pastor with
a purse of $205, as an evidence of ap-
probation Of his work. Father Gillespie
Is to succeed the late Father O'Reilly,
pastor Of ST. Peters church in Keokuk
as result of concursus held recent
iy at st. Ambrose college in Davenport
Corning.
Contractor Stephens and o. w. VIII
liams, the marble dealer, got into an
alteration at the Methodist church as
a result Of which Mr.. Stephens APP
peared before Mayor Knowles and
pleaded guilty to assault and paid a
fine OF 81 and costs. Since that time