Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-22
Southern Io1ua Items

Newton.
Z. f. Saureman of Poweshiel1 town
ship was elected president of the Jas
per County Agricultural Association at
Newton.
Newton.
E. G. Smith, of Newton, has secured
manufacture of steel cut wheat
breakfast food.
Woodward.
A. NJ. McColl, one of woodward's
prominent business men, will be a cam
didate for county representative at the
June primaries.
coIfax.
Ministers of the town are preparing
to take the religious census of Colfax
"a house to house canvass in the in
terest of the local churches.
Logan.
The opera house has been transferred
from it's former owner, Eugene Gull
lick, to Josephine A. Smith, The con-
sideration was $4,000.
Davenport.
The fifth knights of Pythias lodge
has just filed articles of Incorporation
in Davenport, which places the order
i'm this city among the strongest in the
state.
| Woodward.
The Phillips Fuel Company, which is
opening a coal mine two and a half
miles east of Woodward, has leased
rooms in the Woodward State Bank
building and opened an office
Newton.
A. R. Horn of Washington, d. c., has
accepted the position of manager of
the Newton Disc Plow Company, to
succeed Fred IStines, who will return
to his former occupation, that of con-
tractor and builder.
viIIisca.
Within a week villisca has been
called upon to mourn the loss of the
following five old settlers: E. w. Jack
son. Laban Walker, F. B. seeley. Jona
than Ashmore and Jake Higgins.
Winterset.
Prof. w. L. Porter, of Winterset,
who went to Rawal Pindi, India, four
and half years ago, to teach in the
Gordon Memorial College of the United
Presbyterian church, was compelled in
June to give up his work on account of
his wife's health and is now returning
to his home.
Council Bluffs.
| United States officials in this city
are inclined to discredit a report pub
lished in Omaha that it is the desire
Of the department of justice to bring
Mabray swindle cases to trial in that
| city before the trial of defendants un-
der the federal indictment against the
same persons in this city.
Bloomfield.
| A sensation was caused here when
| it became known that the grand jury
had returned an indictment against
John Fl. Johnson, chairman of the
Davis county board of supervisors, on
the charge of forging his brothers
name to notes. Johnson is a we'll
known Davis county farmer and prom
inent politically.
Council Bluffs.
Carl F. Anderson, who lives on the
Crescent road north of the city, was
seriously if not fatally injured Thurs
day afternoon by falling SIS feet into
a well. Anderson, with two other men,
was digging the WELL and depth of
oiAIS 1cSI lldu pcSl IcdCucu. 4AHQ0TSOIl
was being drawn up in bucket, when
the rope broke as he was about four
feet from the top.
Council Bluffs.
Henry Sherman, defendant in two in
dictments returned last fall. charged
him with keeping gambling houses,
paid $500 in fines in the district court
Payment of the fines followed accept
ance by the court Of written pleas of
guilty. w. C. Ross, indicted with
Sherman in one Of the cases thus
settled, paid a fine Of 500, his plea be-
ing made in the same manner as that
Of Sherman.
ksokuk.
Miss Annie L. Springer, well
known teacher in the Terrence school,
met with a frightful accident and one