Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-31
Southern Io1ua Items

Northwestern from Clinton to Council
, Bluffs. According to the present plan
each town takes charge of the strip of
road between it and the next town
west. The officials in each town look
after the condition of the roads, keep
ing them in repair.
Des Moines.
Iowa leads all the states in the
number Of colonists sent into the new
sections Of the Canadian northwest,
and Iowans are to be found everywhere
| from Winnipeg. to Prince Rupert and
Vancouver is the report brought back
| by Frank G. Moorhead. of the iowa
Homestead. who has just concluded a
three weeks tour of investigation of
Canadian conditions. Several of the
| communities are practically Iowa COL
onies," he says.
Davenport.
Burglars forced an entrance thru the
| back way, into the office of the Ideal
Lighting Company some time during
the night, broke open the safe emptied
it of it's contents of about SIS in cash
and several valuable papers. and made
good their escape. A small amount OF
1ewelry belonging to one of the travel
| Ing salesman was also taken from the
safe. The papers were found strewn
about In the alley next morning, where
the robbers had thrown them in their
hurried flight
Council Bluffs.
During the Roosevelt reception here
| the ex-president was handed a COM
munication by Robert B. Wallace of
| the reception committee in which he
was deeply interested. The communi-
sation was from Mrs. Mary Detsch, OF
| this city, and related that she had been
born on the same day as Mr.. Roose-
welt, Oct. 27. 1858, that her husband
had been born on July 4. a daughter
born on Washington's birthday, son
on Lincolns birthday, and a second
| daughter OH the eve of Memorial day.
oskaIoosa.
Mrs. George Ney, of the Beacon road
Is marketing two crops of as fine
strawberries as can be produced any
where. The second crop berries pos
| sibly are not as large as those gath
cred from the same vines earlier In
| the season, but they compensate In ex-
lcellence Of flavor and size. Mrs Ney
| has gathered a considerable quantity
of the fruit from the vines, had all she
desired for her own table and has had
some for sale. There has been a ready
demand for the second crop, and they
have brought good price.
Keokuk.
That the winter of 1910 and 1911 will
experience one of the most troublesome
coal shortages in history is now evil
dent. The coal shortage is not only
promised, but it is already apparent.
) A conservative figure puts the coal
supply 1S,060,006 tons short of the av-
erage today. The miners in Illinois
comprise about one-third of the mine
| workers body in the country. Much of
! the Illinois coal is used in Keokuk, and
as these miners have not been working
! for five months and may not so 20
work for some time, a scarcity Of coal
| cannot be averted.
Newton.
| Some of the local sports fell easy
victims to smooth game worked by
a couple of strangers at the Rock Is
| land station. The two strangers were
sauntering around the depot and one
of them was frequently voicing his de-
| sire to indulge a little in the great
American game Of poker Displaying a
| deck of cards, he let two or three of
| them drop to the ground in sight of a
group of local sports. His partner
then came up, and pretending to have
no acquaintance with him, asked how
he intended to have a game unless he
| had a full deck of cards. The strang-
er declared he had full deck and, dis
playing large roll, offered to bet any
amount that he did. Eager to win q
little easy money and with looks OF
pity for the easy mark, some local men
jumped his proposition easily. and got
"stung."