Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-21
Southern Io1ua Items

I the unknown assailant and are nov
searching the city for him. Mrs. Cur
RE was stabbed in the left arm b!
her assailant and a wound five inches
long was inflicted. She was hit or
the head with the butt END Of a revolt
yer and Knocked unconscious. accord
ing to the Information given the po-
lice. and while she was in this condi-
ton the robber ransacked the room
and secured the $50 in money.
Council Bluffs.
Between 300 and 400 people attended
the second mass meeting of the Y. w
G. A. workers held at $3.50 o'clock Sun
day afternoon in the First Presbyter-
ian church, liberal sprinkling of bust
ness men being noticed in the audience
The meeting was an interesting one and
and many people gained new ideas as
to the importance Of the Y. w. c, A
movement being prompted for Council
Bluffs The principal address at the
afternoon was given by Mrs l. NJ
| Aiken, of omaha, a member of the
Omaha Y. w. G. A. board of directors
and ar enthusiastic advocate of the
| work.
Council Bluffs.
NJ. Z. Weatherby. the we'll known
| liyerynan, was the victim of an anna
| teur Mabray operation Saturday. anG
was swindled out Of $50 thru buying
a horse to which the seller had no title
| On Friday u spectacle peddler rented
a rig from a. Missouri Valley livery
man, ostensibly for the purpose OF
driving about the vicinity of Missouri
Valley disposing of his wares The RIG
was the property OF a Missouri Valley
undertaken by the name OF Hennesey
| The man drove the horse to Council
Bluffs and sold it to Wea therby, repre-
| senting it to be his own property. Wher
!. he did not return. Robinson, the Mis-.
souri, Valley liveryman, started to in
vestigate. and notified the local police
who found the horse and rig at Wealth.
erby's. The swindler had gone t.
| Omaha and sent friend to This city
to cash thee heck, and has evidentl,
| made a clean getaway.
| Mt. Pleasant.
| With the recent mastering out OF
| Company l.. of the Fifty fourth low;
| National Guards at Newton. there ha
been considerable talk of trying to sc
| the company at Mt Pleasant Their.
was a movement started here abou
two years ago and a paper circulate,
| seiiioiAS e-iS 'o"'io men Oh lIle loWn u
! get the company here. The paper ha,
| over sixty signers, who pledged them
j selves to join the company if 1t wa
secured for Mt. Pleasant. 1t lookce
for time as though it would com,
here but the New ton men goi busy ans
| strengthened up their company witt
| the result that it stayed in Newton
( Now. with the mastering out of The
| company. there is an excellent oppor
Itunity to get the guards here
Cedar Rapids.
| Commissioner Almon s. Reed, bette
known as Allie Reed, is fighting mad
| Somebody went to Daniels Park Sun
day afternoon and stole some flowers
Somebody else saw the thief and di,
| likewise. A third party followed thei
/, example Soon there was a mob o
thieves in the park, taking flower.
away by the wholesale. They kept i
up till early Sunday morning, by which
time most of the ANIMALS and not
few Of the perennials and even tn
shrubs had disappeared. They tool
century plants worth $3.50 each The,
even took away some of the hydran.
geas. These latter will be prosecuted
il they do not return the plants. Com
missioner Reed believes he knows b,
whom the century plants were taken
But it is all over with Daniels Parl
flor this year.