Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-10

said she had been mistreated at home,
beaten several times and was compell-
ed TO work too hard She ran away
once before and was found three days
later In a neighboring cornfield half
starved and nearly frozen to death. She
was taken to the Heise hospital in this
city and an investigation will be made.
Des NJ Dimes.
II the board Of education for Des
Moines will grant permission, A. S.
Jones, OF Washington, D. c., secretary
OF the National Rifle Association, will
come to Dies MONIES to formulate plans
for rifle clubs among the boys Of the
three high schools of the city. In event
the school board adopts the SUCCESS
tons advanced by Secretary Jones, the
rifle clubs. to which there are no dues,
will be organized by him. The purpose
OF the association is to instruct the
boys from the country from 10 year up
in firearms practice to equip them as
reserve force in event Of war.
Davenport.
Wellington Worker a 13-year-old
boy OF this city, a member of the Trim
lty cathedral choir, and who has only
recently been discovered, has received
an offer from Henry B. Roney, the
leader of the famous "Roneys BOYS"
Concert Company, which is only an ac-
Acknowledgement Of his wonderful tall
ent- Roney made a special trip to this
city from Chicago to hear the local
prodigy and after spending several
hours with him and Prof A. F. Cam
mack, leader Of the Trinity choir, who
brought him out recently. the concert
master asked the boy to join his COM
pany.
Davenport.
Disliking their new home. the Sol
diers' Orphanage, where they had been
pla ced but a few days before by their
mother and desiring to escape to re-
turn to their home or any place else
that their feet carried them, little .Har-
ry and Eddie Eide. aged 10 and II re-
spectively. and hailing from Nevada,
Iowa. We're picked up on West Fourth
street Yesterday by Deputy Marshal
Matt Lamb and taken to the police sta
ton. Neither wanted to be taken back
to the Orphanage. but wanted to be re-
turned to their home in Nevada They
spent an entire night on the streets.
sleeping outdoors.
Abba.
The district court wrestled several
days with the case of Laura Woodford
Jackson versus Cicera d. Dozier for
S.. 600 damages. The parties to the suit
are colored, the defendant being a min
lister of the gospel and is past the half
century mark and was getting along
fairly we'll with his 19-year- old sweet
heart until she married jackson, then
he began to circulate stories about her
that she would not stand for. hence the
damage suit. The old colored fellow
lie on the witness stand told some
pretty hard stories. but evidently the
jury put no credence in them as they
awarded the plaintiff $1,000 for her
wounded feelings.
jefferson.
The board of supervisors established
drainage district No. So, in Hardin
township, otherwise known as the Vest
drai In This proposition was UP last
fall and acquired some notoriety from
the fact that the Northwestern railway
company and the Western Town Lot
Company filed damage claims aggre-
eating 100000. on account of the fact
that the proposed drain emptied its
water into the gravel pit They claimed
that the water thus turned upon them
would injure their pit. and also ruin the
reservoir which they maintain there for
the purpose OF putting up ice for their
refrigerator cars. The board cut this
fishing the ditch.