Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-15
Northern Io1ua Items

from the burning bus. Without ques-
ton he saved her life at that accident.
| The bride has been-employed as trim
mer in Miss Goodwin.s millinery store
| in Belle Plaine. The marriage was
performed at Toledo. The young people
| will make their home lin Chelsea. The
groom has been employed at the G. &
n. w. railway round, ,house here. and
his mother lives here.
Davenport ~
] The supervisors of Scott county have
! passed a resolution to the effect that
| it was the sense of the members of the
board that voting machines should be
purchased for Scott county The board,
however. decided not to act on it's own
responsibility and SO voted to put the
question to q vote at the next general
election this fail. This means that the
county will notget the machines until
after the election and will get no use
out of them until about two years from
the present time.
Columbus junction.
The Rock Island railroad may estab-
lish q pumping station at this place in
the near future, owing to the refusal of
the city council which hold that they
must have higher royalty on the wa
ter furnished. The railroad is paying
6 cents per thousand gallons. This con-
tract has been losing the city money
during the last year according to the
city councils report. The Rock Island
railroad has drawn up the plans for the
LIST of November
Davenport.
Not knowing that Louise Burkhardt
IL J.,fT o,.,
8. D. Bawden. Davenport, had been adj
judged insane and had been committed
to the hospital for treatment, her
County Clerk Harry j. Mcfarland for
a license to wed the girl. He was
informed of her condition and the dis
position which had been made of her
and then did not desire the license.
He, however, stated that he had been
with the young woman until about 10
o'clock the night in which she was
seized with the alteration and had not
noticed any peculiarities in her actions
that would forecast such q fate.
erosion.
The second appeal to the supreme
court has been filed i'll the case OF
Clark Williams against Clarke county,
involving HeINy Judgment LOE udll.
age Four years ago Williams was i'm
jured by going thru a bridge in that
county with a team and wagon. At the
first trial a verdict was given him for
$4,000 The county appealed the case.
At the next trial he got a $14,o0O YER
diet, which Judge Towner ordered cut
down TO $12 600, hut Clarke county OBJ
Jects 20 paying this amount and has
brought another appeal to the supreme
court for IL further reduction of the
amount. Both cases We're tried in this
city, on change of venue from Clarke
county and the case is attracting con-
Vsiderable attention.
Tabor.
Claiming Misrepresentation and
fraud in getting her to sign "a paper
purporting to be a pledge To the Meth
odist Episcopal church of Tabor. Mrs.
Olive Hunter brings suit to have the
pledge cancelled. In her petition the
plaintiff AYERS that one Ramsey, ct al.
induced her to sign a pledge for a
stated amount to apply on the church
building then in course of, constructions;
that she accepted said Ramseys state
ment as to conditions named in the
pledge that in case she sold certain
property for a certain sum she was to
give all above q stated amount to the,
church. Plaintiff further AYERS that the
price for which she sold the property
was considerably less than the agree
ment, therefore owes the church Moth
ing; that the pledge she signed has
since proven to be a deed to certain
4...s1 re- Z.