Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-27

Mrs. Almira Dolson, wife of Captain
Thomas H. Dolson, died Friday night
at Finley hospital. Mrs. Dolson had
been suffering a breakdown and had
gone to the hospital for a few days,
rest. She was much rested and had
expected to return home shortly. Fri
day night she passed away, death pc
ing due to apoplexy.
Waterloo.
j. D. Finnerty, the horticulturist OF
strawberry fame, thinks strawberries
have survived the recent cold waves.
altho they will be considerably late this
year. He says: while they won't be
as early as at first promised, they
may not be as late as last year, When
the first were marketed on June 10. IL
will be some time before can say now
much damage has been done to grapes,
for, unlike most other fruits, the BUDS
form a branch which bears the bios
sons"
Waterloo.
After lapse of over two years, dur
ing which time repeated attention mas
been called to the fragrant disregard
of the city ordinances by the railroad
companies and apathy on the part OF
the city officials, pointing out the con-
Rector has instructed City Attorney
Kelly to enforce the city ordinance re-
curing all railroad companies entering
the city and crossing main thorough
fares to install automatic or other
raised gates.
Battle Creek.
Carl Freese, a clerk for the Battle
Creek Drug Company, of Battle Creek,
this county, was placed in the county
Jail by the sheriff and bound over to
the grand jury on a charge of attempt
ed assault on the person of the IT,
year-old daughter Of Carl christensen,
Of SchIeswig, Crawford county. 1t IS
alleged that the attempt was made
while the two young people were out
walking in Battle Greek. The parents
of both parties are prominent residents
of Battle Creek and iSchleswig.
Lake City.
Rev. j. H. Hector, a colored minister
and veteran of the civil war, who held
General Grants horse at the battle of
Pittsburg Landing while Grant looked
over the plans Of the battle, in a lecture
Sunday night at the Woodlawn church
on Our American Institutions" made
a decided hit, at least with the fem
mime portion of his large audience, by
announcing himself squarely in favor
Of woman suffrage. ''The women" he
said, "eould scarcely do any worse than
the men have DONE" He was loudly
applauded.
Waterloo.
It was much battered up individual
that answered to the name "A H.
Finn" in police court Monday morning.
Finn, while drunk Saturday night, fell
down stairs at the Windsor hotel,
breaking his left arm in two places,
also his nose, and receiving bump
over his left eye that put that optic
out of business temporarily. The hui
man wreck was taken to a physicians
office, his injuries attended to and then
| he was lodged in a cell. Next morning
he was turned over to j. K. Klingaman.
overseer Of the poor.
Webster City.
Miss Mabel Bue1ow. mi!iiner en-
ployed at the Amanda Johnson MILL
merry parlors, sustained a serious and
most painful injury to one Of her eyes.
the result Of being over hasty in the
preparation Of her toilet. She was q
trife late and was hurriedly curling her
hair when the curling iron slipped,
striking her in the eye and burning 1t
quite severely. The attending physf-
clan can not state at this time whether
or not the sight is permanently injured,
but gives out that the injury is quite
q serious one.
| Dubuque.
! Mrs Edward Mattous, bride OF Just
twenty days, died at her residence here
Of pneumonia on Sunday noon, after
an illness of twelve hours. The young
bride was formerly Miss Susan Wal
dorf. OF this city, and her death is a
shock to her countless friends. The