Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-12
Southern Io1un Items

boards laid together, on which are piled
some dirty rags, are used as a bed. The
parents We're severely lectured by the
court and before they left Carlyle
promised to get another house and put
his living rooms in a sanitary condi
ton.
Lenox.
What is thought to be the highest
price paid for land in this vicinity was
paid by S. j. Key for 240 acres of land
which he purchased of Jake Walters at
a price of $3.50 per acre. Forty acres
! of the same land was sold recently to
Cass clearinghouse at the same price
per acre. This particular farm is known
as the Dockstader place, at the edge
of town. Mr.. Keep will take possession
the first of March.
Missouri Valley.
Herb Kress and Harve Berry We're
arrested by Marshals Milliman and
Johnson on the charge of taking corn
from j. NJ Beckleys corn crib on the
night of Wednesday, Dec. 80. They
We're brought before Mayor Amen and
pleaded guilty to the charge. kress was
sentenced to thirty days in the county
Jail and Berry to ten days. This being
the first offense for Berry he was lei
off easy.
Newton.
4 A change has taken place in the
ownership of the Newton Herald
whereby M. Bilderback trades the plan
to c. F. Rulings, of Hamilton. Mo-, FOL
Mr.. Rulings paper, the Farmers Ad
vocate, democratic, his residence ant
the second story in the building wher
the plant is located. MIR. Rulings viii
take possession of the Herald mex
week. Frank Bilderback remains wit
him until May 1. when he expects to g,
on the road for the American Typ
Founders Company of Chicago.
Des Mones.
Among the parties from Des Moline
: planning to tour Europe next summe
> is a company Of young ladies who viii
go under the guidance of Miss Arman
4 ella Black, instructor of French an
Spanish at Drake University. The part
will include students from the univer
q sity and others from Denver and In
a dianapolis. Miss Black has spent sew
eral years in different parts of EuroT
: and is acquainted with the places c
h interest which will be visited TIL
n party will sail June % from Montreal
n Belle PLANE.
e Mrs Ameil Armstrong, who has bee
e lessee of the Burley Hotel here IL
many years. is seriously i'll and there
very little hope for her recovery, TT
disease being a tunor, which upon a.
: tempting an operation at the hospit
II at Rochester Mimi, where Mrs Arm
- strong was taken in Superintendel
e McCarthys private car, was found
~ be of a cancerouS nature, and hope
!. relief by an operation had to be abal
8 doned. The Burley Hotel was built /
> Mrs. Armstrong; father, B. B. Bu
ie ley.
Cedar Rapids.
In common with many other cit
In of Iowa, Cedar Rapids is beginning
ct worry over what is liable to happt
tx when the heavy snow melts and Il
e. Cedar river rises, for it has been man
I'd many years since the river was froz'
ey over as completely as at present,
a open channel of less than thirty fe
re. extending down thru this city, and tn
RS due largely to the effect of the wat
by in falling over the wheels In the mil
m. The council is planning to dynamite t
vn ice, if that plan seems advisable, a
ee it is realized that serious trouble W
9Th follow if the snow goes off quickly.