Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-21

Cttumwa.
Plans have been completed for the
establishment in South Ottumwa of a
$4,000 sub-station of the Ottumwa
city library
Maxwell.
The market day sale held Saturday
went thru the ring and large per cent
of these were sold
Lamont.
E. H. Hoyt, president of the Lamont
Savings Bank, has sold his controlling
interest in the institution to John Ell
lott, who will become president.
Des Moines.
Every assessor in Iowa this year will
be supplied with a volume containing
all OF the revenue laws of the state.
This book is to be published late this
month and is now in the hands Of
State Printer Emory H English
keokuk.
Major Meigs, government engineer in
charge of Mississippi improvement at
Keokuk. has declared that the work
begun on building the big dam at
Hamilton is bona fide and not merely
for the purpose of retaining the fran
! chise
creston.
Charged with sending defamstory
post cards thru the mail, Earl
Ryder of Creston was brought before
the federal commissioners where ne
waived a preliminary examination be-
fore the grand pury and gave bonds
for his appearance at the next term
of court.
Des Moines.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis Rail-
road Company has been made defend
ant in a $4,000 damage suit brough.
by Mrs. Bessie Grace, administrators
of the estate of Bert Grace the inter
urban conductor who was instantly
Killed in a collision near Perry, Iowa
on the morning OF Dec %, last. Grace
lived in Des Moines many years.
Newton.
After forty years of railroad
service fifteen years of which hav'
been spent as conductor Oh the Newton
and Monroe road, Conductor Howard
Case is to have a rest. He receives
wr1 on New Years day that he ha'
been retired on the pension list and t
turn over his work to Brakeman Re
Smith. This is reward which is trul
deserved by Conductor Case.
pes Moiness
. Roy Hall, driver for the Nationa
, Biscuit Company, escaped death almos
rniraculously when rapidly movin
= G. b. & @. train struck the wagon j
which? he was crossing 2 street inter
;, section of the tracks. Hall was l1urle
:, for twenty feet thru the air. alightin
= in snow drift, which probably save
j. him from serious injury. The WACO
was demolished.
. Des Moines.
The date of birth played an import
ant figure in the fate of Harry Barns
in district court Tuesday afternoc
when he was brought before Juds
Lawrence De Graft for sentence. +
was convicted of breaking and ente
ing the home of his aunt, Mrs. Emn
Barnes. Barnes was young enough
be sent to the reform school by a da
He was seventeen Wednesday.
Council Bluffs.
Iowa is to have a horticultural pap
devoted entirely to the horticultur
interests of the state. Articles of il
corporation of the National Horticu
tura1 Publishing Company were fill
with the secretary of state. The hor
: office Of the company will be at Cou
Gil Bluffs. The capital stock is $50
and the incorporators are w. S. Ke
line, ). P. Hess, F. L. Reed, Geor
Sancha and w, H. Lynchard.
Keokuk.
Miss Annie L. Springer, a well knoN
teacher in the Terrence school n
with a very unfortunate accident
one which will probably leave her
jured limb in a stiffened condition
4 a number of years. while descend