Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-17
Southern Io1ua Items

; osIaloesa.
Mrs. Nellie Carr, aged 40. the wife Of
; Harvey Carr, Of one Of the oldest fami-
lies OF the city. dropped dead Saturday
at her home. heart disease being as
signed as the cause.
Manning.
Rev. Mr.. Aldridge. pastor Of the
Presbyterian churches at Manning and
to Nebraska, where he has secured a
much better charge. Rev. H. ]. Blue a
senior student at Omaha, has accepted
the Manning charge.
| Dee Meinss.
John F. Higgins. state printer. of
Chicago. and incidentally owner Of the
Des Moines baseball club. has tele-
graphed his friends here that he still
has the franchise in the western league.
and says he will control the club for the
next season.
Shenandoah.
The long talked-of deal between the
city and the electric light and power
company has been consummated
whereby the company is to install an
electric motor and pump at the water
plant and do the pumping for the city
at q guaranteed reduction Of 10 per
cent below the cost Of pumping the
past year.
Donfey.
At the Ira Ward sale near Donlev
one span Of matched gray mares sold
for 35s0-one for $500 and the other
for $3.50. They were separated and
purchased by different parties. One
went to Rufus liver. Of Lang. Canada.
and the other to George Steele Of West
Knoxville township. A 2-year-old colt
brought $3.50.
Iowa City.
From the headquarters Of the Y. NJ.
c. A. here. where the activities relative
to the five mile liquor petition center.
1t was authoratively announced that Is
per cent Of the students Of the school
had affixed their sigma lures to the petit
ton asking the state legislature to ex-
tend the provisions Of the liquor limit
law to the state university and thereby
GUST the saloons from Iowa City.
keokuk.
ing at the opera house here and the
building would not hold the big crowd
anxious to boost the city OF Keokuk.
Committees were selected to raise a
fund OF 100000 for booster purposes
and still other com mittees will conn
mence the work OF securiDg new fac
tories to use the electric power to he
generated by the Mississippi river
dam.
keokuk.
OF former well known Young
Keokuk woman who in her Rirlhood
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ST. Louis paper Of Friday SAYS: Laura
Lauer, known as the ''Taxicab Queen"
wife Of Joe Lauer. taxicab driver and
former wife Of Robert 8. Mcdonald.
st. LOWS clubman. drank an ounce Of
carbolic acid In her room. 27sl Olive
street, about 1880 o'clock Thursday
NIGHT and died at the city hospital at
$3.50 o'clock this morning
Dee Moines.
A total OF 25.12s wage .earners In
Iowa received an average wage in
crease Of 1913 per cent according to the
duyn Of the state labor bureau. The
average number OF hours per day
which they worked was 1912. The to-
tai amount OF wa ges paid was as fol-
lows: Adult males. &27.seo 9aa ga;
adult females. $3.50 1854: children
under 1e wears Of age, sos, 031.31; total,
$31, 919, 446.72
Cedar Rapids.
Twenty-eight policemen. two con-
stables the sheriff and all his deputies
are looking for e. Q. Boles. who seems
to have left town after finding out that
his wife had sued out an Information
charging him with serious offense.
Tho trouble all started because Boles
paid visit at the home of Mrs. Guy
HendF1xson Friday niGfst. He knew
the D6l3ce ware watchin9 HIM eloasly
and when they called ana aSreetAd him