Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-15
Southern Iowa Items

oenison.
At the regular meeting 81 the Com
mercial club the matter OF building an
opera house was taken up and SIS. 900
was pledged and a committee appointed
to raise $4,000 more.
Abba.
E. G.. MCGUIRE. ticket agent at the
Wabash central station was taken into
custody Saturday charged. with grand
larceny by embezzlement. The railroad
company say he Is short on tickets.
Marenso. 4
The total destruction Of the Marengo
canning factory last Friday evening by
fire will result in a loss Of $12. 900
above the insurance. A conservative
estimate of the value of the buildings
and machinery is $4,000, on which
there was $4,000 insurance. The can
ned corn which was destroyed was
fully covered by insurance
keokuk. ~
Complaint has been filed with the
state railroad commission charging the
Rock Island Railroad Company With
making discriminatory rates on lum-
Der to points south Of Eldon. 1t Is
charged that the rates favor yellow
pine from the south over lumber ship
ped by the compliments from Keo-
sauqua, Birmingham and other south
eastern Iowa cities and towns. The
complainants are the McCreary Lum-
Der Company, Keosauqua Lumber
Company, and the W. E.. Smith estate.
Marenso.
An appeal has been taken to the SUI
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rengo is in territory tributary to Vic
tor. The appeal grows out Of the re-
cent establishment Of a paper here by
G. r. Fulln1er. Fullmer formerly was
publisher Of the Victor Record. and
sold it a few months ago to L. d. Tru-
lit, agreeing not to go into h news
paper business in Victor or territory
tributary. Fullmer established the Sen
tinel here this fall. and Truitt at
tempted n secure an Injunction. which
was denied. The case has been APP
pealed.
Abba.
The United States vice consul at
Premen, Germany has notified Sheriff
Griffin that John Desinlcck has been
!located near that city and advises Mr..
Griffin to consult the attorney general
as to his requisition. Desinlock. a
Slayish miner at Buxton stole 1850 in
gold from his fellow miners about two
months ago and escaped. The less was
not discovered until two days later and
nv that time he had made his getaway.
SHERIFF Griffin has been indefatiguablc
in his search for h man and was
finally rewarded bv his apprehension
in far away Germany.
ind;anola.
With the desired amount exceeded by
80, OC0, the six day campaign to raise
s95 900 among 1ndianola people for the
Simpson college endowment ended Sat
urdav night. Enthusiasm was great at
a Notification meeting held In the even
ing. and It IL believed that there will
be little difficulty in bringing the total
amount secured this fall UP to $4,000,
in crder to assure for Simpson a pro-
ductive endowment of 5000 900 by IAN.
1. which the school must have to re-
main in the first class Of colleges as
distinguished by the state board Of
educational examiners.
ottumwa.
The election Of officers featured the
annual convention Of the Women's
Home Missionary Society Of h Iowa
conference Of the Methodist Episcopal
| church here. The officers elected are:
President, Mrs. l.. q. Murphy. Mount
Pleasant: FIRST vice president, Mrs. I.
O. Kemble, oskaloosa: second vice
president. Mr.. d. G. Mott, Muscatine;
third vice president Mrs. 3. = S.S=
clair. B%urlinston: fourth vice presi-
dent, Mrs. 3. r. SHUTS. ottumwa: re.
cording secretary. Mrs. Elmer Young.
Bloomfield: corresponding secretary,
Mrs. Lamio Day. Bloomfield; treasurer,
Mrs. L. F. Owens. Burlington; tenn
perance secretary, Mrs. Il q. Chilcott,
Fairfield: supply secretary, Mrs. =. s.