Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-16
Northern Io1Ua Items

ing what was known as Temperance
beer" but which contained too large
a per cent of alcohol to come under
this head. The arrest created quite a
stir among Alton people and is the
first case of it's kind to come up since
the saloons closed last July.
Fort Dodge.
When the fear Of the police is so
great that it leads drunken men to
come to the police station and give
themselves up. it would appear that
something is being accomplished along
the lines of law and order. This is the
situation as it is in Fort Dodge. There
appeared Wednesday evening two old
police offenders who asked the desk
sergeant to lock them up. They ad-
mit,ed that they were drunk and knew
they would be "pinched' sooner or lat
er and decided that they would come
up and save the officers the trouble of
going to the police station with
them. 1t is needless to say they were
accommodated.
Waterloo.
On December %, at Markeson, Wis,
Miss Laura Bowman, a mem Der of the
Universalist church OF Waterloo and
a former instructor of the State
Teachers College at Cedar Falls. will
be ordained to the ministry. Miss
Bowman has been acting pastor OF the
church at Markeson since her gradu-
alton from Ryder Divinity school at
Lombard College, Galesburg, Ill. Her
former pastor, Rev. Effie McCullom
Jones, of this city, will deliver the
ordination sermon and Rev. T. b
Fisher of Lacrosse, Wis, will assist
in the ceremonies. Miss Bowman Is
well known in the city and her father
Rev. John Bowman, will be remem-
bered by many as a former Methodist
pastor in this city.
GAINESVILLE.
Harley Pulls had gone over to Au.
errand and left his team in charge 0,
Mrs. Engle while the two men went
into the barn to look at some stool
and the team. large, strong span o.
horses. got beyond the control Of the
lady in charge and became furious tt
get away. The men in the barn hear.
ing a noise ran outside only in tim;
to see the windmill tower fall to the
ground. The mill tower was an angle
steel affair and was nearly new and the
wagon had caught one of the corners
| breaking the post, with the result men
! toned. Considerable damage was dom
! the wagon. the tower was badly ben
and twisted, but otherwise things were
/ unframed.
Alexander.
/ ,,.L1 k4r5 1oe
week charged with embezzlement from
the Iowa Central Railroad Company
, had been agent for the Central a
Alexander for a couple Of years past
and the auditor dropped in recent.
and checked him up $500 short. TIL
company would not have been out any
thing. as all agents are under bone
from bonding company, but the agen
of the bond company filed the neces
sary information against Odem an
Sheriff Millett went after him ant
landed him in the county Jail. His pre-
lininary hearing was to have been las
Monday, but in the meantime hi
friends got busy and sold what littl
personal property he had. including
COW, horse, and few implements, con
verted the proceeds into cash. an,
this with what his old father coul
scrape together, made up the $50
shortage, which was all the bondin
company wanted, and when the pre-
iiminary hearing was called the bond
ing company agent failed to appea
against him and the case was dis
missed 1t is said that Odem will 9
to, Oskaloosa, where his parents re
side.