Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-06
Southern Io1ua Items

owned by MfsBoston, who paid the city
SIS month on each place in addition
t? the $500 mulctctax. making a total
Of 1920 paid annually
Burlington.
The long drawn battle between the
Bur lington liquor dealers and the Anti
Saloon League, under the leadership OIL
Attorney Odle. have come to an end
and at least nineteen Of the liquor
| dealers who recently obtained permits
to operate Under the Moon law will be
permitted 10. start business with :
clean slate, untrammelled with court
proceedings and with the injunction
cloud that has hovere1 over them fol
such long time dispelled.
Buffalo.
The Buffalo council met and raised
the city saloon license to $4,000 in ad-
dition to the 5000 mulct tax. The
council also made arrangements fol-
an informal vote of the people as tc
which Of the four saloon keepers will
continue to operate. 8 The four are:
Joseph Metzger. Henry Metzger
Thomas Metzger and Walter Hoff-
bauer. The informal vote will be talk
en- at the town hall Monday afternoon
and the city council will meet Monday
evening to consider the Vote. Thi
ordinance committee is drafting an or
dinance reducing the saloons to one
and this will be passed at the meeting
Jefferson.
Willoughby Bros. have sold the'i
harness shop. and invoicing OF the
stock commenced this week. The pur-
chasers are Messrs. thornton Bros.
James Polk and George, who will take
possession of the Willoughby buildin.
and stock as soon as possible. George
Thornton will move to Jefferson fron'
mis- farm iii Grant township as soon as
he can secure suitable residence. The
deal takes Mr.. Ralph Willoughby from
here, as he and his family have moved
to Storm Lake, where Mr.. WilloughbS
purchased n billiard hall F. w. Will
loughby has not yet decided what hi
will do.
Manning.
With head up, cane swinging Will
each step, lighted cigar in his mouth
and q smile on his face Henry Mauk-
man started on a wager to walk t
Carroll and back within ten hours. 6
distance of thirty-six miles. He left a
TAO and at 5:35 he was followed by ar
anxious, eager eyed crowd along MAR
street to Buhmann's saloon. where M
found he had won the bet by the small
margin Of six minutes. When he re.
turned he no longer smoked. or smiled
or swung his cane; but shifted his fec
uneasily as II they were hurting him
He had taken the Great Western tract
all the way and the sands made walk.
ing difficult.
Cedar Rapids.
NJ. w. Kent has had a mandator!
writ issued in the district court com.
pelling the Cedar Rapids & Marion
Telephone Company to replace th'
Telephones in his office and hom'
without paying the fees in advance un'
| les a proper rebate be made. Kent also
has brought suit against the COMPANY
| for damages in the sum OF &424. In tn:
iayst place he had an office phone Al
Cedar Rapids for four years and paic
| $50 per year, which he claims to hav;
been IS year in excess Of the lega
rate. He therefore sues for refund
OF s24. In the next count. Kent says
the company changed his number II
January, 1911, and that his customer,
were thereby prevented from 'phonint
him without considerable trouble ant
Inc was obliged to change his station
Iery. This change Of telephone number
he says damaged him to the amount O
$50. Then he claims that in June, 1e1l
the company. without just cause. IL
legally and wilfully broke into his OF
nee, cut the wires and took therefron
] hia telephone which he was using ant
they refused to replace It. For this n,
nales lEn al dnuna2Aa-