Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-29
Southern Io,ua Items

! herself and little one in the Wiscon-
sin city. SO she started for Omaha.
Her funds were only sufficient to pay
her carfare to Clinton, however, and
she arrived here securing lodging at
local hotel. Later she left the hotel to
secure assistance from Catholic
priest or from the police She had been
gone from the hotel, but short time
when a youth, apparently about .16
years of age. asked for her. 1t devel-
oped that he was a younger brother
and had been engaged in tracing her.
He was supplied with sufficient funds
to pay her railroad fare to Omaha.
shen andoaH.'Sr'
Certain facts in the possession of the
belief that a band of white slavers are
operating in this city. There are a
number of girls whom the officers are
watching who are making their head
quarters in this city.and who are sus-
pected of plying their operations in
the towns up and down the Burlington
railroad. Evidence. secured confirms
these suspicious. At the burlington
depot two young ALPHABETICALLY ignorant
girls were taken from the society Of a
young man who had. them in his charge.
He had tickets for them to Red Oak,
and the girls stated they were to find
employment big wages. The young
! man fled when an officer appeared and
has not been unprecedented, but war
rant has been issued for him. The two
girls were taken 20 Shenandoah homes
and cared for. They appeared greatly
surprised when told Of the suspicious
Of the people who had acted in their
behalf.
Cedar Rapids.
| NJ. Hirsh made what he thought
good sale to stranger, but the two
checks the stranger gave. aggregating
s45, turned out to be worthless. Thurs
day morning the stranger stopped in
the Hirsh store and introduced him
self as julius VarAowski of Tama City.
He had come to Cedar Rapids to make
some purchases. He proved to be
generous buyer. He purchased a blue
serge suit Of clothes, a rubber coat, a
gold watch, a watch chain, and plain
gold ring After these things had been
selected with due care the man, who
said his name was NanKowski, pro-
duced check book and wrote two
checks to his order and gave them to
Mr. Hirsh. After the stranger had left
Mr.. Hrsh thought to call up the Tama
Savings Bank on which the checks
were drawn. The bank notified him
that there was no such account there.
Then Mr. Hirsh visited the police and
told them his story. An effort was
made to find the stranger from the de-
scription but it was unsuccessful.
lndianola.
A Villisca girl, Edith Rusk. is one of
the committee of three seniors at
Simpson College which has the ar
rangemerts in charge for gift of a
$500 gateway to the college campus in
the name of the 1912 class, which COM
prises fifty-six boys and girls. mainly
from southwestern Iowa. The seniors
in charge of the class gift include Miss
Rusk, William Butler and Hugh Jack
son of Indianola. It is the habit of
each graduating class at Simpson to
present the alma mater with gift, but
It remained for the present graduating
class to give the college the most use
full present in all the long line Of class
|remembrances. 1t is proposed to erect
a gateway Of pressed brick and Bed
ford stone, the two main gate posts to
be three feet square and twelve feet
high, each surmounted by an orna-
mental electrolier and connected with
two smaller posts, each two and one
half feet by eight feet in size by wall
built on the segment of a circle The
width of the entire gate will be thirty
six feet.