Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-17

far as can; be learned observing the
conflagration, tho the school building
was a large one, There are no farm
residences, near by. The school house
will not be built until spring and
school has been dismissed until the d.
rectors can act in some manner to-
wards securing a temporary location
for tho district seat Of learning.
Waterloo.
c. w. Rainville, of Salem. Mass, will
be rejoiced eto't1earn Of the where-
abouts Of his father. Thomas Rain
Vile. whom he has not seen for sew
enteen years. The son wrote to a
newspaper in Waterloo. making an
appeal that an effort be made to To-
cate the father. Saturday 1t was
learned that man named Thomas
sought lives at Shell Rock, where he
is blackshifh INF. Rainville came
to Butler county from Manchester
dead but he was married to . Water
loo woman.
Maplston.
The First state Bank, Of Mapleton.
Is the only bank in this section Of the
country that has qualified and been
empowered to receive postal savings
funds. There are q number OF postal
savings repositories in Monona. Wood
bury and Crawford counties. but no
banks have qualified except the one
above mentioned and this bank will
no doubt be authorized to receive de-
posts from these several repositories
in the near future. 1t Is necessary
that bank be state or national
bank to receive these funds and thus
some Of the towns are handicapped in
having only private banks.
Rinsstsd. oa45e
Announcement is made that Hon.
c. B. Murtagh. president Of the Ring
sted State, Bank, has accepted, the
cashiership OF the County Savings
Bank of Algona. and within few
weeks win move his home to that city.
Mr.. Curtagh has been in charge of the
Ringsted State Bank for about eight
years and has made a remarkable
success Of the business. In Algona he
will be associated with his brother f.
J. Murtagh. president of the County
Savings Bank, which Is one Of the
leading financial institutions in north
Emmet county in the last legislature
and would undoubtedly have been re-
elected had he not made this business
move.
Tripoli.
This community located on a cut
of line Of the Chicago Great Western
from waverly to Sumner. has had
practically no train service for the past
two weeks Until last Saturday when
three cars-one Of coal and two Of
general supplies-were received and
the fuel and food situations. which
threatened to become serious. were
relieved. Not more than the usual
amount OF suffering has been reported
and everybody has been kept warm
The railroad tracks run east and west
in q general direction and the roadbed
is usually quickly filed with drifting
snow during storm periods. There is
also bad cut which fllls and this
usually stops transportation. There
was a shortage Of some of the staple
groceries. particularly sugar, at one
time.
Cedar Falls.
The six rural mail carriers out Of
Cedar Falls have been having seri-
Gus time bucking snow drifts. Every
day the past week It was necessary to
break in . new road ut most places.
az the snow would drift in during the
night, covering up the old track. 1t
is no uncommon thing to get team
down. Friday Ed Crandal. who is
substituting for Mr.. Fairgarve on
route s, met a cream gatherer near
the virden place on Black Hawk road
and in attempting to get past his con-
veyance was upset and the mail badly
mixed up II. was 20 degrees below
zero at the time and In getting things
righted he suffered intensely from the
extreme cold. Saturday was the worst
day for drifting SNOW of the entire
winter. People residing in town had
no idea Of the way things were going
in the country where the wilma couid
rot f,,lI aw1nR ss&t