Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-17
Northern Io1ua Items

Now Hampton.
! Lee Maxfield. aged 10 years, has been
taken to the boys reformatory at Ell
dora. He was found guilty of stealing
a gun from the shop of Bert Cotant
| several weeks ago.
AIsona.
Articles Of Incorporation for the
Algona Rural Telephone Company
were filed with the secretary of state
last week. The company is capitalized
at $1,000 and is organized for the pur-
pose of operating rural telephone lines.
Headquarters will tbe at school house
| No. in Lofts Creek township. F. A.
Witham is the first; president; j. p.
Nickerson, secretary, and A. b., Walker,
treasurer.
| Dubuque.
| Thomas Cousins, residing in the
country about six miles west Of the
city, reports that he has recently lost
sixty-nine head of sheep and Is de-
manding pay from the county. 1t is
claimed the sheep were killed by dogs.
He reported twenty killed at one time.
three at another and forty-six the last
time. The members Of the board made
a trip to the farm Wednesday to as
certain the exact facts in the case be-
fore they pass on the bill.
Anamosa.
Supervisors Finn and Thomson. with
Auditor Gardiner. of this county, were
in Independence last week making ar
engagements for the transfer of forty of
the Jones county patients. from the In
| dependence hospital to the new Jones
county home This county now has
sixty-four patients at the hospital and
the supervisors believe that Jones
county can look after part Of them
at less expense than they can be main
tanned at Independence.
Webster City.
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Arch Kim
MEL formerly of this city, now residing
on farm near harrisburg. was acct
dentally shot while she and her broth
err were playing with their fathers
rifle. The children were upstairs at
| the time and had been playing for
4 some time with the weapon. loading
and unloading 1t, when the gun was
suddenly discharged. wounding the
| little girl in the knee
Clarion.
| The silo craze has struck Lincoln
township in earnest this spring. So far
seven such structures have been erect
ed and doubtless others will do likewise.
Frank and Homer Mechem have each
built silo 12x24 feet In size. c. D..
| Nelson and A. r. Woodley two Of the
same dimensions. A. G. Tillman and
sons and w. T. Richards three trifle
larger, being 14x2s feet in size. Lincoln
is one Of the best townships in the
county and has goodly number Of
progressive farmers.
| AIgona.
It is understood that $500 has al
ready been subscribed for stock in a
proposed $4,000 company to purchase
the Call opera house property Of the
Ambrose Call estate. It is likely that
the rest Of the stock will be subscribed
in q short time and the property taken
over by the new company The idea
is to spend about $4,000 at once in I'm
proving the building and house furnish
ines, making It one Of the handsomest
opera houses In the state. It Is figured
that the opera house stock win easily
pay investors 8 or 10 per cent and be
a gilt edged investment.
Waterloo.
Judge Franklin c. Plat. who. during
his long term on the bench in the Tenth
judicial district has heard scores Of
complaints for divorce. deplores the
fact that SO many couples have found
marriage a failure and as q remedy to
reduce the number Of legal separations
suggests the following: That engage
ments Of couples be published thirty
or sixty days before the marriage vows
are taken. That health certificates
testify to the fact that neither coN-
tracing party il afflicted with q con-
tagious disease. Judge Plat believes
that brief courtships with true love
lacking, furnish large factor In suits
Tor divorce. Publication OF names *
betrothed persons would do away with