Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-22
Southern Io,ua Items

the difficulty presented by the courts
ruling. One is to buy power for the
road instead Of constructing power
houses along the right of way and an
other plan is to incorporate outside Of
Iowa.
| The scarcity OF snow in this vicin-
| ity, in connection with the extremely
cold weather during January and early
February, has resulted in record max
ing depths of frost. Workmen engaged
in establishing increased facilities for
the Rock Island railroad water sup
ply here, have found frost at a depth
of four and half feet and the men
excavating for the municipal sewer in
several spots have found the ground
frozen five feet beneath the surface
1t is believed that unless the present
thaw comes on more gradually, the
land adjacent to the Cedar river will
experience a damaging inundation as
the ground is too hard 10 permit any
of the water to sink into it.
CIenweod.
Earl Mendenhall. one Of the young
men indicted by the grand jury last
September in connection with no
toriously disgra ceful affair here. was
arrested again a few days ago on an
information sworn to by George Linn,
charging him with the seduction Of the
latter's daughter, Minnie. Young Men,
denhall was arraigned before Justice
Edwards. He waived preliminary hear
ing and was bound to the grand jury
under bond Of $500, which thus far. he
has been unable to furnish. Menden-
hall was slated for trial at the Novem-
Der term of court on a charge Of rape,
but escaped the laws clutches by mar
rying the complaining witness, Maude
Rodman.
creston.
Attorney Steele Of the soliciting de-
partnent of the D. & R. G. railroad at
Denver, Colo. arrived In Creston to
represent the company in taking depo-
stions in the case Of Prof. R. B. Har-
din. VS.. the railroad. Mr.. Hardin was
last year professor in the science de-
partment of the high school. resigning
and leaving here about the first Of July.
for Canon City, Colo, where he had
accepted a position in the high school.
Altho Mr. Hardin and family reached
their destination safely. their goods
we're burned IN the car on the tracks
in Canon City. It developed that the
weight of the goods was 5000 pounds
and they were valued at over 1929 by
Mr.. Hardin. In trying to settle the
company offers to pay Mr.. Mardin $40
per hundred weight, or $500. In the
car of household goods was a valuable
piano.
couneil aIuffa.
Charged with having cut the Christ
nearby church. from a grave In the Sill
yer Creek cemetery in James town
ship, five men connected with the
church celebration last Christmas were
sued Tuesday for $4,000 damages by
the father Of the child from whose
grave the tree Is said to have been
taken. Henry Reiber brought the suit
and he charges in his petition that
Oscar Leaders and Frank Hickman,
both we'll known farmers Of that Sec
ton, cut the evergreen tree which he
had nourished on the grave Of his child
who died seventeen years ago, at the
oral direction Of Henry Leaders. Henry
Brandes and Bernhard Eichenberger,
who are said to have been the COM
mittee in charge Of the entertainment
at the church. All the parties to the
suit are well known farmers Of the
eastern portion OF the county, living
west Of Hancock and Oakland and
south of Minden. Nearly all OF them
are land owners. and one. Henry
Brandes. was former member Of the
state legislature from Pottawattamie
bounty