Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-09
Northern Io1ua Items
Sioux City,

Sioux City.
Rental Of 100000 for period Of If
teen years is provided in a lease COW
ON Nebraska street, given by Herman
Kleeblatt to the Royal Amusement
Company. Tho amusement company
will erect theater. The rent is pay :
able at the rate of $500 month from
Dec. 1, 1918, until Nov. 80. 1928. accord
ing to the lease. which was fled In the
office Of the county recorder.
Dubuque.
In the case of William o. Kelly. ar
rested at Waterloo for having passes
counterfeit coins. which went to the
jury late Saturday. Judge Reed, OF the
federal court. sustained the objection
Of the wife the defendant being per-
mitted to testify. District Attorney
Van wagenen made the objection. At.
torneys state 1t is the first time the
question has been raised in the north :
ern district.
Cedar Rapids.
A general retrenchment order has
been issued from the main Office OF
the Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul
railway and as result q wholesale
CUT mas DccI Iuduc III Oil ShC VI dASAA-S
of the service in this state. Divist On
superintendent and others clear down
the line are feeling the effects of the
order and stenographers and clerks 10
the number of over 100 will be
scratched off the payrolls in this state
alone.
Cedar Falls.
The anti smoking crusade launched
recently by the w. G. T. U. against
smoking in public places, has taken a
new turn. The women Of the Civic
Improvement League have entered the
fray, but they are out to suppress the
use Of tobacco by boys Of school age,
and are urging that definite steps be
taken to prevent school boys from Sc
curing tobacco. They have limited that
the law prohibiting the sale of tobac-
lated. In the meantime there is no APP
parent lessening Of the numbers of
smokers in the streets.
Cedar Falls.
Peter Peterson and son, dairy farm
ers, living northwest of Cedar Falls.
are ardent advocates of dairy test as
sociations. Before We Joined a test
association" said Mr.. Peterson, Eve
had no way of determining which were
our most profitable cows. Now we can
tell to cent what each produces In
cash profits and can Gull out poor pro-
ducers." AS an example OF the value
of test associations the Petersons cited
the record of an average COW Of their
herd for the present year This COW.
Lady Netherland De Kol Aakhurst: has
earned a net profit for her owners of
to int ~.
est on 1885, They have numbers of
other cows that have done nearly as
well.
Clinton.
The old machine shops Of the Chi
cago & Northwestern on South Sec
ond street. from which machinery is
being moved to the new Camanche
avenue shops these days. arc, to be
utilized during the coming winter
months by the carpenters department
Of the company. The shops. will be
temporarily used as place to repair
repaired out Of DOORS. This year 1t was
decided to make use of the old shops
during the winter before dismant1iEg
them. in conformity with the COM
pany's Improvement plans. Nearly 6:
Of the machinery which can be used
in the new railroad plant has now been
transferred from the Second street
shops.
MoGre0oe.
Miss Althea r. Sherman, who has
won national distinction in ornitholog-
ical circles by. her study Of bird life
at her farm home near McGreGor, re-
Gently read her fourth paper before the
American Ornithologists. Unionsin New
York City. Tho paper gave the authors
observations o. the life and habits Of
the humming bird covering period Of
seven years. Dec. Miss Sherman left
on the Cunard 8. 8. Loconia for india.
After . few weeks in that country she