Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-23
Southern Io1ua Items

CenterviIIe,
Oskaloosa, Ottumwa and Abba vii
hold their next Labor Day celebration
here This was decided today and /,
! is expected that 10000 union men and
| women will march in the Labor Day
parade.
Knoxville.
| Charles Anderson. widely known fol
the last ten years as the Oldest man
in Marion county, died at the home OF
his daughter in-law. Mrs. Mathew
Anderson, In Newborn He was 81 years
old. Mr.. Anderson had lived in Iowa
since the early SOS.
Des Meinss.
Des Moines rs the home Of industries
requiring in raw material eighty-five
per cent of all the dog skins secured
| in the United States annually. Re-
ports of the Cownie Glove company and
other firms Of the city for the year in
the glove business show this to be a
fact. One firm during 1913 used over
$4,000 skins.
Fairfield.
BY a vote Of 7ss to 81 the voters Of
Fairfield denied Ralph NJ Burtfs. OF the
Public Utilities company the right OF
franchise giving him the privilege of
using the streets and alleys of the city
for the purpose Of distributing gas and
electricity in accordance with ordi-
nance No 154 Of the city OF Fairfield,
which was recently passed by the city
council.
Davenport.
Adolph Peters, aged 4s years. a
prominent West Davenport barber shot
and killed himself Monday afternoon in
the cellar below his barber shop. He
had been melancholy for some tine
over the loss Of his wife last summer.
Mr.. Peters went to his shop and wrote
a note to his son, and then shot him.
self. His son discovered the body Mon
day night.
Davenport.
A street car filed with arsenal work.
men crashed into the rear end of the
regular car at the foot Of Brady street
hill this morning. The tracks were
slippery and the car slid down the hill
when the brakes refused to work. Ed
Thompson. motornan on the regular
car, was cut about the head and arms.
but not seriously injured. The passen-
gers were shaken UP, but none were
injured. Both cars were smashed.
Council Bluffs.
All the mail contained in the post
office at Weston, Pottamattamie coun-
ty, was destroyed at 2:30 Wednesday
morning when the building was burned
to the ground with all its contents.
The postoffice was located In the store
of Pete Peterson and both the building
and the stock are total loss. The fire
was evidently incendiary, as it is said
the telephone wires were cut and there
were traces OF kerosene in the building.
Sidney.
The farmers Of Locust Grove town
ship in the extreme southeastern cor
ner of Fremont county have petttioned
the county commissioners to offer
a bounty on read crows. They
say the fiocks Of crows are 80 dense as
to Obscure the sun. One man killed
a crow and hung the carcass in a tree.
About 1000 of the birds alighted in the
tree and held regular wake during the
entire afternoon.
Stuart.
Charles Doherty, the 7-year old son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Doherty Of
Stuart, fell of the rear platform Of a
passenger train, while his mother was
engaged in conversation with fell
low passenger, and though bleeding
from wound on the head. followed
the passenger train afoot q half mile
into Stuart. The boy was picked up
almost exhausted on the outskirts of
Stuart by a man with = buggy and
taken to the office OF q physician.
Meanwhile the frantic mother was
searching everywhere for her missing
son. In company with his mother.
Charles was returning from q VISIT
in Guthrie Center.
prement.
The lifeless body Of an infant girl.
weighing seven and . half pounds and