Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-03-14
Southern Io,ua Items

Roadway presents a horrible sight. Inc
entire side of his face is gone, his lower
jaw was shattered and the upper jaw
was fractured. <, All the teeth ~on the
right side were torn away. Drs. Bar
nett and Weaver are caring for the in
jured man. e
0onnsIIson.
Kasper Fett who is SO years old. has
seventy one living descendants. He was
born in Oberhessen, Germany, on
March 20, 1925, and came with his par
ents to the United States in 1887. In
1s47 he married Miss Margaret Ebel.
There have been born eight sons and
two daughters, nineteen grandsons.
twenty granddaughter, twenty great
grandsons, twenty-one great grand
daughters and one great-great- grand
son, of whom seventyone are living.
Mrs. Felt died in 1892. In a picture
besides Mr.. Felt, the great-great grand
father, are: Peter Felt, great-grand-
father. Sc years old; Mrs. Mary Frank
grandmother, 40 years old; Mrs. Eliza
beth F.. Brewer, mother, % years old,
and Clarence +. Brewster, months old.
Muscatine.
That the Great White Way picnic,
mobiles, is assured for Muscatine in
the assurance given at the meeting of
the Muscatine Auto Club by President
w. N. Narvis. From the remarks made
at the meeting it is evident that Musca-
tine has been approved by the state
organization as the mecca for the cars
during the picnic week in August 1t
It is planned to have the picnic daie
ID - al mr. nd bc
visitors are assured of q real treat. The
official route OF the great white wa!
into Muscatine and out again is to be
marked with signs and this route will
pass by the new hotel. which will no
doubt be made headquarters for the
motorists.
! creston.
Bernie Doremus, an inmate of the
feeble minded institute at Glenwood
was struck and instantly killed We'd
nesday by a Burlington fast mail train
The fatal accident happened at 12:40
D. M, at a point about two miles west
of Glenwood. Doremus was walking
down the track and apparently did not
see the train coming. He was thrown
quite q distance and his body was bad
ly mangled and his bones broken. The
engineer Of the mail train applied the
brakes to the train just as quickly as
he noticed what had happened, and the
young man was picked up and taken to
Pacific Junction, where physicians pro-
nounced him dead. it being evident that
death came instantly, and that he prob
ably never knew what had happened
The dead man is about 80 years Of age
The body is now being held at Pacific
Junction.
Davenport.
A youthful gang Of organized bandits
with ramifcations extending thru the
middle west and to the Pacific coast
with a branch in Clinton, is the dis
closure made by the Davenport and
Chicago police as a result of the cap
! ture Sunday of the three auto thieve:
in Davenport. A secret code key wa,
found on McKeesby. leader Of the gang
when taken by the local police. Mes.
| sages from Chicago have given the
local police the missing links to story
that they believe will show a well.
planned organization of boy stick ups
and robbers Two Of the members cap.
tured here are former Clinton youths
McKeesby, leader and brains Of the or.
Sc.!zation, formerly worked in Gin.
ton hostelry. while Joe Vton. the italian
tool Of McKeesby. was a pool room at.
tache there. The girl found with ths
boys was released under bonds to ap.
pear AZ witness and left for her home
4: Clinton. u ss probable that no charge
] will b placed against her.