Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-23
Storm Lake.

Storm Lake.
The Farmers Savings Bank, new
state banking institution, opened Tor
business at Albert City yesterday. with
A. F. Bergling as cashier and active
manager. The bank is capitalized at
$4,000.
Dubuque.
At a meeting of the board Of direc-
tors of Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque,
plans for three new buildings to cost
approximately $4,000 were accepted
and the architects We're instructed TO
prepare sDecifica tons at once. Students
from twenty eight states, composing
the synod which supports Wartburg
Seminary, will be housed in the pro-
posed new buildings.
Sioux City.
Five thousand dollars damages were
awarded by district court jury to DR..
J. H. Lawrence against the city Of
Sioux CITY because Of the death of his
daughter. Dorothy, in an auto accident.
isMiss Lawrence was one Of party OF
four high school students in car that
plunged into gully at Twenty first
and Myrtle streets the night of Jan. ?,
1913. Miss Lawrence died of injuries
received in the wreck.
Cedar Falls.
The spirit Of the class of 1889 Of the
Cedar Falls high school will assert it
self after a lapse of twenty-five years
in the form Of memorial for the
school. A formal offer of $4,000 or
more to be used IN constructing gym
nasium for the high school has been
made. In addition to this the class will
tender a banquet to all alumni Of the
high school and the graduating class
of 1914.
EstherviIle.
James Mullaney desired to get mar
ried, but did not nave the necessary
coin. A number of young bachelors.
in a spirit of fun, were joshing him,
and offered to pay all expenses If he
would get married. He promptly step
ped to the telephone and called up his
sweetheart, Miss Mary flanagan, at
Plover. She took the first train to
Esthervile, where a justice Of the
peace quickly married the couple, the
bachelors footing all bills.
Sioux City.
Fire which destroyed the four story
/ ham and storage building Of Armour &
! Co.. causing damage estimated at s75,-
| 600, will bring to the Sioux City pack
| ing house district new, fireproof stor-
| age house of nearly twice the capacity
| of the former structure. The cost of the
structure will be about 100000 and the
| storage house will be built Of reinforced
| concrete. The 100 men thrown out Of
| employment by the fire will be given
work within a week or ten days.
| Grand Mound.
L hr nf
| with painful and serious accident a.
his farm Saturday forenoon. While hi
was climbing an old straw stack will
a pitchfork in his hand to pitch SONS
straw down for bedding he slippee
and fell and one Of the pftchforl
tines entered the fieshy part Of one q
his thumbs In a few hours. b1oot
poison had developed. He came herr
to the doctors office the same even
ing and had it attended to-,
Sioux City. m
A compromise az, to the amount o
Temporary alimony to be allowed Mrs
Beatrice Jepson, wife of DIR. William
Jepson, during tendency Of her suit fo
| divorce and 100000 alimony, wa!
reached by attorneys representing thu
plaintiff and the defendant. Mrs. Jep
son had appeared in the district cour
with her attorneys, and Judge Moult
was ready to hear testimony on her de
mand for $500 month. The amount o
temporary alimony agreed upon by tn
lawyers was acceptable to both.
Waterloo.
1 Not only have farmers commenced
their spring blowing, cattle are graz
ing over snowless meadows, red-headet
| woodpeckers are spending their winter
here and ice men are worrying. bu