Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-25
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Oskaloosa.
John Fenwick, who had statewide
reputation as camp meeting exhort-
er and evangelist dropped dead Sat
urday morning at the railway station.
/ He was y years OF age and was a
! pioneer resident.
Abba.
Lloyd Robinson, aged IS. son OF Ira
Robinson, living south of town. is ex-
pected to die, the result of injuries re-
ceived when he fell from a wagon load
ed with stone and the wheels passed
over mis- abdomen.
Nodaway.
a number Of farmers around here are
cutting corn TO fill the sllos and it is
thought that in a short time there will
be still more corn cut. Considering
the dry weather the corn is as good as
could be expected. but il is not nearly
so good as it would have been if there
had been plenty of rain
Pella.
Much local interest has been aroused
! in buffalo skull found near Pella, and
which now has been paced on exhibi-
ton in the window OF the Stubenrauch
drug store The skull, which plainly
is that of buffalo, was found near the
Des Moines river on the farm of G. G..
kamerik. II is said that Mr. Kamer-
lex located the skull under some nine
feet of dirt
Muse tine.
Jim Lewis, the she'll man, returned
/ from a four months trip on Smelling
I expedition and brought with him a
/ large quantity of shells and one of the
( best collections of pearls that have
( been brought to Muscatine for some
tine. He advises that up near Lansing
| Iowa, the shells are plentiful and ex
poets to return in very short time to
! continue his gathering.
Abba.
A half interest in me Abba Republi-
can has been sold to s. w. Wilson Of
Oskaloosa. The change win take place
September 1 and the price paid for the
half interest is said to be $4,000. The
purchase retires Horace Barnes, edi-
tor and business manager. Mr.. Wilson
was for some time part owner of the
Oskaloosa Times. He has been travel
ing for several months for the ST. Louis
Paper Company.
Dawson.
Ludley Kelsey. - years of age and
one of the most prominent farmers o.
Dallas county, committed suicide Sat
urday at his home one mile west o,
Dawson. Mr.. Kelsey had been in il
health for over year and this together
With hard work is believed to have
been the cause of his act. Little could
be learned of the affair. Mr.. Kelse,
had been working around the barn ant
when he was not seen for some time
his son, Bruce. started an investigation
and found him in the barn where hi
had taken his own life by hanging him
self. He had been dead but s1ori
time as he had been seen little be.
fore II o'clock and the body was dis
covered at 11:30.
Mount Pleasant.
quiet wedding took place on Mon.
day morning at $50 o'clock when Mis-.
Stancey Turney. a former student o.
Iowa Wesleyan and a teacher in chem.
istry at Ames, was united in MARI.
age to Ralph ". Hafner, young at
torney of Independence. Iowa Th'
| ceremony was solemnized at the resi-
/ dence of the brides grandparents, Mr.
J and Mrs. William F'leagle, the official
ing clergyman being Rev. Frank Yves
ton. pastor of the First Baptist church,
The wedding was the elimination of ;
: college romance. both of the youn,
people being graduates OF the low;
State University. Miss Turney spec
ialized in chemistry since teaching thi
IL branch at AmeS. Her home IL In Tex