Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-25

light cases have developed in Abba.
Physicians have ordered the public
buildings Of Hooking closed and expect
to stop the disease.
Wet Liberty.
Mrs. Charles Mackey. step-mother
Of Mayor Charles ]. Mackey. Of West
Liberty. Is dead at Iowa City. where
she had been in a critical condition
for several weeks. an occupant OF the
hospital She was 66 years Of age
and for several years made her home
on South Prairie. q farming commun-
ity near West Liberty.
Gibson. 80
church Of Gibson, Keokuk county. will
be dedicated Sunday. Gibson IL VII
lage with a population Of some l2b.
This dedicatory service will be unique.
in that no money will be asked for at
that time. The small debt. now re-
naming, has been pledged by the
members and friends Of the church,
Shenandoah.
Lawrence Moore who has been a
professor In Robert College at Con-
stantinople and who has been connect
ed with the Boston Bureau Of Univer-
sal Travel which has its headquarters
in Italy, has returned to his mothers
home at Essex after spending four
years in Europe He and his party had
little difficulty getting out Of Europe
and finding safe passage home.
Davenport.
Police were compelled to stop riot
which broke out Saturday night at the
Coliseum when three Mormon elders
broke up meeting which Ex-senator
Frank ]. Cannon, Of Utah. was the
principal speaker. Near the close OF
the lecture three men Jumped to their
feet and shouted contradictions at the
speaker. Two were arrested and one
escaped They gave the names OF FL
der NJ G. Hansen, of Ogden. Utah. and
Elder John E. Robinson. Of Hooper
Utah.
Leciairs.
Mrs. Eunice A. Martini is dead at
her home in LeClaire, the result Of suf-
location by gas from hard coal stove.
Mrs. Martini lived alone in LeClaire.
Not seeing her about last Friday the
neighbours entered the home and found
her unconscious Everything possible
was done to revive her but without
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night. She is supposed to have been
overcome by the gas while asleep on
Thursday night Mrs Martini. whose
born In Newcastle Ind. March 5. 1897.
She was married to William Martini at
Princeton. Iowa, July %, 1879. He died
Aug. 3. 1904.
Mount Ayr.
On Nov. T. Iowa gained gentleman
ian OF unusual interest in the person OF
Mrs. Malinda Fox. Of near Mount Ayr.
Mrs. Fox, or "Grandma" Fox, as every
bne calls her, is perhaps the most ac-
tive and well preserved centenarian in
the country She is able to walk about
and to do many little things which in
terest her. and to talk On any subject.
either present or near-century Past.
her only handicap being slight deaf
ness. There are living representatives
of four generations of her posterity.
She has living three children. seven
teen grandchildren. twenty-six great
grandchildren, and six great-great-.
grandchildren.
Davenport.
That she has turned her spacious
home into a hospital Of sixty beds and
that in common with nearly everyone
else In Austria Hungary, she Is en-
crossed in the duties laid upon her
by the war. is told by Miss Celestine
Fejervary. formerly Of Davenport, In
letters to Miss Alice French OF this
city Miss Fejervary Is the owner OF a
large estate in Hungary. and when she
decided, after the death OF her father
here some years ago, to return to the
ancestral estate. she gave to the city
OF Davenport the family home and
nineteen slightly acres. since added to
by the park commissioners. which be-.
came Fejervary park OF Davenport.
Now she writes from her home at Nez-
vo-Bereny, the big house Is hospital.
nearly all the help left the estate for
the front, but the steward was per-