Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-31
lection at a special election called for

I lection at special election called Tor
Jan. is, 1915.
New Sharon.
| The new ladies' rest room, which
has been built by the enterprise Of the
New Sharon Women's Club and the
city administration, has been formally
| opened to the public. A committee Of
the Woman's Club was in. charge and
music by the NJ. E. church orchestra
entertained the visitors who called to
! inspect the rooms. The west half of
4 the city building is entirely taken up
with the two large rooms. The south
west room is the rest room proper and
the north room will be used for the
Woman's Club. The finishing and fur
nishing of the rooms represents an ex-
penditure of over $780,. more than half
of which was raised by the ladies and
donated to the city. The room will
now be opened to the public seven
days week, from a. M. until Z p. m
| keokuk.
| The board Of supervisors in session
at Fort Madison canvassed the petition
Of consent required under the Iowa
mulct law. and approved this petition.
The members of the board each voted
aye on the question of approving this
1
(, a certain number of names attached
to it, in comparison with the number
of votes cast at the last election. The
vote in Keokuk, it was found in the
canvass, was 1886 and the names on
the petition Of consent number 2,177.
This petition for consent was being
circulated the second week in Deem
Der tits necessary to secure the prop
| err number Of names and then to sub
NIT the petition to the board of super
Wilson's. Approval from the board al
lows the saloons of the county to run
for certain length of time. The Keo-
kuk city council has already approved
the licenses Of the fourteen saloons
now operating in Keokuk and has re-
newed same.
Davenport.
months the damage action Of the es-
tate of D. D. Palmer against the son
of the latter DR.. B. j. Palmer, head Of
the local chiro school, has been dis
missed in district court. The notice Of
dismissal was filed by Joy NJ. Loban,
who is administrator of the estate. The
action grew out Of the death of D. d.
Palmer and the estate had asked for
/, $50 900 damages against The son. 1t was
claimed by the plaintiffs that the aged
DR.. Palmer was struck by The automo-
| bile of the son during chiro parade
! in Davenport It was also claimed
+, that no effect had been made on the
part of the defendant to avoid the ac-
cident. In addition to the civil matter,
a criminal action was brought against
the defendant, the state asking for an
Indictment against him on the ground
OF criminal negligence. This came be-
fore two grand juries and the last time
the jurors returned sca.hing report
against the instigators, threatening to
conduct an investigation against them
and limiting at personal prejudice as
the motive for the action.
Fairfield.
Capt. John A. Speilman. aged so
years, died Sunday evening at his
home on South Main street in Fairfield
after an illness of several months due
to the inhrmities Of old age Funeral
services will probably be held Thurs
day, altho the hour has not been de-
decided upon yet owing to the ex-
pected arrival of son from California.
Mr. Speilman was born in Columbus,
o.. on July 10, 1894, and moved to JEFF
ferson county. Iowa, in 1910. Mr..
Speilman had been captain OF the home
guards prior to the breaking out Of
the civil war and in March. 1862, with
twenty Of his men, enlisted in Com
pany X, Seventeenth Iowa volunteer in
fantry. In September of the same year
he was chosen captain of the company.
At the close Of the war Mr.. Speilman
returned to Fairfield and was for thir-
ty-two years actively engaged in the
hardware business. For the past TWEEN
ty years he has been prominently con-
nected with the First National Bank
of this city, being its vice president
at the time Of his death.