Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-04

Cedar Falls.
| A cigaret crusade has been started
here. Charges We're filed against four
| teen local tobacco daalers for viola
! tions of the laws prohibiting the dis
| tribution of cigar papers ahd the IL
legal sale of tobacco to minors. Three
were convicted and assessed fines o
SO Saturday.
shelIsburs.
| There has been an enormous in
crease in taxes of Benton county the
+, past few years. The tax levied in 1907
| when the court house was being pait
! for, was s31l, 1862. Taxes levied II
i1911 after court house was paid fol
/ amounted to s39O,799.SS. Taxes levied
lin 1913 reaches the enrmous sum OF
S462, S3O22. This is an increase OF
over $15O,00O since 1907.
Sioux City.
! John Hamley, 1904 Fourth street
suffered fractured leg and serious
bruises about the head and chest wher
| he was struck by an automobile driver
by j. H. Forge, 2203 Douglas street, late
Sunday. The accident occurred al
! Fourth and Nicolett streets. Mr.
+, Forge reported that Halnley stepped
| from the curb directly IN trent of the
machine before he had time to stop.
shel'sbu.s.
joe Remington, farmer an. stock
man, residing north of the ar in the
Prairie Creek neightorh ood. IS feeding
GAS spring lambs for marke.. Their av-
ersge weight is now sISty-one pounds
and Mr.. Remington has arranged t.
| feed them until the December market
4 to nd xxyh ich
being tried as an experiment.. Rape
was sown on an eighty acre cornlield
and the sheep turned into the field. A
| large number of farmers in this vicin-
ity are now raising sheep.
Mount Auburn.
Carl DERRICK, aged 20, farmer re-
siding with his father six miles south
of Vinton, lies in the office of Local
physician SO badly injured that re-
moyal to his home is for the time
| being impra ctical. Mr.. DERRICK had
been at Waterloo in his automobile
and stopped to chat with friends two
miles north of this place. He invited
| young man into. the car and while
demonstrating it's work. the machine
| turned turtle while making curve
DERRICK was pinned under the machine
| his chest being badly crushed. 1t is be
I-lieved he will recover His friend
| was thrown clear and escaped with a
few minor scratches and bruises.
Waterloo.
A Halloween prank nearly cost the
| lives of party of automobiles four
miles southwest of Waterloo, on the
| Hudson road. Saturday night. A stump
had been dragged to the middle of the
road and heavy car struck 1t at good
speed. Fortunately, no one was seri-
ously injured, tho all the passengers
were thrown out when the car went
! into ditch. A wheel and an axle on
! the car were broken. and the machine
tplowed deep hole in the side Of the
road. The stump, which was caught
under the car, was slivered. No one
/ in the vicinity knew the names of the
] persons in the car. An effort Is being
made to apprehend the parties who
performed the act of malicious mis-
I, chief.
Sioux City.
Two masked robbers held up A. r
tLevich in the latter's store at Seventh
and Iowa streets Saturday night. They
looted the till Of between $50 and $50
and under cover Of pistols made their
escape. The robbers were described
as young and of medium height. Mr.
Leyich and clerk were in the store
when the robbers entered. Harry Will
iiams. 1924 Fourth street. reported that
he had been robbed of $50 by two men
who met him near the gas plant. G. E
| Edwards, ~ Riverside and Mrs
Charles Peterson. los South Howard
street, reported their hen houses were
| Looted. About 200 chickens are said to