Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-21
Northern Io1ua Items

They claim that the building is not
safe on account of the heated stoves
that are located where the prisoners
cannot control them, that the build
ing has sewer gas, and that it is a
wooden building and liable to burn at
any time. Judge Coyle ordered the re-
port to be presented to the board OF
| supervisors, but the board took no &C.
| ton on the matter. 1t Is likely that a
new Jail will be built soon.
Sioux City.
NJ. Quinn, special agent for the
rfffnois Central railroad, was IN Sioux
| City investigating the theft of suit
case. checks and several valuables
from a Pullman car at Waterloo Sum
day night. H. II. Greer, of Sioux City,
was the victim. The thief cut the
screen on the window and grabbed
the valuables while the train was
standing at the Waterloo station.
Tuesday night the incident was re-
peated, but the robber was unsuccess
full in securing any loot. Mr.. Quinn
said that he was confident that the
robber was resident of Waterloo.
Sioux City.
Sioux City ranks eighteenth in
seventy-two cities in the gain OF
building permits issued from Jan. to
Sept l, according to the official reports
filed with the American Contractor
The cost of new buildings in Sioux City
from Jan. to Sept. l this year was ST.
6S7.170, while for the same period in
1913 the amount was s1.396,77s. The
gain for this year was 81 per cent.
There was gain Of IS per cent for
the month of August, 1914, over the
same month in 1913. During August,
1914, the permits amounted to $685.
1885, and in 1913 they amounted to
s120.550.
West Union.
d. H. Hall sold Tuesday his 1914 acre
farm adjoining West Union on the
north for $1,000 to Anfin Atkinson, who
takes possession March 1. 1915. Mr..
Hall will move to West Union and
probably will build on lots which he
owns. This farm has been of large
interest here from the records which
Mr.. Hall has kept for number of
years. Strawberries for years were
his principal crop, 10000 quarts being
picked from two acres in his banner
year. In 1912 he raised 100 bushels Of
onions from seven-eights of an acre,
selling them at 81 cents per bushel.
Potatoes have yielded well too. al
though last year only $50 bushels were
produced on an acre and half.
Charles City.
The Boy Scouts have been asked by
F.. S. Marrener to help in keeping the
song birds here during the winter
months by furnishing them food and
protection. Mr.. Marrener has worked
out a plan by which cage designed by
him that will hold food enough for 100
birds, with a perch. can be fastened
to tree. Mr.. Marrener will furnish
wood and wire to the Boy Scouts who
will make the cages and put them In.
trees in all parts of the city. They can
be constructed in short time and 1t is
planned to have large number. The
boys have already started makina
them and will soon put them in trees
IN different localities.
Sioux City.
J. L. Cohen, proprietor Of a gem
eral merchandise establishment known
as the Three and Nine Cent store"
at 926 Fourth street was arrested on q
secret indictment Of two counts charg-
ing arson. Specifically. Cohen 10
charged with having set fire to his
stock and to the store building early in
August, with intent to defraud insur-
ance companies. Cohen Immediately
procured his release by putting up two
bonds Of $1,000 to cover the two
counts. Mr.. Cohen brands the charges
against him as absurd. He insists up
on his innocence and expresses assur-
ance that he will never be convicted
of either charge. The indictment and
subsequent arrest follow an investiga-
ton conducted by NJ. K. Hartman, city
fire inspector, and deputy state tire