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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16
MAN WHO DIED IN ALBA FITTED
DESCRIPTION OF AURORA
SLAYER.
SHERIFF BELIEVES OPERATION
VICTIM MILLER MURDERER
Gave Name Of Mike Norton and Re-
fused to Divuise Any Of His History
Refused to Divulse Correct Name
Saying He Preferred Relatives
Should Not Know His Fate.

Abba. Dec. ibid death cheat the
sallows in the passing Of the stranger
al .he local hospital Saturday. or was
it lust a case of the unknown man
bearing striking senblance TO the
person suspected OF the Miller murder
IN Aurora a few weeks ago?
sheriff William Griffen is inclined 20
believe that The man who died here
SATURDAY following an operation for
Appendicitis was The man sought by
the Illinois authorities. He says that
The dead man answers the description
Of the person wanted for Staying MISS
JESSIE Miller a, Aurora, H.
Tl4e stranger gave the name OF MIKE
Norton ard was non communicative.
He came &c Abba about Dee, /, anu
sought lodging il the county jail al
3e-ing Illness. His condition oeca me
worse gradually and Sheriff GriffeIi
he'd aim removed 10 the local hospital
where he failed TO survive an attack OF
appendicitis after an operation sat-
urday.
Norton would tel, very ,ittie of him
self and only short while before his
death admitted that he came from the
Seventeenth. ward in Chicago. and that
he had sister living there. He re-
fused to 5:vulge her name. saying that
ne preferred his people would no.
kr0w ahar had become u him lie vas
as,,ou. - years CID, Avs feet seien 10
eight inches taE weighed about 20
pounds. had light blue Or gray eyes,
heavy eyebrows united light hair cu;
sha-.. ss: :ii9sce-77ish.s aT.ti narrow lace with
cheeks sunken. wore DARK clothes and
hat and had telescope
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16

This map reveals the progress made
by the French columns invading Lor-
raine and iAisace. 1t is based on the
official reports OF the French govern
ment. In the northern section. just
over the border Of Lorraine, the French
are steadily increasing the strain on
the German line Of communications be-
tween st. Mihiel. on the Mouse. and
the great fortress of Metz. While their
line to the northwest blocks the Ger
mans Ii the ATson1e from uniting with
the Germans on the Mouse, their line
in Lorraine Is attempting to cut off the
force at st. Mihicl and capture it. The
French are north of Pass and are at
lacking Arnaville. Their offensive hae
the double purpose of thoroughly safe
guarding Verdun and of surrounding
considerable force of Germans who are
wedged in the barrier between Verdun
and Toul In the southern section the
French have made more progress.
Their line enters Germanized territory.
Alsace, at Ste. Marie Aux-Mine and
continues thru Thanh to Burnbaupt.
This line is driving forward toward
Muelhausen and Altkirch and has made
great progress recently The Ger
mans hold the road from Blamon. to
Saarburg as the principal advanced De-
tense for Strassburg. where they are
hurrying defensive preparations. They
have expelled the Inhabitants of Petit
mont and Valet Chatillon for the re-
ported reason thai they do not care
to have observers of defensive opera
lions. The town Of Fretburg, shown on
the map. Is the target chosen by an
aviator OF the allies who dropped
bombs and wrecked part OF the rail-
road station. The shaded blocks rep
resent the German defensive positions
in Alsace and Lorraine. The battle
line is shown in black.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS
Genuine Merit Required 10 Win the
PEOPLES Confidence

Have you ever stopped TO reason why
it is that SO many products that are eX-
tensively advertised. all at once drop
out of sight and are soon forgotten
The reason is piain-the article did not
fulfill the promises of the manufacturer.
This applies more particularly to a
medicine a medicinal preparation that
has real curative value almost sells
itself as like an endless chain system
the remedy is recommended by those
who have been benefited. TO those who
are in need of it
A prominent druggist says, Take for
example DR. Kilmer's Swamp Root, a
preparation have sold for many years
and never hesitate 70 recommend. for
in almost every case II shows excellent
results. as many of my customers
testify. No other kidney remedy that
know of has SO large sale
According 70 sworn statements ard
verified testimony OF thousands wiz
have used the preparation, the success
OF DR. kilmer's swamp Root IS due 10
the fact that II fulflis almost every
wish in overcoming kidney. liver and
bladder diseases, correcIs urinary
troubles and neutralizes the uric acid
which causes rheumatism
You may receive z sample bottle OF
swamp Root by Parcels Pest. address
DR.. kilrner & Co. BInEha rHton. \. y
and enclose 10 certz: also mention the
Marshalltowu Times Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16
Did You Know That

Frogs legs are useful TO men for
eating purposes, but more useful TO
the frog 20: Jumping purposesz
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16
union News in Brief.

Special to Times Republican.
Union. Dec. Is.-Miss Burl Rowen
ana Mrs Elola Carson returned home
Monday from a .!sit with her sister.
Mrs Wallace Dfury, u Turtle Lake.
Wis.
Mr. Anthony Lane ls seriously Ill at
his home since returning from the hos
pital
The sheep feeders are beginning 10
market their sheep. EleveH carloads
were shipped from here yesterday and
To-Day ny the following fsrmsrg:
Frank Packer. Charles ana Dare Gcr-
man. and W. ". Rowen.
The ladies' of the ~. T.. church feiG
their annual oszaar with good zucceEs
considering the day and not serving
dinner or supper. They nOw have 800
more in the treasury and soule articies
yet 10 CELL
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16
Sioux Rapids News Notes.
j 20 Tirneg-R epu plican.

Special 20 Times Repu Dlican
Dee. ls.-Mr. and Mrs George Ross
xe-e called 70 Webb, Wednesday BY
the death Of Mrs. walter RoGs. sister
II la@.
Mrs. 6 " Alexander and little son,
Paul. LEFT for Ralstrcn, Friday for a
tHo weeks visit with Mrs. Ale1ander's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs J Nicao!son.
Misg Ruth Deming went TO Sioux
City Monday fo: 4 visit with relatives
and 70 transact come important bust
ness
T1esday night al about o'clock,
FIRE was discovered in the north end Of
the clothing department of 2. d White
& son's store. Quick and hard work
cared ,he large building and probably
seTersl otirers. /, is thought that 500
vii coyer the damage
r. =. sickles Is having quite serious
tIfne with carDuncles. having had three
On the back Of his neck in the last two
sseekg
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16

Chica may re ended. say
scra pers may pierce the clouds TO
heights never attempted and all man
ner of structures may be undertaken
on gran6er scale than ever before by
means of a steel Of tensile strength
many times greater than ti.at of the
present product. Prof. a. A. Michel
son. OF Chicago University. winner in
1912 of the Nobel prize for physical
research. exhibited before he National
Academy Of Sciences bar Of the new
steel and subjected i 10 tension tests
which. he said proved that contiRu-
alton of the treatnen; might produce
I. metal OF unlimited COHESION. Forti-
t3cai.ons built of tina, metal. he said
might be made indestrnctibie so that
/; would be useless 20 lombard them,
Ting achieving achieving long step toward the
elimination of warfare.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16
Some Pedestrian,

RAYMOND Benjamin vi California.
grand exalted ruler the The Bsney olent
anu Protective order OF Elks, smiled
when reference was made to absent
rlliniednsss He said he recalled q
western professor
Some time ago the professor, who IL
go absent minded ne is liable 10 take of
his shoes and ia; and 90 u bed in
broad daylight. went 20 visit a relative.
and hardly had ne entered the house
before large lump CT baby was trot-
TED on. for his inspection.
What fine litt.e fellow he is" ex-
claimed the professor with & show of
grea. interAs1T Can he walk 2"
Can Re walk ?" was the scornfui re-
Spouse Of the proud mother. Why. he
has beer walking 70. mora than five
months"
You DON, really mean it, ex-
claimed the professor. az mis- mind
lapsed into the usual grove. What a
long way ,he little feliov mus; have
gone.--Phi'a delph.a Telegraph
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16
Order For Publication.

The above notice ia appYOye5 by me
and the same Is hereby ordered pub
ligied in the HarshslItoyn Times Re
publican. an official paper III Marshall
county. once each week for four con :
secutive Teeks. the Last publication 70
be not later than Dec. -, 1914.
Dater at AarshalItown. Iowa, this
Goth day Of Nove,nber, 1914.
JAMES IS. WfLLETT,
Judge OF the Eeyenteenth Judicial Dis
trict OF Iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16
os.boIs hs~s Notes.

Special - gS6-ftspuDiiean.
Cdebolt, Dec. jg--Bey. Eoner; Nc
Jnturn, who has had charge OF the
Presbyterian church At odsDoit Tor the
past four years. has rendered his resig-
nation, and mas accepted call from
west Liberty. He VIII depart for his
new field the fret OF the year the fare
well sermon 10 be delivered next Sun
day.
John p. Gimong. 30 -~ors Old, and
one III the pioneer settlers u sac
county, RESTING with son ten niles
southeast Of Odsbo1t, was hurried bere
SATURDAY
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16

visited her friend. Mrs. Meinhert. the !
past week.
Mrs. I. H. Gardner IL i'll OF pneu-
monia at the home Of her son. A. L.
Gardner. Mrs. w. E. Griffith. OF
Steamboat Rock, is here caring for her
mother.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16

handsomer state building upon the ex-
position grounds nor one more adyan-
tageously located. The Iowa building.
erected by the enterprising citizens OF
the state. will attract the attention of
millions of visitors to the exposition.
The building which is in Roman Doric
architecture, is notable for its dignity
and simplicity: it cost more than $4O,-
600 and is situated on ground area
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16

Special to Times Republican.
San Francisco. Dec. 16.-The fine
Iowa state building at the Panama
Pacific international expedition is struc-
.urally completed and its appearance
more than bears out the predictions
made as to its beauty and serviceabil-
.ty when the architects drawings We're
first made public. There is not a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-16
Ahlaott NSy.s ltsns.

Abbott, Dec. 1s,--Nrr. Jack Kusies
sSsH-,ti5ST, 81 vNJSf100t SbNVsu "cs sa1o
T,,re nayf Of the week. Il
Miss Grace HAuser, of Van Horn.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-10
NET PROFIT OF s7,266
HUNDRED ACRES RETURN OVER
$4,000 TO FARMER.
ceptional Yield Of Beets on Farm
Near Hygiene.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Boulder, Colo.-A net profit of ST.
266 from 109 acres is the record made
this season by Louis Bier. farmer
residing near Berthoud. Bier's sugar
beet crop yielded nineteen and two
thirds tons an acre. The beets sold
at the sugar factory for $5.95 ton.
the gross amount which Bier received
for the beets being $13,932. Cost OF
production brought this figure to net
profit of 1926.
Sheriff Sanford d. Buster of Boul-
der county also had an exceptional
yield of sugar beets on a farm which
he owns near Hygiene. Seventeen
acres yielded an average OF fifteen
tons each. or total of 1923 tons. The
percentage of sugar in the beets was
high and they sold at the sugar factory
for $500 a ton. The gross returns
were $2.1O0, or about 1928 an acre.
Buster estimates that the cost of pro-
duction was s45 an acre. This gives
him a net profit of $ss per acre.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-10
SPORT.

Frank Click of Pittsburg was elected
captain of the Princeton football team
for 1915.
Henry Berry of Los Angeles said he
had arranged to buy the franchise of
the San Francisco baseball club of the
Pacific Coast league.
Worlds champion Bennie Allen de-
feated James Mature Of Denver. 200
to 176. In the opening block of their
pocket billiard match at Kansas City.
III. W. Lavender. who has closed his
second year on the dynamite team"
from Golden, has been elected to cap
tain the Mines squad for the 1915 sea-
son.
Trotting at the Panama Pacific eA-
position at San Francisco promises to
be one of the big sporting features. 1t
will start on Saturday, June 5. and
continue for eleven days.
According to well-defined rumors.
Marty Krug will manage the Omaha
Western league team next season.
Pa Rourke, owner of the club, refuses
to confirm or deny the rumor.
Duke p. Kahanamoku. world's 8
champion short distance swimmer, and
George Cunha, also one of the best
known American swimmers, left Hon
olulu for Australia to meet the cham
pions of the antipodes.
Rube Marquard, one of the New
York National League Clubs trio OF
leading pitchers, signed contract to
pitch for the Brooklyn Federal League
Club, according to an announcement
made by President Robert B. Ward OF
the Brooklyn Club.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-10
DoDGING THE BEATEN PATH
Good Story az It 10 Related, Though II
Doesn't Often Happen In
Real Life.

Congressman Robert L. Dougherty
of North Carolina smiled when the
conversation turned to reversing the
order OF things. He said he was re-
minded OF the case Of Bowers.
Bowers met a benevolent party on q
railroad train one day, and as the ac-
quaintance ripened a bit he began to
spread before the other a history of
his life.
when l was a clerk in a grocery
store" remarked Bowers. among 9TH
er things, Il received only nine dol
lars week. and, like many other
young men. fell in with bad compan-
ions and began to gamble. l."
81 see." interrupted the benevolent
party. sadly, you were tempted and
took money which did not belong to
you"
"Oh, no." cheerily responded Bow
ers. "In less than a month l won
enough money to buy the grocery"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-10
MIXTURE OF MANY TONGUES
Troops Of Allied Armies Find Some
Difficulty In Arriving at Perfect
Understa ndn9.

The British Tommy Atkins is hard
put to ii these days to know which are
friends and which are foes. Time was
when he classed them all as dirty
foreigners" but times have changed
and a certain allied courtesy is de-
manded. 1t is told of one brave cor
poral who met new kind of foreigner
on French soil and demanded his
nationality.
Hungarian" came the answer.
"'Ungarian. are yer? Well, I'm
blowed If know whether ter Jug yer
to me bosom or knock yer bally block
off," remarked the perplexed defender
of the Union Jack.
Many are the stories OF the embar-
RAISING confusion of tongues among
the allies-French. Flemish. Russian.
Servian. Indian (three brands). and
several species OF English. For 1t
is rare that . Londoner can under
stand the Scotch dialect in its un-
alloyed purity. or the Cornish brogue.
Canadian slang. too. and the queer
mixture of Maori that intrudes itself
into Australian English. or of Boer
Dutch that sickles DER the Africander's
dialect make Of so-called English =
dozen different languages.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-10
GENE RAJ.

Women are not going to wear tight
skirts anymore. Such is fashions de-
cree for next spring and summer.
James P. Galloway, prominent
young business man and club man,
was shot and instantly killed at At
lanta, Ga, by w. b. Carhart, president
of shoe manufacturing company.
1.-THE longer l live the more 1 look
upon this earth as heaven and the less
other" This was the birthday maxim
uttered by Andrew Carnegie. seventy
nine years old.
An involuntary petition In bank
ruptcy was filed in New York against
Abraham l.. Kass, private banker
with three offices In Brooklyn. His
liabilities are placed at $1.0OO,O0O and
his assets at $750,000.
Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore re-
ceived a cablegram from Sir Gilbert
Parker the distinguished novelist at
Maastricht, Holland. appealing to the
cardinal to assist the American COM
mission for Belgian relief in their
staggering task"
Temple Bowdoin, partner in the
firm of ]. p. Morgan & Co., and one
of the two board members of the firm,
died in New York.
The shift of Northampton from IL
cense to no-license was the only
change on the liquor license question
recorded in the elections, which took
place in eight Massachusetts cities.
During the last fiscal year. there
were added to the shipping of the
world 713 new vessels. with a gross
tonnage of 2.O2O,1s5. according to the
annual report of Lloyds' register Of
shipping.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-10
FOREIGN.

The French parliament has been
called to meet in extraordinary Sos
sion in Paris on Dec. %.
Aviator Mare Pourpre. hero of tho
Khartum flight, was killed while re-
connoitering in the Somme district In
Paris.
Sir John Henry Crichton, fourth
earl of Erne, and grand master of the
Orangemen.i in Ireland, died in London.
He was born in Dublin in 1889.
Snipers in the trenches of the Mexi-
can combatants across the line from
Naco, Ariz., fired into American terri
tory, killing a Mexican civilian and
wounding a United states soldier.
Grand Duke Michael of Russia has
presented to the French army 1.O0O.-
900 pairs OF shoes which had been or
dered from Webster. Mass. factories
at an average price of 50 per pair.
Premier Sir Redmond Robin an
nounced in long statement that the
Manitoba government has decided to
take drastic action in curtailing the
liquor traffic during the war period.
The American ambassador. Walter
Hines Page, presented, on behalf OF
the American Boy Scouts, gold badges
to twenty-five English boy scouts. who
assisted the American relief commit
tee during the rush following the
declaration of war.
The return of Field Marshal Baron
Won de Goltz to Constantinople, accord
ing to the Lokal Anzeiger, is due to a
promise made to the sultan by Won
der Goltz when he left the Turkish
service eighteen years ago to return
il Turkey ever needed his services.
The death is announced of Chamele-
roy, aged 107. He was a dresser for
the great tragedian Talma. He was
fond of telling that he remembered
seeing Napoleon. He attributed his
longevity to his sobriety and above all
to good humor and gayety, which was
the basis of his character.
Herbert Clark Hoover. chairman OF
the American commission Of relief in
Belgium, returned to London after a
weeks trip of inspection in Belgium.
Hoover reported that the distribution
of foodstuffs sent In care of the
American commission is we'll under
way, but stated that the condition OF
famine, which threatened the popula-
ton, is still desperate and that on ac-
count of the attitude of the bellig-
erents the Belgians must still appeal
to the people OF the United States for
relief.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-10
To Get Rid Of PImples.

Smear the affected surface with
Cuticura Ointment. Let it remain
FIVE minutes, then wash of with Cuti-
cura Soap and hot water and continue
bathing a few minutes. These fra
grant, super-creamy emollients quickly
clear the skin OF pimples, blackheads.
redness and roughness, the scalp Of
dandruff and itching and the hands
OF chaps and irritations. For free
sample each with 32-p. Skin Book ad-
dress post card: Cuticura, Dept. K,
Boston. Sold everywhere-Adv.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-10
WASHINGTON.

]. Borden Hartman of New York
died in washington after a lingering
illness.
Edouard Suarez Mujica presented
his credentials as the first ambassador
from Chile to the United States to
President Wilson.
An appeal to university, college and
school pupils for assistance in allevi-
ating suffering and distress in Europe
was issued by the American Red Cross
Society.
A casualty list of American mines
and quarries, issued by the bureau of
mines, showed 1851 men killed last
year and estimated the injured at not
less than 100000.
Romulo S. Naon. for three years
minister to the United States from
Argentina, presented his credentials
to President Wilson as the first am
bassador from his country.
Appropriations aggregating $1O4,-
124,512 to carry the army through the
coming year are proposed in estimates
which the War Department. completed
for submission to Congress.
President Wilson will be asked by
Chairman Fitzgerald of the House ap-
preparation committee within the next
few days not to urge any legislation
at the coming session of Congress
which might cause controversy.
Exports of American zinc during the
last three months broke all previous
records, totaling 65.5O4,574 pounds and
valued at $4,443,3S1. the bulk of which
went to Europe. These figures, which
were announced by the Department or
Commerce, compare with 1.346,S77
pounds, valued at $sO.756 in the like
period of 1913.
The greatest wheat area in the
worlds history will be planted for the
1915 harvest as result of the Euro
pean war, in the opinion of Charles M.
Daugherty, statistical expert of the
Department of Agriculture.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-10
Bar Association Name. Candidates.

Denver.-Governor Ammons will be
requested by the Bar Association OF
Denver to appoint as successor to
James II. Teller, judge of the District
Court, who will resign to become su-
preme justice. one of the following
lawyers: F.. w. Sanborn. William N.
Vale, Greeley w. Whitford. Frank E.
Gregg, John C. Murray or w. W.
Grant, Jr. They are the nominees OF
the Bar Association, chosen at an elm.
ination primary. at which 395 Denver
lawyers voted.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-12-10
To Clean Milk uten.iIs.

On dairy farms where many milk
utensils are in use, the dishwasher
will find that they may be cleaned
easily by first securing each dish with
ishes. Rubbing over them once in
this way is sufficient; then rinse twice.
They should be washed in cold or pref
erably tepid water. to keep them
sweet and clean. The treatment will
prevent rust spots from forming and
keep the utersils bright without injur-
ing the tin.-Mother's Magazine.