Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-19
Southern Io,ua Items

a reasonable sum Of money as tempo
rary alimony.. Mrs. Bates also requests
an order forcing young Bates to adj
tvance money which9s she may use to de-
fend the chafges he has made against
her. Mrs. Bates alleges that she did
not know Bates was only 10 years OF
age when she married him. She de-
clares he represented himself to be past
Fl years and that their marriage was
affirmed when they lived in Des Moines
together several weeks after it was
performed.
Fairfield.
Messrs. Harry E. Smith and John
B. Stever of Fairfield have been
awarded government contract for ESQ
| whiteface bulls to be delivered at the
Crow Indian agency, Montana, June l.
Fairfield.
Fifty years ago Tuesday John Ran
dolph McElderry and Isabel Frush were
united in marriage. Tuesday was a
Homecoming and gala day at the Nc
Elderly home. Mr.. McElderry was born
at Carrolton, O., in 1910. He was the
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. John McElderry
and came with his parents to Iowa,
| settling at Fairfield In 1857. He twice
enlisted for service in the civil war and
was in many battles and skirmshes.
He enlisted at Fairfield in May. 1861,
in Company z, Second Iowa infantry
and served until mustered out at
| Louisville KY, in July, 1865. Mr. Nc
| Elderly has served the voters Of city
| iod totaling nearly twenty years.
Fairfield.
For the first time in the recent his
| tory of Fairfield, a woman will look
| after the needs of the city poor in an
official capacity as the board of SUI
| pervisors of Jefferson county late
| Thursday afternoon appointed Mrs.
Laura E. Chilcott, overseer of the poor
of Fairfield. Heretofore. this work has
been in the hands OF man and the
home conditions of the applicant for
help could not be so thoroughly investi-
gated as they will be in the future. The
appointment of Mrs. Chilcott was a
| great surprise to her many friends and
| to herself as well. But it is we'll known
secured one who will look into the con
ditons and try to better the home life
of the unfortunate people who will
| come under her notice. She is well
qualified for this work, having taken
charge Of department of this kind for
| the civic federated charities league
here nearly two years ago, and she is
! at the present time in touch with the
| owners of factories and those who hire
labor that she may direct worthy men
to them for positions.
Museatine.
| The February issue of a popular
magazine contains story that will be
| Of great interest to Muscatine. Edward
Mott Wooley in his series of stories
"Romances of Business" takes up the
button industry and relates an anus
ing story of it's conception. His descrip-
tions of the early button days are rath-
er iurid but have the basis OF facts en-
be,,.stsa with fancy. lie traces the
start Of the button Industry by Mr..
Boeppie until the perfection Of auto
matte machinery. The entire story
swings around the industry as 1t exists
| in Muscatine and the names Of the To-
cal manufacturers and pioneers in this
| industry in Muscatine are named. He
| tells of the exciting days when the
river was alive with clans in front of
| the city. He tells of one man who
mounted cannon on his boat and
when Chinaman attempted to fish
along side of MIN he cut loose at the
Chink with his ordnance and blew his
boat to pieces. the Chink having to
swim to shore for his life. This part
has doubtless escaped the memory Of
many of the residents OF the city be-
cause Nr. Wooley vouches for the story
: under his name .-----