Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-14
Southern Io,un Items

, ried of and It Is now in very I'M
sanitary condition. Some steps are to
be taken whereby this practice Will be
discontinued and the creek, which
runs thru the city. can be purified ana
remain in that condition. AS 1t now
stands 1t is a germ breeder and men
ace to public health.
Washington.
| JIM. Waggoner. one Of the pioneers
of Clay township and who resided on
the Winter farm half mile south OF
Washington, died Wednesday morning
following long illness. -Four years
ago he was taken Ill with creeping par
alysis. His death Is the result. F'uner-
al services were held Thursday morn
ing and were in charge Of Rev. l.. NJ.
GriRsby, pastor Of the Methodist
church. Diseased was born In West
Virginia in 1850 When he was ten
years old the family came to Iowa and
since that time Mr.. Waggoner has re-
sided In this state. He was married IN
1870 in Clay township to Ella Convey.
Fairfield.
One Of the most thorough and ex-
pensive Jobs Of electricution in rela-
ton to the Importance Of the victim
4
ordinary mouse was electrocuted at
the power plant of the Fairfield Pub
lie Service Company. but to accomplish
this the city was left in total dark
ness for half an hour. business houses.
places of entertainment and other con-
Germs closed down at considerable
loss. The mouse got into switch
board. and stepping from one wire to
4 y cn1 n QaYiOllQ GnOff cir.
cult. Manager Hugh Stephenson says
that while this method OF extermina-
ton is effective 1t Is too expensive to
be used frequently.
4 Muscatine.
\ On Sunday of the coming week the
packet service on the upper Mississippi
river will be brought to a. close after
an exceptionally successful season.
The last boat OF the season. the
l"Blackhawk" will pass thru this city
| Friday night on the last trip. The
Streckfus line boats have not been
running for the past two months. The
4 1918 season was record breaker FOR
business on river packet lines but ac-
! cording to word received here 1t was
surpassed In some respects by the sea-
son just closing. In many places dur
| ing the past two years, the shipping
facilities, and facilities for handling
! freight at the docks. has been greatly
! improved and this Is given as one OF
| the major reasons for the increase in
| freight traffic.
siaourney.
The body OF a man found on the c.,
I M. & st. p. tracks in Ottumwa have
been identified as the corpse OF J. G.
Carter, OF Ollie. The body was fright
fully mutilated. head cut of and
smashed, legs of. arms OFF and body
cut to pieces. Sheriff Grimes was un-
/ able to identify him. but found on the
inside coat pocket the name Of Schip-
fer Bros. That was evidence that the
local Arm had sold the clothes. He
came home and upon inquiry found
that the firm ooii;t; possibly give the
name OF the party buying that suit II
they could see the suit. Grimes had
the largest piece OF the suit sent up
The clothiers knew then the firm which
made the suit and gave the names OF
those who had purchased that partic-
ular brand OF clothes. Then by pro-
cess OF elimination they arrived at the
name OF J. G. Carter. Ollie was then
called and II was learned that Carter
had left home Sunday morning bound
| for Ottumwa and had not returned and
no one knew why. Wednesday even
| ing his folks went down and completed
! the Identification. Just how this oc-
| CURED may never he known. The sup
position IL that Carter was killed and
thrown upon the track. Carter was a
single man 20 years old. ~