Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-09
Des Moines.

ScS ES''fSS.
Andrew j Dyar q barber OF Bloom
ington. H.. was sentenced TO i've years
in the penitentiary IN the district court
after pleading guilty to stealing an au-
to.nobile and driving i 1900 miles be-
fore captured al Decatur. Iii.
Davenport
The annual tag day receipts for the
support ot the Visiting Nurse Asso-
citation Saturday netted $4,000. the
highest amount Of contributions that
has ever been received since the visit
ing nurses began their work hers.
Musoatine.
julius Harris was brought before
Judge Coster Wednesday charged with
Illegal fishing and also with fishing
w:thou, license on the latter
charge he was fined SIS and costs and
on the other charge was given q sus-
pended thirty day sentence
keosauqua.
Al the coming November general
election the voters OF Van Buren,
county viii again be given the oppor-
tunity Of voting on a county home 10
take the place Of the one which was
burned early last spring The amount
asked for is $4,000. Il viii be re-renl-
bered this proposition was before the
people some time ago and was voted
down.
Council Bluffs.
charles Chapman. John Hardberry
and MS son. who I've near Neola, had
narrow escape from death Tuesday,
They were returning from Omaha IN
an automobile Near Crescent bridge
which they had passed over in the
morning. had been removed during the
day. They drove into the twelve foot
ditch in the darkness II overturned
and pinned the four men under II.
None Of the party was badly hurt.
Des Moines.
n ". Hayssen Of Mobile. Ala, lost
sl65 70 pickpockeis at the Caion sta
ton at II o'clock Tuesday night he
did not discover ne mad been robbed
for an hour. Then ne reported II IL
the police and they began search
E4ayssen was on the way south win
Ms savings from summers work II
he harvest fields. At the railroad sta
ton three men rushed him, he remen
bered afterward.
Des Moines.
p, a sudden lucky turn Of the ~hee
~ fortune. Miss Myrtle Spencer, &
+ teacner in the public schools. has beer
made possessor of $4,000 The none!
4ss lef, by her father. James Burritt
isf chicago. The case mas been decided
ay he chicago courts. owing 10 ar
early arrangement between Miss
SDencerg father and mother. she "a:
: cut Of entirely in the viii The mat
oeen decided
CoIfas.
/ ears crop from his 80 acre apple or
: chard 10 Carry Bros. -. Joe. Mo. 20
$500. The only work Macon0er ma
20 % toward harvesting the crop IL !
haul the apples ~ the depot after the.
have oeen picked and oarreied- II
s eiglres mat the work OF spraying IN
material, labor. etc. for this years croi
cost him $3.50 ana Tor si5G ne can hSia
me apples from the orchard to tn
depot. This VIII leave him 5000.
Fort Madison.
zen Benson. who owns the Gay ap
r,le orchard east OF Pittsfieid. lease
II his year TO a young man from III
STATE University. The orchard wa
=rfertitically prpned and properl
s2rayed last spring and all OF IN
;rees are loaded this year and the frui
Il raid 10 be perfect. This is said I
~ the first perfect apple crop the or
cnard ever produced. 1t will pay Zen
gon better than ten .sr cent On his IN
,.es-ruent and the young man Wn
leased II will probably clear thousan
dollars. There are twenty acres IN IN
/ orchard.
Sieourney.
cievs weidner committed suicid'
TUESDAY afternoon about 8 o'clock
,he home Of his sister. Mrs. Rudolph
poke. on North Jefferson street. MI
Weidner when found had revolve
eI;Itched In his hand and bullet noi'
in his right temple. Life was extlnct
Weidner had been about the home o
his sister and suddenly disappeared
IIJpon investigation, ne was found IN
room dead. cleve Weidner about las
July got into an alteration with Mri
Lamb In the Lamb restaurant on tn
north side Of the square in which seY
eral shots were fired and Mrs. Lam
was slightly wounded. Later in tn
night .fr "siarsr was found a. n
home with his throat cut and bleedin
profuseIy and il was thought he cou!
] | not live. However he recovered an
afterwards was arrested and charge