Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-22
Northern Io1ua Items

so brought suit for damages Of S125. A.
A. Cole and C. ]. Cash represented the
plaintiff. George German the defend
ont. The jury decided for the plaintiff,
giving him $35 damages.
Clinton.
I The town of Calamus is preparing to
lay claim to the bantam weight cham
pionship Of Iowa, in the matter OF
population increase. ii CalamuS has
grown from 27O in 1910 to $40 in 1915.
an increase Of over 10 per cent. The
state census returns for Camanche
show growth from 500 to $50. Ca
manche for many years had the dis
tinction of being the smallest city in
the state. 1t is one of the pioneer
Hawkeye communities. and felt such
strong growing pains" half a century
ago that it applied for and was granted
a. special charter by the Iowa legis-
lature. But the railroad failed to cross
the river at Camanche, and after rank
ing as a special charter, city for many
decades, it surrendered the charter, two
years ago.
Cedar Rapids.
The census of the city will be COM
pleted by April 1, and rethe result q
the count will be made two days later,
according to D. Feiereisen. city assess
or The seventh and eighth precincts
on the west side and the second and
third on the east side remain to be
counted and the enumerators are now
working in these districts. The total
count to date gives the. city a popula-
ton Of little more than $4,000 and it
will be necessary for the four precincts
not yet counted#to show a population
of 5000 if the city is4to have 10000.
Mr.. Feiereisen is confident they will
make good. During the last week of
the enumeration he will ask the Com
mercial Club and the various factory
heads to request persons who have not
been enumerated to notify the assess
'ors office and men will be assigned
to the work. Mr.. Feiereisen is anx-
ious to obtain every name in the city
so there will be no dispute as to the
count.
Salisbury.
The thieves who robbed the Iowa
Hardware Company, at Vinton, have
been located. Emerson Lee, a Young
man whose father is employed in the
store, confessed his guilt after being
put thru sweating process by Frank
Burke, who is chief of the Vinton po-
lice force Associated with Emerson
Lee was Frank Beachie, of LaPorte
City, who was implicated in the taking
of a purse at the skating rink a few
weeks ago, but was allowed his liberty
on the promise of good behavior Sus-
picion fell on Lee because he exhibited
roll of bills to several companions.
The boys went up the stairway Lead
ing to the X. of P. hall, placed plank
from a lodge room window to win
dow Of the hardware company, lowered
the sash and gained entrance. The rest
was easy, as Lee had been about the
store so much with his father, he knew
Just how to get into the safe. Lee is
less than IS years Of age and his pa
rents are highly respected. He was
taken to Marshalltown, where he APP
peared before Judge Cummings, who
decided to stop proceedings until court
convenes in vinton on March 20.
Clinton.
BY awarding contract for COM
bination hose and chemical motor fire
truck after Mayor H. G. Hanson had
refused to break tie vote on the ques-
ton of postponing action. the Clinton
city council is threatened with legal
entanglements. 1t Is claimed that the
contract will be invalid, and there is
talk of mandamus proceedings to COM
pei the mayor to vote. The council
had called for sealed bids on truck
for the central station. Two concerns
included in their bids an offer for the
old hose wagon which made their net
bids exactly even. The Seagrave COM
pany put in bid lower than these two,
but did not make an offer on the old
wagon, as it was not called for in the
proposals. The representative later
made an oral offer Of exactly the same
amount for the old wagon as had been
made by the American LaFrance Com
pany, which left the Seagrave bid the
lowest. An effort was made to post
pone action, as the matter had only
been before the council for week, and
this resulted In a tie. with the mayor
refusing to vote. The council then
voted, five to 8, to buy the LaFrance
machine. The lower bid was argued
against on the ground that the offer to
buy the old wagon should have been
in the sealed bid. A fourth company
had made still lower hid, figuring in
q discount offered, and this was also
rejected.