Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-30
Northern Io,ua Items
Fort DODGE.

Fort Dodge.
| Webster county has sixty:two farms
registered by name with Miss Esther
Gibson, county recorder.
New AIbin.
| J. T. Waters, stock buyer, lost MIS-
life when a boat in which he was seat
ed with two companions. capsized.
| Dubuque.
Waukon.
| Substantial interior improvements
aggregating $1,000 have just been COM
pleted by the German Reformed con-
gregation on the residence of the pas
tor.
Cedar Rapids.
The First Security bank Of Cedar
! Rapids has received its charter and is
, ready for business The bank is cap
italized at $4,000 William Schneider
is president
Sioux City. !,
Pisgah. Harrison county, is isolated
by flood water, which is now above
the switchboard in the local telephone
office The town has population of
about $50, and is located on the Mon
DAMN Omaha branch of the Chicago
& Northwestern railway in the Boyer
| river valley.
/ North MeGresor.
P. F. Cassidy, of this place. a c. NJ.
& st. P. bridge foreman on the l. & D.
division. was killed at Calmar when
unloading piles One of the timbers
slipped and rolled. striking him on the
! head He was about Sc years old. and
leaves widow and two sons. Leo of
this place. and John, conductor on
the Puget Sound road. living at Ia
coma, Wash.
Waterloo.
The Walnut Grove farm in Orange
township southwest of Waterloo about
six miles, was sold last week to Ernest
Krell. and J. Gonnerman, of Dysart,
at s210 per acre The farm is good
one fairly well improved. and will be
occupied by Mr.. Krell next March. 1t
is located in the famous German Bap-
fist district, where fine $4,000
church was erected several years ago.
and one Of the finest township schools
is under construction to cost nearly
/ 100000.
Sioux City.
r. c. Halves. formerly night cashier
at the West Side barns of the Sioux
City Service Company, who absconded
March 20, with s1,233.33 funds Of the
company. pleaded guilty to embezzle-
ment before Judge W. G. Sears. Of the
district court Monday afternoon and
was sentenced to five years in the
Anamosa reformatory. He will begin
serving sentence Immediately. Hewes
was arrested in the Gibson hotel. Sept
IA. His arrival here was made known
by the interrogation Of letters written
to a young woman friend.
Cedar Rapids.
II you are friend of Jimmy"
Doyle. and he should approach you
with a request to cash check, don't
do 1t unless you have some money to
! throw away. Jimmy has eleven
checks in his possession. 1t is said. all
bearing the name Of E. L. Dieman.
plumber. He had twelve; but Peter
Blitsch paid $50 for one Doyle lives
at 227 Second avenue west and has
been in the employ of Mr.. Dieman
during the last six months. It is
charged that he removed sheet of
twelve checks from Mr.. Dieman's book
while his employer was away. The
checks all have Mr.. Dieman's business
card printed in the upper left hand
corner. and Doyle, to further allay
suspicion, stamped them with check
protector in the Dieman Office.
Doyle then made out at least one of
the checks, so 1t Is alleged for $50.
forging the name of Mr.. Dieman. He
took this check to the Peter Blitsch
saloon, where he had little trouble in
cashing it. as he had been In the habit
of cashing his pay checks there. Mr..
Dieman discovered that the blank