Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-22
Northern Io1va Items

dice shaking games were discovered:
Ellis cigar stand. Dewald cigar store,
Williams cigar store on Fifth and
Sycamore and L. 0. Hieber drug store.
Chief Of Police Leighton declared that
the lid was on and no more dice games
would be permitted.
New Hampton.
The plans for the new hospital are
about completed and as soon as the
committee is able to get a clear title to
the proposed location. bids will be
taken and when accepted the building
will be started at once. The New
Hampton firemen met and found that
the articles for incorporation have been
completed and accepted and capitalized
at $4,000. The finance committee has
plan of raising the money. The trus-
tees have been instructed to appoint a
building committee OF, five men who
will select the plans. receive the bids,
etc. 1t is to be built on the corner Of
Locust avenue and Prospect street,
diagonally across from the tireman's
auditorium.
Dubuque.
There were more warm days in the
month Of April than there were in May
and in the nineteen days passed so far
in June, according to Weather Fore
caster Spencer. During the month Of
June the temperature has been far be.
low the average normal degree. Du-
buque to date has received but three
days in June where the temperature
registered above so degrees. They were
on the 9TH when the thermometer
registered s4.5 on the 9Th, when S3s
was registered, and on the 18th, when
temperature of 1873 was registered.
The rest of the month has been quite
cool, and with one or two exceptions
is to date the coolest month of June
that has been experienced in this terri
tory for nearly two-score years.
Webster City.
Friday afternoon about o'clock an
automobile driven by George H.
Daniels and a bicycle ridden by Law
renee Sullivan, the young son of John
G. Sullivan, the contractor, collided at
the intersection of Des Moines and
First streets. The Sullivan boy re-
ceived broken finger and a number
of cuts and bruises and-sne OF the light
glasses Of the automobile was smashed.
Mr.. Daniels says he was driving very
slowly and that when the car and
bike came together the car was at a
standstill, he having applied the brakes
when it appeared that collision was
inevitable. Mr.. Daniels says he was
slightly to the left Of the center of the
street, but explains that he was forced
to be there on account OF the condition
of traffic and to avoid other auto
mobiles and bicycles.
Storm Lake.
Robert Hunter, Of Sioux City, de-
livered the commencement address be-
fore the graduating classes of Buena
Vista College. The graduates from the
collegiate course were w. o. Benthin,
o. w. Chapman. Eden w. Smith. Cora
Thompson. Mabel Plummer and Evelyn
Ensign; from the home economics.
Ada Holmes; voice, Ella Lake: piano,
Kathleen Richardson. At the meeting
OF the trustees Of the college the degree
of doctor of divinity was conferred
upon Rev. T. A. Amber, pastor of the
Presbyterian church Of Storm Lake,
ami Rev. S. a. ,Aunneke pastor of the
Boone Presbyterian church. New
trustees named were A. D. Bailie, G..
w. CLANCY, J. H. LAGRANGE. ]. L. Edi-
son and n. w. Jones. The new faculty
members next year will be Rev. J. w.
Parkhill, of Lenox college, who will
take the deanship, William e. Burns,
of Kansas university; William f..
Sherman, of Huntington, Pa; Edna
Evans, of South Dakota university.
and MT. and Mrs. w. A. Alternately, OF
Shormakin, Pa. :