Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-09
Manchester.

maneh081or.
According to report which has re-
Gently been completed in the office Of
the county auditor, the treasurer of the
county will collect during the year the
enormous sum Of 1858, 900 in taxes. t
be levied on a taxable valuation o.
property aggregating $s,302074.
Cedar Falls.
| To guard against repetition Of last
years record Of $4,000 loss to the
farmers of the county thru oat smut
and potato scab. the Black Hawk
County Crop Improvement Association
| Is completing arrangements for an ex,
tensive "oats and potato" campaign
for treatment of seed during March.
Sioux City.
Over 300 Industrial Workers Of the
World started riot at noon Wednes
day in the cafe Of the commercial
club, demanding food and saying they
were out Of work and starving. Min
listers and business men formed in line
| in front Of the dining room door and
pleaded with them to desist, while the
police were summoned.
Dewitt.
! DR.. Odgers, veterinarian of this
place. reported Thursday morning that
the foot and mouth disease in malig-
lnant- form had appeared among the
cattle and hogs on the Francis Nc
Dewitt farm seven miles northeast OF
there. The Clinton county assistant
state veterinarian, DR.. J. H. Spence
will be notified
Cedar Rapids.
Nick .Levistakis told the court he
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several blocks, keeping at an even ten
foot distance the whole route. The
lyound lady appealed to the police and
Levitakis was arrested. The judge
fined him $25 and costs. remarking II
would be a Jail sentence If the mashe1
happened to do the same thing again.
Sioux City.
| Business mems committee named
| to secure work for the unemployed, ar
ranged with the city to put all idle
men at work on the streets AS re-
suit 100 men were put to work. The
married men were given eight hours
a day and the single men four hours
Although there are 500 men registered
as idle only 100 asked for work or
| the streets, and nearly all the Indus
trial Workers of the World who caused
the rioting earlier in the week have left
town.
Manchester.
That the Delaware county Farmers
cooperative Commission Company is
a permanent institution is evidenced
by the volume of. business transacted
during the month of December, 1914
The company shipped twenty one car
loads Of livestock to the Chicago mar
kets, one car load of grain. and re-
ceived nine car loads of coal and three
cars of feed. The total amount OF
| business for the month aggregated
S3O, 4s1.70. The. company is composed
OF Delaware stock TatseTs and farmers
w. ]. Davis of this city is the manager
for the company. - t
Cedar Falls.
The Farm Improvement Association
of Black Hawk county is the first or
ganization OF the kind to take advant-
age Of the law enacted by the last gen.
eral assembly providing county aid fol
agricultural advancement. This Is due
| to the voters Of the-county authorizing
such aid at the state election last fall
The Black Hawk Crop Improvement
Association recognized under the new
name and revised it's constitution and
bylaws to conform to the new law
Under tho new plan the executivescom
mittee IL done away with and the board
OF directors 10 increased from five to
nine. There Is also an advisory board
comprising one representative from
/ each town and township In the county