Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-02
Northern Io1ua Items

Sioux City.
Complete returns of the state census
will show Sioux City with population
of $3.50, City Assessor ]. w. Gray, di-
rector of the census, announced.
Ackley.
A 100000 mortgage of the Cedar
Valley Electric Company has been filed
in the office OF County Recorder Il. p.
I Fowler, requiring $500 worth Of revenue
stamps. The document is more than
$4,000 words In length and will occupy
between twelve and fifteen pages in the
county book. The mortgage is filed in
| the several counties in this part of Iowa
where the company owns electric
plants.
Clear Lake.
] Earl Severts, Of this city, won two
straight falls from Henry Herman. of
| Cincinnati, in a. wrstling match held
here Saturday night in The Danish hall.
Seevrts won the first fall in twenty
! two minutes with full Nelson and
head bar and the second fall in twenty
seven minutes with a double arm lock.
Several hundred attended the match,
which was refereed by Paul Prehn, of
Mason City.
Vinton.
A total of 1877 pupils in Benton coun-
ty wrote the eighth grade examinations
and SO succeeded in getting a passing
grade or better. This entities them
under the new school law to enter any
high school in the state. the tuition to
be paid by the home district. The
questions were sent out by the state de-
partment of public instruction. but the
papers were all marked by the county
superintendent or under her super
vision.
Waterloo.
Boston Brokerage Company VS.. the
Corn Belt Telephone Company, is the
/! title of q suit new in the annals of
| actions for damages in Iowa. In the
January. 1914, directory. the. defendant
published under classified lists the
name of the defendant under second
| hand stores. An action for damages
was started and at the trial stipu-
lation was filed before the case went to
the jury. In the stipulation defendant
pays some damages and the costs.
Plaintiff claimed it was in no sense a
second hand store and that it had been
annoyed and sustained actual damages.
Faulkner.
While engaged in Smelling corn at the
elevator at Faulkner week ago Satur-
day, Otto Meyers. a young farmer liv-
| ing near there got his right hand
caught in the machinery and badly
crushed. He was brought at once to
Ackley in the Dave Card auto to ply
sician's office, where it was found
necessary to amputate the second finger
OF the injured hand. The three other
fingers were so badly lacerated and
crushed that twenty stitches were
taken in them, but they are healing
nicely. It is considered fortunate that
80 much Of the hand could be saved
under the circumstances.
Rsinbsck.
| At a meeting Of the Reinbeck Com
mercial Club last Tuesday evening the
subject Of permanent quarters was con-
sidered and 1t was decided to rent
lWhaylens hall for q term of years, Mr..
Whaylen having made the club prop
osition which they decided to accept.
lBy the terms Of the lease the COM
mercial club have the entire second
floor which includes the large dance
hall and the rooms in front It is the
intention of the club to fix up and fur
nish the front rooms with new furni-
Iture and make them comfortable and
inviting club rooms. The large hall
WI be used for dances, pub meetings,
etc. the same as heretofore.
Sheffield.
Nels Swanson and Z. Bushba UNI, both
OF Sheffield. were beaten up and robbed
about q half mile north Of Clear Lake
Junction on the Great Western tracks.
I VT en- they were attacked by three men.