Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-29
Davenport.

Davenport.
| some time between closing time sat
/ urday night and opening hour Mohoas
! morning. burglars entered the lnoe'
pendent Five and Ten Cent store mere
With the aid of -glycerine the
! safe was blown and over 5000 in cur
/ rencv secured. No clues are obtain
able.
sonaparte.
| Pilking is now in progress at Grey
heath orchard with twenty men en-
| plcyed Two carloads of apples were
shipped to Rosander & Co., Mime
iapolis. Three carloads of pears go tor
ward to the Lagomarcino Grippe Com
panv. one at Creston and two at DaV-
i enport. half car of pears and hal1
lear of Grimes Golden apples will DC
i shipped to Chase & Co., Des Moines
1.-THE Lagomarcino Grupe Company gets
! all the number one apples in all vari-
ieties. The entire crop of apples is now
| estimated at 5000 bushels of number
one stock.
Ottumwa.
Wapello county farmers. living near
Kirksville and in the vicinity east OF
that place. are having conslderaoie
trouble with hog cholera which is at
lacking their pens and killing seVerai
! of their animals. The disease, Whlch
was so prevalent few years aso'
seems to have again made its appear
| ance and it is playing havoc with some
! of the best class of stock that the coun-
| IL produces The prevalence OF IT near
Kirksville is particularly noticeable ana
| it is also now beginning to attack
places in the vicinity about five miles
north. known as the Wilson chapel
neghborhood.
Ottumwa.
The Des Moines architectural firm
Proudfoot, Bird 6, Rawson, is expected
to have ready for the Ottumwa Hotel
association tentative plans for the
city's new 100000 hotel some time
next week. 1t is known that the. ground
dimensions of the hotel will be S9xl6O
feet. and that ten-foot alley will ex-
tend along the rear of the building,
making the total ground covered 99xl60
feet. There will be either five or six
| stories with perhaps a cafe on the hrst
| floor and dining room on the second
| There will be approximately twenty
seven sleeping rooms on each of the
upper floors.
! Knoxville.
| Knoxville citizens are to vote Oct
| % on the question OF whether the city
] shall or shall not be put under the com
mission form of government. The
! question as it is to be submitted will
be: shall the proposition to organ
II ze the city OF Knoxville, Iowa, under
| chapter 1916 of the supplement of thu
code of 1907 and amendments thereto
be adopted There will be a big bal
loon ascension and parachute leap by
one of the worlds greatest balloonists
This will be absolutely free to every
one" w. F. Wetherall circulated the
petition and secured the necessary q
per cent of the signatures of the voters
| In a campaign lasting less than two
days.
Bloomfield.
A rather serious motorcycle acciden:
occurred last Friday evening near the
| public school grounds. James Camp
bell was sitting in his buggy. driven uI
close to the curbing talking to some OF
his boy friends when John Bezzenber-
ger and Hollis Kennedy came up ridine
motorcycle and meeting an auto.
mobile with lights shining In theil
faces. SO they could not see very well
ran their motorcycle into the rear END
Of the buggy frightening the horses
so that 1t ran away, circling around
through the school grounds among the
trees, with young Campbell holding to
the lines. until the buggy was a tota
wreck. Mr.. Campbell was thrown out
and some >of his ribs broken. Hollis
Kennedy, the rear rider of the motor
cycle is iimping around not able to
work as result of the accident.
WapsIIo.
On Friday, Oct. 1. wapello is COINS
to be at home to her friends Of The
surrounding communities IN a manner
that will long be remembered by al
who attend. There will he something
doing all the time from 9: 80 q. M, IN
/! til midnight, and then it may not al