Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-22
Southern Io,ua Items

o'clock at night. 1t had gained such
Roadway that the bucket brigade, the
only means Of fighting fire in Mount
Etna, was unable to check the flames,
and building and stock were consumed,
except small quantity Of flour that
was carried out The fire originated in
the main store building. Its origin is
not known.
Davenport. ,se
A good apple crop, but a poor cherry
and peach crop is the prospect for
Scott county, judging from the findings
Of the fruit growers. Lots Of the cherry
buds are dead and the peach buds are
in the same class. The apple trees just
at the present time look excellent, but
this does not establish to a certainty
that the crop will be all that is eX-
pected. Last year at this time the ap-
pie trees looked the same as they do
now but the crop turned out poor
nevertheless. The blooms turned out
to be poor, and the reason given was
that there had been q great amount Of
dry weather the summer and fall Of
1918. Then the trees had borne an eX-
ceptionally heavy crop in the summer
and fall of 1913. and thei1 vitality was
low.
oskaloosa.
H. z. Coke, No. 4os First avenue west,
is recovering from recent unfort-
innate accident at the M. & St. l.. round
house and one that caused him much
suffering and week in the Oskaloosa
hospital. Mr.. Coke Is employed as a
boiler washer at the round house. He
was using hammer 70 loosen a brass
plug on one Of the new engines when
piece Of the metal detached from
the plug by the force Of the blow pen
entrated his left eye. Following the
first shock Mr.. Coke experienced little
Inconvenience and returned to work
but in little while had TO seek re-
lief from a physician. The metal had
imbedded itself deep in the eyeball and
an operation requiring over two hours
was necessary to get the splinter and
dress the wound. The patient is now
doing as we'll as can be expected but
he will loose the use of the injured
eye.
keosauqua.
The United States census department
at Washington. d. c., has just issued
bulletin dealing with the ownership
of Van Buren, county homes. The i'm
portant facts contained in the bulletin
relative to this county are as follows:
There are 1898 homes in Van Buren,
county. Farm homes-Of this number
2,O67 are farm homes, S5S of the farm
homes are free of mortgaged incum-
brance. The mo-tgaged farm homes
number Gil. Renters occupy SIG farm
homes In this county. Urban homes
Out Of total Of 3,S9S homes in this
county, 1881 are urban homes. There
are 1,16O urban home owners in the
county. OF this number 1874 are mort
gagged; LOTT Of the urban owned homes
are free Of incumbrance. There are 562
rented urban homes In the county. The
census enumerators were unable to Sc
cure data pertaining to the ownership
of q small percentage Of both the rural
Muscatine.
THAT the plaintiff and the defend
ant are residents Of the state Of Iowa
With this simple statement as pre-
amble divorce proceedings were insti-
tuted in the district court by Debbie
Herget against Walter Herget. The
suit marks the first to be started here
since the Iowa divorce law was found
to be defective In q recent decision
by Judge Utterback in Des Moines. In
practically all previous instances where
divorce suits We're started in Musca
tine, the allegation was made that the
plaintiff had been resident of this
state for at least one year and mot
for the purpose OF obtaining divorce
only" In the suit filed by the law
yers the bare statement is made that
both the plaintiff and defendant are
Iowa residents. It makes no assertion
as to the period Of such residence. The
Des Moines decision 10 expected to re-
suit In revision OF the old familiar
style OF divorce suits here. This is
Indicated by the departure from the
custom in vogue here for years In the
Herget case. Il