Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-16
Southern Io,pa Items

( endeavor to rent}a hall in this city, but
| if he fails he will go to Omaha, he an
nounced. He will not interfere with
Billy, for Billy has right to his
views" he calculated but there will be
services, matinee and evening. II pro-
pose to prove by the scriptures that
there is place for the liquor" he as
serted. While Sunday was in Des
Moines, sent a note to the evangelist
asking for the privilege Of speaking to
| 10000 souls for ten minutes in order
! that nigh: correct some of the mis-
apprehensionsi Sunday might have con-
veyed during his sermon. Then that
man turned loose on me with all the
| fireworks there are in the world. !
never heard of such hilfaluting oratory,
stamping of the feet and singing OF
fists in all my life before"
Museatine.
The total value of property in Mus
catine county approaches the ten mil
lion mark. compilation of the fig
ures turned in by the assessors show
the value of property to be s9,S6S,025.
OF this amount s5,246515 is the value
of lands and s2,195,740 the value of
lots. The value of personal property
which includes telephones. telegraph,
railroad and other property is $2.425.E
| 40. The valuation OF property within
| the limits Of the city is $2,549.740 while
| the valuation placed upon all property
| against which the cost Of bridge and
road work may be assessed is $685.
2S5.
Des Moines.
| The mosst valuable package that has
been left on the street car in many
days. was found by Motorman Lassiter
as he was plotting his Waveland park
car toward the end of the line on an
early morning trip Monday. 1t con-
| tanned $1,000 greenbacks he was told
later. The package was left in the
car by Ann j. Jones, a department
manager at Olsen's pharmacy when
| she left the car early in the morning
| When the car reached downtown after
the trip out representatives of the
| store were on hand to claim the valu-
able package. 1t was recovered in the
usual way thru the city railway train
masters office.
Muscatine.
Awakening from her slumber by
| falling plaster as she lay asleep in her
bed early Sunday morning, Mrs
Augusta Streger, we'll known woman
of Evans street, figured in a peculiar
accident which terminated in a frac-
ltured arm. The woman was peacefully
asleep when some plastering fell from
the ceiling, striking her in the face
Alarmed at the blow but uninjured, the
suddenly aroused woman Jumped from
her bed. In the darkness OF the might
she miscalculated the distance and fell
to the floor alighting upon her right
arm. The bones snapped between the
wrist and elbow. requiring the services
OF physician.
ottumwa.
Jitney bus owners have protested tc
the commissioners against the passage
OF an ordinance that imposes many re-
strictive regulations on the jitney bus
traffic. An indemnity bond Of $1,000
a schedule OF time announcing routes
| to be used, stipulated number OF
hours service, a limit on passengers tc
4 the capacity Of the car, and signs in
4 llicating the route it travels, are amone
the regulations. Most of these were
opposed in the meeting between the
owners and commissioners, and par
ticular stress was laid upon the in
demnity bond, which counsel for the
car owners stated they could not OBJ
tain from any insurance company.