Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-09
Northern Io1Ua Items

tpart Of his body Clarence Mattheissen,
the driver of the car which struck him,
Immediately stopped and with the help
of bystanders picked up the injured
man and carried him to DR.. Miricks
office.
Anamosa.
Last summer the Ladies Guild Of st.
Patricks church purchased the old
Presby terrain church and have been re-
modelling the structure and turning it
into building suitable for their lodge
| meetings, bazaars and other society
gatherings. The assembly room makes
a spacious auditorium seated with
| movable chairs while the basement has
| been turned into a convenient dining
ROOM kitchen and other convenient
adjuncts for serving meals. Thursday
night the building was thrown open
| for house warming. to which many
| friends of the society were invited.
Sioux City.
| The fifth special train of horses
bought on the Sioux City market for
the French army during the last month
departed THURSDAYS night over the Hi
nois Central 'rafTTsbad for Jersey City.
N. j., where they will be loaded on
freighters to be transported across the
Atlantic. The train consisted of twelve
cans and 154 head of horses. 1t was
declared yesterday that another spe-
cial train probably will be made up
Saturday afternoon SO great is the
need of horses that half trains" are
buying centers. The French inspectors
have given assurance that they will be
here at least until the beginning of
1915. ~
Sioux City.
The long series of auto accidents in
Sioux City, four of which resulted ia
tally within the past month, will re-
suit in drastic changes in the traffic
ordinance. The city council has be-
gun daily sessions at which the ordi-
nance is taken up section by section.
Among the changes. to be made will
be the insertion of provisions requir-
ing pedestrians to cross the corners
ION the square" and not diagonally,
regulation requiring autos to stop
twenty feet away from street cars tax
ing on or putting off passengers, and
a prohibition against the parking of
cars in certain down town streets Rep
reSen tatives Of several civic organiZa-
tions. motor clubs and the like, are at
tending the sessions.
Sioux City.
decision by Judge Jepson in dis
trict court here may make a bigamist
out of George 3. Williamson, a dentist
of Clinton. Lillian Blain Williamson
has brought suit to have the divorce
which Williamson obtained here an
nulled on the ground that it was OBJ
tanned by fraud. Mrs. Williamson al
leses that her husband came to Sioux
City from their Omaha home for the
express purpose of getting the d.
vorce, that he covered up legal notice
to her by publishing it in an obscure
weekly paper, and that, tho he repre-
sented that he had lived in Sioux City
a year prior to bringing suit he had
not in fact, done so. She also pro-
duces an affidavit which Williamson
is alleged to have signed In the office
Of w. L. Cron. notary public and at
torney at Cedar Rapids, in which Will
Hanson declared that he had no reason
for leaving his wife other than that he
had ceased to love her. Since getting
the divorce Williamson has married
again and Is practicing dentistry at
Clinton.
Clinton.
Harry fuller, Of Cordova, was
drowned Wednesday when he slipped
from the deck of the steamer Arthur
S. into the Mississippi river. There
were no witnesses to the accident but
the fireman saw fuller run along the
deck past the door OF the engine room.
as he attended to the ropes tied to the
boats barge. Next a scream was heard
and the young man was seen in the
water. Captain Snyder threw a life
preserver to him and efforts to rescue
him were begun at once but he strug-
gled for an instant in the swift current
and sank, not coming to the surface
again. Search was at once instituted
for the body and a telegram sent to his
father at Cordova, apprising him of the
accident. fuller was % years of age,
unmarried, and had been employed on
the steamer for the past three months
as deckhand and handy man. The ac-
cident occurred as the boat was about
125 feet from the Iowa shore at the
foot of Pearl street. The river there
lis dangerous as it is the main channel
with a swift and irregular current