Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-25
Southern Ioua Items

separated byssdeath for the space Oh
three days. Mrs. Boley was about ~
years of age and Mr.. Boley so. Funeral
service was held Sunday at 4 &. M.
| from the Baptist church at Hillsboro.
Des Moines.
| Little Pearl Phillips-s years old, was
deserted by her parents, she told juve-
nile officers. Pearl had been taken to
the home of friends IN the city to visit
2tew days ago, she told the court.
when she came back to the room that
her parents had occupied she found II
vacated. Pearl was not dismayed but
packed up her dolls add her new shoes
and moved to the police station Judge
w. H. AIcHenry placed her in the
Polk county juvenile home and court
officials are trying to locate her par
ents Pearl says her father is George
Phillips. and that she has a grand
mother. a Mrs. Roach, who lives at
Hedrick.
Leon.
The city council has let the contract
for Icons new sewerage system to be
put in this summer The Pickus En-
gineering and Construction Company,
of Sioux City were the lucky bidders
| on the sewerage disposal plant and &C
cessories, and George NJ. King. of Des
| Moines, secured the contract for the
| laying of the nine miles of sewer pipe
and the sewer outlets. The entire price
of construction will amount to some
| thing over $4,000. twenty companies
were represented at the meeting last
| week, all of whom were bidding on the
contract Work will be commenced in
| the near future and will be pushed to
completion as rapidly as possible.
Davenport.
AS Miss Harmine Strade crossed the
| corner OF Fifth street and Western
avenue at 10 o'clock Saturday night
she was attacked by pair of youth
| full bandits, who snatched her hand
bag, containing a small sum Of money,
and took to their heels. The police
were notified but thus far no arrests
have been made. Miss iStrade is en-
ployed as. a domestic at the home OF
| H. o. Seiefirt, 532 West Sixth street.
Il was on my way home Saturday
night" she said, in speaking of the
| affair. "and as 1 reached Fifth and
Western avenue two young fellows
crossed the street, ran up to me and
one Of them grabbed my handbag. 1t
contained S. bill and 50 cents in
| change. Both Of them took to their
heels. ] couldn't describe either of
them accurately. They were unarmed
and did not attempt any violence"
Burlington.
The owners of automobiles in this
city and in southeastern Iowa, espe-
cially the members of the Burlington
Automobile Club, are going to have a
j proposition made to them which will
make their excursions in This part OF
the state all the more agreeable and
attractive. OF recent years it was the
habit of the late DR.. and Mrs. !. =
Wilson to take packages Of Towering
seeds. VIII: them on their frequent
tours OF this part of the state. These
seeds they would scatter along the
!, routes, both being great lovers OF flow
ers, and the result was that in a few
years many of the avenues leading ou'
of this city became veritable garden'
Of beauty. The proposition that is t
= be made is that every member Of thu
ers owning machines take with then
packages OF flower and grass seed
when they drive into the country TO
pleasure and sow them along tn
routes The Des Moines county super
visors have recently graded humble
8 of thoroughfares leading out of thf
I city, making great imprOv ement II
r the roadways, but their work has LEI
r the highways bare and unsightly fror
It an artistic standpoint and It Is tn
Y proposition that a,itomobile driver
d SOW grass and flower seeds here an
10 there SO that in time these insight
d thoroughfares will become very at