Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-30

The postoffice business in the towns
of keystone, Garrison and Shellsburg
has been booming and those offices
have passed from the fourth to the
third class. Hereafter the salaries of
of the postmasters at those points will
be: Keystone. $1.100: Shellsburg,
SLIGO; and Garrison, $1,000 very
nice Christmas gift for these post
masters.
Swalsdais.
Herb Cogswell has resigned his po-
sitioii as rural mail carrier out OF
Swaledale and has purchased the slocal
restaurant at that place Of MI. Kott-
man, who has also sold his residence
property and will move back to st.
Paul, from whence he returned few
months ago expecting to remain per-
.manently. Ray England succeeds Mr..
CoRswell as rural carrier.
Waterloo.
Two young boys, Ardo Zahler. 2o16
Falls avenue. and Eugene Sharp, At
Leland avenue, were taken into Gus
tody4by the police on charges OF steal
ing q Salvation Army Christmas box
from the Joder drug store. The boys
had $3.50 In their possession when ar
rested and declared they had spent
only 20 cents. They had also q pair
Of. auto gloves, which they admitted
they had stolen from an automobile
near the Plaza theater.
Huxley.
For an old couple to die at approx
imately the same time and be buried
together at one funeral IL unusual-but
such was the case down at Huxley
John o. SEVERED. 80 years old, died
Thursday Of last week Of old age after
an illness of about three weeks. and
his wife, who had been sick for about
ten weeks, died fifty hours after her
husband. Mr.. and Mrs. SEVERED were
! buried together III g single grave ct the
Palestine cemetery.
Waterloo.
With 100 cases on the docket for
the January term, the district court in
this county sets a new record. Clerk
Fred s. Petit says the fees Of his Of
flee In 1915 will amount to $1,000. The
expense has been $1,000. thus leaving
a good margin to turn over to the
county treasurer. In 1906 all actions
in court numbered 533. The volume OF
business has more than doubled In nine
years.
LsMars.
Mrs. William Stoll, Of Elgin, exhib-
tied her Barred Plymouth Rock chick
ems at Des Moines last week and cap
tured many prizes. One OF her cockereis
many prizes. One Of her cockerels
took the highest sweepstakes honors,
winning silver cup and several spe-
c;al prizes. Her birds also took first
cockerel, first cock and fifth cock. a
good showing for only three birds en-
tered Fifty winners from the Panama
Pacific exposition were entered at this
show.
vinton.
Saturday morning when C. S. Harper
was splitting wood in his shed at home
| in southwest vinton he received quite
"a severe scalp wound. He was using
q double bitted AK. He stepped upon
some sticks and when he swung hds
AK 1t caught on board and rebounded.
the blade OF the ak hitting the center OF
his head and cutting cash about
three inches long to the bone. A ply
| stefan was called and dressed the
wound There has been no serious re-
suits from the accident and Mr.. Har-
per Is able to be around, tho he has
rather a sore head. He Is fortunate
to escape from such an accident with
out serious Injury.
Dubuque.
While the temperature has been SUI
ficiently cold to produce ice, the Mis-
sissippi river at this point is still open
4 However, the river Is frozen as fal
up az the channel. but Is still open
there because Of the swift current Of
the water. It Is believed II the tenn