Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-17
Northern Io1ua Items

ing hard to make this one of the best
conventions. A christian endeavor
rally will be held Friday evening at
which time it is hoped that all en-
deavor workers will receive enough OF
the booster spirit so that the only
trouble will be in holding them within
the speed limit
Little Donald Moothart, aged 10. ar
rived in Waterloo Monday night after
completing a trip of nearly 5000 miles
alone. He boarded the train in Seat
tie while the body of his father, Web
ster C. Moothart, was placed in charge
of an express messenger on the same
train. At the train here relatives met
the little boy and escorted the body
to ,O'Keefe & Townes undertaking es-
Establishment. Mr.. Moothart was acct
dentally drowned while fishing near
Seattle and just before he started on a
vacation down the coast to take in the
exposition at San Francisco and San
Diego The body was not recovered
for several days. Mr.. Moothart was a
former resident of Waterloo, having
spent most of his life in this city. A
number Of relatives reside here, lnclud-
ing a daughter. The body was taken
Tuesday afternoon to the home of a
sister, Mrs. John Munson, 901 Haw-
thorne avenue, where funeral services
were held Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock.
Cedar Rapids.
A writ of attachment was filed
against the Cleary- White Construction
Company with the city of Cedar Rap
ids Tuesday by st. Louis Iron COM
pany to recover $1,000, alleged to be
due for materials furnished for the
dam now being constructed across the
Cedar river. II is alleged that the
company purchased certain steel for the
dam gates for which it failed to pay.
While it is not known what the
amount is the city owes the construc-
ton company, it is more than enough
to cover the face of the attachment
The city is holding back Is per cent
of the construction cost until such time
as the dam is completed and accepted
by the city The attachment came in
the nature of surprise, as the Cleary-
White company has been looked on as
one of the most substantial concerns
of it's kind in the country. 1t was said
that there probably was some contro
versy over the price OF the material,
or that it had not come up to speciica
tons. The matter IDLY will be
threshed out in the courts.
Cedar Rapids.
BY out -distancing all competitors in
contest lasting three hours and forty
minutes. Miss Marjorie Churchill, Of
ship, won first place in the advanced
~ NJ
shek. the little 10-year-old pupil Of
ship captured first prize in the pri-
county spelling contest held in the
high school auditorium Saturday at
ternoon. The contest was OF the ma
tnre~ Of the old fashioned spelling
bee' and was for the purpose OF de-
termining the best speller among all
the pupils Of Linn county In both the
advanced division. being pupils Of the
sixth, seventh and eighth grades, and
the primary division, consisting of
third, fourth and fifth grades In all
there were about 120 contestants, OF
which twelve were from the local city
schools and an average OF four or five
from each township. A departure from
the old custom Of frequently having
one word NOW down a long line OF
pupils, was to have the person missing
a word eliminated from the contest,
but the next following however would
not be given the same word that his
predecessor had failed to spell cor
rectly. but would be given new
word. The event was well attended by
large numbers of out Of town par
tricts.