Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-27
Southern Ioua Items

two hundred Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska
and South Dakota papers He is son
of Mr.. and Mrs. T. r. Fergus, who re-
side on a nearby farm.
Davenport.
President Charles Hanna. of the
Pleas SAINT Valley Onion Growers Assoc
citation. has returned from a six weeks
trade trip to South America to look up
new markets. He mas established per-
manent agents in several South Amer
lean countries and the bulk of this
years onion crop will be sold direct
from the Scott county farmer here to
the consumer abroad The Iowa grow
ers, who sell all of their product thru
! the cooperative sales agency main
! tanned in connection with the organiza- :
ton, will also keep two travelling men
in southern states Of this country to
/ sell the rema inder Of their onions there.
! Ottumwa.
/ An anti-cigaret crusade is to be
waged in Ottumwa by the east end
branch of the Y. VI. c. A., and the aid
! of two local physicians has been given
! TO the movement which is expected to
! work wonders among the boys and men
in that vicinity. The prevalence Of the
cigaret habit among the young boys
in the east part Of the city has at
i tracted the attention Of Secretary Jen
nings of the associations branch near
the packing house. He has announced
that the campaign against the cigaret
will be started Tuesday, May 4, and
will last for three weeks. Two lectures
and treatment meetings Will be held
be held each week.
each week.
Ottumwa.
The fight over the Mcdonald will in
Jones county, noted for the celebrated
calf Sc, will be waged in the mex,
term of court a Anamosa, May 10. The
suit has excited considerable attention
because of the amount involved and the
number of persons and institutions
that are parties to the action. Johr
Mcdonald, who died about year ago
at the age of 80, left 100000 distrib.
!. uted In numerous requests, S200,00t
going to relatives, a sister and severa
nephews and n!eces, $4,000 to tn
. American Home Finding Association
Of Ottumwa, and the same amount t,
similar institution at Des Molnea
He left $4,000 in trust with the Stat
bank at Monticello 20 be given to tn
needy and deserving poor without re
gard to sex, color, age. religious belle
or nationality. The heirs have brough
an action to break the will. chargin
undue influence to President Carpen
ter of the bank and others.
Atlantic.
Gladys Ashby, the 1e-year-o Of
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T.. E. Ashb!
living at 705 Spruce street, and Mario
L. Winger, son Of NJ. L. Winger an
s wife, were married Thursday after
noon at $50 at Audubon ny the Re-
Mr.. Greenlee, Of the Presbtyeria
: church of that city at the PresbyteI
II ian parsonage there. The young pee
: pies marriage was an elopament. The
took no one into their confidence. tt
! young man is % years old and tt
9 bride was 16 on the I'd Of this mont
The young folks have wanted to we
for some time but the girrs parent
Y especially her mother, objected stront
8 ly on account of her .outh. The brit
: has been a high school student and n
n mother thought she had gone to Soho
o Thursday afternoon and when she d
e not return home an Investigation di
n closed the elopement. The young pc
is pie returned to the city and will maj
n their home here.