Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-12

Sioux City.
! Masked with blue handkerchief and
armed. two men about 2 o'clock Satur-
day morning walked into the home Of
! Wilbur Siglin, us Sioux street, and
robbed him Of approximately $3.50.
Fort Dodge.
The Fort Dodge Y. W. c. A. during
it's first year in its fine new building,
one of the best in Iowa, or the middle
west, has helped 240 girls find work,
| had 500 applicants for rooms, has had
/, its dormitories full all the time, and
has helped twenty girls in dire need
! of assistance.
Mount Vernon.
The big 200-acre farm of the S. S.
Johnston estate, north of town. in the
Linn Grove district, was sold at the
administrator s sale. The main portion
! brought s1S7 per acre, bid by Glenn
Richs rdson. 1t is located a little far
! Their out than most of the farms which
have been bringing the highest acre
age price, hut it is all good land and
by no means isolated as to location.
Sioux City.
Suits to recover $S1,402.74 from five
/ railroads operating in northwestern
Iowa for repairing and coopering their
cars for grain shipments were filed
| in the federal court by E. f. Mellen,
of LeMars, carpenter. Mellen re-
/ paired and coopered 9O,445 cars be-
| longing to the five roads since Jan. /,
/ 1909, his petition sets forth. He says
he was Instructed to make these re-
| pairs by grain firms of LeMars SO that
! the cars would be in good condition.
Dubuque.
! Senator n. J. Schrup has purchased
| a large block of stock in the Dubuque
National Bank, will become director
of the institution and it is expected
will give considerable personal atten-
ton to it's management. George w.
| Myers has also taken a block Of the
| stock and will become actively ident1-
| fled with the interests of the bank. 1t
is proposed shortly to reorsanize by
the election of new officers and the
employment of competent and trust
worthy help in the positions Of cashier,
teller and bookkeeper.
Sioux City.
Mrs. Eva Freely asks 100000 from
the town OF Sibley. in her petition
filed in the federal court. She charges
that her husband was killed thru the
|
dangerous machinery to be left in the
town pumping station. Freely was
caught in machinery the night of June
Ia. He was killed instantly, his widow
petition sets forth. She states that
the town should have had the ma :
chinery protected. Freely was assist
ant night superintendent. Besides the
widow, a daughter, Elizabeth Freely,
is living.
| Waterloo.
| George Christos is deeply interested
a whirlwind campaign for funds he
was one of the most enthusiastic So
licitors He hurried from place to
place in an automobile. When ar
rested on a charge of exceeding the
| speed limit, he told Police Judge
Meyers that he was so interested III
| the solicitation of funds that he did
not realize he was going so fast.
Christos was fined $40. but the entire
amount was suspended, provided he
| would donate that amount OF the
church.
Malsvrn.
The Malvern Library Association
and all interested in the proposed IL
brary were made happy Friday morn
! ing by word from the Carnegie people
that they had decided to allow Mall
vern $4,000 with which to build new
| library building. The committee had
! asked for $4,000. but were little
fearful that i. would not be allowed
as there are about ten others from