Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-07
Southern Ioua Items

| Liberty.
| The Libertyville Presbyterian church
will celebrate it's 65th anniversary to-
| day and Sunday. A fitting program for
the occasion has been arranged for
both days.
! keokuk.
The Parsons levee. after withstand
! ing the floods of last spring and twice
| within the past two weeks, gave way
Tuesday morning. Five hundred addi-
tional acres of bottom lands are food
ed as a consequence but the damage
! to crops will be slight, as the recent
heavy rains had practically destroyed
them previous to the overflow.
Bloomfield.
| The memory Of the late General
James B. Weaver is to be honored by
citizens Of Bloomfield. To that end
they have purchased the generals old
home, comprising several acres In the
heart of the city, and will maintain 1t
as public park, to be known as
Weaver park, as memorial to the sol
! dier. statesman and reformer.f 1t will
be dedicated Aug. IS, and former Sec
rotary William Jennings Bryan Will be
the principal orator Of the occasion.
nHa;;s.ou5; Valley.
| The Rev. Newell Dwight Hills. born
on a farm in Harrison county, edu-
Gated in the Magnolia high school and
| in the Northwest university and at
terward filling the pulpit in Central
Music hall in Chicago. made vacant by
the death of Prof David Swing. and
later the successor of Lyman Abbott
and Henry Ward Beecher In the Ply
mouth church. Brooklyn. N. Y, will be
the center Of attraction at the chaM-
tauoua to be held at Missouri Valley
| August to 16 inclusive.
Newton.
The directors of the Newton Coun-
| try Club held a meeting Monday eve
ming and opened the bids for the erec-
| ton of their club house. r. P. Ras-
mussen, James Eastman. Will Long
| and w. w. Smith submitted bids and
that Of Mr.. Rasmussen was found to
be the lowest. The contract was not
closed up that evening but It will be
soon The plans for the building were
drawn by Harry Hunter and he has
designed very elegant and convenient
building. The building and immediate
surroundings will cost about $4,000.
Cascade.
| Fire at s o'clock Monday mornin g
nearly destroyed the opera house build
ing and its contents. The first floor OF
the building is occupied by the Cas-
cade Auto Supply Company. Most OF
the. supplies in the store room were
! destroyed, and six autos stored there
by other persons were damaged 5000
to $500 each before they could be re-
moved. This loss is partially covered
by insurance The fire was caused by
the overiowing of a gasolene torch
which was being used in making re-
pairs to an auto. The building, which
! is owned by the Cascade bank. was
damaged to the extent of $1,000.
Macedonia.
BY night work, use of every available
horse and gasolene engines the farmers
about here have harvested the most OF
their grain. Rain kept them from the
fields for the first few days Of the
week. but Thursday saw them out with
all the horses on the farm, the gasolene
engine, and anyone that knew how to
make one OF the contrivances work. 1t
| took a day or two to set onto the
chow" of the engine, but Friday after
noon and Saturday saw everybody and
everything at work. with mother ana
| the girls bringing meals and horse feed
to the fields in some cases.
Museatine.
The estate Of the late Elijah Baker
is rated at more than $4,000, accord
ing to information learned in the dis
! trict court when his widow filed appli-
cation for Widows allowance. She
asks $4,000 for her support during the
first year pending the settlement OF
the estate. In the application filed by
Mrs. Baker thru Attorney ]. G.. KAN
merer, she declares the estate Is more
than $4,000 Approximately $4,000
reposes in local banks. she says. Be
tween 500 and 900 acres Of land in
Muscatine, more than thirty houses In
this city, valuable bank stock and
money loaned on real estate mortgages
are included in the estate.
keokuk.
| Keokuk manufactures. foundries and
the like, equipped with metal working
| lathes. may participate in the filing OF
a war order Cor shrapnel amounting