Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-02
Northern Io1ua Items

came in automobiles. There were
over 500 autos on the grounds. A col
lection was taken for the missionary
! board of the Reformed church, which
amounted to s1452. SURPRISING all
previous records. -
Iowa Falls.
Workmen completed last week the
Orlando apartment building being
erected by Q. c. Stubbs just west Of
the Leonard corner. The building thru
out Is finished in oak and everything
is modern and handy. The Orlando
| contains four apartments Of five rooms
each and baths, and two apartments
with two rooms each with baths. The
latter two suites of rooms are called
the bachelor apartments and will
make hobby place for bachelors who
| want comfortable and convenient
homes.
Sioux City.
| Bandits put Henry Biehkove, Of this
| bling his store the other evening he
will not forget in hurry. They en-
tered his place as he was about to
close up forced him to enter his ice
| box and ransacked the place. For
tunately for Biehkove he had removed
the days sales from the till earlier
in the evening and the thieves only
got SIS in nickels and dimes left for
making change Biehkove was re-
leased later from cold storage by a
Waterman who discovered something
wrong in passing the store.
Vinton.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Edwards cele-
brated their fiftieth wedding anniver-
sary last week and seventyfour OF
their immediate relatives enjoyed the
celebration with them. Mr.. Edwards
came to Benton county from Brown
county. Ohio, in 1865. and settled on a
| farm three miles southwest Of Vinton.
He was married to Martha j. Brewer,
Aug. "a, 1865, in Johnson county, Ind.
| They retired from active farm life in
| 1908 and moved to Vinton. Mr.. Ed
! wards is "a years old and a veteran of
| the civil war. Mrs. Edwards Is sc
years old. They are the parents of II
children, nine of whom are living.
Dubuque.
/ Announcement was made Saturday
morning by Captain S. Edwards that
the Kirchner Contracting company
contract calling for an expenditure OF
$4,000 by the government for river
improvement work had been approved
by Major Hoffman and the other Off
Gals in the office Of the United States
engineer for this district at Rock Is
land. This work will be done between
Cassville and Specht's Ferry. Addi-
tional work will be done at Apple
River crossing by the gang doing the
dam building at the present time. This
crew will be removed to Apple River
Immediately after tho completion OF
the work on hand The main part OF
the Apple River job will be done be-
tween Bellevue and Savanna, where a
rather shallow crossing will be i'm
proved.
Waterloo.
r. W. Bell. general superintendent OF
motive power: Assistant Chief En-
gineer Thompson and other Illinois
Central officials were here recently "a
make plans for tho extensive improve
ments Of the shops, for which an APP
preparation Of $4,000 has been made
While It is not definitely known what
the improvements will be, It 10 under
stood that the machine shops will be
extended 100 feet and new stalls added
to the roundhouse. making It 4 COM
lplete circle. It IL reported that the
cnlargements contemplated will In
crease the capacity Of the shops ono.
third, thereby requiring third more
men. Bids for the work were received
in the general offices Thursday, and
the officials are considering them.
big travelling electric crane will be In
afa1led