Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-22
S0uther Iowa Items

church. The engine house containing
numerous pieces of machinery was
burned to the ground. One of the Dogs
tried to start the gasolene engine put
failing to do so struck Il match To see
II the engine was in need of gasolene.
Instantly the gas became a sheet Oh
flame Almost everyone in the vicinity
was at church, consequently but Little
neIp could be obtained immediately
and VERY soon the entire building was
a mass of flames. The loss is estimated
between $4,000 and 5000 and there
was no insurance on site building or
the contents, Fortunately no a was
hurt. III
Davenport.
Fire which started in a back room
of the TRICKY Art league rooms on
the third floor of the W. .. Petersen
building AT 222 Main street.
port. late Tuesday night, Quilted the
upper hoors of the building for the
third time in the past few years. The
estimated loss prior TO the arrival OF
the adjusters is about $4,000. The ire
was a recurrence Of the CONFEDERATION
of May 90, 1915, when the Acme pool
hall on the first floor and the Purcell
Printing Company suffered a loss which
amounted to $4,000. Since then the
Purcell Printing Company moved TO a
new location. east of the, Hotel Black
hawk. The Grand billiard hall on the
first floor. the offices OF t1e!P. +. Nc
Carthy Improvement Company on the
second floor and the studio Of tho Fri
City Art league on the third floor were
damaged by the last fire. The prin-
cipal loss to the Mccarthy company
and the billiard hall was due to water.
Des Moines.
Old-fashioned log cabins with big
fireplaces are to be erected in -four Oes
Moines parks. Park Superintendent
Harry Erase announced the other night.
The cabins will be about twenty-five
feet long and will be for the use of pic
| nickers. They will be built in Grand
View, Greenwood. Union and South
parks. Frase's plans for the rustic cab
ms call for two fireplaces for each, one
on the interior and one on the exterior.
Each will have a locker built in the
wall at one corner. In the lockers Will
be full sets of cooking utensils, dishes,
knives. forks and spoons, dish towels
and hand towels. Picknickers may have
| the use of these by getting locker keys
from the park department. Signs on
the walls will ask the picknickers to
wash the dishes and replace everything
in the lockers in as good condition as
they were found. The work of erecting
the cabins is being done by the regular
park employees, which enables the ce-
partment to build them at slight cost.
Iowa City.
Arthur Starbuck, ~17-year-oid son Of
Arthur S~tarbuck, professor Of philos-
ophy at the university Of Iowa, and a
| graduate Of the high school here last
June, was indicted for larceny by the
grand jury in It's report for the Sep
TENDER term of the district court. Star
buck confessed 10 stealing SIC from At
torney Charles NJ. butcher from his
| locker at the country club, but Mr.
butcher declined to prosecute A year
ago Professor Starbuck was instru-
mental in sending a 13-year-old boy in
Iowa City to the -eformatory because
the youth made a vicious attack upon
his own 1~2-year-old daughter, and the
boys parents are now pushing the case
against the professors son. After ak
ing the money from the country CLUB in
two installments of $40 each on sue
c~essive Sundays, Arthur Starbuck went
to Cedar Rapids and spent h money
lavishly on friends there and attended
parties and functions of different sorts
with younger Cedar Rapids society. i
was this lavish expenditure withou'
any seeming income that led to his ap-
prehension and confession as the thief
the con fession was made to Police
Chief Miller OF Iowa City. Starbuch
J was naroled under bonds NJ 5000