Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-29
Southern Iova Items

entirely beyond the danger OF pro
| nounced freeze Following the semi
failure of 1915, many fields were
| planted to this Iowa product and In
consequence the yield in Wapsie town
ship will be unusually heavy in the ae-
gregate as well as on the acreage.
keota. we
| Emerald iRebekah lodge celebrated
the sixty fifth,anniversary of the. order
| in an interesting manner Iowa has
the distinction of being the. state in
which the first Rebekah lodge In the
world was organized The lodge was
formed at Bloomfield in 1858, with
John Is. Glenn as its first noble grand.
He passed away at Harper. Kan, in
| 1911 at the age Of SO years Rev. l..
| NJ. Dooreaa gave an, address. Musical
numbers were rendered, and class OF
eighsi was taken into the order. Lunch
con was served5at the close of the eve
ming 8 program. ~ - ,r.'
Wapello. ss tia =
1 Found guilty OF the charge Of assault
with intent to do great bodily injury.
William Moore who was arrested fol-
lowing an exciting Gladwip- shooting
| episode was sentenced to serve year
in the penitentiary at Fort Madison
upon being brought before Judge Hale
| in the district court here. Moore was
taken into custody charged with having
fired thru; window at the George
Hendrickson home near Gladwin. When
! the HendrickSon girl spurned him
Moore is accused of having proWled
| about the premises in the night time
and observing another rivals presence
in the home fired at them.
Yorktown.
The worst hail and rainstorm in
years came upon Yorktown little af
ter o'clock Tuesday. The rain came
! in torrents. The streets were flooded
| and covered with hail almost as large
as lens eggs The store fronts were
| badly damaged, those Of H. L. Ber-
| ringer and Elmer Beezley being shat
tered Workmen are busy putting in
boards for protection. Twenty five
| windows for Gwynn We're broken. TWEEN
| tysix windows at the school house and
| many in the residence district. The
| new rubberoid roof at the garage is
| ruined and some windows at the new
| German school house broken. The north
glass fronts on Main street were the
pIleS lIdl SGiiSiSGrr Ill east
Yorktown were unable to get home for
running water. Snake creek was bank
| full.
Des Moines.
With the arrest Saturday evening Of
| w. c. Werk. police believe they have
caught one of the leaders OF an organ
lied band Of chicken thieves which
have been working in the country south
of the city over three months. Werk
has recently made large sales Of poul-
try to the Shermerborn-Sh otwell COM
pany, commission merchants He Is not
a poultry raiser and there has been
some question where he purchased the
| chickens and geese which he sold. 1t
is thought tEat he acted as the agent
for large gang, whose goods he sold.
Shermerhorn Shotwell company agents
say that Werk has brought in as many
as ten dozen chickens day. Losses
have been reported from many different
| farms. Werk was formerly a small
| truck farmer and huckster at the city
| market.
West Liberty.
Blood does not always tell, for IL it
did. ownership would be established for
the wrecked car which was towed into
the Smith garage here, from where 1t
had been abandoned In a ditch beside
the river-to-river road, three miles
from town. There was plenty OF blood
on the car, but it was the mute kind:
| the number plate was in the toolbox,
and no marks of identification could
be found A local physician, called to
the scene by man who said he had
been injured, found the remains of the
car at the side Of the road, Windshield
shattered, hood gone from engine, but
still Ford. Search Of the neighbor-
hood failed to reveal the cause Of the
accident, its principal or principals, or
the identity OF the man who had called
the physician. 1t Is thought that the
driver, believing himself badly injured.
sent in the call and then, realizing
what discovery might mean. fed from
the scene. The car is a runabout,and
it is believed was stolen; left to its
own resources when the driver had his
mishap.