Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-05
Southern Io1ua Items

! not taken out a hunting license 2 In
| formation will be filed against Palm
| in the Muscatine county justice courts
and he will come up fol trial this week.
| Davenport.
Ed Hart, OF 1909 Brady street, sees
| some reasons why Iowa farmers may
| be thankful With the new year. Mr..
| Hart lived here as a boy In 1885,,
| learning his first lesson in Father Pei
| am3ufgues' school. Then his father
Peter Hart, moved with the family to
| farm in the neighborhood of Toronto
! Clinton county. Father hauled his
grain TO Davenport said Mr.. Hart
| Saturday. He used TO get IS cents for
| mis- wheat after hauling it here from
| Toronto, and sl.G5 a hundred weight
| for dressed pork. He took his pay tn
Bird & Pretyman trade checks, too
Farmers in those days preferred III,
trade checks to money. for they never
knew when a bank would break some
where and the money be no good Mr..
Hart moved back TO Davenport last
May. Since he lived here In the sos
he has reared family OF eight sons
and three daughters of his own, and
seen them grow up and most OF them
found homes Of their own.
Muscatine.
Miss Katherine Tobias. 10. Of this
! city, held as witness for the state in
the prosecution Of Mrs Anna Kelley,
charged with keeping a house OF i'll
fame at 2243 West Second street. Dav-
export. told Davenport police Friday
that she had been an inmate of the al
legged disorderiy house since October.
Mrs. Kelley was arrested early in the
week on Information furnished the
Davenport police by 15-year- old Fern
/, Schmidt, said to have been q mate OF
the Tobias girl at the alleged house Of
| ill-fame. When called Monday noon to
give evidence before the Davenport
authorities, the Schmidt girl declared
that she had been driven from her
home and then fell in the hands Of
false friends" who caused her down :
fall, Indicating that she had been held
as a white slave. Miss Tobias Il
charged with being an inmate of a
house of illfane but it is not likely
that prosecution against her viii be
pressed, being held primarily as wit
ness for the state in the case agafns,
Mrs. Kelley.
Davenport.
Because Anton Lott. 100 Gaines
street. hot tamale wagon proprietor
emitted a powerful. tWo-lunged scream
for help street hold-up was thwarted
on Rockingham road about S:3(
o'clock Friday night Lott was get.
ting prepared for an evening rush o.
New Years jewellers anA gas dr!@!ss {
west on Rockingham road when. at Z
point opposite City cemetery. q tai
man stepped out at secluded spot
.. The hot tamale man believed him to b.
prospective patron and stopped hi
wagon for the transaction which HI
ANTICIPATED just as the strange
reached the open window In the wagol
where Lotti stood he pointed pfsto
: ct the peddler. Lott screamed an
Z drove rapidly away No shots wer
: fired but persons living IN the neigh
r Dor hood heard the mans screams. Pc
e lice received the summops few mo
menfs later aud when the patrol Wa
!. gent to tint place it was learned tina
. fthe tamale salesman had gone to "a
ftioon few block; :. ~ y q Police s:.e
: to find the would-be fcldup man an
3 they escorted the tamalaS man back
: i . IL wtii-iiYnied 1usnIrss seCti0n q 3
; that he might proceed with his busl
q meas