Evening times-Republican., 1916-05-27
Southern I01ua Items

| to his wife, and ma de out all his other
| business papers*to her. However, his
| family talked him out of III and he
burned the papers and check Sunday
morning about 4:30 O'Clock he slipped
out of the house and wentsout to the
barn. whore he removed his boots, and
then shot himself In the head. He was
found some time later BY members OF
| the family. s,1@ n !
WapslIo. NJ Il a5
Peter wilson. civil war hero. and who
was known to nearly al the older resi-
de1its 0ft this Vicinity, deid Saturday
his demise being due to the infirmis
ties OF. age. MT. Wilson Was born IN
In diana in 1885 and came to this place
with his parents whens9 years sof age
He moved to Kansas near the begin
ing of the war of the rebellion and
| served four years in that conflict with
! a Kansas regiment winning an en-
| viable record: At the close of the war
| he returned to Wapello and this place
had been his home ever SINCE -Four
| children survive him.
Burlington.
Circus day Saturday in Burlington
! proved a busy one for the dips. Halt
|
touched up" losing money and articles
Of jewelry. August Witte, well known
west Burlington farmer is minus
! pocketbook containing ss4, and w. D.
Jones, OF Oakville. had a. valuable
watch lifted. while other persons re-
ported being hit in a smaller way
Three OF the pickpockets wh0 were
working together were spotted but
caught the officers signal and made
| their getaway after hard chase foI
| several blocks.
Red Oak.
| Ed Giles Of West township has had
some remarkably good luck with his
pigs this spring fifteen young Duroc
! Jersey sows having farrowed l40 pigs
or an average of nearly ten pigs to the
| litter. Only a few pigs were lost, and
| the whole lot are as hearty as can be
Nh. Giles attributes his success to care
with which he has fed the sows, for
he has studied the proper ration and
has been using what he considers the
| balanced ration for the last three win
ters with good success. He feeds
only a little corn, some oats, alfalfa
| hay and alfalfa meal, and his expert
ence is that IT tends to strengthen the
/
! on fat.
Fairfield.
| The residence Of Attorney and Mrs
Arthur G. Jordan on East Burling-
| ton street has been donated by them tc
the Jefferson county hospital for use
as a nurses home. The Jordans are
| planning to build a new and more mod
ern home on their property and at first
thought Of tearing the old building
down, but 1t is much too good and com.
modious for such treatment. therefore
| they decided to present 1t to the hos
pital for a nurses home providing 1t
/ can be moved to the hospital grounds
only few blocks away. nIeiiiHeTs
of the hospital board. Dillon Turney
L. J. Marcy. John H. Fritz and Charles
| w. Wade, have obtained permission
from the city council for removal Of the
building down East Burlington street
and the work will be commenced in .
few days.
Knoxville. /-,. .,a-4st 4
. Miss Anna McKern, who for the last
four years has had charge Of the dining
room Of the state inebriate hospital
here, Is now at Mount Sinai hospital
Milwaukee, suffering from the rarest
known human ailment-Hodgkin's dis
ease of the lymphatic glands. Miss
McKern left here in March to take
treatment at the Mayo hospital al
Rochester, MINI. Surgeons there re-
fused to operate upon her, telling hei
there was not one chance In q million
i that she would live a year. They told
her only one surgeon In the United
1 States ever attempts to treat suct
leases and he Is the one at the Mount
Sinai hospital At that institution
there are only five cases Of the disease
under observation. 1t ia said that there
has been only one other case OF IIodg-
kin's disease in Iowa, that OF Samue
y Trent. who died Of It at Knoxville, ii
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