Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-09
Southern Ioua Items

to place himself right with his fellow
soldiers, and asked to be returned i'm
medately. Sheriff Wiley took the de-
serter to Des ,Moines. Returning him
to Des Moines is in accordance with
instructions received from that point.
Atlantic.
An operation was performed here
Saturday for the removal OF a needle
from the body of Harold Krohn. 1s
months old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Her
man Krohn, of Avoca. The piece of
steel had lodged near the lower spine.
the body when the baby was placed on
it's bed.
Des Moines.
George Wieland, aged %, Of Des
Moines, and w. J. Smalley, aged 23 OF
Valley Junction, were paroled by Dis
trict Judge DeGraf Monday morning
after he had sentenced them to five
years in Anamosa reformatory for
larceny. They pleaded guilty to steal
ing ain auto belonging to the mayor
of Milan. Mo, which was found on a
Des tMoines street.
Bennett.
James Parker an old resident Of this
community, was found Saturday after
noon hanging in a vacant barn owned
by Kate ForeSman. Parker had pur-
chased the rope at local hardware
store last Wednesday morning and as
he was seen going toward the barn
soon thereafter, 1t is presumed he
hanged himself at that time. The body
was in a bad state of decomposition
and it was difficult to recognize it by
old acquaintance. He was a bachelor.
IS years old, and for several years had
worked around here among the farm
ers. No cause for the act is known.
Knoxville.
A real mystery-one that has con-
tinued to be AN enigma for nearly fifty
years-concerns the disappearance Of
Jerome T. Gibbs, Sr, from Knoxville
in early August, 1869. Mr.. Gibbs was
an educated gentleman and an extra
good business man. He came here late
in the SOS or early in the SOS, taught
school at various places in the county
and finally married a daughter Of
Christopher Fee-a sister of George w
and James A. Fee, who still reside
here. Later he became one Of the pro-
prietors of the Knoxville Wooden Mills,
and was doing a fiourishing business
when he suddenly disappeared and has
never been heard Of.
Pieasantville.
Work Is progressing nicely on the
deep well which is to supply water for
the municipal water system. The work
is in charge Of T. w. Thorpe, Of Des
Moines, who Is an experienced we'll
man. Before coming to Pleasantville
he had just completed a we'll at Stew
art, the deepest we'll In the entire
state, having a depth Of 3.021 feet. The
Stewart well tested 900 gallons per
minute. He also recently completed
deep we'll at Fort Dodge which sup
piled spontaneous flow Of good wa
ter Mr.. Thorpe has eight we'll ma
chimes running In different parts of
the state. The Pleasantville we'll is
now to a depth Of about 100 feet. They
will probably have to go about 500
feet to get the quantity Of water de-
sired.
Fairfield.
The body Of Clinton crenshaw, the
victim Of Fridays terrible accident
when he was buried under twelve feet
of earth in fifty foot WE'LL was re-
covered Saturday evening soon after
o'clock thru the faithful work Of two
expert miners who took charge Of the
work early Saturday morning. They
were forced to case the well as they
went down, but so hard did they work
that they reached the body shortly af-
ter o'clock accomplishing feat that
seemed well nigh impossible to hun
dreds OF spectators. Contrary to eN-
pectations the body of the young man
was not badly mangled. 1t was taken
TO Birmingham and prepared for
burial, after which It was taken to the
home Of his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. En-
cry Crenshaw. where the funeral SER
vices were held Sunday afternoon at
2 O'clock. The interment look place
in Mount Zion cemetery. On account
of the condition of the body an early
burial was found to he advisable, The
young wife of Mr.. Crenshaw is almost
beside herself with grief and his par
ents are Frustrated by the terrible ac-
cident Mr.. Crenshaw was popular
young man and had made his home In
Fairfield only comparatively short
time RE WIS reared III Glasgow and
was well known in that .'icin'ty.