Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-05
Southern Io1ua Items

his commission Monday afternoon from
President Wilson and was formally
introduced into the office Tuesday,
August I. by the retiring postmaster
William G. Ross. Mr.. Ross has held
the office fer about eleven years,
filling out an unexpired term of his
edecessor and having been ap-
pointed to the office twice because Of
his natural ability for the work. Mr.
Ross rendered his resignation to
President Woodrow Wilson in March
of this year and it has taken the
democratic circles both in Fairfield
and Washington until this time to
choose his successor.
Shenandoah.
Locked in the cod storage at a
| meat market w. w. Oviatt and D. H.
Mordhorst, pounded the glass opening
while they chilled, in an effort to at
tract attention. A salesman noticed
| them when he called at the shop sew
eral times and found no one in. The
two men were in the giant ice box an
hour and a half. The story has just
leaked out how the cafe owner went
into the meat room to select his pur.
chase about o'clock Tuesday morn
ing Mr.. Mordhurst, the proprietor,
accompanied him and while they
were examining the steaks and roasts
the door closed and locked itself on
the outside. Morning customers stood
around on finding the market keeper
gone but never a one Of them heard
the frantic kicking on the thick glass.
OskaIoosa.
Because his fathers car, in which
he and three other boys were riding,
ran into a ditch and was slightly
damaged, about midnight. Wayne
Billick, son of E. e. Billick, ran away
and has not yet been found. = Wayne
and his companions were driving back
to Oskaloosa, near midnight, and
reached a place in the road in front
Of Hawkeye school, where the road
was blocked, making ready for the
installation of a new culvert At
tempting to turn out the car ran
into a roadside ditch. sma shing the
front wheels, and bending the front
axle Wayne disappeared immed-
lately, leaving his companions to
notify the parents Of the accident. A
search has not revealed young Bill
ick's whereabouts.
! Ottumwa.
! There are 121 school houses in Wa
| pello county and they are worth over
half million dollars. Out of 11.444
children of school age in the county.
there are only 119 who are not at
| tending Two thousand six hundred
and thirty are attending the rural
/ schools and the attendance in the high
school from the rural districts is al
most seven times as large now as it
Twas four years ago. These and many
other statistics can be gathered from
the annual report which County
Superintendent Gardner has sent
| in to the state department of
public instruction. Twenty one
school houses are located in the towns
and villages Of the county and 100 are
| in the rural districts. They are
twenty one men and 10 women teach
! ing IN the city and village schools, six
men and 104 women teach in the rural
schools. The average number Of months
taught during the year in country
schools is eight and in town nine.
Men in town schools receive an aver
age salary of $13S.S1. and in the coun-
| try $5197, while the women in the
country receive an average wage of
s5O.11 and s6S.35 in town. The mini
mum salary in the city and village
schools is $3.50 and in the country.
$40 The maximum In town is $3.50,
| and In the country. $50.