Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-29
Northern Io1ua Items

all the patent devices, including fancy
chandeliers, domes and switches. He
has also installed a wireless telegraph
system on the silo Of the farm. He Is
now engaged in renovating static, x
ray, galyanic and ferratic machines in
the office of DR.. A. Shryer.
Sioux City. sod
The Rinehart flats, Seventh and Ne
braska streets, owned by Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Rice, of Chicago, have been sold
announced by H. l.. Craven, agent for
Samuel J. Knott, of Waterbury, Neb.,
and George King. Of Homer Neb. The
deal involved about $4,000 in cash,
while farm located near Homer, Neb,
was exchanged for the balance. 1t is
said that the purchasers procured the
city property for investment purposes.
Interested in the sale of the building
with Mr. Craven was F. S. Barnes.
Sioux City.
Plans for Labor Day, already we'll
under way, call for the most elaborate
observance of the day in Sioux sCity's
history. A feature of the parade this
year will be a section devoted to the
children of union men. If weather con-
ditions are at all favorable it is ex-
pected that several thousand children
will march. Because of threatened con-
ficts, arrangements have been made to
call off the parade OF the circus which
is to exhibit here on Labor Day. E. R.
Moore, of Cedar Rapids, will be the
speaker of the day. An athletic pro-
gram has been prepared for the after
noon.
Fort Madison.
Local authorities are in quandary,
wondering if they were heroes or dupes
Wednesday night. During Wednesday
q local citizen overheard a company ct
Mexicans planning, as he understood
their mixed language, to blow up an
ammunition train passing thru here
Wednesday night. Tarrying only long
enough to find out the exact point of
the proposed wreck, he hurried to tho
police station and informed the au-
thorities. The informant not being able
to identify the Mexicans he had heard
from the hundred or more stationed at
or near the city In railroad work, there
was no other course but for the police
and sheriffs to guard the spot while the
train passed. No Mexicans were found
in the vicinity.
Monticello.
The plans for the John Mcdonald
hospital to be erected in this city, are
now in the hands of the contractors.
and bids will be opened and the con-
tract let Aug. 8. The building Will
be 1873 feet in length. and forty eight
feet in width. The immediate grounds
surrounding the building will be 1872
feet in length and ninety-two feet in
width. The whole plot Of ground for
the hospital and grounds covers four
acres. The building 10 to be constructed
Of light colored, rough faced brick, that
will cost $2A a thousand. The main en-
trance Of the building faces the east.
the sun parlors on each floor will face
south. On the first floor the plans call
for the following rooms: Solarium,
storage room, laboratory, lecture room,
laundry, linen room, mending room,
sorting room, isolation ward with at
tendant nurses room adjoining, kitch-
en-, dining room. and closets. A cor
ridor extends thru the center Of the
building. On the second floor there n
provision for eight private rooms for
patients. The majority Of these rooms
are 10x1s feet in size. Each Of these
rooms is provided with a lavatory and
closet. In addition to these rooms Will
be found two wards for charity
patients with six beds in each ward,
memorial reception room. the superin :
tendent's office. drug room and solar :
ium. A number of bath rooms and
wash rooms are located on this floor,
some of them connected with the pri-
yate rooms. The next floor contains
ten private rooms. children's ward
the operating room, recovery ROOM
etherizins room, doctors room, steriliz-
ing room and dressing room.