Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-04-08
Ottumwa.

.tlthn nttumwa is a dry" town 430
persons were ARE sted in its midst the
past year for intoXiCatiOn. other ar
rests brought the total number Of Of
Tenders up to al. The number de-
tanned during the year was 2,%71 and
430 were given lodgings.
Atlantic.
Domingo Peddilac. Mexican en-
ployed by the Rock Island here. WAS
badly and possibly fatally injured when
a gasolene car in which he was ridin&
was struck by freight train. He was
thrown fifty feet. A collar bone wa :
fractured. one lung pierced by a RIB
and numerous other cuts and bruises.
Des Moines.
Firecrackers have gone up. Hence
Independence day celebration for
young America will be more costly. The
first shipment Of crackers to Iowa
from Canton. China. arrived Thursday.
The consignment is worth s1.714. The
duty collected by Uncle Sam amounted
to Sl5o2 The consgnees live in Du-
buGue and Sioux City. The former
place gets 1870 pounds of the noise
makers. worth $1Si Sioux city re-
ceives 1906 pounds. valued at $500.
Davenport.
Jimmie Miller Of Davenport. is the
youngest Rotarian in Iowa, proba Div
the youngest in the country. He Is
years old. Jimmy. whose full name IS
James Lane Ochs Miller. has attended
every Rntarian meeting in Davenport
the last year. Jimmy's fond dad is W.
f. Miller. head Of the Miller Hotel
Company and one OF Davenport's
Wealthiest men. The young Rotarian
has a nifty white dress suit which he
0uns on gala occasions, but ne con-
fes~es TO more OF a liking for an ordl-
nary bel! hops suit.
Oes Moines.
Each Of the members II the Blue
Jacket Club of Highland Park College
has recently received letter from the
navy department requesting them to be
ready to re-enlist at any moment. This
club is made up Of men who have for
merly been in the navy and have come
to Highland Park College to get fur
Their training in some part Of their
work. Baron l.. Berg Is already on his
way to join the large bat.leship Penn
sylvania as first class electrician. C. l..
Richardson expects to leave in few
days to re-enter the navy service On
another vessel. w. E. Chorpening, who
has just completed a course in me-
chanical engineering in Highland Park
College. has started for Philadelphia.
and will re-enlist as a machinist mate,
nrts class. The others expect definite
orders soon.
Harlan.
A petition on behalf of the state Of
Iowa by John P. Hertert, county attor-
ney. was filed in the district court here.
charging II. A. Scarf, of Portsmouth.
with keeping and maintaining a NUS
ance in the illegal sale Of liquors. The
petition further charged that liquor
was kept for sale in room or base
ment Of a building owned by Agnes
Scarr and asked that temporary in
Junction &c issued restraining said de-
PENDANTS from disposing of intoxicating
liquors contrary to law. Upon hearing
before Judge Rockafellow a temporary
Injunction was granted which orders
defendant to render up his permit to
sell Intoxicating liquors to the clerk of
the district court for cancellation. Final
hearing on the petition to have the or
der made permanent will be had at the
September term of the district court
here.
Fairfield.
There is probably one bunch OF Next
can working men in Iowa who now
thoroughly understands that they are
not to set the Mexican flag above the
stars and stripes while on United
States soil. The story Is told that
gang of Mexican iaborers for the Rock
Island railway. working north Of Fair
field short distance, were so jubilant
Tuesday morning over, the apparent
Mexican victory, of Villas escape that
they hoisted the M exican flag on q pole
and surrounding it began to sing and
shout The foreman. a loyal lover Of
the red. white and blue found his men
in high gIee and with quick hand
pulled down the Mexican flag and
proudly sent Old Glory up to the top
of the pole and then standing by
quite calmly ordered his men to sing
the Stars and Stripes. enforcing his