Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-30
Southern Iowa Items

Rock Island Thursday morning. he
was hurrying as 1t was . o'clock and
he was going to be late at Longfellow
schoo. at Forty-second street and Sew
enth avenue. He was not reprmarded.
He never reached his destination. A
jitney bus, driven by Jake Falkovitch.
ran him down. He died just after the
ambulance had taken him to St. An
thongs hospital. AS the boy turned in
the road from the rear of the funeral
proce ssion. Faikovltch saw him and
made a frantic effort to turn his car
out of the way. He did not have his
machine in good control and instead
of missing the urchin the front wheel
OF the car pinioned him against the
hood His chest was crushed and in
ternal hemorrhages caused his death,
SO physicians at the hospital found.
Lisbon.
The Lisbon sauer kraut celebration
will be held Wednesday. Oct 4. The
day will be a full one. Music vaude-
Vile. contests, horse shows, exhibits,
base ball and a tractor demonstration,
will continue from early morning until
the little hours of the night Harding
will be given an hour in the afternoon
TO talk state politics. The demonstra-
ton of the tractors will be up-to-the
minute entertainment. Four already
entered. The horse show promises big.
The real base ball article will be pulled
off between Mechanicsville and Lisbon.
Street sports will be rife. Exhibits will
be generous and interesting. The kraut
and weiner feast will open at noon
md 4
is being arranged. Forenoon afternoon
and evening will also find interesting
vaudeville. The interurban will give
hourly service out Of Cedar Rapids and
fifteen minute service with Mt. Yer
non Lisbon invites the world to come
and look over the celebration.
Des Moines.
Frances HuDbell 9-year-old grand
daughter of ''Iowa's richest man." F..
VI. Hubbell, will be the Poor Little
Rich Girl of Des Moines for day.
Clad in rags, her hair in tangled curls
and wearing shoes and stockings with
big holes. she will pick up coal on the
tracks of her Grandfather Hubbelrs
million dollar railway. OF course the
coal is not for home use. Little Miss
movie juvenile actress She is to pose
before the camera as poor little girl
who gets the home coal supply from
the railway tracks. She Is one Of the
principal characters in a movie which
is being produced by local talent for
charity's sake. Miss Hubbell will per-
form the stunt Of being thrown under
a switch engine at the Union station
Here's the way they will do IT: The
| scene will be taken backwards, the en-
CINE backing away from the girl. By
| reversing the film in the protector, the
engine will appear to move toward her
Shenandoah, a<
Rev. John Quist, the venerable
Swedish minister and his wife will
soon leave for Worcester. Mass, and
will spend the remainder Of theil
lives there near. the hcme CO theIl
son. They sold their household goods
a few days ago. and are now preparing
to leave When they arrive at the
home Of their son, pleasant surprise
awaits them. But the surprise is &
result Of an incident happening wher
the Rev. Quist was visiting several
years ago with their son in the east
Once, as the father and SON were stroll.
ling thru the beautiful streets Of tht
little Massachusetts town, Rev. Mr.
Quist found residence which ap.
peaied to him. 1t was q beautiful
homely home and surrounded by won.
| derfuiiy appealing flower gardens. Rev
| Quist could not praise II enough. St
realizing his fathers liking for THU
/ residence, he has been able to pur.
chase the property and will give it t
his father. az soon an they arrive !,
J Massachusetts,.