Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17

| Cherokee.
The newspapers here have dwindled
from three to two. G. and j. Barry
who recently acquired the Cherokee
Times, have purchased the Republican
splant and will consolidate the two
Implications. Bss,ee,
| jackson Donald. of Garrison, past 80
years old, died Monday. HIS wife
nearly the same age as himself, had
died few days before and swassburied
Sunday Grief and the shock over
her death contributed largely to his
DEATH He was one Of the earliest set
tiers OF this section and the father o,
| A. ]. Donald, cashier Of the People
| Savings Bank Of Garrison. -.
Sioux City.
Because fire insurance rates in this
I city have reached an almost prohibitive
| figure, the school board is considering
| a plan to carry its own insurance on
| the school buildings of the city. To this
end they win endeavor, to get permits
sion to transfer Adopt $4,000 Of the
general fund to the building fund, to
be used in the emergency Of fire de-
stroying one of the school buildings
here.
Monticello.
Matt Noes, a pioneer merchant OF
! Monticello, died at his home here
| Tuesday of an illness of but one weeks
duration. Mr.. Nozes had been resi-
dent Of Minticello for over fifty years
and had seen the two grow from lit
| tie village of few INHABITANTS to the
| present prosperous little city. He Is
survived by two daughters, Misses
Daisy and Clara, and one son, John
Nozes, all of whom were present al
| their fathers death.
Clarion.
! Fire almost completely destroyed
the Lockwood & Stewart hardware
store building Thursday afternoon AMI
| caused some damage to an adjoining
| building occupied by Mckaskey's poo
lhall and Robling's harness shop. The
7 loss is estimated at $4,000, largely COW
cred by insurance. The firemen were
greatly handicapped by the extreme
cold the temperature at that time be.
| ing IL degrees below zero.
Maquoksta.
The second trial Of the state Of Iowa
4 VS.. CQdTleS MduSlSr was SsoASSu = -
day in the district court. The jury
was completed at noon. It will be re-
| membered that Mr.. Mangler was
convicted here in the November term
! OF court, A. p. Barker, Of Clinton, pre-
siding, on the charge Of dynamiting a
levee on the farm OF August Marber-
ger, near Green Island. The case wac
appealed for new trial and was
granted on the grounds lot insuflc4enl
corroborated testimony.
Pomeroy.
"A clever and persistent forger reapes
| a good harvest along this line the pas
week. Friday hesw14 in gcmS boy APP
out OF several attempts to pass bid
checks succeeded in passing c::ss on 2
1 F. Bodenstein for s15. HIS method
was to make q purchase. then ofnen 8
i check in payment HS told Mr.. Boden.
stein that he had Purchased q sui
there last summer, made some com.
plant about the trousers and asked
! that they be repaired. He signed thu
name of f. Ellis to the check. saying
he was brother OF Tom Ellis. ant
i spoke OF Victor Anderson in way
/ that suggested familiarity with the 10.
.cality east Of town. The check we:
drawn on Manson bank. He bough
\ q generous roast at the meat marke
but his talk didn't listen good to Stew,
Her and he didn't get away with hi
i game. At Manson he passed cheeks
in sums In the teens on Max Deima
i and the Daniels store, signing names o
ALLEGED Pomeroy men to- Pomero.