Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-04
Southern Iowa Items

keokuk.
Lawrence A. Barr. son of G. Walter
Barr, author and journalist, died in
hospital at Jacksonville, H., Sunday
night. He was 81 years old.
Woodbine.
Subscribers for the Woodbine Twin
err are notified that a change has been
made whereby Mrs. Estelia Bays be-
comes editor and publisher Of the pa
per, and that the business OF the
Twiner Publishing Company will be
carried on in the future the same as in
the past.
Greenfield.
The Ladies Civic Improvement Club
has settled its bills after conducting a
refreshment stand at the county fair
and find that they have about 500
clear money besides s25 received for
having the best decorated auto in the
parade This money will be turned
over to the cemetery road paving fund
for which the club has been laboring
now for about year.
Stanton.
Maxine, the baby daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs Rudolph Wallin. was injured
in a very peculiar manner Mrs. Wal
lin had left the house few minutes
and while she was gone the little tot
reached upon the dining table and took
down a knife. Putting It In her
mouth, she fell upon it so that the
knife cut the roof Of her mouth quite
badly.
West Liberty.
A new price was set for real estate
in Muscatine county on Saturday
when Briton Sucker sold his farm two
miles northeast Of this place for SITS
per acre. Local farm dealers report
that the price OF Muscasine county
farm land continues to increase an
nually and that the time is not far dis.
tant when 5000 an acre will be paid fol
desirable farms.
Muscatins.
When Rock Island passenger trair
| number sixty-th pulled into Mich
OILS, a small town near here on Sunday
Homer Ref. the fireman was missing
An investigation resulted in the dis
covery Of his lifeless body lying on tn
| track half mile away. He Is believed
| to have been brushed off the engin'
| cab by a bridge support. A wife ant
| three children residing at Cedar Rap
ids survive.
Norway.
The funeral of Mrs. Alexander Neri
son Of this place was largely attended
J Mrs. Nerison would have been SO year
| old her next birthday. She came t
! Norway in 1908. from a farm in low
| county, near Marengo. In 1851, Mrs
| Nerison landed in Iowa City with a.
| OK team. She drove it to Marengc
| where she sold it, then walked bacl
| to Iowa City and bought a few acre
of land at 1926 per acre. 1t is nov
| north 5000 an acre.
ealitown.
| The 3-year -old child Of Mr.. and Mr..
| Henry GUNNER. has been in an uncon
scious condition for several days as
| result of a fractured skull, sustained
| The accident happened on the Fran
| Meyer place, where the threshing wa
| underway The child was playin
about the house and had wandered gu
into the barnyard Later 1t was foun
lying near a wagon, the back OF 1t
! head crushed How the injury was in
flicted. is not known.
Davenport.
Rev. B. H. Cheney, pastor OF tn
4 Berea Congregational church for tn
past four years and nine months. an
1 nounced to his congregation Sunda
that he had resigned to accept call q
Lockport, Ill He will leave for hi
new charge the last Of October. Lock
port is 80 miles from Chicago and nea
Joliet, in a pleasant and thriving resi-
dence section. Mr. Cheney came
Davenport from Winthrop. Iowa, an
t'during his period as pastor at Bere
the attendance at church and Sunda
a school has grown considerably.
Clarified.
i Uncle David Carlton had the mis-
fortune Thursday evening to fall frol
J, the havmow % his barn in east Clear
field while he was throwing hay dow