Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-03-02

| Dubuque. Il.
| Irene Welstead, Of Waterloo, the
young woman arrested three weeks
ago with the Secs brothers, and all
charged with shoplifting. was released
! from custody by Chief Of Police Giellis.
The Sees brothers were sentenced to
nine months in jail. 49,
Fort Dodge.
! Fort Dodge Congregationalists made
| big day of the sixtieth anniversary
of the founding Of the Fort Dodge
church. Elaborate programs extended
over the entire day. The church Is at
| present planning a fine new structure
to be valued at $4,000 on a we'll To-
Gated and newly purchased lot.
, Hanford. K
Plans to consolidate q number OF
school districts in this vicinity with
central school located at this point,
were voted down by the electors OF the
district involved. at special election
held here Saturday Forty three votes
were cast for the project and fifty -oIle
/ against 1t, SOFT was defeated by ma
jority Of eight, u II
| Dubuque. ss1 Ma
/ Down with the cigarette" Is the
slogan adopted at recentNmeeting OF
! the economics class of the Dubuque
Woman's Club. The, club will, within
! the next few days. start war on the
) cigarette and win insist that the state
laws be obeyed. The members claim
| that the statt laws are being filagrant-
Fly disobeyedtin Dubuque and $50 in
! many other Scities and tow,s-in the
state.
Sioux City, s6s4 ,.-.
D. c.Shull,F prominent Baptist Of
this section. on his return from con-
{ ference at Des .Moines, called FOR the
purpose Of discussing the question Of
/, q location for the merged Des Moines
/ College and Central University. ex-
. pressed the belief that the new c,'llege
; would be located at Carol, Iowa.
| Waterloo and Iowa Falls are also after
! the institution and it may possibly be
! decided to locate 1t at Des Moines, the
! present seat Of Des ;Moines College.
; Waterloo.
| w. r. Law, former postmaster and
/ prominent in fraternal circles. will be
, the anti-administration candidate at
the city election against Mayor r. c.
! Thompson. Mr.. Law says his ticket
will be completed and ready for filing
within few days. It is reported that
, the two councilmen- at-large will be
! candidates Endorsed by the affiliated
labor bodies and will be wOrkingmen.
Mayor Thompson's ticket is complete
| with the exception Of a councilman
| from the first ward.
Stone City. ~
That the women Of the parish are
money makers was made evident by
the last annual report Of St, Joseph's
Catholic church. The total receipts for,
the year were $500 Of which $3.50 was
made by the women. The little 800
| 900 stone church when finished two
years ago carried debt of $500. only
500 OF which remains to be paid. This
rapid paying off of the debt in spite
I Of the scattered nature Of the COM
munity and the scarcity Of work
among the quarrymen in winter is due
to the work Of the women.
Dubuque.
Fred S. -Somers. the 1s-year-old Du-
buque boy who was charged with the
embezzlement Of approximately $4,000
from the Illinois Central railroad when
! employed at its local fraieht office as
cashier, entered a plea OF guilty in the
county district court. A plea FOR Glenn
ency was made by the young mans at
l.torney. the court being asked to exer-
else his parole rights. by putting the
young man out on parole. Somers is
employed by a local concern as a trav-
cling salesman at the present time. A
{! petition signed by several hundred
!! prominent Dubuque men prayed that
tthe judge parole the youth and give
( him another chance in life, His case
was postponed until March 8.
! Clinton. s"...-
/ Confronted by section Al OF the Iowa
| code, which states that two supervis-
| ors can not be elected from the same
! township for same term, >the Clinton
( county board, which has two such men
l on its list, is facing a puzzling prob
lem in a special session here this
I week. Supervisors Rice (democra)
i and Smith (republican) are both from
+ Center township. Smith ID hold
over man for two years on the board,
while Rice was chosen at the last cleo
I, tion. Local legal talent which was
called in in an attempt 20 reach some
solution. states that the section II
clear on the point. but ID at = loss re-
garding what action should be taken.
County Attorney Ggdu6sen stated to-