Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-22
Southern Io1va Items

Lost Nation.
Henry Myatt has sold his farm OF
over 100 acres, about three miles north
Of town. to F. Earl for the consider"
alton of $4,000.
Scion. ..
The infant son of Wesley Kasporlk
met with an unfortunate accident re-
Gently when he toppled over in his high
chair and in the fall to the floor frac-
tured his arm.
Des Moines.
Frog skin was grated. on the chest
of Mrs. Samuel Sport at Mercy hospl-
tai, and it was announced she will
probably recover from severe burns re-
ceived in fire at her home here
jan 26.
Des Moines.
Rev. Otis l.. Spurgeon, Of Des
Moines, former sovereign scribe OF the
knights of Luther who was kidnapped
from his hotel and narrowly escaped
with his life after delivering an anti
Catholic lecture in Denver in 1914.
Thursday filed a 100000 libel suit
against the knights Of Luther and f.
NJ. Shipper, their manager.
Burlington.
Wednesday half holidays instead OF
Saturday half-hoIidays will prevail IN
Burlington banks hereaftre. in &C
cordance with an agreement entered
into by all the banks here. This action
nullifies custom prevalent here for
forty years. The banks will close at
8 o'clock on Saturdays and open for an
hour Saturday evening. On Wednes--
day the closing hour will be O'clock.
Washington.
washington county may be the home
of a county Y. w. C. A. established on
the community plan, according to plans
begun Saturday when Miss Anna Se-
berg, of New York City, one of the
ma tional secretaries of the organiza-
ton, arrived to begin survey. The
sentiment will be measured and If ap-
r.arent in favor of the plan the county
Y. w. C. A. will be formed.
Dean.
Coal has been coming up missing at
the Stansberry school house, Director
Ed Peck and Constable Williams de-
cided to watch for the thief. They
started for the school house but be-
fore reaching it they heard team go
ing along the road and go up to thc
school house. They let him load up
his coal and then walked in on him.
The party proved to be Ray Replogle.
He was told to put the coal back III
the coal house and was taken up be-
fore the justice Of the peace, Lock
Black, where he was made to pay TO:
fifty bushels Of coal. Later Mr.
Replogle moved away from this vicin.
ity. a&ae
Shenandoah.
Five dollars was the Inheritance
Willard Smith, of Markham, Tex, re-
ceived according to the will Of his
father, Elias Smith. The daughter,
Mrs. Lulu NJ. Suter, and the other
brother, Frank, Of Shenandoah, and
Merle, of Townsend, Mont, each re-
ceived farms In Fremont county. The
SON who was cut of with SIS had re-
ce1ved heretofore *as,eeea equivalent !n
land, the will states. It is rumored
that an effort will be made to break the
will and to make an equal distribution
of the property. The father was noted
for the strenuous life he had lived,
having been the driver of a cannon
team in the civil war and haa spent
many years in the west. &,
centervisle.
The big county field meet In which
ell the schools will be invited to par
.iaipate will be held about SATURDAY.
May % The preliminary details are
being worked out and the committee
is sending out notice to the various
schools announcing the plans. It is In
tended that every school have an
equal opportunity. therefore only two
,x,triaS in anv eyaY1t GA :, 4rc ~ a., Frn,n
80 .oIu, =, the co,,nt,, ,,.s,, ~. ~
on the same basis as the smallest
country district. The entries are d.
vided into three classes, SO as to give
boys Of similar weights contestants OF