Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-31
Northern Io,pa Items

Sioux City.
Riley Hornaday. retired grocer and
farmer. of this city, killed himself by
drinking poison. He seemed especially
cheerful at breakfast.
Anamosa.
Rev. Eric A. Hamilton of Antwerp,
n. V, has accepted call to the rector
ship of St. Marks chhurch in Ana
mosa He will also have charge of the
parish at Farley, preaching there al
ternate Sundays. The church has been
without a rector since lastsApril wf1en
Rev. c. b. Upton resigned.
Sioux City. ID
Wars can not be stopred, by the
speeches of pacifists from ''Nsbraska
and elsewhere who go up and down
the country talking, declared Bishop
Homer c.. Stuntz of the Methodist
Episcopal church, in an address deliv-
cred here There will be no permanent
peace in the world until the era@of uni
versaE righteousness arrives, he said.
Sheiisburg.
At "a meeting of the school board
Saturday evening 1t was decided to be-
gin school Monday. Sept. IL. The base
ment underline main building has been
fitted sup for manual training classes,
and atcoal vaiilt, has been made under
ground 3on-the north of the main build :
ing. AS the board can; not spend more
than 5000 the Lane building will BE-
rented until the question of voting
more funds can be placed before the
vot RS of the district. This building
will be fitted up for class rooms.
Fort Dodge.
J. C. Mardis company ,Des Moines,
secured the general contract for the
four story annex to the Wahkonsa
Hotel Its bid was approximately
s125,0O0. The structure will cost about
100000 completed. Its ground dimen-
sions, 100 by 1870 feet, will be the same
size as the present building When
completed, the property, including the
present hotel. will be the biggest in
the state. Messrs. F. G.. and T. G..
Warden are erecting the building on
two lots they purchased some time ago
for $4,000.
Sioux City.
Miss Esther Nelson, stenographer
for W. E. Holmes. secretary Of the
commercial club. lost $500 worth of
jewelry and a watch that had been
left her by her mother who died re-
Gently, when the club safe was cracked
Sunday night. Miss Nelson locked UP
the Jewels when she went on her vaca-
ton two weeks ago. When she re-
turned for work Monday, the broken
safe was the first object that greeted
her eye. Someone familiar with the
place and the conditions is believed to
have broken the safe. Little else of
value was contained in the strong box.
Waterloo.
Less than an hour after she had
written letter to her son, Earle, "a
years old, on duty at the Mexican
border Mrs. Ethel Carr, AZ years old.
was stricken with apc2lexy at her
home, $50 Iowa street, and died before
medical attention reached her. Mrs.
Carr is survived by the son, a brother,
f. L. Shenfelt Oelwein, and sister,
Mrs. D. w. Wyman, who lives in Can
ada. Mr.. Shenfelt arrived here the
other night but the son and sister will
be unable to come. Mrs. Carr had been
in poor health for some time. Neigh
bors heard her crying for help and
found her unconscious.
vinton.
Otis Rule, OF Ackley, who was grad
uated at the Iowa college for the blind
in 1914, has been elected tuning teacher
at the school for the blind Of South
Dakota, located at Gary. He entered
the Iowa college in 1903, and was total
ly blind. After treatment by DR.. Dean,
the college oculist. the sight Of both
eyes was partially restored. Roy stat
lander, of Burlington. who was grad
uated from the college for the blind
this year, will continue his musical
studies at Oberlin College. His cred-
its at the college here were accepted
at Oberlin. He is 20 years old and Is
totally blind.
Waterloo.
Cedar Heights. Iowas newest town
aspiring to become the model city in
the United States IL developing 30 rap
idly that Mayor William Galloway IS
devoting much time to the formation
Of model business section. At pres
emit the plan contemplates only one
school, one church, one merchandising
emporium and one municipal garage.
Each Of these institutions 10 to be To-
Gated on or near Liberty avenue, the
model street. Each IL to be on grounds
laid out by q landscape gardener. The
garage and store plats will be adorned
with foliage. flowers and trees. Be.
cause Of the natural beauty OF the
drives It is said none OF them will be
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sraveled and oiled, Liberty avenue.