Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-14
Northern Io,ua Items

Thursday evening. w. J. Zitterell. OF
Webster City; Paul Jenson. Of Fort
Dodge, and the Jensen Construction
Company, Of Fort Dodge. were tho
other bidders. The new structure will
be Of two stories and basement, 76x34
in size, with a wing 34x21. 1t will be
tile roof. Work win begin as soon as
possible. The building will be erected
Just north Of the parish house.
Boone.
Goods valued approximately at $3.50
were taken by thief or thieves who
Wednesday night entered the Toms
Clothing Company store at Ninth and
Story streets and escaped unidentified.
The prowler gaineds entrance by using
q Jimmy on a rear window. Suit cases.
suits, neckties, socks and other articles
of wearing apparel were taken as well
as money out Of the cash register. A
fine manicuring set was also contained
in the loot.
Bellevue.
Henry Louis, the 6-year- old son of
Fl. V. Klinkner, editor of the Bellevue
Herald, Is certainly child Of misfor-
tune. For the third time within year
he has broken the same arm Last
June he fell from tricycle. fracturing
his left forearm and two hours after
the splints were removed on July 20,
he broke the same arm again. This
time the arm Is broken at the elbow
When he was 2 years old he broke his
right leg and dislocated the right hip.
Who can beat this record for child
only years old?
Waterloo.
Farmers Of Iowa are not rolling in
the wealth Of bulky incomes from the
land, according to +. +. Rainbow,
county auditor, who says government
inspectors sent here to check up agrl-
cultural returns are finding few tillers
of the soil who must pay an income
tax. The reason that incomes on the
farm rarely rise above $4,000 year,
he says, is due to the fact that on
many farms the tax amounts to 81
an acre, farm help commands large
wages, all kinds Of feed Is expensive
and mortgages must be reduced and
the interest paid.
Sioux City.
Besides inconveniencing him. It cost
John Lee just SIS to attempt suicide
day night. Leo was arrested when his
death plot ran into a snag in the form
|of Policeman Glenn Hagan. Hagan
was called to the home OF Mrs Lee.
He forfeited a SIS bond in police court
thru failure to make appearance in an
swer to a charge Of disturbing the
peace. When Hagan went to the home
Thursday night Lee was bent over a
gas Jet. Mrs. Lee told the patrolman
her husband had become aggravated
over domestic troubles and decided to
end It all. When she tried to prevent
execution Of the plot she was elected
from the room. she said. Then came
the police.
Cedar RapidA
Pedestrians passing along the Third
street side Of the federal building have
been hit on the head by nails An
open window on the third fioor was
noted by people passing the building.
Today Miss Ella Smith, stenographer
in the Office OF County Agent Thurman.
was accused Of throwing nails from
this window. Miss Smith was as much
surprised that nails were dropping on
the heads OF pedestrians AZ they them
selves were. Pigeons nesting In the
framework Just above the window
were seen to fly back and forth with
nails. long rusty ones. as tho taken
from old lumber. They were used sby
the pigeons In lining their nests Of
branches. and In carrying them. often
the nails were dropped. Miss Smith
proved m alibl easily when q number
OF pigeons were caught with the goods,