Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-04-02

! house along the river front. In a re-
cent raid by the police he was appre-
hended as well as several alleged IN
mates. He made a strong denial Of
guilt following his arrest by the .au-
thorities butt changed his plea in the
district court
Wilton.
| Somewhat of sensation was caused
| during the course of the prayer meet
| ing at the Methodist church Thursday
| evening when an escaped inmate of the
Watertown asylum participated in the
service. The intruder acted in man
| ner to promptly arouse suspicious of
his sanity and when it was feared that
he might interfere with the progress Of
| the exercises he was led out Of the edi-
| flee. He proceeded across the street
to the A. e. Darling home where he
| frightened Mrs. Darling and her child
rem by entering without knocking. Be-
fore the woman could give an alarm
Marshal Abbott appeared on the scene
and placed the man in custody. 1t was
learned that he had escaped from the
Watertown hospital and arrangements
We're made for his return.
Columbus Junction.
! Work on the construction of the
branch plant here of the Zeigler Can
ming Company Of Muscatine is eX-
pected to start soon. according to Man.
ager George Zeigler. The building
will be started as soon as arrangements
can be made for the material and the
location can be established. Mr.. Zeig-
| Ter gives assurance that the latest
modern machinery will be installed
and states that the erection of the
branch plant is the first step in a plan
| to construct large manufacturing
plant here Manager Zeisler has fin
ished his work in selecting acreage for
tomatoes and pumpkins IN the local
fields and while the. required 200 acINs
of tomatoes have not yet been stSo-
scribcd there is no doubt that local
boosters will bring the amount up to
the requirement.
Let's.
Let's and the community contribu-
tors thereto are getting busy on the
consolidated school question and are
not going to let Columbus Junction
lead the way very far. The town is
admirably situated for community
school center and the area will be
somewhat large. 1t will cover some
thing like 10000 acres in both Louisa
and Muscatine counties. Several small
districts will be included in the pro-
posed plan and they will reap benefits
which have heretofore been impossible
for them. One district near Let's has
only been having few pupils and yet
the costs were too much in proportion
to the results obtained. SO they are
thinking over there. They are not slow
to realize good thing and are making
a strenuous effort to see that it is car
ried thru to completion
Des Moines.
The Iowa Ice Dealers association will
hold it's next annual convention in the
spring of 1918 in Ottumwa it was de-
cided at the closing meeting of the con-
vention which has been in progress at
the Savoy hotel here, Thursday eve
ming. The final session was the annual
business meeting OF the organization
and election Of officers for the coming
year was the order. All officers Of the
association who have held office during
the past year were reelected. J. 6,
Black Of Des Moines is president, I.
J. Conlin of Dubuque vice. president,
John Simpson, Of Waterloo. secretary.
and !. C. Plane, of Independence, treas
urer. The executive committee of the
association which was chosen at the
afternoon meeting Is made up OF w. W..
Wise, OF Des Moines. chairman: G. NJ.
Kuehl, of Davenport, r. 7. Penders OF
| Oskaloosa, w. L. Lee Of Mason City,
TT. KearnS Of Dubuque n r