Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-02
Elliott.

ELLIOTT.
The house occupied by Frank
Straight on the Lyman Bolts place.
east Of town, burned Friday afternoon
This is the third house that Mr., Bolts
has lost by FIRE the last few years.
Shenandoah.
DR.. Gerald Seydell, of Ladera, a
former dentist at Essex, was fatally
burned when a coal stove exploded In
his room setting fire to the house.
Mrs. Seydell was painfully injured too.
The accident occurred at Deep Water.
The young dentist was in the office OF
Drs. Kinney and Nelson at Essex.
Shelby.
Shelby won the banner at the inter
high school contest held at Walnut
Thursday night Gladys Lawson won
first place in dramatic: Lowell Mat
tox, first in oratorCal; Cecil F'rum,
second in humorous. This makes the
third time that Shelby has won the
banner in the last three years.
Shenandoah.
John w. Shunick has subscribed
s12. 800 to the new proposed parochial
school here. While II is not definitely
assured that the school will be built.
few more liberal contributions and the
building will be reality. 1t is planned
to establish school that will attract
students from all over the state. An
endowment of 81 90, 900 is contemplated
Shelby.
The result of the special election on
school consolidation, held Monday
afternoon. was: Town. ninety-two for;
forty-f FIVE against. Country, forty six
for: seventy-one against. Some of the
outlying territory seemed to be bit
terly against it Some think that con-
solldation is bound to come neverthe-
less.
Burlington.
That the backbone Of winter is
broken and that warm weather is near
are the claims of the rivermen. The
!nc&r!dgn here went out Monday after
being in place for seventy-fve days
Other indications Of spring are the
many reports Of birds returning from
the south, different varieties having
been seen in the city the past few
days.
Fort Madison.
The river is practically free from ice,
| The warm weather Of the past few
| DAYS caused a tremendous thaw which
| opened up the river in places and al
| lowed the ice to break and move down
| with the current. No huge ice gorges
were formed on Lake Cooper this year
as was the case during the winter pre-
vious, and the river remained frozen
soidly in single mass.
Burlington.
BURLINGTON has It's share OF bold
thieves. Their latest exploit was the
footing Of the old Walter knudson
home. which had been empty for some
time, Of it's metal fixtures. All the
piping about the place was taken by
the lead and brass thieves, so anxious
were the robbers to get all the stuff
they tore up the bath room floors to
get the material. No trace of the rob-
bers' identity has been secured.
Davenport.
Knu Moon. peeping dazedly thru a
rift in the clouds that befogged his
powers Of perception, stared straight
into a mirror and started back with
incredulous Amusement written large
on his face. Horrors! He was full.
It had been long since Knu Moon had
experienced the sensation OF being full.
and as he sat up and arranged his
I scattered thoughts his brain probed
deeply for the happenings OF the eve
ming before He remembered, now,
that he had felt himself growing more
!, and more full as the evening waxed
merrily to roaring climax. But at
la certain stage in his ascendancy he