Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-21
Northern Io1ua Items

| fracture of two ribs and a broken wrist
Anderson and Warren were badly
shaken up IN trying to avoid running
Into car that was coming in the
other direct8A the driver Of the Sleez-
| ed with the rail of the bridge. The
| impact broke the steering gear and
| the car rebounded and swerved to the
| left going through the bridge rail, div
| ing head first and narrowly missing
| the other car.
jackson county has two boys who
have shown their patriotism to a
marked Degree Stephen Haynes, a
Sabula boy, last week enlisted as
fireman in the United States navy at
Cedar Rapids He had previously tried
to enlist four different times, but was
rejected because Of physical disabil-
ity, each time in different branches OF
the service. Finally he was accepted
on the fifth trial. Stewart Cotter, an
1S-year- old Sabula high school boy,
enlisted in the light artillery branch
of the regular army last week at Rock
Island Too young to .e drafted, his
patriotism burned so brightly he
believed it his duty to enlist.
cente- Point.
Mrs. Will Lam Aug ,tin&, aged CT
years, committed suicide here 1T about
5: 80 cock Wednes lay afternoon by
cutt:a,, her throat. 1t is believed tfat
her m - was unbalanced and she had
been i'll :cr some time The body was
found ~ Mr.. Augustine alter he re-
turned from town i'll the evening. The
doors 70 TIC house were locked and he
could MT get in fol some time. BE
found the body on the lloor of one Of
the rooms with slash across the
throat. A;r. Augustine is retired far
mer and has lived in this city since
| leav nc IL G farm few miles from here.
Mrs. t..r,ustine leaves one daughter.
Mrs Olive Hand who lives on the farm
and enc son, j. D. Augustine, at home.
Bellevue.
During the recent patriotic daT and
| flag raising celebration held at Ma'tuo-
| keta the county seat of Jackson county
one of the most interested spectators
was A. J. Phillips nearly 80 years old,
and Maquoketa's oldes- living pioneer,
having resided in Maqnoketa and vfc:-
MY for 80 years. In 1912 Mr.. Phillips
bound wheat on what is now Mt: Hope
cemetery, and when he first came TO
the community he passed directly ovfi
the ground where later his wife and
two children were buried; ovcr grcun ]
where he attended school, and where
the first flag was raised on 40-foot
hickory pcie iii 1912. and now he was
able to attend the historic flag raising
OF Sept. 4, 1917. Mr.. Phillips Is the last
, of The Muauoketa valley settlers OF
1887.
| Clinton.
Trusted by guard masters of the
Iowa state penitentiary at Fort Madi-
son to accompany his wife to the office
of a physician Ben Brown, a convict,
disappeared, and the police are CO.
operating with the guard in an effort
| to find him. Playing upon the sym
patty Of his fellow convicts by stories
of the illness of his grandfather in a
Clinton hospital,i Brown, who was sent
to the prison from Clinton for stealing
brass, secured $50 iii contributions and
gained permission from the peniten-
tiary authorities to visit his grand
| father under the guard OF MAS: g !.
guards. The latter kept watch of him
all day Monday, but when Browns wife
became in Yesterday permitted the
convict to accompany her to the doc
TORS office. from which he forxot to
return. 3tss