Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-21
Northern Iowa, Items

mentioning is shat the church was
free from debt the day it was dedica ted.
| a fact that the Catholics of Cresco and
great pride.
Dubuque.
The Summit Congregational church
is one that believes in making the APP
peal of the gospel message in a man
ner that will attract the largest mum Der
of people. For that reason the congre-
cation is installing a moving picture
machine for use in the Sunday ming
| services. The minister of the church
intends to get reels that are as true to
life and its problems as is possible, and
with the story enacted on the screen,
as the theme for short sermon he will
deliver the Christian message to his
people. The machine was used In the
services Sunday night.
Mason City.
| Neil Herndon. the negro who stole
six suits of clothes from Mason City
clothing stores in one afternoon last
| week has Jail record at Omaha. &C
| cording to the finger print expert Of
the U. S. department of justice In
charge Of the governments collection
! of prints at Leavenworth, Kan. A
letter received from the federal officer
this morning says that under the name
Of Joe Wilson, Herndon got twenty
five days in the county Jail at Omaha
| In Nov, 1915 for boosting. department
shoplifting. The federal department.
has now furnished the local police with
finger print blanks on which to take
prints for filing at Leavenworth.
McGregor.
Millions of fish 1t Is believed have
persisted in the upper Mississippi this
| winter due to the great depth to which
| the river was frozen. Ice at McGregor
is now twenty five inches to four feet
thick. In the shallower back waters
where most of the game fish stay Ice
has formed to such a depth that the
fish have been suffocated underneath
it. In cutting holes in the ice near
here this week the bott4m of a lake
was found literally covered with dead
bass On the same day two McGregor
fishermen while SEEMING through the Ice
near Waukon Junction found two
thousand pounds Of dead fish in a haul
Of 5000 pounds. Similar reports are
coming in from shoremen all along the
river. The aggregate loss along the
shores Of Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Minnesota undoubtedly will reach into
the millions and cause an advance in
price this summer.
Mason City.
What damage have you sustained,
Mr.. Steil, by reason Of the construction
| of the transmission line?" That cues :
ton, IN substance, was put to Peter
sSteil, plaintiff in the case OF Steil vs..
! the Nora Springs Ugh: g PoT~s:: Con: :
pany friday. by his attorneys. At
| torneys for the power company, COM
batting his claim for $4,000 damages for
| injury done trees, and other claims, OBJ
jected on the ground the construction
Of the line itself on the public high
way could have caused the damage.
| The rest Of that day and most of Sat
urday and Monday the lawyers argued
| the question. the Jurors having been
sent from the room and excused until
| this afternoon. On Judge Clark's rul-
ing on this question depended. In q
large measure, how much farther the
case would so. Judge Clark this after
noon ruled that the question was prop
err and that the witness had right te
state what DAMAGE he thought he had
a0ntai lined. ~