Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-13
Northern Io1ua Items

freight, No. 254, crashed into the dining
car which had been set out from No:
II, at $40 o'clock Tuesday night and
tipped the car over on other diners,
| which had been set on the track to the
| north, badly damaging the car and in
juling j. w. Jackson. of Chicago, the
colored conductor in charge. about tn.
back and ankles. He was the only one
in the car-at the time of the accident.
! Boone. s
| A congregational meeting of the
membership of the First Presbyterian
church, heIdS Tuesday evening in
the church, by unanimous choice elect
Led the Rev.EAlvin W. Highly. of North
Presbyterian church of Omaha, to fill
the pulpit here. The meeting was IN
charge of the Rev. F. 4. Smiley, OF
Jefferson. who in the absence of a
regular pastor here, acted as moderat-
orEof thesession. He also is chairman,
of the Presbyterial committee on va
cancies and supplies.
Cherokee. %s22 w..
| Fred Powers, who was convicted on
| the charge of carrying concealed weap-
Ons and whose sentence was recently
| reduced from one to four years in the
! penitentiary to one to six months in
the county JAIL has been granted a
pardon by Governor Harding. William
Mulvaney, Powers attorney, accom-
panied him to Des Moines and secured
the granting of the pardon. Young
Powers has been employed in Fort
Dodge since his conviction. He. after
receiving his pardon and also his
4 hrnf her Gail npjiSte6
vice In the navy. {
Manson.
| The record price for land. consider
ing distance fIom town. has been made
in the sale of the old Henry Kastrup
farm, foug miles north of Manson, for
s240 per acre. A. l.. and Jacob Car
stems, sons Of the .late q. F. Carstens,
one of the early settlers of that neigh
borhood were the purchasers. The
farm was settled by Henry Kastrup
about thirty years <ago, when it was
broken up from the raw prairie. Two
years ago he sold it to Aaron Bach
rran for 1925 per acre. 1t is a finely
improved farm, being perfectly tiled
and having as good a set of farm,
buildings as well as trees and other
improvements, as can be found in
Pecahontas county.
Sioux City
Sioux City wooers of Lady Nicotine
will pay more for their wooing on and
after next Monday. Cigars costing re-
tailers from SO to $50 thousand will
sell at cents or six for Is cents;
cigars costing from $50 TO $3.50 will
! sell at cents straight: cigars costing
over $3.50 and up to $42, IS cents
j each; cigars costing $40 to $3.50, I
cents each or three for 20 cents or
four for IS cents; cigars costing over
$3.50 to s62, 10 cents or three for %
cents; cigars costing over $62 and up
to $72, 10 cents straight; cigars cost
ing over $73 and up to $50, 10 cents or
1.-TWO for % cents; all cigars costing
over $50 and up to $105. Is cents
straight.
Clinton.
John D. Carr. a resident of-Clinton
for the past year and employed by the
| A. d. Baker Electric Company. it is
charged in complaint filed with the
county attorney, successfully passed
six forged checks Saturday night on
six Clinton stores. for q total Of $229.67.
All checks bore the forged signature Of
] The A. d. Baker Electric Company. 1t
is alleged and were on blanks which
4 Car: &c alleged to have Atnlen earlier
in the day while the office was unoc-
,cupied. In each case the alleged forger
made small cash purchases and OBJ
tanned the rest Of the money In cash
after which he departed for parts I'M
known. Up to this afternoon he had
mot been apprehended. Nothing was
known Of the forgery until Monday af-
ternoon when all OF the checks reached
Iths bank and the signatures were de-
tected there as not being genuine.