Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-26

Davenport. :.
Steam neal will have to be turned OIL
early this year If the 100000 improve
ments are to be made. The light n
heat company car not move mains De-
fore June / on account OF an old on
tract unless consumers agree to do 1t.
Little Sioux.
Jack Cronister, who lives on h river
below River Sioux and runs a smaA
saw mill with his boat engine, gather
ing logs from the river when it is open
in the spring, Is now building him q
new boat thirty feet long which ne WIZ
launch when the river opens. JACK IS
q regular river man.
Cromwell.
Ernest Kretzer had a painful acc1-
dent Monday. He was trying to get d
bullet out Of a. rifle with a ramrod n
his left hand slipped or the rod n
the rod penetrated the palm of his
HAND quite a ways. He went to Cres-
ton in the afternoon and had a doctor
dress the wound, but he is still suffer-
ing a good deal with it.
Des Moines.
Robert Hadley, former special Off
Ger of the police department and booze
buyer for Alb Day, confessed to receiv-
ing and disposing Of q horse which had
been stolen at Berwick, Iowa, Marcn
II. Rube Tracy, from whom Hadiey
SAYS he secured the horse, was arrested.
charged with it's theft from William
Tropple, the original owner at Ber-
wick. The animal was recovered at the
Barber Brick Company yards in SOUTH
Des Moines, where It had been sold.
Dunlap.
A mass meeting was held Tuesday
night for the purpose OF ascertainlns
how the people feel over having an
entire new school house instead OF an
old one remodeled. A short time ago
an election was held for the purpose
OF voting $4,000 bonds to remodel the
old building. Now 1t seems to be the
desire Of the community to have an
entire new building. which will neces-
state about $4,000 In money and
would require the voting Of additional
bonds.
bes Moines.
Waste paper that had been gathering
moss in attics and Easements until col
lected by public school children dur
ing waste paper week was just $2,342.So
living idle. The paper brought that
sum Of money when sold to waste pa
per concerns. The total amount that
found Its way back into the school
treasures, all over Des Moines, was
50, 1852 {. The difference between this
amount and the total receipts repre-
sents the expense Of hauling the paper
to market.
Cromwell.
1t is understood that the late T. s.. II.
Dougherty. Of Creston, willed a little
over fifty acres OF land to the Metho-
dist church in Cromwell. MI. Dough-
erty a connected with this church
when he lived near Cromwell Inc al
ways had an interest in the church as
is shown by this deed. The land lies
in Adams county, three miles southwest
Of Cromwell and adams the Child farm
on the west, where Horace Rundlett
lives. MI. Rundlett also rents the
Dougherty lands.
Little Sioux.
M 1 IcIc 1knS UOCl 6OkAR0 ICON
by the farmers on the lands along the
river in Harrison and Monona counties
that the high water might cause them
to believe the drainage bitches will be
some trouble this spring. Others seem
fully adequate to take care Of n rea-
sonable rise Of the water. The trustees
have ordered a widening Of the bitches
and an Improvement OF the river cham
mel Of the Little Sioux. This. however,
is being strongly opposed and will not
be done before the spring rise SO that
the present drainage will be fully
tried out.
Museatine.
Robert Satterthwaite, Orange street,
was seriously injured when q tree he
was telling crashed down without
warning and struck him on the head.
Mr.. Satterthwaite was in the employ
Of Dave Cochran and with several
other laborers was engeged in telling
trees on the Burlington road about q
mile south Of the city. The tree. which
was a large one, fell suddenly and MI.
Satterthwaite was unable to escape
from under It and one Of the large
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