Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-01-12

Ringsted.
Two Rin2sted citizens were brought
before the mayor of the town last Week
for allowing minors to drive automo-
mobiles They were fined soy anu
costs. The state law does me- permit
children to drive automobiles q y
Cedar Rapids. y
a hat bearing the name of1J. p. Ber-
wick and beside it an empty carpoilc
acid bottle were found on the river
bank mere sunday. The mans belong
ings had been taken from his roomlns
house. Police believe he drank The
acid and then jumped into the river )
Humboldt.
Contracts will be let by the S;Ruena
Vista county board, this week, for the
construction Of 1913 bridges and forty :
four culverts. This will be the largest
amount of, small work ever flet IN ne
state at -,one time. The contracts VIII
require the use of 1876 yards OF con !
crete or approximately 100 carloads q
cement
Humboldt r O.
Farmers have recently come to II UNI :
bo1dt and purchased stryehnine with
which to poison rabbits. They clam
that the&rabbits are taxing their trees.
simply sirdiing every small tree on
the place. = They see no way of Riding
thenselvesof The pests without resort
ing to poisons Here is chance for
some Of the boy hunters to get in their
work.
ShelIsburs. s. 81 "a
The Youngest child Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Beatty, living mile west of town.
died suddenly Saturday night OF diph-
iberia. The child, boy of two years.
had complained of sore throat and
a doctor was not called until the day
before. The home has been quaran-
tined to prevent the spread of the dis
ease The child was buried privately
early Sunday morning. Two Of the
other CHILDREN are sick OF the DIS
ease. y *
Cedar Rapids:
q. B. Hamilton, manager, OF. Hotel
Sfontrose, q recent Iowa recruit drawn
from Colorado, has been summoned to
Denver to aid the democrats tn organ
lizing the senate. Senator Hamilton
lendeavored to resign his Office on COM
| ing to Iowa, but was persuaded to hold
on and await results. With his vote
the Colorado senate stands IS demo-
Gratis to II republicans. After the
body has been organized Mr., Hamilton
will resign and the governor Will APP
noint some other democrat to his place.
North MeGrsoor. 81 ID
Dougherty & Slane set off a huge
blast on the Whalen hill Sunday that
threw massive rocks and earth 200 feet
Ia the air. Mrs. Whalen, who lives
near the scene Of, the btasttng was
notif,ed by the men IN charge 20 vacate
the house during the blSsttng. "A big
Track fell thru the roof OF the kitchen
and demolished the cook stove, setting
Ara tothe house. Dougherty q Slane
set carpenters to repairing the dam
are to the house, sent her q new cook
stove and paid for all damages.
Lake City.
r. NJ. Haggard mourns the loss OF
$3.50 in currency which some bold thief
purloined one night last week while Mr..
Haggard was in the land OF dreams.
MI. Haggard drew the money from
the bank in> preparation to leave next
day for Rochester, Mimi. Tor medical
treatment. He left the money in his
lpocketbook in the pocket Of his trous-
| .ers. when he retired. When he awoke
the trousers were missing. A search
resulted; 81, t!.ce1e.s at the coal
house Of neighbor. The pocketbook
was, found also. but its contents had
been feloniously distracted.
Eagle Grove. - 4,
Many crews are sat work extending
slowly but surely, the most extensive
system OF voluntary grayeling Of roads
| in the state OF Iowa. The Role crew
havc-1esafiy .e...sea-fe.r.hs Of a mile
lgraveIed. This was begun after Inc
husking OF corn. The Head Grove
crew is plugging steadily ana will soon
have half mile. The Kennedy sys-
tenn is in action In. the Dvergreen
Ineighborhood. DID. Paine has done
some excellent work in that direction.
THE Peter Larson and Kirkeberg Crews
lhave begun each a half mile stretch.
This begins at the Humb0ldt county
lime. This lsaves. three-fourths OF q
mile for u.s. to do In our county IN con :
] meet This can be connected uP u =