Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-11
Northern Io1ua Items

Brushy. stated General Manager c. H.
Crooks Saturday. The road at the
present rate Of progress will be com
pleted about Oct. l. This extension,
which is twelve miles long, will con-
tinue with the old Crooked Creek rail
road, which has been acquired by the
electric line and which has terminals
at Webster City and Lehigh. The
steam road will be converted into an
electric line and when completed direct
service can be obtained from Des
Moines to either Lehigh or Webster
City. With the new track and the old
steam road the electric line will be ex-
tended about twenty-seven miles.
Cedar Rapids.
A telegram from the Rev. Wilbur l..
Clapp. of the First Baptist church, an
nounced the selection of Cedar Rapids
for the 1918 convention of the Inter-
national Baptist Young Peoples Asso-
citation, which closed it's three day
session in Detroit, Mich. Sunday. Mr..
Clapp went to Detroit with letters
from the mayor and Commercial Club
inviting the convention to meet here
next year. 1t means that 1000 young
people from every state in the union
and Canada will be here next July.
Mr.. Clapp is secretary Of the execu-
| tive committee Of the association and
has worked hard to get the meeting
| for Cedar Rapids next year. The First
| Baptist pastor was accompanied to the
| Detroit meeting by twelve young peo-
| pie Of this city. He had charge of a
special out Of Chicago and took dele
cations from all parts of Iowa, Nebras-
ka and Texas with his party on the
Chicago-Detroit special.
Sioux City.
A home guard" to combat the activ-
tiles Of the /. w. W., and like organ
izations has been formed in Sioux
City. and is ready to meet and put
| down any internal troubles which
might arise during the war. AS quiet
| ly and as determined as the Might
| Riders of Kentucky banded them
selves together several years ago. more
than 100 men met somewhere in Sioux
City" Saturday night. and perfected
the plans for their organization. 1t
was learned that every man who at
tended the secret session enlisted in
the guard and plans are on foot to
increase the company to at least GOO
men. The particular and definite tar
get Of the organization is to be the
I. w. w. News reaching the police
that great body of the Il Won't
Works" are coming this way on their
annual trip to the harvest fields, to-
gether with the knowledge that the or
| ganization has been discovered in
many anti-Am erican plots lately, i'm
PEELED the action Of the organizers
Fort Dodge.
| Two automobiles were damaged at
the corner of Fourteenth street and
Tenth avenue north, in the Crawford
Armstrong addition, Sunday afternoon
when Ford roadster and a large
touring car collided. The touring car
which was going east on Tenth avenue
was driven by Miss Beatrice Hony
| The other occupants of the car were
Catherine Hony and Miss Mayme
Sedalsky. The Ford was driven by Dr.
Drach, of the United States department
of agriculture, and with him were Miss
Agnes Claypool and two other parties
| whose names could not be learned
Except for badly lacerated arm, which
enc Of the young men in the Ford
roadster received, very little harm
was done to any Of the occupants of
the cars The touring car suffered
slight damages and the roadster came
out of the encounter with broken
wheel and broken Windshield. This
is a rather dangerous corner, for 1t Is
hard to see cars coming from an OPP
posite direction because OF the trees.
The north and south road ends at this
| corner SO that It IL impossible for q
car going east or west to turn out