Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-01-08
Southern Io1ua Items

WaIcott.
A skar tournament was held at the
Coliseum on Wednesday evening, Jan.
3. 1917. Fourteen players were present
Prizes were awarded as follows: First
| prize--Hugo Schwartz; second, chris
Ketelsen; third, Hy Fenebach; fourth
Heman Koch; fifth, Henry Ruwe.
! Washington. a.. s.
Miss Della Brookhart, trained nurse,
went to Chicago to have an A-ray pic
| ture taken of her foot which had the
! toes accidentally shot off six months
| ago. The picture showed four shot and
( a piece of bone. these were removed
by an operation Tuesday, and she IS
getting along nicely.
Washington.
| The Washington Improvement
League organized just two years ago,
have put 5000 in improving the city.
The receipts from the home talent
show Just put on. Melted them 500,
which will be applied on paying for a
| fine new entrance into W Oodla"h CELL
etery which cost $500.
South English.
| The automobile of Harry COder was
struck by heavy machine driven D!
a Millersburg man between South ana
North English Thursday afternoon
and Clarence Brewer who was in the
car with MIR. 'Coder, was severely cut
by glass from the windshield. The
| Cooler car was badly damaged.
Newton.
The county board Of supervisors sold
So. 900 of funding bonds Thursday to
the George NJ. Bechtel Company, OF
Davenport, Iowa. The price was 4A
per cent ard the bonus paid was
sI,O2S. These are bridge bonds AND
hence the unpaid warrants on the
bridge fund will be taken care of i'm
mediately. The first $4,000 Of the is
size is TO be taken up in 1927 and the
balance of the bonds will be paidsa
the rate of $4,000 a year thereafter.
Des Moines.
Hear We. hear ye. hear We. The most
beautiful chorus girl in the world Is
an Iowa product. Her name is MISS
Reulah Mack and she formerly resided
| in Des Moines The fair coryphee
was recently awarded the artists low
| ing cup in New York in d contest y
determine the most beautiful chorus
| girl. When Miss Mack was introduced
| to a big audience at Madison Square
Garden she was applauded for eight
! minutes. Her real name is Beulaf
| MacFarland
Newton.
| Leaving the cellar door. which opens
from small pantry off the Kitchen
! open, resulted in a broken collarbonf
for Miss Lenore Demory at her home
| 211 First avenue East, Thursday even
ing. Miss Demory had gone into thu
! cellar early in the evening on some
errand and returning neglected to close
the door On entering the pantr!
later unconscious Of the open door she
stepped thru and fell to the bottom Of
the stairs breaking her collar bone il
| the fall.
Marenso.
| O. E, Burgess, assistant signal main
tainer on the Rock Island sustained
broken collar bone and minor bruises
| when his railroad gas car collided
Codes crossing. east of Marenso Will
a team and wagon driven by Arthur
Meeks Mr.. Meeks had to shoot one
of his horses as its leg was broken
| OuUS IeOpclG summons was 'AAS>.>N
unconscious when his sled that he hat
"hitched on Smiths dray at the depo
yeered into a freight car, throwing
Robert headfirst against an iron wheel
Newton. :"
| David Waldon, vuiored, aged 81
years, died at his home in the nortf
part of this city Thursday evening. he
had been ailing for the past year WITH
complication Of diseases. He wa!
born in Missouri in 1919. During the
days Of slavery he drove stage coacf
Il, parts of Missouri For the pas
fifty years he has lived in this city
where he has done team work. He !: