Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-01-24
Southern Io1ua Items

I modious property on Locust between
Scott and Gaines streets was purchas-
ed and small building erected. There
have been many additions to the orig
inal structure ....
Muscatine. .ga
Signed by 1874 citizens and represent
ing, it was declared, twO-thirds of the
taxes paid into the city treasury, Il pc
tition was presented to the city coun-
Gil Friday evening urging the necessity
of the appointment of four more fire.
men for the city to be placed at the
central station. The petition stated
that under present conditions with but
thirteen men on three trucks the de-
partment is not. properly manned nu-
merically and cited the instances of the
recent Rock Island and Oskaloos3l fires
in which heavy losses resulted as the
consequence Of inadequate fire protec-
ton. The former instance especially
was emphasized in which the fire de-
partments Of Moline and Davenport
were called upon to assist the Rock Is
land crew.
Des Moines. '.-
It was. SNOW" that caused William
Johnson, alias William Gaines, the
dusky Santa Claus caught Wednesday
morning in the Hood grocery store
chimney. to imagine he was Kris Krin-
gle. The snow" was cocaine to which
Johnson says he Is addicted DE las
thing what All remembah was eatin'
some snow. When All woke up All
was full oh SCOT" was the only explain
alton he offered when removed from
oil RI nj 10;
"Ah done glib mahse'f'up TO daid. dat's
all. when dat man was gonna light de
fiah," said the negro. "Ah must oh ct
ton OBJ SCOT befo' dey done got me-"
Chief Of Detectives James Macdonald
is perplexed concerning charge to
file against the negro Altho Johnson
did not break into the store it is evil
dent such was his intention.
Woodward. A
Saturday night Harold Miller had
the misfortune to have both of his
hands badly burned when he in COM
pany with John Francis attempted to
start an automobile. They had been at
the Ray McCloud home north Of Wood
ward to spend the evening, having gone
there in an automobile. When they
tried to start the car the cold weather
had caused the carbureter to freeze up.
and in trying to thaw the same out
they lighted a cob saturated with ker-
osene. Immediately flame started up
from the carburetor, and spread to the
floor beneath the car. In order to save
the car Harold placed his hands over
the carbureter to smother the flames
and in doing so the hands were burned
terribly. Not only were his hands
burned so that the flesh dropped of,
but his eye lashes, hair. hat and other
parts of his body were burned
Davenport.
What tht Y. NJ. c. A. did for the
Iowa troops on the Mexican border was
graphically described Sunday at the Y.
NJ. &. A. by W. II. Debenham. Of Bur
lington. who Illustrated his talk with
seventy views showing soldier life at
Brownsville and the activities OF the
Y. NJ. c. A. there. The army Y. NJ. c.
A. ~ Brownsville !s financed ny nn;niic
contributions in the state Of Iowa. IT
has taken many thousands Of dollars to
run this big institution and nearly ev-
cry city In the state has given a help
ing hand to the work. There remains
$4,000 yet to be raised and some Of this
amount will be subscribed in Daven-
port. The army Y. NJ. c. A. furnished
the Iowa troops with reading room,
pens. ink. paper and writing desks.
graphophone music, place for even
Ing assemblies and entertainments. 1t
was the mecca Of the infantry camps.
ed near the association building.
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