Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-04-17
Southern Ioua Items

was also dressed in the khaki uniform
! of the national guardsman. Miss
Josephine Raines was the bridesmaid
and the Rev. J. P. Van Horn. of Trinity
church. performed the ceremony. Mrs.
Akerman will live with her parents
until the return Of hsr, husband.
| Atlantic. ssr
At the fortieth annual contest OF the
state high school declamatory assoc
citation held here Joseph Kelly, Of
Grinnell. won first place in the ora
torical class: Albert Giltner, of Abba
won first In the dramatic class, and
Bertram Allison, of tIrundy Center.
won first in the humorous class. The
subject of the first named Grafton was
"Vind!cation Speech" by Emmett. Gilt
| ner spoke Cigarettes Ride and Death"
and Allison won in the humorous
class with THE Fall Of George
| Bassett." by Booth Harrington. Second
place went to Donna Voorhees,, of East
Waterloo, in the oratorical class,
| Evelyn Mcclure in the dramatic class,
and Irene Mcfarland. of West Bend,
| In the humorous.
Fairfield.
Fairfield had about her first ex-
perience with anything like labor
strike on Friday afternoon when over
| fifty employees OF the Louden Ma
! chincry Company walked out as a re
| suit of the dismissal the day before OF
three fellow workmen who 1t IL said
was organizing a union. The machine
shops have been open shops and 1t Is
! 4 ~ h
ployers that it remain so. The en-
ployes have held several meetings the
past week and the actions taken at the
series resulted in the dismissal Of three
men on Thursday. Following a confer
enca. with the factory owners and their
| refusal to renstate these men about
one third of the men in the shops
walked out. What further action is
contemplated is not known at the
present,
Davenport.
James Ryan, who assaulted ana beat
TO death John Fox in a barber shop al
704 West Second street on March 81
during the course Of a drunken orgy
pleaded guilty TO a charge OF man
| slaughter before Judge William
ITheophilus in the Scott county court
He was sentenced TO imprisonment al
hard labor in the state prison at Fort
Madison for term not to exceed eigh,
years and to pay fine OF 800.
charge OF second degree murder hac
been fled against Ryan by County At
torney Henry Fl. Jebens but the charge
was changed TO that OF nanslaughtel
when Ryan indicated a desire to plead
to the lesser offense. Ryan waived
the reading OF the information. 3. T
ONeil was appointed by the court Il
represent the defendant, and later
formal plea Of guilty 70 the charge wal
entered. Ryan made no statement anC
received his sentence quietly.
Shenandoah.
When Mrs. g. X. Lewis arose shortly
after O'Clock Friday to see where hei
husband, who had built the fire in thu
kitchen stove an hour earlier ant
left the home. had gone, she saw hi
body thru an open door hanging from
the rafters Of the barn. Mr.. Lewis
| former owner OF mineral springs a
burlington Junction, Mo-, moved her
last September to educate his two sons
Worry over a land deal Ii the onl!
motive that can be found for takini
his own life. The family lives In tn
A. S. BolIinger home, els Harrison
street. where they recently moved u
order that they might have the acreag'
to do truck farming. A widow an,
two sons. John Lewis, a student In tn
commercial department OF Western
! Normal College, and Samuel X. Lewis
a student In the Shenandoah higl
! school, survive. Mr.. Lewis was 8
J years old and q retired farmer 9
/, means