Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-01
Southern Io,pa Items

Wood left othe train at Muscatine and
Immediately took an auto to make q
thorough search for his men out OF
this place, where the fugitives must
have alighted from the train. The men
are dangerous, and Mr.. Wood asks
people to look out for them and give
any. information of their whereabouts
to the sheriff of Wapello county, the
officers at Muscatine or Of this place.
A description OF the prisoners follows:
Earl Smith, feet. 6 inches tall, weight
40 pounds, light hair, smooth shaver;
subject to fits. Oscar i. Gather, feet,
IL inches tall, weight 100 pounds, big
brown eyes, red blotches on face, loud
talker; fond Of liquor
Muscatine.
Robert G.. Cousins, ex-congressman
of the Fifth district, will address the
men and women Of Muscatine county
who gather at the Armory in Muscatine
next Monday cvennsg to do honor to
the men of the county who have been
certified for service III the first national
army. Cousins address will feature the
program which will follow the dinner
to be given to the certified men. Per-
sonal letters have gone forth today to
each Of the ninety mine accepted men
in the county and it is the hope Of the
committee which has the dinner in
charge that ali OF these men viii at
tend. The new army men will gather
at the armory according to present
plans at O'Clock and will spend the
half hour before the serving OF the
din y,ar IN 0of<;rO 1,,;$S, sftouo
who are to be their future comrades.
Coifax. go, /.
Another serious automobile accident
happened just mile west Of Colfax
Wednesday evening, when new Max
well car driven by Bertice Hammer Of
Newton, locked wheels with an En-
pire car driven by Goldie Cox, Of Col
fax. The occupants of the Maxwell
car were all thrown out of the ma
chine and two Of the girls, Miss Katll-
crime Hannah, Of Colfax, and Haze
Wehrmouth, OF Humboldt, are quite Sc
riously injured. They are still at the
Centropolis sanitarium where they
were taken Immediately after the ac-
cident. Mr.. Hammer, who was driv-
ing and George Wyatt also Of Newton,
escaped with minor scratches and
bruises and a Miss Bess Fowler Of
Colfax, got away without any injury
other than a slight arm bruise. None
OF the occupants OF the other car were
hurt.
Modals.
Next to Davenport Is the town Of
Modale in the way Of raising onions.
A ss::!cnar<.sori, one OF tbs big onion
growers, has this year sixteen acres
which he claims will yield 800 bushels
per acre. q. p. McFerrin has in twelve
acres, which will do as well. Then
there Ia II. H. Boyd and William Pet
erson, Becker. Ramsey and Goor, who
have each about seven acres, and
others with smaller pieces, none Of
which will WELD Less than 300 hiish els
per acre. It was at one time said that
onions would not grow In the western
part Of the state, but 1t has been proven
they will and they will soon be grown
all over the state. MI. Richardson
says 1t is not q great deal more trouble
to grow onions than corn, and as to
| the money value corn II not init with
the onion. 5ass: nov worth $$iis 81 a.
|peE buShe1: The raslrOAd ran Il spe-
cialg tkkinE out D train load Of Onions,
ecnethins yvhich. :; 4 never bsen ihSart
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