Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-31

Sioux City.
J. p. Haynes, of Cairo, ILL.,, has been
selected as traffic commissioner OF the
Sioux City traffic bureau. He sue
ceeds c. E. Childs, who resigned the
first of the present month to accept a
similar position at Omaha.
Sioux City.
Impure milk sellers face serious
trouble if brought before Judge ID
dings of the Sioux City municipal court.
This fact Joe Thomas and Frank
learned to their sorrow when fined $loO
apiece last week. They had sold two
bottles Of milk in which pieces Of dirt
the size Of a pea were found, and the
Judges action followed a glance at the
stuff.
Storm Lake.
Charles Peterson, local ice man,
who has been in the business for thirty
years in Storm Lake, predicts an ice
famine, as it is impossible to secure
cars to ship. Formerly as many as
twenty cars were shipped out OF this
city per day, but four or five is the
maximum number this season. The
ice this year is twenty three inches
thick and of unusual quality.
Waterloo.
Catherine Taylor apd Mae Moon
aged IS, years respectively, and Fern
Moon, IA years old, Of 1928 Willistor
avenue, escaped asphyxiation by escap-
ing gas by the timely arrival Of the
police and firenen, with a pulmotor at
5:45 o'clock Tuesday evening. The
three girls were in serious condition
and but for the presence Of mind OF
Mrs. Moon, the mother Of two of tho
girls, who discovered their predica-
ment, a different ending would have
probably occurred. Mrs. Moon states
that the three girls were engaged II
doing the regular weeks washing anf
that in some manner the gas escaped.
Bellevue.
Charles Wyckoff one of the few re-
naming pioneers Of Jackson county
has just celebrated his eightieth birth
day, having been a resident of this
county since 1888. He has sevcra
unique records in his personal history
He has only missed three democratic
county conventions in Jackson county
in fifty years. He has attended mort
funerals than any other person in thu
county-many times having prepared
the bodies for the grave, conducted
the services, and then written the
obituaries. He Is one of the last Of tho
type Of hardy pioneers who blazed the
Itrail into town and helped carve the
wilderness Of territorial days into the
greatest agricultural state Of the
union.
Waterloo.
Rev. Harold E. iParr, for three years
pastor Of First Congregational church
here announced that reconsideration o.
his recent resignation from the loca
pulpit had resulted in the same de.
cision, that he wished to be released
The resignation wasFaccepted and vii
| become effective the last Sunday II
February. Rev. Mr.. Parr will take uE
his new duties as pastor Of New Eng
land Congregational church in Aurora
ILL.,, on the first Sunday in March. Com
ing here from Princeton. ILL.,, three
years ago, Rev. Parr has endeared
himself to the local congregation and
it was with regret they accepted hi:
resignatoni. A new pastor has moi
been secured but a committee has been
appointed to take care Of the matter.
Sioux City.
Jews Of Sioux City who desire to 81
to Palestine after the war are being
registered by members Of the loca
Poaeli Zion organisation. The objec,
J of this registration" said the secretar,
T. Z s