Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-19
Northern Io,ua Items

George.
The contract for the building of a
sewer system IN George has been let
to Lincoln firm for $4,000. Tlc c.'s-
posal plant is to be built by Ward &
Weighton, of Sioux City. Work is 20
begin May Is.
Akron.
Private Floyd Rice, of the THIRTY
fourth ambulance corps stationed at
Camp Cody, arrived at home on a
short furlougl Sunday, having accom-
panied the body Of Corporal Harry Hall
who died at the camp with pneumonia.
Corporal Hall enlisted here last spring.
He had been employed in general
store here.
Cherokee.
J. C. Lockin, of Aurelia, has an
nounced his candidacy for represcn-
tative from Cherokee county subject to
F, the republican primary. Mr.. Lockin
represented the county in the Twenty
second general assembly and has been
a prominent man in the county for 40
years. He is the first candidate to
enter the field for any Office this year.
Sioux City.
| John w Norris, professional i'm
! personator ''of the devil. declined
to act the part of the kaiser in the
honor flag raising pageant. which
Sioux City as the first city over the
| top in the liberty loan drive will stage
today. The funeral of the kaiser will
| be feature Section. Norris, in de-
clining the role of kaiser, said, That's
no job for a decent devil"
Ogden
Wednesday morning the Ogden office
! Of the Fehleisen -Rosacker Lumber
Company was striped with bright yell
| low paint. No one seems to know who
did the painting and not much effort
lis being made to find out 1t is alleged
| that NJ H. Rosacker, member of the
firm, bought 500 bond, and later
agreed to sell it for 800 saying that he
did not want liberty bond.
Sioux City.
With their imasinations fired by
stories of youthful bandits, Jake Con-
| nelly. and -.Luvern Lang, Saturday
night attempted to hold up n grocery
at Twentieth and Isabella street, OPP
Grated by Ray Hopkins. Today both
boys are in custody and the proprietor
Of the store is suffering from n bullc. t
wound above the rioht hip. inflicted by
il sun in the hands of enc of the
juvenile bandits.
Boone.
Miss Laura Parker nurse at the
Eleanor Moore hospital is bringing suit
in this term of court for damages in
Of received
when the sterilizing tank at the hos
pital exploded recently. Miss Parker
claims that the tank was not properly
constructed and she asks that the hos
pital supply company of New York
City which furnished the stcrlizins
tank pay the damage.
Mason City.
A Mason City aviator, Stanley Stan
berry, has had the experience Of fall
ing from an airplane 1000 feet. He is
alive today and recovering from the
effects OF his fall in arhospital at Dali
last, Tex. The fall occurred some time
ago at the aviation field at San Diego.
California at which place Stanberry
was a. cadet airman. With his brother,
Floyd Stanberry. Stanley is now at
Dallas where both recently received
commissions IRON the adjutant school.
They are first lieutenants in the avia-
ton corps concentration camp at Dali
las.
Boone.
William T.. Young, a switchman in
the & N. w. yards was killed We'd
nesday morning between 3 and
o'clock No one witnessed the accident,
but the crew had been switching in the
repair yards, and Mr.. Young had step
ped between two cars to adjust the
coupler and in some manner must have
been caught and was crushed as the
cars came together. An ambulance
rushed to the yards, but he died on the
way to hospital. Until recently Mr..
Young had been stationary engineer at
the Grove mine. He was 46syears old,
and leaves his wife and six children.
Waterloo.
After celebrating for more than q
year as to whom he owed the greatest
debt Ills country or his family. Arthur
+. Wilson reached the conclusion that
if his family was not worth fighting for
it was not worth very much. He left
recently for Jefferson barracks to en-
list IN the COAST dILlueIy. WI. WllSoi
is past 81 years old He has wife
and six children. Mrs. Wilson signed
a waiver stating she and the children
are now wholly dependent BY being
economical. she says, she can live well
on the fruits of their labor and the all
lowance she will receive from the gov
eminent.
! 0nawa
Because of the fine condition of tine
ground and the exceptionally good
weather conditions, the Monona coun-
ty farmers are blowing the ground for
corn instead Of disking this spring, the
first time for a number of seasons. The
blowing is well under way and the
outlook points to large acreage OF
corn. The fruit trees are budding but
are not far enough advanced to be
injured by frost, as there has been
very little warm weather in the past
two weeks. Many school children are
planting war gardens and the early
planted gardens are now up. The far
rowing Of pigs has resulted in many
large litters and the farmers succeed
H. .ovsuv rnnct of the Young nius