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

! aided by favorable weather conditions
and the fact that there is no disease
prevalent among thsm. A shower
which fell in this vicinity Monday will
do an immense amount of good.
Cedar Rapids.
Women may replace men on the ci,-
lines of the Iowa Railway and Light
Company as conductors. Recently the
company has car.ird advertisia< fer
women conductors in the loca. news
papers, and Sos. 4rdly two women re
assigned to the .Ridgewood line, wb oh
runs thru one Of the most populous
districts of the city. They were look
ers-on yesterday, learning n"w 20
make change, call streets ans. flas ,a;i-
road crossings. but it w&s said. if th"y
made good women would man all the
company's cars. This is tho first. lii
stance in the city where women huv2
been called on to replace men in out
door work.
Waterloo.
Paul Stencil, of Waverly. was lodged
in the county Jail Tuesday following
his appearance before J. h. Dempster,
United States commissioner Stencil
was bound over to await action of the
federal grand jury, following his ar
rest at Waveriy Monday on Il charge
of attempting to obstruct the army
draft service. Following the arraign-
ment before Commissioner Dempster
Stencils brother. an attorney at
Waverly, offered( to put up bond of 3d.
O00 This offer was rejected for the
brother himself was recently arrested
on charge of sedition and is at lib
erty under bonds to appear before the
federal grand jury.
Waterloo.
Police are investigating mystcr-
GUS robbery of money and quantity Of
gold penholders from Warwicll's book
store, EOS Fourth street east. When
the store was opened for business
Wednesday morning the cash register
was found open and ~several display
cases rifed The mystery lay in the
fact that police officers could not dis
cover in what manner the intruders
had gained entrance to the store. All
doors and windows were found locked
when the store was opened. Officers
believe that the robbery was either the
result of an inside ':touch" or that the
intruders used a skeleton itey Sinnard
Brothers grocery store on Fourth
street west was also robbed Tuesday
night, but only a small SUN of money
from the cash register wal, taken.
Cedar Rapids.
While the chemical tests lof the cider
taken from two local softl drink par
lors by the police Mondal', have not
been entirely completed, reports re-
ceived by the police late oday from
Prof Bates of Coo Collegcl are to the
effect that the cider showA tcst> of
from four to seven per clint alcohol
1t is said that test which one of the
proprietors. from whose pla &c some OF
the cider was taken, caule to be
made in his own behalf Showed an
alcohol content of six per tent Beer
contains from three and onc-half to
four per cent alcohol When the re-
port on the test is made. the prob
abilities are that proceedings will be
instituted at once against the propric-
tors of the places from which the cider
was taken, as well as against the own
ers of the buildings. Under the Iowa
laws levy may be made on buildings
used for violation of the laws.
Mason City.
A singular fraud Is being perpe-
trated in the city and over the county.
kilograms are being sent TO mothers
and fathers of soldiers and sailors re-
questing funds be sent. that the man
in the service may return home. The
kilograms in practically all of the
,Cerro Gordo county cases waive iden-
LITIGATION. The rest is simply a matter
Of detail The confidence man at the
other end of the wire gets the money
when it is sent and tile parents are
left wondering why their boy doesn't
come home. until they wire or write
him, as the case may be, and learn
that he has sent for no money upon
which to visit Home. The telegrams
generally state that the money should
be sent by general delivery. Parents
and friends over the county and in the
city should be forwarned Of this
swindle and make sure before they
send money. If in douSt they should
notify the city police, who may set
in touch with the police of the city
from which the telegram is sent and in
that way appreliend the swindler