Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-06-18

help. Before his companions could
reach him he had sunk and it was half
an hour before his body was recovered.
| The accident happened only few feet
from the spot where young Smith of
Edgewood was drowned in July two
years ago and was the first fatality in
the river here since that one.
Mason City.
Henry Scharr. an old cobbler who
lived all alone in a little frame build
ing at SIS South Federal avenue was
found dead in a chair Friday morn
Ing when James H. Griffith. a barber.
walked into the shop to secure pair
OF shoes he had left theer a few days
before. The body. was found sitting on
chair on the second floor of the home
with an electric fan turned on and
blowing partly across his body. Neigh
bors saw him in the back yard Thurs
day afternoon and mail on his table
which was delivered Thursday in
Dictated that he was still alive late
Thursday afternoon. No cause for the
death had been discovered altho DR..
Starr advanced the opinion that there
were no indications of outside in
fluences to cause the death.
Storm Lake.
Leonard Mailoy, the 14-year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. william Malloy, Of
Galva. was drowned in Storm Lake
late Thursday afternoon, and the body
recovered two hours later In SOM
pany with three other boys Of about
the same age as the Malloy boy was
on raft near Casino. point on the
south side of the lake, when a wind
started to blow the raft out into the
lake. The boys. 1t is reported. became
scared and jumped into the lake. After
swimming about fifty feet the boy
went under, while the others reached
the shore in safety. Upon recovery Of
the body efforts were made to resusc-
tate him but it was too late. The body
was taken to the home Of the parents
at Galva. The family has a cottage at
Casino. Mr.. Malloy is postmaster at
Galva.
Cedar Rapids.
Lee NJ. Ford. vice president Of the
Ford Paving Company, Of this city.
and globe trotter, has been drafted into
the aviation corps OF the army and
leaves Wednesday for Austin, Tex.
Ford, who Is not Is years old, in 1913
with two youn companions set out
for Peru to inspect some land owned
by his father They penetrated the
wilderness of Peru and there ran
across a tribe of Indians who never
had seen a white man before. The
savages permitted the boys to kodak
them and Ford sent the photographs
to an eastern magazine which pub
lished the mwith the announcement
that they represented a new tribe Of
men. The Indians showed the party a
new pat hover the Andes. Ford Is said
to be one of the wealthiest young men
in this section of Iowa. Aviation is his
hobby.
Sioux City.
Race suicide threatens Sioux City's
hiii district women Who are conduct
ing the government survey to list
every Sioux City baby in the interest
of child welfare work, discovered this
week. The team workers OF which
Mrs. NJ. H. King, was chairman which
visited every home on Jackson, Neb-
raska and Pierce streets, listed fewer
babies than any other team in the city.
Members of the hill district team
visited every house in thirteen blocks
above Sixteenth street, and listed only
thirteen babies and OF this number
three were adopted children A'W;efoOnd
beautiful homes with spaclosRgrounds
and lovely spots In which children
might play, where there were no babies
and never had been any" one team
stated, "but in the small houses with
no lawns nor grass for children to play
In we found the largest number Of
babieA"