Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-17
IOWA NEWS ITEMS
Council, bluffs.

Council Bluffs.
Charged with being an incbriate ana
user OF narcotics, Theodore Mossler
was sentenced to the state hospital for
inebriates at Knoxville for three years
by JutGc Wheeler Saturday. Mossler
comes OF good family. His father /"
II. Mossler, at one time conducted the
largest clothing store In the city.
Sioux City.
Charging that he burned her dresses
coats and shoes and destroyed neck
lace, watch. bracelet and other jewclry
belonging to her, hlvcna Allner. oil
Hornick. Iowa. has fled suit in tho dis
trict court against her father, Charles
Allner, for $500 damages, She also
asks for $50 for picking corn. She al
lcgcs her father treated her cruelty.
Waterloo.
Henry Dudley Schwartz who asks
that his name be changed to Henry
Dudley Russell. takes this action he
says. In the petition hled with the
F-clcrk of courts because OF tho disiaNor
into which German names have fallen
since the war. His legal name. he
says. is Henry Dudley Schminkey. and
family name of his wife.
Waterloo.
Mrs. Mary d. Meier. aged IS. died
of injuries received when she fell down
the cellarway OF neighbours apart
ment the night before Mrs. Meier
was on her way to visit neighpor
and opened the door into the basement
instead of the one into the kitchen. In
tornal injuries and fractured skull
were sustained in the fall and she died
a few hours later. She Is survived by
two sons. one living here and one IN
Idaho.
Yorktown.
Ed Nelson, a farmer living near Col
lege Springs. was killed by a buzz saw
The last seen of Nelson by his helpers
while saving wood he was coming to-
ward the engine with an oil can. While
the next stick of wood was being sawed
Nelson was hurled into eternity. No
body saw just how it was done. but the
next seen of Mr.. Nelson he was lying
by the engine unconscious. -Four
doctors were hurriedly called but Mr..
Nelson died at 1 o'clock. His skull was
crushed and there were three ugly
gashes about the face and throat.
Davenport.
That shock not injuries. caused the
death of William Doescher. Schricker
flats janitor. after he had been struck
by an automobile at Third and scott
streets last Monday morning. was the
statement made at coroncr's inquest
Saturday night by DR.. X. +. Jamison,
house physician at Mercy hospital.
When brought to the hospital. the man
was suffering only from a broken !eft
ankle, bruised right hand and a
minor scalp wound He was in what
the physician described as a state OF
shock" and this shock. combined with
his advanced age Of 60 years, caused
his death.
| Burlington.
Interest in the big Iowa state poultry
| show to be held in Burlinst ton. Jan.
| to II, has spread to all sections or the
state and country. Inquiries are being
| received frequently from prospective
exhibitors asking for the premium list
| OF the show. over seventy lists nave
been sent following requests from var
ious sections of the country. In tact
Burlington will be the headquarters
for all things pertaining to poultry IN
the middle west during the week o. the
show. 1t also develops that a number
1 Of state organizations are planning on
| holding their annual meetings here Al
4 80 ln ctn Tn SHOW