Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-13
Northern IoDa Items

breaking anywhere. All the papers in
which the silks were wrapped were left
in their accustomed places and so the
theft was not discovered until one OF
the clerks was Strengthening some OF
the stock on the shelves. and found a
paper in which the silk was missing. A
search was made with the result above
set out. Only the choice pieces were
taken. Mr.. Adams remembered that
when he went to the store on Sunday
morning he noticed an unusual amount
of string on the floor which indicated
that the theft was committed on Sat
urday night. There is no clue to the
robbery.
Cedar Rapids.
Mayor j. F. Rail has prepared an
ordinance which will be introduced in
the city council Friday that will put
carnival companies out of business SO
far as Cedar Rapids is concerned. The
ordinance imposes tax of $40 a day
on each tent show and concession,
which it is figured, will make the cost
prohibitive. The last carnival here
would have been taxed $1,000 for the
week had the ordinance been in opera
ton, Circus licenses remain at $3.50
day. The council has indicated that
it will pass the ordinance and the prin-
cipal reason for such action is COM
plant on the part of merchants and
other business men of the large amount
of money carnival companies take out
of the community while they do not at
tract any outside business. Complaint
also was made to the commissioner of
notice that one of the companies that
recently visited this city permitted the
operation of various gambling devices.
Manchester.
County Agent j. A. Krall has COM
pleted the organization of Delaware
county for the supplying of help to the
farmers during the rush season. Early
this spring Earlville went on record
with pledges from most Of it's business
men to give part of their time to farm
work, and the county agent now has
similar pledges from the business men
and town residents all over the county.
so that he reckons on a company OF
200 ready to answer the emergency
call whenever it comes. 1t is planned
to collect the men in automobiles at 3
O'Clock in the afternoon, get them to
the farms and to work by o'clock,
and work until dark; in this way ac-
complishing a good deal Of work in
the cool Of the evening without killing
Off the green handsA The enthusiastic
Of the commercial clubs
and business men has been remarkable
and their willingness to see that no
farmer suffers for lack Of help Is DEM
onstrated, by their pledges Of personal
service.
Cedar Rapids.
Mrs. Mary Cook, who lives at 1903
Second avenue, had evidently heard all
about the filthy, six-footed and long
fanged germs which are supposed to
infect paper money, and how they set
up housekeeping on a fve.dollar bill
and raise large families each hour.
She had also heard of the value Of
cold air as germ destroyer, so when
she was wondering where to hide $50
in bills which she mad in her purse
her mind naturally turned to the re-
frigerator. So she placed the money
in pan. and put the pan in the ice
box. There are people in Cedar Rapids
who make practice of Shopping" in
other peoples ice boxes and who pur-
loin butter, eggs. meat and other eat
ables worth almost their weight in
sugar these days. One such visited
Mrs. Cooks home the other evening.
and was no doubt agreeably surprised
when he removed the pan and found
the crisp, cool legal tender In the
process of being de-germized- This ice
Fbox thief wasn't particular. how. many
germs were on the bills. and carried
the money away with him. Mrs. Cook
has asked the police to keep lookout
for chap carrying twenty dollars in
hills which look as tho they might have
been refrigerated, or where some partly
frozen germs are limping over the
green paper