Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-19
Northern Ioua Items

! any other community in the country
The town has done more than required
| of it in liberty bond sales, Red Cross
! subscriptions andgrwork and subscrip-
tons to the Y. NJ c. A.
Clinton.
Valeria NJ. Ankeny and Nancy Vos-
burg, whose maiden names were Perrin
are older residents than Curtis B. Hail.
345 Hull avenue. Des Moines, who
claims to have lived longest in the
state of Iowa. Mr.. Hall has another
! thought coming for. these two ladies
came to Iowa in 1897. with their par
ents and Mr.. Halls residence dates
only to March 1888. They have a great
err record than the Des Moines man in
that they have resided in Clinton
county continuously since 1887 and
know the history of eastern Iowa from
those territorial days to the present.
Dubuque.
! A. p. Houston. deputy United. States
marshal, returned Saturday morning
| from Waterloo, where he arrested Her
man Kumerow, a German alien enemy,
and locked him up in the Blackhawk
county Jail. The arrest was made on a
presidential warrant. kumerow, it is
charged. failed to properly fill out the
affidavits demanded by the govern
ment in the registration of German
aliens. His home is in Cedar Falls but
he is employed by the Herrick Re-
frigerator Company, Of Waterloo. At
the marshal's office it was stated that
kumerow will probably be sent to an
internment camp, where he will be I'M
able to do any harm.
DEBORAH.
Even in war times the leading bank
institutions of Winneshiek county are
enlarsing their business in a territorial
way, the latest developments being that
three new banks will be built this spring
and summerone at Highlandville, one
in Festina and one at Eldorado The
Winneshek County Bank is the prime
mover in the extension movement and
all three banks will be in the very best
of territory, the farmers all being
wealthy. The bank at Highlandville
will be in charge of r. Schjeldahl, who
has wide acquaintance, having lived
there all his life. The bank at F'estina
will be looked after by Mr.Ode of CAL
mar and the Eldorado bank will be
handled by Mr.. F'igge of Ossian. The
incorporators of the three institutions
will be Mr.. and Mrs. c. ]. Weiser Mr..
r Algyer and Albert Atkinson, Of De-
corah, o. P. Ode of Calmar and Fred
Ffgge Of Ossian. A. r. Coffeen. con-
tractor, Of DEBORAH. was awarded the
contracts for all three banks Friday
and as soon as the weather permits will
break ground for the first one at High
landville
Fort Dodge.
| Fort Dodge was the first city in the
United States in the number Of enlist
ments in the army for the month Of De-
cember in comparison to it's population
beins far ahead of any other city OF
like size for enlistments that month
according TO report received by Ser
geant Joseph Weir of the local army
recruiting station. The Omaha district
Of the army, of which the Fort Dodge
office Is . part was the third IN the
United States in the same month in
the matter of enlistments, altho being
placed as the thirteenth district as re.
CARDS population. Only two cities. Chi.
cago and Indianapolis, outrank Omaha
and both are districts of much larger
population. Omaha excelled the New
York and San Francisco districts
There are thirteen recruiting station!
in the Omaha district and while For
Dodge is near the bottom of the list II
the matter of population, it was fiftl
in the number Of enlistment. the only
cities excelling being Omaha, Des Moine!
Sioux City and Lincoln. This informa
ton, which is sent out in a report fro,r
Washington, tells an eloquent story 0
the patriotism of the middle west, ant
lgives Fort Dodge a very high standins
in the number Of recruits obtained b.
the local station.