Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-17
Storm Lake.

Storm Lake.
The class of 1908 of the Storm Lake
high school will present the high
school with a service flag for alumni
members in memory of Lieut.. lilo Tay-
lor, the first local young man to die
in the service.
Sioux City.
Fritz K. Kline, veteran Sioux City
hotel man and saloonkeeper, Wednes-
day was, arrested by the police,
charged with being a go between for
a gang of shoplifters and dope users,
which tbs, police are endeavoring to
break up:
Marcus.
Tho this town has q population Of
only about 1000 it raised 1893, 500 in he
liberty loan campaign and it's quota
was but $50, 900. 1t is asserted over
$780, 900 will De raised before the cam
paign is finally closed. IN the \Red
Cross campaign last week $4,000 was
raised.
correctionviIIe.
Herbert Foster, aged 80, a farm
hand working on the John loon farm,
Friday evening fell thirty feet from the
top of a silo 10 the ground. He sus-
tanned compound fractures Of both
legs and his right arm was fractured.
He is in the local hospital. 1t is be-.
lieved he will cover.
Sioux City.
Police department pensioners must
go. Every man on the force who is
too Did for active duty or who has
taken on so much av%oirdupois that he
can only be efficient when sitting on a
cushioned chair, will feel the official
guillotine. This announcement was
made by w. r. Hamilton, commits
sioner~of public safety.
Cherokee.
Walter James, of Cherokee got his
artistic instinct 10 work a few days
ago and brought into existence a win
dow piece showing the savagery of the
German invaders of Belgium and
France and the butchery they practice
1t has attracted a great deal of at
tention and has been a material aid
in boosting. the liberty loan campaign.
Storm Lake.
: Red Gross sales in Buena Vista
county since Jan. 1, 1918, have netted
for the Red Cross the sum of $50 900.
The sales conducted by the various
towns of the county resulted as fol-
lows: Newell, $500; Storm Lake,
$4,000; Sioux Rapids, $4,000; Fair
view, $500; Marathon, $4,000; Albert
City, $4,000; Alta $4,000, and Linn
Grove $4,000.
Bellevue.
Rev. E. Mutchman, pastor of the.
Lutheran church, left Monday for
Camp Macarthur, Waco. Tex, where
he will take UP his new duties as
army pastor. Mrs. Mutchman will ac-
company him and act as his secretary.
During Mr.. Mutchman's absence, the
parish will be, m charge of Rev. Victor
Albert, of Dubuque, and Rev. Henry
Hoerig. of Toledo, o.
independence.
Private Elmer Sorenson Of Rowley,
is dead at Camp Greene, Charlotte. N.
c., according to information received
here. Scarlet fever was+the cause OF
death. The body will be brought home
for burial. Sorenson was % years old
and the son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Sorenson, farmers. He enlisted here
last year, and was a graduate ol ZIG
Independence high school.
CIarinda.
Locust Grove German Lutheran
church people announced that the
of the church in German letters
over the door is to be replaced in Eng
lish' and the name German changed to
English. That no more German Ian
guage Of any kind would be used and
that as soon as English song books
ordered arrived the German books
would be used for a bonfire.
AIvord.
board Of directors OF the Farm
ers' elevator here at a recent meeting
voted to invest $1,000 i%n>libcrty bonds
OF the third issue. The company
bought s 1000 worth of the second Is
sue, 1t has given 500 to the local
branch Of the Red Cross, in addition to