Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-09
Northern Io1ua Items

alone in the room at the time, but its
cries of my dess is on fire." quickly
| brought assistance from Dora, an older
sister, who with remarkable presence
of mind grabbed the child and smoth-
cred the flames in a heavy rug. The
little one escaped with no more serious
damage than to have it's hair singed
and it's clothes badly burned. The little
dress and skirt was almost burned off
the child.
Mason City.
All criminal cases against men who
are now in the county Jail awaiting
trial r.Sye been assigned for trial on
Monday mornins according to an an
nouncement, which was made by county
officials at neon today. Chief in inter
est Of the cases to be brought before
this term cf court will be that of the
state of Iowa against Frank Camardo,
against whom an indictment has been
returned. charging, him with the MUIR
der Of Mrs. Clara Wedge at her home
in this city on the evening of Satur-
day, Jan. ~. NJ. c. Coughlon retained
as counsel for Camardo, and Ralph
Stanberry, county attorney have both
been attempting to get the case set for
trial at this term Of court.
Doueherty.
| The Red Cross auction sale. which
was held at Dougherty, was an over
whelming success financially. as it
netted the loca. society over $4,000, the
total receipts from the sal. amounting
| to s2,16O. The auctioneers. Mr.. Sand
ers and Marney Gordon, kept up the
spirit in good style, and The success of
! the sale was largely due to the pres
| ence of about fifteen good bidders, who
! kept the ball rolling every minute, and
| the spirit of outbidding one another.
Articles regardless of usual prices, sold
| for large sums. Potatoes, vegetable
| hogs and grain sold well The sale
was held in the building formerly oc-
cupied by harness shop on Main
street. Chickens and eggs gold at high
| prices. One crate Of fine eggs, donated
by Mrs. William Dougherty, sold for
l$43.75. One egg alone brought $50
Odebolt.
| While Odebolt does not want to be
over credulous in the matter Of fur
nishing youns men for Uncle SANS
| army, she has a quartet or homes tnat
are entitled to some distinction along
this line. Out OF four homes, twelve
sons have. gone forth-three from each
one-and all but two voluntary enlist
ments. Those enlisted from the home
| Of Henry Sterckrath, Henry, Frank
and Adam. One is now in France a
member of the Rainbow division and
| two are at Camp Cody. The home OF
Erick Erickson gave John, Mckinley
and Theodore. Theodore, it is claimed
was one OF the youngest volunteers III
Iowa, being barely 16 years old when
he enlisted last summer. All are in
services in the United States Three
sons of Mrs. Mary Level, Frank. Bur-
CESS and Cloid, are serving their coun-
| try somewhere this side Of the wal
zone. Frank has been in the navy a
number Of years, Cloid is in the avia-
ton department and Burgess is a pri-
vate stationed near San Francisco, Cal
J. H. Ketteror, one Of the pioneer res
/ idents Of Odebolt, has three sons If
the service. John is a member of the
Twentieth aviation squadron, now in
France; Joe and Harry have just beer
called in the late draft. The former Al
Camp Dodge, at Des Moines and tht
/ latter somewhere in Wisconsin.