Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-14
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LOCAL COMMENT !

The var service lcAsuc win call at
every door next week 10 obtain f,rst
hand Information a. to the amount OF
bonds and war stamps already on hand
In each household in order that the
council OF defense committees may
have this data before the min making
the allotment OF the next liberty
loan to each citizen The next issue
OF bonds will be divided among in
dividuals according to their ability to
buy as determined by their property
valuations and income but II few
have oversubscrtbed in the past issues
they are to receive due consideration
for what they have done In making the
next allotment. Many invested all the
savings they had In previous issues
and now have nothing left to invest in
more. These facts must be ascertained
so as to allot the next issue TO those
who are yet able to take them. A
fairly good record Is already available
but It does not include those who
have moved into town recently nor Is
1t always accurate. Every citizen
should prepare the report for his
household and have II ready. Include
the names OF each member of the
family with the amount of bonds
owned in one column and the amount
of stamps in another. The totals at
the bottom will be the credit for that
household and will be taken into con-
sideration by the committees that
make the allotments for the next loan.
\ most distressing and sad humilia-
ton has come this week to Mrs. Cober
of the Green Mountain neighborhood
all thru thoughtlessness and mistake.
4 grey haired mother Of a soldier IN
France and n woman of most estimable
reputation among her neighbors and
highly trusted for integrity at the
Fidelity Savings Bank in this city
where she is known, carelessly picked
up another womans handbag In
store and carried II home with her
thinking that it would be advertised.
Mrs. c. A. Weitzell, a neighbor, was
with her at the time and Mrs. Cober
showed the bag to Mr. and Mrs. Welt
zell when in their car on her way
home saving that she would take 1t
back to the store II it were not ad-
vertised soon. The owner not know
ing Mrs Cober thought that the hand
bag had been taken Intentionally and
caused an arrest Mrs. Cober hysteri-
cal and alarmed at the appearance on
an officer plead guilty and paid fine
because in her panic she thought that
she had 20 do so having anothers
purse in her possession. She Is
member OF the Green Mountain church
an Eastern Star and her neighoors in
sist that she is too good a woman 10
contemplate taking purse. Not long
ago she found a wallet in the Fidelity
Savings Bank lobby containing $lvc
worth of war savings stamps and she
promptly handed it over to the bank
officials when she could have carried
il home She should have turned the
handbag over 10 the store clerks but
she has worried much about the BOY
in Franco and does absent-minded
things altho she is Of perfectly sound
mind. This is substantially the state
ment OF the incident which Mr.. ana
Mrs. weNzeH wish to make and is be-
lieved by the Times-Repubhcan to De
true in fact Mrs. Cober will suffer
tortures of the damned but she still
retains the confidence of her friends
and neighbors.
The county fair association probably
Skinned. thru without MUG. !oss IN
spite of bad weather and the war. II
got off lucky and gave a very good ex-
hibtion Of the best there is In the loca1
live stock industry. The building i'm
provements were not large this year
and need not be extensive now until
after the war when the world can take
a new start toward progress in all
things. The new public comfort station
was greatly appreciated by the crowds
on the grounds for all day and evening
and is in line with modern sanitation
aand clean living. The school exhibit
and liberal arts need new and mod
ern building much larger than the old
which may come some day. The
grounds are really too small for mach
inery display which ought to be group
ed under a roof sometime but nobody
really suffers as it Is. Next year, let US
hone that the war will be at an end