Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-11
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

OttumWa.
The Second Baptist church, one OF
the old landmarks Of Ottumwa, built
IN 1868, was destroyed by fire early
Sunday evening. An -overheated hue
is thought to have caused the fire. n
fine library owned and highly priced
! by the pastor the Rev. b. +. Abner
was also destroyed.
Sioux City.
Charles y. Martin. retiring treasur-
er of Woodbury. county, who on jan
l completed twenty and half yeais
continuous service in the employ OF the
county, left for Des MoineS tonight to
! assume his duties as travelling inspec-
tor for the state board of control Mr..
! Martin succeeds II. II. Mckeen, VI
Orange City. IN the state office.
Grundy Center.
\. j. Kline has bought the 100 acre
! farm north 5f Conrad from ALVIN
Cooper for s275 per acre, possession to
be, given in March. SIR. Cooper has
! bought the Sh ,rbon farm for S1I6.oo
per acre This farm is located south
! of town. Possession will be given in
! March. George Schildroth has bought
: the Meyer farm near Eeinbeck from
Meyer for $3.50 per acre.
! Fairfield.
! G.. C.. Kientz, George +. Mart, H. f..
! Wisecarver and Leo d. Thoma of this
! city have begun equity action against
! the Iowa Electric Company in an CT
I fort to restrain that organization from
( cutting off the gas supply from users
of prepay meters. Recently the COM
pany notified users of such meters
that "a certain amount of back pay
mcnt must be made or, service would
be discontinued. \ temporary injunc
ton has been issued by Judge Seneca
Cornell.
LaPorte City.
A year ago Alfred Clark. farmer
living near LaPorte City, had his
. telephone with farmers NUT ual tell.
| phone company discontinued. A short
! time ago the telephone company had
all it's wires grounded. Linemen We're
sent out to investigate. They finally
came to the Clark home and found \
| telephone that it Is alleged he had
| bought and connected up with the COM
, pany's lines. The connection, it is SAID,
was not properly made and the COM
pany's wires were grounded. Yester-
day County Attorney E. j. Wenner
filed petition for action against
! Clark.
Waterloo.
| Charged with being a dangerous
alien, Anton FELTON, was arrested and
sentenced to intcrnmenl AT Fort Ogc.-
| thorpe, GA, by the United States at
torney at Waterloo. FELTON, was ar
rested and CHARGED with vagrancy at
independence early in the week, but it
vas discovered that hS had not regist-
! cred for the se.ective draft service. He
was brought to Waterloo and cross
examined by the federal authorities
Fenton is by fac the most dangerous
alien rounded UP in long time, it is
said. According to officials F'enton is
a typical anarchist and would undoubt-
eddy have done some harm if he had
rot been picked up.
Cedar Rapids.
| V. W. Novak, aged 50. was found
dead in his bed IN rear room Of the
tailor shop at 100 South Third streur.
Thursday noon. He had not been seen
for some days, the last time that any
body remembers hearing or seeing any
thing Of him was six days ago whei
one Of the neighbours heard him say
"Oh," as if he was surprised or panied.
John Feiresen, who looked after NovaK,
went into the shop Wednesday to see
if he was all right, and found him deaf