Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-22
Montexuma News Items.
.ial To Tirnea-

Montezuma, Aug. IA series OF
baseball games Is being played by the
local team. On Wednesday Keota was
beaten by a score of IL to 2. Thurs
DAY Brooklyn won to z. Today the
same Will be with Grinnell. Three
games have been played by the teams
all OF which have resulted in shutouts
Tor the losing team. Montezuma has
) won two Of the games. Tomorrow New
Sharon Is to play.
Rev. A. B. Caldwell had an unusual
experience in Grinnell the other eve
ming. He drove to GrinnelI to attend
meeting and left his car parked near
the Methodist church. When he left
the meeting he 1eund the running
board and fender on his car had been
badly bent and broken. While he was
looking the car over a young man step
PED up and stated that he had care
iessly struck the car and that he want
ed to take Mr.. Caldwell to the garage
and arrange for the necessary new
parts to replace the damaged ones. He
stated that he was a stranger in Grin
nell Such an experience is SO rare
that 1t seems worthy of note.
Mrs. Fred Mckee was driving with
her children in the car when she
turned into the main road near her
aome She saw a car coming and
noted that the driver was not watch
Ing what he was doing. She turned to
avoid the other car and got or the
wide road into the grass and then he
turned and struck her in place Of
avoiding her car. Her small baby was
thrown out Of the car to the ground
but was not injured. The driver of
the other car stopped a moment but
did not comply with Mrs. McKees re-
quest that he take her home a short
distance away. He drove of after stat
Ing that he could not pay and dam
4ges for he had just been married and
had no money. Mrs. Mckee was cut
badly by the glass from the Windshield
and the car was badly wrecked: No
one has been able to ascertain who the
offending driver was.
1t is expected that on next Tuesday
there will be organized a local branch
of the American Legion.
After spending considerable time in
the army camps both at home and
abroad and returning safely to his
home. Leland Carter got the worst of
mixup with a gasolene engine few
days ago and received four fractures
Of the left arm below the elbow and
also lost the end Of q finger on the
other hand
The sale OF the Methodist church
property on Saturday resulted in the
purchase Of the same by the older fac
tion OF the Christian church near Mon
tezuma which had the lawsuit a few
months ago. The defeated faction in
the suit purchased the property and
will either leave 1t where It is or will
later move It nearer the site Of the old
church which is now under the control
OF the younger element Of the church.
The Poweshiek county Board OF
Supervisors has formally declined to
4 accept the ruling of the state high
way commission regarding the loca-
tion Of the new bridge on the county
line north from New Sharon. The
matter stands where 1t has been for
nearly year.
The county fair situation IN this
county is interesting to the outsider.
Grinnell people were told last week
that II they did not subscribe for the
balance Of the stock as sought and
amounting TO about $4,000. this years
fair would he the last. What the out
come will be no one knows. At the
Malcom fair this week the people were
told by a speaker that they were not
asking Tor money for an endowment
but that they did ask for the co-opera-
ton Of the people in the community
and that is what they did not have
this year. II il said that some OF the
Malcolm business men did not fnd II
convenient TO go out to the fair
grounds ! mile from town. But one
business house was represented by
any exhibit VI, !.