Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-25
Southern Iowa Items

| Des Moines-The Retail Monument
Dealers Association will hold it's an
nual convention in Des Moines Janu-
! airy 80 and 81. Headquarters will be
at the Chamberlain hotel. A. T. Gal
| lagher of Corydon is secretary of the
association.
| Cedar Rapids-Clara kvarda, 8 years.
| daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John kvarda.
died Monday as the result of burns she
| received Saturday. Her skirt became
| ignited by a red hot stove. Before the
flames were subdued she had been
| terribly burned from the knees to the
| neck.
keokuk-The deep water in Lake
keokuk is proving providence to the
ice men this season for it is frozen to
quite\ a depth. At Fort Madison the
| water on the lake is only slightly fro
zen and at Quincy the ice has gone out
, and has sorged in great iceberss below
the city. Several of these icebergs are
| close to % feet high.
Fairfield-At a meeting of the board
of directors Of the Chautauqua asso-
citation held at the home of Mrs. r. r.
| Louden, Wednesday evening. it was
| definitely decided that a chautauqua
meeting will be held this year. and tho
! intention of the board is to have the
! best chautauqua, as far as talent is
concerned, Of any in the history of the
| organization. The 1918 program was
| postponed, owing to war conditions.
| Boone-Darwin Barrett, the l0-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. George Bar
rett, S221@ Story street, suffered Il
badly cut hand when he tripped over
a wire and fell on a piece of glass
Tuesday. He was on his way to school
and took short cut thru Allen street
when the accident occurred. 1t was
necessary to take several stitches in
his hand, and altho it panied him a
great deal during the night, he was
resting some easier.
Des Mones-As the result Of Cum
Minis and Representative Dawell and
Assistant Secretary Moyle, it has beer
practically settled that the new fed
eral courthouse for Des Moines not
but that it will be in the near future.
Work is expected to start this spring
The controversy over location of the
site is ended. The government will al
once proceed to acquire title to the
ground on the river front, which is be-
tween Walnut street and Court ave-
nue.. This will cause little delay; af-
ter that, bids will be advertised for,
\ and construction undertaken. <
AtIantic-Angered because he die
not receive as large share of his
fathers estate as he thought his due
Bernard Michaels, former cass county
man, dropped out Of sight some eigh
OF ten years ago. He has now beoI
declared legally dead and his share o
the estate will go to other heirs. Der.
nard MicnaeIs was the son of Nicholai
Michaels, who lived near Masscna. TIL
elder Michaels died November IS, 1907
| leaving an estate of considerable size
The share Of Bernard Michaels in hi!
fathers estate was s3,305.s2. OF thi
amount s2,932.31, was in Adair count.
and $S7S.01 in Cass county.
West Liberty-The distinguishes
service cross has been awarded post
humously to Lieut.. Col. Clark r.. Ell
lott, the first West Liberty soldier Il
meet his death on French battlefield
Lieut.. Col. Elliott was killed july
! "a while leading his men in u success
| full charge against the Germans a
scissors. At that time, Lieut.. Col. Ell.
lott was the highest ranking American
officer kined. The distinguished, ser,
vice cross has been sent to the widow
who with her little daughter. Geral
0ins. is making her home with sistel