Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-07

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tablishes q record price for rental Of
Johnson county land. The farm In
| question recently sold for e525 per
| acre.
MuseatIne--Night school classes In
which Amcricanism and citizenship
will be taught, may be established by
the board Of education. working In
cooperation with the American
Legion. The classes will be espec-
tally for foreigners getting ready for
naturalization, but all others will be
included.
Humboldt-rn order that the men,
bers' homes In Humboldt county may
be easily distinguished, 100 signs
have been ordered by the farm bu-
reau and will be placed consptcuously
on each farm In the county. These
signs are of the same material as the
automobile numbers and very SINH
lar in appearance. Extra room has
been provided for the members
names.
Oelwein--The sixteen teachers OF
the Oelwein high school have asked
the board Of education for an in
crease Of $50 per month each. dating
from Jan. l. 1920. In statement to
the public they cite the high cost Of
board and room rent, the mounting
prices Of clothing, etc. and declare
that their present income Is wholly
inadequate to maintain a respectable
existence.
Musoatine-John Morino, accused
OF murder, has been found not guilty
by a jury in the Muscatine county
district court, where the Jury re-
manned out ten hours. The Defend
ant denied that he was in the box
car shaking dice with Frank Gilman,
the victim, who died in an Iowa City
hospital, where he was brought from
the Rock Island tracks, near West
Liberty. after the fatal shooting.
Atlantic-Homer Williams broke
down and cried when he appeared
before Judge Woodruff, entered a
plea of guilty to the charge Of steal
Ing an automobile and was given
FIVE years in Anamosa. Williams Is
the fourth man to be sentenced to
five years in the state reformatory
and penitentiary by Judge Woodruff
this term. Perry Shafer stole sugar
and Harold Morrill, and Wallace
Jacobs. an auto.
Des Moines-Another consignment
of 81 strawberries has arrived, and
now a few stores are showing as
many as three or four boxes Of tho
delicacy. People are buying them"
SAYS one grocer. I'VE have no
trouble in disposing Of all we can
get" The statistical fiend has figur-
ed that at a dollar a box, the actual
cost of a dish of the berries ranges
around 80 cents, what with 25 cent
sugar and cream at 80 cents a pint.
Dubuque-Dubuque were taken
in by a fountain pen artist giving
the name of G. w. Halves, who
worked a gold brick game on them.
He sold a number of people gold pens
a couple of months ago, collected the
money for them and then skipped out
without delivering the goods. Bad
checks were also worked off on the
confiding ones by the swindler before
he departed between two days. But
the career Of the slicker has been
ended for time by his arrest In
Champaign, Ill.
Charles city-The Hart arr Com
pany has taken every precaution to
keep down the flu in its factory and
very few cases have appeared there.
The company had five fifty-gallon
barrels of strong d!sinfectant
sprayed over all lockers, floors OF all
shops and buildings and foundries.
Last year during the severe epidemic
the company had every employe vac
cinated free of expense to them and
with vaccine procured from Roch-
ester. Mimi, in consequence Of which
there were few cases.
Fort DodgeA committee Of three
members of the Webster County
Medical Society will confer with de-
nominational church boards in Des
Mones, Feb. II, to lay plans for the
construction of new protestant
hospital in Fort Dodge to relieve the
crowded condition Of the Mercy hos
pital in this city. Agitation for a
new hospital was started among de-
nominations Of various protestant
churches in this city some time ago.
The committee is composed of DR..
w. W. Bowen. DR.. c. J. Saunders
and DR.. J. F. Studebaker.
Spencer-Finnie Goeble. 19-year
old orphan boy, was given an indeter-
inmate sentence of ten years at the
Fort Madison penitentiary and then
paroled to Shrriff John NJ. Lidman by
Judge Nels ]. Lee at Estherville. The
charge against the lad Is forgery to
which he entered plea of guilty. He
is to report to the sheriff once
month during the ten years, unless
sooner released by the state board Of
parole, and should he break his good
behavior at any time he will be TAX
en- to the penitentiary by the sheriff
at once.
Eikader-The Floete Lumber Com
pany, which has a chain Of lumber
and coal yards in northern Iowa,
southern Minnesota and South Dako-
ia. disposed Of its interests here to
the Hasbrouck Lumber Company, of
Mason City. The company was In
business here for thirty years and
John Foster, who was manager for
the former company twenty-eight
years. is retained by the new firm.
EAGLE Grove-Mrs. Lu Roper was
found dead on the floor of her apart
ments over the Roper hardware store.
She was apparently preparing to 60
out. as she had one overshoe on and
the other one in her hand when death
al q,