Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-07
phEVAS MISSING:
CAFE IS CLOSED
HOLDER OF MORTGAGE STARTS
ACTION AND SHERIFF
TAKES CHARGE.
CREDITORS NUMEROUS;
EMPLOYEES ARE UNPAID
Butcher, Baker ard Grocer Present
Bills for from 500 to $500 Zach
Help Not Paid for Two or Three
Weeks--Owner Leave Note With
EmpIoye Explaining Absence.

The Puritan Cafe, ~ East Main
day afternoon, the proprietor, Nick
PEeras having left the city. The aC-
ton was the result of an attachment
by Jim Coulus, " no solids mortgage
Oh the fixtures and stock. AS soon as
IL became known That preyas and MS
Wife had left tho city, presumably Tor
Waterloo, creditors became active and
Il soon was apparent the owners
lad Lett Numerous unsettled accou,ts.
The ehattel nortgaSe held by Cou
lus Was for $l.eJA with a payment oil
500 haSi ing been made. Butcher,
baker and grocer haze accounts
ranging from $1a0 TO $500, ii is said,
and the owner of the building, cigar
house., wholesale grocer and others
are among the creditors.
That Frevas left To escape his cred
tiors i the stosy told by his employees,
one of whom is alleged to have re-
ceived Il note from the proprietor
Monday morning, stating he and his
wife had gone To Waterloo To visit.
but that they would not return az
Prevas could not pay his bills. lie
ADDED he might so to Detroit, whsrr
he was formerly in business.
Prevas' Help Unpaid.
+ Employees OF the Puritan, six In
number. are among the creditors.
Prevas is said to be Indicated to some
OF them for two or three weeks work.
He had paid his help, according To
Is.
ed for the money. The last week OF
so they said, he had been putting
them off from day to day and the
ghost did not walk" Saturday night
as the help had been promised.
Prevas and his wife are said to have
left the city Sunday night.
The Mattresses, cooks and dish
washer employed at the Puritan. de-
seconded on the municipal court i'm
mediately after the cafe was closed.
They were after Prevas and wanted
to have him brought back. They
were advised to take their claims TO
an attorney and have them filed in
the proper way.
"Going' to Cut Off Head"
For the most part the employees
took their loss philosophically. All
are out Of work. none had any ro>
serve. fund. One waitress exhibited
60 cents. Another had double that
amount and both have room rent TO
lay and no meal ticketsA
A Turk employed as dish washer
was hardest hit. He had thia dime
ard detected countenance. He aver
red he was "goin' to cut off his head"
but thought better of II when Tu3op
Tankersley offered to loan him a re-
volver with two chambers loaded.
The courts offer seemed to brigh,e>
him, however, and he smiled with
some effort.
me turk did not know where he
would eat where he would sleep or
where he could secure work to earn
either. He suggested that he would
commit theft to get into Jail, but
upon the suggestion that he might be
committed to Jail without besmearing
lis soul with sin he decided he didn't
care to be placed in confinement au,:
managed to broaden his smile. Be
fore he left the court room he was in
good humor, and the Puritan en-
ployes went to an attorney in
| happy mood.
| All shoes, % per cent discount.
| Bargain Store.