Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-22
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Pomoroy-The contract has been
awarded for modern new bank
building on the site of the present
building. by a contracting firm with
headquarters at Grinnell.
Waukon--Jamcs il. Deeny. OF this
city Is enjoying a visit from his
brother. Sergeant Charles II. Deeny,
whom he has not seen in thirty-eight
yeads. The latter has been In the
army service for twenty-five years
and is now enjoying a sixty-day fur
Tough. He IL stationed at Fort Nc
Dowell. Angel Island. Calf.
Clinton - Beginning with a sal
airy OF $4,000 for Supt. Frank w.
Hicks, every teacher in the Clinton
public schools will got an increase In
salary next year. The minimum has
been fixed at $l,140. In addition to
this every teacher including the
superintendent will get an apprecia-
ton check at the opening OF the year
OF $3.50. All teachers peIow the sixth
grade will receive sI,14o: sixth grade,
s120: seventh. s125: eighth $685.
Yorktown-The egg fight at York.
town is practically over. Dealers
here had been paying 3s cents per
dozen when the market continued TO
hover about 33 cents. John Scheiben-
berger delivered nearly $500 worth
of eggs to Yorktown before they
dropped to 32 cents. He gathered up
eggs at Coin and Norwich and got
the extra cents per dozen. He had
IT'S dozen which he delivered at one
time TO the Rumde store.
Fort Madison--A. I. Tiss, superin-
tendent of the public schools of Cres-
co, Iowa, has been retained to take
charge Of the Fort Madison school
system next year. filling the vacancy
left by the resignation of James w.
Fish. With the resignation Of Super
intendent Fish came that OF p. /.
Brownell, principal of the Fort Mad
ison high school. Brownell has not
made public his plans for the future.
The school board has chosen Thorn
as w. Kersoot OF Slater, Mo-, to fill
the principals chair.
Fort Madison Delbert Reynolds
and George Rollman, fishermen, mar
rowly escaped drowning in the rush
es OF the Mississippi when the boat
In which they were riding tipped and
threw the men into the water. The
launch, n steel boat, was headed to-
ward Casio island near here and be-
came en::a2SIed in the dead trees and
rushes. When the boat tipped the
men swan to an old stump and wait
ed three hours before a relief boat
found them. Both are confined TO
the hospital as result of the expos
ure.
Cedar Rapids-After travelling
thousands of miles on their trip from
far-away, war-devastated Belgium,
to new home in Oregon, A. Fran
co.'s and his 3-year- old son, found
themselves in Cedar Rapids with the
boy seriously i'll from measles and no
place, either public or private, where
they could stay and the little fellow
have medical care, owing to the alb
sence in the city Of an isolation hos
pital for such contagious diseases as
can not be cared for in the patients
own home. The Social Welfare
league secured vacant quarters and
furnished them for the Belgians.
Humboldt-Humbol county is
again taking the lead in doing things
worth while. Suitable and lasting
recognition of the valor Of her loyal
sons in the great war is to be made
by the erection in the town Of Hum
boldt OF a $4,000 American Legion
Memorial building. The G. A. r. and
w. r. c. have generously offered the
site owned by them on Sumner ave-
nue. and have thus made possible this
great achievement. Not only will
suitable club and lodgerooms be pro-
vided for the legion, but the build
ing will be adequate to provide COM
| m odious quarters for the Red Cross,
| the County Farm Bureau, and COM
munity rest room. Committees have
been appointed and are already at
work formulating plans for the cam