Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-06
Iowa News Items

Sioux City--Roy Deraad,o who late
Thursday shot his wife and turned
the gun on himself because of at
tentions she was receiving from u
Mexican, died early Friday. The
woman may recover.
notwithstanding against q loose
screen In the third story of his homo
Wednos lay night, Ole Olson. CT years
Old fell to his death below. His death
was ms "antanoous, broken neck be-
His aged father, Peter Olson,90 years
old: q brother, Alex, and n sister,
Mrs. Mary Allison, of Clinton. sur
vivc.
Rockwell City.--S. y. Van Wegcn
has perfected method of raising n
vegetable sponge, which. he claims.
will be valuable commercial pro-
duct MIR. Van Wegen has raised n
small amount of the sponges and
they show indications of competing
with a real deep water sponge. He
says that the cost Of raising tho ma
terial Isl small and that n great
amount can be produced ON n small
acreage He plans to coinmercializc
his discovery.
, Odebolt and Mrs. Jacob Wiki
en- departed on Monday evening for
! Preston, Iowa. called there by the
death OF Mrs Hans Mohr. the mother
OF the first wife of Mr.. Wilken. Mrs.
Mohr was sixty eight years of age
and was the mother of sixteen chill
dren, all of whom grew to maturity
and fourteen of whom survive. One
son served in the late war. Mrs. Mohr
and husband celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary last September.
She visited in this locality in past
years.
Boone-Sixty years ago Sunday
occurred the marriage OF Mr.. and
Mrs. A. J. Bacus and in honor of that
event they were at home Sunday
from $3.50 o'clock in the afternoon to
8 o'clock in the evening to all their
friends who care to come and spend
the time with them at their resi-
ience, S21 Carroll street. Ever since
their wedding which occurred in APP
panoose county, Mr.. and Mrs. Bacus
have made Boone their home un,.
they have a wide circle OF friends
who will call and offer their con-
gratulations on reaching the sixtieth
anniversary which it is not given
for many to attain.
Schleswig Claus Bielenberg. of
. -. 81 ~, hi Ia RIO
land holdings to his seven children.
Mr.. Bielenberg owned about 200
acres o. good Iowa land and did not
wait until his death for the dividing
OF his real estate property. His land
holdings contain some very choice
farms and they are located between
here and Kiron The land was divided
equally by the father. each child re-
ceiying a deed to quarter section.
This Is q novel gift and one that
can not be easily eclipsed. But MI.
Bielenbnrg has pursued the right
| method for he will enjoy the giving
and be happy with the recipients
The children to receive a farm ARE
Mrs. Fred F'riedrichsen, Mrs. Fred
ReinkiY,g, Mrs. Carl Wellendorf. and
the boys, Fred, Claudius, Adolph ano
Julius l3ielenberg.
Iowa City-"It has been most In
teresting to me to note the wonderful
progress in your medical schools. but
1 will say now that l was most struck
with the college Of medicine at the
University OF Iowa. intend to send
my son there for his medical studies.
Such uas the parting word from an
eminent British physician as he was
about to embark at New York for his
home I'm Great Britain. He had been
spending a few weeks with party
of French and British physicians and
surgeons visiting the leading hospi-
tails and colleges of medicine in the
United States. The party made a
| thorough inspection of the Iowa
medical school including the child
ren's hospital, and soon after leaving
| Iowa City another member of the
group gave out an interview at Min
neapolis saying that the medical COLI
lege Of the University of Iowa was
the best thing they had seen up to
that time.
| Explorers of the Heavens.