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a The Des Moines Register and Leader: Friday Morning, July 16, 1915. LATEST NEWS DISPATCHES FROM ALL OVER THE STATE Cupid Continues Cutting Capers SHENANDOAH, July Special: Eloping on the 5:30 o'clock freight Tuesday morning was the method Dan Cupid found to escape the parents and obtain a marriage 11- cense and a marriage ceremony for Miss Alma Johnson of Shenandoah and Earl Hampton of Chicago. The couple went to Clarinda Monday morning where they were married. The bridal couple was delayed In returning to Shenandoah for the parental blessings, by the train service being discontinued following the heavy rain early Monday morning. The bride has been employed at Bauer's store since the Christmas holidays.

Mr. Hampton's home is Chicago, but recently he has been in business with his brother-in-law, who conducted a repair shop at Clarinda. HIGHER JUDGE WILL TRY AUSTRIAN'S CASE Foreigner "Held for Investigation" Passes From Jurisdic. tion of Human Courts. MARSHALLTOWN, July 15.

Special: Alone and among strangers, victim epilepsy. Janko Andriasevic, an Austrian laborer about 40 years of ge, died in jail here yesterday. Andriasevic came to the city a few days ago, and believed by companions to be insane. The police held him for investigation but his condition was such that no hearing could be had. He was being treated by a physican and died suddenly, presumably of cerebral congestion.

Efforts are being made to locate a brother. The only thing known about Andriasevic is that at some time he has lived at Whiting, Ind. cial: County Superintendent of Schools Miss Etta J. Rider and two assistant judges, have announced the winner the state fair essay contest to be Frank M. Ullery, of Redding.

There were many contestants the work was unusually good. Essay Prize Winner. MOUNT AYR, July FIRST WOMAN BANK HEAD DIES Albia Woman Said to Have Held National Record. Was Lincoln's Second Cousin and Drake's Sister-in-Law. ALBIA, July Caroline B.

Drake, formerly president of the First National bank of Albia, died at her home here last night at the age of 83 years. She is believed to have been the first woman bank president in the United States. Her husband, the late J. H. Drake, was 8 brother to former Governor Drake of Iowa.

She had been a resident of Albia for over fifty years and was a second cousin of Abraham Lincoln. The funeral will be held at her late home next Sunday afternoon. Her niece, Mrs. J. C.

Mabry, was in Oregon on a western trip and will arrive home tomorrow noon. ON HIKE TO FRISCO WITH WHEELBARROW Maquoketa. Man to Pay Election Bet by Walking to Ex. position. IOWA CITY, July Charles Nigg of Maquoketa is on a "hike" to the coast again, this time with a wheelbarrow.

In payment of an election bet made two years ago, he is now "hoofing it" to the exposition at San Francisco pushing the aforesaid one-wheeled conveyance. He will come through Iowa City tomorrow. Nigg spent seven years in the Philippines, taught four years, and' is a fluent linquist. He expecte, San to sail Francisco for the after Philippines resting from his journey and seeing the exposition. To Build Guild Hall.

MANSON, July Bids were opened today for the construction of the Guild hall of Grace Niagara Falls is Nature's greatest wonder and no American should fail to see it. Stopovers are permitted on all Back East Low Fare Tour Tickets TO New York and Boston And Many Other Eastern Points including Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River, dack and White Mountains, New England, Canadian Resorts, Atlantic Seashore and Jersey Coast Points. Tickets on Sale Daily to September 30th of Stop-over water privileges also at all interesting points enroute and option trips between Detroit and Buffalo on Lake between Albany and New York down the beautiful Hudson River. New York Central Lines Michigan Central "'The Niagara Falls Route'" An Unsurpassed View of the Falls from the Train La Reste Five Trains every day Limited from and Chicago, the including Wolverine, the render Michigan unexcelled service.

Comfortable tourist sleeping cars daily via Niagara Falls to Boston and intermediate points provide eminently satisfao tory accommodation to passengers studying economy in travel. Apply to your local agent for tickets and sleeping NEW YORK car reservations, or for complete information and Des Moines Office, 402 Century. Building suggestions as to desirable trips, call on or address (ENTRAL A. C. Burrows, General Agent Passenger Department LINES Methodist upon Episcopal the foundation.

church. The bids were lowest bidders were Loew, Rogosch $5,511. Work will begin once. SOUTHWEST IOWA IS STORM SWEPT Rainfall Plays Havoc With Train Service and Many Towns Are Isolated. NISHNA HIGHEST SINCE 1881 Lamoni Gets Seven Inches and Many Albia Small Grain Crops Are Ruined.

SHENANDOAH, July 15. Rainfall aggregating nearly 6 inches in the last two days has caused swollen streams that have done havoc to train service of southwestern Iowa and isolated many of the towns. A telephone call to Farragut, Coin, and other neighboring towns to ask about the water damages brought responses for news of the Bedford murder trial, the war situation, and other topics that the small towns have been unable to hear about when the morning papers failed to arrive for several days. Nishua river has been as high as any time in its history recently, and did considerable damage to the crops and washed out several bridges. The fact that the track was washed out has prevented the Wabash trains from running at all today and no through trains have gone since Sunday.

The Burlington trains from Red Oak do not go any further than Shenandoah because of washouts between here and Farragut. At some places there is no dirt left under the rails. At Farragut the high water reached the business section of the town and covered the floors of some of the stores with mud. In the new Wild building that is being structed here, a section of the base. ment division walls caved in.

Men have been pumping constantly for two days in an effort to drain the basement so that work on the structure can proceed. WORST SINCE 1881. Hamburg People Striving to Save Railroad Grade. HAMBURG, July Nishna river continues to rise. The water has reached the highest stage since 1881.

The territory south of Hamburg is several feet below water level, being protected by railroad grade, which has broken through several times. A large number of men are working to hold back. All those living on the river side of the track were forced to move out last evening. Those on the protected side are moving their goods upstairs or to other higher places of safety In anticipation of a fresh break at any moment. TWO STORMS AT LAMONJ.

Seven Inches of Rain Fall in Fortyeight Hours. LAMONI, July This section has been visited by two very severe storms 80 far this week. Sunday night a hard electrical storm was accompanied by a high wind and rainfall of two and onehalf inches. The wind blew down many fields of wheat and a great deal will be a total loss. Tuesday night this section wan again visited by a heavy rain, four and one half inches falling, making total of seven inches in forty-eight hours.

Culverts bridges are out in many places train service is and greatly handicapped. These two storms have caused a loss of thousands of dollars to the farmers through this section. Many Crops Ruined. ALBIA, July The beavy in this county have ruined many crops and this morning a downpour that overflowed the small streams and made travel almost impossible fell. Wind blew down tree limbs but did not damage property to any great extent.

The corn in many sections is swamped and small grain cut and ready to thresh out has been ruined. Veteran Dies. MARSHALLTOWN, July Special: William N. Lytle, aged 74, a veteran of Company Nineteenth Michigan infantry, died at the soldiers' home here yesterday of chronic gastritis. Lytle was admitted to the home from Charles City, Sept.

19, 1913. Dandruff Itching Scalp Falling Hair Special Cuticura Scalp Treatment In brief: Touch spots of dandruff, itching and irritation with Cuticura Ointment, next morning shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Samples Free by Mail Cutioura Soap and Ointment sold everywhere. Liberal sample of each matted free, with 32-p. book.

Address post-card Dept. 21F, Boston. GETS 5 YEARS FOR STABBING Austrian Miner Sentenced for Attack Upon Compatriot. Assailant Eluded Officers for Three Days. KNOXVILLE, July Rudolph Matovch, the Austrian miner who stabbed a fellow countryman, John Gasparovich, at the Coal camp, southwest of Knoxville last Sunday evening, was sentenced to a term of five years the penitentiary by Judge Hays this afternoon.

Matovch used a six dirk on his victim, inflicting a long, deep wound in the back, penetrating the left lung. Gasparovich is in a Des Moines hospital and may recover. After striking the blow, Matovch made his escape and was captured until Tuesday afternoon, when was taken into custody in Wayne county, near Allerton. He was brought here yesterday morning at 1 o'clock and lodged in jail. Practically all the peace officers in Lucas county joined in the man hunt that continued over three nights and two days.

BOOSTERS ELECT OFFICERS New Organization Is Commercial Club Auxiliary, Special: The new on organization CHARLES CITY, July from among the members of the Commerclal club at a luncheon at the 'Y" last evening elected the following officers year: President, E. R. Ernsberger; vice president, D. E. Darrah; R.

V. secretary, H. E. Hershey; treasurer, McCammond. The purpose of the new organization is to help booster movements the Commercial club of a social and get-together nature, and to act as an auxiliary association to do the social work of the club.

president appointed J. M. Burns, R. K. Runner, N.

Frudden, Hershey and R. V. McCammond a committee on membership to act at once in enrolling members to the number of about fifty. It will be one of the duties of this new organization to arrange frequent luncheons and meetings for the Commercial club, the first of which will be next Wednesday at supper served by the the, managewith ment. A uniform to wear on booster occasions was chosen.

DEDICATE NEW CHURCH Ruthven (lets Substantial Place of Worship. The new RUTHVEN, $2,000 July brick church at Ruthven was dedicated Sunday, the in Rev. J. B. Trimble, D.

preaching the morning and handling the f1- nances. Six thousand dollars was necessary to fully provide for the enterprise, and in a few minutes Dr. Trimble raised $7,065. In the afternoon, the Rev. J.

W. South well, of Ortenville, a former pastor preached. At the evening services the Rev. D. A.

McBurney, D. district superintendent preached, and the building was formally dedicated. pastor The of Rev. the W. church.

O. Tompkins, is the Awards $30,000 School Job. MOUNT AYR, July The school board at Kellerton has awarded the contract for the erection of the new $30,000 school building to F. X. White, of Eldora.

The heating and plumbing will be put in separate. Work one the new building will be begun at once and it is hoped to have it completed by Jan. 1. The old building will be sold at auction. lowa News Notes ATLANTIC- Judge H.

M. Towner of the Eighth Iowa district will attend the rural letter carriers' meeting to be held here July 20 to 22. An unusually large delegation from watamie county will be present. Perry his said to be a candidate for the next convention. The city council here at a special session yesterday morning deferred for thirty days action on a rigid traffic ordinance, which provides other things for the parking of among business section of town in the center of the street.

The ordinance was framed for presentation to the council upon the petition of a large number of the business people here, and the council decided that before passing it it were better to investigate it thoroughly from all angles. The ordinance was read for the first time and then laid over for a month. The board of supervisors, at a session here Monday, decided to install illuminated dials in the court house clock here. The contract for the dials was made with the Seth M. Thomas company of New York for the price of $612.

The dials in clock needed replacing, and the board decided to replace them with the best to be purchased. MOUNT AYR- second volume of the Ayrian, the official year book of the Mount Ayr High school, was issued today. The book was edited by Harry Spurrier and managed by Maurice White, both members of the editing class, the junior class. The book costs annually about $500. The book was dedicated to Supt.

W. H. Fasold. SHENANDOAH first of next month will be the tenth anniversary of the opening of a Carnegie public library here, and since that time the number of books in the library has increased from 1,650 to 7,974. According to the figures prepared by Miss Berdena Jay, the librarian, the number of books circulated during the last year was 16,348.

WAUKON- Improvement is the order of the day in Waukon. The Citizens State bank will have a handsome new front installed, with a corner entrance. Two handsome new fronts will be placed in the Earle and E. A. Howes, the music man, will put in a fine new front on his store building.

Work will soon commence new front for the Gilchrist drug store, occupied by Carter Herman. Reports One Divorce for Every Five Weddings in Black Hawk County WATERLOO, July Marital unhappiness 1 1s. increasing in Black Hawk county at an amazing rate. The love god must weep when he learns that one out every five matings in the past year ended in a legal separation. The ratio of divorces to marriages was almost 21 per cent, as against 14 per cent seven years ago.

Clerk Pettit's data for the state registrar, for the year ending June 30. show that there were 119 divorces. In same period 573 couples were licensed to wed. The of unhappiness was cruel and inhuman treatment in sixty-three cases, which is more than all other causes combined. Desertion was second, having twenty complaints to its credit.

In only eight cases was drunkenness the cause of separation. There were three annulments of marriages. Five of those divorced were granted permission to remarry within the year. FARMER TRAILS ALLEGED ROBBERS FOR FIVE DAYS Follows Them From Omaha Council Bluffs--Pair Finally Captured. COUNCIL BLUFFS, July Special: Philip Boysue, a farmer from Rushville, not whine when two men strong armed robbed him of his watch $120 cash in Omaha July 8.

He notified the police and then set about locating the robbers. He patrolled the streets of Omaha day and night. Tuesday night his search was rewarded, he says, by finding his two assailants on the street and he followed them. dently, he thinks, they saw him also, for they led him a merry chase, finally boarding a street car for Council Bluffs. When the car reached the Northwe western passenger station in this city the two men he suspected alighted.

Boysue still at their heels. On the depot platform Boysue grabbed the men and called for the police. One of the men hit Boysue in the face and ran. Boysue managed to hold the other. The fleeing man was overtaken and both were escorted to the police station and locked up.

They deny their guilt and Boysue insists he cannot be mistaken. The men refuse to return to Omaha without a requisition and Boysue has returned to Nebraska to secure the papers. TO OPEN SUMMER CAMP University of Iowa Extension Division Gives Girls Outing. IOWA CITY, July The University of Iowa extension division's second summer camp will open Aug. 2 at Iowa Lakeside laboratory, Lake Okoboj1.

It will be dedicated specifically to girls and young women interested in "Camp Fire" activities. Work among the flora and fauna, and boating and swimming in the lake will provide instruction and pleasure, respectively. Among the faculty members will be Miss V. Farnum of MI1waukee; Mary, Ewers, St. Louis: Miss Allen, Chicago, and Miss Sadie G.

Holiday, Burlington, one of the founders of the camp fire system in Iowa. The girls of 1914 named the camp in honor of the popular head of S. "Macbride Camp." TRAINING SCHOOL CLOSES Lamoni Normal Closes After Successful Session. LAMONI, July The first session of the C. I.

trainIng school closed Saturday, July 10. Among the faculty were W. J. Cromer of Ames, instructor in agriculture and manual training, and Miss Maude Donahue of Ames, instructor in domestic science and physiology. Miss Kate Logan of Ames and a representative of the United States department of agriculture, gave a lecture on junior club work before the summer school and a public demonstration of fruit canning, before a large audience in the high school building.

All other sessions were held in Graceland college. BRINGS ASSAULT CHARGE Musician Accuses Attorney of Intent to Kill. IOWA CITY, July Prof. Ubo Riedel and Attorney F. J.

Cochran brought their recent battle to the courts today, when Riedel caused the arraignment of the wealthy young lawyer on the charge of assault with intent to kill. The violinist, a former member of the University of Iowa school of music faculty, alleges that Cochran pointed a revolver at him, and then cut his scalp open by a blow with the weapon. Cochran declares the professor was about to draw a weapon, and that he acted in self defense. Justice George A. Ewing took the case under advisement, and will rule later.

WATER BONDS CARRIED Sidney Votes $20,000 for New System. SHENANDOAH, July Special: The water works bonds for $20,000 carried in the recent election at Sidney, la. The city WAter supply will be gotten from the Tolen Springs flour mill, east of Sidney. The extension of the water mains was the other issue decided. The women over 21 years old were allowed to vote, and the final count showed A a majority of sixtytwo votes from the men and eightyeight votes majority from the women, making a total majority of 150.

Epileptic Drowns. DECORAH, July Gust Olson, a young man, was drowned Tuesday afternoon in a a deep hole in Dry Run, just west of the city. He had gone to the stream to swim and got into this deep hole and could not get out. He was subject to epileptic fits and it is supposed that he was taken with one of these fits when he went into the water and could not help himself. ROE MAKES IMPORTANT RULING Forbids Use of Corrugated Iron on Walls of Atlantic Building.

Law Interpreted to Prescribe Brick, Stone or Cement. ATLANTIC, July A letter received from State Fire Marshal Roe by Mayor Burnea of this city sets forth a principle that may become a factor in determining the nature of so-called fireproof buildings in Iowa. The letter from Mr. Roe was written to the local officials in answer to inquiry from him as to the status of the Mickel building in this city, a small portion of which frame structure is "still standing as the result of a recent fire. Mr.

Mickel desires to rebuild the structure, using corrugated iron walls in the new portion. Mr. Roe's letter forbids this and quotes a ruling of the supreme court to the effect that by the term "fireproof," the law of Iowa means that the walls of a building must be such that they will stand unsupported must -which of means, brick, in stone effect, or cement. This ruling looks to be sweeping in its nature and if applied drastically would serve to prevent the erection of any buildings whose walls were sheeted with corrugated iron within the fire limits of any city or town in the state. ROAD TO SPEND $100,000 M.

St. L. Plans to Overhaul Marshalltown Yards. MARSHALLTOWN, July Special: Extensive plans for the overhauling of the Minneapolis St. Louis yards in this city, including the laying of many tracks, the building of a new freight house, and loading sheds, have been sent to this city from the office of Chief Engineer R.

G. Kenly, at Minneapolis. The investment to be made will be nearly $100,000. Over $30,000 has been spent for land to be occupied by the company. Work on the new viaduct to cross the tracks of the Chicago Northwestern and Minneapolis St.

Louis railroads is progressing rapidly, contractors being on the last half of the concrete piers that will bear superstructure. A contract for the superstructure will be let in Minneapolis probably this week. SUICIDE NOTE TRANSLATED Despondent Hungarian Extended Blessing to His Family. BELLEVUE, July A copy of the note found in the pocket of the Hungarian who committed suicide here last week by hanging himself to a tree, was sent to Dubuque and submitted to a Hungarian there for translation. The Dubuquer states that the ing, as the unintelligible, exman's mind novas, evidently wandercept that he wished to convey his blessing on his wife and child who are in a small town in Hungary, and consigned them to the will of God.

He failed to sign his name. Copies of the letter were sent to a Chicago Hungarian newspaper where it 1s hoped it can be translated in proper manner and some knowledge of the writer gained. Iowa Personals SHENANDOAH-Guy Pond and J. J. Doty of Shenandoah are attending the national Elks convention at Los Angeles as representatives of the local lodge.

WAUKON- A. G. Meiners, former clerk of courts of Allamakee county, has removed with his family to Austin, where he will bean instructor in the commercial department of a business college at that place. You-Or No One Else cares to be bald. Yet that is what will happen if your hair does not stop falling out.

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McAfee, Prop. Phone 2090 Wal. Register- Tribune Ad Sells Farm When Other Paper Fails "I put an advertisement in your papers in May for a 760 acre farm, and the first issue of your paper which contained the ad sent me a buyer (Mr. Wm. Baird)' from your city, to whom I sold for $24,320.

Afterwards I sent another advertisement, and by mistake it was sent to another Des Moines paper -but no sale from it. I am enclosing another 100 word advertisement. T. F. Armstrong, Armstrong Land Company Ladysmith, Wis.

It's such success as this--selling farms when other Des Moines papers fail--that has established The Register and Tribune as the two great farm land mediums of Iowa. And not farms alone find ready buyers through our classfied columns. An increasing state-wide market awaits every article that has value, as well as many that have ceased to be valuable tc you but which can be utilized to good advantage by some one else. Leave the solution of your troubles to Register-Tribune Want Ads. Sot will be amazed at the low cost and quick results..