Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-07-25
Hit With a Brick.


drouth very WE'LL
Hit With q Brick.
Somebody threw brick last night
and hit Ira Brundige i'll the head, cut
ting severe cash. DIR. DeVore WAS
called and took several stitches in the
wound.
Mrs. j. w. Dimmick Is quite sick.
l.. N. Goodrich WAS able to be ut his
store today, the first time for two
weeks.
Mrs. j. e. Galley, DIR. &. w. McGav
rem and c. A. Walker will put stone
sidewalks in front OF their business
houses. MIR. Walker will put walk in
front of his building and along the
east side for lCO feet.
Bird & Smith report the sale of three
Thousand acres of Missouri bottom
farms last week, among which was
the Tunly farm near Modsle for 49, $40.
A. j. Laurie has gone to Oklahoma
to go into business.
Died, at 8 o'clock last night, the sew
enteen months old daughter of Mr..
aud Mrs. Charles Strauss The funeral
took place from the home of James
Owens this afternoon at 3 o'clock,
burial in Frazier cemetery.
Mrs. w. McFsdden is quite sick.
Des Moines reports lOS in the shade
yesterday.
This weather is terribly hard on the
harvesters.
Yesterday was record breaker in
the amount of water pumped ut the
pumping station. Engineer Thomson
reports 547, $3.50 gallons of water pumped
yesterday. Missouri Valley uses an
immense amount OF water every day,
but yesterday the record was broken.
ID. e Forde had so head of hogs of
his own raising on the Chicago mar
ket yesterday that Melted him $50 90
cents per head. These hogs averaged
345 pounds in Chicago and sold for
1918 cents per hundred, the extreme
top. ID. G. is still feeding 100 head of
hogs and IS head Of fine steers all of
which will be ready for market in
thirty days.
c. b. Long, of Modale, was in the
Valley this morning on business. His
little boy was driving cart yesterday
carrying water to the harvest hands,
when the horse ran the cart against
stump. throwing the boy out breaking
both bones of his left arm.
Miss Fannie Schwertley is visiting
friends IN Omaha for week.
The prospects for rain this morning
were better than they have been for 9
month.
G. w. Kellogg yesterday sold his
three thousand pound safe to the city
of Missouri; Valley and it is being
moved into the city building today.
Charley Sample, of Modsle. passed
through the Valley this morning with
his prospective bride. They we're
married in Logan this afternoon.
There will he deep mourning in the
c. H. Deur family, now sojourning on
the Pacific Coast, when they learn OF
the demise of their pet dog who died
yesterday victim of the heat.
George Ford will assist Samuel
Holmes in numbering the houses In
this city. Ned Burke will take
Georges place in the water commits
sioner's Office while he is gone.
Buffalo Bills advertising car will
reach the Valley this evening to bill
the town for the show at Council
Bluffs August 9Th.
Col. Orr is all right. He not only
sprinkles the street in fine style but hi
found time yesterday to sprinkle thu
alley south of the TINES Office there
by cooling off the printers and laying
up jewels for himself in the hereafter
Skull Cracked.
Sam johnson. of Mondsmin, wa
seriously injured at Lake View yester
day. He had been up to the Lake
couple of days on vacation. He wa
watching game of ten pins, whe
one of the players let ball slip. strik
ing johnson in the head knocking hin
senseless. When he fell he struck hi
head on an iron spitton, cutting
serious cash near the base Of the braiI
A doctor was summoned and upon ex
animation it was found that MI
Johnson's skull was crushed near tn
right temple. His wounds wei
dressed and he was put ON the trsi
and taken to the hospital in Omaha.
Engineer w. b. Kirkoff, of Counc
Bluffs. was visiting friends in the Va
ley today,
j. Jensen e. Son, who have col