Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1902-01-30
Calhoun Items BY Telephone.

log in Calhoun.
Chas Mickey's baby is much
worse again today with lung fever.
Seth Jones il still in bed with
the grippe.
Several farmers in this vicinity
are putting up their crop of ice.
The thermometer registered "a be.
low zero this morning.
GIG Palmer killed a wolf in the
east edge of this town Saturday.
j u and q. Il Reedy were Omaha
visitors Saturday.
The sick people in this neisktorhood
are all getting along nicely.
MISS Lizzie T"vey spent Saturday
and Sund ~ with her sister, Mrs Mike
Doyle.
The snow storm here last Saturday
wat the worst of the season, the road
to Logan being drifted SO that they
we're impossible for teams
Mrs. Lease is III favor of making whls-
Ky as free as water, beliey,ng that the
blbnlous will drink themselves to death
ard that the liquor question will there
by be solved. The men whom she de-
sires to kill off are perfectly willing
that the experiment be tried.
The United States has completed q
census Of the domestic animals of the
country. 1t includes horses, mules,
cattle, sheep, hogs and goats. The TO.
tai is 223 l2l 49,, and the aggregate val
ne is 81 .485,6 1871 1868. The value of cat
tie alone is 81, 262, 2O5, COO ard of hcgs
1928, 22s,C0o.
The figures are so vast that their
meaning ls almost lost. A billion d ,es
not convey much information to the
average mind.
The psuli 5 OF tn, Dt.llD n-dollar stee
trust for the last niue IN mths were
$S5, 100000. This was over ami above
ths losses which we're incurred by the
great strike. AT this rate of profit the
steel trust vii. rake in about Sis, 900,
600 profit for the year. n largo part Of
this profit is reallz,i from the fact
that the trust sells steel in thu United
States for about $36 4 ton, while sell
ing TIE same steel i'll Europe, freight
included, for less than S25 u ton. MIR.
SchWab, the manager of the steel trust,
says that he can afford to lay down at
the English ports, steel for SIG q ton
that is. freight palc-Chicago
Chronicle.
Every now AMI then som. fellow
jumps into business Ill a town or city
but usually in q own, aud ;m.glnes lie
can get alOag without advertising lie
runs along a few months ind may be
a year or two aud sntbbnrnls refu. es to
give up a cent for publicity. Then the
fellows who have bsan trusting him
for goods hop onto hun and seize his
stock they rush into the print shop,
get out q lot of bills and put a hale.
page ad in the paper aud in q week OF
two they have moved all tbs stock
p 'cketel their money aud the building
is for rent. Snch fellows know the
value OF advertising. Tie busted in
dividual also tegirs to;see things, but
it is too late.-Msnspn Democrat.
The Kansas City Star is loudly &C.
handing that the "snitch" mus g,,
and outsiders are buslly inqa,riny as
to the definition of ''snitch." Accord.
ing to the Star, y snitch" is a "venal
pettifoger who stirs up mischief to
obtain fees" With this definition it
develops that nearly every community
konWs the .,snltch" and is willing to
lin the "a bss snitch" campaign,-
Sioux City Journal.
We have to record is our news
C ,lumns this week the attempted sui
eide of u young man who loved a girl
and was not loved in return. There
are in the world a million more women
than men. Young man, never cut
your throat for a girl. Simply go and
bestow your affections on q more re.
sponslve damsel. If the editor of this
paper had haggled at his neck every
time soma girl refused to love him he
would have had his fool head hacked
off loEg ago. Selah!-Alton Democrat.
Soldiers in in the italian army
are each allowed half a gallon of
wine every week.
It's the man who often "has q
skate on" that doesn't cut much
ice in good society.
Children learn small talk from
their primmers and hear it when
their mammas have callers.
The Chinaman carries a fan
even if he is a soldier on active
service, or if he is going to his ex-
ecution.
An American dealer has reduced
the price of ice in Rouen, France
in one year from 300 francs q ton
to so francs.