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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22
Noah Creagor is attending
the |. o. o. F. Grand Lodge in
Sioux City today.
He Stopped Over.

John Nipple, of Pierre, state
printer of South Dakota, was a
guest Of friends in this city to-
day, from 8::45 a. m. until 2::2O
p. m. John wasn't here because
he was socially inclined just at
this time, but it was because he
wasn't used to being in a rail
road center like Missouri VAL
ley. He was on his way to
Omaha, where he had a bust
ness engagement at 10 o'clock
this morning. Accompanied
by his son, four years old, he
came down on the Sioux City
stub, and in the general mix-up
at the depot he succeeded in
letting the Omaha train pull
out while he stood on the plat
form. His baggage and son
went on to Omaha. He says
he will hire a guide the next
time he has to change cars at
Missouri Valley. He tele-
pranhed tn friends in Omaha In
take care of the boy and bag
gage until he arrived this after
noon.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22
ANOTHER DITCH TALKED 81
Honey Greek Lake May be
Drained Into One Of bitches

Ditch Commissioner Jacob
Hansen reports that farmers
in the vicinity Of Honey Creek
lake are now discussing a pro-
position to dig a drainage
ditch from that lake to the
Pigeon creek ditch, which is al
ready under contract.
The Honey Creek ditch would
drain a considerable portion of
that lake, it is believed, and re-
claim many acres of land for
the adjacent owners. Nothing
definite, however, has been
done toward petitioning for the
ditch as yet. The county now
has under contract the Willow,
Allen, Boyer Cutoff, Pigeon
and Fensler bitches and the
success of these drainage sys-
TENS may be awaited before
more bitches are ordered.
The ditch commissioners,
Jacob Hansen, H. H. Field snd
County Surveyor Ernest E.
Cook have just completed a
classification of the lands along
the Pigeon creek ditch for spe-
cial assessment and will soon
have their report ready on the
benefits. The commissioners
will at once proceed to deter
mine the assessment of benefits
for the Fensler ditch. Non
pareil.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22
(,H!Iys.. '..;;io Juni;tl6u.

MIS-. ". 4. s;,'iiliy tI,s. ii.
K. Coulthard, Mrs. j. A. Coul-
thard, Mrs. Margaret Richard
son, Mrs. Dan Penrod, Mrs. w.
Olinger, Mrs. j. S. Sproul, Mrs.
VIM. Coulthard and Misses FL
len and Lulu Quist, Ethelyn
Evans attended the reception
given Mrs. Durham at Mrs.
Ida B. Wise's Saturday after
noon in Mo. Valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. f. Richard
son and daughter Frances are
the guests of relatives in Gret-
ma, Neb. for a few days.
Mrs. Andrew Coulthard was
the guest of her neice Mrs.
Farqhur in Mo. Valley Satur-
day.
Miss Ellen Quist was the
over Sunday guest of Mrs. Dol
lie Burgess.
Mrs. Mary Blackburn and
daughter Leila were shopping
in Mo. Valley the last of the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rullford have
moved into Mrs. Burgess
house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richardson of
mo. Valley were the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. McKinnon Sun
day.
Mrs. Geo. Coulthard and Mrs.
Stafford and son were calling
on Modale friends Saturday.
Mrs. Mike Fitzgibbon and
children and Miss Nellie Rich
ardson of Mo. Valley spent
Sunday with their parents Hon.
and Mrs. Geo. Richardson.
Candidates are getting to be
numerous.
p. G. Jones, of Allen town
ship, was a Valley business vi
sitor today.
Charles Van Gorder, of Au
dubon is in the Valley the guest
of Mrs. C. C. Lahman and Mrs.
Emma Russell.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22
Insurance Or Elevator About
Settled

E. A. Cope, Treasurer of the
Updike Grain Co. was in the
Valley today on business con-
nected with the insurance on
the elevator. He informs the
Times that there has been $780,
500 already paid on the grain
insurance and the Elevator Co.
has $17,500 to realize out of the
wet and burned grain, which,
with what has been paid, will
cover the entire loss on the
grain. The building was insur-
ed for 100000, ofwhich $51 $50
has been paid, that beng the
entire loss sustained, as the fire
department saved several of
the bins and the west wall of
the elevator. The Updike com
pany seem to be we'll satisfied
at the treatment they have re-
ceived from the insurance
companies.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22

!: -: s:
ca,,;; make 81 tic. Iab ID tsiiii yssFa
or 50 Of fret and worry, then a
funeral and the probating of a
will and a scattering of their
hard earnings. Hampton
Globe.
The following truth was
uttered by a wise but unsophis-
ticated philosopher: "The coun-
try papers have many faults,
they make many blunders and
leave undone many good works.
Yet when you follow them
month after month you are inn
pressed by the manner with
which they stand loyalty by
their community, and the con-
stancy with which they preach
the doctrine of citizenship and
fair play in all things"
A New York man who is 100
years old and has been paying
premiums on $4,000 life in
surance for seventy years, de-
clares that the man who wants
to live to a ripe old age needs
only to insure his life heavily
enough.
The following from the Ode
bolt Chronicle will be of inter-
est to our readers and the
voters of Missouri Valley, who
will be called upon at the next
election to vote yes or no on the
granting of a gas franchise in
this city. The article speaks
for itself read it.
Have the plumber figure on
the cost of piping your house
before making up your mind
that you can't afford it. Get
the figures first. 1t won't cost
as much as you have been lead
to believe. Moreover, once in
stalled, the pipe will last longer
than your house; there will be
no bills for repairs. And then
the convenience! Just ask any
householder who is using gas if
he would willingly go back to
kerosene. The cost of lighting
a dwelling is insignificant when
the comfort and convenience
are considered. Measured by
candle power, gas is not half as
expensive as oil. Pipe your
dwelling this fall and enjoy a
brilliant and eye-saving light
during the long evenings to
come.
Every man who comes from
a town which has an electric
light system is enthusiastic
over the gas lights in Odebolt.
A we'll known Denison business
man told us the other day that
he would like to trade the Dem
ison electric plant for the Ode
bolt gas plant. He says he
pays as much per hour for a
16-candle power light as an
Odebolt merchant pays for 70
candle power, and that there is
no comparison between the
brilliantly lighted stores of
Odebolt and the feebly illumin-
ated stores of Denison. j. L..
Umphreys was in Red Oak, his
former home, last week, and
says the electric lights there
looked like candles to him. In
Red Oak the charge for a 16-
candle power light is one cent
per hour; in Odebolta 70-candle
power gas light costs a cent an
hour.
When thepeople get to using
gas for cooking purposes stove
wood will be cheaper.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22
'sEis Cts: u Gas.

( EsS tsCSi 81 sfG3s
AS the people Of this city
will soon be called on to settle
the gas franchise for this city
the following facts from the
Odebolt Chronicle will he inter
esting, as that city has a gas
system, the same as will be liz
stalled here if the franchise is
voted:
The meter reports of the pas
company for the month Of Sep
TENDER demonstrate that the
cost Of lighting an ordinary
dwelling will range from 500
to $50 per year, depending up
on the size Of the family and
the number of rooms lighted at
ono time.
September is an average
month: that is, the number Of
hours light is necessary is about
an average for the year. Con-
sequently the expense of light
ing a dwelling during Saptem-
Der, multiplied by II, will give
the yearly cost.
Lighting in the kitchen and
dining room while supper is be-
ing prepared and eaten, the
table cleared away and the
dishes washed, is necessary at
this time of tie year, but not
when the days are longer.
After supper, when there is no
company" the members of
the household generally sit in
one room until bedtime. and
one light only need be used.
/ When the inmates go to their
bedrooms the quantity con-
sumed there is hardly worth
considering.
Mr.. Frank P. Notes light
bill for the entire month of
September, gas being burned
every evening during the
month, was s2.45. Mr.. Motto
has a good sized house and
there are ten members in the
family.
Dr.. Oursler has not COM
pleted piping his house, but he
used a gas range and one light
during the entire month. His
bill was S3.15.
The Catholic parsonage bill
for lighting and cooking during
the month was 1885.
Walter Bennett used a gas
range Che has no other cook
stove) and one light during the
last 26 days of September. His
bill was $2.63.
These figures show that no
householder need be deferred
from using gas by the cost. 1t
saves time and annoyance.
There is no cleaning and filling
of lamps, which take up so
much of the housekeeper's
time when kerosene is used;
no trimming and replacing Of
). wicks, no dirty work, no odor
of oil, no smoking of the cell
ing. 1t is also proven conclu-
sively that a gas range is cheap
er to operate than a gasoline
] stove. Had Mr.. Bennett used
his stove the entire month in
stead of 26 days his bill would
have been 5000, for it aver
aged 10 cents per day-and,
bear in mind, the cost of his
kitchen gas light is included in
this. A gasoline stove in an
ordinary family will consume
five gallons of gasoline per
week, costing 80 cents-or
nearly 81 for a 30-day month.
Moreover, the gas range is
safer, quicker and cleaner. It
makes no dirt, smoke or odor.
Gas gives an intense heat
which can be turned on or shut
off in a moment. No time is
wasted in generating gas. For
cooking, baking, broiling, roast
ing and all kinds of domestic
use, it is not approached by any
other fuel. Ask your neigh
bors who are using gas ranges
and they will confirm these
statements. Remember that
the gas company furnishes
ranges at actual wholesale cost;
a good one will cost you only
fifteen or sixteen dollars.
We paid $3.50 for a load of
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22
5A Horse Blankets, the
best In the world, at w. d.
Skelton's. woe

Albert Hansen of the Har-
Ian American was a pleasant
caller this morning. He was
on his way to Pierre, S. D. on
land business.
After all that execrable
weather the recent state fair
Melted the neat sum of $14,-
1851. Iowa is bound to shine
in an agricultural way in spite
of all the untoward elements
with which she may be called
upon to contend.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22
For Sale.

A number of thoroughbred
Poland China hogs of both sexes
for sale at my farm three
miles east of Loveland. Also a
number of Plymouth Rock
ROSTERS for sale at reasonable
prices.
Albert Hanson,
Loveland, la.
Rural route No. l. ms
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22

aaxxs;k
| Editorial NaIas.
The bachelor bee farmers of
Arizona want a car load of
wives shipped to them, as they
are lonesome. Girls, here is
your chance. Some of the
American heiresses better go
down there instead of marrying
broken down dukes from the
old country.
A fellow down at Reinbeck,
in this state, has figured it out
that the world will come to an
end in forty days from Sund-
day, Oct. 18th. Well, it will be
after election, anyhow.
Iowa has us people that are
worth 100000 or over. In the
list we fail to find the name of
a single Harrison county editor.
A trust has got hold of both
the bread and milk supply of
st. Louis. AS everything in
the eating line is in a trust the
st. Louisites will have to live
on water. They have the Mis-
sissippi river yet outside the
| trust.
One of Dowie's disciples says
he expects to go to hell and
preach when he dies. Very
likely he will go, but he will be
too busy down there to do any
preaching.
Congress will be asked for
$100,00O,0OO this winter with
which to build a navy. We
hope it will be appropriated,
| for if the United States is 90
ing to be a world power" it
wants to be able to tell all the
world to stand from under.
Ohio has prohibited by law,
the sale of toy pistols to any
body, old or young. The death
list in that state after last
Fourth of July from accidents
with toy pistols was worse than
a scourge of cholera would
have been, consequently the
new law prohibiting their sale.
Fort Dodge is undergoing a
scourge of diphtheria, there
being nineteen cases in that
town at the present time.
Geo. L. Cooper, the big
merchant of Nicola, advocates
the scheme of the merchants
organizing for the purpose of
purchasing hogs in the Nicola
market. He says the hog buy
ers there are not paying as
good a price as they should
and it is running Nicola as a
hog market.
Dan Daily, an old time con-
ductor on the Harlan branch OF
the Rock Island, has been nom
mated by the Democrats of
Shelby county for Treasurer.
We knew Dan along in the 7O's
at Atlantic and he was then
one of the most popular men
on the Rock Island. BY this
time he must be so popular
that his election will be unanim-
GUS. We hope it will, anyhow
The French government col
lected 81, 100000 taxes on bi-
cycles in that country last year
The French are great riders.
The treasurer of Clinton
county is running for his sew.
enth consecutive term this fall
Seems like that would be about
long enough to keep a man in
the treasurer's office without 8
rest.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22

Quite a happy event happen
ed at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Hansen at Harris Grove,
Friday, October 9th. The event
mentioned was the golden we'd
ding of Mr.. and Mrs. Hansen.
A large crowd had gathered at
the home to celebrate this event
one that seldom occurs in any
ones life. After a short ser
vice conducted by Rev. j. Aron,
of Magnolia, the happy gather
ing were seated at a table laden
with a splendid dinner. After
enjoying the repast the parti-
cipants entertained themselves
in a most joyous manner. Those
coming from afar stayed all
night and all agreed that the
occasion was such as never to
be forgotten by them. Many
useful and beautiful presents
were received by the venerable
couple, who are highly esteem
ed residents of Harrison county.
May they prosper further and
live long enough to celebrate
their diamond wedding anniver-
sary. observer.
Mrs. F. A. Folts, of Wood
bine, was the guest of Mrs.
Rainbow in this city today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Fair
child of Onawa are guests at
the H. d. Mech home for a few
days.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22
Tuesday. Oct 20

A. Spooner, Of Mondamin,
was in the Valley this morning
on his way to Kansas City,
where he goes to attend the
live stock show.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22

!. -
]. II. iS:ssss--ll, VIA tos' ',,sss'a:s'
years has been Superintendent
of the Eastern Iowa division of
the G. B. & O., with headquar-
tiers at Creston, last week re-
tired to private life. Mr.. Du-
gan was a railroad man from
the sole of his shoe to the top
of his hat, and he is about the
last one of the "old guard" on
the @ in western Iowa. Jim Hill
is getting in his work on the @.
1t cost $56O,OOO,OOO to run
this government last year, ex-
elusive of the pension roll.
That would start a very good
daily newspaper.
Shelby county has a man by
the name of Harness running
for Treasurer. He ought to
"pull" we'll.
We believe that every vote
given to A. r. Cummins bv any,
one who is in favor of prohib-
ition or the saloons will prac-
tically be an act of condone-
ment for his offense as a leader
in multiplying our prohibition
law and in signing the consent
petitions, by virtue of which
the eighty odd saloons in Des
Moines have a legal standing.
The above resolution was
passed by the Prohibition state
convention in Des Moines last
week amid great applause. The
members of the convention will
talk about the resolution until
election day, and then ninety
per cent Of them will walk up
to the polls and vote for Cum
minis. 1t is hard for men to
forget their politics on election
day.
The gas plant will add 100000
to the taxable value of the city
of Missouri Valley. That will
be quite a lift to the city.
The Onawa Gazette issued a
daily edition during the Carni-
val in that city last week and
the business men appreciated
the enterprise by filling the
pages of the paper with good,
live ads. 1t was a good stroke
of enterprise by the Gazette.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and New York are getting a
taste of the flood times the
West experienced in July and
Aupllst. Houses and factories
are being washed away, and
railroad traffic is almost sus-
pended in the three states.
Miss Lucille r. Hill, director
|of physical culture in Wellesley
college, denounces basket ball
playing among the girl stu
dents. The dear girls will have
to take to foot ball.
The iron furnaces of Ohio
and Pennsylvania have been
ordered closed in order to re-
strict the output of pig iron.
The order throws thousands
out of work.
Three thousand Dowieites
leave Chicago tomorrow morn
ing for New York City. They
propose to reform that city be-
fore they return to Chicago.
They will be gone a long time
if they wait for that.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22
Notice.

The property of the Mo. Val
10y Butter & Cheese Co. will be
offered at public sale in front
of the Valley Bank on Saturday
Nov. Ia, 1908 at 3 p. m. sharp.
Terms made known at time of
sale.
John L. Cox, secy.
d2wn12.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22
Tried Is pat Grow" Fred Metz.

Fred Metz, the jolly prophet
or of the Metz Brewing Co. Of
Omaha had a "Pat Grove" ex-
perience yesterday. He re-
eeived a letter saying that UNI
less he placed $4,000 in gold UNI
der a certain railroad culvert
in Omaha the Metz brewery
would be blown up with dyna-
mite. He consulted the chief
of police, and the money was
placed where it was requested
it should be left. Detectives
watched the spot all night, but
the ''Pat Groves" failed to put
in an appearance. 1t will be a
long time before a hold up like
the Cudahy one will be pulled
off in Omaha again.
j. Sherwood, father of j. H.
Sherwood, left for his home in
GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin this week.
Married, at Atlantic yester-
day, October 10th 1903, at the
Christian church in that city,
Mr.. j. H. Frazier, of Mo. Valley
to Miss Chloe Van Cleve, w.
B. Crewdson, officiating.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22

Night Marshall ]. w. Wag-
goner left for Butler county,
Kan, this morning to look
at a farm he is talking of trad
ing for. w. E. Wisler is filling
his position as night marshal
while he is gone.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22
MD. Wiley siiitAl fst $1,000

The Supreme Court yestcf-
day handed down a decision in
the case of Wilkins VS. City of
M ). Valley, affirming the deci-
sioa of the lower court. This
IS the case where Mrs. Wilkins
sued the city for $4,000 for
injuries sustained by slipping
ona sidewalk up by Millers.
The case was tried in the Dis
trict Court at Logan and a
judgement rendered in her
favor of $4,000. The case was
taken to the Supreme Court by
the city, and yesterday that
Court affirmed the decision of
| the lower court. 1t seems that
all that is necessary for a judge
ment in this city is to comence
an injury case against the city
and it is a dead mortal "cinch"
that the jury will "sock it to
the CITY," This makes $4,000
in judgements that have been
rendered against the city this
year in personal injury cases.
1t is getting monotonous.
Carl Wehrli presented his
wife with a fine Hamilton piano
yesterday.
A. M. Andersen went to
Pierre, S. D., this morning to
look after his land interests.
Capt. D. B. Keller, of La
Fayette, Indiana, is the guest
of his sister, Mrs. G.. w. Nc
Gavren, for a short time.
The Woodbine Telephone
Company has a gang of men
at work in this city putting up
a new line.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22

Henry DeCou, Democratic
candidate for Representative,
is in the Valley today seeing
the boys.
County Supervisors Gilmore
and Hall are in Monona county
today looking over the big ditch
in that county.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22

M. Hirst returned from
Creighton, Neb., last night,
where he has been for the past
four months. He says that
country is on the boom this fall.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22

The railroad yards in this
city haven't been as clear of
cars for a month as they were
this morning.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22

The Woodbine Telephone
Company has a gang of men
at work in this city putting up
a new line.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22

The Onawa Gazette issued a
daily edition during the Carni-
val in that city last week and
the business men appreciated
the enterprise by filling the
pages of the paper with good,
live ads. 1t was a good stroke
of enterprise by the Gazette.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22

When thepeople get to using
gas for cooking purposes stove
wood will be cheaper.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22

The gas plant will add 100000
to the taxable value of the city
of Missouri Valley. That will
be quite a lift to the city.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22
Editorial NaIss,

The bachelor bee farmers of
Arizona want a car load of
wives shipped to them, as they
are lonesome. Girls, here is
your chance. Some of the
American heiresses better 90
down there instead of marrying
broken down dukes from the
old country.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-10-22


cycles in that country last year.
The French are great riders.
The treasurer of Clinton
county is running for his sew
enth consecutive term this fall.
Seems like that would be about
long enough to keep a man in
the treasurer's office without a
rest.
"Mose," the Des Moines
newsboy, whom everybody who
has ever been in Des Moines
any length of time knows, has
gained his suit against his
father for the return of $685.
600 "Mose" had made selling
papers during the last 20 years
and which his father had got
hold of. His friends all over
Iowa will be glad to know
"Mose" has again got hold of
his own money.
We often wonder why it is
that men have not sense enough
to know when they have got
enough enough property and
money. Here are men by the
hundreds all over the country
at fifty or sixty years of age,
worth from $4,000 to $4,000,
owners of the best farms in
the world, working and Shaving
year in and year out to make
more money and buy more
land, when the very best they
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-23
NEGRO DID NOT
STAND FIRST
After an Examination Of and
Reratlng Of the Papers. He
was Given Appointment.
Especial tolThe TlmeH-pIspatch,

WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 22,-By re-
quest Of the Postmaster General the Civil
Service Commission has made an invests
cation of the appointment Of John C. ALI
good as rural carrier at Gallatin, Tenn,
to determine whether. as it has been
stated, one Reuben d. Brown, who WAS
also an applicant for the position, passed
tile examination one point higher than
Allgopa. and was therefore entitled to the
appointment
The report made by the commission
states that ION the face of the record
Brown stood highest of the available men,
but In certifying a person for route for
which he has not signiiled his preference
1t Is customary to review the papers with
a view to determining whether he Will
sproye acceptable to the patrons OH the
route In making this examination of the
papers II was discovered that Browns
Standing was wrong, because Of an error
made IN reviawing his examination pa,
pers, SO that AllgoodS who stood highest
after the rating of Brown had been cor-
rected, WAS certified and he was APP
pointed"
Tile board. It may be added, is prohIb-
tied from taking into consideration the
color or the principle or religious afiilia-
tions OF the candidates; indeed, Its REQ
prds give no data whatever on the polnta