Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-09-26
MISSOURI VALLEY TIMES
K & HOYLE, Editors
Weekly Established July 8, '68
Daily Established April l, 81
Weekly $3.50 a Year; Daily l5c
per week.
Calhoun Items

The first frost of the season
was noticeable here Wednesday
morning, Sept. 25. Most all
vegetation is out of its way.
Corn we'll matured the past
two weeks was very favorable.
Albert Wakefield, an old resi-
dent of Calhoun, who has been
in the the west for the last 35
years, is here visiting relatives.
He says many are the changes
since he left.
Will Hicks who was taken to
the Omaha hospital for treat
ment, is improving, which his
many friends will be glad to
hear as he surely has had a
siege of it.
Miss Francis Fitzgibbon
spent Sunday at her home in
Calhoun, returning to her school
work in Mondamin Sunday
evening.
Ramsey Bros. were threshing
Tuesday for VIM. Unmack.
This about finishes up the
threshlng in this section.
A family by the name of Nc
lntosh has moved in the empty
house on Col. Young's place
and will work for Mr.. Young.
Mrs. Frank Porter and chill
dren returned one day last
week from their visit east of
Logan.
Mrs. Emily Mahone.y of Or
son, spent a few days With her
sister, Mrs. Il. K. Hicks, return
ing to her home Saturday.
Grading has again COM
menccd GA the levec south Of
Calhoun, running into Moda!e
and that road when finished
will be in fine conditions, Which
heretofore has been almost i'm
passabie.
Lewis HecoN Who was kicked
in the head by one of his horses
a week ago, is recovering and
able to be out again.
Henry Fitzgibbon is having a
new windmill put up on his
place.
Mrs. Jennie Mills and two
children, Francis; and Dorothy,
of Tama, Iowa, are spending a
few days with the d. I'll. Reedy
family. Mrs. Mills is a niece
of Mr.. Reedy's.
Some who have dug their
potatoes report the yield very
poor
Mrs. j. e. Reedy and little
son Donald came over from
Norfolk, Neb., for a two weeks
visit with home folks.
+. e. Hicks was an Oma} 9
visitor last Friday.
Claud Young has an aunt
visiting him from Illinois.
Mrs. Robert Sheahay and
little son of st. Louis, are with
her parents, MI. and Mrs
Dennis FltZglbbon.
Isaac Fouts and wife of near
Pisgah, were the guests of MIR.
and Mrs. j. w. Fouts Tuesday.
Isaac Donaldson and family
spent Sunday with Samuel
Runkles near Modale.
Marie Runkles who had spent
a week with her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Mickey
and other relatives, returned to
her home near Modale Sunday.
j. S. Mcdonald and wife and
daughter Ruby returned Mon
day evening from Morehead,
where they had been attending
the L. d. S. reunion.
Your humble servant will
endeavor to tell a little of the
, industry going on between the
bitches that were dug in OF
near this place last year il
Calhoun township: First, there
is a steam engine with plows
attached to it turning over the
sod where water stood last yeal
and for a number of years
previous, and will be ready fol
crops next year; one-half mile
north of the engine is a big 10
horse power hay baler with ;
J. capacity of 40 tons a day, where
water has stood and no hay
made last year; one-half mile
east of engine is a big ha,
t stacker at work whore no hay