Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-04-06

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chimney was burning.
!: Axel Serestrom bought an un-
improved eighty acres of land in
+ Hayes township, near IDA GROVE
lof w. j. Hewett for $4,000, be-
! ing $2i.50 per acre.
: Awakened by the whining of q
| pet dog a man at Manson found
his house on fire and the escape
of himself and his family was so
narrow that his baby's hair was
singed.
Gladys Bailey, aged 8, died near
Knoxville from being struck on
the head with base ball bat
which Slipped from the hands Of
a player while she was watching
the game.
The greater portion of Mrs.
Henry Hands estate at Shenan-
doah was left for the erection of
a new hospital in that city. The
estate is large and includes $40
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Ft. Dodge has adopted a sched-
ule of taxicab charges.
A very successful swindler
operated in Boone by paying with
checks for purchases made of
different merchants, in each case
receiving q balance in cash.
Unable to hear from his two
sons in the German army, John
S. lessen, aged rs, committed
suicide by hanging near Irwin.
He left eight sons and daughters.
John Maroney, serving a six
months sentence in Jail at Du-
buque for breaking and entering,
escaped from deputy sheriffs as
the prisoners were being taken
out to work
Henry Ford of Detroit has been
sued by four Shenandoah men for
damages aggregating $4,000 for
injuries received in an accident
which is claimed to have re-
suited from a defective auto.
a kitc-flying tournament was
held at Ralston under the man
agement of w. L. 'Spangler, SUI
perintendent of Ralston schools.
1t is expected to hold the tourna-
ment annually hereafter.
The annual state militia shoot
will be held at Camp Douglas on
September 13 to %. The men
making the best. scores will rep
resent Iowa at the national shoot
at Jacksonville, Fla, on October
20.
The Dubuque school board
contemplates Carrying its own in
surance, having found that dur
in gthe past fifteen years insur-
ance premiums cost $4,000,
while. fire losses totalled only
$2i1.
The Martin Telephone COM
pany's plant at Webster City has
been sold to the Farmers & Mer-
chants Telephone company of Ha-
warden. This concern now owns
twenty-one exchanges in that
part of Iowa.
Clarence Newcomer, custodian
of the Detention hospital at Ma
son City, had hedge thorn re-
moved from his leg, in which it
had been embodied forty-eight
years. He stepped on the thorn
in Illinois.
Donald Rub, a Dubuque boy,
was thrown into seven feet of
water by the caving in of the
bank of swollen creek. He was
lrescued by a young friend after
having been carried 300 feet
down stream.
Before going to sleep in a
Waterloo boarding house Morton
Gates, aged rs, accidentally
turned on the gas, but escaped
death from the fact that quar-
ter meter shut off the gas before
he was asphyxiated.
Mrs. Harry Pike of West Lib
erty was found unconscious in
her kitchen from wounds caused
by some heavy instrument in the
hands of an unknown person.
/, She was alone at the time and
! tramp is suspected.
A military training plant, mod
eled after regular army barracks,
is to be erected in Davenport, ac-
cording to the assurance of the
armory board of the Commercial
club. The land and building will
cost about $4,000.
The Standard Oil company is
made defendant at Avoca in two
suits resulting from the deaths
of Mrs. L. w. Hickman and
Clara Shaw in an explosion
caused through the alleged neg
ligence Of the agent for the COM
pany.
Pensions granted: Penina Car
gill, Cedar Rapids, s12; Ophelia
Moore, Des Moines, s12; Mary E.
Vanderberg, Sioux City, Si2;
Susannah M. Coates, Redfield,
$t2; Sarah J. Mark, Des Moines,
Si2; Gertrude X. Kessler, Dysart,
$i2.