Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-03-16
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Dun! Bolts, Reg. Core. ,,tli.
George Bingham.
copyrighted, 1916, Adams Syn.
Welcome arrival of Spring in
HoswaIlow.
The Hogwallow Improvement
society, feeling that the coming
of spring would in many ways
be TO the best Interests Of log
wallow and its vicinity, showed
Its appreciation of its arrival by
having mass meeting al the
|poslofficc Friday morning Sew
eral speeches were made OF the
topic of spring The most iater-
esting of these was the one de-
Ilivered by Prof. Sap Spradiell. He
declared that without spring
there could be no summer, as ii
would be too great jump from
freezing weather into scorching
summer; and was OF the opinion
that whoever placed spring on the
lcalendar certainly did great
thing for the farmers. At the
close of the speeches Miss Fruzie
Allsop recited a poem on spring
and Yam Sans raised the post
| office window.
4 Bat Smith is daily receiving
|orders for his Moonlight Reel
liquor. This liquor is especially
for using in fishing, making all
objects appear twice their nat
ural size.
Prof. Sap Spradlen of the Wild
|Onion school is becoming very
popular. and if he keeps on he
may later run for some kind of
office. His presence was even
noticed in Tickville last week and
The Tidings of that city put his
name in the paper, saying he was
a pleasant caller at the office on
Thursday. Prof. Spradlen an
nounces that he will save the
Ipress clippings for his grand chill
drcn to read i'll after years.
Sim Flinders has snapped for
a grey horse that he claims is
more than seventeen hands high.
Sidney Hooks and Sim will have
to build two-story stable for the
animal.
The ladies of the Dog Hill
church are making up money this.
week to buy the preacher a pail
of pillow shoes. They will prob
ably complete the task by the lasi
|of next week
Since having learned that fisl
bite. Little Fidity Flinders is
afraid to go near the creek.
Poke Eazley has been trying tc
classify bed bugs, but can't dc
eide whether they come under th
head of family troubles or unfin,,
ished business
A total stranger walked int
our midst Monday morning an,
took seat on the Hogwalloy
postoffice porch without bein.
asked and the postmaster ha
been compelled to keep open OF
account of his occupying a chat
which he always takes in before
closing at night.
Columbus Allsop has sold his
mule and will enlarge his home
by moving the stable UP and add
ing it on the east wing.
Dock Hooks, our clever and ac-
commodating blacka,n;1n, will
now have music all the time, as
he has attached an accordion to
his bellows.
Fletcher Henstep has simmered
down a preparation composed of
onions, whiskey and me asses
which he is going to sell under
IA guarantee to remove birth
marks, greasy spots, improving
freckles, warts, quinsy, moles,
stringhalt, chilblains and sore
eyes. A testimonial from lobe
Moseley will be one of the feat
ures of the remedy, he having
been cured by it at least dozen
times.
The Tickville Baptist church is
making arrangements to give a
4 series of suppers and entertain
ments to raise money with which
to pay off the express charge on
a new bench recently shipped in.
1 The backwardness of spring
has caused several of our citizens
to get terribly behind with their
fishing.
Columbus Allsop will from now