Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-12-28
Alfred Hoist, .soptheast

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Traer,; was seriously cut Will
|butohAfiAgi1sh hog ;
AL Moore, veteran. newspape
MaM ofrDes Moims, tdied at tn
Homer for theaAgeti.
Mason City spent almost SIS.
SOC. 900 for buildings and publi
improvements during 1915.
Joseph Turner pioneer nea
Wnton, died suddenly while OF
his way home from q show.
A dead infantsiwas found O,
South Eighth estreet near the II.
linois Central track at For
Dodge
Fred Ceffinunear Davenport
was badly injured by a prema,
ture explosion of dynamite.
Seth Hannah, carpenter nea1
Floyd, aged rs, died as a. result
L0f a; fsrty-foot fail from "a roof.
Miss stinafHougen, teach.
er at Roland,' died of heart fail.
ure while on duty in tile schoo
ROOM
John T.. vSeeley. of Manchester
aged 70ssdied as a result of in
Ijuries received when struck b,
an auto.
/ Rev. w. J, Coulston. d. d.
Baptist pastor at Pella, has re.
signed and accepted a call To sa,
City.
Fire completely, destroyed tn,
general store, a barber shop an,
the |. @. o. f. hall at Pleasant
vile.
The Summit hotel at Crcstor
and several retail stores were de.
stroyed by fire at q loss OF 5000.
900.
The big grain elevator a,
George was burned to the
ground, the loss being severa
thousand dollars.
Gus Magnuson. of Buffalo
Center, was. terribly burned whcr
he ATTEMPTED to start fire will
kerosene. Va
Earl Pett Of Boone, switchman
on the Northwestern, had his
foot cut off while switching in
the yards at Carroll.
Eighty acres of land near
Glidden sold for 500 per acre
The same land was purchased in
1904 at $500 per- acre.
Fire at Lanesboro destroyed
the electric plant, garage and
moving picture theater, at loss
of about $4,000.
A blind horse with nothing but
a halter to guide it charged into
a window at Glidden, breaking a
1926 plate glass.
William Biackley, a we'll known
farmer near Montczuma, was
badly injured when run over by a
wagon loaded with corn.
Three men on the Harvey Mel
son farm, near Tabor, husked
and cribbed : 1915 bushels of
corn in twenty-fOur and one
half days. 81.
Edward Fowler, member Of a
section, crew near, BARTLETT lost
his life vixen he fell in front of
q motor handcar, on which he
was riding:
Damage estimated at 100000
was done at. Osceola by fire or
iginating in the basement of the
postoffice. Several business
blocks were burned.
d. w. Leonard, a grocer at
Cedar Rapids, was killed when
The auto delivery wagon he was
driving, struck a Northwestern
train at a crossing
A young man thrust a pistol
in the face, of Clifford Moody. as
sistant cashier of the First State
Dank at Nora Springs, and taking
81 ,OO0,, made his escape.
Frank Smith, who shot and
killed his cousin, Alice Gerlach,
MI Unionville, last May, was SEN
fenced to life imprisonment by
Judge COrnelE at Centerville.
Elmer Rode0o Sweetland had
every bone in his leg above the
ankle broken when a heavy log
struck him from behind, while
at the saw mill.
A cigar girl in the Davidson
lobby at Sioux City was
fined Si5 for agreeing to shake
dice for cigars with a gentleman,
who proved to be a detective.
According to statistics by Rob
ert r. Ricnow, advisor of men at
Iowa university, two-thirds of
The men in the university are
working their own way through
school.
Henry H. Akester, aged 81, of
Perry, shot and killed himself
while grieving over the death of
his wife, who shot herself with
the same revolver short time
ago.
Owing to the high price OF
brass and copper, much petty
thieving has been going on at
Iowa lake resorts. Several boats