Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-03-16

lister City Genevieve Haws, aged
HI, fell and splintered both bones
OF the elbow and permanently
tcrippled her arm.
Seven persons were killed from
December 80 to February 10 on
3Iowa highways, five at railroad
Icfossings and two from auto ac-
|cidents.
Tho G. g. w. railroad is to
|eqhip with safety block signals
Tits lines between Chicago and st.
Paul and between Marshalltown
land Des Moines.
Mrs. Sarah Anderson Of Des
Moines, aged 20, has secured a
divorce from her husband which
RESTORES her former name of Mrs.
lSarah Crosby.
q. L. Fessistall, residing near
1Prairieburg, was killed near Gem
tral City in runaway while as
|sisting q neighbor to move. His
|back was broken.
/ A carload of postal cards num-
herring 100000 was received at
1.-THE Burlington postoffice for dis
ltribution to neighboring cities in
Iowa and Illinois.
February was the third con-
secutive month in which the Du-
buQue division of the Illinois
Central railroad did not expert
ence an accident of any sort.
L. M. Hastings, former presi-
dent of the Iowa State Teachers
association and pioneer edu-
fcator in the state of Iowa, died
Tat his home in Iowa City.
A barn on the Henry Wilhelm
berg farm east Of Templeton was
Iburned. Two horses Mr.. Kilhelm-
tberg had purchased the day be-
fore persisted in the flames.
Charles Ford, aged 38, of Sioux
City, who plead guilty to the muir
der Of Ray Morley, was sentenced
to thirty years Imprisonment. He
was taken to Fort Madison.
Miss Louise Orwig of Des
Moines won the first prize of $50
Ioffered by the Iowa Equal Suffrage
association for the best poster
design. There were sixty con-
testants.
Twelve conventions were held
in Waterloo between May 4, 1915,
and February IS, 1915. 1t is es-
ltimated that these brought over
5000 guests. who spent s15O,OOO.
Dubuque will sell 100000
worth Of refunding bonds. This
tis the second bond issue so far
this year, the other being for
s98 900, making a total Of more
THAN one-fifth of a million dol
lars.
Benjamin C. Whitehall of State
Center has been appointed COM
mandant of the Iowa Soldiers
home. Whitehall is veteran Of
1.-The Spanish-American war and
the son OF a veteran of the civil
war.
A plat has been filed in the
county auditors office for a new
drainage district composed of "A
sections in Mitchell county and
10 sections in Worth county. The
estimated cOsf of the district ia
$lO7,044.57.
Declared to be the wealthiest
girl in Illinois, Miss Edna Tim
mons Of Monticello was married
to Attorney Glenn Kelly of DAY.
export, la. Miss Tifnmons is the
owner of considerable rich land
in Piatt county.
H. Y. Lupher of Lorimer won
first prize on an ear of corn at the
Jasper county corn show with an
ear which he picked up after it
had been discarded by a merchant
who was putting. in a window
decoration at Colfax.
L DubuqUe's commercial club is
Installed in its new home. It has
900 members, all of whom intend
to take o hand in a strenuous
campaign. for the betterment and
development of the city's inter-
ests the coming summer.
John Long, a farmer of near
Talmage, is cutting q large grove
| of walnut trees on his place for
sale to a gunstock factory. The
stocks will be sent TO Europe. It.
is said that Long is getting rich
from this phase of the wars de-
na,.d.
The plans for the reconstruc-
Mon of the Santa Fe bridge over
the Mississippi river at Fort Mad
ison have been prepared by the
Engineering department of the
railroad and the bridge building
department is preparing for an
early start on the work.
Thieves. presumably dope art
lists, broke into the Office of a
physician at Dubuque and took
about $50 tablets of morphine.
This is the second time within
3the last few months that this
doctors Office has been entered
! and the same drugs taken. Moth