Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-10-19


around and weighing eighteen
ounces.
Charles Jenkins, aged 20, OF
Eddyville, was sentenced to- five
years at Anamosa for stealing a
watch and $50 from a house in
Grinnell where he was rooming.
A story recently printed in
IA Chicago newspaper reunited
Frank Slama,a farmer living near
dallas, with his sister, after being
separated for over seven years.
Mrs. Kitty B. Miller, widow of
the late Charles w. Miller, pub
fisher of the Waverly Democrat,
was found dead in her home, lying
at the foot of the stairs with her
neck broken.
Andrew Coulter, champion
cornhusker of Woodbury. county,
has sued his employer for 3d.
500, claiming a calf vigorously
ASSAULTED him and caused a shock
to his nervous system.
Grandmother Harrington, aged
95, of Genesoe, is dead.
A new $4,000 school building
lis being completed at Audubon.
The new Christian Reform col
lege was dedicated at Grundy
Center
Geo. Walker of Newton cut his
toe off with an axe, while fixing
a fence.
Tom Coy near Imogene, had
an acre of onions which brought
him $500.
Bread in Sioux City will be sold
lat Z cents a loaf instead of 5 cents
as formerly.
The corner stone of the new
Congregational church at Will
liamsburg was laid.
Vern H. Hamm of Davenport
l:died as a result of being hit by a
heavy auto truck.
John Popken, near Struble, had
his shoulder dislocated when he
fell from a granary.
A 400 acre farm near Cedar
Malls was sold for S2i5.5O per
acre at public auction.
C. H. Johnson, farmer near
Manchester, was severely hurt
when he fell down stairs.
Geo. Boland. aged SO, of Daven-
port, was found dead in the cell
lar of an unfinished building.
Charles Walberg of Council
Bluffs is being held for shooting
b. III. Palmer of Omaha.
The big C. A. Clougie farm near
Corning was sold for $500, 900.
1t consists of $50 acres.
/ Tom G. Couser, prominent
farmer near Nevada, asks for a
divorce after 81 years of married
life.
Harry Lewis of Knoxville was
killed when he fell from the roof
of house he was Singing.
Ben Comstock of Logan died as
4 result of injuries received in
an auto accident at Missouri VAL
fley.
After a bolt of lightning on
a farm near Audubon, three
horses in barn were found to
be stone deaf.
Charles Butler of Webster City
had his lung punctured with a
knife during quarrel at a beer
party.
| More than a score of autoists
were summoned to appear in court
at Dubuque for violation of the
traffic laws.
| Elmer Kring, aged 25, of South
English, was seriously injured
when thrown from horse, being
hurled 20 feet.
+ Geo. lie Clere, aged 40, of Cedar
Rapids. died as a result of taking
some poison which he thought
was burdock root.
| The Worlds convention of Dis
.jciples of Christ was held in Des
Moines. Nearly 10000 delegates
and visitors We're present.
| Attorney Walter Dyer of Boone
had a seven passenger auto stolen
from the Ames college campus,
while attending a concert.
| John lie Mars, assistant United
Estates district attorney, was at
tackled by three men at Des
Moines who attempted to rob him
The sum Of $500 which had
been lost at Marengo was found
on the floor of the depot after
many people had walked over it..
| Justice Van Boskirk of Ma
rengo fined a man $40 for horse
whipping two small boys, who
were engaged in a fight with his
lson.
Two robbers bound the night
4 watchman at the street car barns
at Keokuk, with a trolley rope,