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

Fort Madison has organized an
auto club.
/ independence is TO have a new
$4,000 city hall.
Emmetsburg has purchased a
i $4,000 auto fire truck.
A symphony orchestra is being
organized at Waterloo.
Ames city council has p,lr-
chased $4,000 auto fire truck.
Mason City has raised its the
ater licenses from $50 to 5000.
George Kaiser of Ottumwa lost
a leg through an elevator acct
dent.
A child two years old was
burned to death at Clinton while
playing with an oil stove.
The annual meeting Of the
Iowa Medical society will be held
at Davenport May 10 to 12.
Four valuable horses owned by
Lou Booth were killed at Rowley
by a holt Of lightning.
| James r.. Whitaker of Boone
has been appointed a cadet at
Annapolis naval academy.
Miss Cora Alice Miller suicided
at Keokuk by taking thirty-four
grains Of bichloride o mercury.
Miss Gladys Durham was seri-
ously injured at Shenandoah
while lighting a fire with kere-
some.
The Great Northern is to build
100000 car shops at Sioux
City, which will employ $50 men.
A large portion of the business
section of Urbana was destroyed
by fire, causing a loss of about
$4,000.
Elmer Link of Waukon will
renPesent Allamakee county at
the state spelling contest at the
iowa fair.
Lenox Hos new hotel, made
possible BY local subscriptions
for the site, after three years
without hotel.
The 3-year-old daughter of j.
B. futile, station agent at Mil
ton, died from swallowing a
strychnine tablet.
Harry Langmade, aged %, a
theatrical stage carpenter, is
dead after drinking ave quarts
of whisky in three days.
DR.. James A. Mulnig, aged 81,
we'll known physician Of Bows,
died at Cedar Rapids while Wis
iting his daughter.
4 George Keys, aged 49, was
velectrocuted at a brick plant in
Mason City, 1900 volts passing
through his body.
i Congressman Woods OF Es-
therville was reelected chairman
of the republican antional con-
gressional committee.
Albert Pike, an employee of the
Keokuk Power company, was
killed by a Burlington train while
walking on the track.
Albert Carlton touched an cleo
trio switchboard at Iowa City,
receiving $500 volts, and was
badly burned, but will recover.
While burning brust on his
farm at Scion Joseph Leman was
injured by an explosion of un-
known origin.
John MacVicar was elected
mayor of Des Moines. The city
council is equally divided be-
tween the liberals and conserva-
tives.
| Mrs. w. S. Howard has sued the
city of DEBORAH for alleged in
juries received by falling over a
large stone in the street.
1 M. Daughenbaugh, residing
near Atlantic, had one hand torn
off and the ligaments of the arm
pulled out in feed grinder.
! Eddie Anderson and Walter
Arnold, two Pacific Junction
boys, were badly burned by ap-
plying a lighted match to a dyna-
mite cap.
| After five years of endeavor
Clinton now expects to have one
OF the largest union stations in
the state. Four railroads will use
it..
A thousand rats were driven
out of an Iowa City sewer by
heavy rain. Men and women
fought them with brooms and
clubs.
A large boulder rolling down
i. an embankment killed man
named Gokovitch at the Sergeant
Bluff brick yards near Sioux City.
The heirs of the late Major
John F. Lacey of Oskaloosa have
donated his very valuable library
> to- The Mahaska County Bar asso-
citation.
While trying to dislodge rat
under a power corn shelter at
Conrad Leonard Whitmore, aged
~, had his hand badly mangled
linthe machine.
The Wisherd and Streckfuo
steamer lines at Bellevue, which
! have controlled excursion bust
ness on the Mississippi for years,