Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-03-16
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Q OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES q
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Williamsburg is to install 9
sewer system.
Webb has voted to erect a sl5,-
900 school house.
Spencer is to have a six-story
800, 900 hotel.
Delaware county banks are To
form an association.
Jefferson will pave five miles
OF streets this year.
Scarlet fever is prevailing in
many parts of the state.
An advertising club has been
organized at Clinton.
The Sacred Heart church ba-
zaar at Fort Madison received $i,-
i43.43.
s Newell has organized COM
mercial club with L. f. Parker
president.
The T. s. Martin estate will
erect a $3.50, 900 building at Sioux
City.
Mrs. Mary Harken Of Dewitt
recently attained her tooth year.
A. c. Trimble, for twelve years
postmaster at Van Meter, died of
cancer.
Iowa cattle are worth more
than the total tobacco crop of the
United States.
On the score of economy Web
ster City's five wards will be re-
duced to two.
Lowell M. McAfee has resigned
s the presidency of Parsons COL
lege at Fairfield.
The summer tournament of
Iowa Firemen's association will
be held at Dewitt.
The Iowa State college at Ames
I will expend $2,25O for additions
to the college herd.
Laddsdale coal mines have re-
sumed operations after being
shut down since December 81.
DR.. James e. McAlvin of Water
loo owns a clock that has been in
his family for $50 years.
J. A. Boyce, aged 81, fell under
Rock Island train at West Lib
erty and had his left hand cut off.
The Fort Dodge Congregational
society is raising funds for a new
church by collecting old rubber.
w. T. Barnett, for thirty-three
years agent of the Rock Island at
Let's, has resigned on account Of
i'll health.
Fort Madison citizens are rails
ing $4,000 for the installation
Of fair grounds to be opened in
{ 1917.
During the year 1915 $12.379,-
O24.26 was expended upon the
100000 miles Of Iowa highways,
( including bridges.
Lewis Reckward, aged 5, struck
( q loaded shot gun shell with an
ax at Waukon, sustaining seri-
GUS injuries.
8s A skunk farm has been started
at Council Bluffs. It's capacity will
b, 1000. The fur sells at high
prices.
Winterset will endeavor to
raise the Commercial club mem
bership to 200. A salaried sec
rotary will be employed.
Edward McGlathery, aged SO,
one of the best known horse
breeders in the west, died at his
home in West Union.
George Schroeder, formerly of
Des Moines, was arrested at Kan
nard, Ontario, charged with be-
ing a German spy.
Mrs. Jane Bradford, agd 70, of
Des Moines died from hydropho-
bia resulting from the bite Of a
neighbours dog.
During the week beginning
June 10 Davenport, Rock Island
+ and Moline will celebrate the
Fort Armstrong centennial.
A team owned by a New Albah
liveryman was lost through the
ice at Lansing. The driver mar
rowly escaped drowning.
The bungalow farm house Of
Logan Graham, near Oskaloosa,
burned with its entire contents,
the family being away at the time.
Merle, the 4-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Forest Barnes Of
y Onion died as the result of fall
ing into a tub of scalding hot
water.
Bradford Person, aged ~, one
of johnson county's first settlers,
died at Iowa City on the farm he
had occupied sixty-one years.
Dubuque will vote on April 8
on the question of issuing bonds
from the proceeds of which to
to finish the municipal bathing
pool.
A booze raid upon Greek cof-
fee room at Waterloo resulted in
the arrest of six men and the
seizure of considerable iiquor.
The Prussia Hardware company