Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-12-14
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A 45-acre farm near Clear Lake
was sold for $333.33 per acre.
Coe college at Cedar Rapids has
raised one million dollars for i'm
|provements.
Sioux City is now claiming q
population of 64,563, according
to a census recently taken.
Cedar Falls has asked $4,000
from the government for continu-
ance Of postoffice work.
A fine i6O-aere farm near Ack-
ley was sold for $4,000, or $3.50
|per acre, to N. M. Victor.
The new st. Lawrence's Cath
olic church, built at a cost of
$4,000, was dedicated at Carroll.
Glen Hawkins of North English
caught big eagle, measuring
seven feet from tip to tip.
d. A. Cannon Of Nevada sold a
quarter section of land to Will
Wheelock for $235 per acre.
Capt. Erwin b. Messer of Shell
don, old soldier and direct de-
scendant of John and Priscilla
Alden, is dead.
James Titus, aged man at Coon
Rapids, was instantly killed when
struck by Milwaukee train at a
crossing.
Iowa butter on the New York
market is scoring 90, while, but
ter from Michigan has been scor-
ing around 80.
Mrs. F. w. Juckett of Cedar
Rapids was seriously injured
when she fell from an auto in
which she was riding.
Abdalla Koury was killed at
Fort Dodge when bicycle on
which he was riding collided with
an automobile.
Robbers at TT. Madison entered
st. Joseph's Catholic church and
robbed the collection boxes of a
Sunday collection.
The T. S. Marion estate at
Sioux City will erect a new theater
at a cost of $4,000, with a seat
ing capacity of 1900.
William H. Gale, aged IS, of
Valley Junction, is champion corn
grower of Iowa, having grown
1865 bushels on one acre.
w. NJ. Croker, aged 81, OF
Sioux City, father of nine chill
dren, was sent to Jail for picking
up coal in the railroad yards.
Arthur Walker, aged 10, of
Mediapolis, was seriously injured
while hunting, when his gun was
accidentally discharged.
The property of the late Thorn
as Singmaster inluded 1913 acres
in Keokuk county and about 1000
acres in Washington county.
Women of Sioux City.were ter
rorized by the activities Of a
choking burglar, who enters
homes and grips his victims by
the throat.
State officials say that there
is no prospect that the Iowa leg
islature can do anything to help
solve the problem Of the high cost
of living.
Ancient human remains, char
coal, crude instruments and va
rious soils are being taken away
from mounds on the Iowa river
below Iowa City.
Ralph Lyons, age "a, of Clin-
ton, was electrocuted when he
grasned the trolley wire of big
electric crane. His body received
40 volts.
Elmer o. Knapp, a driver for
the Iowa Dairy company of Du-
buque, was seriously injured
when wagon which was driving
tipped over.
The 6-year-old daughter of H.
w. Thomas at Cedar Rapids was
painfully injured when thrown
through the windshield of an
automobile.
The commercial associations of
Boone, Madrid, Ogden and Box
holm have made joint arrange
ment to mark the new Daniel
Boone trail.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Kirkham of Tingley was
burned to death when he pulled
a lighted lamp over into his crib
and the lamp exploded.
Mrs. William Olson of Ottum-
wa was burned to death when a
pan of gasoline with which she
was cleaning a skirt, exploded
and set fire to her clothing.
John Cameron, aged IL. and
John Kin'ley, of Des Moines, were
killed when a cave in which they
were playing fell in on them,
smothering them to death.
Edward o'Donnell, aged IS, of
Des Moines, charged with taking
$4,000 from the Wells Fargo
Express company, was sentenced
to five years at the Anamosa
Preformatory.
Twenty-nine persons lost their
lives in highway fatalities during