Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-02-24


Sioux City, is dead, the result OF
a scoasting accident. Steering a
bOb-sled down q steep hill he col
lided with another. The muscles
around his heart were torn.
There are 476 creameries in
Iowa, and w B. Barney, state
diary commissioner, believes that
they can save % to so per cent
on their insurance by a strictly
creamery risk company organized
by them on a mutual basis.
Fire caused by On overheated
filrance burned the interior of the
Methodist church at
Charles City. The decorations IN
the building were destroyed by the
fire and water and the loss is
estimated at 81 900.
Vigorous protest to the request.
for Postmaster w. h. Robb Of
Greston to resign will be sent to-
Washington. Mr.. Robb has been
injpoor health and this is declared
TO be the reason given by the de-
partment for its action.
w. C. Robinson of Grinnell is
believed to have reached the high
est point Of any Iowa aviator. In
his new bipaane he assembled to q
height of $4,000 feet. He was in
the air nearly two hours and then
came down because of a gasoline
shortage.
s. s.. Kellogg, 5Syears old, one
of the best known farmers near
Sidney, died at a Nebraska City
hospital. While attending the
funeral of John Watson, a Ne.
braska City attorney and one Of
his life longfriends, his face was
his lifelong friends, his face was
While Charles and Alexander
Louks, brothers, were driving
across Northwestern track in
an automobile at 'Marshalltown
they we're struck by passenger
train. Charles was killed in
stantly and Alexander was seri--
ously in jured. They lived at Gil
man.
The Farmers & Grain Dealers
association at Des Moines has
voted an appropriation to carry
on q probe into the terminal mar
ket situation to ascertain condi-
Itions of membership for farmers
lin grain exchanges and to COM
pile a full report of the findings.
The Iowa Legion of Honor, a
fraternal insurance order estab-
|lished in 1879, with home Offices
in Cedar Rapids, has been de-
clared insolvent. It's total assets
are $3.50 and its total liabilities
consisting almost entirely Of un-
paid death claims, are $16i,240.
The auditor of state has issued
la check for $500 to the Chic
( County Fair association, which
had been held up pending an in
vestigation of charges that gam
bling was permitted at the fair.
Lyon county's check has not been
issued. being held up for the same
reason. #
4 Fire totally destroyed the gem
/, eral merchandise store of H. j.
Gallahan at Gainesville, and
sparks from the building also are
believed to have caused the fire
J. in the Clark pool and billiard hall,
which was burned to the ground.
! Tho loss of the Callahan and
Clark buildings is estimated at
$4,000.
4 The state board of parole has
secured jobs for forty-one pa
rolled convicts since January 18,
according to a report given out.
The men had been previously pa
rolled and were held until work
could be found for them. The
parole agents report that bust
ness conditions are improving in
all parts of Iowa.
4 George Hall of Waukon has
received five carloads Of corn
from Washington, Ia. He is sell
ing very little of it as he uses
most of it on his farm The
scarcity of corn caused many Of
the farmers to sell of practically
all Of their hogs and those who
have any hogs to feed now are
profiting by their foresight.
The state board of health has
issued the report for Iowa show
ing i,725 deaths during October,
1915. Tuberculosis had sc VIC
time during that month: cancer,
$50; apoplexy, 1877; organic di-
seases Of the heart, 1877; pneu-
monia, SO; acute nephritis and
Bright's disease, 40. There were
$50 persons who met death by
violence.
Judge w. b. eQuarton of Ago
ma, president Of the Iowa State
Dairy association, told 400 mem
bers of the association that the
farmers OF the northern half OF
the state get 3 to s cents q bushel
more q pound for butter fat than
the farmers OF the southern half.