Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-02-10
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been killed In johnson county.
Louis johnson, aged 81, sui
cided at Council Bluffs by hang
ing.
Tho Davenport military COM
pany is planning for new ar
mory.
The Alta consolidated high
school district has voted 100000
bonds.
The average weekly salary o
Iowa Methodist ministers is sale
TO BIO $40.
Iowa City sold $4,000 worth
Of bridge bonds at a premium Of
1867.
Six pioneers. all above 10 years
Of age. died In Jefferson within
two weeks.
Callahan Carr of Dubuque,
aged 4. lost. an eye By falling on
q stick while ct play.
Decatur coun&y's last surviving
veteran Of tho Mexican war is
dead, aged 90 yeara.
August Anderson. Q we'll known
Sioux City business man. Is dead.
aged SO years.
DIR. g. w. Colt, preaident Of the
Iowa Railway Dungeons assooia-
ton. died in Califeraia.
The Burlington east-bqund fast
mail was ditehed near Ottumwa,
but no one was injured.
Mrs. Frank T. Dreena. wife OF
the dean Of the Iowa City Dental
college. died recently.
More than fifty wolves were
killed in Sioux county during
1915 at a bounty of 50 each.
Samuel Rovinsky. aged AZ, was
killed by the elevator in Daven-
port macaroni plant.
Wyman & Sons store at Barnes
City was robbed Of quantity of
cigars, candy and other goods.
Returning from the bedside of
her husband, who had just died,
Mrs. Matt Harvey of Moran fell
dead.
The head OF q nail flew and
struck a Coin carpenter in the
eye, resulting in the probable loss
of the optic.
William Dalton, a retired farm.
er OF Iowa City, was killed by
falling through an opening in u
hay NOV.
Arthur Craig of Creston was
very seriously burned when the
nap on his night shirt caught fire
from q match.
Stratton community church
near Red Oak has cleared of its
debt. II takes prominent part
In rural welfare work.
Mrs. w. Il. Burns, 72 years OF
age. q pioneer resident Of LeMars,
is dead. She came to LeMars
with her husband in 1915.
A coal vein Of about 1--WE feet
in thickness has been found on
tho Flynn farm near Des Moines.
Tho farm is state property.
N. J. Loring Of Webster City
sold 200 pound Of ginseng for
5000 .or $3.50 pound. It was
taken from an acre Of ground.
The annual short course and
farmers week" at the state COL
lege, which was observed recent
~, attracted over 1000 farmers
at Ames.
The dry goods stock Of NJ. A..
Carrier at Newton was destroyed
by fire with a loss Of 10000. The
fro started in the furnace room.
II Is said that Hamilton county
farmers lost about $t,350,000 on
their total corn crop last year
by reason of poor weather condi-
tons.
State conventions of the Lay
mems Missionary movement are
to BIO held at Davenport on Feb
ruary i6 to 20 and at Dos Moines
February 20 TO 20.
Davenport is TO raise $4,000 to
organize a Boy Scout movement
on a large scale. There will be
a paid secretary and 2 large sum
mer camp.
The FIRST democratic state con-
vention is to be held at Clinton
on May 40 aud the second con-
vention wilt be held In Des Moines
between July S and August 2.
A single consignment Of spring
catalogues shipped by . Chicago
mail order house for mailing by
the Des Moines posto6ice oc-
cupied four freight cars and the
postage amounted to $4,000.
A. B. Thayer, aged 20, for thir-
ty years an empioye OF the Mar
shalltown Times-Republican and
one Of the best known travelling
men in the state, died recently.
William Landlord, aged about
go, of Centervil!e, dropped dead
in the furniture and Undertaking
rooms of his brother, Roy Lank-
ford. Heart failure was the i'm
mediate cause.
A record price for Allamankee
county land was reached at Wau-
kon when the Denning farm near
town was sold to J. E. Meier OF
I.ndlnw for 1928 an acre by Grim