Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-02-10


the state board Of control is rush.
ing the task of getting bids for
fire escapes on buildings at the
soldiers home at MarshalltOwn.
A Judgment of $500 was re-
turned against Theodore Salmer,
known as the Millionaire Kid"
of Sioux City, whose automobile
recently killed son of Vernon
Frost.
Judge Ellison Of Anamosa has
fined four bootleggers during this
short session of court $3.50.
Two paid up and two will lam
guish in the county Jail for 100
and AS days respectively.
Boys in the manual training
department of the Goldfleld school
are learning to make things of
value on the farm and in the
shop. The boys are turning out
such articles as farm gates, seed
corn testers, porch swings, cedar
chests, wagon jacks and the like
and six of them have made their
own work benches.
John Henley of Emmetsburg,
with Crilly brothers of Bonesteel.
S. D., will open large cattle
ranch in Trip county, South Da-
kota. soon. The ranchers were
neighbor boys in Webster county
number Of years ago.
Grover B. Inman, a livery sta
BILE proprietor of Des Moines, is
dead, and Russell E. Carlson, an
attorney, is suffering from Sc
we're injuries, the result of a coll
lision between an automobile in
which they were riding and
street car.
Glaud Johnson, young farm
hand near LeMars, attempted to
commit suicide by drinking a
quantity Of strychnine. Johnson
purchased the strychnine at a
drug store, declaring that his en-
ployer wanted to use in on some
Of his hogs.
Through the untiring efforts
of DR.. Miller Humboldt finds her.
self in possession of hospital.
The Fred Hodge residence has
been rented for a term of years
and the fixtures ordered from
Chicago, and the new home will
soon be ready for patients.
Harry Owen Travelled all the
way from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to
claim an Iowa bride, Miss Iva
Dooley of West Grove, near
Bloomfield. Mr.. Owen is prin-
cipal of a school at Guayaquil
and he and his bride will reside
i'm the South American city.
An organized effort has been
undertaken at Centerville to pro-
vide funds for the Jewish relief
a, called for In the presidents
proclamation. A fund of about
5000 t.as been raised independ-
entity Of a fund the Jews are rails
ing among themselves.
| The new miners and indus
trial hospital at Des Moines has
been opened for patients. Seven
thousand miners of northern
Iowa will contribute so cents q
month to the hospital and in re-
i turn will receive hospital care
/ for themselves and their families.
4 Iowa should produce 2O,0OO,-
J 900 pounds Of butter annually,
worth 1926, 100000, declares w.
B. Barney, dairy and food COM
missioner. He says that by
proper methods at least fifty
pounds Of butter additional pro-
duction can be secured from
every COW in the state.
| II. L. Bereford & Son of Vinton,
fine stock breeders of Jackson
township, are the losers of three
fine animals-a bull recently
purchased at Newton and two
heifcrs. The trouble was black
leg. The bull, Avondale, was one
of the finest Shorthorn bulls in
the state.
Items in the urgent deficiency
bill which passed the house and
senate at Washington, carries the
following appropriation for con-
tinuing the work on Iowa post
Offices: Washington, $4,000;
Charles City, $4,000; Grinnell,
S35, 600; Glenwood, $500; Maquo-
keta, $4,000.
Mrs. Frank Morgan, wife of a
J farmer three miles north Of Col
/, fax, was killed when Rock Is
land passenger train, westbeunc,
struck a bobsled in which she,
her husband and her sister were
riding. She was almost decapi-
tated. Her sister was injured
/ and the husband slightly bruised.
| In August last j. w. Blackman
murdered Mrs. C. G. Jordan at
Desoto, committing suicide i'm
mediately afterward. The hus-
band Of Mrs. Jordan brought suit
against the Blackman estate for
$4,000 damages and was award
led $4,000, and the costs of the