Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-08-10

\ new amusement park is being
erected at Hampton.
A thirty-five acre tract near LIZ
Mars sold for $4,000.
Iowa City will erect four new
schools at cost of $3.50. 900.
Oren Swarlz. aged 81. of stan
ley was drowned near Hazelton.
Nearly half of the business see
ton of Berlin was destroyed BY
fire.
Alfred Mallaise. aged 28. near
Webster City. died from sunstroke
Aza Walker. aged g. of Iowa
City, was killed by the kick of a
horse.
Some forty eases of infantile
paralysis have been reported in
Iowa.
DIR. o. G. Grigsby of Perry. who
was injured i'm an automobile ac-
cident, is dead.
# The famous Muscatine Island
faces another shortage of melons
+ this year.
A forty-acre tract near Deni-
y son yielded 81 bushels of oats 10
the acre.
Robert II. Burch. aged %, of
Waterloo. died after diving in
shallow water.
Retail merchants of Sioux City
have organized with member
ship of 400.
The interurhan between TT
Dodge and Webster City will open
January list.
Mrs. Ed Van Kirk of Council
Bluffs is dead as result of an
auto accident.
The amount of gasoline used
in Sioux City in one day amounts
to sl,3OO.
Claude Nemmers, aged 10. was
drowned at the municipal beach at
Waterloo.
The Baptists held their annual
assembly with large delegation
at Iowa Falls.
The Knights of Columbus held
their convention at Davenport
with 5000 in attendance.
John Keegan of West Union had
his skull fractured when he fell
from load of hay.
Joseph Froelich. aged 80, near
Dubuque, shot small boy be-
cause he crossed his field.
Carl Laisle, aged .. of Perry.
was badly injured when his hand
caught in a clothes wringer
Elmer Wright, aged 10. of Iowa
Falls is dead after his bicycle col
lided with an auto.
All kinds of labor was sus-
pended in Dubuque for several
hours on account of the intense
heat.
Two small boys at Dubuque.
while playing on the bank of a
sewer, found the body of dead
baby.
A carnival playing at Dubuque
was forced to quit on account of
huge swarms OF mormon flies.
The thermometer registered
100 al Manchester. believed To be
the highest in the state this sum
mer.
Fred Ehler of Persia lost five
COWS during storm.
Ed Water, aged 80. of Waukon
was killed when his auto struck
a Rock Island train near Postvilla.
Six residents of Hopkinton were
arrested by the state food inspcc-
tor, charged with selling bad eggs
Search is being made for Robert
j. Williams. wanted for murder
of Mrs. Matilda c.. Steward. near
Dillon.
A new rock quarry. believed to
be superior to the famous Bedford
stone, will be opened near Keo-
Z sauqua.
Two hundred Yards of North
western track near Carroll were
warped 10 inches out of line by
the heat.
Mrs. Henry Greanwalt Of Clin-
ton, while temporarily deranged.
gave poison TO her three-year-
child.
Mrs. Bert Lay. aged 30. near
Cornelia. was burned to death
while starting a fire with wood
alcohol
William C. Bishop, aged 80. OF
Council Bluffs. died of blood
poisoning, caused by small cut
from saw.
Miss Bertha Pendleton. aged
~, of Shenandoah. died from in
iuries received in fall on tn.
ice last winter.
Albert Nelson of TT. Dodge. who
was to have been married in Two
weeks, died after being run ON:
by an auto truck.
Nathaniel C.. Barnes of Keris,,k
has sued the Rock Island for st0.-
400 for injuries received Will
working on the track.
Six horses were cremated in q
fire at Davenport which dc
stroyed the stable of The Abl'
Lime and Cement company.