Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-05-25

Cummins ran first, Roosevelt
second and Hughes third.
Gymnasium apparatus to the
amount of $500 has been furnish
ed TT Dodge firemen.
Alzono Bradish. pioneer De-
corah citizen, aged 81. died sud
denly white sitting in a chair.
Joseph Clinkenbeard, aged 90
years, died at Fairfield. He oper-
ated the first saw mill in Iowa.
William Hannah, q Bidwell
miner, aged "a, in attempting to
board freight train, was killed.
Colonel Charles C.. Horton,
formerly commandant of the Iowa
Soldiers home at Marshalltown,
is dead.
4 hoy at Midrid was shot in the
face while he and his brother were
hunting rats in the barn with a
rifle.
Harry Bunting of Logan was
sentenced to five years at Ana
mosa reformatory on conviction
of higamy.
Council Bluffs horseshOers
have increased their rates from
is to so per cent for different
classes of service.
Edmond Douglass of Pottsvillc,
aged &c years, has resided in Iowa
seventy years and voted for eigh-
teen presidents.
Gamers Moments club has de-
cided To make Garner phlox
town and every one is being urged
to plant phlox.
II is expected that Mrs. En-
incline panllhurst. the we'll known
English sufl'ragist, will speak at
t'rinnell during May.
John j. Cummins, a survivor of
the Mexican war i'm 1854, re-
sides at Fairfield, of which he was
mayor fifty years ago.
An iniernrban trolley car was
struck by lightning near Rogers,
twenty miles south OF Fit. Dodge,
but no one was injured.
While canoing in the river at
Cedar Rapids Miss Dorothy Smith,
night superintendent at st. Inke's
hospital, was drowned.
Marie West, aged IL, Of As
pinwali, attempted suicide with
carbolic acid after quarrel with
her lover at Council Bluffs.
@. $. Bidue, pioneer DEBORAH
hardware man, died after several
weeks illness. He was we'll
known in that section of the
state.
Eldm and Philo Brown, two
school boys near Iowa City. dug
out ten wolf whelps from beneath
the school house. They received
$40 bounty.
The Plymouth county hoy es-
say contest was won by Emmett
Grant of Westtield township, who
will receive free trip to the
state fair.
j. II Dreibelbis of Monticello.
a university student at Iowa City,
accidentally shot himself in the
head with a revolver, but will re-
cover.
\ fight is being wagnd at Cedar
Falls against pool halls. The
clergymen propose to start a
municipal pool hall to be run on
moral lines.
Sergeant Major John Hay has
returned to his home in Grand
junction after serving in the
British army and receiving a
medal for bravery.
Charles w. Mayser, Ames foot
ball coach. has been named as one
OF the athletic officials at the
250th anniversary celebration OF
Newark, ~ j
The Council Bluffs city council
has established an ordinance pro-
Nidine for fine and Imprisonment
or both for men who annoy wo-
men ON he streets.
The Burlington station at
Greenfield was hlrglarized OF
money and United States revenue
stamps a considerable amount
OF cash was overlooked.
Howard j. Clark of Des MOines
has been appointed temporary
chairman for the republican state
convention To he held at Cedar
Rapids May Il.
By Il vote of 3Ai to g. a prop
Osition was carried at Lewis to
erect $4,000 school house.
Women voted 163 for and AZ
against and men 1871 for and ~
AGAINST.
A peace pageant was held at
Dubuque IN which $500 persons
marched in protest against pos
sible war With Germany. An
opera house meeting was ad-
dressed by Patrick O'Donnell OF
Chicago.
Thousands of dollars loss has
been sustained by farm owners
near Mandarin whose land has
been washed away by the Mis-
souri, This year and last. r. H.
Weldon lost all of his fine farm
except a few acres and he has