Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-09-28

Nevada have started to walk a.
cross country TO Arizona tosget an
irrigated farm which their uncle
wrote he would give them ii they
had get up enough 10 come out
and get it:
Geo. Nichols of .Ames. weight
.520epounds. is said to be Iowa !
heaviest man. He witnessed in
court al Nevada recently and a
special chair had to he placed on
dhe witness stand. in place of he
one ordinarily used. z
Betwcen 100000 and 300. 900
had eggs were destroyed this
summer by the state dairy and
food, department. and Chicago
commission houses are now Of
fcring sis50s and $500 more q
case FOR Iowa eggs than those oil
other states.
!, Iowa retailers in convention al
Iowa CITY pledged themselves 10
stand behind Iowa grocers who
may be prosecuted by the state
pharmacy commission for selling
neutrality-suspicious. The merchants
favor selling these remedies in
GROCERY stores.
a Lincoln monument will be
erected in Waterloo at cost of
1880. 900.
Augustus Liggig, oldest resi-
dent of Davenport. il dead at the
] age of 90.
Police at Waterloo made $50
arrests in August and $40 was
paid in fines.
Mrs. Rachel Adkins of Kellogg.
aged %. heads family of five
generations.
AyOune man was drowned near
Usage when seized with an cpl
,leptic fit.
More than one thousand stu
dents are enrolled at Coo college
Cedar Rapids.
Attempts are being made TO OPP
on up the zine mines in the vi
cinity of Dubuque.
John McCleary. horse thief at
Dubuque. was sentenced to five
years at Anamosa.
Robbers entered a jcwelry store
at GarWin and secured 81 900 in
watches and rings.
William Ballengcr. prominent
ATTORNEY at Kcokuk. died as re-
suit Of an operation.
Two Chinese students from Pc
king college are enrolled at Iowa
Stale college at Ames.
Burglars entered theh store of
II. w. Wilson at Farnhamville and
secured $50 worth of lace.
Two auto thieves at Garner
were sentenced to five years in
the reformatory at Anamosa.
Jackson Durbin. aged 5. Of Co.
Bluffs. died from tctanus after
being ssifuck by an automobile.
s Charley RampOt of Cedar Rap
ids slept while a burglar entered
his home and stole his clothing.
The fiye-year-old child of John
|Nnrdstrom of Algona was struck
and seriously injured by nm auto.
Clarence Nelson. near Roland,
was injured when one of the tines
of pitchfork ran through his
arm.
public sale at the court house
at Davenport brought 1901 per
acre for a 16O-acre farm near
Davenport.
j. p. Bardman of Dubuque was
horribly mangled when switch
engine and several cars passed
over his body.
Rev. i S. Nichols. chaplain of
the First Iowa regiment on the
border. has resigned 10 fill a pull
pit at Iowa City.
! r. b. HOlcomb of Muscatine was
badly injured when he lcaped from
bridge TO escape an approach
ing train.
Mrs. Florence Rurdhk of Clear
Lake was arrested charged with
attempting TO send steel saws ia
prisoners.
DR.. Rudolph NJ. Anderson of
Des Moines. who has been ex-
ploring the Attic seas. has re-
Iturned to Seattle. Wash.
Council Bluffs citizens are ask
ing for a free bridge over the
Missouri river between Council
Bluffs and Omaha. e
A. Stevens. aged 35. wealthy
farmer near Iowa City was burned
TO death when his gasoline stove
exploded.
Norval Mathes and wife Of Iowa
City We're hurled twenty feet and
badly injured when their auto
struck The rail of a bridge.
Ihree persons were sent to
jail for speeding at Dies Moines.
One of them was man sc years
old and another a hoy of i6.
!, Samuel p Whitman. aged %.
of Batavia. committed suicide in
the presence of his family, while
in iii of despondency.
The estate of the late Ed Wat