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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-04-13
Clarion by the increase in it's

Clarion by the increase in its
postof1'ice receipts is now eligible
to city mail delivery.
1t is said that there are less
than 1000 bushels of good seed
corn in Allamakee county.
The state railroad commission
has refused to increase the de-
murragc rate on freight cars.
Frank Sutton. aged 90, son of
the late Judge Sutton of Mar
shalltown, died in Tulsa, Okla.
George II. Davis of LIE Claire,
aged rs, trapped grey fox
measuring four feet from tip to
tip.
Sac City is to purchase motor
IRE truck for the protection of
houses i'm the outlying districts.
John W. H. Griffin, aged 50,
lied as the result of injuries re-
;eived while he was riding a hi
cycle.
A movement is ON foot at
Council Bluffs to establish a hos
oital for those suffering from
tuberculosis.
Mrs. Kate Z. Jones, past ma
tional president of the Women's
Relief corps, died at Des MONIES,
aged II.
A religious parade over a mile
long marked the close of the
Bromley tabernacle meetings at
Sac City.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. Griswold,
each aged 81 years, died and
were buried in the same grave at
Clinton.
Several eases Of smallpox were
discovered at the Economy Adj
vertising company's plant at
Iowa City
Abner t. Birchard, aged 81, a
pioneer business man OF Marshall
town, died suddenly from heart
disease.
Gerald w. Douthett, editor of
the Osceola Democrat, committed
suicide with a rifle from an un-
known cause.
Joseph Perry, Perry veteran
of the civil war, was awarded a
medal in an old fiddlers' contest
in Omaha.
Arthur Meier fell twenty-five
feet into a huge ore rooster at
Waukon, but was rescued before
being fatally injured.
An 8-year-old son of John Nc
Clelland had his leg broken by
being run over by an automobile
at Clarion.
A 2-year-old son of John Rath-
bun of Wiota burned to death
when his clothing caught fire
from an incubator.
A Missouri Valley child mar
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-04-13
a CAR SHORTAGE
FEARED BY ROADS

Hold our cars" is the bold
!, cadline of a circular recently is
sued by R. H. Ashton, vice pres
ident of the Northwestern rail-
road, to company employees. In
tiis statement the vice president
insists that company cars be re-
tanned on the system wherever
possible in order to guard
against possible car shortage
next fall. The congestion of
freight in eastern terminals is
given as the reason for the nee
rssity of holding on to North
western cars.
"Wo must conserve our own
equipment, the circular de-
clares. 'This is the most seri-
Gus problem confronting all of us
fem now until September
BEFORE furnishing Northwest
err cars to shippers the agents
must ascertain the exact desti-
nation and routing which the
freight is to take and then be
guided by the following instruc-
items:
Foreign equipment to be used
if possible for all points east of
Buffalo, points south of the Ohio
river, points southwest of st.
Louis and Kansas City and points
in Canada"
By keeping company cars on
the Northwestern system officials
of the road hope to prevent any
serious shortage of cars next
fall. Railroad men realize that
to bill car now into an eastern
terminal means a long and in
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-04-13

Fairbank is to erect a $4,000
school building.
Several buildings burned at
Lovillia.
A Ft. Madison lad was fined IS
for shooting a blue bird.
A new student daily paper is
contemplated at Iowa City.
A $4,000 Congregations
church is to be erected at Fort
Dodge.
Kelly pool and dice shaking
have been prohibited at Sioux
City.
DR.. E. L. Cook, aged 78, died
at Harlan. He was a civil war
veteran.
Henry Van Gorder. former
Waukon resident, was drowned
in Missouri.
About $500 worth of silks were
stolen from a general store at
Britt.
Charles Cohmidtke of Greene
lost three fingers in a buzz saw
accident.
A Poland China hog weighing
$50 pounds was marketed at West
Union.
The Waterloo Fairview Gem
.etery association will issue $40
900 worth Of bonds.
Iowa university's rifle team
defeated the University of Hi
nois team 900 to 985.
Sixty Polk county p:inG per-
sons have been pensioned to the
amount of $4,000.
George E. Pew, aged IS, a
prominent LeMars business man,
died from heart. disease.
Little Sioux and Newell have
each voted to erect a new S25, 200
school building.
A three-foot vein of coal was
struck near Lehigh. 1t will be
mined by company.
Ray Dollarhide lost his right
foot by falling under freight
car at Marshalltown.
Eleven cows belonging TO John
Calvert of Jefferson died from
licking paint pals.
The new dam across Cedar
river at Cedar Rapids has been
completed. y cost $4,000.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert Harvey Of Denison was
drowned in q water trough.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-04-13

roWly escaped death by poisoning
from colOred rubber ball filled
with moth balls.
Mrs. Joseph Thomas of Fort
Madison suicided in a bath room
by turning on the gas after dress
ing herself in white.
August Nichol, aged l3, was
killed and two other boys seri-
ously injured when he set fire to
a twenty-five pound keg of pow
der.
DR.. G. j. Perlcy of Grant dan
gerously injured his foot while
handling shot gun which he did
not believe was loaded.
William Grimes, aged 10, died
at Sioux City after drinking a
glass of white MULE con
coction of water and alcohol.
Sioux City retail grocers expect
to close their stores on Mednes-
day afternoons during the sum-
mer for the benefit of their clerks.
A. c. Beach, Chicago aviator
who succeeded the late w. C. Rob
lnson at Grinnell. was seriously
injured in fall of about fifty
feet.
Ralph Peters, a recluse at AL
den, was badly burned while res
culng a satchel containing S15.-
600 in money from his burning
house.
Eighteen horses and a large
amount of equipment was burned
in the large barns of the WEIGH
Transportation company at Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
The Wapello coal mines at
Knoxville have permanently
closed, throwing 500 men out of
work. The company is controlled
by the Burlington railroad, which
states it can buy coal cheaper in
the open markets than it can be
produced at the mines.
Harvey Killian, aged %. was
very seriously injured at Nicola
when a team of mules attached to
disc ran away.
Mason City will issue s35, 900
of bonds to meet outstanding city
obligations. They will bear AZ
per cent interest.
Mrs. Josie Mariner, aged 10.
suicided by shooting at Des
Moines through worry over the
purchase of secondhand auto
mobile.
Clarence Sutton was badly in
Jured at Ottumwa when wheel
barrow load Of brick was dumped
on him from the second story Of
A building.
The Wilson hotel at Webster
City has been purchased by C.. C.
, Janey of Waterloo for 100000
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-04-13
and 100000 will be spent in re.

and 100000 will be spent in re-
modelling it.
Married twenty-four years and
the mother of eleven children.
Mrs. Rose sSchawb of Iowa CITY
petitioned for a divorce, asking
$4,000 alimony
Franklin L. Roper, widely
known as the dean of the west
division of the Great Western
railroad, died at Fort Dodge after
forty-scven years of constant
service.
Over 100 agents OF the Chicago
Great Western railroad between
OeMcin and Kansas City will
gather at Marshailtown April 10
for their annual meeting.
Davenport's new armory has
been pronounced Dy the state
armory board of the national
guard as model for other sim
liar buildings throughout the
state.
Thomas j. Fitzpatrick, the
prominent Dubuque attorney re-
Gently killed in an automobile ac-
cident, bequeathed $50, 900 to his
stenographer, Miss Gertrude
Croshaw.
Superior Court Judge Capell
decided at Council Bluffs that a
man arrested for entertaining
some friends at beer party had
committed no offense against the
Iowa dry law.
Suit was commenced at Coun-
Gil Bluffs by the county in an
action against the estate of the
late General Grenville Dodge for
delinquent taxes amounting to
nearly S1,OOO,OOO.
William Shoots, aged SO, Sac
City farm hand employed by Jas.
WEIGH, suicided by shooting. He
left letter stating that he had
been unfortunate in some of his
domestic affairs.
Elmer Courtney, a patient at
the Hershey hospital at Musca-
tine, leaped through a second
story window while delirious fol-
lowing an operation for Appendix
citis. He received fatal injuries.
w. S. Jack of Cantril com
pleted his twenty-first year as
superintendent of the M. e. Sun
day school, during which time he
was present 1888 times and alb
sent but four. He was presented
with a gold watch.
A man calling himself Thomas
Cole bought merchandise at
Washington and realized cash on
worthless checks he presented.
He claimed to be installing tele-
phones for the Milwaukee road.
Forty-eight cords of wood and
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-04-13

800 posts were secured from a
single burr oak tree near Humes-
ton. it is said to be the largest
tree in Iowa and is supposed to
have been over 500 years old, as
it contained $40 grains.
Five cars of a Rock Island
freight train were demolished
near Adair in wreck. They
were loaded with eggs, salmon,
apples and lubrlcating Oil. A
Mexican workman on the wreck
was fatally injured by passing
train.
Citizens of Atlantic are raising
$4,000 by popular subscription
to pave the road from that city to
the Atlantic cemetery. It will be
paved with concrete twenty-fou
feet wide. After this road is
completed Atlantic will have
:twenty-one miles of paving.
Mrs. Emma Brink of Iowa City
has sued her brother, William j.
WEIGH, for 500, 900, alleging that
latter he had willed her sos, 5000
land a lifelong home, he married
and Mrs. Brink was deprived of
the home she managed for years.
Forty-four. out of ninety-nine
counties in Iowa and fifty-One
municipalities out Of 500 are car
Trying their own industrial insur-
lance under the terms Of the
|workmen's compensation law with
permission of the industrial COM
mission.
w. w. Mcfarland has donated
his $4,000 Washington county
farm to the Christian Bible COL
,lege of Minnesota. The college
gets the farm outright to sell or
rent, but pays Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Farland 6 per cent interest an
nualiy as long as they live.
Hereafter when tramps ask for
food at Algona residences they
will be handed a ticket good for
.THRE1E--TOWA-
"a meal which the city will furnish
Las we'll as the work to earn same.
The plan has been tried in other
,places and is expected to work
out very satisfactorily.
Andrew Hoger, a Scion farmer
land stockman, purchased a car
,.of cotton seed meal and being
suspicious of its purity had it
,:analyzed. 1t showed much adul-
teration alad as the result the
company will be obliged to dis
count to buyers from 81 to S. a
ton.
w. ). Tobin, editor of Tobe's
Weekly. while waiting for train
at Shenandoah which would take
him to Arizona for his health, re-
ceived q telegram announcing the
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-09-21

Mrs. M. E. Doty of Long Prairie
visited several days last week with
her brother, H. w. Rice.
Misses Lizzie and Mary Kinney Wis
tied last Thursday with relatives and
friends at Swanville.
~, The Misses Mabel Graham and Flo
renee Kennedy visited with friends in
Melrose the latter part of last week.
PETERS SHOT GUN SHELLS.
THEY ARE BETTER THAN OTHER
BRANDS AND A BIRD IN EVERY
SHELL. G. ,HILLERUD & co. ad
Michael Robischon of st. Uoud is
expected to arrive to-day (Thursday)
tc pass the remainder of the week
here with relatives. - -,
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Chromey and
little child and John Haislip Of st.
Cloud visited over Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. John Ebensteiner.
Mrs. L. H. Van Camp came up from
St. Paul on Monday for Homecoming
Week. She is visiting with her par
erts, Mr.. and Mrs. R. A. White.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Carr and fami-
ly motored down from Hunter, N. D.,
on Monday and will pass Homecoming
Week here with relatives and friends.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-09-21
COUNTY SCHOOLS GET $21,3OO
State Aid This Year Shows Llt'ie
Change From That VI
Year Ago

Stearns county semi-grade ana ru-
raj schools will receive $21 300 IN state
aid this year, according to County Su-
perintendent Boerger. This is approx
mately the sum applied for and dill
fers little in the total amount received
last wear. In the semi-graded class,
which division includes schools having
more than one teacher, but does not
come up to all the requirements OF
the grade schools, there are only
twelve schools receiving benefits. Ihls
benefit is $500 each, or total OF
$4,000. In class A, comprising those
schools in which the teachers have
first grade certificates, the state aid is
$3.50 each. These schools number "a
and the total aid is $1,000. In class b,
schools which have the same equip.
ment as those in Class A, but whose
teachers have only second grade certi-
ficates, there are 81 schools drawing
500 each, or total of $500.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-09-21
FORMER RESIDENT is DEAD
Walter Babcock Passes Away
While on Visit To
~. Minneapolis

Many oldtime residents of Sank
Centre will recall Walter Babcock, a
former resident here, and learn with
regret of his death in Minneapolis on
Monday, Sept. II. The Minneapolis
Journal said:
"Walter Babcock, one of the young
est civil war veterans in the north
west; died Monday at the home OF Geo.
F. Lucas, 1909 Plymouth avenue. He
was GO years old and marched away
to the war in 1868 when he was only
Is.
"Mr. Babcock had lived in Minneso-
ia so years and in Minneapolis a.
wears, all of that time being IN the
contracting business. froy" which ne
retired shortly before his death.
was born in New York state In 1913
and after the war settled in Sank Cen
tire. Mimi, moving to Minneapolis IN
1872. In Minneapolis he was mem
her of the Volunteer Hose Company
No. / and of North Star lodge, l. ".
O. F. His home was at 1924 Penn
avenue north. -
ale had come to the city from his
summer home at Northome, Lake MIN !
netonka, and was making brief Visit
at the Lucas residence. at the time OF
bis death. He leaves wife and flve
children. Funeral services will be con-
Quoted at Lakewood chapel at p. M
to-day"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-09-21

Mrs. I. G. Griffith Of Browerville is
expected to arrive here Friday for a
short visit with her brother, Guy
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-09-21

Good work horse for sale; $40. Sal
nlond & OGara. adv.
.. Mrs. Ella M. Sheets of Long Prairie
visited here last week with her daugh-
ter, Miss India Sheets. J*GT
Mrs. H. Diebel of Long Prairie ar
rived last Thursday to pass Home
Coming Week with relatives and with
friends.
Ben E. Tubbs arrived Tuesday even
ing from Fond du Lac, Wis, to pass
Homecoming Week here with relatives
and friends. 81
LEES LICE KILLER WILL RID
YOUR HEN HOUSE OF LICE AND
MITES. NOW is THE TIME TO
CLEAN. GET 1T AT G. HILLERUD
& co. :"i adv
~ Take a course in shorthand and in
typewriting at the Little Falls Bust
ness College and get good position
at good salary. Write for your cat
alog. Adv. Tilt
Mr.. and Mrs. William Tubbs and son
OF St Paul motored up Wednesday, af-
ternoon to swell the Homecoming
crowds. They will remain through the
week. =.
Mrs. George Taylor of FrancisvilIe,
Ind, is here for Homecoming Week
as the guest ofSMrs. Charles Fiesler.
Mrs. Taylor was formerly Miss Julia
McMasters..% sN
Henry c. sCapser of St. Paul was an
arrival Wednesday to join the Home
coming throng. He is visiting at the
home Of his@parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Capser.
PETERS SHELLS ARE OF SUPE-
RIOR CONSTRUCTION-"STEEL
WHERE STEEL BELONGS"- AT
FORDS PROTECTION TO THE
SHOOTER. G. HILLERUD & co. ad
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Kennedy, re-
siding near Fairy Lake, are the proud
parents of baby boy born to them
Monday morning, Sept. 10. Mother
and babe are doing nicely.
Mrs. Kittie Spellman and son of
Springfield, Mass, are visiting at the
r. A. White home. They stopped off
enroute to their home from Denver
and expect to remain here about a
month.
Dewey Zettel arrived Sunday even
ing from st. Paul, and has assumed
charge of the "back end" of the Her.
aid office. Mr.. Zettel is printer of
class, and we are certain that the pa
irons of the Herald will find his
work satisfactory. Dewey has full
authority to collect money and issue
receipts in the name of the Herald
publisher. =.
Pc. Schauble, candidate for repre-
sentative from the Second Legislative
District of the Forty Sixth Senatorial
District, was, pleasant caller at the
Herald office on Wednesday. " Mr..
Schauble is clever young man, and
will take care of the interests of his
district insgood shape If elected, and
he insists that his chances are the
best. &
NOW is THE TIME To CoNDl-
TON YOUR CHICKENS FOR EGG
PRODUCTION THIS WINTER. USE
LEES EGG MAKER AND CHICK
EN- GROWER. GET 1T AT G. HILL
LERUD & co. adv az
Andrew Sorenson returned Sunday
evening from several days Spent at
Agar. S. D., visiting his father and
transacting business During his abb
of general merchandise at Agar ana
sence, Mr.. ,sorenson purcsased a stock
will leave in a few days to take pos
session of his property. His family
will follow in the course OF couple OF
weeks or so. The Sorenson's have ma
ny friends IN and about Sank Centre
who regret the necessity for their re-
moval elsewhere.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-09-21
LUCKY IRON ORE STRIKE

Many Sank Centreites will remem
Der Arthur Lindsay when ne was a
resident of Willard and conducted q
small livery business in that town.
Out of his savings he purchased a
tract of land 40 miles north of Du-
luth. He did not consider the land OF
any great value and never went to
look it over. He moved from Willard
to Madelia and went into business
there. Some months ago he was Of
fered SIG an acre for his tract. On the
advice of a friend, who argued that
the land was worth more than that
price, he refused the offer. "A few
weeks ago iron ore Of rich value was
struck on the property, Since then
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-09-21

Good work horse for sale; $40. Sal
mond & O'Gara. adv.
Park Dougherty of Glenwood visi-
ted here with friends last week.
R. L. Harding of Seabury Divinity
School, Faribault, Mimi, is the guest
of the Rev. E. C. Schmeiser.
J. P. Rhoda representing the freight
department of the Northern Pacific
e line spent Wednesday with its patrons
here.
F. S. Parker is being checked out of
the N. P. station preparatory to TAX
ing lengthy western trip. He will
be absent month.
Get out into the world. The new
days are waiting for you. Make a
start by attending Mankato CONNER
cial College. adv 1918 -sn
Mrs. N. Boyer has returned to her
home at Long Prairie after visit
here with her son, Wesley Boyer, and
. family. -,
Allie Gilbertson returned Sunday
night FROM Berlin,"N D., where he
--passed the summer in the home of his
brother: -, 4 ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Barnard of
Grand Forks, N. D., are visiting with
Mrs. William Pangburn and other rel
atives over Homecoming Week.
The Ladies of the Baptist Church
will hold food sale at the G. H.
Vandesteeg Jewelry Store on Satur-
day, Sept. %. All are cordially in
vited.
TRY PETERS HIGH. GUN
SHELLS LOADED WITH BAELIS-
TITE POWDER. THEY GET RE-
SUITS. G. HILLERUD & co. adv
On Saturday evening, Sept. 20, at
the state road school house an ice
cream social and program will be gi-
ven for the purpose of raising money
to pay the minister's salary. You are
invited.
Otto Dummert and son came down
from the White Earth Indian reser-
walton Tuesday night to pass Home
coming week here with relatives and
friends. They are guests at the Will
ism Dummert home.
Misses Emma and Dora Nicker-
ssson, former residents here, CAME ub
from Minneapolis on Monday to- visit
friends. Miss Dora returned Tues
day evening but Miss Emma will re-
main through the week. a. = ..
Pat Henry of Winnipeg visited here
with friends for a few hours Sunday
evening enroute to his home afterSa
business trip to the east. He will be
remembered as popular member of
the class of 1912 of the Sank Centre
high school.
Mr.. and Mrs. James White, ST., old
time residents of the Mccormick Lake
region, now residing at Bloomer, Wis,
arrived last Thursday evening to-pass
Homecoming Week here. They are
stopping at the home of their daugh-,
ter, Mrs. Ernest Beidfeman, west of
the city.
Ss~v Mr.. and Mrs. A. o. Hubbard 'of
Minneapolis and Mr., and Mrs. Elisha
How of St. Paul motored Sup in the
Hubbard car Tuesday to remain over
Homecoming Week, kThey are guests
of DR.. and Mrs. ]. A Dubois. The
Hubbards and Hows are rea4 old TIM
ers having departed from here about
thirty years ago.
J. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry RAIDER OF Wa
/ tertown, Mimi, are among the Home
!, coming visitors. They are guests IN
i the home of Mrs. George Cleveland
sister of Mrs. RAIDER, who will be re,
membered here best as Miss Ethel
White. Mr.. RAIDER was resident mere
prior to eighteen years ago and was a
member of the fast baseball team q
those days. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Kader
are noted musicians.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-09-21
ADDED FAIR ATTRACTION

w. F. Donohue, Democratic candi-
date for congress from the Sixth Dis
trict, has consented to make an ad-
dres at the county fair on Friday af-
ternoon at 2 o'clock. Mr.. Donohue is
forceful speaker and his efforts will
be a treat.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-09-21
PHONE POI Fso OR WRITE
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-09-21

Mr.. Lindsay has been offered $61 goo
for the land but refused the offer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-09-21
JOHN L.WRUCK
AUCTIONEER
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Experienced, competent, reliable
Conducts all classes of sales.
Satisfaction guaranteed or no COM
mission asked.