Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-03-30


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!, F. j. Sessions, superintendent
!, of the Iowa Soldiers home at
Davenport, has resigned after
twelve years service. Fred l..
Mahannah has been appointed
Ibis successor.
Lester Parker, who resigned
his position as clerk at the Ana
mosa reformatory, has been APP
pointed deputy warden at the
state penitentiary at Bismarck,
In. D.
Clark Hallam, we'll known
Sioux City young man, is defend
ont in q $4,000 suit brought by
Daniel Farrell OF Chicago for
alicnation of Mrs. Farrell's af
fcctions.
Charles Booth, merchant of
Pawhuska, Okla, was found at
Glcnwood by the sheriff partially
Insane. He had been on IA bust
ress trip to Joplin, Mo. All of
Ills money was gone and his fine
clothes had been exchanged for
a suit of overalls and a jacket.
His wife came and he returned
with her TO Oklahoma.
An iron railing saved eighteen
passengers from drowning when
IL jitncy bus collision occurred
OH the high bridge between
Lyons and Fulton. The bus tore
through the railing. fitting over
the edge.
| The body of Chris Thomas,
aged 81, was found at the bottom
of the Burlington railroad res
|ervoir. Themes has been miss
ling for several days. 1T is sup
posed he became suddenly dc
ranged.
Elsie ChalupnilS was bruised
and cut and Lottie and Emma
Chalupnig were hurled eighteen
feet when an automobile driven
by Adolph Chalupnik collidcd
with car owned by j. Nichols
at Mason City.
The Bankers Insurance COM
pany has donated Mrs. Daisy Will
COX, telephone operator at Sham
baugh, gold watch for her
bravery in preventing a gang of
seven men rob a bank in that
town.
Mrs. Delecta s. Stebbins, aged
90, died in Des Moines. She was
the daughter of an American
captain in the war of 1912 and
ia granddaughter of an American
captain in the war of the revolu-
ton.
1t is said that the Northwest
ern railway will make improve
ments on its lines in the north
western part of the state TO the
amount of $25O,O0O, including
the laying of heavier rails and
rock ballasting.
| Edward S. Lowenberg, aged 4S,
overseer of the Wapello county
poor farm, and w. C. Arnold of
the same age, were killed in an
automobile accident near Bloom
field, the car striking the rail-
ing of the bridge.
Mrs. Will Moir, residing near
Orange City, brought suit for
$4,000 against his father-in-
law, George R. Moir, for the
alienation of her husbands af-
fections. The jury fixed the
damages at $4,000.
The Hanna homestead near
Danville burned. In the ashes
some days later were found gold
!pieces to the amount of over
$500, which had been confined to
a can which broke open at the
time of the fire.
/ The Des Moines grammar
school building, formerly the
East high school, burned with a
!, loss of about $4,000, for which
there is a fund of $4,000 Gre
ated by the school district in lieu
lof purchased insurance.
| Ten Kiron young men have
banded themselves together and
solcmnly promised each other
that every Monday morning they
Twill without fail each deposit SIS
in a bank. The agreement is to
last one year.
| Struck by a train at Waterloo,
Mrs. A. N. McCreary, aged ~.
and her mother, Mrs. L. L. lid
rick, aged n, of Mount Ayr, We're
rolled twenty feet and their
clothing nearly torn from their
bodies. Mrs. Tidrick died of her
injuries.
w. S. Glinn, temporarily de-
ranged by worry. cut the throat
CT his daughter Helen, 18 years
old, and tried to kill several
other members of his family. at
j, Charlton. He was arrested while
attempting to commit suicide.
He formerly resided in Des
/ Moines.
A Rhode Island Red hen owned
by Howard Vanness of Center
willie laid two regular sized eggs