Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-04-20
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Ames has organized cham
Der of commerce.
Ft. Dodge is to have a new hotel
that will cost $4,000.
Iowa City's first apartment
house is being erected.
Ottumwa's total fire loss dur
ing the past year was s304,825.
1t is said that per cent Of
Iowa deaths are from violence.
Clinton's fire loss for the year
ending March "a was $3O4,50O.
In the presidential primaries
Hughes reviewed about 10000
votes.
Governor Clarke has desig-
mated Friday, April %, as Arbor
day.
Mrs. Elizabeth Whitlach died
at her home near Knoxville, aged
90 years.
The Dubuque Commercial club
started a "Buy-at-Home" cam
paign.
A soldiers monument will be
dedicated at McGregor on Me-
mortal day.
Creston's police force has been
reduced one-third since the city
went dry.
w. G. Coppeck, Marion farm
er, aged rs, died from apoplexy
i'm his barn.
Frank P. Porter, editor of the
MI. Pleasant Republican, died
after an illness Of one day.
Cedar Heights, the newest viii
lage in Iowa, has levied mill tax
for public library purposes.
Ambrose Marshall, aged IS, was
drowned at Dubuque by the over
turning of a flat boat.
Sam Turpin of Jefferson fell
against a circular saw and had
his right arm cut Off.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, in
ternational suffrage leader, will
make 100 speeches in Iowa.
Lou Fisher, a Ft. Dodge police
man., was seriously shot while
trying to arrest three holdup
men.
New Liberty has only two al
dermen and no mayor, due to
legal technicalities in the last
election.
William S. McCarrel, aged 68,
assessor of the town of LIE Grand,
fell dead of heart disease.
The supervisors of Marshall
county have let contracts for 48
reinforced concrete bridges at
S43,428.
Fifty thousand votes were cast
in the recent state primary at a
cost of about SO each, it is stated.
G. b. McCartan, newly elected
mayor of Pocahontas, broke his
right arm while cranking an au-
tomobilc.
Elsie Hudellsa, aged As, o!
Waterloo, skated in front of an
automobile and was seriously in
jured.
Old papers and rubber valued
at $500 were gathered at Daven-
port to build a working girls dor
mitory.
Police Chief Rice of Muscatine
narrowly escaped death while ex-
amining his revolver at the pO-
lice station.
Mrs. Theron S. Baum, aged 60,
died from lighting the fire with
kerosene. She was the wife of a
Hartland farmer.
A new city directory gives
Cedar Rapids population of a.
600, as compared with the state
census of 10000.
Edward Allison, aged 40, OF
Wallingford died from paris green
self administered. His mind was
disordered
Arthur S. Phelps, q CONNER
cial traveller evangelist, con-
ducts u union tabernacle cam
paign at Charter Oak.
w. i. Handsmon Of Fl. Madi-
son was badly injured when rur
over by runaway team he was
attempting to stop.
A little son of Charles Baker
at Nevada had his tongue nearl,
severed by his teeth when he fel
from a wagon
The report that Chas. Scbroe.
der and son, Louis, formerly O.
Dcnison, had been executed il
Canada as spies is denied.
The fifty-fourth anniversary o
the battle of Shiloh was cele.
DRAFTED at Washington by fourteen
of the nineteen surviving vet
Grams in the county.
Walter Mckinney was burnel
to death in cell at the Fremon
Jail, his clothes catching fire, j
is supposed, from his pipe.
Charles Bach, an intcrurbal
conductor on the Perry line, wa
knocked in front of a car by al
automobile and instantly killed
Koeneman & Sieverding, 70
thirty years in the hard war
business at Bellevue, have sol
to B. H. Rolling of Spruce Greek