Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-01-04

This is 1917 now.

gla 1dening sunshine, as the ole
disappeared with a squat.
Mrs6 and Mrs. w. r.. Adams AMI
daughter Lavina of Logan visitee
at home and ate New Years din.
ner with home folks.
Mrs. Jaquis returned Monday
evening to take up her schoo
work Tuesday morning, after q
two weeks vacation.
The first sleigh bells to Jingle
on our streets were heard Mon
day.
A. G. Croft brought two loads
of furniture Monday and stored
the same in the house lately va
Gated by the Phillips family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Wilson
Spires and daughter Inez were
visiting with friends Sunday aft
ernoon.
A number of men with teams
and sleds took advantage of the
good shedding New Years day and
tOted some hay from the hay
fields on the Missouri bottom.
The. editor of the Triphammer
is getting uneasy for fear there
won't be very many items to
chronicle about the history spok-
en- OF in last weeks items. We
have gathered only few so will
wait until we get enough to GO
around and then we will give you
some interesting facts.
The Allen creek dredge has fin
ished the work on Allen creek and
gone back onto the Willow creek
to continue that work.
We have just learned that the
little babe Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Brown died Christmas day with
some kind of throat ailment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Edwards
mourn the loss of their youngest
child by death Tuesday. Some
bronchial disease caused its
death.
Will Sublet shelled corn Thurs
day, VIM. sharpneck of Modale
doing the Smelling.
The engine that came from
Modale to shell the Bullet corn
Thursday found all kinds of roads
to pass over, coming part way
along the hill road. The zero
weather has made them so Slip
perry that the engine acted like an
auto. 1t would be on one side OF
the road and then on the other,
and when they came to go down
hill they had to back down.
Joseph Bird has gone to an
Omaha hospital to be treated for
stomach trouble.
Word came by letter from Mrs.
). A. Phillips that they had
reached their journeys end Dec.
goth and the children down there
were running around in their bare
feet and that it seemed like sum-
es,ez time, but on the 22nd the
/ Weather cooled down ito freezing
and they had considerable ice.
Mrs. Phillips said she thought she
will like to live there! The fam
lily were all we'll.
Sunday was a shutin day. Sun
day services were at standstill.
1t snowe1Dthe greater part of the
day. Temperature raised to 2
above freezing in the evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Schwertley Of
Missouri Valley, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
w. Spires of Melrose, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Schwertley of Modale
and goodly number of others
started Monday night at II
O'Clock p. m. from Omaha for the
south on a land excursion trip
and get a glimpse of those green
cucumbers that grow so .plenti-
fully in the south in January
Their destination is Galveston
and Mission, and the regions
around about. They expect to be
gone until Jan. Nth.
To the next generation anti
arguments may read like the ar
guments of the Lancaster, o..
school board in 1923, when it re-
fused permission for the school
house to be used for the discus
sion of the question as to wheth-
er railroads were practical or not
on the ground that there is
nothing i'll the word of Goo
about them. If God had designed
that his intelligent creatures
should travel at the frightful
speed of fifteen miles an hour by
steam, He would have clearly
foretold it through his holy pro-
phets. It is a device of Satan te
lead immortal souls down tc
hell.' In north of Missouri Val
ley a few years later the people
of one little town went a steI
farther and appointed a commit
tee to go to Des Moines to pro
test to the legislature agains
railroads running through theil
town. The committee contendet