Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-02-01
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Z of Montrose, is dead.
Hugh McCabe, 90 years of age,
,of Waukon, Civil war veteran, is
4 dead.
I W. ID. Hayes, food inspector at
. Sioux City, destroyed 100 lbs. of
Z adulterated coffee.
]. Henry Held, age so, of Newton,
e dropped dead while conversing
9 with friends.
q The Jansen Ice Cream plant at
d Davenport was destroyed by fire
5 lat a loss of 100000.
81 Fire destroyed a large portion
y iof the Northwestern round house
e at Eagle Grove.
Ministers to the number of PAT
q attended the Laymen's Mission
q AIRY meeting at Waterloo.
s Peter Sweet of TT. Dodge was
shot just below the heart when a
q gun accidentally exploded.
. Mrs. Henry Dugan, aged lady
g near Boone, had her hip broken
q when She slipped and fell on the
4 ice.
q George G. Doerring. age 80, of
|. TT. Madison, was struck and in
!. stantly killed by a Santa Fe train.
Clifford Bryson of Fraser, age
n 4, died from burns received when
(. he fell i'm a tub of scalding water.
!. Military drills under the di-
of an army expert are to
= he inaugurated at the Dubuque
= college.
q a half million pounds of COM
4 mercial fish were shipped from
q McGregor and North McGregor
T. during 1916.
e Mrs. Gertrude Ncshniein, age
. 90 of Lansing was burned to
= death while attempting to light
q her Oil lamp.
q Lee J. Nichol of David, age 30.
a died from a wound received i6
ulyears ago. while fooling with a
.l22-calibe rifle.
!. III. ID. Smith. prominent Hum
z boldt man, died at Nevada, from
= internal injuries received i'm fall
q upon The ice.
a Nicholas White. who lived in
q Shelby county so years and was
E a veteran of the Civil war, is dead
e Ten children survive.
= The average increase in state
= taxes per county to be collected in
q 1917 may reach 100000, or a to-
s. tai of about s3,OOO,OOO.
+ Chas. Guiknecht, farmer neal
& Waterloo, was instantly killet
= when his wagon was struck by
= train at crossing.
- H. The highest aprices paid TO
-D farm land near Shenandoah. wa
- paid when Leonard Oviatt sold 81
acres at s275 an acre cash.
. Two young wives at Clinton
Mrs. Fred Leibert age %, an
Mrs. Edward McDuff. age "a
committed suicide by taking poi
son.
- John Maloncy, Milwaukee agen
81 lat Sabula. has been i'm the serv
81 ice of the company forty years
. which is believed TO be the recor
in Iowa.
The congregational church q
Marshalltown has decided to pr
on a reel of motion pictures o
Sunday nights to increase churc
attendance.
Ed Shelton of Menlo had bot
eyes and part of his jaw blow
away and II. w. Stewart of Toled
twas blined in one eye in a dyna
mite explosion.
Five hundred students at low
III City still depend on home fC
FL their wcckF clean. clothes, vi
~ the parcel post route, accordin
TO The iowa City postmaster.
i joe Wilson and Schelley Rey
II nolds. prisoners i'm The Jail at VIZ
pello, were burned to death.
lighted cigarette is believed
have set the bed clothing afire.
Francis Conant of Iowa Cit
age &c, died from burns which |
received i'm an explosion in
chemical plant at Detroit, Micl
III where he was employed.
JLI Miss Elizabeth Koenigsberge
W. ago n, of Des, Moines, is cuttil
10 hcl? third set of teeth and says
ape. isn't causing her near as mu'
has pain as the first SET did.
WIZ The Palace lheater at Vinton
being used on Sundays for SUI
day school classroom. on accou
$500 of the over-crowded condition
tho Christian church.
,,,u,lu Thousands of people at Dub,
l'i! NM1 que We're awakened by terrif
2 explosion about 1 o'clock in Il
= morning. Investigation failed
- throw any light on the cause.
= Mrs G. G.. Watkins. and so
e age Z, were found dead with Il
z gas let in the room open. IT