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

Chris Bjorson of Cedar Rap
lids, age So, was killed when q
heavy iroon column in the Kim
Lball building fell, striking him on
the back of the neck.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Needham
@of Sigourney celebrated their
fgolden wedding anniversary with
more than $50 relatives and
friends in attendance.
1 Jess Arbaugh of Mondamin
upon opening a barrel of salt
which he had purchased, found
Embedded in the middle of the
barrel stick of dynamite.
Edward O'Hare, a resident OF
Burlington for 81 years, was
found dead at his home. Inves-
tigation leads officials to believe
that he was frozen to death.
During recent coal famine in
Des Moines Mayor MacVicar
seized carloads of coal in the
railroad yards and ordered his
men to carry it to destitute fam
lilies.
Thirty minutes after Harry
Beemer, age So, of Clinton, Sc
cured work as switchman in the
yards at Cedar Rapids, he feell
from a box car and was instantly
killed.
Delbert Collins, age IL, was
killed and six other boys, all OF
Des Moines, were seriously in
jured when bobsleds on which
they were coasting crasehd to-
gether on a hill.
Lewis Broker, age 20, farmer
near Yarmouth, was hurled a
distance of 35 feet and instantly
killed while investigating leak
in his gas lighting plant with a
lantern.
When Frederick and Horace
IStover, age and 13 respectively,
of Iowa City, struggled for the
possession of a 22-caliber rifle,
Frederick was accidentally shot
and killed.
Mrs. Thomas Frentris, of Du-
buque, was seriously injured and
four other persons injured more
or less, when an auto in which
they were riding ran down hill
at rate of 100 miles an hour.
Game Warden Hinshaw in his
report for November states that
out of total of 1t9 persons
prosecuted for game violations,
113 were convicted, and the total
fines for the month were
So, 2s6.sO.
Mason City leads all other cit
les in the past year in Iowa in
the matter of public improve
ments. The value of the build
ings erected totals $5,s26,OOO.
Des Moines is second with build
ling improvements estimated at
$4,000, 900.
Miss Helen Gobble of Daven-
port was hit by the Rocky Noun
tain Limited while driving her
automobile. She was thrown free
from the machine, landing on the
pilot of the engine and was car
Tried q distance of two blocksk, but
escaped without injury.
l.. o. Bundt of West Side pur-
chased a farm near Glidden for
s77, 900.
Mrs. Mary Freeman of Cedar
Rapids was badly injured when
run down by an auto.
At special election in Center
willie it was voted to erect new
lSf5O,O0O high school.
There were 700 more hunting
licenses issued this year than asst
| in Polk county.
Fred Gilbert, aged 48, of sa-
bula, was instantly killed by a
milwaukee freight train.
Geo. A. Bonewell, farmer near
Grinnell, bought a 433-acre farm
near Altoona for $4,000.
George H. Head of Council
Bluffs was fatally burned when
a can of varnish exploded.
Eighty acres of Tama county
land near Traer was sold at pub
lie auction at s226.5O per acre.
The high school at Keokuk was
closed after several cases OF
small pox were discovered.
Henry Scholte, of near George
picked 3,403 bushels of corn ir
thirty-five and one-half days.
Four members of the John
Faaborg family at Elkhorn were
killed when a lighting system ex-
lploded.
Fire at the Beaver Valley stool
farm, near Cedar Falls, caused
damage to the extent of 1000
Miss Elizabeth Hutson of Unior
Twas instantly killed at Marshall
town when run over by stree
lear.
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