Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-01-11

twenty members OF Go. Ii were
examined.
Figures made up at the state
house show that about A per
|cent of marriages in Iowa prove
a failure. For the fiscal year
ending July 4, 1916, there were
1904 divorces granted against
23,O71 marriages. There were
$4,000 births during the same pc
|riod and 24,56t deaths.
Governor Clarke has approved
the recommendation of the slsate
board of parole that the sentence
of William H. Jones, who was
sentenced to life Imprisonment
for murder, be commuted to fifty
years. With good time off Jones
may gain his liberty in twenty
Six years. He has already served
II years.
Mrs. Permelia Dewitt, aged 90,
of Cedar Rapids, is dead.
The Methodist church at Ur-
bana was totally destroyed by
fire.
|. A. Mains. prominent polit-
ical leader of Charter Oak, is
dead.
Fire destroyed the Lougee block
at Council Bluffs with loss Of
$3.50
A large electric lighted skating
rink has been provided for at KEEL
logg.
The German Lutherans at
Sioux City will erect new $780,
600 building.
Mike Matolonitz, aged as, of
Sioux City, was found frozen to
death in an alley.
Close to $4,000 is the prize
money offered at the poultry
show at Dubuque.
John Swan of near Hawlevyi]le
was severely burned by woodeal-
cohol explosion.
Mrs. Mary Talbot of Ottumwa.
a former slave, celebrated her
1O2d birthday.
George Carlson, formerly of
McGregor, was accidentally shot
and killed at JON River, Wis.
Esther Glaze, aged 5, of Coun-
Gil Bluffs, died from injuries sus-
tanned while coasting.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. l.. Turner of
Iowa Falls, celebrated the fifty
second wedding anniversary.
Mrs. Mary Freeman of Cedar
Rapids was seriously injured
when run down by an automobile.
Rev. i. A. Smiley of Algona has
accepted the call TO the prcsby-
terrain church at Jefferson.
John Mckay, former alderman,
county treasurer and postmaster
at Des Moines, is dead.
Miles Turner, aged 1, of PAN
ora, was instantly killed when a
shotgun accidentally exploded.
Wilbur Shroyer of New Sharon
was seriously injured when car
that he was driving overturned.
Clyde Wilkinson of Chelsea has
invented a muskrat trap, which ia
claimed to do great work.
N. P. Carl of Vinton was in
jured when he fell from a deliv-
cry wagon and was run over by
the vehicle.
Ed Williams, formerly of Corn
ing, died at his home in Portland.
Ore, when he took carbolic acid
by mistake.
Tony Gunanas, aged rs, a
Greek section hand near Cedar
Falls, was murdered and robbed
in his bunk car home.
Rebecca Perdew, aged 8. of OF
tumwa, was seriously injured
when struck by an automobile.
while coasting down a hill.
The Baptists of Iowa have
launched their campaign to raise
81 100000 toward the new Union
college at Des Moines.
Frank Bundy, alias Frank Moss,
was convicted at Logan for grand
larceny, and sentenced to five
years at Anamosa.
While ding home in his car,
Carl esp, aged II, of New Hamp-
ton, was instantly killed when his
auto skidded and turned over.
Sidney G. Cheers, colored, at
Waterloo, is in the hospital with
a bullet in his shoulder, inflicted
by his wife during quarrel.
Miss Pardee, principal of IT,
high school at What Cheer, was
painfully injured when she fell
down stairs at the high school
building.
Rev. J. Charles Crawford, head
ofthe Boone Biblical school, with
his secretary, Miss Lois Crawford,
|ill leave for tour of China.
William Crosby, negro boy
at Des Moines, died from injuries
received in coasting accident, in
which another boy was instantly
killed.