Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-12-27


Thomas. Ha.swill be given his free
dom Decenibsf. 81 from the penitenti-
AIRY at Ft. Madison and will start the
new year as free man. Thomas,
who was sent to FIT. Madison from
Des Moines April so, 1905, on convic-
ton of the murder of Mabel Scofield,
has stoutly maintained his innocence
of the murder and has made long
fight for freedom Thomas has been
AN honor prisoner at TT. Madison for
several years and has enjoyed the con-
fdence OF the state and prison author
tiles. He will be employed by the
state on the farm near FIT. Madison
and will make his home there Thorn
as has served twelve years of his life
sentence. He was 26 years of age
when committed to prison. The MUIR
der was committed in 1902.
A former Iowa boy, DR.. Ray Wilbur,
now president of the Leland Stanford
university, the people on
food conserYation ard war time saw
ing at Iowa City recently. Other
members of the party who spoke We're
Homer A. Miller. president of the
Iowa Sasiona! bank OF Des Moines
and state chairman os the war saw
mss cgmpaign; w. W. Marsh OF Wa
terl9o, member OF the state executive
committee Of the war savings cam
paiga, and Mrs. Francis Il. Whitley of
Webster City chairman of the wom-
ans commsttee OF the national coun-
Gil q aafeass
The ticFot agent OF the Northwest
ern railroad At Fairfax recently cap
tured Tony AilIalaski, 16 years old, of
Chicago while he was in the act OF
bun glarizilg lhe Office safe. The
agent had gene 10 the office to open
it and seeing the dim outlines of a
mans form atSthe safe ran back home
ard Obtaining 9 revolver and flash
light, returned and captured the burg
lar.
Retail coal dealers and mine oper-
ators OF Des MONIES declined to sell
Iowa coal at any price recently. Re-
tail coal men were in universal agree
mont in refusing point blank to ac.
cept orders for coal at $515 per ton,
the price Fixed by Charles Webster,
federal fuel administrator for Iowa.
Likewise no coal could be obtained at
the mines a : per ton.
Willie Suffering from a nervous
breEseown Miss Rosa Has. daughter
of prominent farmer living near
George. wanGersa from home and
was eut in tie severe cold for sever.
al hours before she was found For.
tunately, the only bad effects suffered
by the young lady were badly frozen
hands and feet, from which she Is;
recovering,
Mrs. FEMME .punp of Sioux CITY
has fled suit for divorce in the dis.
triat court AGAINST her husband An.
drew TiUpp. charging him with being
an allan enemy CT the Unite States
Mrs. HUMP states that her husband
continuallv cursed and abused her
and the stars and stripes. She as.
serts that he is a radical proGerman
The city council of Sac Citv is
considering "a pyoposition to license
puhlic pool hall to help swell the
city funds. which are running low
There is. however. considerable dis.
agreement among me members of tho
council in view of the fact that Sac
City has not had a pool hail for TWEEN
ty years.
Plans are being made at Ames for
a repetition of the .bis banouet hold,
at the close of the annual farme
short course last wear This vear,a
feas, win he he,d lie evening Of lon.
uary slst in the gymnasium at the
college. Places have been reserved
for more than one ,heusand erests
Five Greeks who we're emnlovad
in Mason CITY started hack to their
native land last month. When thew
were about FIVE hours ont from their
home sort in Greece their boat was
sunk BY IN Austrian submarine and
four of tie former Mason civ hoys
were crowned
| l1iftv-fonf thousand do,,ars was tho
amount received by Carl johnson of
near Ctpnay Center for his two hun.
5red acre farm Mr. Tohnson honah+
This farm less Than vaar 400 far
two hnrdred and thirty five do,1a -,
rer acre and has nov, so1d - 80 :,
| s27o ner acre -
Probably the vo,,naas+ 1,nit+ar q
LYON comfy and nerfans in tho on.
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