The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-11-20
NORTHWESTERN IOWA NEWS
important Events of the Past Week
Gathered From Our Exchanges
For Benefit Of Our Readers


Carroll county was the first in the
state to report an oversnbscription
on the United War Work drive.
Pocahontas county board of super
visors have voted 1900 to assist in
the work of the county agricultural
agent. -
Jack" Leitlf, who has served Lin
coin township, Calhoun county, as
township trustee for twenty.siX con-
secutive years, has retired this year.
A farm in Elk township, Buena Wis
ia county, sold last week for $4,000
per acre. The place lies at least ten
miles from the nearest town and has
Indifferent improvements.
Former Sheriff A. B. Teepell has
been appointed mayor of Lake View.
Since VIM. NJ Dean resigned the Of
flee to be a candidate for the legisla-
ture three men have been appointed
to the office. # ..- IT,
Russell, seven year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Milo c. Matthews OF
Sac City, is in hospital in Sioux City
receiving treatment for his eyes, the
sight of which he may lost from the
effects of accidental shooting with
his air rifle. ..s
A. A society which has been named
the War Mothers of America has been
organized in Sac County with Mrs. j.
Wilbur Neal as president; Mrs. Geo.
Gilbert, vice-president, and Mrs. F.
r. Brownell, secretary. s.
: On account of an increasing num-
Der of cases of influenza quarantine
were again put in force in
Cherokee last week. 1t is thought the
increase in the number of cases is
partially due to the assembling OF
crowds in the peace celebration.
c. E. Reynolds, of Carroll, on his
returning from his trip to the south,
where he helped secure the vote of
soldiers in camps and environments,
reports that he saw Clement WEIGH,
the Denison lawyer. Mr.. Reynolds
says Judge" Welch is being whipped
into shape" in his training for COM
in one of the southern camps.
Her local chapter claims record
Mrs. Hattie Chiles, Sioux City. Since
Feb. 1, 1918, she has turned in sixty
one pairs of socks, sixteen sweaters,
eighteen helmets, three trench caps,
forty pairs of wristlets, twenty pillow
cases, sixteen towels and three pa
jana jackets. Mrs. Chiles did the
work under the added responsibility
Of caring for her family of five chill
dren.
Frank C. Hamilton, who has been
associated with his father in the pub
fishing of the Marcus News, succumb-
ed to pneumonia last week, following
an attack of Influenza. His sister,
Miss Mae Hamilton, who has been
with the Storm Lake Pilot-Tribune as
local editor for several years, will
give up her work at Storm Lake and
take up the work in the Marcus News
where her brother left off.
During the peace celebration at
Storm Lake, S. L. Clark, an old veter-,
an who fought with Grant, was killed.
He was run over, by an auto truck
hauling boxes for the big bonfire.
The coroner held an inquest and the
Jury decided that Mr.. Clark had met
his death as the result of being struck
BY an automobile driven by Dick Boil
ard in careless but not in a Grim
nally careless manner.
Last week the Sac Sun printed a
picture of the launching of the ocean
steamship Sac City" Mrs. Wood
'ow Wilson selected the name of Sac
City for the third Of the ships launch