Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-03

of Southwestern college, at Winfield,
Kansas, has resigned to become pres
ident of Morningside college, Sioux
City.
William Herber, residing near
Charles City, was instantly killSA
when a car in which he was riding
struck COW and turned turtle. The
car was driven by Carlyle Ellis OF
Charles City.
Women of Sioux City have taken
UP the recall fight. Their influence in
the campaign to recall, and thus re.
pudiate Mayor Short, already has
been felt, according to a member OF
the committee in charge of the cam.
paign.
j. H. Ingwersen, president OF the
Iowa State Bankers association, re.
Gently resigned the presidency of the
Peoples Trust and Savings Bank, OF
Clinton, to accept vice presidency
and dictatorship in the First Nation.
al Bank of Duluth, MINI. Mr.. Ing.
wersen came to Clinton eleven years
ago from Cedar Rapids.
Word has been received of the
death in New York City Of Edward
E. kerwin, former trainmaster of the
old Iowa Central railway in MARSHALL.
town, and later general superintendent
of the NJ & ST. l.. at Minneapolis. At
the time of his death Kerwin was
vice president of the Virginia rail
way with headquarters at Norfolk, Va.
The state director of the war saw
ings campaign has notified the Mar
shall county chairman that the full
years quota for the county must be
purchased by Dec. l as the govern
ment apportioned the two billion dol
lar stamp budget to the country on
Dec i last. This shortens the time
by one month in which people are to
buy their full quota of war stamps.
Pvt George Nuzum of Pisgah, a
member of the depot brigade at Camp
according to report to the division
surgeon. Nuzum's death is the second
to be reported from this disease.
Soldiers with whom he was associat.
| ed have been placed in quarantine,
| and the personal effects thoroughly
| sterilized.
| Gov w L. Harding will appoint
! commission of three men to In
! vestigate the feasibility of men, now
in military service, voting at the fail
| election. The commission will con-
\ sist OF two Republicans and one De.
I mocrat The governor announced thar
/ Atty. Gen Hayner had decided there
4 were no legal barriers to prevent sol
| diers, now on foreign soil, from vot
ing.
City officials at Iowa City have
| been organized in a War Savings So
/ ciety by H. NJ. Gaines, touring the
state to promote the organization OF
war savings societies in factories and
labor unions. Mr.. Gaines wrote head
quarters about it, explaining that this
society was little out of his lire
but that the opportunity had present
4 ed itself The mayor of Iowa City
f. K Stebbins, is president OF the So
ciety.
1t was announced recently thai
Governor Harding will recommend de
4 ferred classitications to draft board
/ members who were appointed prior to
August 6, and who are between the
ages of 81 and 45 In letter for
\ warded to draft board members AID
jutant General iLasher declares thai
as soon as the governor is notified
that an efficient board member ovel
81 years of age has registered, de
ferred classification certificate will be
issued him. The members of loca
boards are discharging an important
duty as necessary in the conduct o.
the war as the work of the men il
the army" declares General Lashel
in his letter.
Plans are being laid at the stat,
food administration office for takin.
a census of the hogs in the state i'm
mediatey. The survey will probably
be taken by counties, in charge of {
committee representing the count,
food administrator, the county super
intendent of schools, the farm agent
the farm bureau president, the chair
man of the women's division of tn,
council of defense, a representative O
the merchants. The census will b,
actually taken by the school children
who will call on the farers and lis
all the hogs on each farm. Farmer.
will be offered the assurance that The
census is taken for no other purpos,
than finding the amount of mea
which can be exported to the soldier
and the allies. Ut has no relation t
: taxes or markets.
Persistent complaints by Iowa sc
lectives of eXorbitant prices charge,
j by Little Rock merchants have caue
ed drastic plans by Col. Charles Mi
, Ter, camp commander When barbe
: shops recently announced that tn
| price of shaves was to be advance
to % cents and haircuts to so cent
: Colonel Miller promptly announce
that the day the increases went int
effect he would issue an order fol
bidding any officer or enlisted ma
3 from Camp Pike to patronize the O
Tending shops. The barber shops il
]. creased the prices, the raise being i
; effect three days. The boycott wa
l too strong for them and they COZ
: Quoted one of Hindenburg's "strategi
2 retreats" The prices now are 2
and 40 cents, respectively.
At the conference held in Cover