Missouri Valley times., 1919-02-27

A Minnesota >bootlegger met with
q lot Of hard luck at Perry few
nights ago, but nc is keeping his
troubles toshimself and seeking to get
even without the aid Of the officers. 4
The man arrived in the city on an
evening train from Minneapolis and
planted his goods in lonesome spot 4
on the outskirts of town Picking
out a few bottles, he solicited busi-
ness among the thirsty and several
fellows not only bought what he had
with him, but agreed to take his en-.
tire stock at current prices. He led
them to the place and displayed his
wares only to find that he was the
victim Of holdup men. The would be
purchasers became robbers and there
was nothing for the victim to do but
swallow the dose. He left few hours
later for Minneapolis trying to In
vent a way Of doing business in
safer manner.
Two. wheelbarrow loads OF rattle
snake rattles and bones were taken
out of a crevasse in the rock on the
Dan O'Reilly farm near McGregor.
Quarrymen were at work on hill
side on the farm blasting out. rock
for barn for Mr.. O'Reilly when they
opened up the crevasse and discov-
cred the cache of rattles and bones.
Rattlesnake hunters say that the
lcrevasse must have been a rattle
snake home for hundreds of years and
advance the opinion that old and sick
snakes had made the place sort of
hospital and home for the aged,
crawling in there to die. The crew
asse extends into the bluff and early
mornings a little vapor or steam is
seen coming out Of 1t. 1t is believed
that there is an interior chamber in
the rock with rattlesnakes in 1t, the
steam coming from their breath.
There may be hundreds or even thou
sands of them hibernating there, say
hunters who are acquainted with the
gregarious habits of rattlers.
Clarence r. Appleby of Davenport
was exonerated recently Of seeking
to evade the draft law, and the stig-
ma Of being Stacker was erased by
the chance discovery Of his registra-
ton card in the pocket of an old
hunting coat. Appleby was arrested
| last summer on a charge Of failure to
| register. He protested his innocence,
claiming that he had registered at Wa
terloo, Ia. He was unable to produce
registration card and his story was
doubted. He was Immediately induct-
4 ed into military service, and a short
| time later was sent to France, where
he now Is with the American army
4 Of occupation In looking over his
i sons civilian clothes the boys father
came across hunting coat. He in
/ vestigated the pockets, and hidden
! away in one corner was the sons reg
istration card.
4 T. ]. Martin, former mayor Of Wa
terloo and trustee and grand com
mander Of the Masonic order Of Iowa
died at his home in that city recently
He had been in failing health for more
than year. Martin was also secre
tary Of the grand charity fund, pas
grand master of the grand dodge o
the state, and past grand. patron o
: the Eastern Star. He was active fl
organizing the Iowa State Baseball
league. Martin was SO years old.
Isadore M. Stickel of Cedar Rapida
who is. rated as worth $250,000 an,
who has been serving ninety da,
sentence for vagrancy in the work
house at st. Paul, arrived in Ceda
Rapids recently, having been dischar9
ed by the court after the st. Pau
police had verified his story.
Miss Lillian Rockwell, daughter o
Mrs. w. f. Rockwell of Des Moines
left recently for Liverpool, en- rout
for service in France with the Con
munity Motion Picture bureau of Ne'
York. Miss Rockwell is distinctly a
Iowa girl Her preparatory schoo
training was at Cornell college, Noun
Vernon, which was followed by a yea
at the school of music at Northwes
} ern university. She also has bee
with the Churchill Wholesale Dru
company of Cedar Rapids. For tn
past nine months she has been SCI
retary to George B. Landis. associat
executive Of the central departmeu
of the war work council in Chicago
That Iowa is prosperous beyon
any period in its history and that thl
year would see the greatest record ]
building, especially small homes,
!. has ever experienced, was the ke!
E note Of an address delivered by Pres
!. dent Louis A. Moore Of the Centrs
Iowa Retail Lumbermen's association
in convention at Dubuque recently.
Forty acres Of improved land mort
of Shenandoah were sold recently /
Ellsworth Beach to Lott johnson Il
8 $4,000, or $500 per acre.
President James w. Campbell I
!. Simpson college, Miss Junia Tod
dean Of women, and fourteen Sim
: son students went to Mount Verne
recently to attend centenary NEE
ing, celebrating the Tooth anniyersal
of the Methodist church's work in
reign missions. The Methodists pls
to raise $1OO,OoO,o00 this year for M
sions, half for foreign work and hi
!. for home work. The meeting at viii
:. all the Methodist colleges in the sta
will be represented has been call
{ tn make plans for the students ca