Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-04-24
~ A w K E Y Z
Il s sEMg
Interesting ltems Of News Xxx.
Gathered From al Parts oflowa

Harlan gees $lV,VVU Carnegie II.
brary.
Wolves are reported numerous Ii
Decatur county
The master plumbers OF Davenport
have declared for open shop and are
offering S. day to strike breakers.
| Donaldson brothers Of Milford es-
capped injury when their new flying
machine went over twice at Pittsford,
! Mich
J 1t is predicted that nearly 1900 new
homes will be erected in Sioux City
this year.
Shenandoah proposes to take the
laws as it finds them, and will put
on the lid and enforce the so-called
! blue laws.
| Mrs. Edward Pierson of Griswold,
As years old, mother of three children,
hanged herself The. deed was due
to Ill health.
Il A shipper sold carload of tailless
hogs on the livestock market at Sioux
City and received the top price of the
year, s20.10.
To save $1,000 year Mayor ]. ].
| Wilson of Marshalltown. has offered
to act as police judge also without
compensation.
Capt. Corwin Cornell, prominent
Knoxville physician. will take a post
graduate course at famous medical
school in France.
Mrs. R. " Graves Of Alta has sued
Miss Dorothy Cole and her wealthy
parents for $4,000 damages, alleging
alienation of affections.
Mrs. Sarah T. Flanagan, Knoxville
pioneer since 1856, and mother of tlir-
teen children, celebrated her eighty
third birthday asfew days ago.
n. M. Dorm Of near Fontanelle
plowed up a bushel of potatoes in a
field left over from last fall and they
were in perfect condition, untouched
by frost.
A. c. Messer Of Grundy Center
shipped number of his thoroughbred
cows to government agents in Honolu-
lu, Hawaii, where they will be used
for breeding purposes.
The college editors elected s. M.
Russell president of their association
{li COANSnl1Ou Aclu at SOildA AO
Daily. Iowan Of the university took
first prize for its first page.
Souvenir hunters can be satisfied
at Camp Dodge. The salvage division
Of the camp supply office, has been au-
thorized to sell gas masks, brought
back by returning overseas soldiers,
for souvenir purposes.
t., Al
nual meeting of the ice dealers and
) manufacturers Of the state, price OF
$14 ton was established In many
{ places the price delivered will be as
high as $40 ton.
A Waterloo business man has been
notified by the government that he
owes to it cent additional income
tax. He figured fraction less thar
half cent in his own favor Uncle
Sam permits nothing like that.
Owner M Ferris of Clarinda ha.
asked the supervisors to pay him fol
eixteen blooded Belgian hares vicious
dogs destroyed recently Sheep own
ers collect about 100000 year il
Iowa for the damage. done by dogs
Capt. Forrest M. McCook of the al
service, who has returned to his HON,
3 in Cedar Rapids, was cited three
Y times. He combed the air for Zeppel
4 ms above London for some time. bu
!. did most of his work In France.
The fishermen have organized t,
demand fishways in the Keokuk dam
They say all the migrating kinds, o
fish have disappeared. If the dan
people will not erect the fishwa
they will ask federal intervention
. The greatest day in the history o
!. the Iowa Order of Odd Fellows, wa
9 ! April "a, when Henry v. Boris, An
sterdam, N. Y, grande sire, and hea
h of the Odd Fellows of the world
a helped the Odd Fellows of the stat
4 to celebrate the centennial annivel
v sary Of the order under the auspiee
r of the Cedar Valley Odd Fellows asse
q citation at Waterloo This wasithe onl
stop made by the grande sire in lows
l. Celebration Of the anniversary G
the founding of the independent %
d der of Odd Fellows in the Unite
e, States will be held in Des Mpinel
n April rs, and 1t Is planned to max
e this event one of the largest the cit
L has ever seen. A parade is planne
( beginning at 2 o'clock In the afte
noon of April 26 The thirty-tw
1t lodges which make up the sevent,
% seventh district will be Representa-
individually by automobile floats, pr,
ceded by all the Oddfellows and R
5ekahs in Polk county, and, visitin
50 Oddfellows. comprising four div
er sions with bands. The parade wi
be in charge Of the chief marsha
the past grand master and c. i
~ Alexander. .s''1''Tt
A new world record price was e
= tablished for Aberdeen-Angus hui
at the Fred ]. Roberts sale at. Alta
- tic. Epitos was sold for $4,000
L. e. Canum of Aledo, i'll. He al,
bought .Blacktop, another bull Of II
same breed, for $1,000. The srsco,
also was broken for the averages a
price. The half hundred ANNA
went at an average Of $1,S25 hea
Over 100 head were sold in two day
Roberts is selling out his herd al
will establish new one on his ne
TO0-acre farm near Corydon.
Plans for gigantic Fourth of Ju
celebration in Fort Dodge are alrea
under way and indications are til