Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-05-15
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Interesting Items Of News Xxx
GatheredFrom all Parts Of lowe


Graceland college defeated Simp
son college in their annual debate
The state is considering the purch'
ase of The Lodges at Boone for a
state park.
The W R. C. of Clarion has pre-
sented every Wright county soldier
with silk flag.
Mrs. Charles Gabe of Waverly mar.
kets 100 dozen eggs week from her
hens, for pin money"
Mrs. ]. j. Jones, widow of the for
mer Warden Jones of Fort Madison,
died at Atlantic, 20 years old.
The Marcy Telephone company OF
Ogden have taken over the Boone
County Telephone company plant.
Rev. Jas A. Griffin of Salix has
been appointed one of the three
domestic prelates to Pope Benedict
at Rome.
Forty-two Shorthorns at the Econ
omy farm sale, Shenandoah, went at
1881 head. The top was $2,S25 for
COW and calf.
Supt. F. B. Tyler Of the Greene
schools will grow forty acres of corn
during the coming summer and has
stocked :. farm.
j. P Kirby Of Esthervilie has
bought the First National bank at
Terrill. This makes nine banks con
tro lied by him.
A league of churches has been
formed at Waterloo and the laymen
have been asked to call a mass
meeting to endorse it.
NJ A. Redd and F. j. Howe will re-
tire from the Woodbine Normal
after thirty and twenty-five years.
service therein, respectively.
A class of SO, the largest in several
years, will graduate from Iowa State
Teachers college this year. There
are 36 women in the class.
Anna Bentroth of Waterloo has
filed claim against the estate OF
her mother asking for $4,000 for
nursing her for eighteen years.
R. l.. Abbott of the State Teach.
ers' college has been made an assist.
ant in the pathological department
of the agricultural bureau at Wash
ington.
For the third time in five years
independence high school carried off
debating honors for the state, when
the team from that school defeated
the Bedford team at Iowa City.
The schools of the state are re.
ceiving from State Superintendent
Deyoe syllabus of Bible study for
the schools prepared by a committee
Of the State Teachers association.
Priscilla Hittemiller of Dyersville
saved $50 in pennies, weighing thir.
ty-tive pounds, with which she bought
Victory bond. The pennies repre-
sented her savings since childhood
More than 600 teachers have APP
piled for places at Hampton, which
is quite a different record than that
os other communities which have
had great difficulty getting and keep
ing teachers.
The Universalist church society
of Waterloo has given the UNIVERSAL
list church at Webster City, pipe
organ as a compliment to DR.. Effie
McCollum Jones, pastor there, who
was pastor at Waterloo twelve years.
The school board at Marshalltown
has fixed on definite policy for the
teaching force next year There will
be an increase of $40 month for
each teacher, no minimum under
$1,000 and nine and half month
year instead of nine month year.
Iowa's state penitentiary at TT. Mad
ison is as good as any in the country
and the same holds good for the rest
Of Iowas penal institutions, accord
ing to w. D. Sheehan who has just
completed tour of penitentiaries
in Ohio, Connecticut, Massachusetts
and New Jersey. Sheehan made the
trip to look into the manufacture of
auto license tags by convicts in these
states. Iowa authorities are con-
templating the manufacture of plates
in the various state institutions.
The legislatures of the states of
Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Miss
ouri and Iowa have given to women
who have attained the age of twenty
one years the ballot on election Of
president and vice president. In
this state proper amendments have
been made by the different sections
of the code relating to the ballot, by
which this change is effective. The
Iowa law provides that women shall
vote on separate ballot in the same
form as the official ballot and these
ballots shall be furnished to the
women. On the woman's ballot there
shall be no names of candidates
other than president, vice president
and presidential electors.
The hospital for inebriates located
at Knoxville will not be closed. This
announcement has been made official
ly by members of the state board Of
control to whom the matter was re-
ferred by the Thirty-eighth general
assembly. The board on investiga-
ton has found that it can operate
the farm and the brick and tile plant
at the Knoxville institution and
maintain the institution more profit
ably by keeping 1t going than by
closing it down. Hence. it will con-
tinue to operate it for another two
years at least.
The board of supervisors state
that it is probable that the taxpayers
of Story county will have an orpor-
tunity Of voting on paving for the 60
miles of primary roads in that coun.
ty.
Cool wet weather during the bloom.
ing period is injuring the fruit crop
oe