Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-05-08

| at hampton LOT AZ years.
| Seventy-five farmers near Abba will
take current at their farms
The Newton Commercial club is
making plans for new hotel
| Plans are developing to make a
| summer garden at Wall Lake.
Marshalltown has planted walnut
trees as memorials for the soldiers.
Britt has sold 100000 school bonds
at 3 per cent and s1,9905O premium.
BY a vote of 1909 to 80 Eagle Grove
voted S165,000 for new school house.
Is. Hansen, the first Cedar Falls SOL
| der to return from Hun prison, is
| home.
! The Belmond city council will soon
award contracts for 100000 worth Of
| paving.
| Belmond rendered a reception to-
the new Secretary Of State Walter
Ramsey
The Iowa State University band will
make a six weeks tour of California
| this summer.
Fred Dencklau Of Vincent has
| equipped a complete bowling alley
for his farm hands.
The Brown Skate Co. of Webster
City has orders from Paris for both
| ice and roller skates.
Shenandoah suspended business to
welcome home Maj o. B. Yates who
left as captain of the local company.
After two years Of war. John Wal
lace Of Farley re-enlisted for three
years following few weeks of peace.
j. L. Nichless of Wall Lake has
sold twenty head Of steers for $500,
the record price for Wright county.
The Ingleside Federated club Of
Marengo is making a campaign to
make the red geranium the city flow
err.
Sixty-nine per cent OF the students
in Grinnell college earn part OF their
way. The average annual expense is
500.
Mrs. Charlotte Van Cleave who died
recently at Bagley was the mother Of
nine children and had 2S0 descend
ants.
r. b. Morrison Of Keosauqua has
been appointed deputy secretary Of
state, succeeding Roy f. Williams,
resigned.
L. B. Goodrich has sold a half Sec
tion Of land near State Center for
1925 an acre to A. l.. Nolta and e. H.
Hilleman
Seth Hart and family Of Ohio have
started their fifth trip by auto to Mon
tana. They go out to prove up a
homestead.
The report of Secretary H. G. Nc
Dowell of Columbus Junction is that
there were S,41S members of the
Iowa Farmers union on April 1, and
1000 have been added this month
Walter Young of Knoxville, called
to northern Iowa by death of his sis
Ter. found son dead on his return
and has been notified of the death
by shooting of nephew in Missouri
Kenneth Adam Kennedy, state col
lege Y. M. G. A. secretary for Iowa,
and his wife Margaret Mckee Ken
nedy applied for passports to go to
China and Japan under the direction
Of the International Y NJ C. A. Mr..
Kennedy will go as a regular secre-
tary of the organization and his wife
will assist in his work.
If farmers and dairymen of Iowa
take advantage of the tuberculosis
bill which passed the legislature dur.
ing last session and which goes into
effect on publication. this state which
now has one of the highest records
/ for tuberculosis among hogs and cat
tie may become practically free from
the disease. In addition, breeders
whose cattle obtain certificates can
ship interstate without additional
tests. DIR. H. F.. Thompson, who is
to have charge of the state testing,
now has 167 herds which have been
under supervision since last Septem-
Der. Some of these are being tested
once and some twice year.
Although "a years of age when the
United States entered the World war.
Freezing Stevenson, for thirty years
a resident of Cass county, felt that
he still possessed sufficient fighting
vigor to make himself useful. Sc he
offered to enlist but was rejected -,
cause of his extreme age Nothing
daunted he appealed to the adju-
tart general of Nebraska, his present
home. and was assigned to the 62nd
balloon company at Fort Omaha and
| given the commission of lieutenant.
He was at Fort Omaha when fighting
ceased. 1t is probable that Iowa did
not produce man who at the age Of
M Stevenson gained entrance into
the service to the extent that he did.
Because he punished a boy for in
fraction Of the rules of the school,
R. H. Kreiner, superintendent of the
school at Hansell, was badly beaten
by the boys father and brother, Will
and Roy Morgan. The latter is a re-
] turned soldier
More than 700 people attend the
weekly community singing at Glidden
which was instituted recently at the
suggestion of a local physician, who
talked of the social evil and recon-
mended this kind of wholesome com.
munity entertainment for young peo-
| pie.
Artemus Horn, 16 years old, won
the prize for the best Victory essay
among the $50 participants in the
contest from the schools of York
| town, Clarinda, College Springs and
| Bradyville.
No toll Of the war is more keenly
| felt in an Iowa town than that which
Hampton gave in the person of Maud
| Frances Andrews vouno s+ndo,+