Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-05-22
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err system to cost $4,000.
Atlantic teachers have received in.
creases in wages OF from $40 to $40.
An election ON establishing mu-
nicipal waterworks will be held at
Clinton soon.
Osceola will hold one of the biggest
Fourth of July celebrations ever held
in Clarke county.
The Methodist Episcopal confer.
ence at Boone commended the nation.
al prohibitory law
The Farmers Creamery company
at Strawberry Point paid out $4,000
on one day for milk
The women's clubs Of Charles City
have started campaign to reopen
Cedar Valley hospital
The S0-acre farm Of A. G. Berkey,
near Winterset was sold to ]. H.
Poke at 1915 per acre.
The grand lodge Of Iowa A. F. and
A. NJ. will hold its diamond jubilee
at Cedar Rapids June to -.
Rae L. Dean, cashier Of a bank at
North English, has been made bust
ness manager Of Simpson college.
George Marcher. first Buena Vista.
boy to be wounded in the war but
who went back again, has returned
home
Spencer was awarded Post No.
of the American legion in Iowa
Spencer won the race. with Council
Bluffs.
The street car workmen OF Sioux
City and the company have appointed
arbitrators to settle their wage diff
ferences.
Clarinda has the largest drum corps
in the United States 1t has fifty
three drummers and six girls carry
the colors.
The State hospital at independence
is found to have the best cows in the
county. This is the verdict of the
testing association.
Shoes with half-tnch wooden soles
are among the samples under consid-
GRAFTON by the board of control for
use in the state institutions.
Eugene Secor aged IS, and pio-
neer resident of Forest City and a for
mer member of the Iowa state legis-
lature was gored to death by a bull.
Marvel Watkins of Sioux City, 18
years old, was accidentally killed
while at play by short stick tossed
against his heart by a baby brother.
Judge Shelby Cullicon of Harlan,
has been appointed assistant to At
torney General H. NJ Havner and
will begin his work at the state
house Immediately.
Atlantic has the record for paving
more than any city of 5000. 1t now
has ordered flfty-seven blocks of
streets and twenty-one blocks Of al.
leys paved this year.
DR.. c. R. Jones, Atlantic physician,
has bought the New Atlantic hotel
property and will convert it into a
hospital. The purchase price was in
the neighborhood of $4,000
Sheriff Myers of Logan and his as.
sistants have recovered eleven cars
and put two auto rustlers in Jail
which has reduced this brand Of il
legal business in western Iowa.
Pottawattamie county farmers
have bought mill property at Oak
land, paying $4,000 for it. They in
corporated for $4,000 and with all
the stock placed with farmers at PAL
they have a cash capital Of $4,000
with which to do business
New labels for first class butter
have been prepared for the state
dairy and food department, and will
be issued to creameries of the state
meeting the departments require
ments. These labels are registered al
Washington, preventing their unau
thoriZed use
A beautiful grandfather's clock
which was purchased by the Civil.
league of Knoxville has been pre-
sented to the city library, by Mrs. H
M. Dickerson, president of the organ
izaticn. ]. S. Bellamy, on behalf o
the library board, accepted the clock
The clock has a solid walnut cast
and is eight feet high and considered
to be quite an addition to the librar,
furniture
War memorial scholarships, trih
utes to the twenty-five Grinnell stu
dents and graduates who gave thei
lives to the cause of democracy dur
ing the great war, will be establishes
at GrinneH college, according to pres
.ent plans. The plan is to authoriz
the scholarships and name each on
after one of the colleges war heroe
who died in service. The funds 70
the memorial scholarships will b.
drawn from the endowment fund q
the institution.
Sam Mcclure, Jr., Of Fort Dodge
has accepted the position as secr
tary to L. ]. Dickinson of Algon;
newly elected representative from tn
"Big Tenth" Iowa congressional di.
tr&tt
Hon. A. B. Cummins has been non
mated by the republicans to be pre-
ident pro TEN of the senate. This
distinguished honor. Sometimes
has been fought for by the bigges
men in the United States Senate
Cummins did not seek the honor. H
is chosen as representative Of tn
progressive wing Of the party.
Because his name is Kurtz, and b,
cause he is a German, and becaus
he is pastor of German Luthera
church at Fontanelle, the Rev. M
Kurtz, after being selected by th
Fontanelle school board to deliver til
baccalaureate sermon to the hig
school graduates, will not official
on that occasion.
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