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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
THE SHELBY COUNTY FAIR.

The Shelby County Fair opens on
Sunday, August 18th. celebrating the
50th anniversary with great pro-
gram. Admission this day only 25c,
which includes the grand stand.
Monday, August 1919 and goth.
there will be six big harness races
with a big field assured. Dutton's
Society Equestrian with the finest
horses and turnout will be exhibited
in front Of the grand stand each day.
including Sunday. Admission includ-
ing the grand stand for Sunday only
25c.
Thursday, August 81, we will cele-
brate the Home Coming Of the SOL
der boys. Everybody will be there
to meet the boys and to witness the
Great Aeroplane Battle in the clouds
by three aeroplanes driven by men
who were on the front lines showing
the Huns how the trick was turned.
There will be grand military fire.
works, including daylight fireworks.
Military salute every morning at
sunrise. There will be people attend,
ing this fair each day in flying ma
chimes. You realize that everything
has gone Skill but the prices OF ad-
mission remain 35c. Come and bring
the Riddles and don't forget the Sum.
day program.
l.. H. Rickard, Secretary.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
THINKOGRAPHs.

Morgan says success knows no
eight hour law. The Morgan brand of
success knows no law of any kind,
eight hour or otherwise.
The d-fashioned woman who wore
red flannel and turpentine as chest
protector now has a daughter who
wears talcum powder and bangle on
hers
The difference between a balky
horse and a balky wife is that the
former can be unhitched without the
expensive aid Of a lawyer.
/ Sometimes wnen fellow nails a
horseshoe over the door for luck he
feels next day like taking it down
and throwing it at his fellow man.
A proportion of our legislators
waste energy with the same prodi-
gality that squirrel does when it
whoops it around by the hour in re-
volving wheel cage, making lots of
work about it and travelling a long
distance, but never getting anywhere.
The wife of Kansas editor is su-
ing another woman for $25,O00 for
alienation of her husbands affec-
tions. Never dreamed before that an
EDITORS affections were worth half
that money.
A local merchant advertises "good
woman's hose cheap" Guess he's
right. Good women do not wear the
$40 a pair kind as rule.
Cut out the booze. There is moth
ing in it for you but poverty and
heartache, to say nothing about head
ache.
A young thing is fairly certain to
think she knows more than her moth
er about everything except the kitch-
en- work.
! If you have water on the brain it
doesn't matter whether it is boiled or
not.
In business, politics, or matrimony,
watch your safety valve.
Some stars in heaven are mighty
high up, and some stars on the stage
are mighty low down.
There are no express elevators
running to heaven and very few auto
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
LETTERS SAID GIRL DIED HERE
RIFT

What has become Of Nora Wood,
H-year-old, auburn haired girl of
Callaway, Nebraska? Her parents
received a letter, believed to have
been received from Council Bluffs,
telling them their daughter died in
this city July 90. No record Of such
q death is had here, and the letter is
thought to be plainly fictitious. The
parents believe their daughter is
alive and living either in Missouri
Valley or Council Bluffs.
Nothing has been heard Of the girl
since June 16. At that time she was
working in q hotel in Missouri VAL
ley. She had also worked in hotel
in Vail. it is said.
Local authorities have been asked
to help in the search for the girl by
Sheriff v. C. Talbot Of Broken Bow,
Nebraska. Nonpariel.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
1919 WHEAT GRADER AND GOV.
ERNMENT PRICES.

ERNMENT PRICES.
A number of inquiries have been
received at the Farm Bureau office
regarding the 1919 wheat price. The
following prices are quoted by Mr..
Frank L. Corey, Second Vice Presi-
dent U. s. Grain Corporation, 11O4
Flour Exchange, Minneapolis, MINI:
The prices for No. I, and 8 grades
Of wheat are the same as they were
last year, that is, No. Northers
$2.21A in store, Minneapolis.
No. 2 Northern $2.181a.
No. 3 Northern $2.14k.
A premium Of &c bushel for Dark
Northern is made for each grade.
No. l Red Spring $2161a.
No. 2 Red Spring is discounted 8
cents bushel and z cents for No. 8.
The Chicago price Of wheat is fixed
by presidential proclamation, is 1926
per bushel.
When the dealer buys from the
producer the following restrictions
should be adhered to according to the
U. s. Grain Corporation agreement
with dealers, elevators and brokers'.
The. dealer in buying wheat from
the producer shall purchase on the
proper grade and dockage, under the
Federal standards, and shall pay
therefor not less than the guaran-
teed price based on such proper
grade and dockage, at the terminal
most advantageously' reached, less
freight, and less a reasonable hand
ling margin. The dealer shall keep a
record showing all purchases from
the producer, name of the seller, date,
quantity, grade and dockage fixed,
and price paid and reasons for fixing
grade under No. 1, including test
weight; and on all parcels of wheat
on which there is dispute as to
grade and dockage or price between
the dealer and the producer at the
time of delivery, a notation thereof
shall be made upon the records Of the
dealer and sample shall be drawn,
by the producer, and the dealer and
forwarded in proper contained to
the Vice President Of the Grain Cor
poration in the zone in which the
purchase is made, for his use in the
determination of the dispute. The
determination Of the Vice President
shall be final and conclusive unless
an. appeal from. such determination
be filed within ten days with the
United States Wheat Director by
either the producer or dealer. In
case Of appeal the decision of the
United States Wheat Director shall
be final and conclusive. The dealer
ahall keep copy Of this section
prominently displayed at his place of
business.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
MOST PEOPLE BIG HEARTED.

At picture show recently the play
was sort Of sad, and as we ducked
down to hide the fact that we were
swabbing up the moisture from our
eyes and nose with handkerchief,
we noticed several other derned fools
doing the same thing, which goes to
show that after all this sordid world
has quite big sprinkling of inhabit-
ants who have bit ofssentiment in
their natures other than greed for
gold. Every life that has no poem in
it is failure. The life that has no
sentiment, no ideals, no fires of inn
sgination, hope, love, anticipation and
aspiration is as clay that has never
felt the fashioning, energizing hand
touch Of the Master, nor breathed the
real breath Of lie.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07

mobiles on the road to righteousness.
A specialist on bugology says ev-
cry crazy man is afraid Of woman.
Huh! So are we, and we are only
half crazy.
Get sunshine, music, love and flow
ers into your system and the birds
will sing to you and the world look
brighter.
The comptroller Of the currency
has ruled that mans place of resi-
dence is where his wife lives. Lots of
men must live at the moving picture
shows.
The submarine, experts tell us, has
no commercial future. Still, some
enterprising person may decide to
operate an underwater booze boat.
When the Star Spangled Banner
was adopted in 777 as the flag of
the nation, whoever thought it would
some day be proudly waving on the
Rhine?
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
WHY?

Why do the people, or some Of them
at least, subscribe SO hesitatingly to
the fund being raised to defray the
expenses Of the reception to be given
our boys and girls who went at the
country's call? Some. gave their all,
even to the supreme sacrifice. It is
not as it should be. They were leav-
ing home and country and everything
near and dear to them, while we stay
ed at home, and reaped the benefits
of war prices and high wages, and
the pleasure Of home and friends.
Besides the entertainments we are
putting on would cost anyone the
price Of one buck, and some Of them
would cost you boys five bucks to see
for single admission. So come on,
boys, and help us make it one of the
great events of our lives,
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
IOWA'S ROADS

Iowa is entitled to the palm for
state, which has more automobiles
per mile per capita than any other
state in the union, spent in the neigh
borhood Of $15,O00,O0O during both
1917 and 1918, and is spending $780,
498,53 this year. Iowa has an ideal
road building program. When their
state system is completed it will not
only be the equivalent Of q trunk line
system converging to the cities, but
to trunk line clear across the state
from east to west through every
county, and north and south through
every county as we'll. The Iowa plan
will give each state the most notable
road achievement Of any state in the
nation. Nowhere else has system
been adopted that treats every county
alike or that reaches every district
impartially.
Texas leads the nation in highway
expenditures this year with $50, ,48O. 2
600 available. Texas also led last
year. Within her borders Texas has
10000 miles Of unimbproved roads,
as against $4,000 miles Of improved
highways.
Iowa, California, Michigan. Ohio,
Indiana and Minnesota rank next to
Texas in expenditures for road build
ing in the order named. Thus it will
be noted that the agricultural states
appropriations exceed those Of other
regions by many millions.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
OPTIMISM VS. PEssIMlslf.

Pessimism 10 % destructive force
IN ones health q it Il in ones pun.
pose and performance. The average
pessimist seeks the shadows and will
fully deprives himself Of the lfe-giv-
ing sunshine. The sun, the flowers,
the trees and the green foliage Of the
glad earth smile at him in vain. The
trill Of the birds, the mummuroua
whisper Of the brooks, the organins
Of the wind % it comes cavlierly
through the forest, kissing the silence
into song, are al dead to the dulled
ears and jaundiced eyes Of the pessi-
mist. He hears only his own Rroan-
ing and sees not the silver lining of
q cloud.
Optimism, happy, bouyant. whole
some optimism, counts as much for
health a. all the laws Of hygiene.
Illness is not only = misfortune, but
half the time a sef-inflicted wrong.
We recognize this clearly enough in
dipsomania. We trace consumption
or pneumonia to cold carelessly
contracted. We know that smallpox,
plaques and fevers are due to un-
cleanliness of person or surroundings.
Science is relentlessly fixing respron-
sibility for nearly all our ailments
upon ourselves. And we desire to aid
it right now by the assertion that
pessimism is a breeder of disease,
while optimism is a vigorous and ef-
fective eradicator of almost every
thing that ails you in this life.
There is no power on earth that
draws like the power Of kindness.
Kind thoughts lead to kindly acts, and
kindly acts make lifelong friends for
you.
Kind thoughts are good for your
health. They may not cure tooth
ache, nor keep you from getting fat,
but they give you good, rich feel
ing around the heart. Kind thoughts
are as much an asset as honesty. A
narrow minded man is too selfish to
be kind. Be Mind to aged people. for
they will not be here very long. So,
also, be kind to the young, for they
will be here long time.
In this big, lonesome world. both
in the cities and in the farm houses,
can be found many hearts that are
pining for kind words. A seed Of
kindness dropped there will spring up
a flower.
Look up at Gods blue sky and
starlit or sunkissed heavens; listen to
the song Of the birds; ,te the smile
on the face Of your neighbor; shake
sleep well; and thank the Lord for
your manifold blessings; instead Of
digging down into the earth for
musty bones, growing, groaning,
grumbling and predicting calamity
which never comes.
Be an optimist. It is just as easy
as to be crouch, and just as cheap.
Get next to the Fatherhood Of God,
the Brotherhood Of Man and the Cos
pei of Sunshine.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
TWO ALLEGED AUTO THIEVES
TAKEN AFTER EXCITING
( GUN DJJEL.

Blencoe, la, Aug. 2.-Two auto
thieves, who gave their names as
Smith and Ellis, each about 81 years
Old, We're captured by posse after a
running; battle, and are now lodged in
the Harrison county Jail, where they
viii face charges Of grand larceny.
They had. it was charged, stolen car
from a garage in Logan Thursday
night and were going towards Sioux
City, when seven miles south Of here,
at the Harry Dennis farm, they tried
to steal Dennis car. >
The farmer came out, and at she
point ofsa gun, the ing men forced
him to get i nhis cs4. and tow theirs
for quarter Of a nile. They later
abandoned their own car and came to
town..
With farmer, Dennis hired man
came here and identified the pair on
the depot platform. The pair open
ed fire on Sheriff Henry Harloy and
Constable E. McCrill, when the latter
attempted to place them under arrest.
This was quickly answered by a
fusilade of revolver shots as the pair
made for cornfield, where they
were surrounded.
The posse of seventy-five men
armed with shotguns, gradually clos
ed in on them. They were captured
by Charles Barnes and Leslie McEl-
vain.
Charges of assault with intent to
kill Sheriff Harlow will be filed
against them in this county. No one
was injured in the battle
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
WE ARE ALL DIPPY.

Man drinks whisky and that clogs
the valves; he drinks beer and that
rusts the cogs; he pours down lemon
ade, ginger ale, buttermilk, ice wa
ter, tea, coffee, Tom-and-J Jerry, hot
scotch, highballs, soda water and sud-
sy soup and then wonders why the
fires under the boilers do not burn.
II one should put an OK, rhinoceros
or an ostrich through like perform
ance it would be dead in twenty-four
hours. The simplest and plainest laws
Of health are outraged every hour of
the day by the average man and wo-
man.
We have searched ancient history,
and we can not find that Adam smok-
ed tobacco. Also we fail to find any
mention that Eve wore corsets from
her wishbone on down to the knees.
Ruth did not chew gum; Mary knew
naught Of powder or paint; Naomi
was not all tears because her bangs
would not stay bung. The Children of
Israel did not make for a beer garden
after crossing the Red Sea, and the
Apostles danced no tangoes. Rebecca
we find, never threw bon bons, choco-
lates, ice cream, shrimp salad, angel
food and demi tasse under her
straight-front at one sitting and
chirped for more. Adam was the
first and was made perfect, but how
long would he have remained SO if he
had absorbed 'steen cocktails before
breakfast and ate mince pie, Swiss
cheese and black coffee at midnight? !?
Suppose he had slept in bedroom
6x7 with his windows down and two
dogs under the bed? Suppose Eve
had laced tight, wore high-heeled
shoes, hobbled fig-leaf skirts, peek-a-
boo waists and sat up all hours Of the
night shoveling lin chicken salad and
Welsh rarebit, and balancing four
pounds Of dead peoples hair on her
head I?
Looks like we are all little bit
locoed.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
LITERARY MATERIAL.

Sienkewiez, the Polish author Of
"Quo Vadis," is coming to America to
find material for another book. He
ought to visit San Francisco, New
York and Chicago, for anybody who
can make hero out Of a chap that
attends banquet clad only in a
shirt, wreath Of flowers and Ro-
man jag, can sure find sequel in
any of those cities.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
EAGLES OFTEN LIVE A CEN
TURY.

If animals could talk they would be
able to tell us first hand of events
that happened hundred years or
more ago, says LIE Pele-Mele, Paris.
The Russian eagle, for instance, that
lowered over the freezing, furnishing
soldiers of Napoleon while they were
retreating from Moscow in 1912, may
be living, for eagles frequently pass
the century mark.
Crocodiles which were in the
swamps of the West Indies when the
first explorers set foot on the islands
are basking there yet, and in the
ocean still are whales that frequented
the coast Of France when Joan Of Arc
was child and when, in l415, Henry
v. Of England landed in Normandy
with great army and seized Hon.
fleur.
These whales, if they could talk and
cared to, could tell US that in those
days there were large whale fisheries
along the Basque coast; in fact, pref
fty generally in the Gulf Of Gascony.
For whales live several centuries,
while elephants rarely pass 100 years;
but carp, parrots and swans often be-
come centenarians.
1t is not unusual for log-beaked
heron to reach 60. Geese, humble
sparrows frequent see 40. while pip.
cons, canaries, storks and peacocks
often reach 20. Partridges, pheas-
ants, nightingales and larks live NOM
inally from 15 to 1S years.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
EXTRA WAR PAYMENT TO GRIP.
PIED IOWAN.

Washington, D. c., July 31.-A
special law to provide an extra war
risk insurance payment of 800 a
month for Henry Bitter, Dubuque,
Ia, the only American soldier in the
war who lost both eyes and hands,
was passed today by the senate and
now goes to the president.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
MILK AND HONEY AND com

1t is mighty nice out in the coun-
try where the fields are ripe. the flow
ers blooming, and the birds making
love, and where the barefoot boy with
cheeks of tan and one gallus worries
the fleet-footed angle worm with
narrow-guage plow, and hikes over
the dew bespattered meadow after
the brindle COW with the ,crumpled
horn. We'd be farmer in minute
If we only knew how and had sense
enough.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
COAL SITUATION .CRITICAL.

Toledo, O.-The coal situation
throughout the United States is criti-
cal, according to Francis S. Peabody,
president Of one Of the largest coal
companies in this part Of the country.
from q tour Of the mines in Kentucky,
Virginia and West Virginia, predicted
q car and labor shortage with a con-
sequent increase in the price Of coal.
He found that many of the miners
have left to work on farms or in other
industries, he reported. ,;l,sl
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
LovELAND ITEMS.

Geo. French, who has been quite
sick for several days, is reported a.
much better today.
Mrs. M. j. Fouts was shopping in
Council Bluffs today.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Brookhouser
and son, Horace, were shopping in
Omaha, Monday.
Corn in this vicinity is looking
very we'll yet, considering the dry
spell we have been having, but unless
we get good rain in few days
the yield will be cut short.
Chick Fickle has just returned from
France, and is visiting his brother,
Albert, who lives west of this place.
Don't forget the regular meeting
OF the Loveland Local of the Farm
ers' Union on every First and Third
Thursday evening in each month, at
the Loveland school house.
Mrs. Hugh O'Neal has returned
from Mt. Vernon, S. D., where she has
been visiting her brother and family.
She reports them all well and getting
along nicely
Chas. Brookhouser of Woodbine is
here for few days. visit with rela-
tives and friends.
The old M. H. French blacksmith
shop is being torn down by workmen
for Roy Stokes, who intends building
fine new custom garage. with
public hall over head. This will be q
decided improvement for Loveland,
as it will be on the Lincoln Highway
and of great benefit to the traveller.
Miss Ruby Seabolt was visiting her
uncle, Ed. Seabolt, near Cal. juno
tion, the latter part of last week.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
FUNERAL OF NED BENTON.

The funeral services for Ned Ben
ton were held from the Hennessey
chapel, at 2:so p. M. Sunday, Aug.
8, 1918.
The remains were inferred at Oak
Grove cemetery.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
PACKERS LOSE.

Not the automatic magnates who
own the packing houses, they never
lose, but the ball team representing
the Cudahy plant at Omaha, was
Slaughtered" by the B. Of r. E. team
4 of this city at the fair grounds Sun
day afternoon.
Zip Woosely, Of the Omaha Power
Co. team, was on the mound for the
Packers, while Moore did the twirlinp
for the locals. It was a slugging con-
test on both sides from the beginning
to the grand finale in the ninth. Both
pitchers were jolted with frequency
that was appalling. Moore struck out
only 8, while the Omaha slab artist
whitfield but one.
The locals negotiated IL clean hits
while the boys from Packingtown gar
nished 9 dittos.
Both sides fielded almost perfectly
and put up an unadulterated article of
ball, the lack of which, due to the ter
rifle biting, would have run the score
into three figures.
Mcclure, for the locals. covered
himself with service medals by his
ability to rap the horse-hide sphere on
the noodle, getting 4 hits out Of S
times at bat, and two of these were
triple sackers, he staging marathon
for the boys out in the garden, that
gave them fatigableness in their ped
al extremities.
In the fifth stanza. the Packers
started pyrotechnical exhibition
that was simply batting orgy, un-
corked. They swatted the pill for 8,
clean hits, and runners treked across
the pan.
In the ninth the wild and ferocious
blood-letting Packers were seized
with inertness. The first man up.5
however, projected the missile for
three bags. Omaha looked dangerous.
The suspense was of short duration.
thanks TO Moore, who brought out
his technic and proceeded to teasel
the lamps of the Packs. He whitfield
three men in suction, while the man
on third remained glued to the sack.
/. The count at the> finish stood IL to 8.
with the butchers hugging the min
imum.
During one of the most exciting
sessions, Omaha had cigar sign on
second and the Omahan at bat spilled
9 hot one down to Clyde Jones, who
was holding down the third sack.
Dennis, the vigilant short, proceeded
to back Jones up, but Jones mistook
him for the "sign," making a hike for
third. So Clyde proceeded to tag
Dennis, but the Indian was still on
second. It was bit of pleasantly
that added to the hilarity of the warm
afternoon, and his pals have notified
him that if he will pass round the
cheroots, tax paid, no publicity will
be given to the occurrance.
Eugene Burgoyne's umpiring was
satisfactory to both the players and
the 500 fans who attended the game.
Owing to his injured eye, Manager
Mac Kinnon played the bench, but he
expects to be in the lineup next Sum
day, when the locals cross the creek
to Blair, to play the rubber" with
Cooks Comic Colts. Each has won
game, and this will be for gore. Also
go per cent gate to the victors and
40 per cent to the losers.
Let's mount the gasoline lorry and
ferry over.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
Drowning the F,y.

A shooting-fish in the East Indies
has a hollow cylindrical beak. When 1t
sees fly on plants that grow In shall
low streams 1t elects a single drop Of
water, which knocks the fly into the
tide Chicago Journal.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
MoDALE.

Mrs. w. R. Manning and daughter
Edna returned from Northboro, Ia.,
Friday of last week, much refreshed
by very pleasant three weeks visit.
Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, State
President of the Iowa Women's Chris
tian Temperance. Union, will speak
in the Methodist church next Sunday
morning at l1:30. This is . rare
privilege. A cordial invitation to ev-
erybody.
Election for lay delegates to the
conference at Des Moines, nth Of
September.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-08-07
FAMOUS FIRST DIVISION II
QIIIT GERMANY AIIG TX

Coblenz, July Delayed (By
the Associated Press).-The LIST di-
vision Of the American army will be-
gin entraining for Brest, on its re-
turn to the United States, about Au-
gust Is, according to informal infor-
nation received today. This would
leave total of about 5000 American
troops in the army of occupation.