Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-03-06

"pPOAAseu W uSAl iMMOTallIy al SIOUX
City, Mayor Short said. The mayor
said he was dissatisfied with the work
done by state agents in Sioux City.
Sioux City is quit ecapable OF, taking
care of its own affairs" said the may
or. State agents have done Sioux
City more harm than good. They
have made the reputation of our city
odorous, without accomplishing any
good results. A city's character may
be good and Its reputation bad.
Sioux City's reputation is bad" The
morals committee will be expected to
educate the public and to seek coop
GRAFTON of all residents OF the city in
improving moral conditions here, the
mayor said. Censorship of public
amusements will be one of its duties.
Ellsworth college Of Iowa Falls IL
one Of the three colleges Of the state
to score 100 per cent on its War Saw
ings Stamp pledge. Out of the TWEEN
ty-eight colleges in Iowa that pledged
a quota at the opening Of the w. S. IS.
campaign, Ellsworth came across with
flying colors. The other two making
a perfect score are Iowa Wesleyan
Of Fairfield and st. Joseph's academy
Of Dubuque. Tabor college and Cor
nell at Mount Vernon landed in the
81 per cent column, while the Iowa
State Teachers OF Cedar Rapids had
SO per cent. The next highest was
,Buena Vista of Storm Lake with 80.
One hundred and thirty-four boys Of
the Marshalltown high school, ranging
from 16 to 20 years old, have enrolled
in the United States boys reserve!
for 1919, and will be assigned to work
on farms and along industrial lines
during the vacation season. Farming
has the choice of the greatest number
of the youths, of whom many already
have had experience in this line. The.
working Meserve has been established
by the department of labor.
Delegates from all sections of CEN
trail and northeastern Iowa, represent
ing numbering interests in these dis,
tricts, gathered in Dubuque recently
for the annual convention of the Iowa
Retail Lumbermen's association,
which was in session two days. About
400 delegates were present.
The railroads are the first of the
larger corporations of Cedar Rapids
to displace their women employees and
give men workers their old jobs. In
the last two weeks scores of young
worn an, oyor,Iova7 q, W., -; = :,
by the railroads have been let out
to make places for returned soldiers.
The Rock Island has let out practical
ly every woman who wore boomers.
These were the women who assisted
in loading and unloading freight cars.
Other railroad companies here also
are discharging women.
Reports now being received by
Macy Campbell, director of the
school thrift campaign for Iowa, from
over the state indicate that excellent
work was done in many schools last
year in teaching thrift and encourage
ing savings. The 1919 school thrift
campaign is opening in a very prom
Using way. Through the use In the
public schools of the state Of the
Little Lessons in Thrift" and the pu-
Pills thrift card (simple savings bank
record for penny sayings), excellent
results are anticipated during the
I,year 1919. e.
When the frozen body OF Miss Rose
Fengler aged 20 years, Of Dubuque.
was found in q pool Of blood on the
door Of the house where she lived
alone and when the head was seen
to be badly bruised on one side and
the face scratched. and cut, foul play
was suspected. This theory fell thru,
however. at the post-mortem when It
was shown that she died from old
axe and sickness which caused her
I'd fall and that the scratches were
nhde by three cats whose dead bodies
were found near hers. She had not
| b ken seen around the place for sew
s1tl days