Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-05-27


Fire Of unknown origin on tho farm
OF William H. Cooper. near Hedrick,
pure bred cattle raiser, burned 36
head of Aberdeen Angus cattle valued
at 100000. Two large barns. CON-
pleted short time ago, were destroy
ed and few hogs being prepared fo-
sale also were burned. Total loss is
estimated at nearly $500. 900. partly
covered by insurance. A champion
Aberdeen Angus bull, purchased a
year ago for $4,000. was rescued
from the blaze.
Raymond Fiield. 2, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Fiheld. Des Moines,
caught his head in the clothes line
swing in the backyard Of his home
and was hanged to death. His body
was found by Mrs. Charles Farrell,
neighbor, soon after the tragedy. Ray
mond was playing with his brother.
Herbert, aged s, when he tripped' in
the swing. He died instantly, it Is
thought. The mother was in the
house. Funeral services were held
from the home. Burial was in Glen
dale Cemetery.
Iowa has been terribly afflicted the
past few months with practically I'm
passible highways. Many roads that
were supposed to be fairly we'll i'm
proved by the use of gravel have fail
ed completely in supporting heavily
loaded auto trucks, and roads that
will support trucks must be consider
ed in the future because they have be-
come large factor in the distribu-
tion of products. Hundreds of Iowa
communities would have been free
from congested freight conditions oc-
casioned by railway strikes If the
highways would have been in order 80
that local packing houses could have
been reached by motor trucks, loaded
with hogs ready for the market. The
facts are Iowa's mud roads are cost
Ing fabulous sums Of money when the
cost of marketing or the failure to
reach markets are taken into account.
w. O. Brant, in his farm exchange
bulletin. tells about fruit tree spray
Ing rings in Benton county. Mr..
Brant says: "The first shipment Of
sprayers has been received, set up
and given a try out. Talk about the
days of real sport! It's pleasure to
get hold of a spray gun with 300
pounds pressure behind it. Perhaps
when we get this gun operating with
the vile. evil smelling solution we
use for spraying the Joy will not be
SO great. However. so be 1t, We
would rather be man behind the
gun than worm In front Of it. Ben
ton county farmers will spend &c.
600 on the spraying project OF the
Farm Bureau this year and Oh! what
mist there will be in the air. Fiji.
teen spray rings have been organized
In thirteen townships. A rough count
gives about 300 orchards averaging
40 trees each or between eleven and
twelve thousand trees"
Revised lists of premiums which
will be made in the cattle depart.
ment of the 1920 Iowa State Fair. TO
be held at Des Moines Aug. rs TO
Sept 8, have been announced by Sec.
retary A. R. Corey. The total is the
largest ever offered by any state in
the country for a cattle exposition.
! The tremendous increase In money
offerings in all branches Is largely
because of the fact that the Iowa fair
management will open new $500, 900
cattle barn this summer. This barn
Will house the entire cattle exhibit.
Architects declare that 1t is the finest
Of its kind in the entire country. The
pure bred show will be the chief fea-
ture advertised by the fair this year.
The total money offered by the 1920
fair is $135,000. This is the biggest
Offering ever made by any fair. The
1919 money put up by the Iowa man.
agement was 100000. The superin.
tendent of the cattle department has
issued a report to the effect that
| word has been received from great
number of the more important breed.
ers OF the country, announcing their
intention of having great number
of entries for the 1920 exposition.
A few years ago Iowa produced
over 80 per cent of the washing ma.
chimes manufactured and sold in
America. While the production OF
these machines in this state has in.
creased enormously and is constantly
increasing, the percentage of the out
put of the factories of the Hawkeye
state has been reduced because OF
the inability Of the plants to keep
pace with the demand. Grinnell, New
ton, Perry, Fairfield and Davenport
are among the towns and cities with
I washing machine factories. Because
of the high cost of laundresses ex
tensive plants have been established
in Peoria and cities farther east. but
not to the detriment of the Iowa
plants, as evidenced by the fact that
the Grinnell Washing Machine Com
pany is at the present time 5000 ma
chimes behind its orders despite the
TACT that 100 men are employed. The
Grinnell machine Is sold largely tc
city users and to those rural residents
who have access to electric current
as they are motor driven. Some o
! the other Iowa plants cater largely tc
the farmer trade by building a ma
chine driven by gas engines Both
metal and wooden tubs are beins
manufactured. and the demand TO,
the two kinds is about $3.50.
Hereafter in Waterloo the Chill