Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-07-08

made 1t obligatory for every person
owning COW and selling milk to have
their animals tested for tuberculosis.
Webster City will celebrate July 4
on July 10. The change in date is in
honor of ,the starting Of the Ameri.
can drive in France on July IS, 1918.
July 1s falls on Sunday, so Monday,
July 10. will be celebrated this year.
The recent sale at Braywood Farms
near Oskaloosa was one of the big
sales Of the country, the animals
bringing an average of 1882 and the
top Of the sale bringing $4,000, with
q total OF $S5,s50.
What is believed to be the highest
price ever paid for hog in Marshall
county. and certainly the highest price
OF the season-s10, 000-has been paid
by Ernest Melberg for yearling boar,
Advertiser.
Rolling OF the bed on which his
mother had laid him, the six-months-
old son Of Mr.. and Mrs Will Ridgley
OF Extra fell to the floor with such
force as to cause fracture of the
skull at the back of his head, with
deep depression.
The machinery for the oil we'll to
be pat down near California Junction
has been ordered and work will be
started as soon as the machinery ar
rives. Experts have located an oil
vein beneath the Cox sand pit east
OF Missouri Valley.
Peter Comes, we'll known farmer
living six miles west of Atlantic, is
in serious condition at his home
with a twisted spine, the result of
failing from the roof of his house to
q cement walk below. Comes was
patching the roof when he slipped,
rolling first to the porch roof, ara
then to the walk.
Kelley, thriving little town of $50
Inhabitants, has just completed new
consolidated school building which
has six teachers on its staff besides
the principal. While no manufactur.
les are located in the city, the citi.
Gems are eager to back every worth
while enterprise
An ordinance fixing the price of gas
at $1.O5 thousand feet was passed
by the Des Moines city council. The
new ordinance fixes July 1 as the
date to take effect. The rate is five
cents thousand less than the pres.
ent one and thirty-fve cents less
than asked by the gas company in a
petition filed recently in federal court
The Salvation Army home service
Tor Guthrie county was organized in
Guthrie Center with E. W. Weeks
as chairman and many other promn
nent persons on the board. Commit
tees were appointed to handle lnfor-
nation on poverty, pauperism and UNI
employed, juvenile delinquency, ma
ternity cases, prison work and Ameri-
canization
The state food and dairy depart
ment is making many prosecutions
over the state for failure to candle
eggs. Special attention to the en-
foroement of the egg Gambling law
is being given at this time became
this Is the season of the year when
eggs are being put in storage and
when they are liable to spoil unless
much care Is taken with them
The dairy men of Iowa have held
several meetings recently for the pur-
pose of organizing another branch Of
the Iowa Dairy association at Oska-
loosa. Dairy men generally over the
state want to improve their herds and
equipment but before investing more
money in the dairy game they feel
that some organized form of protec.
ton should be developed in order that
they may be protected in regard to
markets.
A wide-awake and active stock ship
ping association has, despite the car
shortage, shipped from Huxley So
car loads Of live stock since the first
of the year. Not much grain is
shipped from Huxley, but the live
stock shippers are active and altho
operations were badly hindered by
the railway conditions, the showing
during the first six months of the
year has been good. Most of the
livestock is shipped by the assocts.
ton.
At Cambridge on June oath, the
memory of those pioneers who cross
ed to the lowe prairie in 1855 and es.
tablished the first Norwegian com.
munity in Story county on June z,
that year, was honored at big cele-
bration and picnic on the sixty-ffth
anniversary of their coming to Iowa.
There was a big reunion of the old
settlers and their descendants, the
latter now providing the backbone, as
1t were of the population of Story
county.
Fifty calls for agricultural engi
neers with only 10 men to fill them is
the plight of the Agricultural engineer
ing department of Iowa State college
Ten men were graduated in agricul
turai engineering til ,Tune Since
the first of the year approximately 81
requests for men to fill places as
teachers and salnsmen have been re
eetved. Agricultural colleges in all
parts of the country have turned tc
Iowa State college for teachers oil
this kind of work. Farm machinery
manufacturers have also sought q
large number of men.
Snowstorms Form In Warm Climates