Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-16
Iowa News
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Miss Yvonne Manin and Miss An
dree Dumont of France are visiting
with Miss Agnes Wood at Treer.
Nights in August, 1920, were cooler
than they have been in the past 26
years, according to weather reports
A shortage of timothy seed is pre-
dicted, due to this years production
being only so per cent of the crop
last year.
Sioux City people are paying
cents for street car fare. The raise
from cents was granted at spe.
cial election a month ago.
j. l.. Johnson so, and his wife were
burned to death at their home in
Marshalltown when Mrs. Johnson
poured gasoline into a cooking range
to hurry the fire.
Prof. c. B. Gose Of Simpson college
has presented to the college some
mastodon remains which he unearth.
ed while visiting the DEVILS Gulch, in
northern Nebraska, this summer.
Mrs. Charles NJ Hodge of Moville
was instantly killed three miles east
Of Holstein, when the car she was rid.
ing in collided with another Mr.
Hodge is believed to have been fatally
injured.
Charles Dickerson, farm hand, COM
mitted suicide on the Ray Braunson
farm near Manson, by placing shot
gun on table and forcing the trig-
ger with poker. His body, when
found, was riddled with shot.
Edgar M. Houstow of Fort Madison
has filed suit for the annulment OF
his marriage to Mrs. Harold Price,
declaring that she had not obtained
divorce from her former husband
when she married him
Grief over the death of her hus.
band, M. F. Bagley. who died from
pneumonia in France where he serv.
ed as a soldier, caused Mrs. Alice
Ragley, his widow, to commit suicide
at Manchester by drowning.
Belgian horse breeders throughout
the United States and Canada have
their eyes turned toward Waterloo.
where the second annual Interna.
tional Belgian Horse Show is to be
he'd. September 27-October 9.
Il George Whale of Sioux City, %
years old arrested for intoxication,
dropped dead as he entered the po.
lice station. An examination show.
ed his death was caused by wood al.
cohol. His is the second death in a
week.
Ike Hensley, of Hensley Bros, we'll
known farmers and stockmen of Au.
dubon county, topped the Chicago
livestock market recently with a
carload of choice Angus steers which
averaged 762 pounds and sold for
$17.25.
The fine new farm home of Henry
hoffman, about seven miles east Of
Monona, was burned to the ground
with few of the contents saved The
fire was started by the explosion of
a can of floor varnish which was be.
ing heated in the kitchen.
One of the activities of the farm
bureau of Clayton county was the or
ganization of County Wool Growers
association and shipping of the wool
crop through the Iowa Fleece Grow.
ers' association. Over 41,0OO pounds
of wool was shipped from four
points, Elkader, Clayton, Osterdock
and Turkey River, from more than
200 farmers.
John McGill, 25, Negro, of Sioux
City, was murdered by unknown per.
sons. His body was found in the rear
Of business mans home when po.
lice Investigated the source of groans
reported by the owner of the resi-
dence. McGill had been literally hack
ed to pieces with knife, many of
the wounds being in the back, indi.
eating he had tried to escape his as
sailants.
Mrs. Frank McGovern, the wife of
a we'll known Jackson county farmer
was found dead at the side of the
road near her home five miles south
of Bellevue. The driver of an oil
wagon seeing her lying beside the
road investigated and found he1
dead. From her position, she had
evidently started for some nearby
plum trees to pick some fruit, when
she was seized with an attack of hear,
failure.
Thieves, breaking into the Protec
tive Cleaners and Dyers shop at Des
Moines, made away with $500 worth
Of clothing. A. Borman, manager Of
the shop, discovered the theft
after entering the store through
the front door, and noticing mud
dy foot marks all over the place
The thieves broke thru win
dow in the rear of the building, ac
cording to Borman. One lady's plush
coat with fur-lined collar, valued al
1920, and 20 suits of mems clothing
was taken.
Carl Hutchins, farmer and stock
man east Of Algona, lost valuable
bull in a peculiar way. Carl had sole
the animal to Spencer stockmar
for $475 and had agreed to load the
animal on board car at Algona HI
loaded the bull into his wagon, ant
started for town, but when part O.
the distance had been covered thu
youngster started to- mix things"
little, finally jumping over the sids
OF the wagonbox, with the result
that his neck was broken. The ami
NAL was a purebred sborthorn ant
Vas Q fine specimen . the breed.
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