Missouri Valley times., 1920-06-17

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=. L. Spear, a printer, brought back
70 Garner from Oklahoma to face
charges Of bigamy has confessed.
3. While trimming trees at his home
In Waterloo, Iowa, John F. Boynson,
aged "a, vas stricken with heart di.
sease and fell to the ground dead.
A youthful quartet from Greenfield,
Iowa. was arrested near Moulton
while asleep In a Hudson Super-Six
car they are alleged to have stolen.
Buena Vista county boasts the
honor OF having the first woman coun.
y clerk in the state. She is Miss
Blanche Womak, who was appointed
to succeed G. G. Colwell, when he
moved to California. Miss Womak
has been a deputy under Colwell for
the last two years.
The youngest pair of elopers 70
corded on the police blotter are ~.
Ing sought by detectives. The two
are from Ottumwa, and they ran
away from their together, according
to advices from Ottumwa police, who
say the two started for Des Moines
The woman in the case'' Is 12 years
OF age, while the boy has 1e sum.
mers to his credit. Detectives have
found no trace Of the newlyweds.
Three persons met death at Du.
buque when gasoline stove explod.
cd In their residence, trapping them
In the structure. Wedged against the
front door, Mrs. Charles Thurston,
86 years old, with her six months
old baby, clasped in her arms, was
found by firemen. Isabelle Thurston,
age 8, rescued from the second story
by firemen, died at hospital after
suffering two hours agony from burns
and near suffocation.
The Mashall County Cow Test AS.
sociation again has taken first place
In average production of ten high
cows, for the month of April. Mar.
shall county took a big lead during
the month the ten high COWS pro-
ducing an average Of 1,727 pounds of
milk and 62.72 pounds of butter fat.
The nearest competitor, the Dallas
county association, scored an aver.
age Of 1,441 pounds OF milk and ST.
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Success has come in unmeasured
portions to Ernest Melburg, Benton
county farmer and breeder of Poland
China hogs, who has in two years
time cleaned up $4,000. Some time
ago Mr.. Melberg sold his fine herd
Of Poland Chinas to Gus Tow Of Nor.
way. Iowa, for s1o5,0OO. Melburg
made his first herd purchase two
years ago when he bought three
brood sows for $3.50. In nine months
time he made profit of $4,000 on
their pigs.
Rev. D. w. Cassatt Of Corning,
who is one of eighteen living mem.
bers Of the class of 1870 which grad
uated from Penn college, now Gettys-
burg college, at Gettysburg, Pa, has
gone back to visit his alma mater on
the fftieth anniversary of his gradu-
alton. Rev. Mr.. Cassatt, a man Of 76
years old, with forty-seven years of
ministerial work behind him, listen
Cd to the dedicatory address Ct Abra-
ham Lincoln at the national cemetery
at Gettysburg Nov. 10, 1853
After being without an annual coun-
ty fair for thirty years the time now
seems ripe for such an annual gather
Ing at Denison beginning with 1921.
The last fair will be held at Arion
this fall, and then steps taken by the
farmers and stock breeders to make
strong fair at the county seat. The
farm bureau will make a canvass of
every township to raise the funds.
Citizens .of Denison have offered 20
raise here as much as the outside
townships will subscribe.
Iowa has at present 1870, 900 dairy
cows producing on the average of
$50 pounds Of butter fat per year.
It Is estimated that each person con
sumes three gallons of 20 per cent
cream, worth 80 cents per gallon.
Milk is consumed at the rate of IL
pint per person. This consumption
10 Increasing at present, due to the
campaign being waged in the state
$NS, hn v1cn 1& ~i.l1
dren. II Iowa's COWS produced 200
pounds butter fat annually, they
would require no more outlay for
housing and labor and little more
feed than now. The COW testing as
sociations are making the fight for
better cows and greater production
per capita. Ice cream is steadily In
creasing in Its value as dairy pro-
duct. Last year $27 100000 worth
was consumed in the state. Cheese
1s the least Of the dairy products, on
" having value of $330, 900. It is
produced mainly in the northeastern
part u the state where the hilly sec
tions provide good pasture but poor
markets for milk.
First patients for psychopathic
treatment will be received at the
general hospital Of the University Of
lowe about July 1, according to Dr..
Samuel T. Orton, director OF the psy.
chopdthic hospital.
The body Of day-old male child,
badly decomposed, found at Daven.
port, leads authorities to believe the
babe was victim Of foul play. An
inquest is to be held. The body was
nude. but showed no signs OF vic.