Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-05-20

Atlantic's chapter of the Eastern
Star will entertain the eighteen grand
lodge officers Of Iowa on June i.
Fred Hassler of Manning has sold
. nne Poland China boar, Checkers >
for $4,000. It is big price, but
the animal is worth It.
The state meeting Of rural mail
Grinnell and the time is announced
as August just preceding the Grinnell
fair and the state fair.
Actual work of paving the roads
In Cerro Gordo county has been start
ed. The primary road between Ven
tura and Clear Lake has been closed
to traffic and work started on it.
4. Sumner Kemp, pioneer saw mill
man OF Alden and one of the first
white men to settle there in the early
sos Is dead at his home. He was
i 81.
: April of this year was the coldes,
since 1907, and as one result plowine
for corn in Iowa is probably not more
4 than one quarter done and there has
been no corn planted as yet.
i Judge William A. Sloane Of the
class Of 1877, Grinnell College, has
been appointed to the Supreme Court
bench Of California. He is chairman
In California for the Grinnell College
Advancement Fund.
i With the turning of the first shovel
Of dirt in breaking ground for the
new Waterloo high school at Fifth
and Locust streets the erection of the
grea. institution Of learning for the
young people Of that city is an &C
tuality.
Z Davenport people have pledged
$229.s24 for Ythe interchurch move
ment. to be phid over five-year peri
cd, according to reports given at q
meeting of teams. The total for the
one year period, reported was $52,
151.41.
!: Cost accounting committees have
been appointed by the Farm Bureau
in Benton county in ten townships
ssto keep track OF the production oi
hogs. A number OF these committees
were started to work in the past few
weeks. These committees vary IL
size from four to six members. Each
member is furnished farm record
book in which to keep his accounts.
j "Iowa's Yellowstone Park"-the
Devils backbone park, in the north
west corner of Delaware county, will
be opened officially to tourists June
10. 1t will attract more visitors this
year than ever before. The state
!; fish and game department is consider
ing establishing hatchery in the
park.
3 Dubuque hopes to realize enough
money to pay its Indebtedness Of
100000 by reclaiming 700 acres Of
land underlying Lake Peosta. Per
mission will be asked of the United
States government to construct the
necessary dams for drying the lower
end of the lake, where large mum
Der Of ideal factory sites can be de-
veloped.
{: The Des Moines river reached the
highest point this year for several
years. swollen by spring rains in
northern and central Iowa. It began
to rise steadily and continued its rise
until 1t was within few inches Of
the top Of the highest concrete levee
on the river front at the Locust street
bridge in Des Moines, with indica
tions that 1t would rise over the tor
of the levee.
I A school to train men in poultry
culling and production will be held
under the auspices of the poultry hus
bandry department of Iowa state col
lege, June 81 to 26. This school Is
designed to train persons interested
in culli9g SO that they can help out
county agents. Forty counties in the
state will be provided by this school
with special men to demonstrate poul
try work during the summer.
1 Poultry demonstrations beginning
on the morning of July 9th, will be
given in each school district in Black
Hawk county. 1t is expected that all
who are interested in the culling Of
poultry or any other phase of the
subject will attend these meetings
as Individual diseases, housing and
feeding will also be discussed, but the
culling will be the main feature
These demonstrations will take from
one and one-half to two hours.
Steps to reclaim part of the Clan
ton valley were taken by the boards
of supervisors of Warren and Madi
son counties. The boards sent engi
neers into the valley and directed
them to make surveys of the project
To reclaim the valley, 1t will be ne
cessary to straighten Clanton creek
from a point north of Clanton to the
mouth Of the creek in Warren county
Several hundred acres will be made
tilsable when the project is completed
Ten-year-old Alberta Williams of
Des Moines saved the life of her mo
ther when she smothered with he1
hare hands the flames which had
caught In Mrs. Williams hair and
clothes from benzine explosion.
Farmers near Cascade are going to
tight the sugar trust with a double
edged sword, or in other words, they
are going to get the trusts "goat" BY
raising cane. A larger acreage than
ever before will be planted this sea
son in order to overcome as much o.
possible the shortage and scarcity oi
poear.