Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-09-16


on exhibition. Boys and girls pig
club entrees were numerous, "a
youngsters being in the ring for hon.
ors. Three hundred pure bred cattle
were entered.
Two Des Moines men, Frank Wick
lund and Rellis Toulum, were arrest
ed with three others in and near Om-
aha, in connection with what police
there regard as the biggest auto
theft ring in this section of the coun-
try. The. two men are reported to
have worked out of Des Moines, join
ing their activities with those of the
other three. who made Omaha their
headquarters.
AS a result of arcollision between
a truck belonging, to the F. g. Keni
son Transfer Company Of Cedar Falls
and Ford car belonging to Rev. H.
Schaller of Sumner, Ia, on the Rain
bow drive between Cedar Falls and
Waterloo, the Ford was demolished
and three children in the car more
or less bruised. Rev. Schaller was
also in the car, which was being driv-
en- by a son, but escaped with minor
injuries.
Harold R. Williams of Grand View
Junior member Of the firm Of j. ].
Williams & Son, breeders of pedi-
greed Polled Shorthorn cattle, de-
parted for New York City from which
port he will sail for South America.
Mr.. Williams goes to South America
in response to repeated invitations
from Argentine men to send repre-
sentative to. the Palermo show in
September and will spend several
months there helping to establish
more firmly trade relations.
Glen Lackey Of Atlantic, an auto
mobile mechanic, lies in a stupor at
his home here, from the effects Of
blow on the head, from a broken tele-
phone pole. Lackey in order to avoid
collision with another automobile
at an intersection, drove his car into
a pile Of crushed rock to be used in
paving, at the side of the street. The
car ran over the rock pile, crashing
into the telephone pole, which snap
ped off, and fell through the top Of
the machine, onto the head of the
driver.
Names of forty-nine Iowa officers
who lost their lives in the world war
will be among those to be preserved
in the archive of the Army and Navy
Club Of America, in $3,O00,0O0 mem.
orial hall and clubhouse to be erected
in New York City. The club will
keep list of officers who lost their
lives in the war, together with other
data about the men. The list of
casualties given out by the war
department indicates that forty
nine Iowa officers lost their lives
in the war. OF this number thir-
ty-two were killed in action, ac-
cording to the records; nine died of
wounds, and eight of disease.
A minimum legislative program in
volving a proposal to raise the tax
levy for schools from $50 to s1O0 per
pupil was framed at a recent meeting
of the. legislative committee of the
state teachers association with mem
bers of the state department of pub
lie instruction and other interested
members of the senate and house. It
will be further proposed in the sug-
gested legislation that in extreme
cases the amount may be increased
to any figure desired by a referendum
vote Of the people in the school dis
trict. The levy is to be made on the
basis of the number of children enum-
Grated in the school census and not
on enrolment figures.
"Des Moines is the drug supplying
center of the middle western states" :"
This was the opinion of Inspector
Carroll of Minneapolis, who is in
Des Moines investigating illegal OPT
ate traffic out of that city. He
was sent there by the internal
revenue department after word was
received in Washington of the seiz-
ure of nearly $4,000 worth Of drugs
there several days ago. James An
drews, alias "Dopie jim" was ar
rested following the raid. He will
| be. arraigned before United States
Commissioner Piper charged with the
illegal possession of narcotics. In
| spector Carroll stated that the sup
ply taken was the largest he had
ever seen.
The land boom in the section west
Of Carroll continues and hardly a
week goes by that some big transfer
is not made. Prices that year ago
in June, when land began to float
skyward in price, has sold lately for
800 to 5000 an acre more than it
brought then. Close on the heels of
the deal which brought George VIE
land $500 an acre for his farm north
west of the city, comes the sale of
the old Gilley nursery, mile west of
the Lincoln highway. Martin McCul-
Tough sold the tract Of sixty acres to
Frank Baumhover for $500 per acre.
Mr.. Mccullough purchased the land
a year ago. The price he paid then
was considered high. After selling
it he makes little over 5000 per acre
on the transaction. Holding the land
for year brought him over $4,000
profit.
sixty-five Poland China spring pigs
the property of Worth Overton Of
Knoxville were sold to Earnest Mel.
berg Of Norway recently for $123 a
head. or a total of $4,000. This makes
about $4,000 worth of pigs disposed
| of by Mr.. Overton in IS months.