Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-07
Iowa

terested in the railroad boys as he puts
It, is to be a speaker at the opening session
Of the biennial international convention of
the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen at
Columbus, o., next Tuesday. He Will also
deliver the invocation the following Sunday
at a meeting of the railroad Young Mems
Christian Association of Columbus, which
William Jennings Bryan will. address.
FORT DODGE~The Fort Dodge council
has passed a resolution for the re-paving
OF Central avenue, the main business
street. for a distance of seven blocks, from
the park to the Great Western station on
Twelfth street. Creosoted block will be
used instead of brick paving which will
be taken up. The mayor and council have
just returned from an extended trip Of
Investigation of various kinds Of paving,
visiting st. Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago.
CRESON-The home of AL Mcdowell. a
brakeman, was badly damaged by fire Sun
day afternoon. The fire is imposed to
have originated from an over-heated fur
mace and as the family was away the fire
had made considerable Roadway before dis
covered. The property, had but one day
previous. been sold to c. A. Blayney. d
travelling man OF this place. and FORUM
ately the insurance papers had also been
transferred the evening before, thus pro-
t~ecting Mr.. Blayney in his purchaze.
IOWA FALLS-The city water will be
pumped by electric power in the near. fi-
ture II a proposition made by the light
company is accepted. II is proposed o.
the company to replace the present steam
power with an electric motor. it being pro-
posed to install the equipment free OF ex-
pense to the city and furnish the power
for 800 a month. This Is very near the
cost OF the coal used at the water works
plant, that item Of expense the last year
being 81 .272. II the electric power is in
stalled It will give the city a duplicate
plant.
COLUMBUS JUNCTTON-Mrs. O. r.
Jameson. who has successfully edited and
carried on the Columbus Junction Gazette
ever since the death Of her husband over
a year ago, has sold the PAPER 10 b. H.
Schearer, who has been connected with a
paper at Ida Grove, and will go west to
spend the summer. The paper has been
edited by members of the Jameson family
for the last twenty-five years and was at
one time under the editorship Of congress-
man W. d. Jameson of the Seventh con-
gressionsl district.
pied by John Kritterbrink and belonging
TO c. NJ. Blakesley, was entirely destroyed
BY fire Saturday afternoon. AS there was
no prompt way of extinguishing the flames,
not much could be done TO save It after
the fire was discovered. A part of the
is thought TO be fully covered by insur-
ance. The little daughter of the family
was rescued from the building nearly suf-
focated. She was the only one of the
family in the house at the time.
Observation-Disclosures county is soon
TO erect a new court hoIse and before doing
so IL will very probably move the county
seat from Dakota City to Humboldt. With
the prospects of this in the near future
there is promise of the breathing cut Of
the most bitter county scat wa that has
ever been wage in Iowa. The location o:
cided by a vote and already not only Hum
boldt and Dakota CITY are opening in the
race, but other towns of the county-Bode.
ERADICATE, Pioneer and Renwick are all out