Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-15
Howard watches. sS6 upwards. Gerner's.
All Broadway.
Town NeMn Noten.

MUSCATINE-For the first time in the
history of Muscatine county the grand jury
adjourned In ten minutes after 1t was inn
panneled Tuesday, without a single criminal
action to investigate.
SHENANDOAH local wagon factory
is said to ave been turning out finished
bob sleds every ten minutes for the last
week and still is hundreds Of orders behind.
Farmers are coming as far as twenty miles
to buy sleds.
CRESTON-After twenty-four years con-
~tinuous service In the employ of the ]. II.
Merrill & Co. wholesale grocery house here
Thomas Given, manager, has rendered his
resignation to the company, which was
reluctantly accepted.
FORT DODGE-The interrupted plan OF
the late Mgr Lenehan TO dedicate two OF
three beautiful new windows In Corpus
Christi church to his father and mother
and to his cousin, Bishop Lenehan, form
erly pastor here, has been carried out BY
his parish. and the third new window has
been dedicated to the late monsignor him
self as a token Of the love and respect In
which the deceased priest was held.
BELLE PLAINE-Badly injured and sui.
fering from the effects of cold and ex.
posture, Mitchell Roberts, pump house mar
for the Northwestern at Belle PLANE, was
found near his pump house this mornine
after having been beaten into insensibility
and robbed OF S25. Roberts is in a crit.
ical condition.
CoRYDoN-This city is after a system
OF water works and sewerage, II they car
be obtained at a cost not to exceed $40, 600
At q recent meeting a OF three
was appointed to investigate the waite
works and sewerage systems OF places
about the size of Corydon and report at q
future meeting.
FORT DODGE-The report of the For
Dodge Commercial club secretary at this
annual meeting Wednesday evening devel
oped the fact that In very conservative
figures the improvements in this city dur,
ing the year 1909 aggregate q s7s;0Oo, There
ments before the first month is half over
DENISoN-The fine sliding has been tn,
can OF causing severe accidents to
numInnper Oh SouhS women from Prominen
Henry OF the First National. George NeaVe
vice president Of the Crawford Count!
State bank and Ben Nichols of the produc,
juries.
FORT DoDGE-The increase OF the sur
plus of the First National mank OF For
Dodge at the recent annual meeting in
creases the capital stock and surplus I
tS50.0O and makes the Fort Dodge ban
Moines, with two larger; Sioux City. wit
two; Cedar Rapids. with one; Davenport
with one. and Council Bluffs, with, one a
large In capitalization, are the big bankin
~centers of the state.
CRESTON-At the dedication OF the ne,
Methodist church last Sunday at Cornin
Bishop Mcintyre took occasion to pay
well deserved compliment to the energeti
congregation OF that place. He said durin
all his years OF work he had been calIe
upon to dedicate many churrhes, but ncve
before could he remember when the dedics
tory exercises were not attended with a
appeal for funds. The So, 900, the entir
cost OF the church, had been provided fc
the week before.
DENISON-Sheriff Cummings was Gale
upon Tuesday to arrest two well-dresse
young women who had taken rooms at III
Evers hotel. Word came from Dunla
mat they had jumped a board bill Of s
there. They gave the names OF May EvaT
and Maude Sterling. They claimed this
they came to Dunlap by Inducements hel
out to them at Omaha by r. A. Barsbay {
Dunlap that there was work for thei
there and he would guarantee their boar
until they had work. They found nothln
and came on mp 20 Denison. officer job
Albert Of Dunlap took them back.