Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10

session at LsMars. There are six
teen criminal cases on tho docket.
Because his foot was caught in {
frog on an Illinois Central track, C
L. Ailsop Of Rockwell City was fatal
ly injured.
A team hitched to a corn harvester
ran away and caused the death Of
Jess Miner, an aged farmer living
near Modale.
Citizens Of Wyoming are incensed
over the work of dog poisoner
Nearly every dog in the town has
died Of poisoning.
The social year at the University
Of Iowa was opened by a reception
given by the Y. NJ. C. A. to the uni
versity's 600 new men.
Four hundred and fifty dollars for
seven head Of cattle is the record
breaking price that was paid to
George Stapher of New Hampton.
Transmission lines will be run from
the electric plant at McGregor, four
teen mics west across the country to
Monona, to supply that town with
electricity.
The Sac City schools have estab-
lished special business course for
the benefit of farm boys and girls
who wish to spend the winter months
in practical study.
Richard Draper, 90, of Tabor, is
home from a two months tour
through the east and Mrs. jeanne
Young, 80, started west to take up q
government claim.
Owing to a mistake of the LeMars
city council and advising attorneys,
the special election to vote on water
and light franchise has been post
poned until October 16.
The oak trees ON patch Of ground
near Cedar Rapids yielded a 1000
bushel crop of acorns. These are be-
ing fed to 500 hogs and are equal to
$500 bushels of corn, it is estimated.
The Masonic order of Perry have
voted for the erection of a Masonic
temple. Options on property have
been considered and it is expected
the building will be erected in the
near future.
Wrigley Smith, a farmer near
Scion, was terribly mutilated in a
broken, several ribs crushed and an
arm so mutilated that amputation
was necessary.
The postofice department at WASH
ington has ordered the discontinuance
on September 30 Of the postoffice at
Homer. This town was credited with
being the largest town in northern
Iowa at one time.
A lion with the Gollmar Bros. cir
Gus, which was showing at Boone, lit
orally tore to pieces a young woman
who handled the lions. She attempted
to put her head into one of the lions
mouths when attacked.
Waterloo will be the home Of the
Young Aeroplane company after De-
cember l. The concern at present is
located in Kansas City, Mo-, and has
been negotiating with several cities
relative to new location.
George Norby, living eight miles
northwest of Estherville, has disap-
peared and his relatives fear foul
play. He has been visiting in North
Dakota and Minneapolis, but nothing
has been heard from him.
John Lewis of Sigourney has a rec
ord breaking hen. The other day she
Matched out her third brood Of chick
ems, making thirty-two for her this
year. She has always lived under q
wire coop, which they have moved
around from place to place.
A large flock of blackbirds flying
from nearby corn field was the
cause of runaway which may de-
prive Gus Gruessing of Marshalltown
Of one of his limbs. Gruessing was
thrown under the wheel of his pillow,
to which the team was hitched.
The construction of a high tension
transmission line to carry electric
light and power to Manly will be be-
gun at Mason City by the Peoples
Gas and Electric company. The COM
pany was granted franchise by
Manly voters. It is expected the line
will be put in within amonth.
A large barn on the George E.
Richardson farm at Morris Lake, near
Merrill, was struck by lightning and
set on fire. The horses and harness
were saved, but the barn was burned
to the ground and some hay, grain
and calf destroyed. The loss on the
barn is $1,000, with $4OO insurance.
The place is tenanted by the Hoover
Bros.
Work of grading for the new yards
that the Rock Island will put in at
Eldon is finished, and many carloads
of new ties are being unloaded pre-
paratory to laying the side tracks.
The new yard will be mile long
and the grading is wide enough for
twelve tracks. The plans include a
big roundhouse and trackage for re-
pair work.
Hogs are dying off by the hundreds
in the vicinity Of Keota, and pretty
much all over the state, too, of some
disease hard to diagnose. Lou Klein
schmidt lost seventy head, Anton
Conrad sixty head, Pete Adrian all he