Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-03-07
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS


eminent at Mason City. .....
A diphtheria epidemic is raging II
the Cedar Bluffs neighborhood east OF
+ Colon. In the home Of George Zenl'
shek there are seven cases at ths
present time
Estimates for the cost OF running
the Clinton schools the coming year
are placed at 100000. This is a re-
duction of $4,000 from the expendi'
l lures the past year.
Harvey Summers of Malvern has
ordered gasoline tractor and five
plows, which he expects to receive
4 soon. This makes the second one OF
these outfits to be ordered from that
point.
Bert Hurd, a prominent dry goods
merchant and wealthy citizen of VII
lisca, died very suddenly while walk
ing along the street with his wife.
Besides his widow he is survived by
little daughter.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the Burlington coal chutes and four
cars at Davis City. Eighty-five tons
of coal was in the chute. All the
cars were loaded.
Curtis Duncan while cutting the top
out of the. shade tree in the yard
about four miles south of Tabor fell
about thirty feet to the ground and
sustained a severe scalp wound and
several broken ribs.
Richard Morrissey Of Dubuque was
knocked down by an auto driven by
Joe Podgineck of Cedar Rapids. When
removed to the hospital it was found
that Morrissey had three ribs broken.
Lewis D. Curtis, aged 70, farmer
near independence, shot himself with
a revolver and was found dead in bed
by his son. Apparently he took his
life under the influence of morphine.
which he took to relieve pain.
Negotiations were closed by the
Rock Island railroad for the erection
of "a 100000 passenger depot in
Burlington this year. The station will
be located Oil the river front, neces-
stating the purchasing and razing OF
half business block.
Lillian, the 8-year-old daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Harris, of Lyons,
was painfully burned while lifting
kettle proved too heavy for the little
kettle proved too heavy for the little
girl and slipped from her hands. Her
face and hands were terribly scalded.
Capt. James Haughton of Hose
Company No. 3 may die as the result
of being thrown from the rear end of
a hose truck while making run to
a fire at Davenport The truck struck
the curbing and the captain was
thrown on his head. lie is now in the
hospital. /
Albert Moriet, the band musician
recently convicted Of burglary at Fort,
Madison, committed Immediately fol-
lowing a band rehearsal which he at
tended, has been sentenced in district
court to an indeterminate term in the
penitentiary. He has two years on
q former sentence still to serve
When C. ]. Weiser and II. Reeves,
who own the controlling interest in
the Winneshiek County State bank in
company with w. F. Daubenger, took
over the Larrabee interests in the
First National bank at DEBORAH, the
two oldest banks in northeastern
iowa came under the same manage
ment.
The funeral Of Miss Elsie Samuel
son was held at Charter Oak just
week before the day she was to have
been married 1t is the second death
in her family within a week, and two
other members of the family arc still
sick. Miss Samulson was to have
been married February % to Robert
Turner.
With bullet hole entirely through
his body, Rex, the 12-year-old son Of
James Peterson of Abba, is lowering
between life and death. The bullet
was from rife he was carrying with
his father on hunting trip. He trip
ped and fell and the trigger was
pulled and the bullet went through his
lungs
While crossing his yard to shoot a
chicken, Thomas Connolly of Edge
wood, aged so, stumbled and fell, the
shotgun was discharged and blew the
top of his head off, causing instant
death. He lived on a farm a mile
from Edgewood with his sister, Mrs.
J. D. Frank, and he leaves two sons
living at Export.
A big union shop will probably be
established at Des Moines by the In
ternational Brotherhood of Painters
end Decorators upon the arrival of an
official from that organization. The
opening of the new shop is the novel
method to beat the Business Mems
League. About 275 painters and dec
orators are on strike there.
George Edwards, a Rock Island
brakeman, was seriously injured in
the switch yards at Emmetsburg. He
was knocked from the top of freight
car and fell beside the train with one
foot on the rail- All but one of his