Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-12-19

boy of Iowa Falls, is n wv prominent
! theatrical booking agent in Chicago.
| Having succeeded as booking agent
for vaudeville and other attractions,
he has launched forth in the produc-
ing end Of the business and is booking
and backing The Letp Purple"
Des Moines will probably be the
| only city in the state which will not
this season have sale of Red Cross
| stamps. According to A. S. Kepford,
state tuberculosis expert, Des Moines
is the only city in the state in which
satisfactory arrange ments for the sale
of, the stamps apparently cannot be
made.
Cut off in the will of the late Uriah
McMacken Of Council Bluffs without
a penny, George F. McMacken, adopted
son of the deceased, has filed an ac-
ton In district court to break the will.
He asks that the document be annulled
in trial before jury, and that he
be declared the sole heir of the de-
ceased.
Mystery surrounds the identity of a
woman who sent note enclosing $50
to Leo Mulgrew, proprietor of the Null
grew bakery of Dubuque. The note
read: Ten years ago I stole $40 from
you. This ought to make it good. A
Poor Sinner" Mr.. Mulgrew has no
recollection OF the loss of such sum
under any circumstances that might
connect the sender with it.
Theodore Rich, aged IL years, is the
victim Of a didn't know it was
loaded" accident. The boy, who is the
son of Frank Rich of Clinton, was &C.
cidentally shot through the hand while
playing at the home Of William H. De-
vine. He picked up a revolver from
table and discharged the weapon,
not supposing it contained bullets.
Albert S. Crabb, who retired from
the Times of Cherokee recently to be-
come a farmer in Dickinson county,
has disposed of his interest in that
paper to Robert H. French, a young
farmer of Liberty township, Cherokee
county. Mr.. French will assume the
management of the paper. He is with
out previous newspaper experience.
Seventy-six rabbits, % squirrels 54
pigeons, 13 jack snipes, II prairie
chickens, 13 ducks, 16 quails and
few other birds and animals was the
record made by the members of the
fire department of Perry at their an
nual hunt. The quantity of game was
considerably less than in former years
because of the extremely warm
weather.
Harrison county is made defendant
in the sum of $4,000 by Mrs. Bertha
Smothers of Council Bluffs for dam
ages sustained by the death of Del
Hardy. Mr.. Hardy lost his life when
an automobile went over 27-foot en-
bankment between Logan and Mis-
souri, Valley last August. Mrs. Smoth-
ers has been appointed administrative
of the estate.
A notable service was held at the
First Congregational church in Wat
erloo, when papers representing $780,
900 of Indebtedness were burned. The
service was in the nature of a jubilee,
for the congregation now is without
debt. The raising Of $4,000 in few
days was made possible by the sub
scription Of $4,000 made by Mrs. F.
Gertrude Eddy.
Vocational schools, where boys who
are forced to leave the grades may get
working knowledge of their trades
were recommended to the school
board of Des Moines by Superintend-
ent 2. c. Thornburg. The plan is to
establish one school of this character
in Lincoln school building and later
to start others in the city whenever
funds are available.
A settlement has been made be-
tween the saloonkeeper at Denver.
Iowa, and the estate Of Clyde Ennis,
Is years old, who was drowned last
summer in the swimming pool at the
y. M. c. A. 1t was claimed by the adj
ministrator that the boy had previ-
ously procured liquor at the saloon
and that he was intoxicated when he
entered the pool. The saloon man de-
MED that Ennis had bought liquor of
him.
The barn and a number of outbuild-
ings on the farm Of Fred Fisher near
Riverside were burned to the ground,
entailing a. loss Of $4,000. Mr.. and
Mrs, Fisher were away from home
and the origin Of the fire is unknown.
The buildings were filed with ma
chinery and grain. No horses or other
domestic animals were burned. The
home alone was left standing when
Mr.. and Mrs. Fisher returned.
The body Of Henry Wittemberg who
died at the hospital in McGregor has |
been held waiting a cablegram from
Germany. None coming, burial was
made in the cemetery. The man has
been working at the, carpenter trade
in and around Monona for twenty
years. Little is known of him except
that he came from Germany and re-
ceived remittances from there regu-
larly. 1t is thought he belonged to q
family of standing and means.
Sheriff w. B. Griffin and deputies |
have been busy and raids have been
made at Hynes, Lockman and Maple |
Block. Liquor was found at a number
IF n1opoc on1 tho fo110wir~ Dors1n.