Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-05-09
IOWA news BRIEFS

%}SNONey q ErWln Will erect an elSnt-
story building at Fontanelle.
More than fifty Y. M. C. A. men
attended county convention at Man.
son. ,l ....
Mr.. and Mrs. M. G. Hill of Bristow
celebrated their sixtieth wedding an.
niversary. ID
The Northwestern Iowa Veterans
association will meet July at EN-.
netsburg.
Because of scandal in the public
school the school has been closed at
Lanesboro.
Blanche Walters, a senior student
In the teachers college, was queen
Of the May fete at Cedar Falls.
Il. The Iowa Telephone Co. has just
strung twenty-five blocks Of new
cable at cost of $4,000 at Musca-
tine.
Over five hundred boys have en-
rolled in the movement to convert
vacant lots into gardens at Council
Bluffs.
Frederick Tibbits, aged IL, of Doom,
was struck by an auto while playing
baseball on the streets, and seriously
injured.
One family has been placed under
quarantine by reason of an outbreak
of smallpox and an epidemic is feared
1T Fairport. 49,
Thomas r. Mason of Iowa City, a
plumber, has brought suit against the
>city for injuries received when he fell
on defective sidewalk.
Daniel Costangio, an Italian en-
ployed at the Mason City cement
mills, was burned to death by an ex-
plosion of gas in the plant.
81, .j DR.. E. C. Brown, one Of the leading
physicians Of Madrid, has pleaded not
guilty to the charge Of sending OBJ
scene matter through the mails.
"A hen owned by Mrs. Walter Smith
Of Marshalltown is claimed to have
laid an egg eight inches long and
weighing a quarter of pound.
The program for the forty-eighth
Iowa State Sunday school convention
to be held at Burlington three days
1 commencing June 3 has been issued.
The fifteenth annual convention
Of the Iowa Osteopathic association
will be held at the Still college Of
Osteopathy at Des Moines on May 20
and 81.
On the ground that the expense
would be too great the city council
has voted down the proposition to
build municipal bath house at Des
Moines.
Ollie See Heron, acquitted of theft
at Des Moines, has brought suit
against Frank Gottstein, who caused
i her arrest, asking for damages in the
sum Of $4,000.
Members Of the Poultry associa-
ton at Muscatine are discussing plans
for the next annual show. A pigeon
exhibit will be an added feature at
the next show.
While extracting tooth for pa
tient, DR.. ]. r. Harmon of Creston
lost his hold on the tooth and it
struck him in9the eye, cutting the
eyeball. He went to Des Moines to
take special treatment.
When the 7.year-old son of Her
nan 4Fathman, a wealthy farmer OF
Grand Mound, entered the house he
found his. mother upon the kitchen
fioer dead from self-inflicted wounds
from = butcher knife.
Commencement week will begin
Sunday, May II, at Humeston, when
The Rev. r. Burton. will deliver the
baccalaureate Sermon. Senator j. NJ;
Wilson of Centerville will speak at
commencement exercises. .h
The Lincoln school, graded public
school at Charles City, is closed on
account of diphtheria, four children
in one family having contracted the
disease. Another case later was re-
ported to the health officer.
Her husband, stricken with paraly-
sis more than year ago and left
speeches., Mrs. Harrison Peck, wife
Of . prominent Cedar Falls citizen,
has also lost her power of speech
through stroke of paralysis. The
woman's condition is critical.
Floyd Hagie was elected editor-in-
chief OF the JUNIOR annual OF 1914 Dy
members of the sophomore class of
Iowa Wesleyan at Mt. Pleasant. Ruth
Schreiner, also of Mt. Pleasant, was
made assistant editor Clarence
Johnson Of Ottumwa is business man
ager. =
BY reason of the juggling of deeds
at IN early date, probably through
accident, it has just been discovered
there is cloud on the title of practi-
cally every piece of property in Man.
SON. Steps are being taken to clear
the titles. The discovery has caused
much excitement.
Because Esther Cooper has been
missing for more than seven years.
relatives petitioned the district court
ut Marshalltown to have the woman
decreed officially dead, so that $275,
which she inherited from the estate
Of her father, Isaac Cooper, might be
divided equally among other heirs.