Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-12-12
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

Scarlet fever is raging at Coin and
the schools have been closed.
John Johnson, druggist of Esther.
vile, is dead of spinal meningitis.
The school at Coin is closed on &C.
count of an epidemic of diphtheria.
A. B. Somers, of Tama, a well
known horse man, dropped dead at
| Toledo.
Malvin Bench, of Elliott, ran into
q calf with his motorcycle and broke
his collar bone.
| The annual convention of the Clay.
ton County Sunday School association
was held at McGregor.
! r. H. Meade, of Waterloo, aged &c
years, committed suicide by drinking
two ounces Of carbolic acid.
On account of poor patronage the
opera house at Audubon will be closed
for the remainder of the season.
Henry Bristler, 40 years old, drop
ped dead in the home of his mother
Mrs. Barbara Karras, at Massena.
Frank Edwards, Fort Dodge resi-
dent, committed suicide recently by
shooting himself in the head with a
revolver.
Three hundred business men OF
Oskaloosa have been sworn in as
deputy sheriffs in order to preserve
order in that city. r.
A. F. Kearney, of Maquoketa, has
been appointed a special agent in the
department of justice. His salary
ranges from $4,000 to $4,000 year.
"Tama" Jim Wilson will devote the
next few months to writing personal
history Of his experiences while a
member of the presidential cabinet.
| Frank A. Charles, leading attor-
ney of Coon Rapids, was declared in
sane after an examination, and was
ordered sent to the asylum at Cla-
rinda. .. ..a
Guy C. Black, of Orient, aged 20
years, committed suicide at his home
by taking strychnine. He was re-
garded as wonderfully strong in mind
and body.
Superintendent of the schools at
Iowa Falls and Ackley, and their
corps of teachers, visited the public
schools and the training school at
Teachers college.
J. p. Anderson, 1912 graduate at
Ames, has accepted an appointment
as the governments horticulture ex-
perimentalist in Alaska at the Sitka
| experiment station.
Divorce proceedings were instituted
at Dubuque recently by Mrs. Nathan
Myers McShane, wife Of E. l.. Nc
Shane, of Omaha. Both are from
prominent families.
Carl Larson, who was found guilty
of breaking and entering the S. M
Dean store at FIT. Dodge was given a
ten-year indeterminate sentence at
Anamosa by Judge Albrook.
Mrs. John T. Hoyer, a pioneer OF
Ackley, died at the home of her son
William Hoyer. She was 80 years old
and had been a resident for forty-five
years. She is survived by four chill
dren.
Chris Emerson, we'll to do farmer
near Mason City, committed suicide
! by shooting himself He arose early
and securing a rifle returned to bed.
He pulled the trigger when his alarm
clock registered o'clock.
The 3-year old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
l. E. Tramp of Harlan, who won first
prize at the baby health contest at the
state fair one year ago, is danger
ously i'll from infantile paralysis. The
left side has been paralyzed for sew
eral days.
Clarinda voted to retain the present
form of government. The vote was
10S for the commission plan of gov
eminent and 4S9 against. Mayor Pc
|, tiers, four councilmen and Business
, Manager Wilson were against making
the change.
The dam at Keokuk continues to be
textbook for engineering students
Prof A. Lincoln Hyde of the engi-
neering school of the University of
Missouri, accompanied seventeen engi-
neering students here to inspect the
big power dam.
Conductor S. S. Howard, of Savan-
ma, Ill.,, was instantly killed at Sabula
by c., M. & St. p. train. His widow
four brothers, and two sisters sur
vive.' One of the former is DR.. Banner
Howard, recently of Iowa City, now
resident of Cedar Rapids.
| Roy Koyak, south Of Maquoketa
farmer, met with painful accident
while finishing up his corn husking
In hurriedly STOPPING over he ran
part of broken corn stalk into one
of his eyes, but miraculously missed
losing the sight of the member.
The water mains at Baskerville have
been flushed and the new supply OF
drinking water for the city has just
been turned in. Four wells were sunk
close together, averaging in depth
twenty-three feet and supplying, it is
estimated, about 5000 gallons per
minute.
A pioneer Sunday school teacher
whose death occurred recently, has
been honored by bronze tablet com
memorative of her forty years of serv.
ice, which was placed in the primary
room of the First Baptist church at
| Keoknly Tho teacher waS Nrc Cara1,