Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-06-06
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

Perry's Pattee hotel opened with a
banquet.
Contracts have been let for the
erection of a 100000 artificial ice
plant at Dubuque.
| Petty thieving at Fort Dodge is on
the increase and the police seem to be
unable to check it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Israel Kintzle cele-
brated their fifty-fifth wedding ami
versary at Muscatine.
/ With the aid of the women the
proposition to issue bonds carried by
q good majority at Ute.
| Fort Dodge has taken the prelim-
mary steps looking toward extensive
extensions of the sewer system.
Fred Urbach, Sioux City milk
man, was founQ guilty of selling dirty
milk, and was fined $50 and costs.
Residents of Schaller voted down q
proposition to issue 5000 bonds for
sewer outlet and disposal plant.
| John Stikog of Sioux City, while
picking his teeth with a pin, swal-
lowed it. His condition is serious.
State employees at Des MONIES will
have a half holiday Saturdays begin
ming June 7th during th@summer.
Bishop Longley of Des Moines pre-
sided at the laying of the corner stone
of the new Methodist church at Iowa
Falls.
The annual convention Of druggists
of the state will be held at Clear Lake
on June II and 10. Some 250 drug
gists are expected.
No restriction on the sale or use
of fireworks will be attempted this
year at Des Moines, according to
Councilman Van Lew.
Workmen have commenced to tear
down the Memorial Lutheran church
at Nevada. Later q fine modern
church building is to be erected.
The congregation Of the Methodist
Episcopal church has raised $4,000 to
take care of indebtedness incurred in
remodeling the church at Oneida.
At the suggestion of the Boone
Commercial club the city council has
under consideration steps that will
provide increased fire protection to
the city. ..'Es
H. Peterson, run down by a motor
cycle, has died of his injuries at
Sioux City. The police have been IN
able to learn the identity of the mo-
tor cyclist.
The 5-year-old son of G. w. Morris
Of Waterloo was severely bitten in
the hand by a rat, which a dog tossed
in the air. Much anxiety is felt lest
rabies develop.
The clash between the seniors and
juniors of the Creston high school
became so strenuous that it was
necessary for the police to take a
hand in the affair.
Linn Moore died at his fathers
home at Fredericksburg after a brief
illness of meningitis. He was 10
years Of age and q graduate of the
Fredericksburg high school in 1911.
The Washington Apparel Co. is
facing charges of peddling without q
license at Boone, thus violating the
state law regarding itinerant ped
dlers. They will fight the case.
The Rev. J. w. Bean has announced
his resignation as pastor Of the Pres
byterian church at Cherokee and will
90 to Hastings, Neb., to become the
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church of that city.
| Morningside college, Sioux City.
will graduate the largest class in its
history when, on June II, forty one
seniors will be given diplomas. Of
the forty-one, twenty-seven Of the
class are girls and fourteen men.
Chicago architects have drawn
plans for twelve-story hotel, which
it is said would be the largest and fin
est in the state of Iowa, for the con-
sideration of those who are interest
ing themselves in a new hotel at Du-
buque.
Miss Nina L. Colville of near Oska-
loosa, who has attended East Center
school in Spring Creek township
since she was 8 years old, has never
missed day at school. She will be
graduated this spring. She lives a
mile from the school.
Rev. William Schultz of Dyersville,
grandson of Mr.. Henry Forkenbrock,
celebrated his first holy mass in St.
Maurice cathedral, Albertinum, Frei
bourg, Switzerland, May 10Th. He
was ordained to the priesthood at
that place the day before.
For fifty-five years Humboldt coun-
; ty has had a fair without missing a
year. Arrangements were begun re-
Gently, with the election of Oliver H.
De Grotte as secretary, for the big
gest and most expensive county fair
ever undertaken by the association.
Miss Ursel Owens, 14-year-old
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Owens
of Bloomfield, guest in the home of
her uncle, Frank Phillips, of Des
Moines, received injuries believed to
be fatal when she fell from a horse
she was riding on a residence street.
In the will of the late George H.
Lewis of Des Moines it was provided
that $4,000 should 60 to the estab-