Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29
M. r. Turtz, a prominent citizen.
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Fire caused loss of $4,000 in tn
Storm Lake canning factory.
William Floyd, colored, who wa
shot by James Nixon, died in ST
Francis hospital at Waterloo.
Mrs. Hans Knutzen, Jr., is serious
ly i'll at Dewitt, the result of taking
poison instead of toothache medicine
George Huff, famous baseball scout
is looking up recruits in Iowa base
ball fields for the Cleveland Ameri
cans.
Business men of Manson have sub
scribed $1,000 to buy electroliers fol
two of the business blocks on Main
street.
A corn palace to house agricultural
exhibits, an automobile parade and a
baby show are to be the features of
the Muscatine festival this fall.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harlow Goetz, Of
Springfield, Mass, was reelected
president of the Mississippi Valley
Spiritualist association at Mt. Pleas
ant Park.
A writ of habeas corpus sought by
DR.. L. I. Aldrich, formerly of Clear
Lake, who escaped from a hospital at
Knoxville, was denied by Judge Clark
in the district court.
A we'll dressed man, apparently
about 40 years old, thought to be a
Mason and a member of the Travel
ing Mems association, fell from a
stairway at Dubuque and was badly
injured.
John Ryan and Richard Stewart
were jailed at Upton on suspicion of
being yeggmen. One was charged
with carrying concealed weapons and
the other with carrying a kit Of
burglar tools.
At meeting Of the Presbyterian
congregation the trustees were in
structed to sell their present church
building and lot at Osceola and Sc
cure a new location for a fine edifice
to be erected soon.
While feeding horses, the 12-year-
old son of Nels Rasmussen of Ring
sted, lost the first joint Of his index
finger on the right hand. The horse
snapped at the corn the boy was put
ting in the feed box.
The Nelson dairy at Boone was
fined S25 because of unsanitary milk
cans, which the deputy found in one
of the Nelson wagons. Mayor Crooks
and the City Federation are making
the crusade for food cleanliness.
Floyd Miller, of Fort Dodge, is
under arrest in St. Paul, Mimi,
charged with violation Of the white
slave law. He pleaded not guilty at
a preliminary hearing before United
States commissioner.
The Iowa Wesleyan college officials
at Mt. Pleasant are anticipating that
this coming year will open very aus
piciously the largest senior class,
large conference collection and the
establishment fund Of fully $500
year.
Pure Food Commissioner w. B.
Barney and Assistant Commissioner
M. E. Flynn will meet the grocers
and butchers of Davenport on Sep
TENDER 2, when the weights and
measures and sanitary laws will be
explained. ." -
Pompei Salvatore, an Italian, at
tackled Tom Batavia, an Italian, at
Keokuk, with a gun and shot at him
several times, only one bullet taking
effect. Salvatore was angry by the
refusal of Batavia to let him see his
sister-in-law.
The annual pack of sweet corn by
the Western Grocer company at it's
mills in Marshalltown has begun. 1t
is estimated that the pack this season
will be from Is to 80 per cent under
last year, or from $4,000 to $4,000
cases this year as compared to $4,000
cases last year.
Escaping from Mexico after the
father of one of them had been held
up and robbed by Mexican bandits,
and after undergoing all sorts of
thrilling experiences, Miss Lille
Gourd, daughter of Matthew Gourd
of Corning, and Miss Edna, his niece,
arrived at that place.
F. J. Kipp, the millionaire ex-bank-
er of Milwaukee, offered before the
Iowa City Commercial club to build a
railroad between Iowa City and
Keota, a distance of thirty-six miles,
if the citizens there and farmers be-
tween the two terminals will pur-
chase $25O,OOO worth of stock.
"Deaf mutes of Iowa do not want
sympathy; they want an opportunity
of proving fitness for work or earn
ing their living like any one else"
said President w. A. Nelson Of DAY.
export in voicing the keynote Of the
twelfth triennial convention of the
Iowa association for the advancement
of the deaf.
A drug case containing 400 bottles
filled with crude drugs has been pre-
sented to the state by the Park Davis
company of Kansas City. Harry
Eaton, secretary of the state phar-
macy commission, said he had been
trying to get one of these cases for
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