Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-06-13
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of the oldest in Iowa, has been sold
to Thomas NJ. Pierce of Calmar.
The corner stone of the new Iowa
Lutheran hospital was laid at Des
Moines with impressive ceremonies.
Simplicity marked the junior-senior
reception of the Waterloo schools, no
girl wearing a gown costing more
than SO. n- ~.
Five coaches of Rock Island train
left the track near Estherville when
the rails spread on curve. No one
was seriously injured.
Mrs. Fred Voorhees, of Waterloo
took large quantity of bichloride of
! mercury by mistake. Prompt medi-
cal assistance may result in saving
| her life.
Thomas Presley, aged "A, a news
agent, formerly living in Sioux City,
| committed suicide by taking poison in
Dubuque, where he has been living
with his family.
The Charles City Y. M. c. A. re-
ceived check for $1,000 from wo-
man in California as gift, with the
request that the name of the donor
not be given out.
Members of the Young Ladies
Guild of the First Methodist churcr
! at Mount Pleasant are raising a mile
Of pennies, which sum will be applied
on the church debt.
Jacob Gugger, one Of the best
known railroad men in Boone, has
! been retired on q pension. For more
than a quarter Of century he has
1 been employed there.
While passing with an automobile,
Fred Ashcraft Of Logan struck and
broke the leg of Caleb Carlisle's horse.
valued at 5000. There is dispute
as to who was responsible.
w. A. Judd, for several years con-
nected with the Des Moines Short
Line as a civil engineer, has been ap-
pointed water commissioner for Ma
son City, succeeding w. P. Fitch.
Herman F. G. Kurth, aged IS years,
of Davenport, died at st. Anthony's
hospital, as q result Of the injuries
sustained when he fell from a scat
folding twenty feet to the ground.
A warrant charging first degree
murder was served on James G..
Quick upon his removal from a hos
pital to the county Jail at MARSHALL
town. Quick continues to recover.
Louis Prescott, held on a charge
Of shooting his wife at Clear Lake,
has denied that he did the shooting,
| that he owned a revolver or that he
was in the vicinity of the home at the
time.
The grave of Alexander Scott, who
once owned the ground on which the
state capital of Iowa is located, will
be included in the park that the state
Of Iowa is to establish about the state
house.
Twenty-one chapters Of the Sons Of
Herman lodge will be represented at
the state convention at Davenport
June 1914. A. C. Lutte Of Sioux
City, past president Of the order, will
be the chief speaker. ..e ,....a
More than 100 divorce cases will
come up for trial at the June term
Of the district court in Scott county.
Every fifth suit in the entire docket
is one in which either wife or hus-
band sues for separation. @
An automobile broke down on the
railroad crossing at Prescott and a
Burlington passenger engine struck it
going full speed. The passengers
jumped to save their lives. The auto
was reduced to kindling wood.
Quite a number of the members of
the "Crocker's Iowa brigade" resid-
ing in Des Moines are preparing to
attend the biennial reunion of the
brigade, which this year will be held
in Clarinda commencing September
II.
It has been learned that Henry
Wiley, the Italian spirited from Jail
at Council Bluffs to prevent his being
lynched, is in the Cass county Jail at
Atlantic. It is said that Wiley has
never exhibited very much concern
over his plight. .-
Mont Stilwell shot q large gray
eagle on his farm, north of New
Sharon, few days ago. 1t measured
six feet, seven inches from tip to tip.
The eagle is rare bird in that local.
ity and this specimen was sent to
Iowa City to be mounted.
The parents of 9-year-old Lawrence
Fullerton are in despair over the dis
appearance Of the lad, who slipped
away from his home at Kingsley,
bought railroad ticket to Sioux City
with part Of 81 he had in his posses
sion and hasn't been seen since.
The Dubuque council is wrestling
with the saloon question, and it is
proving q knotty problem. Twenty
permits will have to be revoked by
July l, and the trouble is to whom to
give the bounce, as all the scorpion
broth dealers want to continue its
sale. 90 49, 1' -. ~"
Probably one Of the oldest veterans
Of the state who plans to visit Gettys-
burg on July l is G. A. Zimmerman