Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-06-27
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

| Ryan.
A motorcycle club will be formed
at Muscatine.
Miss Anna Schimanek Of Oxford
Junction has sailed for Ireland.
C. c. Ball Of West high school, Des
MONIES, was elected principal of the
Boone high school.
Local business men Of Lake City
have contributed more money than
ever before to celebrate July 4th.
Five mutes, three boys and two
girls, graduated from the Iowa
School for the Deaf at Council Bluffs.
A. D. Randall, prominent Deni-
son merchant, died while visiting at
the home of his brother in Pleasan-
ton, Neb.
By vote of four to one the citi-
zens at special election decided to
establish a municipal electric light
plant at Early.
Bert Foreman, As years old, shot
himself in the head with a shotgun
at Independence. His body was dis.
covered on the river bank.
The University of Iowa summer
session has started with a 80 per
cent gain in attendance over the cor.
responding time last year.
Rev. w. D. Williams has an
nounced his resignation from the
rectorship of Trinity church at Iowa
City, after ten years. service.
Albert Becker Of Dyersville sold
his farm to John Drees for S140 per
acre. The seller bought the same
farm two years ago for $106 per
acre.
The barns and all the buildings on
the farm of Rasmus Olsen, enc mile
east of Langdon, were burned. The
farm was formerly owned by L. L.
Atwood. ........
Bishop Austin Bowling Of Des
Moines delivered the commencement
address at St. Mary's institute at
Marshalltown. A class Of ten was
graduated.
A. Johnson, aged GA, an employee
Of the Creek Mining company, was
overcome by the heat at Oskaloosa
and died before a physician could
reach him.
Edward F. Farnsworth, Jr., of
Storm Lake, for many years engaged
in the restaurant business, died fol-
lowing an operation. He leaves q
wife and one daughter.
Prosperity in the tri-cities is in
dicated by the increase in amount
Of freight handled by railroads theft
for May, over the same month last
year. The figures total $15o,000.
George Wells, 10, Of Scandal, pro-
cured license to marry Ada Spen-
GER, IA, but when he appeared at the
court house at Des Moines to marry
Miss Spencer she had disappeared.
Another church society has been
in Webster City,, 1t is the
Pentecostal church Of the Nazarene.
The new society has extended call
10 the Rev. S. B. Gowland Of Wat
erloo.
M. Harrington has filed an injunc-
lion suit against George E. Lock and
Mueller Of Keokuk, own
ers Of saloon, charging illegal sale
IF liquor to minors and asking $1,000
damages. |
The Rev. E. Hayes of the Catholic
church Of 1mogene, Iowa, will sail
July 3 for the old world. He will
spend some time at his old boyhood
nome in Ireland, and will then 60 to
Rome to call on the pope.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Messmer,
popular Burlington young people
married few days ago, are spending
their honeymoon in a hospital. The
groom has appendicitis and the bride
onsilitis. They occupy adjoining
rooms.
After an all night search Charles
Whapeles found the body of his son,
who was drowned in the Mississippi
At Keokuk. The boy could not swim,
but was padding about on a log.
He was found in twenty-seven feet
If water.
The biggest field of alfalfa in this
section Of Iowa, now ready for cut
ting, is owned by o. T. Balqmat near
Mason City. The field comprises
twenty-five acres and will yield be-
tween two and half and three tons
10 the acre.
To escape installing automatic
electric action gates over four street
in Cherokee, the Illinois
Central is now running all trains at
! speed Of four miles per hour
through the limits Of the four city
street crossings.
During heavy rain storm light
hing struck q barn on the farm of
Henry Uhr, southwest of Monticello.
Two large barns, a cattle shed, tool
house and some stock were destroyed
by fire. The insurance will cover
about one-third of the loss.
A special from Buffalo, N. Y, an
aounces that Albert Leaty, aged IS,
3 brother of Rev. H. A. Leaty of Des
Moines, committed suicide by swal-