Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-21
iowa NEWS BRIEFS
The state fair made a profit of more

The state fair made profit of NOR
than $4,000. .
The water works plant of Mt. Pleas
ant is being improved.
A new sash and door factory is be
ing erected at Sheldon.
\. A poultry show will be held De
cember 9-13 at Dubuque.
| About $500 was netted from a fail
held by the militia at Cherokee.
A monument to the founder of thu
pearl button industry will be erected
at Muscatine.
A squad of police raided four drue
stores in Des Moines and secured zoe
pints Of liquor. ~.
Ralph Norris, shoe merchant OF
Den1son has made an assignment IN
favor of his creditors.
A team of horses valued at, $500
were so severely injured that they had
to be shot at Missouri Valley.
/ James Shields, stock buyer Of
| Spencer, has been arrested for failure
to bury hogs which died Of cholera. ~
Conductor ]. T. Kennedy of eClarks'
vile was injured when a butter tut
fell from truck and crushed hie
foot. .....
C. H. McNider has been elected
president Of the Colby automobile
plant to be erected soon at Mason
City. ....
The convention of the Southern
Iowa Editorial association will be
hal OF
City.
The tipping over of coffee pot
badly scalded the infant daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Brinkman Of
Paull1na. &.~
Mildred Ratcliff, 2 years old, Of
Council Bluffs, died from phosphate
poisoning. She ate the heads of sew
eral matches.
Rev. NJ. J. Hetherington, for the last
five years pastor of the St. Andrews
Catholic church at Sibley, has been
transferred to Early.
Six thousand feet Of bitches were
completed at Slater by Sioux City
firm with ditching machine in less
than eighty working hours
Two masked bandits held up G. F.
Volker, q groceryman Of Davenport,
robbed him of $50 in cash and gold
watch and chain. The robbers es-
capped.
The formal opening Of the Plain
dealer newspaper office Of Creston
was completed this week. The 0cca-
sion was celebrated by luncheon in
the press room.
A. B. George of Des Moines has an
nounced his retirement as president
and treasurer of the Des MONIES Rub
Der company. Mr.. George ends sue
cessful career of forty-tive years in
business. .~ .-..
A night school will be opened at
Dubuque under the general super
vision of Superintendent Harriss and
in charge Of L, @, Martin, director OF
manual training
Two accidents in one day happened
in the family Of Jacob Stegman Of
Marshallt0wn, when Mr.. Stegman was
severely burned in an explosion and
his wife had her arm broken in fall.
Arrangements are being made for !
the organization of gun club at |
The club has already pur-
chased a part of the required outfit
and in q short time will be in active !
practice. .a
The Keokuk water power celebra-
ton cost the city of Keokuk $4,000 &C.
cording to the report made by the
secretary CT the celebration commit
tee. The committee has a balance Of
$3.50 on hand. -: 4
Tilted on the night of his proposed
wedding was the experience of Thos.
]. Lynch, an Omaha man, when his |
intended bride, Miss Emma Lille Of
Council Bluffs, married Berton Bress-
beck, merchant.
The will of the late Herman J. |
Of Keokuk, who died in
Germany, was filed for probate with |
the clerk Of the district court. A large
fortune is divided between his widow,
his daughter and his son. %.
The mangled body of an unknown
man was found under q freight car q
short distance west Of the union sta
sAOA az OCo NAOAACo, Wy Gd1A OOOlScI,
q member of the switching crew of
the Des MOines Union railway.
The boosters committee appointed
several days ago at Sioux City to raise
q fund of $4,000 for prizes to be given
ut big automobile race meeting next
July has come within few hundred
dollars Of the mark, and the event is
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Saloonkeepers of Dubuque are cir
cuating petition Of consent. The old
Dne expires December 81, and it is
necessary to get IS per cent of the
voters consent before new one can
be secured. Thirty men are engaged
In the work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wingfield of
have returned from Eng
land, where they had been visiting for
he past three months. Mr.. Wingfield
vas editor Of the Marion County News
Tor eight years, but retired from bust
hess last July.
Governor Clarke has been asked to
re present in London June 10, 1914,
.s the guest of honor for Iowa day at
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