Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-05-02
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

| ACSA VI AOWo SASy, 40 NS0O'
The LeMars Cemetery association
has put ban on Sunday funerals.
A new bridge over the Raccoon
river at Des Moines will cost 10000.
The National bank has let the con-
tract for it's new building at Story
City.
A $4,000 church will be erected by
the Methodist congregation at Forest
City. ...
The First United Brethren congre-
cation will erect a new church edifice
in Waterloo.
| The Keokuk county Sunday school
convention was held at Richland and
largely attended.
Sam Anderson of Abba has filed
papers in bankruptcy, giving his liza
bilities as $4,000.
| The new city council of Mason City
has made cuts in the salary Of some
of the appointive officers.
! The Commercial club of IeMars
has started a movement to light the
business district with electroliers.
| Burlington business men will go on
booster trip of three days early in
May, visiting towns to the south and
west.
| Miss Nellie Masters, senior at
Drake university at Des Moines, was
chosen queen for the annual May fes-
tival.
A movement is on foot to make the
limits of Waterloo and Cedar Falls
contiguous. The cities are six miles
apart.
In the hope that the membership
may be raised to 1000 the Y. NJ. C.
A. is conducting a campaign at Fort
Dodge.
The Western Iowa and Eastern Ne
braska Association of Blacksmiths
met in annual convention at Missouri
Valley.
George Bell, an old resident of
Denison, was struck by Northwest
ern train near Dow City and instant
ly killed.
The Ames city council has elected
DR.. E. E. Bush officer of the public
health to succeed Dr.. c.. G. Tilden,
resigned.
H. A. Watkins, former proprietor
of the Lyric theater at Boone, has
purchased two moving picture shows
in Centerville.
For shooting fish John Deitz and
Albert Hoodling, two farmers living
near Clear Lake, were arrested and
fined $40 and $50.
The sale of the Grand opera house
from Edward Edinger of Fort Madi-
son of P. E. Sauerwein of Keokuk
has been recorded there.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the huge barn on the w. r. Taylor
farm about six miles west Of Clinton.
All the animals were saved
Rev. w. P. Williams, pastor Of St.
James Episcopal church. at Oska-
loosa, has accepted a call to st.
PauPs church at Modesto, Cal.
L. Broderick, manager of the
Farmers Cooperative elevator n
Armstrong, was accidentally shot
while placing his shotgun in case.
The last two weeks in April have
been designated as the period for .
campaign to raise $4,000 for the or
ganization Of q Y. w. C. A. at Mason
City. Il
The auto truck line between Logan
and Magnolia has been started. On
the first trip, despite muddy roads.
the truck carried 1000 pounds of
freight.
Stanley Macomber, son of C. E.
Macomber, of Ida Grove, recent
graduate Of the engineering college
at Ames, is now city engineer of Gen.
tralia, Wash.
Adrian Shoemaker, a HoiIander,
working for Adrian Vess near Oska-
loosa, fell in front of a disk harrow,
cut an artery in one Of his legs and
bled to death.
After lapse of sixty-eight years
Andrew Switzerland of Waterloo and
James Switzerland of Chippewa
county, Wis, met. Each had supposed
the other dead.
Sam Elliot of Coburg, Iowa, has
been given a life pass over it's lines
by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad. He saved train from GO
ing through wrecked bridge.
At meeting held by thirty of the
city's most influential citizens, COM
mittee of seven was appointed TO
make preliminary plans to erect
thoroughly modern hotel at Dubuque.
Word reached Mason City that
Thomas Courtney, former resident Of
Cerro Gordo county, now sheriff of
Mondak, Mont, was killed in fight
with a negro he was attempting to
arrest.
BY reason of the determination of
Mayor Baughn and the city council
Of Harlan to impose = license on each
entertainment presented at the opera
house, Manager Belle Wyland has
closed the house.
The new theater at Hampton erect