Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-10
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

CEDAR RapldS Is taking OF Duyln
fire engine.
A boys band is being organized a
Webster City. Is
Farmers in Tabor are being trou
bled by wolves.
Monticello has organized booste
commercial club.
The Perry Commercial club has of
fered a prize Of $25 for slogan TO
Perry.
A new seven-story building, costing
$225,000, will be erected at For
Dodge.
Plans are under way at Boone look
ing toward the better lighting of the
city park.
Jay Long, a Fort Dodge saloor
man, was fined $500 for selling liquor
to minor.
1t is estimated that fully 10000
attended the Webster county fair at
Fort Dodge.
Thomas Jefferson Kelley, aged 70,
veteran of the civil war, died at his
home in Wilton.
Thieves entering the M. & St. L.
railway company's Office Al Eldora
got away with $35. ..
DR.. N. M. Repp of Perry has been
appointed assistant state veterinarian
| by Governor Clarke.
The new extension Of the Waterloo.
Cedar Falls & Northern was opened
to Brandon recently.
Plans are on foot in Dubuque to
establish fair such as is held in Des
Moines and Sioux City.
In free for all fight at Lehigh
recently young man named Humph-
rey was seriously injured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Nash of Potts
vile have just celebrated the sixtieth
anniversary Of their marriage.
The Quaker Oats plant at Fort
Dodge has let the contract for the
erection of a $4,000 addition.
According to the law governing the
LeMars schools, boys will have to
quit smoking or leave the school.
A new tank car with capacity of
100000 fish will distribute fish to the
various lakes and streams in the state.
The inmates at the Fort Madison
penitentiary are having more work
done to their teeth than ever before.
Lucas Strube, guard at the Ana
mosa penitentiary, was slugged by
an insane convict. The convict was
a negro.
Jay Chatham, superintendent of
the Iowa City water company, died |
at his home in Iowa City at the age
of Sc years.
Frank Dundon, Great Western
switchman at Des Moines, fell in
front of string of box cars and was
cut to pieces.
The body of w. J. Glade of Win
field was recovered from the Missis-
sippi river, where he fell in while
walking along the dock.
Jay Chatham Of Iowa City, super
intendent of the Iowa City Water
Co., and for thirty years connected
with that company, died.
Fred H. Taft, at one time editor Of
the Hardin County Citizen, is a judge
in a juvenile court in Los Angeles.
His salary is $4,000 per year.
Sheriff w. E. Knox of Ottumwa
has received a reward of $3.50 for
the apprehension of Margaret Luka,
who disappeared from Des Moines.
The annual report of the state mine
inspector shows one-half million more
tons of coal were mined last year
than in any previous year in Iowa.
A band stand collapsed at Fort
Dodge during the races and the fifty
people occupying it were thrown to
the ground. No one was seriously
hurt. .. ..s...-
Notice has been served on business
men and property owners at Boone
that they must clean up parkings and
remove all distractions from side
walks. H.
In the district court at Eldora,
Howard Sherman was convicted of
his infant baby on March
6,h. The jury recommended life
sentence.
The Howard hotel at Sheldon has
hands, the new proprietor
being G. w. Macoy. The former
owner, ]. J. Stuck, has removed to
Sioux City. ..
The official board of the M. E.
church at Fort Dodge has passed a
resolution to the effect that they be.
lieve E. O. Fritz, indicted by the
grand jury for forgery, is innocent.
The John Kock farm, three miles
northeast of Rockford, was visited by
4 disastrous fire, which destroyed the
Darn, forty tons of hay, silo, two
horses, machinery and corn cribs. No
Dne knows how it started.
Julius Jones, proprietor of the
Highland Park livery barn, Des
Moines, was robbed of 5000. Jones
kept the money in trunk in the loft
Of his barn in room that had been
fitted up as a sleeping apartment.
Rev. John Garland of Parkersburg
and Miss Maggie Ward of Dubuque
we're arrested at Waterloo on q
charge of disorderly conduct. 1t is