Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-14
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

| Inc Guy or CarrOll Is soon 10 erect
Q new city hall.
Mount Pleasant is improving her
city waterworks.
A 50-pound squash is on exhibition
IN New Hampton.
The new lock at the Keokuk dam
will De closed Nov. Is. ,,... .
Harvey Statham of Galena was
killed by the kick of horse.r
The city council of Davenport Is
drafting an ordinance to abolish the
smoke nuisance.
1t is very peQbable that automobile
numbers for dealers will be abolished
entirely next year.
R. F. Armstrong has been appointed
division superintendent Of the North
western at Mason City.
| Governor Clarke will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the corn show to be
held at Fort Dodge, Nov. 1.
Aug. Appling, g., residing one mile
from Waterloo, was killed in an auto
mobile accident at Leroy, Mimi.
Mrs. Sarah Morressey of Boone was
struck by an automobile In Des
Moines and was seriously injured.
For the second time within a week
the body of 7-months-old infant was
found in the river at Cedar Rapids.
An interurban from Quincy, ILL.,, to
Burlington: Iowa, is under serious
consideration by Paris banking firm.
Five white men and q negro were
arrested at Grinnell for breaking into
q freight car and stealing quantity
of beer.
Conductor ]. T. Kennedy was in
jured at GAINESVILLE by having a but
ter tub fall from q truck and crush
his foot.
Cedar Rapids has completed ITS
100000 subscription which assures
that city of a new interurban from
Waterloo.
Phillip Kessling, a we'll driller. was
Instantly killed at Coon Rapids, when
he was struck by Milwaukee pass
4 enger train.
A team of horses at Missouri VAL
ley. valued at $500. were so severely
injured in a runaway that they had
to be shot.
! Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Findlay of Fort
Dodge celebrated their fiftieth- we'd
ding anniversary. Over 100 guests
were entertained.
The Elks lodge of Marshalltown has
started campaign to pay off the
mortgage on the Salvation Army hall,
amounting to $2,70O.
Walton Stumbo of Woodward re-
ceived a broken leg when his team
became frightened at threshing ma
chine and ran away.
Mrs. John H. Byford of Waterloo,
mother of eighteen children. is dead
from blood poisoning, the result of
running silver into her foot.
Ed. Walsh, baker employed at
Kreger's bakery in Abba, may lose
his hand as a result of getting it
caught in a bread mixing machine.
Harry Lemburg, of Davenport. a
chauffeur who ran down and killed
a railroad switchman has been held
to the grand jury for manslaughter.
Convicted of serious crime against
3-year-old baby girl. Albert Ousley,
colored, of Des Moines, was SEN
fenced to 20 years in the penitentiary.
Caught under fall of slate In the
Mitchell mine at Cincinnati, Jack
Mules back was broken and he is
expected to die. He was a mule
driver.
About 600 of the Catholic parish at
Early met at the opera house to give
Father Quensel farewell reception.
He was presented with q gold watch
and chain.
C. A. Babcock of the Babcock In
stitute of Pharmacy in Des Moines
was seriously injured In collision
between q street car and an automo-
bile ~
Dunkerton boosters are busy and
have granted franchise to ]. A. REM
for the installation of an electric light
plant. to supply the city and resi-
dents.
, Because her mother would not per-
NIT her to enjoy a dance. Gladys
Dickerson. age 16. of Muscatine. at
tempted to take her own life by swal-
lowing poison.
The city of Des Moines is preparing
10 enter q suit in the sum of $4,000
against the Mutual Telephone COM
pany for use of the streets and alleys
Of Des Moines.
The district court of Newton mas
brought in verdict of guilty against
]. e. and C. 8. McAninich. indicted for
practicing without a license. They |
are chiropractOrs.
Word was received in Des Moines
of the accidental death of J. E. Lamp
man at Almeda. Calf. A bullet sent
through his heart while he was clean
ing q revolver was the cause.
Phil Heileger of Sheldon. being |
overcome from gas coming from q
we'll from which he had assembled,
tainted and fell to the bottom, dis
lance of "a feet and was killed.
E. s. Estel. of Waterloo. state dairy
expert announces that preliminary ar
rangements are being made for the
tour of a special dairy train over the
Burlington road in southern Iowa.
Farmers in Cherry Mound country