Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-26
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

The grand jury has been investi
eating the ice trust at Cedar Rapids
DR.. Cox of Cedar Falls, veterin
. arian, was badly injured when bit
ten, by horse.
A movement has been started t.
drain Little Wall lake, located ii
Hamilton county.
Lou Marlowe, a clerk at the Hote
Pattee of Perry, is wanted on &
charge of forgery.
The Iowa Christian convention de
cided on Colfax as the place for the
convention in 1914.
Five thousand visitors are expect
ed to attend the German day cele'
bration at Fort Dodge.
Thos. Garfield of Woodbine has ar
80 acre farm Of alfalfa, probably
the largest in the state.
Gardeners in Des Moines are plan.
ming to test the validity Of the
weights and measure law.
Henry Sabin, the veteran educator
of Des Moines, will make his home
in California in the future.
Bids are being advertised by the
government for the construction of
a new postoffice at LeMars.
John Blair, aged 68, and Mary,
aged 60, of Perry, were married at
Des Moines by Judge Brennan.
| Louis Brede, recently appointed
postmaster Of Dubuque by President
Wilson, will assume his duties Octo-
Der I.
Charles Tracy, a tile ditcher Of
Fort Dodge, has disappeared and so
far no news of him has been re-
ceived.
Edmund Coulter of Ames, 9 years
old, is dead as a result of burns re-
ceived from the explosion of can
of gasoline.
Seventy-fve thousand bushels Of
wheat has been received by the Val
ley Milling Co. at Missouri Valley
since July l.
A half section of land owned by
Archie Hutchinson was sold at Algona
for $131 per acre, or total consid-
Grafton of $4,000.
Centerville has been without fire
protection and city water for sever
al days because of breakdown at
the city water plant.
John Howard, aged So, train
checker for the Rock Island, was run
down by a freight train and instant
~ killed at Des Moines.
United States secret service men
are investigating mail robbery
which occurred at Davenport. The
pouch stolen contained number Of
money orders.
Two unknown men attacked Ed
ward Jordan, a resident of Iowa
City, at the depot in that place and
cut him severely about the head and
face with knives.
Lester Yates Of Charles City left
a note to his mother, saying when
she read it he would be drowned in
the Des Moines river. No reason was
given for the act.
While playing in the garden at her
home, Hazel, the 6-year-old daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. O. E. Kringel,
was knocked down by hen and her
collar bone fractured.
Four men at Council Bluffs were
given sentences of sixty days each
for violation of the state law
which prohibits man from carry
ing concealed weapons.
The condition of railroad crossings
at ,Muscatine was blamed by the
coroner for the death Of Carl Muel-
Ter, who met his death recently by
being struck by train.
Mrs. .Tillie Roberts has brought
suit against the Milwaukee road for
$4,000 damages as a result of her
buggy being struck, and herself bad
ly injured at Nora Springs.
The manager of one Of the Wool
worth chain of stores at Waterloo
was fined $50 ard costs for selling
toilet articles containing more alco-
hol than the law provides for.
Louis HAIL and Fred Hammer
were arraigned in the district court
at Fort Madison, charged with the
murder of Arthur E. Hirschler,
hardware merchant Of DouQellson.
Superintendent Clark Of Sioux
City reports that the grade school
enrolment now numbers 1000, and
with the opening of the high school
this number would be increased to
5000.
A man giving his name as Schultz
was arrested at Mason City for
stealing gold from four dentists Of
fees. It is said that he is wanted
at Cedar Rapids and other cities for
similar offenses.
Miss Sylvia Parrot, a telephone
operator of Clarinda, was spirited
away from her home by unknown
parties, who drugged her and left
her lying near the roadside some dis
lance from her home.
Fire which started in one of the
kitchens of the Iowa Soldiers Or
phans' Home at Davenport on Mon
day night caused a damage of $4,000
to the state institution. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
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