Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-21

nl0e WnlcQ belonged to the DID Set
tiers association. 1t was purchased
by F. o. Clarke for SIG. MIR. CLARKE
will probably have the hide made int
robe. ~. ."-. 4s,4i,a
Henry Maher, an early settler O.
Cass county, was found dead in bee
at Anita, by his roommate, Charlie.
Blease. He was staying at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Lillian Watson
He went to bed in apparent goOC
health and spirits. rasa NJ.
Iowa militiamen are to be equipped
with automatic revolvers to take the
place of the Colts revolvers used fol
many years. Two hundred and sixty
Of these weapons have been received
at the acknowledgements office from
the war department.
John G. Preston, Of Crystal Lake,
and H. M. Martinson, OF Lake Mills,
former bankers accused of making
false entries, were freed In federal
court at Fort Dodge. On motion OF
District Attorney Van Wagenen, the
charges were dismissed.
Some stranger with q surprising
holiness has been imposing on the
trappers and hunters over the coun7
try. His graft is to represent himself
to be deputy game warden and con-
fscate the guns and game Of the in
nocent he comes across.
L. B. Telford, of Abba, has brought
suit against the Western Union Tele-
graph company, claiming $3.50 dam
ages for failing to deliver telegram
sent to him by his brother Oscar Tel
ford, notice of the death of his father
early in August of this year.
Governor Clarke has received let
ter from the secretary of the San
Francisco Y. w. C. A. urging him to
stop Iowa girls from coming to Cali
fornia in anticipation of securing
work. She says there are more girls
there now than there are jobs.
Sister Mary Mercedes, Is years, a
member of the Order of Mercy, with
headquarters in Dubuque, passed
away in Mercy hospital after long
illness. The deceased was known to-
the world as Elizabeth Williams. She
was born in Cherokee, Iowa, Al years
ago..
The Anamosa prison laborers en-
ployed on the Ames campus have
completed excavations for a mile of
heating tunnels from the central
power and heating plant to the loca-
lions of the new buildings now going
up. The mile will have cost about
100000.
Tabor will hold special election
December to determine whether the
part of the city lying in Mills county
shall become part of the incOrp0ra-
ton. There are about two hundred
people living in Tabor, Mills county,
outside the city, and without the city's |
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Salaries of clerks employed by the
code commission were reduced an ag-
gregate of 5000 before the state execu-
tive council approved the vouchers for
October. The commission was In
formed that the salaries it had recon-
mended were out of proportion to the
customary scale.
The Epworth league of the First
Methodist church of Boone has ar
ranged win My Chum" week and
services are held each evening in
charge of visiting clergymen and
workers. Each member of the league
is expected to win his or her best
friend to the work of the league.
Something of record prize for
farm land was set in Dallas county
when J. H. Snort, of Redfeld, sold a
small tract of land lying near that
town to J. H. Rogers, of Bagley, for
$500 an acre. The land is used for
purposes, but it's close prox-
unity to town was responsible for the
high price. ..'.....-.--.
The Iowa Staats-Anzeiger, German
weekly at Des Moines, edited by
Ernest Faculty, has absorbed the Iowa
Biene, weekly German paper at Fort
Dodge. The Biene was founded about
two years ago, but failed to prosper.
The Staats-Anzeiger by this arrange
ment increases its prestige among
Iowa Germans.
Declaring the administration of Du-
buque is incompetent, E. H. Shepley,
i
a real estate man has announced his
for mayor on an independ-
ent ticket. He wants no salary. He
asserts he will devote four hours each
day to the work Of the mayors office
and will give this amount of time
from sense of public duty.
Cherokee's great white way celebra-
ton brought the largest crowd ever
seen in Cherokee county. Lights were
turned on and procession headed by
city officials and followed by bands
and militia companies, fire depart
ment, ETC., marched through the prin-
cipal streets. A big barbecue put the
touches on the celebration.
The celebration followed the installa-
ton of electroliers.
J. S. O'Malley, who has been con-
cerned in number Of real estate
deals in Perry and vicinity in the past
year, added to his farm holding when
be purchased the Lansing eighty
acres north of Perry. The farm is
one of the best improved in that Sec
ton, where fine farms are common.