Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-31
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

J Muscatine is talking of erecting
new city hall.
Nearly 10000 automobiles have BET
4 registered in Iowa.
Mrs. T. J. Scoles is in jail in Marenl
on a charge of bigamy. -o-..r
The bronze statue of Chief Keoku
was unveiled at Keokuk.
Five men were badly burned at
garage explosion at Murray. s.S
The hunting and fishing at Arnold
Park is said to be at it's best.
The Degree of Honor lodge will hol
it's next annual meeting at Washing
ton. ~
The old Carson mill, landmark 70
many years, was destroyed by fire a
q loss of $4,000.
Three prominent business men O
Mason City were arrested for indulg
ing in poker game.
Glenn Bryany, who broke his parol
at Muscatine, will be returned to tn
reformatory at Eldora.
The George Turner premises a
Nora Springs were destroyed by fire
entailing loss of $500. &"
j. p. Wallace, of Wallace's Farmer
Des Moines, has been elected presi'
dent of the Des Moines Y. M. c. A.
Two locomotives were wrecked, q
standpipe uprooted and two trainmen
injured in 4 collision at Mason City
The next convention of the Kings
daughters will meet in Burlington.
Their annual session closed at Abba.
The work on the new hospital at
Perry has commenced. When COM
pleted the hospital will cost $4,000.
George Wessler is in the hospital in
Anamosa in a critical condition, the
result of cut in his leg from a corn
knife.
Eastern Stars from all over the state
are in session at Council Bluffs. This
is the time for their annual chapter
meeting.
John Reese fell from his motorcycle
on West Third street in Davenport and
is in a serious condition. He is hurt
internally.
Captain J. H. s. Coleman. formerly
we'll known pilot on the upper Mis-
sissippi river, died recently in Port
land, Ore.
The J. D. Hurlbut Drug Co., of Des
Moines, one of the oldest in Iowa, filed
a voluntary petition In bankruptcy.
Assets are $13,S24.
The Iowa State fair board met at
Des Moines and estimated the fair
grounds and buildings to be worth
$1,ooO,O0O ormore.
Six business men of Mason City |
we're badly hurt when their auto
turned turtle with them. All the men
we're taken to hospital.
At the closing session of the asso-
GATED ad clubs in convention at Day.
EXPORT it was resolved to raise money
% advertise Iowa at home.
Holding off his wife at the point of
! gun, while he drained vial of car
,olic acid, George King of Des Moines,
ICED GA, committed suicide.
Robbers secured over $500 worth Of
merchandise from hardware store
It Monticello. The stolen goods in
luded revolvers and cutlery.
In the region about Clear Lake and
q Owen and Portland townships the
avages of hog disease is said to have
|een the heaviest in the state.
Ripe blackberries in October from
ines which bore plentifully in July
8 the novelty afforded the table Of DE-.
v. G. Payne of Marshalltown.
A story telling club has been organ
zed at Fort Dodge, to teach the art
# story telling SO the children may
~ s.,.u 4 ue..er class OF stories.
The business district of Tiffen was
destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000. Hun
lreds of farmers came from the sur
country In autos to help fight
he fire.
Confessions made by prisoners ar
ested at Mason City for stealing auto !,
Tres implicated several business men
+ that city. The names have not been
iven out. 4s-. sta
Ferdinand B. Debates. aged 10
ears, structural steel worker, fell /
rom the fourth story of new build
ng being erected in Clinton, and was
killed.
Prospects for the material reduce ,
ion Of freight rates between points In
owa and points In Utah. southern ]
Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas and Me- /
raska are good. {
A five year old son Of Jap Robinson, I
Tho lives west Of Perry, accidentally
hot his baby sister, with % caliber
life. The infant will live, but will be
isfigured for life. a.-.. Z
Jacob Gross, of LeMars, while help
lg excavate for building, was
aught in a slide of dirt and had both :
,gs broken when taken out. He was ,
urt internally also. :
Jerry Miller, foreman of the Rock ,
sland freight house Of Iowa City, died |.
( injuries received when barrel of :.
auerkraut he was carrying, fell on :.
i'm, fracturing his skull. :
Fort Dodge's fourth artesian we'll
as been connected with the pumping