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

Washta was swept by a $20,O0
blaze. Small amount of insurance.
Fred Thompson of Fort Dodge
charged with violation of the Manr
white slave law, was bound over t.
the federal grand jury. He i
charged with bringing Anna Slade
from Nebraska to Iowa for immora
purposes.
When the Keokuk school boar<
discussed the introduction of foil
dancing into the schools one member
wanted to know if folk dancing was
the tango in disguise, and upon be.
ing assured that it was not, voted t.
introduce the same.
BY an order issued by the Des
Moines chief of police, attorneys Of
interested parties will not be able
to secure orders for money in pos
session of police captains from in
toxicated men, unless endorsement
is made by their wives.
BY the terms of will left by Mrs
Mathilda Carlson, who died at her
home, III Eighth avenue West
Cedar Rapids, the Swedish Lutheran
church will be lifted from debt. Mrs
Carlson left the church $1,000. She
was Sc years old and had no near
relatives.
John Sansone has been taken to
Jail at Keosauqus under charge of
raising check for S. given him by
Harley Cackley and drawn on the
Mount Sterling Savings bank of
Mount Sterling, Iowa, September IL.
The check is alleged to have been
raised to $155.
Ernest Covey, near Knoxville, has
just finished threshing five acres of
fax-the first ever raised in Marion
county. The crop averaged sixteen
bushels to the acre and is of fine
quality. This yield is said to be one
and one-half bushels to the acre
above the average in North Dakota
and Canada.
Hon. J. w. Ellis has secured Uni
ted States Senator Kenyon to make
an address at the pioneers and old
settlers annual meeting, to be held
in Maquoketa about October Is.
Senator Kenyon will be in Iowa at
that time, and says he will be much
pleased to meet with the Old settlers
Of Maquoketa.
Officers have not yet captured
John Henderson, the negro who shot
and killed James Johnson, and in
jured several bystanders in a row
at Camp Campbell, construction
camp on the Northwestern railroad
near Abba. The negroes were en-
ployed at construction work and
came from St. Louis.
While cutting piece of meat in
Buehler Bros meat market at Clin-
ton, Harry Ingram, manager of the
place, had the misfortune to cut a
deep and ugly cash in his right leg.
The wound bled profusely and
physician was called. Mr.. Ingram
will be laid up for couple of weeks
as result Of the accident.
Miss Hazel Conant of Somerset
received injuries of a serious nature
and Arthur White of Indianola was
hurt when the buggy in which they
were driving was hit by an automo-
bile driven by Harry Haldeman. Miss
Conant was injured internally and
her condition is grave. Mr.. White
suffered a broken collar bone.
When Mrs. John Kubis and family
Of Austria arrive in America there
will be no father to meet them.
Kubis, after sending a letter home
money for the family's
passage, went to see the moving pic
ture show at the Lyric in Davenport
and fell from the balcony. He frac-
;ured his skull and died instantly.
Joe Hobbs, stock raiser, was
awarded $4,000 damages at Fort |
Dodge recently against the Illinois
Central railroad for ejecting him
with undue force from passenger
train last February. The matter is
again before the court at Cherokee,
the railway attorney in the case at
to have the motion set
aside.
Within a week the new oatmeal
mill Of the Purity Oats company at
Pine and Faxon streets will be turn
ing out the finished product. This
comes unexpectedly
TO Davenporters, as the big Keokuk
brought here by the Greater
Committee had not ex-
pected to be running in full opera
lion until October /.
Hal Fink, former business man J,
ager Of the Sioux City Daily News,
has been made business manager of
the Sun at Indianapolis, Ind, and
will assume his duties in a few
days. He will be in entire charge
Of the advertising department of
that newspaper. The Indianapolis
Sun is owned by w. D. Boyce, the
owner of Boyce's Weekly
and the Chicago Ledger.
Twenty committees composed of
business men of Cedar Rapids from
as many districts of the city are
busy raising the $2,OO0,O0O required
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