Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-24
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

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1t will take 100000 to put the Perry
water works in shape.
Washington Hoblet, a morphine
dend, committed suicide at Newton.
All telephone wires and cables will
be placed underground at Anamosa.
Ralph Carrigan, aged 9, was drown
ed in a mill race at Cedar Rapids.
Cedar Rapids has put the ban on
motorcycles built for one, carryin
two.
Two automobiles, livery barn and
stock was destroyed in a fire at VIM
tefset.
Anton Fischer, of Dubuque, COM
mitted suicide by shooting. He was a
saloonman.
Bad negroes at Waterloo have been
told by the city that they must either
be good or leave.
Will Glenn, of Shenandoah, lost
parts of four fingers in an asphalt
manufacturing plant.
State Fish and Game Warden Hin
shaw is placing fish in Clear Lake,
seined from the bayous at Sabula.
M. C. Nelson, of Waterloo, sold a
Cedar river pearl to William Stroll
meier of Andalusia, ILL.,, for $500.
The 10 months old baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Stottlemeyer was drowned
by falling into slop pail at Lenox.
Tama school bonds, an issue of $780,
900, for building new. school build
ing, were sold to Davenport firm.
1t is estimated that $1,0OO,0O0 worth
Of barns have been destroyed in Iowa
since July. This includes contents.
A valuable pearl was found at
Waterloo in the Cedar river by M. c..
Nelson. The pearl was sold for $1,000.
The 2OO-acre farm at Cherokee,
known as the J. NJ. Hawn land, was
sold at referee sale for 1925 an acre.
children in the public schools at Wa
terloo are using yellow scratch paper.
J. M. Junkin, prominent attorney
at Red Oak, dropped dead in his law
office. Death was due to heart failure.
The Waterloo Cattle congress has
opened in blaze of glory. This Is
the thirty-seventh annual convention.
The Iowa university debating squad
has been divided into teams and will
debate Illinois and Nebraska this
winter.
Miss Ruthy Howes, of New Albin, a
dwarf, is dead at the age of sc years.
She was 81 inches tall and weighed 60
pounds.
About $4,000 in gold, silver and
greenbacks was unearthed in cellar
at Winthrop. The money was buried
in a tin can.
Despondent owing to poor health,
Thos. Carroll, of Marshalltown, at
tempted suicide by cutting his throat
with razor.
C. w. Allen, an old resident of Sac
City, was killed at Portland recently
by being thrown under the wheels of
a moving train.
One thousand five hundred bushels
of apples raised on three acres of land
near Waterloo, brought 81 a bushel,
or $500 an acre.
Henry Price, colored hotel porter
of Iowa City, fell from passenger
train during an epileptic fit and was
ground to death.
The Quinn Wire and Iron Works
buildings at Boone burned with a loss
of about $4,000. 1t was partly COW
cred by insurance.
Thirty carloads Of sugar beets have
arrived at Waverly at the opening OF
the factory. About 300 people are en-
ployed in the factory.
Searchers recovered the body of
Kenneth G. Lyberger, Of Usage, who
was drowned at Iowa City by the
0verturning of canoe.
According to the department of
the demand for women pharmacists is
so great that it cannot be filed.
The state board of control were at
Mason City looking over an S0O-acre
tract of land, offered as a suitable
place for the state epileptic colony.
One hundred and fifteen men en-
ployed at the Dubuque shops of the
Milwaukee systems car repairing de-
partment were laid off temporarily.
Joseph Sullivan, aged %, son of Pa
trolman Patrick Sullivan, was struck
by an Illinois Central train in Du-
buque and killed. He was unmarried
One hundred and fifty greyhounds
will chase 1875 Kansas jackrabbits at
the coursing meet to be held at Red
Oak. Purses of $4,000 are up for the
winners.
A wolf leisurely trotting down the
main street at Anamosa at 10 o'clock
at night was strange sight wit
messed by several people of that city
A meeting will be held in every |
town along the transcontinental high
way across Iowa to ratify the selec-
ion of it as the Lincoln highway
across the state.
w. H. Ket"ham, Of Algona, appeared
before the supreme court to demand a
rearing as to his sanity. Attorneys on