Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-12
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Charlotte was entirely destroyed by
fire.
Perry will make strong bid for
the 1914 grand lodge meeting OF the
Iowa Odd Fellows.
Charles Papke, aged 40, was found
dead at the Helping Hand mission at
Sioux City. Acute alcoholism is
given as the cause.
John Henry Schultz, one OF the old
est residents of Washington county,
is dead. He was 95 years old and
came to that county in 1856.
Levi Blake, along resident OF
Louisa county, died at mis- home four
miles north Of Columbus Junction.
He was veteran of the civil war.
F. w. Huser, railroad baggage
man, while exploring an abandoned
cistern in his yard at Burlington, was
overcome by foul gases and died be-
fore aid could reach him.
Miss Mabel C. Hague Of Iowa City
has filed suit against the Rock Island
for $1,000 damages as result OF IN
juries received in a wreck between
Lone Tree and Muscatine.
James Christensen, aged Is, an old
settler of Shelby county, dropped
dead at Harlan on his way home from
the pasture with the family COW, by
sudden attack of heart failure.
The annual picnic of the Old Set
tiers association of Humboldt county
at Livermore was the best ever held,
due largely to the fact that the Rev.
S. H. Taft of Sawtelle, CAL, founder
of Humboldt, was present.
Merit Sullivan of Wilson has re-
ceived letter from Congressman
Pepper informing him that he would
be recommended as postmaster at
Wilton Junction. The appointment
is expected within few days.
Threshing out Of shock is all done
around Britt. The average yield was
from forty to ffty-fve bushels per
acre. The outlook for corn was never
better and if they do not get an early
frost times will be good this winter.
According to report submitted to
the probate court by H: c. Murphy,
A. s. Wilcoxen and c. F. Holm, col
lateral inheritance tax appraisers at
Des Moines, the estate left by the
| late Marietta Seeberger is worth
1923, 406.5O.
After voting for thirty-four years
and holding public Office and living
under the belief he was a citizen,
Jacob Christensen Of Atlantic has
discovered that he was not citizen
and had no right to vote. He will be
naturalized.
The baby shcw of the Humboldt
county fai: exceeded the expectations
Of the management in the number of
entrants. Already there are seventy
applicants and more are coming daily.
A special judge will be on hand to
dc the scoring.
Mrs. Herman Hayden of Dayton,
o., has started to walk from Dayton
to Des Moines. She wrote the Iowa
Humane society that she believes her
husband is in Des Moines, and she
wants to find him. She says he left
home last May.
Charles City's new public school
superintendent, Fred T. Vasey, says
That the high school fraternities there
must 60. He believes that the high
school students have no business to
organize and that fraternities are
detriment to the school,.
Humboldt has taken on the airs of
its large sisters when recently the
lights in the electroliers for several
blocks along its business streets were
turned on. Business men have raised
a fund of nearly $4,000 to keep these
lights going for two years.
Father Probst died at North Wash
ington. With the passing of Father
Probst that county has lost one Of
the most rugged pioneer figures. He
went there in 1870, being its first
resident Catholic priest. Father
Probst never served in any parish ex-
cept North Washington.
An attempt to force action in the
district court at Sioux City in the
matter of orphan childrens' pensions
was made by attorneys for a widow
with three dependent children. A
test case is now before the supreme
court on writ Of certeriori, arising
out of the refusal of the supervisors
to make payments.
The Charles City city council meet
ing as a board of health recently
heard City Health Officer Niemack
attack the city for the way i, dis
posed Of it's sewerage. The doctors
words were directed especially to one
Of the aldermen, a former mayor.
The attack was so vigorous that the
official left the council rooms.
Detectives at Des Moines said they
found Minnie Adams, Is years old,
and Ruth Pressele had run away from
home because they did not want to
go to school,. The Adams girl is said
to have declared that she would leave
home and 60 to work if compelled to
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