Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-01-30

ready for occupancy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Minnick cele-
brated their sixty-fourth wedding an
niversary at Keosauqua.
Miss Lydia Yeager of Estherville.
while riding on motorcycle with s.
Nelson, collided with an, automobile
driven by Robert Bauviard, and the,
wheels of the heavy car passed over:
her body. It was thought an arm and.
several ribs were broken, in addition
to internal injuries.
Amos Cameron, a farmer near Wat
erloo. killed himself with shot gun
He had the gun fastened In wise,
to his workbench with cord at
tached to the trigger. He stood in
front of the gun and pulled the string
the charge striking him in the neck
and causing instant death. 5
Nathan and Charles Jaeger, once
prosperous Ringgold county farmers,
recently decided to locate in Louisi-
ana. They returned after having lost
several thousand dollars. They re-
port that the Louisiana land is so
that a team will mire almost any
where. Several families from Mt. Ayr
have gone to the new country. Only
these two returned.
Louis Noonan, a Clinton mute, ar
rested on charge of purloining par
Gel post mail matter from the Burling-
ton railroad depot in Clinton, was ar
raigned before Commissioner Bush, OF
the United States district court at.
Davenport. The testimony Of Clinton
witnesses was heard and Noonan was
held under 5000 bonds to the federal
grand jury to meet in Davenport in
April. ,5z
The commissioners Of Ottumwa
passed the resolution authorizing the
mayor to call q special election for the
purpose Of submitting to the people;
Of Ottumwa the question Of whether
or not the city shall issue bonds for
100000 for constructing concrete
dams that will furnish power for an
electric lighting plant. Monday, Feb
2, was set as the date for the special
election.
Those who imagine that small fur
bearing animals are becoming scarce
in Iowa should examine the books OF
the Knoxville Fur company. M. w.
COnwell, manager, shipped out q con
signment Of furs consisting Of the
skins OF 301 muskrats, 275 Of the large
species of striped skunk, 1873 Of the
ciyit cat or spotted skunk, ~ mink.
20 raccoons, 36 p0ssums and one fox
He has another shipment Of almost
equal size ready for the market. s
City Attorney Charles p. Hanley OF
Muscatine has definitely announced
his candidacy for the Office OF con-
gresham in the Second district on the
progressive ticket. Back of Mr.. Han
ley stands the Muscatine county pro-
gressives almost to unit. In 1872
Mr.. Hanley was talked Of as q candi-
date against Mr.. Pepper but he de-
clined to accept the nominations
against his fellow townsman. Mr.
Hanley won the city attorneyship on
the progressive ticket In Muscatine
last spring In . three c0rnered fight
Frank Fontana, year old son OF
Antoine F0ntana was instantly killed
at Enterprise by the discharge Of a.
shotgun. The cause Coroner Lee has
been unable to discover. Joe Sciaero.
aged 20, who was with the boy when
he was shot, ran up stairs and jumped
out of window and broke shoulder.
in frantic search for help. Antoine
Fontana, the father, seized a knife and
attempted to cut his own throat when
he came home and found his boy dead
Italian miners pinned him to, the
ground and took the knife away from
him. s33
Will Pointer, the Cambridge man
who shot and killed his wife and after
wards shot himself with suicidal in
tent, and has since been at the Iowa.
where he underwent an
operation for the removal of piece
of the bone of the skull from the brain.
is now reported by the attending phys
icians to be getting along very we'll.
and while it is not thought that he will
be sufficiently recovered to answer to-
the court for his crime at the January
term, it is. thought that he will be In
shape for trial by the March term.
At the last meeting the KeOsauqua.
school board selected Miss Mary
Shafer Of Sibley, Mich, as teacher OF
domestic science in the high school
for the last semester. She is college,
graduate and has taken special
course in domestic science. She will
begin her work about the middle of
January, and in addition to domestic
science will teach such other branches.
as may be required of her. The estab-
lishment Of the domestic science de-
partment is made necessary il the.
school district is entitled to the state
aid of $500 per year, or $3.50 for the
half year.
An automobile owned and driven by
Mont Christmore, Of Washington town
ship, was entirely destroyed by fire on
the roadway near the L. L. Bybee farm
south Of Knoxville, on Christmas ev-
ening. When the auto with its load
Of passengers passed the Bybee tene-