Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-10-23

: Miss Elizabeth Hunaell, 80, pastr,
cook in Marshalltown cafe. wa
probably fatally burned when hel
skirts were caught in the fire box.
Miss Nellie Furst, aged 10, of Wash
burn, N. d., was picked up by the po
lice at Des Moines in a demented con
dition. With her were her three small
nieces, Velma, zelda and Martha Bis.
sell, aged 10, and years, respec.
lively.
Because Fred Cole Of Arthur, q
member of the church and rigid
moralist, was named as defendant
in liquor injunction suit, he has
retained attorneys to institute suit
against the anti-saloon league and
John F. Joseph. its attorney, for $780,
900.
Barney Kettler of Alton had little
experience that he will not soon for
get. While cutting bananas off a
bunch tarantula jumped out and at
Barney, just missing him. Barney
smashed the tarantula with a club or
something and then enjoyed a nervous
chill.
G. L. Van de Steeg, for more than
sixteen years postmaster at Orange
City, was unanimously nominated as
! the republican candidate for county
treasurer to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of II. H. Mckee, the
| candidate nominated at the June pri-
maries.
While at work on the Northwestern
railroad near Buxton unloading rails
with other section men, Samuel Sar-
doff lost finger by one Of the work
men dropping rail on it. MASKING
the finger so badly that 1t had to be
amputated. He has brought suit
against the company for $4,000 dam
ages.
John Gentry, 4S years old, lamp
trimmer for the Peoples Gas and
Electric company at Burlington, was
instantly killed by being crushed un-
der an automobile when the car turned
over. A companion escaped unin-
jured. Gentry was travelling at high
rate of speed when his car hit pro-
lection in the street.
Harry J. Cooley, the young man ar
rested at Perry on charge of white
slavery, has been released by the fed
eral officers and has returned to his
work. At the hearing it developed
that Cooley's arrest was caused by a
former admirer of Mrs. Cooley, to
whom the Perry man was married
only short time ago.
E. c. GraueIs bakery and restaurant
was badly damaged by fire, and Cass
Poland, an employee, was painfully
burned An explosion of gasoline
underneath large coffee percolator
is supposed to have caused the fire.
The entire building was damaged and
the building was only saved from
destruction after hard fight.
Workmen engaged in changing the
Lincoln highway at the S. l.. Frazier
farm, between Logan and Missouri |
Valley, and blowing where an old
fence was built near a creek half a
century ago, plowed out the bottoms
of petrifed oak posts. The petritied
pieces are as heavy as stone and show |
the oak grain where sawed off.
Central college at Pella has closed
one week of her sixty-frst year of
work. There is normal addition of
new students and students are still
be completed for several days. 1t is
quite evident that there will be no
slump but that the number of students
will be at least equal to the enroll
ment of last year.
While turning the corner near the
Otto Kolb home in Marcus Thomas
Walsh, who was driving his own car,
turned too short, upsetting the auto
in which he and Will Strict were the
only occupants. Mr.. Walsh suffered
the breaking of several ribs but Mr..
Strict was un.njured. The car was
to some extent, but not be-
You'd being repaired.
Word has been received at Ute of
The death at Mercedes. Tex, of o. E.
Lathrop, former publisher of the Ute
Mr.. Lathrops death fol-
lowed an operation for bladder trOu-
bic He was 81 years of age and had
extensive newspaper experience in
Iowa and South Dakota and for time
operated job office in Sioux City.
The Civic league of lie Mars has
been disbanded because the women
who were members Of it failed to take
much interest in the work. For sew
,ral years the club had maintained a
inc rest room in the business district
md this has been discontinued. From
he society columns it might be Judged
hat the women are too busy for civic
interests.
Four persons were injured, one per-
laps fatally so, when an automobile
.ollided with street car at keokuk.
William r. Evans of Ashton, Mo-, is
fatally hurt, receiving broken
Tbs and severe internal injuries. His