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

valley Junction will install a ne,
I system OF street lights.
Fifty years Of married life wer
celebrated BY MI. and Mrs. J. Il. Dixo1
4 of Ames. 5s. ~ i5s
Rev. George Nicol has resigned tn
pastorate Of the Christian church q
Woodbine.
G. *. Drake OF Brooklyn. asvetera,
{ Of Poweshiek county. is dead yafter
years illness. g.
The y. w. q. "A. OF IT. Dodge recent
u held pencil day, and 5000 wal
raised BY selling pencils.
". ]. Kline, veteran lawyer, and
4 once clerk Of the Polk county courts
q dead ct his home In Dies Moines.
BY an almost unanimous vote at Z
mass meeting held in Centerville 4
was decided to hold a county fair this
year. rs ,5
"A tabernacle for holding revival
meetings has been erected in MaQuo-
keta. The meetings will begin this
week. M Il Ct;
Walter Forbes, police reporter on
the Globe-G Gazette at Mason City, Il
now city editor, succeeding George
l Meter. 4
Vi Over seventeen hundred chickens
and turkeys are entered at the twenty
4 second annual poultry show in Des
Moines. S.,5 ia
Ed. q. Dunn has returned to his
home IN Mason City after undergoing
. serious operation in a hospital at
that place.
Mrs. Burton and Mrs. Leonard Of
Waterloo sail from New York the ff-
teenth Of this month for an around the
world trip.
III. B. Sturtevant, foreman In the
Twiner office at Woodbine, has leased
the Reporter and will edit the same
IN the future.
Judge w. y. Sloan, for 40 years g
resident Of Cedar Rapids, and for the
last II years justice Of the peace il
that city. is dead.
Preparatory to building q new N. T.
church In TT. Dodge, bids will be adj
vertised for on the tearing down Of
the old structure.
"A unique. social affair was widows
feast" held In the home Of Mrs. Annis
Thornburg OF Pleasantville. and at
tended only BY widows. 555,
G. w. Schwartz, Of Ottumwa, has
demonstrated the possibilities OF Iowa
soil by raising q high grade Of celery
IN addition to Bermuda onions.
Prot. r. u. McCreary, conductor Of
the Cedar Falls concert band, entered
upon his duties as member of the
Teachers college music faculty.
Chas. Hinkle has purchased the in
terest Of John r. stinson In the VIM
held Beacon, and in the future the
paper will be issued by Hinkle & Son,
]. ii. Hensel. formerly q janitor al
. the state capitol and q veteran OF thu
OWL war. was run down and seriousl!
4 lnjured by IN automobile in y Del
NOines. s5S;;g::
Following gunshot wounds received
while hunting ten days ago, Virgil
Cook, aged 81. q carpenter Of Adel
disd IA the Methodist hospital at Des
1oines. .#s q j ~ 4
Despondent over III health. Albert
Olson, aged 65, committed suicide at
His home IN Muscatine. He had been
. paralytic for two years and shot
himself.
The skunk crop is reported as I'M
usually short at Clear Lake owing ia
tie unreasonable weather. It will moi
exceed 80 per cent Of that Of last year
It Is stated.
q. Rev. H. j. Kendall Of Irwin, Pa, haa
accepted the call to the First Presby.
terrain church at Clinton, to succeed
Rev. e. "A. Bess who is now serving il
Iowa City.
"a The Cedar Rapids police have OBJ
tanned no clew to the whereabouts O.
the man who held up A. H. Burchart
Saturday night, robbing him Of a new
touring car.
John Kokas, q young Greek of Wat.
erloO, has been held to the action o.
the grand jury in $4,000 bonds on .
charge OF having held up and robbed
Miss Freida seidler. ,... "a
AS the result of the, bursting Of 8
blood vessel in her right eye, Mrs. VIM
! Weigle, Of TT Dodge, has lost the sight
Of that member. 1t is feared the sight
never will be recovered.
John Gillian, Of Des Moines, Wit
Z kidnapped his 4-year-old daughter
4 from his wife New Years eve, is made
the defendant in divorce actor
started by Mabel Gillian. y
Surprise over the election Of H. "A
Allen to q brigadiership is expressed
BY 18th regiment officers. It was ex
pected that Col. Howell Of the 54tl
regiment would be the new general.
Miss Blanche Myers Of Abingdon il
dead from typhoid fever contracted
while caring for her three cousins VIII,
were i'll from the same disease. Sh
was q deaconess in the Christian
church. i.,3,2,,
Forty acres of valuable factory sit
property, valued at over $4,000, wa
sold 1T Davenport. The Independent
Baking company, Klaus & Gadient Ic
q oo0pany, Charles Shiek and E. L. Col
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