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

| The new 100000 high school al
Boone was thrown open to the public
for inspection.
| Snakes are appearing in the vicinity
Of Waterloo, which Is considered one
bf the results OF the mild winter.
Lieutenant Governor w. L. Harding,
OF Sioux City, is in iDes Moines to try
. case before the supreme court.
The store Of Petrus Peterson, at
Weston, was totally destroyed BY fire,
believed to be OF incendiary origin. j
Farmers Of Linn county will hold e
meeting in Cedar Rapids to- decide on
hiring q soil director TOR the county.
Edgar Harris, Of near Crest0n, coli
lected bounties on the heads and feet
Of 80 crows which he killed near his
home.
Judge w. b Quarton, Of Algona, has
been urged to run for congress In the
zenith district on the bull moose
ticket.
The Annual Lee county short course
closed its session here, after both q
financial success and an instructive
session.
Leo Dunk, committed suicide by
hanging himself in q barn. II is be-
lieved i'll health was the cause. He
lived at Lyons.
Rock and sand as fertilizer is being
used with great success in Mason City.
It is used especially where the soil is
wet and gummy.
Richard Mitchell Of TT. Dodge has
been appointed special law clerk for
Senator Kenyon and has left for Wash
ington to assume his duties.
Or. David Nelson Coon, aged Is. .
physician Of state wide reputation,
died at his home in Fl Madison. He
Is survived by two children.
Ralph Smith, living five miles south
Of swea City. was arrested on infor-
nation filed by Grace Worcester,
charging him with seduction.
Fire Of incendiary origin burned the
store Of p. Patterson. ct Weston. in
which the postoffice was located. The
mail in the postoffice was DESTROYED.
When John Baldas, Of Waterloo.
caught Frank Macy making love TO his
wife, he attacked Macy with = knife
and an Italian dagger. cutting him up
badly.
A weekly newspaper is being issued
in Lost Nation, "A. "a. Bowman, form
erly Of Anamosa being the publisher.
It will be known as the Lost Nation
Press. ,5
Mrs. Hannah Miller, who died at the
home Of her son, Orson, Miller. in In
dependence, was nearly 100 years old,
having passed the 99-year mark Au-
gust 13.
For the death Of his two daughters,
killed at Ralston last. June, r. N. Dud-
|sley, Of Nashville. Tenn, has received
81 500 from the Northwestern rail-
road IN settlement. IN / Isl
The engine Of the Rock Island pas
senger train No. 20, southbound, was
derailed ct Shellsburg when . lops-
ened brake shot fell under the WHEEL.
No one was injured. s A AZ
The Des M0ines police department
may escape an investigation owing to
the refusal Of the city council to vote
funds BY which the civil service board
may summon witnesses. q 4 n. 5s Il
Floyd Reese. formerly resident Of
Linn county, now Of Saskatchewan.
Canada, lost his wife, his little
daughter, and his parents In one week.
all from natural causes.
Through the aid Of an X-ray ma
chine two coins were dislodged from
the throat Of 3-year old Lucille Jean-
cite Carson, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Carson. Of Emerson. !t
Denison is to hold an election to
determine what the people will d4 in
the matter Of issuing $4,000 in bonds
to buy the electric plant. The eity
council fayors the proposition.
About two hundred business men
from Charles City will attend a meet
ing Of the Cresco Commercial club to
help boost for q proposed interurDan
railroad between the two cities.
Frank Buckley, Of Luther, went ia
Boone q week ago and has not been
seen since. He had over 800 in his
pockets with which he expected e
buy q, driving horse for his wife. III
Adolph Peters, barber of Daven-
port, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with AIS
caliber revolver. Grief over the ddath
Of his wife, IL the supposed causex
A special says that Frank SoSh-
linger, q prominent undertaken q
Oskaloosa, was killed there by 1all
from fourth story window to 9he
street. He was trying to adjust1 On
awning.
/ Mrs. Mary A. Smith, residenE Of
Osceola. who died at her home there
is thought to have been one Of the
few Daughters Of the Revolution inthe
state. She was born in 1918 and came
J to Osceola in 1856.
/ According to the Sioux county
treasurer. about 100000 more will b
paid out by Sioux county residents II
taxes this year than in the year 1911
on account Of the higher valuations o.
Sioux county land.
| Exception is taken to the holding o.