Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-03-20
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

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The City Council of Clinton has ad
yertised for bids for the erection o
On isolation hospital.
While wrestling with cali, Clar
ence Fender of Macedonia suffered
badly sprained ankle.
1t is rumored' that the Northwest
ern railroad will erect their railway
car shops at Clinton this year.
The Southwestern Iowa district o.
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
opened it's annual convention at Rec
Oak.
Farmers of near Logan have joined
in a movement to protect birds by
preventing men from hunting on
their farms.
Two cases of smallpox have broken
out among the dental students at the
state university as the result Of re-
cent exposure.
Because of election irregularities,
Muscatine will have to wait at least
year for the completion of the new
100000 city hall.
John I. LutZ, member of the
school board at Council Bluffs fell and
broke his shoulder as he was leaving
the Elks' club room.
One hundred students have been
dropped at the State University be-
cause of deficient scholarship in the
semester just closed.
The city council of Waukon, award
ed the contract Of paving to the West
ern Construction Co., Of Iowa City,
their bid being $49,S49.
> Mason City is having a "measley'
time handling its epidemic OF mea-
sizes. There are $50 cases but they
are of the usual mild form.
The Allamakee county fair will be
held August 1921. The early date
was decided on to avoid interfering
with dates of other nearby fairs.
Ice cutting for Mason City plants at
Clear Lake is being rushed. The ice
is fourteen inches thick and is of good
quality Fifty tons day are being
cut b.. -. - ,4,
The. GO to Church" idea is being
promoted by the ministers of Iowa
City. Mayor KurtZ has issued a
proclamation urging citizens to attend
church.
Correctionville is believed to have
the oldest resident in Iowa. He is D.
M. Heath, aged u years. Mr.. Heath
has lived seventy-two years in the
state of Iowa.
The Iowa Highway commission has
approved contracts for fourteen
bridges let by the county board OF
at Mason City. All save
one are to be concrete.
After an hour of rapid spelling In
a spelling down contest given at Den
fson in connection with the Ames
short course, twenty-three children
had not missed a word. &%
Because they had not fuel to. keep
them warm, young, newly welded
couple were compelled to remain in
bed all day and were found by assoc
lated charities officials who called.
L. C. Ward; president of the Game
Protective association, shot deer on
his farm near Avoca and reported the
incident to the local game warden
with a view to testing the protective
law.
A. j. Kohler, formerly of Des
Moines and w. B. Cooper of Perry,
have purchased the Bell Drug stock,
one of the largest in Perry, from P. H.
Bell. The latter goes to Hot Springs,
Ark
Charged with getting three diamond
rings valued at $500 from the Emil H.
Leffert Co.. in Council Bluffs, by false
pretenses, Miss G. Maudene Jones has
been arrested by Pinkerton detectives
in Chicago.
. J. J. Drummer, of Strawberry Point,
won first place in the whole milk
class OF butter at the Iowa Butter
makers convention at Ft. Dodge. H.
X. Nelson took first in the gathered |
cream class.
An automobile driven by J. ]. REIN
ers, collided with fire wagon from
the central station at Davenport and |
both were badly damaged. The occu-
pants of both the auto and fire wagon
escaped injury.
Floyd Rice, 19-year-old lad, was
arrested charged with attempting to
burglarize the Henry Miller hardware
store at Perry. He waived the pre-
Airninary hearing and was bound over
70 the grand jury.
Charged with making false state
ment of his loss to an insurance COM
pany, Geo. Hanley, tenant of the A. j.
Hanley, livery barn at Iowa City has
been indicted on a charge Of cheating
by false pretenses.
A large doe was killed by pas
senger train near AvOca. BY the
time Game Warden Delaboyde arriv- |
ed on the scene, two tramps had skin
ned the animal and were carrying the
venison to town in a sack.
The stewards quarters and the in
sane ward of the VanBuren county
farm at Keosauqua was destroyed by
fire. The patients, some of whom
were unable to move, were saved by
farmers and the attendants.
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