Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-09-11

Jerome Mulherin has sold his 200
acre farm near Williamsburg to John
Schwarting for $240 per acre. Mr.
| Mulherin's father bought this farm in
1868 for SIS per acre and it has been
the Mulherin home for over forty
years.
The Keokuk city council is consider
ing the purchase of an automobile fire
truck. The matter will be decided
within q short time, the councilmen
say. The various civic and industrial
bodies are urging the purchase of the
truck.
L. A. Bower, living west Of Delta,
has patented music turner. He has
it attached to a piano. and when you
get ready to turn leaf of music, you
push your knee and over it goes. II
you turn it too quick you can reverse
II, with the same motion.
To obtain money with which to at
tend moving picture shows, Archie
Cherpakov, II years old, plundered
automobiles Of tools and movable
trappings. He was arrested In the
act Of stripping two cars left standing
outside of the baseball park.
Corliss Bosworth had the misfor-
tune to break his right arm when
cranking his automobile. The acct
dent happened In Cedar Rapids, and
young Bosworth drove his car home
with one hand. He did not have the
injured arm set until he arrived in
Shellsburg.
A fight over who should have pos
session Of road, led to the stabbing
Of Ed Barrett, Of Plymouth county, by
John Logan. Logan was attempting
to pass Barrett in buggy. Barrett
drove an automobile. Logan has been
held to the grand jury at LeMars on
$1,000 bond.
Robert Dillingham;, four and one
alf-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. W..
E. Dillingham;, Of Fort Dodge. wan
dered nine miles from his home and
was killed by a fast Illinois Central
train. The little fellow sank down
beside the tracks to sleep and his
seven-year-old brother, Neal, walked
off and left him.
After turning out about 10000 cans
Of corn each day, since its opening on
August 10, the Iowa City Canning
company will close down its plant for
the season. The run for the season
has been approximately 100000 cans.
A force of 100 people have been given
steady work during the season.
The alleged woman of mystery"
held by the Muscatine authorities. Is
alleged to have visited in several cities
of the state while in subc0nsciOus
condition. The woman has no recol-
lection Of acts she performed during
six days. The police will send her to
her home without disclosing her iden-
tity.
Iowa City is making extensive prep
arations for the entertainment Of the
Associated Advertising Clubs of Iowa
and the Upper Des Moines Editorial
association, both Of which will con-
vene in that city at the time of the
university Homecoming festivities in
October.
Iowa state fair board, is charged with
maintaining nuisance in an informa-
ton issued from a Des Moines justice
court. The charge is made by County
Attorney Thos. ]. Guthrie who alleges
that sewers from the fair grounds
empty into an open ditch which
crosses Dean avenue and runs through
q populous district.
Disagreement between the represen-
tatives Of the Iowa highway commits
sion and the government engineers re-
garding certain plans for that stretch
of the Hawkeye highway, running be-
tween Dubuque and Dyersville may
cost Dubuque county the $4,000 ap-
preparation made by the government
for the stretch Of road.
At q recent meeting of the officers
and directors Of the Ringgold County
Savings bank Of Kellerton 1t was de-
cided to increase the capital stock
from $4,000 to $4,000 in order that
the institution might become mem
Der of the regional reserve bank I'M
der the new currency law.
Three more weeks Of good weather,
the farmers say. will give Allamakee
county ! bumper corr crop. The
stand is uneven on account OF the
heavy wind in the early summer
which laid some of the corn low. The
cool weather of the past week II con-
tinued would undoubtedly make the
corn little more late IN maturing.
The residence Of J. w. Lee, OF Clin-
ton, was entered while the family was
out watching the circus parade. A
gold watch and five dollars in money
was taken. 1t is believed that entrance
was made through back door. A
man reported to the police that he had
his pocket picked while on main line
street car.
The Methodist church at Marshall
town has voted unanimously to have
Rev. r. T. Hurlbut as pastor there
during the next two years and q COM
mittee has been appointed to wait up,
on Bishop Quayle to request that Rev.
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