Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-07-24
J. P. Morgan, representing q Chi

charged with being an 1tlnerant mer
chant and selling without a license
The arrest of Morgan will in all pro
liability involve test case of the itin
Grant merchants law. He furnished
bonds and has gone to Chicago to CON
suit attorneys.
More than fifty business men Of
Estherville gathered at the court
house and organized an automobile
club. The object of the new organiza'
ton is to improve the roads of Emmet
county. James Rainey was elected
president. A club similar to the one
in this city will be organized at Spirit
Lake in the near future.
While two small boys at Fredericks-
burg, who had got hold of an old army
musket that had not been used for
twenty-five years, were shooting In q
bedroom at the home Of a neighbor,
Harvey Tillotson's head was shot off.
He was 20 years old. How the boys
got hold Of the powder and shot and
loaded the weapon is not known.
The postoffice in Audubon was rob-
bed several days ago and about $500
IN cash and stamps taken. The rob-
bers gained entrance through the
front door by picking the lock and
dynamited the safe. The money
drawer was found later lying along
the railroad track. No trace Of the
robbers has been found. A.,
% hn Of Jnccio CfoYlinO
widow of Capt. ]. W. Sterling Of Iowa
City bequeathes about $4,000 to the
Iowa City Methodist church and its
organizations, such as the
home and foreign missionary societies.
She also-le money to the Upper Iowa
conference claimant fund, the
Women's improvement League of
Iowa City, and other organizations.
The new business college recently
opened in Newton have both day and
night sessions of school, and indica-
tons point to large attendance. Two
Instructors at present have charge Of
the work. They are Prof. c. H. Ber-
horst, principal and manager, former
Iy of Raughhon's college at st. Louis,
and Miss Frances Polkowsky.
O. w. Maxwell. who has been CASH
Ter of the State Savings bank in
Hampton during the last year, has re-
signed, and will be succeeded by Fred
J. Gressler. D. c. Wolf, assistant
cashier for several years, has also sew
cred his connection with the bank. F.
L. Tanner, recently of Ceylon, Mimi,
will fill the position of assistant cash
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So great has been the success en-
|oyed by the cooperative creamery of
Mt. Ayr, which was established last
spring for the manufacture of dairy
,utter and ice cream, that a butter
md egg buying station is to be oper-
tied in connection with the creamery.
This was decided at a recent meeting
II the board Of directors.
Perry Holton,. a we'll known farmer
living some distance from CrestOn,
vas fearfully injured by being i'm
>aled upon a pitchfork and it is feared
ne may die. Mr.. Bolton was In the
hay NOW slowing away hay and when
ne undertook to reach the floor of the
oarn he fell or jumped upon q fork
standing in the alley-way.
The school census of Hampton has
ust been completed by Levi Talheim.
md shows a gain of thirty-three over
asst year. There are at the present
ime 812 children of school age in
Hampton, of which 430 are girls and
'82 are boys. During the last year
families with children
moved from the city and fifty families
With children have moved here.
The recent school election held in
sioux City for the purpose of voting
N, a 5000, bond issue has been found
Illegal, as the proper time was not al
owed from the date of the first notice
Until the election, which. according
o law, must be four weeks. The &C
ion the board will take is not known
It this time, but 1t is intimsted that
mother election will be held.
The sixty-second anniversary Of the
'ounding of the Davenport Turnge-
neinde will be- celebrated at Daven-
,ort the latter part of August. The
committee on arrangements. is now
program which will con-
list of addresses and gymnastic con-
ests. The organization was formed
n 1852 and Louis Hansen and Chris
Mueller Of this city are numbered
among the charter members.
.Threshing machines have begun &C
i've work in Clarke county. The first
eturns indicate that wheat is run
ling from 16 to % bushels to the acre.
The quality is pronounced fine. Oats
'un from 20 to 40 bushels TO the acre
md are OF good quality. The straw |
9 very short and light. Little timothy
$ being cut for seed this year. and the !
.ay crop is only about halt the usual
.creage. Corn prospects are excellent
timely rains come.
Dysart's first chautauqua was a re-
narkable success. The week before it
IT,