Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-12-18
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

shipped from Garden Grove for the ali
OF the Belgians.
Complaints of bootlegging mad
against the Davenport hotel in Siou
caused raid Oh that hostelry
A large quantity of intoxicants wer
seized.
Mrs. e. Stellings was discovers
dead in her bed at Iowa City. She hat
committed suicide as the result of ,
family row. She had been dead sew
80, hours.
E. O. THEM, Of Denison, presiden
of the National Wyandotte club, has
been forbidden by the Commission o
Animal Health of Iowa from holding
any poultry shows in the state at this
time
Will Servose, F. A. Louis, E. V
Adams, Charles Hughes and Al Lith.
gov were more or less injured wher
a s5affold upon which they we're work
ing at the University armory at Iowa
City fell.
Frances Carter was burned to death
and her sister, Nellie. aged IA. seri-
ou"'y burned at Clear Lake. The acct
dent resulted from Frances attempt
ing to quicken a newly made fire with
kerosene.
The Nebraska agricultural college
team won the interstate apple judy
ing contest at Des Moines in connec-
ton with the state horticultural con-
yection. The Ames team was defeated
by decisive margin.
W. H. Sigler, "a years of age, a
switchman in the employ of the Des
Moines Terminal compalJ, was in
stantly killed while working in Des
Moines. He was caught between two
cars and his upper body badly crushed.
Although he has fallen heir to $780,
600, Gilman Nordhongen, linotype
operator of Marcus, says he will stick
to his old job. Nordhongen's father
was the inventor of a rotary snow
r'0v which formed the basis OF the
fortune.
The state legislature will be asked
by the Iowa League of Municipalities
this winter for lump tax of not to
exceed As mills for the cities and
towns Of the state, instead of separate
leyies for each fund as has heretofore
beo'' the rule.
THE fixing of a date for the dedica-
ton of the Iowa building is the prin-
cinal business to come before meet
ing of the Iowa commission of the
Panama Pacific exposition called to
meet with Chairman Emmett Tingley,
OF Council Bluffs.
Not a passenger was killed on the
liil.ois Central last year in which the
railroad was held responsible. The
company was held responsible for 1872
passengers who were injured. The
number of passengers carried over its
system totaled 31,557.462.
Donald OBrien, Council Bluffs
boy. Of prominent family. has been
taken to Iowa City to be given the
Pasteur treatment for rabies. The
boy was bitten by dog last week and
. dissection of the animals head re-
vealed decided symptoms of rabies.
The Delano hotel bar at Burlington
was entered and the cash register
riiied Of $50 in cash. There was other
money there but it was not taken.
The cash register drawer was open
and it was soon discovered that there
was large sum of money missing.
Fred Weber, we'll known farmer
near Ft. Madison, was struck and in
stantly killed by q north bound @"
train. Weber was walking to town
on business on the railroad right of
way. and as he was deaf did not hear
the train. The body was mangled ter
ribly.
The Farmers bank OF Grand River
has filed articles of incorporation,
changing from a private bank to q
state institution. The new corpora
ton will be known as the Farmers
State Bank Of Grand River with Roy
Switzer as president and Nora Boyd,
cashier.
Marion Zock, 3-year-old grandson of
Clifford Scott of Des Moines, sat upon
the railway track waiting for his
father to come on the next train. The
boy was narrowly saved from being
run over by freight train by George
DeVore, officer for the Iowa Humane
society.
Frank Carlson, president, along
with the other old officers of the Iowa (!
City Auto club, was reelected at the
regular meeting held recently in Iowa !
City. DR.. John Cogswell will again
serve as yice-president, DR.. F. j. Ward
will be secretary and O. l.. Keith, as
treasurer.
Mrs. J. X. Barber of kirkman, aged
70, died from burns which she re- ,
ceived while baking. The Barber ;
family is one of the most prominent in /
this section. They have resided here
for many years and have reared a
family Of ten children, all of whom
have married.
H. C. Beard, democratic member of
the State Highway commission of Mt.
Ayr, recently made his annual report.
1t shows that during the year, eighty
three dangerous railroad crossings
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