Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-11-06


Tertiary at Fort Madison for adultery
Robinson eloped with the wife Of E,
Pendleton, farmer living near Akron
q year ago. The woman pleaded guilt!
and served six months in the count,
JAIL
Large crowds attended the big hors'
and colt show held at Whiting recent
ly. Many prizes were awarded. Prof
w. J. Kennedy, Edward Cassidy ant
Clyde Whiting acted as judges. c.
Cozine's colt won the blue ribbon ii
the three year old FLY Percheror
class.
The body of Mrs. Belle Thoma.
Gates of Keokuk was found in a dixie
in the river north of Alexandria, Mo
She had been missing for week anC
search had failed to disclose any trace
of her. 1t is believed she committed
suicide, but cause for such action Is
unknown.
The girls at the state Industrial
school for girls at Mitchellville are
busily engaged in making Christmas
presents which will be sent to Europe
as gifts to the children in the war rid
den countries. The donations will &c
in a ship to be Quilted by Chicago
newspaper.
Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ White were
injured when their touring car slipped
into ditch about mile from Sioux
City. Mrs. Whites arm was broken
and she was severely cut about the
| head. Failure of the brakes to work
| while they were climbing hill caused
| the accident.
A four weeks stand for threshing
crew on one farm is unusual in Iowa,
where small farms are the rule. A
crew just finished threshing the $50
acres of wheat on the farm Of c. E.
Kick, near Glidden, and they were
four weeks on the job. The wheat
averaged twenty-eight bushels to the
acre.
William Shuisenga, sophomore
veterinary student of Iowa State COL
! lege at Ames, was struck and instantly
killed by an interurban car near
Boone. The motorman claims Shut
senga was lying on the track just be-
fore the car struck him and it is
thought he may have been the victim
of foul play.
George Martins, Mexican laborer
who inflicted fatal knife wounds on
Louis Seandues in Fit. Dodge and was
recaptured by posse at Ohio, has
many knife wounds, including a bad
one across the forehead, which makes
possible a self defense plea in his trial
for murder. Martins is 81 years OF
age and his victim was 20.
Joe Meyer of Rockdale, ILL.,, picked
up a chance acquaintance and accom-
panied him ITO look over some prop
erty' in Des Moines the stranger pro-
fessed to have, and was knocked down
and robbed of SAP by him. He had
been working all summer in the harv-
; est fields, he told the police, and the
money stolen represented months OF
| work.
Mayor Roth takes exception to the
cards posted about the city starting
out with the exhortation, Help Save
Cedar Rapids!" The mayor wants the
evangelists who are coming here to
they are coming here to talk sanely
he is with them, but if they are going
to advertise the city as hotbed OF
iniquity then he is against them.
The state architect is preparing
plans to have installed at the indus
trial school at Mitchellville an electric
device for throwing open the doors of
ho nbor
the purpose of safety in case of fire.
For years the girls in the upper dor
| mitories have been exposed to danger
| in case fire should break out In the
building.
Officials Of the Aero club Of America
began an investigation Of the record
breaking nonstop aeroplane flight
made by W. c. Robinson of Grinnell
in his especially made machine. There
is no doubt as to the record, but it is
the duty Of the organization to de-
termine the official distance Travelled
by Robinson from Des Moines to Kent
| land, Ind.
L. C. Peusser, deputy game warden
| Of Manchester, was at Independence
during the past week assisting Messrs.
w. c. BalIou, of Independence, and
Hartsough, Of Oelwein, also deputy
fish and game wardens, in SEEMING the
young fish which had gotten into shall
! low ponds and back waters with no
! outlet to the Wapsie river, and placing
them back into the river proper. The
work was done between independence
and Central City. 1t is estimated that
| $4,000 game fish were saved.
Miss Ruth Travis, daughter Of e. A.
| Travis of Sidney, narrowly escaped
burning to death. She poured cup
of what she supposed was coal oil into
the cook stove to soak up the fire and
was Immediately enveloped in flames
Her mother rolled her into a carpet
and smothered the blaze. She was
severely burned, but is expected to
recover.
A big booster meeting Of students
and alumni was held in the auditorium