Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-03-20
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congress, has been sued for $7,675 IL
unpaid almony by his former wife
Miss Loda V. Miller. The woman
lives in Chicago.
Twelve young women of Curriel
Hall, the university womens building
at Iowa City are sick as the result o.
vaccination following the innoculatior
of 200 co-eds against smallpox. 1t is
said that they are scarcely able tC
walk.
Shippers complain of poor freight
service on the Rock Island railroad
near Rock Rapids following the
action of government inspectors in
ordering a number Of locomotives out
of the service owing to their condi-
tiOns.
Judge Preston of the state supreme
court in dismissing the divorce suit
of Eve l. VS.. John Kinkadc, held that
conjugal infelicity is no ground for
divorce, upholding in his decision
J-dge D. F. Clyde of the district
court.
A Northwestern freight train went
into the ditch. east of Belle PLANE,
and the engine and twelve cars were
wrecked. No one was seriously in
iurcd although there was much dam
age to freight and the cars were de-
stroyed.
w. c. Robinson, aviator, who is
building powerful bi-plane in Grin
nell, has definitely decided to compete
for the prizes offered for the winner
of the globe-circling race to be held
under the auspices of the Panama ex-
position in 1915.
The Southern Iowa Traction Co.,
whose stock recently was purchased
by the Centerville Light & Traction
Co., will be made into an electric line
just as fast as the material can be
obtained. Contracts have been let
for all the equipment.
Leases are being secured by George
G. Cooper, assistant state game war
den for game preserve to be located
H. the vicinity of Des Moines. A tract
of 1000 acres, near Carlisle, half in
Warren and the remainder in Polk
county, has been selected.
Jasper Thompson of Forest City
has added two valuable relics to his
private museum. One is totem pole
from Alaska; the other is tusk from
a prehistoric elephant; which has
been frozen in the ice up in the Arc
tic regions for thousands Of years.
Richard E. Lloyd, a discharged pas
senger brakeman of the Northwest
ern railroad at Boone, threw himself
under a fast mail train at that place
and was crushed to death. Lloyd had
been having trouble with a divorced
wife. Another woman, with whom he
was keeping company, saw the acct
dent.
Judge Smith Mcpherson and Judge
H. E. Deemer, both of Red Oak, took
opposite sides in a controversy over
The adoption of rules pertaining to the
of the graveyard at Red
Oak. Deemer favored municipal
taking the control from
the hands of the owners. Mcpherson
opposed it. -..... |
Alleging that a tooth improperly
filed caused an abscess which de-
stroyed the membrane and bone and
caused terrible suffering on the part
If the plaintiff, Mary Kopecky has
lied a suit against Hasek Brothers,
dentists of Cedar Rapids, to be heard /
It the April term Of. court. The
lction is for $4,000.
A commercial club with ninety
,harter members has been organized
It Strawberry Point. The organiza-
ion was completed after about six
weeks campaign and included repre-
;entatives from every business firm
n the city. The club is going about
It once to secure as many farmer
members as it has business men.
Report has reached Cumberland
hat the evangelist who has been hold
ng a series of meetings at Fletcher
chapel, northwest of Cumberland, and
who has been stopping at the Oscar
Peterson home, has been taken sick
With small pox, and the Peterson
lome has been quarantined. 1t is
laid that a number Of people have
)een exposed.
Acting upon the complaint of citi-
ems in the residence district of the
,ity of Davenport in regard to rattle
boards and various games of chance
,eing operated in the outlying cigar
ind drug stores, Mayor Mueller,
through Chief of Police Harry
schranim, issued an order abolishing
Ill such games in all drug, cigar and
)thcr stores of the city.
Bert and Richard Peek Of Mystic
we're sentenced by Judge VermiliOn
1t CenterVille to an indeterminate
sentence not exceeding ten years in
Anamosa. They were convicted of
stealing corn from the Winifred coal
nine crib. While they were at large
after jumping their bond, two others
If the Peek family were arrested for
alleged burning of the Lodwick Bros
coal mine barn.
Herbert Eiffert of West Side town.
ship won the gold watch offered as a
prize in the county spelling contest
in connection with the short course