Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-04-10
iowa NEWS BRIEFS


employee at FIT. Madison, found pearl
valued at $3.50.
Seventy-four funerals have heen
held in Oskaloosa and Mahaska coun-
ty within q period Of sixty-eight days.
The school board of Muscatire has
ordered the schools opened following
the scare caused bv the smallpox cpl
demic. 49, .,.,5
Millinery is being taught to seventy
five women and girls in the night
schools at east and west high schools
in Des Moines.
The u. M. w. A.. which was In con-
vention at Des Moines, has appropri-
ated $4,000 to build miners temple
in Abba this summer.
Joseph J. Murphy, son Of the late
John S. Murphy, of the Dubuque-Tele-
graph Herald, is dead of valvu]ar
heart trouble, aged Al.
Rock Rapids voters will have sub
mitted to them at the June primaries
a new courthouse proposition, de-
feated in the election of 1913.
A two weeks mission will be given
in st. Ambrose cathedral by Rev.
Father Drumm and Rev. Father
Byrne, two we'll known missionaries.
Edward Larsen, secretary of the
Farmers Grain company of Kirkman,
has announced his candidacy for the
democratic nomination for county
treasurer. .r..... r, s.
The Pearl City Serum company, one
Of the lately acquired industries, was
incorporated at Muscatine. The CAPT
talization Of the company is set out
as $4,000. '.....
Lille Theodore Peterson, aged 18,
| Of Cherokee, a senior in the high
school, died after three days illness.
The cause of her death was measles,
grip and typhoid.
! Car inspector Peter Christensen of
the Chicago and Northwestern rail-
road at Council Bluffs, found the
body of an unidentified man, crushed
under the wheels.
H. E. Loring, president Of the Fort
Dodge, Des Moines and Southern rail-
road, has offered to sell the FIT. Dodge
street car line which the road owns
to the city for 100000.
While riding on the backs of two
horses, Ernest Clifton and Harry
Taylor of Mondamin suffered broken
legs in a peculiar manner. One horse
fell, tripping the other.
A new pipe organ was formally de-
dictated in the Presbyterian church at
Cherokee. Louis Paggi, noted organ
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program Of the evening.
William Eislee, farmer near Mus
catine. and Anna Strouse were mar
ried, thus putting an end to a breach
of promise suit which Miss Strouse
had started against Eislee.
The Protestant Episcopal church
annual just issued at Davenport shows
the number of communicates in the
Iowa diocese to be 1922. The number
Of Sunday school scholars is 2.695.
| One death and some twenty cases
Of typhoid fever near Dedham are
traced to q church social held six
weeks ago, where oysters were served.
State health officials are investigat-
ing.
The new $4,000 school building Of
the newly consolidated school district
at Tenant was dedicated. Speakers
for the occasion were Lieut.. Gov. w.
L. Harding and ]. c. McGlade Of Des
Noines.
DR.. L. F. Cummins, q prominent
physician of Hopkinton, barely es-
capped death when he lost control of
his car which turned turtle, pinning
him beneath 1t and crushing his left
shoulder. /
The Independent school district has
disposed of the Prescott school build
ing site in Dubuque to Fuhrmann
Bros. Clothing company, which means
a new and modern store building. The
price paid was $l4,75O.
Peter Frye of Burlington, farmer,
aged SO, died as the result of frac-
tured skull. He was knocked down
by John Hedge, a negro, and his head
struck the sidewalk with terrific
force. Hedge was arrested.
The Rev. Lee E. Rife of the United
Presbyterian church in Clarion for
the past three years, has rendered his
resignation, after which he Will de-
part at once to the pastorate of
large church in Philadelphia.
Passing resolution to charge cash
for all work done hereafter. the Wood
bury County Blacksmith's association
adjourned at Correctionville. l.. J.
Stribley Of Correctionville was elected
president for the coming year.
Mrs. Mary Bush, aged 80, and pio-
neer for sixty years, is dead at the
home Of her daughter, Mrs. Eva burst
in Washington. She leaves two sis
ters. Mrs. Phoebe Cronkhite and Mrs.
Elizabeth Stevens, Of Knoxville.
Taylor Brown Of Council Bluffs,
aged 40, whose home was destroyed
by fire in the tornado one year ago.
was run down by Great Western
train near his new home and killed
He leaves q widow and three sons.
The blowing out Of the cylinder
head Of the 500 horse power engine
which furnishes the major portion of