Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-01-02
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Hawarden, is dead.
"Pros-Perry-ty" has been chosen as
the slogan of the town of Perry.
Fire in St. Patrick's church at Cedar
Falls did damage to the amount OF
between $4,000 and $4,000.
Ezra Hamilton of Wellman, a we'll
known farmer, was killed in cross
ing accident at Iowa Junction.
S. S. Evans, one of the pioneer bus
! mess men Of Manchester, passed away
at his home at the age OF S3 years.
George Plummer, a miner so years
DID, attempted suicide at his home in
Colfax by cutting his throat with a
pen knife.
Mrs. C. D. Streeter, philanthropic
worker of Keokuk became mentally
| unbalanced from nervous work and
killed herself by asphyxiation.
Because her husband forced her to
| work in the harvest fields Nellie Biele-
field started suit for divorce against
Adrian Bielefeld in Des Moines:
Sam H. Godsey, living in western
Mills county, was spading the ground
near his door, when he discovered
grave containing eight human skele-
tons.
Judge S. N. Makowan of FIT. Dodge
fined a woman shoplifter 500 and
| costs. Her husband paid her fine and
| she was allowed to return to her chill
| dren.
The grand jury at Centerville has
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brakeman, on a charge of first degree
murder, alleging the killing of John
Schrumm.
H.C. Holt, pioneer business man Of
Rolfe, died suddenly Of heart failure.
Mr.. Holt has managed a retail i'm
Element establishment here for twen-
ty-five years.
| Mistaking a bottle of carbolic acid
for medicine, Herman Anderson OF
Pomeroy died after drinking a full
quart of the poison. He died twenty
minutes afterward.
Edward Wall, aged %, residing 10
miles south Of Dubuque, died at Mercy
hospital as the result of corn shred
der accident by which he lost his right
| arm and shoulder.
Charles Morris, one of the negroes
implicated in shooting affair at Ce-
dar Rapids, has become temporarily
deranged and was taken to Anamosa
in a straight Jacket.
The ten room farm house on the A.
]. Letter farm in Cedar township, Van
Buren, County, was destroyed by fire.
The family noticed the flames while
| they were eating dinner.
Miss Blanche Dunbar, aged II, an
accomplished young woman of Pacific
Junction, has been adjudged insane
and was ordered removed to the hos
pital for the insane at Clarinda.
J. F. Weber has sued the city of
Webster City for $4,000 damages for
injuries received when he was scalded
by an explosion of boiler at the
municipal electric lighting plant.
w. L. Wilant, a motorman, was ia
r, tally injured and Grover Smith, a
passenger, seriously crushed and four
others hurt in a collision between two
! street cars during a heavy fog at
Council Bluffs.
Charles Wetzel, aged 4S, farmer
residing northeast Of Dubuque, COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat
with pocket knife. No cause is as
signed. The deceased leaves a wife
&; and three children.
Mrs. Mary Cambridge of Scion has
sold her farm of sixty acres in New
port township to Vincent Rouner at
s17O per acre. This is considered a
top price considering the soil, location
and improvements.
The saloon license OF Bettendorf
was raised from $1,000 to $1,000 an
nually by the city council of Daven-
port. The council issued a new Ii
| cense to George Lyman, who is now
conducting one saloon.
After volunteering to rid the people
Of Muscatine of lice by a wonderful
fumigant he had to sell, Thomas Gill
pin, arrested at that place, was re-
quested by the police to get out of
town and never return.
The congressional representative
from the Council Bluffs district has
received a resolution passed by the
council of that city urging action to-
ward having Council Bluffs re-estab-
lished as a port of entry.
A special election will be held at
Boone January Is to vote as to
whether a sum not to exceed $4,000
will be bonded to raise money to furn-
ish the new 100000 high school build
ing which is almost completed.
Launching of campaign to bring
theriver-to-river road to permanent
level and to Immediately thereafter
have the road hard surfaced featured
1.-THE annual meeting Of the River-to'
River Road association at Colfax.
Chas. Taylor, Walter Murphy and
Harry Grotemat, the men captured
for the recent safe blowing at the
Ayers Lumber Co., at Lawler, pleaded
guilty and were each sentenced to ter
years. Imprisonment at Fort Madison
penitentiary. .. .-...
An employee of the New Process
J laundry at Waukon threw some gaso