Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-08-28
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

A meeting of the Kossuth County
Editorial association will be held al
/ Whittemore Friday, August "a.
For carrying concealed weapons
Jack Kelley, was sentenced to 80 days
in Jail, by Judge Arthur ateLogan.
Robert 10y, of Yorktown, was
knocked from the roof Of house he
was moving, by telephone pole, and
seriously injured.
Bootleggers and Joy riders are
doomed as the result of cleanup
crusade inaugurated by the municipal
authorities of Jesup.
Mrs. A. p. Coger of Council Bluffs
celebrated the second birthday Of her
twin sons by presenting them with
twin sisters. All we'll and happy.
Despondent because he had been in
crippled condition for the last ten
years, Frederic Techau, aged 49,, of
Muscatine, ended his life by hanging.
J. A. Renholz, farmer of Johnson
county, raised $4,000 worth Of pota-
toes on an S6-acre field this season.
The crop averaged 1875 bushels to the
acre and brought $125 bushel.
At the election held at Rockwell
City upon the question OF issuing
bonds for $4,000 for the extension of
the water mains system the PROPOSE
ton carried by large majority.
Director w. J. Harris, of the bureau
Of the census, in a report recently is
sued, shows that 1879 of the people Of
Iowa over ten years of age are en-
gagged in some gainful occupation.
At least ten safety first" teams are
expected to enter the contest to be
held by the American Mine Safety or
ganization at the combined Labor day
celebration to be held at Ccnterville.
Tripping on a rug and falling over
kettle of boiling lard in which she
was preparing to fry doughnuts, Mrs.
Wilbur Kuhn, of near Greece, was
painfully burned about the chest and
arms.
AS result of the receding Of the
waters of the Mississippi river, thous.
ands of fish are dying on the island
of Dubuque, and no effort is being
made to save them, although some Of
them are game fish.
The 16-months-old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. B. Smith, living on q
farm near Alden, was drowned in a
water tank. 1t is presumed the little
one, while playing about the tank, lost
its balance and fell in.
The Iowa State League Of Post
masters of the third and fourth class
offices will hold their annual meeting
at Ames, August rs and 26. A good
program has been arranged and o
large audience is expected.
James Kelley, aged 43, of Wilton,
shot his wife, inficting wound
which will probably prove fatal, and
then shot himself, dying instantly.
The action followed the filing of
divorce suit by Mrs. Kelley.
William Polite, an aged and highly
respected citizen of Audubon has just
returned from Des Moines where he
secured from the government pension
office draft for $9,OS4, which repre-
sents back pension and interest.
c. r. Hanson, aged 20, a German
of the Minneapolis & st.
Louis bridge gang at Sioux Rapids,
fell 80 feet from the top Of bridge
and was killed. His skull was frac-
tured. Hanson was a single man.
Arthur Braden, Of Carson, was
pierced in the side by a huge splinter
and suffered a broken leg when q
threshing engine he was operating
crashed through bridge across the
DRY Gully" six miles east Of Carson.
A summer field meet will be held
by the Iowa Bee Keepers association
at the apiary of ]. l.. Strong, of Cla-
rinda. The principal speaker will be
E. ]. Baxter, of Nauvoo, ILL.,, president
Of the Illinois Bee Keepers associa-
ton.
The strike of the stage employees
Of the Waterloo theatre, called year
ago, has been settled following a con-
ference between the manager of the
theatre and a committee representing
the union men. The terms Of the /
agreement were withheld.
The three occupants of the car that /,
went into the ditch mile south Of
Dunlap, where the county was con-
a bridge, have filed claims
against the county as follows: J.P
Ebert, 10000; Lyman McIntoch, 81
500; Scott Mcintosh, $4,000.
The blowing out Of a cylinder head
injured Engineer Backer-
nan, of a threshing outfit, while at
work on farm near Ackley. The
engineer was struck ON the back Of
he head by the piston rod when q
defective piston caused the explosion.
The Lake View Commercial Club and
,ity council have taken steps to i'm
prove Wall Lake Immediately. 1t has
,een practically decided to pump the
water of Indian creek through pipes
nto the lake and put in q dam, assur-
ng plenty of water the year around. |
Bernice, the two-months-old daugh-
er of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Turner, of !
was smothered to death in
led between its parents. 1t was found
trangled by bed clothes when the
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