Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-01-30

HARLOW Johnson. aged IS, was found
dead in a barn at his home, five miles
southwest OF Eldora Mr.. Johnson was
bachelor and lived on the farm with
q sister. Heart disease is supposed
to have caused his death. It is not
probable an inquest will be held.
81 The Hamburg electric plant is busy
Installing a new crude oil engine. This
plant Is the first anywhere in this Sec
ton Of the country to try out the
crude oil engine for generating power
and the outcome will be watched with
considerable interest by other electric
plants. "A u
Olive Layton, % years Of age, is IN
dangerous condition in Burlington
hospital with q bullet in her head,
fred by Charles Anderson, q cement
worker. The woman says the shoot
ing was accidental and the man said
he was too drunk to know how it
happened. l5l.sf.
According to Ole O. Roe, state fire
marshal. Iowa has gone through De-
tcember and Christmas time with an
exceptionally low fire loss. In both
the number Of fires and the value OF
property destroyed, the December re-
ports show material decrease over
those OF recent years.
4 Col. Charles A. Clark, prominent
lawyer Of Cedar Rapids, and a veteran
OF the civil war, is dead. He was
known all over the state. His first
fee as q lawyer was $4,000, earned
when he won in the old Slavery hotel
litigation III Des Moines. He once was
mayor OF Cedar Rapids. KS
A. Longman celebrated his SD anni-
versary at Logan. Mr.. Longman came
to Harrison county in 1858, settling
south Of Logan, where he accumulated
large realty holdings. After retiring
from the stock and farm work, Mr..
Longman came to Logan and has since
served as vice president of the State
Savings bank here. a55
Four boys are under arrest on COM
plant Of Mai. Ira ]. Adler that they
threw a plano stool through the wins
dow Of his law office. Major Adler
asked that they be sent to. the reform
school. He asserted that he had been
systematically baited' by the young;
sters, who admitted calling him names
In order to anger him.
Because a member of the Trinity
Methodist church Of Des MOines re-
fused to withdraw his name from the
saloon statement OF consent, Rev. F..
M. Evans, pastor Of the church, ac-
cepted the members resignation from
1t is the first time the
church discipline. has been used to dis.
miss member for this cause.
George N. Netzer. for the past If
teen years connected with the Mason
City Globe Gazette, has received the
appointment Of income tax collector
for this district, and will enter upon
the discharge Of his duties on January
I. The appointment is regarded as
highly satisfactory. Mr.. Netzer has
been consistent democrat for many
years.
Joseph Lamaire. arrested on COM
plant of County Attorney MacLaugh-
lin, charged with carrying aconcealed
weapon, pleaded guilty and was sens.
fenced to serve thirty days in the
county jail at Logan. Mr.. Lemaire. II
Is said, was on, his way to join the
navy and stopped of at Missouri VAL
ley, where his revolver got him into
trouble. sS..,s & 8s8
ii. +. Liebbe, state architect, is COM
plotting plans for the .custodial build
ing" at the state institution for ine-
briates at Knoxville, which is q polite
term for a Jail In which to keep the
refractory ones who don't want to be
cured. 1t will be handsome build
ing well fitted to take care Of the
boozers who are unwilling to be of
any assistance to themselves.
"A, A. Slade, superintendent of
schools at Iowa City, returned to his
work today, cured Of tuberculosis
through treatment in the Iowa state
sanitarium at Oakdale, and in q pri-
vate sanitarium at Asheville, NC. Mr..
Slade went to Oakdale q year ago, and
regained his health rapidly. In Sep
TENDER he went to the Carolina insti-
tuition for treatment OF tuberculin
The members of st. Adams lodge,
knights of Pythias,, of Council Bluffs,
has just purchased large lot in the
business section of the city, on one of
the most slightly locations to be had,
overlooking and facing First avenue,
and will erect thereon q fraterhal
building Of three stories. The lot cost
the lodge $1,000, and a fine building
will be erected. The ground space is
7Ox14O feet ;s
The Harter Auto company Of Sac
City has just finished its fine new
garage on North Fifth and Williams
streets. The structure is Of brick with
cement floor. The basement Is SO by
80 feet In size while the first floor
averages IS by 1872 feet. The beams
are Of heavy steel and the building will
admit Of the addition Of two more
stories as the business Of the firm
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