Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-03-20
lUWA NEWS BKEEfS.


Liberal prizes are offered for the
farmers institute to be held in Ro.
land.
John P. Woodruff of near Denison
has announced his candidacy for the
democratic primaries for the legis-
lature.
Christopher Otteson of Otteson has
taken out nomination papers to run
for railroad commissioner on the re-
publican ticket.
G. T. Larmore, prominent ice
cream manufacturer of Davenport,
dropped dead at his place of business
of heart failure.
Farmers and business men Of the
vicinity Of St. Olaf have organized the
Second State bank, the 23rd organiza-
ton Of the kind in Clayton county.
F. ]. Leahy in a sale of Angus cat
tie at Williamsburg sold fifty head at
an average Of 1924. The highest price
was $575, paid for COW and calf.
Martin v. Sucker, aged II, a vet
eran of the civil war, and an early
settler of Monona county, died while
asleep at his home in Little Sioux.
Fire which for q time threatened
the business district of Creston de-
stfoysd.s the Oshel grocery, causing .
loss Of 5000. partially covered by in
surance.. .'..s' ~, '@'f I, -
Rsv. Lloyd Tenant, chaplain Of the
state psnitentiary at Fl. Madison, has
resigned to accept the pastorate Of
nc tlrst Methodist church, to replace
Rev. David Philips, transferred to
.x14aey CITY. - d ''."t.." ~
Wrs. John Saunders Of Fonda, who
diSahpeared from Cedar Falls has
bsen found at Dixon, III. It was feared
sNS lid ended her life ana . search
WaS instituted.
The 10 months old child of Charles
sLsask WHO ihves In Kalona burned to
dSueh white its parents were Away
from tho house milking. The crsdle
caught IRE from Z stove, T2;-o}
+ n The. 70 to church" campaign ut
Iowa CITY resulted In an Attendance
~ 5000 Sunday despite the bhszard,
according to figures compiled. IT was
the largest in the city's history. Z"
Little excitement and no comment
has been caused BY the .city's an
neuncement OF an election late In
!. March, On : 1000 bond issue to build
municipal light plant in Mason City.
Mexican section hands Who robbed
the Kick general store at Scion OF
sweaters and children's dresses were
captured in box car by the Scion
marshall and the goods were recov-
cred.
':Uncle Abe" ,Bargar, Of Lehigh. 4
pal" of Abraham Lincoln in his boy
hood days has just celebrated his 9Sth
birthday and bids fair to be a cen
tenarian. He has lived for seventy
two years in Iowa. =.
Thirty.seven official ballots, twenty
I'VE democrats and twelve republican,
disappeared from the supply of one
precinct in Council Bluffs during q
primary election, and the discovery
caused q sensation:
Dubuque citizens have interested
themselves in q movement to get q
Carnegie hero medal for Quincy H.
Wylie, aged 10, who saved the life Of
companion who went through the
ice in that city.
w. p. George, an aged farmer, once
. member of the legislature, living
near ,Ames. last night drank corrosive
sublimate. which he mistook for water.
A stomach pump was applied and his
life may be saved.
Leander Clark won the triangular
debate held between Penn, Parsons
and Leander Clark colleges at Toledo.
The question was: Resolved, That
the Policy of Fixing Minimum Wage
by State Government is Desirable"
The Fl. Dodge Telephone company
has received the ultimatum Of the In
ternational Brotherhood Of Electrical
Workers that only by unemployment
Of all the eight men recently dis
charged can the present trouble be ad-
justed.
DR.. Sudihudra Bise, Hindu, lecturer
at the State university went to Wash
ington to confer with. Secretary OF
State Bryan In connection with the
proposed bill before congress to ex-
clude Hindu laborers from the United
States.
Leon Trusty. a jeweler Of Charles
City, had his thumb and one finger
blown of by an explosion Of dynamite
in a clock he was repairing. Who the
owner of the clock it and why the ex-
plosive was put there has not been
learned.
A meeting of the progressives Of
Sioux county has been called at
Orange City. 1t is expected DR.. Crane
Of Odebolt and DR.. J. r. Wertz of
Spencer will address the meeting.
Progressive sentiment is very strong
In Sioux county.
One day of married life was all that
Mrs. Clara Thompson and Arthur
Thompson of Council Bluffs cared to
share in each others society as indi-
Gated in a petition of divorce just filed
by Mrs. Thompson, who states they
separated after one day.
Contracts were closed at Centerville