Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-09-24
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NEWS B | J /:

porch of his home near Iowa City, died
from his injuries.
r.. F. E. Rohlek of Cedar Rapids has
been appointed clerk in the war de-
partment at Washington.
Mancel Trips, 5-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Trip, of LeMars,
died Of cholera morbus caused by eat
ing green fruit.
Charles Mapin and John Hickman
were instantly killed by bolt of
lightning while they were stacking
oats in a field near Hamburg.
Miss Ina Lowe, daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. w. S. Lowe, will teach in the
public schools at Kansas City this
year. She has been attending the Uni
versity of Kansas.
William Thornton was run down by
a freight train on the Milwaukee, near
Bluff siding, at Riverside. Both legs
were cut off and he is in the hospital
in critical condition.
Burglars entered the garage OF Mr..
McCold at Mount Pleasant, an attor-
ney. and stole large five-passenger
Cadillac touring car. No clue to the
robbers has been found.
A project is being considered for the
drainage of $4,000 acres of land in
Polk county that will reclaim soil
valued at $5,00O,000. If carried out
the project will cost 100000.
Efforts are being made to decide
whether Senator A. B. Cummins, of
Iowa, or Senator Borah, of Idaho. will
be selected as presidential candidate
Of the "great west" on the republican
ticket.
The body of an unidentified man,
supposed to be tramp, was found
crushed by a Milwaukee train at Spen-
or. Letters in the pockets indicated
the mans name was Roland Peasley,
Of Carrollton, Mo.
Andrew Clausen, member of the
senior class of the Logan High school,
has been notified that he has won the
second prize offered by the Hammill
college of Council Bluffs for writing
the best essay on Greater Iowa."
]. ]. Harter, former county audi
tor and former city councilman, found
er Of the Harter Auto company, died
at Dubuque from a strange malady
that baffled the attending physicians.
He had been ill for several months.
Ames has been honored by one OF
the supreme Offices Of the Royal
Neighbors, Dr. Jennie Christ having
received announcement of her appoint
ment as supreme examiner. The posi-
ton carries with it an attractive sal
airy.
Wendall Hussey, son of Prof. ].
NJ. Hussey, former head of the West
ern Normal college at Shenandoah,
has been elected principal Of the high
school at Primrose. He has been at
tending Nebraska Wesleyan at Lin
coin.
Josephine Smith, a teacher in the
Des Moines schools and her sister, re-
turning to their home at Knoxville
from Silvis, ILL.,, were injured when
their auto became unmanageable on
q hill near Iowa City and went into
the ditch.
The body of Frank Cubela, the farm
hand who fell into the Wapsie river
on the Thompson farm near McCaus-
land was found on the old James farm,
on the Clinton county side, four miles
down stream from the point where he
disappeared.
Fred Johnson, former Riverton
resident, bu: now of Nebraska City,
where he was the member Of a whole
sale grocery concern, was killed near
Auburn, Neb., when an auto, in which
ne was riding, turned turtle pinning
him beneath.
Work on the big tabernacle in
which the BILLY" Sunday revival
meetings will be held at Council
Bluffs, is progressing rapidly and the
structure is expected to be completed
BY September /. 1t will have seating
capacity of $4,000.
Plunging from q telephone pole,
near the top of which he was placing
decorations for the Elks' convention
1t Iowa City, Ernest Rosenkranz fell
TO the pavement and suffered severe
injuries to his head A wrist was also
broken. 1t is said he will recover.
Senator ]. H. Allen Of Pocahontas,
one of the much mooted republican
Eubernatorial possibilities, has been
secured to deliver an address in Cedar
Falls on the occasion Of the first an
nual community picnic to be staged
by the Commercial club this week.
Mayor A. A. Smith of Sioux City will
be a candidate for reelection next
spring providing he secures the con-
sent of his wife. The mayor has adj
mitted that he will be unable to an
nounce whether he will be candi
date until the Mrs. reaches decision.
Madame II. Vuille of Rue de la Char
riere &c, La Chaux de Fonde, Switzer-
land, has arrived at Shenandoah where
she will study music and the Amer
lean language. Madame Vuille was
held as a spy by Germans, but after
careful examination was allowed fo