Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-10-15
me sc11oo1 enrolment Of shenasl-

pupils over that of last year. At the
beginning of the second week the to-
tai for the public schools is 1.116 and
the highest at any time last year, ac-
cording to Superintendent G. T. Gar
rett, was 1,O45.
Work on the $4,000 improvement
and extension of the Waterloo Illinois
Central shops will be started imme-
diately, according to orders received
from the general offices Of the COM
pany in Chicago. In these orders Wa
terloo officials Of the 1llionis Central
are informed that the contract has
been awarded to T. S. Leake & Co.,
of Chicago.
August H. Brandhorst, aged 10, son
of we'll known farmer living eight
miles northwest of Hudson, was killed
in runaway accident. August and
his brother, Chris, were working in
field with a team. The team started
to run and Angus twas thrown be-
tween the team and the wagon. The
| wheels passed over his body and he
died in twenty minutes.
The Greene Electric Light and
Power company started this week to
haul the island which has formed
about twenty rods below the dam, and
are dumping the dirt just above the
dam, thus to support and protect it
against the high water in the spring.
Operations, however, had to be sus-
pended for the present on account Of
the high water the past few days.
The fifty-seventh annual session Of
the Davis County Agricultural asso-
citation was held two days of last
week. The prospects were the bright
est and most prosperous ever observed
in the history Of the fair. A large at
tendance was recorded for Wednes-
day, the second day, and a similar
crowd for Saturday. the day arranged
for the last through postponement on
account of the severe rain and wind
storms experienced.
A new Gould deep we'll pump was
installed at Parkersburg and is now at
work pumping all the water that is
used by the Parkersburg people. The
pump head alone weighs ton and a
half and the pump works so quietly
that it cannot be heard outside of the
open door of the pump house. The
pump was operated approximately
sixteen hours and in that time pump
ed in the neighborhoOd Of forty-five
thousand gallons Of water.
In his effort to turn out and avoid
colliding with an automobile that was
approaching from an opposite direc-
ton, Henry Johns. son of Mrs. Johns
residing in the southeast part of Ack-
ley, was thrown from the buggy in
which he was seated to the hard
ground; the result was that his knee
cap was broken or cracked, the result
of which will be that he will be OBJ
liged to keep from work for several
months.
Iowa has a big crop Of early and
of medium grade apples, but neither
Iowa or the United States has large
supply of high quality apples" ac-
cording to Laurenz Greene, of Iowa
State college. prices on short keep
ing and fair quality apples are likely
to go down. Prices on first quality
fruit are likely to go up. This means
that orchardists who have fine COM
mercial apples are apt to get more
money by storing them
| In straightforward talk of almost
an hour, Prof. D. NJ. Kelly, supern-
tendent of the public schools at Web
ster City, made it plainly felt that the
"hazing' of high school freshman had
no place in Webster City school life
and furthermore nothing Of this sort
would be tolerated in the future. This
talk resulted from the action Of several
sophomores and as a result of their
antics, one freshman was somewhat
| injured and several more were treated
roughly.
A number of the ladies of Bear
Grove township in Cass county have
formed an organization for the pur-
pose of studying school methods and
school work and for the ultimate pur-
pose of working for school consolida-
ton in Cass county. The name Of the
organization is the School Improve
ment league and the officers elected
at the first meeting are: President,
Mrs. A. L. Bradbury; vice president,
Mrs. Fred Switzer, and secretary, Mrs.
w. j. McFadden.
Cooperation between the general
public and city officials of Ames is
urged in recent bulletin on the
collection and Disposal of City Re-
| fuse" The statement is made that
every effort should be made by the
proper city officials to obtain the CO.
operation of the people at large
through the different civic and bust
ness mems associations. womens
clubs, schools and any other organiza
ton which would be instrumental III
! creating an active interest in the
work.