Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-05-21
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NEWS;i4B; ! ]


The senate defeated the Ream bill
to abolish the office OF school treas
urer.
Mrs. E. w. Zinser, prominent
woman of Carroll, is dead. She was
very active in church affairs.
E. s. Sells was reelected superin-
tendent of schools at Sanborn at sal
ary Of $1,000, an increase OF $3.50.
Professor Ray Latham has been re-
elected superintendent Of the Pome-
roy schools at salary of $1,000.
Mrs. George Washburn, of Shenan-
doah, died from the effect of fall
down a fight of stairs at her home.
Excavations has been started for the
new $4,000 school building which is
to be finished by October Is at Sioux
Rapids.
j. P. Johnson. formerly Of the Cedar
Falls Record, purchased the Union
Star at Iowa Falls during the past
week from ]. Pitzer.
The new bath house to be built soon
for the new Moose bathing beach at
Keokuk will cost $4,000. The beach
will be LOO feet in length.
A committee made up Of members
Of the Commercial club at Sheldon is
making arrangements to organize .
building and loan association.
The proposition to create CONSOLE
dated school district at Dallas was
carried Saturday by vote of III to
a. A new school building is assured.
The Muscatine live stock quarantine
has been lifted. The quarantine pro-
hibited the receipt at the Muscatine
yards of stock in less than carload
lots.
The Masonic order of Clear Lake
is to erect a new temple. Plans for its
construction have already been made.
1t is to cost in the neighborhood Of
$4,000.
Miss Minnie Hannsman, a trained
nurse Of Ottumwa, has sailed for
Budapest to take up her duties as a
Red Cross nurse on the battlefields Of
Europe.
The jury in the Holstein- Mahoney
$4,000 alienation suit at Logan re-
turned a verdict in favor of the de-
PENDANT. The jury was out five and q
half hours.
Miss Jennie B. Sunderland Of Mer-
rill, superintendent of the Shenandoah
hospital. has resigned. The institu-
ton IL in charge Of Miss A. L. Hobbs
for the present.
The general store of J. w. Holman
at Dean burned to the ground. The
loss is $4,000 partially covered by in
surance. A defective nue. was the
cause of the fire.
Bids for the new Illinois Central
station at Storm Lake will be opened
soon. The structure will be of brick
construction and will be built east Of
the present station.
The advantages and possibilities Of
get-together movements were dis
cussed by Professor Williams. Of Iowa
state college. in an address before the
Elkhart Community club.
Thos. Kingsley. aged SO, . member
Of st. Anthony's home for the aged in
Dubuque, dropped dead Of heart fail
ure as he stepped OF street car in
Clay street. He was pioneer resi-
dent.
When Oscar Reid, a farmer of near
Avoca returned with his wife from q
visit he found the hired man he had
left in charge, had departed taking
with him many valuables from the
house.
Joseph Warner. aged 81, . grocery
man for twenty-five years, is dead at
Abba from pneumonia after brief
illness. He was the son of Captain
Warner, who lost his life during the
civil war.
Eight carloads Of barbed wire bound
for Vindivostock, Siberia, passed
through Council Bluffs. The wire is
the product of the mills Of Birming-
ham, Ala. and is intended for mill
tary use by the Russian army.
VIM. Desmond. United States mar
shall for Iowa during both Cleveland
administrations, is dead in Seattle.
Desmond, as sheriff of Clinton county.
in 1883. broke up the notorious Fan"
Burns burglar gang Of Is members.
Fifty crypts in the Shenandoah
mansoleum were sold at $40 apiece
under the hammer at q sheriff's sale.
They we're bought by . representative
Of the Kansas City Standard Steel Co..
which held Q mortgage on the prop
erty.
James e. Kelley has been appointed
postmaster at LeMars to succeed w.
8. Freeman, whose term expired jan
uary 1S. Mr.. Kelley is an old resident
Of LIE Mars and has been deputy
county treasurer for the last nine
years.
Superintendent Akers was re-
elected superintendent Of the Storm
Lake schools for the coming year at .
meeting of the board Of education.
His salary was increased. Miss Martha
Nepud of Eagle Grove was elected
principal.
After forty-eight years on the road