Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-12-10

| Central plunged into herd OF TAI
steers just east of Ackley, killing three
outright, injuring four more SO that
they had to be killed short time after
and Gripping four others so that they
may have to be slain. The cattle be-
f! longed to Aledius Veto.
/ At special meeting Of the Esther
vile city council Mayor Mack J.
Groves vetoed the gas franchise pre-
sented for application by Messrs.
Jackson and Sommers of Fort Dodge,
and the city council thereafter voted
to accept same over the veto, and 1t
carried by vote of four to one.
The Iowa City city council has voted
to issue $4,000 worth of bonds to
cover the last brick and bitualithic
paving done there, and also gave a
ing for the paving Of many more
blocks in the city. In all more than
100000 worth of work will be done.
Strickland and Strickland, of Man
chester, have discovered a vast bed Of
soft coal under the surface Of the
ground of one of their holdings. 1t Is
probable that company will be
formed and the coal mined out. It is
estimated that vast amount Of the
blizzard heater lies underneath the
ranch.
Three auto thieves, one q woman.
drove up to q garage 1T Guthrie Cen
ter and took twenty auto tire castings
and attempted to blow the safe. The
woman stood on guard while the men
got the goods. The tires were loaded
when the approach I another car
caused the safe blow to desert their
tools and fee.
The state board of control is testing
samples Of oleomargarine preparatory
to letting a contract for $4,000 pounds
Of the product to be used at the Ana
mosa and Fort Madison prisons. Owing
to the low per capita maintenance per-
mitted at the prisons. the state has to
economic in some ways on the food.
Inmates of all other state institutions
get butter.
Climbing Hill, in Woodbury. county.
is to have consolidated school. At
an election held October %. bonds in
the sum of $4,000 were voted for the
purpose of buying site and erecting
suitable building. Out of q total of
$50 voters only thirty-eight men and
eleven women voted against the
Forty women voted Ut
the election.
Miss Marian Hutchinson, q stenog-
rapher at Prusia's. in Fl. Dodge, is one
Of the heavy sufferers from fire. She
left about $1,000 in currency locked in
her desk in the office. She had been |
paid loan in currency too late to
bank it. AS the blaze filled the office.
Miss Hutchinson was forced to stand
across the street and watch her saw
ing 60 up In smoke.
Although j. A. Bradley Of Blakes-
burg may be better known as banker |
and financier, he is also one OF the
biggest stockmen in southern Iowa.
He has just sold 100 head of cattle on |
Of the grass ON his farms, which |
brought him 1876 each. In . little
more than three years, or since Au-
gust, 1912, he has sold $131.O0 worth
If cattle off his farms in Appanoose
county, as we'll as big farm near
Seven year old Marjorie German.
laughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Ger
mann Of Waterloo died of fractured
,kull within ten minutes after having
,een struck by an automobile driven
~ Harold G.. Nesbit, in company with
Adrian Wiley. q motor car demonstra-
or. The view Of the driver Of the
was obscured by wagon
behind which the little girl was walk
ng. The girl passed out from behind
he wagon in front Of the car.
Mystery surrounds the finding Of the
,adly decomposed body Of IN elderly
woman in Q deserted house ON coun-
Try road about ten miles west Of Mus
:atine. Road workers who visited the
house found the partly buried corpse
N the cellar Of the old house Abra-
,ions on the head and bloody gar
nents prompted the coroner's jury to
.eturn q verdict Of murder. The fea
ures are no longer recognizable and
is not viewed % likely.
No one is known to be missing In the
E. s. Buchmiller, Of Jefferson, lost
! mare last week which had . record
rarely eQualled in the land of horse
ION. The animal was Of Morgan ex-
.raction. born upon Mr.. Buchmiller's
arm thirty-two years ago the 8th day
If last May, and she never passed out
If his possession. She was fOaled by !
4 mare given to Mr.. and Mrs. Buch-
miller by her father after their mar
Rage forty-two years. ago. Old Dolly"
was a family pet, and her passing is q
source of great grief in the Buchmiller |
The WoOfled hills and islands of the |