Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-05-07
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The state senator's baseball team
was defeated by team organized by
the house. The score was about 20
to 10.
Humboldt is studying the oiling pro-
cess for treating it's streets with the
prospects that the system will be used
there.
Owners of Humboldt college and
business men of Humboldt have
united on. a plan to have the institu-
ton reopened.
Thomas Cannon has sold farm two
miles south of Duncombe to James
Fitzgerald of Duncombe for 1925 an
acre. The farm contained 120 acres
Rev. Silas Franklin Millikan, aged
80. for forty-six years pastor of the
Congregational church in Iowa, llli-
nois and Kansas, died suddenly in
Rochester, N. Y.
Union township, Plymouth county
let the contract for the first CONSOLE
dated school building to be erected in
cost about $4,000.
The Plymouth county share OF the
state automobile tax for 1915. which
has been received by the county treas
urer. was $10,12s. This is $1,7S2 over
the amount received last year.
The Plymouth county boy who shall
raise the best acre OF corn in 1915 will
ID To
Of the First National bank of LeMars.
a free trip to the Panama-Pacitic ex-
position.
Nearly $50 conversions have been
brought about as the result OF the
work OF gospel teams which have just
returned to Indianola from the Easter
campaigns at Oakley. Red Oak, Orilla
and Palmyra.
The court house at Council Bluffs
one day recently was closed for fumi-
CATION. A member of the janitor's
family living in the basement OF the
building was discovered with we'll
developed case Of smallpox.
An effort is being made to build
gypsum plant for the manufacture of
the product in Centerviiie. Some $780,
600 is needed to build the factory. The
company owns an 1s-foot vein OF gyp-
sum clear of any membranes.
Mrs. Kenyon. wife of Senator Ken
yon, has arrived in Fl. Dodge from
Washington, D. C. Owing to i'll health
she remained in Washington since the
end Of the congress. Senator Kenyon
has been in Fort Dodge for several
weeks.
Baptists of Vinton are to build
new church this summer. Plans for
the editice which is to be q modern
structure throughout have already
been adopted. The church when COM
pleted will cost in the neighborhood
of $4,000.
Max d. Peterson. one of the wealth.
lest Davenport merchants. died at his
home. He was born in Germany and
came to Davenport in 1860, and with
his father and two brothers built up
the Peterson department store. one of
the largest in Davenport.
The surrender of General Lee was
by flag raising cere-
mony participated in by 800 civil war
veterans. w. R. c. and school children
of Storm Lake. Addresses were de-
livered by Rev. E. S. Johnson and the
Very Rev. Father Cooke.
Mount Vernon has remained almost
stationary as regards population dur
ing the past five years. and this de-
spite the fact that there are more
houses than there were at that time.
The population Of the town is given
as 1862, an increase Of 20 over five
years ago.
The body Of a we'll dressed young
man, without coat and vest. was taken
from the Mississippi river at Musca-
tine. He had been murdered. The
body was found on the identical spot
where the body OF Peter Goods of
trussed up in heavy ropes
was found.
The cornerstone of the German
Lutheran church at Conroy has been
laid. Leading Germans were present
at the ceremonies from all the adjoin-
ing towns. The edifice is to be hand
some structure costing in the neigh
borhood of $11, 900, and Is expected to
seat 400 people.
Mrs. E. ]. Kerslake. mother OF w.
H. Kerslake. of Storm Lake. died at
the home of her daughter. Mrs. J. F.
Rodgers, in Newall, at the age OF 81
years. Mrs. William Gerberding. an
old resident, also of Storm Lake. is
dead at the age of 80 years. She is
survived by husband and two chill
dren.
J. J. Mcconnell, Jr, son of Prof and
Mrs. ]. J. Mcconnell. Of Cedar Rap
ids, who for the last three years has
been connected with Y. NJ C. A. at
Lahore in British India, will soon be
to work among the Indian
troops at one of the bases of the Brit