Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-03-26

| special election voted in favor of form
ing consolidated school district. The
territory covers between thirty-six and
thirty-seven sections of land in Frank
lin and Wright counties, including the
present Independent district of Alex
ander.
E. H. Gillette of Polk county, former
congressman, was elected president OF
the Iowa Pioneer Lawmakers asso-
citation at its recent meeting. Other
officers elected were: Maj. w. H.
Fleming, Des Moines, secretary; Capt.
V. P. Twombly, Des Moines, treasurer,
and N. E. Coffin, Des Moines, chair
man of executive committee.
Fearing that there may be efforts to
tamper with witnesses summoned to
testify in the graft scandal involving
the police department of Sioux City,
County Attorney Noglestedt has served
notice on newspapers and the public
that any attempt to influence state wit
nesses would be followed by contempt
proceedings and prompt arrest.
Nine persons were made critically
i'll as the result of eating home pre-
pared pressed chicken at Ida Grove.
Mrs. Zoa Labertew and her children
were spending the day with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ward krick and the chicken was
served at dinner. Soon afterward all
nine who had eaten were taken des-
perately ill and it was several hours
before they were out of danger.
Garth Churhill Of Corydon, a men,
Der of the basketball team which
played Abba. dropped dead at the close
of the first half Churchill had been
a sufferer from heart trouble but was
considered sufficiently recovered to re-
| enter athletics. He was 10 years old
| and splendid athlete. 1t was first
| thought he had tainted but life was
extinct before arrival of physician.
A 9-year-old-son of M. R. Buttrey,
northwest of Knoxville, had his left
hand ruined by dynamite cap. The
cap was one to be used in blasting
stumps. The boy held it in his left
hand and with nail held in the right
hand attempted to dig out the fulmi-
mite of mercury. The palm of the hand
was torn out by the explosion that
followed.
Civil war veterans from all parts OF
Iowa will attend the semi-centennial
celebration of the surrender of Cen
eral Lee to be held in Muscatine on
April 9. The local patriotic societies
are cooperating with the commercial
bodies in staging a campfire and re-
union which will be held in one Of the
theaters. Muscatine county exceeded
al others in point of enlistment dur
ing the war, hence the semi-centennial
is of special significance.
A. B. Parsons of Fonda is carrying
his head in sling as the result OF IN
accident he met with while moving q
piano for Frank Van Hooser. He was
backing up to the sidewalk when q
sudden jerk of the dray started the
piano to sliding and he attempted to
hold it with the result that one edge
of the instrument struck him in the
right temple, INJECTING wound that
required several stitches to close. The
piano slipped to the sidewalk and was
badly damaged.
An important decision was rendered
by Judge F. D. Let's in the district
court at Muscatine when the court
granted the injunction as prayed. This
injunction restraints A. ]. Fuller from
canvassing and soliciting for orders
for liquor. This is the first time such
injunction has been granted in Musca-
tine. In granting the Injunction the
court cited decisions by the Iowa State
supreme court and the United States
supreme court which he held to be
similar in tenor.
Frederick A. Koechling, a we'll
known Keokuk cigarmaker, took his
life at his home, 511 North Third
street. by shooting himself through
the heart with a 3S-caliber revolver.
The fact that Mr.. Koechling had been
in, poor health for several years is
given as possible reason. He was
also losing the sight of one eye. and
this, combined with grief over the loss
Of two Of his favorite nephews in the
European war, is also given as pos
sible reason for his act.
The force and a number Of patrons
Of the Witcraft barber shop at Fonda
thought that the Germans were at
lacking Fonda, when bullet bored
nice little hole in the north window Of
the shop. 1t is a mystery where the
bullet came from but it evidently had
been fired at short range as it was go
ing with momentum enough to cut
clean hole the size Of 20 bullet
without cracking the glass. Though
close search of the shop was made for
the spent bullet it could not be To-
Gated.
There seems to be prospect Of
contest at the next term of district
court, over the will of the late John
Mcdonald Of Cedar Junction. Mr.. Nc
Donald, who was bachelor, left his
large property to his relatives, leav-