Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-02-19
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Fred Shrine, for fifty years and
more resident of Cleark Lake, is deac
from Bright's disease.
Decker & Sons Of Mason City re.
eeived a call for meat from France
for immediate shipment The order
calls for New York delivery.
James Fletscher, q real estate man
OF Sioux City, died Of apoplexy, caused
according to physicians, by over-ex'
ertion in shoveling snow from side
walk.
June Morrow, son of G. w. Morrow
Of Abba, was severely burned about
the face and hands by the explosion
Of gasoline lamp. with which he was
working.
Mr.. J. X. Steenson, mayor Of Ayr
shire. died Unexpectedly after a brief
illness, aged 70. He was one OF the
most prominent pioneers in this part
Of the state.
Fire of unknown origin broke out in
the Martin hotel at Waterloo and al
most completely destroyed the build
ing. The hotel was one of the finest
in the city and was built three years
ago.
Thomas Thompson has made prop
osition to the town of Brighton to in
stall an electric light and power plant.
He asks the town to use fifty street
lamps and proposes to sell current at
121a cents per kilowatt.
Mike Kilibarda. an employe Of the
car repairing shops at Council Bluffs.
Is mourning $50 bill which was
burned in small blaze at his home.
The money was in vest in closet
where the fire started. Mike says he
has no money to burn.
w. o. Hoover. pioneer resident Of
Fort Madison. died at his home there.
He was 76 years old and with the ex-
ception of two years spent at Phoenix.
Ariz.. he spent his entire life here. On
January an ovation was given him
to celebrate his fiftieth anniversary as
. Mason.
A $4,000 damage suit against Iowa
City is to be tried in Iowa City. by
change of venue from Marengo, where
the case was instituted. Hugh Owens.
4 leading farmer, was killed. when his
auto plunged over an embankment,
after a washOut had removed bridge.
His heirs sue.
The center of interest at Cornell
college at Mt. Vernon shifted from
scholastic and athletic matters to
religion and art. dorado Taft. the
celebrated sculptor. delivered lee
ture In the auditorium which was at
tended by the entire school and lib
eral proportion Of citizens.
Seventeen carloads of hogs were
shipped from Monticello. the price be-
ing in most cases $500 per hundred.
Cascade buyers as we'll as the Month
cello buyers we're shipping. The farm
ers are all anxious to get rid Of their
hogs q soon as possible. Farm sales
are advertised all over the country.
j. J. Hughes. democratic committee
man. announces he has withdrawn
from the race for postmaster OF Coun-
Gil Bluffs. He has thrown his support
to his brother. George F. Hughes. the
lieve he will win out. although there
are four other aspirants for the place.
Young Desire Pierott of Mystic.
while at work in No. IL shifting cars
from cage to mine. through mistake
signals. was caught between the cage
and the wall of the shaft and almost
Instantly killed. Funeral services
we're held from his home and the In.
terment was made in Highland Gene.
terry.
Many plans are being made to beau
tify Corydon's new park. which was
purchased for the town by r. c. Pos.
ton. administrator OF the estate Of the
late Allen Walden. Mr. Poston closed
the deal with Mr.. Woods and pur-
chased the plot OF ground known as
The Rea park at the southeast corner
Of the city.
Miss Anna lverson. of New Hamp-
ton. has been elected to fill vacancy
to teach art work in the Trades high
school at Portland. Ore. Miss Iverson
IS a graduate of the Art Institute. Chi.
cago. and has taught in the college
and city school at Yankton. S. D.. and
the Iowa State Teachers college at
Cedar Falls.
The go-to-church campaign was in
augurated at Sioux City in hammer
and tong fashion. All the ministers
In the city are taking hold in the
movement. Newspapers. billboards.
window and street car advertising
matters are being utilized. and the
promoters are hopeful the effect will
be pew filing"
Checks totaling more than $4,000
we're paid out by one Perry firm Of
stock buyers to the farmers Of that
vicinity for hogs. In all 1900 hogs.
or fifteen carloads. were bought. D.
Dubridge took home the biggest check
of any of the large ones paid out, re-
ceiving $1,720.0S for SO hogs, which
were raised on his farm near Perry.
The total amount of business done
by the Shenandoah seed houses