Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-10-29

Five business buildings at Grant
| housing double that number Of firms
and offices were destroyed by fire
that started in restaurant. The total
loss is nearly $4,000, with insurance
| of probably 80 per cent. Grant is the
largest inland town on the Atlantic
Southern railroad 1t is said all the
business houses will be rebuilt.
George Millman, who is employed g
a car repairer at Bellevue, fell from
the ladder of the company's water
tank and received a serious injury to
his spine. He was in the act of climb
| ing up the ladder to regulate the water
gauge on the tank, and when about
twenty-five feet from the ground one
of the steps broke, causing him to fall.
A municipal dance hall in Sioux City
is favored by the city fathers, and one
is likely to be QUILTED in the near fu-
ture AS one alderman put it. he be-
lieves it is better to have place
where the young can congregate under
proper safeguards than have them go
promiscuously to every place of
| amusement conducted without re-
| strictions.
| Every pool hall in Muscatine has
been closed as a result of the action
of the Muscatine city council ordering
such a step to be taken by the mayor.
The motion. presented by the socialist
members of the council, was support
ed by churchmen of other parties.
Violations of the law on the part OF
pool hall proprietors are cited as
cause for action.
A carpet of leaves over street car
tracks at Third and Pine streets at
Davenport was the unique cause of
collision between a Fourth and Third
street car at that corner. The leaves
were damp and acted like oil on tie
rails. The cars slid together and the
Fourth street car was damaged. Sew
eral windows were broken and pas
sengers narrowly escaped injury.
BY the terms of the will of the late
]. E. Lindsay, millionaire lumberman.
of Davenport, the vast estate is di-
vided among one son, George F. Lind
say, and the survivors of deceased
son. Ralph E. Lindsey, and deceas-
ed daughter, Mrs. Fred Wyman. Sub
ject to the above plan of distribution
are special requests made to distant
relatives, servants and employees. to-
falling $4,000.
Hon. and Mrs. G. E. Hilsinger, Mrs.
w. G. Newsome, Deputy Fish Commits
sioners w. E. Albert and A. C. Bah
cock, came up from Sabula to Belle
vue in the Hilsinger launch. Winifred.
and the commissioners delivered
thirty ringnecked English pheasants
to Representative Joseph Kelso to be
placed on the Frank Sieverding farm,
which has been designated as one OF
the state game preserves.
James r. Conklin, machinist Ut
Valley Junction has filed suit in the
federal court against the Rock Island
for $4,000 damages alleged to have
been sustained through negligence OF
his superiors in sending him an mex
perienced helper. Paul Mccain. who
with himself was carrying 2O0-pound
piece Of iron which the former let drop
on the machinist, causing him to be-
come ruptured and incapable of labor.
The European war has struck home
with awful reality to Herbert Nc
Maude, of Swea City, who has received .
from his mother in England word Of
the death of her husband. The senior
McMaude was serving in the ranks Of
the Gordon Highlanders. and was
killed in an engagement in France. I
The particulars we're very meager
from the fact that Mrs. McMaude was
unable to receive anything but the
barest information from the front.
H. J. Buchanan, Of an Ames transfer
company, fell twelve feet from the
porch of the Douglas hotel and frac-
tured his skull. He was lifting q !
trunk to the porch roof by . strap
when it broke, throwing Buchanan
against the railing. The railing In
turn broke and threw him to the side" |
walk below, where he rolled to the |
pavement. Had it been cement walk
instead of board walk, which had
some spring. Buckman's injuries
would have been much more serious.
Raymond McDermott, the 17-year-
old son of John McDermott, Of Cass |
county, has been awarded gold
medal by the Panama-Pacific exposi-
ton for raising greater quantity and
better quality of corn to the acre than
was ever raised anywhere in the
United States. The medal has been
sent to Governor Clarke. who will pre-
sent it to the boy at the Polk county
corn show November 5th. Young Nc
Dermott raised 154 bushels and AZ lbs.
of Reeds yellow corn on his acre of
land.
Mrs. Anna l. Hillman, who drives
an electric automobile, is alleged to