Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-10-08

| A bad check artist secured $3.50 dur
Ing the past week from merchants Ut
Cascade He was a farm hand and
used the names of Nick TURNS, a
prosperous farmer His real name is
known to the authorities however.
! and it is expected he Will be arrested
soon.
Prof. Glenn N Merry. head Of the
department Of public speaking at
Iowa university. is lecturing on
Thirty Pieces of Silver" in Indiana.
Illinois and Wisconsin. along with
chautauqua circuits. and the univers-
ity is receiving fine notices of his
work.
Martin C. Johnson. formerly asso-
ciated with his brother in the John
son Biscuit company at Sioux City.
has left for Council Bluffs. where he
will be associated with the Woodward
Candy company. one of the largest
concerns of its kind west Of New York
City.
Sunny Heights Is the name OF the
new addition being plated by Lamb
This is a combination selected from
the various names submitted. These
gentlemen are pushing the work on
the new addition and now advertise
the sale of lots.
A. f. James. the farmer and stock
man of near Montezuma. has shown
his versatility by inventing foot-rest
attachment for round pointed shoveis
and has secured patent on it. The
attachment looks like a good thing
and we hope it will produce good re-
turns for his skill.
Slugged, beaten and robbed. James
Ferris, section foreman Of the Mil
waukee railroad at Conesville. was at
tackled while directing construction
upon the railroad. Three negroes who
are believed to have been the assail-
ants of the section foreman. were ar
rested by the Musca:ine police in the
railroad yard there.
The Tri-City Railway company OF
Davenport has renewed its articles OF
incorporation with the secretary OF
state. The capital Of the company Is
$2,5OO,OO Articles of the Marshall
Printing company. with a capital OF
$4,000 have also been filed and q new
biscuit factory at Dubuque has been
incorporated with $4,000 capital.
M. Schnorr. aged Is. of Bloomfield.
was almost instantly killed in an
accident on the Waubonsie
trail near Pulaski. Schnorr was &C
companying R. C. Beauchamp. owner
of the car, when it turned turtle. The
boy was pinned beneath the car. A
coroner's jury gave a verdict OF acci-
dental death due to careless driving.
E. ]. Robertson, physical director
of the Y. M. c. A. at Charles City, has
returned from a 5000 mile trip
the west in his Ford car. He
started from here August LIST over the
Lincoln highway through Nebraska
and Wyoming. After thirteen days OF
steady travelling over bad roads and
flooded places Yellowstone Park was
reached. Gasoline in the park was
selling for IS cents gallon.
Two men had . rather perilous ex-
perience when their horse and buggy
went over the Charlton river bank
with them, on the road turning north
east of the Charlton bridge east OF
Harry Sharp and A.
Johnson were the unlucky parties.
The horse is said to have stumbled as
they were passing this narrow place
in the road on which the river has
and all went to the bottom
of the bank.
Prof. Geo. f. Kay, state geologist,
who is also "a the head of the depart
ment of geology of the Iowa State uni
versity, has been on tour OF lnspec-
ton of the cuts along the main line
Of the Rock Island railroad in order
to determine the effects OF excessive
rains on the different kinds OF ma
terial. and also upon the different sec
tons of the country adjacent to the
road. Prof. Kay used the company's
motor cars.
Secretary Sonquist, of the OBrien
county Y. M. c. A, has left Sheldon
for his home at Fargo, N. u. After
short visit there he goes to Chicago
where he begins a three
years course in theology and soclol-
ogy, expecting to get his masters de-
gree. Mr.. Sonquist during the past
year has had the northern part OF the
county in the Y. NJ. c. A. work and
has accomplished good which can
not be measured.
Donald, the 11-year-old son OIL j. n.
Frank, of Rock Rapids, was accident
ally shot through the heart by his
playmate, Gerald Hoben. The boys
had been shooting rats with a rifle
and had gone to the Office of the local
grain elevator. Young Hoben, sup
posing the gun to be empty, picked it
I'D and pointed it at Frank. Death
was instantaneous. This makes the
second death by accident in this
family, young son having been
killed in Nav by falling through