Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-09-17
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over 1000.
Oliver C. Winter, aged 81 years. and
q pioneer Allamakee county resident
died at his home in Waukon.
E. l.. Richards, of Sheldon. was
elected president Of the National Har-
ness Manufacturers association at the
convention in Kansas City.
A. L. Dennis, who owns farm near
Rosie, rented so acres on shares. He
got two-fifths of the oats crop. which
melted him $67O.sO rent for the eighty
H. C. Gruah, an aged resident OF
Waukon, made a misstep in alighting
from an auto and was painfully in
jured when he struck the pavement
with his head.
Elisha w. Bushnell. familiarly
known as Buck" Bushnell. for five
years sheriff of Mills county. dropped
dead while inspecting the new county
Jail at Glenwood.
Legislators attending the state fair
have given little encouragement to
the proposal of the Greater Iowa com
mittee urging an extra session to con-
slider good roads legislation.
Much soft corn is considered certain
in the vicinity Of Kingsley. owing to
the absence of warm weather. Never
before has there appeared to be so
many ears started on the stalk.
A good roads convention is to be
held at Cedar Rapids early in October
and Governor Clarke has been asked
to name two delegates from each
county in the state to attend the same.
Less than one hundred veterans.
representing all that is left of the
Eighth Iowa cavalry met in the as
sembly tent on Soldiers hill at the
State Fair grounds for their annual
reunion.
Governor Clarke is being urged by
officers of the Greater Iowa assOcia-
ton and Dean Curtis, of Ames, to call
special session Of the state legisla-
ture for the enactment Of good roads
measures.
w. B. Palmer, candy manufacturer
of Sioux City, is named by John F. D.
Aue, editor of the Alton Democrat, as
the logical nominee of the democratic
party for governor of Iowa in the 1916
primaries.
John F. Pitt celebrated his S7th
birthday in Waukon, the members OF
the G. A. R., his old army comrades.
treating him to a pleasant surprise.
Mr.. Pitt has resided in Allamakee
county 60 years.
The Rev. William R. Cole. one of
the Oldest Unitarian ministers in
Iowa and formerly editor-publisher of
the Anti-saloon League organ, Dial of
Progress, died at Mount Pleasant. He
was 81 years old.
B. X. Kilbourne, freight agent OF
the Illinois Central railroad at Fort
Dodge who retires September 4, has
been in the employ of this road thirty
four years. Ill health is the reason
for his retirement.
J. F. Beatty, a brakeman on the Mil
waukee road at Ottumwa, was held up
and robbed of $40. He was shot twice
In the right arm while resisting the
hold-ups. He is in the hospital. The
highway men escaped.
A special election to be held ut
Maple Hill has been called for the
purpose of voting on the proposition
to build new $4,000 school house
for the consolidated district just
formed in that territory.
Andrew Helgeson, an 11-year old
boy, was painfully injured when he
was struck by the Heiser auto in
Wankon. 1t was at first thought
Helgeson was fatally injured but ut
present is recovering nicely.
DR.. C. s. Woods, former state cpl
at the Iowa City univers-
ity, has been chosen superintendent OF
the Methodist hospital in Indianapo-
lis, Ind. The institution is the largest
Of it's kind in the Indiana capital.
Farmers who are attempting to
thresh their grain from the shock are
finding much difficulty. A great deal
of the small grain had lodged when
cut and it was impossible to build
shocks that would keep out the rain.
Drs. Sgd Maiden Of Iowa City, and
F. w. Sallander of Fort Madison,
graduates of S. U. l. college of medi-
cine, have been called to London to
fill posts in notable hospital. They
will specialize in eye, ear, nose and
throat.
Despite the protests Of taxpayers,
the city council of Sioux City is plan
ming to increase the tax levy for next
year to 40 mills, to make up the de-
ficit in the citys funds caused by the
of the saloons after an
uary 1, 1916.
Louis Thurman and George Katzen-
meyer escaped death narrowly when
an Iowa City-Cedar Rapids interurban
car smashed the formers auto on a
track in a deep cut near the santa
rum at Oakdale. 1t is remarkable
that neither man was injured.
Police of Denison are trying hard to
locate a tramp engaged in a cutting
ARRAY in the jungles near that place.