Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-12-17
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a burning bunkhouse used by sectio
hands, Dom Memenco, a Greek sec
ton hand at LIE Mars, was badl
burned.
Editor John Sullivan, of the Hard
wick Star, has been appointed post
master He thinks that he will b.
able to take possession about the frs
of the year.
J. Z. Hanson resigned his position
as assistant cashier in the Ringstet
State bank and accepted position a!
cashier of the Farmers National banl
at Crystal Lake.
A special election on bond issue
of $4,000 to build new grade schoo
was held at Eldora. The city counci
also plans to pave mile or more Of
streets next spring.
w. J. Dixon, chairman Of the state
board of control, has announced that
the new chair factory established al
the Fort Madison penitentiary will be
opened before January 1.
The Council Bluffs Y. M. c. A. raised
! $4,000 in a remarkable campaign. The
work required but five days. The sum
was raised to clear the organization
from debt. The building is fine one.
DR.. Robert Wright has been APP
pointed assistant superintendent of
the state inebriate hospital at Knox
Vile to succeed DR.. ]. Van Meter. who
has accepted q position at the Cla-
rinda state hospital.
Four cows and five horses were
burned to death in a fire at Des
Moines, the fire destroying the barn
of A. A. Wilkins The origin of the
fire is unknown but it is thought
that sparks from passing train
started the blaze.
Leo Kirendol, driver at the mine
at Lockman, is in the hospital with
dislocated shoulder, three broken ribs
and other injuries resulting when he
was kicked by mule and fell between
the car and the wall and was dragged
several hundred feet
A fire panic was threatened at Ne
vada when a motion picture film be-
came overheated and burned. The
theatre was crowded, but all the peo-
pie got out unhurt, except c. A.
Brealy, proprietor, who was injured
getting out of a booth.
Just as they had placed their house
hold goods in wagons to move to an
other locality, the stork paid visit to
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Young, southeast
of Clarinda, presenting them with a
daughter. Their plans for moving
were temporarily abandoned.
J. H. Whitmans Home store, includ-
ing the postoffice, was destroyed at
Seney, six miles north of LIE Mars.
The total loss was $4,000. The mail
was saved but the books of the Office
we're lost. Fire originated in the oil
room in the rear of the building.
Elimination of one of the rural mail
routes at LIE Mars has been decided
upon, effective December LIST. This
leaves but ten routes out of LIE Mars.
are being substituted for
other vehicles and farmers feel the
change will not be satisfactory.
E. A. Boggs, tombstone manufac-
turer of Waterloo, who was sent to the
for q term of five years
upon conviction Of larceny by en-
bezzlement is being considered by the |
state board for parole. Wealthy rela-
tives and influential friends are urging
the board to free Boggs.
When the $4,000 addition to the
Chicago Great Western shops at DEL
vein is completed it will give employ
ment to five hundred additional men.
The force of $500 there now will be
increased to $500 and the monthly
payroll, which is now $4,000. will be /!
augmented proportionately.
A post mortem over the body Of DR.. |
Frederick A. Braun, formerly men,
Der of the faculty of Iowa university,
that the death had been
caused by a glioma, small tumor To-
Gated in the central nervous system |
only. The cause of the tumor is un-
known and SO far it has proved in |
durable.
Shocking thirty-tive bushels of corn,
Miss Della Leibforth, of Northboro,
lays claim to be the champion woman |
corn husker of southwestern Iowa. 1t
is not known whether Miss Liebforth
IS an ardent suffragette, but with her
shocking ability would be Of material
lelp in the recent "bushel of corn" for
suffrage campaign started in this
state.
A municipal ice skating rink is an
Innovation for Iowa cities that She
will have this winter. An
lcre and a half of the large McComb
lark at the edge of town is being
skinned of the sod and the first cold
pell will be flooded three inches deep
With water so that it will freeze and
orm a sheet of ice for the devotees
f the winter sport.
Thirty cars of stock, hogs and cat
lie, were sent out Of DEBORAH one day
asst week, to the Kansas City markets.
t was the biggest single day ship
1ents of stock ever leaving DEBORAH.
he stock is all Winneshiek county
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