Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-10-08
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has been elected head physician OF tht
Modern Brotherhood of America.
. Frosted corn should be put into the
silo, according to the advice of Prof
w. H. Pew. of the animal husbandry
department of Iowa State college.
Unable to rouse her husband, Mrs
B. F. Stevenson of Jefferson called .
physician who. upon examination de.
clared that the man had been dead fol
six hours. Death was due to heart
failure.
/ Herbert E. Hershey, for two years
secretary of the Commercial club al
Charles City. has resigned his post
there. Because of his splendid work
in that position his going will cause
deep regret.
Enoch Skooglund, for the past two
years pastor of the Swedish Congre-
gational church at Ottumwa, has left
for Balaton, Mimi, where he has &C
cepted a CALL Rev. Gustav Bjork will
succeed him.
Statements are given out by the vet
Urinary department of the Iowa agri-
cultural experiment station that the
only anti-hog cholera serum that is
effective is produced by the Niles
Dorset method.
Jitney bus owners at Ottumwa have
entered complaint against the passage
of an ordinance that imposes many re-
strictions on jitney bus traffic. An
indemnity bond of $4,000 is one of the
regulations proposed.
Mrs. Henry Bittner of Greenfield re-
ceived a broken arm and other in
juries when the buggy in which she
and her husband were riding was
overturned by an automobile driven
by Miss Edith Mulhern.
Fire of unknown origin completely
destroyed the Watterson store build
ing at Mt Ayr. together with the stock
of general merchandise owned by w.
S. Cole. He estimates his loss at be-
tween $500 and $4,000.
District meetings of the Iowa
League of Municipalities for the &C
commodation of the smaller towns of
the league was recommended by Frank
Pierce, of Marshalltown, secretary. at
the convention at Council Bluffs.
Shipment into Iowa from Illinois of
cattle. sheep. hogs. goats. hay, straw.
cholera serum, raw milk or cream is
absolutely prohibited by the animal
health commission. as q protection
against the foot and mouth disease.
Roland Hamm, aged 16, the son Of
prominent farmer near Usage, while
speeding ran into the Comet culvert
west of Usage and sustained two bro
ken arms, two broken ribs and num-
Der of bruises. The car was demol-
ished.
BY an action of the board Of educa-
ton of Mount Ayr the regular kinder
garten work will be established in
place of the sub-primary. Half the
pupils will attend in the morning
while the other half will be received
during the afternoon.
Mrs. A. L. Uurick of Des Moines
was knocked to the pavement and
badly injured by jitney bus. The jit-
ney was driven by Earl Layton. He
claims that Mrs. Urick hesitated as she
crossed the street and that the acct
dent was unavoidable.
The body of Mrs. Lyman Wilcox,
pioneer woman of Ida county, was
brought to Ida Grove from Omaha for
burial. Mrs. Wilcox was u years old
and came here from New York state
As years ago. She Travelled across the
country in prairie schooner.
L. Miller, aged SO, and Emma Chris
Jensen, aged So, both of Coin, drove
through heavy rain storm to be
joined in wedlock by District Judge
McHenry. The Judge performed the
ceremony while the couples rain
soaked clothing dripped puddles on his
office floor.
H. S. Rattenborg, of Atlantic, one of
the bondholders of the Atlantic North
ern, has filed suit in the district court
there asking that receiver be ap
pointed for the road. He claims the
road has been mismanaged, thus dam
aging the security and lessening the
value of the bonds.
To be both an auctioneer and
preacher is an unusual distinction, but
the Rev George A. Hendrickson. who
was formerly pastor of the Christian
church here, auctioned the Shetland
ponies at the pony sale of F. P. Healy
of Bedford, at feed yard there Tues
day Mr.. Hendrickson is located at
Shawnee, Okla, now.
At a meeting of the Festivalians at
the Commercial club rooms at Charles
City a committee was appointed to
organize a country club. The Festi-
valians will have charge of the formal
opening of the New Hildreth hotel
September 81. There will be a ban
Quet and later in the evening dance.
Father George Giglinger, pastor of
st. Mary's Catholic church of Keokuk.
who practically risked his life in Or
der to get one more glimpse of his old
home in Germany and to attend to
some matters Of business there, is now