Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-08-13
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NEWS B .yy2':TE,FS

Sleppeu vi d i've ire.
Rev. Mr.. Healy, CT Frankville, has
the record for potatoes. From one hill
he dug forty tubers, fifteen of which
were the size Of hens eggs.
Josephine Tweed. 5-year-old, daugh.
ter of Peter Tweed, of Joyce, burned
herself to death by setting fire to he1
clothing while left alone in the house
Eighty-one convictions in the dis
trict court the PAST year cost Potta-
wattamie county $21,13O.72. Twenty
nine of those convicted were given
penitentiary sentences.
Morgan H. Rizer, for the past thir.
teen years passenger and ticket agent
for the Chicago & Northwestern rail-
road at Cedar Rapids, died at his home
there. Heart trouble is said to have
been the cause.
Brandon is to have new three
story hotel. The building will be To-
Gated ON the corner lot south of the
Schiliing cement building. Mr.. Bert
Hopkins is the promoter and work
will be started at once.
Judge r. P. Howell, of the Johnson
county district court, has named M. ].
Ward, Of Des Moines, administrator of
the estate Of his brother, the late Rev.
Francis Ward, of Iowa City. A bond
of $4,000 has been filed.
Samuel Matthews, aged 80 years. Of
Washington, one Of the Oldest men in
the county, died at his home. He lived
at Washington since 1865 and served
as a conductor in an underground
railway during the civil war.
Fred H. Shoals, formerly member
of the Iowa City council, and his
brother. George L. Shoals. have pur-
chased q newspaper plant at Kewa-
nee, ILL.,. and will start the Morning
Sun in opposition to the Star.
The Iowa Society Of Certified Pub
lie Accountants has been incorporated
at Iowa City. H. N. Holdsw0rth. Of
Iowa City, is president; George Shil-
linglaw, vice president; E. C. Prouty,
secretary, and F. Becker, treasurer.
Martin Watland, aged 20 years. who
formerly lived on a farm near Maple
Hill, was killed by lightning on his
Colorado ranch. The particulars have
not all been received, the body having
been found some twenty-eight hours
after the fatality.
John Logan, a young resident Of
Manchester, narrowly escaped death
when he was struck by an auto while
running foot race with several COM
panions. The machine passed over
one Of his legs, badly decorating the
member just above the ankle.
John Grail of FIT. Dodge was caught
under a moving machine while work
ing on a farm east of Fit. Dodge. He
was badly cut and bruised and will not
be able to work for several days.
James Dunavan, of Clare, caught his
hand in binder and cut it badly.
While on a vacation at Harlan, R.
NJ. McMurray, an employe of the
United States forestry service in Wyo-
ming and Idaho, died of a sudden at
tack of cerebral hemorrhage. He was
visiting at the home of H. A. Fischer.
He leaves a wife and daughter, two
weeks old.
Railroad accidents claimed two vic
tins at Davenport recently. Emil
Provick, mechanic, was found dead
on the tracks of the Rock Island west
of the city, and Roland Benson. aged
l6, a Chicago youth, was fatally in
jured when he fell from a moving
freight traiu.
Hog cholera in Iowa is declared to
be almost eradicated at the present
time. Only few isolated cases in a
few counties have been reported. DR..
C. H. STANCE, director of the state
serum laboratory at Iowa State col
lege, predicts there will be more this
fall, however.
While Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Barton
were returning to their home in Bed
ford from Missouri, driving over the
bridge over the Platte river, the ap-
proach to the bridge gave way, and all
were thrown into the swirling water
Mrs. Barton and their 3-year-old
daughter were drowned.
Mrs. Milton West, wife of promi-
nent farmer residing near Iowa City,
was thrown from her buggy with her
two daughters, one a mere babe, when
her horse ran away while on the way
10 town. The mother was unconsci-
ous when picked up while the chill
lren were cut and bruised. All will
recover.
While trying to board a moving
rain at LeMars, an unidentified man
about IS years old, suffered a frac-
.ured skull. Letters in his pocket
we're addressed to George G. Lowe
md q postal card from Minneapolis
was signed with the name of Elmer
Lowe. The man still lives but is I'M
conscious.
Cattle rustlers seem to have chosen
Iowa as a good field to work in. Num-
.rous disappearance of cattle have
,een reported and it is being laid to
heir work. Mrs. p. Riser, living near