Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-09-24
The Oldest bank account in Iowa was


closed up at Davenport when articles
Of dissolution of the corporation Of
the John Hoyt Piano & Music com
pany were filed. The account was the
first account of the first national bank
in operation in the United States, the
First National of Davenport. The ac'
count was opened July 20, 1853, and
has been running continuously for tie
past tifty-three years.
The election at Randolph for the
$4,000 bond issue carried by a major
ity Of "a. The men voted LOG for and
149 against, and the women voted 100
for and e against. This makes the
fourth bond election held this summer.
One noticeable feature has been that
the women have spoiled fewer ballots
than the men and the practice they
have had this year will put them in
good shape for the election next year.
The prospect of very short corn
crop around Arlington this year is
causing the movement of consider
able amount of spring shoats Re-
Gently four loads of hogs have been
shipped and good per cent of them
were young hogs. which represents a
great reduction in the farm receipts
from the sale of the usual finished
porkers. One car of sheep shipped by
Lester Squires and load OF cattle
made up the consignments.
At special meeting of the Grurdy
Center school board sS5.000 wortl, Of
bonds, to be issued for the purpose OF
building the new school house. were
sold to the Harris Trust & Savings
company, of Chicago. The bonds will
bear 5 per cent interest and they are
issued for twenty years. The COM
pany getting the bonds will pay pre-
mum of $1,675 for them. Three diff
ferent firms had representatives there
who submitted bids for the business.
The youngest son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Gerard, Jr., OF Oskaloosa, met
with fatal accident. He had climbed
a tree to get a crows nest, when he
fell from height of thirty or forty
feet and sustained broken limbs and
internal injuries which resulted in his
death an hour and a half later. The
child was visiting at his uncle's when
the accident occurred and neither par
emit was there, but were summoned at
once. He never regained conscious
ness.
Moving pictures of an educational
nature will be shown in the Oska-
loosa high school after the school hour
during the afternoon at intervals dur
ing the coming year. The pictures will
be free to students and patrons and
will center about the Chicago Herald's
travelog service which has been Sc
cured by Superintendent Flower for
the purpose. Industrial and geogra-
phical pictures will give the students
a better understanding of their own
The finding of the dead bodies OF
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Hobart Of De-
corah under their automobile, with
The man carrying $1,000 on his person
and the woman wearing jewelry ex-
,eeding that amount, caused much ex-
there. The fact that there
are heirs by first marriage and that
It is impossible to tell which died first,
has caused some controversy. but it is
believed that the heirs will get to-
sether and make settlement OF the
.wo estates.
Woodbury. county has $40 teachers
in its school system-5O
men and 500 women. They teach on
IN average 10000 of the 1922 chill
lren of schol age in the county. Con-
litions of the school teachers have
been improved Of late and their pay
has been increased. Women teaching
in the city draw an average OF $75
while the average for women
in the county is $46.58. Men teachers
in the towns draw an average rsmun-
Grafton of $12O per month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hoogenakker cele-
brated their golden wedding at their
home in Pella The occasion was in
The nature of family reunion at
which all the ten children were pres
ent except two living in Canada. Mr..
and Mrs. Hoogenakker were both born
in Holland. He came to Pella in 1854
and she in 1855. They were married
August 81, 1865. and lived for forty
years in a house on Liberty street, af-
ter which they moved to their pres
ent home in the north part of town.
The fact that Clinton is to have
new numbering system is generally
regarded with approval by the people
of the city, who have long felt that
complete system was badly needed.
Some years ago the city council! adopt
ed an ordinance providing for sys-
tenn of house numbering. This ordin-
ance stated that where lots were sixty
feet in width, numbers would be pro
yided for each thirty feet. In other
blocks where they were forty or fifty
feet number was assigned to each
lot.
Leclia, the 3-year-old daughter of
Ed Portwine. living six miles north of
Edgewater, owes her recovery, after
he;ne lost in the woods all night, to a