Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-09-03
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Congressman w. R. Green has sold
his Audubon residence and has bought
a place in Council Bluffs, where he
will build.
The recent heavy rains at keokuk
did considerable damage to the street
railway tracks and five blocks will
have to be relaid.
Arthur Prayer, of Shelby, member
of the board of supervisors of Shelby
county, died following an operation in
an Omaha hospital.
Abraham Martin, Grand Army
veteran, of Iowa City, died at his
home there, aged rs. He leaves his
wife and six children.
Worry over the Frank case is al
legged to have caused Frank H. Phil
lips, of Council Bluffs, to go insane.
He will be sent to Clarinda.
J. S. Mcintyre, an old and we'll
known business man of Algona, died
in Chicago following his being thrown
from street car. His hip was
broken.
While at Diagonal, w. Y. Hopes,
of Alton, fell into an open areaway
suffering injuries which caused his
death. He had lived in Union county
IS years.
Tests just made at the state agri-
cultural college laboratory proved
that not one of the so-called hog chol-
era cures that are widely advertised
is effective.
]. c. Kerrigan, good roads man of
O'Brien county, and Miss Estella
Bray, teacher in the Ames high
school, were married at the home Of
the bride in Grinnell.
At a business meeting held at Pts
gah, Logan was selected as the meet
ing place OF the next annual reunion
of the Latter Day Saints of western
Iowa, Little Sioux district.
w. S. Kenyon, United States sena-
tor from Iowa, will deliver the adj
dress at the annual reunion of the
Johnson County Old Settlers associa-
ton to be held at Iowa City, Septem-
Der 10.
Ernest Weather was taken with
cramps and drowned in the Des
Moines river near Estherville. He
was an expert swimmer and when he
called for help it was thought he was
Joking.
Civil service examinations will be
held September 25 for motor rural
carriers at Little Sioux, Mount Pleas
ant, Salem, Anton, Salix, Armstrong,
Estherville, Mount Hamill, Onawa and
Whiting.
James Patton, well known resi-
dent of Henry county, died at his
home at Mount Pleasant. He was a
director of the Henry County Agricul-
tural association and a former mem
Der of the board of supervisors.
| Nathan and Frank Rainsbarger.
sentenced to life Imprisonment in
1887 for the murder of Enoch John
son, of Hardin county, have been pa
rolled by Governor Clarke. They were
the oldest convicts in the state.
Daniel V. Masser, principal of the
Castana high school, was married to
Miss Abigail Shumway, we'll known
farmers daughter, west of Marshall
town. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. o. H. Cessna, chaplain at
Ames.
Will Heinz, residing near Eagle
Center, met with a serious accident.
While on top of windmill tower his
support gave way and he was thrown
to the ground, receiving number of
;~<o IN,
juries.
r. w. Chamberlain, pioneer retail
jeweler of Marshalltown, has made an
assignment to his attorney for the
benefit Of his creditors, pending bank
ruptcy proceedings. The creditors
are said to be largely Chicago jewelry
j0bbers.
Detectives are searching for an un-
known man who entered the home of
a Council Bluffs woman whose hus
band works nights and threatened her
life while lie ransacked the house.
The woman's name was withheld by
the police.
Chief of Police John w. Miller of
Iowa City has recovered $50 worth of
tailor's patterns, stolen from a shop
in Silvis. Joseph Smith, accused of
the theft. was traced to Cedar Rapids
from Iowa City by the chief, and was
arrested there.
Struck by a trolley car while riding
in an automobile, Mrs. Jack Smith,
wife Of the night captain of police of
Ottumwa, was probably fatally in
jured. Mrs. Smith was hurled several
! feet against tree. She suffered a
blood clot on the brain.
The official board of the Rock Rap
ids NJ. f. church adopted a resolution
urging the lay electoral conference to
select o. p. Miller as lay delegate
from the northwest Iowa conference
! to the general conference in 1916. Mr.
Miller has been conference treasurer
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