Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-12-31
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NEWS |! 7. ) I ] |:

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Grippe is widely prevalent in the
state.
Quimby is to have state bank with
$4,000 capital.
The Atlantic Nurses home has been
destroyed by fire.
The Farmers Savings bank has been
incorporated at Salem.
Charles F. Curtiss, pioneer resident
of Clinton and we'll known in Eastern
Iowa, is dead.
Former State Senator John Feser,
aged CT, is dead as the result of fall
on an icy sidewalk.
S. G. VANDERBILT, prominent business
man and former mayor of Pella, died
after a short illness.
Sven Haug, of Marion, aged 101, is
said to be the Oldest man in Iowa. He
was born in Norway.
The post office at Imogene, FIRE.
mont county, was robbed of cash and
stamps. The safe was blown.
A post office has been established at
Beech, Warren county. Pearl Keeser
has been appointed postmaster.
William Dargfried, of Arcadia, COM
mitted suicide by hanging in the
Northwestern station at Carroll.
C. F. Swift, of Harlan, has been ap-
pointed postmaster to succeed G. A.
Reynolds, the republican incumbent.
Miss Anna Vogt, aged 81, died at
Nevada from burns received by the ex-
plosion Of stove polish mixed with
gasoline.
Former State Senator L. L. Taylor
fell on a sidewalk and fractured his
hip, serious injury in view of his ad-
vanced age.
Ray Larsen was arrested at Tekama,
Nebr., charged with having sent candy
containing rat poison to Ethel Nickel
son, of Red Oak.
The Floyd county board of super
visors will hold a mass meeting this
week for farmers to form a county
seed corn association.
The Des Moines Register and Leader
has changed it's corporate name to the
Register and Tribune company. The
capital stock is 100000.
Fire did $4,000 damage in the photo
graph studio of John Neel at Villisca.
The First National bank annex sus-
tanned a damage of $4,000.
Oscar Drake, aged so, prominent
farmer, was killed by Davenport
Muscatine interurban car. A heavy
fog prevented Drake from seeing the
car.
Ralph H. Faxon of Wichita, Kans.,
has been appointed general secretary
of the Des Moines Chamber of Com
merce to succeed Gels Botsford, re-
signed.
Twelve hogs belonging to Fred
Wiemmeraiage, of New Albin, were
suffocated by the fumes of gasoline
engine passing through pipe into
their pen.
Fred Meyer, convicted of murder,
was sentenced at Winterset to fifteen
years in the penitentiary. George
Frazier, also convicted of murder, was
sentenced to twenty years.
Secretary of State Aliens figures
show 145,O24 automobiles were regis
tered in Iowa in 1915, an increase of
3S,737 over 1914 The total fees col
lected in 1915 were S1,393,306.67.
Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson of Dubuque,
aged So, mother Of Fred c. Robinson,
grand secretary of the Benevolent and
Protective Order Of Elks for the past
twelve years, died of maladies incident
to old age.
Ten year old Earnest Brucklacher,
of Dillon, badly fractured his right
arm while attempting to stop line
shaft of a gasoline engine operating
the electric lighting plant in his
fathers home.
While playing, the 3year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. JOS. Litzman, living near
LIE Mars, fell on the crank of an up
tunred shaft lying upon the ground,
and splinter of wood destroyed the
sight Of one eye.
Sherman Brown shot his wife and
sister-in-law at Davenport The lat
ter, Mrs. Nellie Brown, died instantly,
and the wife is recovering. Brown
was frenzied because his wife would
not live with him.
Earl Sheeler, small son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Sheeler, Of east of Kingsley, was
kicked in the head by a horse. A sister
found the boy lying in the barn. His
parents were attending sale when
the accident occurred.
E. c. Haynes of Centerville is being
mentioned for state representative.
Haynes has been postmaster at Cen
terville for twenty-five years. A few
weeks ago he was succeeded by M. B.
Marling, a democrat.
A feature of Tama's municipal
Christmas tree celebration consisted
of so fine spruce trees set up in the
business streets. These were in addi- |
ton to large pine Christmas tree in
the center of the business section.
Ten FIT, Dodge girls who bargained !