Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-07-09
IOWA NEWS NOTES

At commercial club banquet re-
Gently it was decided to establish club
rooms in Storm Lake, the sum Of
$1,000 to be expended on the equip
ment and furniture. A committee also
was named to take up the matter Of
paving the streets this summer.
Edwin John Nokes, aged 81, pa
tient in the county hospital at Mar
! shalltown, ended his life by opening an
artery with a penknife when he
learned that when the new federal law
became effective Monday, he would be
unable to get any more morphine.
Alex Reichman, pioneer merchant
of LeMars, died at his home of Bright's
disease, aged IS. He was born in Ba-
den, Germany, May Is, 1910. He was
member of the school board for
eighteen years and was member of
the board of supervisors for six years.
Actual work on the rebuilding OF
the river front at Keokuk has been
started. The plans already have been
approved, and the street department
has begun its work of filling in the
river front for the new levee. Work
on the streets has been commenced.
With the primary for city election
in Ottumwa but few days off twenty
candidates for mayor and commits
sioner have filed their nomination pa
pers at the city hall Seven OF these
want to be mayor and thirteen coun-
cilmen. The incumbents all seek re-
election.
Fourteen hundred dollars was raised
in less than thirty minutes and the
M. E. church at Milford was cleared
of debt following an address by DR..
A. E. Craig. president of Morningside
college, The church recently was i'm
proved and made modern in every
respect
A coroner's jury at Cedar Rapids
has decided that the death of Engineer
Titzel. killed when a runaway switch
ngine crashed into the fast mail was
caused by an inexperienced fireman.
who did not understand how to shut
off the lever which governed the speed
of the locomotive.
Mrs Ida Tullis. of LeMars. attempt
ed suicide by taking tablets contain
ing bichloride of mercury She was
saved by the prompt use of a stomach
pump. Dependency is believed to
have been the cause of the attempt.
Her husband and child were burned
to death three years ago.
A coasting accident that nearly cost
the life of Miss Florence Gaunitz, aged
~ years. Of Waukon. occurred at that
place recently when the little girl in
coasting down hill ran into a stick
which penetrated the wall of the alb
domen. An operation has been per-
formed. She is exnacted to recover.
Five hundred and sixty-ive acres of
farm land near Climbing Hill were
sold by Payne-Sargisson and c. w.
Payne for $79,100, according to papers
filed in the office Of the county re-
corder. William s. Huntington was
the purchaser. The deed required a
war tax of $40. Under the law, sellers
must affix 81 stamp for every $1,000
involved in the deed.
Arthur Donlinger, Of Sioux City, a
student at commercial college,
miraculously escaped death when he
stepped from behind a carriage d.
rectly 81 front of a Clark street car
in Des Moines. He was rolled under
the fender and when the car stopped
the front wheels were only few
inches from his body. He was rushed
to hospital where it was found that
outside of bruises and cuts he was I'M
harmed.
A government agent was in the vi
cinty of Brooks for week tracing
the origination Of carload of hogs
brought up by dealers and shipped to
Buffalo. The foot and mouth disease
developed among the hogs, but as no
trace of the disease could be found at
Brooks it is believed the hogs con-
tracted the disease enroute or from
poorly disinfected car. The hogs were
condemned at Buffalo. The loss falls
upon Chicago shippers.
George PIERCE, police chief Of Sioux
City, has been placed under arrest on
warrant sworn out in local jus,
tees office. The information was
filed by E. c. Nalcotu, secretary of the
Y. NJ c. A. 1t charges bribery against
the head Of the police force. 1t is
thought other arrests will follow. The
charges against Chief PIERCE are the
result of investigation into city con-
ditions which have been quietly made
for number of weeks. 1t is alleged
that startling revelations Of civic
graft, general corruption and knaver.
will be revealed.
SIZE REWARD. Sloe.