Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-08-04
A new ;ss, 1000 school will be erected

I logger SSUU anu COSIS.
Much damage was done by storms
to crops near Greene.
Alfred c. Gregg, prominent farmer
near Burlington, is dead.
Seven horses near New Hampton
were killed by lightning.
The Southern Iowa Fair will be held
in Oskaloosa September 1928.
Fred Mace, age 3, Of Missouri Val
ley, was badly stung by bees.
Mrs Danford Dudgeon Of Stockport
was killed in an auto accident.
Traces of gold were discovered In
the Cedar river near Waterloo.
Jacob V. Slower, aged 80, Johnson
county pioneer, died at Iowa City.
Several persons were injured at
I Iowa City when two autos collided.
A course of normal training will be
Installed in the schools at Bellevue.
Gardner Graves, aged 43, of Har-
Ian, is dead from fall from scafold.
The next State Sunday Schoo! con-
vention will be held in Council Bluffs.
Approximately $1S0,0O0 worth OF
buildings are being erected in Allan
tic.
James Skarda, farmer near Tama,
committed suicide by taking strych-
nine.
Mrs. NJ. A. Moore, of LIE Mars, fell
down stairs, breaking her shoulder
blade.
E. A. Buckwalter of Riverside, age
&C, was killed when his team ran
away.
Two armed men held up and robbed
the east side railroad station at Wat
erloo.
Flames did $4,000 worth of damage
at the Homan furniture store in Du-
buque.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Ernst Of Oelwein
celebrated their 55th wedding ami
versary.
Arad Thompson, civil war veteran
of Shellsburg, died from cancer OF the
stomach.
Lloyd L. Smith, formerly Of She
nandoah, was wounded in the Euro
pean war.
The buildings on the farm of D. Y.
Pollock, near Eldridge, were destroy
ed by fire.
william Hennegar, of Bellevue, lost
his five passenger touring car when 1t
caught fire.
The irregularities in the state bank
at Clarinda are being investigated by
state auditors.
Henry Young, farmer near Iowa
City, was attacked by giant SOW and
seriously injured.
Several passengers were shaken up
when an Illinois Central train left the
tracks at LIE Mars.
Paul Mckay, aged II, of Des Moines,
was drowned while swimming In the
Des Moines river.
Sheriff Leslie Of Fl. Dodge was in
jured in fight with two drunken men
near Twin Lakes.
Leo Casavant, aged IA, was drowned
while swimming, when patent life
saver sank with him.
Twenty thousand voices are to be
heard in great song-fest being ar
ranged at Sioux City.
The Commercial club at Bellevue
will place flags along the streets for
the benefit Of autoists.
Six thousand voices sang with
band Of fifty pieces at the community
singing at Cedar Falls.
Mrs. Jerry Mahoney Of Raglan was
injured when she fell from tree
while picking cherries.
Bernard McCreary, aged Is, near Fl
Dodge, was drowned while swimming
in the Des Moines river.
Clarence Mathew and two sons, FL
mer and Chester, were drowned near
Vinton while swimming.
Deputy Sheriff C. s. McClung, Of
Upton, returned from Paramount,
Mimi, with a horse thief.
Mary Michaelis, who has been miss
ing from Defiance for twelve years,
has been located in Detroit.
One person was killed and five in
jured when Milwaukee passenger
train hit an auto near Farson.
Glenn Allison of Vincent was ser
iously injured on the Fourth, when a
sky rocket hit him on the chest
Richard Grauerholtz, who fell from
a wagon at Cedar Rapids some time
ago, died from injuries received.
Judson Haines, aged 81, and Ber-
nard McQuarry, aged Is, both Of Hum
boldt, were drowned while swimming
An Iowa City man, in order to es-
cape prosecution for forgery. is said
to have enlisted in the Iowa cavalry.
Bob and Boba, Clinton team Of fire
horses, set a worlds record at the
State Firemen's tournament at De
Witt.
William Boles OF Davenport is dead
from fall down an elevator shaft at
the Harmed & Won Maur's department
store.
Pat Hanley, age II, Of Sioux City,
was struck by an auto and fell 60 feet
into a ravine, sustaining a ruptured
kidney.
Charles w. Crawford, colored man
from Ottumwa, was caught In posses