Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-08-11

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A fine hospital will be erected a
Monticello.
| The general crop outlook is goo'
| all over the state
| A new amusement park is beini
| erected at Hampton.
A thirty-fve acre tract near L
Mars sold for $4,000.
Iowa City will erect four new
schools at a cost of $25O,0O0.
Oren Swartz, aged 81, of Stanley
was drowned near Hazelton.
Nearly half of the business section
of Berlin was destroyed by fire.
= Alfred Mallaise, aged %, near Web
ster City, died from sunstroke.
Aza Walker, aged 8, of Iowa City
was killed by the kick of a horse.
Some forty cases of infantile para
lysis have been reported in Iowa.
DR.. U. G. Grigsby of Perry who was
injured in an auto accident, is dead.
The famous Muscatine Island faces
another shortage of melons this year
A forty-acre tract near Denison
yielded 81 bushels of oats to the acre
| Robert H. Burch, aged 20, of Water
loo, died after diving in shallow water.
Retail merchants Of Sioux City have
organized with membership Of 400.
The Interurban between Fit. Dodge
and Webster City will open January
LIST.
Mrs. Ed Van Kirk Of Council Bluffs
is dead as result Of an auto acci-
dent
The amount of gasoline used in
Sioux City in one day amounts tc
$1,000.
Claude Nemmers, aged 10. was
drowned at the municipal beach at
Waterloo.
The Baptists held their annual as
sembly with q large delegation at
Iowa Falls.
The knights of Columbus held their
convention at Davenport with 5000 In
attendance.
John Keegan of West Union had his
skull fractured when he fell from
load Of hay.
Joseph Froelich, aged so. near Du-
buque, shot a small boy because he
crossed his field.
Carl Laisle, aged s, Of Perry. was
badly injured when his hand caught in
clothes wringer.
Elmer Wright, aged 10, of Iowa
Falls, is dead after his bicycle COL
lided with an auto.
All kinds of labor was suspended in
of the intense heat
Two small boys at Dubuque, while
playing on the bank Of sewer, found
the body of dead baby.
A carnival playing at Dubuque was
forced to quit on account of huge
swarms of mormon flies.
The thermometer registered LOG at
Manchester, believed to be the highest
in the state this summer.
Ed Water, aged IS, of Waukon. was
killed when his auto struck Rock
Island train near Postville.
Six residents Of Hopkinton were ar
rested by the state food inspector,
charged with selling bad eggs.
Search is being made for Robert J.
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Matilda c. Steward, near Dillon.
A new rock quarry, believed to be
superior to the famous Bedford stone.
will be opened near Keosauqua.
Two hundred yards of Northwest
ern track near Carroll were warped
IS inches out Of line, by the heat.
Mrs. Henry Greenwalt Of Clinton,
while temporarily deranged, gave
poison to her three year old child.
Mrs. Bert Lay, aged 80, near Cor
nelia, was burned to death while
starting fire with wood-alcohol.
William G. Bishop, aged 80, of Coun-
Gil Bluffs, died of blood poisoning,
caused by small cut from saw.
Miss Bertha Pendleton, aged IA, Of
Shenandoah, died from injuries re-
ceived in fall on the ice last winter.
Albert Nelson Of Fl. Dodge, who was
to have been married in two weeks,
died after being run over by an auto
truck.
Nathaniel c. Barnes, of Keokuk, has
sued the Rock Island for $1O,4OO for
injuries received while working on the
track.
Six horses were cremated in q fire
at Davenport, which destroyed the
stable of the Able Lime and Cement
company.
Russell WEIGH, delivery boy at Fl.
Dodge, was seriously injured when
his motorcycle was caught between
two autos.
Ringing Bros. circus was fined 5000
at Fl. Dodge for driving their heavy |
wagons over curbing, cracking and
breaking it.
Ed w. Patterson Of Sioux Falls, s.
D., hung himself in the Jail at New
Hampton, where he was serving for |
petty thefts.
Dubuque has appointed a special
rom Ynittoe IN nurchaSo a cOnn1oto |