Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-03-10


Clarence C. Carroll. of the Iowa City
Press, was very seriously injured in
an accident at Rock Island, ILL.,, when
an automobile and street car collided.
Twin daughters, born to Mrs. Harry
Wood of Conrad through a Caesarian
operation, died soon after birth. The
mother is in a critical condition at a
Marshalltown hospital.
Mrs. Roma Woods, an early pioneer
of O'Brien county, died at her home in
Sutherland. She and her husband
founded the Gen. N. B. Baker library,
the first in northwest Iowa.
The Illinois Central railroad will
operate a dairy train through Iowa,
March to 20, with the cooperation
of the state dairy and food department
and the State Dairy association.
Nine hundred bushels of shelled corn
sold at the Tupper-Rourke sale east of
Missouri Valley brought $500. 1t will
be taken to Fort Dodge and distributed
among the farmers in that section.
Mrs. A. ]. McClelland died in Des
Moines as the result of injuries re-
ceived from violently swung parlor
car door while enroute from her home
at Portland. Mich, to visit friends in
'Des Moines.
DR.. o. S. Barber has been appointed
postmaster at Creston vice w. H. Robb,
who resigned on account of ill health
Dr. Barber is business partner of Dr.
]. w. Reynolds, chairman of the State
Democratic committee.
The damage to the plot Of land
owned by Jaeger Bros. at Fl. Madison,
which was overlooked through the
raising of the water level Of the river
by the Power company, was placed at
$4,000 by the sheriff's jury.
To pay claims of $4,000 the property
Of the Crooked Creek railroad will be
sold as junk. The one locomotive is
incapacitated for making one trip a
day as heretofore. The road is owned
by Fl. Dodge coal company.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester butcher, Of Fl
Dodge, were both shot by the acct
dental discharge of revolver in the
hands Of the former, the bullet taking
off part of his thumb and passing
through the left arm of his wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Troyer were
awakened by the roaring of flames,
and together with their nine children,
escaped from their burning home near
Lone Tree. Nothing of value was
saved, and the loss was about $4,000.
The Social Economics class of the
Dubuque Women's club has decided to
launch a campaign for the enforce
ment Of the law governing the sale of
cigarettes. The women claim that the
law is flagrantly violated in Dubuque.
Paul Rankin, of Davenport, formerly
field secretary of the Iowa Automobile
association, has been elected secretary
of the new Dubuque Commercial club
with salary of about $4,000. The club
now has a membership of one thous-
and.
William Fuhrmeister, young man
living south of Scion, met with an &C
cident with a buzz saw which cost him
leg. He slipped on icy ground and
his knee was deeply cut by the saw.
An amputation was necessary to save
his life.
A number of Muscatine dog owners
have banded together and contributed
to a $500 fund to be used in tracing
down the persons who have been poi
soning dogs recently. Some very val
liable and highly-prized dogs have met
death by poison.
A suit asking damages Of $4,000
from the Waterloo. Cedar Falls &
Northern has been filed in the district
court by LIE Clair Martin, administrator
for the estate Of Jesse Burt Irwin who
was electrocuted in the power sub
station at Cedar Falls September 6,
1915.
The Iowa anti-tipping law was held
to be unconstitutional by Judge George
Jepsen in the district court at Sioux
City. The court held the law was class
legislation. The decision was rem
dered in the case of barber arrested
for taking 25 cents tip. An appeal
will be taken.
Two men and two women were ar
rested at New Hampton charged by the
which broke out simultaneously in the
New Hampton opera house. 1t is said
the prisoners confessed to setting the
fires in order to conceal evidence of an
alleged theft from the office.
Following the warnings sent out by
the State college at Ames. County Su-
perintendent Hessinius and Prof. John
Cameron of the State university con-
Quoted a seed corn campaign, sending
delegates to various outlying towns to
instruct the farmers as to testing seed
corn and showing the best method
for it,
Under cover Of military wagon,
Smith Dodge, serving 80 years in the
FIT. Madison penitentiary for murder,
escaped. He had charge of a wagon
gate of the prison and went out with
a wagon. He was sent from Burling