Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-03-10
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The 2OO-acre Elliott farm near Mo-
mona sold for 5000 an acre.
Work has been commenced on Of
tumwa's new 100000 hotel.
The Commercial hotel at Mt. Ayr
burned with loss Of $4,000.
Mrs. A. NJ. Dawley, pioneer woman
of Fl. Dodge, died at her home.
Schools at Altoona were closed in
fear of an epidemic Of scarlet fever.
1t is estimated that $4,000 changed
hands during Pay-Up week at Nevada.
Albert Garrett, employed by lum-
Der firm at Iowa City. has disappeared.
Mrs. Mary Talbot, colored woman
at Ottumwa, is said to be 11S years of
age.
Fl. Dodge farmers have purchased
400 bushels of shelled seed corn at
5000.
A spoonbill sturgeon nearly seven
feet long was speared in West Okoboji
Lake.
The authorities at Logan have con-
tracted for five years for q supply OF
school books.
Non-official figures place the total
attendance at the Iowa City state uni
versity at 3,267.
Sioux City has passed an ordinance
prohibiting buildings above eight
stories in height.
J. w. Geiger, state manager of the
Woodmen of the World, died at Sioux
City, aged IS years.
There are said to be more than 200,-
900 Methodists in Iowa. The increase
for 1915 was 61a per cent.
A net profit Of $4,000 on butter in
"a years is the record established by
Mrs. David Hughes of Knoxville.
Mechanicsville with only about $50
population is to have electric lights to
be supplied from Oxford Junction.
Milton B. Wilkinson, Of Tama, owns
black mare 27 years old. He also
owned the mares mother for 81 years.
A Waterloo company has been
awarded the contract for $4,000 yards
of paving at $1.6S yard at Mason
City.
Placer county high school Of Auburn,
Cal, has taken the lead over Iowa City
high school riflemen in the national
contest.
S. L. Moore, president of the First
National bank at Boone, received a
his life.
Hiram Toms, of Iowa City, aged 70
years, and civil war veteran, disap-
peared from the home of his daughter
at Wellman.
While suffering from melancholia,
James Friouf committed suicide by
jumping from the Walnut Street bridge
in Des Moines.
A boiler exploded on the Lee Smith
farm near Moscow and three men
standing near miraculously escaped
serious injury.
The eleven months old son of Otis b.
Pray, of Des Moines, fell backward
while learning to walk, and died from
broken neck.
The family of Henry Drummer, a
wealthy farmer at Dunlap, was poison
ed by trichina and several members of
the family died.
Albert Vandre, aged 26, hung him
self at Ackley, using his suspenders.
They broke and he fell to the floor and
choked to death.
While operating a gasoline engine
at Manchester, Guy Fargo, a farm
hand, was hurled against stone wall,
fracturing his spine.
The wages Of carpenters, bricklayers
and hosting engineers will be in
creased about five cents an hour in
Des Moines on April LIST.
e. A. Rommel, Mahaska county en-
gineer, was drowned while attempting
to blow up an ice gorge in the Des
Moines river near Ss!Saloosa.
The new Church CIR :hrist at Jeffer-
son was dedicated W,sl. an attendance
Of over three thous.-ad persons, at
which time $4,000 was subscribed.
The Des Moines County Agricultural
association has made plans for big
booster meeting Of all the farmers in
the county. to be held in Burlington.
Attracted by the actions Of shep-
herd dog, Mrs. Max Reinig, of Ports
mouth, followed the animal to field
where her husband had dropped dead.
The Muscatine County Pure Bred
Live Stock association was formed at
a meeting of the Muscatine County
Crop improvement association at Mus
catine.
DR.. J. S. Kulp, founder and for many
years head of the Iowa State Dental
society, and one of the pioneer dentists
of the state. dropped dead at his home
in Muscatine.
A club house on the Des Moines
river with an up-to-date gym, swim
ming pool, baths and drill room is
promised for the Des Moines boy scouts
next summer.
A court decision has been rendered
declaring Cedar Heights to be a regu-
larly incorporated village. 1t is said
that Cedar Falls had intended to adopt
Cedar Heights.
The Burlington and Northwestern