Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-02-11

ne:s-t9- ;.a..3 in Ne.sseI county
number CT years aso.
Grover e.. Inraa, livery stabl
proprietor of Des Moines, is dead, an
Russell Z. Carlson, an attorney, is sui
fering from severe injuries, the resul
of collision between an automobil
in which they were riding, and a stree
car.
Gaud Johnson, young farm han
of near lie Mars, attempted to commi
suicide by drinking a quantity o
strychnine. Johnson purchased til
strychnine at drug store declarin!
that his employer wanted to use it OF
some of his hogs
Through the untiring efforts of DR.
Miller, Humboldt finds herself in pos
session of hospital. The Fred Hedg'
residence has been rented for tern
of years, and the fixtures ordered from
Chicago, and the new home will soor
be ready for patients.
Harry Owen Travelled all the way
from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to claim ar
Iowa bride, Miss Iva Dooley, of Wes
Grove, near Bloomfield. Mr.. Owen is
principal of school at Guayaquil and
he and his bride will reside in the
South American city.
An organized effort has been under.
taken at Centerville to provide funds
for the Jewish relief as called for in
the presidents proclamation. A fund
of about $500 has been raised indie
pendently of fund the Jews are rails
ing among themselves.
The new miners and industrial hos
pital at Des Moines has been opened
for patients. Seven thousand miners
of northern Iowa will contribute 50
cents a month to the hospital and in
return will receive hospital care for
themselves and their families.
Iowa should produce 42O,O00,0O0
pounds of butter annually, worth $780,
100000, declares w. B. Barney. dairy
and food commissioner. He says that
by proper methods at least fifty
pounds of butter additional production
can be secured from every COW in the
state.
H. L. Bereford & Son, of Vinton, fine
stock breeders of Jackson township,
are the losers of three fine animals
bull recently purchased at Newton and
two heifers. The trouble was black
leg. The bull, Avondale, was one of
the finest Short Horn bulls in the
state.
Items in the urgent deficiency bill
which passed the house and senate at
Washington carries the following ap-
preparation for continuing the work on
Iowa postoffices: Washington, $35, 900;
Charles City, $4,000; Grinnell, $685.
900; Glenwood, $500; Maquoketa.
$4,000.
Mrs. Frank Morgan, wife of farmer
three miles north of Colfax, was killed
when a Rock Island passenger train
struck q bobsled in which
she, her husband and her sister were
riding. She was almost decapitated.
Her sister was injured and the hus-
band slightly bruised.
In August last J. w. Blackman MUIR
dered Mrs. c. c. Jordan at De Soto,
committing suicide Immediately after
ward. The husband of Mrs. Jordan
brought suit against the Blackman
estate for $4,000 damages and was
awarded $4,000, and the cost of the
suit were also charged to the estate.
A remarkable decrease in arrests in
six large Iowa cities during the first
month of prohibition is as follows, the
figures first given being for January.
1915, and the second figures for jan
uary, 1916: Cedar Rapids, 162-43;
Waterloo, 1O0-72; Keokuk, 1924; DAY.
export, 5000; Council Bluffs, 1877;
Sioux City, 92-44.
Sheriff John Brown of Centerville is
back from Seward, Neb., with Allen
Clark, of Plano, wanted for wife de-
sertion. Clark left his wife and four
year-old son two weeks ago without
means. and when he was brought back
. new baby had been added to the
family He is out ON $1,000 bond
awaiting the meeting of the grand
jury.
E. e. Coppes, . junk dealer of Olin,
had q narrow escape from death or
serious injury. He was burning wood
from lot of old iron, and decided to
pour kerosene into the bonfire to hurry
the work along. He got hold Of can
Of gasolene, and when he commenced
to pour it into the fire there was an
explosion which knocked him down
and set fire to his clothing.
The report of the department of
agriculture credits Iowa with valu-
alton of more than 500 for every
horse in the state on farms, having the
first Of this year 1884 900 farm horses
placed at q total valuation Of 1885,
$4,000. This figure is somewhat less
than the census Of horses the first of
January, 1915, but the sales Of ami
s.lals for war purposes in Europe is
believed to account for the decrease in
farm stock.
Ed Proctor, residing north of Will