Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-04-07
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coliseum.
Storm Lake has voted to lay foul
miles of paving.
Twelve teams of mules were sold al
Logan for 5000.
Washington's city hall is to be i'm.
proved to the amount of $4,000.
Miss Rebecca Young, for IS years g
resident of ST. Charles. died, aged 81
w. C. Parker, we'll known Milwau-
kee railroad official at Perry, is dead
Charles F. Reynolds, of Muscatine
81, died suddenly of apoplexy while on
a fishing trip.
The Edison plant at Dubuque which
makes photograph cabinets, is to be
greatly enlarged.
van died at New Hampton from swal-
lowing beauty pin.
Dubuque's oasis, which is the city
of East Dubuque, Ill.,, remains wet by
majority of 333 votes.
The Evangelical Deaconess hospital
at Marshalltown is to have three
story addition to cost $4,000.
Sudi1IOA ldo VI 6oAlACu q COL1uuCASio
club with a membership of about 200.
w. C. Donnelson is president.
John Elliott, aged AZ, wealthy
farmer at Bronson, was killed while
telling tree in his front yard.
Superintendents of Iowa institutions
under the State Board Of Control re-
port plenty of good seed corn on hand.
The every member canvass of West
minister Presbyterian church at Water
loo yielded pledges totaling $6,3S4.60.
Pensions granted: Mary A. Wilcox.
Ames, $12; Catherine Leindecker. Keo-
kuk, SIP; Eliza Martin, Hamburg. $12.
Seven acres near Shenandoah were
dynamited to the depth of 81 feet in
preparation for setting out strawberry
plants.
Charles B. Bowen, of Rolfe, has been
reelected president of the Iowa Whole
sale Butter and Poultry Dealers asso-
citation.
The Larson ice machine foundry,
which has been under construction for
the past month, opened for operation
in Fl. Madison
The Commercial National bank at Ft.
Dodge has announced plans for the ex-
penditure of $4,000 in remodeling and
rebuilding its present home.
A night Waterman at the university
at Iowa City has lost his job because
he let the junior prom committee into
the armory at IL o'clock midnight.
Phillip Wagner, farmer residing
near Let's, lost four fingers of his right
hand when it became caught in the
cogs Of the corn shredding machine.
Margaret Shehan, aged 10 years, en-
ployed as an accountant in the office
of Davenport department store, COM
mitted suicide by swallowing poison.
Gus Barnd was the successful bid
der for the larger bridges to be built
in Delaware county this summer, land
ing contract to the amount of S.
1905.
Efforts to find water to supply the
city of Denison have been in progress
all winter. A we'll 1910 feet deep has
been drilled with flow of 200 gallons
a minute.
Over $500 was raised to finance a
against Sunday moving pic
lures at Mason City, in which various
business, social and religious interests
have united.
A permanent infants welfare station
is to be established at Grinnell by the
Women's Civic league and the Social
Service league, aided by the Physi-
clans club.
Postmasters appointed: Fruitland,
Muscatine county, Mrs. Alta Knouse
vice S. f. Knouse resigned; Herring,
Sac county, Lacy o. Myers vice Joe Pc
ters resigned.
Olaf Davidson, 12-year-old boy,
was spared his eyesight after diff
cult operation for subtemperal COM
pressions, performed by surgeons of
Iowa university.
Elvin F. Wentz, As years old, grain
dealer and leading coal merchant of
Oakland, ended his life by hanging
himself in his barn. His wife and two
daughters survive.
Like message from the grave was
the letter Mrs. S. Josselyn of FIT. Dodge
received from her son who was washed
overheard two months ago from the
U. S. S. Dale in Manila harbor
Notice was received at the Santa Fee
shops in FIT. Madison, stating that all
mechanics would receive an increase
in wages, to take effect Immediately.
The increase is from 1 " to cents per
hour
Frank B. Roberts, a wealthy deaf
mute Boston manufacturer. heard"
Mrs. Nellie Birney-Eliis, of Greene,
sing in the sign language. They were
married after cOurtship of two
weeks.
A child at Carlisle choked to death
on a peanut shuck. E. II. Young, pres
ident of the Iowa State Undertakers
association. was preparing the body