Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-05-26
James Gibbons died at Jesup. aged

OF YEARS.
/ A $4,000 city hall has been voted
at Atlantic.
lie Mars is said to have the Oldest
paving in the state of Iowa.
Keokuk justices have announced
dollar day marriages on May 27.
Jess Willard, champion pugilist,
was fined for speeding at Boone.
Three residents of Belle PLANE each
over so years of age, died within q
week.
Seventy snakes were plowed up at
| Thurman, the largest being blue
! racer five feet long.
Frank Shultz, of Grinnell, aged IS.
suicided with revolver on account Of
torturing rheumatism.
| Mrs. A. Guitar, aged IS, died at
Council Bluffs, of which her husband
was the first white settler.
Mrs. Christian Larson celebrated her
Goth birthday at the home Of her son,
Sheriff Larson, at Waukon.
Wind blew off barn door at Ft.
Dodge and broke the thigh of five
year old son of H. L. Nelson.
Former Congressman B. p. Biridsall.
of Clarion, died suddenly, after being
engaged all day on a law case.
The Burlington railroad has an
nounced 5 per cent increase OF wages
of all employees effective with May.
The Webster. City Commercial
League has decided to erect . 5000
depot at the Crooked Creek terminal.
Ottumwa Elks have organized an
Elks' cadet corps made up of boys
from 9 to II years of age, for military
drill.
Dr.. Clinton r. Harris, of Grinnell,
has been appointed first lieutenant
in the medical reserve corps by Pres
ident Wilson.
Carl Josch, Of Grafton, died from
mistaking the directions on bottle
OF rheumatism medicine and taking
ten-fold dose.
The postoffice at Lovilia was bur-
glarized, but as the postmaster had
placed all valuables in bank safe,
the thief secured only Is cents.
Conrad Frey, a Davenport fireman.
will be presented with bravery medal
for having rescued baby from the
upper story Of a burning house.
At public school May fete at Fl.
Dodge, section Of bleechers fell, car
rying 300 people with it. Five per-
sons were badly injured but none
killed
Col. William H. Michael died 1T |
Washington, D. c. He served during
the Civil War in an Iowa regiment and
was formerly editor of the Sioux City
Journal.
Donald McCammond. aged 10, resid-
ing near Coin, won the Page county
spelling contest and will represent the
county at Des Moines. He received
gold medal.
The 1917 convention of the Iowa
State Manufacturers Association will
be held in Clinton. There was spir-
tied competition from other cities to
secure the convention.
1T is said that during the first four
months Of 1916 when saloons were I
open at Iowa City there were 129 ar
rests, and during the same period this
year without saloons, the number
was only 40.
Cu8I1S0 N1ly wy 0NOOSO BAG W OuAAA III
= log cabin from discarded telephone
poles. 1t will be used for summer
camping and winter hikes. The boys
will gather and sell old newspapers to
meet the expense involved.
Two of the biggest land deals on
record in Marion county were made
1t Knoxville when William Kelder-
man sold 1888 acres to r. L. Holgate
for $92,5OO. In turn Mr.. Holgate sold
q farm Of 220 acres to Mr.. Kelderman
for $4,000.
DR.. w. C. Huntington, formerly of
has been appointed
attache at the United
States embassy at Petrogard. Russia.
DR.. Huntington was at the head OF the
federal bureau Of foreign and domestic
commerce at Chicago.
Lu Verne Chapman, aged 20. Wa
terloo freshman student in the Iowa
State University, was drowned two
miles from Iowa City while shooting
the rapids opposite Coraville. His
father offered = reward Of $1,000 for
the recovery Of the body.
1WO t1OU00uu OOyS GIG VASOASU AA
the acre corn contest conducted by the
AGRICULTURAL extension department Of
The Iowa State College al. Ames. The
contest now includes Sc counties,
which is 10 more than we're entered in
The final competition last year.
Clarence Bender and Alfred Larson
we're seriously injured at Corning
while riding a motorcycle which col
ided with an automobile driven by C.
D. Okey, president Of Corning bank,
who chartered a special train and took
he injured to a Creston hospital.
One of the bishops elected at the
Methodist Episcopal general confer
snce held at Saratoga Springs, is Rev.
DR.. Thomas Nicholson, secretary of
he Church Board of Education, and
formerly professor of biblical litera-
lure at Cornell College, Mount YER