Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-04-14

by shooting at Des Moines through
worry over the purchase Of second
hand automobile.
Clarence Sutton was badly injured
at Ottumwa when wheelbarrow load
of brick was dumped on him from the
second story of building.
The Wilson hotel at Webster City
has been purchased by c. c. Janney.
of Waterloo, for 100000, and 100000
will be spent in remOdeling.
Married twenty-four years and the
mother of eleven children, Mrs. Rose
Schwab of Iowa City, petitioned for
divorce, asking $4,000 alimony.
Franklin L. Roper, widely known
as the dean of the west division of the
Great Western railroad, died at F't.
Dodge after AZ years of constant serv-
ice.
Over 100 agents of the Chicago Great
Western railroad between Oelwein and
Kansas City will gather at Marshall
town April Is for their annual meet
| ing.
Davenport's new armory has been
pronounced by the state armory board
of the National Guard as a model for
other similar buildings throughout the
state.
Thomas j. Fitzpatrick, the promi-
nent Dubuque attorney recently killed
in an automobile accident, bequeathed
$4,000 to his stenographer, Miss Ger
trude Croshaw.
Superior Court Judge Capell decided
at Council Bluffs that man arrested
for entertaining some friends at beer
party, had committed no offense
against the Iowa dry law.
Suit was commenced at Council
Bluffs by the county in an action
against the estate of the late General
Granville Dodge for delinquent taxes.
amounting to nearly $1,O0O.O00.
William Stools, aged 80, Sac City
farm hand employed by James WEIGH,
suicided by shooting. He left letter
stating that he had been unfortunate
in some of his domestic affairs.
Elmer Courtney, patient at the
Hershey hospital at Muscatine, leaped
through second story window while
delirious following an operation for ap-
pendicitis. He received fatal injuries.
w. S. Jack, of Cantril. completed his
21st year as superintendent of the M.
E. Sunday school. during which time
he was present 1,0SS times and absent
but 4. He was presented with gold
watch.
A man calling himself Thos. Cole
bought merchandise at Washington
and realized cash on the worthless
checks he presented. He claimed to be
installing telephones for the Milwau
kee railroad.
Forty-eight cords of wood and 300
posts were secured from single burr
oak tree near Humeston. 1t is said to
be the largest tree in Iowa and is sup
posed to have been over 500 years old.
as it contained SO grains.
Five cars of q Rock Island freight
train were demolished near Adair in
q wreck. They were loaded with eggs.
salmon, apples and lubricating oil. A
Mexican working on the wreck was
fatally injured by'a passing train.
Citizens of Atlantic are raising $17.-
900 by popular subscription to pave the
road from that city to the Atlantic
cemetery. 1t will be paved with con-
crete "a feet wide After this road is
completed Atlantic will have 81 miles
Of paving.
Mrs. Emma Brink, of Iowa City, has
sued her brother, William ]. WEIGH,
for 10000, alleging that after he had
willed her 100000 and a lifelong
home, he married and Mrs. Brink was
deprived of the home she managed
nine years.
Forty-four out Of ninety-nine coun-
ties in Iowa and fifty-one municipali-
ties out of eight hundred are carrying
their own industrial insurance under
the terms of the workmen's compensa-
ton law with permission Of the Indus
trial commission.
w. w. Mcfarland has donated his
$50, 900 Washington county farm to the
Christian Bible college of Minnesota.
The college gets the farm outright to
sell or rent, but pays Mr.. and Mrs.
Mcfarland per cent interest annually
as long as they live.
Hereafter when tramps ask for food
ut Algona residences they will be
handed ticket good for a meal which
the city will furnish as we'll as the
work to earn same. The plan has been
tried in other places and is expected to
work out very satisfactorily.
Andrew Hofer, a Scion farmer and
stockman, purchased a car 0f cotton
seed meal, and being suspicious of its
purity had it analysed. 1t showed
much adulteration, and as the result
the company will be obliged to dis
count to buyers from 81 to IS Q ton.
w. J. Tobin editor Of Tobe's Weekly.
while waiting for a train at Shenan-
doah which would take him to Arizona
for his health, received a telegram an
nouncing the accidental killing of his
son Robert, by a freight train near
Grand View, Missouri Mr.. Tobin's