Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-07-07

The city market at Sioux City has
been closed.
! Forty acres near Dubuque were sold
for 1915 per acre.
A 100000 electric plant is being
| erected at Grinnell.
! A commercial club is being organ
| lied at Mt. Vernon.
! A we'll 1921 feet deep has Just been
completed at Stuart.
! A state and. county pig club was
organized at Logan.
| City mail delivery has been estab-
lished at Mt. Vernon.
H. ID. Booge,' aged 80, former packer
OF Sioux City, is dead.
A $4,000 annex will be built to the
high school at Muscatine.
Work on the Keokuk Hamilton
bridge is rapidly progressing.
William Hennegar, of Bellevue, had
| his touring car destroyed by fire.
After long years of effort, Colfax
has secured city delivery Of mail.
Mrs. Catherine Richley, one of the
Oldest settlers at Wapello, is dead.
Two men have been added to the
paid fire department at Fl. Dodge.
Seven horses were killed near
Chickasaw during an electric storm.
Three employees Of the Clinton Her
aid have Joined the National Guard.
Jesse B. Hawley, former coach at
Iowa City, has Joined Illinois Bat
terry C.
VNNHy<N ive1 tn, hal
Keokuk Jail for fighting were released
to enlist
Drug fiends entered the Sartori drug
store at LIE Mars and stole a quantity
Of drugs.
A. o. Wolever, chief executive of the
state banking department, is dead at
Des Moines.
Six people in an auto were killed |
at Dubuque when hit by an Illinois
Central train.
Mrs. Helen R. Griffith, prominent
member of the Rebekah lodge, is dead
at Cedar Falls.
Four men in an automobile near
Wilton were killed when hit by a
passenger train.
G. ]. Nelson, near Creston, is in
stalling complete water works sys-
tenn on his farm.
The new city we'll at Nevada, dur
ing test, pumped $50 gallons of
water per minute.
Three ragged, unkempt and hungry
hoboes entered the Cedar Falls armory
and wanted to enlist.
Forrest Willoughby, an alleged
horse thief, was brought to Iowa City
from Faribault, MINI.
Mrs. Nettie Fink, of Charlton, was
painfully injured when horse she
was driving, rap away.
The supervisors of Greene county
are against the proposal to change the
name of the Raccoon river.
The District Epworth league con- s
vention in session at Wellman gave
1910 to Iowa Wesleyan college. |
The Rotary club at Waterloo will
care for the families of Companies B
md G, while they are in service.
A tramp was killed near Sheldon
when he attempted to catch train
going about thirty miles an hour.
NJ. Mcdonald and Edgar Unger, of
Laporte City, we're injured when a
;caffold on which they were working, I
ell.
Help has been asked Of the govern
nent to repair the damage to the
evees in Louisa and Muscatine coun-
les.
NJ. A. Braslaun, of independence,
made an unsuccessful attempt TO shoot
Blanche Morarie, and then took lis
wn life.
Forty Greeks at Sioux City have
rganiZed military company AID
ave offered their services to this
ountry.
Sylvia Rubeck, aged 4, Of Iowa City,
'as seriously injured when brick
ell from house top, striking her in
he head.
Mrs. c. A. Samuelson. of FIT. Dodge,
nd makes no protest against their 60
lg to war.
Mrs. Lewis Al.rich Of Shenandoah
as seriously il u. ed when she az
,mpted to fill lighted gasoline stove,
hich exploded.
Fire said to have originated from
yerheated alfalfa destroyed the large
arm of Frederick Hansen two miles
orth of Persia.
Theodore T. Rowe, Of Des Moines,
as killed, and Miss Nellie McRob- 10
It's injured, when his car leaped over NJ
I embankment. NJ
John Anderson, farmer near Ida n
rove, who was suffering from de- 49,
entia, was killed when he leaped
ON car window. Va
William HALEY, aged 35, committed Id
licide at Waterloo, because fellow co
orkmen accused him of being er
'phenated American. R,
Mrs. Rosie Grund, aged %, died as be
result of taking too many pills. She In.
ok two headache pills, two cathartic -,
lis and two pain pills at the same