Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-04-14
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A Greek church is to be organic =
at Waterloo.
DR.. ]. C. Lewis, Allamakee count!
coroner, died at Waukon.
A tramp arrested at Eldora proved
to have on his person 1884.
Calvin Bushnell, Hubbard boy, fell
on hay knife and bled to death.
John Jones, aged q, of Ogden, drop.
ped dead On a Des Moines street.
Thomas A. Kelly, a we'll known Du.
buque horseman, is dead, aged 62.
H. S. Stiner, near Fl Dodge, sold IL
head of mich cows for an average OF
$115.
C. L. Gardner, Clarion grocer, dis
appeared leaving a wife and five chill
dren.
A lung motor has been purchased for
the use of the Fl. Dodge fire depart
ment.
S. c.. Huber, of Tama, has been ap-
pointed United States district attorney
of Hawaii.
H. E. Emerson, aged AZ, an Elliott
farmer, hanged himself as the result
of ill health.
Yeggs secured SIP in cash and
stamps by blowing the McClelland
postoffice safe.
August Mauch, aged about so, died
at Greene from all accidental overdose
of headache tablets.
Carl Johnson, age IA, was killed at
Centerville by being hit with a stone
in q schoolboy fight.
Ware is to erect a $4,000 school
building, and Bancroft will spend $685.
900 in the same way.
Seven young men at Fl. Dodge took
examinations for entrance to the An
napolis Naval academy.
North McGregor is planning to ex-
tend it's corporation limits which will
add 300 to the population.
John Hamsler, aged 67. for forty
years Sioux City cigar manufacturer
died at Hot Springs, Ark.
Burglars blew open safe in Van
Horne garage but got no money. The
safe contained $4,000 of notes.
T. w. Rogers, of Humboldt, was in
stantly killed in his automobile, while
crossing the M. & st. L. tracks.
The meowing of cat alarmed a
Clarinda family just in time to escape
in safety from their burning house.
Iowa State college debating teams
defeated both Purdue university and
Michigan Agricultural college teams.
Don Rathbun, postmaster at Marion
for the past eight years and formerly
editor of the Marion Register, is dead.
James E. Belts, of Iowa, midship-
man in the Annapolis Naval academy,
has been expelled for gross disobedi-
ence.
John Paulin, of Kingsley, had his
skull fractured while saving wood by
the breaking of the fly wheel of the
engine.
Mrs. D. B. Henderson, the aged
widow Of the late Col. d. B. Hender-
son, of Dubuque, fell and fractured her
right hip.
Ottumwa's Commercial club has
been reorganized with a membership
Of over 600. Clarence Harper is the
president.
D. H. Mahoney, of Claire, Webster
county, killed big timber wolf weigh
ing 60 pounds, for which he received
$50 bounty.
Margaret Miller, aged Is, who disap-
peared from her home at West Liberty
three years ago, has been found in
Moscow, Ill.
A living new born child was found
partially covered with grass on the
lawn of the Mt. Zion Baptist church
at Sioux City.
A tree floating down the Mississippi
river in an upright position with a
squirrel in the branches, was observed
at Little Sioux.
James Lacina, Of near Iowa City, re-
ceived $4,000 for 70 hogs shipped to
the Chicago market He received
1912 hundred.
A very largely decreased number of
warranty deeds has been filed this
year in Clay county, indicating little
land speculation.
March term at Dubuque without a
single jury trial for the first time in
the city's history.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. NJ. Musser, of Mus
catine, have donated $4,000 to the en-
dowment fund Of the Iowa Wesleyan
college at Mt. Pleasant.
The three year old daughter of
Christian Bizzle, of Waterloo, narrowly
escaped death by taking strychnine
pills, by thinking them candy.
Gus Lansing sold 80 acres near Bode
at $500 per acre. 1t is said that prices
have risen from SIS to $50 per acre
within the past eight months.
Rev. DR.. D. w. Wylie, pastor Of the
Iowa City Presbyterian church for IA
years, has accepted a call to ST. Paups
Presbyterian church at Philadelphia.
F. J. Sessions, superintendent of the
Iowa Soldiers home at Davenport, has
resigned after twelve years. service.
Fred L. Mahannah has bren appointed
his successor.
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