Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-01-07

the Iowa State College Of Agriculture
at Ames will open on January 81 and
continue one week. 1t is expected that
there will be an enrolment of nearly
1900.
Ole Williamson, pioneer Of Fort
Dodge, has distributed among his own
children as Christmas gift $27,626.S9.
He reserved to himself nothing but his
home. The children were given
amounts ranging from $4,000 to $4,000
in land.
C. o. Dayton of Keota was badly
hurt when savage boar attacked him
and with it's tusks ripped open an ar
terry in Mr.. Dayton's leg. 1t took DR..
Pershing two hours to get the flow of
blood stopped and he. had to call in
help at that.
"The hog cholera situation is the
worst that it has been during the past
year." Such was the statement by DR..
j. S. Koen, inspector in charge OF the
government work in Dallas county,
after he had Investigated conditions at
q couple of farms in the county.
The mysterious hole that suddenly
appeared in the ground west OF Att1ca
and was supposed to have been caused
by the dropping of meteorite was dug
by town boys planning to build win
ter clubhouse. The hole is IL feet
long, eight feet wide and five feet deep.
James Boman met instant death at
the plant of the Burlington Wheel
Works. Mr.. Boman was looking down
the elevator shaft expecting the ele-
yator to come up, but instead it was
above him and the heavy sliding gate,
which protects the elevator, descended.
breaking his neck and crushing his
skull.
Henry Wylie, of Dubuque. has just
received the medal awarded him some
weeks since by the Carnegie hero fund
commission, in recognition of the her
ole act of his son, Quincy H. Wylle'
who lost his life by drowning In the
Mississippi river January IL, 1914,
when attempting to rescue COM
panion who had skated into an air
hole.
Fred Holsman of Panora made
record for himself while husking corn
for Will Nolan. He husked 2,O4S BUSH
els in less than four weeks. A hfty-
acre field of corn on the Nolan farm
produced what is probably as good
yield as any farm in this section. Mr..
Nolan tells that it yielded an everage
of seventy-five bushels to the acre, and
that the quality is good.
Knocked down and trampled by
bull they were taking to Morse to ship,
Rossler Bros, Albert and Jacob, OF
Scion, had very narrow escape from
death. Had the animal had horns, he
would probably have gored them to
death. The bull became suddenly en-
ragged when entering the stock yards.
1t was necessary to rope and drag him
home, where he was later killed to
avert some future accident.
Speaking of the high rental value OF
good farming land in the vicinity OF
Grinnell. the highest so far made pub
lie is paid by Samuel Nelson, Jr.. the
popcorn man, who has just rented
eighty acres from C. p Buswell, on
three-year lease, at $12 an acre an
nually. While part of this will doubt
less be used for raising popcorn 1t Is
not all to be so used, but the price PAID
comes near marking $500 an acre land.
Health conditions in Iowa are great
ly improved compared with conditions
in the holiday season last year. &C
cording to Lafayette Higgins. state
sanitary engineer. He says there is
less than so per cent of the typhoid
fever cases in the state than there
We're in 1914. 1.-The summer OF 1919
was extremely wet, and the frequent
rains carried off the waste material
so that it did not get into the wells,
he adds.
Joseph stephan, director and chief
taxidermist of the state museum or
Iowa, visited Pottawattamie county
few days ago and in company with
Deputy Game Warden Hobson ar
ranged to secure four deer for the his
torical building at Des Moines. They
will be mounted and placed In glass
cases. Upon the cases will be IN
scribed the name of the farmer upon
whose place the deer was killed, to-
gether with history OF the big drove
of deer, now numbering several hum
dred, which roam the country border
ing the Missouri river in Pottawatta-
mic and Shelby counties.
IF conditions are right, there will
be a great amount of apple scab in
Iowa orchards next year and in GER
tain places a good many cooling moth
worms" warns r S. Herrick OF the
agricultural extension department at
Ames. Get prepared now against this
invasion by securing good spray
pump outfit and spray material this
winter. If everything is in readiness
for spraying next summer, the opera
ton is sure to be done" This season
the apple scab fungus got good start
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