Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-02-25
Fire caused BY an overheated fur


lish Methodist church at Charles City
destroyed by the fire and water and the
loss is estimated at $1,000.
Vigorous protest to the request fol
Postmaster w. H. Robb of Creston, tt
resign, will be sent to Washington. Mr.
Robb has been in poor health and this
is declared to be the reason given by
the department for it's action.
w. c. Robinson, of Grinnell, is be,
lieved to have reached the highest
point of any Iowa aviator. In his new
biplane he assembled to a height of IA,
600 feet. He was in the air nearly two
hours and then came down because OF
a gasoline shortage.
S. S. Kellogg, IS years old, one OF
the best known farmers near Sidney
died at a Nebraska City hospital. While
attending the funeral of John Watson,
a Nebraska City attorney, and one OF
his lifelong friends, his face was
/ frozen. Erysipelas followed.
| While Charles and Alexander Louks,
brothers, were driving across North
western track in an automobile at Mar
shalltown, they were struck by pas
senger train. Charles was killed in
stantly and Alexander was seriously
injured. They lived at Gilman.
| The Farmers and Grain Dealers as
sociation at Des Moines has voted an
appropriation to carry on probe into
the terminal market situation to as
certain conditions of membership for
farmers in grain exchanges and to
compile full report of the findings.
The Iowa Legion Of Honor, fra
ternal insurance order established in
1879, with home office in Cedar Rap
ids, has been declared insolvent It's
total assets are $3.50 and its total
liabilities consisting almost entirely
of unpaid death claims, are $161, 240.
The auditor Of state has issued a
check for $500 to the Chickasaw
County Fair association which had
been held up pending an investigation
of charges that gambling was permit
ted at the fair. Lyon county's check
has not been issued, being held up for
the same reason.
Fire totally destroyed the general
merchandise store of H. J. Callahan
at Gainesville, and sparks from the
building also, are believed to have
caused the fire in the Clark pool and
billiard hall, which was burned to the
ground. The loss Of the Callahan and
Clark buildings is estimated at $4,000.
The state board of parole has Sc
cured jobs for forty-one paroled con-
victs since January 1S, according to a
report given out. The men had been
previously paroled and were held until
work could be found for them. The
parole agents report that business
conditions are improving in all parts
of Iowa.
George Hall of Waukon has received
five carloads of corn from Washington,
Iowa. He is selling very little of it as
he uses most Of it on his farm. The
scarcity of corn caused many of the
farmers to sell off practically all of
their hogs and those who have any
hogs to feed now are profiting by their
foresight.
The state board Of health has issued
the report for Iowa showing 1,725
deaths during October, 1915. Tuber-
culosis had SO victims during that
cancer, 100; apoplexy. 1877; or
ganic diseases of the heart, 1877; pneu-
monia, SO; acute nephritis and Bright's
14O. There were $50 persons
met death by violence.
Judge w. B. Quarton, Of Algona,
president of the Iowa State Dairy as
ISOLATION, told 400 member of the as
ISOLATION that farmers of the northern
half of the state get 3 to cents q
bushel more for grain and cents more
q pound for butter fat than farmers
of the southern half. Cooperation is
for the better prices, he
declared.
Ottumwa is preparing to enter upon
the busiest paying year in its history.
In the neighborhood Of $4,000 will be
for new and resurface paw
ing work this spring, summer and fall.
During the year of 1915 there were
$111,347.83 expended on paving work
but the contracts to be let this year
will call for much larger expendi-
ture. At present there are ten jobs
contracted for and about twenty more
to be advertised in the near future.
Coasting proved disastrous for sew
eral Fort Dodge young people. Helen
Malady broke her leg when her sled
crashed into tree at the foot of the
historic Duncombe hill. The little son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Steinmetz, West
Fort Dodge, is suffering from broken
jaw, received when he bumped into a
foot bridge across ravine in West
Fort Dodge A broken collarbone was
the result of another sliding accident,
to the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Nc
Carthy.
The Valley Lumber company, Of
What Cheer, is at present the owners
of the first safe that was ever brought
across the Mississippi river The safe