Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-02-18

Carver Ferguson, aged 49, residing
near Marshalltown, died from injurie!
occasioned by falling on the ice. HI
leaves fortune estimated at 100000
Hon. William p. Hepburn died a
Clarinda. aged 80, after long illness
F. He was nationally prominent through
: twenty years in congress.
C. H. Chaser 10 years old, arrested
at Clinton, has confessed he raised g
check from SIS cents to $3.50 at Cedar
Rapids. He was soliciting for mag.
azine and raised a check given him by
| woman. He said he was hard up.
A drove of cattle at Elliott turned
into a field covered with sleet, STAN
peded through fright caused by the
noise made by their hoofs upon the ice
They jumped fences and were joined
by other droves and became widely
scattered.
Twenty members of the Elks club at
Fort Dodge were trapped in their club
rooms and were rescued with ladders
by the fire department when gas ex-
plosion in the Butler three story bust
ness block caused damage amounting
to $4,000
The Elks lodge at FIT. Madison was
cleared of liquor injunction charge
by the supreme court but the court
held the defendants must pay the cost.
The anti-saloon league started the ac-
ton the day after the club surrendered
its liquor license.
j. M. Briggs has sold his farm of
10S acres south of Greene, to Andrew
Refshauge Of Cedar Rapids. the con-
sideration being $3.50 an acre. Mr..
Briggs took a Waterloo residence
, property in trade and expects to move
back to Waterloo.
DR.. w. D. Runyon, who has been en-
ployed as assistant superintendent at
the state sanatorium for tuberculosis
at Oakdale for three and half years,
has accepted a position as resident
physician in the Union Printers home
at Colorado Springs.
NJ. M. Reynolds, aged 81, president
of the Guthrie County National bank
at Panora, suicided by shooting due, it
is believed, to domestic unhappiness.
He was the brother of Geo. M. Reyn-
Odds, president of the Continental and
Commercial National bank of Chicago.
Phyllis. the S-year-old daughter of
Phil Starkweather of Muscatine, while
playing school with her playmates,
swallowed a pencil which was sharp
ened at both ends, and although an
operation was hurried, the child died
from strangulation a few hours later.
Claude Fenton, fireman, and G. J.
Schmidt, brakeman, were injured, the |
former probably fatally, when they |
leaped from fast Northwestern ex-
who were new to the line, became
frightened when cylinder head of the
engine blew out.
Correctionville business men have
organized credit reference club, the
object of which is to protect them
selves and extend credit only to the
deserving. Ninety days has been made
the limit for credit, and after that
time, the customer must pay up or pay
cash in the future. :"
Fulton, ILL.,, the Mecca of all Clinton
'wets" in the times of Iowa's drouth,
may embrace prohibition during the
coming spring. The "drys" of the lit
lie city across the Mississippi have
started movement for local prohibi-
ion and are demanding that vote be
aiken before summer.
The once famous brick yard at Cor
will soon be thing of the
past. Started years ago at a cost of
about $4,000, this industry flourished
Until . short time ago, when the trust
,ame into possession Of the property
md now the kilns are being torn away
md the material shipped to Sioux City.
Committees at Ottumwa started q
to raise the first $4,000 in
'tock for the Iowa and Missouri Fair
Application for member I
hip in the Great Western and Amer
can Trotting associations will be made a
It Chicago. A coliseum is planned in
with the fair. The capital
# the enterprise will be $4,000.
Zone of the best fruit-growing c
egions in the whole United States" is
he term that T. J. Nancy, horticultur-
st at Ames, applies to the southwest t
I'm section of Iowa. "In the first a
'lace," says Mr.. Nancy, "the climate +
f this section is ideal for fruit grow .
ng and the soil excellent. Orchards
TAINTED there grow if properly cared
orr
Strenuous efforts are being made to
ejuvinate the Mississippi river steam
oat traffic between st. Louis and st.
'aul, according to letters received by
t. Madison shippers from st. Louis
len. The letters state that merchants
4 each city between these points will
e visited and asked to make their
hipments by river packet whenever
ossible.
Miss Mabel Cutler, 16 years old,