Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-02-11
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Methodist ministers is SAID 10 be $40
Iowa City sold $4,000 worth O.
bridge bonds at premium of S1.G27
Six pioneers, all above 70 years O.
age, died in Jefferson within two
weeks.
Callahan Carr, of Dubuque, aged
lost an eye by falling on stick while
at play.
Decatur county's last surviving vet
eran of the Mexican war, is dead
aged SS.
August Anderson, we'll known
Sioux City business man, is dead, aged
81 years.
DR.. G. w. Colt, president of the Iowa
Railway Surgeons association, died in
California.
The Burlington east-bound fast mail
was ditched near Ottumwa, but no one
was injured.
Mrs. Frank T. Breene, wife of the
dean Of the Iowa City Dental college,
died recently.
More than SO wolves were killed in
Sioux county during 1915 at a bounty
Of $500 each.
Samuel Rovinsky, aged II, was
! killed by the elevator in a Davenport
macaroni plant.
Wyman & Sons store at Barnes City
was robbed of quantity of cigars,
candies and other goods.
Returning from the bedside of her
husband who had just died, Mrs. Matt
Harvey of Moran fell dead.
The head of nail flew and struck
a Coin carpenter in the eye, resulting
in the probable loss of the optic.
William Dalton, a retired farmer at
Iowa City, was killed by falling
through an opening in haymow.
Arthur Craig Of Creston was very
seriously burned when the nap on his
night shirt caught fire from match.
The Stratton Community church
near Red Oak has cleared off it's debt.
1t takes a prominent part in rural
welfare work.
Mrs. w. F. Burns, " years old,
pioneer resident of LIE Mars, is dead.
She came to lie Mars with her hus-
band in 1876.
A coal vein of about five feet in
thickness has been found on the Flynn
farm near Des Moines. The farm is
state property
N. J. Loring of Webster City sold
200 pounds of ginseng for 5000, or
$3.50 pound. 1t was taken from an
acre of ground.
The annual short course and farm.
ers week" at the state college which
was observed attracted over 1000
farmers at Ames.
The dry goods stock Of NJ. A. Car
rier at Newton was destroyed by fire
with loss of $4,000. The fire started
in the furnace room.
1t is said that Hamilton county
farmers lost about $1.350.000 on their
total corn crop last year by reason Of
poor weather conditions.
State conventions of the Laymen's
Missionary movement are to be held
at Davenport on February 1920 and
at Des Moines. February 1923.
Davenport is to raise $4,000 to or
ganize the Boy Scout movement on
large scale. There will be paid Sec
rotary and . large summer camp.
The first Democratic state conven.
tion is to be held ut Clinton on May 10
and the second convention will be
held in Des Moines between July and
August 2.
AS steel is going up in price the
state board Of control is rushing the
task Of getting bids for fire escapes on
buildings at the soldiers home at Mar
shalltown.
A. B. Thayer, aged 70, for thirty
years an employee Of the Marshall
town Times-Republican and one 81 the
best known travelling men in the state,
died recently.
William Landlord, aged about 60, OF
Centerville, dropped dead in the furni-
ture and undertaking rooms of his
brother, Roy Landlord Heart failure
was the cause.
A record price for Allamakee county
land was reached at Waukon when the
Denning farm near town was sold to
J. E. Meier of Ludlow for 1925 an acre
by Grimm Bros.
All money earned by convicts in the
FIT. Madison penitentiary in excess of
$500 per month is to revert to the
state, according to late ruling by the
board of control
A judgment of $500 was returned
against Theodore Salmer known as
the millionaire kid of Sioux City,
whose automobile recently killed
son Of Vernon Frost
A single consignment Of spring cat
alloys shipped by Chicago mail order
house for mailing by the Des Moines
post Office occupied four freight cars
and the postage amounted to $1,000.
Oliver Kane, Fl, OF Keokuk, was run
down by . street car at Quincy, ILL.,,
and badly injured. He stepped off one
car and walked in front of another APP
preaching in an opposite direction.
Judge Ellison of Anamosa has finel