Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-08-18


be held at Monticello.
Samuel M Hoff, resident Of Wat
erloo for 81 years. is dead.
Jacob Hines, aged 65, near West
Liberty, died from the heat.
Orville Buck, near Sawyer. aged Is.
was drowned in the Mississippi.
John Jennings, aged 4, has broken
skull after being kicked by horse.
While drilling at his residence ct
Eldridge, Carl Cook struck large gas
we'll. ~,
More than 1000 have graduated from
Ames college since it was founded In
1872. ..
o. West, farmer near Paulina, has
just completed residence which cost
$4,000.
James Fenlon, nearly 80, Oldest
travelling man In Iowa, died at Des
Moines.
Mrs. Anna Lahey. aged 30. is dead
at Des Moines, after a gasoline stove
exploded.
Keokuk police have been conducting
lishments.
Miss Belle Richardson, near Nevada.
will leave shortly to do missionary
work in China.
John Burrows Of Bloomfield lost an
arm when It became caught In q
threshing outfit.
Two men were arrested and fined
at Diagonal for keeping restaurants
open on Sunday.
Elan Jones of Waukon, 80 years Of
age, is dead. He drove to Waukon in
1856 with an ox-team.
Captain and Mrs. Daniel Matson,
prominent Burlington couple, cele-
brated their golden wedding.
Bernice Van Wrinkle Of Griswold.
age IS months. was seriously i'll from
eating a quantity Of fly killer.
An attempt was made near Jefferson
to wreck Milwaukee train. which
left the track, but no one was injured.
After several lengthy discussions. it
has been decided to build Penn col
lege at Oskaloosa on the present site.
J. R. Kessler of Diagonal was Sc
verely injured when he fell from the
top of box car. breaking his hip and
arm.
August Stabrin beat up the baggage
agent at Dubuque because he would
not handle his baggage, and was fined
$53.45.
William Won Sooy, farmer near
Auburn, committed suicide by hang
ing, after being crazed by the excess
sive heat
Three persons, Ralph l. Olney.
Beatrice Whitney and Edna Whitney.
of Cedar Rapids, we're drowned in the
Cedar river.
F. s. Severance, conductor on the
Milwaukee, knocked q robber from the
top of his train, after he attempted to
hold him up.
Rural Route No. !. near Noble. will
be discontinued. and farmers In that
vicinity say they will hire man ia
carry the route.
Edward Donnan, aged 3, Gordon
Donnan, aged ~, and William Watson.
aged ~, all of Ewart, were drowned
in the Iowa river.
According to Attorney General Co.'S
son, the guardsmen on the border will
not be able to take advantage Of tho
absen: voters law.
According to figures gathered BY G.
Mahaffa, secretary Of the taxpayers
league, about one-third Of Iowa
homes are mortgaged.
Des Moines telephone operators ct
the Walnut exchange remained 1t
work while a laundry next door
burned to the ground.
Will Vernon of Coffeyville, Kansas.
thought to have been pushed from .
train, was picked up in an unconscious
condition near LIE Mars. :.
Frank Warfield, aged 67, grandson
of Robert Lucas, first territorial gov
ernor of Iowa, was hit and killed by
q train near Montpelier.
Marie Smith, infant daughter OF
Otto Smith Of Fl. Madison, was hor-
ribly burned when q pot Of boiling
beets tipped over on her.
Human bones were found in . barn
which was burned to the ground rec
emily near Van Meter. They are
thought to be those Of tramp.
Frank Small, private in the Third
Iowa at Brownsville, was the ldrst
Iowa guardsman to die on the border.
His death was due to appendicitis.
The automobile average in Iowa, &C.
cording to state house figures, 10 one
machine for every thirteen people,
which is more than any other state in
the Union.
Six Mexican laborers, employed
near Greenfield. notified their foreman
that they wanted to return to Mexico.
It Is surmised that they were fright
ened at the American troops going to
the border.
P. T. Kirby, discharged prisoner ct
Fl. Madison, attempted to leave the
prison with several articles that he
had stolen from time to time, and was
apprehended. s.5-
Rev. J. N. Hosier, formerly Meth