Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-05-26
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:. E. F. Main has been appointed post
;, master at Hopkinton.
Bottling works at Burlington burned
with loss of $4,000.
An elevator and 5000 bushels o.
grain burned at Lake City.
Burglars secured 500 in stamps
, from the Comanche postoffice.
Lamont business men have agreed
, to close their places on Sundays.
Carl Brown, Waterloo wrestler
was badly injured by the caving in Of
a ditch.
The reformed church at Columbus
Junction was considerably damaged by
lightning.
An unidentified robber was shot
while looting store at Goldfield and
seriously injured.
Jurgen Peterson, wealthy German
farmer of Denison, died suddenly at
the breakfast table.
Rosie Mudra, aged IL. was burned to
death at Fl Dodge while using kero-
! sene to hasten a fire.
| George Holster. aged 40. formerly Of
Centerville, committed suicide at Des
Moines. by inhaling gas.
The Davenport Woman's club will
raise $4,000 for a rest cottage for tired
mothers and sick children.
The corner stone Of the new Greene
county court house was laid at Jeffer-
son with Masonic ceremonies.
| Harry Rodgers, Muscatine engi-
neer, was drowned while rescuing his
family when a launch capsized.
Efforts are being renewed to estab-
lish a steamboat line between Sioux
City and South Dakota points.
A Stratford physician, who has prac.
ticed 40 years, has been found guilty
of maintaining liquor nuisance.
Denison has completed new city
we'll 5000 feet deep with . pumping
capacity of $50 gallons per minute.
A big preparedness parade on June
3 is scheduled for Des Moines. Mayor
MacVicar is one of the leading spirits.
While watching QUOT game at
Council Bluffs, James Ostrom, aged II,
had the skull fractured by q horse
shoe.
Sam Peppard, who crossed the Kan
sas plains during pioneer days in q
wagon propelled by sail, died at Os-
kaloosa.
A mud slide 300 feet long buried
the Fl. Dodge electric line under mud
from six to ten inches deep at Fraser,
tying up traffic.
B. E. Short, prominent Sioux City
contractor, was very seriously injured
while auto racing with a railroad
train. His car was overturned.
While insane Mrs. James Kosik, of
Mason City, leaped into cistern with
her baby clasped in her arms. She
was rescued, but the child died.
Lott Dean died at Upton, aged So
years. He was 1owa's Oldest travel
ing man, and had been on the road 20
years continuously selling shoes.
A company of National Guard was
organized at Creston by Adj. Gen. Guy
E. Logan, and is part Of the third
regiment. The company has 70 men,
bers.
Desiring to commit suicide after Q !
disagreement with her husband, Des
Moines woman drank four ounces Of |
castor oil in mistake for poison, but |
recovered.
Edward Nichols and Miss Georgia
Wynn were married on Thursday at |
Knoxville. On the following Monday !,
the groom was killed by the fall Of
slate in mine.
Edo Will, aged II, was killed at Ida
Grove by IN automobile driven by DR.. |
A. B. Porterfield. He stepped out Of
the path of one automobile directly !
into that Of another.
Miss Jennie Jones, formerly woman
golf champion Of Iowa, was killed BY
an automobile at Sioux City. She was
a daughter of the president of the
Jones Piano company.
Ollie Gales, q What Cheer farmer.
crawled under a tractor to make re-
pairs. His five year old daughter on
the seat, accidentally started the ma
chine, causing fatal injuries.
Two young men at Missouri Valley
are receiving daily by amateur wire
less apparatus the correct time and
weather reports from the government
wireless station at Arlington, Va.
An old wolf and six cubs were cap
tured alive at Quimby, and twenty
auto loads of people gathered to see
a pack of dogs kill the mother wolf,
which was liberated for the purpose.
Peter Stark, serving term in the
penitentiary at Fl. Madison, was al !
lowed by Governor Clarke to visit at |
Musacine his mother, who was dying. |
He was accompanied by prison chap
lain.
Rev. DR.. John A. Marquis, president
of Coe College, Cedar Rapids, was
elected moderator of the general as
sembly of the Presbyterian church In
the United States. The election was
held at Atlantic City.
A $4,000 home for President J. H.
T. Main is to be erected at Grinnell
College 1t is expected to be COM
pleted within a year. The funds were
rafeod mainly from contributions N.