Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-01-07
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| HOChWCll 5 Lutheran ClluICu was uc.
stroyed by fire with loss of $4,000
1t was estimated that Iowa Christ
mas gifts amounted to $15,000,000 in
| value.
Tama's new 100000 high school was
damaged by fire to the amount of
$4,000.
J. w. Brooks, an Enterprise negro,
fatally shot his wife on account of
jealousy.
A national convention of the Dis
ciples of Christ will be held in Des
| Moines early in October.
The elevator of the Gate City Seed
company at keokuk was destroyed by
fire with loss of 100000.
The West Liberty Fair association
has decided to hold night fair in con-
nection with the next annual assembly.
Recently the Keve hardware store at
Worthington was broken into by bur-
glars and $35 in silver taken from the
| safe.
Edwin A. Lloyd suicided with creno-
lin at Mason City because, it is be-
lieved, his wife had recently divorced
him.
Fire totally destroyed J. H. john
| sons hardware store and opera house
and Jos. Reinertson's restaurant at
St7atford
r. w. Edwards, county surveyor for
Hardin county, has resigned to take up
work on one of the drainage districts
near Benson, MINI.
George A. Furniss, aged Ct, was
burned to death by the explosion of a
can of kerosene at Ackley while at
tempting to relight the fire.
Injuries received when she fell
caused the death of Mrs. Lucinda Calk-
ms, 76 years old and resident of the
town of Wyoming for 60 years.
Citizens of Mt. Ayr will appeal to
the state railway commission in their
fight to secure new railway station
for the city from the Burlington.
After living since last summer with
a broken back, caused when a hay
rack fell upon him, Guy Mills, a farmer
OF near Silver City, has succumbed.
An epidemic of what is believed to
be tetanus is reported in the east part
of Davis county. Several rural
schools have been closed indefinitely
The consolidated school proposition
carried at Lewis by vote of six to
one The consolidated plan had been
recommended by the board Of educa-
ton
The consolidation of the five rural
district ''lools adjacent to Slater with
the sci is of the Independent district
was defeated at the recent special
election.
A fifteen months old son of Frank
White near Manchester was burned to
death during the absence of his
mother, who was washing in an adj
joining building.
Charles N Nicholson, president of
the Iowa State Firemens association,
was found dead in bed, due to heart
trouble. He was formerly chief Of the
Council Bluffs fire department.
Iowa pensions granted: Flora I.
Downer, Yarmouth, SIP; Frances c.
Gaskill, Lineville, $12; Anna McNary,
Ruthven, s12: Mary Jane Buffum,
Newburg, SIP; Mary A. Rhodes, Gar
ner, s12.
The new government weather sta
ton at Charles City is the only build
ing built exclusively for this purpose
in the state 1t is located opposite
Central park aud was built at a cost
OF s9,23s.
Jack Howe, former slave, who died
at Bedford recently, was about ninety
years old. He ran away from the plan
tation where he was owned in Mis-
souri, at the outbreak of the war and
came to Iowa.
Sister Celestine, aged %, died at
Mercy hospital in Davenport after suf-
fering for several days. She was IA
tally burned while attemting to eX-
tinguish a fire in the laundry OF st.
Ambrose college.
The will of the late millionaire lum-
herman, Charles F. Curtis of Clinton,
bequeaths $4,000 each to the Young
Mems Christian association, Agatha
hospital and the Associate Benevolent
society, all of Clinton.
Quick work on the part # the fire.
Illcu SdtSu lAC SOuAl uOuoS oS 1AAoA"
from destruction by fire. The blaze
started in a woodpile in the basement
but smoke was noticed before the
flames had got started.
The wholesale grocery house of
Morton l.. Marks at Davenport was
destroyed by fire with loss OF about
$4,000. The insurance amounted to
$12S,OOO. The fire is supposed to have
been caused by defective wiring.
Mrs. Marion Cole-Fisher, formerly
of Allamakee county and now residing
in Minneapolis, made the wedding cake
for President Wilson's recent we'd
ding. Mrs. Cole-Fisher has attained
national fame as a cooking expert
Perry Damon, a farmer living near
Green Island, met death in the flames
that destroyed the home Of Charles