Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-05-26
H.rold Bant. of Fl Madison, ey.d1

d. Tell with 60Incleut 10 &c TO CAl'e
baling wire through his rlgIt thigh
i producing an opening six inches long
! Miss Lizzie Dysart, Of New Sharon
aged 72. was killed by an auto driven
by John McVey. The accident hap
pened while heavy storm was ap-
preaching.
An Ottumwa manufacturing com
pany has agreed to pay its employees
full time during the militia encamp'
ments, or while giving other service
to the guard.
E. Housh, well known farmer, Of
Leon, was badly injured when wagon
tipped over upon him. He was stretch
ing wire fence by having it attached
to the wagon.
/ Last fall T. ]. Goken bought 120-
acre farm at Dysart for $162.50 pei
acre. He has now sold the farm al
$210 per acre, q gain Of $3.50 pei
acre, or $1,425.
John Haldine was crippled for life
when an auto turned turtle in goine
around corner at Pomeroy. W. J.
Smith, West Bend farmer, was also
seriously injured.
Mrs. J. B. Gibson, Of Shenandoah
has donated . parsonage to the Bap-
fist church upon condition that the
present church Indebtedness of $4,000
be wiped out within ninety days.
The first four months Of 1916 showed
. 200 per cent increase In building
operations at Sioux City over the
same period in 1915. the total for the
period ending April / being $1,s75. $50.
The ladies' aid society Of the Lu-
theran church at Dunbar, agreed that
all eggs gathered from their hens on
. certain day should be devoted to
missions. and the result was 6Sh
dozen.
Mrs. John Hoftert, Of Denison, slip
ped and fell against rusty hatpin,
which penetrated the left lung and
went through the outer sack OF the
heart It is believed she will recover.
however.
While suffering from q sudden at
tack Of insanity. Mrs. Chas. Jensen. Of
Fl. Dodge. nearly chopped of the head
Of her four year old son with a dull
Ratchet, believing that she was killing
Q chicken.
Edwalt Hankner, aged 26, died at
Waterloo of conclusion OF the brain,
after four-round boxing bout with
Gordon Vaughan. aged 20. The latter
was absolved from blame by cor
oner's jury.
Arthur ]. Cable, aged 30, was ar
rested at Dubuque charged with biga-
my. About 10 months ago he married
a Dubuque girl. It is said he has adj
mitted having a wife and children at
Rochester, MINI.
Fred Junkin Hinkhouse, Of Fa1r-
field, a member of the 1916 class OF
Parsons college, has been elected to
the English department In a Protes-
tant college at Beirut, Syria, for
term of three years.
Frank Cervati, of Des Moines, broke
one leg twenty years ago. since which
time it was two inches shorter than
the other. The other leg was recently
shortened two inches by . fall, so that
both are now the same length.
Seventy-five years ago Rockingham.
Scott county, was larger than Daven-
port, the two being rivals for the
county seat. Rockingham s now
filed . petition in district court asking
the Incorporation to be dissolved.
Miss Ruth Paxson, secretary Of the
Y. w. C. A. for China. an alumnae,
will return for the commencement ex-
ercises Of the State university at Iowa
City. 1t is said that she is now the
greatest woman evangelist In the
world.
Chief of Police Hawman, Of Sioux
City, was frequently called on the
telephone by error, and from frag-
ments of conversation he was able to
make q raid on local hotel and seize
q considerable quantity Of beer and
whiskey.
Frank Smith. Of knoxville, shot and
instantly killed his cousin, Mrs. Alice
Gerlich, on the Main street, using both
barrels Of shot gun. a. the result of
a feud of long standing In the Smith
family. Mrs. Gerlich was the mother
of two small sons.
Edna Borman, Neva johnson and
Marjorie Fairbrother, three Hawarden
high school girls, were drowned by be-
ing carried over dam in the Big
Sioux river, while attending picnic.
Twenty-Five high school girls wit
messed the accident.
Miss Inlay won the interstate col
legiate oratorial contest at Spring
field, Mo. She is a student at the
Iowa State Teachers college at Cedar
Falls. She is the first woman to win
the event, and her victory is the sixth
consecutive one for the college.
The employment bureau conducted
by the State of Iowa has many appli-
cants from factories wanting wood
workers, bench hands, cabinet makers,
machinists, foundry workers and drill
press hands. The bureau also has a
number of applicants for women