Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-02-11
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A farm near Logan sold for 5000 per

| Pay-up weeks.
The Floyd County farm sold SLIP
worth of produce during 1915.
C. w. Hentges, near Sheldon, soil
seed corn for $3.50 per bushel.
A mems league for woman suffrag
has been formed at Des Moines.
Rudd has voted 5000 bonds for tn
new consolidated school district.
The Story City band has made con
cert tour of northern Iowa towns.
The 7OO-acre Flynn farm near De:
Moines is being prospected for coal.
The estate of the late Hugh Calder
wood, of Traer, amounts to $4,000.
A. w. Gains has been appointed
county engineer for Harrison county
Sac county supervisors have lie,
bridge contracts amounting to over
$4,000.
F.. E. Fosters drug store at Glad
brook burned with a loss of about
$4,000.
Page county bonds to the amount
S65, 1000 were sold in Chicago at $2,275
premium.
Fred Grimsel, aged 81, a well known
implement dealer at Red Oak, suicided
by hanging.
The Ottumwa Bell, steamer at Fit.
Madison, was robbed of $3.50 worth of
brass fittings.
The annual declamatory contest of
the LeMars high school was won by
Miss Isla Gilbert.
The Iowa State bank at Hazleton
has decided to erect fine new build
ing in the spring.
James w. Miller, owner and editor
Of the Winterset Reporter since 1900,
died in California.
Wesley Parnell, Milwaukee freight
conductor, lost leg at Dubuque by
falling under car.
Fred Miller, an inmate Of the Fl.
Madison Jail, has whitfield out model
steam yacht three feet long.
The Benjamin Jones family has paid
yearly in advance for Sheldon news
paper for the past 43 years.
Four Iowa City cigar store pro-
prietors were fined for permitting
gambling devices on their premises.
Roy Brees, of Knoxville, was killed
at Sac City when ice collapsed under
pile driver at which he was working.
Another record for day was made
at Sioux City stock yards recently
when over $4,000 head Of hogs arrived.
A Keokuk city ordinance of 1913
regulating telephone rates has been
declared inoperatice by a court de-
cree.
The New York Times says that Prof.
Steiner of Grinnell college is an Amer
lean of the same type as the late Jacob
A. Riis. ,.-s,
Festus Flynn, we'll known pioneer.
died at Stuart. aged SO. He had charge
of the Rock Island construction work
in 1858.
Milo Patterson, residing in Cedar
Washington county, enlisted
in the 45th Iowa Civil War Infantry
when IL years old.
Senator Kenyon has renowned q be-
quest of $4,000 made in the late l. S.
Coffin's will. over which there has
been . contest by heirs.
Fred w. Carl, of MarshalltOwn, re-
ceived so cents from a Colfax woman,
who said she stole . quantity Of corn
from him over twenty years ago.
For the month ending January 2lth
no patients were sent from Polk county
to the state homo at Knoxville for in
ebriates, which breaks all records.
Chicago and Northwestern railroad
have arrested three boys for
stealing beer from the depot at Burt.
They were bound to the grand jury.
1t 10 announced that the Burlington
Route will enlarge its shops at West
dollars, adding six hundred employees.
disappointment in = love affair
caused Will Babinet, . young farmer
near VOORHEES,, to attempt suicide with
carbolic acid. A physician saved his
life
John Halsey Of Avery was . member
of the crew Of the United States sub
marine E-2 that was blown up in the
New York navy yards, and was in
jured.
Equal suffrage will win in Iowa ut
the June primaries, according to Miss
Flora Dunlap, president Of the Iowa
Equal Suffrage association, in a signed
Nearly all the farms in the Green
Bay district near FIT. Madison we're in
undated as the result of an ice gorge
ut the junction of Skunk river and
Lost creek.
FIT. Madison merchants have signed
q contract for the installation of q
White Way on Second street to be
equipped with powerful electric lamps
twenty feet apart.
The barking of their dog aroused the
family of w. F. Steinkamp at Lenox
when their house caught fire in the
night and allowed them to escape just
before the walls fell in
During the period from November l,
1914. to January l, 1916, plans and
estimates valued at $6O,166 were pre-