Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-03-03
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NEWS B. I|j|!,l['I!
Keokuk is fining auto speeders.

Keokuk is fining auto speeders.
Greene county farmers have been
hunting wolves in autos.
The Iowa Trust and Savings bank
has been formed at Abba.
An epidemic of scarlet fever has
been prevailing at Council Bluffs.
Fl. Dodge is to purchase motor
driven fire apparatus to the amount of
$4,000.
The consolidated school district at
Ellsworth will erect a $4,000 school
building.
A chapter of the Sons of the Amer
lean Revolution has been organized
1T Grinnell.
Waterloo has started movement to
be called the Red Geranium city Of the
United States.
Hamilton county supervisors have
purchased a $1,150 gasoline gravel
eievating machine.
Sioux City spent $516, 320.66 for pub
lie improvements the last year, most
Of it being fol- paving.
William Morris, of Shenandoah, is
suing for $4,000 damages because Joe
Auracher's mule kicked him.
BY ten-day campaign the Young
Woman's Christian association at Des
Mofnes added 430 new members.
School improvements aggregating
100000 annually have been made in
Iowa during the past five years.
An Iowa club has been formed in
Fergus county, Mont, with member
ship Of over 200 former Iowans.
DR.. Frank Colby narrowly escaped
death when he fell from the third
story of the Metropolitan hotel at Fl.
Madison.
Burlington's second annual tri-state
fair will be held August 1913. Prizes
aggregating $4,000 are to be offered
for the races.
Nate McCauley, son of Robert Nc
Cauley, formerly a resident of Sigour-
ney, was killed February Sth in the
European war.
The A. c. Buffers residence at Fit.
Dodge was robbed of $500 worth of
jewelry. No clues have been discov-
cred by the police.
Albert Erickson, of Oelwein, 26 years
old, had both hands severed at tht
wrist while attempting to board train
at East Dubuque, Ill.
Rev. H. M. Case, former pastor CT
the Emmetsburg Congregational
church, suicided by shooting. His wife
died several months ago.
Dr. Thomas B. Marshall, of Atlantic,
aged SO years, died resulting from in
juries received when his auto was
struck by q Rock Island train.
Fort, :. Madison business men have
organi~;. a. association for promot-
ing the il crest of merchants and to
oppose unit u.hful advertising.
Henry Wallace, the widely known
editor of Wallace's Farmer died sud-
denly while attending q religious serv-
ice in Des Moines, aged 80 years.
Clarence d. Riley. employed by
construction company at Mason City
on sewer work, was fatally injured by
drilling into an old unexploded charge.
Howard Dawson had rib broken
and suffered internal injuries at Wash
ington when train-frightened horse
reared up and crushed him against
post.
Thomas Walsh of Iowa Falls, former
sheriff, has been sued for $4,000 dam
ages by Joseph Long, who claims
alienation Of the affections Of Mrs.
Long.
Over $4,000 was realized from a
sale Of stock on q farm Of the late B.
F. JaQues at Jefferson, it being the
largest farm stock sale ever held in
Greene county.
Dow City's consolidated school dis
trict has voted to erect $4,000 school
building. The vote stood LAT men and
125 women for, and Al men and II
women against.
With the opening Of the branch Of
fec Of the U. S. Commerce bureau in
Davenport, the city stepped into
class with Cleveland, Los Angeles, De-
troit, and Philadelphia.
a municipal heating plant and for ex-
tensions to the electric light and water
works system are being completed by
the city of Rock Rapids.
Mrs. John Burcham, of Defiance, ac-
cidently shut the cellar door on the
tail Of her pet cat which bit her, and
Mrs. Burcham may lose her arm as a
result of blood poisoning.
The Iowa Railroad commission has
scheduled the following hearings for
March: 4 Britt; 2, Estherville; 8,
Vail; Is, Iowa Falls; Is, general hear
ing on transmission lines.
Mrs. Fred Sport, Of Des Moines, was
seriously burned, and in order to save
her life over 200 inches of skin cut
from the underside Of thirty frogs was
grated on the burnt places
Deputy Sheriff L. A. Bowers was
shot in the chest, and Mrs. r. D.
Reams was shot through the hand by
the latter's son, Frank Reams, at Rock