Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-07-07
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NEWS1fEFS
} Rev. Father Murray of Manson /
cad.
} Roland Marsh, aged 81. died q
Waukon.
Fire destroyed the Thorne garage q
0edrick.
Oelwein is soon to have sixty new
street lights. 81
The number of prisoners atFt. Mad
ison June was GAG.
Fire destroyed several films in tn
King theater at Abba.
Tom Mckee Of Cambridge was killet
when kicked by horse.
Fred Steinbaugh, of Wall Lake, wa
killed In an auto accident.
Rain did heavy damage to the corr
. the vicinity Of Waukon.
The Dohany theater at Council
Bluffs was destroyed by fire.
The Bellevue Catholic church is in
stalling $1,000 pipe organ.
The voters at Glidden cast 229 votes
for suffrage and SO against.
A class of Ill was graduated from
the Council Bluffs high school.
A drainage ditch will be constructed
at Oskaloosa at cost Of $4,000.
A class Of eleven graduated from
the Council Bluffs school for the blind
The State Highway commission re-
ports IL fatal auto accidents during
May.
The largest class in it's history,
numbering 456, was graduated from
! Ames.
The annual conference of Colored
Methodist churches was held at Of
, tumwa.
Button Day at Davenport netted
$500, Saturdays sales being over 5000
buttons.
Louis McCardle, age 9, of Shenan-
doah, was accidentally shot in the
shoulder.
A $4,000 bond issue for a new
high school building has been voted at
Red Oak.
F. G. Hines of Garden Grove was ar
rested, charged with using the mails
to defraud.
An indian grave was discovered at
Fl. Madison while excavating for
store cellar.
A motorman and conductor were
held up on their car by a lone robber
at Dubuque.
Hans Bonneson of Harlan is charged
with killing VIM. Rattenborg in an
auto accident.
The seventeenth annual convention
Of the Rebekah lodges was held in
West Liberty.
Warren Moore, of BOWS, was seri-
ously injured when struck forcibly by
q horses head.
John Eberly, age SO. was seriously
injured at Dubuque when struck by
passenger train.
John Ables, age 81, Of Mt. Pleasant,
committed suicide by shooting him.
self in the head.
DR.. 8. A. Muenneke, Presbyterian
pastor at Boone. has accepted call
to Shelbyville, Mo.
The Sioux City creameries have
about 100000 pounds of
butter this season.
Maurice OConnor, prominent attor-
ney of Fl. Dodge, has retired on &C.
count Of ill health.
Rev. A. G. Buxton, Episcopal rector
at Council Bluffs, was married to Edna
Of Harlan.
During the preparedness parade in
Des Moines $2,432 in cash anf checks
was taken by pickpockets.
The mayor Of Logan intends to stop
parties who have been holding auto
races on the public streets.
Brice Hays, of Northboro, caught
50 pound bass near Hamburg, and has
,wo ministers as witnesses.
A. A. Moore, attempted suicide at
Council Bluffs by jumping from a
fridge into the Missouri river.
One hundred fifty-eight persons
we're arrested in Sioux City for intoxi-
alton during the month of May
Clarence Button, age IS, of Rolfe,
vas killed when he came in contact
With some high tension electric wires.
Mrs. John Herman of Scion was
ainfully injured when she stepped ON
he sDout OF an oil can which went
through her foot.
Edward E. Cross, of Boone, who has
cen working for the Northwestern 1
Or thirty years, was granted a pen :
ion.
A street car at Charles City collided
18th wagon containing SO pounds of !
ynamite. The dynamite did not ex- I
lode. !
Des Moines jobbers and manufac-
lrers took a tour of several cities, in I
luding Waterloo, Oelwein and Eagle c
rove. b
James Brown, a four-year-old Ma
IN City youngster, ran away. board r
car and went to a ball game II
one. d
Merritt Anthony, age II, of Jeffer-
IN, committed suicide because he was f
)t satisfied with an estate whicJ, y,os =,