Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-05-05
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A Fl Madison lad was fined IS for
shooting blue bird.
A new student daily paper is con-
templated at Iowa City.
A $4,000 Congregational church is
to be erected at Ft. Dodge.
Kelly pool and dice shaking have
been prohibited at Sioux City.
DR.. E. L. Cook, aged 70. died at Har-
Ian. He was civil war veteran.
Hayes Van Gorder, a former Waukon
resident, was drowned in Missouri.
About $500 worth OF silks were
stolen from general store at Britt.
Charles Cohmidtke. of Greene. lost
three fingers in a buzz saw accident.
A Poland China hog weighing 800
pounds was marketed at West Union.
The Waterloo Fairview Cemetery
association will issue $4,000 worth of
bonds.
Iowa University's rife team defeat
ed the University of Illinois team 1896
to 9S5.
Sixty Polk county blind persons
have been pensioned to the amount OF
$4,000.
George E. Pew. aged IS, prominent
LIE Mars business man, died from heart
disease.
Little Sioux and Newell have each
voted to erect q new $4,000 school
building.
A three-foot vein Of coal was struck
near Lehigh. 1t will be mined by a
company.
Ray Dollarhide lost his right foot by
falling under a freight car at Mar
shalltown.
Eleven cows belonging to John CAL
vert, of Jefferson, died from licking
paint pals.
The new dam across Cedar river at
Cedar Rapids has been completed. 1t
cost $4,000.
The infant daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bert Harvey, of Denison drowned in
water trough.
Clarion by the increase in its post
Office receipts, is now eligible to city
mail delivery.
It is said that there are less than
1000 bushels Of good seed corn In AL
lamakee county.
The State Railroad commission has
refused to increase the demurrage rate
on freight cars.
Frank Sutton, aged 46, son Of the
late Judge Sutton of Marshalltown.
died in Tulsa, Okla.
George H. Davis, of LIE Claire. aged
Is, trapped grey fox measuring four
feet from tip to tip.
Sac City is to purchase a motor fire
truck for the protection OF houses in
the outlying districts.
John w. H. Griffin. aged 50. died as
the result Of injuries received while
he was riding . bicycle.
A movement is on foot at Council
Bluffs to establish hospital for those
suffering from tuberculosis.
Mrs. Kate e. Jones, past national
president Of the Women's Relief corps.
died at Des Moines. aged n.
A religious parade over . mile long
marked the close Of the Bromley tab
ernacle meetings as Sac City.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. Griswold. each
aged 81 years. died and we're buried in
the same grave near Clinton.
Several cases Of smallpox were dis
covered at the Economy Advertising
company's plant at Iowa City.
Abner T. Birchard, aged 81, pio
neer business man of Marshalltown,
died suddenly from heart disease.
Gerald w. Douthett, editor Of the
Osceola Democrat, committed suicide
with a rifle, from unknown cause.
Josiah Perry, Perry veteran Of the
civil war, was awarded medal in an
old fiddlers' contest held in Omaha.
Arthur Meier fell rs feet into huge
ore rooster at Waukon, but was res
cued before being fatally injured.
An eight year-old son Of John Nc
Clelland had his leg broken by being
run over by an automobile at Clarion
A two year old son Of John Rathbun
of Wiota burned to death when his
clothing caught fire from an incubator
A Missouri Valley child narrowly
escaped death by poisoning from a
colored rubber ball filled with moth
balls.
Mrs. Joseph Thomas, OF Fl Madison
suicided in bathroom by turning on
the gas, after dressing herself in
white.
August Nichol, aged 10, was killed
and two other boys seriously injured
when he set fire to Is pound key OF
powder.
DR.. C. ]. Perley, OF Grant, danger.
ously injured his foot while handling
q slot gun which he did not believe
was loaded.
William Grimes, aged As, died al
Sioux City, after drinking glass Of
white mule" concoction Of water
and alcohol.
Sioux City retail grocers expect tc
close their stores on Wednesday after.
moons during the summer for the bene.
fit Of their clerks.
A. C. Beach, Chicago aviator who
succeeded the late w. C. Robinson al