Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-01-21
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Bridge and road bonds to the amount
of $50, 900 have been issued at Grundys
Center.
A $4,000 fire destroyed a drug store
and contents and a savings bank builds
ing at Craig.
Four free tuition scholarships atl
Ames College will be awarded to for-3
eign students.
The new hotel at Ottumwa will cost
Des Moines firm.
A defective furnace caused the burn
ing of the fine farm home of Joseph
Hickey at Struble.
Only two fire alarms during 1916
was the record at Ida Grove, the total
loss being only $3.50.
The Jan Hus Memorial Presbyterian,
church, costing $4,000, has been dedi-
Gated at Cedar Rapids.
For theft of merchandise from Rock
Island cars, Will Mowers Of Traer got
five years in Anamosa.
A. r. Whitmans merchandise store
at Greenfield was damaged to the
amount of $4,000, by fire.
Hardin county is in favor of gravel
roads. This was decided at repersen-
tative convention just held.
The Farmers State Bank. Of PAUL.
lima. has reorganized as . national
bank. capitalized at $4,000.
Jackson Donald Of Garrison. 80 yearag
old, died from grief over the death Of
his wife few days previous.
A runaway team caused Mrs. George
Connolly of Nevada to sustain q brok-8
en- hip and many severe bruises.
The new home of the M. B. A. at Ma
son City will be eight stories high. Tho
contractor has begun excavating.
Arthur E. Butterfield Of Cedar Rap
ids has been appointed clerk in the
navy department at Washington.
A fine needle was taken from the
breast of the twenty month old child
of Ray Ferris of North McGregor. Il
For the fourth time in twenty years Q
Rate glove factory at Iowa City was
destroyed by fire with loss of 100000.
A canning factory proposition is be-
ing discussed with the probability OF tts
being put in at an early date at Charles
City.
L. S. Edwards, manager of cream
cry at Algona, has been appointed as
sistant state dairy and food commits
sioner.
Several business buildings at Shell
don were destroyed by fire while the
mercury stood at nearly 80 degrees be-
low zero.
A fund of 1899 has been given by the
Commercial club Of Sac City to aid In
the good roads movement within the
city limits.
A ''dry cleaning" shop at Neville
proved to be so wet that the author
tiles have locked up the shop and the
proprietor.
A Kansas Society has been organ
lied at Des Moines with an initial meme
bership of 60. Robert A. Wright waa
elected president.
The Smith & Taylor shop and restan-
rant at Dunlap were destroyed BY dre
night. The loss is $1,000 part
ly covered by insurance.
The Rev. w. NJ. Baker has begun his
work at the Central Church Of Christ
in Marshalltown. He came to MAJ
shalltown from Keokuk.
J. D. Hartog, So, of Sioux City, was
run over by freight backing out Of
the shed. He suffered severe injuries
and died from the shock.
J. D. Moore of Stiles committed sui
eide by hanging. Worry over busi-
ness matter is believed to have caused
his temporary arrangement.
Ralph Thomas. Santa Fe conductor.
slipped from the icy step of car into
the path of switch engine at Fort
Madison and was instantly killed.
County Attorney o. T. Gillett auc-
toned off $4,000 worth of bridge and
road funding bonds, the bonds carrying
~ per cent interest and running 15k
years.
Ten dollars an acre is the price
Rural Carrier Dockerty Of Buck Grove,
will pay ]. T. Slater for the rent Of his
finely improved place just east Of town
Tor the ensuing season.
Harold Nichols, 16-year-old boy
in the mines at Hiteman. was
caught in the shuttle wheels while oil
ng them and killed instantly. his body
being horribly mangled.
Henry, the 5-year-old son Of Harvey
Davis of Keosaqua, undertook to cut .
shoe string with a dull knife, and
struck the knife in his eyeball. de-
,troying the sight Of one eye.
A permanent fund of $4,000 for
work in the North China mission will
,e raised by the college at Grinnell.
This is to be used by the American
3oard for Foreign Missions.
Frank Gotch, worlds wrestling
hampton, has left Humboldt for Cali
ornia where he will spend the win
er. He was accompanied by his wife
nd son and by Mrs. Gotch's parents.
John Riniker. aged 90 years, pioneer
f Rock Rapids, died at the home Of his
on, Sam D. Riniker, republican COM