Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-04-13

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died while standing talking to friend
on the street. .
The creamery of Swift & Co., at
Keokuk, was destroyed by fire at a
loss OF $4,000.
Frank O'Dell, aged g., OF Creston,
died from injuries received IL. an auto
mobile accident.
| H. c. Baldwin, many times mayor
OF Charles City, and one Of its wealth.
lest men, is dead.
New Masonic lodges are being or
ganized at Thompson, Klemme, Kan
awha and Titonka.
| More than $500 worth of morphine
was confiscated by the police at Ames
from the express Office.
DR.. John E. Howe Of Greenfield,
member of the state board of parole
since September. 1909, is dead.
William J. O'Brien, aged 10, of
Boone, walked sixty miles from Boone
to Marshalltown to join the colors.
The fire loss in Iowa for the first
two months of 1917 is $315,S50 less
than during the same period of 1916.
Henry Banks, aged 9, of Centerville,
was crushed to death when a horse
which he was riding, fell on top Of
him.
DR.. Chas. F. Smith of Des Moines
was elected state president of the
Woman at the state conclave held at
Des Moines.
J. H. Currier, manager of the Purity
Oats Co. at Davenport, has been miss
ing, and it is said his accounts were
over $4,000 short. w.
/ Pensions granted: Hilda A. San
ders, Deep River, $40; Malinda J. Hall,
Knoxville, $12; Catherine Alexander,
Council Bluffs, $50.
Mrs. Bessie Copp, wife of the pub
Usher Of the Mondamin Enterprise, at
Mondamin, was seriously injured
when run over by an auto,
Miss Violet Stewart, aged 10, of Col
fax, died of injuries received when
an auto in which she was riding COL
lided with an interurban car,
The Iowa supreme court will re-
main with seven members as at pres
ent constituted, following action of
the house in killing the Epps bill.
w. H. Mcclure, bachelor and sta
tionary fireman at Iowa Falls, con-
fessed to the police that he has set |
fire to ten buildings during the past |
year. ....,.
Building operations in Des Moines
are, practically suspended because of |
a deadlock between the contractors
and workmen in fixing wages for the |
ensuing year.
An interurban at Iowa City caused |
q thrill to spectators when, enveloped |
in flames, it rushed across a bridge.
The incident was caused by short
circuit in the wires. .4..
The highest price ever paid for hogs
on the Chicago market was paid to
H. B. Mckee of Webster City, who re-
ceived $2,SOO.2O for 81 head, or $3.50
per hundred weight.
BY vote of 419 to Ill the citizens |
of Osceola decided that the new $780,
900 school shall be located in the
north part Of town rather than on the
west side Of the square.
Experts at Ames began a survey OF
the right of way in Iowa of the Great
Western railway with view to ar
ranging for farmers to utilize the till
able land along the track.
Postmasters appointed: Andres H.
Anderson, Lorah, Cass county, vice o.
W. Anderson, resigned; Miss Marion
Wallace, Truro. Madison county, vice
Mrs. J. B. Brown, resigned.
Guards have been thrown around
all the public buildings and railroad
bridges at Des Moines as a precau-
tionary measure to prevent destruc-
ton Of property by German sympa-
Edward Savage, prominent farmer
near Tabor, was found by neighbors
with an ugly bullet wound through
the temple, showing that 22-caliber
rifle found lying underneath him,
caused his death.
w. o. Payne, until recently editor
Of the Nevada Representative, is in
lending to start "a state weekly paper
in Des Moines, discussing politics and
all public affairs from standpoint of
the interests of the state.
The last effort of the city of Des
Moines to force the Iowa Telephone
to apply for a franchise,
which would have taxed the company
100000 annually for the state OF
Iowa, failed, according to a decision
handed down by the supreme court.
The Montgomery county grand Jury
which for over three weeks sat in an
OF the Villisca ak muir
lers brought in report repudiating
he case of Detective Wilkerson, and
six of Wilkerson's witnesses will be
charged with perjury and conspiracy.
Surgeon-general William c. Gorgas,
If the United States army, has notified
he dean of the college of medicine at
owa City, that an instructor in med
cal and surgical military training
will be assigned to the University of
owa, to conduct classes in that de-
)artment