Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-06-22

70 l0c per quart at Des Moines.
Mrs. D. p. Lyon. of Sac City, sold
q 1873 acre farm for 1912 per acre.
Between rs and 80 cases of typhoid
fever were reported at Cedar Rapids.
Motorcycle riders in Cedar Rapids
are organizing a military motorcycle
company.
Trinity council, knights of Colum.
bus, of LeMars, expect to build $40;
900 club house.
Two fishermen at Anamosa were
fined SIS and $50 for dynamiting fish
from the river.
Frank Blue, aged II, of Earring. was
killed in an auto accident while on
his way home from town.
The Sinclair memorial chapel at Coe
college, Cedar Rapids, is installing a
new mammoth pipe organ.
> Josephine Clark, aged 4, Of Decatur
City, was scalded to death when she
fell in tub of boiling water.
Twenty-tive persons at Waterloo
made application to enter the officers
reserve corps at Fort Smelling. :,
Three boarding houses at Iowa City
have been forced to close on account
Of the high price of food stuffs.
Geo. Medefesser, aged 1S, of Dan
vile, died as result of fall from
the haymow of his fathers barn.
Clarence Evans, near Waukon, was
nearly killed when colt he was driv-
ing to water turned and kicked him.
Miss Katie Clark Of near Honey
Greek was seriously burned when her
clothing caught fire from a candle.
John Strosahl, retired farmer OF
Grundy Center, became mentally de.
ranged and was missing from hia
home. 49,
Fourteen Duroc Jersey sows be.
longing to- G. R. Bailey, of Eldora,
have lis pigs, averaging eight to the
animal. -,
The Davenport Rotary club men,
bers unanimously pledged themselves
to two meatless days each week dur
ing the war. ... .......
w. c. Vigars of Eldora sold fifty
head of Poland China hogs in the Chi
cago market at SIG per cwt.. amount
ing to little over $4,000.
Every Davenport boy scout will en-.
deavor to raise enough potatoes to
feed q soldier during the war, accord.
ing to a decision announced.
Malcolm Taylor, formerly Of Du.
buque, was severely wounded in one Of
the recent battles on the Somme front
and is now in a London hospital.
With his two children as witnesses,
Daniel Merritt, aged so, of Keokuk,
beat his wife into inconsistencies
with a Ratchet and then took his own
life.
The hospitals at Des Moines and
the state are suffering
from the alcohol famine, caused by
the strictness of the new bone dry
law.
Two men at Dubuque were injured
when a seventy-ton street sprinkler
operated by the street car company,
ran wild down one of Dubuque's- steep
est streets.
Earl Garvin, son of Mrs. e. A. For
est of Clinton, has written from San
Domingo that he is recovering from
wounds received in recent engage.
ment with natives.
J. J. Ryan, of the Iowa Land and
Livestock company of Fl. Dodge, pur.
chased a strip of land known as the
Clark estate for total of $162.800
comprising two sections.
Carl Schmidt and Fred Hagel, en-
ployes Of the Davenport Locomotive
Works at Davenport, were injured
when some brass which they were
handling in the forge room blew up.
Selmer Orvella, of near DEBORAH
has invented spark plug that is dis.
tinguished from similar devices in
that it has three sparkling points. II
has been tested and works satisfac.
torily.
One of the boys who went from Al.
den to enlist at Fl. Dodge, is a Greek
boy named Nicolas Powgnas. He says
his mother and sister have both been
butchered by the Turks since the wal
started. T.
The most pathetic case that has
come under the attention of the po.
lice at Muscatine was revealed when
Orville Kallenberger, aged II, wal
found in a park completely overcome
with liquor.
The Iowa dentists in session at Dea
Moines voted unanimously to help
Uncle Sam by putting into condition
free of charge the teeth of applicants
to the service who are rejected for
that reason.
Al q result of men quitting the ON.
ploy Of the street railway company n
Davenport to work at the arsenal al
Rock Island, the company 10 contem.
plating putting on women conductors
and motormen. .. -.
Suits aggregating $445.ooo have
been filed against the Chicago, Bur.
lington and Quincy railroad, incident
to deaths and injuries met BY pas.
sengers in the wreck at CIomweu on
the night of February I'd. g,
Geo. Wittlinger. of Waukon, who
was refused admission to the United
States Army on account Of defective
hearing, has undergone an operation