Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
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Mrs. J. A. Robinson, of near Wash
ington, aged 80, is dead.
John Ehle of Davenport was injured
when struck by an auto.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
building at Morrison at a loss of
$4,000.
John I. Higgins of Des Moines was
killed at Dubuque when run over by
a train.
Theodore LEM, aged Is, near Grant,
was seriously injured when kicked
by a horse.
Thomas Megan, near Eldora, i'm
ported four car loads Of hogs at a
cost of $4,000.
Damage estimated at $4,000 was
done by fire at the Snyder Brothers
store at Weldon.
The Arctic Creamery at Sioux City
was fined SIS for selling low grade
milk and cream.
Five owners Of barber shops at
Davenport were arrested for keeping
their shops open on Sundays.
Military training in the Sioux City
high school goes into effect next fall
by order of the school board.
James Money Of Waterloo returned
to Oelwein from guard duty and found
his wife married to another man.
Mrs. Roudalph Meim, near Toledo,
aged "a, mother of six children, COM
mitted suicide by hanging herself.
The Iowa City Canning company
will pay farmers this year $40 more
than usual per acre for sweet corn.
w. l. Noble, near Vinton, caught
two large wolves in steel trap that
was used by his father 60 years ago.
Five hundred persons escaped from
the Strand theatre at Iowa City with
out panic when flames destroyed the
stage.
Johnnie Jones, aged 16, Of Center
vile, was convicted Of manslaughter
by jury at Centerville, and sentenced
to prison.
The Stilson Manufacturing COM
pany at Dubuque was destroyed by
fire during a terrific blizzard at loss
of $4,000.
Mrs. Bridget Rea Of Waukon, who
just celebrated her Tooth birthday,
does a great deal of reading, but does
not use glasses.
Jeff Spurlock was held at Sioux
City, charged with being a member of
a gang Of train bandits, who are
wanted in Arizona.
A premium Of $50 has been placed
upon births among the employees of
the Moore Shenkberg Grocery COM
pany of Sioux Clay.
Geo. McKerk, farmer near Marengo,
found a mass Of melted metal while
cleaning his furnace, which proved to
be silver valued at $50.
Mcclellan Sanders, aged 2, Of near
Clearfield, was seriously injured when
his hand became caught in clothes
wringer run by motor.
Twenty-Five hides, valued at 5000,
were found under railroad bridge at
Dubuque by ice cutters. They had
been stolen from box car.
A man by the name Of Wilson has
had a nose grated on his face, at a
Council Bluffs hospital. The flesh
from one of his fingers was used.
Charles Arnold, aged s, Of Jeffer-
son, has received word from his uncle,
aged SO, in Michigan, that he has been
made beneficiary in his will to the ex-
tent Of $4,000,
Girls at Iowa university declare they
will not accept the new style Of hav-
ing their skirts lone inch longer"
They say the present style is COM
Portable enough.
Patrons of the King theatre at AL
bia had a bad scare when moving
picture film caught fire and the crowd
stampeded for the doors. Several
were bruised in the rush.
Fred Leeper, messenger boy at
Waterloo, found circular metal box,
with all the earmarks Of deadly
bomb, on the railroad tracks. No
train had passed before its discovery.
John w. Curl, Of Fl. Madison, at
tempted suicide BY jumping from the
Santa Fe railroad bridge 40 feet to
the ice of the Mississippi river, where
he was afterward found frozen to the
ice.
Mrs. Olson Graves of Council Bluffs
was injured when she jumped from
q third story window while the nat in
which she lived was burning. She
first dropped her two children into a
canvas held by f1remen.
Four persons were killed in wreck
on the Burlington near Cresto0. at
the town Of Cromwell. A wreck oc-
Cured 1T the same town on the Burl-
ington just IS years ago, in which
nine persons were killed.
VIM. H. Lehman, aged "A, pioneer
settler and musician Of note, Of Des
Moines, who came to that city when it
consisted Of an Indian trading station
and had a population Of one hundred
people, died Of pneumonia.
The body Of Clarence Stanley. who
had been gone from Unionville for %
years, was brought home to his par
ents. He was a member of PERISH
irg's force in Mexico. His family did
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