Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-03-16


Dubuque voted to erect q new $780,
900 high school building.
Geo. Schumacher of Marengo shot
q jack-rabbit weighing Sk pounds.
The grain elevator at Goodell was
destroyed by fire at a loss of $4,000.
Verna Neer, aged II, of Griswold,
had her leg broken when she collided
with playmate.
Mr.. Francis Molitor and wife, of
Waukon, will soon celebrate their
10th wedding anniversary.
Allen Cosper, aged 9, of Des Moines,
was killed while hopping trains in
the Des Moines Union yards.
Sadie FIT of Des N1oines died OF
! burns received when she pulled can
of flaming kerosene over herself. "a
H. C. Cults, for more than forty
years a resident of Storm Lake, was
found dead in his barn by his son.
Robbers entered the Torebert Drug
Co. at Dubuque and made good their
escape with narcotics valued at 1000.
The Wagner Manufacturing Co., of
Cedar Falls, split it's surplus earnings
for 1916 with it's employees fifty fifty"
Three men were hurt by falling
boulder while removing an earth slide
in Paramount park at Council Bluffs.
Olaf Swanson, aged IS, of Burling-
ton, attempted to commit suicide by
cutting his throat with pocket knife.
The body of an infant child was
IN IN otf af
cupied by Mrs. Hoyt Pizer, at Iowa
Center.
J. ]. Richardson, known as the dean
of Iowa newspaper men, aged 70, and
publisher of the Davenport Democrat,
is dead
The Iowa cavalry brigade under
command of Maj. R. T. Hall, reached
Des Moines, where they were must
cred out
The top of the boiler in the Engine
plant at Abba exploded and blew the
roof off, making noise that reused
the town.
A sentry box complete in every de-
tail is being erected at Keokuk to
guard the Mississippi River Power
Co.'s plant.
The big barn on the Frank Wilcox
farm near Perry, was burned to the
ground at loss of $500. The barn
was 40x6O feet.
One out of every eight persons in
Story county owns an automobile, &C
, cording to figures by Secretary of
State W. s. Allen.
Should the United States be drawn
into war, 240 graduates from the
, nurses training schools at Iowa City
would be available. II
Forrest Dillman of Keokuk was
found guilty of murder in the second
degree, after being charged with
murder in the first degree.
An attempt was made to rob the
basement of the Western Electric Co.
at Estherville, which contains more
than $4,000 worth of copper.
Lenna Bakerink, aged five, of Allan
tic, died from the effects of eating
several tablets of strychnine and bel
ladonna which she had found. ,
The county board of supervisors at
Cherokee awarded contracts for 126
bridges and culverts to be built in
Cherokee county at a cost of Sill 1868.
Mrs. Cora Connelley Of Sioux City
dropped dead at the sight of her three
year old grandchild, who was burned
to death when its cradle caught fire.
Harold Quarton, son of former
Judge Quarton, of Webster City, was
with Ambassador Gerard in Berlin as
an under secretary He is on the way
home.
Twenty girls at Des Moines received
permits to carry revolvers following
several scares by men looking in their
windows and accosting them on the
streets.
Millions of fish are believed to have
been frozen in the upper Mississippi
river due to the great depth Of the ice.
At McGregor the ice was rs inches to
four feet in thickness.
William Wells, aged %, of Carlisle,
was killed, and Lou Murphy, also of
Carlisle, was seriously injured when
a clay embankment under which they
were working caved in.
A. Larson Of Des Moines, workman
at the new Ford automobile plant,
was seriously injured when a scat
folding on which he was working fell
from a fifty-foot tower.
Inez Silverberg, little daughter of
Minor Silverberg, of Des Moines, was
playing with General Funston at the
time of his sudden death in the hotel
lobby at San Antonio, Texas.
Attorney General Havner has stated
that he would positively enforce all
laws left on the statute books at the
close of the present assembly. This
will affect many lines Of business.
Through an X-Ray examination by
DR.. H. w. Rayner, piece of needle
two inches long was found in the foot
of Mrs. Jimmock Cowan, Of What
Cheer. 1t has been there for % years.
The management of Lenox college
at Hopkinton has decided that chair
in patriotism and American history,
which is now being founded, shall be