Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-02
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MontrOse, is dead.
w. D. Hayes, food inspector at Sioux
City. destroyed 100 lbs. of adulterated
coffee.
Henry Held, age so Of Newton,
dropped dead while conversing with
friends.
The Jansen Ice Cream Plant at DAY.
export was destroyed by fire at loss
of $4,000.
Fire destroyed a large portion of
the Northwestern round house at
Eagle Grove.
Ministers to the number Of PAT at
tended the Laymen's Missionary meet
ing at Waterloo.
Peter Sweet Of Fit. Dodge was shot
just below the heart when a gun acct
dentally exploded.
Mrs. Henry Dugan, aged lady near
Boone, had her hip broken when she
slipped and fell on the ice.
George G. Doerring, age 80, Of Fl.
Madison, was struck and instantly
killed by Santa Fe train.
Clifford Bryson Of Fraser, age a.,
died from burns received when he fell
In a tub Of scalding water.
Military drills under the direction
Of an army expert are to be inaugur-
ated at the Dubuque College.
A half million pounds Of commercial
fish were shipped from McGregor and
North McGregor during 1916.
Mrs. Gertrude Neshniein, age 80, Of
Lansing was burned to death while
attempting to light her oil lamp.
Lee J. Nichol Of David, age 20, died
from a wound received 16 years ago,
while fooling with a 22-calibre rife.
H. D. Smith, prominent Humboldt
man, died at Nevada, from internal
injuries suffered in fall upon the
ice.
Nicholas White, who lived in Shelby
county so years and was veteran Of
the Civil War, is dead. Ten children
survive.
The average increase in state taxes
per county to be collected in 1917 may
reach 100000, or a total Of about 49,
100000.
Chas. Gutknecht, farmer near Wa
terloo, was instantly killed when his
wagon was struck by a train at a
crossing.
The highest price paid for farm land
near Shenandoah, was paid when
Leonard Oviatt sold so acres at $275
an acre cash.
Two young wives at Clinton, Mrs.
Fred Leibert, age %, and Mrs. Edward
McDuff, age "a, committed suicide by
taking poison.
John Maloney, Milwaukee agent at
Sabula, has been in the service of the
company forty years, which is believed
to be the record in Iowa.
The Congregational Church at Mar
shalltown has decided to put on reel
Of motion pictures on Sunday nights to
increase church attendance.
Ed Shelton of Menlo had both eyes
and part Of his jaw blown away and
H. w. Stewart of Toledo was blinded
in one eye in a dynamite explosion.
Five hundred students at Iowa City
still depend on home for their weekly
clean clothes, via the parcelpost route,
according to the Iowa City postmaster.
Joe Wilson and Schelley Reynolds,
prisoners in the Jail at Wapello, were
burned to death. A lighted cigarette is
believed to have set the bed clothing
afire.
Francis Conant of Iowa City, age 26,
died from burns which he received in
an explosion in a chemical plant at
Detroit, Michigan, where he was en-
ployed.
Miss Elizabeth Koenigsberger, age
"a, of Des Moines. is cutting her third
set of teeth and she says it isn't caus-
ing her near as much pain as the first
set did.
The Palace Theatre at Vinton is
being used on Sundays for Sunday
school classroom, on account Of the
over-crowded condition of the Chris
tian Church.
Thousands of people at Dubuque
were awakened by a terrific explosion
about one o'clock in the morning. In
vestigation failed to throw any light
on the cause.
Mrs. C. G. Watkins, and son, age Z.
of Waterloo, were found dead with the
gas jet in the room open. The cor
oner pronounced it premeditated muir
der and suicide.
Frank Nelson Of Grinnell was SEN
fenced to appear in the penitentiary
for throwing stone which missed the
person it was intended for and struck
a workman nearby.
Suit for $4,000 has been entered
against the Rock Island Railroad by
the estate of Mrs. Grace Lewis Of
Greene who was killed in the wreck
at Packard last year.
Mrs. Edna v. Campbell Of Des Moines
has sued the Wabash Railroad for
$1,000, claiming the conductor on a
train carried her past her station and
then rudely elected her from the train.
Mrs. E. R. Winslow of Marshalltown
saved 500 when hold-ups entered her
husbands grocery and shot both her
self and her husband. She dragged
herself to the telephone and screamed