Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-10-12

NEWS BRIEFS
Motor cars valued at $4,000 were
stolen in Sioux City in one day.
The kick of horse was fatal to
Hiram Hoppock, farmer, formerly OF
near Shenandoah. .-..--. ~
Worth Overton, fancy hog raiser,
near Knoxville, sold a yearling boar
to a man in Hoopole, Ill, for $1,000.
While playing With his brother In
a watering trough, Charles Waddel.
aged ~ years, of Olive, was drowned.
H. A. Allen of Cedar Rapids, COM
mander of the national guard of Iowa.
has been made a brigadier general.
Sydney Sinclair, president of the
Sinclair Packing company of Cedar
Rapids, died in a sanitarium at But
'falo, N. Y.
Abraham Simmer, Jewish philan-
thropist and we'll known over Iowa
for large gifts to hospitals, died at his
home in Dubuque.
The value of Des Moines increased
garden production was estimated at
$4,000 in a report made by Fair Sec
rotary A. r. Corey.
William Rouw, aged II, Of Pella,
is dead, and Tunis Van Vark, his
companion, was seriously injured as
a result of an auto accident.
Mrs. James Breanahan, aged 90, of
Mt. Pleasant, was found dead in the
bottom of eastern at her home.
Death is believed 10 have been acci-'
dental.
Mrs. Mary Harklns, of De Witt,
aged 102, is a member Of the knitting
league formed by number of De
Witt women, and is doing knitting fer
the soldiers.
Charles Cronbeck and Miss Eliza.
beth Mahan, of Dubuque, were
drowned in the Mississippi when
launch in which they were riding,
struck dam.
Council Bluffs will soon have a new
industry which Is an alfalfa products
factory that will make candy, cookies,
tea, syrup, -four, and dozen other
articles of food.
Fifteen organizers in Iowa are now
busy organizing the farmers OF the
state into a nonpartisan association
with a view to controlling elections
and public officers. -
Fifty cases of eggs valued at $500
and consigned to a Cedar Rapids pro-
duce company were condemned by
consignees on inspection and thrown
on the public dump.
H. A. Vessels, near Creston, re-
ports that he received a check in st.
Joseph, Mo-. for car load of hogs
In the sum of $4.215.26; fifteen head
averaging $96.37 each.
Jessie Harrison, aged 10. OF Abba,
died from blood poison caused by q
diseased tooth. liberation and decay
was so serious that neither the dentist
nor the doctor could save her life.
Leo E. Stevens, vice president Of tho
Iowa Loan & Trust company, of Des
Moines, suffered a fractured ankle
bone when step ladder upon which
he was working in his garage gave
way.
The state board Of control has &C
copied the resignation of J. c. San
ders, as warden of the penitentiary at
Fl. Madison, and appointed Jacob R.
Perkins, of Sioux City, as his sue
cessor.
Brooks Hersom lost several fingers
as a result of an accident which &C.
Cured near Pocahontas while drilling
a we'll. His hand was caught beneath
the weight of 200 feet of pipe and
crushed.
Four women have been employed In
the Burlington shops at Creston as
engine wipers. They wear mems
blouses and it is understood that a
special make of overalls has been or
dered for them.
Phil Steffa, member of Captain
Fleur's machine gun company at Des
Moines, was run down and seriously
injured by an auto truck at Des
Moines, while going to meet~his
mother at a train.
C. E. Cooper, attorney, was ap-
pointed mayor Of Onawa, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation OF
Mayor Nord, who enlisted as a vete-
rinary surgeon and has been called
to service on the Mexican border.
The body of Miss Emma Anderson,
one of Iowa's Oldest teachers, Of c.
dar Rapids, was brought back from
Minneapolis, where she Wa killed by
an auto truck. She has ta0SAt school
In Cedar Rapids for over 20 years.
A. ..m.rka1,1e illustration OF the
capabilities of an Iowa farm under
expert management Is given by the
record of J. c. Winslow Of Hancock,
who built up and established q
creamery by his own efforts upon his
farm. By the aid Of power mixer,
he now milks ~ cows in IS minutes.
A revised map of Iowa has been pre-
nared by the state railway commits
sioners and It now ready for dis
tribution. The map includes tho new
cantonment at Camp Dodge and So
changes in railroad stations. Four