Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-07-06
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The auditorium building at FeIla
college was destroyed by fire at loss
Of 100000.
Joe Kreykes Of Hospers, aged H.
was seriously injured when run over
by bob sled.
A. J. Wilson, mayor of BlairstoWn,
was found dead in the we'll pit of the
city water plant.
Jesse Cannon, aged 81, Of Des
Moines, died as a result of being
struck by an auto.
John n Ehle, aged IS, of Davenport,
was seriously injured when struck by
a heavy auto truck.
A Sioux City woman recently en-
PERTAINING a card club offered as the
prize two dozen eggs.
Burglars looted two residences at
Cedar Rapids and secured $1,000 In
jewelry and $50 in cash.
Walter Reiffenstein, aged 16, OF near
Garner, was accidentally shot by a
companion while hunting.
Osmond Osmundson, near Ossian,
has a sheep that gave birth to two
lambs just 13 days apart.
D. P Hogan, of Massena, has been
named as president Of the new federal
farm loan bank at Omaha.
Mary Reed, aged SO, of Woodward,
was found dead with rope around
her neck, having suicided.
Keck Mathes, aged 10, Of Muscatine,
was badly bitten by bull dog while
on his way home from school.
Thieves entered the Gately Henry
clothing store at Burlington and got
away with $500 worth of clothing.
Ezra Hupp, civil war veteran OF
Wapello, fell dead in the arms of Dan
Graham, comrade in the army.
Patrick Quigley, aged editor Of Du-
buque, is dead. He had published the
Daily Telegraph Herald since 1881.
The Iowa State Fair board has in
creased the amount Of premiums Of
fered from $4,000 to over $4,000.
Forest Dillman of Keokuk was con-
victed of second degree murder and
sentenced to 20 years at FIT. Madison.
H. w. George, a farm hand of near
Muscatine, was struck and instantly
killed by an interurban car at Musca-
tine.
Miss XeIa Chantry Of Ames college
was listed in beauty contest as one
of the fourteen most beautiful girls in
the school.
Bert C. Young, colored, held on rob-
berry charges at Ottumwa, sawed his
way out of the Wapello county Jail and
made good his escape.
In a snowstorm near Covington, an
elm tree was struck and felled by
lightning. 1t is thought to be record
on premature electrical display.
Iowa farmers are facing shortage
of farm hands as a result of the war,
most of the men being employed in
munition factories at high wages.
Henry c. Plumb, prominent Des
Meines business man, and one Of the
few thirty-third degree Masons IN
Iowa, and an old soldier, is dead.
A. r. Corey, secretary of the Iowa
board of agriculture, is urging city,
town and village jewellers to plant po-
tatoes on vacant lots this spring.
Justice Horace E. Deemer, oldest
member of the supreme court Of Iowa,
died at his home in Red Oak. He had
served on the supreme court for %
years.
While flames leaped through the
school building at Randolph, 81 pupils
gathered up their books and wraps
and marched out Of the building in an
orderly manner.
Mayor MacVicar of Des Moines an
nounced boycott on potatoes and ask
ing all families and restaurants in Des
Moines to refrain from using them for
a week or more.
Polk county sheep broke the market
record in Chicago when 81 ewes
shipped by G. A. Findley Of Johnston
Station, sold at $11.S5, or Csc above
the record price.
Foundation day was observed for
the first time at Iowa university. The
university was founded just 70 years
ago February 9th by the first state
legislature of Iowa.
Farmers in Scott county were hold
ing large quantities of potatoes to be
thrown into the market as soon as
they reach IS per bushel. One man
had $4,000 bushels.
One woman was killed and three
very seriously injured when an auto
in which they were riding fell over a
fifty foot embankment, caused by a
pig being in the road.
Lawrence Phillips, aged IA, and
Sherman McFeeley, of Creston, were
taken to Iowa City to take the Pas
teur treatment, as result of having
been bitten by mad dog.
An occurrence causing both joy and
sorrow took place in the home Of N. B.
Even, of Lamotte, when the eldest
daughter was married the same day
that her little brother died.
Jet !yelch, aged %, and Clifton
Briggle. aged IA, of near Muscatine,
were drowned when an auto which
they were driving on the ice on the
Mississ.p-- river, broke through.
As a part of the giant government
safety net being stretched over the
entire country, corps of secret serv-
ice men are at work in Des Moines