Iowa
Old Press
Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler, Iowa
November 9, 1910
IOWA NEWS NOTES
Fire of an unknown origin destroyed over half of the Rock Island
railroad bridge over Brown creek, two miles east of Estherville.
A public memorial ws held in Penn college chapel this morning for
the late Senator Dolliver. An eloquent tribute was paid to
Dolliver by John F. Lacey. There was a large attendance.
R.C. Hayden, a farmer living southwest of Danbury, brought down a
golden eagle and a crow with one shot. The eagle is a beauty,
measuring six feet eight inches from the tip of one wing to the
tip of the other. It stood three feet high. The huge bird has
been sent to Sioux City to be mounted.
While sitting on a table playing with a spoon, the infant
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Dodd, living north of Zearing,
Io., overturned a bowl of hot soup, scalding herself terribly.
Death came in about twenty-four hours following the accident. The
baby was 10 months old.
While trying to extinguish a fire in the home of her mother, Mrs.
M. Kennedy, Mrs. Bessie Brooks, of Pella, was painfully burned
about the arms and face. The fire started in a room occupied by
some tenants from an overturned lamp. The damage to the property
was covered by insurance.
The home of Will C. Strong, an aucitioneer, near Bronson, was
entered by robbers some time Sunday and a small amount of cash
taken. Under a newspaper on a table was a purse which contained a
considerable amount of small change but it was overlooked.
Father David, whose name in the world was David Sullivan, was
laid at rest in the burial ground of the monastery of New
Mellary, Trappist Order of Monks, at Dubuque, Saturday morning.
Five business houses in Massona, Cass county, were destroyed by
fire, caused by the explosion of a lamp in the restaurant of
Richard Edwards. With one exception the goods and furnishings of
the buildings were mostly removed, although in a damaged
condtion.
The success attained by C.D. Raymond of Independence in the
growing of peanuts has demonstrated that one more crop can be
grown on Iowa soil. Mr. Raymond has had on exhibition during the
past week several vines, each bearing about a pint of the
toothsome goobers. They are of the Jumbo variety and many of
them are of more than average size.
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Go to any old person for sympathy and you will learn that you
don't know what real trouble is.
[contributed by C.J.L., Dec. 2003]