Iowa
Old Press
Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler, Iowa
March 1, 1916
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF
Traer - The old fair ground site, consisting of twenty-four acres
of unimproved land, lying one-half mile northwest of Traer, was
sold this week to F.W. Hotel at the record price of $250 an acre.
The stockholders of the old fair grounds association signed over
the interests some time ago to the library board and the proceeds
of the sale will be used to pay the indebtedness on the library
site, the paving, furniture, books, etc., for the new Carnegie
library which is rapidly nearing completion.
Des Moines - D.T. Blodgett, candidate for the supreme bench of
the state, has been indicted by the Polk county grand jury for
criminal libel. He is alleged to have circulated by means of hand
bills, libelous reports about various state and federal judges.
Boone - Chief Moyer has issued orders to his men to pick up all
dogs which are without tags, and complaints have been coming in
of vicious dogs at large.
Boone - A fire in the barn of Henry McCoy, who resides on the
H.C. Wakefield farm, four and one-half miles northwest of Ames,
caused the loss of six horses, hay and feed and over a hundred
chickens.
Davenport - Chas. McKenzie arrested three weeks ago on a charge
of forgery preferred by J.F. Paulson, appeared before Judge
William Theophilus in the district court, entered a plea of
guilty and was sentenced to 90 days' imprisonment in the Scott
county jail.
Mason City - A Ford touring car containing W.V. Loring and Mrs.
Loring was struck by some switching box cars on the M. & St.
L. tracks and pushed about fifteen feet along the track without
damage done to the car or occupants.
Fort Dodge - Frank Anderson of Coalville and Frank Spencer
seriously injured at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon by an
explosion of dynamite in the mine of the American Cement Plaster
Co. Only the two men were in the mine at the time the explosion
occurred.
Traer - Miss Harriet White, a Grinnell student from Traer, was
given second place in a prize contest which is carried on every
year by the students in Prof. Smiley's advanced Latin class at
Iowa college. The prize was a handsome volume of Browning's
poems.
[transcribed by C.J.L., March 2007]