Benton County IA Archives News.....W. C. T. U. Leader Murdered September 11, 1925
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Jackson Sentinel September 11, 1925
Jackson Sentinel, Sept. 11, 1925 

W. C. T. U. Leader Murdered 

Vinton, Iowa, Sept. 8- 

Mrs. C. B. Cook, aged 41 years, president of the Benton County Women's 
Christian Temperance Union, known throughout this section of the state for her 
activities against liquor law violations and an ardent champion of the 
organization's program, was slain at 11:30 o'clock last night, on the eve of 
the Benton county W. C. T. U. annual meeting, as she sat in her living room, 
sewing. 

Mrs. Cook died within an hour and a half after the attack, unconscious to the 
last and unable to make any statement of the crime. Her assailant has not been 
captured and Benton authorities have admitted that they are unable to make any 
progress in the solution of one of the most coldblooded and daring murders in 
the history of the county. Her husband is manager of the gas plant in Sioux 
City. 



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