The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-04-15

uuIlOuSHSSC tLhe ~ = ASsS 49, 49,.
ness men making known to the peo-
pie OF the county and the world, the
fact that they are here and In some.
body's way, is more than We can tell.
Jail.
Court House.
Two banks.
Three tailor shops employing four
teen tailors.
Grist mill.
Two lumber yards.
Four drug stores.
Four hotels.
One dentist
Eight lawyers.
One opera house.
Fifteen house painters.
Two sign painters.
Six BARRIERS.
Two meat markets.
Seven doctors.
Six churches.
Skating rink.
Eight dry goods stores.
Two creameries, each 1900 pounds
capacity daily.
Five clothing stores.
Four restaurants.
One bakery.
Two photograph galleries.
Fifteen groceries.
One furniture dealer and under
taker.
County clerks office.
County treasurer's Office.
County recorders office.
County Auditors Office.
County superintendent Office.
Two justices OF the peace.
Sheriff's Office.
Two je.elry stores.
A score OF dress. makers.
A dozen music teachers.
Three coal dealers.
Two wood yards.
Two boot and shoe stores.
Half-u dozen shoe makers.
Boots aud shoes at all dry-goods
stores.
Five millinery stores.
Three harness shops.
One billiard room.
Four book stores.
Two livery stables.
Four insurance agencies.
Hall-a-d dozen fraternal societies.
One tile mandatory,
One brick yard.
Four hardware stores.
Four AGRICULTURAL implement agen-
cies.
Five wagon and repair shops,
One foundry and machine shop.
The Swenson mower works.
One hay press establishment.
A dozen brick and stone masons
and plastcrers. s
An architect and half hundred
carpenters and builders.
Two pump shops.
A Cooper shop.
A paper hanger and calsominer.
A depot, freight and express office.
An Incorporated land and cattle
company with 100000 capital au-
thorized and largely taken.
A nursery with two or three hun
dred thousand hardy trees, shrubs
aud Towering plants.
A market garden or two.
Several milk wagons to supply
customers in town.
Half u hundred private boarding
houses.
A public school with six or eight
departments. and as many teachers
and half thousand pupils.
A private school conducted ny the
Sisters OF Charity, prosperous, de-
serving and largely attended.
No saloon, but all the liquid light
ming requir ed for medical purpo-
ses" can be had ut the drug stores.
Several suckers and some bull.
heads.
A marble shop.
Two quiet cemeteries just out side
OF town with excellent samples from
our marble shop.
The county house and poor farm.
"just over the hill. ""where the weary
can find rest" and paths OF peace"
II not pleasantnsss.
Two grain elevators and eight or
ten grain warehouses.
Nine blacksmith shops.
Extension ladder works.
Egg buyer ships $4,000 worth an,
nually.
Butter buyer, ships $4,000 worth
annually.
A poultry buyer ships $4,000 worth
annually.
A windmill factory.
Several large dealers In crOckery.
A German school with some thirty
or forty pupils.
A teachers Institute largely at
tended
A Village OF nearly $500 inhabi
tants.
II is thought a poker room or two
might be profitable, but every place
| in town is SO full OF ether business
that probably no place could he OBJ
tanned for them.
Two local newspapers, both amen
able under the tramp act. because,
as our correspondent discovered,
they have no visible means Of sup.
port.
In addition to this, every public
highway and every railroad in the
United States, all caaal end steam
boat lines, and the bicycles AIS all
pointing toward Cresco.
A man can start for CrescO from
any spot OF place on the face Of the
earth, bu, WE would not like to have
thor, a., II out IN China. We don't
want any pig tails '>'~ - ~'S'