The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1889-08-08

| Remember the Classical Concert !
to be given in Lyric Hall Tues. Aug
|27.
The Cresco Stars crossed bats witt
the Elmn b. Ms on Monday, an
were defeated by a score Of 10 to Is.
Our thanks are due Mrs. +. +
Babcock for box Of the finest whit
clover honey Of the season.
J, Mr.. Raymond, clerk in DR.. Glenn
mer's drug store, Is down with thu
munps.
Rev. Payne OF Fayette county. form
erly on the circuit here, preached last
Sunday in the Methodist Church
for Rev. Coleman.
w. H. Alleman has sold his cele
brated trotting horse Capt. Webb tt
q New York party for long purse o.
money.
Seright's Harness shop has taken
up its quarters in the rooms vacated
by the Cresco Union Savings Bank
in the Strother House block.
Eastern men, the Norristown Her.
aid says, have such heavy mortgages
on Kansas farms that a cyclone
couldn't bulge 'em.
A daughter OF Peter Ferrie, living
over Live Oak market, north Of the
Court House, is down Of diphtheria.
The house is quarantined against the
public.
II afflicted with some ailment which
has assumed q chronic form, and OF
which you have been unable to OBJ
tain relief, apply to DR.. Bowers, over
Clelnmer's drug store.
DR.. Gibson OF Chicago friend and
formerly family physician for Chris.
O'Grady Is visiting in Cresco. He
appears man Of culture, experience
and Judgment.
Alpheus Woodward, formerly OF
Sayre & Woodward, now q prosper
Gus attorney at Cloquet, Mimi, pass.
ed through Cresco on Tuesday fol
st. Paul.
J. g. Doan is opening out stock
Of goods, chiefly groceries, in the
building heretofore occupied by Cole
& Kimbalrs millinery store. Mrs.
Cole will continue in the Patterson
building three doors from the post.
Office.
J. w. Wentworth lost $i1, 900 dol.
lars in the Spokane Falls confiagra
ton, with but $1,000 insurance. E.
E. Bertrand was burned out also,
we did not learn the extent OF his loss
or ii he was ms ured.
The vote on the adoption Of the
ordinance for building a sidewalk to
the driving park was as follows:
Yes, Connolly, Burgess, johnson.
No, Clemmer, Doan.
Not voting, Berg and Moon.
Farmers OF Howard county, you
who like to hear an educated anti.
monopolist speak, come in time Wed.
nesday to listen to the brilliant editor
Of the Iowa Homestead, Henry Wal.
lace, ESQ, of Des Moines-
F. j. Baldwin Of kasson, Mimi.
soliciting agent for the p. F. Collier
book publishing house Of N. Y. is in
Cresco soliciting orders for its various
publications.
From the Observer, Vail, Crawford
county, Iowa, we learn that Jas. F.
Long died ut that place, July 18th.
aged So years and months. He was
u former resident OF Vernon Springs,
where he conducted o shoe shop. He
has brother living in Howard Cen.
ter, Mr.. Lawrence Long. He leaves
q widow and two grown children, the
daughter married, all in good circum.
stances financially. We knew him
well as man and q Mason and know
him to have been worthy the tribute
Of respect paid him by his neighbors
and Masonic brothers.
The Miners Creek Cheese Factory
having got from under the control Of
men who thought q person worth $2;
a month good enough for Howard
county cheese making, is putting on
the market cheese of as good quality
as any ever sold in the county, nc
matter where made. The cheese in
dustry owing to bad management
had been nearly ruined here. The
low price for butter and the much
higher price for cheese comparatively
ought to boom the cheese factor,
interests of Cresco.
Saturday evening, Mr.. McHugh
our busy Fair Secretary, received .
telegram stating that the famous 6tf
Regiment Band OF Usage would at
tend our Fair and compete for frs
prize, which will carry with it al
honor to be valued beyond the $40
accompanying it. The Band will
number 16 performers, and In thei
handsome uniforms present . fine ap
pearance. They will come via Rice
willie, spending Tuesday night there
and arrive here Wednesday morning
along with the thousands who vii
come from the west side of the count,
to join in the ''Old Settlers" gather
ing and witness the great openin
day of the Fair.
The Farmers Voice OF Chicago an,
the PLAIN DEALER both one year
for*1, so, cash to accompany the OF
der. Address this Office. 43tf.
The children are getting quite III