Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-04
COMPLIMENTARY
Allusions to the Pee Dee's Birthday
Anniversary.

DNAhEte tHlS week sGafCS It's 57th year
under the same management that
started the paper 3G years ago at New
oregon, w. X. u F. j. Mead. While
IT is phenomenal for one firm to run
the same paper SO long, we believe
paper in northern Iowa without any
change of firm, it still seems but q
short time since the first number was
printed, q small sheet set in plea type
and still it is more than the accorded
time for generation of men. The
publishers have grown from young
men to gray haired veterans and per-
haps but very few of their first sub
scribers are living now. There is one
commendable feature with the Meads
and that is, they STAY. If more of
the early publishers had patterned
after them in this respect they would
undoubtedly been better off. A roll.
Ing stone seldom gathers moss. In
the past days we have had many
warm newspaper fights with the
PLAIN DEALER, but these have long
since been forgotten. May the vener-
able publishers still live long to enjoy
the field in which they have worked
so many years.-Postville Review.
Congratulations to w. r. Mead, of
Cresco. His PLAIN DEALER which he
established thirty-six years ago starts
in on q new volume, bearing the 'old
motto" which has been the veteran
EDITORS guide through all these years:
PLUCK, Progress, Perseverance and
Patriotism in Politics. Numerous
papers have been started at Cresco
ostensibly to storm the PLAIN DEAL
Err barracks, but one after the other
they have gone down to wreck and
ruin. Legitimate opposition was
courted, hence the Times and Repub-
llcan have proven remunerative prop
critics, and to certain extent have
with the PLAIN DEALER met the op-
posing forces and witnessed the result
OF the foolhardy assaults. The PLAIN
DEALER is issued twice a week and is
a first class local paper, ably and
fearlessly edited. Bro. Mead, shake!-
MOnona Leader,
The Iowa PLAIN DEALER, or Twice
a-Week Pee Dee, as it is now called,
published at Cresco, has commenced
AAANIIth year, and w. II. Mead has
been its bellicose editor during the
entire time. From his appearance
last time we saw him, two or three
years since, he is liable to edit the pa
per thirty-six years longer. Well, 60
ahead, old man; we promise to not
move our s'plant" Cor weed, as the
case may be) up there to start any
private or Public Opinion in the
cause. Too many others have tried it..
Hang right to 'er. Mr.. Mead, till the
horns pull off, and as she attempts to
n u
hang on still.-Postal Card.
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w. r. u f. j. Mead, publishers OF
the PLAIN DEALER at Cresco, are
''stayers. 1t is thirty-six years this
week since they began publishing
their paper, and their upright bust
ness principles and honest editorials
nave won them many friends. We
nope 1t will be many more years be-
fore they are compelled to discontinue
thelr IWICE-A-WEEK PLAIN DEALER,
but we sincerely hope that we will
have found something easier than
country journalism before thirty-six
years more have elapsed. Arlington
Mercury.
The Cresco PLAIN DEALER cele-
pra!ed ITS 37th birthday last week,
giving an interesting resume of the
ups and downs of newspaperdom in
Howard county in the years covered
lby, its long life. The Meads estab-
lished the paper and have been its
edltors and proprietors ever SINCE
West Union Argo.:
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The Cresco PLAIN DEALER was 81
years old Tuesday. Among the good
papers OF the state, there is none that
deserves it's success more than that
paper, which is always on the side of
right and honesty. May it never de-
part from the path it has followed
New Hampton Saturday Gazette.
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The Cresco PLAIN DEALER rounded
out its 37th milestone this week. Dur
ing all those years it has been under
us present management.-Law
Dispatch.