Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-09-27

A large oleander, five feet high and
we'll branched, will be sold for about
half price, by Mrs. Mallon at New
Oregon village. :
If you are not using our 80 cent
coffee, be sure and call for it. 1t will
give you good sntisfaction.
Amundson & Lofthus, the Grocers.
Ben Hunting is slowly gaining in
strength, making this Office most
welcome call yesterday morning, he
Walking both to the Office and return
ing home.
A. G. McCulloch, Lime Springs,
his large new stock of blankets and
robes, OF which more will be said in
a later issne. 4.
V. E. Wygant the expert horse
shoer is located first door east of the
Novelty Works where he is prepared
to do oil kinds of fancy shoeing and
general blacksmithing. 2-4eot
Alex Holley of Lime Springs wants
q good man and woman to take
charge of his farm near that town;
one that can furnish q good recom-
mend as to ability and honesty.
Fred Paul threshed 1914 bushels of
oats Tuesday quitting work two
hours before dark owing to break
down. He uses horse power mach
ine and is driver at the business.
Don't buy any crockery nor glass
ware until you have looked over our
great stock, all new styles and pat
terms Amundson g. Lofthus,
the Grocers.
The Gordon outfit captured during
the fair had been making thirstv
souls on the fair grounds moist and
happy. Others not captured contin-
ned the boot-legglng traffic with pint
bottles.
Mrs. r. s. Caward and her trimmer
Miss Counsellnan have been in Chi
cago for the last ten days, trimming
pattern hats and bonnets for the fall
opening Friday and Saturday. Sc pt.
"a, and 2S.
15c buys good broom,
zoe Id Tea Siftings,
3Oc a ID of Finecnt Tobacco,
s5c +" a gallon ofcider vinegar,
15c apackage of matches,
of Caward the Grocer.
WANTED.-A house keeper for a
man with two small boys on farm
in the county. A widow. with not
more than one child, er single mid.
die aged woman preferred. For in-
formation apply ut this office. 52t4
All persons indebted to H. Y. Ernst,
or to Ernst & Flood, will find Mr.
Ernst at the office of Barker & Upton
In Cresco, for the next thirty DAYS.
during which time he hopes to re-
celve every cent due. soft
Mrs. G. Vance who has been visit
ing for some time at her fathers, j.
V. Vance, has returned to her home
in Cresco. ..:...Frank Crawford and
Iheir borther-in-law Geo, Daniels,
Sunday and Monday. Miss Hattie
Crawford of Cresco, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Geo. Daniels, s,-Ossian Bee
These are entitled to another years
visit of the Twice-a-Week, having
produced the necessary sequins: HI.
p. Henning, Saratoga; A. j. Cook,
Bonair; Mrs.. Maria Cue, Austin,
Mimi; B. E. Wygant, Porters Mills,
Wis; F. L. Damon, Granger, MINI. !;
Ludwig Lubbert, Riceville; U. Van
Zant, Gao. NJ. Tillson. Albert .Fromm.
Fred Swenson, B. p. Norton, Mrs.
John Jackson, Cresco.
The brick work on the Kellow store
is completed and is certainlyAas good
and presents as imposing an appear
ance as any store front in ths county.
Its front is of Missouri red pressed
brick with cut stone for sections and
window caps cut from Postville light
limestone, also the name in the front
from the same material. Wm. Kellow,
Jr., all of which work was done by
NJ. A. Kline, who is n complete master
of all kinds of marble and fine stone
work. N. b. Wheeler had the con-
tract for the brick work, which by
comparison is fully as good as the
best ever done in Cresco, which is a
great big feather in the cap OF Cresco
jobbers, Kline and Wheeler.
The neighbors of jacob Cipera al.
lege that the boys have. annoyed
him almost incessantly for
the past four years, taking apparent
pleasure In making life to him not
worth living. 1t is also said that
through their constant annoying him
and his family, coming into his door
yard and..threatening, in presence of
his family to whip him, his wife has
gone insane and is in the asylum for
treatment. Knowing the vicious
practices of the boys long continued,
through which the old man became
desperate, though of mild and peace
full disposition, four of the best farm
ers about Protivin become surety on
nd h~ n& r
their statements are true, and We
the boys deserved about what they
got, though perhaps it should have
been distributed among several.
The Plain Dealer says "Whiskey
was about as.plentiful Oh the grounds
during Fair week as water, and as
easily obtained (" This Is q severe
thrust at the fair management as well
as at the corps of deputy mnrshals
and policemen who were paid to en-
force the rules of the society. In
" "Rules and Regulations rule 6 de-
clares: mo spurious or fermented
liquors will be allowed to be sold or
given away on the Fair grounds -
Cresco Times.
The editor of the Times is excus-
able for. not knowing that the state
ment of the PLAIN DEALER was the
truth, because owing to his indispo-
sition he was scarcely on the ground.
But it is true nevertheless that
parties from LIE Roy had the stuff
there in abundance, Notwithstanding
the rules.i Persons visiting the cattle
stalls who wanted it could find it in
pint bottles, which when emptied
We're placed in the feed boxes ready
to be fiIledanew. This is no thrust
at either the management or the mar
shals and policemen, because. while