Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-11

u. Z. Green and wife, OF Wyckoff,
Mimi, are the guests O b. F. Laidlaw
and other Cresco friends. Mrs. Green
is a sister of Mr.. b. F. Laidlaw.
The free silver meeting at Bonair
last Friday night was, in spite of the
drenching rain, attended by about so
nearly all of them republicans seek
ing light-reports to the contrary by
the Republican Notwithstanding.
Mrs. M. E. Hannah, sister of w. H.
Powell, arrived from indianapolis,
Thursday morning for her annual and
highly acceptable visit with her BROTH
er and other Cresco friends. Mrs.
Hannah will be remembered as Mrs.
Eddy, by the older residents of the
county.
Mrs. Emma T. Kleckner announced
the marriage of her daughter, Eva
Mary, to Willard Lincoln Converse,
Tuesday, September 8, 1896, at Sioux
City. Iowa. Congratulations are in
order. No better young man is in our
midst than Mr.. Converse. Correct in
morals, pure in conduct.
Now we know all about it. A gold
standard luminary of Cresco has Civ
en- it away. He says the silver dollar
rests on the silver certificate, and
that's what keeps silver at par with
gold. Accepting this as true it fol-
lows that the gold certificate must be
what keeps gold at par with silver.
A full assortment of new cloths suit
able for fall and winter suits and for
overcoatings just received at the mer-
chant tailor establishment over A. H.
Caward's store. Prices made to suit
the times. Garments warranted to fit.
Goods and all material just as is rec
commended. David Amundsen,
ltf Proprietor.
The following persons have aided
in driving the wolf from the door by
cash on Inscription account: M. j,
Clarkin, Chas. Clark, Oak Dale; Jacob
Baker, j. A. Galusha, Cresco; Dan'l
Bronner Bonair; Miss E. l.. Galby,
Brandt, S. D.; Thos. Soukup, Bonnie
Basteson, Lourdes; Ole Sparley, How
ard Center; James Irvine, Lime
Springs.
The Republican don't seem to UNDER
stand why B. F. Wright was not at
at the Cresco meeting last Saturday.
For its special information we state
that he had prior engagement to
address a like Bryan and Bay less
meeting at Clear Lake that day, and
that he will yet deliver a few speech
es in Howard county for Bryan and
Bayless.
The window trimmers OF the Cresco
Department Store have been at it
again and the result is a show
window displaying a grade of goods
seldom seen outside the large cities
and arranged in admirable taste
The writer was admiring the window
on Thursday afternoon, and was
accosted by a Decorahite who mistook
him for au employee of the store
! by the remark that not d store in
that city could compare with it
either in tastiness or the fine quality
OF goods displayed, and were especial
| ly taken with the fine display of fall
hats and millinery prepared under the
supervision of their capable milliner,
Miss Sims.
A letter purporting to come by au-
thority from the Chicago Record ques-
tions the statement of the Telegraph IS
pamphlet in whloh the silver in use in
France is stated to be over $SO0,000,-
900. or about $40 per capita. We are
inclined to believe the Telegraph's S
statement is under, instead of over the
amount in use in that country. We
find in the Encyclopedia Britannica,
Vol. 8, page 464, that the silver mon
ey of France is 5000, PAS, 1925 francs.
The franc is 20 cents of our money,
hence by dividing the total francs OF
of France by gives its silver money
as $l,O13, $40, ,165. This view is
strengthened by the report of tho di-
rector Of the United States mint in his
last report to congress, but we rely
upon the report Of the Encyclopedia
Britannica as the better authority.