Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-02-28

| The Epworth League will give a
Leap Year Slip Social at the home of
Mr.. Champlain, Friday evening, Feb.
%. The girls may bring partner,
but if they cannot find one they will
be furnished when they get there.
Everybody come.
FLOUR POINTERS. are now sell
ling at retail from to 100 sack lots of
STRICTLY FANCY flour at wholesale
prices. That means a saving of from
10 to 20 cents on every sack. Over
1000 sack already on hand at the Iron
Warehouse, Market street.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. j. Haubrick of New
Oregon, laid away one of their chill
dren on Wednesday in St. Joseph's
cemetery, the funeral being from the
German Catholic church. A large
procession of sorrowing friends fol
lowed the remains to their final resting
place.
The Church milk and cream wagon
will shortly be put on our streets and
will be quite and addition to the list
OF dandy Cresco busines vehicles. 1t
was made by Nelson Mastine, the
south side wood worker. and is being
artistically painted and lettered by. j.
j. Brown.
Webster & Shields are operating
their flax mill, having bought9 900 tons
OF straw, large amount of which has
been prepared and put on the market
at St. Louis and Cleveland. They are
also baling considerable hay as we'll as
flax. The work is cond ucted by Mr..
John Shields.
Gospel meetings will be held in the
New Oregon school house next week,
under the management of our county
missionary. The first meeting will be
held Sunday at O'Clock p. M, and
the following evenings at 1880. Rev.
L. +. Taylor Of Cresco will preach.
All are invited to attend.
ID. l.. Beaman a laboring man of
Cresco who had been on crutches with
with rheumatism all winter, one leg
being SO drawn up that he was unable
to put his foot to the fioor was treated
by DR.. Keith, three days. The
result being his entire relief from
pain and able to walk without even a
cane.
/ The following persons have been
credited on subscription account with
the Tw1cE-A,WEEK PEE DEE: L. II.
Burns, A. G. McCulloch, j. F. rhomp-
son. j. G. Love, James Quinn, Lime
Springs; Thos Murphy, York, MINI;
i. 5. Turner. Chester; Henry Albers,
Ridgeway; NJ. Barth, Cresco; l.. H.
Clark Greenfield, Dade Co., Missouri.
The Winnesheik county Farmers
| Institute meets at Calmar, Iowa, on
Friday and Saturday 81 next week. S.
| A. Converse and w. G. Nichols, OF
Cresco, are drawn on the program,
the former for discussions on .'How to
handle cattle with profit from birth to
! finish'' and ..What is to take the place
of the hay crop;' and the latter to
| discuss .'Must we continue sheep
raising under today's conditions. y
EDITOR PLAIN DEALER: The follow
ing item is taken from the PLAIN
DEALERS correspondent from Daly's
Flats, of two weeks ago. "a party
from near Bonair, came over last
Monday with bed cord and angle
worms, for to catch suckers. He
fshed all night, and 8only got one
bull hcad.'' If had went to Granger,
and got a keg of beer there, | might
have caught u lot of suckers. | did
not know the kind of bait the suckers
, in the Flats wanted. / will know
: next time. MIR. Pendergrast will
please let the good people around
Bonair alone.
NON be PLUME.
, The wrestle on Tuesday night
between A. II. Felkey and w. l.
Loveland, after four hours of the
: hardest kind Of wrestling in which
i the greater share of the work wa:
done by Felkey, was declared draw
by the referee, w. j. Nugent, OF New
$ Hampton, Prof. Hasten Of Minneapolis
the agreed referee, not appearing
l Both men are satisfied that neither
could win from the other and viii
t 'i'ne ~ "e.eiupo W rsiitatcn' ~ 10 III
y deed remarkable to find two men 81
v evenly matched az to wsestle twice tt
a draw, once for four hours and one,
for nearly three houps. After th'
It match, Loveland expressed his readi
r ness to meet any one of his class in tn,
u country and gave MIR. Felkey the com
plimcnt Of being the best wrestler h
r ever met in the ring, Ole Marsh
n Loveland's trainer, behaved himsel
real we'll