Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-07-31

Ill. who has spent couple of weeks WIS.,
iting with Mr.. and Mrs. Omacht, re-
turned home yesterday via St. Paul.
Try sack of that Great Jersey
Cream flour and you will have the
best. Amundson & Lofthus.
Sole Agents.
j. c. Webster and wife started
Tuesday for St. Paul, the former load
ed with premium lists and speed cata-
logues, in search OF attractions for the
coming fair.
Mrs. Ed. Webster went to LIE Roy
Wednesday for visit at the home Of
j. M. Cannon, and to meet Miss Mar
guerite Cannon, who has returned
from St. Paul for the summer.
This is the season for machine oils
and axle grease. Don't forget that
we have the best goods and make the
lowest prices.
CAwARD, the Grocer.
Mrs. Fritz Granzow spent several
days recently with sister, Mrs. An
drew Smith, living near Ridgeway,
who is seriously i'll, and returning
Tuesday brought the latter's two little
boys.
Memo rial Post will have a meeting
Saturday to ascertain how many will
attend the G.. A. r. meeting at ST..
Paul. Those designing to go who
cannot attend should send in their
names.
w. B. Perry, the garden city green
house man, returned Tuesday from a
weeks stay IN Chicago where he was
making arrangements for enlarging
his greenhouse capacity to twice its
present size.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Webber visited
the first of the week with sister,
Mrs. Chris. Alleman, of Taopi, Mimi,
accompanying thus far sister, Mrs.
Farrell, of Dakota, who has just COM
pleted long visit with parents and
brothers.
The collector for the the TwICE-A-
WEEK PLAIN DEALER is abroad in the
land. If you are going to be absent
from home, examine your last receipt
learn what you owe tor the PLAIN
DEALER and leave the money with
your wife. tt
G. f. Miller is building a fishing
boat which he is having covered and
can be used interchangeably as boat
or wagon box. The launching will
occur on Saturday at Foreston. A trip
to Lansing later in the season is in
contemplation.
I. j. Lomas is busy filling the eel
lars OF Cresco's gold standard citizens
with their winters supply of anthra-
cite at $500 per ton. The free silver
men will take theirs later at an ad.
vance of 25 cents per ton each month
commencing Aug. 1st.
INSTRUCTION IN MUsIc.-$1O.OO per
term, twenty lessons-piano or organ
furnished for parties without extra
charge. Pupils are not compelled tc
take two lessons a week unless they
desire. for further information apply
to Miss LAURAINE MEAD. tfly
j. c. Webster says this is positively
his last year as secretary OF the fair
that he is going to make it the BEST
fair in the history of the society and
TO this end asks the hearty co-opera-
tion OF all citizens within the borders
of the comfy and adjoining town
ships. He ought to have it.
Following the precedent. Of com.
petitors and others, satisfied it will be
to the mutual interest of all concern.
ed, we will, on August 1st, inaugurate
the cash system in our business, un,
der which plan we hope to meet al
former customers and many new ones
L. S. THAYER,
We wish to give notice to oul
customers that on August 1st we viii
commence doing strictly cash bust
ness, following the precedent of many
OF our competitors. We nopo to NEE
all our old customers and many new
ones under this arrangement, satisfied
it will be to our mutual advantage.
JOHN BYRNEs.
The article on 1.-The financial situa-
ton" over the signature OFFS Observer
is from one of the prominent business
men of Cresco and aside from tha
fact is we'll worthy of an attentive
careful and thoughtful reading. The
writer reared upon farm and still
interested in agriculture, writes from
the standpoint of the producer as mucf
as from that of the so-callcd man o
business.
Wm. E. Lord lately the station
agent at Beulah, Iowa, is opening /,
stock of groceries, fruits and confec
tionery at the old Foley stand oppo
site the waterworks. Later, he vii
arrange to.serve ice-cream and lunche
which will be great conven.
fence to the farmers coming in from
the west and those having business a
the stockyards. To them, in the win
ter, lunch with hot coffee, will jus
fill the bill
Ardus Wanless, OF Howard Centc.l
had an undesirable experience las
week. He took some honey out of ,
hive after dark, thinking the bee
would object less stingingls to tn
trespass in the night, he bit off piec
of the honey comb and did not see tn
bee it contained; it stung his tongu
which began swelling at once. Hi
parents We're at prayer meeting a
, Bonair, and when they reached hom
they applied every antitode for be
, sting they could think of but withou