Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-01

as was anticipated, on account of a
non-completion of the repairs being
made, but there will be services the
Sunday following, when the Sunday
school will be reorganized.
Ray O'Donnell was taken to Hudson,
Wisconsin, on Monday, by Sheriff
Wheeler, where he is wanted to ans
wer to the crime of mayhem, of which
he is is accused. He is the son of
Patrick O'Donnell, a former resident
of this county. now of Wilson, Wis.
The gentleman who has purchased
from Salisbury & Miller the City Steam
Laundry is A. L. Amidor from St.
Paul. His wife, with his household
effects are expected daily. He is said
to have been in tho laundry business
heretofore and knows how to conduct
it for good work and fair profit.
The New York Journal OF Commerce
is responsible for the statement that
in the course of settlement of the in
surance of prominent bicycle firm of
Boston, recently burned out, the under
writer's found that the cost of the
bicycle which retailed at 800 was
actually just one-third of that sum.
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The school board has plans and
specifications prepared for the first
ward school building and builders are
looking them over with a view to SUBJ
mitting their bids. The building that
had occupied the ground has been re-
moved, and work will commence soon
as bids are in and the contract let. The
plat of ground for it is 2OOx2oO feet
and cost $40.
Tuesday 9fternoon as tho electrical
storm passed over Cresco, acarrcnt of
the fl III to reach the earth took the
route down one of Squire Powell's
cotton wood trees, coming in contact
with a tin cup nailed to the tree, it
made two perforations. each about one
third OF an inch in diameter, cutting
them through, leaving each surface
entirely smooth.
Rev. Geo. Leslie will hold divine
services next Sunday in Grace Episco-
pei church, morning and evening. at
the usual hours, with celebration of
the Holy Communion at the moring
service. The Subjects of the sermons
will he ''Bread and Life" and .Moral
Courage and it's Antithesis" at morn
ing and evening respectively. All are
cordially invited.
The Haldor Hanson concert at Lyric
Hall Tuesday evening was slimly at
tended owing to an all day down pour
with threatening aspects for the night.
several who had procured tickets re-
naming away in consequence. Each
one OF the four musicians is decided
star and had there been but any
one OF the four present, that one could
have made an evenings entertainment
worth the price OF admission.
Mr.. S. Brightman of the State Line
House, who has been IN feeble health
since his injury three years since, died
Wednesday. He was between seventy
and eighty years of age. He former
ly resided at Ashville in Chautauuua
county. New York, but had been a
i resident of this vicinity for many wears,
has kept the public house at Granger
some twenty years or more. He was
an honest, upright man and good
citizen,
AS fine piece of work as is shown
IN Cresco, is that upon the veranaa
which Henry Scholze is putin on the
Woellstein house, recently purchased
from w. II. Roche. The east wing of
the house has been raised Il story, the
veranda widened. a new roof put on
the entire building and some as ele-
giant doors as fancy can picture put in
front. These with the spacious bay
window will make it one of the ele-
giant Cresco homes.
Mrs. Mary Powers returned yester-
day from Florida, bringing the re-
mains OF her husband who died there
OF consumption. His health has been
failing and during the winter he went
south for relief but grew worse until
about month ago, his wife, who was
assisting in caring for her mother,
MIS-. Stowell, was summoned to his
bedside. The remains were laid at
rest in ST. Joseph's cemetery imme-
diately after the arrival of the train.
John McCook went to Dubuque last
Friday, to assist In the case of the
estate of l.. o. Hatch against the the
9. M. 4 st. Paul railway for damages
for the accident resulting in the death
OF Judge Hatch. John T. Stoneman
and A. Chaplin are also attorneys for
the plaintiff, and Judge Noble of Nc
Gregor, w. j. Knight of Dubuque and
Mr.. Keeler of Chicago are on the de-,
tense and perhaps H. T. Reed OF Cres-
co, who is in attendance upon the
Nederal court where the trial is going
on.
| Vick's Floral Guide for 1896 is a
marvel for beauty, completeness and
neatness. The illustrations are not
alstortei, but engraved from the plant
or fower, in its season. The varieties
cataiogued are quite complete and the
descriptions remarkably accurate. The
old, popular and reliable house offers
large variety Of towering plants,
trees and shrubs, garden vegetables,