Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-26
Hugh O'Byrne and Miss Katie Ward
oft here last Thursday for Pr,ir;e d,,

Hugh O'Byrne and Miss Katie Ward
left here last Thursday for Prairie du
CHEN, where they were married
Thurs day evening. They returned
Saturday and left for Buffalo Center
where MIR. O'Byrne has recently en-.
gagged in the restaurant business.
Both are well known and highly es-
teemed young people of this county
and the Dispatch joins their many
friei ds il wishing them many years OF
prosper ty and domestic felicity
Lawler Disp6tch.
j. J. House is making about 25O
pounds OF the best quality of cheese
every working day of the week. There
was a time when he first began oper-
ations that it was difficult for him to
obtain all the milk required, but it is
different now, the farmers having
learned that cheese making is full as
profitable as the creamery and that
milk sold at the cheese factory COM
mands better prices than at the cream
cry. Another advance in the price of
milk will probably be made at the
factory this week.
Last Friday afternoon being in the
neighborhood of Miss Elsie Steinma MS
school we treated ourself to the plea
sure OF visit there of an hour or two.
We found hcr in charge of an orderly
we'll conducted school of 16 pupils,
every one with perfect lessons, and
creditable recitations. An exam
ination ef the register disclosed the
standings in the studies ranged from
80 to 50, 100 being perfect. The cases
OF hardness during her eight months
in the school were but 10. The aver
age attendance during much of the
time being about 13 to 90.
John Steinman has been utilizing
the boulders found on his farm in the
erection of milk house, and an i'm
mensely respectable building is tho
result. The inside is finished with a
coat OF cement and has u floor OF solid
cement which will enab', thom to keep
it sweet and clean ate-i times. A pipe
leading from the we'll will keep a
stream OF pure water flowing into tho
tank containing the milk cans and a
Waste pipe will carry ii way to sup
ply the stock tank. James Thomson
and Dell Berry seem to have been the
builders and perhaps its designers.
The people OF Albion have erected
a beautiful church edilce which 10 free
to all denominations 81 christians
s Mneh nov occuple" :, the church service
! ''oi'a w = .lethodist Episcopals being
more regularly held than by others.
The church has a nice organ with Miss
Ashley as organist. The church is fin
ished inside in hard pine floor and oak
finish for the church pews. Its size is
26x40 and the structure complete cost
about $1,000. The woodwork was
done by Capt Thomas of Cresco, the
masonwork by Jas. Thomson. The
janitor is Willie Ashley. Service
every Sunday.
A washout on the c., M. & St. P.
railway at McGregor is reported. How
severe it is we are unable to state.
There was, however, no train Monday
from further east than Calmar. 1t is
rumored that the debris from the
bluffs came down in such quantities as
to I'LL the round house, the floods car
rying away acres and washing out
the track. 1t is also reported that
three persons were drowned. There
is no doubt but a terrific storm occur
! ed there Sunday afternoon, and with
the almost perpendicular bluffs border
ing on the "Bloody rum" the rains
running down into the channel like
shot running off OF shingle.
Saturday evening last we stopped at
a farm house supposing we had bill
for subscription account against the
party residing there. AS we came out
the gate the young man with his wife
drove up and the object of our visit
made known we were promptly told
that he was not the man, that there
was but one Of the name fool enough to
read a democratic paper. The man
be he democrat or republican who
reads but one side is but half educated
upon the questions of the day. Only
by reading and understanding the
measures advocated by each party can
a man decide the merits of the issue.
Had we met a man in his dotage ut
tering such a sentiment it would not
have shocked us as it did to hear it
from one scarcely in the prime of lite
We hope no democrat who can afford
i it will fail to take and read republican
papers. "Am ] right or are you
| right is a question that must confront
!every intelligent Citizen and to such
the verdict Is based upon intelligence
pertaining to the questions at issue.
But the man who refuses to inform
himself by examining all the facts OBJ
tainahle is unworthy to be a juror
whether single individual or pol
itical party is on trial before the peo-
pie. We have ever found the mos
bitter partizans to be those least in.
formed upon public questions. Suct
esteem themselves all right; all others
as fools.
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