Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-08-25

Miss Mamie Cavanaugh, one O
Howard county's best school teacher.
in ordering the PLAIN DEALER sent tt
her in South Milwaukee, Wis, writes
81 am now employed to teach the
coming year in the South Milwaukee
High School. My people reside here
but were for some time residents O.
Howard County. After their remova
to this place, l lived with an uncle
and, he being a subscriber to the
Plain Dealer l was constant reader,
and have missed it very much"
Ever one is asking how the horses
can dive at the Cresco Fair without
water. Well, we make an excavation
20 feet wide, 35 feet long, and 10 feet
deep at one end of pond sloping tc
surface at the other end. The Gar.
yer Combination furnish oil canvas
lining, and the Agricultural Society
fill this pond with water into which
Rydberg will dive from a 100 foot ele.
walton, and the horses from a 30 foot
elevation, making the greatest attrac.
tion ever given in northern Iowa.
Quite number from Cresco were
up Wednesday night to assist in or
ganizing a Mckinley Club. n
Several speeches were made.
They were all manly speeches, but
the speakers did not agree, some claim
ing the present hard times were due
to the tariff while others claimed ii
was an over-production. Some Of the
speeches were mere prophecies, while
others were, "let ME tell you''
speeches. One of the speakers said
that the money question was a very
small one, and was not the re al issue.
Lime Springs Sun.
Some say, eff thought those hors-
es would actually dive off 80 foot
elevation of their own accord into a
pond, going entirely under water, /
would go to Cresco to the Fair to see
them" Pres. G. D. Nichols and Secy.
j. G. Webster requests us to say they
will refund money paid for ticket if
they do not make this dive as adver-
tised. Also that Gus Rydberg, cham
pion high diver of the world, will dive
from 100 foot platform head first,
not simply a jump off into pool of
water ten feet deep. Those who fail
to see this wonderful feat, fail to see
one of the most thrilling exhibitions
ever seen any place.
Ridgeway is to have a brass band.
The Marsh Music House has put in
the instruments for it.
Ross A. Finney, a '96 graduate of
U. l. U., has been chosen to assist the
Ridgeway M. E. pastor, and begins
his labors at once at Kendallville and
the Ashley church.
A letter received by his parents
Monday last, brings the intelligence
that Chas. Mckay, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cyrus Mckay, has secured position
which has been his ambition to fill for
Il long time-that of solo trombone
player in the orchestra of the Grand
Opera House at Washington, d. C.
His duties begin the 22nd inst.-De-
corah Republican.
The brlckwork is completed on the
first ward school building and the
lathing for the lower story, all that
will be finished this fall, is completed
and plasterlng will commence as soon
as the roof is on. The ceiling for the
lower rooms will be of hard pine. To
carry off the smoke from the furnace
with which the building is to be
heated requires an immense chimney
over 10000 brick being used and it
will be completed in a day or SO. The
job has been done upon honor and
from foundation to apex will be a
public monument to the contractor
James Byrnes and James Thomson
ard The skilled mechanics under his
employ. Without the roof and the
completion Of the tower its beauty is
not brought out. The contractor lost
81 days waiting for material for the
furnace but for which it would be
finished. The ground next to the
building is to be raised about foot
with a gentle slope therefrom in al
directions.