Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-25

man and daughters attended the Har-
vest Home Festival at Ridgeway last
Wednesday.
Miss Lauraine Mead departs to day
for few weeks visit with friends at
Lakota, North Dakota. Master Harry
Welsh will accompany her as far as
Grand Forks.
State auditor Mccarthy has an
nounced the semi-annual apportion-
ment of the state school fund of whic h
Howard receives $2474.1O for a
school population of 1905.
The Methodist choir never fail to
give good concerts, they are working
hard to make this the best one they
have ever given. Come out and de-
eide which you think is the best.
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.
FLAsK's RECORD 2:131, will; make a
fall season in the stud at Cresco. In
quire at the Rink feed barn.
2fr If WM. FITZGERALD.
Owner.
Bents & Upton have about 100
bushels of choice apples which they
will make into cider, which goes some
ways in supplying a few families with
a choice quantity of cider vinegar.
Rev. Frank Peterson, of Minneapo-
lis, District Secretary for Foreign
missions, will preach at the Baptist
Church next Sunday, Sept. 81, morn
ing and evening. A cordial invitation
is extended. Come and hear.
The Montague auction last Tuesday
was largely attended by the farmers
Whereabouts and from a long distance
away. The prices did not rule very
high but at about an average with the
present market value of like property.
A Sunday school convention will be
held at Kendallville, Tuesday p. M.
and evening and Wednesday a. M,
Sept 29.3o., and one at Saratoga, Fri
day, October I'd with picnic dinner.
Good programmes have been arranged.
Miss Councilman, trimmer for j. B.
Caward & Co.'s Millinery department
has been in Chicago since the 9th,
securing the latest ideas in the mil
linery art will return with Mrs. De.
Noyelle's in time for the opening the
Goth.
The ladies of the NJ. r. Church are
preparing for a Bazaar about the mid
die of November, at which will be
sold bedding, children's clothing,
ladies underwear, gents night-shirts
and all varieties OF fancy work at
reasonable prices.
William Halsted's wife died the first
of the week and was inferred in ST.
Joseph's cemetery Wednesday. She
leaves a baby about months old,
beside her husband and numerous
friends to monrn her untimely end.
She was the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. H. Smith who resides northeast of
Cresco.
Mr.. Robert Thomson has exchanged
the west eighty of his farm including
the buildings, with Martin P. Lydon,
for his farm of 240 acres near Lourdes,
paying Mr.. Lydon $400 as the differ
ence in the value of tho farms. The
Thomson eighty was put in at 800
per acre. 1t is a good trade for both
of them.
A full assortment OF new cloths suit
able for fall and winter suits and for
overcoatings just received at the mer-
chant tailor establishment over A. III.
Caward's store. Prices made to suit
the times. Garments warranted to fit.
Goods and all material just as it is rec
commended. David Amundsen,
If Proprietor.
Nelson Tyler who has been resi-
dent of the place since the early To-
cation of the town died at his home
the 22nd instant. While he had not
been in robust health for quito time,
his illness terminating in death had
been of but few days. He was we'll
meaning man, honest and upright in
all his intercourse with his fellow
men.
The following have credit on sub
Scription account with the PEE Dee:
w. j. Daughenbaugh, Jennings, La. !;
John Mulck, Elma; Henry Brown,
Davis Corners; j. T. Montague, M. p.
Lylon, Lourdes; j. j. Thomas, Lime
Springs; Thos. Flood, John G. Hauck,
S L. Irvine, Robt. Thomson, III. c..
Hjerleid, Cresco.
Martin johnson is flushing up the
S ,cond floor in the Lowry building
with hard pine and is making of it the
finest set of rooms in the town. He is
also rebuilding the Ralph Thomp-
son house in the east part of town
making it modern in all its outline
md details. The work on the Thomp-
son building is in charge of Martin
Bjrkan as foreman.
| Mr.. Smith Curtis and family OF
Kendallville have been enjoying an all
summer visit from brothers wife
from New York city and the brother.
Linus Curtis came some three weeks
since and ere his return bought three
heavy work horses for use in his bus
ness in the city in teaming and haul
ing heavy goods of all kinds, he hav.
'ng 81 outfits for handling such busi,
ness in the city.
The annual election OF Officers o
he Gre. CO w. c. I. u, resulted il
he choice of Irene G. Adams, Pres.