Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-02-18

The Daughters Of the King and la.
dies Of the Episcopal church are re-
quested to meet with Mrs. W. r.
Mead, Wednesday, February 10Th, al
2:30 p. M. for the transaction of i'm
portant business.
The press correspondents at Washing.
ton have undertaken to suppress Ben.
Tillman. Perhaps they have forgot
ten their efforts toward suppressine
Ben Butler and h ssallusion to them as
THAT forty horse jackass mud throw.
| ing machine"
DO you want a photograph that will
keep in any album without chipping
off? If so, have your photo finished
in the new carbon process, made only
at the Russell Photo Studio. Every
one is invited to call and see samples
Of the above process.
FLOUR-from to 100 sack lots al
from 10 to 20 cents a sack lower than
you are paying. This is a good
chance to buy a strictly high grade
flour very low. Don't fail TO call and
learn prices, at the red iron ware
house on Market street.
Sheriff Campbell went on Friday to
Independence, having in charge Miss
Ida Hughes, from near Foreston, who
is judged insane. Miss Hughes was
sent to the asylum there some two
years since and was discharged in July
last as having been cured.
Prof. John Thaler now has nice
music class organized, among them
four cornet pupils and one flute. Reg.
ular visits are now assured, anG
those desiring instruction on violin OF
band instruments may enquire at this
office or address the professor at CAL
mar, Iowa.
Niagara Falls ran dry one day last
week. The United States treasury anC
Iowa State treasury have also ran dry
The National treasury is run by demo
Gratis, the Iowa treasury by republi
cans. Perhaps that's why Its so, bu
neither gang seems to let up on the
expenditures.
! Miss Bessie Mcknight, of LIE Roy
was married on Wednesday, February
18th, at her nome in Le Roy, to E. w
Usher, of Stockton. ILL.,, by Rev. L. N
Weaver, leaving the evening of the
same day for their home in Illinois
This will be newsy news for her many
friends and acquaintance in this vicin
ity.
Friday, Pcciuovsky Bros. aud w. G.
| Slifka, went to st. Pal,l and thence tc
Saltwater, with a view4to purchasing
an engine or boiler orSsoth for the ust
of the feed mill they are operating a
Protivin. They are energetic in th,
pursuit of their vocation and will viii
if hard work and perseverance, coun
for anything.
Next Thursday is the date set fol
w. G. Nichols big farm sale, full par
ticulars of which appear elsewhere il
this issue. 1t will be golden oppor
tunity to obtain some finely bred stocl
of all varieties at about your owl
price, and on easy terms. If 20,
want stock or farm machinery, leoh
up the big ad.
DR.. Keith came on Saturday and i'm
mediately began work among his i'm.
patient patients who had been so Ions
waiting. In this work the most criti
cal among them is John McHugh, wht
had been given up to die, and who
under DR.. Keith's treatment vii
without doubt be restored, and in The
near future will be again kicking III
poor democrats.
| The st. Valentine ball last Frida,
evening was largely attended, th'
large dancing floor being filed to it
utmost capacity. Not an ungentle
manly or unladylike act marred th'
universal gayety OF the assemblage
and no better music could be aske,
than that furnished by the old reliable
IF. F. F.'s" with the assistance of Mr.
Joseph Soukup, clarinetist, OF Spill
!, vile.
u The following persons have beel
credited on subscription account will
their TwICE-A-WEEK PEE DEE: Mis-
Emma Miller. Prairie du CHEN; j.
Powell. st. Paul; j. G. Krall, Protivin
John Healy. Wm. Clynch. Lourdes
Horace Bishop, j. D. Hayes. A
Bloomenrader, John Lundak, H. o
, Riley, Samuel Nichols. S. A. Converse
DR.. A. f Kellogg, Nj. S. Barber, Franl
Woods. Cresco.
Quite a furry of excitement occur
red in the city Friday afternoon il
; consequence of team owned by Griffil
eager becoming unmanaged and run
ming east on railroad street and OF
Elm street. near the Strother House
Coming upon u team hitched to
wagon in which was man and woman
, and jumped entirely over the team
The strange part is that no perso
was hurt, none Of the horses injured
and nothing broken but a neck-yoke
) When our reporter arrived at the seen
the horses were untangled and TIL
street full of people wondering hoy
such thing could happen and no on
be hurt or killed.
, The friends of G. NJ. Van Leuven
, will be pleased to learn that he is i'm
prouing in health. So much so tina
he was able to ride out in. his carriag
last Saturday.....Rev G. +. Fulton. 9
the Presbyterian church, departed TO
Chicago last Monday, where he wa
united in marriage on Wednesday
February II, to Miss Esther A. Good