Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-07-20

The ladies of the New OregonCeme-
terry Association will give an ice cream
sociable on the Court House lawn on
Saturday, July "a. Hess Boss ice
cream will be served.
The brick work on the Libbey build
ing will be completed this week if the
brick layers. are not delayed from the
non arrival of the steel beam. We
are told that there is a tenant waiting
for it.
Mr.. v. M. Kenney, the criticised
juror in the Normad murder case at
Grand Forks, sends reply to the
criticism of The PLAIN DEALER which
we will publish soon with a reply
thereto.
The prohibition county convention
met Saturday afternoon aud appoint
ed the following delegates to the
state convention: A. j.. Cook, G.. H.
Graves, Magnus Leslie, Mrs. Simonds,
Mrs. Amos Barker.
The pay-ups for the past week are,
Peter Dukelow, w. F. Weber, A.
Baldwin, Richard Wentworth, G.. B.
Brown, A. H. Felkey Cresco; Sam A.
Knudson, LIE Roy; F. H. Owen, Lime
Springs; A. Granahan, Chester.
Mr.. Jacob Welch, of Cresco, has
entered the employ of the Metzger
Medicine Company as one of its travel
ing men. His geniallty ought to make
him welcome where he has once made
acquaintaLces.- es.-Decorah Republican.
Adamant, Stucco, Zenith Cement,
Imported and American Cements,
Wood Burnt Maquoketa Lime the very
best, no two kinds or any Oil burnt
lime here. Prices always reasonable
at VIM. F. RATHERT's, Market, Street.
If anybody thinks cold fello VS. are
no good, they can get different
idea by taking survey OF the garden
and lawn of Geo. Morse, all attended
ITO by him, and of the beg pile of wood
fitted for the stove by him since corn
planting.
Congressman Updegraff sends US the
tariff bill as it passed the senate. BY
this we notice the christian states
men of that body tax bibles 25 per
cent advalorem, and playing cards 10
cents pack. The house bill admit
ted cards free Withdrawing bibles.
Doap & Caward advertise to close
out their drug store in Waucoma and
will remove from that place. The
boys can't do better than to come
to Cresco where they are known
and appreciated. There will soon be
two vacant stores in good locations for
trade.
Mrs. G. A. Hockett, who has been
visiting for some time at the home of
her mother, Mrs. j. A. Barrett, left
Saturday afternoon for Chicago where
she will visit few days before start
ing for Telluride, Colorado, where
her husband, railroad official, is
now located.
The Dubuqueh Telegrap made sorry
mistake in its advocacy of giving
away a street railway franchise,
thereby forcing John S. Murphy to
retire from its editorial management.
The unanswearble logic of Murphy's
editorials is lacking now and will per-
manently injure the paper.
The state debt, in round numbers,
is over half million. Only $4,000
of it is accounted for in the Mcfarland
steal. With the heaviest state tax
alton for years, why is this? And
what screw is loose, or what cog has
slipped that the county fund in this
i county should be over drawn $7,OOOp
| Clifford NJ. Mumby, son of w. R.
Mumby, is visiting friends in Cresco
for week or so, after which he goes
to Chicago whore he holds case in the
Rand-McNalty Publishing house. His
father, brother-in-law of Ed Thomas,
Is we'll known in Cresco. For several
wears, commencing in the sixties, he
was compositor in this office at New
Oregon and after its removal to
Cresco. He was first class printer
in every department of print shop.
The Lakeside Piano Company of
Chicago have sent three of3their sam
pie pianos to Geo. H. Kellogg, which
will be opened and for inspection at his
home about Wednesday. Persons de-
string an instrument of high grade in
style, fi,ish and quality, will do
we'll to examine these instruments be-
fore buying. He has sold one to o.
A. Schall, piano tuner OF Decorah,
and went there Monday by invitation
OF Mr.. Schall, for making sale of an
other.
The Hummel. Hamilton & Co.'S,
shows. have come and gone and carried
away but little Cresco wealth, the
farmers being too busy to attend.
The show was all right for 25c-lust
as good as many that have charged
80 cents in the past. From reports
which had been sent here they were
supposed to be followed by gang of
thieves, but the officers here kept a
vigilant watch and nothing crooked
was attempted but the short change
racket, and in those cases restitution
was promptly made.
Frank r. Long returned home last
Thursday for a three or four weeks
vacation, looking we'll and contented,
and reporting a prosperous season.
He will organize for the coming
season at Moberly, Mo-, and will
probably tour in the south exclusively
Ia territory not by any means new
to him. His many Cresco friends
will be pleased to learn that Nelson
Gray, who was compelled to leave