Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-03
Notes About the County.

Our drive ABOUT the county last
week took us through the central
part to near the west line of the coun-
ty to Elma, along the county between
Howard and Chickasaw for nearly
halt the length of the county.
Joe Burnikel, who has bought the
S. l.. Halsted farm in Vernon Springs
township, is excavatingsfor a cellar
over which he will Immediately have
built a good substantial farm house.
Sam Ohmacht is the builder.
Henry Scholze is building an at
tractive modern style house for Theo.
Halweg on his farm in the southeast
part of Saratoga township.
Steve PEGGY plows and has in grow
ing crops on his farm nearly $50 acres
we'll titled and in good condition.
On the Ohmacht farm they were
harvesting wheat of fine quality, and
in several other places in the county
we saw small fields of excellent wheat
ready for the reaper.
Late oats are rusting badly and
will not fill, which ought to make
the price better for the producers.
John Owens, about two miles east
of Maple Leaf, had we'll drilled this
summer, to the depth of 6S feet,
when vein of water was struck
which flows a constant stream, thus
doing away with the need of wind
mill and we believe is the only arte-
sian we'll in the county.
F. G. Bruins, one of the prosperous
farmers in the northwest part of
Howard township has q dairy of 81
COWS, good ones, and he has a De-
Laval hand separator and separates
his milk at home, sending only the
cream away which he sells to the
creamery at Ricevile, the product
for 10 months bringing him in $725.1s,
beside having the milk for his swine
and calves. We timed the boy who
ran the separator; in just II minutes
the work was completed. Mr.. Bruins
says if a man has 10 COWS separator,
in the increased quantity of butter,
will pay for itself in single year.
The boys and girls of the family with
the father do all the work on big
farm during the day and in the even
ing hours make home pleasant with
music vocal and Instrumental.
AS the sun approached its meridian
height on the 81 of July, Ammo Domi-
nj 1897, the writer, when near Jas.
Megorty's, observed Jas. Irwin and
his men unhitching their teams from
the harvesters and start for the house
and he also started for the same point,
arriving little in advance of the
harvesting crew. Everything about
the premises seemed to be all right,
so was the dinner, admirably filling
"a long felt want"
From Mr.. Irvin's, accompanied by
him we drove to Lowther and looked
over the creamery plant pat in there
this spring. A. III. Barber of Chicago
was the contractor, aud every thing
about it is SO complete in design
and construction that it is the model
approaching as near perfection as
possible. The churn is the latest
design combined churn and butter
worker; the room in which located
being kept at a proper temperature
during the summer heat by chemi-
cally made ice, also the cold storage
room, the ice forming upon the coils
on the wall. The plant is so compact
and perfect that all that is contained
in plant more than twice its size is
there with an abundance of room for
every thing requisite. We under
stand from Mr.. Freeman who work
ed the stock that the Chicago Great
Western railway under the direction
of Mr.. StlclSney its president, is hav-
ing these enterprises and industries
encouraged and worked up along its
line for the development of the dairy
interests of the country. This plant
complete in every particular cost
about $4,000 One is now being
worked up at Taopi, by Mr.. Free
man, with encouraging prospects.
Elma seems to be thriving notwlth-
standing the hard times, which seems
to be amply attested in the many
tirst-class residences in the course of
construction, and the fine business
block nearly completed on the west
side. J. W. Conway, an old time pat
ron and friend of the PLAIN DEALER,
is putting large two story residence
upon beautiful plat of ground, and
the cattle buyer of the place, Mr..
Evans has one fully completed. The
growth of the city has been such that
it became necessary to build an adj
dition to the public school building
34A34 with a height of "a feet, making
it uniform in style with the building
of which it will form part. The
contract for this work is being full
filled by E. H. Donahugh,za skillful
and successful contractor and builder.
G. M. Reckner, on the old Sutton
farm in Alton, is one of the successful
breeders of the celebrated Poland
China swine, his stock being from NJ.
P. Lydon's herd of Crane Creek, said
to be as fine strain as there is. His
home for them is a model of taste,