Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-07-16

I. j. Lomas and family and their
guests from abroad, with w. X. Bar
ker and family and few other friends
had a picnic at Kendallville, yesterday
LosT-Tuesday, between Cresco and
my home, a good coat. Finder will
please leave at johnson Bros. and re-
ceive pay for trouble. DAN BRoNNER.
John Miller says that letter from
Oklahoma says wheat is turning out
25 to 40 bushels per acre, and oats 85
bushels per acre, and both of prime
quality.
Rev. Coleman, Presiding Elder of
Cedar Falls district, was in Cresco the
night that Fromm's barn burned and
was conspicuous in making war npon
the elements.
L. S. Thayer, the south side
butcher, has 1000 pounds of No. l.,
Lard, which he will sell Is pounds
for 81, or pounds for l5c. These
prices are cash.
On Monday of this week Erwin and
Ralph McCloud were called to Llgin,
ILL.,, by a telegram announcing the
death of their mother, former resi-
dent of this place.
Where is township 6S, north of
range 13 west of the 5th P. NJ, in
Howard county? We observe high
way petitioned for that includes these
descriptive figures.
Anyone who wishes to go into the
butcher business, would do we'll to
to call on l.. S. Thayer, who has a
good business and will sell. Good
reasons for selling.
The ladies of the New OregonCeme-
terry Association will give an ice cream
sociable on the Court House lawn on
Saturday, July 24. Hess Boss ice
cream will be served.
Why bake your own bread or walk
to the bakery this weather, when
Jimmie Graham will deliver fresh
bread, cakes, pies and other good
things, at your door.
Kline & Tessin are making cement
walks about the premises of P. A.
Wanless, at the head of north Elm st.
P. A. Wanless has earned what he has
and is entitled to the best the country
affords.
Harry Mitchell is still doing fine
work in his line. Hair cutting is his
speciality and he excels in shaving.
Call in before circus day and get a
smooth tix-up; the hair cuts are 15c.
Opposite Court house.
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.
Miss Mary Long and nephews, Master
frankie, Ray and Roy, returned from
their Dakota visit Saturday, July 8,
reporting an enjoyable visit with her
brother at Bradley, S. D. The farm
ers are happy over the prospect of
their crops and say Dakota is all right.
VIM. Kellow Jr., with his compli-
ments, left cheese from his Miners
Creek cheese factory with the PLAIN
DEALER yesterday. Cheese from this
factory is equal to the best made in the
world. 1t finds ready sale at the
best prices quoted wherever it has
been used.
The Valdez Business College and
Normal School, at DEBORAH, Iowa, has
nine courses of study. 1t maintains a
strong faculty, and is the largest un-
aided private school in the u. S. An
illustrated catalogue containing full
information, half tone portraits of the
faculty and of several departments
will be sent upon application.
Mr.. Lewis Haberly of Winona, MINI.
died July 3, 1897, in the 64th year of
his age. His disease was cancer of the
stomach. The deceased was born in
Germany, came to the United States
in 1858, and for many years had been
a resident of Winona. OF his family
we are not advised. A brother,
Mr.. John Haberly, resides in Cresco,
and for several weeks during his recent
illness was with his brother.
Block seventeen in Cresco is bounded
on the north by the Court House block,
east by Cherry street, south by Rail-
road street, and west by Elm street.
Situated upon this block fronting Rail-
road street and Elm, is the Strother
House, Cresco Union Savings bank,
Lowry's Drug store, Kellow's store and
Lyric Hall, also several wooden build
ings, all fronting on Elm St. In the
rear Of these are a large number of
wooden buildings of various kinds,
hence a fire in that block naturally
creates panic among Cresco people.
Monday evening, shortly after nine
O'Clock fire broke out In the barn of
Albert Fromm, situated on the alley
south OF the rink barn and twenty feet
therefrom, and about eight feet from
a row of sheds filled with hay and
connecting with wooden buildings ex-
tending west to Elm street, sonth to
Westworth's livery, and in close prox-
unity to all the wooden buildings on
block seventeen. The fire department
responded promptly to the alarm. and
in less than ten minutes two streams
of water was playing upon the fire and
upon the adjacent buildings. From
the combustible nature of the building
and of its contents the fire was hot and
its destruction of the barn was rapid,
reducing the entire structure to ashes
in little more than an hour. That
barn has long been rendezvous for a