Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-04-02

j. I. Rutherford, of Chester, was
| in the city, Wednesday. He reports
a portion of the mill dam washed out,
an occurrence which will require
some two weeks for repairs.
Hoyt Sherman notifies the COM
mittee here not to collect or receive
any contributions of corn for shipment
to the suffering people of India, be-
cause the railroads decline to trans
port it except at regular freight rates.
The advantage of buying direct
from the eastern manufacturers and in
connection with two other large buy
ers of clothing and mems furnishings,
give q. D. Nichols & Co., advantages
which they claim to have over all
otl 9 conte e,rs in their line of business
in this section.
Connolly & Fitzgerald have secured
an elegant trimmer, Miss Mitchell,
OF Chillicothe, Ill.,, who will remain
with them during the summer. They
have an elegant stock in that line and
with the services of Miss Mitchell in
the trimming department, ought to
make their millinery more attractive
than ever.
An advantage that accrues to the
farmers of the county from a city like
Cresco with its 2,S0o people to feed is
shown in the prices that our mer-
chants are paying them for potatoes,
the price here being 25 cents a bushel,
while the market in Chicago is sew
eral cents lower. And so the prices
which consumers pay them tor butter
and eggs is in excess of the prices in
the Chicago market.
Miss Nellie Roche returned from
California little over week ago and
is now very ill with an attack Of ty-
phoid-malarial fever.
LATER-Since the above was in
type, death has come to her relief,
the passing away yesterday morning.
The family have the sympathy OF all
in their latest bereavment, which must
come with added sorrow so soon after
their recent bereavment.
w. H. Dent, receiver of the Firs,
National bank of Decorah, has
brought suit in the United States
court in this city against James H.
Easton, DEBORAH, for $4,000. The
defendant was president of the defuuct
bank and the amount sued for is the
100 per cent assessment levied on his
stock by the receiver. The receiver is
represented by Hon. James H. Shields.
Mr.. Easton is residing in Decorah at
the present me.-Dubuque Herald
The two sneak thieves, Pell and
Hughes were found guilty and senten-
ced the former to IA months, the lat
ter to IL months in Anamesa. The
courtappointed young attorney Hughes
to defend them and he put up one ol
the best defences in a forlorn case thai
we ever heard. He had nothing to
work on from the start as the culprits
were caught with the goods in their
possession, but he contrived by an in
genious combination of testimony and
by heaving it together in an attract
i've shape to mako outlook bright for
their release. The general looks Of
one of the defendants, we think, had
a great deal to do with his conviction.
The typical sneak thief shone on his
lace, he was a '.tough looker.'' The
ability displayed by Mr.. Hughes brings
him before the public of Hancock
county as young legal light who will
be heard from in the future. We don't
believe better defence could have
been put up by any lawyer old OF
young in this county.-Britt Tribune.
The above refers to VIM. H. Hughes
formerly of this place, now located al
Garner. We are glad to hear of his
success and growing popularity.
The New Oregon Nursery, whose
J advertisement appears in the PLAN
DEALER today, is an institution Of
J which the people of this county and o
this latitude should take pardonabie
pride. Mr.. Mitchell started his nur-
sery some thirty years since, and ha:
grown thousands of trees of suitable
age for bearing which proved to lacl
in hardness, and in consequence they
| were dead loss. 1t has always beer
peculiarity of his to thoroughly tes
the hardness and bearing quality O
his trees before Offering them to the
public; something that but few tree
growers do. This practice of his il
an assurance to the public when buy
ing trees from the New Oregon Nur
sery that it will get just such articles
as he represents his trees to be, and
ought to insure him larger and larger
t sales each year. The first hardy
Russian trees brought to Iowa wer,
, scions that Mr.. Mitchell procured
from the Department OF Agriculture
more than twenty years ago, ant
' which he has thoroughly tested as tc
quality of fruit, hardness, and bear
ing quality and to the best and hardi
est of these he is limiting his stock
Nurseries from a distance are pur
chasers from him of what he woult
not sell to a customer, and some O
these very trees have been ship pei
back into the county to men who per-
, sist in patronizing foreign nurseries
These in different latitude might be
all right, but Mr.. Mitchell had con
demned them for this and yet they ar,
often sent here by less conscientious
dealers.
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