Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-12-24

NA"J Why ASCStli tO-uby SHOW,
Failing silent and slow,
When to-day's long ago,
'Thout a sigh.
"For deny 1t who can
Lies but span,"
And boys soon u man
That is SO;
There's no time but for cheer,
Soa Happy New Year
To friends far and near,
For Xmas is here
Don't you know.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newiniller spent SIM
day over an oyster dinner at Ivy
Glen.
Prof. Bugs goes to his home in
Stocton, MIMI, for the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. g. Serfling enter
tanned Mrs. Shermire and daughter,
and Miss Tolofson, Of Preston, re-
Gently.
D. n. Hunt is displaying fine
assortment of Christmas goods.
Broadacres was marketing barley
last week.
Will Nelson is much pleased with
his new home in Otter Tail county.
II. 0. Serfling marketed fine
bunch Of cattle one day last week.
FIorenceville school has no holiday
vacation.
Crowell feed mill again toots it's
whistle and is ready for .'biz. .,
Rev. Brown is located in comfort
able cottage in Harmony.
Some of the young people are try.
ing to enjoy what little skating there
is.
The mistress OF Grad View is
suffering with q very severe cold.
Granger school closed for the holi-
days, last Friday.
Miss Kitty Clink will spend. the
holidays in her Florenceville home. I.
1dylwild people were welcome
guests at Cottage Antrim, last Friday.
The musical last Saturday evening
was success in several ways.
Miss Anna Weinkauf spent satur-
day afternoon with our family.
Miss Ida Beverage, OF Cresco, is the
guest of her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clink.
]. I. and Mrs. DIummond went
over to Cresco to meet Kitty Ciink.
Saturday.
Misses Clara Dell and Alberta
Wickha,n called on baby Arnold last
Sunday who was just eight weeks old
and had doubled his weight exactly
in that time.
The Xmas program is now claiming
the undivided attention Of the little
folks.
We met X. Rays, of Bonair. and Te-
cumseh. of Kendallville, in Cresco
last Saturday. and had friendly
wordy tilt with each.
The German Methodists, of Golden
Ridge, are holding series of evening
parlor meetings each night, it being
held ut different homes among III.
members.
p. Slawson has marketed twenty
eight hundred bushels Of barley in
Cresco and has not quite reached the
bottom OF his hin yet.
We met ia Cresco, dapper little
man with grand mustache, the tin
ends OF which was nicely tied up
with red tape.
Miss Martha Weinkauf PLAYED fhe
organ for the choir last Sunday in
the German Lutheran church, it be.
ing her first attempt.
Our people were shocked to learn
Of the sudden death OF Mrs. Jerome
Nichols. The bereaved husband and
little children have the heartfelt
sympathy Of the entire community.
r. r. Wickham has gone into hog
culture and II his business continues
as brisk as the present outlook indi-
Gates, no doubt he will turn out to be
the king of pork packers in the
northwest.
Mr.. Wheeler, our hardware man,
has five, ten. and fifteen cent
counter, and of course they are we'll
patronized by bargain loving ladies
aud children, but our male inhabi-
tants stand aIoof as yet they are SO
used to putting their hands in their
pockets and pulling out the hard
cash and paying q good price for
everything they buy.
IfJohny should die tonight
And you should come to his cold corpse and say
Weeping and heartsick DER his lifeless clay.
II he should die might.
And you should come in deepest grief and woe
And say, here's that ten dollars that owe,
He might rise In his large white crayat i.
And say: WHAT'S that!
II JOHNNY should die tonight,
And you shollldcome to his cold corpse and knee,
Clasping his hand to show the gcief yon feel;
say, II he should die Tonight,
And you should come, and there and then
just hint bout paying, him that ten,
He might rise the while,
But he'd drop dead again.
For Pneumonia.