Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-05-10

lIZSlInlnOnS offers TO meet
Kid Mccoy or Corbett in Sep
tember for a big purse.
Miss Nellie Sims was over from
Florenceville, Saturday.
Harry Mitche;l's barber shop for
hair cuts! Only Is cents!
For fresh groceries or good meal
go to M. Barrett's Restaurant.
G. S. Bly,, came down from Lime
Spring last Thursday for few days
visit.
LosT:-On Saturday, a bunch OF
keys. Finder will please leave at this
Office.
The ladies of the NJ. E. church will
serve dinner on Court House lawn
July A.
Jesse Hayes and wife are entertain
ing little daughter born to them
April 20.
Frank Hess has invested in a new
peanut roaster and corn pepper that
is a dandy.
Mrs. A. j. Cray aud Miss Nina Rue
sink were down from Lime Springs on
Friday last.
F. j. Prann is in Chicago making
another purchase OF goods for his
furniture store.
Emory Warrington is having a Sc
we're time with large abscess on the
back of his neck.
VIM. Fitzgerald has bought the resi-
dence just south of w. B. Webster
from the Beadle estate.
Mrs. Long returned last Thursday
from Kansas where she spent the
winter visiting relatives.
Miss Mary Farnsworth entertained
the graduating class, of which she is
a member, at her home on Friday
evening.
Store building, south side of Market
street, will be sold at bargain. Good
building and location. Enquire of
Miller & Weber.
w. X. Barker and wife are expected
home this week from Hot Springs, S.
d. 1t is thought he comes home some
what improved in health.
Fred Brown and family drove down
from Chester Sunday, Mrs. Brown and
children remaining Tor a longer visit
at the home of j. M. Bowers.
H. z. Howard is hauling lumber
preparatory to building large new
house on the site of the one he now
occupies in the west part of town.
That Farmers Foot Form Shoe at
g. d. Nichols Il Co.'s, makes the
farmer smile and more pleasant to his
wife after hard days work.
Commencing with this week, Miss
Lauraine Mead requests her pupils to
come at their usual hours. Kinder
garten class Friday at 4 p. m.
Remember F. G. Woellstein & Go. if
you want a new harness or any repair
work done. First class goods and first
class work done by John Hegg.
We understand the promoters of the
mnlct canvas have given up the at
tempt, being unable to secure any
where near the required number of
names.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Baptist church will meet with Mrs.
Ashton Hall, Thursday afternoon,
May -. Gentleman invited to tea at
six o'clock.
Leo. G. Wachtel is now the sole
proprietor of the Elma News-Register,
having bought the interest of his
former partner, G.. A. Moore, the
founder of the paper.
Roy Noblett, wife and babe, are
again Cresco residents, he having
been thrown out of employment by
the sale of the drug store where he
was at work at Quasqueton.
If you are not a customer of the
Golden Eagle Clothing House you ha d
better get with the crowd and save
some money on new spring suit.
G. d. NICHOLS & Co.
F. e. Woellstein & Co. have limit
ed number of step-ladders which are
given free with a one pound can Of
baking powder. Don't delay if YOU
want a good serylceable step-ladder
free.
From brief notice in the Riceville
Recorder, we note the death of Mrs.
j. G. Fellows, another of the early
settlers of the county and a most es-
timable woman. Her husband died
about two years since. The surviving
members OF the family are Mrs. Albert
Pierce, of Minneapolis, Mrs. Eugene
Herring and Mrs. Mosher of Riceville
with whom Mrs. Fellows resided for
the past two or three years.