Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-08-16

A week ago Sunday at Adams, MINI,
two young men from near West Union,
Dell Hoover and Toliff Torson were
killed by freight train, the boys
sleeping or sitting on the track. Br ok
en- whisky bottles told the balance of
the story.
Next week we shall call on our sub
scribers in Elma, Howard, Alton,
RicevilIe, Jamestown and Oak Dale,
and kindly request them each and all
to have the money to pay up all ar
rears in subscription, and as much as
4 possible In advance.
Frank Braun, young man from
near Saratoga, is confined In the jail
awaiting the next term OF court, on a
charge of rape. The case is more
properly one Of seduction, but the fe-
male is under the age of consent and
the new code classes this offence with
rape.
All departments of the Valdez Nor
NAL School at DEBORAH, will open Aug
! 29. Special review course for teach
ers. First Grade certificate, Higher
English and Normal courses, each one
year. Common school branches a
specially. Winter term Oct. 81. Send
/ for illustrated catalog.
Mrs. Vorce nee Flora johnson, with
her two little daughters is here from
Tomah, Wis. visiting her father, and
brother and other friends about Cresco,
expecting to stay two weeks, she will
i stop off at Austin on her return home
to visit friends there. Her husband
will meet her at Lacrosse.
There is another camping party on
the east side of the river opposite
Camp Welsh. This party includes: G.
! Cooley and family and Mr.. and Mrs.
B. Cooley, OF Strawberry Point, Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. Cooley, OF Dubuque,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Cooley of Dubuque.
Mrs. j. @. Livingston, of Cresco, and
Mr.. John Cooley Sxs Of Sayauna.
Strawberry Point Mail-Press.
Popular cash prices at Novelty
/ Works:
5 gal. Atlantic Red Machine Oil $1Oo
SECTIONS put in Sickles, each 10
in. Well Casing, per foot "a
81 in. :. g g, .35
4 in. Gal. Pipe &c .07
II in. Black Pipe 6 .06
Set Shoes .25
Everything else in proportion.
G. L. WATRos.
Mr.. Elmer johnson who enlisted for
the Cuban war from Iowa City and
who has been stationed at Jackson
VILE, Florida, is home on furlongh
of twenty days. He is considerably
thinner in flesh than when he enlisted,
but is in good health. The rations
furnished, he says, are good and
wholesome. He is in Gen. Lees di-
vision which expects to be sent to
Cuba for garrison duty.
F. c. Woellstein & Co., the South
side cash store have a fine large pic
ture 22x2S, suitable and worthy of
framing. one of which they give every
person making cash purchases to the
the amount OF $5 at their store. 1t is
a group picture of the .sWar congress,
numbered and named surrounded by
pictures of the notables of the war. 1t
is a valuable picture and will increase
in value as the years pass.
w. C. Nichols g. Son sold this week
Monday to Mr.. G. j. Poulter of Big
Mound, Iowa, a very fine imported
Shropshire ram, weighing 250 pounds.
Mr.. Poulter is a breeder of Shropshire
sheep and came to Cresco to get an
animal to head his flock. Messrs
, Nichols & son. by the way have a
| bunch of Shropshires in quarantine al
Qubec, just landed from England, that
will be out and at Cresco in time for
the Howard County Fair.
: H. j. Brown and the writer took in
the target tournament at Cresco Wed.
nesday.... Little Miss Helen Caward ol
Cresco, is visiting at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. A. j. Caward.. ..E. A. Hoop.
: man, of the Chester creamery, took
home with him about $12 for his days
work at the Cresco tournament. Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Burgess were up from
Cresco a few days last week, visiting
{ at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. r.
3 Caward. LEROY Independent.
Ferd Goethe has rented his farm
near Elma and bought the Chas. dew
ett house at this place, and will move
his family here. ....As a sample of thu
t productiveness of Howard county,
It soil, Geo. Waters brought in few
b stalks of unusually large corn yester
d day, one of the stalks measured 9 fee
d 2 inches in its stocking feet. 1t wa
seventy-one days from the time 1T wa
planted until pulled, which speak
: we'll for the soil, likewise for George
s help who attended the corn this sum
J, mer.-Mclntyre Gazette.
:. Best Bargain in Howard County.
a A No. farm of 80 acres only on
Il mile from Bonair, all under cultivs