Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-07-11
Notes About the County.

OA0s NpouI Ino CounIy.
Our trip through the county last
week brought us for our first stop at
the farm lately owned by John Milz,
consisting of $50 acres, now owned by
Geo. Bachel, son of Geo. Bachel who
formerly resided near Ft. Atkinson,
and who had the distinguished honor
OF having been the first sheriff of Win.
neshiek county. Mr.. Bachel appears
to be an enterprising citizen and most
successful farmer.
Geo. Theiien owns and occupies the
adjoining quarter section; the condit-
ion of his farm and crops demonstrate
ing his qualifications for the occupa-
tion.
The Vincent Theilen farm is now
owned by j. j. Doubek, an enterpris-
ing Bohemian.
Mrs. VIM. Grove and her children
seem to be successfully managing the
farm and will make life's battle sue
cess.
The Mason & McClaskey farm now
owned by Frank Drtina, is made to
yield forth its fruits in great abund-
ance.
John s. Mckay is perhaps the larg-
est land owner on the street and one
of it's successful farmers as we'll.
Michael Dvorak and Chas. Thorn
son adjoining land owners are each
prospecting, a fine new barn to the lat
ter attesting this fact.
Geo. Leibert, another of the success
full farmers of the street with John
Ilalweg at the rudder were guiding a
road grader over the clods of earth
and sods that road construction re-
quires at this season.
At. Geo. M. Dell's we found hospi-
table welcome for the night and were
highly interested in their account of a
ranchers life where they were upon
cattle ranch for some years, much of
the time 100 miles from a postoffice,
and never with neighboring woman
within 20 miles. A lot of rare relics
of the country and its original inhabi-
tants are in their home. The entire
family are enthusiastic advocates of
the nomination and election of Miss
Elsie Perry as county superintendent.
I'll. L. Richardson is making prepar-
alton to restore the barn that was
blown to pieces by building a larger
and better one near the site of the
one destroyed. His granary was hoist
ed bodily and carried it's bigness and
dropped comparatively uninjured. A
curious freak was in lifting barrel of
water that stood near the corner of
the house and carrying it some ten
feet away without splitting, and with
out disturbing the the house in the
least.
j. j. Kovarik is another of the pros
porous farmers of the street and his
fine promise for water melons and
garden truck in abundance shows that
they appreciate these Injuries and de-
vote time to their culture.
Mrs. Michael Flaherty and her chill
dren are managing the farm admira-
bly,. Miss Lizzie closed her summer
term of school Saturday, it being our
privilege to be present for a short
time. The pupils were all quite young,
but they had an interesting program.
AT the Center we had the pleasure
of an introduction to Rev. Father
Rice, the guest of Father Nelson, col
lege companions and friends, whom
we met at the store of J. v. Flaherty,
Father Rice is of Stevens Point, Wis.
A great improvement in the loca-
ton of the public highway has been
made along the farm of Richard Nc
Carville, who we found up to his eyes
in securing a bountiful harvest of
finely cured hay. His brother Philip
is preparing to move his building onto
the south road upon the land bought
of the PEGGY property, which will give
him better ground for his buildings.
AT Mr.. Carl d. Printz, we met M.
T. Barrows of Dundee, ILL.,, who OBJ
tanned from j. M. Mccoy that yalua-
BILE farm property consisting of $50
acres of the choisc land in the county.
The crops on the entire route are as
fine quality as we have ever seen at
this season. Corn, though perhaps a
trifle late is of fine color and has
plenty of time before september to
mature.
The Large Wilkes Stallion Lis
burn, 1906,