Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-12-29
Albion and Bristol.

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Basiion and Miss Lietz, Miss Josephine
Shulh and Mr.. Miller and our Jolly
cream hauler, Frank Smith, has set
up the cigars.
Miss Kitty Clink is home from
Rochester for a vacation of two weeks.
Xmas passed off quietly with us.
The tree at the church drew large
crowd and the exercises were fine, we
are told.
Walter Kendall came over and spent
xmas with his wife's parents, the
Clink's.
Mrs. l.. S. st. John and daughter
Lillian and Mrs. j. T. Drummond and
Miss Clara Dell Wickham are st. Paul
holiday visitors.
Miss Ada Robinson spent Xmas in
Spring Valley and goes from there to
Stewartville where she will engage in
the dressmaking business.
Asa Fox, while examining an ak in
Cresco, was so unfortunate as to let it
fall on his feet thus preventing him
from taking in 9he Christmas hop.
MIR. and Mrs. Ran. Peckham's many
Albion friends are pleased to learn
that organizations are in order.
We learn by phone that the bust
ness portion of Canton was wiped out
by fire last Monday night.
tuesday morning John Sims teams
took canter over our streets and up
town; luckily no great damage was
done that prevented John from max
ing his regular trip to market.
While in Cresco last Saturday we
were permitted to wish our old friend
Tommy Hines, God-speed as he starts
for Cuba this week. He goes via
Richmond Va, a city we visited in
war times.
Prof. Jones went to st. Paul to at
tend the state teachers association
during holiday week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Martin have gone
to Wisconsin 10 visit Mr.. Martins
parents, we are told.
Charley and Mrs. Newmiller enter
tanned her people, John O. Jones and
family on xmas.
7. R. Mason last Saturday met at
the train his sister, Mrs. Scott, hus-
band and son, all of Charles city, who
will remain his guests until 1900.
Constable John Ludwig lodged in
the county bastile xmas night one
John Hayes who is accused of stealing
sum of money from the purse of OF
to Kruger with whom he slept at the
residence of Richard Kruger, his
brother, here in town.
Mrs. Beveridge who has been help
ing to care for her mother has return
Ell to her home in Cresco.
H. T. Williams, our genial hard
ware man has a fine xmas tree in his
window laden with greatasSortment
OF fancy and useful articles, which he
offers for sale at and 1Oc each, on
this novel counter, and when lighted
by his new gas lamp the tree presents
a very attractive appearance.
Many of the patrons of our two P.
JOS are talking strongly of getting up
a petition to see if we cannot have a
little better mali service, but as long
as human brute with an old peter
that has to be urged over the road
with club as large ss mans wrist
is allowed to underbid men who are
responsible and willing to do the work
at living wages, what can we expect.
Uncle Sam pays for good service and
we believe some of our citizens are
smart enough to reach his ears.
Bill Williams has ordered fine
lsingle harness of G.. E. Brink.
Llewellyn Jones, wife and child of
Pipestone, are the guests of Mr.. Jones'
parents and relatives in Granger. He
informs US that they have had very
little or no snow as yet and that their
roads for bicycling is not surpassed by
any that lays out of doors.
Louis Privat, of Oak Park, ILL.,,
made one of his short visits to our
town last week.
l Our genial blacksmith informs us
he has been vaccinated for the big
head and had once climbed Tomfools'
and learned his lesson thoroughly,
therefore as long as Curt makes our
shoes stick until we get to the barn
Everybody will wish him the best SUD.
cess.
Friends at Strouston, S. Dakota, re-.
ports fine weather and good roads.
Miss Nellie Sims starts next week
| for Hamline University where she will
take course.
The Christmas tree at the Ashley
church proved a grand success, the
programme being very fine and the
audience was large and appreciatiye
one.
| Wednesday last was the 81 anniver-
sary of the birth of our popular mer-
chant, John o. Jones, who spent the
day entertaining Ed Reynolds and
gang OF woodsawyers.
A Mrs. Miller, of South Dakota, is
landlady, Pro TEN, at Hotel Martin
during the absence of the proprietor
and wife. She is sister of Mrs. Mar
tin and will look to the comfort of
her aged parents whose home is at
the hotel.