Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-27

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for service in the Philippines. There
are now $4,000 regulars there and this
addition will make an armed force OF
81, 900, half of whom will perish in the
swamps and marshes, fighting for
what?
Ferd Lukes and John Zohasky, of
Protivin, were called to st. Paul, Minn.
Monday, as witness in the Kosticka
forgery case which will be on trial
there this week in the U. S. District
court. Frank Sima, another witness
from Protivin in the same case went
Saturday.
The Decorah Institute summer
school, which opens July 10, will ac-
commodate all who wish to pursue any
of the common or higher English
branches, higher branches of mathe-
matics; also bookkeeping, steno-
graphy, typewriting, Greek, Latin.
and German.
Decorah Institute, for the summer
term, which opens July 10th, has en-
gagged Miss Alice c. Wilson of Des
Moines as instructor in primary and
school methods. EX-State Supt. Sabin
says of Miss Wilson, "She is one of
the best teachers in Des Moines and
will be valuable acquisition.
DR.. j. f. Torpey of Elma, Iowa, has
reported cases of smallpox in three fam
lilies in.Paris township, Howard county.
They are supposed to have resulted
from exposure to cases in Cresco, the
same county. The exposure at Cresco
came through young man from Mon
tana stricken with the disease. The
cases at Elma are closely quarantined.
-Des Moines Ne,rs.
The Des Moines Gozette is one of the
ablest papers in the state and one of
the cleanest geographically. 1t is
reliably democratic, and should have
the hearty and earnest support of
democrats inevery part of Iowa. Being
the only democratic paper in Des
MoineS, it is entitled to the patronage
and support of the party which it full
ly merits from its ability and sterling
integrity in the advocating of demo-
cratic measures and principles. When
republican papers copy from the Lead
er, endeavoring to palm it off as demo-
cratic, it is simply copying from pa
per of its own class and one that sup
ported the election of Mr.. Mckinley.
We are informed that Mrs. A. II.
Caward's father, at Whitewater, Wis,
who has been very sick, is much bet
ter. DR.. NJ. c. Keith was called there
by telegraph and pronounced the case
tiue to arrangement of the liver. I'm
der DIR. Keith's rational system of
medication he was speedily relieved of
his distressing symptoms and placed
on the way to complete recovery. Mr..
Polhemus is about SiXty-fve years of
age and will be remembered by many
Cresco people, having visited at the
home of his daughter in Cresco several
times. Since above was written Mrs.
Caward has returned from Whitewater,
and reports her father improving
steadily.
A family over near Schley has had a
case of measles. The vigilant board
of health of the town learned about it,,
and of course as the news spread it
had grown to house filled with small
pox victims. Prompt action was
necessary. The board of health re-
conoitered the neighborhood in search
of the fell destroyer. A telephone
message was sent to DIR. Torpey, a
scion of Esculapius very recently
plucked from one of the manufactures
for transforming mediocrity into
Intellectual prodigies. He came, he
saw. [Classically expressed reni, eide,
but no ricil because the entire atfiict-
ed family was in the field blowing
corn, and his giant intellect was non.
plussed. Whether to quarantine the
corn field or go into quarantine
himself, is the problem his lilliputiar
intellect ought to wreStle with.
Ii an individual or a family ought t.
be quarantined for an infectious dis
ease of any kind, the quarantine shoult
be respected and obeyed. AT the sam,
time Individuals families and com
munities have rights which should no
be needlessly ignored, set at naught
disregarded, by a board of health ant
its incompetent medical advisers. |
is undoubtedly true that the contagiol
which existed here, and probably nov
exists at Elma and vicinity, shoul,
be quarantined, not as small pox-bu
as chicken poX in an aggravated form
DR.. Torpey, who reports it for tn
daily papers of the state, probabl
never saw a case of genuine small po
and never will in the cases now a
Elma and vicinity. 1t is reported
with how much of truth we are unabl
to say, that church service at Lourde
is suspended for fear of the contagiol