Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-05

State Normal School at Cedar Falls. !,
will deliver the address at the annual
graduating exercises of the Cresco
| High School which occurs June 9th.
Mearl Horris, in addition to furnish
ing all the best newspapers and peri
odicals, has his pop corn stand in full
blast and can supply you at all times
with pop corn, peanuts, candy and ci-
gars.
A girls "complexion" may be
stamped on her lovers heart, but
most Of the "complexion'' comes off
unless put there by Rocky Mountain
lea, sPowder's bad thing. p
Connolly.
Fitield 4 Cole are opening harness
shop in the room in the Strother House
block heretofore occupied by II. II.
Rygg. Both are old experienced hands
at the business and will give their
patrons the value paid for every time.
! Go and see them.
| The franchise for furnishing cleo
: trio lights granted to Mr.. Horne of
Chatfeld has gone glimmering. IL
would seem to us that the proper thing
to do is for the city to build and own
the plant. There will be economy in
public ownership.
G. T. Watros of Cresco was in town
Wednesday. Attorney Anundsen and
Henry Schultz were Cresco visitors on
Friday. The former went to take dep
4 -, %1,o l,{%o
to figure on new Congregational
church that is to be built there this
summer.-Decorah Journal.
i There is only 25 cents back on that
last keg, so Pete Meyers of Calmar
writes to E. E. Eddy, of Cresco. The
probabilities are that two men have
been imposed upon, Mr. Meyers is sup
posing he is sending beer to Mr.. Eddy
and Mr.. Eddy, by some person order
) ing beer in his names personating him
, and taking the stuff when it came.
+. G. Woellstein Is enlarging his
store building preparatory to launch
| ing into business with room to meet
the demands upon his trade. His pres
/ ent store room will be devoted to his
harness business, the shoe, dry goods
and grocery departments being moved
r into the new part which will be ten
feet wider than his present store room
Miss Clare Lunbeck,S our District
Supt., for the Iowa Childrens' Home
Society, spoke last Sunday morning in
;, the Congregational church and in the
evening at the Baptist church before
a union meeting of the Baptist and
:. Methodist churches, the object being
J. to interest people in the adoption O.
ing of funds to help carry on the work
of the society.
'r James Byrnes has nearly completes
e the neat cottage designed Tor Merrill
Bowers and it is a job that Merrill i
II proud of, Byrnes ought to be and som
= :. body else probably IS. All the mater
If ials, selected by Mr.. ,Byrnes, are frs
class and are used in a workmanlik
manner not flaw appearing IN it
ls construction. When completed it vii
ot be one OF the handsomest, most CON
e Portable and handily arranged littl
le cottages In town.
Miss Harriet G. Tanner who visite
81 her uncle Thomas H. Brydges, i
OF Cresco, two years ago, has written a
to interesting descriptive account of he
ad trip and of the impressions forme
while visiting and viewing our cour
"a try villages, our great cities, our In
n. mense prairies, our country and i
az institutions. The contrast between OF
customs and methods and those of he
own home in England are pleasant
mentioned. The whole is condense
u. into a booklet of some fifty pages an
n is very interesting reading from alph
N to omega. We gratefully return thanl
an for copy which is highly appreciate