Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-06-16
BADLY sMIRCHED!
The Board Of Health Welcome to
all the Consolation it can Ex.
tract from its Discredited De-
tense of Itself.


health in Cresco, after having put a
small poN embargo upon the business
OF the place, seek to justify their
course by subornation. They are pre-
pared to and will resort to any means
to stultify Others and exonerate them
selves from the cenSure they deserve.
MIR. Quinn, next door neighbor to
the Harris family, though not on the
most friendly terms, says there has
been no day since the family was quar-
antined that it has not been about the
yard and each member in it's usual
good health.
The neighbors of VIM. Lathrop say
the same in regard to his children.
that they have been up playing in the
yard daily ever since quarantined, the
very pictures of life, animation and
good health.
Mrs. Harris has sought to have ply
sicians on the board of health call to
ascertain for themselves that her en-
tire family was well and that the
quarantine wrongfully placed upon
them should be removed, their only
response being that they had not time.
But when Mrs. Harris publishes a
statement in the PLAIN DEALER of
June 9th, it had the effect to wake the
board from its lethargy, and on the
18th inst. DR.. Connolly called, with
DR.. kessel, to procure from Mrs. Har-
riS a retraction of her statement, OBJ
tanned her signature to statement
which we have and which is in the
handwriting of DR.. Connolly. Before
its publication, Mrs, Harris discovered
the paper was so drawn as to make
her stultify herself and sent note to
DIR. Connolly forbidding its publica-
tion. But the board was in a desper-
ate strait, and testimony so artfully
drawn as to sustain the lie the board
had been rolling as a sweet morSel un-
der their tongues, had to be procured,
and DR.. Connolly was the man of that
body competent to the task. For it's
publication in the Republican DR.. Con-
molly said to Mrs. Harris that her note
came too late; but, Doc, how about it's
publication in the Times, a hours af-
ter you had her note forbidding it's
publication because designed to give
a false and untrue impression to the
public, an impression that there had
been continuous sickness in the fami-
ly since quarantined, while proof is
abundant that there had been none
except the girl sick one day-a very
mild case of chicken poX.
The following is the statement writ
ten by DR.. Connolly and to which. by
miSrepreSenting its purport, he OBJ
tanned the signature OF Mrs. Harris:
"Cresco, June 13. 1899.
1r nhn,. "a
Health:
Dear. Sir: The statement made in the
PLAIN Dealer dated June 9th that there
We're none of my family sick is not true.
Three of the children did have the dis.
ease and were broken out, and the little
girl had a very high fever previous to
the eruption. The others we're not seri.
ously indisposed, being able to be
around. None of these children were
ever yaccinated. myself being the first
one that had the eruption for which the
premises were quarantined, having had
said eruption for three weeks:previous to
enforcement of quarantine.
Mrs. MINNIE HARRIS"
The next morning after DR.. Connol-
ly had procured that article from Mrs,
Harris, she sent to this office hy Mr..
e. Thomas, who, by the way, brought
us her statement published June 9th,
the following letter reaSSerting the
truth of the statement in her former
letter and correcting and retracting
the false inSinuations and conclusions
of fact so shrewdly concocted and pro-
mulgated by DR.. Connolly and de-
signed to deceive the very elect-an
attempt that ought to bring the blush
of shame to- the braZen cheek of the
board of health. Its devious ways are
fully placed before the public by Mrs.
Harris in her letter following. every
word of which is in her hand writing
and subject to examination by the
board of health or any other person
desiring the proof.
TO the PLAIN DEALER;
Yesterday Drs, Connolly and kes-
sell came up here and DR.. Connolly
wrote Il contradictory statement of
my piece that was printed in the
PLAIN DEALER of June 9th. Now |
signed my name to it and after they
had gone | got to thinking it over and
spent an almost sleepleSS night on ac.
count of it. The statement DR.. Con.
molly wrote would make people believe
| was sick when quarantined because
| had those red spots onlmy face. anc
DR. kessel seemed to think it impli-
Gated him, our being kept here Thai
would not be true, as DR.. kessel. was
never called on till after the quaran
tine was put up. The only contradic
tion | can make is that the next day
after being quarantined, Georgia go1
up with headache and was quite fever
ish and in the afternoon sent for Dr.
kessel and he left me some powders
and tablets for her. / gave her three
of the powders and one tablet; the
next morning she got up as usual an(
was at the breakfast table and ha:
been up and around ever since. SHE
had very few pimples as she shows TO
herself now. While DR., kessel ha
been very kind to me and my famil,
and done many things for me that
| doubt any other doctor would OF done
| heartily thank him and know tina
he has done all he could for us ant
would have had the quarantine raise,
last week il DR.. G. ID. Roome woul,
do it. Georgia, Lyle and Roy all hat
the eruption as they call it. Now
do not want any such statement a
DR.. Connolly wrote published, i
makes both p. ID. and myself liars
Please cali at house if you possibl
can. for know you did not tell an I'm
truth. Respectfully,
NJ RS. MINNIE HARRIS.
ACard of Thanks.