Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-09
New Oregon Notes.

Last Friday j. b. Mitchell was send.
ing Russian apple trees to the north.
east corner of the state of New York.
On John Haberly farm is as fine a
flock of sheep as can be found in the
state.
j. Adamec is preparing to build q
barn on his New Oregon farm.
In the family of A. Baldwin, seven
of his children are down with the
measles.
John F. Sllfka is going to put up a
Page woven wire fence on his farm.
Nearly every farmer in the county
has lost enough stock from the cruel
barbed wire fence, to have fenced
his farm with the Page fence which
is safe.
Mr.. Henry Michel who ownes the
farm formerly owned by Chas. Strawn
is having fine farm house erected this
summer having previously built barr g
and out buildings on the premises.
His house which is nearly enclosed is
a modern style two story house the
central part being 1926, with wing
16x16 and another 14x16, with a wash
room in the rear, one story 1Ox1S
Mr.. Michel has one of the best farms
in the county and it is but meet that
his house should correspond. The
work on this model farm house is be.
ing done by T. G. Trytten of Ridge
way, who iDjoys the reputation of be.
ing first class mechanic and his
work corroborates the claim.
A pleasant call was made at the
home OF Mrs. James Carroll where the
PEE DEE has been a welcome visitor
for nearly forty years and nearly al
ways paid for in advance.
At Mr.. John Garber's we made the
acquaintance of Miss Clara CARRIER q
bright young girl just arriving in her
teens.
Mr.. Karl CARRIER formerly near Bon.
air is pleasantly located in home of
his own with an entire outfit of new
buildings, just east of the ]. d. Hayes
farm. Many of the farmers and farm
papers have been telling that red
clover was all winter killed in north
ern Iowa, but on the Karl CARRIER
place we saw the finest field of red
clover we ever saw this early in the
year.
Mrs. w. E. Cleghorn on the county
line in the northeast corner Of New
Oregon is perhaps the most successful
poultry breeder in the county. She
matches her chicks in an incubator
and she says their care when young
is as exacting on ones time as the care
of dairy but she says It IS quite
profitable.
Frank Kalasheik is under the care
of DIR. Smitt tie for rheumatism for the
past two weeks.
The merchants at Protivin carry
good stocks and are having a good
trade. J. w. Cady was there Satur-
day, bringing to Cresco 60 cases of
eggs for W. r. Owen, and in the
morning Mr.. Novak from his store
brought in large number of cases.
Mr.. Kostka in the north town is one
of the progressive blacksmiths of the
county, combining every branch of
the business, In both wood and iron.
Frank Sobolik who owns $40 acres
of fine land on section 26, in New
Oregon, is buildinga new residence
which will be 32 feet square, story
and half in hight with cellar un-
der the entire structure, the wall be.
ing made from the granite found on
his prairie farm.
On the Benda farm is a large bed of
Peat of choice quality. When it was
owned by Mr.. Givens some 35 years
ago we had some of it pressed and
dried and found it nearly as good
burning quality as much of the soft
coal, its carbon being about 55 per
cent, while of soft coal the carbon is
about 80 per cent.
Frank Capouch across the way from
Benda's is so comfortably situated
that one involuntarily stops to ad-
mire his farm and it's surroundings.
John Martinek who owns 300 acres
of choice land on section 80 in New
Oregon, has the material on hand for
erecting farm house 1652S with a
wing 16x24, story and half in hight.
The work on both Mr.. Sobolik's and
Mr.. Martinek's house is being done
by John Posuta and w. Sevik of Spill
vile.
Nearly all the farmers in New Ore.
gon have fine thrifty young orchards,
many of them producing an ample
supply of fruit for family use, if the
varieties were of keeping qualities.
Much of this early ripening fruit may
be made valuable for family use by
pairing and drying and will be much
more palatable than most of the
boughten dried fruit which has it's
fine color impaired by process that
destroys the flavor baside making it
unwholesome as an article of food.
A woven wire fence manufactory.
established in one of the Frank Kala-
sheik buildings is new industry con-
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