Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-05-19
cREsco HOWARD COUNTY, IOWA, FRIDAY, 10 1899.

Ihe absence OF the editor from the
city Is the reason this issue contains
no suitable tribute to the memory Of
Bradley Chaplin, and it is thought fit
to leave the writing of it to one who
has known him for years.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Webster will
break up housekeeping about the first
of June, when she with the children
and her mother, Mrs. Trumbull, will
go to Port Townsend, Wash, to spend
the summer with relatives there.
Jos. Kapler, manager OF the North
Iowa Seed Farm, tells us that the
demand for their seeds has been such
as to greatly deplete their stocks, and
have been compelled to return over
$3.50 sent to them for seed potatoes.
On our last page is an account OF a
recent disastrous storm in several
states, and Iowa was also a sufferer,
a cyclone passing through Colesburg,
about 20 miles east of Manchester,
killing three, injuring several and de-
stroying considerable property.
The following Chester people at
tended the funeral of B. Chaplin,
Wednesday, being all old friends and
neighbors of the deceased: G. E.
Loomis, Oren Louden, T. c. Bratrud,
w. F. Carter, w. A. Barnes, E. j..
Ecksteln, Mr.. and Mrs. Doc. Hunger
ford, Mrs. F. Freemire, Mrs. Ed
Capper.
Squire Carl Reed performed his first
marriage ceremony last Monday, May
18th, in the office of the Clerk of the
Courts and the witnesses say that it
was done with such neatness and dis
patch that he may well advertise to
s.marry while you wait" The parties
so firmly tied are Albert Lukesh and
Ellenore Lukesh,
| A father living in the country
wishes to obtain information as to the
whereabouts of his daughter, a Nor
wegian girl about IA years of age who
came to Cresco last Saturday and who
| is supposed to be at work in some
family here. Anyone knowing ol
anyone meeting this description is
requested to leave word at this Office.
i Arthur Isbell and Fred Brooks re.
turned home from the South Wednes.
day noon and were welcomed by 9
La large assemblage of our citizens
aided by the inspiring music of the
band. They, with John Champlin
who died in the service, were Cresco'.
representative in the 49th Iowa, en-
listing in Company 1, the Waukor
Company. Cresco is glad to see then
home safe and sound.
The best medical authority il
, Cresco say the disease which ha
!, , been quarantlned is not smallpox
Persons who have been through
smallpox in the army 1876 and ar
. perfectly familiar with the peculia
r and offensive features of that diseas
Q lsay the disease is not that. But what
ever it may be has been thorough,
quarantlned. SO thatino danger neel
. be apprehended. None OF those quar-
= antined have been seriously indispose'
which would not be true if it had bee
smallpox.
$ The Northern Iowa Telephone Com
= pany, with capital stock of $4,000
composed of local men, has just beel
incorporated in Cresco with tn
following officers: o. G, Wanless
d president; D. A. Lyons, vice president
y S. B. Carpenter, secretary; H. c
i Burgess, treasurer; H. G. Addle, SUI
!, erintendent of construction. They al
incorporated to build lines in an
= direction they may see fit, but thei
j present plans include a line to Ridge
= way and one to Elma, from Cresct
y and to consist of both a toll line b,
: tween the towns and farmers lin
on which phones will be rented at
n normal rate to those along the lir
I desiring them.