Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-08-08

Some of our republican exchange
are sollcitous concerning the where
abouts of Coin Harvey.n He is
billed for addresses at % places ir
Nebraska from August 7th to Septem.
Der Sth, after which he may be in
Iowa during October.
John Henly has the best cultivated
garden that we have seen in our
travels over three counties in Iowa
and Minnesota. 1t is entirely free
from everything but what he wanted
to grow there. His flowers, fruit, veg
etableS and even the clean walks are
attractive.
AT Decorah Institute, Typewriting
and Shorthand are taught the year
around. The charges are one dollar a
month in addition to the regular
monthly tuition. Also Bookkeeping.
charges also one dollar a month in adj
dition to the regular monthly tuition.
Fail term opens Sept. 4.
Hugh Larkin, who lived on the farm
in the northeast corner of the county
from its earliest settlement is dead
and was buried in the Catholic ceme-
terry at st. kaerns yesterday. He was
quite advanced in years, but we are
unable to state his age. His wife died
some years ago, they had no children.
The Senatorial question in Iowa be-
fore the republican party is simply to
determine whether the Burlington
and Union Pacific; or Rock Island and
Great Western shall have the senator.
The Cresco Times fayors the Burling-
ton and Union Pacific, which secured
the candidate for the Supreme bench.
The flood of water that came last
Tuesday morning or during the night
took out the bridge recently put in by
the county on the public highway just
north from Frank Mintey. A much
needed change had been made to as
much as possible avoid the heavy hill
near there, the culvert being made too
small for such flood.
The Valdez Normal School faculty,
at Decorah, Iowa, is composed of
teachers who rank high in educational
work. None but the very best in
structors are employed. For full in
formation in regard to courses of study
drop postal card. Fall term opens
Aug. %. Text books are free. Day
board M.75 per week; room, so cents
per week.
The Grand Forks Plain Dealerclaims
to have reliable information showing
the total destruction of more than
100000 acres of Wheat in that state.
which means a loss of more than
s., 100000 to its people. Many of the
sufferers it says were tenants, the
anticipated crop being their sole
reliance for bread, raiment and food
for the winter.
Considerably over hundred people
not including the band, went on the
Okoboji excursion last Sunday. Every
body had a royal good time and if all
our citizens could have seen the high
estimation in which our local band
was held, there would be no lack of
help to keep up its organization. 1t
was first class advertisement of
Cresco's enterprise and progressiveness
Mr. James Byrne:- believe you are
entitled to an answer from me regard
ing the plans of our residence. | will
answer the dispute between you and
Mr.. BirtwiStle as know it to be.
We did have Mr.. Birtwistle draw
plans for us of the Ely residence, but
us the plans could not be followed by
the builders with satisfactory results,
Mr.. Byrne found it necessary to draw
plans of his own, which he has drawn
with very satisfactory results to us.
Respectfully Yours,
e. A. HOWARD.
The family of Daniel Horan living
some nine miles east from Cresco got
a terrible shaking up during the cleo
trical storm that passed over this
section about ten days ago. During
the storm heavy charge of electricity
struck the house tearing off a portion
of the roof and ripping off the laths
and mortar from nearly half the
house, both above and below, and
ripping rafters and studding made of
solid oak into fragments as fine as
matches. Several members of the
family were severly stunned, all more
or less shocked but all fortunately
escaped injury.
During the next three weeks we
shall call upon our subscribers in
Chester, Oak Dale, jamestown, Alton
and Howard, and we request each one,
if likely to be away from home, to
leave money with the wife or some
member of the family, to pay their
subscription. At the same time we
shall take pleasure in enrolling new
names upon our books. All men of
intelligence recognize that there are
two sides to all public questions, and
that to understand but one side is to
be but half informed. He who don't
recognize this is apt to be narrow in
his views and intolerant of the
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