Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-09-04
Around the County.

oaliCn n Co., former residents O
county, west of Saratoga, are operat
ing the largest store in Alta Vista
carrying an elegant stock in all line
OF general merchandise, have mag
niiicent patronage in one of the mos
lovely villages of the west. While
there last week we saw many Howard
county people there with grain ant
| the patrons of its shops and it's mer
chants. The village newspaper by Mr.
Babcock is credit to the village anc
has good advertising patronage
Alta Vista is but one mile from the
Howard county line and has tributar
to it a splendid farming region with
enterprising farmers.
Frank Fl. Kelley and his brother
Thomas Fl. Kelley are among the
thriving young farmers of Alton.
Michal Scully and his boys have
bought the Fred Goethe farm of PIC
acres.
Patrick Riley and his wife are among
the remarkable people of the county,
remnants of generation which have
nearly passed away. The PLAIN
DEALER has made its visits to them
for Al years is provided for another
year to their address. We are under
many obligations to these venerable
democratic friends, thorough haters
of imperialism and British rule in
Ireland.
We found the widow Dormady and
her children in good and substantial
farm home by the side of the old log
house which had sheltered them for
the past forty years, intelligent, pros
porous and happy. One of the daugh-
tiers is successful teacher in the pub
lie schools of her town.
Mrs. Martin, another of the third of
a century patrons Of the PLAIN DEAL
Err, we were pleased to find in the en-
joyment of health with promise of
many more years Of usefulness
Tho so,ath--sost- farm ..a- .tlais county
consisting of 400 acres Of rich soil,
level, with barely enough descent to
carry off the water that falls upon it.
This splendid farm is the property of
Thomas A. Conery, and its possess
ion means fortune, its cultivation
lots of work.
John Higgins threshed 12O bushels
of flax from five acres of ground, "a
bushels to the acre, the land was an
old pasture. Mrs. Higgins has nearly
200 young ducks fully grown.
The Patrick McGrane farm which
during his life had been popular re-
sort for the writer, we found in pos
session OF one of his sons, who with
his fair companion are mgking it bios
som like the rose.
The Cecilia Catholic church stand
ing nearby is being put in most thor
ough repair, which makes it shine
like new silver dollar.
In our travels about the county we
have run upon the trail of two men
from Howard Center in search of the
republican nomination for supervisor.
Both are good men but as the other
members are located it seems to us
the supervisor should be located at or
near Elma.
Forty years ago the writer took the
census eneumerat ton of Alton, F. J.
Mead taking the north tier of towns
of the county. At that time we found
about two dozen families in the town.
ship, six by nine miles. OF that two
dozen heads of families but three or
four remain, but their children re-
main and are occupants of a large
slice Of the lands, the Cashmans, the
Roches, the McGranes, the Kelleys,
the Martins, the Rileys being largely
in evidence all over the township,
with valuable farms and fine homes
and are reasonably prosperous.
In Howard, the township adjoining
on the east, the name of but two who
were residents in 1860 remain, G. w.
Ostrander and Truman Robson, both
of whom have been patrons of the
PLAIN DEALER from that time to the
present. The township has a large
German population among it's farm
ers, prominent among them being the
Bandles, the Haffs, the Heinmillers,
the Bartels, Danl Fallgatter, T. Q.
Bruins, John Kerkman, with Scotch
representatives in the Huttons, the
Lockies and the Stevensons in the
east part of the township.
Notice.
have a few hours vacant, and
wish to take pupils in music, on any