Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-01-01

The Royal Neighbors will. hold q
joint installation with the M w. A.,
Saturday night, Jan. 5th. Come and
bring your friends.
See what an opportunity is offered
you in the ertisement of S. PEGGY
elsewhere. There are bargains there
worth looking after. -.
Red is a danger signal on the rail.
road, on fellows nose and on wom-
ans face. Men and women use Rocky
Mountain Tea and get genuine rosy
cheeks. 35c.-Dr. Connolly.
For Sale. -l6o acres, five miles from
Chcste r and five miles from LIE Roy.
Fair improvements, good land and
we'll located. Price $650O.
John Nj. Cannon, CreSco, la.
For Sale'-160 acres close to Bonair.
Very choice location, good land and
fair Improvements. Price and terms
reasonable. John NJ. Cannon.
CreSco, Iowa.
For Sale. Several eight acre farms
located in different parts of Howard
county; also, several large farms and
at prices ranging form $50 to $50 an
acre.. John Nj. Cannon.
CreSco, Iowa.
w. d. Garrett, wife and little boy,
came up from Hawkeye, Friday, and
will remain for two or three week IS
visit with relatives here and at Ches-
ter. lie has disposed of his harness
business there and contemplates en-
gaging elsewhere in some other line of
business.
The Hook and Ladder boys cleared
the neat little sum of $40 at their
dance last night. about IS numbers
being sold. Not a single incident oc-
Cured to mar the enjoyment of those
attending, and the boys are to be con-
graduated on their successful man
agement of the affair.
Burt Bean has been visiting among
Cresco friends for several days recent
~, returning yesterday to Albert Lea,
Mimi, which is his headquarters as
special agent of the Consolidated Fire
and Marine Insurance Co. The PLAIN
DEALER will keep him posted on To-
cal events during 1901.
Miss Susie Riley has resigned her
position in the Crcsco schools having
been offered a position in the Mar
Shalltown schools at an increase of
salary and with better oppor tunities
for advancement. She leaves for Mar
shalltown today. Her successor here
is not yet decided upon.
On our second page will be found in
what is termed "The Important Dates
of the Nineteenth Century," chron-
illogical history of the stirring events
in the United States during the past
one hundred years. File this away
for it will be invaluable for quick ref
erence on our American history.
Over in Cerro Gordo county the
Iines-H Herald tells of the steel range
peddlers who are selling ranges at 1853
caslltoran iron clad note of $50, for
just such ranges as the local dealers
sell at S45 to $50. If the local dealers
would advertise their ranges with
prices it would drive the peddlers to
to some other field.
The only medical man who has ever
anything of value in regard
to the cause, prevention and cure Of
CANCER, is Or. Melville c. Keith, of
Ohio. He uses no knife, plaster or
poison drugs, but we are willing-to
satisfy any interested party that
cancer can be cured without any cut
ing and will stly cured. S3tf.
j. T. Fleming and Thomas Fleming,
of Armstrong, Iowa, and Chris
Fleming, of Minneapolis, visited their
old home near Plymouth Rock and
with James Byrne and wife the latter
being sister of the Fleming boys.
J. e. Fleming took the afternoon train
for Clermont where he will visit day
or two witl.the family of Ex-Governor
Larrabee.
w. II. Webb, of Seabury Divinity
School, Faribault, Mimi, who held
services in Grace Episcopal church
last Sunday, preached two able and
interesting sermons that would have
done credit to one of older years and
much experience. A fluent and force
full extemporaneous speaker, possessed
of positive IDEAS and evidently zeal
Gus and devout, he doubtless has a
successful future awaiting him in his
chosen field Of labor. A warm well
come awaits him should he ever re-
turn to Grace church.
Some school boys were experiment.
ing with gun powder at school. They
had poured small quantity upon a
bench and burned it when the year
old boy of Walter Kendall holding the
bottle containing about one-fourth Of
a pound poured some more upon the
board when the flash followed the
stream of powder into the battle ex-
ploding the entire mass driving the
neck Of the bottle its full bigneSS into
the side of the building. The boy
holding the bottle had his mitten on
and fortunately was more scared than