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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
Davis Corners.

Hot, hotter, hottest season we have
had for long time.
Willie Viebrock spent Sunday of
this week at Cresco.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Halweg enter
tanned large number of relatives and
friends last Sunday.
Mrs. Herman Braun and children
left last Tuesday for their new home
near Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Emma Vagts and Bertha Sickle re-
turned last Saturday from two
weeks visit with the latter's parents
and friends at FarmerSburg.
1t is rumored that we are to have
blacksmith here in the near future.
MessrS. l.. and A. Mohr have pur-
chased a steam thresher outfit.
There is to be Sunday school pic
mic at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. M.
Vagts next Sunday. Ice cream and
all kinds of refreshments will be
served all afternoon.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

What do you think of the nerves of
young woman who for three days
could drive team through solitude
OF the mountains, carrying the dead
body of her husband and camping out
with it alone every night? asks the
Kansas City Journal. That was the
terrible ordeal which Mrs. Clara Davis.
bride OF year, and late of lola, had
to undergo in Oregon recently. She
ana her husband were on a pleasure
trip through the coast range. In TAX
ing rifle from the wagon Mr.. Davis
was accidentally shot and killed. 1t
was three days travel to the nearest
habltation, and Mrs. Davis put her
husbands body in the wagon and took
1t there. Mrs. Davis is returning to
her former home in Kansas.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

That was smart Michigan woman
who, when her husband fled suit for di-
vorce against her, went to her mas
and had notice of her own death in
serted in the newspapers. The hus-
bands affections revived, and, instead
of attending the funeral of his wife, he
found her-and his -law-in
the flesh, awaiting him with open arms.
The kilograms add that the delighted
husband hugged his wife fondly, omit
ting all reference to his mother-in-law
who was, beyond doubt, the suggs st er
of the little game.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

One OF the American consuls in Italy
has discovered that the finest kind OF
macaroni produced In that country is
made from American wheat, which ex-
cells for this particular purpose the
wheat of every other country. The i'm
portance of the macaroni industry is
hardly appreciated in the United
States, but it really amounts to great
deal and means new and big market
for our wheat
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

The small boys Imagination seems
to have been excited by the reports of
the magniticence of the Pan-American
exposition. Youngsters are running
away all over the country, and the
police in many cities have been kept
busy looking for juvenile tourists who
are needed at home. It would prob
ably be good thing for most of these
boys to carry out their plans. They
would receive great many hard
knocks and endure some privations,
and the experience would in many
cases operate as permanent cure for
the runaway fever. But 1t would be
difficult to convince the parents of
this.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
Pension Certificate Lost.

During the storm, July 4th, John
Blackburn lost his pension certificate
from market basket in which he had
that and other papers. The finder
will please deliver to him and get re-
ward.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

Once there was much made of the
idea that subtreasury should be es-
tabhshed at every crossroads. 1t
came to nothing, but Wisconsin con-
gresham proposes to start steam
laundries at points convenient, to
farmers wives. Power, it is said,
could easily be supplied in connection
with the numerous orsamsgiss and
cheese factories.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
For Sale.

An improved farm of 16O acres in
New Oregon twp.
3 improved farms consisting of 100
acres each, within miles of Cresco.
320 acre farm in Winneshiek county.
$3.50 per acre, snap.
For price and terms apply to
e. r. THOMPSON, Cresco, la.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
Low Rates to New York and Return.

The Chicago Great Western Rail
way will sell round trip tickets to
New York and return, at very low
rates, with privilege of stop-overs at
Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Washington,
Baltimore and Philadelphia. For
further information apply to any
Great Western Agent, or j. p. Elmer,
U. t. a., Chicago. sept. 10.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
The s'North Coast Limited"

May 5h resumed its daily trips between ST. Paul, Minneapolis
Duluth Superior North Pacific Coast points The
better than it in 1900 1t is complete home
wheels Paror Dining Sleeping Room, Library Smoking
Room Bath Roomthey all there, and all lighted by
electricity and heated by steam
First and second class tickets both good this train. Use
this CRACK TRAIN NORTHWEST your way from
Idaho Washington British Columbia Oregon, Alaska, Cafor
uia Hawaii the Orient The train Butte Monanas
great mining camp with connections Helena the Capital Of
Montana bound and from Helena bound and it also
via Spokane, Seattle, and Tacoma.
Inquire NORTHERN PACIFIC Agent to further parc
lars, or write to
CHAS. S. FEE G. P. A., St. Paul, MINI.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
Rev. c. E. Brown Dead.

Rev. @. E. Brown, one of the early
settlers of Howard county is dead and
was laid to rest in Pleasant Hill ceme-
terry at Lime Springs yesterday. He
was long time resident at Vernon
Springs, the founder of the Baptist
church of this section, now located at
Cresco, and of the Baptist church at
Lime Springs. over both of which he
had been the Pastor at different times.
He had held the office Of county super
lntendent of schools, been a member
OF the board Of supervisors, a member
of the legislature of the state. For a
number of years his home has been
with one or other of his sons, with
whom he was living at the time of his
death. His visits to his friends in this
county were frequent until within the
past year, and always welcomed. The
surviving members of his family are
Charles p. Brown of Ottumwa, where
he died; Jas. d. Brown, station
agent on some line of road, and w. G..
Brown of Chicago, prominent in the
management of the G. B. & @. rail-
road. The deceased was along in
years, being at the time of his death
from So to 80 years. He leaves to the
world and his posterity good name.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
CreSCO Union
Savings Bank
ROBT. THOMSON,
Cashier

The man who makes up his
mind to save money andopens
an account with a good Saw
ings Bank never fails. He
has made a start and like the
famous old hero of the civil
war keeps at it till the end.
"Every man is hearchitect
of his own fortune.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
Special Summer Excursion Rates--Minne.
sofa and the West

The Chicago Great Western Rail
way announces the following low
ronnd trip rates, July 1881, Aug. 11-31,
ST. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, Denver
Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Salt Lake,
Hot Springs and Deadwood, S. d.
One fare plus 5000 for the round trip.
Aug. lilo, st. Paul and Minneapolis
one fare less 10 per cent. Special low
rates to Duluth, Denver, Colorado
Springs, Pueblo, Ogden and Salt Lake.
For further information enquire of
any Great Western Agent, or j. P.
Elmer, G. P. A., Chicago. sept. 10,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

The Chicago Great Western Rail
way sells through excursion tickets at
very low rates, with choice of all ,.rall,
or rail to Chicago, Detroit or Cleve-
land and lake journey thence to Buffa-
10. Equipment and service unsur-
passed. A valuable folder to be had
for the asking. For full information
and folders address any Great West
ern Agent, or j. P. Elmer, Genl Pass.
Agent, Chicago. oct. Is.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

When you want modern, -to-date
phySio, try Chamberlain Stomach
and Liver tablets. they are easy to
take and pleasant in effect. Price 25c.
Samples free at Shuttleworth Drug
Co. s store.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
Milo Woodward,

For Shoe Repairing, South Side
Cresco. 35tf.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

Working girls in cities, who have to
swelter through the summer in one
stuffy room, would be fortunate in
deed if rich women generally adopted
plan which Boston woman is pre-
pairing to put into practice for the
second time. She has beautiful home,
and when she went to her country
house last year she offered five girls
the use of the city place, together with
board and the services of hercooks, for
four dollars week each Imagine the
delight, says Youths Companion, with
which they exchanged hall bedrooms
and cheap restaurants for large, airy
house and perfectly appointed ta-
BILE! II Think said one of the girls
at the end of three months, chat this
is the very first summer in my whole
life that 1 have fully enjoyed my
SELF" These were girls who would
have resented any kind of help that
savored of charity" but the gracious
deed that SO carefully guarded their
independence and their self-respect
will be happy, helpful memory all
their lives long. Country folk would
say that such an action was ''neieh-
oorly.' Perhaps at higher stage of
civilization people will see the truth
more clearly, and call it simply Chris
tian
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
CRssCO MARKETS
Corrected each issue.)
GRAIN.

Summer complaint is unusually prev
alent among children this season. A
we'll developed case in the writer's
family was cured last week by the
timely use of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy-one
Of the best patent medicines manufac-
tured and which is always kept on hand
at the home of ye scribe. This is not
intended as free puff for the compa-
ny, who do not advertise with us, but
tobeneft little sufferers who may not
be within easy access of a physician.
No family should be without a bottle
of this medicine in the house, especi-
ally in summer r-time.-LanSing Iowa,
Journal. For sale by Shuttleworth
Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26
D. 4. LYONS,

Dealer in Farm Implements
Headquarters for All that is Best in Farm
Machinery, Buggies, Wagons &c. We
carry the Most Complete Line to
be found in any retail estab-
lishment in the northwest
All goods Warranted. It will be a pleasure
to show you our stock and guar
antee to treat you right
Here is a Partial List of few of 20 Lead
ing Makes handled by us.
Threshersand Engines.
Gaar Scott & Co. Threhing
Binders Mowers and Hay Rakes:
Deerng Harvesting Machine Co.
Kingman GabaathCo Racine Wagon and Carriage Company
Klblinger & Co,
Hay Leaders:
Rock Island .CB&Q Deere & Co
Corn Planters.
Deere & Co. Hayes. Moline Champion
sulky Plows and Corn Cultivators:
Deere & Co. j. Pow Co. Potter Pow
Janesvile Machinery Company
Farm Wagons:
Weber T. G. Mandt L. o. Rud.
Disc Cultivators:
GAINESVILLE Machinery Companp.
Harnesses
The complete Hand and Machine Made Double and
Single Harnesses in the county
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

For Sale.
Four lots opposite Congregational
parsonage. A. j. CAWARD.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

A Kansas weather prophet named
Kropff made the prediction early in
the spring that the wheat crop would
be practically ruined by drought.
Now that the crops are in such fine
shape and rain has been abundant,
Mr.. Kroptf does not seek to excuse
himself. On the contrary, he says:
IF there is Il good crop l shall take
it as dispensation from the Lord
not to talk so muth." Kropff has
learned his lesson well. 1t is d
shame that others cannot do the
same.
''The way to gain good reputation
is to endeavor to be what you desire to
appear" That is precisely the man.
ner in which Chamberlain Cough
Remedy has gained its reputation as a
cure for coughs, colds, Group and
whooping cough. Every bottle that
has ever been put out by the manu-
facturers has been fully up to the high
standard Of excellence claimed for it.
People have found that it can always
be depended upon for the relief and
cure Of these ailments and that it is
pleasant and safe to take. For sale by
Shuttleworth Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

A recent decision by the supreme
court of the United States concerning
Queer Bank pre- e. nces in
b u p C Y is
causing something
like CONSERVATION among merchants.
The bankruptcy act forbids prefer
ences to creditors, requiring any cred
itor who has been preferred to sur
render what he has received if he pro-
poses to prove any claims or receive
any dividends. By the recent decision
it is established that the receipt of
money by creditor within four
months of the time when petition in
bankruptcy is filed by or against the
person making the payment, consti-
tutes preference. Thus, if a sells to
B bill of goods amounting to $4,000,
and is paid in cash, and thereupon sells
him another bill of goods for 81 900 on
30 days credit, within which time B
goes into bankruptcy, A becomes q
preferred creditor. If he proposes to
claim his $4,000, he must give up his
$4,000. If he wants to keep his $4,000,
he must give up his $4,000. The fact
that he had no intention of obtaining
preference, or that his debtor had
no intention of giving him one, is i'm
material; the law presumes the inten-
tion from the mere fact of payment
1t is suggested that business men
should bestir themselves to have con-
gress amend the law so as to lessen, if
not completely do away with, the Sc
verify of this nrnrisinn
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-07-26

A Slight fall Of rain Wednesday
evening lowered the temperature sew
eral degrees. Measured by the ther-
mometer the temperature was Is de-
grees lower on Thursday morning at
O'Clock than on the previous morn
ing at the same hour.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-27

somebody has been gathering college
statistics, and it is found that there
are in this country forty-four uniyer-
sites or colleges which contain more
than 1000 students each. Fourteen
OF these institutions have more than
1000 students each. and In each Of
SIX leading universities there are more
than 5000 students. These six are:
harvard, 4,2SS; University of Michi.
gan, 3,1O0; Minnesota, 3.41O: Georgia
3,295; Chicago, 3,1S3. and California
o'o2o. Northwestern University has
Z'9Il students this year: Cornell. 2.776:
pennsylvania, 2,567; Yale. 2.542: Co
iumbia, 2,521, and Princeton. 1902
mere probably are over 100000 stu
dents In the various universities and
colleges of America at present. and the
whole number of persons who are be-
ing educated in the schools and col
reyes combined is given as Is, 1873 1863
Aside from all other considerations this
general tendency toward education
means one thing-labor in this country
must be dignified socially. 1t is going
TO he impossible for all the boys and
young men who are now in the schools
ana colleges to go into professions.
Many of them will have to work with
their hands. Manual labor will still
have to be done even after everybody
Is educated. Perhaps the condition
forecast By Bellamy-when those who
work as laborers shall receive Just as
much consideration as men who get
into the professions and shall be com
pensated for the sacrifices they make
in taking what we now consider infe-
rior places in society--is not so far
away
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-27
SPEED OF AN EARTHQUAKE.
Preliminary Tremors Travel at Rate
of 34o Mics IA Minute.


of 340 Mics Minute.
Speaking OF the Indian earthquakes
OF 1897, a LonIon scientist says the vi
brations travelled to Europe, where they
We're recorded at very many stations,
and no doubt would have been equally
well recorded at many other places on the
surface of our world had there been
provided suitable instruments. The
preliminary tremors, which are prob
ably waves of compression, travelled
through the world 10 reach Italy and
other countries with an average rate of
345 miles a minute, or kllometers a
second-a rate which, it VIII be OBJ
served, Is higher than that at which
similar movements can be transmitted
through glass or steel The large waves,
which are probably quasi-elastic grayi-
tation waves, by travelling over the sur
face Of the earth, reached Europe at a
rate of 113 miles a minute, or 29S kilo-
meters a second.
1t is likely that these latter disturb
ances reached stations in Europe by
travelling from their origin in two direc-
tions round the world. AS an indica-
ton of this, we are told that at several
of the European stations slight undula-
lions are to be seen on the selsmograms
at times we should expect to find such
markings, had they travelled from India
to Europe by the longest possible route.
From the period of these waves, which is
taken at twenty-five seconds, and their
velocity, their length may be inferred,
an estimate of which is thirty-four
miles; while their height, as deducted
from their length, and the maximum
angle Of fitting, is estimated at twenty
inches.
The slowness of the movement was
such that they could not be felt, while
the magnitude was such that the unaid
ed eye of an observer would not be
able to recognize any differentiaI move
ments in his surroundings. The large
ness of these disturbances and their
great duration, extending over several
hours, preclude them from the category
Of tromo"a, v.bra tons or microscisms
-7ittsbUrg D.Spa .ch.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-27
Hills to protest the miners and settlers

Hills to protest the miners and settlers
from the threatening Sioux
The Inflated year 1876 found the fe-
male soldier with Custer Miles and
Terry in the Biz Horn country in north
ern Wyoming, where the Indians were
creating trouble. 1t was in this cam
palgn that Calamity Jane performed
perllous feat of carrying dispatches
through hostile country. The season
was cold and wet. and she had to ford
the Platte River near Fort Fetterman.
The exposure brought on pneumonia.
She was granted an indefinite furlough.
which may have served her life, for
few months later occurred the Custer
massacre.
Her next employment was as United
States mail carrier on the dangerous
route between DeadwoOd and Custer.
1t was during this period that William
Hickok cWild BilF1 was assassinated
by Jack Mccall, a notorious desperate.
Calamity Jane" joined the posse in
pursuit of the murderer and when he
brought him to bay with a cleaver. Her
love for army life took her back into
the service, and she was assigned to
the Seventh Cavalry. She helped to
build Fort Mead. s. D., and in 1878 was
honorably discharged. Resuming petit
coats. she settled on a ranch near Miles
City, Mont, but has since wandered
about from place to place in the West.
In 1884 she married Clinton Burk at Eel
Paso, by whom she had a daughter in
1856. The husband died in 1895. Mrs
Burk's ambition then was to give her
daughter a good education Though
only 80 years of age, Calamity Jane"
bears the scars of a dozen bullets. and
the hardships of her life have broken
her down. For several years past she
gained a livelihood by selling a book Of
her adventures.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-27
Iife-saving Politeness

Patriotism and politeness are great
virtues, and a japanese physician,
Doctor Aoyama, owes his life to the
fact that he possessed them both In
high degree.
He had caught the plague, and was
dying for need of the food which, in
his delirium. he refused to take His
nurse was in despair, but finally con-
ceived the idea of playing upon his
patriotism by filling glass with liquid
nourishment and then offering to drink
to the health of the mikado.
This was repeated until, ardent
patriot as he was, the doctor felt that
he had honored his sovereign enough.
Then his politeness was appealed TO,
the nurse proposing a toast and re-
preaching the sick man for not joining
tilt. In this way the patients strength
was maintained until the delirium sub
sided and he became convalescent.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-27
ELEPHANTS IN THE WATER.
They We're the Only Animals That
saved Themselves in "A Shipwreck.

They Were the Only Animals That
saved Themselves in a Shipwreck.
When number of elephants are ship
ped a strong structure Is erected on
deck and there they are stabbed. chain
ed by the feet No doubt in an emer-
gency they could easily walk away
with their chains and the deck flooring,
throwing the stable aside If 1t offered
any impeachment to their progress and
the door happened to be shut. Ele-
plants, fortunately, are not always put
ting forth their prowess aud the chains
In ordinary weather and ordinary cir
cumstances keep them sufficiently In
check. About twenty years ago VIII
lam Jamrach. who had made a fortune,
was returning from India with cargo
of elephants, black panthers, tigers,
cheetahs, leopards. hyenas. apes. ser
penis, orang outangs and rare birds Of
all kinds. He valued the lot mt $50, 900.
The Agra-that was the name of the
ship he was coming home on was
swinging at her anchor off Point de
Gale, Ceylon.
crash that gave pause to everything,
The chattering, the screaming, the
growing aud the roaring of the ami
mails stopped dead. The startled men
looked for just a moment straight in
the face of each other. Then the ex-
clamation. Great heavens. she's sink
ingW was followed by clamor that
just blotted out the stiffness. AT one
and the same moment both man and
beast seemed to realize the situation
and at one and the same moment they
all began to exhibit symptoms of the
alarm they felt In the case of the men
they were free to devise means of es-
cape and they Immediately busted
themselves accordingly. In the case Of
the animals they were confined and
had to undergo the horror of facing
death they were powerless to avert. It
Is natural for an animal to die In COM
bat with an enemy and while the COM
bat lasts there is hope of escape. There
is no facing of death here, the animal Is
otherwise engaged-engaged, too, in a
natural way. But with the animals
cooped up on the Agra, with never an
enemy to fight, it was far different, and
they gave vent to cries of unbounded
despair. The elephants made noise,
too, but there was not one touch of des-
pair there. 1t was the businesslike
sound of crashing timber, and before
the Agra had reached bottom herd
of elephants was swimming to Ceylon!
-Casselrs Magazine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-27
sxperstitions as TO RattIesnakes.

The American Indian believes the
rattlesnake to possess occult virtues,
and quite a number of whites sem to
have been converted to the same opin-
ion. The sale of rattlesnake oil for
rhuematism and neuralgia has grown
steadily from the humblest beginning
and Is to-day a small but profitable in
dustry. In some parts of Maine and
New Brunswick neckties made of rattle
snake skins are employed as a specific
for bad coughs and colds, and the rattle
is used by believers in voodoo of the
southland as charm against bad luck