Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-03-14
HOWARD COUNTY, IOWA. FRIDAY MARCH H. 1902

OaC VI uuOoc uCllClouS ouPpeIS lUI
which the Episcopal ladies are noted,
will be served at the Easter Fair,
opera house, April 1st.
Now's the time, spring time. Take
Rocky Mountain Tea; keeps the whole
family well. A great medicine for
spring tiredness. IS cts.-Dr. Connolly
The bill placing rural mail carriers
under the contract system was lost
Monday in the house, and the maxi
mum salary increased from $500 to 5000
year.
Frank Farr, house painter and
paper hanger, % years experience.
Office at George Kellogg's music store
Residence, Lawrence Breen house in
northwest part of town.
The w. o. W. will shortly begin
advertising their annual ball which
this year occurs, Friday, April 4th.
Mead's complete orchestra has been
engaged for the occasion.
We sat at the table together,
She cast a shy glance over to me,
She certainly looked like an angel
oh Charleyl Please order me Rocky
Mountain Tea.-Dr. Connolly.
Store building to rent on best busi-
ness street in Cresco, 25x1oO feet,
basement same size, and iron ware
house on alley. Good rooms above
store. Enquire at First National
Bank. 46t8.
M. S. Barrett & Co., have choice
wild and improved lands in Kittson,
Marshall, Polk, Red Lake, Clay, Wilk-
in, Traverse, and Swift COMMITTEES in
Minn., at extremely low prices. In
vestigation solicited.
The school election Monday resulted
in the unanimous choice of Robert
Thomson and James Mcmillan as
school directors and of e. P. Farms
worth as treasurer OF the Independent
District of Cresco.
Mr.. Anil Bigalk, one of the pros
porous farmers of Albion, has closed a
contract for an elegant farm house, to
be erected this summer by Mr.. James
Byrne, which insures him house of
as good workmanship as mechanical
skill can construct.
The bill introduced by Representa-
tive Barker to remove the circle from
the head of party tickets on the official
ballot was defeated in the house on
Tuesday, the ballot AZ for the bill, 40
against it, not constitutional ma
jority. 1t is believed that with full
vote it would have carried.
w. +. Powell, presidentof the First
National bank OF Warren, Minn., is
in the city, and has an advertisement
Of Red River Valley lands Of which
he has large quantity at very low
prices. He is desirous Of obtaining
some good men as purchasers for some
of these choice, low priced lands.
John P. Altgeld, former governor of
Illinois passed away at Joliet, March
IL. The evening before he had been
one of the principal speakers at pro-
Boer mass meeting of Will county.
He died as he had lived, pleading the
cause of the down-trodden and the
poor. He was scholar, statesman
and a patriot, who. loved his country
and Its institutions above all else.
M. S. Barrett & Co. have 81, 900 acres
in Mercer Co., N. Dakota, also 10000
acres in Dickey Co., and some rare
bargains in Richland Co. In S. D.,
they have land in Devel, Carington,
Grant, Day, Clark, Sphinx, Faulk and
Potter counties, at prices that are
right. They also have for sale at
prices that will surprise you half a
million acres in Monitoba and the
territories.
| The bowling craze is raging in
Cresco. Another alley is going in
this one is G. E. Miller's. Ministers
of the gospel, men, women and children
are taking hand in the game; the
pins are crasnlng down on every nanc
from early dawn till late at night
The fever as in other typhoid case
must run its course. No anti-toxir
has been discovered for its preventa
tive. The only ones immune are th'
cripples, aged and infirm people. Th,
contagion has reached nearly all th'
others.
| The best evidence of the strength O
a minstrel company is its sstreetparad'
and yet the enormous daily pagean
made by Gideon's Big Minstrel Carn1
val fails to give an adequate idea o
this company's IS numerical strength, 0
the magnitude of its stage perform
ance, which, in point Of novelty, genu
| int merit and excellence, is unal
J, proachable. Thirty-tive people cor
stitute the roster, including score G
big speciality acts, acrobatic feats an
desert sports, host of comedian'
. singers, dancers, wire walkers, exper
musicians and spectacular final
!. brimming over with unbounded ful
Every detail has been attended to. .