Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-05-02
Lime Spring.

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Building is progressing finely on
the new livery barn which when COM
pleted will cost about $4,000. We
think had it been hotel instead, it
would have been more profitable to
the owner and better for the town.
A, Q. McCulloch has his new store
enclosed and is pushing it forward to
completion rapidly. 1t is desirable
location.
Harry ]. Moore has the material on
the ground to extend his buildings
along over the ground they covered
before the fire, needing the room for
the various lines Of flour, feed and
building material, lime and cement
that he handles.
Zook the printer is kept busy with
the types AID is apparently prospecting
A. E. Marsh conducts an up-to-date
hardware and implement business,
and carries the best in everything
pertaining to the trade.
Geo. II. Wetter is at the hospital in
Rochester where he has been success
fully treated for appendicitis and will
be home in few days.
JAS Stafford the man who makes
buckwheat flour fit for the palate of a
king, is still in the milling business
and also lighting the dark and be-
nighted corner OF that part of the
earth over which his electric wires ex-
tend.
a. E. Ober one of the old stock, as
good and true man as the county
can boast, we found like the patri-
archs of old, busy tilling his farm.
These old settlers are becoming SO
rare that it is a pleasure to meet one
of them.
Fred Hill and his pleasant family
are an inspiration for the best that is
In man. They have the happy faculty
of making one entirely at ease in their
pleasant home. BY the way, Mr.. Hill
has put Fred Salisbury in his mill
with the privilege of making ali he
can of its use until September. 1t is
unnecessary to add that the farmers
are having feed ground, for Fred
knows how to suit them.
Knudt Paulson, one of Gods noble
men, we found on the Jones farm busy
preparing for a big crop of corn.
John Upton has been adding to his
earthly possessions and Ira Flagler has
a 500-acre farm in the same neighbor-
hood, both as fine farms as can be
found.
At Halver Halyerson's is q poultry
house with stone basement and
means OF keeping it warm during the
winter months with the result that
their hens produce as many eggs dur.
ing the winter months as in other
seasons. They have an incubator,
and about 100 young chickens and
they are thriving finely. They will
keep the incubator at work until they
have from three to four hundred
chickens. The room above the base
ment of this poultry house is also de.
voted to the use of the fowls grown
on the farm. They find the poultry
business both pleasant and profitable
| The incest arranged store to be seer
| in the county is that of HOLMAN
Riechers. Each branch of the trade
has its department in the room
and is separate and distinct by itself
| Its shoe trade has counter, it's groc
cry department is by itself and in ell
egant shape, its flour, its fine shirt.
and Its hats, its dress goods, it's furn
isnings and fancy goods each have it.
place. The boys know how to SHOW
goods and are doing it successfully.
Art Rowland in his Hotel-restau
rant Is having good run Of business
and is giving satisfaction to the publ,
We are under obligations to S. A
Miller who chaperoned us through
the country ata rapid pace, in safety
behind his splendid and spirited step
per.