Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-06

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Mrs. Chas. Miller went to Geneva,
II, Tuesday evening, to help In the |
are of a little son born to Mr.. and
hrs. Will Cotrrell, and to visit her
on John, at Elgin and with other rel
.tives in that vicinity.
DR.. Karl D. Fisk, 1.-THE Optician"
makes regular visits to IL cities OF
Iowa, and has built up
IN immense optical practice in the
past IL years. His 33rd visit to Cres-
70 will be Nov. 9th to 18th.
Sheriff Campbell expects to leave
to-day with his prisoners. for.Anamosa
and will also take along the two chill
dren, Andrew McAndrew Jr. and the
it'll. Adams girl who have been
ordered taken to the reform school.
We are sending this week envelopes
to a number who are in arrears on
subscription. No letter is needed in
reply, as when the envelope is opened
it shows who it is from aud receipt
will be returned for the remit tance.
Mrs. Leslie Barnes passed awcy at
Butte, Montana, Tuesday, and the re-
mains brought to Cresco last evening
for interment, the funeral taking
place today at the Church Of the AS
sumption. We publish an obituary
later.
~ finely bred heavily boned Poland
China fit for service, for sale at
reasonable price, II mile west Of
Cresco. Also a Scotch Short-Horn
bull seven months old, perfect beau
ty, the best of the breed.
w. j. WEBSTER.
Report of Sub-diStrict No. 2, James,
town, for month ending Oct. 30, 1908.
Number enrolled. .......... 80. 80
Total number days attendance .564a
Average daily attendance. ]. .2S $40
Those neither absent nor tardy:
Mabel Warberton, Eunice Seavy,
Winnie Seavy, Lucy Hendricks, Marie
Coffee. PAULINE A. DELANaE,
Teacher.
DR.. Fisk, the optician, terminated
his fourteenth regular visit to this
|city Thursday evening, and as usual
did a thriving business while here.
People are gradually learning to steer
clear of spectacle peddlers and consult
regular opticians when theireyes net d
fitting for glasses. 1t is the only safe
way and DR.. Fisk is one of the most
reliable men in the profession, makes
regular visits and you can depend up.
on his using you right every time
Allamakee Journal.
Mrs. w. M. Mcdonald return.
from Chicago Saturday morning where
she has been studying violip, harmony
and orchestration under the great
master Errico Sansone at the Con.
s-rvarpry Ut Music. Mrs. Mcdonald
earned her diploma on her merits not
having to take the examination. She
was offered the position of first assist.
ant at the Conservatory on account
of her high ability as an instructor OF
the violin.-Leader, Elk Point, S. D.
Mrs McDonsld is a daughter of PROF
John Thaler, of Calmar, and is well
known to musicians of Cresco.
Has Iowa City found modern Samp.
son? This is problem that Justice
+. ]. Horak is striving to solve today
Arraigned in his court, charged with
pounding business man over the
head with human thigh bone is A.
o. Sc5mit Of Clinton, Iowa, astudenl
in the college of medicine. State Uni.
versity of Iowa. f. Farr, the pro
prletor of lunch counter, alleges
that he elected the student from his
house, and that the ousted man then
broke down door, and attacked Farr
beating him on the head with the
skeleton leg Of a man.-Des Moines
News.
Wednesday evening five year ole
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Brock
man living on the Thos. McKernar
farm s miles southwest OF Elma wa,
burned to death in a straw shed. Il
seems Brockman had just finished
threshing that day the shed had beer
covered with the freshly threshel
straw. The entrance to the shed hae
become filled up and the children
thinking some of their kittens wer,
inside took lantern and went GU
and tried to effect an entrance. Ant
doing SO some way the lantern start
ed the fire which burned one OF tn,
little girls to death and seriousl,
burned one Of the others. -Elma New
Era.
The Best Remedy tor Group.
| From tho Atch son, Kan Daily Globe
4 This IL the season when the wuma
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IL In demand In every nejGhborhnod
One OF the Lost terrible things In tn
world il to be awakened in the Middl
of the night BY whoop from one o
the children. The remedies are al
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