Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-05-12

After May 1stour store will be open
until 9 O'Clock, p. m. Our closing
season ends May 1st and commences
Jan. lst, 1904.
2w-6s. Q. d. NICHOLS s. Co.
Gasoline Engine for sale. Olds
Mf'g horse power. Just the thing |
for separator churning or pumping,
cheap for cash. J. L. HENLEY,
67A Bicycle House, Cresco.
Mrs. Chas Hastings and children
came Sundaysmorning for a visit with
Cresco relatives and friends. From
here she goes to Dakota to join her
husband. they having taken up claim
there.
Spring laziness, legs ache, back aches,
feel tired, no ambition, no appetite,
all run down feeling. Rocky Noun
tain Tea puts new life into your body;
you feel good all.over. IS cents. Sold
by DR.. Connolly.
L. Fl. Fleming has been appointed
district agent Tor the Equitable Life
insurance company Of New York, the
strongest in the world, backed with
gross assets OF s359, 395 ,538 and SUR
plus of s76, ,731, ,249. Mr.. Fleming has
been doing considerable work for this
company here in the past few weeks
and has been very successful and will
remain here some little time securing
further business.
Rev. Irl Hicks, forecast for May In
dicate that there will be the usual
number of dangerous storms From
the 10th to the 18th, be says. "This is
one Of the periods we venture to mem
tion as dangerous some Of the storms
will be furious and tornadic.' . From
the 22nd to the 28th is another period
inwhich ssheavy and dangerous storms
are entirely probable"
Frosts are probable after such storm.
Our people were inexpresibly shock
ed to learn Sunday morning that Mrs.
Geo. Breedlove was dead. She was
taken i'll Wednesday, but it was not
considered dangerous till the day fol-
lowing, when it was pronounced to be
peritonitis Her death occurred Sum
day morning about five o'clock. She
leaves a husband and four little chill.
dren, the youngest about two years
FOLD. The funeral occurs today at the
home at 2 p. m.
The Northern Iowa Telephone CO.,
are building lines out Of Riceyille fol
the convenience Of farmers. There
will be q farmers, line west to the
stone school house. and one east to
ESaratoga. This company will also
build full metallic line to Cresco ;.
Ed. Ranney has received official notice
from Washington that he his been
fined o. 70 for failure to make two
trips to Usage when the roads were
ilmpassible. This is in addition to
losing the regular pay for the two
trips. Such treatment is an outrage
and the man who made that order
should be stuck in the mud, head-frst,
up to his heels. -Riceville Recorder.
County Attorney Upton had finished
his business here and was ready to
start for his home In Cresco this fore.
noon, but the team had become enam-
ored with Elma and the good oats they
had received at Mahoneyh harn and
did not propose to leave good thing,
50 proceeded to show the county at
torney q good time. They closed the
exhibition;by jumping a high sidewalk
on the Avenue and stopping at the
ledge OF an old celler. They were un-
hitched and Mr.. Upton is s,journing
In Elma while the Zig is undergoing
the needed repairs We missed
mentioning the fact that April l6
was the sOth birthday of our gooi
friend G. W. OstrAnder, who reside
at Busti. Notwithstanding his ad
yanced age George" is q young mar
Iyet and frequently walks to town, Il
Iliyely and Witty Id his conversation
attends the Odd Fellow Lodge quit,
tregularly as he has done for over fit.
{. years, and takes an Important par
In the team work. He claims to have
more grandchildren and great-grand
children than any man In Howard
county and we have no reason to doub
IT. GEORGE is one of those plail
spoken fellows who always let yol
know "where he Is ATT and therefor
counts his friends by the hundreds
Here's hoping that he may keep hi
i good health and remain With us 10
!, many a year, and that he may ye
t play. with his great-great-grand-child
ren. Elma Vidette.
Sheep Dip.
: THYMo CREs0L, the cold water diI
( one OF the finest nisnfectants made,
germ killer around q barn or yard; n
farm should be without it, Good 70
Q Mango, Texas Itch, etc., on hors.
It ring worms on cattle, good to kee
Il lyour chickens healthy. Sold In ar