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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-01-12

Report of Lincoln school district,
Albion township, for month ending
January Sth, 1904: Number enrolled,
%; number days taught, 1S. Those
not absent durirg the month are
Theresa Bronner, Ellen Walter, Emma
Bronner, Louis Walter, Leonard
Walter, Alma Leitz, Martha Leitz,
Albert Leitz, Earl Michel, Willie
Miller, Elbertie Keune, Herbert
Michel. Parents and friends are
cordially Invited to visit the school.
ROSETTA WALTER, teacher.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-01-12
HOW TO SAVE MONEY.
Take Advantage of Half Price Offer
Made by P. A. Clemmer.

Take Advantage of Half Price Offer
Made by P. A. Clemmer.
In these times when living expenses
have increased from thirty to fifty
per cent, it is unusual to hear Of a
standard remedy being offered at half
price.
Yet that sthe way P. A. Clemmer
the popular druggist, is selling DR..
Howard's celebrated specific for the
cure Of dyspepsia and consumption.
In addition to selling a fifty cent bot
tile, containing a months treatment
of sixty doses, for 25 cents, he gives
his personal guarantee with every
bottle he sells to refund the money if
it does not give satisfaction.
Doctors bills can be saved by the
use of DR.. Howard's specific for the
cure Of dyspepsia and constipation,
and by taking advantage Of this spec
ial half price Introductory offer, our
readers can save half the regular price
OF the specific.
This remarkable remedy is destined
to have the largest sale of any medi-
cine upon the market, for those who
use it once, not only buy second
package, hut they recommend it to
their friends as the only relief they
have found for constipation and dys.
pepsia. The sole limit to its sale is the
fact that in only chronic cases is more
than one bottle needed to cure, and
it's cures are permanent.
Do not let this opportunity pass to
obtain standard fifty centremedy at
half price. Remember that Druggist
P. A. Clemmer will refund your mon
ey if DR.. Howard's s specific does not
cure.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-01-12

Geo. Huber Sr., went to Cresco
Monday.......Mi Minnie Meyer of
Cresco arrived in the city yesterday
for a visit with relatives. Miss Sa-
die Summers spent several days at
Cresco last week the guest of Miss
Bell Browu of that place. Fort At
kinson Times.
VIM. Steffes has had posters printed
at this office announcing an auction
sale of cattle, hogs, grain, farm ma
chinery, ETC., at his farm just west Of
Cresco on the old Damon place, on
Thursday, Jan. IA, commencing at
O'Clock. The usual terms given. Fin
egan, Auctioneer.
The Gutenberg Journal says that a
girl of that town named plain Mary
at her birth, dropped the s'r" when
she grew up, and became Miss May.
AS she began to shine in a social way
she changed the 'y" to sc" and signed
her love letters Mae. About year
ago she was married and now she has
dropped the "e" and it is just plain
Ma.
@. A. L. Loomis has been chosen
township trustee in the place of w.
E. Haskins, deceased. ......John Kelly
has gone to the hospital in Cresco.
DR.. Mayo Of Rochester is expected
there Friday....... Mrs. E. B. Wildman
and Mrs. w. A. Wildman Of Cresco
spent part of this week visiting
their relatives, F. A. Wildman and
family.-Chester Herald.
Minneapolis papers Of last Friday
contained accounts of the shooting
and killing Of Pearl Guyette, daughter
Of Chas. Guyette, and former resi-
dent of Cresco, on Thursday after
noon, by her husband, man named
Jennings, to whom she was married
last fall. After tile murder, Jennings
committed suicide by pistol shot in
the brain. Jealousy is given as the
cause Of the tragedy.
The ninth annual ST. Wright con-
test was held in the chapel last Fri
day evening. The question was Re
solved that the Importation of Chinese
labor into the Philippines should be
prohibited. Messrs Scobey, Porter
and Anderson will uphold tho affirma.
tive for the Zeths; Messrs. Roberts,
Bryan and Lee the negative for the
Philos. The judges are Hon. d. L.
Voris, Marion; Prof. Leroy D. Weld,
Cedar Rapids; Hon. j. G. Webster,
Cresco. o.-Fayette Postal Card.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-01-12
Suicide at EIma.

The Elma New Era says that Pat
rick Clark, aged 73, committed suicide
by taking ca rbolic acid at 1880 Sat
urday morning, death ensuing in 10
minutes. lie was despondent over
sickness. Deceased leaves wife and
five grown sons and daughters.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-01-12
MARRIED.

BURNETT BRE1TsPRE1cHER-At the
residence Of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Aug. Breitspreicher, in
Saratoga twp, Friday, Jan. 8, by
Rev, ]. O. Warren, Mr.. Daniel M.
Burnett and Miss Martha Brett
spreicher.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-01-12

Caurion.
/ hereby caution the public against
trusting my wife, as I will not be re-
Sponsible for her debts.
FRANK j. SMITH.
Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16
LITTLE DAIRY POINTERS

Cream irregularly ripened makes
streaked butter.
- Dry salt cannot be worked into dry
butter successfully.
The COWS should be thoroughly ac-
quainted with the mixers.
Never breed "kicky" COW. Your
herd needs cows, not mules.
Soured milk affects the cream injuri.
ously. Get the cream off in time.
Slow milking frets the COW. Hasten
the performance as much as possible,
Never put q fine COW in the care of a
poor mixer. The mixer makes or un-
makes the COW.
The manure-coated COW is a proof
that her owner is in the wrong BUSH
ness. He should change occupations.
Scrub cows, on scrub farms, fed on
scrub rations, cared for by scrub per-
sons, produce nondescript milk and but
ter that Is hardly good enough for axle
grease. >.
Fresh cream and ripened cream
mixed will always result In dubious
butter. A mess of cream in a
churning should be of one degree of
ripeness throughout. ~.
Some cows set the, '''dairy marks" Of
tho experts at defiance and give large
yields of good milk. All the same, tho
good dairy COW should show certain
feature in size, shape and general
make-up.-N. Y. Farmer.
Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16
POINT TO BE CONSIDERED.
Will the Farmers Accept Aid Of City
Friends of Good Roads or Treat
Them as Meddlersp

Among those interested in road i'm
provement the farmers, of course,
stand first. The character and condi-
ton of the roads are of vital interest
to them every day in the year. The
farmers until recently have been COM
PEELED to struggle with the road prob
lem without much help or encourage
meut from any other class. Now, how
ever, some strong elements Of the city
population are rallying to their sup
port. Among these may be named the
manufacturers of road building ma
chinery, the makers and users Of BIZ
cycles and automobiles and men Of the
cities who have money invested in the
country. These people are entering
into the work for road improvement
with even more enthusiasm and zeal
than the farmers.
Just now the farmers who want bet-
ter roads are brought face to face with
= most important question: Will he
accept the assistance of these city
allies? Will he welcome the aid of the
machinery man, the capitalist, the BIZ
cyclist and the automobilist? Or will
he treat them as schemers who are
trying to meddle with his affairs?
The answer to these questions ought
to depend on what these city friends
of good roads are proposing to do. If
they propose to have the country roads
improved in order to increase their
business, and enhance their pleasures,
wholly at the expense of the farmer,
then he should spurn the proffered
alliance. If, on the contrary, they are
proposing, through state and national
taxation, to lift a large part of the
burden off the farmer and place it on
the taxpayers of the cities, he ought
to bid them welcome and extend the
glad hand
This is a live question for the farm
er to consider and answer. Already
the opponents of state and nationaal
aid are at work trying to SOW seeds Of
suspicion in the minds of the farmers,
and they will do their best to prevent
any cooperation between the country
and city friends of good roads.
AS a matter Of fact, state and ma
tional aid offer the only hope of gen.
eral road Improvement, and such aid
can never be secured if the city people
array themselves against it. Unless
the farmers are wholly blind to their
own interests they will welcome aid
from any and every source, and will
make every effort to secure the power
full aid OF the state and federal gov
ernments
Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16
SOUNDS LIKE GOOD SENSE ST: ji;l
Canadian Expert Says That Dairy
Cows Need But Very Little Ex- S.
s~f2st5, ercise in Winter. :.

Regarding he exercise Of dairy cows
In winter, Mr.. Glendinning, speaking
before the Western Ontario Dairymen's
association, said:
my experience is that a cow does
not require much exercise whom she is
giving lot Of milk, and va do not
make a practice of letting our COWS
out. I will give you an experience 1
had two years ago. hired q man to
take care of the stock, and l put him
In charge while I was out on institute
work. He had been there a couple Of
weeks, and went to the stable Sunday
morning, and he said: Say, boss.
don't you think it would be, q good
thing to let these COWS out and give
them little, exercise?' He had always
worked for men who gave their cows
good deal of exercise; they gener-
ally had straw stack. / said I did
not think they needed it. Well, he
thought they would be better, and I
thought 1t was an opportunity to teach
him lesson. There were two rows
OF COWS, eight in each row, Is giving
milk and one dry, and I said: You
can let the COWS out if you have a mind
to- 1t was nice, warm morning, and
the snow was melting a little outside.
He said: I will let this stable out
first No. said, turn out both these
rows He said: There will be an aw-
tul run; we will never get them in
He turned them out, and the COWS
backed out, and went out just the same
as they would if they had been turned
out every day, and every one of them
went out in that way till we came to
the dry one, and she went out with a
jump; and when the others saw her
running, they thought they would take
run, and they ran across the barn
yard four rods, and then they began
to stop and look around as much as to
say: Well, this is not very ladylike,'
and every one of these COWS went into
the stable inside of ten minutes.
told him to let the doors remain open,
and not drive any of them in, and they
all went in except the one that was
dry. That was about the first of Feb
ruary, and these COWS had not been
out Of the stalls from the 9Th day of
December. I think If the dairy COW
required good deal of exercise these
COWS would have required It. They
were giving good lot of milk and
were well fed. I have not very much
hesitation In saying the dairy COW does
not require very much exercise. sha
has great deal Of exercise in working
up the product she consumes in tho
milk"
Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16
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Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16

A TALK ON TILE DRAINING.
Simple Essentials Which Will Assure
Work That Will Last and
Prove Effective,

In my experience I have learned
that, as rule, tiles of too small capac-
ity have been laid with the expecta-
tion of carrying away the vast volume
Of water that often suddenly collects
In deep depressions after heavy rain.
Four-inch tile is often required, and a
tile of less than three inches in diam.
eter, inside measurement, should never
be used. The work Of grading the bot
tom of the ditch for the reception Of
the tile often results in failure, owing
to depressions or irregularities re-
naming where silt or other foreign
matter accumulates in the tile, thus
obstructing the flow of water.
The final grade of a ditch should
never be finished, especially where a
doubt exists in regard to required fall,
without the aid of level, and the
work should never be trusted to the
eye of anyone, no matter how expert.
Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16

/ once employed professional ditcher
to drain slough or pond hole, and,
owing to it's failure to perform it's
work, the tiles were taken up and the
bottom of the ditch properly graded
with level, when it was discovered
that the grade at the outlet of the ditch
was 18 inches higher than the point it
was intended to drain. OF course, such
a piece of work proved of short dura-
tion and very expensive.
1t often happens that the outlets of
drains are allowed to become obstruct-
ed with silt, coarse grass, ETC., render
ing them nearly or quite useless. To
those who may contemplate the i'm
provement of their farms by inaug-
urating' a system of tile drainage, but
are deferred from doing SO owing to
the impossibility of obtaining profess
sional ditcher, allow me to state that
the services Of ordinary farm help with
the oversight and assistance of the
farmer himself give as good, If not
better, results. Where suitable fall
is plainly visible, 1t is not essential
that level be used, providing the bot
torn of the ditch has an even grade
and is free from irregularities. But
where doubt exists, a level, as shown
in the accompanying diagram, should
be used. !:
In the device, and represent the
base of level, 1914 feet long, six inches
wide, taperins to two inches. at the
ends; c and the plumb indicating on
9 the amount of fall per rod. A wire
or wooden guard at keeps the plumb
bob from Topping about. The up
right is six inches wide at base, where
it is mortised into the long strip, a b,
and two and one-half inches wide at
the top. The braces are two inches
wide and made from one-inch pine
Irving B. Cook, in Orange Judd Farm
er.
Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16
Grounding Barbed Wire Fences.

Grounding Barbed Wire Fences.
A letter from Atchison, Kan, says
that an unusual number of live stock
have been killed this summer by light
ming running along barbed-wire fences.
Twelve cattle were thus killed recently
near Pennington; they stood with their
heads against the wire. Electricians
say there is no limit to the amount of
electricity barbed wire can carry, but
that farmers can prevent this killing of
live stock by grounding the wires fre-
quently along the fence-that is, run q
wire connected with the barbed wires
into the ground from the posts at a dis
tance of about 100 feet. These grounded
wires will carry the electricity into the
ground. A charge of lightning striking
a barbed wire will kill anything touch
ing the wire, even though the fence be
20 miles long.
Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16

HANDY LOW DOWN WAGON.
etc., in moving same from barn to
fields The front end of this platform
may be hung on an ordinary road wag-
on axle. For the rear end the heavy
bar of iron can be properly bent at a
blacksmith shop as indicated in the
cut to make low down wagon. The
rail shown about this wagon may be
attached or not, according to use and
convenience.-Roger Graham, in Farm
and Home.
Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16
Best Results from Meadows.

The Michigan experiment station
found after repeated tests that about
four times as much food can be obtained
from meadow by allowing it to mature
hay than by pasturing it. This means
that four cows can be kept on the land
by growing hay instead Of pasturtng it;
or, to show it in another, light, four
times as much land is required for pas
ture a. for hay, for the same number Of
cattle. Green food is given by grow
ing soiling crops, but in soiling from
two to three times the number Of cows
can be maintained than by pasturing.
Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16
The Only Line With a Worlds
FAIR Station.


This refers to the Iowa Central Rail
way and means. - :
LIST The sh ortest line. ;A y.
2ndLThe most CONT mfortable5route.
3rd-Two. fine through trains direct
to thegates of the fair. T.. :.,<e :. ; r Il
4th-A saving of about three hours
5thMYoul.t, I. avoid the crowds at the
Union depot and on the street cars.
6th-You save money BY being land
ed just where you want to- go. !;
There are many other reasons but "a
word to the wise is sufficient: M 4 ~
For excursion tickets, berth reserva.
tions and complete guide to thefair,
free, address a. 3. Cults, G. P. Il I. a.,
Minneapolis, MINI. .~~ ,.a'
Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16
LITTLE MARKETING HINTS,
Shippers Should Study the Conditions
Of Trade Rather Than Depend
on ''Luck."

OF all the practical points in farming
there is not one that has greater claim on
the attention Of the raiser of farm prod
ucts than the art OF marketing. Many
farmer. puts tons ofyenergy: into produc-:
ing flrst-classs fruits, cereals, or live
stock and when 1t comes to putting them
on the market acts with childish judg-
ment that loses hip many fine margin
that he might gain: !. -. .:...
There is no better way. to practically
illustrate the market feature of farming
than for farmers to visit their markets
few times each yearsand see Just how:
their commission men handle their con-
signments. There are innumerable lit
tie hints farmer of good judgment can
pick up any time he visits large pro-
duce or live stock market. He should
study very carefully the best seasons
to market his produce, and when the
market looks favorable should hustle
his consignments in as promptly as pos
sible.
The shipper must bear in mind that
there are few honest commission men
at least and that being on the ground
from, day to day must know the market
better than a man looking at it at long
range. AS rule the seller of live stock
does his best to get the top price, but
he must follow the market. What the
shipper or producer of live stock, vege-
tables or fruit must look out for is to
get what the market wants and when it
is wanted. TO illustrate the point will
tell of q conversation first-class butch
er had with seller of cattle. "
'sYour cattle look all right" said the
butcher, '.but I am going slow: because
this year all cattle that have had, any
grass, kill spongy. We must make an
allowance on that. It has been thatway
this year" e.
Il; This Is only one phase Of the business
and serves to show that the shipper
must ever keep in mind the exact state
of the trade and to closely follow It's
vagaries. Luck frequently aids the ship
|sper, but good judgment on market con-
ditions is better than trusting to luck
Sherwood, in Ohio Farmer.
Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16
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Happy home sweeping many to an early grave,
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Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16
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Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16

Sa Dirt in milk makes more undesirable
butter than all the wrong methods Of
working. No perfection of working out
tbattermilk and working in salt can se-.
cure the proper flavor Of butter from
dirty milk.
Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16
CONVENIENT FARM WAGON.
It Is Of the Low Down Type and Equal
to Any Heretofore Described
in This Paper.

There Is hardly day through the
season of preparation for and cultiva-
tion of crops when I do not use the
wagon pictured. 1t saves 80 per cent.
of the heav~ lifting necessary in han
ding fertilh, .rs, implements, seeds,
Mower County transcript., 1904-11-16
I, Dooe,sn!l,t Respect e; = : Old Age. :.

!, It's sh2mefnl when youth falls to
show proper respect for old age, but
lust ethe soQntfarX inStheg <cases sofsspIg
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IA alad1Sss1lp, mat ter how seNaare :alppddl
irrespective. of old age. Dyspepsia,
;Jaundice, Fever, Constipation all yield
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