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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-17
CREsCO HOWARD COUNTY, IOWA FRIDAY:JUNE II, 1904

Watch for BIBI, comedy of toys
@. S. BLY, is down from Lime
Springs.
;BIBI proved irresistible. "-Bos
ton Herald.
sit created sensation in Wheel
ing" BIBI.
Joe Burgess and Irvine Barker are
home from Iowa City.
Ferd Lukes, of Protivin was Cres.
co visitor on Tuesday.
1t was nothing short Of an inspira'
tion that produced BIBI.
r. S. Caward left Monday morning
on a business trip to Wisconsin.
Mrs. w. @. Lenth is entertaining a
friend, Mrs. Hogan, of Chicago.
Mrs. Schultheis returned, Wednes-
day, to her home in Grand Forks, N.
d.
Miss Angie Lyons is visiting In De.
corah, going down Wednesday after.
noon.
! DR.. j. J. Ahern, front rooms E. r.
Thompson's new Office building, north
of postoffice.
If you want good cord wood enquire
of G. T. Watros. A few more of those
fine beans left.
Mrs. E. Clyde Hammond left Tues
day evening for her former home at
Columbus, Ohio.
DR.. j. w. Jinderlee, Physician and
Surgeon. Front rooms over Sobolik' &
Hardware store. lott
Mike Dvorak left last evening for a
visit of week or ten days with rela-
tives In Chicago.
Miss Clara Cherrier, of Prairie du
Chen, Wis, is visiting her sister,
Mrs. J. w. Macket.
Dr. w. T. DAILY, physician and sur
geop. Office over Fields Furniture
store, opposite postonice.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. A. Young and
daughter Edith returned last Friday
to their home in st Paul.
BIBI-1t is the neatest, purest lit
tie thing 1 ever have seen." Henry
Ludlam, Pres, Philadelphia.
Girl wanted at the Cresco Steam
Laundry at once. One with some ex.
perience at ironing preferred.
Rolla Mitchell and family have re.
ttrned to Minneapolis, accompanied
by Mrs. Fritz and little daughter.
For SALE VERY CHEAP-A two
seated Canopy top buggy, all complete.
79tf N. B. WHEELER.
Mrs. John Gammons has recovered
from her attack of rheumatism suf1-
GENTLY to be about the home again.
REMEA1BER-We do Watch repair
ing. All work guaranteed.
P. A. CLEMMER.
| Do you know that P. A. Clemmel
has Jeweler who can repair any
thing in the line Of watches? Try him
Rev. Gammons and son Earl left
Tuesday, for Fayette to attend the
commencement exercises at the U. L
lU.
Fred Dobson returned to Chicago
last Saturday. He was accompanied
by his sister: Nellie, who goes to KEEP
house for him.
Don O. Curtis, former prominent
Elma resident, but an old time resi-
dent Of Chickasaw county, died JUNE
s IN a Chicago hospital.
LosT-Between the Emmons farm
and Cresco, Endgate to wagon
Finder please leave at d. A. Lyons
and oblige Z. e. EMMoNs.
| We don't have any trouble guaran
teeing on Watch and Clock repairing,
as we fix them right. Price moderate.
76w4 p. A. CLEMMER.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-17
Chamberlain's Stomach and Z or Tablets
Better than Doctors PRESCRIPTION.

Mr.. j. w. Turner, of Trnhart, Va,
says that Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets have done him more
good than anything he could get from
the doctor. If any physician in this
country was able to compound medi-
cine that would produce such grati-
flying results in case of stomach troub-
les, biliousness or constipation, his
whole time would be used in prepar-
ing this one medicine. For sale by
Shuttleworth Drug Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-17
R. N. A. Memorial Day.

The Royal Neighbors, of Glenn
Bentley Camp, No. 1872, will observe
Memorial Day Sunday, June 10th, at
the Congregational church at p. m.
The neighbors and children will
march from NJ. w. A. hall to the
Congregational church in body
where a short but interesting pro-
gramme will be given as follows.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-17

We are still engraving FREE Of
charge all Watches and Silverware
that we sell, and fine watch repair
Ing. P. A. CLzxMEK.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-17
Lauodry Girl Wanted.

At the Cesco Steam Laundry, at
once. One with some experience at
ironing prsterrsd.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-17

PROGRAMMES:
frayer...
Rev. d. Aiken.
Mrs. R. Glass.
with violin and piano accompaniment.
Memorial Sermon. ...........................
Rev. D. Aiken.
Mr.. j. W Mackett.
ClC8l0H Pr6y6r..s............s.s
Rev. D. Aiken.
The committees will proceed to the
different cemeteries to decorate the
graves of deceased r. N. A. A cordial
invitation is rendered to the M. w. A.,
and the general public.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-17

We don't have any trouble guaran-
teeing on Watch and Clock repairing,
as we fix them right. Price moderate.
76w4 P. A. cLEMMER.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-17

LosT-Between the Emmons farm
and Cresco, Endgate to q wagon.
Finder please leave at d. A. Lyons
and oblige L. e. EMMoNs.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-17

Don O. Curtis, a former prominent
Elma resident, but an old time resi-
dent Of Chickasaw county, died June
5 IN Chicago hospital.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-17

BIBI-1tis the neatest, purest lit
tie thing I ever have seen." Henry
Ludlam, Pres, Philadelphia.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-17

Mr.. and Mrs. z. A. Young an,
daughter Edith returned last FRIDAY
to their home in st Paul.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-17

Girl wanted at the Cresco Steam
Laundry at once. One with some ex-
perience at ironing preferred.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-17

For electrical supplies, telephones,
call bells, wire, switch boards, genera
tors or anything you may need in this
line, write or cali upon Abe Privat at
the Florenceville Roller Mills. He
represents one Of the strongest and
most reliable companies in the West
and will sell as cheap on cheaper than a,,s
one else. All goods guaranteed strictly
first class and up-to-date.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-09

OF them understand machinery or
painting or sculpture. They like them
for their unusual qualities. A better
proof Is that the Pike is the most pop-
ular place on the grounds. Perhaps all
who visit the fair will not admit it in
public. but in their hearts they know
that they take more pleasure In watch
ing the Igorrottes,or Hales Fire Fight
ers, or visiting, In fancy, India and
Africa, than in viewing the exhibits
from nearer home, types Of the peo-
pie and the things with which thew
are acquainted.
The circus performers have struck
the popular chord. No more is the
bareback rider or the tight rope walk
er, the king of the air" He is back
number, though he still hangs on, but
his place in the forefront and on the
gaudy bill boards is usurped by the
death-defying loop-the-loop man and
the others who have varied the origin.
al idea along this line. And so it is
IN every line. The unusual attracts
attention, be it good or bad, and in
order to win success or even more
than passing notice one must be orig
inal and always original. The age de-
mands it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-09
THE VACATION QUESTION.

Opportunity. - Russell Sage, the
CLOSE" old man Of Wall street, has
been made the object Of q lot Of crid-
cism on account of a recent article
by him in the Independent In opposi-
ton to vacations. The thrifty old man
does not believe in vacations at alL
Commenting on this peculiarly Sagean
view Golfers Weekly says:
Work as a gospel has had mods
ern vogue. from Franklyn and Car
lyle to President Eliot and Russell
Sage. Where this gospel began, It
were rash to say. According to Lamb.
the person who invented work, and
thus bound the spirit Of rejoicing, was
sabbathless Satan. Satan not only
fails to rest on Sundays, but he never
takes a two weeks vacation in the
summer, and In this his example Is
followed by a distinguished American
f1nancier who has Of late been Lecture
Is fitted to render work odious, the
person SO endowed Is Mr.. Sage. His
parsimony has become byword. His
utter deafness to everything but the
routine Of his desk Is an awful parody
of benef1cent labor. He thinks 1t Inn
moral for clerk to take a vacation.
That functionary should be so happy
that he should rather offer to work for
no pay than to accept pay during two
weeks Of idleness. Fortunately, the
country is too civilized to need ans
wers to such enormities. We may re-
joiceN that the old business machine
type Is well nigh extinct. Sage and
Rockefeller are in spirit less typical
of today than Of the day that Is past.
In our own youth we knew men who
deemed slavish labor moral or valu-
able in itself, like kindness, intelli.
gence, or happiness. Today we hap
pen to know none so benighted. Pow
erty,' said old Burton, is an odioun
calling Men work to get out OF It.
He who works for money beyond his
needs and ideals is mentally enslaved
The lower the animal the more ex-
clusively 1t is devoted to the labor OF
subsistence. Those who know the
highest happiness in work are those
who know the highest happiness In
leisure and play. No nature can be SO
vacations which Uncle Russell SO
heartily despises. We should publish,
with delight, could we procure 1t. Mr..
Sage's criticism of The Song OF the
Shirt.
At the same time, 1t must not be
forgotten that there are a lot OF peo-
pie in this world who do not know how
Sabbath is bad for some people, as
witness blue Monday In workshops.
Many persons who think they know
how to extract benefits from vaca-
ton really find themselves at the end
of a holiday season more fatigued in
mind and body than they were when
they began to rest" and "recreate."
Yet 1t is possible that even the work.
man who gets drunk on Sunday and
the business man who wears himself
out pursueing pleasure in his annual
vacation may be better off, misusing
their outings as they do, than the slave
to business who keeps forever at the
| treadmill.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-09
THE oTTuMWA FAIR.

The efforts on the part of the local
officers to stop gambling and beer
selling on the fair grounds during the
district fair which closed yesterday
meet with general approval.
Although as race meet the event
was splendid success, the objection
able features were present in the form
of two or three gambling devices and
beer tent where liquor was served
to all corners, men or women. Yes
terday the beer tent was closed by
Sheriff Cremer and earlier in the week
the gamblers were arrested. Ottumwa
should have an annual fair. 1t is good
for business to liven the city during
the hot months with some event of
this kind, but gambling and liquor
selling have no right on the grounds
and should not be allowed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-09
IowANs AS cAMPAIeNERs.

lOWduo plOlAlASi1t III pOllllCS Will U6
in demand this year as campaign
speakers. And the state has a good
ly supply of men who can talk we'll and
with telling force on questions of vi
tai interest to the nation. If Virginia
is the mother Of presidents, Iowa is
the home of orators and she can show
her Shaw, her Dolliver, her Cummins,
her Wilson. her Hepburn, her Lacey
her, Cousins and dozen more, whose
oratory places them in the front ranks
among the public speakers of the land.
Crossing over to the democratic side
for there are, after all, some demo-
Gratis in Iowa = Judge Wade, General
Weaver, Mayor Quick, Jerry Sullivan,
Sam Wright and others are of more
than statewide fame.
This year Iowa's two cabinet mem
bers, Secretary Shaw and Secretary
Wilson, will be prominent. Secretary
Shaw will. indeed, speak in most of
the largest meetings to be held during
the campaign. Secretary Wilson has
been given the task of holding the ma
jority in Vermont above $4,000 this
fall This doesn't sound very big but
when it is known that Vermont, with
her September elections, has proven
the political barometer rejecting the
national complexion of the country
each following November, it seems
bigger. When Vermont's republican
majority has been under $4,000 in Sep.
TENDER a democratic president has
been elected in November and when
the republican majority in Vermont
has run over $4,000 republican pres,
ident has been chosen.
Though superstition is out of style
in these modern days of enlighten.
ment, politicians nevertheless watch
Vermont closely. AS it has never fail.
ed yet there is some reason to believe
it will not fail this time and "Tama
JIM" has on his hands the task OF
moulding opinion in Vermont be.
tween now and the time of her Sep,
TENDER election SO that the count OF
the votes will show republican ma.
jority OF more than $4,000.
Mr.. Wilson is good man to take
this important piece of work. He is
secretary of agriculture and as such
is interested in the welfore of the far.
mer. This interest is not doubted by
republican nor democrat, and conse
quently Secretary Wilson's words to
the farmers attract much attention
Vermont is an agricultural state and
the farmers vote controls the situa
ton. Mr.. Wilson is to go among these
men, preach the gosel of republican,
ism to them from the standpoint OF
the American farmer and hold the re
publican majority above the danger
mark.
In 1900 the republican majority in
Vermont was 31,312. This gives Mr.
Wilson exactly 6,312 votes to his cred
it for starter. If the guesses of his
Iowa friends and admirers are not far
wrong he will be able to show even a
bigger number on the credit side of his
vote ledger after Vermont's election
and if he does the political forecast.
ers will breathe easier.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-09

marks made since the SOS. Des
Moines suffered as greatly as did OF.
tumwa, in proportion to her population,
and she is now preparing to withstand
the rush of water If 1t comes again as
1t did last year. The capital city Is
better fitted for this Improvement than
Ottumwa, as it has a shorter expanse
of shore line that is subject to the
tempers of the river.
1t is to be hoped that the work will
be completed successfully in Des
Moines and that that city will be aldo
to stand by quietly and see the river
rise without fear for local troubfs.
May the time soon come when Ottunf.
wa, too, will be able to improve the riv-
er front so as to protect her valuable
homes from inundation.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-09
IOWA AND The ENGLISH.

The Worlds fair at st. Louis adver
tises not only Missouri and st. Louis
but Iowa as well. A few days ago a
Mr.. Thwaites. an English journalist
visiting at the fair, was shown copy
of the Worlds fair edition of one OF
the Des Moines dailies and expressed
great surprise that such paper could
be issued in the interior of the United
States. In fact his ideas of Iowa class
ed it's decidedly backwoods country
and he is quoted as follows with re
gard to it:
81 supposed that all there was tc
Iowa, don't you know, was the govern
or and the members of the Iowa com
mission, who had made their money
raising cattle on the wide prairies and
had come to Saint Louis to influence
emigration. see you have many fac
tories. big stores, great institutions OF
learning and above all, handsome
women and happy homes. l notice you
have two members of the Presidents
cabinet, have man at the head of the
senate, had the speaker of the house
and many other things to be proud Of
Before coming to Saint Louis suppos.
ed everything in this country was
managed from New York and Wash.
ington. I've come to the conclusion
that the central office is west of the
Mississippi"
Mr.. Thwaites knows as much about
Iowa as the general run of English
and Europeans as class. Because
America is great in size they consid.
er it unsettled except as to the east
ern portion Such things as the
Worlds fair are just the events that
are needed to advertise Iowa and
bring it's greatness before the people
of some of the European countries to
whom it means no more than would
Wapello county,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-09

the east" observes the Cedar Rapids
Gazette. His first stop will be made
at Irkutsks and it Is probable that he
will then proceed to Russia to receive
further ORDERS
Booming crops will make booming
business in Iowa-and the crops are
booming" says the Des Moines Capt.
tai.
The Keokuk Gate City thinks 'Tt
will probably be discovered next that
there Is a strike microbe. This seems
to be the only tenable theory whereby
to account for the telegraphers strike
along the line of the Katy road"
There is one thing certain, In the
eyes of the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
1t says: Bryan cannot make use OF
his former speeches In the coming
presidential campaign, while the re-
publican orators have simply to turn
over the barrel and repeat what they
have said for the past eight years"
why call him Uncle Henry Gassa-
way" queries the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican. Why not call him Grand
ticket the grandfather ticket? Re-
member that Henry Gassaway Is 81
years old and now and then talka
silly"
The Des Moines Capital gets some
comfort from the following: Even IL
the full dinner pail does not contain
much meat these days the American
workingman will not be disposed to
put forth much of a holler SO long as
there Is an abundance Of ice cream,
angel cake and plum pudding
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-09
LEIsURELY DESTINY,

Under the above caption the Satur.
day Evening Post of the current week
offers few suggestions to show that
the people Of the country or rather the
northerners are in too much of a hur.
ry to see settlement of the question
Of the races. Perhaps it is we'll as
the Post asserts, to consider the points
1t makes and not to try to solve great
problem in what is, in history, com.
paratively short time. The article in
the Philadelphia publication is as fol.
lows: !.
Before deciding that the solution of
the negro question by the methods by
which such questions have always
heretofore been solved must be des.
paired of, it may not be amiss to con.
slider that
"Ftrst-Slavery has been abolished
less than one brief generation.
Second = A large proportion Of the
Southern population was alive when
slavery existed
"Third-1t would be unprecedented
and even miraculous if there were any
appreciate change in the mass of the
enslaved race before even the grand
children of slaves had disappeared.
"Fourth-The problem of ignorance,
laziness, brutality and unteachableness
Is, unfortunately, not SO narrow as the
boundaries of any race or section. On
the other hand that problem, as history
teaches us, does yield to time-always
always to time.
Man, is SO Impatient! The forces Of
destiny are SO leisurely!'
This is an original view, to be sure
and one that really does not treat the
present generation as being of much
Importance. But. to be sure, destiny
is not governed by generations. The
Post excuses the blacks who do wrong
because the advantages given the race
since the abolition of slavery have not
been enough to make an enlightened
many of every African in the
land Then too, the southerner could
hardly be expected to give up all the
ideas which we're instilled in his mind
from his earliest infancy and the pith
of all of which was that the black
race was inferior to the white skinned
people. Destiny is LEISURE. indeed,
but already much advancement can
be seen toward a settlement Of the
race problem. In the north it is now
OF little moment, and in few gener.
ations it will doubtless, die the death
of the forgotten, even in the south.
Meanwhile, the colored man can
help along this end of the question by
seeking education, enlightenment and
advancement. The good it will do him
personally is as nothing compared to
the good it will do his children and
his children's children. After all, it
would seem that those who contend
that the race problem will solve itself
are the nearest right.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-09
RIVER IMPROVEMENTS.

'In time of peace prepare for war;
is good and timely advice. Just as good
and just as timely is this-"In low
water season prepare for flood" Des
Moines is making arrangements for i'm
proving its river front with view to
preventing damage from high water
and affording the residents Of low dis
tricts the same safety in flood times
that those who live in higher districts
enjoy.
This work is indeed laudable one
and no city is in better position to
realize this than Ottumwa. 1t will be
long time before May 80, 1903, ceases
to be a point to date from when. speak
ing of floods here, for that was the day
when the Des Moines passed all high
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-09
A JAPANESE LESSON IN LIVING.

Worlds Work.-The Trustworthy,
medical journals are reading us les
sons out Of the Japanese habits OF
right living. The endurance of the
physical hardwood that few western
nations, If any, can equal. Yet they
are not large men. Nor does their
climate or any other external natural
influence make them particularly ro-
bust. The secret Of their physical eff.
cheney is their method of living and
eating.
They eat less that western people,
especially less meat. Rice is their
principal food, and 1t is easy to cook
and easy to digest. They drink large
quantities Of water. A man will Of
ten drink as much as two gallons a
day. BY the use Of moderate quanti-
ties of easily digested food and Of
large quantities of water, they keep
the digestive organs from ciogging;
and the clogging of the digestive orr
gans Is the cause Of most of the all.
ments from which we suffer.
Then the japanese live in houses
that cannot accumulate foul air, and
they are taught to breathe deeply.
race Of people on the globe. 1t is said
that everyone bathes at least once a
day. Physical exercise is, of course,
practiced by them to a remarkable de-
gree. Thus, the mass of them seem
to have learned the art of healthful
living better than the mass of any
western people. What our physicians
tell US to do, they have, from child
hood, been trained to do.
1t would be an interesting specula-
ton or calculation to ascertain how
much physical, mental, moral, econo-
mic gain would come to the American
people il they all ate only what is cas-
lily digestibe drank water enough
(water, mind YOU'D, breathed no foul
air, and knew how to breathe, took
regular and simple exercises, and kept
their bodies, scrupulously clean. Prob
ably the efficiency of the people would
be doubled; and the common practi-
toner of medicine (whose work con-
sists chiefly in relieving us Of the all
ments that follow wrong eatfng) would
nave to earn his living in some other
way than because of our ignorance
and gluttony.