Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-08-14

hold their annual picnic at Vernon on
Thursday of next week, the goth. All
members of these organizations and
their friends are invited and urged to
participate.
Don't wait until lightning strikes
your buildings and burns them to the
ground, but call on ANDREW SMITH.
He will make them absolutely safe
from lightning with the Dodd &
Struther lightning rod.
Miss Nellie Mullen spent the past
few days with Cresco relatives, enroute
to Chicago to purchase new stock for
her Crookston, Mimi, millinery store.
She left for Chicago last evening and
will be accompanied by her mother.
DR.. Kessel was called to Elma, We'd
nesday evening, to see ]. j. Clancy
who is in a serious condition from a
stroke of paralysis sustained few
days ago. The Doctor was accompa-
MED back to Cresco by Will Forty for
a stay of day or so.
We are making up another Common
er club. Hand us your quarter at
once and get as many numbers of Mr.,
Bryan's paper as you can before cleo
ton. You can't afford to be without
it, be you democrat, republican,
prohibitionist or socialist.
Chief Engineer F. G. L. Hunt, c. E.
Pratt, R. M. Graham, and R. H. Ben
ham of Minneapolis, and N. F. Clark
of New York City, all connected with
the Dan Patch line, were in Cresco
from Sunday until Monday. They were
making an automobile trip over the
proposed route.
Mrs. Roy Carpenter went over to
Cresco last Wednesday to visit rela-
tives. Roy drove over Sunday and is
spending few days there. Stephen
and Stella Plopper, who have been Wis
iting relatives here for the past two
weeks, returned to their home at Cres-
co Tuesday. = Riceville Recorder.
{ Mrs. H. H. Jones and daughter
Bertie came down from Napoleon, N.
D., Tuesday evening, to consult DR..
Kessell in regard to fracture of the
arm sustained some time ago by Miss
Jones as the result of kick from a
horse. The bone was not knitting
satisfactorily, thus the trip to Cresco.
The Decorah ball team disbanded
this week upon the resignation of
manager Hovden, but Immediately re-
organized with w. R. Smith as man
ager, and will finish the season., De-
corah has had considerable base ball
trouble this season dissatisfaction
with disappointing players and conse-
quently poor financial support.
The board of trustees of the M. E.
church have unanimously voted to ask
the return of Rev. Gammons to this
pastorate for another year, the eighth
in Cresco if the request is granted.
The annual conference will be held this
year at Mt. Vernon, commencing Oct.
9th. One of the new Bishops, Lewis,
formerly at the head of Morningside
College. will preside at this conference.
We publish Mr.. Bryan's letter of
acceptance on our second page and you
should not fail to peruse it. 1t is one
of his best utterances and in it he nei-
ther apologies for his platform or at.
tempts to supply omissions with his
personal views as does his opponent.
It is.clear cut and decisive-you know
just where he stands. and he does moi
attempt to curry favor by straddling or
any question. "Shall the people rule''
is the central and prevailing thought
of his eminently patriotic address.
The management of the Family
Theatre will give an entertainment con-
sisting Of moving pictures and music in
the M. E. church, Saturday afternoon
and evening, August 18th, for the bene-
fit of the NJ. E. ladies. Among the
pictures that are to be presented are
the Burning of Rome,' the ..Holy
City, Joseph Sold by His Brothers
and the Life of Moses.'' Will Patter-
son will sing Nearer My God To
Thee" Ninety and Nine" and the
Holy City, " during the entertainment.
Admission 10 cents to everyone.
A fire alarm was sounded early Thurs
day morning on account of fire at the
home of +. j. Mead-th first fire
which ever occurred on any property
owned by any of the Mead family in
all the years of their residence in How
ard county. The fire originated in a
closet used as a storing room for cloth
ing, and the cause is a mystery. No
one had opened the closet during the
day and nothing in the least infiam-
mable or easy Of ignition was kept in
the closet. Mrs. Anna Miller, who
was staying at the place, was awaken
ed by the sitting smoke and awakened
the balance of the family, who with
a generous supply of water which hap
pened to be standing in tubs on the
rear porch, extinguished the blaze SO
that the services Of the fire department
were not needed. The woodwork in the
rooms near the fire is badly burned,
but the greatest damage is to the