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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
West Vernon.

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Booth and baby
spent Saturday night with Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Fish.
Miss Edith Wilson has been on the
sick list.
Leonard Sebastian and family enter
tanned company Sunday night.
School began in district No. l Mon
day with Miss Auringer as teacher.
Henry and Sammie Hanson called at
the Glass home Sunday morning.
Sam Reinhart of Alta Vista spent
spent Saturday night at the Will Rein
hart home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Syl Barnes called at
the home of their son Joe, to get ac-
quainted with their little grand daugh-
ter which arrived Aug. 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Peters enter
tanned company sunday.
Mrs. o. d. Lovejoy and son Carl,
drove out to the Henry Lovejoy home
Sunday, Mrs. l.. returning home Mon
day, Carl remaining to assist his broth
er with his work this week.
Lon Smith was caller in our neigh
borhood Sunday.
Mrs. Mike Killoran and children are
spending this week at the Mrs. Grove
home and with relatives and friends.
Charlie Wilson spent Sunday at the
Henry Wilson home.
Miss Loretta Glass entertained COM
pany Sunday night.
Jim Lewis and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Rack and Miss Freda Ratz were
entertained at the Mike Slifka home
Sunday.
Joe Burnikel and family spent Sun
day afternoon with Mrs. Glass and
family.
Leonard Sebastian and family enter
tanned company from Monona the first
of the week.
Messrs Geo. Adams and Frank Blake
of Meyer, called at the Frank Miller
home Friday.
Frank Bouska and family entertain
ed company Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Fish called at the
Will Woods home Tuesday morning.
Emmett Glass called at the Willie
Van Schoyck home Monday.
Will MILF of Cresco was caller in
our neighberhood Wednesday.
Earl Glass spent Tuesday night with
his uncle, James Barnes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Syl Barnes drove out
to the James Conrey home Tuesday to
see their son Frank who arrived from
Dakota Sunday night, called here by
the serious illness of his wife, who
came short time ago for an extern
sive visit with relatives.
Willie Schultz and Fred Peters were
seen driving through our burg Sunday
Fred Fish called on Mr.. Bouska Tues
day
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
Recalls OK Team on Her Joy Ride.


Coming here in 1850 when the
country was a wilderness Mrs. Mary
Mann of 1890 Nineteenth street cele-
brated her eighty-fifth birthday few
days ago by taking spin in an auto
mobile to Newton to visit her son.
With her husband John ]. Mann she
came to Jasper county in 1850 and liv-
there until few years ago when she
came to Des Moines to make her home
with daughter. AS she spun along
the highway in one of the inventions
Of the twentieth century Mrs. Mann
recalled the days when OK teams were
all the style.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
Do Not Work Too Hard,

To oppose Roosevelt's Strenuous
life" and to prevent people from over.
working, DR.. "A. E. Kepford, state tu-
berculosis expert, wrote President
George E. MacLean of the State Uni
versity of Iowa advocating the install
lation at Iowa City OF a laboratory to
study overstrain and fatigue, and pre-
vent them wherever possible.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
Iowa,s Catch Runs Into Thousands.

Des Moines.-Iowa produced $214.-
500 worth of fish during the last
year, according to the report of the
department of commerce and labor
just issued. German carp headed the
list with catch of 2,o47SOo, with a
total value of SCI, 900. Fifteen differ
ent varieties of fish were caught in
merchantable quantities in the state
during the year, and to this is added
$1,000 worth of pearls, $4,000 worth
of clam shells, $4,000 worth of tur-
ties, and $1,000 worth of frogs. There
are 100 Independent fishermen in the
state and Sc work for companies
along the Mississippi. Eight hundred
and Twenty-Five boats are employed
in the industry, their total value be-
ing $37,512.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
ELEVEN YEARS TEST

Visitors to the exhibition recently
held in Philadelphia to acquaint the
public with the dangers of tuberculosis
md 10 demonstrate the methods of pre-
uIl and the cure of Consumption,
n,.c surprised when Informed at the
Bureau of Information that no state
mcnt of cures was at hand. In the
past few years immense sums have been
spent and many persons treated by the
eggs, milk and fresh air advocates, yet
curiously, cured cases are rarely found.
That Eckman's Alternative positively
cures tuberculosis Consumption and
stands the test of time is proven by the
following letters:
Philadelphia. Pa, March 25. 1898.
Gentlemen: My son commenced TAX
iEg your medicine February Cd, 1898.
Previous to that time my family physi-
clan had given him up to die with Con-
him taken TO prominent hospital in
this city, where they Informed me that
both upper lobes of his lungs were dis
eascd. Upon examination of his sputum
they found it full of Bacilli, and said
there was no hope of his recovery. He
was compelled to give up his position.
He commenced to improve almost inn
mediately after taking your remedy,
and has now returned to his office work.
Nolsncu) MIS-. IL. T.. f5lfu.
POS South Seventh Street.
AFTER ELEVEN YEARS
Philadelphia. Ia, January "a, 1909.
Gentlemen: Your inquiry as to the
health of my son Shapleigh received.
can trutl,frlly say he is, and has been
in excellent health: never had return
of the disease since taking your Altcra-
tive / years ago
cannot speak highly enough of your
Alternative, rs it saved my boys life.
Respectfully yours,
(Signedl Mrs Il. T. Bird.
Ecklnan's Alternative is good for all
Throat and Lnng Trouble and is on sale
in
Cresco by P. A. Clemmer and othel
druggists. Ask for Booklet of curet
cases.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
Business Failure Causes Suicide.

John B. Blank, head of the Fidelity
Loan company, shot and killed himself
at his home. He was Respondent over
loss of $4,000 occasioned when the
Independent Ice company, in which
he was heavy stakeholder, went into
receiyership recently.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
Tickets on Sale for Press Club.

Tickets on Sale for Press Club.
Tickets for the frolic to be given by
the Press club of Des Moines at In
gersoll park the evening of August
% have been placed on sale in num-
Der of down town stores Judging from
the demand already manifest the $500
tickets will be sold in few days.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
Merchants BANKRUPT.

A first dividend of 40 per cent was
declared on the bankrupt stock of
Longnecker Bros, Farrar, Ia, mer-
chants, adjudged bankrupt a month
ago by w. H. Cathcart, the trustee.
The total liabilities of the firm were
$4,000.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
1000 Corporations Answer.

-Four thousand Iowa corporations
have complied with the provisions of
the new law by sending to Secretary
of State w. C. Hayward the required
information and fee. Eleven thousand
notices were sent out from the sec
retary's office. Letters have been re-
turned and notices received account
ing for $500 corporations which have
gone out of business. This leaves
$500 more corporations which must
respond to the notification of the state
before the time limit is reached.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
New Alligator at Menaaerie.

A baby alligator has been added to
the menagerie at Union Park. The
little amphibian was presented to
Councilman Ash by Sergent Tom Den
holm, of the police, and was sent out
to the park at once as company for
the one already there.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
viii Claim Excess on Freioht.

Des Moines, Iowa.-Having re-
ceived official notice from the Rock
Island railroad company that it will
contest in the courts the recent decis-
ion of the interstate commerce COM
mission, Freight Commissioner E. G..
Wylie announced at the meeting of
the Greater Des Moines committee
that Des Moines shippers should re-
taliate by filing claims against the
railways for the return of excess
freight charges paid during the last
two years.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
Board Purchases Detention Home.

Board Purchases Detention Home.
The Polk county board of supervis.
ors by a vote of three to two decided
to purchase the Nelson property on
Hull avenue for Juvenile detention
home at price of $4,000, which is
$1,000 in excess of the limit allowed
by law.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
ALLOWANCE Is CUT
Iowa National Guardsmen Get
Only $4,000 This Year.
A BIG DROP FROM YEAR AGO
Then Government Aid Amounted to
$50, 000-Fifteen Men Off to Camp
Perry, Ohio, to Represent
Iowa in National Shoot.

Des Moines, Aug. 17.-Uncle Sam
has not been as liberal with the Iowa
National guard this year as he was
last. Adjutant General Logan has
learned that the state will receive
only about $4,000 for equipment, am
munition and supplies this year while
last year the government aid amount
ed to $4,000. The Iowa guard is we'll
equipped at present, according to Gen
eral Logan and for that reason it's ap-
preparation was cut down so more
money could be given to states who
are low in equipment. This years
government appropriation for ammun-
ition amounts to $15,O1S.60 and for
supplies the state troops will receive
$21,741.55 from Uncle Sam. This is In
addition to the regular apportionment
of $3S,14431 for camp purposes and
$12,714.44 for the promotion of rifle
practice.
The fifteen men who are to repre-
sent the Iowa guard at the national
shoot at Camp Perry, o., left Des
Moines under command of Col. S. w.
Brookhart of Washington. In practice
last week this years team made the
highest score ever shot by an Iowa
team. The following fifteen men who
compose the team were selected after
many days Of shooting:
Sgt. Frank L. Beeson, Company M,
Fifty-fifth infantry.
Capt Edwin S. Geist, A. l. S. A. p,
Fifty-third infantry.
Sgt. Elmer E. Hildebrand, Company
II, Fifty-sixth infantry.
Corp. Don A. Preussner, Company D.
Tifty-third infantry.
Corp. Charley NJ. King, Company
Fifty-third infantry.
Corp. Joseph F. Barker, Company
c, Fifty-ifth infantry.
1t. James L. Carlson, Company 1
Fifty-sixth infantry
Capt. Harry G. Utley, Company D
Fifty-third infantry.
Capt. George l.. Lawson. Compan.
], Fifty-sixth infantry.
Capt. Edmund A. Ringland, A. l. S
A. p, Fifty-sixth infantry.
Sgt. Ross E. Kenyon, Company X
Fifty-fifth infantry.
Pvt. Vernon Finkle, Company F
Fifty-sixth infantry.
1t. Lee Roy Schilling, Company d
Fifty-fourth infantry.
Sgt. John E. Jackson, Company E.
Fifty-fourth infantry.
Sgt. John P. King.
Tomorrow the Fifty-sixth infantry
will go into camp at West Okoboji for
ten days.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20

MONIES are Dayton. o., ss.l3 per cent,
Washington, D. c., 1853 per cent; Re-
chester, N. Y, 2057 per cent. Des
Moines increase was 1928 per cent.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
Levy Same as Last Year.

Ivy
Although four new funds were ere.
ated, with an aggregate levy of 81
mills, the city council, meeting as
committee of the whole, fixed the
tax levy for the ensuing year at 36.4
mills, exactly what it was year ago
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
Schley.

Will Rethamel threshed yesterday.
Henry Rethamel is on the sick list
these days.
MISS Mayme Clynch came home
yesterday from st. Joseph's Hospital,
Chicago, where she is studying to be
trained nurse.
Some of our SchIey young folks are
planning on going to New Hampton to
see Buffalo Bills show.
Frank Doubek lost fine cow Iy
lightning last Friday.
Johnnie Guyette says he would like to
have the sun shine for day or so. he
would like to thresh.
Mrs. Mike Norton, east of Lourdes,
has full grown goose among the flock
she raised this year that has three full
grown wings, quite curiosity.
Miss Teresa Conery is here from N.
Dakota visiting her sister and many
friends. SPECKLED BIRD.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
Bank Call Issued.

Bank Gall issued.
State Auditor Bleakly has issued a
call for reports from all state banks.
The figures are to be made up for
the close Of business Aug. 10.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20

Hard and soft wood delivered prompt
ly. SALISBURY BROS.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
o Hold Annual Picnic.

Lodges to Hold Annual Picnic.
Modern Woodmen and Royal Neigh.
bors of Des Moines and Valley juno.
ton will hold their annual picnic at
Union park Wednesday. Aug. %.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
Edwin M. Stockman, Auctioneer.

See me for farm, or any kind of
sales. Terms reasonable, will give you
satisfaction. Over Sobolil & Peter
sens Hardware Store, Cresco, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
Farm for Sale.

26O acres of good land, known as the
Siawson farm, in Albion twp. This
farm is well improved.
MRS. IDA PAULSoN.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20

Money Ready for City.
Preparations for the transfer of the
s350,O00 to the city of Des Mones
in exchange for its issue of city hall
bonds were made by George NJ.
Bechtel of Davenport, the purchaser.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
ciqarette Papers Sold as stationer

Cigarette Papers Sold as Stationery.
That cigarette papers are being
sold as stationery in large perfor-
ated sheets since the decision of At
torney General Byers to enforce the
mulct law by forbidding their sale,
is the gist of statements made by
certain parties at police headquarters.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
Threshing Coal.

Before you buy your supply of thresh-
ing coal it will pay you to see what we
have and the prices we make.
TOMAS & FARNSWoRTH.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20
AFTER ELEVEN YEARS.

Cresco by P. A. Clemmer and other
druggists. Ask for Booklet of cured
cases.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-08-20

Congressman Miller says if it is ar
ranged under proper auspices he will
attend the function.
Congressman Hammond, the lone
Democrat on the delegation, is spend
Ing the summer at Wareham, Mass
He wires that he cannot be present.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-20

OF aggression against either of the
powers mentioned is not apparent,
much less conclusive.
In the second place both the United
States and Great Britain are in the
midst of a decidedly strenuous nav
building program, and there is no rea-
son to believe Germany could accom-.
plish the object stated even though
such we're its program. The United
States has no quarrel with Germany
or any other nation, beyond a friendly,
though perchance strenuous, CONNER
cial rivalry. Csndidly 1t appears as
though John Bull and Brother Johna-
than were both amply able to meet IN
situation which present conditions are
likely to evolve without plunging into
the stream of bitterness and enmity
which the suggested coalition would
result in.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-20
The Irrigation Congress.

The irrigation congress-, which meets
at Spokane in August, is already at
tracing widespread attention. The
west has for some time been alive to
the importance of bringing into pro-
ductive condition the large areas capa-
BILE of irrigation, but up to recent times
has carried on alone the contest for
the development of the enterprises.
Eastern congressman at first grudg-
ingly voted government aid to the
larger enterprises, even though the
plans called for the ultimate payment
of the expenses out of the proceeds of
the lands improved. The necessity of
increasing the food-producing area of
the nation is being rapidly driven
home to eastern men, however, and
opposition has given way to encourage
ment.
There are other reasons for hoping
the meeting at Spokane will be preg-
nant with results. Not only will those
who have had to do with the work
in this section be present, but from
all over the world where irrigation is
practiced there will come men rich in
experience to counsel regarding the
subject. The meeting of such a body
of men, backed by the approval of the
| federal government, Is destined to be
a landmark in the development of the
arid and semi-arid sections of the west.
AS the gate city, through which the
products of a large portion Of the
country to be developed must pass, the
interest of Omaha and Nebraska is
large, for our future is necessarily
linked with the farms OF that section,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-20
Plea Of Railroads AnalYzsd.

In support OF the railroad plea for
higher rates because OF rate legislation
n orders of the Interstate Commerce
commission, the chief argument ad-
vanced is that the roads lost heavily
in revenue during the business slump
of 1907. The fact that railroad earn
ings decreased is not denied, though
the commission and the railroad rep
resentatives differ widely as to the
amount. This, however, is not perth
nent as applied to the present situa-
ton. II the railroads suffered from
the panic, so did every other business
enterprise. While earnings and divi-
dends decreased, the absence OF net in
come was not so noticeable in railroad
as in other lines and the struggle for
actual existence not nearly so severe.
The real meat OF the question is
whether present conditions justify an
advance of rates. For the months of
November and December, 1908, and
the month of January, 1909, all the
railroads in the United States showed
an increase in net earnings from OPP
Grafton of $4,000, 900, as compared
with the panic months of the year
previous. For the month of February,
1909, as compared with the same
month of the preceding e the in
crease was s11,550,0OO. These fig
ures are not taken from unauthorized
sources, but are beyond disputation by
the railroads, for they are the returns
made by the roads themselves to the
Interstate Commerce commission.
Neither can the figures be assailed as
being the earnings of favored lines,
for they represent the exhibit Of every
steam road in the United States doing
an interstate business.
If the railroads car make this show
ing in the face of the conditions of
which they complain the plea in abate-
ment must be unfounded.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-20
A Possible Reason.

OMAHA, April II, 190s.-To the Editor of
The Bee: l have read your article about
the Water boards haste i'm submitting the
bond proposition now. and what you say
strikes me as good. If there is no chance
OF a hearing in the supreme court for six
or eight months. why could not the Water
board have held Off the bond proposition
until next fails election? Is there any
special reason? r. r. G.
There is only one reason which we
can think of which may have prompted
the high-priced Water board lawyers
to ask that the water bonds be voted
now instead of later. This turns on
the vote required to authorize the is
sue of such bonds. Water Bill No. 2,
which is the law under which the
Water board is supposed to be acting,
contains this further proviso with ref
erence to the water bonds voted for
the acquisition of such water plant
under such appraisement,' already
cited by The Bee:
Said bonds are not to be sold for less
than par and issued only in case the
proposition is ratified by a majority OF the
NpleS CdSl upuH the pIopOSltlOn at a gen
eral election or two-thirds of the votes cast
in case the proposition shall be submitted
at a special election.
If the words general election"
mean general city election" then to
carry by a mere majority the bonds
would have to be voted now. If these
words mean the fall election, at which
members of the Water board are
chosen, then a majority vote would
carry the bonds only next fall and not
at the coming city election. 1t is pos
sible that the words could be construed
to mean either general city election or
general state election. in which case a
majority vote would carry the bonds
at either time. But plainly, If sub
mitted at a special election, it would
take a two-thirds majority to make the
bond issue valid, and this is the hazard
which the water bond boosters do not
want to incur.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-20
No Entanplinp Alliances.

The Montreal Star presents to the
United States a direct appeal for a CO.
operative alliance with Great Britain
for mutual protection, the basis of the
appeal being the expressed fear that
Germany plans, by the building of a
powerful fleet. first 20 wipe out the
British navy and Their TO defy the
United States and the Monroe doctrine,
seize Brazil, and demClish the Ameri-
can fleet.
The argument OF the Montreal paper
has force If its premise is TO be ac-
cepted, but circumstances point rather
to the conclusion the fear is chiefly
imaginary. The German navy. it is
true, is being largely added TO. but
there is nothing surprising about This.
Germany is n of the great CONNER
cial nations of the world, with a large
merchant marine and interests scat
tered all over the globe. The weak
ness OF its position without the back
ing OF a strong navy no doubt appeals
TO the German government as strongly
as the same situation has appealed 10
Great Britain and the United States.
The assumption that the creation of
, a new German nav is for the purpose
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-20
Looking Backward.

James c. Dahlman is a democrat and be-
lieves in letting the people rule.-world-
Herald.
Looking backward over a period of
less than two months. this is decid-
eddy rich, rare and racy.
Go back over the World-Herald files
for February and March OF this year
and you will find them full of denun-
citation of James c.. Dahlman as the
arch enemy of popular government, a
traitor to his party, scheming to pre-
vent the rule of the people.
The question at issue was between
an appointive and an elective police
board, the mayor standing for the APP
pointing power and the democratic or
gan clamoring for elective commits
sioners. Reading the World-Herald,
then, no one would imagine that
James C. Dahlman was a democrat, or
that he believed in letting the people
rule. He was a DOL of the corpora
tions, a spokesman for the liquor deal
ers. the mouthpiece of a despotic po-
litical machine. He was accused even
of having made a deal with the odious
republicans.
Has that all been so soon forgot?
Is he again a democrat in good stand
ing? Is he now an apostle of Let the
people ruler"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-20
Dickinson Off for Panama.

Secretary of War Dickinson has
started for Panama to see for himself
what is being done there and what re-
mains to be done. In doing so he is
but following the practice of his pre-
decessors in office of getting at first
hand an insight into the work with
which, in his official capacity, he is
compelled to deal. The financial as
we'll as the moral credit of the gov
eminent is behind the canal enterprise
and any official charged with the duty
of carrying forward the work who
should fail, would draw upon himself
merited criticism. There is nothing
like personal knowledge to enable an
official to act intelligently upon the
problems presented. and in securing
this at the outset of his administration
the new war secretary is taking a wise
step. The secretary has, of course, the
reports of the engineers in charge Of
the work, but he also has a constant
stream of suggestions, fault-finding
and adverse comment, the motive for
which is not always apparent. Mr..
Dickinson is a man of capacity and a
tour of the canal zone will enable him
to see for himself wherein the truth
lies. He is simply one of a business
administration, going about in a bust
nesslike, way to perform his duties.