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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-11-09
Registered Galloway
Cattle for Sale.
"a Cows ard Heifcrs;
2 Yearling Bulls;
| Herd Bull 4 wears old:


| Herd Bull years old;
| Extra Fine Bull Calf, old enough
to serve in March;
5 Spring and Summer Calves.
Every one over one year old is
registered and the calves will be when
sold
These Cattle will be sold at private
sale in numbers to suit purchaser. Mr..
Franklin, who has been on my farm
for nearly Is years, is in poor health
and cannot continue the business, so
am going to sell all the stock. This
stock can be seen on my farm 8 mil, S
northeast of Elma and a miles west OF
Schley. l expect to be at the farm
personally, from Oct. Goth to Nov. 5th.
Mr.. Franklin & Son will always be
here to show the stock. They are well
posted as to price, age, registration,
etc. You can get bargain in the
purchase of these Cattle. Here is a
good chance to start small herd
cheap. have been raising cattle for
a long time and have selected the
Galloway because of their hardness
and good quality; they are so uniform
in size and color-are excellent cattle.
Look for notice of Public Sale of
Grade Cattle, Horses, and Hogs in
November.
Yours respectfully.
GEORGE w. MERRY.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-11-09
How Comets Are Captured.


The periodical comets are believed
to have been captured by some of the
planets. \ comet comes journeying
through space under the influence of
the sun, intending to pay us but a
single visit. 1t passes so near great
Jupiter, for example, that it's speed
is slowed down below the critical
point. 1t is thereby compelled to
change its orbit to an ellipse and stays
with us for the rest of its life. Nep-
tune is credited with capturing six
comets. including Balley's; Uranus
three. Saturn two, Jupiter about thir-
ty One reason for believing that
there is yet another undiscovered
planet beyond Neptune is that GER
tain comet shows curve which reach
es out to distant point where a
planet ought to be in order to account
for its Introduction into our system.
Naming of the Comet.
1t has been ascertained that the
period of Halley's comet is in general
about seventy-fve years, though it is
sometimes little less and sometimes
several years more, the differences be-
ing due to the influence of the planets
which it passes in going and coming
This is therefore historic comet and
by no means an upstart, for it has
recently been traced back to more
than 2G0 years before Christ.
silnp;.>rr
of astronomy is. think of being able to
identify appearances of this same COM
ct in all the following years: b. C. 240,
y. ID. 451, $50, 1866. 1145. 1222 1901,
1878. HOO. 1871, 1907. 1862, 1859, 1850,
1910. In 1866 William the Conqueror
was terrifying England. and the comet
was looked upon as an omen of terri
moved to terror by this enormous
sword of light held aloft nightly in the
sky, and the pope directed that to the
Ave Maria should be added the prayer
lord, save us from the Turk. the
comet and the devil" 1t was ut this
time that the monday call to prayer
/ by the ringing of church bells was in.
troduced, which has never been aban
doned. In 1853 the comet first came
back according to prediction of the
great Sir Edmund HALEY, the friend OF
! Newton, and it henceforth took upon
itself his name.
There always has been and still is
much of mystery as to the nature OF
comets. Where they came from NJ
one knows, but they are in the uni
verse journeying through space. Wher
first sighted Il comet looks only like 6
faint nebula changing its position
among the fixed stars. AS it draws
nearer the sun it becomes brighter ant
begins to shoot out a tail. Yet nearer
the head can be recognized as quite
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-11-09
MAXIMUM TARIFF IN FORCE
FRENCH DRESSES AND GOOD
WINE WILL COST MORE.
Agreement of France and America
Came to an End the First of
the Month.

Paris, Nov. 2.-The government has
begun to apply maximum rates on
American importations. The tariff
agreement between the two govern
ments expired Nov. 1. The intimation
contained in some special news dis
patches that the United States govern
ment would seek method of retalia-
tion if France offered it's maximum
rates on American goods pending a
new tariff agreement, has caused a
| painful impression here If, as init.
mated, Washington threatened to in.
woke the sweeping clauses of the
adulterated food and drug act to place
French wines under the ban, the sit.
uation would become forthwith acute.
The negotiations which Ambassador
Jusserand is prepared to undertake
would be seriously prejudiced
The application of the maximum
products now enjoying the benefit OF
minimum rates, will represent an in.
crease of from 33 to 212 per cent.
Certain products of France which
have enjoyed the minimum rates Of
the Dingley law though getting the
benefit of the minimum rates of the
Payne law, will be subjected to in.
creased duty ranging from 90 to &C.
per cent.
The increases on various American
articles substantially are as follows:
Manufactured and prepared pork
meats, 90 per cent.
Canned meats. 33 per cent.
Lard. 60 per cent.
Fruits. 200 per cent.
Dried or pressed fruits. so per cent
Common woods 81 per cent
Paving blocks 4S per cent.
Slaves. 81 per cent.
Hops. so per cent.
Petroleum, all classes. 100 per cent
Heavy oils and residues of petroleum
| 33 per cent.
The increases on French products
in the main are as follows:
Brandies. 40 per cent
Still wines and vermuths. 90 per cent
Champagne and all other sparkling
wines, so per cent.
The imports into the United States
from France of dutiable articles dur
ing the fiscal year of 1908, amounted
to S12,173,4S1, including:
s2,S22.0S9 for art works.
S1,020.624 for argols.
Sl977.977 for spirits.
S5,2Ol. $50 for champagne and other
| sparkling Wines
Sl.151,561 for still wines.
The French imports from the Unit.
ed States aggregated during the same
period, s20,2S1,212 These included:
Pork meats. S625.S99.
Canned meats. S3SS,702.
Lard. S2,S40574
.oI Fruits, fresh. dried and pressed
Common woods, paving blocks and
slaves. S4.943.695
Coffee, s312467.
Mineral oils, $9.O1S.11S.
| Heavy oils and residues of pettro-
| 'eum, $1,S65,152
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-11-09

Sloan's Liniment is the best
remedy for sprains and bruises.
1t quiets the pain at once, and
can be applied to the tenderest
part without hurting because it
doesn't need to be rubbed all
you have to do is to lay it on
lightly. 1t is powerful prepa-
ration and penetrates instantly
relieves any Inflammation and con-
gestion, and reduces the swelling.
Here's the Proof.
Mr.. L. ROLAND Bishop of Scran-
ton. Pa. says: -" On the 9TH of
this present month, as ! was leaving
the building at noon for lunch. 1
slipped and fell. spanning my wrist.
returned in the afternoon, and at
four O'Clock | could not hold pen
Gil i'll my hand. | returned home
later and purchased bottle of
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-11-09

Torturing eczema spreads it's burning
area every day. Doan's Ointment
quickly stops its spreading, instantly
relieves the itching, cures it perma-
nently. At any drug store.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-11-09
Canary colored Railroad Cars.

Canary yellow has been adopted as
the standard color for the coaches, re-
frigerator cars and all other box cars
used in the passenger service on the
Panama railroad. Tests to ascertain
the color best suited to withstand the
local climatic conditions, which are
unusually hard on exterior paints,
were made with the result that yellow
was demonstrated superior lasting
quality over the other colors tried
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-11-09
A Scalded Bows Shrieks

Mortified his grandmother, Mrs Maria
Taylor, of Nebo, Ky, who writes that,
when all through he would die. Buck
lens Arnica Salve wholly cured him.
lnfallible for Burns, Scalds, Cuts,
Corns, Wounds, Bruises. Cures Fever
Sores, Boils, Skin Eruptons, Chill
blains, Chapped Hands. Soon routs
Piles. 25c at P. A. Clcmmer's. T
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-11-09


are described as presenting head as
large as the moon, shining with the
brightness Of Venus and stretching out
the tail over one-third of the sky Hal
leys comet has shown tail forty-five
degrees long, which is equal to a pro-
cession of ninety full moons. AS 1t
does not always appear the same, it is
likely on the present occasion to have
length either greater or less.
Peril In Its Head.
The head of a comet is the dangerous
part. consisting probably of mass of
particles like stones, held together by
their mutual gravitation. The increas-
ing heat of the sun as it approaches that
body develops vapors, which envelop
the nucleus and are driven back into
space in the form of the tail. 1t is note
worthy that the tail always streams
away from the sun, going before the
head when the sun retires into space.
This, 50 long mystery, is now be-
lieved to be due to the pressure of light
from the sun. so great force that not
less than 10000 tons of it ever rest
upon the earth's surface. The tail is
extremely thin, so that the faintest
stars can be seen through a million
miles of its thickness. The earth has
once or twice passed through comets
tail and suffered no harm. If, how
ever. there should occur a head-on col
lision with the nucleus it would not
only be the end of the comet, but might
seriously damage if not ruin the earth
If nothing more, it would be likely to
introduce noXious gases into our at
mosphere, which would as swiftly pro-
duce death as the descending fumes Of
Mont Pelee. We have already shown
that no collision is possible with Hal
ley's comet, nor as long as we believe
that human history is yet to be con-
summated and that divine plan lies
back of the universe can we indulge in
now ANTICIPATED fears. Nothing is less
tprobable, even astronomically, than a
cometary collision. However, there is
some ground for believing that in that
strange curiosity of the plains, Coon
Butte, Ariz., we have the evidence that
just once a comet struck the earth, but
if so, whether before or after the ad-
vent of man, we have no means Of
knowing.
| Halley's comet will not be an appari-
ton of Il moment, like meteor, nor
Of a week or two, like the moon. On
its last appearance it was visible the
| larger part of a year, and certainly for
months we shall have our sky, partly
at night and partly in the morning,
transformed by the presence of this
not unwelcome stranger. 1t will be
seen the world over. Peary at the
north pole and Shackleton at the south
pole would each be cheered by it's
radiance, and seventy-five years hence
a very few very old men will trem-
blingly point to the heavens and say
that in their youth they saw yonder
spectacle once before.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-11-09
ORBIT OF HALLEl's COMET.

the periodical comet. When the comet
is as near the sun as the earth is, if
its speed be more than twenty-six
miles second it will describe para
poa or a hyperbola and will never
come back. If it be less than the
same it will describe an ellipse and
will return at regular intervals.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1909-01-07
Sweetness and Liuht.

That most famous OF Matthew Ar.
nold's phrases, Sweetness and Light"
he avowedly adopted from Swift,
who, however, used it as relating to
bees, because they make honey and
wax. Arnold transferred 1t to tn.
operation of culture, in making love
und truth prevail.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1909-01-07
Ele:tro.Masncts Lift Glass.

and handling Eanes of glass. AS glass
is a non magnetic material. a piece If
sheet iron is placed under i: and one
or more magnets applied OH the up.
per face. Tie magnets attract the
shee, iron and therefore hold the
glass suspended while moving.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1909-01-07
insurance on F,na.rs.

The tincers on the right hand Of Ku-
belik are known TO lie insured for S.
0G0. and the total di;ahlemclt of his
hand would net him $4,000. A like
sum covers Palerewski's digi's, while
Hoffman. the pianist. carries $500 on
each OF his fingers. Patti, until re.
Gently. at least, had $4,000 on her
voice. and raid staggering premium
-$125-tor each appearance.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1909-01-07
Mirror Starts a Fire.

A fire which broke out in High
street. Walton, was found to have
originated in strange fashion.
A circular shaving mirror standing
next the window in bedroom had
focused the rays OF the sun ON to the
bed and the .n,eese heat speedily set
the clothes ahiaze
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1909-01-07
LOCAL NEWS.

Born. to Mr.. ond Mrs. Lars
Raftwold Dec. 10, a little boy.
aWa!ter Divit came down
from Bismarck for a few days
visit.
Miss Gertrude Armstrong
sp+ mt New Years Day at her
home in Casselton.
Miss Dollie Ingle of Wolver
ton, MIMI, spent Friday with
friends in our city.
"Bismarck"-best wines and
liquors by bottle or gallon, all
kinds Of bottle beer. If.
LOST-A Roman gold brooch
Set with amethyst. Finder
please inquire at this office.
Why pay rent? 1 have d six
room house and lot on monthly
payments. A. A. AS pin wall. 81
Bert and Harold Hull and
Richard Falley returned to the
Minnesota ~" Monday even
ing.
Clara Lands who was the
guest of Fern Wilkes the past
week returned to Paramount
Monday.
Miss Ada Albrecht after a
two weeks visit with her par
ents in our city returned to her
teaching at jamestown Sur
day.
VIM. Wagner left Sunday
evening for Marion, Wis, hav.
ing been called there by the
serious illness of a sister who
lives at that place.
Reuben Settler of Mooreton
was visitor in our city Mon
day on his way to Fargo where
he goes to resume his studies
at Aakers Business College.
For health and happiness
DeWitt's Little Early Risers-
small. gentle, easy, pleasant
little liver pills, the best made.
Sold by all druggists.
We call the attention of our
readers to the ad in another part
of the paper relative to the
public sale of registered cattle
to be held at Wahpeton, N.
Oak. Jan. Is. Read the ad.,
Miss Anna Kelly has resign
ed her position as operator at
the Northwestern Telephone
Office and has accepted a SINH.
lar position in Fargo and left
for that place Friday.
"A surprise party was given
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Mehl last Saturday
evening in honor of their
daughter l. e h a. birthday,
Those present report a very
pleasant evening.
A land seeking party con-
sisting OF Mayor Eberly, Nick
Kline, Joseph Paterson and G.
J. johnson of this city and
Vim. Rohan of Walcott left
Monday evening for ST. An
thony, Texas. They expect to
be gone about two weeks.
A great many people have
kidney and bladder trouble,
mainly due to neglect of the
occasional pains in the back,
slight rheumatic pains, urinary
disorders etc. Delay in such
cases is dangerous. Take De.
Wits Kidney and Bladder
Pills, They are for weak back,
oackache. rheumatic pains and |!
Ill kidney and bladder trouble.
Soothing and antiseptic, and
'ct promptly. Don't fail to get
0eWitt's Kidney and Bladder
ills. Accept no substitute.
Regular size SOC. Sold by all
r., ooiofo
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1909-01-07
Nothing Doin'.

Briggs must be dreadtul,y extrava
CANT. He never seems to have g
cent
'Tried to borrow from vcY dc he7"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1909-01-07

District Court convened Mon
day but was adjourned for two
weeks.
l have some private money
for a few farm loans.
A. Aspinwall.
Editor Claybough of the Fair
mount News was in our city
Wednesday.
Miss Nora Yelling is spend
ing apleasant visit with friends
in Minot this week.
Call at the bismarck"
breckenridge for Holiday Bot
tie Goods-Nothing better.
DO not fail to attend the Sci.
ence School Lecture Course
Wednesday evening Jan. 10.
VIM, House and + l'isaker
of this county will be put on
the Legislative pay roll as
clerks.
For Sale-Sma'l house in
good location cheap. Your
own tins 3S-3rd st. &. !. Kac-
helhoffer.
Miss Helen Smith VIII spent
tn: holidays the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. F. r. Smith returned
to Fargo Monday.
Lizzie Sunderland returned
t" Morris Thursday after visit
ing during the holidays at the
FIJI gelnan home.
MIR. and Mrs. Sidney Cohen
and children returned Thurs
day from pleasant visit with
Minneapolis friends.
Roy Bailey of Mullen, Idaho
is spending a pleasant visit at
the home of his parents Mr..
and Mrs. J. A. Bailey.
Miss Ruby Stanton who has
been visiting several days with
Mrs. Minor, returned to her
home at Fairmount Monday.
The Turner Ladies will be
entertained Saturday afternoon
by Mrs. Andrew Kaiser and
Mrs. Henry Albrecht at Turner
Hall.
The Misses Hazel and Halle
Yates and Lillian Harris re-
turned to Mayville Monday to
resume their studies at the
Normal.
Andrew Paterson who has
been visiting the past two
weeks in our city returned to
his home at Stonewall, Canada
Friday morning.
FOR SALE-Two dwelling
houses on the corner of 9Th
street and Delaware avenue
for particulars inquire at Ink &
Wallace's Law office or w. A..
Baker.
Mrs. L. E. WEIGH who has
been visiting at the home of
her sister, Mrs. J. A. Bailey re-
turned to Wilmott.f So. Dak.,
Monday accompanied by Miss
Ada Arnold.
Ernest Miller, travelling sales
man for the Dakota Candy
Company returned to Wahpe-
ton after spending the past
two weeks at his home at
Brookings. So. Oak.
Arthur Mexican, A hur
Wagner, Frank Connolly Thos.
Thompson and Alfred Ander-
son left Monday morning for
Mandan were they went to at
tend the meeting of the Nation.
al Guard Association which
was held in that city Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Always have kennedy's Lax
alive Cough Syrup handy, ss-
pecially for the children. 1t
tastes nearly as maple supar.
1t cures the cold by gently
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-06-10
Paid a Heavy Fine.

Tom Anderson, of Charlton. who for
several years made regular trips to
Leon taking orders for booze, ran up
against snag at Corydon and last
week paid to the county S2S4.35 as fines
and costs in three cases against him.
In speaking of the matter the Corydon
Democrat says:
Tom Anderson, of Charlton, who
pleaded guilty to the charge of selling
intoxicating liquors at the March term
of the district court, and who was fined
$50 and costs on each of the counts, en-
riched the county treasury the first of
the week to the tune of S2S5.35. This
money was collected by Sheriff Glover,
who went after Anderson with commit
ment papers unless the fine was paid,
and came back minus his man, but with
the cold cash. The execution in this
case was delayed for sixty days by
order of the court, and as soon as the
time limit had passed Anderson was
forced to settle or go to jail.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-06-10
pasturlng Stock On The Highway.
An Iowa subscriber writes:

| An Iowa subscriber writes:
III would like to know whether the
movers and horse traders who travel
through the country from time to time
have right to stop in the lanes and
public highways and turn their horses
out to Craze. These folks usually start
when grass starts in the spring and
carry from eight to fifteen head of
horses, which they keep by pasturing
along the highways. The horses are
usually of the poorest sort and are not
infrequently diseased. | have bottom
lane with land on both sides of the
road and these folks make practice of
stopping here. | have made up my
mind to stop it if possible. They claim
they have the right to use the high
,, way in this manner, but it seems to me
they have no right to turn their horses
out to Craze"
The country roads of Iowa belong to
the owners of the land adjoining, the
land owner on either side owning to
the middle of the road. But this owner
ship is subject entirely to the rights of
the public to the use of these roads for
the ordinary purposes of travel. The
public has no right to the grass grow
ing on the road, the trees, the sod,
stones, or anything else on the road.
Everything there belongs to owners of
adjoining land. The public has per-
feet right to the use of the road for
purposes of travel, but for any other
purposes the public is as much tres
passer on the side of the road as with
in the enclosed field of the adjoining
land. These movers and horse traders
to whom our correspondent refers have
right to the use of the road for the
purpose of travel, just as anyone else,
but they have no right to use it for
the purpose Of pasturing their stock.
and we have no doubt our correspond
ent can compel them to discontinue
this practice. We would suggest that
if he is bothered much with them he
fret post notices in the proper places
warning all persons against using the
grass for pasture. If this does not
prove effective notify the offenders
personally to move on, with the state
ment that if they do not do SO he will
hold them accountable for trespass.-
Wallace Farmer
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-06-10

EDITOR REPORTER have lived in
Leon for over so years, have never held
an office nor even allowed vote as to
who should hold them. l have paid my
full share of taxes and without MUIR
muir. When any step of progress was
to be made in our town l have always
favored it. Where bonds were to be
issued to that end have voted for them
as the law permits me to do. But in all
these years l have seen the same oppo-
sltion to every step forward that the
waterworks question is now meeting
and by the same class of people.
The only way to meet this force is
with their own weapons. Eight fire
with fire." These people only care for
their own good, or what they think is
their good, the conservation of the al
mighty dollar that is safely reposing in
their jeans. Let them have the full
benefit of their self-love by turning the
calcium light of publicity upon theil
motives.
If they ever bob up for office (anc
they ususlly do) let the people remem
Der them as they looked under this
light. They would become eternal.
anonymous"
Yours for "better Leon,'
A, l., CURRY.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-06-10

The best friend that town can have
is the booster. The individual who
looks around and sees tho good things
that are to be seen and then repeat
them to others the story of attractions
beheld and the advantages realized and
appreciated. The booster need not be
a nan of influence. He need not be a
handsome man-just any old kind of a
man. Handsome or ugly or rich or poor
or lean or fat will make good booster
and women too are worth their weight
in gold in this service and even the
right word from the lips of child may
have the effect of causing some visitor
or tourist to look around and rivet his
attention with admiration on some
natural or artificial charm that had not
attracted his or her attention and this
simple little incident spoken in season
may result in locating in town man
or women of inestimable worth to it.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-06-10

Capt. W. H. Morgan, of Floyd, Va,
who has been visiting in this city for
the past month at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. ]. L. Boyd, left Monday
morning for Memphis, Tenn, where he
will attend the annual reunion of Ma
tional Confederate Veterans Associa-
tion this week, returning home from
that city. Capt. Morgan had an enjoy
able visit in this city and had the pleas
ure Of meeting with many of our people
ON this his first trip to the north and
west. He is very pleasant gentleman
and made many friends during his
visit here.