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The Detroit times., 1911-02-04

mazoo: Jackson at Bay City and Flint
at Battle Greek are the opening games
OF the South Michigan, as determined
by the schedule makers.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-04

Riversides, A., Worthwhile, II, NJ
last night.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-04

Kid Mccoy, I'm depleted financial con-
dition, Is posing in a shop window In
Philadelphia AZ a demonstration Of a
consumption cure.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-04

Our sympathies certainly go out to
Hal Lanigan of the st. Louis Times
tracks are closed down; our fight
clubs are closed up; we're losers on
the diamond; our ten-pinners can't
win; our billiardists are on the bum.
There's a jinx on everything" Hal,
old scout, why don't you move sway?
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-11-28
s1.Oo PER YEAR

For SALE-PoIledSburham bull, .
good one, registered, about IA months
old. Residence half mile north Of
Protivin. J. F. PECINovsKY.
For Sale-A few Duroc-Jersey boar
pigs, also gifts. These are extra good,
the best ever raised. Phone q.
S. A. SUTTON, Cresco, Ia.
We will have car of oil meal on
track, this week. Leave your orders.
The price is right Phone 1854.
The F. C. WoELLsTEIN Co.
Mrs. Frank Nagel returned Satur-
day to her home near Lime Springs
after visit in Cresco with her par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. Aug. Breitspreicher.
w. B. Perry returned from Chicago
Saturday morning accompanied by bis
; daughter Bessie whom he found safe
and sound and willing to return home.
Dr.. Kessel returned Monday morn
ing from professional call to Grim
nell, Iowa, taking advantage of the
trip to visit over Sunday with bis
daughter.
Watch tho Palm Cafe window soon
for the daintiest, prettiest display of
hand painted articles ever shown in
Cresco-just the things you need for
Holiday gifts.
Grace Patterson, Helen Miller, Emily
Burgess and Katherine Clemmer were
at Lime Springs last Friday to assist
in recital given by Miss Bernice
Laidlaw's pupils.
VIM. Nichols, of Bismark, N. D., a
former resident of Albion township, is
in Cresco and vicinity visiting among
old time friends. 1t is his first visit
here in 81 years.
If you are thinking of buying, sell
ing or exchanging your farm for .
smaller one or larger one, can in and
talk it over. possibly have just what
you want. GEO. H. OWENS,
offices opposite Court House over Mott
& Co.'S. Store. Phones: Residence,
295; Office, 256A.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-11-28

VIM. Allen was up from Monona
last week. guest at the W. G. Eddy
home.
! Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Palmer were
down from Chester Saturday betw eer
trains. 80
Those that have hay to sell, call or
John Fl. Jones, Lime Springs. Phone
No. AZ. If
Miss Inez James returned Saturday
to Hawkeye, Iowa, after short visit
at home.
Frank Vopava left Saturday for a
visit with friends and relatives at
Spillville.
/ "Mound City "Horse Shoe" Paint
wears longest, looks best. P. A.
Clemmer.
Vera Pike came down from Chester
Saturday, to spend Sunday with her
sister Eva.
John Stockman came up from Fay
cite. Saturday. for an over Sunday
visit at home.
Miss Lillian Moore of Kendallville.
went to Cedar Rapids Saturday to visit
| her sister Margaret.
Mrs. Sarah Moore came down from
Lime Springs Friday for visit at the
Ole Swenson home.
DR.. Albert Crabbe, of Traer, Iowa,
made short visit last Friday at the
home of Rev. Soper.
If you want farm loan at low rate
of interest, see American Loan 4 Trust
Company. Cresco. la.
Mrs. John Whitethorn of Ramona,
S. d., is guest of the Farrell families
residing in this vicinity.
Carrie and Inez Rethamel of Schley,
went to Calmar Saturday, to visit their
sister, Mrs. George "Opens.
VuASS AsuCu N1CWoLOA, VI A0uolIkS 0As
rived yesterday called by the illness of
her sister, Mrs. Dan Cooper.
Rev. Willard Fuller arrived from
Milwaukee last Friday to join his wife
in visit at the Levi Fuller home.
Ira Richardson returned from Rice
vile Saturday where he had been called
to at terd the funeral Of an uncle.
For SALE-Buff turkeys in pairs
and trios. Address C. s. MULKs,
Riceville, la.
Mrs. A l.. Vessels. of Steamboat
Springs. Colorado, is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Taub.
man.
l have rented the Damon barn, oppo.
site the depot, and will do feed and
livery barn business. Give me q call
and l will do my best to accommodate
and please you. LLOYD CAMERON.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-11-28
If you have pictures to frame, bring
them in be fore the rush. Racket store
OTTO JOHNSON.

If you have pictures to frame, brin
them in be fore the rush. Racket store
OTTO JOHNSON.
i Let US see you on your winter car
We have, the. largest and finest line O
caps carried in Cresco. The NICHOLS
/ Mrs. Chas Bucher and Mrs. Jaco!
Butz came up from Ridgeway Frida.
for short visit at the Reinhart home
Mrs. Guy DAVIS and children wen
to Bonair Saturday to visit at the
home of her uncle, Mr.. Geo. Buchana,
Miss Anna Chyle returned yesterda,
to her home at Usage, Iowa. after /,
visit in Cresco at W. j. Zbornik home
Miss Anna Cibuzar returned Satur
day to her home at Spillville afer !.
short visit at the P. M. Herold home
Mrs. Frank Dockstader and son Ar
thur, of Otranto, Iowa, were here las
week with a grandson. consulting DR..
Keesel.
Roy johnson was down from Cheste,
for an over Sunday visit with his sis
ters, Mrs. Walter Eddy and Grace
johnson.
Mrs. B. F. Stone arrived Saturday
afternoon from Monticello, Mimi, for
q visit at the home of her sister, Mrs.
c. F. Webster.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Herman. of Far
60, N. D., are visiting at the home Of
Mrs. Herman's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. H. Culbert.
Mrs. Thomas Norton Of Burr Oak, ,
and Mr.. Chris Collier of South Dakota,
Joe Farrell went to Bonair Saturday to
visit relatives.
Mrs. Lille Peacock returned to her
home in Minneapolis Saturday after a
few days visit at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. w. B. Perry.
Mrs. L. A. Knapp and daughter,
Mrs. Parker, arrived from North Nc
Gregor yesterday for visit with her
daughter, Mrs. Roy Fiske.
Don't fail, don't fail to see the show,
It does with mirth rebound,
Thanksgiving night. now come each one
And see 1.-THE Browns In Town.
For Sale-A few pure bred Poland
China male pigs and few pure bie
White Plymouth Rock cockerels.
H. w. SHUTTLEwORTH.
SORGHUM FOR SALE-We have some
home made cane sorghum for sale.
Phone Turkey River 20.
JOHN BLASER.
Natures greatest gift to the human
family 10 HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea. With it your family is fully pro-
tected. Best baby medicine in the
world. IS cents, Tea or Tablets. VIM
Connolly.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-11-28
To Owners of Dogs I

You are hereby notified that the
Board of Health of the City of Cresco
has ordered that all dogs in this city be
muzzled for a period Of 60 days from
this date. Any dogs not 80 muzzled
will be taken up and killed. The Board
has taken this action because of the
recent outbreak of rabies among dogs
here, and we have at this time. two
citizens of our city being treated 1t
Iowa City, who were bit by . dog
known to have rabies.
The Board kindly asks your cooper
alton as We believe it necessary for the
protection of all persons and animals.
E. L. DAVENPORT,
Chairman of the Board of Public Health.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-11-28

Mrs. L. Grabau was down from Bon
air Saturday.
]. c. Young went to Fort Atkinson
last Saturday.
Clara Bird was down from Bonair
lest Saturday.
Miss ssainrie Letter was down from
Bonair Monday.
Hard coal stove for sale. Enquire
of r. j. Woods.
Mrs. Glen johnson was down from
Bonair Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
"pEEkXEEK.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
 The news that "Pickwick" is being set for the French stage raises that mixture of feeling in our breast which is always described as respect not un- mingled with awe. It is not the first time, of course, that Bog" has been Gallicized either for production or for publication, and Thackeray has put on record his impressions of an uncon- scious travesty of Nicholas Nickleby" he witnessed once in a Paris theatre. The designing crew of Gride, and Pyke. and Pluck, if we remember rightly. were transformed into unutterable vil- lains with impossibly ferocious whiskers, and the hero who unmasked their machinations turned out to be polished and effeminate person rejoic- Ing in the name of 'Smique' Need less to say, he was a Rehabilitation of the hapless Smike.
 On some such lines. Les Aventures de NJ. Pickwick' might lead the benevolent Samuel to any length. His innocent scrapes with the fair sex might easily become Lotharian in-
 
 the scenes in the Fleet develop into chain of horrors calculated to knock the Bastile and the Conciergerie into a cooked hat and a coal scuttle bonnet We are reassured, however, by the news that the adapter, M. Charvay, has steeped himself in Dickens, and may therefore rank on a level with Mr Davray, who has done so much in France for Meredith and Kiplng. Un- fortunately. one of NJ Charvay's friends is anxious to prepare French taste for the humor of the play that he has talked of it's being Americanized, and there could hardly be an ,unkinder cut all round. Fancy the late Samuel Pickwick, Esquire, of Boswell street with transatlantic twang
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
A plague of opinion! man may wear 1t on both sides, like leather jerkfu.
 -TroiIus and Cressida
Last Years Commercial Crop

The crop of the cotton year that came to an end last Thursday night at 12 o'clock is the crop handled from September 1 to September l, wholly regardless of the time when it was grown. If man carries 100 bales or one bale five years and then sells out his stock of cotton, that cotton is counted in the year when he puts it on the market. In this way the com mercial crop of the cotton year is made up, and it is this crop that Sec fetary Hester of the New Orleans Cotton exchange says amounted to 12,120,095 bales, an increase over the crop of the previous year of 1,510, ,427 bales.
 It must be conceded that this 12,000,0 bale crop brought good prices, and yet there are some who say a similar crop should not put in the farmers pocket more than 10 cents pound. Such people will have another estimate to make little later in the season.
 The cotton year just ended was ab- solutely without a precedent in the marketing of new cotton The re- ceipts of new crop cotton aggregated 2S0,26 bales as against 165, ,909 bales in 1896, the largest previous record. This cotton went to swell the re- ceipts of the cotton year, but the re- ceipts of the present cotton year may 7 be increased in like manner next August.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
New York and Export Cotton

Despite the objection of southern bankers and cotton men, the Liver pool-New York scheme for the clear ing of all export cotton in New York is to be pushed through if New York and Liverpool can do it. Sixty or seventy railroads, the most of which are controlled in New York, have as- sented to the plan, and that plan has actually gone into effect.
 A meeting of southern cotton or ganizations and bankers will, how ever, be held in New Orleans under the auspices of the New Orleans Cot ton exchange to protest against this effort to render the south subservient to New York. This meeting is to be held September Is, and it may result in a protest that will be needed.
 The proposed plan has no good points in it. It does not in any way increase the liability of the railroads for the bills issued by their own agents. No export cotton under this plan can be financed until the New York office has issued validating certificate. It is not plain that the plan will eliminate forged bills. It does not increase the liability of the railroads, as it should, nor does it decrease the liability of the bankers that handle cotton bills. The Amer ican Bankers association will, no doubt, attend to the latter feature and the conference at New Orleans on September Is should take steps to render the railroads responsible for the bills they issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
\ TELLING ATTACK

From the New York Post
 Congressman Underwood makes tell- ing attack upon President Taft in .criticis- ing his vetoes of the tariff bills It is undeniab bly, a curious state of affairs when the President insists that Congress shall not legislate until 1t shall have re- ceived information culed by clerks and officials appointed by the President. MT. Underwood declares that never before has anyone denied to Congress that com potency to legislate which it's very being oonfers upon it. And he points out that when it comes to legislation the President himself is not above criticism, for Con- gress rejected the bill for the regulation last republican Congress and passed a much better bill protecting the rights of the people on important principles that were ignored in the presidential bil' Of course, Mir. Underwood would stand on firmer ground if the President had not been able to point out many evidences of haste and lack of care in the draw ing of some of the tariff bills. But none the less. the President has laid him self open to vigorous and just attack for denying some measure of relief to the i'll treated people of this country and all the stump speaking he is to indulge in on his coming tour will not alter that fact
 or prevent it's being clearly recognized
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
POETRY AND POTATOES
n the Cincinnati Tlmes-star.

Y TOul tile Slnthiiidti di
 "Poets,' said Richard Le Gallienne, 'are born-not made"
 Poets said his acquaintance, "are the waste material of the literary life. They are poets because they cannot clothe what they believe to be thought in straightforward language"
 As poet MT. Le Gallienne resented this libel. They dropped into a small side street saloon to talk it over. The bartender was its only occupant Now and then he was called to their table to serve them. Between times he peeled po- tatoes and onions and carrots for the next days free lunch. Poet Le Gallienne and his prose friend argued vehemently, beat upon the tables, quoted yards of the best sellers and insuted each other In the most friendly and impassioned fash ion in the world. At ? o'clock in the morning the bartender placed his elbows on the pine mahogany lifted up his face like a dog baying the moon and yawned
 He used one of the croupy, bronchial yarns that are so effective. Le Gal lienne and his friend came down from Olympus, paid their bill and started for the door Half way MT. I-e Galliennt
 stopped He tossed back his small manc of hair. fastened his handsome eyes upon the bartender and spoke to him in softly modulated tones. "I hope" said Mir. Le Gallienne, patronizingly, that we have
 not disturbed you by our talk of litera- | ture?"
 You never bothered me none,' said the bartender, reassuringy. ''I was busy peeln' pertaters."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
Business Conditions

While general trade was not as active during the first half of 1911 as merchants and manufacturers would like to have seen it, have known worse times'' said F. s. Creighton of Chicago, representing a jobbing interest.
 Summer business has been as good as any of us had expected. August trade has not been bad by any means, and am certain September will witness considl- erable activity. While it is generally said that we need look for no boom until after the presidential inauguration in 1913, there are reasons why normal con- dition should obtain between now and next spring. Crops in some of the western states have been disappointing, yet 1911 will go on record as good har- vest year.
 "The south is particularly well off in its crops and even if cotton has been hurt by the caterpillar as much as alarmisss tell us the price will be high enough 10 pour the same enormous quantity of cash into the cotton states as If the crop were larger. It is safe to say that Ala bama's cotton crop of 1911 will bring more money than any previous crop in the his tory of this state l think the south will enjoy a great deal of prosperity this fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
Extending the Postal System

1, To. him who waits all things are said to come. Birmingham has waited since January, last, for a postal bank and it is to get one on September 30. In this bank deposits as small as one dollar can be made, and all deposits will draw interest at the rate of two per cent. This is a low rate as savings banks go, but all banks have not 90,000,O00 of people behind them. Uncle Sam is con- sidered extremely trustworthy even when he goes into the banking busi- ness.
 This new departure is being ex- tended rapidly to all parts of the country and pretty soon all but the smaIlest postoffices will have bank attachment. In the towns that have no banks that receive small sums and nay interest on them, the postal banks should be useful. They should con- luce to prudence and the accumula- tion of home resources.
 The system stands approved in all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
THE SOUTH AND THE SALOON

From Harper's Weekly
 Texas by very slight majority declines 10 try statewide prohibition, and Ala bama abandons it, but North Carolina and Georgia and Mississippi still stick to it. That is the outcome, up to date, of the prohibition wave in the south which three or four years ago looked so strong that many people thought 1t would not let up until in. every bit of territory south of Mason and Dixon's line the liquor traf- fic in all its forms should be made Illegal Now a good many people find in the Texas election, narrow as was the margin of the antis, evidence that the wave has spent it's force and Is recedng They would probably say that if Texas had voted a year or two ago the margin would have been on the other side. However that may be, the closeness of the result in Texas shows that the prohibition senti- ment is still strong-very strong; for that enormous state is plainly a bad field forl the statewide experiment. it plainly pre- sents a good case for local option. It is no doubt true that the sentiment is not now so strong in the south as it was in lSVi ana lSuDi but there Is plenty of 1t left to insure trouble for the liquor peo- ple if they fail to learn anything from the troubles they have had. The south ern towns and cities which have had ex- perience of the blind tiger do not like it; but. on the other hand, they have not lost their dissatisfaction with the way the business was conducted in the old days and with the course of the liouor interests in politics. When and if they readmit the saloon. they are likely to in- sist upon the ampest possible guarantees of good behavior from both the man who conducts it and the man or men behind him. They will hardly submit again to low drinking places, frequented by ne- groes, in their better residence quarters, or to licensed "dives" of any kind Neither will the countrysides be disposed to reinstate the crossroads "deadfall." The future of the liquor traffic in the south depends very largely on the be- havior of the men in control of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
Coal Shipments From Pittsburg

A heavy rain of forty hours has temporarily restored navigation to the Ohio river, and Pittsburg has started a fleet of barges holding 8,0O0,00O bushels of coal for southern points, New Orleans included This shipment is reflection upon the energy and enterprise of this district, for the Ohio is navigable but one hundred days in the year, and the Warrior and Tombigbee have long been navi- gable that many days in every year. Today coal can be barged to New Orleans from Tuscaloosa and even from some points above it to Mobile and thence via Mississippi sound and Lake Borgne to New Orleans, and yet no operator proposes to do what Pitts burg, two thousand miles away, suc- cessfully does despite drouths in warm weather and ice in cold weather.
 This district can never reach full development unless water transporta- ton is fully utilized. The railroads have enough to do without being asked to transport such heavy and bulky products as coal and coke, iron and steel and their manufactured products.
 Pittsburg -faraway Pittsburg, with or without an "h," is today driving this district out of the markets of the lower Mississippi because we re- fuse to utilize the improved river that cuts this district in two. It is prepar- ing to land winters supply of coal in New Orleans A local rain along the Ohio did it. Great is water, and even local rains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
France and Germany in Morocco

France is willing to hand over to Germany a portion at least of the French Congo in return for a recogni tion by Germany of the right of France to do as she pleases in Mo rocco. A French protectorate in Morocco is the probable outcome.
 The Conversations between France and Germany are still going on. These conversations are conducted by Am bassador Cambon, speaking for France, and by Herr Won Kiderlin- Waechter, the German foreign minis ter. Berlin is the scene. The busi- ness was begun by the sending of German ships to Agader, on the southwest coast of Morocco, after French troops had marched to and practically seized Fez, the capital of Morocco. The other nations remain passive, although Spain has sent troops to a couple of ports near Gibraltar.
 No one seems to want another Algeciras convention. It was a great fiasco. It settled nothing. All Flu rope is really waiting to see France and Germany settle the Moroccan embroglio.
 France desires a free hand in Morocco and England will support her in case war comes. The partition of Africa has long been Source of ir- ritation in Europe, and Germany would be glad of chance to limit England's occupation of Egypt. Eng land will, however, stay in Egypt, and the French will, no doubt, stay at Fez. and Germany will, no doubt, be content with a slice of the French Congo. It is not believed that either France or Germany desires to go to war, and doubtless the diplomats will find way out of the present trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
A Popular symphony Orchestra

T am glad to learn that there is a probability of having the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra. in Birmingham dur ing the season of 19l1-12" said well known music lover
 Ut is only question of the Minneapo- lis management offering us workable dates. It is one of the newer symphony organizations but it ranks today as one of the greatest of them. Emil Oberhoffer the conductor. is said to be unsurpassed as an authoritative leader. He has great individuality, too. His readings are said to be at once virle and poetic. The Min neapolis orchestra opened a two weeks engagement at Ravinia park last Monday and this is what Glenn billiard Gum, one of Chcago's distinguished critics, in writing of this masterful conductor and his select band of instrument alists, said in part:
 'The results this orchestra obtains in the direction of warmth and beauty of tone. precision of attack delicate adjust ment of contrasts, and pulse quickening as so many means to a most satisfying musical end. MT. Oberhoffer is an author itative master of orchestra. His methods in conducting incline somewhat toward that interpretative significance of ges- ture practiced by Felix Weingartner. In making clear his intentions to the players the listener also is enlightened as to his purpose in every detail of phrasing, ac- cent and infection. But there is no hint of pose. It all is a part of the high strung, sincere, and direct personality reflected in music. Perhaps the most ef- fective number on Mondays programme was the march from the 'Pathetique' symphony of Tschaikowsky. Its brilliant and colorful texture of theme and coun- | ter-theme never has been more effectively | displayed