Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-01-20

Tuesday last, AMI went down to De-
corah for visit with his mother anc
other relatives
. Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. Long returned
Tuesday from visit at New Hampton,
at the home of Mrs. ]. M. Murphy a
: sister of Mrs. Long.
Horace Henderson is having his bar.
Der shop enlarged to allow the install
lation of third chair to accommodate
his increasing patronage.
For RENT-The Cole property on
the Howard Center road Will be re-
paired and cleaned up for a desirable
tenant. Enquire of HAM BROWN.
Heavy, good corn for sale, % miles
southwest of CrescO, at the former
Steve Dotzler farm.
"A. F. RAKEBRAND.
The Ladies of the New Oregon Gene
terry Association will serve chicken
pie dinner Saturday, Feb 4th, in the
Woodman hall over lenders meat mar
ket.
A general Real Estate and Exchange
business. See US before buying or sell
ling. Office overAlliance store. Phone
2s2. MYRoN CONVERSE Inv. Co.,
63tf Cresco, Iowa.
My March pigs are all sold, but have
a choice bunch of April pigs that will
close out at a bargain if taken now.
Don't wait, your credit is good if you
are not ready to pay. NJ. P. LYDoN.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. C. Fergen have
been enjoying visit from the form
er's father, Jos. Fergen and the lat
ter's brother, Victor Faust, who re-
turned yesterday to their home a,
Parkston, S, d.
Chan Robinson has completed his an
nual ice harvest and Cresco people are
assured of all they need to meet their
requirements next summer The total
pack in both ice houses is 22OO tons,
and it is all of good quality.
Will have car of meat meal on the
track in Cresco in few days, 60 per
cent. Protein. Best feed on the
market for all kinds of swine and
poultry. Phone your order or call at
the store and get Free Booklet on
Swine and Poultry Feeding.
The F. A. GLASS FLOUR AND FEED Co
The Board of Supervisors adjourned
yesterday to meet again February q,
as county board of education to con-
tract for school books for the next five
years, and on the day following will
meet with the township trustees in a
county road convention which will be
addressed by by good roads expert
from Ames.
A change in the ownership Of the
Kraft Clothing Co. has taken place
this week. Mr.. Kraft selling an in
terest in the business to Mr.. O'Dell,
who has been for several years man.
ager of the Kraft System store at Mt.
Carroll, ILL.,, who will take up his resi-
dence in Cresco. Edgar Shelmedine
will remain with the new firm.
Manley PEGGY is away from home
filling number of wrestling engage
ment, and is calling the bluff of lot
of Iowa wrestlers who have been doing
lot of wrestling in the papers lately.
The Des Moines News of Wednesday
said; ''Pecoy of Cresco, wants to meet
Reeves. McPeak and Ondler, agre eing
to throw them all in an hour"
Jacob A. o. Larsen, son of Rev. DR..
Laur Larsen of Decorah. and brother
of our Rev. Lauritz Larsen, and who
is now student at Yale, took the
Rhodes Scholarship examination at
Iowa City recently and has been
awarded the hcnor of three years
scholarship at Oxford, England. The
honor carries with it free tuition and
$500 per year. Mr.. Larsen will leave
for Oxford next September
Rufus Culver, son of Sheriff Culver,
met with bad accident last evening
in having both bones of his leg broken
near the ankle. He, with crowd of
boys. we're returning from a coasting
psrty at Baldwin's hill, riding upon
hand-sleds hitched in a string and
drawn by horse, occupying sled in
the middle of the string from which he
fell and was caught and dragged by
the leg by the sled following, resulting
in the above stated injury.
On last Wednesday euening at eight
o'clock, Rev. l. B. Torrison performed
the ceremony at the parsonage, which
united for life Mr.. Julius Dybyik
of fremont township to Miss Alta No
bic, daughter of Fred Noble of Cresco.
This newly married couple will make
their home on the groom's farmin FIRE.
mont township. Both of them have a
wide friendship who esteem them high
ly for their many excellent qualities,
and join US IN hearty congratulations.
-Decorah Public Opinion.
For SALE-25 choice Duroc Jersey
gifts bred to three No. hogs, the best
that could be found in the country.
Our pigs won all the first prizes at the