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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09
Marriage Licenses.

The following marriage licenses we're
issued by Clerk Blandin, during the
last week:
John NJ. Evans, 81, Elma.
Margaret Knapp, Is, Elma.
Jess Roper, %, Bonair.
Agnes j. Donovan, II, Bonair.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09
Testimonial.

The following testimonial is from
Cresco and unlike others is entirely
unsolicited.
81 have tried medicines for kidney
trouble for several years but received
no benefit from them. A friend recon-
mended an Electro Chemical Ring.
wore it three weeks with good results
and would recommend it to every one. "
MRS. FRED SwENsoN.
For sale and guaranteed by E. A.
Graf, Cresco, Iowa. Phone 266.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09

Report of School in Vernon Springs
district No. 2, Howard county, oIowa,
for month ending April S 1912.
Number days taught, 20.
Number pupils enrolled, 10.
Average daily attendance, 81.
Number cases hardness, 0.
Those who were neither absent nor
tardy during the month are: Walter
Eye, Marshall Eye, Merilla Driscoll,
Gertrude Brierley, Florence Brierley,
RuthlDove, Fern Dove.
GENEVIEvE BACON, Teacher.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09
School Report

of district No. 4, New Oregon town
ship for the month ending April S, 1912.
Number of pupils enrolled, II.
Average daily attendance, l3.
Number of cases of tardiness, 6.
Number neither absent nor tardy, S.
Those neither absent nor tardy are:
Gladys Sovereign, Gerald Sovereign,
Claud, Sovereign, Katie Fravel, Eun-
ice Fravel.
FLORENCE GALLAGHER, Teacher.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09
Hollow Block Silo.

To the farmer who is thinking of
silo and wishes informationi as ,to"a
contractor and his price, and the diff
ferent modes Of construction, inquire
of H. w. GoocHER, Cresco, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09
Announcement.

l hereby announce myself as can
6idate for the office of County Auditor
subject to the decision of the voters of
Howard County at the Republican
primary to be held June 4, 1912.
j. H. LuERS, Cresco, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09
Farms Wanted

Is your farm for sale? If so, now is
the time to list it with this Office and
get the benefit of the free advertising,
on the no sale. no pay plan. If you
have land or other property for sale,
or trade, it will pay you to write OF
call at this office. Luers Land Co.
Office over Milz Drug store, Cresco.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09
The Season

now here when it is time to get busy.
There's surely somebody wants what
you have, and the other fellow may
have what you want. | will try to
satisfy you. Call in or write GEO. H.
OWENS, Land and Investment Office,
opposite Court House, Cresco, Iowa. y
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09
For Sale !

Dwarf Victor Rape Seed, hundred
acres grown on our farms every year.
You know the kind; we have large
quantity of this this year and can
supply your wants. 65w6
C.. D. NICHOLS LIVE STOCK Co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09

Another benefactor to our new school
is Wesley o. Swenson, who in his gen.
erosity subscribed $25.
Sincerest thanks,
FATHER j. P. WAGNER.
A general Real Estate and Exchange
business. See US before buying or sell
ling. Office over Alliance store. Phone
282. MYRoN CONVERSE Inv. Co.,
63tf Cresco, Iowa.
Mrs. Fred Woellstein went to De-
corah Friday for visit with her father
Henry Knoke and sister, Mrs. A. W.
Miller. Mr.. Woellstein went down Sat
urday night to join his wife in an over
Sunday visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Odell and little
son Donald left Saturday for visit
with relatives at Brooklyn. Mr.. Odell
goes to Des Moines also to buy goods
for the Kraft store, and will be joined
there by his wife for brief stay.
Good opening for bright, honest,
young man of about 18 or twenty years
of age as assistant and book-keeper in
country bank in Northeastern Iowa.
Bohemian preferred. Apply by letter
only. Address Banker" care of
Cresco PLAIN Dealer, Cresco, Iowa.
The Easter services at Grace Eplsco-
pal church were highly successful in
every way. The church was prettily
decorated with Easter lilies, palms and
potted plants, and the special musical
program, with its incidental soprano
solos by Mrs. Haven, was highly appre-
ciated. Rev. Long preached two fine
sermon appropriate to the day, and
was assisted in the services by Rev.
Grant.
Harry Howard former resident of
this vicinity but more recently of South
Dakota, who is brother of Mrs. E.
r. Precious, arri:ed Tuesday from a
visit to his former home in Lincoln
shire, England. He was accompanied
to Cresco by his sister, Miss Nellie
Howard and friend, Miss Sears, both |
of whom intend to remain in this coun-
try for some time and perhaps perma-
nently.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09
OBITUARY.
EMMONS,

Philander Humphrey Emmons was
born at Hartland Conn.,, Dec. 4, 1922.
He was the youngest of family OF
four children consisting of three boys
and one girl.
When grown to manhood he went to
Chenango county N. Y, but remained
there only a short time. Having
brother, IL. f." in the jewelry busi-
ness in Youngstown, Ohio, was an in.
centive for him to 60 thither. He Joined
himself to his brothers. business in the
role of yankee Pedeler" and labored
in this capacity for number of years,
spending two of them in Miss.
Miss Cornelia johnson, an Ohio girl
became his wife. Four children were
born to them but only one grew to
maturity, daughter, Cora.
Miss Cora became Mrs. Elmer r.
Mintern and now lives at Parkman,
Ohio. The wife, also, survives the de-
deased and has home with her daugh-
ter.
In 1857 L. F. Emmons came to Iowa
while Philander remained in the east
After the lapse of half a century the
heart of the younger brother syearned
to see the older and he ticketed for
Cresco to give his brother great sur
prise. Just before arriving he fell in
company gentleman who informed
him that his brother Loren had been
buried ten days. The heart, pulsing
with pleasure and a long cherished ex-
pectation, was chilled with disappoint-
ment. In this way he went out to the
Emmons farm in New Oregon Twp.
He remained with the family of his
nephew, l.. E., and has been most con-
scientiousy and tenderly cared for un-
til nine months ago the physical and
mental weakness of age made it nee
essary that he should be taken to
hospital for professional treatment
and care. He died at 10 O'Clock the
morning of the 4th of April 1912 in In
dependence, Iowa.
The funeral occurred Friday after
noon at 2:3O, April 5th, at the resi-
dence of l.. E. Emmons in Cresco, con-
Quoted by Rev. B. w. Soper, pastor OF
the M. E. church. Interment was In
the Emmons family lot in New Oregon
cemetery.
CARD OF THANKS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmons desire to ex
press their thanks to those who render
ed assistance during their bereavement
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09

Hay for sale. S. A. CONVERSE.
Early seed potatoes for sale at Zbor-
mix Bros.
Mrs. Stintzi was down from Chester
Saturday.
Mrs. Conklin of Chester, was Cres-
co visitor Friday.
Mrs. Richard Lloyd was down from
Bonair Saturday.
Miss Gertie Bird was down from
Bonair Saturday.
Miss Drake sp ent Sunday at her
home in Lime Springs.
| Mrs. Will Hazelton of Calmar, was a
Cresco shopper Friday.
F. E. White was a business visitor
at Lime Springs Monday.
Eugene Irvine made business trip
to Lime Springs Monday.
Mrs. M. o. Libbey of Ridgeway, was
a Cresco visitor Monday.
For Rent-Two furnished rooms.
Enquire of Mrs. L. j. Glass.
N. A. Blackburn, Lawyer; office
opposite the National Bank.
For Sale-Seed wheat and seed bar
ley. Enquire of B. P. Norton.
Ira Wentworth returned last week
from visit in the Twin Cities.
Mrs. E. E. Griffith of Lime Springs
was Cresco shopper Monday.
Before selling your wool, call on me.
S. Feldstein.
Fresh Rendered Lard, IL cents per
pound. SOUTH SIDE MEAT MARKET.
Millinery and dress making in Frank
Pecinovsky's house. M. A. Lydon.
Baled hay for sale by the ton. En-
n'ire of D. G. ELDERKIN.
Phone your orders for ice to No. 437.
E. o. WHITE.
Miss Gertrude Horton was down from
Lime Springs between trains Saturday
Madge Perry and Mabel Hall of Lime
Springs were Cresco visitors Saturday.
Miss Martinek went to Ft. Atkinson
Saturday for an over Sunday visit at
home.
Miss Emily Fitzgerald returned Mon
day from visit with relatives at West
Union.
Mrs. Blanche Adams came down
from Austin, Monday for a visit with
relatives.
T. j. Hardy returned Monday from a
visit with his daughter, Mrs. River. at
Riceville.
"Mound City "Horse Shoe" Pain
wears longest, looks best. P. A.
Clemmer.
Ed Barrett came over from Elma
Saturday for visit with his brother,
NJ. Barrett.
Mrs. J. H. Jones and daughter Kath-
crime of Lime Springs, were Cresco
callers Friday.
Mrs. M. M. Burns and little son of
Lime Springs were Cresco business
visitors Monday
Mrs. o. F. Shaw and Miss Gertrude
Horton of Lime Springs were Cresco
shoppers Monday.
Miss Maude Goocher came up from
Fayette Friday, to spend the Easter
vacation at home.
Miss Helen Meyer returned to Le-
Roy Saturday, after a visit at the
Thomas Lewis home.
Evergreens for Sale--lf interested,
write me for special prices. l.. E.
Grabau, Bonair, Iowa.
| If you want farm loan at a low rate
of interest, see American Loan Il Trust
Company. Cresco. la.
Rev. Father Howard returned Mon
day to Dubuque after a visit with his
mother, Mrs. John Howard.
For SALE-Several good Houses in
Cresco. Ask to see them. 0. w.
CLARK, the Insurance man.
Miss Margaret Moore returned Mon
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09
1OO-acre Stock Farm at a Bargain.

1O0-acre Stock Farm at Bargain.
This farm is located within 3 miles of
Cresco, has good house and fair out
buildings, good we'll and running water,
some timber, is somewhat rolling. but
an ideal stock farm. Will be sold at a
bargain if taken before June 1st. For
particulars inquire of or address,
A. j. EVANS, Cresco, Iowa.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09

Cheapest accident insurance-Or.
Thomss' Eclectic Oil. Stops pain and
heals the wound. All druggists cell it.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09

Another benefactor to our new school
is Wesley o. Swenson, who in his gen.
erosity subscribed $25.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-04-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Emmons desire to ex-
press their thanks to those who render
ed assistance during their bereavement
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-09-19
NATIVES ARE LAZY

The immediate causes of the cruelty
exercised by the boss collectors on the
natives are plain enough. The natives
are lazy. There is a great amount of
the sleeping sickness prevalent in these
regions. There is a certain amount of
danger involved in a trip through the
rubber trees For all these reasons if
native has enough food OH hand to
last him through the day he is natural
ly averse to going cupping after the
rubber.
On the other hand, the boss collector
has to supply his contracted amount to
the mercantile company, for the ships
can make the extreme headwaters only
while the overflow season is on, and
that is during very few months of the
year, and every day counts in the col
lection. Coerciye measures, therefore,
are resorted to to keep the native on
his rounds. Machetes are very much
in evidence, as they are used for slash
ing the outer bark to make missions
for the milk to escape. The boss, col
lector finds a machete handler than a
walking stick in coercing a native.
If a native is delinquent the boss
collector may strike him with ma
chete as with a stick. In such case
the loss of an ear or a limb may be
the result. In not a few instances per-
sistent refusal on the part of a native
to work has caused him to be killed
outright The man is simply shot
down.
Gun and machete furnish two means
of melting industry on the part of the
natives, but these do not comprise the
entire arsenal of energy producers. An
instrument similar to the Russian
knout and known as a scourge is the
badge of authority among overseers.
Few natives whose regular pursuit is
rubber gathering escape the scourge
and many of them can show backs
scanned and ridged, the result of blows
that have broken the skin and eaten
! into the flesh. These are the prac-
4 tees which the British and the Ameri-
can governments are demanding that
Peru shall order abated even if troops
have to be sent to the region where
| they are common.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-09-19
The Height of the Ridiculous
Work-What Is lt7

AT dinner in Jacksonville Senator
Duncan U. Fletcher was condemning
an orange grower who had failed.
THE man failed" he said, through
ignorance. He lays the blame on other
things, but his ignorance alone is at
fault. He is as ignorant of orange
farming as the tramp was Of industry.
you've heard of that tramp per-
haps? He wore on his face a sneer of
derision and scorn
"'Work? he said. Work? What is
tia herb? Los Angeles Times.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-09-19
WORSE THAN THE KoNGo

Sir Roger reported that worse con-
ditiOns exist in South America than
those which caused horror throughout
the civilized world in the Kongo. 9th
er statements bear out the Easement
report In its tale Of cruelty manning
and actual murder of natives that the
rubber yield may bring in golden re-
turns to the commercial companies op-
Grating as concessionaires.
To get fair estimate Of the condi-
tons under which rubber is produced
1t is necessary to have clear idea not
only of the region where the milk of
the rubber trees is collected, but also
of the climate, of the natives and of
the freedom from restraint, legal or
moral, which living in so remote re
gion engenders
Peru's situation in the matter is pc
culiar. The Putumayo district can be
reached from Lima only by weeks of
travel around by Panama and up the
Amazon, while the district itself is I'M
der the slightest of government author
ity. There is practically no restraint
from the law, and a man may be fog
ged, manned, poisoned or shot with alb
solute impunity as regards government
officials.
1t has been estimated that a ton Of
raw rubber represents the life of a
man. This is not entirely due to the
cruelty of the boss collector, as he is
called. Thousands of deaths occur an
nually from disease, snake bite, crush.
ing by the immense reptiles that infest
the water and swamps of the upper
Amazon. some of these constructors be-
ing more than fifty feet long, and not a
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-09-19
THE POISON PENALTY

In fairness to the overseers. however
it must be stated that more provok-
ing set of operatives than the low caste
native could hardly be imagined They
win work only when driven TO it by
starvation or coercive measures; they
are careless in the way they do their
work; they spill the precious milk
which viii subsequently be coagulated
into the rubber Of commerce: they cash
the trees instead of making the proper
cut which gets the best results, and
they frequently will cut down whole
tree rather than take the trouble to
cut it properly
Indeed it was not until the poison
penalty was imposed that this telling
of trees could be stopped. Even the
dull brain Of the native could make
some connection between the sudden
agonized death Of some operator and
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-09-19
poor WHITE" A MISNOMER.
Today Poverty Has Made Way For an
Advanced South.

Today the term poor white" is a
misnomer. There are poor white farm
ers in the south today, of course, and
many of them, but that vast under
class has developed into the very back
bone of the resurrected south's modern
democracy. The submerged tenth
really vastly more than one-tenth-has
been elevated into q position of power.
The scientific, progressive white
farmer of the south, who takes a pride
in his success at the county and state
fairs, in the healthy rivalry of neigh
bors and fellow citizens and in the
election of the most capable of the men
of his class to the local offices, is q
type of the southern leader of today.
From a hut of previous poverty and
squalor he has moved into the spacious
and sanitary farmhouse. His farm
lands, during the last decade even,
have increased SIG per cent in value
and his twelve leading crops 92.4 per
cent.-Farrar Newberry in National
Magazine
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-09-19

IA R EN- who play with their heads
EWE as well as their hands have
V& proved that it is possible to
stay long time in profession
al baseball. There are several men
still very much in the game who may
yet break or at least equal Cy Young's
record They are not, however, pitch
ers. James Tilden Sheckard is one of
the veterans in whom the baseball pub
lie is very much interested. Jimmy
broke into the game as far back as
1895, when he played with the Mariet-
ia and Lancaster semi-professional
team. Thence he moved to Ports
mouth, Va, going in the following year
to Brockton in New England.
Brooklyn corralled him next, and aft
er one year with Baltimore he went
back across the bridge again. With
the rest Of his baseball career every
small boy is familiar, especially the
small boy of Brooklyn, where James
was popular. Toward the close of his
term with the Brooklyn team Sheck
ards work fell off, and there were
tllOSe w HO Ilidl u0 WIS Sill
He spruced up promptly when he went
to Chicago Sheckard was never very
happy in Brooklyn and was glad to
get away.
There is a great deal of good baseball
left in Sheckard, and 1t would not be
surprising if he were to stay in the lists
as long as Young and Willie Keller.
Sheckard knows INSIDE baseball as
well as the next man and should be
credited with some Of the Chicagoisms
that have heretofore been attributed
to more famous members of the Cubs.
Johnny Evers has had most of the
limelight. and it has been the custom
to attribute most of the clever moves
to him
Fred Tenney has Sheckard beaten by
one year, and Tommy Leach, the man
whose harshest words are ooh, cricky"
is a year behind Willie Keller dates
back to 1892. but there are still plenty
of Brooklynites who can readily re-
member when he played with the
Flushing, Arlington and Acme teams.
Keller is man Of whom every child
has heard.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-09-19

4-Makng rubber biscuits 5-Hus of rubber gatherers

the fact that he had persistently vio-
lated the rule against telling a rubber
tree.
There are subcollectors who rank as
section bosses and who follow the men
about OH their rounds and are armed
with scourge and machete. On one &C.
casion in the absolute knowledge of
spectator, subcollector found a
man cutting more deeply than he
should into the rubber tree. He struck
him on the side of the face with the
fat of the machete and broke the
mans jaw. leaving him with the re-
mark:
Don't cut so deep next time"
The days tour of the natives who
cup the trees is not a pleasant one.
They start out in the morning with
forty or fifty tin cups slung over their
shoulders and are obliged to wade
sometimes waist or breast deep in
mud and ooze and slime. They must
be constantly alert for eobras and
venomous snakes, which infest the wa
ters, to say nothing of several species
of saurians whose sharp teeth can per.
form instantaneous amputation of legs
or arms.
On reaching the rubber trees they
make V shaped cut in the rough
outer bark. At the inverted apex of
the angle thus made the tin cup is fas-
tened with piece of gum, and the
operation is repeated from ten to forty
times on the same tree. A days work
consists in the care of a hundred such
trees for each man.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-09-19
COLLECTING THE MILK

After the cupping expedition in the
evening and during certain seasons of
the year at noon as well tour is
into which the milk collected in the
cups is poured. 1t is not an easy Job
like tapping Il sugar maple, where one
incision will supply sap for several
days. Owing to the tropical growth
the cut heals rapidly and Is sealed
over in three or four hours in the
height of the season and in day in
the most sluggish part of the season.
This means that new cuts and cupping
have to be done each day
After the milk is collected it is car
ried back to the camp and then coag-
the smoke made by burning the mer-
curry palm nut. A matured tree in the
swamp will give an average of FIVE
gallons of milk during the season,
which will coagulate into five pounds
of raw rubber, valued at $3.50 pound
in gold.
If the tree is carefully tapped it will
give this yield for forty years without
injury or cost of cultivation other than
the collecting of the milk. If, how
ever, the machete in the hands of a
careless native or Indian penetrates
the bark. exposing the wood of the
tree, it speedily dies. A weevil called
the pumbula enters the wound made
by the machete and eats right into the
heart of the tree.
The extent of the rubber business Is
surprising. Rubber is second only to
coffee and sugar as tropical product
The United States consumes one-half
of the total output; the annual impor-
tations from Brazil are worth $7O,00O,-
coo and from Peru $12,0O0,O0O.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-09-19
ANTS AS REMEDIES.
Insects and Their Eggs Still Used as
Cures In Europe


Among the last of the remedies pro-
vocative of nausea of the imagination
to disappear from the lists of official
remedies have been preparations made
from ants. Such preparations, how
ever, have not obtained much recogni-
ton In this country even among the
wise old women in domestic practice,
though in parts of Europe they are
yet In use, says the Milwaukee Sen
tinel
Ant baths, made by boiling ants in
water, are yet in use by Bayarian
peasants for rheumatism and govt and
also in Hessen and in Hungary. In
Bohemia, 1t is said, for paralysis of
the lower limbs patients are placed in
an ant hill and allowed to remain I'M
til the whole body is covered with the
insects, which are then shaken off
when the cure is effected. In Bran
denburg an aching tooth is rubbed
with blood by means of a crust of
bread, and the crust is then placed in
an ant hill. Impoverishment of blood
is cured by means of an egg buried in
the hill of the large red ants.
The egg must have been laid by
pure white or pure black hen and
must have been found when still
warm. In Oberwalz the crushed eggs
and larvae Of ants stirred up with
cream are used as a remedy for collie.
A salve made from wood ants, dog fat
and coal dust is said to be used by
Hungarian gypsies against goiter.
There is also in use in Montenegro the
''ant suture" in domestic surgery.
Those who have been bitten by ants
noticed that the heads remained cling
ing to the skin when the body was
torn away, being held in place by the
powerful mandibles. The idea was
thus suggested that the ants jaws
could be used to close the edges of
wounds. The edges of the cut are
pressed together, an ant is held SO
that it's jaws will grasp both sides and
It's body cut off. Several are applied
along the wound and serve instead of
the usual catgut stitches.