Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-05-09

Selecting walr paper Tor q living room
should receive careful consideration.
The appearance Of the room should in
dictate comfort, even luxury, and we
have many practical and effective sug-
gestions to offer for decorating living
rooms. P. A. CLEMMER.
The well-known Clydesdale Stallion
Dale, No. l2277, will make the season
beginning April 18th, 1918, in Cresco
and vicinity, with headquarters at
Whites barn. Fee, SIS to insure 2
foal one week old. ~ ...
J. F. Mc1ntire, Manager.
Well improved l6O acre farm mil e
from Cresco, also we'll located 200
acres with fine buildings. Both are
good farms with no waste land. Price
for either $85 per acre. For further
information see JAS. H. DALEY,
Vernon Springs Road, Cresco, Iowa.
Melvin Hovey, son of T. T. Hovey,
of Orleans township, was badly in
jured on Saturday last in a runaway
affair. He was discing and the team
started to run and in holding on to the
team he was dragged behind the disc
and received several bad cuts about
the head. ~ ..
For SALE OR RENT-4OO acre grain
and stock farm on Sec. 27-l00-13, q
miles south of Chester railroad station
and d miles west of Lime Springs. Is
watered with springs and spring brook.
For terms apply to owner on place or
write JOHN CRAY, Lime Springs, r. D.
No. 2, Box II, Howard Co., la. 32t8.
If you want to buy, sell, or exchange
farm lands or city property, see US be-
fore buying or listing. If you are a
buyer, remember our list ranges from
city lots to half halt section farms. If
you wish to sell, we can find you q
buyer. Come and talk it over.
JAS. H. DALEY.
Office at Daley farm, half mile south
of Cresco. 29tf
Lew Smith, of Howard Center, who
spent the past year at Ames college,
left yesterday for Manchester to do
the expert work of conducting Cow
Testing Association formed by 26 far
mers and dairymen in that vicinity.
The patrons will keep him busy every
working day in the month weighing
feed and testing milk, and he will be
employed for year.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. River are now
residents of the village, making their
home with the w. R. Clark family.
Eds health is somew hat improved and
he is able to get about town ard enjoy
himself among his friends, all of whom
have missed him since he has been COM
PEELED to stick so close to home. He
has sold his farm to his sons Clark and
Roy Roy independent. n
The Woodmen Circle will give a
Mother Goose Party in the w. o. W.
hall, on Wednesday night, May 14th.
to which the public is cordially invited.
A suitable prize will be given to the
one guessing correctly the largest
number of Mother Goose characters
represented. Light refreshments will
be served, and an entertaining pro-
gram has been arranged for. .,,
A travelling man got into contro~
versy with one of the phone girls in
Atlantic City, ami while somewh at ex-
cited told the young lady to "Just keep
your shirt on Tho manager of the
exchange went to the gentleman and
told him he had better apologize. He
rang central and asked, ''Are you the
young lady told to keep her shirt on?'
IL sure am" she snapped back.
"Weil it's all right with me; you can
take it off if you want to-" was his
apology.
The editor of this paper took little
tri over to Cresco last week and while
away stopped at half dozen other
neignboring towns. Cresco is lively
little city and growing rapidly. Sew
eral factories have come to the town
through the efforts of the business
men, who are working together for
their towns advancement. They are
good bunch Of hustlers and every
day are demonstrating what can be
accomplished by united boosting
Usage News,
Wall paper does more to make a
good.looking dining room than any
thing we know of outside of food, so
when it comes to decorating your din
ing room, seek the services of a deco
rator who can show you colored plates
of rooms all decorated-it is q most
valuable and helpful assistance in de-