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Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28
MAPLE LEAF.

Gust. Baethke is working for Mrs. J..
Graf, helping with some corn and other
work.
Will Bigley delivered some hogs to
Elma, Saturday.
M F. Bigley was an Elma caller,
one day last week.
The dance at Saratoga, Friday even.
ing, was we'll attended and an enjoy
able time is reported by all. Herp'
linck's furnished the music.
Mike Dvorak and family, Of Davis
Corners, visited at the Charlie Malek
home, Sunday last
Adolph Kakac called at the Roman
home, Thursday. .a..pa.
MIR. and Mrs. Adolph Kakac and son
Edward, Frank Horejsi, James Wit,
Will Jarosh and Frank Flick were pleas.
ant visitors at the home of John 9kubi.
chek, Sunday. Ee
Anna Musel called on Mrs. Will
Jarosh last Sunday. 7'.
Will Jarosh and Frank Flick were
Davis Corners callers, Saturday even
ing. ''7'' ..........
Anton and Frank Roman called on
Frank Kakac, Sunday morning.
Martin Souhrada, Charlie Mcknight,
Roy Rite and Frank Bigley called at
the A. Roman home, Sunday evening.
Charlie Dozark and family called at
the Horejs home, Sunday.
MIR. and Mrs: Fred Buresh were. Ats
Vista callers, Monday.
Tophy Herpelinck was an Elma call
er, Monday.
Adolph ard Frank Kakac were bust.
ness callers at Cresc0, Monday
Anton and Elsie Roman called at the
Adolph Kakac home, Monday evening.
Frank Roman worked for Henry
Enos, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Frana were
seen autoing through our neighborhood,
Sunday. F
Eman Krall called at the Horejsi
home, Sunday.
Anton Roman Jr. called on Fred
Groat, Sunday. # t,e,
Y Buresh made a trip to Cresco,
Friday last. s.s5
Mrs. Joe Zobeck and children called
at the Falada home last Sunday.
Edna Frank calledon Nettie Zobeck,
Sunday afternoon. Ss.4 !,
Joe Drtina called at Joe Zobsck's,
Sunday.
Joe Zobeck made business trip ia
Cresco, Saturday last.
Joe Kubic, Ed Neibaur and Will
Fisher were callers at the Joe Shock
home, Saturday..
Among those who were present at
the home of Mrs. John Haskovec, Sun
day, were Mr.. and Mrs. A. Milota, Mr..
and Mrs. Joe Haskovec and children
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Haskovec, and Mr..
and Mrs. Jim Dusek.
MIR. and Mrs. John Tlusty, of Mime.
sofa, were visitors at the Joe Tlusty
home, from Thursday till Monday.
Agnes Zobeck assisted Mrs. Joe To-
beck with geese picking, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Drtina and child
rem, Mrs. Joe Soch and daughter Mary,
and Mrs. John Voves and children were
pleasant callers at the S. kubicek
home, Sunday. q Iht ~
Mesd. S. and F. Kubicek were Sara
toga visitors, last week. -
Mr.. and Mrs. John Tlusty called al
the Joe Soch home, Friday evening.
Last Monday evening while Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Zobeck, residing on the Will
Frank place, were at dance, some
neighbors in passing discovered the
home in flames, but the fire had such a
start that the house could not be saved,
and was burned with all it's contents
The other buildings were saved. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28
Short Course Notice

! All those who contracted for individ-
ual tickets will please call and settle
for them at the Nichols Clothing Co.,
Saturday, Dec. 18th.
W. C. C. NICHOLS, Secy.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28
COUNTY NEWS.
LIME SPRINGS.

LIME SPRINGS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Owens went to
Chester Saturday for visit.
Ralph Thomas went to Cresco Thurs
day. g..
Margaret Owen went to Chester Sat-
urday for an over Sunday visit.
Albert Jilker went Ito Austin Satur-
day.
Mrs. Obriham returned home from
her visit at DEBORAH Saturday.
Violet Horton returned home Satur-
day from Fort Atkinson.
Viola and Esther Evans were Cresco
callers Saturday.
Mrs. G.. Morris went to Chester Sat-
urday: ... .r !
Ray Hughes returned to Cresco Sum
day. /
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Hass. Ella Pet
erson. Augusta and Mary Parchman
and Lester Smith visited at the Henry
Parchman home Sunday.
Earl Glass, John and Eddie Stein
neitz, Jimmie Clancy and Reginald
Barnes were up from C.esco Sunday.
Among those who attended the dance
Friday evening from Chester were:
Freda and Hazel Larson. Gladys L..
huis, Mr.: King, Bush Halvei, Bill
Hammond. Dale Smith.
Editor Sheets went to Chester Fri
day.
Mr.. Furstnow, of Fairmont. Mimi,
attended the dance Friday.
Mrs. tom Jones went to st. Paul
Thursday.
Laura Lidtkie. of Fox Lake, Wis ,
is visiting relatives this. week.
Nj. and Mrs. .Patry and son Bonnie
went to Clear Lake. Wis.,, Monday on
business 49,
DR.. and Mrs. Freemire, John Bra
trud and lone Thorson. of Chester at
tended the dance Friday. a
The O. E. 5. gave q SIX O'Clock din.
ner for Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Hall Tues
day who are expecting to move to
Michigan soon.
Myrtle and Lille Upton went to Cries.
co Monday.
Mrs. K. H. Jones, who has been
spending the summer at Liverpool,
Wales. returned Tuesday accompanied
by her sister.
Mrs. Albert LETTER returned to Cries.
co Monday after visiting Myrtle Foye.
Effie Sanborn went to Cresco Sun
day. ..., e"
Lloyd Jones, Mrs. Mile Hyde and
j. j. Thomas went to Cresco Sunday.
Mrs. D. E. Horton went to Fort At.
kinson Monday for visit with rela.
tives. t
Alma Minkie went to Chester Mon
day. a. "a .r..r
Rev. Burgess went to- Austin Mon
day.. ~.
Lyle Horton returned Monday from
Fort Atkinson, after an over Sunday
visit at his home.
John Kleiboer returned to Denny.
brook, N. u. ,EMonday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brantner and Mrs.
Scott went to Cresco Monday.
Opal Baldwin returned to Chester
Monday.
Mrs. Townsend returned to her home
at Mason City, after a visit with rela-
tives.
Mrs. John Ellison and mother, Mrs.
De Lap came Monday from Mantor-
vile, MINI, from!a visit.
Mrs. Clarence Lee came from Min
neapolis Monday for visit with reIa-
tives.
Katie Inglebredt returned to her
home at Spring Valley Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. J. Scipe went to
Waterloo Tuesday. ~
Laura Lidtkie and Ruth Davis went
to CrescO Tuesday.
/. Maude Hines returned to LIE Roy
Tuesday,
Tom Jones returned to Minneapolis
Tuesday after visit with his uncle.
Mrs. H. W. FoyeI returned to Rapid
City, S. OAK, afte4 visit with rela'
tives. o., 49,,
Mrs. Conrad from Brighton, Ia, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
p-o,+rar ~ I 1' f7' '., j.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28
For Sdle..

125 Duroc-Jersey spring pigs of
March, April and May farrow. Nearly
all of these pigs are sired by King
Select, our 500 boar that we bought al
the Minnesota State Fair. This hog is
large and lengthy fellow. We fur-
nish pedigree with every pig sold.
Write, or better, come and see them.
Mrs. Joseph Bouska & Son,
Ca!mar, Ia, Route 2. 4
Phone Protivin line. a.sr.
No bargains like the ones being
offered at The NICHOLS SALE.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28

Mankokv who to in Meh0ds
church has been successful evangelist pastor
hello different
speaks well for to od so many resain
held meetings oner
dates and to 4M
the east come out anu near
young Meetings begin on the evening
shortly oe1oie; not
promised the Of Inns COM
and and we believe you
through ALL
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28
Poland ChinaS For Sale.

l have the kind with size, bone,
stretch and lots of quality to spare.
Fall and spring boars, sired by Smooth
Wonder Yet, Matchless Charmer,
Pawnee Jumbo. Satisfied customers in
seven different states. Write or come.
t.. J. J. PROCHASKA, Protivin, la.
Phone, Protivin. 4-dec. ls1.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28

Eczema spreads rapidly; itching al
most drives you mad. For quick re-
lief, Doan's Ointment is well recon.
mended. SOC at all stores.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28
Four Weeks Till Christmas
.BALDWIN'S

1t is only -Four Weeks till Christmas, and want to
encourage that it your advantage make Bald
wins ewely Store your buying place in the Christmas
line, have the best quality Of ewelry and goods be-
longing to this line tina be purchased for the money
AS all of our know, this the store that is sell
this line Of goods at the right prices Also that the
store that makes good it's in respect and
in doing this and the fact that know do deserve
patronage system of doing business is the rel
able way We do not misrepresent thing and emake
it point to those who purchase goods from any art
ce-it don't make any difference how large smal-that
goes wrong make good and please don't stand back
and not bring it to for peased to make it right
We do not offer you any cheap premiums for leader,
anything of that sort We give you the goods and
put the premium back in by saving it for YOU
which is the CASH Now do not be mised by premium
closing sale propositions have two of these
pulled off Christmas time for leaders, and sold
goods just cheap and cheaper. You get cash
premium which for you that you realize
thing from.
The ewey trade of Cresco has always had the best of
jewelers. and stores and for one have given
good service you get anywhere and will awayscon
tnue do We practical line every respect
Get busy and do your Christmas shopping with The
steady increase of business the past the
satisfaction have given No. again ask not to be
misled by closing sale propositions at Christmas time
This the time of that good responsible
will give you the best he buy for this occasion without
A~AA
zing profit from his business at this time he stand
back of tice purchased otherwise it frost.
Now if there is anything you want from this beautiful
stock of new goods come in and make your Selections
you engraving article you might select have
it laid away and will attend to it properly Come early
like others have and the benefit of the large assort
If we have not got what you want, we will do our
best get for you within the rd week before Christmas
We insist having satisfied customers with pur
chase
Our next advertisement will be very interesting you
and helpful at that time.
Come in and get of our Beautiful Calendars which
present to you free.
We will look for your early shopping Remember this
is the place where the cash that you in purchasing is
for your benefit. not for a leader,
Yours for Business, ....-
Yours for Best in Quality,
,,+. Yours for Lowest Prices,
-,g.x Yours for Square Dealing,
Baldwin, the Reliable Jeweler, Cresco
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28

Meritol White Liniment is splendid
application for Sore Throat, Cold on
the Lungs. Group and Pains in the
Chest. Saturate piece of flannel
cloth with the Liniment and use as a
plaster. 1t is very penetrating, and
effective. Fred B. Lowry, Cresco,
Iowa, Exclusive Agent.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28
Tonight.

Tonight, if you feel dull and stupid,
or bilious and constipated, take dose
of Chamberlain's Tablets and you Will
feel all right tomorrow. For sale by
Fred Lowry: -... isZ
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28
Cause of Insomnia.

The most common cause OF insomnia
is disorders of the stomach and constipa-
ton. Chamberlain's Tablets correct
these disorders and enable you to sleep.
For sale by Fred Lowry.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28

g HAY WANTED, by J. H. Jones. Phone
AZ, Lime Springs, Iowa. 8tft
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28

For Group or sore throat, use DR..
Thomas Eclectic Oil. Two sizes, Csc
and SOC. At all drug stores.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-11-28

Farms to Rent.
Three 100 acre farms to rent.
1atf ..-,rss.,, s.. MYRoN CONVERSE.
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found. Whether this story best illus
trates the heat and drying powers of
| the old settlers sun or the quality of
lumber sold by the old time lumber
dealer leave to your solution.
1t did not seem to matter much
to the old settler what was the
nationality, the creed or the politics
of newcomer; he was always glad
to see and meet and welcome him. To
all newcomers the old settlers ilospf.
tality was boundless, his generosity
was lavish and his sympathy In times
of grief and misfortune was of that
practical kind that lightened the load
of sorrow of a neighbor, that planted
his crop for him or harvested the crop
already ripe, and to the old settler
everyone in the county in those early
days was a neighbour
The old settler was patriotic. When
truth was arrayed against treason
on the battlefields of our country dur.
ing our regretable civil war, Craw-
ford county old settlers, few as they
were at that time, volunteered the full
quota of soldiers called for by our
national government, to uphold our
constitution, to close the chasm of
disunion that secession had opened
between the north and the south, to
defend the honor of our country and
to avenge the insults offered to our
flag. And those few Crawford coun-
ty boys, by their courage, devotion
and self sacrifice, contributed their
humble share with the thousands of
other gallant boys from other parts
of our country, in reuniting our
country and in permanently fastening
to it's field of blue every star in that
constellation of stars, that CLEANS
from our country's flag today. Some
of the survivors of that gallant band
of Crawford county's old settler SOL
diers are with us yet. l have had the
pleasure and the honor of number
ing one of them as one of my person
al friends ever since l came as boy
to Crawford county, and I have been
we'll acquainted with others of them.
refer particularly to A. J. Bond, one
of the most respected citizens of Den
ison for more than forty years, and to
Michael Molony, VIM. Goodrich, VIM.
Spence and John Rudd, who are, as
far as l have been able to inform N.Y.
SELF the sole surviving old settler
soldier veterans of the civil war from
Crawford county, now living in the
county. Long may they live with us
to enjoy their unique and proud dis
tinction and bravely won honors.
There was very little of that air of
assumed superiority about the old
settler that is now so common to
many people, who, because they live
in a city or town with a few thous-
and or a few hundred more people
than other cities or towns or because
they are wealthier than their fellow
citizens, think that they, as individ-
uals, are as much greater than the
people of smaller places as the place
in which they live is larger in popu-
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aid of Gods help and the influence o.
the religion of his church only, anC
not by legislation, the fear of the pen
itentiary, or man-made penalties fol
the violation of a code of ethics de
signed to make men moral, that made
that a crime which was not a crime
before.
The old settler built your first
school houses, and, although he had
not heard of eugenics, he populated
them, with healthy, Intelligent, in
dustrious and ambitious children, and
where is there one of us that did not
think that the old settler schoolma am
was the smartest, neatest and pref
tiest creature ever created. with all
due regard, affection and gallantry to
the schoolma'am of today, to whom
we all make due obeisance with all
the chivalry of old. The old settler
school teacher taught the three
"R's" SO thoroughly that few of us
but remember something of them yet.
The education impaired in the old
settler school while it contained none
of the educational fads of today,
equipped with knowledge, from even
the country schools, boys and girls,
that, thanks, perhaps, to the ambi-
lions engendered and fostered in the
old spelling school knew how to spell
the English language correctly; they
knew how to write SO that their writ
ing could be read, and they could
figure" the price of the produce of
the farm, or the interest on the mort
gage on the farm, so we'll that they
have long ago made the price of that
produce pay off the mortgage and pay
cash for another farm or two. The
only criticism that l have to make
of our present system of education
Is that it is hardly as practical, or
as productive of good results as the
old settlers system, and it seems to
me that we have altogether too many
boys and girls attending so-called COL
leges that ought to be in school,
The old settler had his policy,
though just exactly what they were,
1t would be hard for me to determine
now from my recollection. The re-
publican party in those days was too
young to be as bad out here in the
west as it has since grown to be, and
the democratic party was so old that
its sins had found 1t out, and it had
not yet been born again. l remember
an old settler coming home from the
polls one day in the fall of one of
those early years, and bringing with
him ticket labeled "Anti-Monopoly
ticket" and that was the nearest ap-
proach to democratic ticket that he
Of a. 7
Alright, Andy Molony was
elected county auditor that fall, so
that election day was not such a cold
day for the democrats of that time
after all. do not remember just
wha& the political issues were, as
likely as not it was just about that
time that the herd law became the
topic, and that was not
a party issue. am quite certain that
in those days there were no tramps,
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and if there were any trusts they
were of that kind that bore at leas,
ten per cent interets and became due
in from thirty days to five years at
ter date. The old settler was not az
partisan as the voter of today, espec
tally in the matter of local and coun
ty offices; he voted for his neighbol
and his friend. irrespective of his
politics, if he considered him quail
fed for the Office that he sought.
will not go so far as to say that
all of the stories told of and by the
old settler or the oldest inhabitant
are the literal truth, that is, that in
those early times the winters were
colder, the SHOWS deeper, the sum.
mers hotter and dryer, and the foods
greater than those of more recent
years. 1t might be just as we'll 10
take such yarns with grain of salt
1t may be that the winters then felt
colder, because few, If any, of the old
settlers knew the comforts of the
arctic overshoe, the fur overcoat and
the modern home. 1t may be that the
summers seemed hotter then because
the most of them had to work harder
then than they do now; and if their
floods were any greater than some l
have seen in the town in which live,
they would have rivaled the deluge
had they occurred in the time of
Noah. We, of today, certainly have
experienced some unusually hot and
dry weather, and that no later than
the present summer, but have heard
q or cfrof r>ft ~
suns rays in those days that would
certainly indicate that the old settler
had warm time too. It is said that
one of the first settlers out here on
the Soldier hauled load of lumber
out from Denison to where he intend
ed to build his house. He unloaded
the lumber on his farm and went
back to Denison for another load, as
the distance was so great that he
could haul but one load a day. The
next day when he returned with the
second load of lumber he was con-
siderably surprised to find that the
first load was gone from where he
unloaded it. Thinking that someone
had stolen it in his absence he be-
gan search for some trail of the
supposed thief. He found a trail
which left the long grass fiattened
out towards the west, and following
this trail he at length and after trav-
cling several miles, found his lumber
scattered out over the prairie south
of where the town of Danbury is now
located. Puzzled as to how it came
there, he watched it for awhile and
saw that it was warping; it was so
green and damp and the sun was so
hot, that it caused the lumber to warp
in the direction of the suns course
all the day before. You see, as fast
as one side of board warped dry
it curled up and turned over, and
the side that was next to the ground
absorbed so much moisture from the
ground that it became wet and ready
to warp again, and thus the hot sun
had pulled it along to where it was
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cultivation. Years ago there was q
kind of grass called blue joint that
grew higher than a horses back, in
almost every ravine and valley in
this county Now, perhaps, all OF
it in the entire county could be con
tanned in a forty acre field. Where
it once waved is now covered with
waving corn from eight to twelve feet
high, or with tame blue grass, clover
timothy, oats, wheat and other grains
and grasses, as we'll as orchards, vine.
yards, gardens and groves of trees
No more, in the early morning of the
spring time, is the old settler greeted
! with the ringing music Of one of
deep booming and shrill cackling, of
the prairie chicken, from the grub
brush, and prairie grass covered hills.
The prairie chicken, like the wapita,
or elk, as it was more commonly
termed, whose calcined antlers, or
prairie fire burned horns, once marked
almost every quarted section corner,
in the county; the deer, and the buff
alo, could not withstand the civiliz-
ing influence of the old settlers, and
so migrated to pastures that were as
yet untouched by the breaking pillow,
and where the musical hum of the
threshing machine in the fall was an
unknown sound. First the Indian re-
coded from the advance of civiliza-
ton and then more slowly followed
the game upon which he lived, un-
til finally nothing was left but the
land in all it's pristine grandeur,
stored with the accumulated fertility
OF thousands, perhaps millions, of
years and this, the old settler has
brought into subsection and produc-
tiveness, until; where once the In
dian and the deer roamed at will,
through beautiful hunting grounds
and rich pastures of prairie grass;
there now stands, coy, pretty, and
comfortable, even handsome, state
ly, and luxurious, homes of happy and
prosperous farmers; thriving villages
and towns; and flourishing little cit
les, like our own county seat, this
progressive little city of Denison.
The old settler was religious, and
worshipped God according to the die
tates of his own conscience, in the
privacy and sanctity of his home, in
the homes of his neighbors, in the
early school houses, and the old court
house, until he built your first church
es; and want to say to you that the
religion preached in those churches
in the old settler days while it may
have been hard and harsh in defining
the conditions of salvation, contain
ed about as much of the milk of hui
man kindness, of the love of human
ity, of practical charity, and believe,
great deal more of the love of God,
and fear of the devil, than the most
of that that we hear preached on to
day. The old settler preacher preach
ed the Gospel of Christ as it was, be.
fore hell was abolished by, those who
dreaded it's torrents, and Heaven
was declared myth, by those who
had no hope of it's happiness; he
sought the salvation Of souls by the