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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-29

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Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-24
New Hotel at Cdlmar.

Thomas M. Pierce, proprietor of tie
Wales hotel, departed Monday morn
ing for Chicago on business connected
with the building of his new hotel at
Calmar, Iowa. He will be absent
about week.
The plans for the new hotel at Cal.
mar are now being drawn by a Mime.
apolis architect. The contract is not
yet let but it is expected the cost of
construction will be in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000. This thotel is being
built in addition to the one Mr.. Pierce
is already interested in. 1t will have
60 rooms. large sample rooms and will
be thoroughly modern in every way.
1t is to be built of steel and cement
and will be fire proof. 1t is to be three.
stories high and the ground plans call
for lot 47x7O feet. Just when the
work will actually commence is uncer
tain but it will be built soon, as MIR.
Pierce is already working to that end.
Dubuque Times-Journal.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-24
DOING THEIR DUTY.

Scores of Cresco Readers are learn
ing the Duty of the Kidneys.
To filter the blood is the kidneys
duty.
When they fail to do this the kid
neys are weak.
Backache and other kidney ills may
follow.
Help the kidneys do their work.
Use Doan's Kidney Pills-the test
ed kidney remedy.
Proof of their worth in the following
O. Monsoon, retired farmer, 307 E.
Main St, DEBORAH, Iowa, says: 81
was troubled with a terribly lame back.
l saw Doan's Kidney Pills advertised
and tried them. They stopped my
backache before had finished the con-
tents of box"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doans-and
axe no other.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-24
Weak Lungs Often
Lead 10 Serious Illness

If you have weak lungs, you are gener-
ally subject to colds or throat trouble
and easily susceptible to serious Lung
trouble. In many cases pneumonia or
bronchial troubles leave the lungs in a
much weakened condition. Eckman's Al
terat1ve Is a medicine for the throat and
lungs which has been found to be very
beneficial even when a change Of climate
and other treatments failed to bring re-
lief. Read Of this case:-
23l s. Atlantic Ave. Haddonfield N. J.
"Gentlemen: In the fall OF 1905 con-
tracted a very severe cold which settled
on my lungs. At last began to raise
sputum, and my physician then told me l
must 90 to California Immediately. At
this time was advised to take Eckman's
menced taking it the last week in Octo-
Der. l began to improve, and the first
week in January, 1906, resumed my reg
ular occupation, having gained % pounds,
fully restored to health. 1t is now seven
years since my recovery has been effected,
and cannot praise Eckman's Alternative
too highly
(SigneD w. NJ TATEM.
(Ahove abbreviated; more on reQuest)
Eckman's Alternative has been proven by
many years test to be most efficacious
for severe Throat and Lung Affections,
Bronchitis. Bronchial Asthma. Stubborn
Colds. and in upbuilding the system.
Confirms nc narcotics, pOisons or habit
forming drugs. Ask for booklet telling
Of recoveries. and write to Eckman
Laboratory, Philadelphia. Pa. for evi.
dcnce Ew sale by oil leading druggists
PA. Clemmer, Cresco
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-24

Next Friday afternoon the Dolli.
vers will give a program.
The first Inter-Society debate will
be between the Hawkeye and the
Dolliver societies. The question is
Resolved, that the United States
should adopt shipping subsidies VI
The affirmative will be upheld by
Myrtle Cameron, John Fullen and
Will Rathert of the Dolliver society
and the negative will be upheld by
Kate Watson, Anna Brown and c.
Gil Johnson of the Hawkeye society.
The teachers were all very glad
when the entertainment of last
Thursday night was over, because,
on account of practices, many Of
the pupils had not been getting
their lessons for the past two
weeks.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-24
Things are Booming Out in Iowa Now.

Mrs. Mead who is visiting with rel
atives in northern Iowa, just q few
miles from the Minnesota state line,
writes that the weather there is warm
and the country has been highly pros
porous this year. Autos are as num-
erous there as in the country districts
of Illinois.
The growth of that state within the
life of man is truly wonderful At
the age of seven years the writer went
west with his father from Beloit, Wis.
There was not a railroad west of the
Mississippi. We crossed the river at
Paririe du Chen ION John LAWYERS
pontoon bridge, which was afterwards
made strong enough to support the
St. Paul railway trains for many years.
We went by stage coach to the village
of New Oregon, on the Turkey river,
where the father worked for q time
at his trade of blacksmith. Five years
later when the St. Paul Ry. was con.
tinued west, 1t left New Oregon three
miles to the south and started the town
of Cresco, today the thriving county
seat of Howard county.-Geneva Nll.)
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-24
Possibly New Depot at Calmar.

We hear it intimated that probably
a new depot will be built at Calmar by
the Milwaukee road. At present the
old depot is inadequate to care for the
crowds caused by the transfers, and
more accommodation is necessary. The
plans have been drawn and if the high
powers in Chicago approves work will
probably begin next spring. Under the
proposed plans the old depot will be
removed, torn down and the new one
built farther away from the track So
as to allow connection of the spur
that takes the DEBORAH train to the
platform with the main tracks east of
the present depot There will be a
lunch room in the depot but the hotel
idea will be abandoned. In fact it is
abandoned now. DEBORAH Republican.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-24
Eczema and Itching Cured.

The soothing, healing medication in
DR.. HOBsON'S ECZEMA OINTMENT pen
etrates every tiny pore of the skin,
clears it of all impurities-stops itch
ing instantly. DR.. Hobson's Eczema
Ointment is guaranteed to speedily
heal eczema, rashes, ringworm, letter
and other unsightly eruptions. Ecze-
ma Ointment is doctors prescription,
not an experiment. All druggists or
by mail, :.50c. Pfeiffer Chemical Co.,
Philadelphia and St. Louis. ~u..
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-24
Estate of Anton Vrba, Deceased.

Notice is hereby given, that the sub.
scriber has been duly appointed exec.
utor of the last will and testament of
Anton Vrba, late of New Ore kon town
ship, in the county of Howard, State
of Iowa, deceased, and has taken upon
himself that trust by qualifying as the
law directs. All persons having de-
mands upon the estate of said deceas-
ed are required to exhibit the same;
and persons indebted to the said es-
tate are called upon to make payment
to JOHN VRBA, Executor.
Dated at Cresco, Iowa, Oct. Is, 1913.
Ree1 & Pergler, Att'ys for executor.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-24
Avoid Sedative Cough Medicines

If you want to contribute directly to
the occurrence of capillary bronchitis
and pneumonia use cough medicines
that contain iodine, morphine, heroin
and other sedatives when you haye a
cough or cold. An expectorant like
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is what
is needed. That cleans out the culture
beds of breeding places for the germs
of pneumonia and other germ diseases.
That is why pneumonia never results
from cold when Chamberlain Cough
Remedy is used. 1t has a world wide
reputation for its cures. 1t contains
no morphine or other sedative. For
sale by Fred Lowry.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-24

P. A. Clemmer, Cresco
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-10-24
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Florence McCook, Editor-in- Chief.
John Kakac and Leonard Lyons,
Athletic Editors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-01-02
CHANGE AGRICULTURE BOARD
Five Members to Be Appointed Soon
by Governor McGovern-New
Candidates Being Urged.

Madison.-Within the next five
weeks Gov. McGovern will have the
appointment of five members of the
state board of agriculture, the terms
of Charles L. Hill of Rosendale and
Charles H. Everett of Racine expir-
ing, and three members-Georg
Wyne of Morrisonville, Frank, A
Cannon and William MacLaren of
Milwaukee-having resigned. The
reappointment of Hill and Everett is
being urged in recognition of their
work in developing the Wisconsin
state fair. Both are prominent in
agricultural affairs
Friends of Fred Pabst of Ocono-
mowoc, John Lefebre of Milwaukee,
and L. P. Martiny of Chippewa Falls
are urging their candidates.. Pabst
operates a 1000 acre farm in Wau-
kesha county, is a member of the
board of directors of the National
Dairy show and of the International
Livestock exposition; Lefebre is pres
ident of the Gridley Dairy company,
Milwaukee, and was once a dairy
man Martiny is president of the
Wisconsin Livestock Breeders asso-
citation and a prominent stockman
and farmers institute conductor.
1t is expected the appointments
will be made by the time Of the an
nual meeting of the board, Feb. 6.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-01-02
DYNAMITE NEAR TAFT
EXPLODED IN PANAMA
President Has Narrow Escape While
Going to Ball Given in
His Honor.

Panama, Dec. 26.-Much excite
ment was caused here by the blowing
up of kiosk in Central avenue, near
the railroad station, IS minutes after
President Taft had passed the spot on
his way to the Christmas ball in the
National theater.
Nobody was KILLED and. although
the street was lined with people. only
one person was injured. Several ar
rests were made. The mayor and the
reception committee. upon hearing
the explosion, hurried from the ball
room to the scene.
The police declare that it undoubt-
eddy was a bomb.
To attend the ball given by Presi-
dent Porras President Taft had to go
outside American territory, as the
function was held in the National
theater, Panama,
AS a result of the presidents call
upon Colonel Goethals it is under
stood that the president rendered the
chief engineer the post of civil COVER
nor of the canal zone. Colonel Goeth-
ais has, it is said. accepted the prof
fer, but the official announcement is
not expected until the president re-
turns to Washington.
The change of government in the
zone will take place in the spring and
Colonel Goethals will serve until the
canal is formally opened on January
|. 1915.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-01-02
THREE RAILROAD
CHIEFS INDICTED
MeIIen, ChamberIin and Smithers
Named by Federal Jury.
SHERMAN LAW IS INVOKED
All Defendants Are Charged With Con-
spring to Monopoiize and Restrain
Interstate and Foreign
Commerce.

New York, Dec. 26.-Charles S. Mel
len, president Of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad; Edison J.
Chamberlin, president of the Grand
Trunk railway of Canada, and Alfred
w. Smithers, chairman of the board
Of directors of the Grand Trunk, were
jointly indicted by the federal grand
jury In this city on Monday under the
Sherman antitrust law.
All three defendants are charged
with conspiring to monopoIize and re-
strain interstate and foreign COM
merce. The indictment is not based
upon the proposed new traffic and
trackage agreement between the New
Haven and Grand Trunk, copy Of
which was turned over to Attorney
General Wickersham by President Mel
len with the intimation that In that
document was contained the sole
ground upon which the government
thought it could proceed against the
two roads under the drastic Sherman
law. Instead it is based upon secret
documentary evidence obtained from
the Office files of both corporations by
representatives of the department of
justice.
These documents show that as long
ago as last August the chief execu-
tive heads of the two roads had begun
to conspire to bring about hard and
fast working arrangement whereby
the Canadian corporation would COM
pletely withdraw from New England
and leave the Mellen-Morgan monopo-
ly in absolute enjoyment of that rich
field
Neither President Mellen nor Presi-
dent Chamberlin, the former being in
New Haven and the latter In this city,
would make any comment upon the
grand jury's action when news of it
was conveyed to them by reporters.
No such high ranking or powerful
railroad officials have ever before been
called upon to face a criminal charge
for violating the Sherman antitrust
law. The penalty. if their guilt is es-
tablished before trial jury or If they
shall plead guilty to thus avoid trial,
is maximum fine of $4,000 or one
year Imprisonment or both fine and
Imprisonment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-01-02
Wrjttno for posterity.

story about George. Bernard Shaw
comes from London.
prominent French critic, the story
runs, once said to the playwright:
You are putting on a new comedy
Monday night. Let me attend one Of
the dress rehearsals, won't you?
Impossible said Mr.. Shaw MY
dress rehearsals are always private
l have to refuse even the most distin-
guished critics access to them
But said the other, I want to
write a careful criticism. II / have to
write it and telegraph 1t in. few min
utes on Monday night, 1t will be very
hurriedly done, and fear that 1t will
give a wrong impression Of your
comedy In Paris the next day
Have no anxiety on that score
Mr. Shaw replied. My comedies are
not written for the next day"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-01-02
MARKET REPORT.
Milwaukee. Dec q. 1912.

4
Butter-Creamery, extras, SAC;
prints, 55c; f1rsts, 81 032c; seconds,
27Q29c; renovated, 2702Sc; dairy,
fancy, SOC.
Cheese - American, full cream,
new made, twins, 16c; Young Amer
icas, 164c; daisies, 16@16 &c;
longhorns, 16 12c; limburger, 16 u c;
brick, 16 1ac
Eggs-Current receipts fresh as to
quality, 25 use; recandled, extras,
33 @34c; seconds, 10000.
Live Poultry-Fowls, lie; roos-
ters, 8 1ac; springers, lie.
Wheat-No. 1 northern, S9c; No.
2 northern, SIC; No. northern,
S3c; No. 1 velvet, SIC.
Corn-No. 8 yellow, Al Il C.
Oats-No. white, "a C; stand
ard, 341ac.
Barley-No. 3, SIC.
Rye-No. 2, IS Hac.
Cattle-Butchers steers, 600 @
500; heifers, 425 @7.25; cows, 4.25
@6.25; feeders, 5.25 q 500; calves,
9.25 $1,000
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, 1876
@7.45; fair to best light, $500
IT'S; pigs, 6.00@665.
Sheep-Lambs, 5@7.25; ewes,
3.0Q0 400.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-01-02
News Notes of Wisconsin.

Madison.-Former Assemblyman
l.. E. Gettle, Edgerton, was named
secretary of the Wisconsin railroad
commission by Gov. McGovern. The
Office carries $4,000 salary. The gov
ernor has also appointed former Sen
ator F. M. Wilcox, Appleton, as state
claim agent to succeed Philip Leh-
ner. The Office pays about $4,000
per year.
Fond .du Lac.-Digging their way
through two feet of stone and brick
wall, removing about wagon load
of material and saving several iron
bars, Fred Hanson and Charles Jones,
two of the ten prisoners, made their
escape from the Fond du Lac county
jail without waking the other pris-
oners or the Jail guards. Their only
tools were three case knives.
Madson.-Frederick Ives Carpen-
ter, Chicago capitalist, owner of
considerable land in northern Wis
consin, is exploring with diamond
drills for iron ore within the state
forest area Indications that usually
accompany iron ore deposits have
been found.
Marinette.-The plant of the Mel
son Seidl Fish company, which was
burned out three years ago, has again
been destroyed by fire. The Joss is
about $4,000.
Sheboygan-The last band of %
cal Greeks has left this city for war.
One hundred and f1fty-five men had
to leave or lose their property in the
old country.
Ashland-The lands which E. B.
Gordon transferred to Uella Kline at
Chicago on Jan. /, 1912, when he was
wanted at Ashland to give testimony
in suit brought against himself and
others by the town of Gordon, have
been seized On writ of attachment
and will be held until the suit to re-
cover $4,000 from the defendants is
settled The attachment is on one
half interest in great deal of land
in the southern part of Ashland
county.
Neenah = Herman Weiher, SO
years old, well known hotel keeper
of Dale, near here, is dead.
Green Bay.-NeWman Erb, repre-
senting the Hawley interests, has Sc
cured an option on $4,000 out of the
$4,000 shares of common stock of the
Green Bay and Western railway COM
pany. paying 100000 for the same.
Mr. Erb and his engineers have made
several trips of inspection over the
line this fall and in view of the large
amount paid for the option it seems
reasonably certain that the owner
ship of the road will be changed soon.
Green Bay.-The citizens of this
city are up in arms because the price
of milk has been raised to cents
quart and cream to % cents.
Kenosha.-Final settlement of the
estate of Charles W. Allen, KenQsha,
muIti-miIIionaire leather manufact-
urer, was made in county court here,
when County Judge George w. Tay-
lor approved the final account of
Mrs. Ella F. Allen, the widow, who
was executrix of the estate. The re-
port showed that the value of the
estate was $4,974,012.55
La Crosse-Dr. ]. NJ. Furstman,
city health commissioner, has re-
ouested the general public to suspend
all dances, parties and social affairs
as a necessity in stamping out the
smallpox epidemic
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-01-02
WISCONSIN ISFIRST
IN BUTTER OUTPUT
Badger State Also Leads In
Production of Cheese.
OTHER STATES DESTANCED
Remarkable Gains Are Show Over
Figures Compiled by Government
Ten Years Age as Revealed by Gen.
sus Bureau of Statistics.

Washington, D. c. Wisconsin
tands pre-eminent as the butter and
cheese producing state of the union.
This is the announcement OF the
bureau of census, which mas just
made public the figures of the butter
and cheese productions of the various
states for the year 1909.
Wisconsin, in the ten years since
a similar census was taken of the
production of 1899, has jumped from
second place in the production of
cheese to first place and from fourth
to first in the production of butter.
In 1909 the butter production for
the state of Wisconsin was 131, 085,-
1913 pounds, with Iowa second with
127,261,755 pounds and Minnesota
third with 23,551,515 pounds. New
York, which held second place in
1889, fell to seventh place, with only
69,358,918 pounds. The total for
the United States was 1919, 5,263
pounds.
In 1899 Iowa held the first place,
with a production of 139,022,552
pounds; New York second with u.s.
408,222 pounds; Pennsylvania third
with III, 35S,246 pounds; Wisconsin
fourth with LOG, 552,649 pounds and
Minnesota seventh with 82,363,315
pounds.
Immense Cheese Output.
In the production of cheese Wis
consin's pre-eminence is even more
marked, producing almost one-half
of the nations output. The 1903
figures credit Wisconsin with a pro-
duction of 148,906,91O pounds of
cheese. against los, 584,947 for New
York and only 32O,532,1S1 for the
entire United States. In 1899 New
York held first rank with a produc-
ton of 130.010,584 pounds, against
1924, 298 for Wisconsin and pro-
duction of 298,344,642 pounds for
the nation. In neither year did any
state outside of New York produce
one-eleventh as much cheese as did
the state of Wisconsin.
New YOrk's enormous metropolitan
population, demanding enormous
sales of milk and cream, at far high
er prices than the Wisconsin farmer
can command, kept, New York easily
IN first place for the total value of
her dairy products.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-01-02
UNCLE 81, DIPLOMATIST.
GOOD MANS METHOD OF DEAL
ING WITH HARD SITUATION.
Unusual Doings in Meeting House Yard
Turned to Financial Account by
Elder Who Was Not Super
stitiouS.

WALL" said Uncle 81. as he took
his accustomed place on the pickle
barrel, we had high-falutin, lawn
party up tew the meetin' house at
Lapham's Corners last night. There
was sure heap of folk thar, and the
way they carried on seemed to me
wasn't exactly in place in the meetin
house yard" said Uncle 81, looking
pious and thoughtful
Tell us about it," said Hiram, help
ing himself to another cracker from
the open barrel near by.
Wall, it was jest this away. In
the fust place party of city folks
come down from up the hill-we could
see at once that they was goin' to
run things to suit themselves. If they
hadn't a-bought a lot of peanuts, ice
cream and lemonade, we'd have broke
up the jamboree right thar and let EN-
go home. The fust thing they done
was to start Virginia reelin, which
/ reckon is an imitation Of how per-
son acts when he has got full of Vir-
ginia corn juice. Us country folks, we
gathered around in the corners of the
lawn and says nOthin'-at least, not so
as the city folks could hear We
thought they'd gone far enough with
the Virginy trapsing, but We found we
was plum mistaken.
Some female says, says she, Let's
chase the turkey around this lawn.
Wall, there wasn't any turkey, but
there was some of the worst doin's
that was ever seen in Lapham's Cor
ners. I bein' the elder, the members
of the meetin' house riz up unanimous
and told me I'd got to stop them fire
works. After knocking a nearby table,
in order to bring silence, spoke some
thing like this: Brethren and sistern,
this yer is in the meetin' house yard.
Such COINS on as has happened here
tonight has disgraced us all, and to
make our consciences easy | shall
take all the money we've rize here
tonight and raise the insurance on the
moetin' house. | amt superstitious,
but l don't believe no building could
stand to see what's went on here to-
night without either burnin' up or get
tin struck by lightnin' or havin' coffee
split on the vestry carpet. l hope you
will now all go home and come again
to the next lawn party we have and be
enthusiastic as we was at this one.
WALL said ST. the crowd they
went home, and l guess they was
ashamed of themselves"
Wall" said Lem Beacher, who oc-
cupied the only chair in the grocery
store, Il never did believe in them ex-
citin' ways to make money for the
meetin house. It's much better to
take up collections now and then, get
along with the old meetin' house"
To that all the bysitters answered:
You're right, LEM" and Uncle 81
bought his groceries, consisting of a
package of tobacco, and went home to
do the chores.-Judge.