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Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-07-24

returns indicate that wheat is run
.fng from 16; to % bushels to the acre,
The quality is pronounced fine. Oats
run from 20 to 40 bushels TO the acre
and are OF good quality. The straw
is very short and light. Little timothy
is being cut for seed this year. and the
lay crop is only about halt the usual
acreage. Corn prospects are excellent
II timely rains come.
Dysart's first chautauqua was a re-
markable success. The week before 1t
opened enough season tickets were
sold to pay the entire expense. The
Commercial club has charge OF the
enterprise They get half of the re-
ceipts above a certain guarantee.s SO
liberal was the patronage that the
club cleared $500. Dysart probably
has the Invest booster club in the state
for the size of the town. 1t has eighty
members who pay So year for mem
bership fee,
From Roswell, New Mexico. there
comes the information that Johnny
Connolly, a Manson born and bred
bow, has developed into feather
weight boxer of great ability. He has
plenty of good fighting blood in him
and will probably be heard from In
the big sporting circles in the future.
Reports from Roswell THIS morning
bring the news that the Fourth OF
Univ fight resulted in a draw. Con-
molly fighting the veteran of 200 ring
battles without receiving scratch,
while his opponent had to take pretty
severe punishment.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-07-24
For Sale.

A modern cottage on North Elm st.,
right in the best residence section of
Cresco; city water, electric lights, u
lots. 48 W. H. T1LLsoN, Agent.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-07-24

except that the funeral services will
be held Wednesday at Cresco
John Wonderly and wife left Sunday
morning for few days stay in Mime.
apolis.
Anna Ellingson was a Cresco shop
Friday morning.
About twenty young people pic
nicked at the river Thursday.
Mr.. and MRS. James Blackbur of
Royal. Neb., and Mrs. Irwin Allen and
daughter Bessie of PostviIle, autoed
in Saturday to visit the Blackburns.
The Charles and John Boucher
families spent Sunday with P. l.. Gar
danier and wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Albers were De-
corah visitors, Sunday.
from her mother, Mrs. Rheinhart, Of
Alta Vista. r..
Linn Prindle, of Dubuque, is visiting
his sister, Mrs. r. A. Griswold.
e LIME SPRINGS.
Mrs. L. Umhoefer went to Austin
Wednesday for short visit.
G.. P. Nash autoed down from Min
neapolis Friday for visit with rela-
tives.
Harry Owens and Dale Smith autoed
down from Chester Sunday.
Claude Elzea came up from Cresco
Saturday for short Visit with Miss
leila Woods returning Sunday evening.
Misses Anna and Ruth Rowland re-
turned home from Granada Saturday
after visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. Bob Jones
Miss Bessie Wells went to Austin
Saturday.
Miss Cora Woods and Carl Maehling
autoed to LIE Roy and Chester Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Taraldson are
moving in their new home this week.
MIR. Shaw and Burnah Hall returned
home from Cresco Monday noon.
Fred Seaton and Margaret Jones
autoed to Cresco Sunday,
Mrs. r. NJ. Roberts went to LIE Roy |
Saturday for a visit at the Sullivan
home.
Rev. Burgess went to Austin Satur-
day for a short visit returning Tuesday
evening.
Misses Janet and Loris Milne came
Saturday from Canton for q visit at
the D. E. Horton home.
p. M. Woods and son Carl went to
Austin Saturday returning Monday.
Mrs. D. E. Horton, Mrs. M. Pres
cott. Misses Violet. Laura and Lillian
Horton, Laura Palmquist, Florence
Maxwell, Agnes Anderson, Beryl Burns
Carl Woods and Mildred Horton are
at Old Town this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. A. Colby, Mr.. and
Mrs. Adrian Christ, Matt Owens and
John Hughes autoe5 over from Mason
City Saturday.
Clarence Peterson went to Calmar
Saturday evening returning Monday
With bis sister Elsie.
Mrs. Art Rowland and Bessie Will
Jams went to Chester Wednesday to
attend the funeral of Clifford Napp.
Allan Nash returned to his home at
4 rlington Wednesday after visit with
relatives and friends.
Mrs. E. harrington and daughter
vent to DEBORAH Saturday.
Misses Myrtle sEatc ham, leila Woods,
Bessie Wells and Winnifred Dorm au-:
E0ed to Cresc0 Friday. -
Lizzie Williamssand two brothers re-
:urned to Hitlard, Washington, Satur-
lay.
Misses Myrtle Latcham, Winnifred
Dorm, leila Woods, Claude Ezea,
Henry Viebrock attended the dance at
York Saturday evening.
Clarence Doll, Ray Hughes. Ida
al tn |
;resco Saturday evening
" For Sale. :
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-07-24
Auto Livery

Auto Livery.
Drives made day or night t At right
prices. Phone 366. -! ..1'1
soft E. J. TAFT.
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SAVES HIS BROTHERS. LIFE
Gives Quart of Blood to Repair Loss in
Hunting Field

Sunbury, Pa, Nov. 16.-While hunt
ing near his home at Klines Grove
Northumberland county, Saturday, Mot
ley Ruggles, 9 years old, was accident
ally shot in the back by his brother
Robert Ruggles. Unconscious. he was
dragged and carried mile to his home
by the brother.
Sunbury doctors were rushed to mis-
aid, and they lifted him on an automo
bile, using a door for an litter. and
brought him to the Mary M.'Packer hos
Iital here. When DR.. w. l.. Shindel
the operating surgeon, said that trans
fusion of blood would be the only thing
that would save his life, the brother of
fered to give his own blood.
In half hour the pair were side by
side on an operating table, and the life
blood of the healthy man was being
pumped into the weakened body of his
brother. After he had given up more
than quart of blood the doctors said
that Ruggles will get well. Roperr IS
apparently unframed by the loss of so
much blood
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21l OFFICERS ARE NAMED IN
BRITISH CASUALTY LIST

London, Nov. 16.-The Official Press
Bureau last night made public three
casualty lists of officers, received from
headquarters under dates of November
4, and I. These lists give sc Off
GERS killed, los wounded and AZ miss.
ing. The names of some of the more
prominent contained in the list already
have been published.
Among those killed whose names
have not previously. ,. been made public
are Lieutenant Colonel c. A. c. King.
of the Yorkshire regiment; Captain
the Honorable Douglas Arthur Kin.
nalrd, Master of Kinnaird, of the Scots
Guards. SON of Baron Kinnaird, former
Lord High Commissioner to the Chure h
OF Scotland, and Major the Honorable
Hugh Dawnay, of the Second Life
Guards, second son of Viscount Downe.
In the list of the wounded appear
the names of Captain the Honorable
Richard George Morgan Grenville, Mas.
ter of kinlosS, of the First Rifle Bri.
gade, who is the son and heir of Baron
ess kinloss; Lieutenant the Honorable
William Frazer, of the Gordon High
Ianders, son of Baron Saltoun; Leuten-
ant Colonel r. NJ. Ovens, of the Staff
ordshire regiment; Lieutenant Colonel
y. &. B. Smith, of the Scots Fusiliers,
and Brigadier General H. g. Ruggles-
Brise.
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RUSSIANS THRONG SALOONS
ON THE LAST DAY OF SELLING

Petrograd (by way of London), Nov.
16.-Thousands of men, women and
children stood since 4 O'Clock yester.
Jay morning in q driving snowstorm be!
fore the doors of the liquor shops on
the last day in which it is possible to
purchase light wine and beer under the
prohibition act of the Russian govern
ment. which to-day becomes absolute.
Applicants for Il final supply of bever-
ages came with baskets, sacks, carts
and wheelbarrows, many having pawned
their last belongings to procure means
to purchase.
This final prohibition act is the last
of three distinct liquor reforms, the first
,urtailing the sale of vodka, and the
second abolishing it absolutely. The
third measure extends the prohibition
20 every form of alcoholic drinks in all
portions of the empire under martial
law. Cities included under the prohibi-
tion are Odessa, Riga, Warsaw, Mos
,ow. kiev and virtually all cities in
Western Russia
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advance OF RUSSIANS ON
CRACOW Becoming SLOW

London, Nov. 16. 319 A. M.-The
Daily Mails Copenhagen CORE
spondent says:
1t is rumored here that Craeow
will not be defended, as the Austrians
fall to see why that city should be bonn
6arded and laid in ruins for no reason.
1t is stated that the Russians would not
be unwilling to give good terms for ca
pltulatlon, because tine town is entirely
Polish The German colony fed to
Berlin and Bavaria and the population
generally IS fleeing TO the interior of
Austria.
The advance of the Russians TO-
ward CTacow has become somewhat
slow. They are occupied in driving
the Austrian armies through the Carpa,
THAN passes toward Hungary and are
oarricsding the evacuated passes to
prevent the Austrians returning to
harass the Russian army while Il is
fghting in Siesia.'
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The Continuous Heavy
Rains Interfere With
Attacks of Kaiser's
Troops in Flanders
MANY WASHED
OUT TRENCHES
Two Hundred Persons Live in the Few
Remaining Houses and Improvised
Shelters Out of a Population of
Nearly Three Thousand

Sermaize.Les-B -Bains, france. via
Paris, Nov. 16, 1890 A. M.-This
regional town of $500 inhabitants
before the German invasion is repre-
sentative of what happens to a place
In the path of the hostile army. There
were 500 houses and now dozen
bullet scared buildings are standing.
All the others have been knocked TO
pieces by shells or burned mostly
burned.
Walls of brick or stone. constructed
with old-fashioned care. burst by the
heat. are tumbled in ruins across the
streets. Some hundreds of chimneys
stand starkly. As for the rest there
are left only irregular fragments of
walls with vacant windows.
Population Nearly All Gone
Two hundred persons live in the
dozen houses or in improvised shelters
set up against some of the half of the
ruined walls. Where are the Others?
\ couple of hundred men answered
the mobilization call pasted on City
Hall ON August /. Then the French
army IN retreat came through and up
wards of 1000 inhabitants took fight.
some by their own conveyance others
on the wagons of the army transport
and hundreds afoot carrying packages
and their small children.
Under Shell Fire Five Days
Sermaize, which is seventeen miles
east northeast of Vitry-Le- Francois.
was on the battle line of 120 miles
chosen by General Jotfre for the
French stand. 1t was under she'll fire
when the French occupied the place.
again when the Germans held il and
when it lay between the two armies.
This went on for five days The fright.
ened inhabitants lived in the cellars
until the tumbling ruins began to
choke the entrances. Then the Ger.
mans, Withdrawing for the last time
the retreat having been sounded, tits
alleged they set fire to all dwellings
left standing, and that most of them
were burned.
The 200 residents remaining took
refuge in the open fields An indeter-
inmate number, it is said, were killed
Or wounded by accident.
Thus a prosperous little city in
district which is the center of sugar
manufacturing, was almost effaced. The
correspondent has seen seven such
towns and there appear to be hun.
dred more i'll the country recovered
from the Germans.
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RUSSIANS IMPOSING FINES
ON EAST PRUSSIAN TOWNS

London, Nov. 16, 346 A. MA
Copenhagen dispatch to the 'Dailv
Mail" says it is learned from Berlin
that the Russians are imposing fines on
Pne conquered East Prussian towns cor
responding to the German fines imposed
on Belgian towns.
The military authorities in Fast
Prussia, adds the dispatch, have given
orders that as the Russians advance
the inhabitants must abandon their
homes and remove all their hocks and
herds, as we'll as their valuables. and
burn their houses, so as to prevent the
Ruosians subsisting on the country.
Many villages are reported to have
been evacuated already.
The German general staff has issued
urgent orders for 10000 sledges for
the winter campaign in Russia.
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WARNS BRITISH PEOPLE OF
BIG TASK FACING ALLIES

London, Nov 16, $40 A. M.-Tbe
Daliy Mail s. Petrograd correspond
ent warns the British people of the
enormous task still facing the allies
ana declares that England win need
an the troops that it is possible for
her to raise.
Ihe correspondent points out that it
VIII take months for the Russians to
reach Berlin, saying that, even if the
Germans are driven from the positions
they are now holding, they can fail
back on equally strong lines of defenses
they have prepared. He says he hears
that the Germans are setting the Rus
SLAMS formidable task to break
through and that before this is accom-.
plished the Germans still may be able
to send troops to France and Belgium.
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DREXEL STRETCHER- BEARER
UNDER CORPORAL'S ORDERS

Paris, Nov. 16.-Anthonv ]. Drexel.
entertainer of European dukes and
princes, is serving with British am,
oulance as stretcher-beare under the
-isid orders of cockney corporal
When Mr.. Drexel visited Lord Rob.
srts Cecil, who heads the British Red
Jross here, and offered feet of auto.
mobiles to assist in bringing the wound
ed to Paris, Lord Cecil said Drexel
could be most useful as stretcher.
bearer.
Stopping in the best suite at the
Ritz, Drexel is forced to rise at I
0 clock every day and place himself at
the disposition of the corporal, whose
vivid Language he generally fails to
comprehend.
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EARL ROBERTS EIGHTH BIC
BRITISH OFFICER TO DIE

London, Nov. 16, 5.59 A. M.-West-
minister Abbey has been offered as a
burial place for Field Marshal Earl
Roberts, subject to the usual condition
that the body must be cremated. Lady
Roberts, it is announced, is unable to
accept the offer. The body of the dis
tinguished soldier will be brought to
England in few days. 1t is under
stood that Earl Roberts wished to be
buried at All Saint IS Church at Ascot,
near his home. A definite announcement
regarding the burial place is expect
ed shortly.
According to Paris dispatch. Earl
Roberts was advised not to 90 to the
front until the weather moderated. but
he refused to postpone the program ar.
ranged for him.
Earl Roberts. is the eighth distin.
guished officer of the British army and
navy to die since the beginning of the
war. The list includes Generals Grier-
son, Franklin, Kewch and Darlington.
London Nov. 16, 4.4O A. M.-The
correspondent of French newspaper.
who saw Earl Roberts Just before he
started for France, writes to the
Times, stating that Earl Roberts
told him he intended to speak to Cen
eral French about the too great secrecy
which, to his mind, was Kept by the
mliltary authorities at the front and at
nome concerning the work and brave
deeds of the British troops. He con-
sldered that while military movements
should be kept absolutely secret, the
knowledge of how the British soldiers
We're lighting against great odds would
greatly stimulate recruiting in Eng
land.
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Only Dozen Buildings
Out of 600 Stand
A ter Attack by
Kaiser's Army
AWFUL HAVOC BY
GERMAN SHELLS
Another Fierce Effort Expected From
Dixmude to Arras as Soon as Ger
mans Have Rested and New Men
Can Be Procured

Paris, Nov. 16, A. M.-The di.
minishing intensity of the German as
saults in Flanders is due to some ex-
tent to severe weather conditions. The
flooded section is increasing in area as
result of the continuance of heavy
rains and the country between Nieu-
port and Dixmude is vast swamp in
which guns and ammunition wagons
abandoned by the Germans lie en-
bedded and in which float countless
corpses. The Germans have been wash
ed out of their trenches in several
places, says an eyewitness, who has
just returned from the front, but they
continue to send an occasional shell to
the French trenches.
1t is not probable that the Germans
will make further attempts in this sec
ton of the front, but fierce effort is
to be expected from Dixmude to Arras
as soon as the German troops have re-
covered from their tremendous exer-
tions of last week and new men can
De brought up to fill the gaps in the
ranks.
Military Writers View of Situation
The fate of the war depends now,
says Colonel Feyler, an eminent Swiss
military writer, essentially on the re-
serves of men that the armies are able
to bring up, and in this respect, ac-
cording to military opinion here, Ger
many appears to be in state of in
teriorlty. Not only does the Russian
offensive prevent Germany from trans
'ferring men from the eastern to the
western front, they point out, but
troops that are now being instructed
in the interior win necessarily be sent
against the Russians.
1t is also pointed out that Germany
has to operate on fronts totalling near
ly 1000 miles with 20 active army
corps, while the allies have at their
disposal 20 army corps for line less
than half as long. Thus from the point
OF view of available troops it is argued
the comparison is unfavorable to the
Germans.
Infantry Equally Well Supplied
So far as the equipment is concern,
ed, the infantry on both sides is equal
ly well supplied. At the beginning the
Germans were much better off with
qulck-firers, but the allies have now
caught up by intensive production in
the arms factories. In the artillery the
allies are said to have advantage as
far as light pieces are concerned, but
the German heavy artillery is superior.
They are not likely to retain that SUI
periority long, however, since both the
French and British arsenals are be-
ginning to deliver big guns and the
allies have plenty of trained men TO
serve them, irrespective of the Japan
ese gunners whose early arrival at
Marseilles is announced by rumor.
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MAKES $500 CONVERTS
DR.. George Wood Anderson Closes Sue
cessful Revival at Coatesville

Coatesville, Pa, Nov. 16.-With a
total of $500 converts in six weeks,
the Anderson revival closed here last
night. Among the men who "hit the
trail' were $50 members of the fire
department, nearly all the employees of
the local yard of the Philadelphia and
Reading railway, hundreds of mill work
ers, business and professional men, news
paper men and girls from the various
factories. Among the converts were a
number of men who have been hard
drinkers.
Last night eclipsed all revivals ever
held in the county. One hundred and
sixty persons went forward, and during
the day many took the step at other
services.
DR.. George Wood Anderson. the
Scranton evangelist, who has been
preaching stirring sermons to huge au-
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BIG WAR ORDER FOR STEEL:
FRANCE WANTS Is. 900 TONS

Pittsburgh, Nov. 16.-The Jones &
Laughlin Steel Company has received
an order from France for $4,000 tons
OF 14-!neh bars, to be shipped as soon
as possible. 1t is understood the bars
VIII be ground down and viii be used
for projectiles for a three-inch shell.
Ihe order will be started next week.
and the 100000 feet of steel bars
will be ready for shipment within a
month, ii nothing unforeseen delays the
shipment
The Jones & Laughlin Company is
the first Pittsburgh concern to receive
an order for projectile steel from any
OF the warning European nations.
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BOULDER STRIKES FOREMAN

Marietta, Nov. 16.-Peter Ensmin.
ger, track foreman on the Columbia and
Marietta division of the Pennsylvania
railroad, was badly injured late Satur.
day afternoon, when huge boulder
came rolling down Chickies rock, where
the men were fighting a forest fire, and
felled him.
His right arm was badly cut, his en-.
tire right side lacerated and his right
leg almost crushed. He was taken to
his home and medical aid summoned. 1t
is feared he is injured internally. Mr.
Ensminger is a man of about 200
pounds and &c years of age. He is a
veteran of the Civil war.
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NICHOLAS DECLARES THAT
TURKEY MUST BE CRUSHED

Moscow, Nov. 16.-The municipality
of Moscow, having expressed to the
Emperor sentiments of fidelity and de.
votion on the occasion of the war with
Turkey, the Emperor has replied
thanking the people of the ancient
capital.
He declared they could not believe
that Russia ever would agree to peace
so long as the resistance of the enemy
had not been crushed and so long as
the problems which had been left by
their ancestors had not been solved.
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COAL WORKERS SENDING
MONEY TO EAST PRUSSIA

Hazleton, Pa, Nov. 16.-Large sums
of money are sent daily from Hazleton
by the banks and postoffices to the
scene of the war in East Prussia. MANY
residents of the Hazleton coal fields
have relatives living in that part of
Europe
A surprising commentary on the re.
ports of great carnage is the return of
receipts from many of the people 10
whom money is consigned.
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oiences, and party left here this morn.
ing for Scranton.
Wife Charged With Insanity

Somerset, Pa, Nov. 16.-On informa-
ton charging insanity, Mrs. Clara
Beale Miller, wife of William $. Miller,
of the Miller Manufacturing Company,
OF tMeyersdale, has been removed to the
Somerset county hospital for the in
sane. The procedure has caused a sensa.
tion In the county, number of friends
OF the unfortunate woman being indig-
nant over it, Mrs. Miller resisted re-
mOval from her home.
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Graduate In Music Dies

Drumore, Nov. 16.-Miss Helen Ne
Comb, 26 years old, a graduate in mu.
sic, and who taught several classes, died
Saturday from complication of dis
eases. Her parents were teachers in
music. She is survived by sister.
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One Dead, 3 Hurt as Auto upsets

Greensburg, Pa, Nov. 16.-I.orenzo
Jones, 20 years old, of Swissvale, was
killed and three companions were in
jured when the automobile in which
they were riding went over an embank-
ment near here yesterday The injured
are Herman and Deilbert Seholtz and
Howard Wagner, all of Swissvale. The
party was going to Indiana county on
hunting trip.
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Cancer Fatal to Aged Man

Lancaster, Nov 16.-David +. San.
ders, a years old, died Saturday from
cancer of the stomach and old age. He
was Il native of Lyeoming county. lie
was a mechanical draughtsman and in.
ventor. Six children, three brothers
and two grandchildren survive.
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War Stops Hunts in England

London, Nov. 16.-The extent to
which hunts have been affected by the
war was indicated at the annual meet
ing of the Essex-Suffolk hunt at Col
chester. 1t was stated that ten masters
of foxhounds were serving in the Som
erset and Devon Yeomanry, now quar-
tered near Colchester, and 100000
horses had been drawn from various
hunts this year
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British Ambassador OF to oanad.

Washington, D. c., Nov. 16.-Sir
Cecil Spring Rice. the British Ambas
sador, left Washington last night to
visit the Duke of Connaught, Governor
General of Canada, ait Ottawa. 1t was
stated at the embassy that the Am
oassador $ visit was purely personal
one.
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Vote Against Death Penalty

Portland, Ore, Nov. 16.-Com plete
unofficial returns indicated yesterday
that the bill to abolish caicital punish
ment in Oregon was carried at the elec-
tion on November 3, the total being
Yes. 100.036: no. 99.07S.
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Pottstown Has s4oo Raised Of $1,000

Pottstown, Pa, Nov. 16.-Contribu-
tions nearing $500 have been received
here toward the $1,000 to buy a car
load of flour for the Belgian war suf-
ferers, which is exclusive of a $500
contribution given at the Hill School.
The Pottstown Business Men s Asso-
oiation Saturday contributed $50.