Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-08-14

Geo. L. Halter of Lowell, Indiana,
is writing hiss sister, Mrs: Bowers, ar
irving unannounced Wednesday and
giving the Cresco folks pleasant sur
prise.
Elizabeth and Julia ByrDes. left yes
terday for St. Paul, to get the new fall
styles in millinery and expect to go
from there to Chicago before returning
home. ".. -
. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Quinn, who
have been, visiting at the home Of the
formers, mother, left Saturday for
Ossian, from which place they will 60
to Odebolt, Iowa. to reside. -
Horse for Sale-At once, good gen.
tie horse, not afraid of autos, etc.
Would be good for school children,
cheap. Single or double driver or
rider. G. w. Meyers, Bonair.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. DeSmith and lit
tie daughter, who have been visiting at
the Woellstein home here and with rel
atives in Charles City, returned yester-
day to their home in Oklahoma.
The combined course in shorthand,
typewriting and bookkeeping at. Valdez
Business College, DEBORAH, Iowa, costs
but a trifle more than does either the
commercial or shorthand course.
Mrs. Herbert Painter and little son
arrived Wednesday from Charles City
to visit her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Klaffke. Minnie Klaffke who has been
visiting there, returned with her.
LosT-A gold watch, Monday,
between Cresco and Arthur Gardner's.
Reward for its return to w. 0. Sven
sons. Phone Turkey River II.
WILL KACH.
i. Mrs. Frank Miller returned Tuesday
from West Union, where she went to
help care for the little grand daughter
which arrived at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Schneider, couple weeks ago.
"Say, Jack, do you know am more
than pleased with that diamond ring
you gave me-"
You ought to be. Susie, bought it
from Baldwin. Cresco's Big Jeweler."
NJ. l.. Healy, wife and children, and
Chas. Byrnes and wife autoed up from
Cedar Rapids last Saturday for visit
with MIR. Byrnes mother and other
Cresco relatives, returning home Tues.
day. ~.
O. w. CLARK and Will Middlebrook
returned Sunday night from weeks
trip to Grand Junction, Colorado,
where they have fruit farms which are
gaining rapidly in productiveness and
value.
The Cresco steam laundry changed
hands twice last week. Frank White
bought it from Elmer James and the
next day sold it to Fred Flick and
Frank Stevens, who owned it previous
Mr.. James proprietorship. y.
Olive and Emma Prindle Of Wis,
who have been visiting thsis1 ,aunts.
MesAames Harry Pollittt and Anna
Doolittle. returned to Ridgeway We'd
nesday where they have been visiting
their sister, Mrs. Griswold.
: Cedar Valley Seminary, Usage, Iowa.
anticipates a good enrolment Of
students on it's opening, Sept. 9Th.
Principal H. G. Colpitts has. entered
upon his duties as head Of the school
and expects to visit many Of the out
lying districts of Mitchell and other
counties during the month Of August.
The Cor gregational Friendly will be
entertained at the Congregational
church Thursday evening, Aug. 20, by
Mesd. C. w. Reed, C. w. Framework,
r .R. Rose, I. ]. Booth, H. E. Tomas,
H. C. Burgess, H. C. Salisbury and
Miss Mae Thomson. This is to be "A
Family Affair."" and father. brother
and the children are cordially invited
to come with mother and sister.
CrescO relatives have received news OF
the death of a former Cresco girl,
Mrs. Cornelia Gessell Lamb, on Thurs
day, July 23rd at her home in the vii
lage of Honakaa, in the Hawaiian
Islands, where she and her husband
were engaged in missionary work She
was the daughter of C. L. Gessell and
was born in Cresco in 1881. and was
married in June, 1918 to Fred Lamb
who with baby boy is left to mourn
her loss.