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Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-03-26
A Pleasant Surprise.

On. Sunday, March 7th, a accompany of
relatives and friends gathered at the
home of Henry Smith to remind them
of their 25th wedding ANNIVERSARY. A.
H. Rucker, in few well chosen words,
presented them with full set of silver
ware, dinner set and two rocking
chairs. At noon bounteous. dinner
was served to which all did ample
justice.
They day was spent in social chat and
merry making and all departed sin the
early evening, declaring Mr.. and Mrs.
Smith royal entertainers, and wishing
them many anniversaries to come.
All who donated, most oflwhom were
present, are John Smith, Elliot, Iowa;
Jake Smith, Cumberland, Iowa; Will
Smith, Huron, S. D.; John Hoff, Ten
ny, Mimi; Albert Cawelti, Rennville,
MINI. George Painton, Calmar, Iowa;
Andrew Smith and family, Phillip
Schmidt and family, Alfred Peter ST..
and family, Alfred Peter Jr. and Iwife,
A. w. Schmidt e. j. Hanneman, Chris
Smith, o. H. Stevens, Rus Burr, Fred
Leinhardt, A. L. Cation, Frank Burr,
Fred Mintey, Albert Haupt, Arthur
Rucker, Will Ernst, Charley Halweg,
Mrs. Mary Kratz, Phillip Kratz, James
Lewis, Roland Burr, John Blaser, Mrs.
Cleghorn, Bertha Blsser, Charley Ger
Der, Will Burr, Linnie Blaser. Will
Frank, Fred Burr ST., Ernest Blaser,
Mrs. Mary Gerber, Zbornik Bros, Nc
Hugh & Lusson, Union Savings Bank,
Ernest Katz, Chris Blaser and wife,
Frank Wilson, Jess Hayes, Darwin
Werhan, Jos Komark, Chas. Carroll,
Robt. Blackburn, Ed. Strawn, Hulda
Roth, Elsie Peters, Frank Blackburn,
Will Simon, Mr.. jackson, Gottfried
Kach.
One Who was There.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-03-26
KENDALLyILLE.

Clifford Eddy and wife attended
church at Morgan, Sunday.
Mrs. w. A. Clink returned from her
visit at Riceville, Thursday.
Mrs. ]. J. Sobolik, of Cresco, visited
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Barnes,
q few days last week.
Sanders and Grebin sawed wood for
Steve Todd, Friday.
Stephen Wallace Jr, who has been
quite i'll, is slowly recovering.
Pete Ellingson was DEBORAH visitor,
Saturday.
Mrs. Walter Daskam returned to her
home, Sunday, after spending week
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. Pol
litt, in Cresco.
Steve Todd and wife visited at the
Amos Elliott home near Harmony, Sun
day.
Bert Grebin and Clara Qvern returned
Saturday from their visit in Tennessee.
Wendell Todd returned to his school
duties at Lacrosse, Monday.
The Literary Society was well attend
ed Saturday night, and good program
given.
a few from here spent a pleasant
evening at the Clifford Eddy home,
Tuesday.
Elmo Stephenson and wife, Mrs. L.
Burton and Matte Burton took dinner
1T the A. Clink home, Sunday.
Quite a few from here attended the
saIe at the O. G. Watros farm, Wednes-
day.
w. C. Fifeld and son Clinton went
to Vermont, Wednesday.
Edna Burton returned to her home,
Tuesday, after spending two weeks in
Cre0co.
Rev. Hill was calling in and around
Kendallville, few days last week.
Walter Daskam has started home
for. The benefit Of friendless dogs. He
vne seen on our streets the other morn
;.R with very fine collection, trying
ID find suitable homes for them.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-03-26
LOURDES.


Frank Flaherty has returned from
Minneapolis where he has been visiting
his sister who is sick.
Joe Urban has returned home from
Des Moines.
John Vokaty and wife visited at the
Albert Vokaty home.
Russell Shelley did Frank Flaherty's
chores while he was absent.
Lizzie Moravetz is helping Mrs. John
Chihak with homework.
James Dosheck and his daughter
Annie and Mrs. J. j. Fisher left for
Waterloo, last week.
Jim Falada will leave our neighbor-
hood soon.
Della Comfy made trip to Minneap-
oils.
Mrs. Daley and daughter Agnes are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Long.
Mrs. Enright passed away on the
22nd of March,
Frank Long made trip to Elma,
Monday.
Mrs. Long had the misfortune of
having her leg hurt by the kick of a
horse.
Joe Urban called at the Joe Neibaur
home last Monday.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-03-26
How'S THIS,

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case Of Catarrh that cannot b
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F.. J. CHENEY 4 CO., Toledo. o.
Cheney Tor the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions, and financially able to carry
out any obligations made BY bis arm.
WALT ING, KINNAN 4 MARVIN.
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure II taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mn.
cous surfaces Of the system. TestimoniaIs
Take Halls Family Pills for Constipa.
tiOn
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-03-26
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Estate of Vincent Hron, Deceased.
4 Notice Is hereby given, That the subscriber
has been duly appointed Administratr1x to
Tow nship in the County OF Howard, State of
Iowa, deceased, intestate, and. has taken
upon herself that trust by giving bonds Is
All persons having demands upon the
Estate Of said Deceased are required to
exhibit the same; and persons indebted to
the said Estate are called upon 70 make pay
Dated, CrescO. lows, March 2Ath l9l5.
Y Reed & Pergler, Attorneys. 3lt3
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-03-26
BONAIR.

James Gibbons, a former resident of
Howard County, was caller in our
town, last Saturday and Sunday.
Donald Thorne, a freshman at the c,
H. S., has been obliged to remain from
school for the past two weeks with the
mumps.
L. E. Grabau received a message,
Tuesday morning, telling of the death
of his brother-in-law, Jim Eagen, who
was resident of Fillmore County. He
passed away Monday evening. He had
been in poor health for some time.
The bereaved family have our SYM
patty. L. E. Grabau and daughter
Sylvia left here Tuesday noon to attend
the funeral.
The Friend home was fumigated last
Saturday, and we are glad to have them
among us.
George Walker has been suffering a
great deal lately from blood poison
which set in in his arm.
Roy Salisbury, assessor of Vernon
Springs Twp. was caller in ur:town,
Monday and Tuesday Of last week.
The eighth grade pupils of Bonair,
who have been patiently waiting for
their standings in the February exami-
nation, received them Wednesday. On
an average the standings were very
good.
Rev. Hill, pastor at Bonair, will
deliver a special sermon appropriate
for Palm Sunday, next Sunday. Special
music will be rendered.
There was a lecture in the hall,
Wednesday night, on rural consolida-
ton, given by Mr.. Fuller Of the State
Department Of Public Instruction. 1t
was certainly enjoyed by all who were
there.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-03-26
7, when It Nay Concern.

The Oak Lawn Nursery of Upton 4
h66tp will continue business in the
estnrs tie same - in the past. All
evases viii be promptly and carefully
Imed MRS. ]. II. UPTON.
mo E, b. BENTS.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-03-26
House BARGAIN.

Good room house on North side, 8
blocks from post office-splendid loca-
tion-nice shade trees, etc., cement
walks. Will sell 1T q bargain. See
29t4 LUERs LAND Co.. Greco. II.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-03-26
NORTHWEST CRESCO.

NORTHWEST CRESCO.
R. Thomson and family called at the
John Steinman home, Tuesday.
John Lusson called on Will Asrel,
one day this week.
Emil Reutlinger and family made q
pleasant call at the Fred Ficken home,
Sunday.
John Steinman is improving his house
by building an addition to it.
v. Croatt and Harry Warling are
doing some carpenter work on the
formers farm.
Susie Lusson is assisting Mrs. Will
Owens with her sewing, this week.
Fred Ficken made business call at
the John Rutsch home, Tuesday.
Anna Lusson spent Tuesday afternoon
with Grandma Bartholomew.
Charlie Munger helped E. Reutlinger
butcher, Monday.
John McDermott Sr. spent few days
at the Will Aspel home.
Joe Lusson and wife spent Sunday
afternoon at the John Lusson home.
Mrs. Will Owens called on Mrs, E.
Nash, Sunday.
Henry Leferink and family called at
the Herman Wenthold home, Sunday:
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-03-26
COUNTY NEWS
scHLEY.

3 NICK Blefi, CnaS. Clrkl, fnl McCdr-
vile, Joseph and John Kubicek, Lester
and Martin Gurlinger, Agnes Kubicek
and Mary Gurlinger were pleasantly en-
tertained at the John Harris home
Thursday evening.
T'.nrnie and Mayme Stevenson ac-
companied by Stacia Truka were Cres-
CO choppers Thursday.
Fred Hristka returned from lama
FT::aay,, after spending few days
there with his parents.
C,.,as. Paul will work for John Musel
this spring.
Mr.. Gurlinger and son Lester made
business call at the Anton Niebauer
home last Wednesday.
Nick Bieri was caller in our village
Fsiday.
John Kubicek and Chas. Cirkl made a
business call on Mike Haskovec Thurs
day.
Chas. Cirkl went to Alta Vista Mon
day and from there took the passenger
to Cedas Rapids to visit friends.
MIR. Lovejoy and wife called at the
jim Musel home Saturday.
Myrtle O'Brien spent Monday with
Agnes Kubicek.
ne Jim Musel folks are all on the
sick list again. We wish for a speedy
recovery.
frank Krall and wife went to Fort
Atninson Monday, returning Wednes-
day.
A large crowd of young folks gather
ed at the Kubicek home Sunday even
ing. A good time reported.
The Jan folks entertained number
of their friends Saturday evening.
James McCarville, wife and daughter
called on the formers parents Frank
McCarville.
Fsed Hristka was a shopper at Cres-
co on Monday.
Olga Gilbertson spent couple of
days with her friend, Agnes Kubicek.
Frank Kerkhoff was a caller in Cres
co on Thursday.
W. ]. O'Brien and family called at
TIKI John O'Brien home near Maple
1 f.
4. iTr. Gurlinger and wife entertained
a large company Of friends Sunday at
te~noon.
The Stevenson folks visited at the J.
P. O'Brien's Sunday night.
lick McCarville was caller in our
c, immunity Monday.
Ir. Maravetz called on Will Retha-
s | Friday.
|. j. White and wife were shopping
ir CrescO on Tuesday.
Mrs. Clancy, of Cresco came out
Tuesday for a few days visit at the
". M. Stevenson home.
Willie Decker who has been very
SICK with mumps, is on the gain which
W. are glad to hear.
Irs. James Ondrasek and daughter
c tie, are spending few days at
SEQ, visiting relatives.
rank Harris transacted business at
Cresco Saturday.
Ida Rethamel returned home Satur-
day, after weeks visit with her sis
ter, Mrs. "Opens, at Cresco.
Glenn Hyke and Louis Ondrasek were
Cresco callers Tuesday.
Mrs. Anton Milota returned home
) Wednesday after spending few days
with her daughter, Mrs. Mike Hasko-
VEG.
.Cresco callers from this vicinity Sat
urday were Joe Hron, James Novak,
J.. w. Chick and Joe Vrba.
Bert Reinhart and Fred Rethamel
and wives, spent Sunday at the Albert
Reinhart home.
Mr.. Harris, our mail carrier, was
sick with grip and Joe Patterson sub
stituting for him on his route.
C. A. Fosse is installing one of the
latest ice machines in his creamery.
Fred Taft delivered hogs at Cresco
Saturday.
Chas. Andrea, from Porotivin, was a
caller through our vicinity Tuesday.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-03-26
ALBION.

Theodore Gunderson and family vis-
tied relatives of Davis Corners Sunday.
Will Henry and wife were Chester
visitors Tuesday.
Josie Henke spent the first Of the
week at the home of her parents.
Sorry to note that Mrs. M. Volkman
continues quite poorly at the Will
Reuter- home.
Rev. Hill delivered one of his master
sermons to an appreciative audience
Sunday.
The ten-year-old daughter of Will
Kruger had the misfortune to have
one of her limbs terribly mutilated by
running into tree while coasting. DR..
Plummer was called but thought best
to take her to Mercy hospital where 1T
was found necessary to take IL stitches
in dressing the wound.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Henry entertained
company Sunday.
Farmers club meeting this Friday
evening as usual. Everybody welcome.
The annual meeting of the Albion
Farmers Telephone Co., at the Albion
school house resulted in the reelection
of the old officers and tax of one dol
lar Gf paid before Sept. lst) levied Tor
the ensuing year.
Too late for last week.
Mary Eaton commenced school in the
Albion Dist. Monday.
J. w. Wells returned from his 1ndi-
ana visit Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stein and little daugh-
ter visited at the Gunderson home from
Saturday until Sunday. Mrs. Stein is
sister of Mrs. G.
Orsen Wells won the championship in
the Howard county corn contest, hav-
ing produced 81 bus. per acre.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-03-26
For Sale.

House, barn and large lot. two blocks
from High school-fine location. Quick
sale desired. Address Lock Box 763
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because tne small shop has been always one of the
sources of her strength
Even in this year of the great war Newark will
manufacture more than 100000 600 worth 80
goods, which will be sold in every oner r,orL,. :
the world. Before you can hope to name an article
that Is not manufactured there you must run III.
chance of specifying 255 distinct branches Of man.
utacture that are there, with capital Of SIG.
o9@'OVo' and including six thousand independent
establishments
You might think that the payroll of such
combination of competitive commercialisr would
De enough responsibility for any one city You
would be all wrong
Newarkians are not that sort.
lhey do not brag, except in quiet wav. and
then only because they have the facts in tabuIated
form at hand in case any critic starts an arpu-
ment 80"
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The Pennsylvania and other fine railroads
have been stopping at Newark to take on pas
sengers for other points along their lines for
several years. But Newark should not be
judged solely on the basis of its exit facili-
ties
One reason for this is that any intelligent
person in that city will tell you how Newark
greatest manufacturing centre and by all
odds the worlds greatest transportation city
How SOP" you ask, while sharing a match
with one of the men who believes the future
OF Newark is already knocking at her door
He lights his pipe, and while looking down
upon busy Broad Street exhales some facts
that are extremely difficult to controvert
You may have considered Newark to be
merely busy and prosperous first stop on
the way South or West
But now the man is standing in front of
wall map and he hammers his points home by
putting his finger very gently on the SPOT.
1T IS REFLECTED GLORY ONLY THAT
MAKES OTHER CITIES LUMINOUS.
All other places he refers to, kindly but
firmly. as proportonately fortunate as they
near Newark.
New York, he admits, is favorably located.
You can't get away from feeling that the
man is right.
He suggests it will not be long before the
FIVE New Jersey counties-Hudson, Bergen,
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rision before the crowd, because IL is no triek
at all to prove Newark is much larger, and ths'
she reached her prominent place the Con-
gested Cities Calendar without once attempting
to prove that two and two make FIVE or without
resorting to those feverish boom sccelerators !"
popular in Oklahoma and elsewhere.
No, it must not be limited that Newark IS say
sfied She is growing far more rapidly than 10
any one of the other cities named, and ALREADY
within seven and half miles of the corner OF
Broad and Market Streets is population OF
more than million.
And, to grow the way she means TO, she must
do something with those sad, mosquito preceding
meadows on her edge. Therefore, as might nave
been expected by any who has read this falth-
full chronicle thus far, Newark has already
done it,
Newark saw says Amos Stote in long-sgh'eu
business vision, the possibilities Of the gres'
stretch of mud flats and meadow lands "his"
not only useless but made her surroundings
less attractive Less attractive is not too strong
Newark saw" Mr. Stote asserts, "that tnes'
mud flats might be made into compact ihou''
trial city, steel bound, with railways ana oorue'-
Ing broad battery OF docks to which would come
vessels from all the world. Il saw legltimS'
business opportunity based natural adVs".
tage, and believed it justified IN oorro","s
money to prepare for and push this common"
the market
"This is unique in municipal boost, but uhhA'
some communities il desired 20 create com
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and other communities complain is little felt
in Newark.
The Gar, for instance, is not the only per-
son who wears Newark.made Shoes The
highest priced, and, it is said the best shoes
made in America are manufactured in New
ark, to the extent of So, 500 900 year
The first piece OF patent leather ever made
in America glittered in Newark in 1870. The
man who discovered it was Seth Boyden
This shimmering, sublimated superleather is
now produced in Newark to the value of about
100000 year.
The Gar gets his shoes made in Newark.
but that is not ALL
If you are interested in such things, Newark
thinks enough Of the leather business TO have in
vested about Sl6000,O00 in such industries and
Its citizens who fortunate enough to own
stock explain their investment by pointing 70 the
zach that, each year. Newark manufactures and
sells s2i,OOOOOO worth of such goods
This compares favorably with New York. which
IN 1909 had Sl,l77000 invested in leather indus
tries St. Louis produced leather goods that year
10 the value OF S2'O55,000; Lynn, Mass S. O94 600
map is a good thing in its way. but the
smokestacks, if you start out with conscientious
determination TO count them, enable Won 70 coo
clearly through the bituminous atmosnboro .ho
significance of a town that, according TO the rem
sus OF 1910, had nineteen hundred manufacturing
establishments. each employing ten or more hands
And the smokestacks give only little ndica
ton OF Newarks Importance in the industrial line.
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Passaic, Essex and Union-will in large part
at least be united to form city Of 5000,
and perhaps 100000
With an eloquent gesture he remarks, cas-
TALLY, that Newark is to be the Eastern termi-
nus of each one of the great transcontinental
systems of railroads.
You sympathize before you realize it.
Newark, you begin to comprehend, is to be,
literally, the gateway city of America!
Because, don't you see-HERE (the man
again shows you Newark on the map) the
ocean steamships will take on their cargoes of
grains and manufactured articles destined for
foreign ports.
And here Gan inclusive sweep Of the right
hand over FIVE counties) the same steamships
will discharge their cargoes brought from
Europe, from South America from Asia and
from Africa.
lessons in Safety First to dodge the propellers
of the anticipated fleets.
And what will become OF New York?
1t will remain the nations counting house,
and-er-show place. a suburb of Newark
Newark is to celebrate next year its future
greatness, making the 25oth anniversary of its
settlement the occasion for so doing. For the
celebration it is pledging itself in the sum of
quarter OF million dollars, which, though
onl a thousand dollars for each year OF its
existence, is a fair demonstration of the fact
that the poor business OF which other cities
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people. originally from the steppes west oil Lake
Bakal who migrated westward and IN oVo a. D'
overran and took possession of part OF Asia MINOR
naming it Turcomania. Proud, energetic ana
highly intelligent they soon extended their power
and under their rule arts and sciences hourlshed'
colleges were founded and richly endowed, all edu-
cation and progress encouraged For, unlike other
RELIGIONS Islam has never followed retrograde
policy but especially emphasizes the fact that
at is permitted TO the Moslem 10 possess all
sciences" urging the believers "to seek knowledge
and were it to be found in China" and promoting
the study of law theology and philosophy even
in its very mosques The dying words OF the
founder Of the present dynasty, Gilman | (12o8-
1920, were Characteristic: "My son Orkhan," he
said, "be thou the protector of the faith and the
sciences" And Orkhan, as well as his successors,
followed this advice, that the Turkish courts
were richly graced with the presence of
poets, thinkers and scientists and Islam proved
itself living faith in uniting and anmating a
gifted, progressive, deeply religious people
1t is not surprising that a nation of this calbre
should extend its sway over half the inhabited
globe. In 1853 Mahomet H. only twenty-eght
years old, VIGOROUSLY entered Constantinople. In
1917 Selim conquered Egypt, and ipso facto be-
came the possessor of the holy cities of Mecca
and Medina, and with it gained not only the
greater part of Arabia, but the acknowledged
leadership all Islam, the Caliphate. In 1929
Soliman the Magnificent knocked at the gates
of Vienna. At the height of its power Turkish
rule extended Persia India, Arabia, Egypt
and in Europe all the Balkan Peninsula and
Hungary, Indeed. Turkey would have been irwin
chile had it not been for internal dissension,
which brought about by the different Chris
tian nationalities of European Turkey, who, con-
trary to the general belief, as a result of the
Turks spirit of religious federation, had lived and
grown separate and distinct racial entities
tions, religions, languages and customs. No ma
tion can assume racial hegemony without having
to the process of racial ABSORPTION either
by force or persuasion, something the Turks have
not INDUCED in
After the death of Soliman II, in 1885, the
power of Turkey slowly but surely began to de-
cline. And as the internal enemy did his deadly
work, the outside enemies raised their heads un-
afraid. Openly, well as under cover, they
plotted, interfered and opposed widening breaches
encouraging disloyalty, estranging provinces from
common bonds, while all through the empire prog
ress stopped and turmoil ensued
The European powers presided at the dismem-
berment Of their weakened neighbor Piece by
piece they tore from her Cyprus Egypt, the Su-
dan, outposts in Arabia, on the Persian Gulf, all
of North Africa, almost the whole of his Euro
pean possessions. II seemed indeed the end of
the great turkish Empire. when sudden
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OTHER CITIES ARE MENTIONED ONLY To
BE RULED OFF THE MAP.

But they do know that Cincinnati, including
all its German beer gardens and retired pork
packers is smaller by many thousands than
Newark even If most other people do not realize
the fact.
They have the figures to show that Newark
has greater population than Kansas City and
Omaha combined.
Do you like Western and Southern cities?
Well, in that event, consider st. Paul and
Nashville put them in melting pot, stir well.
and whfn you are all through all done third and
last tine and all that, Newark will send some
statlstieian to you who will hold you up 20 de-