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Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
Little Thinos.

cts the little things that cause NJ
the most annoyance" said the parlor
philosopher.
"That's right" agreed Mere Man
THE people who live next door to me
have seven children, the oldest being
ten."-Town Topics.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
That Soothed Her.

where have you been all the even
ing?" demanded his wife as the last
dance ended. II couldn't find you"
"That is easily explained" be re-
piled. "You looked so beautiful that
was lost in admiration."-Louisville
Courier-J Journal.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
Many Children are Sickly.

cbSts Sss ap sods q sea1
lieve Feverishness, Headache, Stom-
ach Troubles, Teething Disorders and
Destroy Worms. At all druggists, Csc
Sample mailed free. Address, Mother
Gray Co., LIE Roy, N. Y. 25-4t
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
Vinegar.

The ancients accredited great anti
septic power to vinegar and used it to
Z large extent for this purpose not
withstanding its high cost. This quail
ity was greatly overrated.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
To Mako Thin Hands PLUMP,

To Make Thin Hands Plump.
Wash in very warm water. rub In
cocoa butter or any preferred akin food
for five minutes and then hold your
hands for an instant In ice cold water.
Wipe dry. The cold water closes the
pores while they are filed with the
cream, and new tissue Is built in a
most satisfactory manner.-Philadel-
phia Record.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
TaIkino Shop,

Talking Shop.
II don't like to wait on grouchy Gus.
TONER'S"
"Nor l."
II hate to have a customer growl
1t me-"
milne don't growi," said the dentist,
but they all show their teeth. KAN
sas City Journal.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
Possible Substitute.

Nothing can ever take your place"
cooed the bride.
Nothing, dear?"
THAT is, perhaps, except adequate
alimony."- City Journal.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
Sherins Sale!

Maytag Automobile will be sold il
Cresco, Saturday, Feb. 18th, at Sheriff
Sale to highest bidder.
D. J. FERRIE, Sheriff.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
FIVE CENTS FOR LUNCHES,
HE FLED TO TRENCHES

o New York.--Five cents for his {
o midday meal, 10 cents for church {
o and a cent for charity was the {
@ allowance which Leon Scradyn- 4
9 ski of New York said his wife 4
o gave him during the years they 4
8 were saving to buy home. He {
o sued for an accounting of money 4
O left with her when he went to
o fight for Russia. The jury found 4
o in the wife's favor.
D
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16

Encouragement after censure II 40
the sun after q shower.-GOethe.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
Something Accomplished.

"My wife went to beauty doctor
to have her complexion cleared"
"Well, was it,"
mo, but my pocketbook was.'-Bal'
timore American.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
Attention R. N. A.

Box social Friday evening, Feb. 10th
in M. w. A. hall. Each lady bring
basket with supper for two.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
Following Their Example.

"Why don't you 60 to your friends
when you want to borrow money!!
II have been to them. but just at
present they are all hard pressed, they
say"
"Then count me among your friends.
Their judgment on you is good enough
for me"-Detroit Free Press.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16

He who is made by an opportunity is
usually the one who made the oppor-
tunity.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16

It IL the enemy whom we do not sus-
pect who ID the most dangerous.-
RojaA
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16

WASTED Work, young married man.
-, ga, y,;.l auto truck. Box 804,
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-02-16
Mar,

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this of
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/ Moline
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] Roo
R>shop.
\ For
Andre
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tunes she has designed are bifurca-
ted. The street costume she wears
here is Of white yachting serge, with
pipings and facings, and girdle OF
cerise taffeta. The cuffs are trim
med with tiny cerise buttons. Mara
bou trims the neck and skirt OF the
upper garment. The white hat has
chiffon sashes and ostrich plume, and
the French paraso is of cerise,
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THE DAILY
SHORT STORY
Genevieve and GeOrgianna
By OSBORN JONES.
Copyright, 1917, by the Mcclure
NIevananer SyndiCate.)


nv don't you say 1t right out
SM then, Tom - that you love we
w her better than you do me!
Nell had saved this thrust for the ell
a,max OF their little breakfast table spat
MAT morning. There were no tears IN
her eyes nor tremors in her voice. but
her pulse was running high and her
cheeks were aflame.
"NelI, It isn't fair to say things like
that. OF course ! don't love her bet
ter l love her in an entirely different
way. And the whole point Is that
invited her here for Thanksgiving
way last Fourth of July, and if | didn't
have her she would be disappointed.
It isn't that it would make any special
difference to me personally"
But II you didn't tell me you had
invited her, how was | to know? II
you had told me you had invited your
( mother-"
II DON'T Zee why you always call her
NY mother. Why don't you call her
mother, the way Dot does Teds
mother? Youact as II she was no rela'
ton to you, and, to her face, you called
her Mrs. Bradford the last time she
was here"
"But she isn't my mother and l just
can't say mother to her.
"she is your mother" snapped Tom.
"Oh, don't see how you can say so
at all. Mamma is my mother and it
would be just dreadful to call YOU
mother, mother "
But you needn't call her Mrs. Brad
ford"
well, what shall call her, then?
You don't call my mother anything.
You just say you when you talk to
her" Then, after sob, Tom, think
1t is just shameful for US TO be scrap.
ping this way about our mothers"
But how are we going to settle Il
II we don't talk it over? You want
your mother to come for Thanksgiving
and want mine"
"And, of course, we couldn't have
them together" put in Nell, and, as
Tom muttered an "of course not" she
added with mock Cheerfulness and
smile that was only lip deep AT least
we agree on one thing. 1t would be too
much to ask them to come together
They haven't an interest in common
and they would be perfectly miserable.
Tom. II you have any good reason why
your mother should come instead OF
mine I'd really like to hear It,"
in the first place, she's a lot older"
began Tom.
"oh, Tom, how can you say that
Perhaps she is in years, but my poor
mamma isn't as strong as yours is"
Tom snorted "Frail and weighs
more than do"
TON, how can you be so horrid?"
We'll, suppose the only thing to do
is TO draw lots about it," said Tom.
you know, before | was married, !
thought maybe it was going to be so
could make home for mother here
with us, and now don't even feel free
to invite her here for Thanksgiving"
II am sure | don't see why you
should have your mother here any
more than should have mamma"
"And, of course, we couldn't have
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:: CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE :

With little Margaret AIMS letter
came one from her mother.
81 have not read Margaret AIMS let
ter Annie wrote, for she said,
Nobody reads your letters, Mother,
when you write them to Aunt Mar
gle
That child, Miss Margaret, some
times makes me feel nervous-she
Reems to see right into things. She
Informed her father and me she was
going to marry Bulge. 1t made me
feel queer to have her say that, and
/ went over to Mrs. Symone's and
told her thought l had better take
Margaret Ann away from her little
school room.
Don't you think she is learning,
Annie?' Mrs. Symone asked,
eyes, she is learning almost too
fast answered, but l am afraid she
is getting ideas that are too proud
for "the likes Of US.
Then Mrs. Symone said, Look
here, Annie there are no ideas too
grand for little Margaret Ann. She
is wonderful child. She seems to
bring out the best in Bulge. l think
she IS the very best companion he
could have.
Il wanted to tell her what Margaret
Ann had said about marrying him,
but honestly, Miss Margaret, it SEEM
ed SO silly when l was talking with
Mrs. Symone, so l said, 1 am afraid
when they grow up they will go in
very different SETS
al shall be very glad il my boy
keeps little Margaret Ann as his
friend, said Mrs. Symone gravely.
Z love her almost as a daughter and
= hope my little daughter will be as
bright and altogether sincere as your
little girl, Annie
: Mrs. Symone Is a wonderful wo-
man, Miss Margaret, and she loves
you and Mr.. Waverly better than
anyone outside her own family. She
seems worried about Mr.. Waverly,
but told her he was all right-that
~ he had been seriously i'll you
would have told me.
There is going to be a terrible
night over Mr.. Symone's election to be
mayor and Tim says that old scan
dal Of the twins will be raked up.
Too bad, isn't 1t, and yet | believe
s / was Mrs. Symone l would want
y over and for all.
While we were talking To-day
came in very much excited and said,
Bulge has had fight, Mumsey. A
great big bully told us you were
not our mother and Bulge just knock
"a him down and Jumped on him. But
gou are our mother, aren't your
eyes, Teddy, I'm your mother. l am
he mother that chose you and Bulge
5ut Of all the little boys know.
other mothers have to take what is
ent them, but / chose you myself
"Toddy went OFF perfectly satisfied,
nut Bulge who had come in while
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HEALTH HINTS
Hay fever dime wild sud be here

Hay FEVER dime Wlld SUD be mere!
According to the Hay-Fever Pre-
vention Association there are two
kinds Of hay-fever in the United
States, the vernal and the autumnal
forms. While these vary somewhat
in the different states, the average
dates are from May Is to July 20 for
the first and from late August to
October first for the second term.
The principal cause of autumnal
hay-fever is the pollen of the common
rag-weed, the giant rag-weed. marsh
elders and cookie burs replacing this
in some sections or aggravating the
infection.
West Of Kansas, autumn hay-feyer
Is principally due to the wormwoods
(artemisias) of which there are
many varieties in the Pacific and
Rocky mountain states. The western
rag-weed marsh elder, gaertenerias
and cookie burs are associate causes
in some localities.
AS the control Of the hay-fever
weeds is OF the first importance in
hay-fever everyone should cooperate
with the health authorities in ell
forcing the anti-weed laws, which al
ready exist In many cities.
Efforts are now being made to es
tablish adequate anti-hay-fever legis-
lation in every state, the enforce
ment OF which will stamp out hay
fever in most localities.
In order to prevent or diminish the
irritating cause of this disease, hay
fever subjects should avoid roads ad-
joining fields or lots with neglected
weeds during the hay-fever season.
An attack due to such exposure low
ers the patents resistance, so that
for long time afterwards he is more
susceptible to the hay.fever pollen.
In the majority of cases a diet re-
duced in meat, fish, cheese, milk, etc,
Is of benefit in diminishing the at
tack and vegetables and fruit should
be given the preference. Smoking
and alcoholic drinks should be avoid
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"old lady" that, in spite Of her active
body and nimble mind, she felt that her
prOper sphere in life ought to be in the
inglenook of some sons or daughter's
fireplace, her task that of mending
other peoples children's stockings or
putting patches on their outworn
clothes and her proper headgear
sheer white muslin cap, topped with
ribbons of faded lavendar color. Yet,
at heart, Mrs. Bradford was still the
active, energetic woman she had been
when, during the lifetime of Major
Bradford, she had led social activities
in thriving army posts and, through her
tact and more than ordinary discretion,
had held her place as social arbiter and
leader.
Mrs. Cole was Of the housewifely
type. She was more interested in
ketchup and mustard pickles than din
ner parties and afterdinner small talk
At sixtyOdd she was better able than
ever to do just what she had to do all
her mature years-tO keep family OF
youngsters in health and happiness on
the maximum income. Her husband
had been a small professor in small
town, and experience had made heI
expert in the art of thrifty housewifery
And just when she felt herself most
able, she found herself dispossessed
of her life job and life interest. She
too, felt the fitness of the lavender.
bowed white muslin cap Of old-wOman'
hoou.
So, you see, the mothers Of the Tom
Bradfords were distinctly different
and one would think that the only ties
that could possibly have drawn them
together we're the facts that their chill
dren had married each other and that
they happened to live in the same large
city.
A week after Tom and Nell had had
their. freakfast,table scrap - severa
had followed since then, and Nell was
losing sleep and Tom was losing weight
the mothers CHANGED to meet at the
counter Of a department store In the
shopping section of their town, some
hundred miles from the place where
Tom and Nell made their home.
At first they bowed and smiled as
women whose children have married
usually dO-and with more effort at
saccahrine politeness than actual cor,
diality.
Mrs. Bradford was buying lavendar
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she was talking said, Then you adop-
ted us, Mother?'
Eyes, because I wanted you more
than anything in the world said
Mrs. Symone with her arms about
him.
What is going to come of it when
he really knows?' she asked me.
Il think he will understand 1 an
swered.
"Will he hate his father?'
~ don't think SO. You had more
to forgive and you do not hate him,
| answered,
miss Margaret, I wish you could
have seen the face she raised to
mine. Annie she said, I sometimes
think l love him better because l for
gave him. have found out that the
greatest need in my nature is mater
nal love and feel-only in a great
degree-the same love for Harry that
| have for the boys and little Ell
iene.'
strange, isn't it, Margaret, that
this is the kind of love that eventu-
ally comes to the wife? Sooner or
later, under any circumstances, We
get over the frantic jealousies, the
ardent hopes and despairing fears
that come to US when we are In the
first flush of romantic love and only
that protecting mother love which
is the heritage of every woman.
did you, know I am going to have
an electric car?
"Fondly always,
Annie"
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SALTPTCKLED BETS

aterght kegs or crooks may tohod picked beets
q wash thoroughly the kegs crooks.
~ Do not use yellow ptchpne containers
Remove the tops scrub the bcets thoroughly
PACK the whole the receptacle until Is full
Pour over enough brine to cover the beets.
Cover with a cheesecloth and clean board cover
Place upon board weight sufficiently heavy
IN hold the beets beneath surface OF the brine
Leave until fermentation completed and 20 bud
bles rise to the receptace tapped gently
skim of any scum formed during fermentation. se-s5
Store receptacle a cool place.
Cover with hot paath to form an arght sur
the paran becomes broken remove remet replace
To Make Weak Brine:
Onehalf pint vinegar
Three-fourths cup salt
Inc gallon
Stir until salt Is entirely dissolved.
DON'T MISS ANY STEP.
Cut this out NOW Watch for omorrows directions
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them both"
ooh, of course not. They would never
hit it off"
Ard wisely, as they thought, the
Bradfords stopped here on the one
point on which they agreed and, with
something Of an armistice, Tom Brad,
ford went to his office.
No, there was nothing at all, in the
common acceptance of the word, con-
genial about Mrs. Bradford, Sr., and
Mrs. Cole. Mrs. Bradford, at sixty,
since her children had grown up and
made families for themselves. had
grown so used to playing the role Of
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with hoarseness and compressed feel.
Ing in my lungs. The cough reduced
my strength and I had to stop work,
At the same time I was suffering from
indigestion and had to live on stale
bread and milk. My liver also was in
a very inactive condition, as we'll as
my bowels. These discouraging symp.
toms readily yielded to the influence
Of the Discovery to my great pleasure
aud comfort."-MR. JOIN H. EANEs,
4S4 S. Laurel st., Richmond, Va.
Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery, purely vegetable and free from
alcohol or narcotics, is not a secret
remedy for all its Ingredients Gre
printed on wrapper.
Depend upon this grand remedy to
give you the kind of blood that makes
the skin clear, the mind alert, the
vision keener and puts ambition and
energy into the entire body. You will
not be disappointed. For free advice Or
free booklet on blood, write DR.. v. NJ.
Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
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NO CHARGE FOR THIS BOOK.

Il you will send three dimes Tor stamps), to
pay for wrapping and mailing and enclose this
Buffalo, N. Y, will send you . revised copy Of
his Common Sense Medical Adviser, In cloth
binding, 1908 pages, with color plates. Just
what you need in case Of sickness or accident
Treats Of Physiology, Anatomy, sex problemA
Marriage relations Hygiene. Exercise, DiseaS
and its prevention.
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the DeSt erect, and
gladly state that
1 was perfectly
satisfied with the
results. l had a
very serious cough
and cold with
bad fever; the
cough was ex.
ceedingly h arsh
and so violent as
to give me an irri.
tating sore throat
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NEN OF WEST VIRGINIA
SHOULD TAKE ADVICE,

Richmond, Va. I'll have taken Dr..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery with
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NEW YORK. Aug. 27,-If women
must wear pants they can at least
make those pants share some Of the
beautiful lines Of skirts, is the idea
of Miss Fannie Harley, well-known
magazine writer and traveller, who
has given the last three years to
work for dress reform. All the CO.'S
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-10-25
PERMANENT ROADS

One merely needs to ride over the
state road in that part of New York
that touches Vermont at West Pawlet
Poultney and Fair Haven to realize
what an asset such highway is to
the adjacent country and its residents.
The immediate result of such a
turnpike is to cut down the cost Of
transporting produce and to increase
the value Of farmsteads and other
property abutting on the road or even
indirectly accessible thereto. Experts
have figured the approximate value Of
such a road, but it does not need an
expert to see what il means.
Fine, prosperous, well-kept farms,
towns and villages striding forward to
progress and increasing wealth, good
hotels, steady stream Of tourists in
summer and the possibility Of using
machines and power-cars until late
date In the fall instead OF suspending
as soon as snow fiies--these are some
Of the visible results Of q permanent
paved road such as now lies between
New York City and the Vermont
towns aforesaid.
One hates to describe what he finds
when he crosses the Vermont line.
Dirt roads, indifferently rolled and
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SYNDICATE

Supt. j. d. Whittier was in town
visiting schools Monday.
Hosea King was home over Sunday
from Aver training camp.
Lydia Won Holland Of New York
City, was in town over Sunday.
Rev. J. ID. Gouthey exchanged pull
pits Sunday with the White Creek
pastor.
Miss Bessie Sickle, who has been
i'll with the grippe, was able 70 resume
her school duties Monday.
The harvest supper will be held at
the NJ. Il. Church Friday night. Ev-
erybody come and make IT success.
Mr. Genard Of Niagara Falls, N. Y,
was in town recently. buying potatoes
end apples for the Shredded Wheat
Co.
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MANCHESTER RED
CROSS REPORT

The officers of the local branch of the
Red Cross feel that with all the cred
liable work that is going on locally
for the Red Cross organization many
acknowledgements Of members and
contributions should have been printed
some time ago. Manchester's total
contribution TO the war fund reached
s6,210.71, every pladge being paid be-
fore October LIST. Gifts TO this fund
not previously acknowledged in The
Journal were from Dumont Clarke.
John n. Richardson, Geo. l.. Towsley,
and J. B. Wilbur.
The membership Of the local branch
was materially increased during the
summer and below is list Of mem
bers who have joined since the last
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graded gravel, macadam allowed to &c
to pieces, quags, ruts and wheel-rack'
ing "craters" are some of the details
and even the so-called permanent
roads built and maintained under oul
dual system are not in any degree
comparable with the riding quality OF
lasting value Of the New York's state
roads.
One might object to the comparison
as not fair to Vermont, a poor, sparse
ly settled state, with total popula-
tion less than one Of New York's Sec
ond class cities and grand list that
would not approximate that Of one
county in the Empire state, but the
much that New York has done nigh:
proftably be the model for the little
that Vermont should do under better
system.
As The Herald has frequently stat
ed, we have no adequate system of
highways, but merely hodge-podge
of compromise and political patch
work that annually results in waste
that would come near to paying the
interest on money enough to build
tI-unk-lines from one end of the state
to the other.
Vermont must face her highway
problem and face it honestly. She
must stop waste and useless patching
up of bad roads that swallow money
like quicksand. We must have a
sharp audit Of highway expenditures,
of work done by state
money, engineering supervision of
such work and an end made of the
political system that has been the
curse of the states roads and the
wastrel of the states funds.
Incidentally, we must have some
trunk-line roads that will attract, in
stead of repelling travel. Vermont
will never prosper, summer, spring
and fall, until we have better roads,
Rutland Herald.
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BONDVILLE

A few fakes of snow fell here or
Friday.
There was chicken pie supper al
Grange Hall, Tuesday evening.
Jacob Ellenburg has finished work
at Manchester and returned home.
Mason Jones and w. D. Howard
caught a bear in their traps Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Kendall are at
Springfield, Mass, visiting their son,
d. ]. Kendall.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A Styles and Mr..
ard Mrs. A. A. Benson went TO Gull
ford Friday and returned Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Corsby and two
children Of Dummerston, recently Wis
tied at d. A. Leonard's. Mrs. Leonard
returned home with them.
The Red Cross of this place helped
furnish food for the Red Cross dinner
at the Parker auction held at Londo.
derry, Saturday. The food was taken
to Londonderry by H. c. Williams.
He was accompanied by Zadoc Hay
ward.
Guests Of Mrs. Flora Burbank, Sun
day, were, Mrs. r. Nj. Rice, Mrs. Geo.
w. Rice and two children, Frank Rice,
Mrs. c. w. Chandler and Miss Lillian
Chandler of Bennington, and Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. II. Elwell Of North Ben
nington.