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Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
Red Cross Drive.

Most people in Cresco responded ad-
mirably to the appeals for Red Cross
membership. Here's to you all. May the
Lord reward all willing hearts. The au-
tn orities request US to continue the
campaign until AZ percent of the popu-
lation is enrolled as members. Hence
the good work will 60 right on. There
are some families who can boast of
only one Red Cross member to-day.
Those are asked to furnish one men,
bership for each of the grown members
of the family. You can't raise an
argument against the Red Cross. You
can LIE about it and US. But you bet
ter fictl Ti1e,governnent 'hHs begln'rS
arrest people who speak against or
hinder the policy of the Red Cross.
Here's fair warning to all. This ap-
plies to all who are spreading stories
about knitted goods being sold to pri.
vate parties or about our officers get
ting $500 per day, expenses and all
collections of money paid Red Cross on
q per cent basis. All these stories are
lies! I dare you to produce evidence to
the contrary! So PUT UP OR SHUT UP!
And what's more, do your duty to your
suffering brothers and sisters, or, if
not, let your fellowmen consider you
really area beast, without heart for
the sufferings and privations of your
own flesh and blood. a. - .z-.,s>E
Yours for the welfare of humanity.
H. N. NORMANN, .
Chairman Cresco Red Cross.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
OBITUARY..
HALSTED.

Lovina C. Burdtck was born in Penn
sylvania. June "a, 1929. and died at the
home of her SOD, VIM. E. Halsted, near
West Union, Ia, Dec. 81, 1917, aged
SO years and 6 months.
With her parents, she moved to New
Yark and from there to Fayette Co.,
Iowa, near West Union. In the year
of 1855, she was married to Charles
Jones. One year later they went to
Howard Co., Iowa, near Cresco. One
daughter was born to them, Alice Emily,
now Mrs. Fred L. Post, of Chelan,
Wash. In the year of 1858, Mr.. Jones
died. In the year of 1861, she was
married to George William Halsted and
to them were born four children, VIM.
E. Halsted, Of West Union, Iowa, Stella
M. Wilcox (nee Halsted) who died on
Dec. %, 1892, Nellie F., now Mrs. w.
H. Adler, of Bolney, Sask., Canada,
and George A. Halsted, of Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Halsted lived on the
same farm from 1861 to 1901, a period
of 40 years. In 1901, they moved to
Dayton, Oregon, and also took their
little grandson, Harold L. Wilcox, with
them- In April, 1907, Mr.. Halsted died
at Dayton, Oregon, and in June of the
same year little Harold died, leaving
her entirely alone. At that time she
came back to Fayette County to live
with her son, VIM. E., and with whom
she has resided ever since with the
exception of one year spent with her
daughter in Oregon.
In her early life, she united with the
Baptist Church and has been faithful
member to the end. She was one OF
the originators of the First Baptist
Church in West Union. Iowa.
The funeral services were held at the
home of her son, VIM. E., at West
Union, conducted by the Rev. G. S.
Lakeland and the remains were then
taken to Cresco by auto. The grave
services were conducted by the Rev. },
A. Petit, of Cresco, and were laid to
rest in the beautiful Oak Lawn Ceme-
terry.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors who so kindly assisted us
during the sickness and at the time of
thalasethaat ma ael(t
those WS6 sang those two ntfd'
hymns. WM. E. HALsTED
III, AND FAMlLN = s
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
The Value of a Quarter.

The average American attaches as
much Importance to quarter as the
Kaiser does to a treaty. In many
countries strong men work an entire
day for much smaller sum.
One purpose of the War Savings
Stamp plan is to teach the people OF
the United States the value of quar-
ter, that properly invested it will help
win the fight against Kaiserism.
People have been heard to scott at
the idea of investing quarter now
and then in thrift stamp.
'Too small to bother with.' men
have said. And those same men have
walked blocks out of their way to
spend that quarter on some absolutely
worthless article.
We are so used to thinking in big
figures that even $4,000, 900. 900. the
sum to be raised in the next year by
the sale of War Savings Stamp fails to
impress US. 1t might help US to real
ize the figure to know that it has beeu
only matter of l,OO7, SIS, 200 minutes
since Christ was born.
inst as those minutes mount into
billions, so your quarters will make
billions.
Twenty dollars-$l.6 66 month, 4lse
a week, 6 cents a day for the next
year-f,om each of the 100, 600, OOl
people in the United States will raise
the required sum.
Set these quarters to work buying
Thrift Stamps and War Savings
Stamps. The war is going to be worth
every penny it costs if it teaches this
country lesson in thrift.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
CRESCO HOWARD COUNTY, IOWA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 1917
No Call for Camp Dodge Before Feb. IS

Des MOines, Ia, Dec. G.-Flnal IN
crements. of the first national army
assigned to Camp Dodge will not be
called, but the men in those quotas
will be placed under the new classlfi-
cation regulations, according to orders
received here from Washington today.
The orders, issued by Provost Mar
shall General Crowder, apply not only
to Camp Dodge, but affect all deferred
percentages of the first army, for
which there will be no more formal
call before February 18th
Deficiencies in quotas already as
signed to camps, due to physical re-
lection or other causes, will be made
up from men chosen under the old
regulations, however, until local
boards "have enough men finally clas-
sified in class one" of the new regu-
lations.
1T has been decided there will be
no more formal call for deferred per-
centages of the present quota before
February Is. While boards should,
until they have enough men finally
classified in class one, send forward
promptly men selected under the old
regulations to make up deficiencies
in calls already made, the result of
this decision will be that we shall be
able to give the benefit of the new
classification system to all men whose
order numbers are so late as to place
! them within deferred percentages of
the present call.
"Calls will, however, be made very
shortly under the provisions of Sec
ton 149 for the special class Of men
there mentioned.
"For the sake of composing the pub
lie mind for convenience of regis
trants, this information ought to be
given wide dissemination.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
Methodist Church.

Sunday, Dec. 3Oth, the New Years
sermon will be presched by the pastor
1T 1890 on the theme "What the New
Year Should Mean to Me- The vest
ed choir will render appropriate selec-
tions. Mrs. Allen will sing the offer
tory solo, Turn New Leaf for Me-
(Kirkpstrick.) ~
At 7:30, teachers, college students on
vacation and all young people will re-
ceive special recognition. Sermon
theme, Courage to Dare and Do."s
Special music by the choir.
The Bible School assemblies at HAS
and the Epworth League 'at $50. Miss
Lucille Culbert will lead the meeting.
There were fifty-five present last Sun,
day evening with the Rustlers in the
leaG. s>~~s ~
The offering for Armenian and
Syrian relief contributed at the Christi
mas exercises of the Methodist Sunday
School and the large audience last
Monday evening amounted to about
$7O., The fund will be kept open until
altar Sunday the 3Oth to give oppor-
tunity for any others who may wish to
contribute to that needy cause.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
A Letter fren Oresen.
Hood River, Ore, Dec. 10, 1917

Hood River, Ore, Dec. 18, 1917.
Editor of Plain Dealer:
Enclosed please find order for two
dollars. Please apply on our subscrip-
ton to your paper. As we receive
each issue we realize more fully were
we to visit our old home. we would be
strangers in q strange land. Nine
years has brought many new faces and
many changes TO Cresco. ,t4f
While you are in the midst of snow,
ice and billiards We too are having our
winter weather which is vastly differ.
emit. As write the thermometer reg
listers 56 degrees and gentle rain is
falling. Since Thanksgiving day We
have had some rain each day, . con-
dition which we are glad to see. We
do not mind the rain. With raincoat,
umbrella and rubbets we sally forth un-
mindful of the Oregon mist" as it is
called. Lawns are green, A few late
flowers and roses are to be seen. Some
vegetables are yet in the gardens.
Horses and cattle in pasture. A great
saving in feed and fuel, especially when
we!pay $50 { ton for hay. 49, Z
The big ship building plants in Port
land has gwen work to hundreds from
our valley. Times are prosperous.
rPisaty of work and big wages. Every
body seems to have money. Oregon
has donated big sums to the ,arious
war needs, and are now responding to
the Red Cross drive, that is now on in
. generous fund.
Mr.. lsbell has been apple inspector
at the Apple Growers Union in town
and is still employed there He finds
the work enjoyable as well as profit
able. He has been with, them four
years. 10, . T.. as ~, -.
Will close wishing the P. D. Merry
Christmas and q prosperous New Year.
(. Mrs. A. w. Isbell.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
Wei Salis6el.

Mr.. Laudell, of the Cresco Candy
Shop, desires to express his entire, sat
isfaction with the trade he received
during the Christmas shopping season
of his first Christmas in Cresco. y. =,
If you wish the finest and best of
"Sweets to Eat for New Years, or
at any time during the year 1918. you
can procure them at the Cresco Candy
Shop. ~- ..
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
Income Tax. Officer in Cresco Jan. 18

In communication received by this
paper, Collector of Internal Revenue
Louis Murphy announces that federal
income tax officer will be sent to this
county on Jan. 10Th and will be here
until Feb. 4th. He will be at the
Court House in Cresco from Jan. 10Th
to Feb. 4th, both dates inclusive.
He will be on the job every day ready
and willing to help persons subject to
the income tax make out their returns
without any cost to them for his servi-
ces.
How many income tax payers will
there be in Howard County? If you
can guess how many married people
living with wife or husband will have q
net income of $1,000 or over and how
many unmarried persons will have net
incomes of $1,000 or over this year,
then you know. The Collector of In
tcrnal Revenue" estimates that there
will be 422 taxpayers in this county.
Returns of income for the year 1917
must be made on forms provided for
the purpose before March l, 1918. Be-
cause good many people don't under
stand the law and won't know how to
make out their returns, the govern
ment is sending this expert to do it for
them. But the duty is on the tax
payer to make himself known to the
government. If he doesn't make re-
turns as required before March lst he
may have to pay penalty. ranging
from $50 to $1,000, pay fine or 60 to
Jail. So if you don't want to take
chances on going to Jail, you better
call on the income tax man. If you
are mt sure about being subject to ,he
tax, yetter ask him and make sure.
Whether you see the income tax man
or not, you must make returns if sub
ject 10 the tax.
Of course, residents in other counties
may, if they want to, come and see
the income tax man who will be in
Cresco.
The Collector suggests that every
body start figuring up now his income
and expenses so as to be ready with
the figures when the expert arrives.
Expenses, however, don't mean family
expenses, money used to pay off the
principal of a debt, new machinery,
buildings or anything like that. They
Isneana~hst.yhats yeg spend tn.makihe
your money-interest. taxes paid,
hired help, amount paid for goods sold,
seed, stock bought for feeding, rent
Except for your dwelling), etc. In
come includes about every dollar you
get.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
Woodnen Circle.

Following is q list of officers for the
Woodmen Circle for the year of 1918 /:
Past Guardian-Ellen Long.
Guardian Hall.
Advisor Minnie F. Harris.
Clerk-Asyme Glass. IS
Banker-May Pollitt.
Attsndant-Josephine Birtwistle.
Chaplain Dillingham;. j
I. S.-Hattie Warrington.
o. Skate DeNoyelles.
Z Managers-W.I. H. Tillson. !: Mary
Vance, Guy DAVIS. .y -
Physician-Dr. JiEderlee.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
For Sale.

Having sold all of our early fsrrow
Duroc Jersey male pigs we still..have q
number Of April and May farrow for
sale yet. Will also sell Indiana King
End. This hog is heavy boned with a
we'll arched back and with head and
ear that can't be beat. Pedigree fur
nished with every pig sold.
Mrs. Joseph Bouska.
Rt. 2, Caimar, la.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28

Thursday, Jan. 10th is the date set
~ the committees for the joint install
lation of the officers Of the above named
orders. Members and their families,
only, are invited to attend.
At the close of the ceremonies a
picnic supper will be served.
Each person attending will be asked
to contribute dime, which will be
turned over to the local Red Cross.
Let there be full attendance of the
members and let US cheerfully do our
'"bit" for to help the Red Cross and
for the return of peace. ~ 49,
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
W. R. C.. and G. A. R. Installation.

The next regular meeting of the w.
R. G.. will be held in their hall over
Kellow's store on Saturday evening,
JANIS, 1918, at which time the joint
installation of the officers of the w. r.
C. and the G.. A. R. will take place.
The ladies of the w. R. C. will serve
q picnic supper at 600 O'Clock on the
above date, to which all old soldiers
are invited. Conveyance will be pro.
vided for those who otherwise would be
unable to attend. III
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
Labor and Material Donated.

LaDOr ana MSteHlAA DOn1stou'
The band stand was moved by r.
w. Despard aided by his sons Wesley
and Attic, Roy Wentworth, S. A
Hamilton and his son Fred. Value
$780,
The Miller Bros. gave the use of a
horse for moving. $500.
H. C. Addie, who planned and in
stalled the four seats, made of con-
crete. $47.50. ...,
Burgess Bros. gave lumber to use
in making the forms for these four
seats. $500.
Watts Bros. gave iron for reinforc'
ing the same. $500.
s. A. Hamilton, material. $3.50.
Sam Feldstein, about the same.
The park superintendent, ]. H
Howe has rendered service of much
value for three years without any re-
muneration whatever.
g. Pres.-Mrs. Kate DAILY.
q. Secy-Mrs. I. J. Booth.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
Baptist Church.

The usual services will be held next
Sunday, the pastor preaching. Morn
ing theme, "A New Year Message.
Evening subject, Cain Speaking
Wednesday evening, Jan End, our
annual business meeting will be held.
All members are urged to be present.
Important things will be discussed.
Those who have no church home are
especially invited to como and worship
with US. j. A. PETIT, Pastor.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
Message of the Hour

AS we know for more than three years the
world has been involved in the greatest war
of all times The people everywhere are
asking, "Why should we have such war!
What will be the result? Those who read
the Bible have wondered if this is the great
war therein foretold. For long time order
loving people, Bible Readers and hr1stlans'
have desired to understand the prophecies
of Revelation and Ezekiel.
The Bible Society of Brooklyn, New York, have a
work recently published which is the first and only book
that makes part Of Revelation and Ezekiel 1t
takes up these prophecies by and explains them
It throws light the present war; the real causes
and what will be the result than does yet writ
ten 1t shows what part the Catholics Mehodists Bap-
fists other church denominations have
PLAYED the world history and what part they are yet to
perform 1t the subject from the Po'tlcai sc'en,
t,6c historical prophetic viewpoints You will want
it. You can't afford to be without it. The publishers have
placed it at such low figure that it IS now
Within the reach Of every and it is now for 60(.
sale at the Plain Dealer office for wv
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
Card Party.

The married ladies of st. Joseph's 5
Parish will give a Card Party at
St. Joseph's Hall on Thursday evening,
January 3rd. Playing will start prompt
" at 8 O'Clock. You are promised a
good time. Everybody is welcome.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28

The officers elected to serve in Grace
Church Guild for the year of 1918 are
as follows:
President Miss Lauraine Mead.
Vice President-Mrs. Guy Humphrey.
Secretary and Treasurer-Mrs. Fred
Hamilton.
Chaplain-Mrs. Geo. Fish.
Executive Committee--Mrs Don Lent,
Miss @, Adah Robinson, Mrs. Harry
Howard
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
To the Poultry Men.

Before you purchase your eggs for
spring Matching write US. Our 1918
catalog just off the press. Send your
order in early as 1918 will probably see
a larger business in stock and eggs
than ever before.s
l.. Address, Oak Dale Farms,
l9-4t Austin, MINI.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
Marriaxe Licenses.

The following marriage licenses have
been issued by the county clerk the
past week:
Hugo Walter, 20. Cresco.
Christena Eide, 20, Cresco.
John Boedeker, 20, Riceville.
Myrtle Dynes, %, Riceville.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28

~TAGED under the personal direction OF Cecil B.
- De Mile will open at the Cresco Opera House next
Tuesday, Jan, Jean'e
collaboration with Mr. DeMie is of particular patriotic
appeal and stirring chapters from the book OF
the great across the ocean AS the little American
girl marooned French chateau while the battle surges
around her. Little Nary given opportunity to dis
plav the wonderful dramatic ability with which she IS
gifted Although the deals with the war; it is not
of the same type the ordinary DRAMA as it deals
more with the intimate than the general In keeping with
the talents of the exceptionally capable support
ing cast appears in this production including such well
known plavers as Hobart Bosworth. Jack Holt James
Neil RAYMOND Hatton Guy Oliver, Edythe Chapman,
Littlian Leighton, Walter Long, Dewitt Jennings and
Little Ben Alexander.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
Grace Episcopal Church.

Services on Sunday, Dec. 30th. -.
Holy Communion and Sermon, 1890
q. m. ~
Evening Prayer and Sermon, 7:3O P.
M g
Dean Ramsey, of Faribault. will
preach both services.
Everybody welcome.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
For Sale.

Hard CT soft cord wood. Enquire of
Adolph Kapler. 1S-2t
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-12-28
Annual Report.

OF the Civic Improvement associa-
ton for the year 1917.
Total membership, active and asso-
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1917-05-03
Weigh Baby Once a Week.

What is your community doing to make
life safe and wholesome for it's ba-
bies?"
But Baby Week has done more than
remind people of the Importance OF
these questions. 1t helps people who
are already at work on the saving OF
babies lives to explain to their fellow
citizens what they are doing, and en-
ables them to extend their efforts. 1t
draws closer together the various
agencies which have been working
from different angles and furthers the
cooperation which is essential to sue
cess.
Perhaps most significant Of all is the
effect of Baby Week in small villages
and scattered settlements and other
places where there has been no or
ganized effort to meet the needs of
babies. People have come to see, as
few had done before, that ever in the
fresh air and the sunshine of the open
country many babies do not have a fair
start in life.
The seven hundred villages which re-
ported to the Children's bureau a Baby
Week campaign in 1916, have faced the
fact that every community-in city and
country alike-has a responsibility to
fulfill which requires thought and ef-
fort and perseverance. And this awak-
ening Of a community has been in
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in the ordinary concerns of everyday
life. 1t is the one indisputable proof
Of inheritance. Good state laws must
provide the machinery for registration,
but the completeness Of the records
must depend, ultimately, on the inter-
est Of parents.
Even yet the birth records in this
country are far from complete. No
state, and probably no city, has abso-
lutely perfect registration. Only in the
New England states, and in New York,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Michigan,
Minnesota and the District Of Column
bia are the records accepted by the
census bureau.
Birth registration is one of those
fundamental matters Of infant welfare
to which many communities are turn
ing their attention during Baby Week,
and one of the most valuable bits Of
follow-up work after a Baby Week is
the conducting Of a birth-registration
test. Such q test, carried out by a To-
cal volunteer committee, has been de-
vised by the Children's bureau. and
is valuable not only in revealing the
facts but In bringing home to the COM
munity the Importance of registration.
In some places the registrar is send
ing a notice Of registration to the par
ents IS soon as a birth is recorded.
This is proving an excellent device to
keep parents interested in seeing that
their babies births are registered. If
the notice contains all the facts includ-
ed in the record and bears the sigma
ture and seal Of the registrar, it will
serve in future years as the official
transcript which may be required to
establish identity or the right of in
heritance, or as proof of age or citi-
zenship.
The Children's bureau Of the United
States Department of Labor has a
pamphlet of directions for carrying out
a birth-registration test, and a general
pamphlet on birth Registration
Both are furnished upon request.
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development will be interfered with
for the time being.
Even if the child's life is saved
us it too often is not-the net results
of such conditions, including often
complications Of differing degrees of
severity, cannot, by any stretch of
the imagination, he considered bene-
fetal to him. When to all this is add
ed the work and worry of the mother.
her sleepless nights and anxious days
and, to put it IN the lowest plane, the
cost of doctors and possibly nurses
md medicines, the sum total Of the
cost of the common diseases of child
hood is past calculation.
The wise mother, abreast Of the
current of modern scientific thought,
strives to keep her children we'll. She
does not permit them to suffer from Il
single hour Of illness that it is posi-
BILE for them to avoid. In this effort
she does not allow them to play with
children who are coughing and sneez-
ing; she does not allow them to go to
the houses Of sick children, nor to at.
tend public gatherings of any sort
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Waste Of Mothers Lives and
Health Altogether Unnecessary
Prepared BY Children. Bureau. U. S. Department. Of Labor

More women fifteen to forty-five
years of age die from conditions con-
nected with childbirth than from any
disease except tuberculosis. Some 49,
600 mothers lives are sacrificed yearly
to ignorance and improper care. In
connection with Baby Week, the Chill
dren's bureau calls special attention to
these facts, for three reasons:
I. The life and health Of the mother
are essential to the health and WELL
being Of her children.
2. The majority Of these mothers
lives could be saved.
3. The number Of deaths among
mothers is merely n rough index Of
unmeasured p%reventable illness and
suffering.
Just how adequate care for mothers
is to be assured depends, Of course, on
local conditions, but DR.. Grace L.
Meigs Of the federal Children's bu-
reau, whose special report on Ma