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Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-17

Miss Caroline Perry of St. Lucas,
visited the latter part of the week a,
the home of her sister, Mrs. P. H.
Lickteig.
Miss Belle Rose left last Saturday
or Minneapolis to spend a few weeks
visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Ed Williams.
Miss Florence McCook, who has
been spending the past three weeks
visiting at home, returned Sunday
night to Chicago.
Mrs. ]. E. Bawden was down from
Bonair on Wednesday to. accompany her
son Leslie home, who has been a pa
tient at Mercy hospital.
Chas. Schafer and wife arrived last
Friday from Columbia, S. OAK. for a
visit with his parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Schafer and other relatives.
Miss Mary Finegan and niece, Miss
Pearl Hyberger. went to New Hamp-
ton, Monday, to spend . couple of
weeks at the Jas. Costigan and Malone
homes.
Mrs. E. H. Black, who has been
spending the past two weeks at the
home of her son at Lime Springs, came
yesterday for visit with Cresco
friends.
Write to-day for very special rate
for opening of the mid-winter term
Jan. 6. Office positions guaranteed.
Address College of Commerce, Water.
loo, Iowa. '''~@' 18.tf
Mr.. end Mrs. o. T. Doe and family,
who have been visiting at the John AID
Steen Henderson homes left the latter
part of last week for their home at
Milon, MINI.
Mrs. Jas. Hartley and babe, who has
been spending the past week at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Fairbanks returned Saturday to her
home at Owatonna.
Mrs. Herbert Durfey, who has been
visiting at the home Of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert and with other
relatives returned Saturday to her
home in Minneapolis.
Chss. Billmyer and wife, who have
been visiting the formers parents left
the latter part of last week for visit
with relatives at Elma, enroute to their
home at Spencer, S. Oak.
Sheriff Ferrie the first of the week
spprehended Arthur Lucas near Lime
Springs, wanted for wife desertion in
Minnesota. He was turned over to the
sheriff from Austin, MINI.
Mrs. NJ. E. Warrington went to Aus
tin, yesterday, to assist in the care of
the little grandson which arrived at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. A. Wand
enover on Monday, Jan. 18th.
7 For RENT-3OO acre we'll improved
.fsxpssaaGasideal stock farm; or win
divide and rent l6O acres with buildings
on alone, for cash or on shares.
CHAs. RYAN, Rt. l, Cresco, Ia.
You are cordially invited to come and
see me when in need of dental work.
New parlors over P. A. Clemmer's
drug store. =
24tf J. ]. CLEMMER, Dentist.
Glenn johnson left Wednesday night
for his home at Glenn Rock, Wyo.,
after a three weeks visit with rela-
tives and friends at Bonair and Cresco.
Mrs. johnson and Marion will remain
for longer visit.
Mrs. Frank Schneider and children,
who. have been visiting at the home of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Wan
less. returned Wednesday to their home
at blooming Prairie. They were &C.
companied by her sister, Mrs. Harrison
Claude Of Delsvan, Mimi, who is also
visiting her parents.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-17
Red Cross Notes.

Material is on hand for the 300 petit
costs to be made this month, and we
have been told that when We are given
: quota of refugee garments. to give it
first place. We donot expect any more
knitting to be called for.
Our chapter secretary would like to
call attention to the fact that no
receipts are furnished for membership
dues in this drive. The buttons and so
forth, taking the place of the rscsipts.
Also, those subscribing for the Red
Cross magazine for the first time will
find their subscriptions beginning with
tho February number. It is important,
especially in the case of rural route
subscribers, that the full address be
given for the secretary's use.
The surgical dressings chairman
would return the flatirons that have
been loaned If she knew who the differ
ent ones belonged to. Owners. will
please call for them.
The following amounts have been
fnnafnd dnrinv the month IF December:
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-17
Died in Nebraska.

After long period of illness, Miss
Jane Mason died at the home of her
brother, John w. Mason. near Ord,
Neb., at the age of eighty years and
six days on Jan. 9Th, 1919, 1T 9 o'clock
q. m. Miss Mason was a former resi-
dent in Howard county, Ia. She lived
with her parents on . farm south of
New Oregon. After the death Of her
parents Miss Mason has lived with her
sisters and brothers. She made her
home with Tom Mason, who lived near
Cresco until his death, At this time
Miss Mason came to Nebraska, where
she has lived with her brothers John
and Charles.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-17
Modern Woodmen of America.

On our next regular meeting night,
January 18th, there will be some initi
alton work and private installation Of
officers. All members of the order are
requested to be present, including those
in or about Cresco who hold their men,
bership elsewhere. COMMITTEE.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-17

am prepared to do Dressmaking
and Plain Sewing. Mrs. D. M. Lusson,
22O Second Ave. East. S-tf
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-17
Long Distance Telephone Rates
ecive January 81, 1913.


fecive January 81, 1919.
service
called
call
will
wanted The approximately
accepted Charge"
where communication established
cent higher than the Station Station
Night m.
is
o
less Is
The
slight reflection of telephone
cults operators obtained calling
following is self explanatory:
to Station rateis Messenger
sos
:
rates on file at the telephone office.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-01-17

First Lutheran Church.
English services, Sunday, Jan. 18th,
1O:45 a. m. H. M. NORMANN, Pastor.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
ASSOCIATED PRESS
OFFICERS NAMED

New York, April 2s.-The Assoc
ciated Press today at its annual
meeting elected the following oft
cers:
President, Frank B. Noyes, Wash
irgton, d. c., Star ~(reelected.)
First vice president, A, N. Mckay,
Salt Lake Tribune.
Second vice president, J.. L. Sturte-
want, Wasau (Wisconsin) Record
Herald.
Secretary and general manager,
Melville r. Stone s(~reelected.)
Assistant secretary and general
manager, Frederick Roy Martin IRE
elected.)
Treasurer, J. r. .Youatt (reelected)
Executive committee, Frank 3.
Noyes, Charles Hopkins Clark, w. l.,
Mclean, Charles A, Rock, John r.
Rathom, Victor +. Lawson, Adolph
$ Ochs.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
BURLESON
PERMITS L|DELOUS
MATTER TO PASS
OVER HIS WER|S
New York Manager Of
Postal Refuses To
Send Message
INSTRUCTED TO
HANDLE STUFF

(By Leased Wire to New Mex;can)
Washington, April 2S.-Postmaster
General BurIeson announced today
that he had issued the following in
structions to the wire operating
board:
Direct the management OF all tele-
graph systems to suspend insofar as
messages referring to the postmaster
general are concerned, their rules
prohibiting transmissions of messages
containing Hbelous matter"
It was stated that this order was
issued yesterday morning, as soon as
attention was called to the refusal Of
the night manager Of the Postal sys-
TEN at New York to transmit certain
messages filed by the New York
World News Bureau, ON the ground
that they were libelous. AT the same
time, it was stated, the general man
.ager OF the Postal system was in
structed to notify the World Bureau
that the messages you'd be handled,
Notwithstanding the fact that "A. r..
Adams, manager of the operating de
partment at New York held that they
contained libelous matter and conse-
quently were not transmissable under
ptctaA Iutyo. I.H"I.As H..N VS.. 1N#f M.t"N Hnl
The messages in question consti-
.tuted an article relating to the post
master general and his administra-
sion Of the wire systems.
New York, April 2s.-The New
York World today charges
that the post office department pro-
hibited the transmission on the wires
of the Western Union and Postal
telegraph companies, which as a war
measure are under the control Of
the postmaster general OF an article
in Mondays issue of the World anyI-
fling the activities or the depart,
meht. J
A schedule paraphasing the head
lines the World used over the Mon
days articles and giving a brief out.
line OF character and scope of it was
prepared by the night manager Of
the World News Burea and adj
dressed to a lumber OF newspapers
with which they had Violations.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
BAR ASSOCIATION
INTERVIEWED ONLY
AT SUGGESTION OF
COLONEL ANSELL
Not a War Department
Move to Stop Court
Martial Probe
10y Leased Wire to New Mexioan.J

IBy. Leased WIRE to New MexlcanJ
Washington, April 23.-The inter
vcntion of the American Bar associa.
ton in the controversy over the adj
ministration Of military Justice during
the war was directly due to the sug-
gestion Of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel
IN. Anseil, former acting Judge advo-
cate general, Chairman S. s. Gregory,
Of the associations committee, form
Islly stated today..in denying a pub
lished report that the committee had
been organized through the desire Of
1.-THE war department to ~forestall a con-
gfessionaI inquiry.
Judge Gregory made his statement
at the opening of the committees
daily session before entering upon an
examination of Sedgwick Rice, com
mandant Of the army diciplinary bar
racks at Fort LeavenWorth. M
HThe inspiration for the appoint
ment of this committee and the in.
Iteryenti0n OF the American Bar asso9
citation is due to no other person than
General tnow lieutenant coIoneD An
SELL" Judge Gregory said. He added
that Colonel AnselI had conferred IN
New York with President Page OF the
bar association where the proposal
that a committee of the association
make an independent inquiry into the
matter Of military Justice first came
up.
subsequently President Page con.
ferred with Major General Growder,
nudge advocate general. md Secretary
Baker, Judge Gregory continued, and
both Expressed full concurrence with
the plan Of having such an inquiry
Secretary Baker at a later confer
once with Judge Gregory declared
himself in sympathy with the desire
for an unbiased inquiry and said he.
had an open mind on the questions I'M
volved. W
IN is obvious Judge Gregory con-
tinued, that all the association car.
do is to recommend legislation to the
appropriate committee Of congress. IT
would be m~anifeBtly improper and
tend TO defeat the purpose Of The az
s~0eiation to do anything else Or to.
take any action which might sntagon-
izo congressional oonanIttee.p
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
Unofficial Reports Show
$780, 900 Has
Been Raised
FINISH JOB THIS
WEEK, is SLOGAN
Sixty Million in Sales
Made in Cleveland
Reserve District
Avalon First Town IN
Pacific to 60 Over
Top 100 Percent
az Lsassd wIrs . New MsSIssn.l

fBy Leased Wire TO New MeNican.)
Washington, April 23-unoffIciaI re.
ports to the treasury today indicated
that aggregated subscriptions to the
Victory Liberty loan were approach
ing $500. 100000, although official
figures still stood at $1f6,o77s00o.
Kilograms from district ~headquart.
ers Of the loan organization through
out the country told Of continued en
thusiasm and the adoption by a num-
Der Of communities Of the slogan
Finish the job this week"
Many Of these communities report
cd they already had raised most Of
their quotas, although subscribers
had not yet paid their initial install
ments and consequently the pledges
were not counted officially.
In Chicago fifty foreign language
meetings, attended BY 10000 people,
have stirred up interest both among
foreign born and native Americans
Eorty-eight cities and towns in
New England have reached their
goals, the Boston headquarters re-
rorted today.
In the Cleveland district its was
estimated by campaign managers
that $50, 100000 sales had been made
III to today. Sixty one honor flags
rad been awarded to small towns
which had subscribed quotas, as COM
pared with thirty one at the end OF
the second day of the fourth loan
campaign. Soldiers in the Cleve
land district as elsewhere. are prov
ing successful statesmen.
In the central northwest district
the subscription work among farmers
has been retarded somewhat by bad
roads and work Of the planting sea
scon. For this reason reports from
the Minneapolis district probably
will be much delayed.
The Oklahoma campaign managers
today reported that fifteen counties
in the state had over-subscribed their
quotas.
Sixteen OF 35 counties In Oregon
reported quotas subscribed at the end
Of Tie first day.
Avalon, on Catalina Island, was the
first community in the Pacific coast
district to report 100 per cent over
subscription.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
How Proud Are You
OF AmabiIis Nova?

AmabllsA Moya Of Chamlta is back from tho1Great War with a DIS.
tiaushed Service Medal Of Great Britain on his breast for bravery
in the Field.n gaAn6N M N tAA
For one solid yeaHAmabiis Moyapa sturdy young Spanish American
hoy who worked In the lumber camps, has been fighting almost cons
t4nuouslyt first in Belgium and then in France for the flag that waves
above the New Mexico shtehouse and the Old Palace Of the Governors.
He was n nine major battles, re fought With the dash and nerve and
unconquerabIe courage that has made the American soldier celebrated
the world over. He didn't stop to complain that his 4chow' was some
times slim, that he had to live in mud and With coolies, that he had to
snatch sleep when he could get II, that ne had to fight When he was
exhausted.
lie Jumped forward, took his hand Srerades and ran out III the teeta
OF Hun machine gun fire and helped put three Of the deadly things out
OF action. W M
Proud Of him aren't you?
But how proud2
Proud enough 10 help pay for bringing him home, to help pay for
bringing back hundreds of thousands Of men Ike hin17
Proud enough 70 loan the government fly dofsrs2 o. a hundred, ri
several hundred dollars? R eetr Ms
Victory was worth fighting for TO Moya.
is IT, worth paying for to you2
Are ynu going 70 endorse the fight Of this New Mexico boy-and
thousands Of others like hfmq
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
MINERS STRIKE
AT is
BROUGHT TO END

LeadviIle, Colo, April 2~3.-Settle.
ment OF the miners strike under an
agreement reached last night between
the workers and operators allows the
men to return to work at a wage
schedule Of 50 a day, but there will
still be many unemployed in Leadville
as several mines will not reopen, 1t
was indicated today. The settlement
reached iastN night automatically
ended the strike of the miners called
last Sunday when the operators rel
duced wages to $3.50 a day from the
cid rate OF $3.50.
The Yak, Penrose, Garbutt and
hex shafts will be running in a few
days, probably with reduced working
forces.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
Europe is Recovering
From SOpiet Disease
Bolshevism Crumbles in Hungary; Wild Cossacks
Of Urals Take Warpath Against T~rotzkyites;
Siberian Railway Line Held Against Desperate
Assaults; Poles Have Taken Wilma.

the northwestern front reported Tues
day, was at the hands of the Poles,
who have taken Wilma and have pier
ced the bolshevik lines to the south.
Wilma ~rns the nearest approach of
Russian boIshevism to Germany. on
the north Russian front the allies have
pushed forward a considerable dis
taDce along the lines south Of the
Murmansk peninsula. VI. 4.
Serious disorders occurred at Ham
burg, Germany, on Saturday and Sun
day. In the suberb OF ST, Paul, on the
western outskirts Of the city, mobs
have ciashed with the police and APP
pear TO have met With some measure
of SUCCESS.
COSSACKS TAKE VILLAGE
FROM THE B0ESHEViKl
London, April 28.-Ural Cossack
troops, apparently acting in conjunc-
ton with the Siberian forces of AID,
miral Kolchak, have begun an often
sive in the region Of Uralsk, in south
eastern Russia, South Of Samara and
have captured several villages west
OF UraIsk.
Al Russian wireless official state
ment under date Of April % admit
ting the progress OF the Ural Cos
sacks says that furthef north the
bolsheviki have carried out further
retirements owing to enemy pres
sure"
Thirty five miles southwest Of Ur-
alsk, fighting Is taking place be-
tween the Gossacks and the bolshe-
Wiki for the possession OF the fort OF
Sheyorkin.
Uralsk is near the border between
the Ural Territory and the TranssCas-
plan region. 1T is the terminus OF the
railway line running east from Sara
toy, on the Volga, Uralsk is about $50
miles southwest of Strelitsmak, where
1.-THE Kolchak forces were reported
several days ago to be advancing
tsouthwardl on Orenbergs
R0ESHEWfkl SEEK TO
CUT SIBERIAN RAILWAY
KfasneyRrsk, Siberia, Via Vladi.
(Continued on page ~
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
American Arrested
for Being Assaulted
BY Jap Soldier

PICKING Tuesday, April 22,-fBy The
Associated Press)--I. w. Glass, an
American empIoye Of the British
American Tobacco company. after be.
ing assanlted BY Japanese soldier
at P~amienching, a Mukdens Man
churia, was arrested and detained at
a Japanese police station, according
to information reaching the American
legation here. He was liberated after
several hours, but was reafrested I'M
nlediately and conducted to Japanese
military headquarters where he was
detained. Before being released the
next day, MT. Glass WA slifhinonedAto
appear before the Japanese military
authorities. He disregarded the sum
mons and left the town.
Pamienching, where the incident o.
Cured, is not within the Japanese
sphere Of the South M~anchprian rail.
way zone.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
HEARING OF SUIT
BY BREWERS TO
PROTECT THE NEW
BEER COMMENCES
Held Federal Court Has
Not Power to Enioin
District Attorney
ANTLSALOONISTS
FILE A BRIEF

SBy Leased Wire to New Mexican.)
New York, April 23.-The govern
ment began in the federal court here
today argument on its motion to dis
miss the suit brought by the Jacob
Hoffman Brewing company to re-
strain the United States authorities
from interfering with its production
OF beer Of az per cent alcoholic con
tent, forbidden by internal revenue
rulings interpreting the food conser-
walton regulations and the war time
prohibition act.
After Judge A. N. Hand had per.
mitted the National A~nti-Saloon
League to file a brief as "a friend OF
the court" Elhu Root and William
u Gnthries, counsel for the brewers,
neither consenting nor objecting to
the proceedings, United States Dis
trict Attorney Caffey launched an all
day discussion of court decisions in
tending to show the federal district
court Ii without jurisdiction to enjoin
q district attorney. This principle he
commended had been upheld by Eng
fish jprists under the common law
and by the United States supreme
court,
In view of the broad lines OF the
brewers complaint, Mr.. Caffey de-
clared it was of the highest import
ance to the administration Of public
justice that a determination be made
as to whether the power of injunction
may be invoked to restrain p%rosecu-
tion and announced that his argument
and brief would touch upOn all the
cases called to his attention as bear
ing either directly or Indirectly upon
the issues involved.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
Soda Pop Getting in
AS Bad as Old Booze

Phoenix, Ariz, April 23.-Hereaf-
ter sanitariums, stores, soft drink
stands and other commercial enter
prises must obtain the consent Of the
property owners within a radius Of
800 feet before being granted per-
mits to open up in residential dis
tricts. This was the burden Of q
new ordinance passed today BY the
city commission.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
/ ". ". DEF|ES
sioux CITY MAYOR
Jim Kelly and His Pal
Red Sheridan Talk
Real Tough

tBy Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Sioux City, Iowa, April 23.--James
Kelly, local secretary Of the /. w. w,
and Red Sheridan, who held the
same office previously, made a call
on Mayor Short at noon today and
served notice on him that the |. w.
w. convention abandoned last night
would be finished regardless OF con-
sequences. Members of the /. wv. WI.
were preparing to resume the con-
vention this afternoon. The /. w. w.
agreed to call off the national COZ
yention which was a meeting Of the
agricultural branch of the /. w. W.
when Sheriff Jones and $50 deputies
raided the l. w. W. headquarters and
.confiscated a quantity Of literature. /"
In connection with the announce
ment that the meeting would be con
tinued Kelly said the only reason we
agreed to close the meeting last night
was to prevent mob violence"
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24

tBy Leased Wire to New Mexican.l
II seems to be established that the
soviet government Of Hungary has
crumbled, but the situation is still
quite obscure, The party that has as
sumed control Is not definitely known
Munitions and arms factories al
Budapest are in full operation, It is
said.
The report that a soviet regime had
been set up In Turkey Is doubted in
London, where It is pointed out that
if there was any truth IN the rumor
there would have been reports for
wardcd by wireless to the British ad.
nliraIty by the British Warships now
lying before Constsntinople. 8
The Russian boIsheviki reverse on
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
4. NJ. W. Released.

l.eayensworth. Kan, April 23.-4Vin
cent st. John, a member OF the /. w.
convicted in Federal court in
Chicago last September on charges
Of conspiracy to. defeat the draft law
was sentenced to ten years in the
federal prison here, was released
late yesterday following a receipt
of his bond for $4,000 by the Chica-
90 court.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
Limerick Strike Is
Declared National

Limerick, April 2S.-AAn alliance
between the Limerick strike commit
tee and the Irish trades union con-
gress and labor party was arranged
at a conference this morning and a
statement has been issued declaring
the strike now had become national
In the statement Of Tom Johnson,
treasurer Of the labor congress, an
nouncing that the strike had become
national, he added that reports from
other centers proved that ireland
was giving active support to Limer-
ick.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
IOWA FIRST STATE
no EXCEED QUOTA

Des Mofnes, Iowa, April 23.--
Eoualing it's record in the last loan,
Iowa claims the .distinction Of being
the first state to exceed Its quota in
the victory Liberty loan. according
to a message today from C. II. NC
Nider, state director Of sales, who
is at federal reserve district head
quarters Iii Chicago.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
WOMAN cITY COMMISSIONED

Yankton, s.. D., April 23.-Mrs. Jen
G. Murphy was elected city commie-
sioner or a run-off election yester-
day. She is the only woman city
commissioner in South Dakota.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
BOOZE REFERENDUM
STARTED IN CALIFORNIA

San Francisco. April 2S.-CircuIa-
ton throughout the state of the refer
ondum petitions against the national
prohibition amendment and the Har-
ris act to enforce the amendment, was
begun today. it was announced by the
California grape protective associa
ton here.
El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-04-24
Austria Navy Menace
No Longer Exists
He Declares
NO STRATEGIC
NECESSITY NOW
Italians Modify Their
Ultimatum; Make
Concessions
Delegates Still Talk Of
Going Home IF
Turned Down

-tatt1 WIZ " NCW tWENlbuNhJ
Paris, April 23.-In a. state
ment issued by President
Wilson today explaining his
position on the Adriatic ques-
ton, he declares that Finme
cannot become a part of Italy.
The president points out that
every condition concerning the
Adriatic settlement has been
changed since ITALY entered
the war upon the promises Of
the pact Of London, the Aus
tre-Hungarian empire having
disappeared.
He notes that new states
have created for which Fiume
is Jne naJuraA OptleJ TO the sea.
The president also contends
that the strategic necessity
pleaded in behalf Of Italy's
claims to the Dalmatian islands
no longer prevails, as the Aus
trian naval menace has ceased
to exist.
Premier Orlando threatens to re-
turn to Italy today unless there is a
satisfactory adjustment Of the Flume
and palmatian questions. Premier
Lloyd George of England is trying to
persuade the Italian leader to remain
n Paris While he continued his ef-
forts to reconcile the opposing view
points.