a it .•.V ft IWv% ift Vl**# %!r u:. A %,r.itf'\ it:^ ?7$ •-.'•hrL'-r^r*'?.* v.:i"' OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY Read the Cancer Specialist's ad. on 4 th page. Byron Mabon was a Cresco visitor yesterday. E. J. Eckstein was down from Ches ter yesterday. Will Frost, of Chester, was a Cresco visitor yesterday. A yearling mule for sale. Enquire J. J. VANSLYKE, Cresco. N. A. Blackburn. Lawyer office opposite the National Bank. Will Breedlove came down from Chester yesterday afternoon. Oak posts for sale. Enquire of A. MARSHALL. Dr. W. T. Daly, physician and surgeon office over Glass's restaurant. FOUND—A purse containing a small amount of change can be found at this office. Senator Burgess and Representative Kull are home, the legislature having taken a week's recess. If you want a tarm loan at a low rate of interest, see American Loan & Trust Company, Cresco, la. The Ladies Aid Society of the M. E. church will meet with Mrs. Job Darrow Thursday at 2:30 p. m. If you want to buy or sell Real Estate call on Geo. H. Owens. Office over First National Bank, Cresco, Iowa. FOR SALE—A Shetland pony six months old. S. A. SUTTON, R. F. D. No. 6, Cresco. SOFT WOOD FOR SALE.—Will deliver in any quantity. Phone Ridgeway 18. G. W. CHURCH. FOR RENT—The house now occupied by Mrs. John McHugh. Enquire of J. T. DONAHUGH. The Waterloo Wagon Box Spreader is guaranteed to do the work at half the cost. Sold by C. C. Mclntire, Cresco, Iowa. 26tf Max Feinberg bought about 30 head of horses in Cresco last Saturday. He will be in Cresco again in about a couplc of weeks. If you want first class dry oak wood, leave order with or 'phone to Donald son's Feed Barn for prompt delivery by James Green. Master Stewart John Wilson is the name of the new boy who arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Wilson on February 21, 1909. LOST—On Saturday, Feb. 27th in Cresco, a case containing a pair of glasses. Finder please leave at Dr. Connolly's drug store. If you want correct abstracting done and cheap prices too, it will pay you to see the American Loan & Trust Co., before or Bering your abstract. oe v.* :.-.-.. FOR SALE—Some good second-hand boiler flues for sale cheap. Enquire at Joe Block's old stand. SAM FELDSTEIN. A few cords of dry, poplar wood for sale at $4.00 per cord if taken at once, as I want to close it out. 'Phone Ridgeway 7. LEON LEWIS. FOR SALE—Three registered Short Horn bulls one year old. All reds. Write or Phone W. J. WEBSTER, Cresco, Iowa. We will saw lumber at the P. G. Kratz place, beginning on the first of March. Haul in your logs at once. FRANK VSETECKA & Co. W. C.—Regular meeting of Manches ter Grove, No. 75, W. C., on Wednes day evening. MRS. MARY GLASS, Guardian. FOR SALE.—My residence and one and a half acre of ground, half acre in strawberries and raspberries. For par ticulars call on DANIEL WHEELER, the gardner, Cresco, Iowa. FOR RENT.—The building known as as the M. E. Fitzgerald restaurant. Good living rooms up stairs—lower rooms store or restaurant. Enquire of FITZGERALD & WOODS. Malek Bros., the hustling Schley merchants, have another page adver tisement in this issue. Look at page three and you will be made acquainted with a bi|j list of bargains. If you'd be dubbed a handsome girl, And win a handsome Knight, The secret here I do impart, Take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea at night.—Wm. Connolly. Owing to the conlinuous demands up on our spaee by advertisers, we are obliged to omit from this issue the us ual chapters of "The Round Up" and "HomeCourse in Agriculture." EGGS FOR HATCHING—Pure bred Rhode Island Reds, 50 cents per setting of 13. Special prices on incubator lots. M. O. MITCHELL, N. I. Phone. Cresco, Iowa. Maurice Gregory arrived last week for a visit of a couple of months at the home of his sister, Mrs. Frank Hall. He has been absent four years as a marine in the U. S. service, stationed at Annapolis. A spring tonic that makes rich, red blood. Brings strength, health and happiness to the whole 'family. Noth ing equals Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a Spring regulator. 35 cents. Wm. Connolly. L. E. Webster, whose illness we mentioned a few weeks ago, passed away last Thursday at his Massachu setts home. The remains are being brought back for interment in the Howard Center cemetery. The funeral takes plate to-day at the M. E. church in Bonair. .. 'r» ?•.'«• -r?. .-•.S'V'A:.
Twice-a-Week .- Don't wait until your blood is impov erished and you are sick and ailing, but take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea now. It will positively drive out all winter impurities. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets.—Wm. Connolly. I have rented my farm 1J miles south of Cresco on the New Oregon road and will have an auction sale of horses, cattle and machinery at my place on Thursday, March 4th. C. HANSON. I am not baking for T. E. Glass but for Wm. Kellow, so please 'phone orders to Mr. Kellow or me for cakes and doughnuts. Large or small orders. Phone No. 71. MRS. NELLIE LARRABEE. School election for the independent listrict of Cresco occurs next Monday. There are three directors to be elected at this time. Dr. Scripture, A. E. Kellogg and Will Huntting are the directors whose terms expire this year. Carl O. Iverson left last Saturday for Rugby, N. D., to take up his resi dence on a homestead near there. He will be joined in about a month by his wife, formerly Miss Anna Morstad, to whom he was married Feb. 11th, at Rose Creek, Minn. The Palm Cafe has been moved to the north room in the Strother House block and is now ready for the accom modation of all parties desiring first class service. I take this opportunity of thanking the public for its liberal patronage in the past and wish for a continance of the same. OLE TIEGEN, Prop. I shot an arrow into the air, it fell in the distance, I knew not where, till a neighbor said it killed his calf, and I had to pay him six and a half. I bought some poison to slay some rats, and a neighbor swore it killed his cats, and rather than argue across the fence I paid him four dollars and fifty cents. One night I set sailing a toy baloon, and hoped it would soar till it reached the moon, but the candle fell out on a farmer's straw and he said I must set tle or go to law. And that is the way with the random shot, it never hits in the pi-oper spot, and the joke you spring that you think so smart, may leave a wound in some fellow's heart. Say! Dad says "You bet, laboring men, whether you own any property or not, you will have to work a poll tax on streets that ought to be paved by property owners. That's all except Dad is the lad That writes the ad that says he has for sale bran, shorts, middlings, Red Dog, corn oats and barley ground or unground, seed oats and barley also ground alfalfa and molasses mixed and oil meal. Phone No. 191. DAD. Our New Dress Goods and Trimmings Our New Embroideries, Laces and Buttons N Our Big of Tailored Skirts—the very latest Our Swell of Spring Jackets and Rain Coats The greatest Line of Silks PLUCK, PROGRESS, PERSEVERANCE AND PATRIOTISM IN POLITICS VOL. NO. 53 CRESCO, HOWARD COUNTY, IOWA. FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1909 SI PER YEAR GANDERBONE'S FORECAST FOR MARCH. (Copyright 1909 by C. H. i!Icth) When the last luar rug Is loaded And the mnrlnt van heavily treads The ruts from the White House displaying Its burden of trophies and heads. We shall sl»li—and ijarts, for good reason, And our eyes shal be heavy with tears, For there'll never be anything like it In another ten thousand or years. The gun-men shall walk by the wagons And utter their lusty boo-hoos, The stork shall despair, and the papers Shall grieve for the passing of news. The liars shall come from their burrows, The faker shall stick out ills head, And the milksop shall venture from hiding And come out from under the bed. And only the teachers shall teach us. And only the preacher shall preach, And 110 one shall mix II with evil, A nd none shall put Into the breach, The tumult shall die and theshouting, The hip and the hurrah expire And the gayety relished of nations Shall he one with (Joinorrah and Tyre. The winter shall end and the heavens shall smile with the beauty of spring. The bullfrog shall woo in the gloaming, and the robin shall merilly sing. The calf shall cavort in the pasture with bliss in the pitch of his tail, the lark shall awake in the morning and sing trom the tip of a rail, the wind shall disport with the washing and popple the tails of the shirts, and the modester maids shall go walking with shot in the hems of their skirt3. T- R. shall sum up in the matter of what may remain to be done, and ev ery one under his orders shall work like a son-of-a-gun. A few" parting shots at the Senate, a liar or two for the list, a round with the House for the rubber, a message or so in the grist—and then we shall rest, and shall need it, that seven years running have laughed, and where we hnve whooped we shall have an occasional cackle with Taft. And meanwhile the fleet, having gir dled the earth, our more provident men shall beg of the Slope not to bust us with having to gird it again. The Con gress shall die, and another shall take up its burden of care, our Uncle Joe Cannon shall rivet his pantaloons into the chair, the Senate shall utter thanks giving that Teddy has quit for a hunt, the glowing pink sideburns of Sherman shall ravish the view up in front, the danger of getting a spanking shall per ish and pass out of mind, and Tillman Shall pull out the pillow that he has been wearing behind. The crocus shall rcalte, and the red bird Shall whlsti tiMlrhee ai\d tu-whit, The flicker shall drum on the cornice, And the cool shall give notice and quit. The wild duck shall fly, and the hunter Shall wade with his middle Immersed, The pleurisy, chills and pneumonia Shall light over who saw him llrst, And the calends of March shall remind us That Caesar was stabbed in the ides By a lot of Black Handera and Dadoes, Confound their contemptible hides! Alas, for the glory ot Caesar—his no tice was pinned on his door, and when he went out he encountered a dozen THE NEW SPRING GOODS ARE BEAUTIFUL 1 We are now arranging Our New Stock and are anxious to have you call and see "WW j."1 Our New Wash Goods, Prints and Ginghams Our handsome line of New Tailored Suits y°u In short, we invite you to call and inspect the swellest line of new merchandise ever shown in your city. We invite com parison with any stock in this section of the state—the pick oi all the Eastern markets are here. You will find the latest in all departments, and together with the latest style you will find the quality and price to your liking. You know we are the quality store. You will not find any shoddy stuff here—the best at the lowest price. Plain Dealer. Black Handers or more. Said Brutus, "Da mun—did you fetch eet? Said Caesar, "Ne breenga da mun!" where at by the statue of Pompey the terri ble murder was done. "The Black Hand forever!" they shouted, and al most a whole grading crew fell on him with flashing stilettos and cut the great Caesar in two. Alas for the fear of destruction that a life of exposure had calloused! Also for the gourd colored monkeys the vessels bring over as ballast! Alas for the mightiest fig ure occuring in history's span, but good for the fate which condemns them for ever to sell da banan! Tne fateful 15th having happened, and spring having burnished the dove according to all the traditions, the season shall open for love. The soul mate shall sigh for its fellow, the hard hit affinity groan, the common, un classified lover shall bawl to call some one his own, the young folks shall coo in the parlor and the cook and the cop at the rear, the telephone wire shall be busy with dialogues sweetened with dear, the love unresponding in winter shall strain as a furnace grown hot, and the widows shall pull hair and quarrel comparing what each other got. St. Patrick's Day come in the marnln' Shall give its accustomed parade, The Irish shall march In the city, And "Wearing the Uieei}" shall lie played, The Shamrock shall wave and the story Of old be In everyone's mouth, Albeit the Anti-Saloon League Has driven more snakes from the South Than ever were driven from Ireland— Except, we are bound to confess, The snakes that were driven from Ireland Were never returned by express. The spring equinox shall enliven the last of the month in a way, but the total effect will be nothing to those of the Roosevelt sway. The lightning shall flash and the thunder shall give us a rumble or two, but they won't scare us into the closet as Teddy's were able to do. The weather, how ever, shall physic the impurities out of its blood, the sun shall resume with the blower and dry and case-harden the mud the farmer shall put in his garden with seed that his Congressman sent, the thrush shall sit up in the tree top and announce that the winter has went, the roadbeds shall harden and stiffen, decreasing the number of wrecks, and people may travel a little without telescoping their necks. The night of the sixth shall find I.una As perfectly round as a dish, Amt the zodiac sign Bhall be Pisces, Or commonly known as the Fish, The children born under its power Shall slave In the getting or wealth And later spend all they have hoarded Attempting lo get back their health, Which latter, we've often concluded, And rise to remark now and then. As one who has thought of these matters, Is true of a whole lot of men. And then we shall welcome sweet April, when Teddy shall bid us farewell and sail to give Africa's lions a sample of his kind of hell. havc cvcr had an *7t^ #.~ 1 At Cresco Opera House Suon. I Theatrical stars are not always born, oftimes they are made. The "mude to-order" stars, however, generally shine but a short time, and then their light is forever dimmed. It is about I the same on the stage as elsewhere in life's workshop—one must have talent to succeed. Once in a while in stage history there is a brilliant example of a star being discovered. Such is the case with beautiful Princess Wah-ta-Waso, whose rapid rise to fame and fortune has been one of the sensations of the present theat rical season. At the opening of the season her name was almost an unknown quantity. Now managers are singing her praises most enthusiastically and critics every where are telling of the rapid rise to fame and fortune of this little Indian miss who so electrifies her audiences. The Princess Wah-ta-Waso was dis covered by W. F. Mann, one of the most successful theatrical managers in this country, who has put out numer ous successes and knows how to cater to the popular taste. The Princess is playing the role of "Pamena" in "As Told in the Hilis." She does not act the part, she is the living embodiment of the passionate child of the forest. Everywhere she goes she seems to infect all her audi ences with the contagion of gooi cheer and charms all with whom she comes in contact. Some call it personal mag netism, others call it individuality, but without it, there is no success on the stage. School Report of District No. 5, New Oregon town ship, Howard county, for the month ending Feb. 12, 1909. Number days taught, 20. 1 Number pupils enrolled, 11. Average attendance, 9.6. Those neither absont nor tardy were Tony Still and Francis Still. J. EMMETT CARROLL. Teacher. School Caucus for the Independent District of Cresco, Friday, March 5th, 1909, at 7:30 p. in., in the Court House to nominate two directors for three years and one for one year, and to transact any other business that may come Before the caucus. T« By Order of Committee. Notice to Saw Logs. Parties having logs to saw into lum ber should bring their logs to the Strother farm west of Cresco, as we intend to set our machine there soon. JAS. SMITH. For Sale At a Bargain. One of the best money making Res taurants in North-eastern Iowa. For particulars call on or write A. SMITH, Cresco, Iowa. •*5 -,,'**&• PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS $ CRESCO WILL PAVE. By An Unanimous Vote Council Orders Paving of Elm Street. Cresco enterprise took a long stride forward last evening when the city council adopted a resolution to pave Elm street from Market to Peck streets. An objection signed by several of the property owners was presented by Wm. Kellow, but after due consider ation a ballot was taken on the resolu tion, all voting in its favor except Alderman Lomas who later voted to make it unanimous. The total frontage of the street to be paved, including streets and alleys, is 3,005 feet. The objectors represent ed a frontage of 865 feet, of which 300 feet is owned by non-residents for rental investment, 440 feet owned by local parties and kept for rental, and only 125 feet occupied and used by the owners. We understand that several of the objectors who signed the peti tion were really in favor ot paving. The council is to be heartily com mended for their action in ordering in the paving. Real Estate Transfers. The following transfers were fil with the County Recorder for the week ending February 27, 1909. Franz Biwer and wife to Michael Keefe, wj ne and nw Sec. 36-98-14 $ 1 A. E. Elithorpe and wife to J. G. Roberts, all lot 12 and lot 11 except lot 11 blk. 1, Lime Springs, Iowa 200 Anna Miller and husband to Geo. A. Hill, lot 6 se nw Sec. 11 98-11 3(%? Geo. A. Hill and wife to Charley Grimm, lot 6 se nw Sec. 11 98-11 1751 T. A. Lee and wife to Fredericka Hanneman, lot 14 blk. 24 Bald win's Add., Cresco, Iowa 1,100 Weather Report for Feb. 1909. Mean max., 33.0 deg. Mean min., 13.1 deg. Mean temp., 23.0 deg. Max., the 4th, 50 deg. Min., the 25th, —8 deg. Max. daily range 40 deg. Precip. 2.73 in. Snowfall 15.5 in. Clear days 7, cloudy 8, prevailing,^ wind south. One of the warm Februaries with plenty of snow. 2d Blizzard of the winter on the 9th thaw on 18 dates, reduceable to 174 hours. Mild winter, 50 days with thaw, Mean 21.9 deg. Below zero on 16 dates snowfall 30.4 in., blizzards 2. and that is uncommon south wind on 42 days and northwest on 11 days. opportunity of sdecting from ii •JVt '/t