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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Our New Wash Goods, Prints and Ginghams
Our handsome line of New Tailored Suits
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
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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
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