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For Spring and Summer 1912

can now show you the Most Com-plete Stock of Woolens in town. This

v includes Many Extremely Artistic Pat­terns and Fancy Weaves in Blue Serges,

in Stripes and Plain. Also a Fine Assort­ment in TAN and GREY SUITINGS. Call early and make your selection. All work guaranteed satisfactory.

D. Amundson Cresco, Iowa .

Engine Cuts Down Your Coal

• AVES IS to 40 per ccnt of the h f u e l o r d i n a r y e n g i n e s u s e .

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There is practically no flue trouble with this engine. The reasou is

AVERY have boiler* like ocean steamships. Return Fluo stylo with special Avery Full Water Front. Steamship boilers nn»st use h'ust fuel possible an«! cause little trouble. You can see that Avery leucines with ; leamship style boilers must be economical in fuel con­sumption, statu! up on the job ami neiM little attention or repairs.

This Engine is aNo backcd up by the strong Avery Guarantee*—the strongest ever given with any make of engine.

Get All the Facts About This Engine Find out how it will tavo you money on your fuel and repair bill*. How it will require

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Remarkable Rise of C. H. Fife-William, Chautauqua Speaker.

UFE READS LIKE A ROMANCE

Mother-lets at Nine and an Orphan at Thirteen, His Grit and Determination Made Him One of Most Famous Plat­form Orators In America.

The sawdust ring stud the flyinz tra­peze ure not usually loolu'd upou as preparatory schools for the ministry, but from this peculiar beginning Charles H. Fitzw-illiaui arose to a place of prominence auioiii; big platform celebrities.

The story of his life reads like a ro­mance. He was left motherless at nine years of age, and his father, who was a professional trapeze performer, at once began training liiiu for the same profession. At twelve years of age young Fitzwilliani was doing the trapeze stunts in the open arena.

His education bad been utterly neg­lected, of course. Ue knew only the canvas paviiion and the sawdust riug. His acquaintance did not extend be­yond the people of the circus, many of them being of the coarsest type.

At twelve years of age this poor boy beheld with his own eyes the life crushed out of his father in a horrible trapeze accident. This was tlie real turning point»in his career, although it left him without a friend or protector in all the world.

For twelve years more he battled with fate. But be secured work that let him go to school and later to col­lege. His grit and determination to rise triumphed over difficulties galore, and he at Inst found his place in the world.

For many years Fitzwilliam has been a recognized force among the big men of the platform. He lias crossed the Atlantic sixteen times and is well kpown on both sides of the sea. lie de­livers lectures of great power and beauty and full of earnest purpose. His life is a rebuke to failure and an inspiration to all young men of nerve and purpose.

WONDERFUL JUGGLER ROSANI IS COMING

Follow the crowd the day Rosani. the juggler, comes to Chautauqua this sum­mer. The people never tire of seeing things that excite wonder, and Ro­sani is the premier wonder worker of them all.

At this performance one will not be required to think. He will only need to relax his energies and have a good time. His eyes will follow the clever manipulations of this prince of novelty entertainers and he will pass an hour of keen delight nt the exhibition of skill.

Rosani is not a magician. He em­ploys no tricks. His work is genuine and therefore all the more Interesting. tVhat he does he does, and that is the marvelous thing about it all. IIow it is possible to perform such fesits of skill is whet taxes human credulity.

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KOSAM.

Kosanl is an original genius and. while familiar witli all the old feats of jugglery common to the stage, has in­vented many novel acts of his own. The major portion of his performance is entirely new to the public anil will excite keen interest. His shadowgraphs are amusing, his impersonations uuder a changing hat riui are marvelous), and his balancing acts are the limit of ar­tistic accomplishment.

Rosani will draw a great crowd be­cause he furnishes just the sort of di­version needed in the midst of a week's program of solid things. You will not need to labor in weighty think­ing to follow hitn. but you will cudgel your brains to fathom his gieat skill.

Rosani has entertained thousands throughout the east and is a seasoned veteran of the platform. He will please the people immensely with hia clever show and round out a week of delight­ful things.

IOWA'S MST COMMON APPLE TREE SCALE

At present the most important ot the scale insects that may be found in the orchards of Iowa is the oyster shell scale. It is confused by many with the San Jose scale, but is not like it, nor is it so serious a pe«t to deal with.

"We get many inquiries from orchardists," says Prof. S. A. Beach, head of the horticultural and for­estry department at Iowa State Col­lege, "who are afraid that their trees are afflicted with San Jose scale, when it is merely the oyster shell scale. The latter may be brought un­der control very nicely by systematic annual treatment."

Professor Beach describes the oyster shell scale as follows, in the new bulletin on spraying practice! just published for free distribution! by the Iowa Experiment Station: |

The scale resembles an oystcij shell in form and is about one-eighth

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sulpffur is given by Professor Beach as follows: Lump lime (pure) 36 pounds Sulphur 80 pounds Water 50 gallons

Break the lime into rather small lumps. Place in kettle and slake it with hot water. Make a smooth paste of the sulphur with water. Add this to the lime as slaking com­mences, and mix thoroughly, Wnen the lime is all slaked, add the rest of the fifty gallons of water, and enough more as needed from time to time during the boilinjr to keep the quan­tity up to fifty gallons. Do not let it drop more than an inch below the fifty gallon mark at any time. Dash a little cold water into the kettle to stop the boiling for a moment while measuring. Keep well stirred to break up lumps and prevent caking on the side? of the kettle. Boil vig­orously from forty-live minutes to one hour or till the sidphur is all dis­solved. Use a kettle of sufficient ca­pacity to prevent loss from boiling over.

When through with the boiling bring the volume up to fifty gallons and strain it without tiding to sep­arate it from the finer sediment which passes through the sieve. The coarse particles which do not go through the strainer are kept for later boilings.

The Best Fly Poison. most highly recommended fly is formalin mi.ied with sweet

linil water in tin- proportion of teaspoon fills of formalin to a of tlif mixture. Such a poison fatal to human being*. Break a nick in the edw of a bottle's . (ill the bottle with the solution and it. inverted, in n saucer.

M<" her Gray's Sweet Powders far Childrei Relieve Feverishness, Bad Stomach,

Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Rowels and are a pleasant remedy for Worms. Used by Mothers for 22 years. They never fail. At all Drug­gists, 2<ie. Sample FUME. Address, A. S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. V. 75w4

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Iowa's Most Common Apple Tree Scale.

inch in length. The insects hibernate as minute white eggs under the old scales. The eggs hatch during the latter part of May or early June, de­pending on the season. For a few days after hatching the young may be seen as small whitish lice crawl­ing about on the bark, but they soon fasten to the bark and become cov­ered with a scale which protects them •gainst sprays.

This scale insect may be extermin­ated by the following treatment an­nually: In the dormant season spray the trees thoroughly with a lime sul­phur mixture made by using one gal­lon of the lime sulphur made accord­ing to the formula below to five gal­lons of water. In the spring time, just as the buds begin to break, spray with a lime sulphur mixture made by using one gallon of the formula to twenty gallons of water.

^he formula for making the lime

SICKLY CHILD Made Well By Vinol—Letters

from a Grateful Mother New Haven, Conn.—"My little girl,

ever since her birth, was frail and sickly and nothing seoined to do her any good until we tried your cod liv­er and iron tonic, Vinol. As soon as she commenced to take it, I noticed an improvement in her health and ap­pearance. She has now taken three bottles of Vinol, and from the good it has done her I can say it will do all you claim for it in building up and strengthening frail and delicate chil­dren." (Name furnished on request.)

Another mother of Chicago, III., writes: "I can not say too much in praise of Vinol for delicate, ailing children."

"We ask every mother of a frail, sickly or ailing child in this vicinity to try Vinol on our agreement to re­turn their money if it does not do all we claim.

P. A. Clemmer, druggist, Cresco, la

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Ridgeway and 7 miles southeast of Cresco, with modern, new buildings. Farm all plow land in high state of cultivation, fenced and cross fenced with woven wire fence. An abundance of water. For further information call at the farm or write H. W. MICHEL, Rt. 4, Cresco, Iowa. 79t4.

Baby won't suffer five minutes with croup if you apply Dr. Thomas' Eelec-tic Oil at once. It acts like magic.

Excuse Me! A New Story by Rupert Hughes We Will Print

in Serial Form

Opening Chapters Next Week

JAMES M. COX.

Representative Cox of Dayton, O., ha* announced himself a candidate for the governorship of Ohio, subjeot to the oholoe of the Domocratlc etata convention which meets In Toledo In June.

TOOLS NEEDED FOR BARLEY.

(F. H. Demaree, Agronomist, J. I. Case Plow Co.)

The preparation of the land and seeding of barley varies widely with the locality.

Barley is, of course, best adapted to the cool, moist conditions of the north, but may b« successfully grown anywhere In the grain belt. Where It Is made a main crop. It will pay to plow the land, preferably in the faJI. Work up a fine seed bed by double disking the land In the spring and drill, in seed as early as possible.

In the northern zone of the corn belt barley can be sown after corn. In this case the land may be double disk­ed in the spring, harrowed down and the seed drilled In. Spring barley is also grown to some «;xtent In the corn belt, often displacing oats. In this case the above preparation of soil and seeding will secure the best and most economical results.

The machinery requirements for the barley raiser will vary with the locality. In general, however, any man raising small grain should have a good disk, a plow, a smoothing har­row and a drill.

ONE KIND OF BARLEY.

(By Prof. R. A. Moore.) The aim of the grower of select

barley is to get the entire community in which he resides Interested In growing select barley instead of scrub varieties. Thus seedsmen and farmers can secure this Improved seed barley In limited or carload quantities at a reasonable increase over the reg­ular general niiirket price of barley. By pursuing.this method of dissemlnar tion several select barley centers are established in each townsMp of the barley growing counties where farmers are able to secure the seed In large or small quantities near at hand. Farm­ers throughout the state have quickly availed themselves of the opportunity of securing select seed barley from the growers or seedsmen. Through this rapid method of dissemination the select barley Is displacing the common varieties until whole com­munities gre now growing this one breed of barley to the exclusion ot nearly all other varieties.

MORE BRAIN—LESS SWEAT.

Abraham Lincoln said 60 years ago that a man was foolish to walk all over 40 acres when he could raise the same crop in ten by intensive culti­vation. It is not so necessary that the farmer should plant more acres or work harder, but ft is only common sense for him to use modern scien­tific methods instead of his grandfa­ther's old "rule of thumb" and his grandmother's old rule of the "dark of the moon." The modern idea Is to Bnve work and get larger results: to better the quality and to make more money. If every farmer should grade and select bis seed: should grade and clean the grain which he markets, and should feed the screenings on the farm, the price of every grain would go up and stay up, because the In­creased quality would be worth the money, and when the poor grades were not marketed there could never be a glut of the market.

MARKETING BARLEY.

Barley serves as a ready money crop for most growers and is usually put on the market soon after thresh­ing. It Is not good practice to put weather beaten or damaged barley on the market as th« price will be cut severely even though the feeding qual­ity is but slightly Impaired. It is far better to use such injured barley on the farm and secure both feeding and fertilizing value from it.

Different varieties should not be mixed when being put on the market either as seed 3r malting barley. Farmers should grow but one variety of barley and that of the very best. Different varieties of barley when placed on the malting floor for sprout­ing germinate at different periods of time which leads to a positive loss on mixed types of barley, and a corre­sponding reduction in price. The malt­ster desires a barley of one distinct type and this should be uniform In quality and size of berry From re­ports sent to the leading maltsters and brewers of the United States, no less than 95 per ceut. of those reporting preferred the six-rowed, bearded bar­ley.

Makes the Nation Gasp. The awful list of injuries on a Fourth

of July staggers humanity. Set over against it, however, is the wonderful healing, by Buckler's Arnica Salve, of thousands, who suffered from burns, cuts bruises, bullet wounds or explo­sions. Its the quick healer of boils, ulcers, eczema, sore lips or pile. 25 cts. at P. A. Clemmer'a. T

Study Manure Spreaders Before You Buy One

THE proper place to study a manure spreader is at thfi local dealer's place

of business, where you can see the machine, study it part by part, see how each part is made and how it does its work. Study spreaders at first hand. Go to the local dealer and have him show you an

IH C Manure Spreader Kemp 20th Century

Cloverleaf or Corn King

Learn the advantages of an apron spreader. Learn what constitutes a steady, reliable feed and the importance of it. Learn the reasons why different materials are used for different parts, and why each part doe9 its work thoroughly. Learn the value of the service the dealer can give you.

When you know manure spreaders we think you will buy an I H C spreader from your local dealer. He is the man to see.

Internatloml Harvester Company of America (Incorporated;

Ckicace USA I H C Sanric* Bureau

The purpose of this Bureau is to furnish, free of charge to all. the best information obtainable on better farming. If you havt any worthy questions concerning soils.crops, land drainage, irritation, fertilizers, etc., make your inquiries specific and send them to I H C Service Bureau, Harvester Build* i n g , C h i c a g o , U S A

GOLD is one of the best preservers of the teeth because of its ductility, malability and close adaption to the cavities and margins of the teeth.

IT IS PROOF AGAINST THE ACIDS of the mouth and stomach and affords the greatest resistance to the arduous and trying duties of mastication. _

We make a specialty of Gold Fillings at reasonable prices.

Dr. John J. Clemmer

Cure Your Sick Chickens Get one ounce of Aseptazom at your druggist's and dissolve it in one gallon of warm water. Give a tablespoonful of this solution in each quart of drink­ing water. Aseptazonc will cure and prevent cholera, bowel trouble,roup.colds and canker.

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Notice In Probate-To Whom It May Concern:

You and each of vou are hereby notified to appear at the Court House In fresco, Howard eonnty. Iowa, on the 7th day rf net. A. P. ISM'.' , at - o'clock p. m. to attend the probate of an instrument purporting to be tlu-last Will and Testament ot Margaret Melluch late of Howard t 'onnty. Iowa, deceased, at whieli time and place you will appearand show cruise. If any, why said W ill should not he admitted to probate.

Ill Testimony Wliereol', I have hereunto subscribed mv name and alllxed the seal of the District Court this 18th day of May iaii

F. C. RLANDIN. [SKA L.] Clerk of District Court.

ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Kstate of Km ma .1 Friend. Deceased Notice Is lierehy given. That the subscribers

have been duly appointed K.xecutors to the Kstate ofKmnia J. Friend late of Cresco, In the county of Howard, state of Iowa, de­ceased, testate, and have taken upon them­selves that trust by qlvlng bonds as the law directs. All persons having demands upon the estate of said deceased arc required to exhibit the same; and persons Indebted to the said Kstate are called upon to make pay­ment to

KT1IKI. H. FIUF.XO. K.HWIN 11. ARNOLD

Executors. Cresco. Iowa, May loth. 1912.

Impure blood runs you down—makes you an easy victim for organic diseas­es. Burdock Blood Bitters purifies, the blood—cures the cause—builds you up.

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