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A Business Should be
as Big as Its Job
If bigness is of benefit to the
public it should be commended
The size of a business depends upon the
'needs which that business is called upon to
serve. A business should be as big as its
job. You do not drive tacks with a pile*
driver—or piles with a tack-hammer.
Swift A Company's growth Has bew
the natural and inevitable result of na
tional and international needs.
L^ffe-ac&le production and distribution
are necessary to convert the live stock of
the West into meat and by-products, and
to distribute them over long distances to
the consuming centers of the East and
abroad.
Only an organization like that of Swift ft
Company, with its many packing plants, hun
dreds of distributing houses, and thousands
of refrigerator cars, would have been able to
handle the varying seasonal supplies of live
stock and meet the present war emergency
by supplying, without interruption:
First—The U. S. soldiers and the Allies
in Europe by shipping as much as 800car
loads of meat products in a single week!
Second—The cantonments in the United
States.
Third—The retailers upon whom the
American public depends for its daily
supply of meat.
But many people ask—Do producers and
consumers pay too much for the complex
service rendered?
Everyone, we believe, concedes the effi
ciency of the Swift & Company organization
—in performing a big job in a big way at a
minimum of expense.
Swift ft Company's total profit in 1917 was
less than 4 cents on each dollar of sales of
meat and by-products. Elimination of this
profit would have had practically no effect on
live stock and meat prices.
Do you believe that this service can be
rendered for less by any other conceivable
method of organization or operation?
These questions and others are answered fully
and frankly
in
HONEY CHEEK.
James Nading has been quite ill with
eVi" *"lhe grip. His friends hope that he will
jj^si -.p^jjwon be around again.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lehman attend
ed the family reunion dinner at the
Edward Beohm home near Littleport
recently.
The Farmers Commission Company
of Dundee shipped a car load of hogs
recently to Chicago. Henry Heyer ac
companied the shipment to the mar
ket.
The N. Lehman family were Forest
vllle visitors Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Ryan and son
Roy were dinner guests at the Jake
Ryan home Thursday.
Worthy and Leonard Smith were
Bdgewood visitors Wednesday even
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Barr were Straw
berry Point business callers Wednes
day.
D. A. Sherman was papering at the
'Louis Fry home Wednesday and
Thursday.
wi Frank Schmock and wife were in
Manchester Friday to do their trading.
Miss Donna Shrlver entertained her
friend Miss Mildred Barnes of Arling­
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ton a few days of the past week.
Mrs.' Minnie Clough was in Cedar
Rapids Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Barnes of Delhi
were over Sunday visitors in the L.
C. Barnes home in the Point
Mr. and Mrs. Jack O'Brien went to
Cedar Rapids Tuesday evening.
Otto Gienapp returned home from
Finley hospital in Dubuque.
Mrs. Edward Lang entertained a
sister from Williston, North Dakota,
last week.
Mrs. F. E. Davis
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in Dubuque
Friday
Mrs. Girtz and daughter of Nebras
ka are visiting at the Cyrus Hines
home.
Mrs. J. Connolly is ill with pneu
monia.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. William
Hines, April 6th, a daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Knight were
Sunday visitors at the Albert Brist
home.
Veterinary surgeon Stalnaker was
a professional caller at Gus Dillon's
one day last week.
Word was received. here that Reid
Davis has been moved from Texas to
Virginia.
Seasonable
Suggestions
WHEEL BARROWS—4 kinds to pick
from $3.00 to $3.50
GARDEN TOOLS—We have every tool you
need to make a successful garden.
FIELD GATES—Galvanized Farm Gates
$9.00, $10.75
"LAWN MOWERS—The Coldwell brand.
Standard ever since mowers were in
vented $4.50 to $11.00
POULTRY SUPPLIES—Brooders, incuba
tors, coops, feeders.
WOVEN FENCE—Our supply is now lim
ited. Hurry!
PENNSYLVANIA 6000 MILE AUTO TIRES
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The H. H. Opperman family, who
spent the winter in California, return
ed home Thursday.
Miss Nellie Carmichael spent Wed
nesday in Cedar Rapids.
L. D. Knight sold cattle in Straw
berry Point Tuesday.
George Scofleld who was ill for
for some time, is getting better.
James Costigan, formerly of the
Point, but now located at Lawter, la.
is here on a visit with friends.
Mrs. George Hesner is entertaining
a sister from Independence.
Herman Schoeppe of Arlington
spent Thursday evening with bis
brother, C. A. Schoeppe.
GREELEY.
Carl Lash is on the sick list
Mrs. Eva Beckwith returned home
from a visit at Howard, S. D., Mon
day.
Mrs. S. S. Smith and son visited
relatives in Fayette the last of the
week.
John Corell is ill at his home in
Cedar Rapids.
Miss Fern Davis is working for
Mrs. Lou Richter in Dubuque.
Mrs. Donna Taylor of Strawberry
Point, was a visitor in Greeley last
week.
Miss Otllia Fernandez, a sister from
Dubuque, accompanied by another
sister, visited her mother, Mrs. Geo,
Brokaw, and brother, John Fernan
dez. The latter left for Camp Dodge
Sunday.
C. D. Gliem and G. B. Speed of Ar
lington transacted business in Gree
ley Tuesday.
Rev. T. B. Cooper was a business
visitor in Manchester Tuesday.
Arne Culbertson and family left for
Missoula, Montana, Tuesday, where
they will make their future home.
Elmer Kuhlman is home from Coles
burg.
Misses Helen Graham, Ethel Har
ris, Grove and Wilson were Strawberry
Point visitors with Mrs. Donna Tay
lor last week.
Miss Helen Graham is here from
Missoula, Montana, to spend the
summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Tratey were in
telle the last of the week.
Mrs. Effie Webster writes that she
has been fishing and is able to tell a
fish story with the best of them.
Lizzie Schectman is staying with
her sister, Mrs. Fred Koeneck of
Colesburg.
Fred Kruger is driving the school
wagon this week.
Henry Holthaus and Ralph Sher
man and their wives attended the
funeral of their cousin, Mr. Michaels,
at Elkport last Friday.
Helen Fisk was a week end visitor
at Clate Odell's.
Harry Schenke of Edgewood is
working for Lester Pilgrim.
Tom Taylor and family visited rela
tives in Dubuque the last of the week.
Edna Ingles spent Sunday with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Ingles
at Oak Grove.
HOPKINTON.
Mrs. A. L. Barker and two little
sons visited part of last week in Chi
cago.
Mrs. Hickman, who has been at the
home of her brother, W. F. Garvin,
for the past six weeks, returned to
her home in Manchester Thursday.
Mrs. Lamb of Dubuque, has been
visiting friends in town the past
week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Cramer and Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Holcomb attended
the Odd Fellow anniversary at Man
chester Friday.
Mrs. F. A. Irish, Mrs. C. R. Nelson
and Mrs. A. J. King attended a birth
day anniversary at Edgewood on
Thursday.
Clay Keith left a few days ago for
the Great Lakes naval station near
Chicago and enrolled for the naval
service.
Mrs. H. Livingston, Mrs. Larkin,
Mrs. F. M. Brooks, Miss Carrie Brooks,
Mrs. R. A. Wallace and Mrs. Jeffries
attended the Woman's Presbyterial
meeting at Dubuque on Monday and
Tuesday.
The Missionary meeting of the
Presbyterian church will be held on
Wednesday, May 1, at the home of
Mrs. H. Livingston. Reports will be
given by the delegates at the Dubuque
meeting.
Mrs. F. A. Stead of Pouchatoula,
Louisiana, who has been visiting her
daughter in Waterloo, and son, Harold
of Buck Creek, was the guest of Mrs.
Morton last week.
Mrs. Will Bucher, with her two lit
tle children, are visiting her sister,
Mrs. A. W. McDonald.
Mrs. F. M. Brooks was an over Sun
day visitor with her daughter, Mrs.
Blanchard, at Edgewood.
Curtis Thing arrived home Monday
from Pasadena, California, for a two
days' visit with his mother and sis
ter. He left Tuesday evening for
Washington, D. C., where he Joins the
chemical service.
Mrs. William Porter has been ill
the past week.
Mrs. W. J. Good of Monticello, is
visiting at the home of her son, Geo.
Good.
D. E. Kehoe went to Waterloo on
Thursday to enter St. Francis hos
pital for treatment.
Rev. George Coleman was at Wau
kesha, Wisconsin, last week on Home
Mission work. He went to Clarinda
the last of the week to assist Rev. S.
J. Johnson in Communion services
and from there will go to Olathe, Kan
sas, for similar servces.
The home of Albert ^Donahue has
been something like a hospital for
several weeks. He and the children
had the measles, His little daugh
ter now have the chicken pox and
his wife is quite ill with the grip.
The students of the Music Depart
ment of Lenox College held a recital
at the home of Mrs. H. M. Reeve Tues
day evening Each member was priv
ileged to invite a guest and the even
ing was greatly enjoyed by all.
Mrs. Esther Smith and daughter,
Mrs. Harma Barnes, have gone to Mar
cus, where they will spend the sum
mer with the sons of Mrs. Barnes.
Mrs. Franlc Royden of Scotch Grove
visited her parents last week.
The death of Miss Winifred Schie
dler occurred at the home near town
on April 24th. She had been in poor
health for several months. She was
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and her brother started at once for
a physician, but she passed away be
fore he arrived. Heart disease caused
her death. She was born near Win
throp in Buchanan county, May 27,
1879. For some time she had spent
much time in reading her Bible in
which she found much comfort. The
funeral services were held Friday af
ternoon at the Presbyterian church.
Rev. W. H. Ensign conducted the ser
vices. Her father passed away sever
al months ago. There remain in the
family her mother, two sisters, Mrs.
Inez Bent, Mabel, and two brothers,
Ernest and Archie.
The Men's Bible class of the Meth
odist Sabbath school enjoyed a social
with refreshments Thursday evening,
with an address by W. J. Elliott of
Cedar Rapids.
Miss Carrie Brooks returned to An
amosa Friday to serve in the capacity
of a nurse in the hospital.
Miss Ruth Garvin was at home from
Monticello Friday.
James Belknap, W. H. Milroy, W.
R. Reeve and J. D. McAllister have
been in Chicago the past week. Mr.
Belknap and Mr. Milroy went for
the purpose of buying the outfit for
the new movie building, and the others
went along to help and also enjoy the
trip.
Roscoe Parkins of Dubuque was in
town one day last week
Emmert Allison of Chicago and his
nephew spent several days in this
vicinity visiting old friends.
Mar-1
We will, in the various articles, present his words from
his public addresses and resolutions.
The speech of Burton E. Sweet, from which we quoted
herein, was made February 22, 1917, in Congress and ap
pears in the Congressional Record, Vol. 54, Part 4, on Pages
3952 and 3953, and was made after Germany had sunk the
Lusitania, Anconia and Sussex, murdering over two hundred
The President of the United States
has severed diplomatic relations with
Germany.
I sincerely trust that he will not be
Influenced by those who, in this hour
are endeavoring to ally the U. S. Gov
ernment with the entente powers,
or that seer and prophet from
New York—the editor of the North
American Review the man
who in a recent speech made in this
city, gloried in the thought of behold
ing the flower of American manhood
mingling in the trenches with the sol
diers of England and France, from
Flanders to Switzerland, and partici
pating in the death and carnage on the
blood-stained battle fields of the east
ern world.
I will say, if it becomes necessary
to have trouble or war with any
European power, let the United States
Government settle that trouble or
wage that war without the aid or con
sent of any other nation upon the face
of the globe.
I will endeavor to tell you why:
Because it means that we can all
march shoulder to shoulder in a com­
DOES NOT MR. SWEET IN THE ABOVE, CON
DEMN THE THOUGHT "OF AMERICAN MANHOOD
MINGLING IN THE TRENCHES WITH THE SOLDIERS
OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE, FROM FLANDERS TO
SWITZERLAND," AND THUS FIGHTING SHOULDER
TO SHOULDER WITH OUR ALLIES FOR OUR COMMON
PROTECTION?
WAS IT NOT AN UNJUSTIFIABLE, POLITICAL
ATTACK UPON OUR ALLIES, SHREWDLY SUGGEST
ING THAT THEIR CAUSE WAS NOT OUR CAUSE, AND
PREJUDICIALLY STATING, "WE CAN NOT AFFORD
TO FURNISH MILLIONS OF MEN AND ILLIMITABLE
TREASURE TO GREAT BRITAIN," OR SUBMIT "OUR
MANHOOD TO THE KEEPING, DICTATES AND DOMI
NATION OF GREAT BRITAIN, ITALY, FRANCE AND
RUSSIA," AND HARKING BACK TO THE DIFFICULTY
WITH GREAT BRITAIN IN '61, SAYING, "SHE GAVE
AID AND SUCCOR TO THOSE WHO SOUGHT TO DES
TROY US."
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Miss Josie Ross and Mrs. Ethel
Purvis were shopping in Dubuque on
Saturday.
Miss Charlotte Sparks spent Sunday
with home folks at Oelwein.
Miss Mabel Dutton and lady friend
of Cedar Rapids visited over Sunday
at the Homer Dutton home.
Mr. and MrB. Floyd Hansel spent
Sunday at the Hackbarth home in
Earlvllle.
The last number of the lecture
course was given last Tuesday even
ing by a young Syrian girl and was
very Interesting.
Miss Sparks, our primary teacher,
has been elected for another year.
Mrs. Ed. Parker and baby are visit
ing relatives at Earlvllle.
Age of the Fountain Pen.
The fountain pen is not a recent in
vention, as might be Imagined for It
is referred to in Samuel Taylor's "Uni
versal System of Shorthand Writing,"
published In 1786.
CAUSE OF HEADACHE.
By knowing the cause, a disease may
often be avoidde. This is particularly
true of headache. The most common
cause of headache is a disordered
stomach or constipation, which may
be corrected by taking a few doses of
Chamberlain's Tablets. Try it. Many
others have obtained permanent re
lief by taking these Tablets. They
are easy to take and mild and gen
tle in effect. For sale by A. C. Phllipp
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Dally Thought
Pew persons have courage enough
to appear as good they really are.—
J. C. and A. W. Hare.
Postal Transportation.
In some parts of Russia the post*
(pan rides in a two-wheeled cart drawn
by buffaloes. Some Journey in
•ledges, drawn by reindeer, horses, or
dogs. In the more remote regions of
the Canadas the mails are carried by
trains of sleighs, each dragged by
three dogs harnessed in single file.
POLITICAL ADV.
At the Primary election on June 3, 1918, you will decide by your votes
whether the next Republican candidate for Congress will be
ALBERT M. CLOUD
who has stood for straight Americanism, whole hearted fighting with our
brave allies for our common cause and the defeat of our common enemy
m—Prussian autocracy and black kultur, or 8
BURTON E. SWEET
1 whose official utterances and record disclose anti-allyism, weak Ameri
1 canism, political pacifism, and total silence as to Germany's crimes against
5 this country.
This is not a time for nominating Albert M. Cloud or Burton E. Sweet
for political friendship or personal reasons. Their attitude toward the
war should be controlling at this time. We are fearlessly using the press
so that all the voters may know their records.
HAS BURTON E. SWEET BEEN RIGHT ON THE WAR?
1 Thmafbr Birtu I. Swwt staM in CHgrtsi Fibrnry 22,1917, afhtr fhiigi:
mon cause.
Because we, as a free people, can
not afiford to ally ourselves with Great
Britain, France, Italy, Russia, or
Japan, and thus make their cause our
cause and their grievances our griev
ances.
Because we can not afford to lose
our Independence of thought and ac
tion in order to gain a seat at the
council table when peace is finally de
clared.
Because we can not afford to sub
mit our great resources illimitable
wealth, and the flower of our man
hood to the keeping, dictates and dom
ination of Great Britain, France, Italy
and Russian.
We can not afford to furnish mil
lions of men and illimitable treasure
to Great Britain when we remember
that in the hour of dire extremity,
when the life of the Nation and per
petuity of free institutions on this
continent hung in the balance, she
gave aid and succor to those who
sought to destroy it.
A coov of the entire speech from which the extracts above are taken will soon be mailed to every voter
in the Third District.
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innocent American men, women and children, and had for
bidden the free use of the high seas after we had severed"
all diplomatic relations with and were on the verge of war
with Germany, and the President had intimated that he ex
pected soon to come before Congress, and ask authority to
use the whole power of the United States to protect our
rights and the lives of our citizens.
—the sons of freemen—to land upon a
foreign shore and be subject to the
orders and dictates of kings.
Because it may become necessary
for us to declare war against Great
Britain as well as Germany for has
not Great Britain repeatedly violated
the rules of international law applic
able to neutral nations, pilfered our
mails, intercepted our cargoes bound
to neutral ports, destroyed our com
merce, and interferred with our free
dom of the seas?
Are we to treat these acts of Great
Britain as caresses and those of Ger
many as murderous?
Are we to take the acts of one na
tion as grounds for an alliance and
friendship, and the acts of the other
as a basis for war and hatred, when
the acts of both nations have not been
done because of any antipathy or sym
pathy for us, but because they are in
the throes of a life-and-death strug
gle? *. v-u
America, in my judgment, when
aroused, prepared, united, can' main
tain itself against all comers.
We can not allow our military forces
DID WE LATER GO TO WAR, AS MR. SWEET
SUGGESTS, "IN ORDER TO GAIN A SEAT AT THE
Sill
COUNCIL TABLE WHEN PEACE IS FINALLY DE
CLARED," OR IN OTHER WORDS, TO HELP DIVIDE
THE SPOILS?
DO THE STATEMENTS OF MR. SWEET'S
SPEECH ABOVE, WHEREIN HE SPEAKS OF THE IN
TERFERENCE WITH OUR COMMERCE AND MAIL
BY GREAT BRITAIN, IN THE SAME BREATH WITH
THE MURDER OF OUR CITIZENS UPON THE HIGH
SEAS BY GERMANY, REPRESENT YOUR IDEA OF
A FEARLESS AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN, AND IS IT
NOT A MONSTROUS DOCTRINE WHEN PROPERTY
CAN BE PAID FOR, AND THE LIVES OF HUMAN BE
INGS CANNOT BE RECOVERED FROM THE BOTTOM
OF THE SEA, THAT MURDER AND DESTRUCTION OF
PROPERTTY SHOULD BE COUPLED IN THE WAY
THAT MR. SWEET HAS COUPLED THEM?
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Faults and Virtues.
We are accustomed to judge of otb»
ers by ourselves and though we gra»
clously absolve them for faults whlclt
are like our own, we condemn then
with severity if they have not oar vtr»
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Formation of Coral Reefs.
Coral reefs and islands are formed'
by
the eotralrbnllding polyp. These anK
mala only live U. clear water, the depth
of
which uut greater than about
twenty-flve fathoms, and the tempera*
tore of which does not sink below
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Notice To The Public
Commencing May 1st, 1918, we will give particular at
tention to the hadling of whole milk, cream, skim milk and
buttermilk. We are arranging to handle a large volume of
dairy products, and will give our customers prompt service.
On that day the Farmers' Co-Operative Creamery Company
will discontnue the retail sale of milk and cream and the
creamery, and all those who have been getting their milk
and cream, and skim milk and butter milk at the cream
ery will find these products at our meat market on South
Franklin street.
ARCHIE LYMAN
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