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FT *i ¥&/ f, ff ss'1 1^ S5& F~? & ix* SffiF y, V3 & SB. l' y- ij&t i"1- tb ,•• ft jM. ISfu 's? *§!& 1 FLOUR MILL BUSY PLACE Reporter Makes Visit of Inspection to Ifew Webster City Flouring Hill—Place Looks Good. NOW MANUFACTURING FLOUR "Hamilton County's Best," Name of New Brand of Flour—Inter esting Place to Visit. The future of the Webster City flourttLg mill promises to be sue ceasful under the managment of A C. Hoot, the gentleman' from Ma quoeta, who purchased the property last spring. After several months of prepara tion la repairing, reconstructing and installing new machinery the old mill, he has this week be gun the manufacture of flour. lie tma been manufacturing corn me.jp, ground feed, and other pro duots for in some two or three weeks butts now turning out all of the produote of a first-class mill—in eluding graham, rye, pancake, and othqr flours. The mill presented a thieving appearance this morning when the reporter inspected it. The many different kinds of machines in operation and the network of eleva tora betting, etc., all in motiou were bumming at a rate that made one think of a busy swarm of bees, Customers were coming and going at #ose intervals and, withal, the sigps of success and coming pros perity were all there. Mr. Hoot has Already built up quite an extensive retail trade In shorts, bran and ground feed, corn meal, etc., and in dications are that it will continue to grow. His flour has just been placed on the market, all of the lo cal dealers handling the brandr, manufactured by him. He will both wholesale and retail his products, but his retail price wfl conform with the prices of the other retail dealers. flue of the flour inspected by the neimpafier man appeared to be of superior quality. In fact, he was tdB that to several families had be^B submitted sacks of it for triai. and %bey were all well pleased with the results obtained in bread made It. (US I: tv pi *vv Kj •«•. Hoot has revived the once fa mB«r brand of "Plansifter," and al so added another brand called "Hamilton County's Best," which wil toe his leader. Both brands are manufactured from spring and winter wheat grown within the lim its of our own county, so that a'l who use these home brands of flour are helping more than one home Industry. There Is no reason why flour manufactured by the Webster City mill is not a9 good or better than Imported brands and the qual ity of the goods is guaranteed by the manufacturer. The thing that strikes one most upon entering the mill, is the abso lute clean'lines6 of the place. De vices for catching and disposing of dust, dirt, and so forth, abound on every side, so that it is next to im possible for even a fine grain of dust to find its way into any of the flours made there. Everything that goes into the mill is purified and cleaned to the limit. Marked im provements have also been made in the building itself for the conven ience of patrons, as well as the pro prietor. The farmer may drive in to one part of the building, put his wheat or corn into a dump leading into an elevator, drive a little farth er on and receive his ground feed or flour into his wagon and not leave ft his seat. $ The two brands of flour mention ed are put up In cloth sacks, label ed with most attractive designs, y."v and rival the packed product of the tiP- •S&'* 13M* 1 big flouring mills of the Northwest. It is quite interesting to go through the mill and note the pro gress of the wheat from the time it is dumped from the farmer's wagon ttll It comes from the huge bolting machine—pure, white and velvety. It has a long and tortuous route to .travel—up and down through dif ferent elevators, machines, etc.—till It has Journied approximately a half $ mile before reaching Its destination in tbe bolter. Another Interesting thing Is the row of electric magnets ^7* comprised in the feed grinding ma "chines to arrest nails, pieces of iron ^y, or steel that might be in the grain. 1 No material of tills nature gets by Ithe big magnets. Tbe new owner and proprietor of *tf'-i i? the mill is a most genial man to meet and welcomes the inspection of his mill by the general public. He is a miller of unquestioned ability and says 'hat he can keep the qual ity of his flour uniform. He has the support of the business men and Commercial League, and now with the necessary boosters in the way of families to use his brands of flour, etc., he will shortly be estab lished in a prosperous business. After the Vacation. Home, where the feathers are soft est, Home, where the grub is the best. Home, where a fellow is part of The circle, not merely a guest, Home, where the bedroom Is roomy Where upper berths never are known, Where you can't hear the snores of your neighbors, And fog whistles never are blown Home, where the laughter is truest Home to the kiddies again, Home, where the* skies are the blu est, Back to the porch and the den Back where there is no confusion Or clamor, or speeches, or shout, Where the dining room never crowded, Patrick Contray at Iowa Stair Fair. The music of Patrick Conway and his band has no superior in the coun try. Conway is Gilmore's successor in American band music. He comes to Iowa this year with his great band, which has never before been in west, and will give a week of «q)len did concerts at the Iowa State Fair Patrick Conway has with him some of the finest artists and soloists in the musical world. WHAT THE STATE FAIR IS. Iowa's best advertisement. The meeting place of Iowa agricul ture and industry.' A summer school for the men and women, boy. and girls. A great industrial exchange for all Iowa business. A delightful outing for all the members of the family. The best short course in .agricul ture that the state maintains. A standing proof of the greatness of a great state. The most complete all-around live stock and industrial exposition in the world. The one place to which all loyal Iowans turn for the last week of August. Couldn't Understand It Ephraim Smartweed (gazing at the Singer building)—These here city folks tell m'e this Is a skyscraper but I bin a watchin' It fer two honrs, and I hain't seen It do any scrapln' yet!" —Judge. •. •K A BUSHEL MUST BE A BUSHE is And bell boys aren't rushing about. Home, where the songs are the sweetest, .Home to the ones that are true 'Back to the life that's completest, Back to the work we must do Back to the grind! Yes, and ready To take up the*battle again For after the fun and the travel Home looks mighty good to us then. Had a good time? I should say so! Laughter and sunshine and song Went with us all as we Journeyed, Nothing we planned turned out wrong. But now that it's over we're happy, For somehow wherever we roam, We find that the best Joy of travel Is always the getting back home. —Detroit Free Press, PATRICK CONWAY'S MUSIC. So Declares State Dairy and Food Commissioner W. B. Barney —Urges Buying by Weight. CRUSADE FOB SQUARE DEAL Says a Peck Measure of Potatoes Weighs Only One-Sixth of Bushel—Sometimes. State Dairy and Ifood Commis sioner W. B. Barney has declared a crusade in favor of more honest measures in Iowa. The commission er had an interview with the attor ney general a few days ago and that decision was reached, authority be ing given him by the last legisla ture to enforce the weights and measures law. According to report from Des Moines the first step of the commissioner will be to instruct department inspectors over the state to make an immediate ter of meas ures and scales in all the food hand ling shops. The inspectors will com pare weights and measures to see 'f they are true and If they corres pond. Housewives and "ultimate con sumers" over the state will be ad vised to purchase scales and see that hereafter potatoes, apples and the like are purchased by weight in stead of by measure. "I have made considerable inves tigation in this business," sayS Com missioner Barney, "and I find that the purchaser will be greatly bene fited if he insists on purchasing by weight instead of by measure. It will be a wise thing for the house wife to have a good set of scales handy, so that she may weigh pota toes and the like when they are de livered. The Iowa law establishes how many pounds shall constitute bushel of potatoes, of apples, of beets, of blackberries, etc., and if a bushel measure does not hold the number of pounds designated by the statute the dealer must make up the difference. "The supplement to the code sets the standards of bushel weights, which, on common products, are as follows: Apples, 48 pounds. Beans, 60 pounds. Beets, 56 pounds. Blackberries, 30 pounds. Carrots, 50 pounds. Cherries, 40 pounds. Corn in the cob, 70 pounds. Corn in, the ear unhusked, pounds. Corn meal, 50 pounds. Cucumbers, 48 pounds. Currants, 40 pounds. Dried apples, 24 pounds. Dried peaches, 33 pounds. Gooseberries, 40 pounds. Grapes, 40 pounds. Green beans, unshelled, pcunds. 75 56 Green peas, unshelled, 50 pounds. Millet seed, 50 pounds. Oats, 32 pounds. Onions, 57 pounds. Parsnips, 42 pounds. Peaches, 43 pounds. Peas, 60 pounds. Popcorn in the ear, 70 pounds. Popcorn, shelled, 56 pounds. Potatoes, 60 pounds. Quinces, 48 pounds. Raspberries, 32 pounds. Rutabagas, 50 pounds. Rye, 56 pounds. Salt, 80 pounds. Sand, 100 pounds. Shelled corn, 56 pounds. Stone coal, 80 pounds. Strawberries, 32 pounds. Sweet corn, 50 pounds. Sweet potatoes, 46 pounds. Tomatoes, 50 pounds. Turnips, 55 pounds. Walnuts, 50 pounds. Wheat, 60 pounds. "Hence, if a person buys a bush el of potatoes," says Commissioner Barney, "he should not be content to see a bushel basket heaped full —he should insist on being weighed out sixty pounds." The crusade will not be confined to Des Moines alone, or to the large cities, but will he general and sweeping. A heavy penalty Is provided for a violation of the weights and meas ures law. For the first conviction a fine of from $10 to 9100 may be Imposed. The penalty for second of fenses is not to exceed a fine of $500 or a Jail sentence of ninety days. Try the dally a month. #fe' $3,200,000 INVESTED CAPITAL $7,000 OAILY EXPENSES I MILE OF RAILROAD A S 750 WILD AipiMALS 3 HERDS OF ACTING ELEPHANTS OF THE INDIANS NO LIKE SCHOOL Big Building at Toledo not Attrac tive to Them—How They Live on the Reser vation. SEEM TO ENJOY LIFE GREATLY One Indian has an Automobile and can Show the White Man Some Speed. Just at present there is no Indian school at Toledo, Iowa. The big building which has been used for that purpose is all but deserted. There Is no one there except Orvllle R. Greene, superintendent of tho school, and he is only supervising the packing of things and checking over supplies in preparation for a rest until a new school can be built, says, a dispatch to the Times-Repuh llcan. Here is one instance where the Indian won out on a fight. Long has the Indian been "oppressed." He has seen his land slip away from him chunk after chunk, to the white brother. He has never had the power to prevent things. But he upset some of the white men's plans when they tried to compel him to send his children away to school. The Sacs and Foxes of which the reservation at Tama City is made up are a gritty bunch. They are set in their way. They try to have their own way and when their liberty is trampled on they make a fuss. The government tells tbe In dian where he shall live, tries to tell him what he shall wear, and does dictate to him just what he can drink so far as intoxicating liquors are concerned. The govern ment also tells him how he must ed ucate his children. This last ts a bitter pill to swallow. The Indian, like every father and mother, thinks he knows best. The government purchased seven WEBSTER CITY, IOI DAY, A G. 4P "*4'the AUTOMOBILE MUU smv GREATEST THRILLER OF THE/ACE AT 10 O'CLOCK EVERY MORMIIM BIG, NEW STREET PARADE One SO-Cent Ticket Admits to Ml. Children under 12 Years Halt Price 2 Performances Daily at 2 and 8 p.,m. Doors open at I and 7 p. m. TICKETS SALE SHOW DAY TEED'S DRUG STORE: ty choice acres of ground a few miles out of Toledo. Here was erected a fine big building. This was to be an Indian school. It was a school for some years. The govern ment spent on an average of $20, 000 a year to maintain it. The In dians tried to pay as little attention to it as possible. The children of the Indians had to be almost tied and gagged to be taken to it. In fact not so many moons ago they got up a revolution about the school. The Indian children ran away and the parents refused to send them back. Then the agents of the Unit ed States stepped in and took the parents and placed them in jail. The Indians got out on writs rf habeas corpus and told tbe govern ment to he "durned." Then the government stopped $50 a year which each Indian, big, little or in different got. It is whispered that the Indians told the government of ficials to go jump into the lake and take the money with them. At any rate the government has abandoned the Toledo Indian school. A b'g building is to be erected right on the reservation, which takes In 4,300 acres of ground. It is a picturesque part of Tamt county. The Indians have not In terfered with nature a great deal. They evidently figure that they can not Improve on her mood when she formed that part. Everything grows wild, plums, cherries, crabs, strawberries and all the other things that were so common a few years ago. The Indians live In their own primative style. They have not changed a great deal. It is true that some of them have homes with phonographs, pictures on the wall and other evidences of a newer ex istence. Joe Tesson, Jr., even has an automobile. He was out making as much dust as the white men. In fact he put on all the speed his lit tle runabout would Btand and left the white men far behind. They do say that Tessen impoverished his family of ponies for a couple of gen erations to come, to get the ma chine, but that may be just an idle rumor. He has the machine and it must be paid for, or he would not have it. The Indians have some good land and some poor land. It will per haps average up as good. Some of It Is hilly, other Is slightly rolling and some of It is level as a floor. They do not set any great records at farming., They, In fact, do as Arenas iwpppipsppp^ I r( 1,000 600 DORSES 126 BIG CIRCUS ACTS 60 Clowns 5 CONTINENTS COVERED BY THE AGENTS OF THIS ON A SMLNC SHOW -TY-BEll LISTERS SUUTIRUL BUTTERFLY ACT little as possible. Some of them hav« well managed farms, but BO far an could be seen they were in the mi nority. They are ready to move. None of the houses look as though they were built for any permanent living place. A small spot Is culti vated for corn. A few horses aie about. Few cattle are seen and nol. a hog, although Indians love their bacon and ham as well as the nexl: person. They will also cook every thing they eat in lard If they cat get lard. Why they do not raise a 0" few hogs of their own Is perhaps their business, but they do not ra'se any. One of the party expressed sympathy for the way the Indians live. But he was sat on promptly by the rest of the party. The India* does not want, does not expect, n®r ask for sympathy. In fact all he asks Is to be let alone. If his condltloa Is not satisfactory to him he consid ers that his own business. His wan*s are simple and few. His (50 for himself and wife and each little Indian furnishes him with spending money and discourages race sutclde Uncle Sam furnishes the land for him to farm in a quantity as large as the Indian wants. There are no taxes to pay. He can get most of his clothes from Uncle Sam if he works it right. Uncle Sam takes good care of him and has special laws for his protection. All around, says Mr. Healy, the Indian is not a bit abused. The Indian school is, or wag, about five miles from the reserva tion proper. It should never have been away from the reservation. The Indians did not like to hav-t their children away at school where they could not tell each night what they were doing, no matter if they did trust Orville Greene to a large extent. Mr. Greene did not say there was any great falling off In the at tendance at the school tbe past year. He had seventy-two pupils last year. This is a pretty good average when it Is considered there are only about 326 Indians and speaks well fo their ability to raise families. Good Rain Visits Kansas. Ji, Kansas City. Mo., Aug. 4.—Tho best general rain this section has re ceived since April, fell yesterday morning. The precipitation In this city was an Inch anA a half. From one to two and a half Inches feTl over western Missouri, western Iowa and^eastern Nebraska, much of Kansas, Texas. ,"1 Oklahoma' and northern