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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1909.
MczniMU' of the Lee Newspaper
Syndicate.
A- W. LEE)
F. PC WEI,L
COPENHAGEN'S VERDICT.
"He has fooled us all. from the
King of Denmark down, and he. fooled
me with the rest." This excl.ania.tion.
"by John R. Bradley, Cook's backer in
the Arctic trip, expresses the popular
view of the Cook polar fiasco. From
the decision of the University of
Copenhagen scientists there should be
no appeal. Dr. Cook elected to present
his claims to the Danes, after refusing
to allow the American society to look
over bis records, and the people will
accept the Danish verdict no matter
•what Dr. Cook may think about it.
The Cook supporters have been
dwindling in numbers rapidly and the
Copenhagen verdict, therefore, is no
surprise.' There has been too much
denunciation of Cook from scientists
and fakirs, and. too much silence from
ook, in the lace of these denuncia
tions, to suit the popular mind.
The first announcement' made by
Cook that he had discovered the pole
was received with more or less in
credulity, but still the- majority of the
people seemed disposed to give him
the benefit of the doubt. Then when
Peary came forward with his dramatic
announcement and followed it with
v.-hat then looked to be an absolutely
uncalled for attack on his rival, the
two camps became divided and Cook,
undoubtedly, had the most of the peo
ple with him.
The popular mind did not seem to
take a great deal of stock in Peary's
statements from the Eskimos accom
panying Cook. But more weight was
given these disclosures when the Bar
rill Mt. McKinley affidavits were pub
lished, when the Loose and Dunkle
charges followed and when Cook dis
appeared while under fire and main
tained silence at a time when any man
with the right on his side would haye
been out in the open fighting the at
tacks.
In connection with the report from
Copenhagen comes the announcement
that a special committee of the Ex
plorers' club is prepared to announce
that Cook "faked" the Mt McKiriley
climb. This will knock the last pin
from under the man who was hailed a
few months ago as a popular hero,
TIME TO CALL A H«L. ..
"Save the hand claps for the busi
ness man." This is the caption of an
editorial In the Des Moines Capital in
which Iowa is told it is time to forget
politics and think of business—to
"whoop it. up for hard work." The
Capital says:
During the past twenty-five years
we have had entirely too much politics
fin this state for the state's own good.
During the past ten days we have
had an exceeding amount—a paralyz
ing amount.
The state was awakened to this fact
when the discovery was made by the
Btate census of 1905 that the popula
tion of the state had been falling off.
Our young men have been going west
on account of political matters swal
tlowing up ^.'erything in Iowa'. It had
grown to be that there were no
cheers, no hurrahs for anybody but
the politician. If the farmers held
imeeting for any purpose whatever,
jeome politician was always invited
and he usually sprung some patent
nostrum of a. political nature with
which to cure all their ills. He never
was known to whoop it up for hard
work. He never made a. suggestion in
relation to utilizing the thing we had
He devoted his time to high-sounding
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pany, Ouumwa, Iowa.
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tumwa, Iowa, under ihe Acx or Congress
of March 3, 1879.
government. Ts it any wonder that
our young men have been going west,
where they have a chance' to talk
about real estate, irrigation and th^
rowt.h of crops?
This is a good time to call a halt in
political madness. This is a time io
put faction to death and bring busi
ness to the front. The man who grows
a hundred bushels of corn to the aero
ure in the
complished
has done.
President
Publisher
S- SC. DOUGHERTY. .Managing Editor
FARMING IN WAPELLO COUNTY,
The Courier is-in receipt of a letter
from a correspondent in Blakesburg
in which he says:
I thought if you knew the real
facts about William Shea's sale, held
here last Saturday, you could get up a
splendid article on farming in Wapello
county. Here arc some of the prices
paid for stuff:
Two thousand eight hundred bushels
of corn sold for 73 cents per bushel in
the crib.
Horses sold for from $150 to $250.
Shetland ponies as high» as
$175.
Cows, $70.
The sale amounted to $7,000, and
the feature of this sale is that all
stock and feed Were raised and grown
on Mr. Shea's 200-acre farm-. near
Blakesburg.
We fellows who live down here are
highly elated at the way things sold.
Eli Swaim and Lester Jay did the
^e'lling.
There is evidence here that farm
ing in Wapello county pays. Take the
item of corn for instance. Two thou
sand and forty-four dollars is a tidy
sum to realize from one crop of a 200
acre farm.
These figures might be duplicated at
many a sale in Wapello county. They
might be duplicated too, on land that
ife now practically valueless if the
state government, or national gov
ernment, or both, would take a hand
in a reclamation project in Iowa.
There are thousands of acres of land
in the vicinity of Ottumwa now prac
tically abandoned because they are
subject to overflow from the Des
Moines river. There are many thou
sands of acres at other points along
the DPS Moines river and the oth^r
To-wa rivers in the same condition.
This land here at home, because of the
richness of its soil and because of be
ing located near the city, would be
worth right up to $150 per acre. But
experience has taught that it is not
safe to try to raise a crop of any kind
on this land.
The government is spending mil
lions in reclamation projects, in the
west, seeking to make fertile lands out
of deserts. Here are thousands of
acres of land already the most fertile
which are permitted to go to waste
because no steps are taken to prevent
the annual flood waste.
Whether the work ,s done by the
state or the national government, Iowa
should realize that it. has a reclama
tion project to push forward. The
Iowa streams must be straightened.
They must be held permanently within
their banks. lowans should aid this
reclamation and conservation project
within t.he borders of their own state
before growing enthusiastic over the
needs of the arid west.
^bxases, blUKVng..evex£tbicg onto the'year promises even greater things.
Perhaps 1f the late King Leopold
knew just what the people at large
thought, of him he would pot have
thought it necessary to insert that
paragraph in his will forbidding his
subjects to attend his funeral.
This has been a great building year
in Ottumwa. The Elks' building, the
Masonic Temple, the hundreds of new
dwellings builk—all these are endur
ing monuments to the enterprise of
Ottumwans in the year 1909. The new
The $235,000 federal building is one of
the year's building projects. Tb« $40.
000 Wapello club house is another.
Plans are afoot for other building op
erations. Then there are interufbans
to build. The new year should be a
glorious year for Ottumwa,
Those Copenhagen persons are mak
ing it exceedingly hard foj- the Cook
enthusiast to hold up his end of the
argument.
Now that they have found out just
what ails Poet. Watson the question
arises: Is he insane because he writes
poetry, or does he write
cause he's insane?
is the man who should have his pict- of religion gone crazy. Below is a
newspapers. He has- ac
more than any politician
In Iowa we have bren losing popula
tion bPciause we have been neglec'ing
our own affairr,. Instead of battling
for the building up of the state under
the most inviting conditions we have
been calling each other hard names
in politics.
The Courier has frequently called at
tention to the disposition shown to
chase national will-o'-the-wisps at the
expense of practical needs at home.
It would add" to the Capital's sugges
tion to "save the hand claps for the
business man," that preparations be
made for a demonstration to the men
who will build good roads in IOV.M.
who will straighten our rivers and
thus reclaim thousands of acres of
now useless land, and who will bring
more manufactories to Iowa
poetry
be­
The Commercial association boosters
won out in their 500 membership cam
paign. They have passed the half
thousand mark and. with an en
thusiasm which should be inspiring
to Ottumwans, have started on
(a
new
campaign to boost, the membership to
600. The successful completion of
this membership campaign was Ot
tnmwa's Ki eaiFst
achievement in
1909. It paves the way for still great
er achievements in
1010.
6- 4
PEOPLE'S PULPIT
The Courie," Wi'! Publish Signed
cr
Unsigned
Expressions F:om
Its Readers Uosn Rcccipt Name
of Writer Must Be Known to
tho Publisher, Ho.'/eys.".
The Sunday Question.
Editor tv.'vior: H.o Sunday law?
question luis be«-n extensively dis
c.ur.sed in the Courier lalt.lv.
nleaso
al­
low me to "butt hi" irli a. tew words.
My main rrsson for doing PO is to
show the change of ooirnnii in regr.nl
to Sabha'h observance dining the
last two or three hundred. yaiT..
know much about them have taken per.
pains to hunt up pon\e,cf the laws of j'
summary of such l".ws ar. credited to
the Ronton Globe:
The govrrror and magistrates con
vfned in general assemVly are tho su
preme powr -, under God, of tho indo-
termination of the assembly no appeal
shall be made.
No one shall be a freeman or havo
a vote unlers ho is converted and a
member of one o" the churches al
lowed in the dominion.
pendent dominion. From the 1 think the best, on earth, and the best.
Each freer.an i-i'all swear by thf
blessed God to ben1- true allegiance to
this dominion and (hat Jesus i.s ihe
only. King.
No dissenter from the essential
worship of this dominion shall he
allowed to give a vote for electing of
magistrates or any officer.
No food or lodging shall be offered
to a heretic.
No one shall cross a rivpr oU 'tlie
Sabbath day. but .authorized clergy
men.
No one shall travel, cook victuals,
make beds, sweep houses, cut hair or
shave on 'he Sebbath day.
No one shall kiss his or her chil
dren on the Sabbath or feasting days.
The Sabbath day shall begin at sun
set Saturday.
Whoever wears clothes trimmed
with gold, silver or bone lace above
Whoever brings cards or dice into
the dominion shall pay a fine of five
pounds.
No one shall eat mince pies, dance,
play cards or olay any instrument of
music except the drum, :trumyet or
jewsharp.
No gospel minister shall- join peo
ple in marriage.' The magistrate may
join them, as he may do it with less
scandal to Christ's church.
When parents refuse their children
convenient marriages, the magistrate
shall determine the point.
A man who strikes his wife-shall
be fined ten pounds,
A woman who strikes her husband
shall be punished a,s the law directs.
Now let me ask the reader have
we made any progress since those old
witch-hanging days of New England?
In which period of th^. world's history
would you prefer to live in—under
those fantical religious laws or uiider
the more liheral ones, of the present
So much progress lias been made ip
overcoming and evoluting out'of. the
old superstition of the Sabbath wor
shipers that we are encouraged to be
lieve that the time is coming and not
very distant, when a citizen can use
Sunday as any other day without vio
lating'any law. A person has a
natural right to do anythipg on Sun
day that he or she has a right, to do
on any other day.. Whether it should
be observed as a sacred day is a re
ligious matter and no person has a
right to force his religious opinions
cuss the Bible authority on this ques
OTTUMWA
holy day or Sabbath day, set. it apart
or commanded any one to keep it for
any purpose,'' and dares to say, "that
God never made it. holy," and that
the "first day of the week is only men
tioned eight times." Did. you ever
read the Rev. 1 10, where it is called
the I-ord's day (Sunday)?
Did you ever read Exodus 12: 15-16,
"where the first, day is mentioned three
times? Please read that, chapter and
ponder it. well, as you have put it, and
you will see that it is a sacred day
holy set apart for a memorial of the
Passover (the Lord's supper).
Now then, if the above does not
quiet your thirst. I shall refer you to
l.-eviticns 23 7, 24, 35, 39 and 40. Read
all of that chapter and ponder it io
perfection, and your holy day's thirst,
will disappear, for in Leviticus 23rd.
chapter, the first day is mentioned
five times and two times it is mention-
memorial of the blowing ot trumpets,
and holy convocation (see verse 24).
and in verse 39 it says, the first day
shall be a Sabbath but as a matter of
fact, thore holy days of memorial
days do not abolish or nullify the Sab
bath day according to the command
ment. which day is Saturday the
seventh day. hut not Sunday the first
day of the week.
Read Exodus .11: 12-18. concerning
,the seventh Sabbath, and yon will note
that it is a nerpetual covenant, it is
a sign between God and his children
rorever.
Now the above is a comnliment of
neighborly love, so brighten up your
light, and do let it shine: for your
neighbor as well as for mine.
Very truly,
F. V. Fredrickson,
Dudley, la.
Cody. Wyo., Dec. 11, 1909.
Editor Courier.—
Having received a number of letters
from people in your country wanting
to know about this country, 1 will state
Most peo-ile have heard of the bl'io {tii«»"f»cts as I know them, if you will
laws of Connecticut, hut mrnv do not ,.[
are space
anl
those good old limes, in respect to Shoshone river, about twenty miles
Scndny observance and othev matters
So-iihwest
in your valuable pa-
i0f.at,cd in the south forks of
of Cody, and am about for-
ty five miles from Yellowstone Nation
al Park in the park county. Will say to
trv friends and other parties interest
ed that. I like it here better than any
other place I have ever been. The cli
mate is fine and water is pure and I
crops I ever saw grow out of the
ground.
G. W. Birch, one time king of the
cowboys, later with Buffalo Bills
shows, then manager of the South
Fori Cattle company, and now a far
mer living one half mile from me,
raireii this last year on fifty-five, acres
of ground five thousand bushels -if
oats. On fourteen acres, seven hundred
and twenty-eight bushels of wheat.
On three'acres he raised six hundred
and fiftv bushels of potatoes, and on
one hundred, and forty acres of
meadow he harvested and sold three
hundred and sixteen tons of hay and
has .'one hundred tops left for his own
use.
Hay sells for
$5
oats are worth
on.
upon another person. danger of losing ground. Her Wash
There is not time nor space to dis
"__6arrest
tion: that has already been done br
others. True, the Bible says, "Re
member the Sabbath day to keep it
Holy." It also says, "Thou .shalt. not
suffer a witch to live." and people
honestly used to believe in the sacred
ness of the command, -and in conse
quence millions of people were burned
and hung at. witches. Even John
Wesley the patron saint of the Meth
odist church clung to this passage of
scripture and declared that "to give
up witchcraft is to give un the Bible."
Then let us be satisfied with the pro
gress already made, though slow, and
hope for a more liberal advance in the
future. O. C. Graves.
The First Day Question.
Editor of Courier: On Dec. 9, I
noted in the people's pulpit that a
correspondent, was "thirsting for the
truth." "Blessed are they which do
hunger and thirst, after righteousness,
for they shall be filled." (Matt. 5:6),
Men differ because of ignorance, over
sight, lack of knowledge therefore
the correspondent says: "But where
did he set about, or make,the first day
sacred or holy?" He also asks, "where
the Lord says thai the first day. is a
a ton in the stack,
55
cents a bushel,
wheat is selling at. 90 cents a bushel
and notatoes.sell at
$1.25
hay
per hundred
weight, and the crop is all sold now
and we will have to ship grain In to
supnly the demand.
The average yield of oats is from
75 to 135 bushels to the acre, wheat
35
to
3
to
one shilling per yard shall be pr e- doubts these figures they will pleace
sented by the grand jurors, and ihe
selectman shall tax the estate three
hundred pounds.
4
tons. If any one
call on W. B. Bonnifield, cashier of
the First National bank of Ottumwa
and I think he will bear me out on
them, as he was here and saw the
crops.
There are lots of wild game here and
if any of you happen to be out here,
call on us and we will treat, you to
deer moat. I have a buck hanging up
in my meat house now. I hope to see
some Ottumwa people out in this coun
try next season. I am only two miles
from the mountains and in the heart
of the big game country.
Yours truly,
A. Lawson.
CARRIE STILL LIVES.
Omaha World-Herald.—Our old
friend, Mrs. Carrie Nation, of Kansas,
has not retired completely into innoo
uous Chautauqua circles. She drifted
into Washington the. other day with a
real hatchet, and chopped up some $50
worth of demon rum in the buffet of
the ubion passenger station, being
thereupon arrested and sent to jail as
usual.
We are glad to see that Carrie has
not become completely won over to
sorded commercialism. For some time
past she has been devoting her tal
ents to the piling up of wealth—deliv
ering lectures to the people at $50 per
lecture, smashiig no glassware and no
policemen and showing indications of
becoming a mere money making ma
chine like old John D. It is time she
was coming out of that sordid and en
ervating life and taking some chances
in return for the money she gets.
However. Mrs. Nation is even then
!L.„ am In rV
ington drew only about an inch
of space In the daily press. It is too
common. If she wants to make a real
plav for fame and raise her lecture
price from $50 to $75. let her harken
to the example' of Cromwell, whet up
her steel and march in some day and
dissolve congress. A few congressmen,
more or less, will make no difference,
and it. would be immortal glory for
Carrie.
THE FARMER'S LIFE.
Manchester Press.—Life on the farm
in the winter is one long, sweet dream.
That is, it looks so to the town man.
But did you ever roll out. at 3:30 a. m.,
gambol blithely to the cow barn in six
feet of snow and attempt to pail a
cow whose breath freezes so fast that
she wheeaes lik£ an accordion? Follow
this up by bedding the pigs in a wind
that would pare the toenails on a
shoat, then hie away to the wood lot
and work up a couple of cords of hick
ory with the goose pimples pricking
your flannel shirt until you feel as if
your piufeathers ought to be dehorned.
Oh, it. is & soft life, feeding straw to
the shivering kine, with feet that rat
tle with the chilblains like spare ribs
in a skillet, turning the separator in
a. creamery where the thermometer
hasn't poked its head out. of the cellar
for a week, and crawling to rest in a
bed which creaks with the cold like
the love, song of an asthmatic pullet.
There is nothing softer except the
head of the man who thinks .Toe Can
non is going to let go with out being
pried from his perch.
THAT DEAR OLD- IOWA CLIMATE.
(Boone Independent.)
California's climate ain't so much,
for our fowa brand just beats the
Dutch. One day the marrow in your
bones is froze a.nd then it turns around
and snows, then it clears away and the
sun comes out and the snow banks all
go up the spout. The water fills every
dinky ditch and the mud sticks closer
than the seven year itch. The geezer
gets out his old straw hat., but he
couldn't imagine where he's at for by
ed for the Sabbath. There is also a J-he time he gets a boa» he got to
hustle for his overcoat. The mercury
drops and it begins to rain and the
rain drops turn to snow again the
barometer drops away down low, and
the northern blizzards hegin to blow.
He calls the weather man a liar and
huddles closer to the roaring fire. Of
the western climate the poets sing, but
the Iowa brand is the real thing.
HUTCHINSON'S ROAD SCHEME.
Marshnlltown Times-Republican.—
Judge William Hutchinson in an id
dress delivered rt the Sioux county
farmers' institute, suggested ways and
means whereby a fund for road im
provement may be quickly created.
Having argued to the farmers that the
building of state institutions should be
discontinued until Iowa had passable
highways and taxation applied to the
roads, he suggested a special vehicle
tax of $10 for automobiles, $1.50 for
wagons having less than 3 inch tires,
vt for wagons with three inch tires,
$1 for buggies and motor cycles and
25 cents for bicycles.
As a money getter for a wise pur
pose, and for getting the special fund
out of those who would most immedi
ately benefit directly from its expendi
ture, Judge Hutchinson's plan of taxa
tion would deliver the goods. Mark
the great, sum accumulating from the
$1 hunters' license as corroborative
and indicative.
Probably 12,000 motors are in use to
day in Iowa. There's $120,000 for
good roads in the $1Q tax, and the av
erage auto owner would not object, to
its assessment if he knew it were to
be immediately expended on hard
roads the tax suggested is too low
on less than 3 inch tires or too high
on 3 'nch tires. There isn't, enough
difference to create sufficient incentive
to change to the wide tires. Perhaps,
however, it is intended to relieve tires
above three inches of any tax and if
so it would work out well to the ben
efit of the roads. The motor cyclist
would line up with the auto driver.
The man with the buggy might, grum
ble and the 25 cent fee on a biHe would
be no hardship on any.
When the new census has been com
pleted, and the list of wagons, buggies,
bikes and autos is complete, figure it
out. The money raised through a
special tax as Hutchinson suggests,
would, if supplemented by proper taxa
tion of the farms benefited, build good
roads from end to end of Iowa within
ten years. Tf such a tax were levied
the ia.nd owner would meet the other
vehicle owner half way.' Such roads
would add, the day they were com
pleted $800 to $1,B00 io the value of
every 160 acres along their lines.
THE GOOD ROADS PROBLEM.
Cedar Rapids Republican—Governor
Carroll has reopened the subject of
narrower roads in Iowa. These roads
are for the most part sixty-six feet
wide. Why they were made so wide
can not be accounted for unless it is
by the fact that at the time they
were made there was plenty of land
and to spare. But it is different now.
Land in Iowa is now worth $100
an acre on an average and it is still
going up. The extent of the roads in
Towa is 100,000 miles. There are 800,000
acres given up to roads, or one acre
in every fifty. Under these circum
stances it is not to be wondered at
that talk of narrowing them should
be popular. Roads thirty-three feet
wide would serve as well as roads
Sixty-six feet wide. That would re
store to cultivation 400,000 acres of
land, or $40,000 worth of lands. The
income of this land at the
lowest estimate of $12 an acre would
amount to $5,000,000 a year, out of
which the whole state government and
most of the county governments could
be amply supported. That we are
wasting a lot. of money is very evi
dent.
A few years ago William Larrabee,
Jr.. introduced such a bill in the Iowa
legislature. He was almost laughed
out of hearing. It. was said that he
wag young and presumptuous and all
that. But we believed then he was
right, and we believe that such legis
lation is bound to come in Iowa. The
land is too valuable to be allowed to
lie idle frotp one year to another.
There is another consideration and
that is the fact that the roads of Iowa,
for the larger part, are mere patches
of weeds. The unsightliness of many
agricultural pastures is in the roads
which are topheavy with weeds. These
patches of weeds serve to scatter
their nuisance into all the adjoining
fields. The winds pick up the seeds
and scatter them over the cultivated
acres. The roadways of the state are,
in short, breeding grounds for weeds
against which the farmers have to
struggle the year round.
Knoxville Journal.—Governor Car
roll has found an issue which will in
sure his re-election if he will make a
vigorous campaign upon it. In a -word
it is "good roads." In importance all
other subjects sink into triviality as
compared with it. Farmers, merchants,
professional men, every class is vital
ly Interested in the subject and all
are studying and thinking about it as
never, before. Business in Iowa is
stagnated several months each year
because of bad roads. The merchants
and farmers of Iowa will lose enough
money this year of our Lord 1909 be
cause of bad roads to build a thousand
miles of permanent roads. Governor
Carroll advocates narrowing the roads
of Iowa to thirty-flve feet. The fur
ther he gets into the subject'he will
GENUINE
The Kind Ton Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per
sonal supervision since its infancy.
An Inquiry of
Astor Search
Washington Bureau of
The Ottumwa Courier.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 21.
Representative Thomas William
Hardwick of Georgia has gone on the
trail of the government to find out
just how much money was frittered
away in the hunt for the yacht of
Col.'John Jacob Astor, when it was
recently reported lost in West Indian
waters.
He has introduced in the house a
resolution which has been referred to
the naval affairs committee calling on
the secretary of the navy for informa
tion as to how much money was spent
in the search for the Astor craft. In
framing the resolution, Mr. Hardwick
overlooked the fact that the revenue
cutter service was in the hunt for Col.
Astor. He was reminded of this today.
He said he would at once introduce
another resolution calling on the sec
retary of the treasury for information
as to how much money it cost for the
vessels of the revenue cutter service
to look around the ocean to find what
had become of the New York multimil
lionaire.
It is the purpose of Mr. Hardwick,
first, to find out the facts. Then, he
wants to know if there is any author
ity of law for, such expenditure of
money. But what he wants to know
most of all is whether the government
makes a practice of chasing its ves
sels off to search for the rich folks
when they are reported lost or in dis
tress and takes no notice of common
folks. In short, Col. Hardwick won
ders whether Uncle Sam would be
stirred to a great show of activity if
news came that the yacht of some of
the ultra rich had sprung a leak out
at sea and would remain idle and im
passive if some of his poor constitu
ents got swamped in a rowboat or up
set in a fishing smack.
Mr. Hardwick says he does not
know whether there is such discrimin
ation. But he wants to know. He has
no particular objection to the govern
ment being in the humanitarian busi
ness of helpiig out American citizens
in distress at sea, but he wants rich
John Jacob Astor and poor Bill Jones
treated alike. If not, he wants to know
why not. He says when he gets the
facts, he will look up the law and if
there is not authority for going to
the aid of American vessels in need of
help, he will intro'duce a bill which
will require such assistance t.o be
given. This would avoid any suspicion
of discrimination in favor of the un
duly rich.
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find that this plan is practicable only
on the basis of the construction of
permanent roads. It should be borne
in part by the adjacent, land and in
part by the county as a whole. The in
crease in value of such farm lands
and the value of the land returned to
cultivation by virtue of malting the
roads narrower would more than cov
er the necessary assessment upon the
land to build permanent roads. The
county's share of t.he cost, should be
taken care of by long time bonds so
that the cost, may be distributed over
generations that will profit by the im
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weri! served and a fine time enjoyed.
Martin Saar of Henderson, la., is
visiting Cantril relatives.
Burl, tho little S-year-old .son of
Krank Casady had the mlsf rtuna to
break Ills ankle Wednesday. |t
Mr. Church and Mr. Orr of Chicago
wore in Oantiil Saturday completing,
the sale of the stock which was sold
with the. farm Mr. Orr purchased of
Mr. Church. The sale of both amount
ed to $45,000. This Is the Norrls farm' irt?
which has changed hands frequently
in the past few voars.
W. H. Smith returned to Kansas-:
City Monday.
Francis Hilles is vlsitinrr in
phis, Mo.
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Mem-
Aletha. Casady visited her sister
Miss Blanche at Pulaski Wednesday
and Thursday.
Christmas trees will be fiven in tho. s'.
M. E. and Christian church' Christman~p*p
eve.
Bernice Saar was home from Bloom- 'j
field Saturday and Sunday. tif
Jesse Stonebrakcr was a visitor at
the county seat Thursuay. J,
Bess Yokelv ret rned Friday from a
visit at Canton, Ifo. 'A,
Mrs. Hill of Bloomfield was the
guest of Mrs. Bassett Thurs." ly.
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J. C. Welliver.
CANTRIL.
Cantril—Thomas Dye of Milton was
in town Thursday and Friday. He ex
pects to start to California in a few
weeks.
A. L. Roberts of Bonaparte was in
the city Thursday.
Rev. Lloyd Tennant began revival
meetings at Home Prairie church last
Wednesday night. Revival at Cantril
M. E. church will begin New Year's
eve.,
A number of friends surprised Mr.
and Mrs. Shoehart at their home near.
Cantril Wednesday evening. Oysters served.
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The young ladies of the Christian ».'*
church cleared about $40 at their Har-'
vest Home Saturday.
BONAPARTE.
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Bonaparte—Mrs. D. H. Crusap has
gone to Chicago for a visit with her
daughter, Mrs. O. G. Corns. She will:
be joined later by Mr. Cresap and they
will remain there until after the holi
days.
Haven't you some seed corn, hogs,
horses, cattle, slieep, cordwood, polos
or something that you want to sell or
don't you want to buy something in
the above lino? You can do so by put
ting a want ad In the Courier. One
half cent a word.
Frank Ketchem was a business
visitor in town Thursday.
The members of the Baptist churchy
will hold a bazaar and dinner at the*,,!
Park hotel Saturday, the proceeds of:s^!
which will be applied to the
churchy
{'no
Miss Dorothy Vance Ryland of this
place and Ralph Hogue of Eldon were
married at the M. E. »,arsonage, Ot
tumwa, Wednesday December 15th,
Rev. Locke performing the ceremony.
Mrs. Hosrue is a daugmsr of Mrs. J.
Morris of Bonaparte 'and was bom '1
and grew to womanhood here. Mr."
Hoguo !B a fireman on the Rock Island
railroad and has lived at Eldon for a
number of years. The young couple
will reside in Eldon but will not go
to housekeeping at present.
EDDYVILLE.
MIBS Margaret Keller will spend tha
holidays visiting relatives in Mou
eaqua.
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Elddyvllle—Mrs. Arthur Ward and
children came Thursday from Van^.'
Wert, Iowa to visit her parents, Mr. E
and Mrs. John Arnold living east of',
town. Mr. Ward will arrive today to."
visit his parents Mr. and Mrs. John
E. Ward living near Buxton.
Ottumwa passengers Wednesday
were Chas. Kussart, O. J. Llnd, Mrs, -,v
Strange, Mrs. Frank Kussart, Roea
O'Conner, Miss Pierson.
Mr. and Mrs. Wormhoudt are enjoy- tf
ing a visit from the former's mother of?
Pella.
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Haven't you somVs seed corn, hogs, .•
horses, cattle, sheep, cordwood, poles.
or something that you want to sell or
don't you want to buy something In
the above line? You can do so by put
ting a want ad in the Courier. One
half cent a word. $
Miss Bird Miller who makes her-,
homo in Cedar Falls is visiting her?'?
brother Harry Miller and other
relath'es. -1
A number of ladles met at tho homft"
of Mrs. Ella Did in the Hayden,'
chapel district and had an old fash
ioned quilting which was much en-^ ,*
joyed by all.
Mrs. George Stephenson was in Ot- -t,
tumwa yesterday on business.
At their opening meeting the Redwf
Men elected the following officers: 'r
Sadiuni—B. S. Lemon. -,i
Senior Sagamore—A. Johnson.
Junior sagamore—Carl Powell.
Prophet—Pearl Dunkle.
Chief of Records—F. C. Wilcox.
Keeper of Wampum—Peter Baer.
The Sunday school class of V.'m.
Hanklns was entertained last night at
his home. Various games were played
after which an oysUt- supper v,-a«l
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