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SHIPS FOR THE CANAL.
An ocean mall bill that will put
American ships on the mail routes to
South America and the Orient has
been urged for years by manufactur
ers who are eager to increase Ameri
can trade in foreign markets. The ar
guments advanced by the manufactur
ers are summarized in an editorial in
the Chicago Examiner in wnich atten
tion is called to the necessity of legis
lation along this line. The Examiner
says:
The manufacturers lay Impressive
Btr-ess upon the fact that we are build
ing a Panama canal at a cost of some
thing like half a billion dollars—with
out having a single ship ready to sail
through it.
Out of our very incomplete and in
efficient ocean mail service the gov
ernment is making an annual profit of
three or four millions, at least. And
'it is hard to see how any sensible
man can object to our dedicating that
Bum to the creation of a few new
American mail ships that might make
some use of our expensive artificial
waterway and improve our connection
with Pacific and South American mar
kets.
Our merchant marine has shrunk in
fifty years to about 40 per cent of its
former tonnage, while our ocean-carry
ing business—employing for the most
part the ships of foreign nations—has
Increased nearly five-fold.
But we should have many more
goods to send across the seas If we
had more ships to carry them in—
with better mail service, more direct
routes of transportation. A new im
pulse of international understanding
and reciprocity would come with a re
vival in the American people of its
seafaring traditions.
It is humiliating to be told that in
the year 1908 only one American mer
chant ship passed through the Suez
canal, and that at Copenhagen, the
most important port on the Baltic, the
starry flag was last seen on a mer
chant vessel eighteen years ago.
It is perhaps even more humiliating
to be reminded that when President
Roosevelt sent our sixteen great bat
tleships around the world he had to
charter twenty-seven foreign colliers
to supply their bunkers, and that if
war had broken out at that time,
these coaling ships would, under the
neutrality laws, have faded away at
once, and left our magnificent men-of
war as helpless as painted ships upon
a painted ocean.
A country, the Examiner concludes,
that ran afford to spend a hundred
and fifty millions a year for fighting
ships, and half a billion for a ship
canal, and twenty-eight millions in
subsidizing a rural free delivery mail
service, can afford an annual invest
ment of three or four millions, or even
more, to supply transports for the
navy, a few ships for the ship canal,
and an Improved mail service to the
outer world.
HARD LINES FOR HUBBY.
It is easy to work up a little sympa
thy for a Chicago man who has been
driven to the divorce court by his in
ability to come up to the require
ments his wife demands in a husband.
The wife In this case decided that
she could not live with a man who
occupied such a low spiritual level on
this earth and she put the matter
squarely up to him that he would
have to be "reincarnated" thousands
of times before he would reach her
level.
"I could not," he sorrowfully told
the court, "grow from a mollusk into
a creeping animal and then from that
into an ape and so on until I became
a perfect man. That is wtfot my wife
told me I would have to do before I
reached her level."
Once, this man said, his wife show
ed him a picture that depicted a wom
an looking at a beast. The woman
was perched on the pinnacle of a
flame and the beast was crouched at
the bottom. His wife told him that
he was the beast, and she was the
beautiful woman at the top, and he
believed that this picture typified the
position the two occupied in their
home.
It would be a little disheartening,
wouldn't It, to have a wife springing
that kind of psychic guff on you
AN EASTERN VIEW.
The New York World points to the
approval given the president's course
In ousting Forester Pinchot as an in
dication that the American people do
not like political imitations. In the
long run, it says, national administra
tions are judged separately and by
their own achievements, not by the
fidelity with which they attempt to
echo some previous administration.
The World goes on to explain more
fully as follows:
Like many other members of the
Roosevelt court circle, Mr. Pinchot
failed to perceive that he was under
any obligation to Mr. Taft. So far as
he was concerned Theodore Roosevelt
'•was still president and Mr. Taft mere
ly a temporary occupant of the White
house who owed as much deference to
all the other co-ordinate Rooseveltiane
as they owed to him. If there was a
disagreement as to what constituted
My Policies every other Man of My
Type had a right, to reject Mr. Taft's
interpretation. Indeed, it was his pa­
triotic duty to do so. This has been
the attitude of all the Roosevelt cour
tiers since the Taft administration be
gan.
For montlui Mr. Taft has been ex
hausting all the arts of diplomacy to
placate a little band of Roosevelt wor
shipers who were trying to discredit
his administration. He tolerated them
only because they were Mr. Roose
velt's personal followers. But when
Mr. Taft's patience was finally ex
hausted and he asserted the dignity
of his great office he found the country
applauding his courage because he
had done the thing that a self-respect
ing president ought to have done.
The New York paper insists that
the president will succeed or fail by
virtue of his own policies, not by
virtue of Mr. Roosevelt's policies.
CONDITION WILL RIGHT ITSELF.
Gov. Warner of Michigan believes
that the prices of food will right
themselves naturally and that no out
side inquiries or remedies are neces
sary. He can see no need for attempt
ing any official inquiry and is inclined
to ridicule the attempt of Gov. Har
mon of Ohio to institute such an in
quiry. The Michigan executive says:
We are in the midst gf a situation
that is amenable to no outside rem
edy, and the only change that can pos
sibly take place is one that must come
from within. The consumer and pro
ducer must remedy the situation them
selves, and such remedy will come
automatically when conditions grow so
acute as to make remedying neces
sary.
It is absurd to talk of a trust in
eggs, a trust of buttermakers, or mo
nopoly of apples, potatoes, pork, or of
any other foodstuff. It is purely a ques
tion of supply and demand. There- is
not enough pork, enough butter, eggs,
potatoes, lard, etc., to supply the ex
isting demand at old time prices. To
get foodstuff one has to pay according
ly.
Take the latest census figures avail
able and compare them with those of
ten years previous and you will dis
cover that the population of the agri
cultural sections of Michigan has ac
tually decreased. This disparity in
relative numbers between producer
and consumer is wholly outside the
reach of trust laws.
So long as this condition holds,
prices will doubtless continue to rise.
But when the prices of foodstuffs
reach such a figure that it becomes
more profitable for a man to go into
agriculture than to seek employment
in cities we shall find the condition
righting itself of its own accord.
In the neighborhood news from Ce
dar, Route No. 1, in Mahaska county,
sent in" by a Courier correspondent,
there is the following paragraph: "A
number of people of this vicinity are
preparing to move, fearing bad toads
in the spring." Here is a striking il
lustration of the need of road improve
ment.
The Iowa State Drainage associa
tion, which was organized to deal
wtyh one of Iowa's greatest problems,
the draipage of the wet lands of Iowa,
will hold a convention at Fort Dodge
on February 15 and 16. Here is a re
clamation project right at home that
is of more interest to Iowans than any
discussion of the disposition to be
made of Alaskan coal lands.
The coasting accidents in Burling
ton, with their large list of dead and
injured, should be a warning to Ottuni
wa parents and Ottumwa young peo
ple. There are many hills in Ottumwa
where coasting may be indulged in
with little danger, but there are oth
ers where street»car tracks are cross
ed in which coasting is attended with
grave dangers.
Sugar went up a tenth of a cent a
pound yesterday. It looks as if that
man who ought to be in the peni
tentiary is still out.
In refusing to fight Battling Nelson
forty-five rounds, Mr. Wolgast of M?l-,
waukee has increased the public's
estimation of his good judgment, if not'
of his puglistic ability.
The party who violated his obliga
tion of honor in the grand jury matter
should be made to understand that
there Is such a thing as a fnoral as
well as a legal obligation.
The snow crushed the auditorium
at the chautauqua grounds at Creston.
The elements are interfering with
politics.
Taft and Pinchot practically agree
on the conservation matter. But they
liad different opinions as to who
should hold Pinchot's job. Taft's!
opinion seemed to carry the most
weight.
What do you think about the present,
system of jury selection?
This weather cuts some ice.
What has become of Dr. Cook?
A
•DOUDS-LEANDO AND VICINITY*
E. A. Nelson who formerly lived
west of Leando on the south side of
the river, but whose home now is near
Guymon, Okla., is visiting friends and
relatives here.
Will Wirt .went to Milton Tuesday to
attend the K. P. lodge meeting there.
Ellis1 Lefever and John Leomi were
hauling corn this week.
Henry Phillips is still on the sick
list. No change in his condition, being
confined to his bed most of the time.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Loomis are enjoying
a visit from their daughter Mrs. Pllch
er and son of Eldon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Boyer, south ofi
Leando entertained a party of friends'
Tuesday evening of this week and all
report an enjoyable time.
Several in the locality have finished
their ice harvest and it was in fine
shape.
Do you want to buy or sell some
seed corn or oats? Put a want ad in
the Courier.
John Walker and Mr. Hootman of
Douds went to Milton to attend the K.
P. Lodge there Tuesday night.
Frank Jackson has bought the E. A.
Nelson farm on the river west of Le
ando and will take possession March
1st. Mr. Frank. Garnall who is now on
the farm will move on his own farm
south of the Nelson .place-
THE EVENING STORY
NOT HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
BY CARL JENKINS.
(Copyright, 1910, by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
"And now, Arthur," said Aunt Sar
ah Livingston to her nephew, Arthur
Treadwell, who had come out from the
city to spend a couple of weeks nt
the manor house, "I want to warn
you that you will be apt to meet that
Kitteridge girl while you are hpre."
"And who Is she?" was asked.
"The daughter of the widow of that
name living half a mile beyond here."
"And does she bite?"
"She might as well. I don't want
to criticize people, but. I must say that
I can't bear that girl. Her name is
Effle. Her mother is well oft, and
she got quite a fortune from her aunt.
She thinks herself the salt of the
earth. She h?s snubbed everybody
for five miles around. All the young
men are afraid of her. If you happen
to meet s"he will be sure to snub you,
for4she says I pick out. hats altogether
too young for ie."
"Is this drag^ji fair to loo?: upon?"
"Yes, I will do her justice to say
that she is. That's one reason why
she's stuck up. I should hate to have
her snub you. You's got just as good
blood as she has, or better, and some
day you'll have more money. You
won't, always have to toil away in the
old bank."
"Well," he replied, "if she doesn't
call here and we don't call there I
fail to see where she will get the
chance to snub me. If a snub comes,
however, I must hear up under it
some way.
Arthur Treadwell, although still in
his twenties, was so steady and set
tled that many considered him al
ready an old bachelor. While he did
not avoid society, he mingled with it
very little, and he had yet to find a
young lady to attract him.
There had been a good fall of snow
on the land, and a day or two after
his arrival, the nepheW had a horse
and cutter out for a ride. He was ap
proaching the village when he came
upon a cutter upset in a snowdrift,
a horse plunging around, and a girl
holding fast to the reins. The horse
had probably shied at something and
brought about the upset. Here was
a fine chance to play the gallant. Mr.
Treadwell was slowing down his horse
to come to the rescue when he caught
sight of the girl's face. It was a
handsome and haughty face. The*
eyes were full of fire, and it took him
only an instant to repeat the name of
Miss Kitteridge to himself. There
was a snub certainly awaiting for
him.
Mr. Treadwell' drove straight past
with hardly a look and neither a
query nor a bow. He snubbed the
snubber, and that it went home he
could tell bv the swish of her whip
as she continued to punish the poor
horse.
I'm tickled to death!" exclaimed
Aunt Sarah when the incident was re
lated. "It will make her sit up and
think. One snub won't cure her,
though. She'll just ache to snub you
back. Arthur, I'm a woman, but I
must say there are members of mv
sex so all-fired hoity-toity that they
don't deserve decent husbands. Be
ware, nephew—beware!"
But the nephew didn't. There was
a pond with one end running down to
the Kitteridge line. At thaf point
there was a dam and a ruined old
grist-mill preserved for their antiquity.
The snow had blown off the ice, and
there was fair skating. Mr. Tread
well sent to the village for skates and
appeared on the pond to find it In
possession of Miss Kitteridge. At
least she acted as if it was all her
own, and thus awed half a dozen boys
who wished to try the ice. She saw
Mr. Treadwell when he was just fifty
rods away, and she gave her head a
toss and bit her lip. Let him but
speak to her. Let her fall and he offer
to help her up!
Mr. Treadwell was a graceful
skater. He skated as some men waltz.
Not the slightest attention was paid
to the other skater. He skated all
around her. forwards $nd backwards,
and made her own movements look
like fifteen cents. She was being
snubbed again, and she didn't mean
to put up with it. When she had suf
fered for twenty minutes she sudden
ly fell flat on the Ice as Mr. Treadwell
was coming up behind. He swerved
and passed her, and she scrambled
up and went home.
On the way home she called him
names to herself, but f.he consolation
was not all that could be hoped for.
However. she did not go to sleep that
night until she found out who he was
and muttered to herself:
"If he only stays down here long
enough I'll take him down a peg or
two or perish in the attempt.'.'
Two days later she had a chance to
try the "peg" business. The horse
she had punished for the upset was
her own, and was accounted very
speedy. She was also rated a good
driver. She had driven into the vil
lage to do some shopping: Mr. Tread
well had driven In for mail. He had
started for home first, and was jog
ging along when he heard bells be
hind him, and looked over his shoul
der to find that Kitteridge girl coming
up." He gave her half of the road, and
she put on the whip to sail past. It
was %in and tuck for a few rods, and
then alas, she was left behind to take
the flying snow. She tried it again
and again, but with the same result.
Mr. Arthur Treadwell didn't glory
in the incident. He simply mentioned
it in a casual way to his aunt, and
she at once insisted on shaking hands
and replied:
"Arthur, my dear nephew, I did
think of living fifteen years longer,
but now I believe I'll die next week
and let you come into my fortune.
How grand! How beautiful! How al
most heavenly that at last we have a
snubber to snub the snubberr"
There was fish in the pond. Miss
Kitteridge had read that fish could
be caught through the ice in winter.
She had got a hoy to chop a hole and
to drag a bench to the ice and she
had sat there in her glory and lured
OTrcMWA oorrBoam
half a dozen fish to their doom. She
intended to lure others.
One afternoon she went to the pond
for the purpose, and she could scarce
ly credit what her eyes beheld. On
her own bench, and over the hole cut
for her, "that young man" was fishing
away. And his attitude was as cool
as the ice around him.
Miss Kitteridge turned and started
for home. Then she turned and
started for the bench. It was not a
long bench—just room enough for two.
Mr. Treadwell never even looked up,
and the girl never said a word, and
for a long hour their fish lines tangled
and the fish beneath the ice refused
to be fooled by any such persons!
They even got. ready to go home at
the same moment, and turned their
backs on each other as if they had
drilled in the chorus.
"Oh, but I want to die tomorrow,"
exclaimed Aunt. Sarah as the incident
was related in a shame-faced way.
"There can be nothing in this wojld
so heavenly as snubbing a snubber
of a girl!"
As a matter of fact, however, the
ypung man was becoming ashamed of
the part and was hoping for a change
pt scenery. Here was the handsomest
girl he had ever met, and that she
was a high-flyer was to her credit with
him. Next time, no matter if he got
the biggest, kind of a snub, he would
change his attitude. He had this in
mind while on his way to the pond
three days later.
He reached the water to find Miss
Kitteridge there. She pretended not
to be aware of the fact that he was
on earth, and he found himself bluffed
off. He had gone very near the lower
edge of the ice several times, and now
she meant to show her courage over
his. He called out as he saw what
she was up to, but down to the very
edge she went and then—into the
water! Straight after the silly girl
went the young man, and he was
holding her up as they went over the
dam with the broken ice and were
whirled about in the foam below until
friendly hands pulled them ashore.
Mr. Treadwell had very little to say
during the next three days while the
doctor was warding off pneumonia,
and it was still two days later when
Aunt Sarah handed him a note and
said:
"Nephew, it's from that Kitteridge
girl. I guess she wants to see you
and thank you. I guess, too ,that I've
been mistaken in her. If you should
fall in love with her—."
But nephew already had.
ENDING HER FREEDOM.
By Richard Barker Shelton.
Copyright 1910 by Associated Literary
Press.
The jangle of the telephone in the
library interrupted Holroyd's peaceful
breakfast. Almost impatiently he
arose from the little table in one cor
ner of the screened porch—for, fair
weather or foul, hot or cold, Holroyd
invariably breakfasted out of doors
while he was at. Tfoe Birches— and
stumbled through the open French
window into the library. He caught
up the telephone from the table and
shouted a rather impatient "Hello!"
into it.
"Hello!" came an anxious voice
from the other end of the wire. "Is
that you, Jimmy?"
"Yes. Who is this? Oh, you,
Anne," said he as he recognized the
voice of his cousin Mrs. Delmar.
"What on earth are you calling me up
for at this time of the morning for?
What? Trouble over there? What
sort of trouble? Has Billy sneezed
this morning? Is that it?"
"Listen, Jimmy, and don't attempt
any of your silly humor just now,"
the agitated voice admonished. "What
do you suppose that crazy child has
done now?"
"What crazy child?"
"Nora, of course."
"Oh, said Holroyd, not without a
sardonic chuckle as he realized Anne
referred to Tom Delmar's niece, Nora
Ormand who was spending two weeks
at the Delmar's place, and who was in
cidentally keeping Mrs. Delmar on the
verge of a nervous breakdown in the
meantime.
"What has she done, Anne? Set the
stable afire or accidentally shot one
of the dogs?"
"Will you be serious, Jimmy?" his
cousin's voice demanded. "It's no time
for levity. She has gone for a gallop"
—there was an impressive pause—
"on Blackflre," came the finish in term
ulous tones.
"What?" Holrovd shouted in unbe
lief.
"Don't you understand? I tell you
she has gone for a gallop on Black
fire. She was up early this morning,
and she went out to the stable and
bribed Tim into saddling that brute
for her. The cook saw her starting
out and so Nora bribed the cook, too,
not to tell me but when she was
gone over an hour, Jenny grew alarm-1
ed and has just come to me and 1 old
me the whole thing and Tom's away
in town and I can't find Tim any
where around the place, and goodness I
only knows what may happen to her
on that horse! Even Tom' himself is
a uit afraid of him. For heaven's sake,
Jimmy, see if you can't find her. That
brute has probably thrown her some
where, and—"
Holroyd waited for no more. For all
his lazy exterior, he was a man cl
marked decision. His unfinished break
fast on the porch, the engrossing
article he had been reading in a
magazine as he sipped his coffee, even
his omnipresent cigarette case was for
gotten, as he ran out of the library
and crossed the trim yard to the lit
tle garage.
In a trice he had jumped, batless,
into the low black road-car, and was
whirling down the drive towards the
ljoads at a furious pace.
Nora Ormand had gone out on Black
flre—Blackflre, a brute that had a
reputation extending over three coun
ties for his vicious temper and his
proneness to attempt murder on who
ever was bold enough to perch on his
sleek back.
Just why the girl should have crown
ed her many wild feats since she had
been at the Delmar's with this wildest
one of them all, Holroyd did not at
tempt to argue with himself: but it
was eminently like her, ho told him
self grimly.
She had gone for a gallop on Black
flre! that was enough to make him set
his teeth and groan inwardly. And
more than probably, somewhere be
neath that, placid autumn morning sky
Nora Ormand was—was—Holroyd was
afraid to think of the possibilities.
Where had she gone? That was the
most important question of the mo
ment. Up the mountain road, most
probably and with that point decided
to his satisfaction, he swung the
speeding car into the road that led up
(he slope.
He gave the car full speed and went
up the winding, narrow road at a pace
that set the car rocking crazily. Then
as he swung a sharp curve, he saw
her, sitting on a rock by the roadside.
Her hat gone her hair was rumpled
her brown riding skirt was covered
with dust and badly torn. There was
a cut just above her left temple.
The black car came to an abrupt
halt. Holroyd sprang out and stood be
fore her, amazed, relieved, and rather
angry.
"This is just about the limit!" he
snapped.
She favored him with one of her be
wildering smiles. "It was glorious!"
she said with enthusiasm. "He
wouldn't have thrown me at all, if I
hadn't been careless. I was rather
over-confident. I thought I had the
ginger all out of him, for I put him to
this slope at a tremendous pace. And
because I was over-confident, he did
the trick."
"You've scared Anne half out of her
wits," said he severely.
"Anne hasn't much spirit," she re
turned.
"Quite true. But you have rather
too much," he snapped.
She raised her eyebrows In mild re
proof. "Perhaps I shouldn't have done
it, but the temptation was too great,
and I should have been all right, if I
hadn't been careless. I have ridden
much worse horses than Blackflre."
"How long have you been here?"
"A half hour, perhaps."
"You had better get into the car.
I'll take you back. There is no need
of' worrying Anne any longer than we
can reasonably help."
She turned away her head and her
face flushed.
"I think you'll have to put me in the
car," she said haltingly. "You see
when he threw me, my ankle twisted.
I can't step on it."
"Good lord!" said Holroyd under his
breath. Then silently he lifted her in
his arms and put her in the road-car.
Down the mountain road they whirl
ed. Holroyd's lips were set tightly to
gether, but now and then he turned
to look at her.with a certain curious'
light in his eyes.
"You might have been killed!" ho
said at length. "Even Tom, as good a
horseman as there is in the state, is
none too fond of Blackflre, save for
show purposes."
The girl made no reply.
"You need someone to look after
you," he went on. "Irresponsible per
sons like'you should have a guardian.
What's more you're going to have one.
You have no right to go risking your
neck in this fashion," he ended hotly.
They had reached the main road.
Holroyd stopped the car before a vine
covered cottage.
"First off," said he in a tone that
brooked no argument on the point,
"we'll have that ankle looked after by
Doctor Gray, and while he Is fixing it,
I'll telephone Anne that you are still
in the land of the living."
Again he lifted her, unresisting, in
placed her back in the car. Off they
whirled, and the road to the village.
Holroyd stopped the car at a tiny
brick house, nestling beside a little
church surmounted by a gilded cross.
"What—what?" she began, and
stopped, blushing furiously.
"I promised Anne over the tele
phone," said he, "that I would see to
it you did no more of these crazy
stunts. I intend to fulfill that promise
by having myself vested by the proper
authority, by the gentleman within, to
quash any such proceedings on your
part in the future. Shall I take you
in, or shall I call the rector out here
to the car?"
For all his magnificent assurance
there was a note of almost pleading
uncertainty in his tones. The girl
was quick to catch it. She laughed
lightly: but even In the midst of her
laughter her eyes suddenly softened.
"There is no need of giving undue
publicity to this ending of freedom,"
she said in a low voice. "You— you
had better take me in, Jimmy."
FROM VARIOUS
I POINTS OF VIEW
Observations by Courier Readers
Who Cross the Paths of the
Interviewers.
Ottumwa, January 13. 1910
Editor Courier Problem.—
My solution to the store keeper
problem is as follows:
The five dollar bill does not enter
into the transaction except as a sec
ondary consideration.
gives A one dollar in the morning
and receives four in the evening,
which makes ahead the difference,
which is three dollars, and the custo
mer, A, is out the same amount, three
dollars.
Yours,
Ward Y. Bell, 528 West Second St.
Selma, Ia„ Jan. 12, 1910.
Editor Courier.—
My answer to the sandwich prob
lem is:
One boy got 7 cents and the other
got 1 cent.
Solution—In eight sandwiches there
are twenty-four thirds or two and two
thirds for each of the three boys. If
one-third of them are worth eight
cents, all of them are worth 24 cents,
or 1 cent for each third. The boy with
3 ate eight-thirds or two and two
thirds, leaving one-third, worth one
cent. The boy with .5 ate the same
amount, leaving two and one-third or
seven-thirds, worth 7 cents.
My solution to the horse problem is
$10. The only profit I can see is when
he bought the horse back for $80.
8. B. Carroll.
Chariton, Jan. 13, 1910.
Problem Editor Courier.—
My answer to your puzzle in Thurs
day's paper is—A got skinned out of
four dollars. should have given A
$4 in place of A giving it to B.
Fannie Peterson, 315 North Sixth St.,
Charlton, la.
Milton, Jan. 13, 1910.
Problem Editor Courier.
In answer to your latest problem,
there are two ways of answering sug
gested to my mind.
First, by eliminating the $5 or hold
ing it as a security, we then have the
difference between the amount paid
by to A or $1, and the amount paid
by A to or $4, which equals $3,
being gainer by that amount.
Fecond, by adding the $5 each time
exchanged with the other amounts A
paid B, $5 and $4, which equals $9.
paid A $5 and $1, which equals $6 and
$9 minus $6 equals 3, having gained
that amount.
P. H. Randolph.
Ottumwa, Iowa.
Editor.—
My answer to the sandwich problem
is as follows:
purchased one-third interest in
buns for 8 cents, getting two and two
thirds buns or eight-thirds, paying one
cent for e$ch one-third sandwich.
A, having three sandwiches, fur
nished three-thirds, or one, getting
3 cents. B, having 5 sandwiches, fur
nished five-thirds, or one and two
thirds sandwiches, getting 5 cents.
Willie Johnston.
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SIGOURNEY.
The funeral of Mrs. Mary Schott
who died several days ag was held
Friday from the home her daugh
ter Mrs. George Meyer where Mrs.
Schott has been making her home for
many years. Mrs. Schott was about 80
years of age. She was born in Germany
and came to this country when a lit
tle girl.
G. G. Woodin of Chicagj was in Sig
ourney Wednesday looking after busi
ness matters here and visiting with his
mother.
Cashier E. L. Root of the People's
Savings Bank of Delta was a business
visitor in Slgourney Friday.
Attorney F. L. Goeldner was in Des
Moines Thursday looking after mat
ters' before the supreme court.
Do you want to bu- or sell some
seed corn or oats? Put a want ad in
the Courier.
Mrs. K. E. Wlllcockson was called to
Taylorville, Ills., the fore part of this
week on account of the death of- her
mother. Mrs. Willcockson has been
with her mother for several weeks
and only last Friday returned to Slg
ourney leaving her mother much im
proved. The news of her death was a
great surprise to Mrs. Wlllcockson.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Naes who have
durin- the past year been playing with
the Fred Parker Theatrical Co.. have
organized a company and Thursday
evening gave their opening perform
ance at the opera housr to a fair
sized audience.
Max Kurtz and Ed !3artlett who
were accused of theft from the Cook
Hotel at Keota, had their preliminary
hearings yesterday. Kurtz had his be
fore Justice Gilbert at Keota and he
was discharged while Bartlett had his
before Justice Parker here and was
held over to the grand jury.
Bert Gillette left Tuesday for San
Diego, Calif., looking for a new loca
tion
KEOSAUQUA.
Mr. and Mrs. Tobe Beer of Flarmlng
ton are visiting in the city with Mr.
Beer's parents.
Messrs. Joe Strickllng, Geo. W. Dav
idson and Lex Therme attended the
funeral of Judge Trimble at Keokuk
Tuesday.
Mrs. C. N. Eastman and little daugh
ter are expected home the last of the
week from an extended visit with rel
atives In' Chicago.
Dr. C. R. Russell and family left on
Wednesda- for a few weeks' visit a.t
Jolly. Ia.
Miss Clara Hartson returned home
Saturday from a visit in Peoria, with
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Daugherty have
returned to their home In Keokuk
after a visit with the former'rs parents
Mr. and Mrs. John Daugherty of this
city.
Do you want to buy or sell some
seed corn or oats? Put a want ad in
the Courier.
Mesdames S. Sherman and Marlon
De Hart visited Saturda- in Bonapart
with relatives.
H. B. Rinabarrer of Red Oak Is vis
iting his parents Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Rinabarger east of town.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Strickllng have
returned to their home In Burlington
after a weeks' visit in Keosauqua.
John Bell of Valley Junct was
called here the first of the \. sek by the
illness of his mother.
Mrs. H. H. Disborn is a guest of her
son Wm. Disbron and wife of Ottum
wa.
Rev. and Mrs. Chas. E. Perkins de
parted Thursday for Geneva. N. for
a six weeks' viislt with the latter's
sister. Rev. J. W. Cheney will occupy
the pulpit during Mr. Perkins' absence.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hanna living
east of town entertained a company of
O. E. S. ladies from Keosauqua Wed
nesday evening. Those who attended
were: Mesdames S. W. Manning, H. H.
Disbrow. F. Joy. R. R. McBetttJ J. W.
Rowley. H, E. Reece J. L. Therme. H.
B. Sloan, Geo. A. Fellows, J. C. Strick
llng: and Miss Llde Moore.
The annual business meeting of the
Congregational church was held Mon
day evening, which was well attended
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ELDON
Eldon.—.Tames Reed, Rock Island
hostler at the round house Ib foreman
of the grand Jury.
No new cases of diphtheria are re
ported and the patients are doing well.
The spread of the disease has been
checked and a strict quarantine is
kept.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shane visited
Ottumwa yesterday.
Mrs. W. T. Brown and daughter,
Nellie, accompanied Mrs. Ida Wise to
Ottumwa today on her way to Ameri
can Falls, Idaho.
Clarence Benson left today for Ot
tumwa to accept a position as fireman
on the Milwaukee railway.
The Eldon Booster club is boosting.
This is pay day on the Rocjc Island.
The ice men are storing the houses
with the best of ice.
L. J. Miller, round house foreman,
Is again on duty after a sick spell.
Miss Anna Erickson, muc.: teacher,
has gone to Eddyville to meet her mu
sic class.
Jacob Bales of Floris passed
through here today en route home
from Ottumwa.
Mrs. N. Reed, mother of N. F. Reed
of Ottumwa left for a visit to her son
today.
Congregational church"—The topic of
the morning sermon will be "The Val
ue of Definite Ideas." Text, I Peter,
3: 15, "Be ready always to give an an
swer to every man that asketh you a
reason of the hope that is In you."
The topic of the evening sermon is
"The Wise Men of Eldon." The an
nual business meeting of the Congre
gational church will be held on next
Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Sev
eral matters of great Importance will
be presented and it is important that
there be as large an attendance as
possible.
The annual meeting of the Aid soci
ety of the Congregational church, at
which officers for the coming year will
be elected, will be held Thursday aft
ernoon at the iiome of Mrs. A. J. Shef
fer.
The Missionary society will hold
their regular meeting on Wednesday
afternoon with Mrs. E. E. Hilles. Mrs.
George Holland, leader.
The second quarterly meeting of the
Methodist Episcopal church will he
held January 16. Sermon and com
munion service by the pastor at 11
o'clock. League service at 6:30 p. m.
Services at 7:30 p. m. Preaching by
presiding Elder H. M. Smith.
Business meeting Monday morning
at 9:30. The official board are all urg
ed to be present Monday morning.
The G. I. A. to the B. of L. E. will
hold their regular meeting Tuesday,
January 18. The officers for the ensu
ing year will be installed. Every mem
ber is urged to be present, as other
important business will come before
the division.
and after adjournment the ladFes serv- school and would have graduated this
ed coffee and sandwiches. year.
For Infants and Chfldrtn.
The Kinj You Have Always Bought
The Bast Side ladies of the Meth
odist Episcopal church will give a
mite social at the home of E. L. Shore
Wednesday evening, January 19. A
musical program will be given and
luncheon served from 6 until 10 p. m.
Everyone cordially invited.
Young Graduate Dies.
Cantril, Jan. 15.—Ethel Wallan,
aged 17, died at her father's home
near here of pneumonia. She was a
bright student of. the local high 1
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