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ONe OF IOWA'# PRODUCTS.
Very few people have any concep
tion of the amount of corn raised
••©it year in Iowa, hi a recent
speeeh at Mt. Pleasant, J. F. Deems of
Burlington, presented the immensity of
one year's corn crop in Iowa as fol
lows:
-5 "Imagine a wagon train forming
here at Mt. Pleasant to move this corn
crop off to the west. We will assume
a wagon and team every thirty feet
and fifty' bushels of corn to each
wagon.
"The first Wagon is loaded and
moves off to the west and others fol
low In the order of spacing and loading
indicated. After a few days this first
wagon reaches Omaha 260 miles
away and they are still loading corn
at Mt. Pleasant.
"Later this wagon climbs up the
Vlong slope forming the foothills of the
Rockies into Denver 800 miles away
and they are still loading corn at Mt.
Pleasant.
"This goes on and the head of the
train rumbles down the western slope
Into San Francisco 1,700 miles away
and they are still loading corn at Mt.
Pleasant.
'^New try in your imagination and
see this wagon train moving out on the
Pacific ocean and, When the Hirst wag
on reaches Jtpan over 7,000 miles
away, they are still loading corn at
Mt. Jfleasaftt.
"It wends its way across China and
the Vaat, wacbjee of "Asia and Europe
and
on
arrival at the esotern shore
of the Atlantic^ over 16,000 miles on
the long Journey, they are still load
ing con at Mt^Pleasant.
«*It moves acfrose the Atlantic, ^.up
through the Narrows into New York
harfeor over 18,000 miles from the
starting point and they are still load
ing corn at Mt Pleasant On it goes
.across the eastern and middle states
and one day, after traveling 19,000
miles, that first wagon stands again at
Mt Pleasant but there is still, corn
to load ,v
"A second train is started parallel
to the first and by the time that laat
bushel of one of Iowa's splendid corn
crops is loaded, the head of this second
train will be well beyond Japan, or
in other words, a wagon train, spaced
and loaded as Indicated, and of suf
ficient length to carry one' of Iowa's
corn crops would reach approximately
one and one-half times around the
earth following the fortieth degree
of north latitude."
LEARNING TRUE VAULES.
The farmer who gets tired of his job
and quits because he is only making
a living for himself and family some
times makes a mistake. John Hutch
Ins' case is doubtless one pf many. He
was comfortably supporting his wife
and Ave children on a farm in Illinois,
[^but he worked very hard (some farm
ers always think they work extremely
hard) and he read of people in the city
who were getting rich quick. So he
sold out and came to Chicago. He had
no training or experience in anything
but farm work, so he had to take any
kind of odd jobs he could get. It
didn't take experience to be a night
watchman nor much to be a janitor,
but he found the salary for such jobs
didn't go far iri the city.
Instead of being able to dig all and
tore potatoes than his fanilly could
Impossibly uBe he paid 26c for enough
»r a couple of meals he found a
icken oiit of the question and the
iijfcrk, bacon and sausages a liixury
|l|hich In the past seemed to cost him
xqJt nothing. The cream, fruit, and
|$| many vegetables the family had
Joyed In the past were now only
leasant memories.
Surchixts.
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So there was nothing but what the
father earned.
A position was again offered Iiu(ch
ins on a farm In southern Indiana. He
aud his'wifo jumped at It. It looked
like heaven on earth to them then. It
still does, and the children are legain
ing their' red cheeks and are lqoking
"corn-fed."
CATCHING FLIES BY ELECTRICITY
At new device for catching flies is
being added to the equipment of a
number of hotels in preparation for
the summer season. It consists of an
electric motor which drawj the flios
up by a strong current to a yipe. Mo
lasses or moistened sugar is smeared
on the edges to draw them to tho
vicinity. As the flies alight upon tlie
pipe, a strong suction siezes them and
quickly drops them into a steel cage
in the bottom of the pipe. This ma
chine has demonstrated an ability to
capture over a hundred flies a minute.
It will clear a fly infested room in a
few minutes and can be easily carried
from one room to another and oper
ated from the plug supplying the
current for 'electric light.
Two workmen in ohe shop were seri
ously Injured by getting their four:in
hand ties caught in the machinery.
One of these accidents was caused by
the necktie dangling against a small
perpendicular shaft in the lower end
of which was a bit for boring small
holes in wood. The lesson to be
learned is, do not wear long neckties
.when working around machinery.
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An English artist sketches submar
ine scenes by descending with a div
er's helmet
vand
paper and crayon.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Green were here
calling on relatives and friends over
Sunday.
Mrs. N. U. McDowell/ and children of
New Mexico formerly of this place are
here visiting her mother Mrs. Nancy
Hammersly and brothers and relatives
a
Harry Warder is on the sick list this
week*
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wills and fam
ily were callers at the home of Bjlra.
Nancy Hammersly Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Reynolds and
famllv visited Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Claire Miller near Ottumwa.
The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Daily who has been sick for some time
is not much Improved at this time.
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Hammersly and
daughter Beulah of Taber are hei-e vis
iting relatives and friends.
Charlie Teninity was shopping in Ot
tumwa Wednesday.
Sunday at 11 a. m. and at 7:30 p. m.
there will be preaching services. W. A.
Purdy pastor.
AGENCY.
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using waterproof
Barring the powder puff from the
women's military camps may be
heroic tactics, but it i^ not likely to
bring in many recruits.
Chicago does not care, how many
rows they have in the conventions just
so it keeps the crowds in town a week
or ten days.
Shan{,oogoo in equatorial Africa has
been captured—war news that a baby
could understand.
A taan's first act of charity should
be to fix himself so he wont be a bur
den on someone -in his old age.
It will take you quite a while to save
your first thousand? dollars—better be
gin now.
Less profit is made out of revenge
than almost anything* else you could
mention. y' V.v .''
British Guiana gold mines last year
produced 60,733 ounces of gold.
BLADENSBURG.
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Mrs. Emma Reynolds left Thursday
for ah extended visit with relatives In
Omaha and Hastings, Nebr.
Misses Vivian Rouke and Vesta Mc
Coy left Tuesday for Cedar palls to at
tend summer school.
Several from here attended the com
mencement exercises at Mt, Pleasant
this week.
The Misses Ethel Warner and Adah
Connelly were business callers in Ot
tumwa Wednesday.
Mrs. Grover Housh of Waterloo who
has been visiting relatives here left
Wednesday afternoon for Batavla to
visit before returning home.
Vera and Paul Newman who have
been attending school here lef,t Tuesday
for Chicago to make their future home.
Miss Grace Hankins who has been
staying here with her grandparents left
the first of the week for her home in
Danville.
Children's Day will be observed at
the M. E. church. Sunday evening June
II and at the Christian church June 18.
Both Sunday-, schools are preparing ex
cellent programs.
Rev. Hastings will preach at the
Christian church Sunday June 11.
Miss Ethel Rouke who has been in
Chicago for some time returned home
I Friday on No. 3.
Dinner
end of three years' struggle
id John Hutchins and his family
miserable back basement, barely
jing with the help of the United
ities. Seven in one room—an
lerican family! The youngest, child
|four, the oldest a boy of thirteen.
country children who knew man to clean out his cellar one morn
lg of city ways could not hustle
id sell papers, and hold their
rith the little city bred
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Parson Lewis, who was not averse
to an occasional tody, hired an Irish-
ing. Pat started in work with a will,
and found, among the other rubbish, a
number of empty pottles. Pate care- spend
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Baltimore. lAd., June 8. —Baltimore
has the marketing habit. There Is no
city in America that puts a big basket
on its arm more regularly or more en
thusiastically. to go forth and purchase
its food in the public square. Few
cities if any, on the other hand, h,ave
such markets to visit. Baltimore's
markets are an institution—an insti
tution picturesque and venerable and
of a size and solidity that commands
respectful attention. Lexington Mar
ket for Instance, is three squares long,
with twelve hundred stalls, and fifty
thousand people visit it on many Sat
urdays.
The markets are one of the sights of
the town, like St. Peter's In Rome or
the white houBe In Washington. The
visitor Is taken forth to see them as he
is taken to see the (falls at Niagara.
The streets for blocks around take on
a market day atmosphere. Temporary
stalls are set up on either side, until
there is only a narrow lane left in the
middle of the highway where the big
cars nose their way a foot at a time.
Countrymen and farmers draw up their
wagon loads of produce along the
curb and wait philosophically for pur
chasers, scorning the practice of the
recent immigrant who is wont to cry
his wares. Caftdy stands and flower
stands and peanut stands appeal to the
esthetic and the gastronomic functions
of the olfactory nerve. The street
faker is In his glory. Perched on a
coffee box he extols the merits of a
miraculous invention, ladies and
gentlemen —a combination of the
South American sapopa tree, the East
Indian senega root and the Mexican
ammonia plant—a combination shav
ing soap, shoe polish and complexion
beautifler."
The market itself is housed under a
long high roof, like the roof of a rail
road terminal, subdivided into hun
dreds of little stalls. Everything which
the human race is in the habit of chew
ing and swallowing finds its place
somewhere. Beef and miltton, pork
and veal and sausage and bacon/ a
string of fruits that would read like
the invoice of a 8outh American
freighter, all the vegetables you have
ever seen and a few new ones, fish,
nuts, bread and pastry, live poultry,
candy—consult the supply lists ol
Herr Tortolowltz von Batocki, the new
German food dictator, for a partial list
of what you can buy.
All this space under the roof be
tween the stalls is jammed with hu
manity, chiefly feminine. It takes an
hour or so to push through the three
blocks of Lexington market. The
make up of the crowd is surprisingly
heterogeneous. It may be a mistake,
but the visitor gets the impression that
milady of Balttmore dons her sliver
fox set. steps Into the limousine, sniffs
the orchids In the holder, says /'The
market, James," and sallies forth to
buy a quarter's worth of wlenerwurst.
At least, you see plenty of big cars
discharging their inmates at the curb,
and have your toes stepped on by
ladies who resemble the illustrations
in an R. W. Chambers novel.
As one Baltimore official puts, it,
"The market problem is one of educat
ing the municipal consciousness up to
the marketing conception," or in other
words of teaching society to carry a
basket These big markets are reall/
a kind of fruit and vegetable, depart
ment
store,
of course is firmly established aea per
fectly correct hunting ground for all
ranks of femininity. Baltimore women
make appointments to meet at a cer
tain stall at a certain hour and go to
lunch together. It Is not a matter of
record, but it seems probable that they
occasionally stop to buy a doxen eggs
a to a
The question of public markets
coming in for a great deal of serlou*
attention all over the country today, as
a possible means of solving certain
phases of the distribution problem.
Busy markets have been established In
a score of cities, but Baltimore Is by
way of being a pioneer In the field ud
her experience should be valuable. In
the hundred and fifty years that mar
kets have been a feature of the land
scape, the cHy has encountered most
of the problems that can arise In con
nection with markets. Back in the year
1751, when there were only two dozen
houses in the town, the citizens decid
ed to, start a market, and conducted a
lottery as a means of raising the neces
sary cash. Lotteries were a highly re
spectable institution fa those days.
The private ledger of George Wash
ington occasionally charges the price
of a few lottery tickets to profit and
loss.
fully examined each bottle by holding
it to the light.
The minister, looking down to see
how Pat was getting along with the
work, saw him looking through tho
bottles, and called out:
"They are all dead ones, Pat."
"Indade, now, are they, sur?" re
plied the Irishman. "Well, there's
wan good thing about it—they all
had tb' minister wid 'em when they
wuz dyin'!"
Mrs. Smith is one of those persons
who, conscious of her own virtues,
never loses an opportunity t,o
parage herself. Chief among
virtues was industry.
"Surely you must be tired Aunty,"
said an admiring niece. "How can
you work
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and thfe department store
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A City at Market
By Frederic J. Haskin
dis
her
long without a rest?'V
"Oh my dear," said Mrs. Smith
humbly, "I think it is because when
I begin a piece of work I am too
lazy to stop."
"I see by the paper," said, Mrs.
Robinson, "that the Browns have
secured a divorce on the ground of
incompatibility. What does that
mean?"
"Incompatibility." replied the head
of the family, "may mean either one
of two things. It may mean that the
husband's income is so small that he
is unable to provide his wife'with the
luxuries to which she thinks she is
entitled, or it may mean that his in-
come is so great th«U heIsi unable to
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kick, T^^AY^EUNA" 13, 1916
The age of the system in Baltimore
has had the effect of obviating certain
objections that arise in cities where
it Is Introduced later in municipal pro
gress. For Instance, it is something of
a problem to reeonclle the rights of the
retail grocer with the activities of the
stall keeper. The grocer Is a tax pay
er a rent payer, and an employer of
labor, while the market stall pays no
taxes, very little rent and Is usually
operated by the proprietor, who thus
becomes something of a favored com
petitor. In Baltimore, however, the
markets came before the grocery
stores, and the grocers had the compe
tition to reckon on when they entered
the business. In actual practice, the
neighborhood of the markets has prov
ed a favorable location for ordinary
retail shops of all sorts on account of
the crowds drawn. Some of the local
grocers go farther and rent and oper
ate stalls on market days.
Baltimore markets—there are eleven
of them—are municipal institutions.
They can easily be operated at a pro
fit, not only by the rental of stalls,
but by renting the big halls that some
of the buildings contain. Over Center
Market for Instance, a half million dol
lar structure, there are two halls used1
for night classes which, seat 1,200
pupils, and a third hall with a capac
ity of 2,500. The profits from this
part of the markets used to be much
larger than they are today. In the
times before tegular theater buildings
became so numerous, but they still
have great possibilities. Moved by this
consideration, a prjyate company re
cently offered to take over one of the
markets, pay a big rental for the site,
put up a half million dollar structure
as well as a huge department store.
The people of Baltimore however, rose
up in defense of the ancestral Institu
tions with such a storm of protest that
the offer was refused.
The stringent market regulations
have been evolved through years of
Operation. Back in the records you will
even find an obsolete rule that no stall
is to be rented to "anyone who Is not
thoroughly and uncondltlonslly a union
man." The reference Is not to the I.'
W. W. or the American Federation of
Labor. That ruling was written back
in the sixties, when feeling between
north and south ran hlgb. The Balti
more markets had a system of pure
food regulations long before the bu
reau of chemistry appeared on the
scene. Controversies raged over the
activities of the sidewalk vendor in his
relation to the regular merchant. This
was settled by confining the operation
of sidewalk stalls to market days, and
the weeks before Christmas and Eas
ter. Street vendors are not allowed to
sell fish or crabs within five blocks of
the market. A body of regulations has
grown up around the system that
makes an imposing mass of law and
ordinance.
The respective rights of the city and
the renter were fought clear up to a
Maryland court, which held that the
renting of a stall was strictly analo
gous to the renting of a pew In a
church, and conferred similar limited
rights only. The practice of sub let
ting was upheld however. For a time
the stall privileges for a term of years
were sold at auction, netting enough
money to build the markets with. Buy
ers would sometimes sublet at a rate
that brought them ten per cent on
their Investment. The general opinion
seems to be that stalls in a municipal
market should only be rented direct to
the bona fide producer or the merchant
who is actually to use them. When'the
European war is over, some of our ex
perts In international law may well
turn their attention to the statutes
bearing on the Baltimore markets.
Another problem that comes up is
the shift in real estate tendencies and
the character of certain districts. Oc
casionally some old market tbat was a
fashionable center a century ago is left
high and dry by a turn in the tide of
building. The better class residence
section moves away. Hanover Market
111 years old. Is going through some
thing of the sort today and it has been
found necessary to rent portions of its
space to wholesalers and dealers.
Whether the marketing system on a
large scale can be successfully intro
duced into big cities where ordinary
retailing practice is firmly established
Is a question. The case of Baltimore Is
not typical for obvious reasons. In the
qld Maryland, city, the public market
Is a feature solidly Intrenched In the
regard of the cltlaen and furnishing
the visitor with a unique anfl .pictur
esque spectacle.
WEST POINT.
Miss Helen Brockman of Qulncy, 111.,
Is visiting her parents here.
Miss Marie Bell of La Crew is spend
ing a few days with Miss Evelyn
Trewitt.
Mrs. Wirsig of Donnellson is visiting
her son Dr. A. E. Wirsig and family.
Charles Stebbins of Fort Madison is
spending the week with his aunt Mrs.
J. E. Cantril.
Edward A. Stevens, son, of Thomas
Stevens passed away at his home in Ft
Madison June 5th at 6 p. m.- after an
attack of heart trouble of one day. He
was born in West Point May 17, 1861,
being 55 years and 18 days of age. He
had lived In this county all his life. He
is survived by his' wife, father, three
sister and two brothers.
Carl Hayer and family of Buffalo,
Kansas, arrived Wednesday for a visit
at the A1 Sheets home.
Frank Weishaar of Bloomington. III.,
arrived last week for a visit with his
brother W. Weishaar.
Miss Vallie Shadwell departed Wed
nesday for Cedar Falls where she will
attend a summer school at the state
normal.
T. J. Lampe is in Des Moines attend
ing the convention of the State Rexall
club.
Rev. W. A. Denny departed Wednes
dav for Stonington, 111., where he was
called to officiate at the funeral of a
friend.
Miss Anna Hellwig, Laura Lampe.
Lucent* Steffensmeier and Emma Win
thum of St. Joseph's convent at St.
Francis. Wis., are visiting at £t. Paul.
Roy Blllman has returned to his
WM,
1 it all 09 /Mrs. Hi A. Geers and children of
home-at. sunk but the loss of this .warship was
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BUDDY BUILDS A SAND HOUSB.
The little guinea pig children had so
much fun bathing in the pond, where
Perclval, the circus dog, made the
salty waves for them, as I tola yo«
about in the previous story, that they
went In swimming as many times as
their mamma would let them.
Perolval was only too glad to make
the waves, and hold the bag of fait in
the pond, to make it salty, fust like the
ocean. Sometimes the old dog would
jounce a box up and down, to make the
waves, and again, when he wanted lar
ger ones, he would use a barrel. Then
the waves of the pond would be over
the heads of Buddy and Brlghieyes,
and they had to cling te the ropes with
all their might
One day Buddy was sitting In the
sand, on the banks of the pond, when,
all at once, he had an Idea.
"I know what I'm going to dot" he
exclaimed. "I'm going to bulld a saad
house. I wish Brighteyes was here to
the pen to help her mamma set dinner
ready, for Mrs. Plgg expected oompany
that day Mr. and Mrs. Buahytafl were
coming. So Buddy had to start to
build the house all alone. He piled a
lot of sand In a heap, together with
stones, and sticks and bits of duck
weed, and then he started In.
First he scooped out a hollow place,
and that was for the cellar. Then he
stuck Btlcks up around the edges of
the hole, and began to pile up the sand
to make the walls of the house. Just
as he was doing this, what should he
hear but footsteps running along the
sand. He looked up and gave a shout
of delight.
"Hello, Blllle and Johnnie Bushytail!
he cried, as he saw the two little squr
rel boys. "You're Just in time! Come
on and help me build this sand house."
"Sure!" agreed Billle and Johnnie,
as they frisked their tails, just as the
cook sometimes frisks the dusting
brush when she wants to knock the
crumbs from the table to the floor.
"Can you stay long?" asked Buddy..
"As long as papa and mamma do,"
answered Johnnie. "They are in the
house now, and so is Sister Sallie.
We're going to stay to dinner, but first
we'll help you build the sand house."
So they all three got busy. They pli
ed and scooped the sand up around the
upright sticks and, pretty soon, believe
me, if It really didn't begin to look like
a real house. It was about as big as a
big box, and nearly as high 'and the
cellar was quite large.
"What will we do with the house
when we've finished it?" asked gillie
Bushytail.
"Well go in it and play we're rob
bers," suggested Johnnie, as he pat
ted the sand with hlii paws, to make
it smooth.
"No, we'll be pirates," decided Bud
dy. "Pirates always stay near salty
water, and this Is salt water, because
Perclval emptied a whole bag of salt
In it"
"All right," agreed the squirrel boys
so they went on building the house.
They put little pebbles all around It
for a fence, and laid a gravel walk up
from the pond to the front door, and
htuck up little sticks for trees In -the
front yard, and made a garden, be
cause Buddy said, even If they were
pirateB, they would have to have some-
Intoch. S. D., are visiting relatives here
and at Ft. Madison.
A1 Culllgan who graduated from the
Mount Pleasant high school arrived
home Thursday.
Mrs. Al Lohman very pleasamtly en
tertained the Amity club Tuesday
evening. Mrs. T. J. Lampe won first
honors and Mrs. Ben Bandera seconds.
Refreshments were served and all en
joyed a most pleasant evening.
West Point has been selected as the
place for holding the Lee county corn
club picnic June 21. The boys who have
entered the club will be the guests of
honor and the ladies of the Presbyter
ian church will serv* the dinner in the
Jarge
ark.
It will be a county affair ahd a
delegation Is expected. E. C.
Bishop of Ames is expected to be pres
ent.
forgeHxico
HEEDING TRUCKS
Washington, D. C., June 10.—More
motor trucks are needed by the Ameri
can force in Mexico and probably will
be supplied. Gen. Funston reported
today to the war department that bad
roads and continual use of trucks in
hauling supplies had caused a number
to break down. The rainy season, now
starting, makes ample transportation
facilities urgent, he explained.
Gen. Scott, chief of staff, said Funs
ton's request probably would be grant
ed, but declined to indicate how many
trucks might be purchased. Under
special provision the department may
incur expenses for transportation of
troops in emergency without special
appropriation.
More than 300 trucks and about 100
other motor vehicles are now with the
American expeditionary force, army
officials declared. Gen. Funston did
not state the exact number of these
which have broken d6wn.
Army officers are emphatic In de
claring that the trucks have made ex
cellent service records despite sandy
roads and long hauls unprecedented
in military service.
THINK CRUISER SANK
WHILE BEING TOWED
London, June 10. —The report that
the German battle cruiser Derfflinger
has been sunk is reiterated in an Am
sterdam dispatch to the Exchange Tel
egraph Co. It says that travelers ar
riving in Amsterdam from Berlin say
they were told in Germany that the
Derfflinger sank after the North sea
battle, while being towed to Wilhelms
haven.
The British admiralty announced the
Derfflinger was believed to have been
hv tho
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First, let's see it wo con get In tho
house," said Johnnie. *Oo la very care
fully."
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thing to eat, and they planted duck
weed in the garden and made believe
It was radishes and lettuce and cab
bage and ever so many things even
apples and pears and peaehes.
Well, pretty soon the sand house
was finished: that Is, all but the top.
"What will we hare fot a roof?"
asked Blllle.
"I'll show you," said Buddy so he
laid sticks across the top of the sand
wails, and on tep of the weed he and
the squirrel boys put sand, until it was
realtor the nicest house of its kind you
could find if you walked a mile, or,
maybe even two miles.
That oertatnly Is one fine, dandy
honsel" exclaimed Johnnie, as he step
ped back to admire It.
"Tes. sad now let's get Inside and
pretend w*re robbers," propsed Blllle.
"FIl be the head robber and you two
can work for me,"
"Mb, wtfn going to ho pirates, and
Fm tho chief ooe,n insisted Buddy.
So they went In, vary slowly and
carefully through the front door, eo as
not to knock the sand down, and hon
estly the sand house was Just biff
enough tar those three, and not a Mt
bigger. They erven had to hold their
breaths, and not all breathe at once*
or they never would have fitted In it
"Now," said Budy, "we'llr protend
we're pirates, and well bury all tho
gold and dlaaaonds we have.-"
So they played that game, and
buried gold make-bettewe yon know
in the cellar, and they were having a
lovely time, when all at onoe,* withowt
a word of warning, the root of tho
sand house fell right In .on top of
them! I suppose It was because Pirate
Chief Buddy gave such a loud sho«t
Anyway, the roof caved in, and part
of the walls, and there those three
pirates were, burled under the sand.
They tried to yell, and call for help,
but their mouths were full of the dirt,
and they couldn't speak. Then they
tried to scramMe out, and they
couldn't do that, and I really don't
know what would have happened to
them, If at that moment Brighteyes
Plgg and Sister SalUe hadn't come out
of the pen where their mammas and
papas were talking, to see what the
boys were doing.
(The two girls saw the sand boose,
all caved in, and they guessed that
Buddy and. Blllle and Johnnie were un
der it.
"We must dig them out!" cried
Sister Bailie.
So she and Brighteyes got some
pieces of shingle, and my goodness
me, sakes alive! how they did make
that sand fly! Peroival the old circus
dog, helped them, and pretty soon Bud
dy and his Mendis were safely
rescued. They were pretty well scared,
I can tell you, hut they were soon all
right again, and then It was time to
go to dinner, and after dinner they all
went in bathing and had lots of fun.
Now, I'm going to tell you next
about Buddy helping Sammie Little
tail, that Is if the man comes to cut
our grass and lets our puppy dog hide
undfer the door-mat to scare the parrot
next door.
ROOSEVELT IS IN
FAVOR OF LOOSE
Oyster Bay, N. Y., June 10.—Col.
Roosevelt, In a telegram sent this
morning to the progressive conven
tion at Chicago, suggested the name
of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Mas
sachusetts as a compromise candidate
upon whom both progressive and re
publicans could unite.
Col. Roosevelt said that at about
5 o'clock this morning he was notified
by the progressive conferees that they
had come to no ooticluBion with the
republican conferees and that the re
publican conferees had again asked
for any suggestion of a name as a
candidate from the progressive con
ferees.
He then wrote to the progressive
conferees stating that he deeply ap
proved their loyalty to him and their
efforts to get him nominated, but that
he thought the time had come when
carrying out the spirit of theptatement
of the progressive national committee
in January and the statement made
by him In Trinidad in February, it was
their duty to present an alternative
name on which he hoped the republi
cans and progressives could unite. He
presented the name of Henry Cabot
Lodge.
The first Intimation at Oyster Bay
that a compromise candidate had
been suggested by Col. Roosevelt
came at noon today when he called
the newspaper correspondents here
and gave out the foregoing statement.
KITCHENER'8 BOAT HIT MINE.
London, June 10.—The British
cruiser Hampshire, on which Field
Marshal Earl Kitchener and members
of his staff were lost, wfeus sunk as the
result of striking a mine, it Was offi
cially announced this afternoon.
All hope has been abandoned for all
save the twelve men from, the Hamp
shire who were washed ashore on a
raft, the statement Bays.
CAVALRY ENTRAINED.
San Antonio, Tex., June lt.—A
squadron of Texas cavalry entrained
for Laredo early today to strengthen
troops on patrol duty In the Laredo
district. Horses will be, sent later.
Geh. Funston had intended the squad
ron of militia cavalry for service in
the Big Bend country but. the activities
of De la Rosa south of Laredo caused
a change In plans.
~5astoria For Infants ittd OhiMran.
MAYOR ISSUES
PROCLI
City! Executive Urges AJ
to Observe Wednesday in
Honor of Nation's Flag 1
LINE OF MARCH IS
NOW ARRANGED FOB
Divisions of Big Parade anc
Where They Form Mad^
Known By Committee
PROCLAMATION.
To the citizens of OttMMMr
I would also urge that alt
ployere of labor, ae far*ao pnn
able, Join In affording thetr
ployee an opportunity to
pate In tho exereleee.
Where Parade Forms,
7|
Iowa, proclamation Is hersby tmMffg
that
Patriotic eeetetjss, a- nnmhoptff'^
lodges and many otlio* .«»^yp|||
tlono have Joined hand* In
nlng to celebrate Flag day,
14* 1914 h» a fitting manned.
tvtry organisation In tho,
lo hereby hMtsd and hi,
tlot|Mte hr the-eetebratfon ml]
tloatarljr In the |»arado at 4t
In tho afternoon.
Notice tetiersfey gfosn
flsr aa compatible
safety alt oMM of tho
city departments will otooo If
o'clock noon. That ell otty
ployes ahstl oeaso labor at
hour and are eameotty fa^w
to Join In celebrating tho all
noon In a fitting manner.
F. H. Carter*
Mayor of the olty of Ottumw^j
Iowa.,
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Mayor Carter has proclaimed Wted»
nesday as Flag day and urged all the
cttisens to partlolpate In doing honor
to the nation's colors. The executive
committee of the day met Friday even*.
Ing at the Commercial club and per«
fected the parade program as to place
of fonnatlon, line of march and howv.
The business section will be traveled'
by tho mammoth street pageant an#
when the parade concludes the fltat
program wlU be given In the city parfcr
Singers Meet Monday. M|
Everyone who desires to take park
in the big chorus that Is to lead
public singing at the Flag day exor
cises Wednesday, is requested to at*^
tend the meeting Monday evening 111
the First CaValry band rooms
Stevens' shoe store. The chorus
haVe its first rehearsal at that
under the Joint direction of Prof.
Dayton and Mrs. N. B. Blish.
Participants in the Flag day parade,
are requested to assemble at 3 p. nt,*
at the following places:
8ection 1.—First Cavalry band, GO®
O, Fife and Drum corps, S. of V., G. A,
R. and patriotic societies marching/'1
will form on Union street betwood
Main and Second.
Section 2.—-Boy scouts, uniformed^
lodges, form on Second (street between
Union and Vine.
Section 2.—Labor organizations
form on Second street between uw,,,
lege and Union.
Sections 4 and 5—All school child*
ren will form on the Adams school
grounds.
Section 6.—Unattached foot march»^
ers will form' on Cbllege street, bo?
tween Second and Fourth.
Section A.—Decorated floats) etc.,
will form on Main street, between
Union and Vine. fi
Section B.—Autos and vehicles and
fire department will form immediately
back of section A in the vicinity off
Vine street on Main. j.
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DELIEVEPOMMERN
WIS NEW CRUISER
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London, June 10.—The German war*
ship Pommern, which was sunk in th#!»
battle off Jutland, was not the battfo -m
ship of that name, but a recently com
pleted battle cruiser, according tQ #g$|
Cophenhagen dispatch to the E» |ll
change Telegraph Co., quoting a se*}|||
captain, who is a frequent visitor to
German ports. The battleship, whlchi|#
was completed in 1905, was torpedoed ,^|
in the Baltic in July, 1915, according! *3
to the captain.•
Admiralty officials here' have e*
|fjf
pressed their belief to a representativo jk
of The Associated Press that the Pom*
mern which wis sunk in the great f-'
naval battle was a new capital ship*
!.
They point out that the commander of#!
a British submarine reported that
had torpedoed the old battleship Pom*
mern in July, 1915, and this repo^kl
they claim was confirmed by survivors!
•of the battleship who were landing
wearing her capband. $
FIGHT ON VERDUN FRONT.
Paris, June lO.-x-VIolent artilleiT|
fighting was in progress on the Verdurif
front last night, in the vicinity
Avocourt, Thiaumont and the Chapltra
and Fumin woods. There were no ittfp
fantry attack^.
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