Audubon County journal., March 25, 1915, Image 6

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Page Six.
DENTIST
Dr. L. J. Oldaker
DENTIST
Over P. M. Christensen
store
PHONES:
Residence, bi) Office 39
FARM LOANS
Farm Loans
Lowest rates. Complete
sel of Abstract of Title to all
lands and town lots in Audu
bon County.
CHARLES BAGLEY
PHYSICIANS
DR. JOH.% BtlljEY,
Physician Surgeon
Office Phone 53. House Phone (17
Office
firit door
e»st
INSURANCE
of Pvlr« Inroi
Gorsrr Orue Storn, upntnlrt CAiro, luwo
PAINTER 1 1
W. 0. SCOTT
PAINTER and
DECORATOR
ESTIMATES FURNISHED
ALL
AVOItlf OUABANTEED.
Phone 143
T, H. Godwin
Contractor and Builder
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
Phone 52AII22
For Greeley Farmers Mutual Fire
and Lightning insurance see
Fred Wahlert Sr, Exira, Iowa
Wm. L. Clark, Hamlin, Iowa
M. J. Masteryon, Audubon.
Have other agents in Audu
bon, Guthrie and Adair coun
ties. Also Wind and Torna
do Insurance Written.
VETERINARIAN
R. A. Lantz
VETERINARIAN
Office in rear part
of
fttxictly
9pedal notice,
A
First Na­
tional Bank. Calls answered day or
nlglit.
Phone No. 150
OVER 65 YCARS'
IENCE
TRADE MARKS
DESIGNS
COPYRIGHTS &C.
Anyone Bending a sketch nnd description mny
Quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an
Invention ia probnbly Patentable. Communion,
lions
confident lul.
HANDBOOK
onPateuts
rent free. Oldest uuency/or securing patent*.
Patents taken through Munn
A
Co. rccelvc
without charge, in the
Scientific American.
hnndsomely illustrnlert weekly. T.nrccnt dr.
filiation of liny scicmlUo jouriml. 'i'crma,
jenr:
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four nuinllm, 1. Bold by all nowsdeulerfl.
MUNN & Co.364Broad"a» New York
£raocb Officii. £25 St, WaahluetOQ. D. C.
ei'SHESTER SPILLS
DIAMOND BRAND
LADIES
Alb yuur Druggist for CTTI-I
DIAMOND UKAND PILLS
GOLD metallic boxes, sealed
Ribboa TAKB NO OTHER,
Druggist and ask for CIII
DIAMOND BlCANlt TILLS, for twenty-five
years regarded a9 Best, Safest, Always Reliable.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS
SJS EVERY WHERE, xbstw
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WIRE' NETTING ON PALACE.
Hoyal London Home Protected From
Aerial Attack.
London.—The north wins of Buck
ingham palace is now being covered
with a wire netting about twenty feet
above the roof, 'lliis is the wing con
tinuing the living apartments of the
royal family.
Additional anti-air craft guns have
leen placed in the neighborhood of the
palace, one having been set up in the
••enter of Green parlc in the last week.
If a Zeppelin should be seen hover
ing over the palace there are at least
half dozen suns which would open
lire upon t.
Additional preparations are being
made almost every day to fight, air
ships over London.
While many of the art treasures in
the museums have been removed to
places of greater safety, there have
been vigorous complaints in some news
papers that valuable pictures, sculp
tures or objects of art should still re
main exposed to the possibility ol
aerial attack on the galleries.
WHO SWALLOWS DICTIONARY?
Question Disturbing Missouri Legisla
tors—Have Already Lost Three.
.Tefferson City. Mo.—The house dis
covered recently that it was stnignling
along without a dictionary when a res
olution was introduced to buy a now
one for use of members.
'•I'd like to know what became of
the big dictionary we bought two years
ago?" Representative J. M. Bowers
asked.
No member volunteered information.
"I'd like to know what became of
the dictionary we had four years ago."
Bowers persisted.
Silence.
"I'd like to know who took the dic
tionary we bought six years ago," he
demanded.
More silence.
"Well, it's getting pretty tough when
the.v steal a dictionary from a Missouri
legislature," remarked the gentleman
from Wayne.
Whereupon the house bought anoth
er dictionary.
WOMAN NEVER SLEEPS
AWAKE SEVEN YEARS
Sits Up All Night in Chair and
Tries to Rest.
Seattle, Wash.—Mrs. Edward IlaiK
of this city says slio has slept only 111:
an hour In the last seven years.
Her husband substantiates her t".ie
merit.
Seattle physicians say it is imposst
ble that if Mrs. Ilauc-k hasn't slcit f:
seven years by all the laws of liatiuv
she would have been dead long auo.
Two or three years ago one night sl:t'
dozed off, she declares, and slept foi
fully half an hour.
Often now she feels sleepy and in:
mediately lies down in the hope tin:
the longed for unconsciousness wis!
come. IJut it never does.
She weighs twenty-live pounds less-,
than she did seven years ago. when hc
long period of sleeplessness began. Slu
suffered severely for tile lirst two 01
three nights, she says. That's all.
"It has come to be a sort of matter
of fact condition with me now," she
went on. "There is no pain, only a
kind of dull feeling that weighs down
on me. And the nights, you know, are
BO long when one is alone and every
body else in the world is sleeping."
She passes little of her time in bed.
Early in the evening she lies down
with her little daughter, Irene Bell,
aged a year and a half, until the child
is in slumberland. Then she gets up.
clears away her work and prepares for
her long siege against the corning of
daybreak.
Edward Hauck, the husband, is em
ployed as a cook. He works nights.
"I worked In the daytime until recent
ly, though," he said, "and slept here
at home at night, and I know my wife
is not mistaken when she says she
spends her nights just as wide awake
as she is during the day. Occasionally,
when she tried going to bed, I'd wake
up and find her tossing beside me, al
ways awake. Generally, though, she
would be sitting in our one rocking
chair, with the shaded lamp beside
her, reading."
Mrs. Hauck says she finds she can
get more physical relaxation in a chair
at night than in bed. She makes the
chair comfortable with bedclothes, par
tially disrobes and lies back to count
off the hours.
"She's such a plucky little person,"
her husband explains, "that she hardly
ever complains about it and seems anx
ious only that baby an:l I get our
rest."
Mrs. Hauck sought relief from physi
cians in the east before coming to
Seattle, three years ago from Berlin,
Ont., but could get none, she says. She
has bought drugs and sleeping pow
ders at various times, both with and
without the advice of physicians. But
nothing has helped, she says.
Boy Plans Own Funeral.
Minneapolis.—Kenneth Booth Merrill,
student at West High school, was bur
ied recently in a casket of his own se
lection. Flowers used at the funeral
and the music were chosen according
to his expressed desire. Merrill had
known more than a year ago that ho
could not. recover, nnd during the last
few week's had made all arrangements
for his own funeral.
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FORM LE*M FOR
DEFENSE
Noted Ken Are Eack of
tins VoliiRtesr Movement.
TO TAKE IN TRAINED MEH.
Former Soldiers and Sailors Are In the
First Line—Major General Leonard
Woocf and Colonel Roosevelt Are En
thusiastic Supporters—No Spirit of
Militarism Aroused.
New York.—The first definite step
toward the establishment of a military
and naval reserve for national defense
has been taken in the formation of the
American lesion, an organization which
makes its bow to the people of this
countrv with the enthusiastic indorse
ment of former President Theodore
Roosevelt and Major General Leonard
Wood.
Its plans and purposes have been
worked out at Governors island under
the guidance of Captain Gordon John
ston of General Wood's stall and Com
mander Robert Iv. Crank of the United
States navy. There its headquarters
are temporarily located, and from there
will come presently an announcement
of the names of those who are to serve
as members of the executive commit
tee and board of honorary advisers.
Colonel Roosevelt has already accepted
the chairmanship of the latter body.
It is the answer of patriotic and prac
tical men to the agitation which has
been going on ever since the outbreak
of the European war called attention
to the fact that the United States is
not prepared to defend itself.
It is the purpose of this organization
not only to enroll the fighting men of
the country, the men who have seen
service as soldiers or sailors, but also
to enroll the men who have special
training in any one of the half bun
dred callings which under the condi
tions of modern warfare are as essen
tial to success as are military and
naval equipment The membership of
this organization is to be made up not
by Clinedinst
MAJOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD.
of those who are willing to defend their
country, but of those who can de
fend it.
Those who are behind the organiza
tion are not imbued with the spirit of
militarism. They agree with those
who say that at a word from the pres
ident of the United States millions of
men would swarm to the colors and
that it is not necessary in time of
peace that this country maintain a
great standing army such as one as
sociates with the word militarism. No
military training in time of peace Is
involved, no increase In standing army,
navy or militia, but there is contem
plated a taking stock of resources so
that in time of war the government
would be able to lay its hand immedi
ately upon those who would be best
qualified to cope with the emergency.
There will be two active branches of
the legion. The line of the legion will
be composed exclusively of men who
have had army or navy service or who
can handle a high power rifle and are
seasoned in taking care of themselves
in the open.
It is a fact not generally known per
haps that the United States army and
navy keep 110 account of the thousands
of men who are annually dropped from
the service, either by resignation or by
expiration of term of enlistment. They
simply melt away into the great body
of the population.
It is of course generally known that
in this country 110 data are kept of the
activities of citizens that would enable
the government in time of war to pick
out at once the man or body of men
especially adapted for a particular serv
ice. The selection is made after the
man enlists and his professed quali
fications are discovered only by ac
tual trial of his abilities in the service
of his country.
The American legion proposes to do
beforehand just what the government
would have to do after it had enlisted
a great volunteer army and navy.
Men who have been trained as soldiers
or sailors will be classified in detailed
records as to physique, education, char
acter of training and length of service.
Men of special training in other fields
will lie classified in the same way and
every applicant for membership will
be carefully questioned and the nature
of his qualifications thoroughly invests
gated.
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SAVES WOMAN FROM BULL
Animal, Inflamed by Red Sweater,
Pursues Her to Trolley.
Boulder, Colo.—The presence of mind
and prompt action of Larry l'ox, a
niotonnnn of a Denver and intermbau
car out of Boulder, saved Edith Fair
from death or serious injury.
Wearing a red sweater Miss Fair,
who is housemaid at the home of
Frank Anderson, on the eastern limits
of the city, started for the iunction to
intercept the car to Denver. While
hunting ai-ross vacant lot she heard
the bellowing erf it big bull.
One glance was sufficient to warn
Miss Fair that she was the object of
attraction of the maddened animal.
The terrified woman fled toward the
railway track with the enraged beast
not more than fifty yards behind her.
The interurban car at this moment
shot around the curve, but a short
distance away. Motorman Fox was
quick to see the young woman's dan
ger, and after turning off the current
and applying the brakes jumped from
the vestibule, seized her by the wrist
and lifted her to the car almost at the
same instant the animal brushed
against the coach.
Miss Fair, who had fainted when the
excitment was over, was soon revived,
but postponed her trip to Denver.
August Harding, the owner of the
bull, says he has never known the
animal to act unruly before, and at
tributes its antics to the red sweater
Miss Fair was wearing.
WOODPECKER ROBS A TOWN.
Causes Short Circuit Resulting In Ex
cessive Water Bill.
Ilwaco, Wash.—A woodpecker is
blamed for large additions to Ilwaeo's
bill for pumping city water.
The contract for filling the municipal
reservoir is let to a power company
I and an electric indicator notifies the
engineer when the required depth of
water has been provided.
For some months the bill has been
regarded*as excessive and the number
of hours required daily to fill the basin
has varied to a marked degree.
Investigation has placed the blame
on an innocent woodpecker which
chose one wire for a perch and with
its tall touching the other wire made
a short circuit so that the engineer's
signal to stop pumping was controlled
by the woodpecker's rest rather than
the depth of water provided.
PARENTS FAITHFUL TO
LEPER SON TO THE END
Father's Business Ruined and
Aid Relused by All.
Benton Harbor, Mich.—In an isolated
shanty, set down in a secluded spot on
the lake shore, Jacob Goldstein died a
day or two ago.
He was a leper, an outcast, a menace
to mankind, a creature to be shunned.
Yet when his spirit left his tortured
body his weeping mother and his de
voted father were by his side. He
could not see them, for the disease that
claimed him had destroyed his eyes.
But caring nothing for any risk they
ran, mother and father were faithful to
the end.
That his son from some mysterious
cause had developed leprosy caused
the elder Goldstein's financial ruin and
his family's ostracism. He kept a small
general store in suburban Benton Har
bor, and he and his family were In
comfortable circumstances when—
The whisper, "Young Goldstein is a
leper," swelled to a cry that echoed all
over Benton Harbor and far beyond its
limits. Overnight Goldstein's little
business was ruined former customers
hurried by on the other side of the
street former friends suddenly forgot
they had ever known the Goldsteins.
Goldstein tried to provide for his fam
ily by peddling. As he trudged the
roads the frightened warning went
ahead of him, "Here comes the leper's
father!" All doors were closed to him.
The local health authorities asked
the state of Michigan to care for the
leper. The state refused. There is
nothing in the health ordnances pro
viding for such a case., The Univer
sity of Michigan was ready to furnish
isolated quarters for young Goldstein
so its medical students might observe
the progress of the disease, but Ann
Arbor emphatically refused to admit
leper within her confines.
So the shanty was built in the se
cluded spot among the hills near by.
There tlie parents of the doomed boy
joined him in exile. The most loath
some, the most dreaded of all human
ills, the disease accursed, could not
drive Ills parents from the boy. Under
constant surveillance, these three ex
isted like prisoners in a stockade until
the merciful end came.
QUIT JOBS AT WIVES' ORDER.
Spouses Accuse Two Workmen at
WM
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Jail
of Being "Honor Prisoners."
Racine, Wis.—Two men employed at
the courthouse quit their jobs because
they did not wish to be classed as
"honor roll" jail prisoners. The men
had sought employment at the court
house because they had been laid off at
factories. Their wives, reading an ac
count of the employment of "honor"
prisoners at the courthouse, accused
their husbands of being under deten
.ion by the sheriff. Unable to convince
the women to the contrary, they were
forced to resign.
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TOMB
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f1 Recleaned Timothy at $2.75 per bu.
Located
Audubon, County Journal Ma-rclii 25.
Have you clogged up your system during the
winter? Have you lost your energy? Nearly every
body needs medicines in the spring to cleanse and
tone up the system and put it into working order.
Our fresh spring medicines will brace you up. After
you see the doctor see us~.
EXIRA DRUG COMPANY
We give you what you ASK for.
Good for Five Hundred (500) votes if presented on
Saturday, March 27.
Home Grown
Seeds for Sale
Recleaned Clover at $10.50 per bu.
E. Rothschild Go
Now is the Time
Now is The Right Time
and This Is The Right Place
For YOU to have that SUIT
CLEANED and PRESSED
For YOU to ORDER that SPRING
SUIT of us for EASTER
WE GUARANTEE YOUR MONEY'S WORTH
CITY PANTITORIUM
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to do your epairing. You
will need
LUMBER
for ycur fences, road bridge,
repairs on your house and
barn, etc. We are in a posi
tion to offer special induce
ments to early comers giv
ing you tihe beet poeelble ma
terial, at prices that defy
competition.
Fullerton Lumber Co
block north of the K. P. hall
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