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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-14
OLDEST IOWA LIBRARY.
Cedar Falls Organized u Library in
1S6s-rhe Report for 1900.

Special to Times Republican.
Cedar Falls, Jan. lA.-c'edar Falls
public library is one of the oldest in the
STATE. 1t was organized in 1853 and was
started with 100 volumes. II, the spring
of the above year, during the summer
ana fall, about 500 volumes had bsen
put upon the shelves. In 1871 the build
ing the library was located in burned
and the entire effects, including all of
the books, We're burned also. The libra
1v association rallied and procured am
ether lot of books and made a new start,
with 1000 volumes In March, 1878, the
library association turned over TO the
city the books and all interest in the
same thus forming the foundation of
the present library, undeis The control of
Kline directors-four ladies and five gen-
t,enlen. The directors recently made
Itheir annual report to the city council
US follows:
Number Of volumes in library Dec.
s s isss ofvoiamss added in 1900 sos
Number of volumes Dec. 81. 1900. 6 ,255
Hooks circulated during year q. I. AL
Number of persons using rooms
during the year $500. 5,314
4 Amount of funds on hand. ~. $3.50. Sc
/ During the year the library has been
salded to the maiiing.list of the depart
iaent OF the interior at Washington.
%.
Movements are being made to secure
a permanent home for the library. The
question of increased capacity will SCOT
face the board.
4 INSURANCE COMPANY MEETING.
omcers for iowa Mercantile Mutual
Elected
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-14

DIR. caldwe!l'e Syrup Pepsin convinces
you OF its merits the first dose you take.
B. A. Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-14
Gearing.

Special to Times Republican.
Gearing, Jan. 14.-Mr. John Howard.
who is teaching school near Clemons,
spent Saturday and Sunday in our city,
The third number of the lecture course
was given Friday evening b. W. A.
Davis, the chalk taIker. There was a
large crowd in attendance and all
seemed 10 enjoy the evenings enter
tainment.
Mr.. Frank Albaugh, of Nevada. was
in Gearing last Week doing some paper
ing at the home of c. a. Burkhart.
La grippe is the prevalent disease in
this community.
Miss Susie Williams returned Friday
evening from a two weeks visit With
friends at Liscomb and Marshalltown.
The Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges
Will hold a point installation OF officers
at their hall on Tuesday evening A fine
time is anticipated.
Mr.. T.. c. Ingledue is very sick with
pneumonia. His many Friends hope Tor
a speedy recovery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-14
Goldneld.
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Special to Times Republican.
Golddeld, Jan. 14.-Friday evening,
Jan. IL, at $40 o'clock a meteor in the
east from here fell, and while making its
descent it produced blue light as
on electric lights.
There is much sickness among the
children, eighteen being absent from one
room Friday.
Mr.. S. T. Campbell, implement dealer,
has sold out to James Campbell and MIR.
Hawthorne.
Mr.. Henry. hardware and furniture
Gealer, who had been sick for eleven
weeks of typhoid fever was buried last
"Wednesday.
The Conservative, 1901-04-04
CREMATION INCREASINGLY PoPU-
LAR

1t is cheering to note the steadily
growing popularity of cremation in the
United States. While at the Fresh
Pond crematory of New York city there
were incinerated in 1900 about six
hundred bodies. A newly organized
cremation company anticipates that by
introduction of improved methods it
will be able to increase the number more
than a hundred per cent. With the
furnaces at present in use by the Fresh
Pond crematory, to consume a body
requires from two to four hours. The
directors of the new company guarantee
to do the work in half an hour. Truth
to tell, it has hitherto required three
days to transact all the business involved
in cremation. Upon application to
the incineration authorities, arrange
ments were perfected for conversion of
the body into ashes on the following
day. The next step was to convey the
body to the crematory and deposit it in
the retort. "On the third day one could
call for the ashes" In the language of
a director, you can, under the new
regime "call him up over the phone in
the morning, bring the body over imme-
diately and in an hour go home with the
ashes"
Cremation societies have been greatly
handicapped by popular prejudice, but
that has now been largely overcome.
They affect to have discovered that their
two worst enemies are women and the
church. We quote from the New York
Sun:
"Louis Lange, president of one of
The Conservative, 1901-04-04
Tbe Conservative.

these societies, says that men often
come to him and tell him how they pine
to be cremated after death, how they
have labored with their loving wives to
bring them around to the same view
and of how dubious they feel about the
future. The burning question with
these men seems to be, how to get the
wife to agree to the burning. They say
she'll be sure to bury them if they
happen to die first. The conviction a
man may have, that he won't lie easy in
his grave under those circumstances
doesn' help him much. But apparently,
in some cases his uneasiness reaches the
widow. For Mr.. Lange says that
women often come to him and say
"'I can find no rest! My husband
wanted to be cremated, but 1, basely
persuaded, put him in a grave! Now |
want him disinterred and cremated." "
Hard is the way of the transgressor!
comments Mr.. Lange.
eyes, and expensive, too. Think of
having a cemetery lot and granite
tombstone for the exchange and barter
column! 1t would be a worse plight
than that of the 'widower who would
like to exchange lady's riding habit for
anything useful.
At Fresh Pond there is but one furnace
and but one chapel for funeral services.
The new crematory is to have five. Said
a director by way of explanation "We
don't want to have one funeral party
sitting on the front steps waiting for
another one to get out.'
TT annears that the numher of vOlun-
tary cremations in the city of New York
exceeds that of any other city either in
Europe or the United States. There are
The Conservative, 1901-04-04

America because in Paris all paupers
and unclaimed bodies from the hospitals
and the morgues are burned in public
crematory. The only exceptions to the
hostile attitude of the church to crema-
ton are the Episcopalians Not only do
their ministers often officiate at the.
crematory; many of their famous men
like Bishop Potter, Bishop Lawrence,
DR.. Rainsford and Dean Hodges have
shown cremation societies marked
favors. Both the German emperor and
the Pope are against incineration, deeply
prejudiced.
The number of crematories in the
United States in 1884 was two. Twenty
five is the present number. Moreover,
from forty seven in 1885 the number of
cremations became in 1900, 10000. 1t
transpires that while in actual number
of incinerations New York remains at
the head Of the class, San Francisco is
good second and the number of crema-
tions in proportion to population is far
greater in the metropolis of the Pacific
Coast than in New York City. The
Odd Fellows crematory of San Fran
cisco, by the bye, enjoys the distinction
of being the finest in the world.
Burial of the corpse is relic of
barbarism. 1t is unclean, revolving;
scantily considerate of the dead and a
menace to the living. Cemeteries occupy
much valuable land that could be used
to better purpose and by pollution of the
water-supply of cities annually slay
unnumbered thousands. s.-Californian.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28
THE MAIN PROP.

1t is in keeping with the eternal
fitness of things that the politicians
who are responsible for the burdens
which three years of Proxy govern
mcnt have entailed upon the citizens
of Akron should have as their adyo.
cate and defender the author of per-
sonal journalism in Akron-thc man
whose brutal abuse and misreprescn-
tation has done more to drive lndc-
pendent and trustworthy men from
the service of the city than all other
causes combined.
1t has come to such pass that it
is hard to persuade an Akron citizen
of refinement and character to accept
II call to serve the people in the Coun-
ell or any other honorary branch Of
the local service because of the way
he Is bounded and misreprcsented by
the Dobson paper.
This type of journalism, however,
always gets the applause of the Ma
chine politicians because OF the very
purpose which it serves in keeping
the better class of citizens from en-
tering the public service. For thus
having the whole field of municipal
ofilcc-holding to themselves, they are
In no danger of any effective interfer-
ence with their self-seelSing plans.
The extreme to which this type of
journalism has been carried on in
Akron may he seen in the fulsome
sympathy which the Dobson paper
lavishes upon the officers who have
been turned down by rank and file Of
the Democratic party as punishment
for ncglecting the public interests.
But never II word of praise is there
for the officials who have done every
thing within their power to promote
tho interests of their city.
When Akron's voters go to the polls
next Monday to repudlate the Proxy
system, they will also express their
disapprobaton of the disgraceful type
of Journalism which is the Proxy sys-
tents main prop.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28
NO SURRENDER TO A BOSS.

How did Akron's subsidized City
commissioners protect the interests
Of Akron's citizens when they voted
not long ago to increase the Akron
police force, in order to make room
for some Of the political creditors of
the Czar?
They united in setting aside their
own regulations for effecting and
maintaining high standard of merit
in the Police Department. they waived
all right of selection in the matter
of police appointments, and voted to
constitute themselves n Board to rati-
fy the choice that had been made by IL
political boss.
They appointed to the police force
men of whose qualifications, character
and even names they were more or
less ignorant, and with some of whom
at least, they had not even a personal
acquaintance.
In other words the Board surrend.
cred its rights of judgment and inde-
pendence Of action in the matter that
1t might enable boss to pay his po-
litical debts at the expense of the
public service.
Next Monday is the time when Ak
ron's taxpayers should record a pro-
test against the craven surrender by
the City Commissioners Of their obli-
CATION to protect the public interess.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

S24O, 900 000,-assuming that he owned
but bare majority of the stock and
we have a profit of $140,O0OO0O over
the $10O,000,000 for which but little
more than year before he had given
an option upon his entire interests iii
the properties sold.
This $14O,0OO,OoO, plus the 31.46 per
cent of premium upon tile stocks of
the smaller concerns which went into
the combine, are the share of "capi-
taP' in the transaction, and capital"
as We have seen, is the one equal leg
of the thrcc-legged stool. That CAPT
tai does not stand for a lame leg in
the stool business, is shown both by
the enormous premium paid for the
absorbed stocks, and by the assurance
given in the published statement that
in the new corporation there are sure
to be larger net earnings applicable
to dividends" than in the constituent
companies. This means that Mr..
Carnegie and his absorbed friends did
not go into this deal out of philan-
thropy.
Let us now examine the next leg of
the Carnegie 'stool." 1t Is the leg
Of business ability" In the present
instance it is made up of Mr.. J. p.
Morgan and ''the leading financial in
terests throughout the United States
and Europe For promoting the
scheme they are booked to receive a
sum in excess of $25,O00,000.
This constitutes the price which the
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

"Yotc for the Man Of the Hour"
BE wise in your wisdom and vote
for Doyle"
Doyle wants clean streets. Vote
for Doyle
Give us honest administration"
Harmony and Office is the watch
word"
Turn the Democrats out"
Put the Republicans ill.,"
How? HowT'
But How?"
"HOWY
If our Republican neighbors can see
in this shower of inspired rhetorics
from the Dobsonian sky the glorious
bow which promises them deliverance
from the accumulated burdens put
upon them by three years of Proxy
government, their mental penetration
is of a vastly greater candle-powcr
than that of their Democratic neigh
bors.
The only specific reform here prom.
iscd is that Doyle wants clean
streets" But the street fund is $4,000
overdrawn-thanks to the good man
agement of the Proxy City Commits
sioners, who have turned that depart
ment into political aid society-and
no new money will come into the fund
until the taxpayers ante up again next
August.
However, no such prosaic draw
back as a treasury that is $4,000
overdrawn must rise to confound the
man of the hour
There may be IL limit to Akron's
treasury, but there can be no over
draft upon Mr.. Doylc's treasury of
campaign promises and good inten-
ti0ns.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28
FOR THE GRIP.
You Have Heard Of Many Remedies--Did
You Ever Try This 0ne2

Everybody you meet on the streets
nowadays either has Just had the
grip, Is coming down with it or has Il
sure cure for 1t.
The disease has been puzzle to
physicians ever since its appearance
several years ago and it is as much of
puzzle today as it was then. II
exhibits such variety of symptoms
in different individuals and leaves
such disastrous results after apparent
recovery, that as yet its prevention
and cure has batfied medical science
However, there is no doubt but that
the grip is catarrhal in character and
the leading symptoms in nearly every
case is increased secretion in
in the head and throat, in fact the
first indications OF lagrippe are those
of cold in the head which extends
to the throat and lungs.
DR.. Johnson Ames advises ms the
safest course to pursue on the first
appearance of grip symptoms to keep
to the house for a day or two and
take Stuart's Catarrh Tablets every
hour the first day and every two hours
the following day and states that this
will break up the trouble before 1t be.
comes deep seated
These catarrh tablets are antiseptic
and harmless and prevent fever and
the further development CT grip germs
and ward off the ever present danger
of pneumonia.
Or. Gerald Simpson says: 81 have
found Stuart's Catarrh Tablets pleas
ant and thoroughly reliable remedy for
the grip, especially with elderly peo-
pie with whom this prevailing disease
is always dangerous; the tablets can
be found at any drug store and il
used freely during the first few days
of the attack will break it up"
Lagrippe Is a catarrhal affection, tho
germs are in the air and no one is
proof against 1t. but the timely use of
Stuart's Catarrh Tablets will prevent
any serious results.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

The three weeks campaign of mud
singing and misrepresentation with
which the defenders of the Proxy sys-
TEN have disgustcd Akron people has
been well engineered, but it has not
been sufficient to make the voters for
get the effects of three years of Proxy
government, The tide of public senti-
ment which will turn next Mondays
election against the pcrverters of our
local government, had gathered an ir-
resistiblc force long before the feeble
efforts We're made to turn 1t.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

1t remains to be seen whether the
army of men who are supporting the
Proxy ticket because they have been
promised a job from the city will have
II greater voting strength than the
property owners and citizens who are
supporting the Democratic ticket be
cause they are opposed to having
jobs created at their expense. The
taxpayers have always won whenever
they have come into collision with the
taX-eaters in the past and they will
win next Monday.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

A city official who will deliberately
surrender his independence and his
obligation to stand up for the inter
csts of the city and the taxpayers, in
order to obtain the favor of a politi-
cal boss and to hold his job, cannot
be criticised too strongly. And party
that deals harshly with such an Of
fetal ought to be praised instead of
censured. The Democratic party has
tried to break down the Proxy system
in Akron.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

When Solicitor Esgate told his fell
low Republicans that Democrats are
hogs; poke them at every opportu-
nifty" he forfeited all claim to the
support of self-respecting Democrats;
and the Solicitors record Of standing up
for the interests of the city is not
causing the Democratic voters to fall
over themselves in their eagerness
to vote for him.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

There have been Democratic officials
in Akron who have not been true to
the interests Of the people But il is
to the credit Of the party that it has
turned upon such faithlcss officials
whenever they have showed their
hand. The party that will not with
hold punishment from its members
who betray the public interests. de.
serves and will receive the praise of
honest men. 1t is only the Machine
politicians and their bencfciarles who
shed tear when one of their number
comes under the ban of merited pun.
ishment, And none but those who
themselves have no consideration for
the rights of the people would
erect II headstone at the political grave
OF fallen spokesman and undertake
to call him Martyr"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

The plan of selecting policemen OF
other city employees because they
are the pensioners of political boss,
or for any other reason than merit
and fitness for the duties to be per.
formed, is ruinous to the city. But
when these same interests turn
around and try to control elections for
the benefit of the machine, it is time
for the taxpayers and property owners
to cry, Hands OFF,
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

Akron's property owners two years
ago refused to elect Republican May
or so long as the county has Repub-
lican Probate Judge, and the two years
of interference In the city's affairs by
the Probate Judge following that elcc-
ton have not given them any good rca.
son for reversing their verdict of two
years ago
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28
SCHOOL BOARD.

FIRST WARD Stephen II. Hartzell.
SECOND WARD-(No election nee.
essary)
THIRD WARD-W. j. White, long
term; w. Z. Davis, short term
FOURTH WARD-Judge Chas. Il.
Grant, long term; Henry A. Kraft
short term.
FIFTH William G. Bigelow
SIXTH WARD-Wm. Allen.
SEVENTH WARD-Rev. Geo. uar.
ter; long term; Amos j.. White, short
term.
EIGHTH WARD-lacob NJ. Gaycr
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

If the taxpayers of Akron choose
Mr. Rcnner for their Solicitor he will
not shrink from standing up for the
interests of the city. Akron needs an
injunction suit occasionally to protect
the rights of the people from being
frttercd away by the Board OF City
commissioners.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

Tho way to get reconstruction of
Akron's government is to teach Ohio's
Legislature that no Republican victory
can be won in Akron so long as the
dominant faction of that party insists
upon assuming the responsibility for
the maintenance of the Proxy system
in exchange for enjoying the unworthy
advantages which it confers.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

The majority of the property own
ers of Akron viii not agree with the
present subsidized Board of City
Commissioners that IL is necessary
to increase the taxes TO rcplenlsh the
bankrupt treasury. The better way
is to open the way to the appointment
of men to the Board of City Com
mlssioncrs who will be the servants
of the people instead of "A political
boss, This relief will not come by
voting TO give Judge Anderson an even
more absolute control over the Board
than he has had for the last three
years.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28
For Constable,
ALBERT McMULLEN.
COUNCIL

FIRST WARD.
Jacob Bauer, long term.
Howard w. Haupt, short term
SECOND WARD.
John l.. Skunk, long term.
Mel Hanson, short term.
THIRD WARD.
Geo. Brodi, long term.
Il. i. Callahan, short term.
FOURTH WARD.
VIM. II. Sawyer, long term.
Jos. Winum, short term.
FIFTH WARD.
julius Wilhelm, long term.
VIM. Kaufman. short term.
SIXTH WARD.
John w. Gauthier, long term,
Eugene Coleman, short term.
SEVENTH WARD.
Andrew Martin, long term.
j. W. Walker, short term.
EIGHTH WARD.
John McrZ, long term.
August Piske, short term.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

One of the reasons that swellcd the
majority of Mayor Young at the elec.
ton two years ago was the unwilling
ness of Akron's taxpayers to place the
Joint power of appointing City Com.
missloners in the hands of men of one
political party. The same influence
will contribute 10 the majority of Mr.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

1t Is characteristic of the organ
which Is giving Judge Anderson's cause
such incorporate support in this cam.
paign that it should snecr ut the force
and the character of public scntl-
ment,' When has this organ not snecr-
cd at the opinions and the wishes of
Akron people whenever the same have
come in collision with the interests of
political boss?
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28
NO 0VERDRAFT ON PROMISES.

Here are some of the platitudes
which for three weeks have been harped
into the ears of Akron people by the
Dobson paper
Vote for right, sincerity, pure mo
tives. patriotic sentiment, and Munich
pal Reform"
Honesty is the best policy. Vote
for Doyle"
smash the City Building trust.
Turn the rascals out. Vote fol
Doyle"
"Virtue Is It's own reward"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-28

Citizens who vote their ticket next
to shout over n partisan" victory
will be the first to complain when
their taxes are increased by reason
of the mismanagement of the city's
affairs by IA subsidized Board of Com
missioners.