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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31
DEATH OF MRS. soNNTAe.
Aged and WeII-known Resident Pass
ed Away This Morning.

From SATURDAYS Daily.1
The death of Mrs Elizabeth Sonntag
occurred at the family home, 318
Cara street, at $40, o'clock this morn
ing. Mrs. Sonntag had been ill for five
days, of pneumonia. She was 72 years
old, and she had been resident of
Ottumwa since 1876. She was con-
sistent Christian and member of the
Episcopal church. She was devoted
wife and kind and affectionate moth
err, and her departure from this life
will be keenly felt.
Elizabeth Klinger was born June g.,
1929, in Hessen Darmstadt, Germany,
and emigrated to this country in 1854.
coming to Quincy, ILL.,, where she
made her home until 1876, when she
moved to Ottumwa, which city
has been her home ever since. She,
was married to Frederick Sonntag in
1857 He passed away June IL, 1898.
Eight children were born of the union,
of whom three are living-Miss Kate
Sonntag, who lives at home, Mrs. G.
Rauscher, 325 Cara street, and one
son, Charles, whose home is on Cen
ter avenue.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31
THE IcEHousE.

"A pleHtilul supply OF Ice on the far1n
for use during the hot weather has al
most as much of comfort associated
with it as has the big pile of dry wood
in the shed for use during the cold days
of the winter. If you want ice for
next summer, now is the time to be
thinking about 1t. How to do it? Well
what we say is for the man on the
farm so situated that he cannot obtain
sawdust and who does not want to
put much money into the Ice business
but who is willing to do the work
necessary to secure a supply. Take
the north side of the barn and build a
lean to 10 by IA feet, with 8 foot posts
on the low side. Slant the roof up to
the side Of the barn and inclose with
shiplap, leaving door at one end and
a Stat window in the other. Fill the
bottom with coarse gravel to the depth
of one foot, this to secure good drain.
age. Now get your ice when it is about
a foot in thickness, If you can, and
laying some boards over the gravel
put on a foot of straw chafH and build
up cube of the ice blocks in the
center of the icehouse. leaving space
of two feet between the ice and the
side walls. Take enough fax chafP
which is best, or, if this cannot be OBJ.
tanned, wheat or oats chaff or the
straw cut fine. and pack as firmly as
possible all around the ice, putting a
foot or SC Of the chaff on the top If
the chatf show any signs of settling
during the summer. it must be added
to, so as to fully protect the ice. Eight
or ten leads of ice put up in the man.
ner we have described will supply a
farm home all summer.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31
TAXATION FOR ROAD IMPROVE
MENT.

The advocacy Of heavy burden of
taxation or the creation of big bond
ed Indebtedness for the purpose of
macadamizing the highways Of the
west and northwest by enthusiasts in
the cause of good roads does more
harm than good. A lot Of stuff about
the enormous sums lost by the farmers
of the country because of poor roads
appears from time to time in the pa
pers, which is the veriest rot. These
statements assume that it costs the
farmer because Of poor roads % cents
to move one ton of produce one mile,
while it is claimed it could be done for
6 cents if the highways were mac
adamized. This statement is wholly
untrue, as every farmer knows. But
few farmers are now located farther
away than seven miles from a ship
ping station. Through all the terri
tory referred to the highways are as
good as the very best during nine
months of the year. More and more
farmers are adopting improved meth
DDS of agriculture and have quit SELL
~ = ShS ttiN AiGlCLldi luelE
farms, such as hay, grain and straw,
and feed it on the farm and so market
their produce as meat. butter eggs,
poultry and the like. We are a warm
advocate of improved highways within
reasonable and sensible limits and
would as first step insist upon the
application Of common sense business
methods in the expenditure of funds
now raised for this purpose, the pay
ment Of road taxes in money, the MAX
ing of the township the unit for the
purpose of highway administration and
the letting of ell road work by con-
tract where possible. When road re-
form has been worked to the limit
along these lines, it will then be soon
enough to agitate the taxing and bond
ing matter. If the money now appro-
priated for road work We're intelligent
ly used in busincsslike manner, won
ders would be accomplished. Let every
farmer agitate road reform along the
lines indicated, and he will do well.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31
Craig Manning, Stock Raiser.

The Chicago Daily Drovers' Jour.
nal OF January % has the following to
say concerning Craig 1. Manning of
keosauqua, ua.,) a brother of Calvin
Manning of this city, and proinent
stock raiser:
Craig l. Manning of Keosauqua,
marketed load of fine red cattle
from the Maple Grove stock farm at
Cantril, Iowa, at $3.50. They aver.
age in weight 1,642 pounds and
brought about the top price.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31
HEREFORD COW BRINGS $500.
illinois Breeder Pays Fancy Price
for Prize Animal.

Kansas City, Jan. 2S.-Jesse G.
Adams, cattle breeder of Moweaqua,
ILL.,, has purchased Carnation, g.
year-old Hereford COW, paying $1,000,
believed to be the highest figure ever
paid for a single cow in this or any
other country.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

When you have taken 200 bushels Of
potatoes from your land, you have re-
moved two bushels of potash, one of
the most valuable of plant foods.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

Cheap candies Of all kinds are the
product Of glucose, degraded saccha
rine conversion of the starch obtained
from corn.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

England is troubled with two things
"a lot of Boer farmers in Africa who
won't stay licked and holes in the earth
at home where coal was, but is not.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

1t takes something more than simple
grit and push to win success. Asso.
ciated with these qualities there must
be intelligence and common sense.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

The wheat crop of the United States
for 1900 figures up 522, 229,575 bushels,
the average yield per acre being 1929
bushels.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31
MRS. NA,loNyj METHODS BAD.
So Governor Stanley Said When Invi.
ted to Join in Her Crusade.

Topeka, Kt Jan. 29.-Mrs. Nation
interviewed GS5ernor Stanley and At
torney General Goddard today. She
demanded the enforcement of the pro-
hibitory law, and appealed to the leg
islature this afternoon.
The governor said her motive was
good but hersmethods bad She inyit-
ed the governor to join her in sa-
loon smashing crusade
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

While one anG half acres of Mis-
sissippi valley blue grass will keep a
critter in good health and put 300
pounds Of new meat on to his bones, it
takes % acres of Wyoming and Texas
range to do the same thing.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

A writer extolling the merits of the
sheep as farm animal, among other
things, claimed that contact with sheep
had refining influence. That depends.
The language of the good deacon who
had just had a bout with the old buck
ut the head of the herd was anything
but of refined character.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31
NO PARDON FOR FARRELL.
Gov. Nash DENIES ciemency for MUIR
derer of Express Messenger Lane.

Columbus, o., Jan. Ex-Governor
Nash today denied the application for
pardon by Rosslyn Farrell convicted
of numbering Express Messenger
Lane. Farrell will, therefore, be elc-
troeutioned in the Ohio penitentiary
on March /.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

With "Tama" Jim Wilson and Root
and Hay in the presidents cabinet it
would seem as though the farmer and
his farm products were pretty well
represented.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

A young lady in one of the southern
states makes good money by fatteniEg
turkeys on nuts, this food giving the
national bird that wild game flavor for
which epicures in the cities will pay a
very fancy price.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

Agriculture is sharing with other
lines Of business in the benefits of the
progress OF the age. Modern invention
has done wonders for the farm. 1t has
emancipated the farmer and dignified
the farmers profession. Science waits
at his bidding. He now is a thinker
and planner where once he was a
mental toiler, with fate and weather
prophets for patron saints. 1t is his
privilege now to take dirt and scien-
tiically coin money out of it. He does
not know it all even yet. There are
still other fields of knowledge to be eX-
plored, still other secrets and problems
to be wrested from old Dame Nature
and utilized for his benefit And the
best Of it is that this new dispensation
has improved the man himself as much
as it has his condition, for with the
wider knowledge has come broader.
type Of manhood. and the end is not
yet
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

We note the loss of 20 horses by one
man in South Dakota as a result Of
feeding them millet hay cut when over.
ripe.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

= Now here comes nice. little story of
Danish commercial sharpness to the
effect that they buy our pork and after
smoking it aud branding it as the best
Danish goods work it off on Johnny
Bull as genuine Danish bacon.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31
FACTS WORTH NEEDING.

A fact of much interest to horticul-
turists in the northwest is that at Du-
buque, Ia, where it is impossible for
such a tender variety of apple root
grated to live, there is Seek No Fur
Their apple top grated on a Siberian
crab which is now % years old, in per-
feet health and bearing last year crop
of these choice apples which sold for
S13 and the crop of the previous year
for $40. Such concrete fact as this is
worth more for the guidance of apple
growers than all the theories which
have been advanced for 80 years as to
the best way to grow the apple in the
northwest. There is a Jonathan apple
tree growing 200 miles north of Du-
buque similarly top grated on hardy
crab which for many years has borne
fine crops of these beautiful apples.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

If you think you must have a quick
ggrowing deciduous tree there is moth
ing better in the whole list than the
soft maple or sycamore. 1t will grow
almost as fast as the cottonwood or
the willow, is free from insect pests
and furnishes quality of wood for
fuel purposes easily worked up and
every way superior to most of the soft
woods, SO called.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

We came across an old man lately
who had lived for 45 years in alsmall
country hamlet and had never done
anything but just repair the shoes of
the community, He had pegged away
on that old bench, always with a kind
and CHEEKY word for his patrons and a
generous. helpful sympathy for all his
neighbors, for so many years that
when the time came at last, as it comes
to us all, that he must give up his work
he said that he did not want to live any
longer and wanted to join his dear old
wife, who had died the year before
Amid the rush and fret of modern bust
ness and social life the simple, gopd
and peaceful life of this old man stood
out in very marked contrast.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

We came across landlord the other
day, one of those tight and grasping
old fellows who in renting his farm for
many years had bled both the farm
and his tenant to the limit in order to
get every cent possible. This year he
is offering the farm to any one who
will take it and pay the taxes, so poor
has the land become under his policy.
This is most righteous judgment up
on him. This man might beat his ten
ant and every other man with whom
he did business. but he has found out
that he can't beat old Mother Earth.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

The value of taxable property in
Audubon county is $996,50s more than
last year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

If the farmer will buy green, coffee
and roast it himself. will make his
own strip from brown sugar. buy
whole peppercorns, get his own buck
wheat ground by the local miller Gf
said miller is passably honest, will kill
and dress the meat raised on his own
farm, he can steer as clear of adulterat-
ed food products as any man on earth,
but If he brings home a tin pail and a
currycomb which he got thrown in
with pound of 20 cent baking powder
he Is quite likely to get his picture into
the advertisement of some fake patent
medicine by the time he is so.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

OF all the food which the hog likes
none makes SO finely favored pork as
beechnuts.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

Which we wish to remark is that for
the young and inexperienced man the
carving of turkey is very like unto
the counting of a nice young lady--he
Is almost sure to get both of them in
his lap before he gets through.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

Wheat and beef make strong men.
The eaters of wheat bread and rare
roast beef rule the roost and dominate
the affairs of the whole world. The
bread gives the muscle and strength,
and the rare beef makes scrappers and
fighters of them. A little rice fed Mon
golian or Hindoostanee or banana
bloated Ethiopian has simply no show
on earth with this white bread and
raw beef son of the north. The con-
filct in China is the old, old strife be-
tween the bread and beef eaters and
the rice eaters, with the old and ever
certain results.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

There is no end of residence lots in
our towns which can be made to sup
ply all the small fruits which a family
could use. Try two square rods in
strawberries, dozen each of the red
and black raspberries, half dozen
grapevines set in corners and along
fences in the rear of the lot, dozen
plum and cherry trees and some white
and red currants. OF course on the %
or 80 foot front lot this would be hard
ly possible. but very large proportion
of the residents of all our smaller
towns have more room.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

Throughout large part of the CEN
trail west the apple trees are going into
the winter carrying nearly all their
summer foliage, this caused, it is sup
posed, by the unusual warmth and
moisture prevailing during the month
of October Some fear is expressed
that this peculiar condition indicates a
very unripe condition of the wood of
the trees, which will make them easy
victims to the extremes of cold which
may come during the winter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

Altogether there We're two tons of tea
raised in this country the past year.
This tea was raised in the south, was
of very choice quality and brought u
high price. There would be future
for this crop in this country provided
that cheap labor could be secured to
care for 1t, the labor being in connec-
ton with the picking OF the leaves of
the plant. one at time, as they mature
for gathering. The colored people do
not seem to take kindly to this class of
work as do the natives of Ceylon, India
and Japan.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

America produces 80 per cent Of all
the Indian corn raised in the world.
Most of this crop is produced in Kan
sas. Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois and
Iowa. with Ohio, Indiana and Wiscon-
sin as contributors. This territory con-
stitutes the great corn belt, possessing
for all time an almost absolute monop-
oily in the production of one of the
worlds greatest cereal crops. Where
corn grows there will be produced meat
foods, and where meat is cheaply pro.
duced there must and will be wealth.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

A good many men would have found
it vastly more economical to, have
bought three or four So boxes of
oranges and eaten them, with the snow
drifts piled high around their north
ern homes, than to have sold out and
gone to the lands where the oranges
could be picked from the trees.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

The sum of $2,100 was pretty high
price to pay for one fat steer at the
Chicago fat stock show, but when one
figures out the tons Of porterhouse
steak and sirloin and rib roasts which
came from that steer and which were
sold as his meat to gullible buyers it
may have been good investment aft
er all
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

In one community we know of where
the creamery is patronized by all the
farmers and which has been run on
the plan Of paying by test the patrons
have become SO well educated along
dairy lines and furnish milk of such
uniform quality that the test plan has
been abolished, and the milk is all
pooled and paid for alike. sit may, be
added that there are no Jerseys or
Holsteins among the cows of that COM
inunity and that there was a revival of
religion there last winter. ~
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-31

When man begins to patronize q
cheese factory by selling his milk, he
is quite likely to need the prayers of
the church until he gets over the no.
astion that it would be a smart thing to
either take little cream off from the
nights milk or put little water in the
cans when the cows begin to shrink.
We have known some pretty good men,
as the world and their neighbors rated
them, to go all to pieces in the effort
to work the pump as one of their best
cows.
With the decadence of the. whaling
industry and the consequent greatly
increased cost of whalebone has come
the ingenious utilization of feather
bone, OF the quill portion of feathers, as
q substitute for the whalebone. Feath-
ers, which few years ago had little
or n9i value, such as those of turkeys
and chickens, are now quoted at prices
high enough SO that the amount re-
Peiyed for such feathers will more than
@pay for all the expense Of dressing such
poultry for market.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-11
GOVERNOR MOUNTS ExAUGURAL
lie Would Have kidnapping Made a
CAPT al Onense

Indianapolis Ind, Jan. i0.-The Sixty
second general assembly Of Indiana con-
vened at the state capitol to3ay.
The feature Of the first session was the
farewell message of Governor Mounts.
Governor Elect Durbin CReD) win he
inaugurated next Monday Governor
Mounts message dealt with state affairs
Concerning the recent lynchings in Ind
ana Governor Mounts says:
The people of Indiana feel keen,y the
sting Of reDroach and the justice Of the
criticism heaped upon the state by reason
OF the brutal lynehings that have dis
honored her good name. A mob is an
assembly of lawless men acting in Gef-
ance of law. Can such men administer
justice? Lax enforcement of law brings
its fruitage of contempt for law The
remedy must be found through the CO.
operation Of good citizens in demanding q
gid enforcement of the law and not
through mob violence" A more stringent
law is recommended. The governor fav-
ors the election of United States senators
by popular vote"
The message says Of kidnapping:
Where the ktdnappers have no legal or
blood claim. where the abduction is for
ransom or for any other unlawful pur-
pose, it should be made an extreme case.
punishable by death or Imprisonment for
life"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-11
DEFENDS CIRCUIT BILL
secretary Wilson says Il Is of Press
fng Importance.


Washington. Jan. 1o-Seeretary wilson
has addressed a letter to the chairman o.
the senate committee on agriculture and
forestry in defense Of the Grout blI. in
wh5ch he says:
Although the aet approved August 2
1SS5. has served wei TO IDENTITY oieomar-
gariae and prevent deception upon the
part Of merchants generally, it has not
furnished adequate protection to projuc-
ars and consumers. In al the states
which have made earnest efforts t. pro-
tee. consumers, tha most serious OBJ
stacle has been the Introduction of col
ored ole3 in original packages. Hence
deem the first section Of this bin Il
pressing importance. II is the purpose
of this bin 50 10 exerase the taxing
power OF the government as TO render the
counterfeit prodacs improbable ANA thus
protect genuine butter ana prevent exist
ing fraud
Considering the provisions OF the sec
ond section Of the bin as a whole. ] do
not see why it should be opposed by oleo
manufacturers and merchants. II The
higher tax upon the produce when co-or-
cd in imitation of yellow butter serves,
as II is hoped. 10 prevent deception ana
fraud. thar must be satisfaction 90 an
who believe IN honesty ln production ana
trade as wen as among consumers
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-11
Used
20 Years

We do not know of any
other hair preparation that has
been used in one family for
twenty years; do you?
But Mrs. Helen Kilkenny,
of New Portland, Me, says
her mother used Ayers Hair
Vigor that long and always
liked it as a hair dressing.
You can rely upon it for
stopping your hair from falling
out for keeping your scalp
clean and healthy, and for
restoring color to gray hair.
One dollar a bottle.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-11
PROSPERITY IN GERMANY
significant Increase n All Industrial
EnfernrEsna

Washington, Jan 10.-The year book Of
the German Maritime union for 1871
quoted by Consul Hossfeld at Trieste iu
a report to the state departments regards
the consumption Of coal and iron as the
most reliable measure Of indus trial ac-
uvity in Germany. The consumption Of
coal rose from 47f7 pounds per capita IN
1895 TO 51S5 pounds n 1898 and of iron
from FL pounds per capita in 1886 t. 3O)
pounds in 1898. The revenue derived by
the kingdom Of Prussia in 1898 from the
produce of its forests amounted to $le-
278,0o0. an increase of nearly s. 100000 as
compared with 1895. The growing con
sumption Of meat sugar and beer is also
mentioned as an additional sign Of eco
nomic prosperity. Consul Hcssfeld says
that while the average person in Crer-
many contented himself with 1913 quarts
of beer in 1895 he increased his auoval C.
to 18l quarts in 1898 The freer use or
animal food is shown by the larger. 1eve-
nue. derived from the meat tax, the n
crease being estimated az fully IS per cent
i'm the space of two years.