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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24
THREsHERs ORGANIZE.
Jefferson County Men Held Meeting in
Fairfield Saturday.

Fairfield, April 21.-(Special)- 1.-THE
Jefferson county lodge of the Thresh,
ers' National Protective association
was installed in this city Saturday af,
ternoon There were thirty-five
threshers from different parts of the
county present at the meeting Ma
tional Organizer A. A. Lindsay was
present as installing officer and TEN
porary chairman, and F. l.. Droz was
selected as temporary chairman AT
ter the members had been initiated
the election of officers was held which
resulted as follows:
President, H. S. Starks, Fairfield;
vice-president, John Yount, Fairfield;
secretary, F. l.. Droz, Fairfield;
treasurer, A. J. Burke, Fairfield; mar
shall, S j. Eshlemau, Batavia; chap
lain, Floyd A. Wells, Batavia; trus
tees, C. B. Greeson, Pleasant Plain
and Randolph Snider. of Batavia; in
ner guard, F. l.. West, Fairfield; outel
guard, A. Daub, Fairfield.
The meeting was most successful
and the new organization starts gu
under the most favorable auspices
There was much enthusiasm manifest
ed at the meeting Saturday and it il
expected that the association will b.
of considerable benefit to its mem
bers. The date for the next meeting
which will be held in Fairfield, wa
fixed on May 3.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24
THE COUNTRY LoAFER.

We have run across him several
times the past winter. He was Matched
among the corn and potato fields, usu-
ally the progeny of some hard listed,
avaricious old granger whose only pur-
pose in living is to get more land Asa
boy, deprived of boys rights, like
enough worked too hard, living in an
atmosphere of greed and unretinement,
he gravitates naturally just as soon as
he is big enough into a rural smart
Aleck. taking to cigarettes. beer drink
ing and the periodical raising of the
devil in orderly country communities
He has no manners except bad ones.
When he looks at young woman, he
leers at her. He is unpleasantly con-
spicuous at horse races, circuses
Fourth of July celebrations and camp
meetings, the legitimate prey of fakirs
and sideshow grafters, an all round
nuisance and really the very poorest
and most worthless product of the fer
tile farms of the country. coarse, loud
mouthed and never we'll dressed or
groomed, as his city cousin sometimes
is. This i'll begotten chap is the direct
antithesis of that industrious, patient,
ambitious farm boy who gravitates
from the cornfields into the highest
places in politics, commerce and the
religious and educational life in this
country.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24
Muscatine North & South.
WANTS PAY FOR DAM.
Meeks Will Fight State on Fishway
Question.

Des Moines, April 21.-Hugh Meek,
of Bonaparte, one of the owners of the
Bonaparte dam, is here in regard to
the act of the legislature providing for
the condemnation of fishway through
the dam. Mr.. Meek declared that any
attempt to condemn any part of the
dam for fishway would be resisted to
the bitter end unless the amount fixed
by the appraisers was sufficient to pay
all damages that might result to the
dam from the fishway.
Il do not believe that fishway can
be constructed through the dam with
out seriously endangering it, said Mr.
Meek THE property is worth $685.
600 and we do not propose to have it
destroyed for trifle. Suppose fish,
way were constructed through the
dam. | believe that this would give
the water place to work upon that
would eventually destroy the whole
structure. AS it is it is difficult to
keep it up and it is only at great ex-
pense that we are able to repair the
damage caused by the highwater ev.
cry spring. Besides, after section
of the dam is once condemned for a
fishway it passes from under our con.
troll. If the first fishway is not low
enough il may be lowered and as a re
suit we would lose all the water power
of the dam. I think as matter OF
fact that to condemn fishway would
be the same as to destroy the dam
and we will insist upon full compensa
ton for all damage. If that is not al
lowed the matter will go into the
courts again for it is not our intention
to be robbed of our property without
trying to prevent it.
The dam is valuable piece o.
property" said Mr. Meek ct saves
us $4,000 or $4,000 every year. The
| Touring mills, part of the wooden mills
and the waterworks of the city O.
Bonaparte are all run by it. 1t fur
nished abundant pressure to affort
| fire protection and furnish the cit.
with water at the same time A
| present a franchise for an electri,
light plant it to be voted on and if i
carries the plant will be run witt
power from the dam. We already hav,
a private lighting plant established
1t will also be possible to furnish pow
er to the surrounding towns. 1t is nat
ural that with such property W,
| should resist any effort to injure it.
AS far as can be learned the Meel
| brothers do not propose to take an.
steps in the matter at present. The.
will simply await the action of tn,
authorities and if it is attempted to cur
fishway through the dam they viii
resist it with an injunction suit on tn
grounds that the construction of
fishway would destroy their property
| The matter is not settled yet by an.
means. and from the litigation tina
has taken place in the past it is like
| ly that it will be some time before the
fish will be Going UP the river over tn
! Bonaparte dam.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24
THE MORTGAGE HAD HIM.

While we do not know the mans
name and did not see the chattel mort
gage, we have not the least doubt but
there was one with this place in it's
grip. All the farm tools were left out
in the tields-mower, reaper, pillow, rake,
hay loader. Three stacks of grain were
still unthrashed in February. We learn
ed that few years ago the owner had
been left the farm by his father clear
of incumbrance. This young man had
a liking for low life in the town-beer
guzzling, pool and poker and the like
and in five years he landed at the bot
tom minus reputation, credit. money
the respect of his neighbors and all that
makes life worth living. He was stay.
ing the year of redemption out on the
place, and then the end must come
Pity goes out to the little wife and
children whom hard fate compels to
share all this misery.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

all of them do nice work in some line
or other which does not count for much.
They can paint little, do little fancy
needlework make doilies and gauzy
handkerchiefs, play little on the pi-
ano, stir up mess of angels food,
make aprons for q church fair, en-
broider on canvas red dog barking
at blue parrot, run some womens
club for the elevation Of the sex, do
lot of correct society calling (after they
have been able to get the aforesaid
dressmaker) and read lot of the lat
est historical trash. Now, this is writ
ten by a man, and of course he may
be dead wrong, but all the same we
want to know why, so long as dress
means so much to woman's comfort
and happiness, the girl should not be
taught how to cut and fit her own
clothes in place of teaching her to do
lot Of the useless things above men,
toned. Old fogy notion, you ladies
say. Well, maybe that's So but for
all that hardly any one thing would do
so much to make woman independ-
emf
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24
CEREAL FOODS,

This is for the ladies, the good cooks
and mothers who take pride in prepar-
ing palatable and nutritious foods for
their families. The cereal breakfast
foods-oatmeal, wheat, corn and rice
as prepared in hundred and one DIFF
ferent forms for table use are starch
foods largely. AS generally prepared
for the table these foods are seldom
cooked long enough. no matter what
the printed directions may say on the
wrapper about being prepared in five
or ten minutes. This imperfect cook
ing makes such foods more or less
indigestible. If any cook will cook
these foods in a double boiler for five
or six hours the day before they are to
be used and warm them up for break
fast. they will be surprised how great
ly they will be improved in flavor and
digestibility. Just give this a trial and
see.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24
Johns BIunder,

A minister in Scotland who was mak-
ing a call the other week upon a mem
Der of his flock whom he had not seen
at church for some time asked, whats
come over you that l don't see you at
church at all now?'
''Hoots, man. yen no ha' seen me
because sit ahint the pillar"
'sThe pillar. John? Good gracious.
the pillar. Why, it is two years since
it was removed from the front of your
-Tsst.n
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

1t seemed almost cruel TO take such
an unfair advantage of helpless bird
life. The ducks made blunder this
spring and migrated to the north coun-
try too soon, beguiled by the balmy
spring weather of early March. A
fierce blizzard and a below zero tenn
perature followed. driving the birds in
half paralyzed state into the open
water of the creeks and rivers. where
they huddled helplessly. prime mark
for the pot hunter, and he got them
by the score, by the hundred, by the
thousand, and called it royal sport.
BY and by there will be no ducks or
any other game birds left.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24
ExPREssMEN ARE FINED.
D. L. Gates and G. F. Jones Appea
Their Case TO District Court.

From Tuesdays Dally.l
d. l.. Gates and G. F. Jones, the two
expressmen who were arrested sever
al days ago for allowing their teams
to stand on Main street between Court
and Washington streets instead of on
South Court street as provided by an
ordinance recently adopted by the
council, were fined $40 each by Judge
Moon last evening. This case has
been dragging along for almost week
and the last session was held last ev-
ening j. R. Jaques represented the
city and Joseph Poston appeared for
the defendants. Mr.. Poster announced
last evening that he will appeal his
case to the district court on the
grounds that the ordinance was not
lawfully passed in council meeting.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

One of the beneficent uses of the
evergreen grove around the farm home
stead was made very manifest during
recent March blizzard, the grove af-
fording splendid shelter and protec-
ton to hundreds of birds-bluebirds
blackbirds, robins, meadow larks-
which got caught by the unreasonable
weather. These birds must have per-
ished by the thousand had it not been
for the shelter thus afforded.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

Because of the shortage ia the crop
of 1901 exports Of corn fell off from
132, 100000 bushels in 1900 to 10000.
900 bushels in 1901. The long delayed
European appreciation of this most val
liable of cereals is at last made mani
fest. and from now on this foreign de-
mand is going to materially affect the
future values of corn. The day of
burning corn in place of coal is gone
never to return.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24
WHY MOTIF

In nearly every community there will
be found not more than two or three
women who know how to cut and fit
ladies' wearing apparel. These are
crowded with work, while scores of
other women are lamenting the fact
that they have nothing to wear and
can't get the services Of dressmaker.
NoMA-thesae helrlaas ladies' can. nearly
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

The young men Of today who do the
farm work will never realize the pos
sibilities connected with hard work on
the farm as did their fathers when
they had to rake off from an old Nc.
Cormick reaper in the early sixties or
keep up station after such machine
as one of five binders. My, but the
days We're long then, and the sun hot,
and the work hard
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24
FOOT AMPuTATED.
Ed. Thompson Undergoes an Opera
ton at Hospital.

ton at Hospital.
From Tuesdays Daily.J
Ed. Thompson of North Myrtle
street, had his right foot amputated
just above the ankle at the Ottumwa
hospital this morning as the result Of
an accident. Mr.. Thompson has been
troubled from injuries received sever
al months ago and it was found that
in order to save the rest of the limb
an amputation would be necessary. He
was taken to the hospital yesterday
where the operation was performed by
DR. w. M. Pascoe. assisted by Drs. d.
G. Brockman, S. A. Spilman and ]. B.
Wilson
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

One of the most common troubles for
the landlord is the difficulty of getting
good tenant, and in very many cases
the landlord is alone to blame. He is
too stingy to put the farm in such
shape that it will be an inducement for
a good tenant to take it. Good tenants
will not rent poorly equipped farms
and pay tribute to mean landlord if
they can help it. Some men are too
mean to own foot Of land anyhow.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

Seed potatoes are high priced this
spring, and so it is just as well to re-
member that one good eye is just as
good as more when cutting the potatoes
for seed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

We know one locality which had
streak Of good luck lately. 1t got rid of
a mighty mean citizen and imported
registered Polled Angus bull. 1t was
good trade.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

We are asked how best to renovate
an old and weedy pasture. If possible,
we would pillow it up and take crop of
corn from it this year, crop of small
grain next year and seed down anew.
If the land must be kept in pasture,
we would take getaway disk and give
it thorough disking both ways, then
SOW clover and timothy, dragging it
smooth. This will rejuvenate the blue
grass and practically make the pasture
over new
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24
THE ASPARAGUS RED.

II you want to set out an asparagus
bed this spring, do this: Cut old roots
into three or four pieces with a sharp
spade, prepare your bed, digging up to
depth of Il foot Fertilize heavily,
using well rotted stable manure, or the
surplus cats and dogs of your neigh
borhood could be well planted right
here and give good returns. Cut none
at all the first year and sparingly the
second, but after that as literally as
you like. Do not cut after June 20, but
allow all the growth to mature on the
bed These directions followed out will
give you an abundant supply of one of
the finest vegetables the garden af-
fords
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24
LAWYER FALLS DEAD IN COURT.
Argument of a Kansas Attorney Be-.
uun But Never Ended.

Topeka, Kas., April I'D. W. Dun
nett, a prominent attorney of Hutchi-
son, Kas., dropped dead in the federal
court here while arguing a case before
Judge Hook. ).
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

A friend asked us the other day il
we had a recipe for seeding a field
with clover this spring which would
absolutely insure catch and good
stand. We told him if he would SOW
his clover without any nurse crop
whatever, sowing the first week in
April, running light harrow over the
field. that we would guarantee him a
good stand of clover by September. He
might. if he wished, sow three pecks
of barley or oats with the clover, cut
ting the crop for hay as soon as the
grain headed out. and be almost sure
of securing stand.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

A whole lot of eager homeseekers
are buying farms west of the one hun
dredth degree of west longitude in the
Dakotas, Kansas and Nebraska and
are going to come to grief. That is a
stock country, not farming land.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

In planting apple trees this spring
on the prairie soils set trees not less
than eight inches deeper than they
grew in the nursery and give them a
decided lean from the perpendicular
toward the southwest.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

Darwin once picked up wounded
pigeon by the wayside. Its leg had
been broken, and in its contracted
claws was little lump of earth. This
Darwin planted to see what vegetable
life it might contain. From it he pro-
d, fifteen varieties of plant life.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

Do not try to transplant a black wal
nut or hickory tree grown in the ma
tive forest, for it will be sure to be a
failure. Nearly all the nut bearing
trees should have the nut planted
where the tree is to grow.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

all the valuable terminals in Chicago,
Peoria, Rock Island and East st. Lou
is. In Wisconsin and Minesonta the
line is practically all main line"
Minneapolis and St. Louis.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis Com
pany reports that the books and rec
ords do not show the business in the
different states and as to value the
statement is:
ut is less Tin Iowa.. Have not in
the state of Iowa the valuable and ex-
pensive terminals that we have else
where and the character of general
construction is less expensive. The
business of these lines is much lighter
than the business of our lines in other
states, the average earnings per mile
in Iowa annually being S3.102.SSS,
against s6,7O3.9S of our lines in other
states"
Muscatine North G. South.
The Muscatine North & South
makes the following statement in re
gard to the value of the line:
''The value of this line of road from
the standpoint of physicality is no
greater than in 1900. It's value as an
investment property is beyond ques-
ton established, and that it will not
earn its interest on its bonds till given
by extension larger territory from
which to earn revenue"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

The United States furnishes Eng
land with 63 per cent of her bread
stuffs and Go per cent of her meats.
So long as England is compelled to
thus depend upon the United States for
her very living there will be no serious
ruction between the two countries.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

There will always be poor and i'm
perfect kernels of grain produced even
If you SOW only the very best. The in
ference is-we might say the fact is
that the more poor seed you sow the
poorer will be the harvest.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

Wherever dairying is a secondary
factor in the farm economy, where
from ten to twenty COWS are kept on
100 acres, there the farm separator is a
most valuable machine. While the farm
separator is now boycotted by all the
creamery men working on the cream
cry separator plan, as is natural we
still believe the time is fast coming
when the farm separator will win and
the cream and not the milk he deliver
ed to the creamery.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

There is peculiar significance con-
nected with that Biblical phrase which
refers to ''the grasshopper as a bur
den" when it is known that 100000
out of the 100000 square miles of the
, land surface of the globe are subject
to the scourge of these insects.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

1 We have fine reports of the value of
the bronze grass for all that semiarid
portion Of the country where timothy
and clover will not grow. Some are
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

We have score Of seed catalogues
to look over this spring. We notice
that nearly every scotsman claims spe-
cial excellence for some two or three
new things in his line These are al
ways high priced. and the almost uni
versal desire to try new things leads
many to invest their money. Our expe-
rience with these novelties leads us to
remark that in most cases they are
best let alone, they very seldom prov
ing to possess any merit over old vari-
cites and quite frequently being utter
ly worthless.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

4ght now, during the last days of
April, is the time to set out the straw
berry bed. We have sometimes thought
that the doing Of this might almost
come under the head Of legitimate
Sunday work, for the doing of it is
certainly a work of necessity and mer-
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

A field of corn planted thickly for
fodder was dragged until it got to be
six inches high. While some of the
corn was thus destroyed. there was
still plenty left, and it only required
two plowings to make perfectly clean
field of corn.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

grass is run out by too close pasturing
this bronze grass may be made to take
its place. If SO, it will prove to be
bonanza indeed.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

We think that where so many as fif-
teen cows are kept in the farm dairy
some arrangement should be made to
have one man do all the milking and
give him plenty of time in which to dc
1t. 1t certainly would be better for the
COWS.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

A reliable young man, good farm
hand, who has worked out by the
month for farmers for the past ten
years, stated before farmers institute
this winter that the farmer would get
more satisfactory work out of his men
if they We're not required to work so
many hours. He said that where work
began at $50 in the morning and end
ed at 73O at night it would pay to give
the men two hours incoming instead of
one. We believe he is right about this.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

A few days since we Travelled over a
section Of the west where twenty-five
years ago one might have travelled for
stretch Of forty miles and never have
seen tree. Today this once wild and
bleak prairie is a beautiful panorama
of high priced farms with timber to
be seen in every direction-groves on
nearly every farm; these groves with
out doubt performing most benefcent
work in breaking the force of the
winds and modifying extremes Of tenn
perature
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

Just what is expected in the way Of
work from the hired man on the farm
should be fully talked over and put
into written contract form before clos
ing the deal. If man agrees to work
ten hours in the field and put in an
hour doing chores before breakfast and
another after supper and agrees to
help do the chores on Sunday, let him
stick TO his bargain. If he does not
want to work twelve hours a day. let
him do his kicking before he COM
mences work.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

! Where clover will grow and Short
horn cattle are kept don't expect to buy
a farm for much less than $50 per acre.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

When a sixteen, year-old boy unskill-
ed in every particular can secure as
wages on farm $50 month. his
board and washing, as he can today,
he is alone to blame if he is not worth
$1,000 by the time he is twenty-four
years old. But not one in ten of them
will save dollar.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-04-24

The government is sending 1000
bushels of seed corn from the east to
4those parts Of the southwest where the
{Hrop was entirely destroyed by the
drought last year and is sending it by
mail too This is more sensible pros.
{litution of the mail service than to load
down the service with franked tons of
||worthless official reports and Congress
3eional Records.