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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16
Dinner Surprise Patty.

Last evening the ladies of the
Fourth Street Club gave THEN
husbands a genuine surprise at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Schulmeister. The gentlemen
who were invited at a very
early hour under various pre-
texts, went without any sus-
picion that there would be any
new feature introduced into
the club meeting. During the
day each good housewife put ir
her time in producing the dain-
ty or substantial dishes in
which she excelled. Each con-
tributed the evidence of her
skill, regular picnic style, and
as soon as the gentlemen had
arrived all were invited to the
dining room and there instead
of the usual light refresh
ments" served at club meetings
a most sumptuous seven o'clock
dinner was spread. Every dish
was par excellence. The din
ing room and table was pro
fusely decorated. The color
scheme carried out was pink,
green and white. The center
piece was a large epiergne of
carnations with a lovely base
decoration of fern fronds. Car
nations were grouped at either
end of the table and at each
plate there was laid a long
stemmed carnation. Partners
for table were found by match
ing familiar quotations. Card
decorations were in the pre-
vailing colors. If the ladies
intended to surprise their liege
lords with this feast the good
things they in return we're sur
prised to learn how very appre-
ciative an average man can
show himself under such cir
cumstances, and how much of
the good things of this world
can be hidden from view in a
very limited time. The con-
fections and ices were in har-
mony with the color scheme.
After coffee nut shells contain
ing conundrums were given
each one. Whist was played
during the evening and all
unite in declaring the evening
one Of the most pleasant spent
by the club.
Rev. and Mrs. MacAllister
and Mrs. j. j. Amen left for
Audubon this morning, where
they go to attend the Presby-
terry. They will be gone until
Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. L. Davis are
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16

Soren Brown is an Omaha
visitor today.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16

Miss Jessie Brandriff is visi
ting friends in Omaha today.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16
CA8ToRIA.
B..ntA. n1hs Kind You Have Always Bopgk
'f; : &M1AZzzzx

The NJ. Dessert family of this
city is certainly an afflicted one.
For many months past there
has not been a day but some
member of the family has been
i'll or suffering from serious in
juries. The latest calamity to
befall the family has come to
Mr.. Dessert himself. After
several weeks illness from a
complication of maladies he has
now become mentally unbal-
anced, and although the attend
ing physician thinks the trouble
to be only of a temporary ma
ture, yet he is in a serious con-
dition. He was taken to an
Omaha hospital today for treat
ment.
Mrs. w. R. Jones and daught-
er returned from Sioux Falls
last evening, where they had
been visiting Cyrus Arndt and
mother for two weeks.
Ellen Wynick Davis, of
Charlton, is in the Valley the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Colver. She was a schoolmate
of Mrs. Colver when they were
girls.
Mrs. S. F. Gasson left for her
home in Red Oak this morning.
w. M. Carlisle and son, Tur-
ner, are Omaha visitors today.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16
Tuesday April IL

County Recorder Harvey and
family, spent Easter Sunday in
this city, the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. P. Smiley and family.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16
DOUBLE TRACK NORA
WELL SOON BEGIN
Rumor Says Northwestern VIII
Double Track Between Sioux
City and Nc. Valley.

The Sioux City Tribune is au-
thority for the statement that
the Chicago & Northwestern
will soon put a force of men to
work double tracking the old
Sioux City & Pacific main line
between Missouri Valley and
Sioux City. The Tribune says
in part:
1.-THE first work will likely be
done at this end of the line.
Another track is needed more
between here and SergeantBluff
than at any other stretch of the
road from here to Missouri Val
ley. All the Northwestern
trains must use the one track
to Sergeant Bluff. Here
a part of them turn off end 20
east over the Neville branch.
Traffic is somewhat relieved be-
low Sergeant Bluff. but next to
this strip, an additional track
is needed most between Ser
geant Bluff an Onawa. At On
ava a number of trains go cast
over the Maple river line. Still
more of the traffic turns off at
Alondamin to go east over the
Soldier river line. 1t is appar-
ent that additional track facili-
ties are needed more at the
north end than at the other.
However, it is not impossible
that work will commence at
both ends.''
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16
Meets Death at Carroll.

Marshall ]. j. Deal today re-
ceived notice from the coroner
at Carroll informing him r. N.
BEEN of this city was killed in
an accident in that place yes
terday. But little is known of
the man here. He resided here
until about two weeks ago. He
appeared to be a man of means,
carrying a comfortable bank
account at a local bank.
Afflicted but gifted blind
Boone appeared at the Metho-
dist Church, in this city last
night, playing to a large audi
ence. Boone has been before
Missouri Valley audiences many
times and as on previous visits,
he pleased all who heard him.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16

w. H. Ramsayer started this
morning on a few days trip
along the Nebraska and Wyom-
ing division of the Northwest
ern attending to Company busi-
ness. He will visit Deadwocd
before he returns.
Adm Brown left for Iowa
City this morning after a couple
of days visit with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. Brown.
F. L. Kilby came down from
Sioux City this afternoon and
will spend a short time here
looking after business matters.
j. D. Oneal departed this
morning for Lincoln, where he
will spend a short time visiting
friends, after which he leaves
for st. Paul.
Mrs. George Fleming leaves
today for her home in Alliance,
Neb., after a several weeks
visit in this city, the guest of
relatives.
w. F. Wills and daughter re-
turned this afternoon after a
few days visit with Mondamin
relatives.
Misses Catherine Schwertley,
Ute Mckay and Della Harris
and Messrs Ross Mclaughlin,
Cyrus Cole and Bruce Fleming
return today to their studies at
the Nebraska University, after
an over Easter visit here.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16
No. 3le9.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION

OF THE
First National Bank, at Missouri Val
ley, in the State of Iowa. at the
close of business, April 8, 1903
RESOURCES.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16

A. G. Brown left for Harlan
this morning where he goes on
Woman business. He will visit
Rev. and Mrs. Adair while in
Harlan.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16

]. S. McGavren leaves to-
morrow morning for Des
Moines, where he goes to at
tend the Good Roads Conven-
ton as delegate from Harri-
son county.
All the civil war veterans
who belong to Belden Post G..
A. R. of this city, will appear
Memorial Day in hats bought
for that occasion. The first
shipment of the hats arrived
yesterday and are now being
distributed among the veterans.
Joseph Deur is out on his
farm today, painting his house
and barn.
Mrs. Harry Harvey of Logan
is in the city for a several days
visit with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. P. Smiley.
Ed Myers returned yesterday
from Red Oak, where he had
been to look after real estate
business.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16

Mrs. w. H. Fensler is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Axtell in Oma-
ha, for a few days.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16

Mrs. M. T. Weston is in Mon
DAMN, the guest of Mrs. 7. C..
Huff.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16

Mrs. S. F. Gasson left for her
home in Red Oak this morning.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-16

Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Davis are
Logan visitors today.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-08-07
Commissioners Proceedings.

In the matter of the petition of VI. L.
DeJulian ct al, for the opening of pub
lie road and the building of bridge
near Pegram in the county of Bear Lake
1t is ordered that upon the filing OF a
good and sufficient bond in the sum of
100000 contingent for the expenditure
of one-half of the amount necessary to
construct said road and bridge that the
county appropriate the other half, not
to exbeed 100000 and that said appro-
priation will be made by the county at
its next meeting which will be on Aug
ust 18th, 1903 at 10 o'clock a. m.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-08-07
Notice Of Sale of School Bonds.

Notice is hereby given by the Trustees
of School District No, 10, Bear Lake
County, Idaho, that on or before the LIST
day of August. 1903, at the law office of
John A. Bagley, Montpelier Idaho, the
clerk of said Board of School Trustees
will receive bids for the purchase of the
following described bonds of said dis
trict $4,000. 90, issued in $4,000 lots,
at lowest rate of interest offered by re-
sponsible bidders, not exceeding per
cent per annum, interest payable semi
annually. bonds payable in 15 years
from their date, option to pay in ten
years.
Said trustees reserve the right to re-
ject any and all bids.
Dated July 3rd, 1908.
William r. Holmes,
Chairman.
William T. Perkins,
Secretary of School District No 10
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-08-07
Drowned In Snake River.

Walter Gesas, the three year old
son OF Harry Gehas, merchant of
St. Anthony, and Kemmerer, Wyo.,
was drowned about 8 O'Clock Satur-
day afternoon while fishing for
minnows III the Snake river. His
plavmates gave the alarm and with.
IN few minutes several hundred
people were gathered on the banks
supplied with ropes, grab hooks
I'd pike poles but the body had
sunk. Dynamite was used M an
attempt to raise the body but it had
lodged against a rock at depth of
SO feet. By splicing two Is feet
pike poles, John Andrews and an
other man succeeded III dislodging
the body ard allowed it to float INTO
shallow water where 1t was located
bv Mr.. PEI ham with long obser-
Walton pipe. The body was in the
river about an hour before it was
recovered. Mr. Gesas is promi-
nent merchant Of Idaho and Wyo-
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-08-07

Boy Cured of Collie afIer Physicians Treat
mcnt had Failed.
Ny boy when four years old was taken
with collie and cramps in his stomach.
lent fos the doctor and he injected
morphine, but the child kept getting
worse then gave,him half teaspoon
full of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remeny, and in half an hour
he was sleeping and SO on recovered =
f l.. Wilkins, Shell Lake, is Mr..
Wilkins is book-keeper for the Shell
Lumber Co For Sale by +. A. Lyman
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-08-07
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Estate of James R. Hart, deceased.

ISCdCt OF JHUltS II. I1HFG U6t6asBu.
Notice is hereby given. by the under
signed, heirs to the estate of James r.
Hart deceased, to the creditors OF, and
all persons having claims against the
said deceased, to exhibit them with the
necessary vouchers, within ten months
after the first publication of this notice
to the said heirs at Raymond, Idaho, or
to D. NJ. Austin, Montpelier, Idaho.
Dated June "a. 1908.
LEVI r. HART,
HARRIET M. HART.
Sole heirs TO the estate of james r.
Hart, dec ased.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1903-08-07

ming and was In the national park
at the time of the accident. A
messenger was Immediately dis
patched for him but it will be i'm.
possible for him to be here for two
days.-Capital News.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-09

tunes or in other ways suffered the
vicissitudes of time which come to so
many.
The act of Incorporation, dated 1854.
says that the object is ito furnish re.
lief to INDECENT merchants of Philadel-
phia, and especially those who are
aged and inflrm," and there is a COM
mentary on the ironic whims Of cir
cumstance In the fact that since that
time $4,000 has been paid out In BEN
efts.
In that first year seven merchants
were aided, while in the year just
past forty-three be~neficiaries were on
the roll and $4,000 was disbursed.
Comparison of these figures might af-
ford matter for interesting speculation.
Is the merchant of to-day more reck-
less than he of half q century ago, or
is 1t that the number of merchants
has increased, and, therefore, OF
course, the number of unsuccessful
merchants.
More than $500, 900 is now in the in
vested fund OF the organization, and it
is almost constantly receiving accre-
tons, so that there is plenty left
wherewith to provide for the ~unfortu-
nate plutocrats of the future, if the
supply of unfortunate ~plutocrats holds
out.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-09
Say All the Stars Are AgLow,
Scientists Declare That Like the Sun, They Are Masses
of Burning Mater-Fres Die Down and Then
Blaze Out Again as of Yore.

During the last sixty years search
ers of the heavens have made the
discovery that the celestial bodies
known to us as stars are similar in
many respects to the sun, some con-
siderably larger, others smaller, but
on the average not much different in
size and nature from the sun. They
are-at least the visible stars are
great glowing globes of gaseous mat
ter.
AS a rule these vast furnaces burn
steadily. Sometimes, however, the
fires seem to die down and then blaze
out again as of yore. Three hundred
such stars are known to astronomers,
says Chambers Journal; they are
called variable stars because of the
waxing and waning of their light.
Now and again the seething fires
prove too strong for the bonds of at
tractive force which hold the star
together, and with one mighty up
heaval the vast globe is shattered
into fragments, blown into atoms,
vertically dissolved into thin air"
Thousands Of years after this ex-
plosion the record of the catastrophe
reaches the earth and a solitary
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-09
Philadelphia Society is Unique,
Organization of Rich Men Formed 10 Relieve the Distress
of One>7Ime MlHonanes Who Have Fallen
Upon Evil Times,

It 10 curious and, indeed, startling,
says the Philadelphia North American,
to find that right here In this city
there has existed for nearly fifty years
without the knowledge of more than a
few persons al association of men de-
voted to a unique and transformations
well-dOing. Public ignorance of their
enterprise Is all the more remarkable
from the fact that among these men
are some OF the wealthiest, most in
1uential and b~sst-known citizens In
the community.
But 1t is the unusual character of
their beneficence that attracts inter
est. All these men are wealthy-some
beyond the dreams of avarice-but
their purpose has nothing to do with
the amelioration OF the condition of
the pauper. On the contrary, there Ia
q society for the rescue of the de-
cayed millionaire.
They call 1t the Merchants Fund as
ISOLATION, and the 49th annual meeting
was held the other day In a little old
room in South Fourth street, away
from the clamors of the more preten-
tious virtues.
In a word, the plan Of these kindly
old gentlemen is to relieve once
wealthy companions of their early
days, who have since lost their for
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-09
Many Made Idle by a Trust
Case IN Point Shows One of the Great Evils In the Oper
alton of Industrial OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES England
Village Wiped Out

One OF the great evils in operation
of industrial combinations, from the
point of view of the wage earner,
Is their power to scatter a community
to the four winds or starve its peo-
pie into submission to the demands
of capital. 1t has been pointed out
that perhaps one man or a small
group Of men, by the mere act Of sign
ing an order to close up a plant, could
exercise a power of life or death
over thousands Of human beings.
Something akin to this happened in
the beautiful New England village of
New Hartford, Conn, last August
and September, when the compare
lively large cotton duck mills of that
place were ordered closed. Nearly
/ 1000 persons of the 1900 in the place
were compelled to leave the town.
Nearly a hundred houses were board
ed up and rents were offered free to
the mill hands who remained. for
some men who had worked thirty.
forty, or even fifty years in the plant
were too old to get work elsewhere.
With the population cut almost in
half, the merchants of the place
thought they saw ruin before them.
The pay rolls of the mills had been
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-09

watcher in the old barony of Bon
nington, in the year of grace 1901,
sees a new star suddenly blaze out in
the midnight sky, to fade away only
as its predecessors had done, leav-
ing, perchance, not a trace in the
sky to tell the spot where once a
world existed. Among the millions
of stars r to be found bodies in all
stages Of development. Some are
glowing with an intensity Of heat
and light far beyond our utmost con-
ception; others are slowly cooling
down-already they are dull red in
color; some are cold and dark and
dead.
No telescope will ever perceive
these latter bodies and no camera
will detect them. We only know that
they are there by their influence over
the light and motion of bright stars.
One of the most interesting sections
of the new astronomy deals with
these dead, dark stars, and, although
no eye has seen them. or ever will
see them, still we are able to ascer-
tain their size, weight and position
just as If they were in the zenith Of
their glory.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-09

ayes held his head in her tenuer lap
She bent down and Kissed him.
where's Uncle Mater" murmul ed
Rod, trying to rise and gazing at the
circle of sympathetic faces.
"Here!" growled a husky yoite,
which ~quavered and broke, as the big
engineer fell upon his knees and SELF
ed Platt's hand. Here, boy, and
they're fetchin' poor Rickett round,
too. I'm aim a."
mo, you're not" whispered his.
former fireman, with d weak smile.
Just tell me one thing, old man.
Have | got back?'"
'Surei" cried Nathan Bellows, en-
p%hatically. Il guess wen have to
take him back, Bess, eh.
1--WE never let him 60" said the,
girl quietly, and kissed him again
Philadelphia Ledger.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-09
How Rod Plat Got Back.

Cant l go down with you, Uncle
Nate? It's only seven miles, and I'll
sit very still in the cab"
The stout engineer scratched his
head doubtfully. Eyes," he said at
last, giving way before the appeal of
blue eyes. 'Nine-forty, sharp, Bes-
sic. Rod Plat won't be botherin' you
in Welton. Better stay as long as
Cousin Sally will keep you" He
gave an irritable shrug and looked
at his watch. TITS 9 o'clock now. 1
must be going"
"rIl be there" cried the girl.
THANK you, uncle. l don't thank
you, though, for being so mean to
Rodney. He fired for you two years
and you thought there was no one
like him. Then, just because he
accidentally hit you with a lump of
coal"
Accident! HUH" snorted Nathan
Bellows. HE done it a purpose"
He didn't. He was trying to hit
a bird by the track"
well, he hit the wrong bird, then.
He's made his last run with me.
And with you, too. 1 told him If /
caught him around here again I'd
brain him."
"You didi You mean old"
But the door was slammed and
Bessie Paxson was left to finish her
sentence to empty walls.
Il might as well go down to Wei
ton tonight and ask Tom Sears to
give me a job haying," thought Rod
Platt, recently and unceremoniously
bounced from the company's employ
at the wrathful request of Nathan.
"The old man will never forgive me
and Bess; well, it's hard luck"
The clean built young fireman
ground his big, white, irregular teeth.
"Fangs," the boys on the road dub
bed him, but he didn't mind. "III
take n more trip with Nate" he
grunted. Passenger, too. Reserved
sea and free ticket"
When No. 127 putfed her fast gath
ering way by the coal sheds beyond
the round house, a quick form slip
ped out from the gloom and bounced
on the pilot like a diminutive spider
on a huge insect.
"If Nate knew this" chuckled
Platt, fastening comfortably, he'd
blow up. That dub of a Rickett is
firing for him, l heard. Shucks! He
can't feed a house boiler. Spinning
now, amt WEI"
The night express whirled on in
the blackness-on past the icehouses
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-09
Recoonlzed Him.

A professor in the Harvard Law
school has a memory which plays him
false on all matters except points Of
law. He cannot remember his men.
When the school opened last fall a
student who prides himself on his rep
utation with the Instructors and
makes himself felt by wise questions
in the class room, approached the
professor and held out his hand.
The professor hesitated for a mo-
ment over the mans name and finally
got it out in triumph.
The student was highly elated and
a few minutes after said with proud
satisfaction to the professors secre-
tary:
'The old boy seems to be getting
his memory back. He hesitated only
a minute before he called me by
name. Pretty good after q three
months vacation, isn't it?"
Why" replied the secretary. its
funny he hesitated when l had lust
told him you name. He saw YOU
coming across the hall and asked me
who you were."-Youth's Companion.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-09
The old.Eashloned Fire.

To steam heat the cities aspire
AS they shiver and shake in the cold
But give me the old-fashioned fire
The round, rosy backlog of old
The warmth and the light
OF it's flame, leaping bright
The drowsy-heads huddled around it at
night!
In the arkness the winter win signing
Made the flame take a ruddier glow;
The sparks up the broad chimney flying
Like witch-eyes that cleaned in the
snow!
oh, the warmth and the light
OF those red flames so bright,
And the comfort and joy Of the villa
winter night!
Far better that friendly old fire
a building of simmering steam,
With never a flame to admire.
And never a beautiful dreaml
oh, the love and the light
Where those flames danced so bright
And the old-fashioned joy OF the old
fashioned night.
Frank L. Stanton in the Atlanta Con-
stitution.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-06-09

from John Sleeper Clark and Edwin
Booth to join a company which they
had Just formed in Baltimore, to tour
Delaware and Virginia in Shakespeare
ian plays. | did not know what to do.
My mind was in chaos. l wanted to
be better than a page, and yet | had
a yearning for the stage. 1t was at
this time that met Mr.. Webster. He
was hurrying toward the Senate cham
Der.
Il said to him, Mr.. Webster, I have
a an offer to go on the stage
Indeed replied Mr.. Webster.
Eyes, SIR l replied, timidly. 'and
do you think it a great chance for
me?'
Eyes, my boy, I do answered Mr..
Webster. You were cut out for an
actor, and not for a statesman. L saw
you yesterday laughing at one of An.
drew Johnson's jokes, and your laugh
ter fooled me for a minute. Go on he
stage, my boy. That is where you
belong
And | went on the stage, and / am
still on the stage."-Baltimore Sun.