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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-02-01

heads in silent tribute as the impress.
slve caravan of mourners made its
way slowly out Pennsylvania avenue.
While the body lay in state in the
historic little church on Lafayette
square, thousands of his friends
passed up the aisle to the outer chan
eel and bowed in silence as they
looked for the last time on the war.
rior's face. His comrades in the great
war and in the war with Spain, his
friends while in congress and the
sons of the veterans of the two wars,
the Daughters of the Confederacy,
were all represented in this silent.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-02-01

Oluf Hansen returned to Hamlin
after spending three days vacation
at the home of his parents. Peter
Hansen had charge of the yard at
Hamlin while Olut was "otf duty"
Fhe singers in the club recently or
ganized at Kim DALTON are as follows:
MAIDS Hennigsen, George Hennigsen,
Il. Hendrieksen, Chris Nielsen. H.
Andersen. R. P. Larsen, Peter Han
sen and T. Jensen. II. c.. Madsen is
leader and will bring the boys around
in good shape.
The question at the literary, Fri
day night, is "Resolved that penalty
for crime should be abolished"
Affirmative speakers, Earnest Miller
and P. M. Petersen. Negative, An
drew Larsen and Walter Gregersen.
The negative was given the decision
last week.
Hans M. Hansen and wife were
over to Fiscus Sunday and part of
Monday visiting relatives. Upon
returning to Elk Horn, Mrs. Hansen
was called by phone and asked to go
over to the home of Peter Kjar as the
latter's baby boy was reported crit
ically i'll with lung fever.
John Andersen was badly hurt,
last week by the fly wheel of the
gasoline engine of his Smelling outfit.
in some mysterious manner he was
caught by the wheel and thrown sew
1 So, oil:
torn from his entire side and he was
badly bruised, but no bones were
broken.
Last Monday eve a surprise party
home. AS matter of fact, this is
one of the pleasantest places in the
country to have a lolly time, and the
way the crowd made merry, Monday
eve, would have done you good to
see. Games and all kinds of amuse-
ments were indslged in. Then re-
freshments we're served and when the
lcrowd disbanded they were all agreed
that such happy events don't come
often i'm life time.
Landlord Nels Christensen LETT
1 Thursday for Alpine, California, a
email station near the city OF San
Diego. Nels is going there on the
advice of physicians, being in the
primary stage of consumption. He
hopes, by timely action, to rid his
system of the malady. AS to
whether or not he will make his
future home there, is yet to be deter
mined We hope the new climate
will restore him to health and per-
nit him to return to his family ere
long, the robust man he was when
your reporter first knew him several
years ago.
Last week was Nels Bennedsen's
26th birthday and SO his friends
planned little surprise for him.
While he was at the gymnasium,
they quietly gathered at Esbeck's
store and then marched in on him in
a body. Nels was so overcome, he
: could hardly speak but soon regained
his compnsure, and then the fun be-
gan The ball at Torvil Jensen's
was opened up and the young people
began merry dance. Chocolate was
served at the hotel. The dancers
kept up their revelry until almost
three o'clock. Before the party left,
they presented Nels with a fine
writing desk. Truly Nels will long
remember his 26th birthday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-02-01
kiroballton-E lkhorn

The Elk Horn choir is now prac-
ticing for Easter services.
A number from Kimballton attend
ed the Tolstrup sale, Tuesday.
Jacob Esbeck and family spent
Sunday with George Marcussen's.
Rev. j. c. Jensen gave an address
at the Elk Horn church, Sunday eve.
Torvil Gregersen has been on the
semi-sicl list for the past two weeks.
Nels Bennedsen began work for
the Kimballton Hydraulic Stone
Works Monday.
Chris Jensen began working for
G.. c.. Nielsen, last week. He expects
to remain year.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Faaborg
spent Thursday and Friday at the
Jasper Jensen home.
Chris Nielsen repaired pump and
windmill for Sommers Brothers,
north of Audubon, last week.
Jacob Esbeck was in Hamlin, Fri
day and Saturday, unloading Two
carloads of machinery for the trim.
The undersigned will be at Elk
Horn on Friday, each week, to meet
those who wish to take music lessons
on the violin. HI. c. MADsEN.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Snyder visited
with their daughter, Mrs. M. c. Nit
ten, from Saturday until Monday.
Little Lucille Mitten accompanied
them home.
Chris o. Jensen shipped carload
of cattle over the G.. q N. w. from
Audubon, Monday. He also shipped
carload of hogs from the same
point, Wednesday.
A meeting of the Danish Mutual
Fire Association was held Tuesday
The time of Incorporation, twenty
years, had expired, which called fol
reincorporation and some new laws
Peter Hansen built an ice house for
Martin Mitten, last week. Martin
intends to pack twenty or twenty five
tons of ice, this season, so as to have
plenty for the town as we'll as for his
own use.
Ole Olsen, north of Kimbailton
purchased Rev. Gregersen's team, las,
week, paying $l75. Rev. Gregersen
is now negotiating for a team at
Newell, la, which he has long
desired.
Banker S. G. Petersen, A. P. Han.
sen and Nels Hoegh have been ap.
pointed by the Marine 81 Elk Horn
Telephone Co. to confer with L
Simpson with regard to the extern
sion of the formers liue, at near
Audubon.
King Christian, of Denmark, dice
very suddenly at $3.50 P. M. Monday
afternoon. King Christian was on,
of the most popular moDarchs Den
mark has ever had and his death viii
be mourned by the entire world. Hi
eldest SOD, who will ascend to tn,
throne, is sixty six years old, aoG
will be known as King Frederick
VIII. Christian was eighty eigh
years of age at the time of his death
Drs. Oldaker & Hammer, Dentists
Office over First National bank
Rooms and 6. One of the firm will
be In Brayton every Friday and every
Tuesday at Elk Horn.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-02-01
The PIaginrIst.

A teacher was i'll the habit Of giving
to her pupils daily Il list OF words, with
their meanings, testing the children's
memories. the next day. One day she
gave the word plagiarist, defining it
somewhat obscurely as a literary thief.
The next day the youngest member Of
the class was asked to define the word.
"a plaglarist," said he solemnly, "is a.
a-a-little hairy thief" -Lippincott's
Magazine.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-02-01
steady stream of people that passed

steady stream of people that passed
through ST. Johns.
Two minutes before the hour fol-
the service to begin, the entire con.
gregation arose while the president,
preceded by his military aide, Colonel
Bromwell, and his naval aide, Lieu.
tenant Commander Key, in full uni.
form, and accompanied by Mrs. Roose-
welt, entered the church and were as.
signed to the first pew. The presi
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt were both in
mourning.
The service was brief and impress.
sive. and followed, with few excep-
tons, the regular liturgy for the burial
of the dead.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-02-01
Caution. Man.

Wife e a. m.)-John, are you awake?
Husband-Yes.
Wife, think l hear burglar prowl-
ing about downstairs.
Husband-I thought 1 heard some
one. Suppose you go down and see
what he wants.
Wife-But why don't you &c?
Husband--Oh, 1 think it would be
safer for you to go, my dear. Even a
burglar isn't at all likely to strike q
woman.-Chicago News.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-02-01
GENERAL WHEELER AT REST.
President Is Present at Funeral Sci

Pres1dent Is Present at Funeral Ser
vices In Washington.
Washington, Jan. 30.-Home to the
southland, which he loved so we'll
they brought the body of the late Ma
jor General Joseph Wheeler, U. S. A..
retired, and laid it to rest in Airing.
ton, on shaded slope overlooking the
Potomac, near to the graves Of men
who, like himself, were veterans OF
two wars. Thousands uncovered their
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-02-01
Clean Sweep.

$50 pairs mems, womens', and
childrens' shoes at a great sacrifice
Come early while the sizes are still
left. If HANS MADsEN,
Kimballton, Iowa.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-02-01
Concert

By the Elk Horn Singing Gil q
kimballt0n on Tuesdak, Februs
In the Gymnasium Hall. Fine
gram Doors open at 1890 p
Everyone invited.
New-York tribune., 1906-09-30

of theirs from the house where they used 10 1--we
had come TO see them. and came when did,
and as we walked 10 the car she supplied a few
details
1t seems that In this house where they for
rlerly were Mrs Brown employed as JAM
tress for which she got SO a week and their
rooms rent free. William Brown. the elder was as
alive then. and worked in a livery stable for -
a week" .
Then they ought to have saved something"
Seventy cents d week went for William
Browns carfare-for he had 10 go TO the stable
on Sundays, too, for odd jobs. They had lost
two children not long before, and were paying
off the debts entaiied by the sickness and
funeral Then there were the weekly dues on
The life insurance each member of the family;
you know well do that horror of burial
in the potters field drives the poor. all those
VINO have any pride, to pay the weekly insur-
dues, though they live on dry bread for It.
The Browns didn't live dry bread they got
along fairly comfortably; but they couldn't save
anything. Brown wasn't strong, the wife told
me, and lost a good many days account OF
ms heaIth. Inc oid ntlEhbor toId me no"
fond they all We're or him and OF each other.
Sure, the childher earned few cints runnin'
Grants. she said. they'd spind it for swate-
mates for the ould mans supper They seem
10 have been quite happy ana fairly prosperous
till Mrs. Brown. poor thing, committed an error
az Judgment The tenement in which they lived
was put the market, and, being fearful that
sne might lose her Job under new landlord she
wasn't particularly polite to persons who came
TO look at the place. Il taCtless on her part
of course and not entirely just TO her employers.
but thcn when woman is trying desperately
to keep TOOT over IeT cnllGfen S heads and help
her sick husband along you can't blame her tC7
much for showing mistaken ardor But shs
suffered for IL.
The house sold. The new owner was one
Of the persons to whom Mrs. Brown had been
rretty rude. He said nothing at all about in
tending TO discharge her but he most expedi-
tiously had her and the children and their Few
sticks OF furniture put out on the sidewalk one
day when Brown was away at work
.'Of course Mrs. Brown collapsed in Mysteries.
and of course the neighboys gathered around and
gave what comfort ana help they could. They
teephoned Brown 10 come home. Well. as nearly
New-York tribune., 1906-09-30

in some instances a childs earnings are all that
stand between family and suffering. This fear
Of causing suffering I'm the child laborers fam
lily has been one of the greatest causes of child
labor in our state. Those who are responsible
for the enforcing of the law We're inclined 10
make exceptions because of that fear. The de-
mand for such exceptions tending TO increase as
the fact became known. the officials life was apt
10 be made a burden, and the humane purpose Of
the law was in danger Of being thwarted.
Investigation Of a number OF cases disclosed
the fact that the contention that the child's
earnings were absolutely needed 10 keep the wolf
from the door was not always true by any
means. and when this committee found il 20 be
true the family cared for by the relief So
ciettes But this method hasn't been altogether
satisfactory, for self-respecting parents are in
clned to resent anything which they regard as
charity Consequently we were very glad when
about year ago. through the generosity of a
friend of this committee, we We're enabled to an
nounce that. for n time at least in all worthy
cases OF the sort the children would be granted
child labor scholarships that is. a sum OF money
equal TO their weekly earnings provided tbeS-
regularly attended school.
In the year since the fund was established
we have given number of these schoIarshins
The children holding them are required to show
each week attendance cards signed bv tbeir
principals Careful investigation OF the home
conditions are made before a SchOlarshiD IL
granted, IN order that the fund shall be 3rov-n
upon only where IL would be irnpOsSibl for the
family TO get along without And as I toId Won
we care only for a certaiA class of Cases-that
Is, when the child is between th,. AGES OF four-
teen ana sixteen You Know the law-that no
chHo uhuer fourteen may be employed In fac
tory store, etc, under any circumstances and
that no child OF fourteen or fifteen may he EN-
ployed In any OF the designated establishments
or occupations without employment certifi-
cate from the Board OF Health. To secure this
certlflcate the child must have attended school
al least 1SO days since it's thirteenth birthday.
must be able 10 read and write simple sentences
In English and must be thoroughly familiar
with arithmetic through fractions A gradua-
ton certlhcate from public school of New York
state or from another school equally high may
be accepted as evidence that child is fourteen
years old and as passport TO the ranks OF the
workers The employment certificate must be
New-York tribune., 1906-09-30
What Is To Be Done with q Lad Who Should Go to
School but Is the Sole Support of His Mother?

as can make out. what he felt TO be the dis
grace of the thing killed hm-not then and
there, but he died few weeks afterward. They
had always paid as they went and lived onestly,
Mrs Brown said, and her husband 'couldn I
hold his head up under the shame of being put
out on the street. She said IL actually seemed
to paralyZe his mind. He took TO his bed soon
as they got into their rooms and died
there"
"And so Willie Brown was put 70 work." said
the truant officers grown-up son.
Yes friend offered him q place at So 80
a week, and for several months they have lived
on that and the little the mother could earn.
and she. IL is plain TO be SEEN is out from
grief and anxiety and lack OF proper food. l was
Informed that the truant law being violated
there and l called in. The children were scared
half to death when l appeared don't know
what they took me for They huddled in a
corner like 3 brood Of frightened little black ana
white chickens. What they and the mother and
Willie seem to dread the most Is being sep
aratad I told them I wouldn't report Willie
to-day at least. and-1 don't know"
"Now. mother" said the grown-up son. put
ting sentiment aside, what is the best thing for
that family, and for the community, and DOS
teritv? You say the woman looks sick and the
children hungry. Is IL best for them to drag
oionr there on quarter rations while Wtme
crows up ignorant and stunted from working
while he should be in school-and the other chill
dren probably taken from school and put to
y,orl as soon as they can earn few pennies
or &c II hest for the children all 10 be put into
tnetitu+inus where they viii be we'll fed
cIotbed and educated. and made into good citi-
GEMS? | suppose the mother could get easy
nIana IN SOM family, maybe. II she hadn't The
IdhiidreD IN think Of What does the law saw
ohout truaut children and about child labor?'
IAN children between the ages OF eight and
fourteen shall attend school between October /
and June l of each year. Tor as many days rs
tba D,Ihlic schools are in session. " murmurad
IT, trIaDt officer mechanically. That's the
Compuisory Education law. No child under
New-York tribune., 1906-09-30

bridge and tea parties held the veranda the
merits Of the foreign and American teams form the
topic Of lively discussion.
The scenes at the hotel last week. when hundreds
OF prominent society persons or New Iork and
Brooklyn slept cots and mattresses in the public
rooms OF the hOtei in order to be near the start
OF the trial evidence of the widespread en-
thusissm that has been aroused over the NandeToit
Cup contest. Even greater than last week VIII oe
the tnhux OF automobile enthusiasts into Garden
CITY for the big contest next saturday Although
fancy prices have been offered for rooms by late
corners, tho Garden City Hotel has declined all or
these proposals In the order OF their application
rooms have been reserved the hotel at the usual
tive patrons because OF the great demand for accom-
nodatfons. The White City. Camp Vanderbilt,
II has been named which is to be erected in the
park adjacent to the hotel. will provide accomoda-
tions for several hundred racegoers, The Garden
City Hotel and Camp Vanderbilt will provide sleep
Ing accommodations for more than one thousand
persons next Friday night.
Many of the city people who viii attend the van
derbilt Cup will take in the North Shore Horse
Show at Locust Valley in the afternoon Inc
hostesses of the Roslyn. Westbury and Glen Cove
colopies Will make UP automobile parties for t1e
to Locust Valley, stopping over at the Garden
cociety has compelled 10 divide it's interest In
automobiles and horses the same day. For
many seasons the North Shore Horse Show has
been one OF the fixed events Of the Long Island
social calendar At this exhibition the thorough
bredLs who have taken blue ribbons on the summer
circuit will compete for final hO1Ors Paul D. era
vstth president of the Horse Show. and The asso-
citation includes in its membership most or the
wealthy residents Of the North Shore
New-York tribune., 1906-09-30
More Than Forty Thousand Persons Drawna More
Than Sixty Million Dollars n Salaries Each
Year Now. and Municipal Ownership
Would Vastly Increase These figures

the number of $3.50. employed to protect life and
property from loss by fire. About LSoO persons
look after the health OF the CITY, and perhaps 1000
bind up the wounds OF the afflicted in the city
hospitals II requires he learned, nearly 800 per-
sons to see that tenement houses are built in ac-
cordance with the law. Between 1000 and 1000 per-
sons look after she ctys Fairgrounds. More than
800 persons employed 10 for those wicked
ones who have under the displeasure of the
courts and have been placed in durance vile for a
time
In glancing over the ponderous copy Of THE City
Record" the inquirer discovered that persons OF
almost every occupation imaginable were required
by the city. There bookkeepers. clerks, type
writers and stenographers. OF course. by the hun
dred sealers, advertising experts engrossng clerks
bookbinders. veterinarians chauffeurs. styled auto
mobile engine men; Office boys innumerabe. clerk
with knowledge in handwriting" bank messen-
gers, copyists. telephone operators drawing more
salary than the average school teacher outside OF
New York, heliotropers, armorers. hostlers seamen
of all grades. apothecares physicians, representa-
New-York tribune., 1906-09-30

The trUant officer suffering a conflict be
tween her Official and her private self That
Qart % her which had been performing method
!caIy the duties for which the Board Of Educa-
ton giving her salary was confronted by
. pro1ie1 O: the heart. People who work
E-.o.g the poor are apt 10 encounter these prob
lerls 7, was AZ the end Of one long. hard day
iha, he tr.sat officer brought home worried
expression on her face. I'm troubled about the
Browns" she remarked 10 her grown-uD son
ovcr their supper together. The grown-up son
rae never heard Of the Browns. but he was ac-
rGsto2sed &c have people he had never heard
0, shunteo into the conversation.
Yes mother" he replied. interrogatively.
"H,ci- Brown IS Just eleven. and he's work.
'ns-vork.ng for me princely sum Of 50 30 a
week u course he ought 10 be going 20 school.
FEt Il course It's my duty 20 report him But the
simple irutc IS that that 81 90 week is all the
tan...y have 70 live on. Or, at least, it's so
I.oa-.y al that if II were taken away they
,7-ldr: get along. The home would be broken
'3' o. course"
-. R~owr-up son looked interested. He was
st-iy!ug sociology.
"&s.kar." ne protested, what kind or nome
o.n :, ae under the conditions you describe? or
'o-rss .t's your duty 20 report the case There
ara p,=nty OF institutions for just such
IT is 4 nome she SsLla ii my - . NFp '''40 y
looms la q squalid tenement but It's home
End :aat mother IS the natural person TO take
ccre II those children. But she's too frail and
run Down 20 90 much IA the way of earning-an
occas.oasl he!s-day's cleaning Is all she's 1T for
You sho2lG have seen her and those children as
sew ,heTa to-day.the three younger children.
hg-gsy jcoking I!ttIe creatures, IN cheap black
"resaes. ,cEe b.ack Is for their father. Willie
Eroen came Ia while / there. and he and
10 mother told ne their story An OLD EeighDOr
New-York tribune., 1906-09-30
CHILD LABOR SCHOOL.
Columbus, Ca, Starts In to Thor
Oughly Train Factory Youngsters.

Columbus, Ga, Sept. q (specap.-Embodying a
special effort provide industrial education for
some of the tens of thousands Of children who.
der the new anti-child labor legislation of Geor-
gta, leave the factories or January l. 1907. and
go to school. the Columbus Secondary Industrial
School will open its doors on Monday.
Child labor legislation and the great demand for
skilled labor in the South responsible for the
founding of the Secondary Industrial School here
in the heart OF of the most important centres
of cotton manufacture in the South Children
fourteen years Of will not, after January l.
1907. be permitted TO work in any factory in Georgia
There will be thousands Of boys and girls between
ten and fourteen years Of age forced out of the
factories and into the schools The grammar
schools Of the state already overcrowded. and
many of the factory children will find places
IN large cotton mill centres this will work great
hardship. and the real purpose of the Child Labor
bill passed by the Georgia Legislature in June Will
in nearly all the large cities Of the state be de-
feated for time at least. by the lack of public
school facilities.
Realizing that child labor legislation inevita-
New-York tribune., 1906-09-30

of the present cotton mill operatives will learn
TO be skilled weavers of both plain and colored
in this building will give the students sufficient
experience TO command, W thin a short time after
fathers now drawing. The breaker room. the
card ROOM the spinning room and dye house will
all be supplied with labor from this textile build
ing which Will graduate seventy or eighty boys a
year as well as turning out large number who
have taken only part Of the course. but who
With the advent of the manufacture of fine
cotton goods IN the South, there is great de-
mand in all mill cities for experienced dyers- The
Secondary Industrial School will endeavor 70 sup
ply the mills with all the labor of this class
needed. In addition to a knowledge OF dyeing the
will he we'll drilled in the fundamental principles
underlying the various processes IN the manu-
Italian and German immigrants are being sought
by the foundries of Georgia The Secondary In
teaching the children OF any foreigners who may
come 10 Columbus 10 settle trades which they
the city. For this work there viii be a foundry
blacksmith and machine shop.
There is a big demand in Columbus for skilled
cotton mill labor; The same conditions exist all
the state. Progress in the manufacture Of
fine cotton goods in the South has been retarded
necessary labor for the machines.
AS it is located In one of the largest cotton
manufacturing cities in the South, the school will
perfect the textile course as the most necessary
one. At the same time that the idea embodied
in it may be successfully worked out, students
every factory in Columbus may be benefited
Domestic arts, Including sewing; cooking and
girls.
Foster Peabody and Robert c. Ogden Of New
York were present 1T the laying of the corner
trial School In an address made on that dav,
Governor Terrell remarked that far-reaching
entire group of buildings forming the school will
be completed in about two years.