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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-09-06
Use Cream Of tine Valley flour.
Prescriptions.

Bring US your prescrip tions,
we will fill them just right.
Doty & Peterson. Phone 1876.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-09-06

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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-09-06
c a'houn Items.

/ y fine rain fell in this s ction
ant'@g III lr,ljllyg, whieo was
much needed Is 'iu,1 WAS w..
eunln@ " u bad 'Is,r rain will
/ nefii the atr corn and nsst-
iflr,.s. Wli.e,, were becoming
very dr..
The aredgc boat has cut into
..le road so travel has been
stopped. A bridge " II. 5 ,on be
put across the road, the ln,.icr-
ial being mostly on the ground.
4 Miss Hope Jones, of Iowa
Falls, made her sisters here a
short visit. returning to her
home Tuesday.
/ r. f. Hicks spent Sunday at
4 Mrs. Emily Mahoneys.
Mrs. Charlotte Piercy COM
nenced Calhoun school Mon
day.
Mrs. Mary Carter and boys
left for their home in Omaha
after several weeks visit here
with relatives.
Thomas Tierney met with
quite a serious accident Mon
day evening while turning the
cattle into the barnyard gate.
They were frightened by a dog.
which made them crowd and
caught the boy between the
fence and gate and hurt him
quite badly. DR.. Chas. Nc
Gavren was called and says it
will be a few days before the
extent of the injury can be told
as he was hurt internally.
Mrs. r. l.. Girton has been
quite sick.
Harold Piercy has been nurs-
ing some of Jobs comforters of
late.
Thomas Hall, of Glenwood,
was the guest of his cousin,
Mrs. ]. w. Fouts, the past
week.
/ Scarcely any rain fell a few
miles northwest of Calhoun
Sunday morning.
Farmers are busy now maxi
ing the wild hay, which is late
on account of the ground being
too wet.
Mrs. B. G. Sherwin and boys
are up from the Bluffs for a
weeks visit with home folks.
Everybody out this way at
tended the circus in Missouri
Valley Tuesday.
Miss Rosa Powell started to
attend school in the Valley and
will drive back and forth.
Carrie and May Boynton left
Sunday evening for Woodbine
where they will attend Normal
the coming year.
r. q. Hicks was sent to Sioux
City to look after the construc-
ton OF the big dredge boat be-
ing built east Of there.
Remember DR.. Chapek, the
celebrated eye specialist, will
be at Dr.. DeVore's office
Sep. IL, Is and Id.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-09-06
ORDERS VERDICT
FOR TIE COUNTY
Judge Green Makes Import
ant .>>a.iiil1M. in One OF The
nIch Cases
i!iCN Cases.

Fifteen or twenty property
owners in Harrison county who
have been figuring on suing the
llarrison-po ltaWattamie drain
age district for damages will
probably abandon the idea AS
the result of the trial of the
suit of Harvey l.. Mann against
Harrison county. Judge Green
instructed the jury to return a
verdict in favor OF the county.
When the course of the ditch
was first decided upon Mann
was allowed damages in the
sum of $500, the intention be-
ing to construct it through his
farm. Mann moved some of
his buildings out of the way,
but later the board decided up
on a different course. Mann
demanded the amount he had
first been allowed and consid-
erably more by reason of the
unnecessary trouble to which
he had been put. The amount
sued for was 81, 700.
In deciding the case Judge
Green held that while in pri-
vate contracts Mann would
doubtless be entitled to dam
ages under a similar condition
of things, in cases involving
the the right of eminent do
main no damages would accrue
so long as the district had not
taken actual possession of the
property in question. In view
of its bearing on other cases in
volving similar facts, the de-
cision is considered one of con-
siderable Importance to the
drainage district.
Lost A pocketbook contain
ing about four dollars in cou-
pons on Hansen's Grocery, and
also a few dollars in cash.
Finder return to Times office
and get reward. Sc
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-09-06

Remember DR.. Chapek, the
celebrated eye specialist, will
be at DR.. DeVore's office
Sep. IL, Is and Ia.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-09-06
A Good Suit

Don't order that suit you are
thinking of getting untilyou see
Jensen, the Tailor
He makes first class suits for
$1,000 up.
Extra select oysters in bulk,
SOC quart at Lell's.
The only real perfect five
cent cigar in town is the
Commercial Club.
Come to us for school sup
plies. The best of everything.
Doty & Peterson, Druggists.
Money maxes a big noise
at Rag ans furniture store.
Anything you want in my
line. Remember, cash is
what ! want-.you name the
price.
r. B. Harmon has now a full
line of supplies and repairs for
all kinds of sewing machines
and monographs. He will
clean and repair all machines
at prices that are right and
guarantee all work first class.
Don't forget to stop in at the
music store if you need any
supplies, needles or repairs for
your machine.
David Cole Oysters at the
Douglas Cafe.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1906-09-06
Osborne Says

that his line of stationery and school
supplies is unexcelled and that the
variety is large and you can get any,
thing at the right price considering
quality Come in and look the line
over and be convinced of the fact.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
WAS A REAL MAGICIAN.

"A Bostonian was praising the other
day the astronomical and literary work
of Percival Lowell.
Before the last eclipse" he said,
t'Mr. Lowell observed to an old colored
man whom he liked:
George, if you will watch the chick
ems out at your place tomorrow
morning at II o'clock you will see
them all go to roost."
"'Hi, hi George laughed. Oats a
good joker"
"He thought, you see. that Mr..
Lowell was fooling him. But, sure
enough, when II o'clock came the
next morning the sun darkened and
the chickens did go to roost. George
was amazed. He sought Mr.. Lowell
out and said:
"'Wot you done tole me wuz true,
sab. Nah chickens went to roost, sab,
jist laik you said dey would
eyes, George, I suppose they did,
the astronomer returned.
elbow long, sab, did you know
bout dis? asked George.
"fOh, long time George
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
DO RATS HAVE SOULS?

In the course of a lecture before the
Psychotherapeutic Society, DR.. Ward
announced that Prof. Elmer Gates. of
Washington, D. c.. who has been ex-
perimenting with light rays, had found
about five octaves above violet form
Of wave similar to X-rays, but differ
ent in some respects.
Under these rays living objects
throw a shadow which exists as long
as there is life in the animate object.
A live rat was placed in hermetically
sealed tube and held in the path of
the rays in front Of sensitized screen.
So long as the rat was alive it threw
a shadow. When it was killed it be-
came suddenly transparent after GER
tain length of time.
Here" said the lecturer. "there
was a strange phenomenon. AT the
very instant the rat became trans
parent, a shadow Of exactly the same
shape was noticed to pass as it were
out Of and beyond the glass tube and
vanish as it passed upward on the
sensitized screen"
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
INDIANS RAID THE TREAS
=
TRY

A band of Osago Indians has looted
the United States Treasury Of $53S.
The loot was permitted by the author
tiles, for the Red Men had the law
on their side, the money being the
expenses they were allowed by the
Indian Commissioner in making the
trip to Washington from their reserva-
tion. Each Osago was allowed $66
by the Commissioner. They filed into
the Treasury Building, few weeks
ago, silent as oysters and presented
their order. They got their money and
left the department without uttering
a word-only a few grunts. The
names they signed or indicated by
mark were we'll worth the money and
were as follows:
O-lo-hah-wal-la; P. Deerheart; Bacon
Rind; Ne-ke-wah-tian-ka; O-loh-hah-
mole; Nun-tsa-wah-hu; Arthur Bonni-
castle, and Eve's-Tall-C Chief.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
HELPS BURGLAR TO ROB
WEALTHY WIFE.

| udu HO IrOuDIe SeLt1n INTO the.
house." said the reformed burglar in
a reminiscent mood. cit was one of
the old fashioned kind which had not
been modernized, and a 4-year-old
could have opened the windows The
female party that owned the house
had the reputation of bein' mighty
rich and sunthin' of a miser, so l
thought there might be good pickin's
for me in the way of old silver and
the like. She had married a young
man about year before my visit
who was known to be sunthin' of a
high roller.
"The first room struck that seem
ed promisin' was the dinin' room
filled up with massive mahogany fur
niture like they don't build nova
days. had no trouble in openin' the
sideboard, where l found few real
silver spoons and a blamed lot O. plat
ed trash that wasn't worth carryin'
away. I was just about to leave the
room when out flashed an electric
light and l found myself starin' at
the barrel of a pistol. A young rei-
Ter in pajamas held the gun, and his
hand didn't shake bit. He had a
business look in his eye, so when he
told me to throw up my hands done
so without no argument.
How much of haul have you
nader" he asked pleasantly. I told
him only few spoons, and that it
was low-down trick to pinch man
who hadn't got enough to pay for his
trouble
"He acknowledged there was a hoss
on me, and then asked me if I was
safe without rousin' the neighbor-
hood. If you have the materials with
you to crack safe,' says he, why,
you an nell divide the spoils.'
/ 81 acknowledged that had come
prepared to open anything in the
hardware line, and then, with his gun
p'inted, he backed me out of the room
to one adjoinin' where there was a
safe in the wall. Then he told me to
go to work and sat down in a chair
with his pistol turned my way.
"Well, sir, to make the story short,
I opened that safe with this pelican
superintendent the job. There was
wads O. long green in tin box that
would choke a cow, likewise diamonds
and other sinners. The boss O. the
business sorts 'em over careful, and
when the box was clean empty he
hands me over some old breastpins
| and napkin rings and baby's silver
mug and told me that that was my
share, while he pockets the rest as
| calm as ye please.
"'Now, then, about face and don't
kick, for this gun is likely to go off, ,
says he, and heads me back to the
window through which I'd entered.
| Git through there, and be quick about
it, son. he says, and then, as if to
add insult to inj'ry, gives me push
that sent me flynn inter the back
yard ready to choke with rage"
The reformed burglar here uttered
some very unreformed profanity as
the picture of that night rose to mem
| ory.
'When I'd got on me feet 1 heard
pistol go off in the house an a yell
for help and knowed who done it.
There was nothing for me to do but
| light out. 1t seems that young man
was the old party's husband. Shed
kept him short of funds and he took
this chance to make good. Now, did
ye ever hear meaner job played on
hard working man than he played
on me?"
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
VERY BAD BREATH.

Senator Clay, of Georgia, told the
following story to a number of his
colleagues in the Senate cloak room
a few days ago:
"Sam Jones, the evangelist, was
holding meetings in my home town
last summer in the open air. His
subject for the particular evening of
which speak was Death He had
been preaching some fifteen or twenty
minutes when he reached the climax
of his theme with My Friends, think
of it. Think of it, say. And you not
prepared to die. At my every breath
soul drops dead" Then a small boy
away back in the rear exclaimed, Why
don't you chew cloves?"
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
UNIQUE STREET RAILWAr.
In Which the Horse and the Passen-
gers Ride Together-Owned by a
Woman

If the spirits of the poor, departed
car horses are allowed to return to the
land of the living, they must chuckle
(if car horse spirits do such an I'M
seemly thing) when they witness one
of their kind standing on the back
platform of street car, meditatively
chewing a straw and "viewing the
landscape DER" as the car merrily
glides on its way into the town. But
that is a spectacle that presents itself
many times a day just outside the
great city of Denver, Colorado.
A short line of street railroads
called the Cherrelyn Line, leads from
one of the city terminals to the little
town of Cherrelyn. 1t ascends gradu-
ally from the city, and it's motive
power, an ancient and decrepit speci-
men of the genus "car horse creeps
slowly up the hill, stopping frequently
for breath. Once at the top however,
his labors are over for the time be-
ing. He is unhitched from the car.
climbs aboard the rear platform. and
proceeds to make himself comfortable.
When the hour of departure is reached
the driver gives the car a gentle shove
and the whole outfit goes spinning
down the hill to its starting point.
The Cherrelyn Line is owned and
controlled by Mrs. George H. Bogue,
of Denver, who claims that it is the
only all-gravity system in the world.
There was a similar line operating in
southern California a few years ago,
so the claim to that distinction may be
disputed. Be that as it may, how
ever, it is one of the sights of Denver
"a street car on which both horse
and passengers ride.
The rolling stock Of this road rep
resented by the single car-is not
exactly up to date in style or finish.
1t is shabby and worn, and the rear
platform, not originally designed as
a stable, droops disconsolately. The
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
CURE FOR SEASICKNESS.
Electric Current Used to Quiet Nerves
of the Sufferers.

Those who have been prostrated by
the heave and the chop-chop of ocean
vessels will be glad to learn that a
sure cure for seasickness is promised.
The ship physician of the Hamburg
American liner Patricia has found by
experiments conducted on the last
voyage of the ship that simple elec-
trio vibration chair does the work, and
so successfully did he demonstrate this
to the satisfaction of the ships officers
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
THE HORSE IS PASSENGER ON THIS CAR.

sides of the. car, both inside and out,
are decorated with the carvings and
writings of tourist fools
Whose names are like their faces,
Always seen in public places.
Mrs. Bogue is not exactly a million
-aire as the result of operating her own
railroad and drawing all the salaries
and dividends, and she appreciates
the deficiencies of rolling stock and
roadibed. But she takes keen de-
light in the management of the road
and finds it a paying investment.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11

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Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
HAS STUDIED STANDARD
OIL

There is the making of a most val
liable servant of the trusts in South
Orange in the form of a small boy
whose name does not appear. Be-
neving he had killed seven-year-old
Loretta Smith, a pupil of the Colum-
bia public school, whom he knocked
senseless with a SNOWFALL, a small
boy, who escaped before his identity
could be ascertained, hired negro
boy for cents to assume all blame
for the tragedy. The girl was more
frightened than hurt.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
AUTOMOBILE SKATING.
Skates Run by Storage Battery
Strapped to Mans Waist.

Recent cable descriptions of auto
mobile skating in Paris nave been
verified. Alphonse Constantine, an
Italian who lives in Paris, has been
making many successful experiments
with his new form of automobile
skates which he invented.
The apparatus consists of two four
wheeled skates each operated by an
air-cooled motor of 11/2 horse power
capacity.
A small tank containing gasoline,
sufficient for 46 mile run is strapped
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
POSTMASTERS OF OLDEN
TIME.
Ninety Years Ago Incomes Arg
umented by Acting as Agents.

The postmaster of today may think
he has troubles of his own, but there
was a time about the year 1917, when
queer things were expected of post
masters. An old pamphlet dated
April 5th, 1917, states that a. new
daily and thrice week paper" was to
be printed sat the seat of government" :"
After the virtues of the proposed publi-
cation were set forth the editor-to-be
says:
"Postmasters are hereby authorized
to receive subscriptions for the Gaz-
cite, and for all moneys collected and
transmitted to the editor, at the city
of Washington, a discount Of 10 per
cent. will be allowed. Distant sub
scribers will have their papers care
fully packed and punctually forwarded
to order. 1t is to be presumed that a
copy of this pamphlet was sent to
each postmaster in the United States.
Under the system that then existed
this method was entirely proper and
it is claimed that postmasters derived
considerable income from such sour
ces.
The prospectus" further states that
d COupSLeuL reporter Will De 6upIOySu
to furnish the proceedings of Congress
for the Gazette" and that all "inter-
esting articles of intelligence will be
carefully selected and published"
The Editor-to-be, in writing of him
self says:
Gas the humble guardian Of the pub
lie veal, he will occasionally use the
privilege he has right to exercise,
in expressing his temperate disappro-
baton of such measures of the coun-
try. If those opinions should some
times be erroneous, he wishes them to
be ascribed to the common falibility
of human judgment, which cannot be
always in the right. AS far as it may
be possible, he will labor to be i'm
partial, but that there will be a bias,
and that that bias will be in favor of
the present dominant party, he has too
much candor to deny and too much
honesty to conceal. What he can do
within his humble sphere, shall be done
for the good of the country, and If
he fails he will console himself with
the reflection that he had discharged
his duty to the utmost Of his ability
and power"
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
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to present him with a bill. It is re-
corded that a hotelkeeper once offered
to throw off half the bill when he
learned his guests identity. "The i'm
mortal J. N. glared at the landlord
then, declaring he would allow no one
to outdo him in generosity, and said
he would throw off the other half.
He seldom stopped in cities of more
than 10000 population, believing that
in the large cities his personality
would be lost. There are few news
paper Offices in the country outside of
the largest cities where he is not well
known. Some years ago he travelled
all over. the country ransacking the
files Of newspapers for his own obit-
uary. He has been reported dead
more than once
He is an apostle of 'truth," "press-
ure," and keeper of the "secret of the
veil" For forty years he has been
promising to Gift the veil" and put ION
the pressure"
Wherever he stopped in the course
of his migrations his first announce
ment was that men called him crazy,
and that he was about ''to put the
pressure on" This pressure" was
some mysterious force which he alone,
he believed, prevented from crushing
out of existence all the life of this con-
tinent.
No one has ever doubted that he was
insane. He himself boasted of it. But
his is an insanity that up to now in
spired only friendship and sympathy.
But behind his insanity and his fifty
years of aimless wandering over the
country is tragic story.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
Mind Unhinged by Blow.

In his youth he was an infant phe-
nomenon. At four years of age he
read almost all Of the Bible, and dur
ing his teens he acquired reading and
speaking knowledge of no less than
thirteen languages. During the gold
craze in '49 he went West and started
a stage line. Within two years he had
accumulated a fortune of $4,000. A
partner robbed him, and then 81. NJ
moved back to Ohio and began the
study of law. Within a few years he
stood at the top of the bar of Cincin-
natl W.
One day he was defending a MUIR
derer in whose innocence he strongly
believed. AS a result of his eloquence
the man was acquitted The same day
his client confessed that he was guilty.
81. N" rushed back to the courtroom
and started to explain, but the strain
and excitement had been too much for
him. He was stricken with apopleXy.
Within a short time he recovered his
physical health, but never his mental
poise.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11

about the skaters waist. Attached to
the tank are the ignition battery, the
throttle lever and the spark control
A speed Of 81 miles an hour can be
attained and diminished by means of
the throttle lever which the skater
holds in his left hand. It is claimed
that almost any hill can be climbed.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11

Mr.. Bryan's daughter has taken to
writing plays, Senator Tillman is writ
ing a book, and Congressman Long
worth is accused of writing topical
songs. By next November we may
have very little left to be thankful
for.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
THE RAID on THE TREASURY.

"'Did you know dey would go to
roost a year ago?
eyes, fully year ago.
"'Well, dat beats ALL said George,
in an awed voice. Dem chickens
wuzn't Matched a year ago." '"-Satur-
day Evening Post.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11
Keeper for Thirty-eight Years.

Albert H. Metcalfe watched the gov
ernment belongings around Sacketts
Harbor for thirty years, and then
died. During all the years the Bu-
reau of Yards and Docks Of the Navy
Department has regularly submitted
an estimate of S365. to Congress for
the annual salary of the "ship keep
er" at Sacketts Harbor, and that is
probably the only place where the
name ship keeper" appears in an
official way on the records.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11

Nearly all the cigarettes Of the
United States are made in New York,
Richmond, New Orleans, and San
Francisco.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-11

Sumatra is now producing about as
much coffee as Java.