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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
AN ODD WAGER.
The Peculiar Bet Foreign Prime.
Laid and Won la Paris

The Peculiar Bet Foreign Prince
Laid and Won In Paris
Gambling has always been favor
lite occupation for tho sons of royal
houses, but none of them probably
has ever exhibited so much wit and
ingenuity in his betting as a foreign
prince did ut his stay i'm Paris.
He laid heavy wager With mem.
Der of the Imperial club of the French
capital that within two hours he
would be arrested by the police with.
out committing any offcnse or pro.
voking the officers of the law in any
fashion. Accordingly, having clothed
himself i'm rags of the most disreputa-
bic appearance, he walked into one of
the most arstocratc restaurants I'm
the city and ordered cup of choco-
late. The waiter refused to serve him
unless he showed evidence that he
could pay. The prince ut once drew
roll of bank notes from his pocket
and offered one of large denomination
to the astonislled attendant The lat.
ter took the bill and carried IL Mt once
to the proprietor. who sent for the
police, in the meantime allowing his
strange guest to be served.
AS soon as the authorities arrived
they arrested the incogntto son OF roy
atty and took him to the nearest sta.
ton, where Of course lie was released
after he had disclosed tho facts of the
affair. New York Tribune.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
Glendale Items.

Fred Heaps was telling me
that he planted some corn the
10th of June am it yielded 60
bushel per acre. Now | think
that is doing well if not better.
If our fore sight was as good
as our hind sight, how rich we
would become.
A man near Calhoun has a
car load of hogs and was offered
6 cents per pound, but wanted
a little more, now he has has
the same hogs and cau't sell for
over a cents, eating 40 Ct, corn
all time, and the price going
down all the time.
Frank Mech, wife and little
girl, of New York City, are here
and making his parents as hap
py as can be.
Our school has taken a two
weeks vacation.
George Miller and Oviett, will
farm land east of Logan, the
coming year.
Miss Helen Crawford and
Samuel Frice made their pa
rents a visit the first of the
week.
It seems since the bounty on
pocket gophers took effect, that
they are becoming more numer-
Gus. | know of some fields that
they have about ruined. They
must be killed.
My "better half" put some
rough on rats to kill them dead.
1t didn't take the rats long to
"catch on" they just let it
alone. Our kitty saw the bait
and eat it all up, and we feared
she was a goner, but we gave
her lots of grease and milk and
she pulled through.
Sunday afternoon | conclu-
ded to visit some of the sick.
called on old Mrs. Erwin. She
can't walk much, but keeps up
her courage and is glad to have
friends call on her. Next we
called on Abe Daniels. He is
on the mend and thinks he will
soon be able to use his official
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
GAS PLANT OPERATION.
Lueien II. Tying Compares Public and
Private Owners min.

Private Ownership.
I.ucicn FL. Tying contributed to the
August issue of Moody's Magazine
strong article on "Private versus Pub
lie Operation Of Gas Companies" from
which we take the following:
Making money out of gas plant IS
not like picking gold eagles out of the
street. and franchise to run the gas
business in a community is no gold
mine. 1t may be developed into
source Of great profit, but only in con-
junction with capital and business abi-
ity, especially the latter, which if not
employed in the particular gas bust
ness in question might be securing
greater returns in some other field.
There is no more logic in the belief
that the surplus earnings of a success
ful gas company over certain per-
centage on the investment should go
to the municipality than that whole
sale grocer should refund to his Gus
toner all profits over 6 per cent. say.
on the capitalization OF his company
The success of the gas company comes
from the use of proper judgment. en-
ergy aud business methods in the use
and risk of capital invested, just us in
any other business.
THAT often the gas business is APP
parently IL natural monopoly in a given
community does not disprove the fore
going reasoning. The gas companies
that are making the most money today
are not those that are taking advaE
tage of their franchise rights to exact
high rates. They are the ones who by
their own effort in educating the peo-
pie are SO increasing the per capita
consumption of gas as to make a lower
rate a business possibility and by their
intelligent attention to operating cost
and investment of large amounts of
new capital when needed are able to
reduce the cost of making gas sutli-
GENTLY to secure Il greater total profit
out of selling Il large amount of gas ut
low rate than was before received
when rates We're higher and business
less.
But 1T is only by the most aggres.
sive and intelligent business methods
that gas company can hope to sue
coed under such conditions. The abi-
ity to handle the business in this way
is something that municipality can
not buy at Il salary. The opportunities
in other lines of business are too great
10 those with the capacity that enables
them to develop the highest earning
power out of a gas company Mt low
margin of profit for the product"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
5 CAPS EYES
The Chinese Uncovered Their Use q,
q Time lnslicator


The Chinese Discovered Their Use a.
q Time Indicator.
The first European to learn Of tho
use of a cat as time indicator was
NJ Hue, who In work on the Chinese
empire tells how he was initiated into
the mystery.
NJ. Hue and a party of friends set
out to visit u Chinese Christian mis-
sion settlement among the peasantry.
They met young Chinaman OH the
road, and to test his intelligence they
asked him II lie could tell them the
time. The native looked up at the sky,
but the clouds hid the sun from view.
and he couldn't read any answer there.
Suddenly he darted away to a farm
and returned in few moments with a
cat in his arms. Pushing up Its cyelids
With his hand. he told Hue to look at
them, at the same time Volunteering
the information that it was not noon
yet While they We're puzzling over
the case the boy went about his bust
ness.
When the party reached the village,
they asked the Christian converts il
they could tell the time by cats eyes
and how it was done. Immediately
there was wild hunt, and all the cats
obtainable in the neighborhood were
brought before them.
The Chinese pointed out that the pu
pills of cats eyes We're gradually mar.
rover up to II noon, when they be.
came scarcely perceptiblc lines drawn
perpendicularly across the eye. and
after that dllation recommended. Hue
examined the eyes OF several cats and
verified what the Chinese had told
him.-Chicago Chronicle.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
Color blindness.

The term color blindness implies an
entire absence of the color sense, and
there are few persons who are in this
condition, but it also includes all the
forms of partial color blindness In
which the perception OF one Of the
fundamental colors red, green and
violet is wanting, and which ;re
known as red blindness, green blind
ness and violet blindness. The line b.
tween these various kinds of color
blindness and a perfect perception OF
colors is not sharply drawn, so that n
lhrge number of persons have what T.
called Il feeble color sense, which falls
short of actual color blindness. There
Is no doubt that color blindness in Its
various forms is much more con On
than is generally supposed anl +: ia
more common among the .rf ,tly
than the we'll educated classes
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
PUBLIC BUSINESS NEGLECTED.
No Private Enterprises Could Have
Been So Badly Managed Without COL

0eeu % Oduty Mdnageo WtthOut Col.
lapse.
1t Is stern but not pleasant duty
to call occasional attention to the way
events continue to stultify the claims
of the municipal ownership advocates
that the public does it's own business
as we'll as or better than the individual
does his.
Take three enterprises of present
moment. No private individual or
corporation const. "a by profit
making purpose AID Upholstered by
the taxing power would make such
crazy and corrupt contracts for a
building as those which investigation
shows the state of Pennsylvania made
for the Harrisburg capitol. No private
enterprise would have so little to show
for six years of work on simple en-
gineering problem as the municipality
has in the Manhattan bridge No In
Gividual able to keep out of the bank
ruptcy courts and the insane asylum
would have spent, as Father Knicker-
booker has spent. S7,00O,OOO for a hall
of records. taken seven years to build
it ands then found that 1t would not
hold his records.
The huge debt of the metropolis. its
narrow borrowing power. the condition
OF Its streets. docks and parks and the
confusion of it's tax system. all are cx-
planned and Illuminated hy these coz
temporary incidents. Editorial In New
York Mail and Express.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
Familiar Story From Portsmouth, c

Familiar Story From Portsmouth, c
Portsmouth. o., was among the frs,
to install its own electric light plant,
which it operated until street rail
way system was installed. At that
time Il contract was made with the
street railway company by the terms
OF which 1t took charge of the lighting
plant and furnished light to the city
for specified sum. This contract
continued in force until about three
years ago when the practically worn
out and out Of date equipment was
sold to the street railway company
because the city was unwilling to OK.
pend the money necessary properly to
re-equip the plant.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
Original Notice
1 the District Court of the State {
Iowa in and for Harrison County.

Iowa in and for Harrison County.
January Term 1905
j. A. McVey, Plaintiff VS. James Otto,
Irving Gates, and the unknown heirs
of said parties and TO all persons inter
ested in their estates and in the land
hereafter described
To the said James Otto, Irving G.
Gates, their unknown heirs and all per-
sons interested in their estates:
You and each of you are hereby mott
fled that there is now on file in the Office
of the Clerk of the District Court of
Harrison County, Iowa, petition, by
the plaintiff, ]. A. McVey, alleging that
he is the absolute and unqualified owner
of the n12 of the sell of the SCI and
the SELL of the se-Ll of the Sc "a Sec %
Twp 10. Range 43. west of the 5th p NJ.
Harrison County, Iowa That he OIL
tanned title to said land by regular pur-
chase and is now the absolute and un-
qualified owner thereof That about
October l5th 1855, the said James Otto
obtained the patent for said land from
the United States Government but that
by reason Of a deed, or by lapse of
time, all right or title he had thereto
has 'econe extinct. That about July
! 9TH, 1850, and again about October 81.
1870 the said Irving G. Gates obtained
warranty deed for said property b, t
that either by execution or deeds ly
him or by reason of a tax deed execut-
ed November 18th, 1872, and recorded
in book 8, spage I. and by the lapse of
time all title which the said James Otto
or Irving G Gates had, or might have
at any time have had has been fully
distinguished. That any right. title or
interest which the heirs of said parties
or either Of them had, or at any time
might have had in sid land, are also
extinct. That the unknown heirs and
unknown claimants referred to are such
persons as will be interested in the
estates OF James Otto, referred to in the
patent conveying the Sc u of the se-4
vi sdld SeSCioil -, atlu VI Vie Sdlu 1IV.
| ing G. Gates. referred to in the deeds
under date of July 10th. 1855. found in
book B" on page 81. And also deed
under date of October 3lst, 1910, found
| in book w" on page AS; and that un-
less you appear and defend before noon
of the second day of the next term of
said District Court commencing at
Logan, Iowa, on the 18th day of January
1908, default will be entered against
you and judgment and decree rendered
as prayed, and his title thereto fully
established and Quoted.
Dated this 4th day Of December. 1907.
j. S. Dewell
DE Attorney for Plaintiff.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
Dnrbcrs ixc AGO.

The first BARRIERS OF whom there Is
any record piled their trade In Greece
II tine fifth century b. &. In Rome
the first BARRIERS operated i'm the third
century p. G. In olden times in Eng
land the barber and the physician
were identical. Thus a kings barber
vas also his chief medical adviser. In
the time of Henry Will of England
laws were made concerning BARRIERS
Of which the following Is an extract:
No person occupying n shaving or
barberr in London shall use any sur
gerry, letting OF blood or other matter
except the drawing of teeth"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
There Was a Reason.

Some of the forms of graft practiced
In certain Indiana cities which have
gone into the municipal ownership
business may he peculiar TO those
towns. In one of them. which owns
and runs its waterworks system. as
Rochester does, the city waterworks
were insured for $4,000 A cement
water tank carried $4,000 Insurance.
though it could not be fred it II thou
sand incendiarics went to work an il
IT happened that in that town one OF
the influential officials was agent for ~
IRE insurance company which had
risks" on the water tank and other
Observation-Disclosures IN. " Demo
crat and Chronicle.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
After II Is All Over.

When yarns are being spun one hears
q COOL deal concerning the curious an
ties people go through when highly e,s
cited, but very little is said about the
man who gets scared after 1t is all
over" Ana the latter, not being so
constituted that he can faint, as n wo
man often does after a fright, gencr-
ally keeps his own counsel and often is
given the credit of being cool apd
"aervy" VII m the fact is that his knees
nre ready to bump together for mutual
support Forest and Stream.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

The ladies of the Eastern
Star served a banquet for the
local Masonic lodge last even
ing, after regular work. The
refreshments served were ele-
giant and up to the usual sta d.
ard of the ladies. About seven
ty Masons enjoyed the feast,
after which an informal smoker
was held.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
Card of Thanks

We take this way of thank
ing our neighbors and relatives
who were so kind to us during
the sickness and death of our
darling, Attic Pearl, also the
Modern Woodmen for their
floral Offering.
Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Hirst.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
On the Safe Side.

They had been engaged for fully
thirty minutes by the cuckoo clock.
II have a surprise in store for you.
Alfred, dear" she said 81 can cook
as we'll rs can play the piano"
"That being the case, darling" he
replied. 1T will be we'll for us to
board"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
Ma.:sc, gate.

Some Of these big magazine editors
are humorous at times. In response
to this inquiry from an amateur,
what does poetry bring i'll New
York?' one of them replied:
I'VE have no regular prices, but II
you ship 1t in crates or carloads we
believe that You can realize ~ cents
. pound for it."
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

Arthur O'Connor returned
this morning from Nortre
Dame, Indiana, where he had
attending school, and will spend
the holidays with his parents in
this city, Mr.. and Mrs. M.
O'Connor.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
Appropriate.

The society editor was writing up
church fair
"Mrs. Green. the wife of our promi-
nent milk dealer" he wrote. was ap.
propriately gowned in watercd silk"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
Mr.. and Mrs. M. j. Fitzgib-
Don and children were Omaha
passengers this morning.

Miss leila Richardson spent
the day in Omaha the guest of
friends.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

authority, then we will all be
good. | am glad to say that Joe
Smith is much better. He talks
and jokes !lk he used to. We
all hope to sea his smiling face
down town again soon. Our
next call was on David Brown.
who has been sick a long time,
but is now quite cheerful, and
likes to have me play some of
the old gospel hymns, it cheers
him up very much.
Some can do one thug, some
another refer to milking. |
have an old black COW, but when
she gets walked up she is some
pumpkins. | was away at chore
time one evening, so the boy
thought he could milk her. He
sat down by her and commenced
to milk in the pail. Old black
saw it was not your Correspon-
pant, so the first move she plan
ted her hind foot in the pail.
When he had got the pail out
and washed, he concluded to
tie her legs together, and the
way she tried to kick was a
caution. She pOt her dander
up in good shape. and | am
really ashamed of her conduct,
for she is an old COW and knows
better. | wonder il Sleepy
Hollow can tell why she stands
for me and won't for any one
else?
Christmas shopping is very
good in the afternoons, but the
mornings are a little quiet.
However, toward the end of
the week people will begin to
realize the fact that Christmas
is only a few days away and all
will want to buy at once. Bet
ter 90 down town at once and
lay in your upply of presents.
Pretty nearly all Of the deal
ers who handle Christmas trees
received their suloly last even
ing or this morning, and the
sales are very satisfactory.
Toyland in the Peoples Store
has been a decided success this
season.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
Pay Up

!, All persons owing me by
book account are hereby mott.
fed to make settlement i'm
1nediately or the accounts will
be placed in the hands of a
collector. DR.. F. H. Potter,
wd26 : Veterinary.
H. c. Heckert of the Miller
Hotel, left this afternoon for
| Carrizozo, New Mexico, on a
pleasure trip.
A. w. Mann and Attorney
Cooper of Onawa, were in the
Valley on business yesterday
AFTERNOON.
Miss Marie Brehm, the
Glecturer, met with the Min
ssterial Association yesterday,
lat the home of Murvill Hutchin-
son. Miss Brehm gave some
| pointed suggestions concerning
MIXTURE work.
Mrs. Murvill G. Hutchinson
leaves this evening for Max
! well, Iowa, to spend Christmas
with her parents. Max accom-
panied her.
James Coulthard has re-
turned from a trip to Colorado,
where he visited his daughter,
Mrs. Ida Campbell.
Miss Sadie Gilmore and Mrs.
|. M. O'Connor were Omaha
assengers this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Pratt left
or Chicago and Milwaukee last
light.
E. H. Dolbee and wife left
pr GAINESVILLE, Wis, last night,
allied there by the sickness of
relative.
jR. M. Blunt today brought to
le Times Office a sack of per-
mmons sent by Mrs. Mcclure,
other Of his wife, from Ar
tnsas.
Attorney ]. F. O'Connor left
lis afternoon for his home in
vingston, Montana, after a
uple of weeks visit With his
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Pat
Conner and other relatives.
/. O'Connor thinks Montana
one Of the best states in the
aion, and has a good practice
Livingston.
Charles Stout and Frank
Inner, accompanied by Modale
kties, left this morning for
dorado on land trip.
Mrs. Anterior and daughter,
ss Winifred, were Omaha
tsengers this morning.
Harry Newton goes to Chi
10 this evening to attend the
Iional meeting Of the Cement
location.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

Sheriff Rock was in the VAL
ley this afternoon on official
business.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

Mrs. F. w. Oviatt is in Wood
bine the guest of relatives for
"a few days.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
In chehalis. Mash.

According to the mayor Of Chehals.
Wash. "tlie city owns the plant. which
was leased some time ago to private
party That party now owns nearly
all the machinery connected with tho
plant. The city at the time II opcrat-
ed the plant did not make financial
success for the reason that the city
was at that time very small and in
dishonest hands. 30 the story goes"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

George Gumb will go into
Chicago this evening on bust
ness.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

Mrs. G. G. Bunce returned to
her home in Omaha this morn
ing, after a few days visit with
her daughter, Mrs. Otis Carter.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

You must hear that which hurts that
you may gain that which profits.-se.
lcctod
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

w. o. Writ, of Council Bluffs
was in the Valley yesterday af-
ternoon the guest of friends,
and attend to business.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

John Fox was a pleasant
caller yesterday.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

Mrs. N. B. Spafard was an
Omaha passenger this morning.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

Dan Ford was in the Valley
this morning enroute to Omaha
on business.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

He Is great who Is what he is from
nature and who never reminds US Of
others.-Emerson.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

George Gumb has purchased
the r. P. Michigan property on
End street.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

Miss Maude Bates of the
Times force, was an Omaha
passenger this morning.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

Pretty nearly all of the deal
ers who handle Christmas trees
received their So tloly last even
ing or this morning, and the
sales are very satisfactory.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
Hogs uor Sale

Four registered thoroughbred
Duroc Jersey boars. Telephone
Red %. NJ. s. Ellis.
d26
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K. E. Brundige was a pleas
ant caller yesterday.

J. -. Hinkle, of Lyons, Neb.,
is in the Valley the guest of j.
w. H. Hook. He is erecting a
tombstone over the grave of
his father at St. John.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19
MISSOURI VALLEY TIMES
HARRIS s nOYLE, Editors
Weekly Established July 3, 1868
Daily Established April 1, 1891
Weekly, $3.50 per year, Daily is cents
per week.

Oscar and Orville Frazier
have engaged in the grocery
business in Sand Point, Idaho,
where they had both been
working for several years.
They are very much enthused
over business prospects in that
part of the country and antici-
pate a good business.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Sick are
visiting at the home of Mr.. end
Mrs. George Schlagenhauff in
stead of at the Dunn home as
reported yesterday.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

Ed Shelton, Dow Reel and
Eliza Spencer left this morning
for New Mexico on land bust
ness.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

Toyland in the Peoples Store
has been a decided success this
season.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

Mr.. and Mrs. George Motz,
Of Clay, were Valley visitors to-
day.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1907-12-19

O. P. Shoff returned last
evening from the Black Hills
country, where he had been on
business.
E. H. Wade, Of Modale, was
IN the Valley today on business.