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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-12
RIRMIN CHAM

Birningi1am--The Rev. Nash's con-
honor Thursday evening. A large
crowd was present and the evening
was delightfully."- spent in games.
The Ladies Aid met with Mrs, John
Finger Thursday afternoon. A very
profitable and enjoyable afternoon was
spent.
home the last of the week after a
weeks visit with friends and relatives
in Stockport and vicinity.
George Phillips was a business Wis
itor in Glasgow Thursday.
Miss Bertha kissing the assistant
principal. visited over Sunday at her
home in Bonaparte.
Mrs. Retta Crosley of Arkansas is
in town. called by the serious illness
of her mother. Mrs. Samuel Wilson in
north Birmingham.
Mrs. Z. E. Wilson and son Theodore
We're Ottumwa shoppers Saturday.
M. j. Johnson of Anselmo, Neb and
w. a. Henry of Fairfield. We're the
guests Of NJ. E. Stout Friday.
Mr., and Mrs. Frank Simmons and
children of Fairfield. visited Sunday
with Mr. Simmons parents, Mr.. ant
Mrs. George Simmons.
"Wednesday with Mr.. and Mrs. Fordycf
of Libertyville.
George Williams and family spen
! Sunday with friends in Collett.
| Mrs. Bclknap of Dttumwa, is VISITING
with her sister, Mrs. John Ford.
Dr. Chase went to Davenport Satur'
dav and returned Sunday with new
automobile.
c. X. Hayes spent Sunday With hi
parents in Salem
| A large crowd from here ATTENDED
the pie social at Elm Grove Frida,
evening.
Frank Boies spent Sunday with hi
| parents in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Deahl and ia,
Deahl are in town. called by the lines
of their father Geo. Deahl.
Mr. and Mrs. S. II Shoot and child
rem spent Sunday with Mrs. William
Spencer of Stockport.
Mrs. Cook of Hillsboro. visited TIL
last of the week with her daughter
Mrs. B. S. Sherman.
Miss Grace Allen. who is ATTENDING
school at Parsons College spent Sun
day at home.
Mrs. Shot and daughter Mary ar
visiting with Mrs. Shott's sister, Mr.;
= William Spencer of Stockport.
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tied members of the church

tied members of the church while
here.
Prof. Jennings OF Oskaloosa wh1
gave lecture, THE prodigal Son,
at the Christian church Thursday
night, illustrated with stereopticon
views, gave similar lecture at Bluff
Creek Union chapel Saturday night
He also preached at Bluff Creek Sun
day morning and at the, Eddyville
Christian church Sunday night.
John Waugaman. who has been as
ISOLATED with G. c. Bedford In the
manufacture of cement building ma
terial. has sold his interest in the
factory to his partner who will con
duct the business alone.
Lloyd Waters has moved his family
from the Grant Dye property on North
Second street to Milan Bolibaush' :
property on the same ctreet.
Mrs. Belle TruaS arrived home Fri
day night after spending a year and
eight months in the north and west
Charles V. Shafer of Pleasant Cor
ners is visiting his brother, Hiram
| Shsfer at Ottumwa. South Dakota
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-12
STOCKPORT.

Stockport Eight hundred bushels OF
clover seed was bought here last week
at s425 per bushel and shipped TO st,
Joe, Mo
Lee Day of Fairfield, was caller at
Stockport Thursday.
Mr.. White of Keosauqua, has been
here the past week moving a house,
Clint Rowely was up from keosau-
qua Saturday in his auto.
j. H. McCarty spent Saturday and
Sunday in Ottumwa.
G. ". Warrington and family and
Harry Robinson and family visited
over Sunday in Bonaparte.
A. Shynass and Dick Workman leave
this week for the Rosebud Reservation
where they have one hundred head OF
horses. They will bring them bach
here but will stop at Kansas City anC
put them on the market there.
Farmers are gathering their corn and
the yield is light and quality medium
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-12
FOSTER.

Foster-Mr. and Mrs. Ed Prichard
of Avery were visiting the formers
sister, Mrs. VIM Kershaw Wednesday
and Thursday of last week.
Mrs. James Robinson of Munter-
vile visited friends and relatives here
over Sunday.
Oscar Erickson departed Sunday for
Louisville, Colo, for the benefit OF his
health.
John Terry was business visitor in
Morayia Monday.
Miss Eppie Hoskinson of York, Neb.,
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by reasou Of her troubles with Ray
Lamphere who was. employed by her
as a farm hand. Twice she had him
arrested for trespass and annoying
her. after she had discharged him.
to the insane hospital She claimed
that he had threatened her life, and
on Monday. April 81, she called III
Attorney NJ. 4. Letter made her will.
and deposited 500 in the State bank,
She then said Lamphere was follow
ing her around the streets, and that
he threatened to burn her house and
to kill her.
Fiery Tragedy Occurs,
The following morning her house
was found in ruins, and in the after
noon one adult and three small bodies,
all burned to q crisp, We're found in the
ruins. Lamphere was suspected, and
that night he was arrested at the
home of farmer, where he was en-
ployed He admitted that he had
spent the night at the home of Mrs.
Elizabeth Smith colored woman.
that he had gotten up early TO go to
work, and that on his way he saw the
Guinness house on fire. but that he
was afraid to go and arouse the in
mates because he feared he would be
suspected of setting the place afire.
On the following Monday A. K,
Helgelein came to La Porte from Aber
deem, S. D.. after learning of the Gun
ness fire, to investigate the disappear.
ance Of his brother. Andrew Helgelien
VINO came TO La Porte to see Mrs
Guinness. and who had disappeared
after drawing $4,000 through La
Porte bank from the Aberdeen bank
| On May 4 the tlismembered body OF
| Andrew Helgelein, wrapped in gunny
sacks. was found buried III shallow
grave
During the next four days nine more
bodies We're found in the little grave
| yard on the Guinness farm. One was
| identified as that OF Jennie, who lived
with Mrs. Guinness, but who had dis
appeared and was said by Mrs. Gun
ness to have gone to California tC
school. Another body was identified
as that of Olaf Budsberg, but the
others We're never fully identified. al
though evidence was found to show
| that al least seven other men baC
| been lured to La Porte by Mrs. Gun
ness through matrimonial advertise
ments in Norwegian papers, and tina
she had undoubtedly robbed and theJ
murdered them
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NURSE TO GET TUCKER ESTATE

Hot Springs, Ark, Nov. 10. - Col.
William F. Tucker, husband of the
daughter Of Gen John A. Logan, is
sued an order yesterday that in the
event of his death all his property,
real and personal, shalT go to Mrs.
Myrtle Platt, the1nurse who has been
his attendant for several months Off
Gals Of the Army and Navy hospital,
where Colonel Tucker is a patient,
have forwarded the order to Washing
ton, D. c., for endorsement
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-12
Turns Easily

You think the "Universal"
would be hard to turn, well, it
isn't at all. Any housewife
can turn the large $3.50 size.
even when it has enough dough
in it for 10 or IL loaves. Come
in and turn it and see for
yourself.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-12
Easily Cleaned

The dough does not stick to
the sides of the pail. A trial
or two will enable you to get the
evact quantity of flour to use
with the regular quantity of
wettings. 1t will then lift right
out clear and clean.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-12
Women's Club Convention

Creston Nov, 10. = The sixth dis
trict convention of the Iowa Fedora
tion of Women's clubs is being held at
Osceola today and tomorrow. The pros
gram as arranged includes speakers
from Charlton, Red Oak, Audubon,
Corning, Ames, Osceola and Des
Moines. Osceola will furnish free en-
tertainment and large number OF
delegates are in attendance.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-12
Better Bread

Better Bread
The kneading is SO much more
thorough and the. ingredients
SO much better distributed,
that everybody admits that
UNIVERSAL llneaded bread
has a better taste than bread
kneaded by hand.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-03-21
PIOughing a Ship,s Cargo.

A common everyday farm plough was
used in unloading the cargo of the
Ammon at San Francisco. The entire
hold was filled with 1000 tons of nitre,
which had frozen into one solid mass
and very hard. Explosives could not
be used and picks and shovels were too
slow. AS joke bystander suggested
they better use plough.
The captain, however, decided to try
the plan and bought good-sized
plough, and by means Of a block and
tackle and steam winch pulled it back
and forth the length of the hold. The
plough loosened the nitre as fast as
big gang could shovel it into the steel
buckets. This is probably the only ine
stance on record where ships cargo
was discharged in this way.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-03-21
Increased Demand for Rubber.

Since the great development of the
cycle and motor car industry the de-
mand for rubber has enormously in
creased throughout tie world, the re-
quirements being about fifteen times
the amount needed thirty years ago,
with no indication that the limit has
been nearly reached.
In review Of the market by United
States Vice Consul w. ]. Sullis, Of Liv-
erpool, he declares the belief that It
will take all the energy and enterprise
Of growers to meet the demands of the
immediate future.
In 1905 the United Kingdom alone
imported 1867 tons of manufactured
rubber, valued at $4,000, 2S6, and in
1906 took 3,O35 tons, valued at $4S, 502.-
500. In 1891 the importaions were
1920 tons. Twenty years ago rubber
sold In England at 60 cents per pound,
while to-day it is worth $1.29.
In 1880 raw rubber to the value Of
S194,543 was exported from Liverpool
to the United States, while last gear
the amount was valued at 5000, aga,
or thirty times as much as twenty-six
years ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-03-21
Mexico,s Indian Women.

The beauty Of Indian women Is one
Of the charms Of Mexico. In the cap
ital, where the Indian has degenerated
through poverty and mental service, it
is less to be remarked than in the
smaller towns and in the country. But
the beautiful faces one takes in mem
DRY away from Mexico are those Of In
dian women. Fine eyes ere universal
and, what one hardly expects, fine fea-
lures, according to Caucasian stand
ards-broad brows, straight noses,
well-formed mouths and chins full but
not gross or heavy. The expression ID
very generally intelligent, and often
one is struck, both in Indian men and
women, with the nobility and refine
ment Of the countenance. One frequent
ly sees types among the poems that
seem to belong to some highly civilized
ancient caste-an Egyptian priest Of
royal blood, a Roman centurion, an
Aztec Emperor. The women are gent
~ lovely where they are beautiful.
and the men at their best in carriage,
In manners and in countenance are
strikingly like the very advanced pro-
duct of civilization.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-03-21

do wrong and fewer helps to do right"
than his city cousin. In support Of Mr..
Pearsall the New York Y. NJ. @. a.
News quotes Prof. Myron Scudder In
such utterances as these: "The coun-
try situation is a very important and
menacing one. After twenty-five years
experience in the educational work of
country districts l can say that the ten
dency IN the life Of country children is
distinctly downward. An ever increas-
ing number OF undesirable men are
drifting into farm labor. 1t is far easier
for boy to go wrong In the country
than In the city. It is a bad place to
bring up boy to-day. The farmer has
tie latest magazines, and his house is
better heated and lighted than ever be-
fore, but the improvement does not
reach down to the children" When we
remember that "the country" In the
vocabulary of the East includes "the
small town." we find here curious con-
f1rmation Of the remark attributed to
the effect that eff God made the coun-
try, and man made the town, then tie
devil made the small town" And, with
all allowance, 1t must be confessed that
there Is a certain amount Of truth In
Prof. Scudder's observations. Never
theless the fact remains that the cities
continue to draw their recruits for eff
fective work chiefly from the country
and the small towns. A certain change
is observable More young men are
coming to high and responsible posts in
city life who were always city boys.
But most Of the young men who rise
solely by their personal energy still
come from without the city The New
York Y. NJ. @. A. News gives encourag-
Ing reports of the success Of the efforts
to extend Y. M. G. A. work into coun-
try towns, thus giving the country boy
an equal chance with the city young
man, the college student, and the rail-
road man." But the country and small
town boy still has in large measure the
chance which our best educators are
puzZling how to give the city boy-the
chance that comes from the discipline
Of necessity In learning in childhood to
do real work. As for the necessity Of
improving the country and small town
boys morals, all that the Y. NJ G. A.
and similar agencies can do is merely
palliative. Real improvement can be
made only by returning to insistence
on serious purpose In life and proper
discipline Of youth at home.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-03-21
RICH INDIAN FAMILY.
The Berryhi1IS of Oklahoma Draw
$4,000 Monthly I'm Oil Royalties.

The BerryhiIIS of Oklahoma Draw
$4,000 Monthly In Oil Royalties.
The Berryhill family is one of the
largest in the Greek nation. There are
more than seven members of it's vari-
Gus branches. This family draws more
money for oil royalties than any other
in Oklahoma.
They are mixed blood Greeks, some
Of them being almost white-cultured
and refined citizens. Nearly every one
Of the family secured allotments in that
section of the Creek nation in which
was later developed the Glenn oil pool,
the greatest oil pool in the world.
AS a result of the oil wells that have
already been drilled on Berryhill allot-
ments, the family now draws from
$4,000 to $4,000 each month. Some
Individual members Of this family have
the richest producing allotments in the
oil field. One draws $4,000 a month
royalty and another draws $4,000.
There are many members of the fam
lily whose allotments have not yet been
drilled, and there are others whose al
lotments are outside Of the present de
velopment, but they are likely to be
brought in almost any time.
lobe Berryhill is an Indian preacher
and was one of the men most active in
the movement to have the Indians sell
their allotments and go to Old Mexico,
take up a land grant there and live
according to their old customs. There
has not been much heard about going
to Mexico since the Berryhills COM
menced to draw big royalties from their
-Muskogee correspondence
st. Louis Republic.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-03-21
CASE OF ECZEMA IN SOUTH.

Suffered Three Years-Hands aAG
Eye Most Ahected-NOw Well ana
Ia Grateful to Cuticura.
my wife was taken badly with ecze-
ma for three years, and she employed
a doctor with no effect at all until she
employed Cuticura Soap and Ointment
One of her hands and her left eye were
badly affected, and when she would
stop using Cuticura Soap and ONT
ment the eczema came back. but very
slightly, but it did her sight Of good
Then we used the entire set of Cuti-
cura Remedies and my wife Is entire
~ recovered. She thanks Cuticura
very much and will recommend it high
" in our locality and in every nook
and corner of our parish. l. NJ. Robert,
Hydropolis, La, Jan. 5 and Sept. /,
1oOe."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-03-21
HIS HEART IN HIS STOMACH.
why Bullet Failed to XIII Kentucky
MOuEtaineer.


MOuEtaineer.
The Kentucky mountaineer is a BIZ
ped who has been considerably shot at
for century or more. For this reason
the case Of Galloway Sebastian of Wolf
county, who has been released from a
Lexington hospital, is of exceptional
interest to students of the theory Of
evolution, says the Louisville Courier
Journal.
In a Lee City joint debate upon the
relative virtues of the two great polit-
zeal parties Mr. Sebastian was shot
through the breast. X-rays showed the
ball lodged in the wounded mans lung
after passing through his chest in such
a direction that the heart would have
been pierced if it had been in the right
place.
1t seems that Mr.. Sebastian's heart
is located near his stomach, or went
into hiding there, when the gestures Of
the debaters indicated that in SO far
as the more vital organs were concern
ed discretion had become the better
part of valor. In the absence Of a de-
tailed report from the attending sur
geOns it is not clear whether Galloway
Sebastian's heart has resumed its nor
NAL position under his short ribs or
Is still nesting somewhere between the
liver and the kidneys.
It Is impossible even to speculate
upon whether Mr.. Sebastian is lowered
with a heart that may be thrown from
one point to another, like the voice Of
a Yentriloquist, a heart which takes to
its heels upon its own hook when a
battle is brewing, or a heart that is
permanently located in a position of
safety.
Naturalists tell us that certain fur
bearing animals are white because the
absence of color from their coats is a
protection In regions Of perpetual snow,
and that certain other animals and
birds are colored like the cover they
seek when pursued by their natural enc
mics. The chameleon has the power
to change It's color. Is Galloway Sc
bastian's movable, moving or misplaced
heart a freak of nature or has the anat-
omy of the mountaineers at last adapt
ed itself to circumstances, and does
his heart occur in, or shift itself to,
unexpected places when debate upon
governmental problems or family af-
fairs becomes so heated that the debat-
ers feel called upon to REINFORCE their
parts Of speech with steel-jacketed bull
lets?
These questions are respectfully sub
mitted to scientists.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-03-21
A FREE LANCE OF THE SEA


In th month Of December. 1877, Mas
ter Francis Drake. who was destined
to be the destroyer Of the Spanish Ar
NADIA in years to come, set sail from
Plymouth harbor in command or the
Pelican, the Elizabeth. and three small
er vessels. AS in every expedition In
which he had free hand, says Captain
Jack Brand, in his recent book, The
Free Lances," brakes squadron was
the very best in every particular that
could be sent out of England. His ships
were new, we'll found, and the very
latest specimens Of the naval arcnl-
lecture Of the time.
This saltwater soldier of fortune as
sumed great state in his private ar
rangaments. His table furniture was
of solid silver. To be sure. he had
plenty of silver, and like the conquer
ors of Peru, might have shod his horses
with the precious metal had he so de-
sired. Even part of the furnishings OF
the cooks galley were of plate. Some
idea of the state he kept may be gath
cred from the following letter from
Spanish officer whom they captured
during the voyage:
1.-THE general of the Englishmen Is
cousin Of Juan AQuines (which MI
Brand interprets as John Hawkins.
"He is the same who five years ago
took Nombre de Dios. He must be
man of about 80 years, short, with a
ruddy beard, one of the greatest ma
rInes there is on the sea, alike from
his skill and his power of command
His ship is q galleon of about four
hundred tons (three hundred tons over
estimated-J. b., a very fast sailer,
and there are aboard her a hundred
men. all skilled hands and of warlike
age. and all so we'll trained that they
might be old soldiers of the italian
tertias. Every one is specially careful
TO keep his harquebuss clean.
"He treats them with affection and
they him with respect. He carries
with him nine or ten gentlemen, cadets
of high families in England. These are
members of his council, and he calls
them together upon all occasions, how
ever simple, and although he takes
counsel from no one, he is pleased to
hear their opinions before issuing his
orders.
"He is served with much plate with
gilt borders and tops~and engraved
with his arms, and has all possible
kinds of delicacies and scents, many of
which he says the queen gave him.
''None of the gentlemen sit or cover
in his presence, without first being or
dered once and even several times.
The galleon carries about thirty
pieces of heavy ordnance and a large
quantity of fire works (hand- grenades
j. 3D. and great deal of ammuni-
ton and other necessaries. They dine
and sup to the mrsic of violins; and he
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-03-21
POETIC JUSTICE.


The Washington Star calls the fol-
lowing q Boomerang Joke" The re-
turn hit therein cited is certainly deci-
sive and deserved The story was told
by Mark Twain as retort administer
ed to fellow passenger on a steamer,
who had injudiciously Informed the
humorist that he looked seasick. Said
Mr.. Clemens:
1t never pays to tell people that they
do not look we'll. A young man in a
certain New York Office put up a joke
on the bookkeeper, who was a quiet,
steady, serious chap. The joke was for
every one to tell tie victim that he
looked very, very bad indeed. It was
wondered what effect this would have.
It was a hot August morning when
the joke began. The office boy started
1t.
"Ain't We well, Mr.. Quill?' he said
Eyes, Of course. Why?" Quill asked.
"Why, We look so PALE" said the boy.
81 feel all right" returned Quill,
calmly, and he put on his Office coat
and set to work.
But when the shipping clerk told him
he looked Ill, Quill frowned and said
he had had a bad night-that was ALL
When the cashier asked him what
made him have such a queer color, he
said his heart felt strange.
For an hour or so Quill was torment
ed with anxious inquiries, full Of
gloomy foreboding about his health.
Finally, with an impatient, worried
gesture, he threw down his pen and
fastened to the Office of the chief He
was gone about five minutes. When he
returned the chief was with him.
Men," said the chief, raising his
hand to command the attention Of all,
"as Mr.. Quill is sick, 1 have granted
him a ten days leave Of absence.
Please arrange to divide lis work
equally among you while he Is gone"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-03-21
WORK A DAY FOR NOTHING.

How Leap Year Cheats Hard Work.
ers of Money.
Does 1t ever occur to people that
leap year may, and generally does,
touch their pockets appreciably? Those
wage earners who are paid every Fri
day or Saturday suffer nothing because
they are paid for the extra day they
have to live during the year. But those
in receipt Of monthly or quarterly
checks for salary are different, for
they lose the payment for the extra
days work.
Employers are naturally forgetful of
such little matters and employees are
not so long sighted as they might be,
If we may judge from the fact that
when engagements are entered into and
contracts made for term of years no
account is taken of that extra day in
leap year.
A simple calculation shows that a
person earning $1,000 year, paid
monthly, quarterly or annually, finds
himself out Of pocket to the extent
Of f. los as the result Of leap year,
and, of course, the larger the income
the greater the loss.
The chancellor of the exchequer
dealing with millions Of the nations
money is not slow to appreciate the Inn
pOrtance of leap year. Taking last
years budget figures as a basis, the
extra day would mean an increase of
some $4,000 in gross revenue and of
1880, 900 in expenditures.
Interesting, too, Is it to figure out
what leap year means in regard to our
foreign trade, Taking again the figures
Of our last financial year, 1t will be
found that one days extra imports
amount to the huge sum Of FL, IA, 900
and one days extra exports to f1,202,-
coo. Thus from the mere fact Of It's
being leap year our total foreign trade
ought to be f2,75O,O0O sterling greater
this year than last.-London Mail