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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-01-14

spent Friday with J. Daugherty
and lamily.
A. L. Haight, Jno Kirkland
and Bruce .Morehouse marketed
their hogs this week.
j. A. Deal returned from
Sioux City Monday.
Tom Fitzgerald is now stay
ing with C. A. Pitzer.
]. F. Kelley was visiting rel
atives in st John Sunday.
0. True of Mo Valley was a
st John caller Wednesday.
Bruce, the little son of Mr..
and Mrs. Jno Kirkland is quite
sick with lung trouble.
George Goodrich and Thomas
Haynie were calling at r. w.
Greenes Wednesday afternoon.
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Will Meet Missouri Valley

Friday, January %, the de-
batting team of the Council
Bluffs high school will meet
the team Of the Missouri VAL
ley high school at the latter
place and argue the negative
side of the same question which
was the subject of the debate
held last Friday night sat the
local high school, Resolved,
that the federal government
should have exclusive control
of all corporations doing an in
terstate business"
The Council Bluffs team
composed of Miss Lucy Spooner
Erwin Snyder and Louis Cook,
upheld the negative side of the
question at the debate last Fri
day. On the same night two
teams representing Missouri
Valley and Denison, debated
the same question at Denison,
Missouri Valley winning on the
affirmative side of the question.
The teams will take the same
sides of the question upheld by
Them at the debates last Friday
this having been decided by
mutual agreement. The fol
lowing schools belong to the
southwestern Iowa district of
the debating league: Mo Val.
ley, Denison, Red Oak, Ames
Winterset, Bedford, Alton, Ia
Dor, Corning and Council Bluffs
Alton, Denison and Red Oal
were eliminated from further
contests this year by being de
feated last week. Nonpariel
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-01-14
Public Sale

Having rented my farm /
will sell at public sale at my
farm 8 miles southeast of Mo
Valley and 8 miles southwest Of
Beebeetown, the following pro-
perty on Thur. Jan. 81, 1909
sale at 1920 a. m. sharp, free
lunch at noon.
II head cattle consisting Of Z
good mich cows, 4 fresh. 8
fresh soon, l thoroughbred
Shorthorn bull 3-year-old, 5
spring calves, 4 young calves.
3 head work horses weight
about 1900 each. 40 head good
thrifty shoats.
One Mccormick binder near
ly new, l Mccormick moving
machine nearly new, l Buckeye
mower, l Hoosier hay rake, /
corn stalk cutter, / corn shelter
l Kingman corn planter, 100
rod check row, l Goodenough
riding pillow, 2 l4-inch walking
plows, l disc, l steel harrow,
2 walking cultivators, 1 Ell
wood feed grinder, / grain
grades, / endgate seeder, 2
farm wagons, l set work harm
ess, | hog rack, | grindstone,
l DeLaval separator, / A-har-
row, 4 dozen chickens, 500 bu-
shells corn, 5 tons good wild
hay, 5 tons good tame hay,
some household goods and 9TH
er articles.
Terms IL months Credit on
all sums of $40 and over, pur-
chases giving note at 8 per cent
interest with approved security;
under $40 cash. 2 per cent off
for cash. Michael Olsen, Prop.
Dan McCune, Auctioneer
w. j. Burke, Clerk
If you like good confection-
cry try some Of our pure food
candy, butter cups, butter
scotch, fruit tablets and sorority
chocolates. j. D. Brown & Sor
319 Erie.
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10. o. F. Installation

lsOs We 1lSlQllSASAOh
Last night Missouri Valley
Lodge No. ITO, by L. G. TAYLOR,
D. u. G. M. and W. R. Rogers,
d. D. G. w. proceeded to install
the elected and appointed Of
ficers of said lodge for the en-
suing term as follows:
G. M. Everett, N. G.
Frank Brothers, V. G.
G. w. Burbank, Secty.
e. johnson, Treas.
G. w. Grady, w.
Ray Harris, Con.
Frank Fensler, R. S. to N. G.
H. V. Jones, L. S. to N. G.
w. Stokes, r. S. to V. G.
D. C. Reel, L. S. to V. G.
John Hanson, R. S. S.
T. F. Kahler, l.. S. S.
w. E. Mccullough, |. G.
c. H. Thompson, G. G.
w. E. Wesler, Chap.
F. w. Oviatt, Pianoist
C. E. Burbank, P. G.
The meeting was a very
pleasant one and the work ac-
complished in good order and to
the satisfaction Of all present.
The lodge is in splendid con-
dition, both Financially and
socially, increasing in numbers
and improving in work and the
erection of a new hall on their
own lot on the corner of Sixth
and Erie SITS is only question
| of time. Their regular meet
ing night is every Wednesday
evening and they are always
pleased to have visiting Odd
fellows meet with them.
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Elmdale Takes Trip

Elmdale Takes Trip
] wonder if some have miss
ed my letters, we'll have been
back to my old home in Illinois
and in consequence have not
learned of the news in this vi
entity, so will write of the trip.
Many of the old people have
gone to their long rest, but
there were many with whom |
had a fine visit. | could not GO
by the old school house without
remembering the old poem:
Twenty years ago,
/ wandered to the village, Tom
And sat beneath the tree upon
The schoolhouse playground
That sheltered yo" and me,
But none were there to greet
me, Tom
And few We're there to know,
Who played with us upon the
green
just twenty years ago.
There is On thing about these
people, they know how to pre-
pare fine eatables, and gained
over five pounds. | tried to he
on hand at all Of the big din
ners and there were many.
They, like us, had too much
rain in the spring, then too dry
so had short corn crop. Land
is not as high there as in Iowa,
$65, $15, per acre, | asked a
real estate man in Eagle Grove
Iowa and he says 500 to $3.50
in Iowa. They all have silo
and cut corn with binder,
then shred it and run it into the
barn. 1t is husked at the same
time-no more husking in the
field. 1t will be the same here
in the near future.
The are making good roads
now, much better than former
ly.
| attended farmers conven.
ton, and they discussed the
subject: Chow to keep the fer
tility of the soil" The speak
err said there is only one way
and that is to have a variety OF
crops. He thought corn, oats
wheat and then clover. The
speaker said that in the east
there are so many abandoned
! farms and unless they do some.
thing along that line in Illinois
the same thing will be the re.
suit. | visited the state CAPT.
tai and walked majestically
around. There were no politi.
clans there because it was toe
early in the season. / also
went through the slate house
it is vastly better than ou1
court house at Logan. Thought
| must see the greenhouses, 81
went through the Iowa Seec
House. 1t is all heated by
steam. They have ten house:
for various purposes. l like te
wander through these place!
5 during such cold weather.
The weather was so colo
when / was in Wright Count,
: that the friend with whom
was staying, caught four rab
bits which7could not run on &C.
8 count of the cold. 1t was 2.
below zero. =.
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installation OfOfficers

Installation Of Officers
The Tribe of Ben Hur at
their regular meeting Tuesday
evening, Jan. IL installed the
following officers:
Mrs. A. B. Berry, Past Chief
Mrs. l.. A. Lewis, Chief
Mrs. Luella Martin, Judge
Mrs. Geo Harty, Teacher
Geo Hartv, Scribe
Mrs. M. e Myers, K. of T.
Mrs. Frank Lee, Captain
Mrs. M. r. l'rundige, Guide
Frank La.,nn, X. of |. e.
Frank Lee, X. of O. G.
f. w. Myers, NJ. Of G.
Mrs. j. N. Branson, M. of H.
Emil Unmack, Ben Hur
B, w. Perkins, Rabbi Joseph.
Royal Neighbors Install
Last evening Laurel Camp
No liza r. N. Of A. met in reg
ular session. After the usual
routine of business the doors
were thrown open, and the
many visitors were ushered in
to witness the installation cere-
monies which were conducted
by Mrs. Kate Berry, installing
officer, assisted by Mrs. Emma
Fountain, as ceremonial mar
shall who conducted the follow
ing officers to their respective
stations:
Mrs. Flora Hardy, O.
Mrs. Gus Heiman, P. o.
Mrs. Rachel Coe, V. O.
Mrs. Kate Berry, C.
Mrs. Emaline Warner.
Mrs. Phena Langdon, Rec.
Mrs. Elizabeth Linsley, LIST. M
Mrs. Emma Fountain, End M
Mrs. Jennie Cox, l. S.
Mrs. Bertha Podendorf, O.S.
Annie Cox and Robt. Hatcher
Managers.
Mrs. Luella f,;artin, Faith
Mrs. Juliet Oviatt, Unselfsh-
ness.
Mrs Anna Cusack, Endurance
Mrs. B. Evans, Modesty
Mrs. j. fIough, Courage.
Miss Mary Hardy, Pianist.
After fine musical and liter
airy program was rendered, a
banquet was spread which, was
most delightful in every re-
spect. The managing committee
deserve great credit for their
executive ability displayed on
the occasion. After the hour
of midnight, all departed for
homes feeling that Laurel
Camp had certainly exemplified
the true spirit of neighborly
love and good will toward all.
The following neighbors from a
distance were present, Mrs. All
strand of Carroll and Mrs. Chap.
man of Jefferson, Iowa.
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Entered at the Postofice at Missouri
Valley, Iowa, as second class matter.
Clay

The weather the last few
days has caused the theremom-
eter to cut all kinds of capers.
Fine weather for the ice cutters
which they no doubt will i'm
prove to the limit after last
winters experience.
Joe Marshall, Geo. Yutesler
and Fred Duhig returned last
Saturday from their trip to
Colorado. Joe says the grass
on much of the land reminded
him more of crops of tooth
picks than anything he could
compare it with.
Frank Benin and James
Wilkinson shipped a car of
hogs to Omaha last week re-
ceiving $6.O5 per hundred.
j. w. Pratt marketed two
loads of hogs at Modale Tues
day at $5.25.
Some of the boys are improv-
ling the time while the roads
are good hauling rip rap brush
| to the railroad station.
j. w. Hillman is enjoying a
visit from his uncle, VIM. Esley
los Kansas.
The babe of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
D.. Parker has been quite sick
but is recovering.
The board of health met last
Thursday to settle the bills in
Cured under the quarantine
law last year. A strict COM
pliance with and payment OF
all the expenses that can be
created under the quarantine
law as it now is will no doubt
cause some tax payers to groan.
Prof. w. C. Motz gave some
piano lessons last week.
Mrs. Helen Westfall return
ed from Hornick last Thursday
where she had been visiting
her parents.
"Kinkey" Sayles sold his fine
mule team to VIM. Graham OF
Sioux for 1915.
Owing to the cold weather
Sunday there were no services
at the u. B. church.
The Sunday school at the L.
D. S. church has been discon.
tinued until spring.
Mrs. R. 0. Mann has beer
quite sick for several days.
Laurence Stokes has return
ed from Nebraska where he
went on a hunting trip. He re
; ports a fine time while gone.
L. B. Stokes started FRIDAY
' to Appanoose county to visi
relatives.
Some of the boys have had
fine sport spearing fish through
the ice on the Soldier. The!
2 have caught some fine ones
! They were the bony kind, Carp
in Jesse Hillman has bought ;
ID fine span of mules for whicl
X he paid $3.50.
,r G. G. Cooper has been tilin,
IL his farm but the cold weathe
: caused him to suspend bushes
ur until spring when he expect
!, to finish planting a car load.
w. H. Bourn Jr. havin,
bought him a new buggy ha
built a new shed to care for il
St John Items
The ice men are busy thi
week.
Harry Foreman was calm
in st John Wednesday.
Frank McGavren and Da
Williams were st John callel
Tuesday.
~ NJ VT NJ
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d.. ncCUNE
AUCTIONEER

25 yearsl experience. l will
call your sale for $40 a sale and
small ones in proportion. Sat-
isfaction guaranteed or no pay.
You know me. Telephone y-lS
DR.. Chapek will be at DR.. De
Vore's office on Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday, January Ia,
Is and 18th.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-01-14

The expert Optician of Omaha, will be in
Missouri Valley to remain few dasys only,add
may be consulted at DIR DeVores office. Im-
prove this golden opportunity. DIR Chapek
comes highly recommended as an expert in
profession, and is prepared to correct any error
Of refraotion known to science. Many have al
ready been benefited in this vicinity by tn
perfect system of lenses.
Don't delay but call at once add have your
eyes properly examined, a. D, Doyore
dice. Will remain days only. Consultatio
free and satisfaction onarantaad
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-02-12
They Simply wouldn,t EIaht.

He was a poet also he was very,
very intoxicated
Entering the restaurant he looked
about him with malevolent eye. But
nobody seemed. desirious to quarrel
with him, so he sat down, deeply dis
appointed The waiter approached.
The poet regarded him with a hostile
scowl But all the waiter desired was
TO know what the poet wanted. So
the muse worshiper gave his order and
shook his head sadly
But the spirit of belligerency was
strong within him. Again he glanced
about At last he fastened his eye
on a young man sitting at a nearby Ia
bic. Here, indeed. thought that poet,
is a chance for a quarrel SO, still fix
ing the young man with a baleful
glare, he growled
You don't love Rossetti when you
are drunk"
The young man absolutely ignored
the remark Completely crushed, the
poet gave up the struggle, consumed
his drink. and departed.
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Poor Jim has lost his reason" sand
the barber in a Hertford shop.
Who's Jim?" asked the victim in
the chair
Jim is my twin brother, sir. jim
has long been broodin' over the hard
times and ! suppose they turned his
head"
'Hmi Not unlikely"
yes. Him and me has worked side
by side for years, and we were so
alike you couldn't tell each other
apart. We both brooded a good deal,
too. No money in this business now"
Whats the matter with it?'
Prices too low. Unless a customer
takes a shampoo, it doesn't pay to
shave or cut hair Poor JIM | caught
him trying to Sut customers throat
because he refused a shampoo, and so
had to have the poor fellow locked
up. Makes me very melancholy.
Sometimes l feel sorry didn't let him
slash all he wanted to. 1t might have
saved his reason. Shampoo sir?'
Yes, please
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Winter Drainage Suggestion.

Winter drainage is not the same as
summer drainage, and it must be at
tended to very carefully at this clos
Ing up season In summer we simply
want capacious tiles running through
the soil capable of keeping it from be-
Ing waterlogged, and we want a slo-
ping of drives so that swift showers
shall be carried quickly by surface
bitches. But in winter, there Is often
body Of melting snow very suddenly
let loose, that win wash the best soil
off your land, tear cutters through
your strawberry beds, and possibly
even heave out your young trees 1t
Is extremely important just as you
wind up your work. to cut surface
drains of temporary sort where the
slopes are likely to be washed, and so
as to catch the flush of water before it
accumulates, and throw il out of your
garden and off your lawn. These su-
perhcial drains can be closed in the
spring, or, II left at all, can be modi-
fed to very shallow and almost I'm
noticeable suices- s-Outing Magazine.
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Japanese Story reIlers.

Though the Japanese are a nation
of readers" says a traveller, they
love, also, TO listen to the tales of
the professional story-teller, who is
quite an artist in his way. The lower
sort of story-teller may be seen seat.
ed at the street corner with a circle Of
gaping coolies around him. The high
er class form guilds, who own special
houses of entertainment, called yose,
and may also be engaged by the hour
to amuse private parties. Some story
telling is rather in the nature of a
fve.cent magazine. The man sits with
an open book before him and ex-
pounds it, and dilates upon 1.-THE
story of the 'Forty-seven Ronin, per.
haps, or the Chinese novel Of the
Three Kingdoms, or an account OF
the Satsuma rebellion, or one of the
old wars of the Taira ard Minamoto
families in the middle ages. When he
comes to some particularly good point
he emphasizes it by rap with his
fan or with a little slab of wood kept
by him for that purpose"
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Hlqh Praise for Lauder.

She was high-browed and soulful
given to the Ibsen cult and grand op-
era in its grandest manifestations,
hence it was with considerable mis-
giving that the young man took her
to see Harry Lauder.
"He is the greatest singer of his
kind in the world" the youth had ex-
planned volubly. Competent critics
have said that only once in decade
does such a singer appear" etc, etc.
And she had graciously consented to
look Harry over
After the Scotchman's first song the
young man glanced apprehensively at
the young lady.
Her eyes we're half-closed; she was
apparently in the seventh heaven Of
enjoyment.
This" she said solemnly, lis art!"
Thenceforh that young man ceased
worrying and devoted himself to thor
ough enjoyment of the show
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PUT TO QUEER USE
PICTURES DIVERTED FROM THEIR
PRIME PURPOSE.
Have Been Known to Aid Greatly In
Conviction Of crimlnais-onoe
Eficaeious in the collec-
ton of Debts.

Though the prime purpose OF pic
lures is to please and instruct, they
have at times been diverted to Other
uses. During the recent hearing Of
case at London police court a wit
ness gave evidence that the prisoner
who was charged with attempted mur
der and suicide, had drawn his atten
ton to a couple of pictures on the
backs of which, written in pencil, was
statement by the accused setting
forth the reason for his premeditated
crime.
Ere now pictures have been enlisted
in Hymen's cause. That celebrated
painter of flower and figure subjects,
William Hunt, was on one occasion
commissioned by a gentleman to paint
his portrait in the attitude Of kneeling
and holding in his hand an open scroll
whereon was written a declaration Of
love and offer Of marriage. The lady
to whom this unusual proposal Of mar
riage was sent replied with chalk
drawing Of herself with a sheet Of
paper in her hand on which was in
scribed a laconic yes"
AS debt collectors, too, pictures
have proved efIicacious Etty, when a
young man, received an order from
certain Maryiebone tradesmen to make
a dozen caricature sketches Of a resi-
dent of the locality who was notably
averse to settling his accounts. These
portraits when finished were displayed
in the windows of their subjects long
creditors, who refused to re-
move them from the public gaze until
their bills were paid. Seeing no way
of escaping ridicule save by yielding
to their just demands, the gentleman,
on condition that the Objectionable
portraits were destroyed, agreed to
discharge his debts
Soon after he settled in London,
Sir Thomas Lawrence, then a mere
youth, was a witness to a dastardly
assault on a lady by a ruffian, who
to make good his escape
not, however, before he had been well
HONNu bA NHt goub5 Hi NiNNb NiAof az
once returning to his studio, drew
from memory a speaking portrait
This, which he handed to the police,
was the means Of bringing the crimi-
nal to Justice.
That wayward genius, George Nor
land, was often sore pressed for mon
ey to pay his debts On one occasion
he stayed at an inn where he speedily
ran up an account which he was un-
able TO meet He offered a picture in
payment, but Boniface shook his head.
however, his eye frightened,
and he invited the artist to step into
his yard where, he trusted, means Of
might be found Morland
did so, and a few days later received
his bill receipted. The following Sun
day mine host appeared at church in
A truly novel waistcoat, being nothing
ess than the painters payment, which,
stretched across his ample chest, dis
played to the amazed congregation
he picture of a gigantic pig.-Pitts
burg Bulletin.
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NONE ABOVE $4,000
THAT is BILL OF LARGEST DE-
NOMINATION ISSUED.
Not to Exceed TWO or Three Of These
Notes in Circulation In the
United States-National
Bank Currency.

Ask yourself what is the bill OF
largest denomination issued in the
United States? Careful now that you
don't oyerdo it.
The largest bill is for only $4,000
and there are only two kinds Of notes
that are as large-the United States
note and the gold certificate. Not
only this, but probably there are not
to exceed two or three of these $1O,-
600 United States notes in circulation.
AT a guess there may be $4,000 to 49,
600 Of the gold certificates of the de.
nomination.
There is $4,000 United States note
of which there may be only a hand.
full, as against $4,000 of the $4,000 gold
certificates. 1t should be remembered
that any national bank note of the
$4,000 and $4,000 denominations that
may be put up to you are rank coun-
terfeits, for the reason that the ma.
tional bank isn't allowed notes of such
size.
The national currency and the notes
of the national banks, however, num-
ber the $1,000 notes by tens of thou
sands. This $1,000 note, largest Of the
national bank bills, also is largest of
the silver certificates and of the "coin"
certificates of 1890. A treasury report
of 1904 shows the comparative num-
Der and kind of the $1,000 bills. In that
year these $1,000 were distributed "a
6S3 in United States notes, 432 in
treasury Cor coin) certificate notes, "a
of national bank issue, 57,449 in gold
certificates, and 1OS in silver certif-
Gates.
The $500 bill runs through all these
classiiications save that of the "coin"
issue of 1890 Thereafter, in notes,
there are the 500 note, the $50, and
the $40 notes, through the five classi-
fcations Of the currency Under $40
however, there are no gold certificates.
The smaller bills in the other lists are
the tens, fives, twos, and ones with
which most of us are reasonably IA
miliar, on occasions at least
The $40 United States note, with the
bison ramping across its face, is the
commonest of the $40 bills, next to
which among the tens is the national
bank note, with the $40 silver certifi
cate third in number. The national
banks are strong on the twenties, too,
while having only a comparative
handful of ones and twos.
As to the gold coinage the current
list includes only the $40 piece, the
$40, the IS, the $3.50 piece, and the
Louisiana purchase exposition gold
dollar minted in 1902 Beware of imi-
-ations!
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ceYIon,s Venomous caternlIIar

Word comes of the bad effect on the
population of Ceylon of the trees plant
ed in the streets to shelter the people
from the pitiless rays OF the Indian
sun
The trees it was thought would
bring comfort. When they grew up
they certainly did afford grateful shell
ter, but a certain green caterpillar al.
so made them its home The insect
not only destroys the foliage. but it
frequently drops down upon those
passing by, stinging the unlucky per
SON The sting is as yenomous as that
of the wasp. The worst sufferers from
the pest are the children.
In spite Of the burning and smoKine
Of the trees by means of a torch raised
on pole. It has been impossible to ex-
terminate the caterpillars.
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Present DAY Literary Rewards.

The writer of a colorless short story
In 1908 will receive for It more than
Milton received for his Paradise
Lost" and those successful authors
of the Indiana school are paid more
for an ephemeral novel than Goldsmith
received for his Vicar Of Wakefield" /"
The search for ability is unremitting,
and the duty Of all magazine editors
and literary commissioners" of every
degree is to seek out writer's who can
furnish interesting copy" Indeed, one
of the faults of this age is the hasty
and premature. recognition afforded
the immature writer's. The fruits are
TO be perceived in their work. They
give no intimation of that swarm Of
ideas which distinguished the full
mind of Burke; their minds are not
freighted with the precious lore Of the
world they follow no high tradition
and have no background.-Phi Philadel
phia Ledger