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HAVILAND STEWART DIES AT
IOWA 9OLDIERS' HOME.

Bonaparte-Havila Stewart, aged
SO years, an old resident of this place.
died at the Soldiers Home at Mar
shalltown Friday, January %, after a
lingering illnS IS. Mr.. Stewart was
m mber of Co. r., End Iowa Infantry.
"A wife and eight children are left to
mourn his loss. The remains were
brought here for interment
Postpone Meek Case.
The petition for involuntary bank
ruptcy against Meek Bros which was
to have been heard in the Federal
court at Keokuk Saturday Jan. 23, has
been postponed until the April term.
Other News.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Roof have gone
to their home in Boulder, Colorado.
s. c. Kerr of Keokuk was a BUSH
ness caller here several days last
week.
A. V, Buck visited over Sunday with
relatives at Birmingham.
Mrs. G. N. Eastman and Miss Irene
Smith of Keosauqua, were here Sat-
urday to see heir grandfather, Vim.
Johnson, who Is seriously i'll.
Mrs. Walter Schenck has returned
to her home in Burlington, after a
visit with her daughter Bertha Steck-
err.
]. x. Brokaw. station agent here, is
spending few days in Des Moines
and E. W. Chapman is in charge OF
the station during his absence
William Sedwick of Edon is the
guest of friends In this vicinity.
Joshua Haines of Pennington, was
in town Saturday.
Rev. Trenerry returned from Pella
Saturday
Miss Nora Burrier Of Arson, Mo-, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Ezra Robin-
son and family.
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NEIGHB0RHOOD
MFeAIC BY Courier
YEWC Correspondents
BELkNAP WOMAN
HIES IN NEBRASKA

DIES IN NEBRASKA.
Belknap-The sad intelligence Of the
death of Mrs. Horace E. Putnam OF
Ponca, Nebraska. who passed away
Thursday was received Friday. Mrs
Putnam was the sister of Mrs. j. G.
Mcconnell, who had but recently re-
turned from a visit with her. Mrs
Putnam spent her girlhood days here
where she has many friends, who are
pained to hear of her death. Mrs
Mcconnell was unable to reach the
home of her sister in time to attend
TIL, funeral which occurred Saturday
afternoon at two o'clock
Other News.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
wishard Of near Bloomfield passed
away Friday night from tuberculosis
of the brain. Mr.. and Mrs. Wishard
have the sympathy of their many
friends.
Mrs. Martha Pence and grandchild-
rem Lois and Rollo Eberline of Bloom
field recently returned here from Clear
Lake, where they have been visiting
friends and expect'to visit with friends
at this place a short time before re-
turning home.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Niles of OF
tumwa were guests Saturday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Isabel Post
while on their way home from Floris
where they attended the funeral OF
Mr.. Niles brother Francis, which oc-
CURED on Friday.
Mrs. C. A. Dine and little son Chest
CT of Gordon. Kansas. are visiting the
formers sister Mrs. r. II. Lisetor.
Mrs. Ziba Neighswonger of neal
Moulton, was the guest Saturday OF
Mrs. Sarah MCGEE. She was Joined in
the evening by Mr. Neighswonger who
had been transacting business in Cen
terville, both returning home that
evening.
Mrs. ]. A. Harter and Children Eula-
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MRS. BERRY OF MOULTON.
DlES-FUNERAL TODAY

Moulton, Jan. 26.-(Special)- Mrs.
Harriet T., wife of the late A. P. Berry,
died at the home Of her daughter, Mrs.
Jas. Halden in Moravia at $50 a. m.
Monday.
Harriet Dickeson) Berry was born
in GAINESVILLE. Ohio, December II, 1926,
and at the time of her death was 80,
lmonth and II days old. She was mar
ried to A. 2. Berry at GAINESVILLE, and
moved to Ash Grove, Wapello county
Iowa. in the early sixties, remaining
there several years, moving then to
Moulton, where she has resided for the
last fortyfve years, until the last few
months, which have been spent with
her daughter, Mrs. Jas Holden in Mo-
ravia.
Deceased is survived by three sons,
four daughters, twenty grandchildren
and one great grandchild. Her sons
are w. F. of Moulton; A. S., of Cali
fornia; G. L., of Kansas City; Mrs
Jas. Halden of Moravia; Mrs. Belle
Soule of Chicago: Mrs. Mary e. Price
London Mills III. The funeral was
conducted this afternoon at D. m
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LASSES SUNDAY
A CIRCUS CL OWN
A MARSHALLTOWN ALDERMAN
SAYS LICENSE EVANGELIST
AS AMUSEMENT CONCERN.
BOMB PROOF CELLAR
Noted Preacher Says Councilman May
Feel Need of Protection When
the eombardment of Religion
Hits the Iowa Town.

Evangelist Sunday writes letter
full Of fire and birthstone to resi-
dent of Marshalltown in which he tells
OF what will happen to the author Of
the following assertion:
charge the Billy Sunday commit
tee circus license, because the
evangelist is nothing more than a
clown and the meeting no better than
a circus"
This remark made by one Of the
aldermen in council meeting at Mar
shaltown, Iowa, where Billy Sunday
will hold revivals just after the Spring
field meetings, says the Spokane
chronicle, has aroused the ire of the
evangelist and he has turned loose on
that alderman in a way which shows
him working at full speed. In letter
to DR.. G. e. Wanberg of Marshalltown
under date of January 20, MI. Sunday
writes:
Dear Doc: l have been receiving
your letters from time to time and as
sure you 1t always is source of graft.
fication to keep in touch with the stu
alton.
1t has been reported to me that one
of the aldermen in council meeting
said | was clown, that the meeting
was no better than circus that the
eVangelistic committee should pay cir
Gus license, etc.
II he said this, he will find out be-
fore the meetings are over that they
are battleship fleet in action, sub
marine torpedo boat fotilla. mask.
ed battery, a Port Arthur and Gibral--
tar combined, an infantry and cavalry
charge of shot, shell, shrapnel, grape
and canister, full of dynamite mines,
live wires, charged with 5000 volts
lpecac, rock salt, barbed wire, a six
cylinder auto, with her carbureters all
working; the Overland Limited with
her throttle wide open, travelling sc
miles an hour; a searchlight penetrat
ing the municipal rottenness and filth
that for years has cursed the city
love; and the game will be called
about March %, with the devil in the
box and his "spit-ball" working, and
the forces of decency lined up on the
opposing side, and ! hope and believe
when the umpire calls time" that the
score will be 1000 to 900, 100000 in
favor OF God, home and native land
and the best thing for fellow like Il,
do is to hit the grit for bomb-prooi
cellar.
Fellows of his caliber usually
'rass" on the first deal; they are moi
deuce high" and he will have all he
can do to shuttle his own cards. Ny
gospel gun is loaded to the muzzle;
nerves are as steady as a Republican
majority in Iowa; my powder is dry;
he will think the tail end of Italy:
earthquake has hit him.
Tell the people to get in the game
We will pitch some "olG time religion
curves" and swat" out some homs
runs for God and make the devil and
his crowd saw the air. Yours, Oh
the firing line. w. A. Sunday.
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If those enthusiastic persons who
are attacking child labor as the curse
of the country and are denouncing the
exploitation of the young to glut com
mercial greed will arrange some way
to pay the grocery bills that necessity
often demands the young to pay the
rest of the problem will be easy of so.
luton. The commercial greed that
gives employment to the young boy or
girl frequently puts bread in the mouths
of helpless children and buys medicine
for invalid parents. Many Of the men
now at the top of the ladder Went
through the evil Of child labor withou,
finding anything in it to arouse hys
tericS,
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FARMERS INSTITUTE A GREAT
SUCCESS-EVEMlNG PROGRAM

SlgoUrney.-The Farmers institute
was attended by large number of farm
ers, despite the inclement weather.
The exhibits on display were excel
lent. In the chicken department the"e
was large assortment of fine full
blooded Buff Rocks by S. B. White f
Sigourney; Barred Plymouth Rocks by
II. A. Rentfro from Van Buren, town.
ship; Rhode Island Reds by Elevra
Utterback from Lancaster township
and many others. In the vegetable de-
partment there was on display large
amount of fine corn, apples, wheat,
oats barley, potatoes, pumpkins and
other articles too numerous to mon
ton. The cooking and fancy work de-
partment was especially attractive ow-
ing to the fact that the ladies had n
large assortment of cooked articles,
such as cakes, fine bread, beef roasts
and numerous other cooked articles
prepared on Fellows Fireless cooker,
which was on exhibition at the insti-
tute in charge Of Mrs. w. B. Arm
strong. In addition to the country
people there was a large number Of
the towns people in attendance view.
ing the many excellent things on dis,
play. Judge Deemer who was to de.
liver lecture this afternoon did not
appear but he is expected to be on
hand tomorrow afternoon. Saturday
evening at the Methodist church there
was program consisting of addresses,
recitations, songs and instrumental
music which proved to be an interest.
ing entertainment to all who were
there
Other Sgourney News.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Lesan depart I'll
last evening over the Milwaukee ny
way Of Cedar Rapids for Rochester
Mimi, where Mr. Lesan will at once
enter the hospital with a view of hay
ing surgical operation performed
Mr.. Lesan's health of late has been
very poorly and he goes to Rochester
in the hope that he may get some relief
at the hospital
John E. Dichardson and daughter
Verna arrived this morning at tn
Stevens home, from Chicago to attend
Mrs. Richardson's funeral whose re
mains arrived from Los Angeles.
District Deputy Hugo Goeldner Of
the l. o. o. f. for this county. accom-
panied by c. M. Wells went to Harper
last night to install the officers in tho
lodge at that place
Former Congressman f. e. White O
White Pigeon was in the city today II
attendance at the Farmers institute.
s. E. Chacey of Richland, R. S.. Kirk
patrick Of Keota, ]. B. Bowman 4
| Webster and Ezekial Y, neeler Of Web
ster were interested spectators at the
Farmers institute today
Hon. James Wilson of Hedrck was
visiting his daughter, Miss Rhoda VIII
son who is deputy county auditor, ant
incidentally attending the Farmers
institute.
| Hon. w. l.. Etter came home this
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ings if they have for their object to
save people from moral depravity,
and l, for one, wish that Rev. Mr.. Sun
day may succeed to convert two
thirds of the people of the city; but
a man like him, to whom we must
concede a high degree Of eloquence.
and some knowledge, should be able
to find more rational and convincing
arguments against evil than the fear
of hell and the devil. And as he
speaks to Christians he should not
embrace the whole world in his adj
monitions.
Let him take an example from the
Apostle Paul, who used diff rent
language when he spoke to the He
brews than when he spoke to the
Greeks or Romans. Besides that, he
should take into consideration the
time in which we are living. His
primitive language and interpretations
Of the New Testament do not suit
at all the present advanced age. The
devil and hell might have been good
as scarecrow to the supersttious
Greeks or Romans, but the people Of
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liza and La Verne of Bloomfield, spent
Saturday with Mrs. J. r. Hart
Mrs. Jane Putnam spent Saturday
and Sunday in Bloomfield with friends.
where she was Joined on Sunday
morning by her daughter Ollie. Both
came home Sunday evening.
D. II. Bell and daughter Almarine
are under a physicians care on ac-
count of severe colds.
Mrs. Jessie Wilcox and children
spent Sunday at West Grove at the
Mrs. Byron Skinner and children
We're the guests of relatives in South
Ottumwa Sunday.
The Misses Merna and Sylvia Myers
attended the baptising at the Christ
ian church in Bloomfield Tuesday
night. returning home Wednesday
morning. While there they were the
guests Of their uncle and aunt Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Brooks.
Mrs. Emma Hockersmith of near
Drakeville was the guest Saturday
and Sunday Of Mrs. ]. T. Mum, Mrs.
Mary Sharon. Mrs. Sarah MCGEE and
Mrs Jane Putnam. -
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse McCreery Of OF
tumwa, spent Sunday with Mr.. Nc
Creery's mother, Mrs. G. H. Hughes
and family. Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Harbour
VI IoIl III VI 1oCihIap, WCIC ilSo ButSlS
in the afternoon.
Isaiah Ware visited couple Of days
la week near Carbon at the home of
his daughter Mrs. G. D. Rhine.
Mrs. Elmira Morris is visiting near
Drakeville with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Anderson of
Bloomfield, spent Sunday at the homes
Of the latteE's mother Mrs. J. r. Hart
and her sister Mrs. r. M. Garrett
Mrs. Kendrick and Mrs. Hancock of
Floris spent Saturday at the home of
Mrs. Isabel Post
Clay and Lloyd McMains left We'd
Desday for Fairfield to do some bridge
work
Mrs. Orla Burns and children left
Sunday for Trenton, Mo-, to visit Mrs
Burns sister, Mrs. C. B. Guile and
husband.
w. w. Rankin of Ottumwa spent
Sunday with his father A. w. Rankin
Alva Dodd of Niwol. Colorado, re-
turned home last week from q visit
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SAID HIS NAME
is not 'PHONEY"
EVANGELIST SUNDAY SAYS
"THEY LIE" WHO SAY 1T IS
TRACES ANCESTORS.
TO HAVE TABERNACLE
Hears Assuring News From Spring
field That Site Will be Secured
for Meeting Place Lot is
Offered.
TO HAVE TABERNACLE

They lie. Anybody who says Will
lam Ashley Sunday is not my name
lies. They will be saying i never was
born before | leave this town."
This is Billy Sundays answer to a
statement which has been circulating
to the effect that his is an assumed
name taken for evangelistic purposes,
says the San Francisco Chronicle.
my fathers name was William
Sunday and he fought in the civil war
in the Twenty-third Iowa in Company
e under that name. | was born and
baptized under that name. The Sun.
days come from Saxe-Coburg, Ger
many, and the greater part of the fan;'
| lily is now living at Chambersburg,
Pennsylvania
Billy Sunday has received word
from Springfield which assures him
there will be no trouble in securing
site for the tabernacle there. The
first site proposed was adjoining the
arsenal, and the city council refused
to issue a permit for the building on
the ground that, being within the fire
limits, it should not be of frame con
| struction. Now one of the principal
business men Of Springfield has offer
ed his large lot, just across the street
from the arsenal, which is just outside
the fire limits. One prominent society
| lady offered her beautiful lawn as a
site, in case no other site could be Sc
cured.
Wants to Help Old Italy.
| Mr.. Sunday states that the big col
lection for the relief of the Italian
,.{h vii Ia 10
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men who were masters in statecraft
science, poetry and music will be cele
brated. The list Includes:
Abraham Lincoln, martyred presi
dent.
Edgar Allen Poe, poet.
Mendelssohn, the composer.
Darwin, the scientist.
Chopin, the composer.
Edward Fitzgerald, translator
Alfred Tennyson, poet.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, nov
elist and humorist.
William Ewart Gladstone, statesman
And In all this list of immortals
who were given to the world in the
year 1909 the name of Abraham Lin
coin means more to Americans than
all the rest.
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1t is real refreshing to pick up the
paper and find where jeff Davis is in
our midst again. Of course, jeff has
been with us. right along, but he hasn't
been warning us Of the dangers lurk-
ing in the fog, just waiting for a
chance to ram us. 1t gives a sense of
security to know that Jeff is again 1T
his post in the wireless station ready
to sound the c. @. D. when the inter
ests of the people are endangered.
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If Senator Moon of Wapello county
is correctly reported, says the Burling-
ton Hawk-Bye, he will introduce bill
in the general assembly providing for
the Oregon plan of electing United
States senators. If there Is anything
in name, the Hawk-Eye continues,
Senator Moon ought to have discover
ed by this time that the Oregon pri-
mary proposition is "moonshine."
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A UNIFORM PURE FOOD LAW.

~
There is justice in the claim of the
manufacturers that the lack OF uni
fornity between the state and national
pure food laws imposes hardship up
on them Undoubtedly it would better
conserve the interests Of the manufac-
turers and the consumers alike if there
should be a single uniform rule, oper-
ating equally in all the states. The
manufacturers do not find 1t burden
to comply with the national law. They
do find 1t a burden while complying
with the national law to find In the
various states different laws, imposing
added obligations as to the kind of Ia
bells to be used on the packages, the
printing Of weights and measures and
other provisions which make the pro-
duct as shipped into one state value
less for shipment into another state
without repacking and relabeling.
The best law Is the simplest law.
The Iowa law is one of the best enact
ed by any of the states, practically
conforming with the national law. 1t
should be let alone so long as it con-
tinues to conform with the national
law.
The national pure food and drug act
seeks to secure purity of product 1t
demands the use of the highest grade
of materials in manufacture, and 1T
has been sufficiently tried during the
time it has been in operation to show
that 1t fully protests the interests OF
the consumer. With this law as sat
isfactory as it has proved to be it
would seem that the several states
should re-enact the law in identical
terms so as to give 1t force within
state boundaries. Instead of harmon
izing the state and national laws b.
Identical legislation, however, there is
a diversity of legislation in the states
which works to the injury of both the
manufacturer and the consumer.
The consumer is affected because
he pays the additional expense to
which the manufacturer is placed
Where shipment into one state re
quires labels of certain size and type,
setting forth the state requirement as
| to weight and size of package, ship
ment into another state requires an
other size of label and type and diff
ferent requirement as to weight and
size Of package. The result is that the
shipments for the different states must
be put up separately, and care used in
seeing that shipment complying with
the Iowa law Is not sent into Nebras-
ka, where other requirements are de.
manded. 1t is easy to see that need.
less expense is caused by this lack OF
uniformity, and this expense, or large
part OF it, falls on the consumer in the
increased cost of product.
Where states attempt to set a stand.
ard weight for the package they add
another expense and annoyance to the
manufacturer. A package shipped into
one state must bear label testifyina
to a certain weight. In another state
there will be different requirement
This does not take into consideration
the extent of shrinkage In varyins
sorts of weather or in different eli
mates. 1t is an arbitrary ruling that
adds nothing but red tape to the Law
and in no way tends to insure the pur
lty of the product, the chief aim OF
pure food legislation.
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Senator Bailey Laments
Fripolity of Washington
Washington Bureau of
The Ottumwa Courier.
Washington, D. c., Jan. 9


When Joseph w. Bailey of Texas
came to Washington as a youthful re1.-
resentative, he wouldn't wear a dress
suit. His first leap into fame was by
virtue Of the exploitation of this fact.
Later he got over this aversion to a
certain extent; but he has never be.
come reconciled to the institution.
In fact, Senator Bailey would have
Washington go in for the simple life,
If he could have his way about it.
He characterized the entertainments
Of the capital society in speech the
other day as functions at which the
men dress up like head walters and
the women don't dress up at all, 10
speak Of" Then he turned to the SER
ious side, and declared that Washing.
ton was located where it is, for tho
very reason that it was desired to pre-
serve the simple ideas and ideals of a
rurol people, far from the social dis
fractions of great centers of popula-
ton.
That Washington has grown into
large city, a center of wealth ard
culture and millionaires and functions
is occasion for regret to the Texas
senator. He doesn't believe, however,
that congress is to any great extent
responsible for the social distractions
Of the town. He lays them at the door
of other people, the millionaires who
IN latter years have focked thither
The senator express the opinion that
the members Of congress work more
days year, and work harder, than do
any members Of the state legislatures
In the union. But be would like to see
Washington turn to simpler ways of
living. He believes less entertainment
at public expense would be better
than to increase salaries In order that
there might be more Of it. Congress
he insists, doesn't need the enter.
tainments for which congress. is asked
to pay through larger salaries; as to
the diplomats, well, Mr.. Bailey said
they were doubtless excellent gentle.
men; he was sure Of it. Talleyrand de-
fined diplomat as man sent abroad
to lie for mis- country; and Mr.. Bailey
was sure Talleyrand ought to have
known, for he was the prince of din
lomats.
Senator Bailey's lament for the
passing of the plain living and high
thinking ideals from Washington does
not seem likely to cause more than a
momentary pause in the whirl of the
gayest social season the capital has
known. Society smiled cheerfullv and
danced ahead to the next function tc
which a Grass millionaire had issued
cards.
r. c. We1Iiyer
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from the residence of Mr.. and Mrs w.
f. Berry on Fourth and Elm streets.
Rev Bvan of the Methodist church
and Rev Wnslow of the Presbyterian
church conducted the funeral services,
with burial at Oakland cemetery.
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Col. Bryan, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, believes that he could be
elected president If the election were
to occur this year He is one of the
greatest off-year candidates the coun-
try has ever produced.
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Besides being very ungentlemanly
and unladylike In throwing eggs OF
our own Carrie Nation that London
audience was positively wasteful
With eggs at their present price it is
downright extravaganza to use them
as weapons against foreign nation.
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Noting that an Oklahoma woman
has discovered 301 ways of cooking
corn, the Chicago Record Herald ex-
presses the hope that someone would
try to discover new and better way
Of eating it from the cob.
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the present age need more rational
arguments to scare away evil doings
Are not drinking, gambling, cusing
terrible devils for the evil results
they bring? Is not the unhappy home
the result of the former, a horrible
he'll? Yours truly.
Rabbi S. Roubin.
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VIII Re.hear New York Gas Case.
{ Washington. D. c.. Jan. 26. - The
petition for rehearing in the New
York Consolidated Gas case, was filed
IN the supreme court this afternoon.
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Perhaps if they trace that lost
earthquake down they will find the
rumblings emanated from the head
quarters Of Senator Hopkins over In
Springfield.
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A liberal sup
Of gastric
juices is very
essential to
perfect diges-
ton. The Bit
tiers aids in
this work
wonderfully
"a
Sick Head
ache, lndises-
ton, Dyspep-
STA, costive-
moss, Colds 8
Grippe.