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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18
MARS HILL.

Mars Fill-Quite a number in this
vicinity attended the Lester sale on
Wednesday,
Mr.: and Mrs. George Deiters and
daughter Mrs. Ripperger spent Sun
dav at the Courtney home
Mrs. I. D. Mowery returned home
Saturday from Veri Abingdon and
near larson, where she has been -vis-
ting relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robertson and son Arlie
visited Sunday at the Alonzo Rober-
son home near Belknap.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conley Shank of near
Agency visited Saturday and Sunday
with their son and wife Mr.. and Mrs.
VIII Shank of this vicinity
Miss Minnie Mowery and Harry
MoWery We're Ottumwa callers on FRI
day of last week.
Mr.. F'ricke is in the Ottumwa hos
pltal this week on account of an oper-
alton on his foot. He is improving
rapidly. 80 %
7. Y. White of ottumwa spent sat
urday evening and Sunday at the
Mowery home.
Miss Myrtle Peden will close very
successful term of school at the Shank
school this week. ~
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18
HAYSVILLE.

Hayesville-Dan Shively visited on
Wednesday in Ottumwa with his
daughter Mrs. VIII Porter
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Utterback en-
te"tained company Sunday.
Miss Marie Jacobs. Mrs. Virgie Hart
Messrs Shavely Tillmanns, F. Utter
back. Aaron Wiseman, A. Jacobs and
K. Rogers were Sigourney visitors on
Saturday.
Preaching services were held at the
church Saturday night, Sunday morn
ing and night
Mr.. Sword attended services in Lam
caster Sunday afternoon.
Q. Hardesty has lately purchased a
gasoline engine for his blacksmith
shop.
The Glee club met at the Crabb
home Tuesday night
Mrs. Mettie Stevenson is on the sick
last.
Will Martin spent a few days last
week in ollie loading pickles.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18
HOPEWELL.

Hopewell-N. J. Summons and Frank
Samples and their families visited
near Ottumwa last Sunday at the Ed
Ballard home.
Moses Leonard and family of near
Ormanville spent Sunday with Jesse
Helmick's.
j. NJ Walker made business trip
to Blakesburg recently.
Absolom Walker was in Unionville
last Saturday on business.
VIM. Hunter and family visited at
the parental Hunter home Sunday
James Graham was pleasantly en-
tertained at the Walker home last
Sunday to dinner.
John Johnston was in Ash Grove on
Saturday of last week.
Chas. Worrell was in Ottumwa last
week on business.
Miss Emily Sammons returned home
last, week after an extended stay with
her sister Mrs. Ed Ballard.
Z. Hunter, Jr.. and son Clifford,
were in Unionville last Saturday.
Misses Hazel and Jessie Garrison
spent Thursday afternoon with little
AZ lie Sample.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18
BLAkES BURG.

Blakesburg-Mrs. Sylvia Ellithrope
is visiting relatives in Abba
John Terrence was in Ottumwa on
Wednesday.
Mrs. Marsh who has been visiting
her daughter Mrs. C. e. Petit return
ed to her home in Madrid Ia, Tues
day.
Mr., and Mrs. Howard Vincent were
In Ottumwa Thursday Mr.. Vincent
leaves soon for Texas, where they will
locate.
Mrs. Will Kridelbaugh and daughter
Mac are visiting the formers daugf1-
ter at this place, Miss Edna Kridel-
baugh.
DR.. Terrence has sold his property
north Of town to Ralph Bachman, who
will move in the near future.
Mrs. George Dorothy and family
accompanied by Mrs. Nan Dorothy ar
ri:ed from Oklahoma Wednesday,
Mrs. A. Judson moved her house.
hold goods to Ottumwa Tuesday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18

the. tens of thousands of ball fans Of
his day and age, and when he was the
kng-bee Of Cap Anson's old squad.
There is the energy and vim in his re-
liglous work which signalled his work
as ball player so brilliantly. There
is the honest, frank and sincere ey-
preston which made his friends trust
him and lis enemies respect him.
There is the unexpected Stunt when
delivering sermon, just as there was
the shoestring phenomenal catch back
in the old National league ball parks.
He remains the focus of hundreds of
thousands of pairs of eyes as of old
and still he is the modest Sunday as
of a generation ago.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18
Meager Highway Legislation.

Highway legislation for the session
is likely to be somewhat meager The
senate has passed a bill authorizing
the betterment of roads by use Of the
ships to go back to the old system of
Gozen road supervisors to a town
ship with each farmer working out
his taxes" as in the old time. There
Is on the senate calendar a bill favor
ably recommended to authorize estab-
lishment of road districts somewhat
after the style of drainage districts,
owners and a report of the county, en-
gtneer. In such districts it will be
possible to make roads and assess halt
the cost to abutting property The plan
of having state bonus for highways
has not met with great favor and the
plan of having a state engineer and
directing all road building from one
central authority is not ripe.
The bill for the one board plan for
the state colleges is on the house CAL
endar for action. An effort may be
made to secure one important amend
ment to the bill and that would be to
provide that the funds for the col
leges be handled exactly as other state
funds by the state trea surer The
bill out of consideration to local SEN
timent at each of the college towns,
retains the plan of having at each coll
lege a treasurer on salary to pay out
the state money. This could be much
better done and at very much less ex-
pense the same as is done with the
other state institutions through the
office Of state treasurer.
Senator Quigley desires that the
Iowa Legislature memorable congress
to take over complete control of the
Mississippi and Missouri rivers insofar
as it relates to fishing matters 1t Is
found that SEEMING fish is carried on
in the middle of the rivers without any
chance for the state laws of either
state to regulate. If the federal gov
eminent should take over control and
pass a law forbidding SEEMING except
with a. large mesh seine the matter
would be regulated promptly.
Representative Drury says that one
Of the most serious things the legisla-
ture has to contend with is the various
organizations Of officials, county and
otherwise. for the sole purpose Of
lobbying for increase of pay. Nearly
every class of officials in the state
has an organizatio to boost pay. The
Legislature has to fight these organiza-
tions In order to protect the public
treasury
Bennett Bill Worst Blow.
The committee substitute for the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18
RECORD BROKEN ON
LIQUOR LEGISLATION
MORE REGULATION MEASURES
HAVE PASSED IOWA SENATE
THAN HAVE BEEN ENACTED IN
A QUARTER CENTURY.
Des Moines Bureau of
The Ottumwa Courier
Des Moines, March Is,

The senate this morning passed
the bill for the protection of
travellers by requiring that hotels
be made fire proof and be provid-
ed with fire escapes and safety
appliances, also that a state in
spector Of hotels be employed to
enforce the law
The senate also passed the Frud-
den bill to give Dubuque certain
state land. The Sammis bill
tegalizing the acts of corpora
tons not having seals. The Smith
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OTTUMWA

Ben Hur, minnesota Patent) sack,
s1.55. Kelley and Lysle's Best (Kansas
Patent) sack, S1.50.
Pure Food Nebraska Patent, SIX $1:41
Eaco Flour, best in the U. S.. s1.7O
Gallon jug Salad Dressing 49,. 81 30
Gallon jug Table Sauce. ......$1 rs
Gallon jug Chilli Sauce s1.25
Gallon jug Snider's Catsup. -. 81 IS
Gallon jug Manhattan Club. >. soc
Gal can Table Peahces, Csc, for 81.
Gal. can Table Apricots, 35c; for 81.
Gal. can Table Pears, 35c; 3 for 81.
Gal. can Table Plums, Csc; for 81.
10 ID box Soda Crackers ....... SOC
% ID SIX. Dairy Salt .25c
100 ID SIX. Oyster Shells ......... soc
IL ID key Holland Herring $500. l5c
IL ID key Holland all Milchers. :. SOC
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returns by each dealer to the county
auditor.
Prohibiting the drinking of liquors
| on trains or street cars
| Prohibiting the establishing of sa
| loon within three hundred feet of a
| public library.
Prohibiting saloon keepers from
serving lunches.
Limiting the number of saloons in
cities to not more than one for each
1000 of popu'ation.
Prohibiting any person convicted Of
selling liqaor unlawfuIly from engag
ing in the saloon business within five
years after the conviction
Prohibiting breweries from engaging
In the retail saloon business.
Prohibiting stockholders in brewing
companies from signing the bonds of
saloon keepers.
Pending Passage by Senate.
Gillilland bill raising saloon bond
from $4,000 to 5000
Chapman bill to prevent sale of
liquor by druggists except on doctors
prescriptions.
constabuary Feature Defeated.
Yesterday afternoon the senate
passed the bill providing for reorgani-
cation of the attorney generals office.
Provision for appointment of state
sheriffs to act as a state constabulary
was stricken out, but the bill gives the
attorney general the right to appear
for the state in any county in which
the state is interested. This Is one of
the most important of the law enforce
ment bills. The senate did not con-
cur, however in an amendment by the
house which cut out expenses while
deputies were engaged in ferreting out
crime.
The bills to provide for the adoption
Of what is known as the Oregon plan
Of primary elections as to United
States senator will come up in the
senate on Wednesday. There will not
likely be much discussion other than
presentation of the well known ar
guments in favor of such methods by
the senator from Ottumwa. There is
NO sentiment in the legislature for
radical change in the primary election
laws
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18
MAKING SAFE
HITS"FOR COD
SPRINGFIELD SPORTING EDITORS
IMPRESSIONS OF REV. z"RILLY'
SUNDAYS WORK.
VERSATILITY SHOWN
State Registers Dope Artist Covers
:: Tabernacle Meeting and De-
clares Evangelist Makes
"Home Rum"

Work Sunday tonight was the
assignment on the sporting editors
typewriter in the Office. Of the Spring
field State Register the other day, and
obviously he couldn't forget Sundays
baseball career as he, watched his
evangelistic work. The following
lead was what met the optics of his
city editor the morning after:
Billy Sunday, the baseball evan
gelist, made home run at the taber-
nacle last evening. With all the force
and energy he used playing the lia-
mond game in the old N days, he
played what he terms "a new and bet
ter game" The cheering and az.
plause Of the amphitheater crowds
and bleacherites have been supplant.
cd by the JOY and satisfaction he gets
in pleading with men to live better
lives.
Has New "Stick"
The old "Spanlding" bat has BEEN
supplanted by the Word of God, but
no safer hit was ever made by the
old willow in Sundays hands than he
makes with the Bible as stick" ami
never did he crack 'em out as rapidly
time and again. while hundreds and
thousands pleaded for safe bingie,
now are the promises of God and the
devil and his gang have as much
trouble getting him to back away
from the promises as a Clarkson did
in getting him to cringe when at the
bat while a W. lite Sox. The Old base
lines. over which he tore time ami
again with a tying or winning score.
now are confined to an SxS platform.
but Sunday never ran the bases with
more vigor and vim than he tears
across and up and down the limit "a
space.
His ,ParaphernaIia:
| With the world as an umpire. Jesus
| Christ as his manager. the world as
circuit over which to travel proclaim
ing the truth, instead of eight-city
clubs, tabernacle as working field
in place Of ball park; with eight to
fifteen hours work every day instead
| OF two hours as Of ole. with four
| hours with his Bible instead of six
with sporting page of modern
daily; and with a corps of workers
fully as energetic in their work as his
old diamond pals, were in theirs. this
man goes here and there making enc
mics and friends, and, as he says:
Proud Of each"
| But the contrast between the old
| lite and the new is only the more
strikingly shown when the common
characteristics are brought out. He *
| the Sunday of old in many respects
There is the genial, happy, sunny. dis
lposition, which made him liked by
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bill to authorize the organization
of road districts. Bowman's bill
to permit court to sentence
man Of any age to hard labor in
Jail. The Moon bill to require
shields on street car platforms.
The house spent the entire fore
noon on the bill to establish a
board to license for optometery
and defeated it 48 to 48.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18
ZIG 218 ~ \ !
Z. Main ~
Street. - !
Fresh Meat Dept.
Shipping Orders

WE PREPAY FREIGHT ON AS
SORTED ORDERS FOR FIVE OR
MORE ARTICLES-TH TOTAL TO
BE $500 OR OVER-TO ANY POINT
WITHIN ONE HUNDRED MILES OF
OTTUMWA.
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y 21S-215
M VA Commercial
w. > Street.
Bakery Dept.
Telephone and Mail Orders

RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
WHILE THIS ADVERTISEMENT IS
WRITTEN TO ATTRACT OUTSIDE
TRADE WE URGE OUR HOME PEG
PIE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE JB
THESE INDUCEMENTS
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18

The price we
a r e quoting
in sack lots
Is C a RI o a d
prices at the
mill, based
o n present
market.
White Swan,
M i n n e S ota
Patent, per
sack, $1.60.
Jersey Cream
{ Ketzbacks)
Patent, p e r
sack. SLIGO.
M a r S h a IFS
Best (Minne-
sofa Patent)
sack, S1,60.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18

z ID can Seal Brand TEA
10 Chase and Sanborn's OF
Java ana Mocha Blend 49,. 9
10 Chase and Sanborn's O.
standard Java Blend ....., oil
3 ID Chase and Sanborn's CT
Mocha Blend ID
~ ID Chase and Sanborns o1
fancy Santos Maleberry - L.
AZ ID Chase and Sanborn's or
fancy Santos Golden
ID Chase and Sanborn's or
fancy Combination Blend ;. D1
lbs Chase and Sanborn's CT
AZ ID Chase and Sanborn's Cs1
l ID can Lipton's No 1 Tea. soc
Il ID pkg. Chase and Sanborn's q
Japan Tea GOG.
Young Hyson, Gun Powder, Imperial.
Basket, Fired Japan, Oolong, English
Breakfast, ID, 25c, soc and 75c
Special prices in 2. and ID lots,
Red Cross Brand Sun Cured co
'"Foi' ~ ''.......... ~
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Coffee

We sell more
h : G h grade
Cofees a n d
Teas t h a II
any other COZ
fee house in
this part of
the state.
Sole agents
for t.. e leading
brands on the
market.
8 ID can Fern
dell blend ST..
2 ID can Gar
man American
Cos. Best Use
2 ID can Man
nor House, 75c
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18

Bennett Bill Worst Blow.
The committee substitute for the
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-10
ANOTHER DENIAL OF
RUMORED TELEGRAPH MERGER
more Light on Deal Through Which
American Telephone Company
Acquired Western Union,

New York. Dec. 10.--A little, but not
a great deal of the inside of the re-
cent absorption of the Western Union
Telegraph Company by the American
Telephone & Telegraph Company (the
Bell interests) came out today in the
testimony of Theodore NJ. Vail, presi
dent Of the American Telephane &
Telegraph Company, before the legis-
lative inquiry here. Mr.. Vail said he
favored monopoly.
Concerning the purchase of the
Western Union stock from the Goulds
Mr.. Vail said:
There were purchased about 3OO,-
600 shares of par value of $40 OoO -
OcO out of total Western Union stock
issue Of about 100000, 1000. | do not
care to state the price
He repeated what has already been
announced that the two companies
are not to be merged as to operation
and management with the exception
that they will use joint wires where
practicable. When he was questioned
concerning the advisability of govern
ment regulation of telegraphs and
telephones, state or national, Mr.. Vail
repdied simply:
That depends upon the reguIa-
tions.''
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-10
RAIL-
ROAD CONFLICT
Precipitated by Introduction
of Bill by Senator
CummInS
.ELKINS HAS OTHER MEASURE
Uniform Classification of the
Freight to Be Brought
About by Law.

Washington, Dec. 10.-A contro-
versy over railroad legislation will be
precipitated in Congress this winter.
which in importance promises to sur
pass the legislative conflict over the
railroads of four years ago. The first
gun was fired today by Senator Cum
mings, of Iowa. when he introduced a
bill proposing radical changes in the
interstate commerce act. 1t is ex-
pected that measure proposing
amendments to the law will be intro
duced early in January by Senator
Elkins, which will differ from the
Cummings bill in many important de-
tails. In brief the Cummins bill re-
quires the interstate commerce COM
mission TO promulgate uniform
classification OF freight and to pre-
pare plan for a statement of freight
rates which shall hereafter be made
in a uniform way. The carriers are
required to adopt this classification.
The commission is authorized to con
slider rates on its own motion with a
view of determining reasonableness
and empowered to fix maximum and
minimum rates.
In any action instituted in in the
court TO set aside the order of the com
mission respecting rates, the courts
are prevented from inquiring into the
reasonableness or sufficiency Of any
rate fixed by te commission. The bin
also prohibits acquisition or control by
railroad of any parallel or competing
line. The bill also provides in effect
that the commission shall have the su-
pervision of the issues of stocks and
bonds of any carrier. After January
], 1911, no carrier doing interstate
business will be permitted to engage
in any business other than that of
common carrier
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-10
MARY SNEAD
EXPLAINS
Throws Much Light on the
Supposed Brooklyn Muir
der Mystery
A PATHETIC HEART STORY
Struggle Against Poverty While
Laying Foundation for
School.

New York, Dec. 10.-Mrs. Mary
Snead, aunt of Mrs. Ocey N. Snead
victim of the East Orange bath tub
tragedy, today broke the silence so
long maintained by members of the
family, with a statement in eXplana.
ton of the mysteries which have
puzzled the authorities investigating
the case. Mrs. Snead said that the
three Wardlaw sisters, Miss Ward
law, Mrs. Caroline B. Martin and her.
self, with their aged mother, came to
this city with a view of interesting
wealthy northerners in a project for
establishing a college for women in
the South. She told of the struggles
OF the family while the project was
SLOW in ripening, leading to the con.
slant necessity of borrowing money
on the policies which had been taken
out on the life of Mrs Ocey Snead.
endowment policies, which they are
anxious TO keep in force to provide
their niece with means of maintain
ing herself when old age came.
Ocey Snead pined away when her
husband disappeared, her aunt de-
clared, and it was in hopes of break
ing her melancholy and beneffting
her by the country air that the house
al East Orange was engaged Mrs.
Snead declared positively that there
is no basis for the statement that the
young woman did not have the best
Of care.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-10
HILLS TURNS
DOWN FORTUNE
He Believes That Minister
Should Not Be in Money
Making Business
CLEARED $4,000 HOWEVER
His Friend Acquired From Him
Coal Property Worth
$5,00O,OOO.

New York, Dec. 10--Only his be
lief that a minister should not be
in money-making business has pre-
vented Dr. Newell Dwight Hills, the
Brooklyn pastor writer and lecturer.
from becoming a millionaire several
times over. Last summer he visited
his twenty thousand acre estate OH
Graham island, off Prince Rupert,
British Columbia. and in tramping
through the rough woodland stumbled
across an enormously rich vein of
coal DR.. Willis did not care to be
involved in high finance when he
still had his work as pastor, and so
he sold his property, to an old friend,
James A. Moore cf Seattle and H.
Z. Law of San Francisco. 1t is un-
derstood he received $4,000 in addi-
ton to what he originally paid for
the property three years ago. But ex-
perts say that the coal discovered is
worth $500O,0O0.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-10
WHAT ONE GETS
FOR DRINKING
Seventeen Year Old Chaut-
feur Started to Jail by
Two Glasses
WENT ON WILD JOY RIDING
Ran Down a Pedestrian Who
Failed to Dodge the
Automobile.

st. Louis, Dec, 10.-Two drinks of
beer, the first in his life, started Rus
sell Howard, the seventeen year old
chauffeur upon wild Joy ride" last
night, and ended in the death of one
man and the arrest of Howard and
three companions early today.
That's what kid gets for drinking" "
said Howard in his cell Two wom-
en- and man were with him in the
automobile He said when he drank
the beer he wanted to have a big
time" So he took his employers ma
chine from the garage, tore up and
down the boulevards and back to the
business district. Dennis Short fail
ed to dodge the machine and was
killed instantly.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-10
DOUBLE DOMESTIC
TRAGEDY IN CALIFORNIA
domestic infelicity Results in Two
Murders and Two Suicides on
one Day in Oakland.

Oakland, Cal, Dec. 10.-As result
OF two domestic tragedies tonight, DR..
Eugene Woods, a physician and Fred
Schnek, are dead and Gabriel Jacobs
and Mrs. ]. A. Jones are dying from
bullet wounds. In each case it was
murder or attempted murder follow
ed by suicide and one victim and one
assaliant died instantly
DR.. Woods was stepping into his
automobile tonight when Gabriel Ja-
cobs, husband of the woman named
by the doctors wife in her suit for d.
vorce filed few days ago, crossed the
street in front of the machine and
shot the physician through the heart.
Jacobs dashed around corner,
raised his weapon and sent a bullet
into his own head. He was removed
to a hospital but cannot recover.
Upon returning to his rooming
house tonight Fred Schnek, opened
fire with two revolvers upon Mr.. and
Mrs. J. A. Jones. Mrs. Jones prob
ably was fatally wounded but her
husband escaped uninjured. Schnek
then shot the top off his head.
Schnek seemed to be laboring under
the impression that Mr. Jones was re.
sponsible for his wife leaving him.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-10
BANKING BUSINESS
IS PROFITABLE
Dividends Amounting to $685.
100000 Paid Last Fiscal
Year
DEPOSITS RUN INTO BILLIONS
Report of Lawrence Murray,
Comptroller of the Currency
to Congress.

Washington, Dec. 10.-More than
twenty-five thousand banks with an
excess of twenty-five hundred millions
of deposit accounts, capital aggregat
ing one billion eight fifty-six mil
lions and individual deposits of more
than fourteen billions. are the stupen-
dous figures revealing the vast ex-
tent of the banking business of the
United States as shown by the annual
report for the year ending October
81, by Lawrence Murray, comptroller
OF the currency, submitted to Con-
gress today. The net earning of the
national banks for the year ended
July 1st, were one hundred and thirty-
one million hundred eighty-five thou-
sand dollars, from which dividends
were paid amounting to nearly-three
millions.