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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-01
The Presbyterian Church.

The Ladies Aid Society meets this
afternoon at the usual hour with Mrs.
A. M. Currier.
The PASTORS subject for Sunday
mornings sermon will be 1.-THE Health
and Security of Our Nation"
Choir meeting at s O'Clock this even
ing will be especially important. All
members please be prompt.
The Christi an Endeavor closed for
the summer with last Sunday nights
service, at which the following officers
we're elected. President, DIR. Chas.
Burnside; vice president, Anna Hem
ricksen; secretary and treasurer, Cecil
Talbot.
Committee Chairmen-Prayer meet
ing, Mrs. A. B. Miller; Lookout, Ruth
Preston; Missionary, Mary Davis;
Social, Erve Jones.
The meetings will be taken up on
very different plans In September and
it is expected that the work will be
very satisfactory.
The Sabbath evening church service
was given over to the Junior Christian
Endeavor. The meeting was In charge
of the Assistant Superintendent Miss
Anna Henricksen and the Pianist Miss
Edith Coon. Among the interesting
features by the Juniors were the re-
| ports OF the years work by the treas
urer and committee c%hairmen, of which
| the following is the list: Ethel Temple
man, Ruth Preston, Marion Bagley,
| Anna Christensen, Helen Conway,
| Leon Talbot, Olga Christensen, May
Lang, liza McFadden and Mabel Tit
terington. The chior was composed
exclusively of the graduates and fur
| nished W special numbers, Twas
on CalNa y and ''The Home Beyond.
To show the Bible work of the society
the Superintendent Mrs. Don j. Pres.
ton gave a drill In which all Juniors
present participated. The pastor gave
a short talk and the presentation of
diplomas was made by the superintend
The following is a list of the gradual.
ing class relieving their diplomas;
Mabel Titterington, Vera Harris,
Anna Christensen. Donna Baker, liza
McFadden, Ruth Preston, Cecil Tai
bolt, Nav Lang, Ethel Templeman,
Leona Wilson, Edith Phelps and
| Clara Fullerton,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-01
AUDUBON CHURCH NOTES
The Methodist Church

The ladies, who had the banquet in
charge, turned over to the society as
the net proceeds $40. 90.
The Ladies Aid Society have a ses-
sion at the church today for doing
some work and attending to some
business matters.
The district conference was held at
Wiota, Tuesday and Wednesday. Rev.
ID. b. y. Prather. who Is in attendance,
filled the pulpit Wednesday afternoon
A. II. Roberts. Mrs. w. w. Smith
and Miss Hazel Law we're appointed
a committee to write to Rev. p. V. D..
Vedder, give expression of Apr ecia-
ton, sympathy, and the hope Of his
speedy recovery,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-01
Church of Christ

On Sunday next the services will be
as usual, Bible School at 1000 A. M.
Junior EndeaVor at 800 p. NJ. Senior
EndeaVor at 700 p NJ.
On Friday evening of this week the
EndeaVor Society will hold an ice
cream social in the park, beginning at
7 o'clock In the evening.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-01
The Lutheran Church

Young Peoples meningitis evening
at 8 o'clock.
Services Sunday at 3 P. M, and in
the evening at 8 O'Clock.
Parochial school next week Tues.
day, Wednesday and Thursday at 9
10 the morning.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-01
Going to Seattle

Special low reduced rates from all
points daily via The Chicago and
North Western Railway tn the Expo
sition at Seattle, Yellowstone Park,
Yosemite. Colorado and Pacific Coast
Choice ofroutes and splendid service
OF electric lighted, misunderstanding
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all principal points west and north
west.
Illustrated folder descriptive OF the
Exposition, booklets, nap and itine-
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to all points Of interest free on appli-
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Western Line. 24e
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-01

NoTIcE-Having quit the practice OF
medicinein Audubon and moved away
| have left my account books with
Mantz g. White. Persons owing me
please call aud settle with them.
252 DIR. G. L. SMITH.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-01

OF money for farm loans.
BoYsEN a BEAsON
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-01

Lou Caldwell and Sam Jensen
were with their Extra friends on Tues
day afternoon.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-01
FART A
AT 5 Per Cent. Complete set Of
Abstract OF Title to all Lands
in Audubon County.
CHAS. BAGLEY.

DR.. D. D. Drake. Dentist. Office
over Scars Harness Shop, Audubon,
Iowa. Tel. All.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02
KIDNAPPING.

The kidnapping of little Willie Whit
la, the payment of a ransom to his
captors, and his subsequent safe re-
turn home followed by the arrest OF
woman and man charged with the
crime, has turned the public optic
souarely toward this class of offend
ers. 1t has not been so long since
Pat Grove got away with the Cudahy
heir, but the American people are
quick to forget and ready to forgive,
so that this incident had almost pass
ed out Of mind, before another equally
as glaring came into notice. There
is nothing to be said in extenuation
Of the acts of kdnaper. The anguish
suffered by the distressed parents OF
the child, the dangers to which child
Is exposed and the very inhumanness
of the threat to take young life I'M
less certain sums are forthcoming,
easily place the deed in the class
with the most diabolical that the hui
man mind can suggest. In the Whit
la case the father readily fell" in
the vernacular of the day, for the ten
thousand dollars demanded. While
the provocation was great the prec-
edent was not wise, for it was only an
incentive to others to perpetrate |
similar crimes.
Every state in the Union should
make kidnapping a capital offense, and
every kidnaper found guilty should
get the extreme penalty Of the law.
This would go far to discourage a
class of criminals, who will gradually
grow holder as the temptation Is In
creased, with the excessive produc-
ion Of millionaires.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02
PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS.

] Good public schools will strengthen
the lower schools, increase their at
tendance and deepen their interest.
Without the high school the county
| school system is incomplete. There
8 no goal toward which all pupils in
The public schools of the county may
work. There is no system, no unity
ing influence, and no recognized stage
Of completion; hence, many children
quit school, falling out irregularly at
the end of the first, second, third, or
.ome subsequent year, or even in the
middle of a school year before the
elementary course Is finished. Few
remain for the secondary work now
given as a kind of addendum or APP
oendix to the elementary courses of
some of the primary schools. The re-
port of the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction shows that fifty per
cent of those who enter the first grade
Iuit school before they reach the third
grade and about eighty-seven per
cent quit before they reach the sixth |
grade. In states with good public
schools the record is much better than
this, and there is already a marked
Improvement in the counties in this
state in which public high schools
nave been in successful operation for
Two or three years. Nothing short of
attendance laws will do
much to increase the attendance In
he lower grades as the enthusiasm
md interest fostered by the organiza-
ion of all the schools Of the county
nto a system with one or more good
high schools at their head, to give
ife and vitality to all the lower
chools and to serve as the goal to-
ward which all children are necour-
ged to work, though majority may ;
ever attain it.
And this, again, would repay all the
ost of establishing and maintaining
ublic schools, were there no other re- /,
ults. \
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02
CHILD LABOR.

The club women of Montgomery
Ala. are aroused over the refusal Of
Governor Conner to appoint delegates
to the child-labor conference to be
held at New Orleans on March 1881
So highly incensed are they that they
will name a committee to call upon
the Alabama executive and give him a
large sized chunk of their minds. They
don't think that Governor Conner has
the right idea about child labor, and
it is very likely that he hasn't.
Miss Jean Gordon, Of New Orleans,
inspector of mills for Louisiana, is
quoted as having written some very
She is even said to have accused him
of ignorance The following language
is accredited to her:
"Gov. Conner has written that Ala
bama has the best child labor law,
with possibly the exception Of Massa-
chusetts, of any state. This is either
wiIlful ignorance or nonsense; | don't
know which,"
Governor Conner is just trife vul-
nerable to the attacks of opponents of
child labor. He owns one of the lar
gest cotton mills in the South, and
rumor often sayeth that some of his
employees are far from being ante
diluvians. When all these things are
taken into consideration, and when It
is further considered that the trend
of the public mind today is toward a |
free childhood, there is every reason |
to believe that Governor Conner is |
getting in very tight hole.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02
THE TIDE TURNS.

The announcement that ]. l. Finney
has purchased the controlling interest
in the States-Graphic, is of double
interest from the fact that Mr.. Fin
ney formerly engaged in the newspa-
per business here and has many
friends in this county, and the further
fact that one of the few aggressive
Patterson papers in the state will
change editorially to the support Of
principles repugnant to the governor.
Haywood county, of which Browns
vile is the county seat, has but
single paper-the States-Graphic. Dur
ing the last campaign the States
Graphic supported Patterson, and to
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02

its influence is attributed the fact thai
the county went against Senator Car
mack by about 100 votes. Every other
county in the Congressional district
went for Carmack.
The change in the editorial policy
of the States-Graphic adds another
newspaper to the long list now sup
porting statewide prohibition.
Probably three-fourths OF the coun-
try papers are already fighting under
the white banner, and majority or
the daily papers if not supporting pro-
hibition openly are at least becoming
chary of supporting liquor openly.
The Chattanooga Times, Memphis
Commercial-App Nashville Ameri-
can, are avowedly wet" The Nash
vile Banner is on the fence, but may
be expected not to say one word
against aridity. The News-Scimitar
opposed statewide but hates Governor
Patterson, while the Chattanooga
News, all the Knoxville dailies, The
Bristol Herald Courier and Nashville
are shifting the advocates
of the grog shop hip and thigh. 1t
may be merely a matter of time when
every reputable daily newspaper in
will be on the prohibition
lido
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02
LET 1T ALONE.

The cry alleged to have come from
the midnight darkness of Memphis fol
a postponement of the date when the
prohibition laws become effective
smacks largely of the whisky ring. 1t
noes not have the pathetic tone that
certain newspapers attribute to it, but
has instead the metallic sound that
has ever distinguished the voice of
Bacchus. The whole truth of the bust
ness is that some few liquor men and
their allies want to ply their trade
legally little while longer.
There is not the slightest danger OF
the Legislature even acknowledging
that this wall has Jared their ear
drums. The peoples representatives
have not attuned their hearts chords to
such discordant notes as this. They
can hear only the real music, that
comes in one grand hosannah from
the Threats of the women, church
workers and other citizens having the
welfare of Tennessee at heart.
This question of postponement was
brought up at the time the statewide
bills were passed. 1t was thoroughly
threshed out and disposed of. Condi-
lions have not changed. The prohibi-
Lionists have not attempted to shift
the responsibility. They want to see
he saloons and breweries go, they
nave named the date, now let them
hustle.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02
THE SOCIAL CLUB.

From the time the prohibition wav'
broke on the fertile fields Of fair Dixi'
until this very moment the anti-prohi
bition forces have attempted 10 thwar
and set aside the will Of the people
Not content with violating the Law
openly, in many instances. they have
cudgeled their brains to devise sub
terfuges under which they could oper
ate without acknowledging to them
selves that they we're without the pale
OF the law
There is not a state in the entire
South where the so-called social
club has not dared to raise its head.
Atlanta had them in numbers, they
were popular in Savannah, while in
Birmingham they increased and multi
piled until the law cut them down.
1t is possible that social club can
exist without violating the law. At
torneys and courts disagree as to this,
and the final analysis has not as yet
been reached.
Under the guise of the promotion
of literature and art" Birmingham
blossomed like a rose with social
clubs" Immediately after the prohibt
tion law went into effect in that city.
The literature consisted in many In
stances of modern editions Of the al
manac, the art was confined solely to
that gentle science known as evading
the law. Former saloon keepers, men
who had never pursued their literary
studies further than a cursory inspec-
ton of the bill boards, presided over
these temples OF learning, which with |
out exception were well stocked with |
beer and other liquors. 1t was notice
able that neither art nor literature |
flourished in an arid atmosphere.
The history of these clubs in Bir
mingham is similar to their history in
other Southern cities. There is al
ways the slight difference that locali-
ty makes, but the main purpose is not
distinguishable.
Columbia has at last reached the
social club" class The Herald makes
no attempt to pass upon the legality
of the institutions in this city, nor
does it point any moral in this case,
further than that If Tennessee has no
law preventing the formation Of such
clubs then the Legislature has duty /
to perform. To permit their existence I
is to practically nullify the prohibition :
law They must be destroyed. Y
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02

Gov. Patterson is being quoted wide.
ly by the whisky press. The Colorado
Spring Evening Telegraph says he
has won national reputation for his
moral courage and logical mind in an
sxpostulation to reason and liberty"
Cousin Chawles' recent visit here has
never been explained or accounted for,
but Immediately thereafter It was an
nounced semi-officially that Gov. Pat
terson would take to the lecture plat
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02
AN OUTRAGE.

Kate O'Dwyer, a white woman, con
victed of immortality, If press reports
be true. was chained with negroes and
forced to sleep in shackles by officers
of the law at Athens, Ga. The citi-
zens of the Cracker town with the
classic name and barbarian instinct
at last awoke from their lethargy and
took legal steps to secure the I'M
fortunate woman's release. The deed
is a sad commentary upon the chivairy
OF the men who are directly respon-
sible for it's occurrence. II would have
graced the dark ages, with all their
ignorance and crime, when woman
was chattel and man semi-savage.
One of the great lessons which the
South has been teaching for genera
lions is the veneration OF woman. An
other, equally as important, Is the
observance of racial lines. The very
shackling OF a woman is uncalled for
and scarcely excusable under any cir
To chain a white wo-
man, however degraded, with negro
men, is objectionable. The revival of
the whipping post and the cultivation
Of Drawn and sinew by the weilders OF
those leather straps that have made
The Georgia convict system odious, for
especial application in this case, would
90 far towards meeting the exegencles
of the occasion.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02
nARM -

DARN III
We feel bound to set up a sign o
warning against some Of the provi'
ions Of the Payne tariff bill-especial
IL those that bear hardly upon woman
kind.
Whether the women should hay'
votes or not. there are women's right
that no tax-gatherer with an ounce o
discretion should dare invade
The imprudence Of the proposed
Payne tax on stockings is particular!
impressive
The modern movement for tbs
emancipation of women from the thral
of domestic drudgery means, when II
is reduced to its final symbol, the re
volt OF the Preside knitter and mid
night stocking darner.
The world is ruled at last by imag-
NATIVE symbols, and the WEAKNESS OF
this particular task of old-fashioned
housewifery-th ceaseless creation
and reparation of hose-is, to the free
spirit Of the New Woman, what the
tea tax was to the fathers of the
Revolution, or ship-money to the up
risen English Commoners. 1t is the
yoke of oppression, shaTpened to an
edge; and the gall Of it cannot, and
will not, be borne.
Are the economic experts in Con-
gress SO dull that they need to be told
that the surcease of the domestic knit
tiers and darners depends upon the
cheapening of stockings?
The Dingley tariff-under which
some of us have been left alive-taxes
common cotton stockings something
like 65 cents on the dollars worth.
And now comes the Payne tariff bill
with reckless proposal to increase
the tax to about IS cents!
The thing cannot be done. For,
besides the threat and insult to the
housewife, it should be
noticed that the hosiery manufacturers
If the country can make no colorado
claim to such protection. 1t is shown,
n Government Census Bulletin No. "a,
hat the stocking-making busisess is
,rown up and of husky strength
laving recently made a gain of so
,er cent in IFS outnut
And as for getting money out of
tockings to help fill up the national
elicit; the fact IL that the proposed
igher tariff on cotton hosiery would
lost likely exclude the foreign goods
and so it would actually {
rain the National Treasury to the
xtent of the million and half dol 4,
IRIS now annually realized from this
0urce.
Now that the attention of long-suf- :
ring women has been called to this 7
ocking question, the only safe thing
II Congress to do is to back down.
The tariff in this schedule should Z
IT be raised; it should be lowered L
Z way of apology. K
If the women of the country are
'iven back to their knitting we fore 81
e that the consequences will be
York American.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02
HIGH SCHOOLS.


The following letter Is one OF Sc
ries being sent out 70 the Tennessee
press b. P. p Claxton. professor o
Education in the University Of Ten
nessee. and one Of the leading educa
tors Of the state. and Is an able pre-
sentation Of a subject deserving every
consideration:
Would our boys and girls attend the
public high schools If we had them
II is frequently asserted they would
not and argued that they have not
time for it. The answer is simple.
The public high schools of other states
and counties are filled to oYerhowing
and larger buildings and more equip
ment must be provided every year.
The same is true in Tennessee In
those counties and towns where high
schools Of modern type have been es-
tablished and given adequate support.
The argument that boys and girls of
high school age have not time to at
tend school is without foundation.
Least OF all does it apply to the rural
counties. ! think it may be truth
fully stated that never in the history
Of the world have boys and girls had
so much leisure time which might be
given to school attendance as the
boys and girls of the rural communi-
ties of Tennessee now have.
1t has not always been SO. Only a
generation or two ago boys in the
country were busy clearing the for
ests, making rails. fencing fields, pull
ing stumps. rolling logs planting. cul-
tivating and harvesting crops with
simple time-consuming implements. !
Girls hacked fax, carded and spun
wool and cotton, wove and dyed cloth,
cut, fit and made clothing, preserved
fruits in slow ways, worked in the
garden and fields. Now our forests
are cleared. There are few new
in the state, no logs to roll or
stumps to pull. Fields are fenced.
Flowing, planting, harvesting and stor-
ng into barns and marketing are done
~ labor-saving machinery. Boys on
he farm work only small part OF
he time The work once done in the
ZONE is now done by machinery in
-reat mills and factories in cities and
enters Of industry. Girls in the
arm home have little to do except
ally duties of housekeeping, which
an be done in a few hours in the
lorning and evening. In the rural
in which four-fifths OF
ur population still live, there are no
mills, stores or shops in
-hich girls and boys may work, as
icy do in cities and manufacturing
OWNS. Had we a sufficient number D
! good public high schools, scores OF !
of boys and girls, of as q
BOD stock and native ability as any in ~
le world, might attend them eight or a
n months In the year without inter- q
ring at all with the work of the q
rm or the home, or even temporarily 9
it'll the production of the fields. p'
,ithout the schools the time and ener- &C
es Of these thousands of boys and u
rls are running to waste. To per- 2
It this to continue would be bad &c
onomy and criminal negligence. II
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02

The Columbia Herald is now going
to put stop to the social club. The
Herald doesn't seem to realize that the
fever is over.-Chattanoog Times.
Nor does Mr.. Och's other organ, the
Nashville American, have that COM
forting assurance.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02

Mardy Garden has been deprived of
100000 by her benefactress because
she was bad. She should not have
forgotten that wild oats" can't be
grown in the lime light.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02

that Mr.. Patterson's occupation in the
held Of Tennessee politics is gone:
but for genius Of his peculiar mind
and mold the Model Liquor License
League might offer congenial employ
ment in the lecture leld.-Nashvill
Tennessean.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02

The wife of Cuban army officer Is
reported as recovering from an oper-
alton removing her spleen. The Mash
vile American evidently has under.
gone similar operation.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02
IF YOU SEE 1T IN OUR AID ITS SO.

form. "Trifes lights as air are some
times proof as strong as Holy Writ"
Will the Governors lecture tour be
under the auspices of Cousin ChawIes.
and will his SUBJECT be IAN Expostula-
ton to Reason and LibertyP" Ten.
nessee having gone dry, 1t would seem
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02

Police Commissioner Bingham has
increased the number of applicants
for the responsible position of head of
the New York police department by
announcing that he could have made
half million had he not been honest.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02

Congressman Moon, has sought to
reflect little light upon his bolt Of
the Democratic caucus by citing the
fact that other Democrats haven't
clean states He must think the pub
lis Is Moon-eyed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-04-02

The libulous are oftenest the
social"