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Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
DUCKS SWAN IN LARGE POND

Dear Aunt Laurie:
One morning when the mail carrier
came he stopped and gave me letter.
ran to the house and mamma
opened it.
From grandpa, 1 suppose" she said
as she was taking it out.
He wanted us to come out and spend
the summer.
The next week we were busy getting
things ready 1t took one good day to
get to grandpa's and grandma's.
After we got there grandpa took me
out to the barn, where he kept his
horses. Then we went to the old pond,
where there were a lot of ducks. When
1 got back to the house grandma had
got me a wheel. 1 learned to ride and
had a nice time
LEWIS EDWARDS.
SawteIle city school, sixth grade.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE

Dear Aunt Laurie:
During vacation [ went to my uncle's
farm. He has a big farm, with many
houses, mules. cows, sheep, pigs,
chickens and ducks. He also has
Shetland pony and every time l go
to the farm he says l can have it till
l go home.
/ pretended that it was my own.
asked my uncle if could have it, but
he said mo-"
My birthday came while I was there
and my aunt came in in the morning
and said:
Get up and go and see what we
have waiting for you"
I got up in a hurry to see what they
had for me. When 1 got outdoors my
aunt said: Bessie is yours"
1 was so glad 1 did not know what
to do.
"Now," ny uncle said, "you can
chase the COWS in for me-"
I said: II don't know If will Ike
that job" HAZEL SNYDER.
Sawtell, Cal, grade 6.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
PLAYED IN STRAWBERRY PATCH

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Just about three days after school
let out we went out to our old farm
in the country. 1t was hotter there
than it was in San Francisco.
Our farm was out in Oakland. We
just crossed the bridge and went about
seven blocks and we were there.
On the way we had lots of fun.
When we got out there mamma went
out to my cousins house and we went
out into the strawberry patch and had
some strawberries. We ate as many
as we could and when it was s o'clock
we went home. We stayed all night
with my cousin.
We left about o'clock in the morn
ing for the old farm, and would for
home about or half past G.
MARY CAMPBELL
Sawtelle City school grade 6.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
Los ANGELES SUNDAY HERALD-JUN1oR SECTION

his horse and buggy and go horse
back riding. He had a little wagon
in which ne used to haul garden truck
from the garden. He had four horses,
two work horses and a saddle horse
and a driving horse.
/ used to coast in the wagon and go
to town with him when he sold vege-
tables and fruit.
1 rode all over the country on the
saddle horse In the evening grandpa
would tell me stories of olden times.
KENNETH G. SMELLIE.
Sawtelle City school, grade 6.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
PICKED BERRIES TO SELL

Dear Aunt Laurie:
When I lived on the farm l had a
good time. fed the horses, MIXED the
cows and fed the chickens and pigs.
After l got through in the field had
to go down to the pasture and drive
the COWS up to the barn and milk
them. When the strawberry season
came 1 had to pick them every day.
Then we took them to town to sell
them After the berry season l had
to plow corn and potatoes.
When I did not have anything to
do l would make rabbit traps or go
out hunting or fishing. used to go
to a little branch named the Hatton
branch to fish. IVAN AMCLIFF.
SaMtelle city school, grade g.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08

to cut grain and would ride one Of
the horses on the way home. One old
horse called Dobbin 1 was especially
fond of. l gave him water and fed him
every day.
They had 152 chickens and got about
102 eggs a day They had a great
many pigeons and geese.
Near by was clear, cool stream in
which we could swim. Every night 1
gathered two baskets of eggs. The
well they had reminded me of 'The Old
Oaken Bucket" because it was old and
moss-covered. 1t was made of oak,
ironbound, and it hung in the well.
After I had been on the old farm for
two and one-half months 1 was gladly
received at home.
ROY LOOKABAUGH,
Sixth grade, Fourth street school,
245 South e street, San Bernardino,
Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
RODE ON A BuRRo

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Not very long ago I was invited by
some friends to go to La Canada on a
visit
The first time | went with my brother
and a lady who lived on the farm. We
went to Pasadena, and then took a
stage coach that was going to La
Canada, a small town northwest of
Pasadena.
The house we went to was not very
large, but while we were there we had
a very nice time. Across the street
from our house lived a boy and his
sister, with their aunt and uncle. The
girl was about two years older than |.
Harold, my brother, and Fred would
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
RODE HORSEBACK TO TOWN

Dear Aunt Laurie:
In August, before we came to Cali
fornia, we all took a trip to my grand
parents in Missouri. We stayed about
three weeks and 1 had lots of fun
hunting and fishing.
My grandfather has about one hun
dred and sixty acres of land. He
owns six horses and some cows and
chickens. The farm is about three
miles from town and sometimes he
would let me go to town for him on
horseback.
In the morning l would get up and
feed the chickens and cows and water
the horses. RAYMOND o.
Sawtelle city school, grade 6.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
HUNTED EGGS IN HAY

Dear Aunt Laurie
One summer when I was about 6
years old lived on a big farm that my
father had bought. There were 200
acres in it, with plenty of water The
barn was full of loose hay, which we
played on. We had about 200 chickens
and they laid eggs in the hay.
1 had to gather the eggs and milk
three cows. My other two brothers
each MIXED three. After we ate supper
we would go out and play in the fields.
There were six men working in the
fields, plowing, planting and hoeing
weeds One man would go along and
cut the weeds: the other would plant
the ground and one would plow it, and
CONTINUED on Page Four
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
FELL THROUGH HAYMoW
Dear Aunt Laurie

Dear Aunt Laurie:
One summer 1 went to the farm.
The last day is always the worst, so
I will only tell about it, Some other
boys and 1 went up in the haymow.
Meanwhile, the horse which was
frightened easiest and ran away easiest
was standing in the stall under us
looking out into the meadow. There
was a crack in the haymow and
slipped through and fell on the horses
back. He started to run with me.
/ can't tell how long l rode. L had
a fine ride, but would have had a
better one il there had been a saddle
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
PLAYED IN SAND PILE

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Once when we were over in Chicago
we received q letter inviting us to
come to the farm, which was in Berlin,
Maryland.
One morning early Tom. the servant,
told me to get up. ] ran down and
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08

on the horse. After a while he ran
under a tree and left me hanging by
a limb.
After I got home that night 1 said:
mo more farming for me-"
GEORGE CHAMBERLAIN.
Sawtelle, Cal, grade 6.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
GRANDPA TOLD STORIES

Dear Aunt Laurie:
/ used to live in Ohio. We kept a
farm, but after a while moved to To-
ledo and grandpa kept the farm. One
summer mamma said l could go down
there for vacation. On the second day
of vacation we started out.
Grandpa let me drive around with
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08

left that next winter felt that had
never passed more enjoyable summer.
RUTH ALLEN.
Sixth grade, Sawtelle city school.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-09-28
Denison, Iowa, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1915

Denison, Iowa, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1910
Pursuant to adjournment the Board
Of Supervisors met at 8 o'clock a. m.
Called to order by Chairman Ahart.
Members all present.
Minutes Of Monday, Sept. -, 1910,
were read and approved.
On motion following claims We're al
lowed:
s. H. Miller, bridge work. $274.39
John Gibson, bridge work ....... 2S.25
Fl Dodge Culvert Co., culverts. 959.40
e. p. Sievers, bridge work ..... 1919
James Mangan. hauling material
and repairing bridge ......... $50
Vail Mill & Elevator Co., bridge
material 27.1O
West Side Lumber Co., bridge
material 9s.45
Frank F. Brown, bridge work -. 24.35
Emil Novotne, hauling lumber and
repairing bridges ........... 1000
Albert Hadley, hauling material
and repairing bridges ........ 24.00
]. e. McCone, hauling material
and repairing bridges ........ $3.50
J. w. Bauman, repairing bridges 1927
Isaac Hird, bridge lumber ...... $3.50
E. p. Sievers, hauling lumber and
repairing bridges ............ 1902
Enos Cross building temporary
bridge 9.2o
John Drummer, hauling material
and repairing bridges ........ 2445
John Eek, hauling culvert ....... 800
Farmers Cooperative Lumber Co,
bridge material ............. 1885
Nicola Elevator Co., bridge ma
terial 1852
4. J. Munster, hauling material
and repairing bridges ........ 1900
G. "A. Norelius, spikes .......... 2.75
o. ]. Staley, hauling material and
repairing bridge and approach 1000
VIM. Hartleben, repairing bridge $50
Balle-Brodersen Co., spikes $50. $50
Bowman Kranz Lmbr Co, bridge
material NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 11740
Chas. c. Speck. repairing bridges 11.iO
Nicola Elevator Co, coal for Mrs.
Hoilander ............ II. so
Nicola Elevator Co., bridge l,mbr. $50
Balle-Brodersen Co., mdse for P.
A. McCarty 1900
Balle-Rrodersen Co., mdse. for
JOS Mabel ................... 500
Balle-Brodersen Co., mdse. for
VIM. Dover 2.46
Balle-Brodersen Co, mdse. for
Mrs. Aug. Odefy ........ 4.i4
p. H. Rank, house rent for VIM
Dover, Jan. l, 1909, to Aug. l,
1910 ........ ............ 1900
Phi. A. Schlumberger, crutcheS for
odefy girl 1.5o
VIM. CruZan, house rent for Mrs
Gao N:cKapa mo y rn
J. E. Lyon, mdse. for Fred Brad
bury, months .......... 5000
J. E. Lyon, mdse. for Mrs. Nissen 500
j. A. RachwitZ, mdse. for Aug.
Odefy $50
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-09-28
COUNTY BOARD
PROCEEDINGS
Proceedings Of the Board Of Super
visors Of Crawford County, Iowa,
at August Session, 1910.

Denison, Ia, Monday, Sept ~, 1910.
The Board of Supervisors of Craw-
ford county, Iowa, met in regular ses-
sion at ten o'clock a. m. in the board
room in the court house at Denison, la.
Called to order by Chairman Ahart.
Members all present.
and warrants issued between sessions
were read and approved.
On motion claims were allowed as
follows:
Chas. Speck, one mill road work
East Boyer Twp .............$ 5O.2t
E. p. Sievers, one mill road work
Otter Creek Twp. ..... o4.Oo
Ernst Plough, damage to land by
public travel acct. of bridges
being out ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1000
Board adjourned at - o'clock noon
to meet at 1880 p. m.
Afternoon Session.
Board met at l o'clock p. m.
Members all present
On motion following claims were al
lowed:
Dan Seaman, one mill road work
West Side Twp. .............$ 4o.oV
Adolf Moeller, bridge work lO9.3o
Frank Brown, removing fence to
build temporary bridge ...... 500
W. NJ. Lana, bridges, repair work
and bridge lumber 1888. 40
Joseph Hederman, repairing poor
farm fence and material used. 1888
c. H. Crakes, grand juror $40
j. Fl. Schmadeke, grand juror. $50
John Jurgensen, grand juror 80. 400
W. II. Pruter, grand juror ..... $50
M. d. Mahoney, grand juror -. $40
F. w. Meyers, p. NJ, postage for
county s2.S5
G.. W. Huntington, soldiers relief
commissioner ............. 500
Fred Book, soldiers relief COM
missioner o.oo
L. F. Morris, soldiers relief COM
missioner I.oV
Soldiers relief commission for
September ................. 244.00
Joseph Hederman, damage by
changing natural water course
Of stream from poor farm onto
ms land ........... oV.VV
Resolved, by the Board Of Supervisors
of Crawford county, Iowa, that Craw-
ford county pay Joseph Hederman the
sum of $4,000, in payment for all dam
ages caused by changing the natural
water course of stream which former
ly ran across the Crawford county
poor farm to run across the farm of
Joseph Hederman.
Board adjourned at o'clock p. m.
to meet Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1910, at 8
o'clock a. m.
M. j. COLLINS, THOS. AHART,
Auditor. Chairman
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-09-28
Her Speciality.

Mrs. Crimsonbeak-Pd like to be a
lawyer. Mr.. Crimsonbeak-I guess
you'd rather be a judge. "Why SOP"
ooh, you'd have the last word then. =
YOnker'S Statesman.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-09-28

REVIEW advertising pays.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-09-28
Mere Men.

He-I dreamt last night that your
mother was i'll.
She-Brute! l heard you laugh in
your sleep.-Life.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-09-28
AUDITOR. Report Of rs.s Collected.

On motion report was approved.
On motion following monthly allow
ances were made for relief for Craw-
ford county poor for the months of Sep
TENDER and October, 1910.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
BANKERS KNEW THEIR MAN
In His Customary Condition, and No
Further Identification Was
Necessary.

! One day big city bank received
the following message from one Of its
country correspondents: PAY SIS to
John Smith. who will call today" The
cashiers curiosity became suspicion
when cabman assisted into the bank
a drunken fare" who shouted that he
was John Smith and wanted some
money. Two clerks pushed, pulled
and piloted the boisterous individual
into private room away from the
sight and hearing Of regular depos-
itors. The cashier wired the country
bank:
Man claiming to be John Smith Is
here. Highly intoxicated. Shall we
await identification p
The answer read: Identification
complete. Pay the oney."-Success
Magazine.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
HIS HANDS CRACKED OPEN

II am man seventy years old. My
hands were very sore and cracked
open on the insides for over a year
with large sores. They would crack
open and bleed, itch, burn and ache
SO that l could not sleep and could do
but little work. They were so bad
that I could not dress myself in the
morning. They would bleed and the
blood dropped on the floor. l called
on two doctors, but they did me no
good. / could get nothing to do any
good till l got the Cuticura Soap and
Cuticura Ointment. About a year
ago my daughter got cake Of Cuti-
cura Soap and one box of Cuticura
Ointment and in one week from the
time began to use them my hands
were all healed up and they have not
been a mite sore since. | would not
be without the Cuticura Remedies.
''They also cured bad sore on the
hand of one of my neighbours children,
and they think very highly of the Cuti-
cura Remedies. John w. Hasty, So. Eff
fingham, N. H., Mar. S, and Apr. II, 'O9."
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
FUNERAL OF DOLLIVER TO
BE HELD ON THURSDAY.

Fort Dodge, Ia.-Funeral services
for Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver will
be held on Thursday at 2 o'clock. The
suddenness of Mr.. Delivers death
from heart disease, while physician
was listening to the irregular beats OF
the organ with a stethoscope, took
every one so much by surprise that
some of the funeral arrangements are
only tentative. According to present
plans, the obsequies will be in charge
of the Rev. w. H. Spence, pastor OF
the First Methodist Episcopal church
at Fort Dodge Bishop Luther b.
Wilson, of Pennsylvania; DIR. Frank
Gunsaulus, of Chicago; DR.. Newell
Dwight Hills, of New York city, and
Governor B. F. Carroll, of Iowa, have
been invited to make funeral oratlons
for the senior senator of Iowa.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
HELD IN CHECK
BY UNITED STATES.

Washington.-With the knowledge
that for the past month cholera cases
have been developing in Russia at a
rate exceeding 5000 day, the public
health and marine hospital service is
exerting itself to the utmost to pre-
vent the introduction of the disease
into this country. While not as yet
assured of success, the service is hope
full "The situation is not so threat
ening as in 1898. when we prevented
the appearance of the epidemic in this
country" said Dr. Walter Wyman,
surgeon-g general of the service, with
cautious optimism DIR. Wyman SAID
that in Russia between June Is and
October 5 there had been 332,88l
cases and 1881 deaths, and that the
disease is distributed generally
throughout the empire. That it has
been latterly on the increase is shown,
he said, by the fact of this number,
l5028o cases having developed be-
tween September 9 and October 2.
The percentage of mortality is nor
mally more than So
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
LEFT TO A WORSE FATE
Dynamiter, Himself a Married Man,
Knew What Awaited Forgetful
Husband.

The business man was sitting in his
Office, thinking of starting for home,
when a suspicious looking person
came in with a leather bag in his
hand.
'Tf you don't give me $25," said the
visitor, coming at once to the point,
81 will drop this on the floor"
The business man was cool. What
Is in it?' he asked.
Dynamite" was the brief reply.
What will it do if you drop it,"
8 BLOW you up"
Drop it," was the instant com
mand my wife told me when I left
home this morning to be sure and
send up a bag of -four, and / forgot
It. | guess it will take just about as
much dynamite as you have there to
prepare me for the blowing up I'll get
when she sees mel"
He threw himself back in his chair
and waited for the explosion, but it
did not come.
I'm married man myself" said
the dynamiter, and quietly slipped out
illustrated Bits.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
GETTING EVEN WITH MAMMA
In This Case, chIld's Punishment Ger
taInly Failed to Have salu-
tary Effect.

A little girl had been so very
naughty that her mother found 1t
necessary to shut her up in a dark
closet-in that family the direst
punishment for the worst offense.
For Is minutes the door had been
locked without sound coming from
behind 1t. Not whimper, not g. sniffie.
At last the stern but anxious parent
unlocked the closet door and peered
into the darkness. She could see
nothing.
What are you doing In there?" she
cried.
And then a little voice piped from
the blackness:
81 thpit on your new dress and I
thpit on your new hat, and I'm wait
Ing for more thpit to come to thpit
on your new parasol!"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
He Knew.

A small boy brought up by fire
eating father to hate anything con-
nected with England or the English
was consigned recently to eat dinner
with the nurse while the family enter
tanned a genuine English lord in the
dining room. The grown-ups' meal had
come to that twenty minutes past
stage where conversation halts direct.
ly, when childish treble fell upon
the dumb-waiter shaft from the
kitchen. This is what the astonished
nobleman heard:
''Fe. Fl, 70, fun,
81 smell the blood Of an English
n."-Wasp.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
COFFEE WAS 1T.
People Slowly Learn the Facts.

"All my life / have been such q
slave to coffee that the very aroma
of it was enough to set my nerves
auivering. kept gradually losing my
health but l used to say Nonsense, 1t
don't hurt me-
Slowly / was forced to admit the
ruth and the final result was that my
Thole nervous force was shattered.
"My heart became weak and uncsr-
tain in it's action and that frightened
eme. Finally my physician told me,
about a year ago, that must stop
drinking coffee or could never sx-
pect TO be well again.
81 was In despair, for the very
thought Of the medicines had tried
no many times naussated me.
Thought of Postum but could hardly
bring myself to give UP the coffee.
Finally concluded that I owed 1t
TO myself to give Postum trial. So
rot a package and carefully followed
the directions, and what q delicious,
nourishing. rich drink 1t was! Do you
know I found 1t very easy to shift
from coffee to Postum and not mind
the change at all?
almost Immediately after mad
the change / found myself better. an
as the days went by kept ON improv-
ang. MY nerves grew sound and
STEADY, I slept well and felt strong
and well-balanced all the time.
Nov / am completely cured, with
the old nervousness and sickness all
gene. In every way I am well once
more"
Il pays to give up the drink that
acts on some like poison. for health
|ls the greatest fortune one can have
Read the little book, THE Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. There's . Rea
|son-"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
WOMAN HAD TOO
MANY HUSBANDS.

Chicago.-Mrs. Alice Goodwin. said
by the Chicago police to have eight
husbands. was arrested at Medford,
Okla. She will be returned to Chi
cage to face trial on charge of big
amy, made by ]. F. Young, one of her
husbands.
Police Sergeant Jacob Kueblock,
who made an investigation of Mrs.
Goodwin's career, declares that he
has discovered the names of foE
men whom he says are married to
Mrs. Goodwin. Their names are as
follows: ]. F. Kleck, Dayton, o.; J..
w. Graham. To-Springs, Kan, and
James F. Young, Chicago.
In addition to these, Sergeant Kue-
block says he has found evidence OF
three or four other alleged bigamous
marriages in which Mrs. Goodwin is
charged with having been "a princ1-
pal in the last four years.
Young says he met Mrs. Goodwin
at Toledo last spring while returning
to Chicago from New York.
He married her at Aurora, Ill, in
Tune. She left Chicago late in August
to visit friends at Alton. Iowa. Young
saws she married Hoskins at Yelling
ton, Kan, shortly after this date. De-
tectives followed Mrs. Goodwin from
Wellington to Conway Springs, Kan.
thence to Blackwell and Medford,
Okla.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
Popularity Of That's.

Every other young actress is call
ing herself That's" said Henry e. Dix
ey at a dinner at Mauquin's. "Thais
McGinnis, That's Endicott, Thais
Schmidt-the thing is universal.
Universal and ridiculous; for they
who have read Anatole Frances story
of That's know that she was a very
naughty little girl, indeed. l am quite
sure that no real reader OF That's
would ever, under any circumstances,
consent to be called such name.
ut makes me think of man who,
taking his infant daughter to be bap'
tiEed, told the clergyman to call her
Venus.
!" But l refuse to call her Venus,
aid the clergyman, Indignantly. We
nus is the name of pagan goddess
Well, how about your own girl
DiAn&Y said the man."
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
SLIGHTLY Mixed.

Two Englishmen were resting at the
Red Home inn at Standardization.
One of them discovered a print pictur-
ing low, tumbling building under
meath which was printed: 1.-THE House
in Which Shakespeare Was Born. :
Turning to his friend in mild surprise
he pointed to the print. His friend
exhibited equal surprise and called a
waiter, who assured them of the &C.
curacy of the inscription.
"'Pon my word" said the observing
Englishman, shaking his head dubious
ly. Il thought he was born in a man
ger!"
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
Like the Other Kind.

1t was in down east" village that
the young man met his sweetheart, 8
charming country beauty. When he
returned to the city he sent her jar
OF cold cream to keep her cheeks as
fresh az the budding rose.
On his next visit he asked her how
she liked his little gift.
"The taste was very NICE" she
said. with rather sickly smile, "but
I think that l like the other kind OF
cream best, dear. "-Lippincott's.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-10-27
NEW ORLEANS LEADS
IN THE DEATH RATE.

Washington, D. C.-With ia
deaths of every 1000 inhabitants, St.
Paul in 1909 led the cities of the 1OO.-
900 in point of low rate of mortality;
Cleveland had the second lowest rate,
with 12.8, and Columbus, O., the
third, with 1874, according to DR.. c.
L. Wilbur, chief statistician of the
United States census bureau. IN a
statement submitted to Census Di-
rector Durand. The highest death
rate in 1909 was reached by New Or
leans, with 202 per 1000.