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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
THE MAIL SHIP SUBSIDY.

Among the Oils introduced In con-
gress this week, is one by Congress
man Humphreys of Washington, for a
subsidy for mail ships. 1t provides for
an increase in pay to American ships
for carrying mail to South American
points and also for American ships
carrying mail to the Orient.
Every effort consistent with good
business principles should be made by
this government to get our
own direct mail service between
this country and South Amer
lean ports. At this time, the bulk, OF
the mail between North and South
America goes to Europe on it's jour
ney. Mail steamers make regular trips
between England and South America
and Germany and South America
These steamers make connections
with mail steamers that ply between
the United States and England and
Germany. All of these are European
boats. AS there is practically no reg
ular mail service by United States
boats between North and South Amer
lea, mail from this country for South
America, must first go to England or
Germany and there be transferred to
the boats bound for South America.
This it will be seen at once, is a
serious handicap to the commercial
interests of the United States, in any
effort to solicit business in South
America.
AS to whether this government
should give financial aid to company
that will establish direct mail COM
munication between these countries is
a matter that should be decided by
business men-men, who by actual
and successful business experience,
are qualified to Judge and decide such
problems. What this country needs
now, is more business men in its legis-
latures and congresses. The men who
make laws to govern businesses,
should be men who have had actual
business experiences. They are the
ones who know the demands and
necessities
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
ENuMgRAToRs NEEDED.

Census supervisors all over the
country are calling public attention
to the necessity of securing a full
quota of enumerators to prosecute the
work of taking the 1910 census. The
census director in Washington is not
satisfied with the number of applica-
lions being received. A total of 81 900
enumerators will be needed The ap-
plications should be filed with the dis
trict supervisors by January % and
by April l the census department
must have its organization complete.
The actual work of taking the census
will begin April Is and will be con
Guided May Is. 1t is held important
by the census department, because of
the little time left to complete the
arrangements for the work, that the
lists of census enumerators be closed
As soon as possible. The enumerators
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
HuckLuNe DOWN TO WORK.

The Ottumwa boosters and the OF
eumwa city fathers started the new
year right by getting together at the
first meeting of the council this year
to discuss plans for the new improve
ment program. Joint committees
from the Commercial association and
Retail Merchants association con-
Serred with the council relative to i'm
proving the street lighting in the down
town districts and REMEMBERING and
placing the names of streets at all i'll
tersections.
The street lighting plan contem-
plated provides for the installing of
cluster lights on both sides of Main
street between Washington and Green
the Union depot to the Ballingall hotel
This method has been adopted in other
cities and has been found not only to
provide much better lighting facilities,
but to greatly improve the appear
ance of business districts.
City Engineer Brady has been work
Ing for some time on plan for re-
numbering the streets and it is now
planned to make this improvement
more complete by placing the names
of streets on the corners. There has
been great demand. for. this last
named improvement. Ottumwas
streets we're originally named in o
hdphazard manner and it has been
found difficult to follow their mean
behring's, even by the home folks, with
out an occasional guiding sign to
point the way. To the visitor in the
city the streets have been puzzle
There is every reason to believe that
the boosters and the council will find
a way to provide these improvements
at an early date.
The council has started well on the
new year by opening bids. for the paw
ing of several streets. The contracts
for this work will be awarded at an
adjourned meeting tonight and the
work will be taken up as soon as The
weather permits.
The boosters are out early pushing
their 1910 expansion projects along.
The council is losing no time in furth-
ering the city's Improvement plans
while the new year is yet young. il
Uncle Sam will just get into the gamo
now and start digging the foundation
for that $235,000 federal building,
which is to be one Of the improve
ments of 1910, Ottunwa will be hust-
ling into the work of it's busiest year
before the, first quarter has passed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
PEOPLES PULPIT
- -
The Courier Viii. Publish Signed
or Unsigned Expressions From
Its Readers Upon Receipt; Name
of Writer Must Be Known to
the Publisher, However. &
A New Ordinance Needed.

Editor Courier-The snow and ice
are here again. They get around once
a year and we are insisting and de-
manding that the owners OF lots clean
their sidewalks They do not do it,
they never have done it in the past
and they never will. The trouble is
that the system is wrong. 1t is not a
good business proposition. The clean
ing of the alleys and the sanitary
work during the summer season is run
upon the same plan with the same re
suit.
A large number of the property
ers pay no attention to the notices and
the proclamation of the mayor Hence
| would suggest a change in the sys-
tenn All of this work, winter and sum-
mer, should be done by thes city. We
have a city scavenger. He does the
work in that line and then presents
the bill and as rule he gets his
money. If the property owner does
not pay, later on he finds the account
upon the tax books and settles this
with his other taxes.
Now we should have two more such
officials or the two positions might be
combined. One man to clean up the
filth during the summer time and one
to clean the sidewalks of snow and
ice in the winter season.
>'ublish one day notice to all prop
erty owners and upon the second
day start the work and hustle it under
the direction of the man who may be
selected by the city council. Do the
work and do it quick. We can learn
something from the street car com
pany. After every snow, with a ma
chine constructed for the purpose,
they at once clean their road bed and
at this writing the people are using it
to get around about the city. 1t is
about the only thoroughfare in
the city at the present time
which can be used by the
pedestrians. The city can do the same
thing by using a sweeper or a revolv-
ing broom upon the sidewalks. We
should abandon the notice and the lit
tie hand shovel system and go at it
with horse power. There are plenty
of men in the city who will do this
work promptly and at small cost to
the lot owner. 1t appears to the writer
that we have been a long time in get
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
smothered shrek from within pink

smothered shrek from within pink
sunbonnet.
"Auntie! Peter! There he is! oh
I'm afraid!''
The owner of the sweet voice and
the dimtnutive Peter turned with one
accord and looked behind them. There
leaning over the wall, was TALL fur.
coated figure whose hands were in
cased in furry gloves and whose eyes
We're hidden behind great goggles.
"The goggle-eyed mani" beloved
Peter backing away from the wall
"Dick!" exclaimed the voice dazedly,
"Helen!" whispered the goggle-eyed
man tenderly.
You were listening!" accused Miss
Weir.
Eames waved deprecating hand
toward the broken machine and they
all peered over the wall. 81 met with
an accident" he explained, land sat
down here TO wait for tow into the
village. | could not help hearing the
story. 1t was very interesting" he
added without smile
ut was fairy story" returned
Helen with impetuous haste, "and as
such l hope you will remember it."
She moved down the slope and the
children followed reluctantly.
He's taking off his goggles" re-
ported Peter.
And it's Dick Eames," screamed
Peggy excitedly, throwing herself at
the young man with affectionate ardor.
Helen looked away over the Octo-
Der hills, the sun was setting and the
fictitious warmth of the day was re-
placed by slight chill A dead leaf
rustled at her feet and long, sough-
ing moan trembled through the elm
branches overhead. She turned toward
the little group and watched the chill
dren fall upon the man with loving
caresses. There was wistfulness In
her gaze. Perhaps she realized it, for
she suddenly turned and fed.
"Helen!" called Games.
She paused, then, reluctantly she
came, sitting sob as he drew her
hands within his own.
"You owe me some reparation,,' ne
whispered sternly while the children
hung back with wondering eyes.
rs it paid now?' she asked, laying
her arms about his fur collar
mot quite" he murmTed stub
bornly.
"And-now?"
Yes
AS they all tramped homeward
across the darkening fields Peter
caught Helen's hand in his chubby
fist.
Some day will you tell us more
about the beautiful princess?" he
asked
"She married the prince and lived
happily ever afterward," declared Dick
EameS.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
A FISH OUT OF WATER.
BY BERTHA ORvILLE.

ID ia WV lJLIE.
Copyright, 1910, by Associated Literary
Press.
Ned Morgan was in a quandary His
sister Edith and his best friend, Tom
Winters had been in that delightful
stage of courtship that precedes an en-.
gagement when suddenly the situation
changed and Toms visits ceased. The
big brother had at first concluded that
| 1t was a lovers quarrel and would, in
time right itself. But Edith's de.
meanor soon changed that theory. She
seemed to be as happy and as intense
ly interested in her thoughts as. she
was when first she met Tom.
On the other hand, Tom was in a
state Of deep dependency. One day he
suddenly announced his intention of
going west.
See here, Edith, said Ned, whats
wrong between you and Tom? He's
going away, and | am inclined to think
it's because you haven't treated him
right
Il have, Ned. When I saw that
didn't care for him in the way he
wanted me to, | told him SO frankly.
What occasioned your change of
hearth"
She blushed and turned away her
eyes.
who in the world is the man? The
other man. There is one, isn't there,
Edith?"
IL am not sure she hesitated,
her blue eyes softening in reminis,
cence.
But no one comes to see you. You
haven't received any attention since
you turned Tom down. This is a Jack
and Jill town, you know, and there is
no one available that know Of
She was silent.
You won't tell me, Edith"
mo" she said decidedly, not
yet"
Her brother wisely refrained from
further questioning. He sought Tom.
so you are going west, Tom?" he
asked
Eyes, business trip that no one
else in the firm wanted to take But
which was welcomed by me under the
circumstances"
81 know, Edith. This is passing
whim of hers, and she will be all right
again by the time you return"
OlH SHOOK MS nedG ueSD0HdeItIlS.
There Is another man."
well, it must be man in book
then, for no one comes to see her and
she is at home alone every evening,
the brother told him.
At this intelligence Tom frightened
a little and went away with the spark
of hope famed to life again.
Ned grew watchful of his sister.
From the fact of her having no even
ing entertainment he concluded that
the other man must be employed at
night and able only to pursue his WOO.
ing by day. 1t was quite by accident
that he gained knowledge of the af.
fair. He was taking a turn in his car
in the country one morning and passed
small lake resort. Feeling thirsty he
ran the car into the grounds UP to the
pavilion. To his surprise he saw his
sisters runabout in the driveway.
Where is the young lady who came
out in the runabout he asked of the
landlord
IF twas a young lady, ten to one
she's out in the sailboat with Jack.
was the reply with significant smile
Jack"
Jack Borden. He has charge of the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08

Take this winter, for instance, =
says the Cedar Rapids Republican
sit has been an ideal one from the
standpoint of weather, with few vari-
atoms and with few extremes OF
cold" With the thermometer regis
tering 16 below and foot of snow on
the ground this looks something like
rubbing it in
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
This awaiting business is getting to
be about as dangerous as football

Last Thursday the weather bureau
promised a long period of mild
weather" We had one mild day and
then the bottom dropped out of the
thermometer again. The Chicago sta
ton Of the weather bureau seems to
have better luck telling us at noon
what kind of weather We had that
morning than in prophesying of the
future
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
DO YOU FEEL LIKE THIs9

Does you head ache or simply feel
heavy and uncomfortable? Does you
back ache2 Does your side ache? Do
you feel tagged out? The tonic laxa-
tive herb tea known as Lanes Family
Medicine will clear your head, remove
the pain In side or back and l5store
your strength. Nothing else is so good
for the stomach and bowels. At drug
giats and dealers'. Csc.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08

Admiral Kimball refused a gift of
six steers. offered him by President
Madriz. The admiral evidently is not
posted on the present market quota
tions. He doesn't realize what he IS
passing uD. He could bring those six
steers up here and trade them off for
a house and lot.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08

1t is a dangerous thing to take
cough medicine containing opiates that
merely stifie your cough instead OF
curing it. Foley's Honey and Tai
loosens and cures the cough and ex-
pels the poisonous germs, thug pre-
venting pneumonia and consumption,
Refuse substitutes and take only the
genuine Foley's Honey and Tar in the
yellow package. Clark's Drug Store;
SWenson's Drug Store.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
coMsTock LIKES ARKANSAS.
Wrote Letter to Courier Telling About
country-Wants the Paper
-

j. H. Comstock, general merchant
of Grapevine, Arkansas, has written a
letter to the Courier telling of the
fine, weather they are having in that
country and also asking that the
Courier be sent to him. He says that
he went around all day New Years in
his shirt sleeves andtbat the farmers
are blowing for their spring crops now.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08

One of the speakers at the conven-
ton Of the Association of American
Universities in Madison, Wis, declar-
ed that 80 per cent of the assistant
professors in American universities
must supplement their salaries by
outside work in order to make both
ends meet" He also said that "A
per cent of them are married and
have families to support
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
. dispatch from London /,

A dispatch from London yesterday
says:
At special meeting Of the Boston
Consolidated Copper company today,
an agreement for the amalgamation
with the Utah Copper company was
ratified
The surprising feature of the mat
ter is. that they did not have to go
even further away than London to get
any action about copper ratified.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08

Congress seems to be displaying
peevishness at the opening of this new
year. First Ballinger and Pinchct
brought their scrap to the stage where
congressional hand in it and now
the insurgents" and regulars in
both houses are crying for war with
out quarter
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
JUNkIM WANTS MORE ROOM.
The Negro Murderer Who is Sentenc-
ed to Hang, Thinks Health is


John Junllin, the negro murderer
who is sentenced to be hung next July
hes written Governor Carroll request
ing more room in which to exercise.
He state that his health is being i'm
paired in the present quarters. Cover
nor Carroll says that he will not inter
fere in the matter at all and Junkin' S
quarters in FIT, Madison will not be
changed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
Rev.I w. Williams Tsstif;es,

Rev. I.sW. Williams. Huntington, w.
Va, writes us as follows: This is to
certify that / used Foley's Kidney
Remedy for nervous exhaustion and
trouble and am free to say that
Foleys Kidney Remedy will do all that
you claim for it, Clarks Drug Store;
Drug Store.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08

The Incas gave gold to their con-
querors. Madriz went them one
better,'' when he offered Admiral
Kimball porterhouse steak
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08

ting around to the fact that the pres
ent system Of doing the sanitary work
and cleaning the walks is Q farce and
failure. There should be change in
the system. A new ordinance.
y " Y
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
Gets There .I,,st the sarna

The Washington Times Secretary
knox's style is a trifle ponderous, but
he has no difficulty in making hls
views clear when he writes a diplo
matte epistle.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08

The Panama soldiers do not have to
shovel snow, anyway.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
Pneumonia Follows a Cold.

Pheumonia FOLLOWS Cold.
but never follows the use of Foleys
Honey and Tar. which stops the cough,
heals the lungs, and expels the cold
from your system. Clark's Drug Store;
Swenson's Drug Store.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
LIKES THE COURIER.

Rev. C. E. Wolf of Hutchison, kas.,
Writes Short Letter. VIII be
Remembered by Ottumwans
The Courier has received a letter
from Elder G. e. Wolf of Hutchison,
kas.. in which he applauds the paper
very highly. He says that the mail
man delivers the paper at their home
about o'clock everymorning and that
he and his family wait for its coming
just the same as they do their meals
Elder Wolf says they are having a
real old fashioned Iowa winter there
now.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-08
Sire Apparatus NeaIectad.

Editor of Courier Dear Sir:
My solution to your last nights
problem is that one boy gets cents
and the other one gets 3 cents.
j. G. Mcdaniel
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-19
Return Of Co|onists from Holy Land Only Tempo.
ray';.worId's Colonization by Holy Ghost and
Us Society viii Be Continued, denies
Quarrel With Sec Treas. C. {. Holland.

South F'reeport. Me. May 18.-
Frank w. Sanford, who claims neith-
or the title of Reverend nor elijah"
,odav broke the silence which has
surrounded his last voyage to the
HOLY Land when he gave to COR
respondent an extended interview
covering the eventful voyage of the
yacht Kingdom, and the future plans
and prospects of the Holy Ghost and
lis Society of which he is founder and
leader.
The return of the cOlonists. who
have been stationed in foreign mis-
sions, is but temporary. according to
Mr.. Sanford. When certain pur-
noses which led to their reasSembling
In this county have been accomplished,
they will return to their missions from
which they have just been withdrawn
or will become factors in other forms
of the society's attempt at world wide
evangelization.
A humble beginning has already
been made in the chain of missions
which Mr.. Sanford plans to establish
in the Western hemisphere. The i'm
mensity of this task may be judged
from the fact that stations are to be
established in the Polar regions; one
at Cape Horn and one at Greenland,
together with central or equatorial
station The doubling of the present
feet. now Incorporated under the name
Of Kingdom Yacht Club, also forms a
part Of the plans and two new ships
IRE I'm sight
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-19

MIR. Sanford has not visited Shiloh
since the return from his world cruise
in 1909, but in spite of reports to the
contrary he is confident that condi-
tons there will speedily resume their
former prosperity and that the bible
school. as he terms It, reinforced now
to about 500 members. will carry on
the work more vigorously than before.
He denied absolutely the reported de-
lection of c. E. Holland secretary
treasurer of the society The inter
view follows:
Il had been gone from the Holy
Land nearly four years and the move
ment, left under leaders more or less
inexperienced. necessarily had suf-
fered from the absence of a matured
director My first object was to col
lect our people from all lands-to
gather them together that we might
talk over our experiences, consider
truth in it's later and fresher aspects.
become of one heart and of one soul
and then, filled with the enthusiasm of
our missions, undertake new and
greater fields of usefulness as Gods
providences might direct us.
"To accomplish this result we left
Portland Oct. 25 in the yacht King
dom, enroute for the Holy Land. Our
voyage across the Atlantic ocean WAS
rough, cold and disagreeable. We
sailed in higher ATTITUDES than ever be-
fore in our crossing of this ocean, and
one day | remarked to the captain.
We'll, why are we so far north? 1t
seems strange to be up here where it
is 50 cold and stormy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-19
Sim. |nvermore Colidss
With TrawIer Be|uga.
Latter Crashes Into and Sinks
The Steamer zaIdee.
Invermore Returns to No. Sydney to
Repair...Beluga Bsaehed.

North Sydney, N. S.. May 1S.-The
Reid New Feundland Cos. steamer
Invermore, with so passengers from
North sydney for Port Aux Basque.
returned to port today with her stem
twisted out of shape and gaping hole
in her bow, as the result of a collision
with the French steam trawler Belu-
ga. off Lloyd's Cove, while the gov
eminent steamer Zaidee lies in the
bottom of the harbor as result Of
being crushed by the big trawler.
The accident occurred about 3
O'Clock this morning. The impact when
tire steamers crashed was terrific. The
1nvermore struck the Beluga fairly on
the port bow, cutting her from the
guard to below the water line, while
10 feet of the Invermore's stem and her
bow plates were torn and twisted out
OF shape. leaving a huge opening in
tine bow above the water line.
The force of the impact threw the
passengers in the Harvard part of the
ship out of their berths, while those
of the crew who were forward and the
firemen were thrown off their feet.
AS the steamers parted both headed
full speed for North Sydney. The Be-
llgas hold being full Of water, her
captain sought convenient place to
beach her and in swerving his boat
towards the terminus wharf, crushed
the government steamer Zaidee against
the structure and sent her to the bot
tom almost instantly.
Capt. William Nisbitt and Engineer
Cogan of the Zaidee narrowly escaped
with their lives, the former having to
jump for the wharf. while the boat
sunk beneath Cogan's feet and he
managed to keep up only by ciinglng
to d grating which had foated from the
stern Cogan was in the water nearly
a half hour before he was rescued ny
boat from the trawler.
There was wild scene on board the
Beluga when the collision occurred
for in the forecastle, where the lnyer-
more struck her, is men were asleep.
These were all hurled violently from
their berths to the floor and with wa
ter pouring in on them they made a
scramble for the companionway, which
some of them managed to reach just
in the nick of time.