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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1911-01-05
Take Notice

All parties having sewer connec-
tions to make, should notify the City
Clerk, or the sewer committee, of the
time, and place, when and where, the
connection is to be. made, in order
that the work may be done in accord
ance with the rules established for
such work.
w. w. Brown,
27-tf Mayor
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-05
Eulogizes Lincoln in Remarks at
Emancipation Celebration in Church

Abraham Lincoln, the patron saint
Of the colored race, was beautifully
eulogized in the remarks made at the
emancipation celebration held in the
Second Baptist church by the pastor,
Rev. j. Cornelius Reid. The e1oquence
OF. the well known Afro-American min.
ister found expression in the following
references to the freer Of the southern
slaves:
"Forty-eight years ago Abraham
Lincoln affixed his immortal signature
to the emancipation proclamation,
bringing life, sunshine and freedom to
millions of black men and women. We
adore Lincoln, not because Of his con-
victions alone upon the slavery ques-
lion, but the undisputed proof that he
was a.type of the Goldman, who feared
not to act at the psychological. mo-
iment The spirit Of Lincoln made its
advent into the world Of complexities,
IN the. affairs of men with patience and
holy persuasion in one hand and JUS
lice for the oppressed In the other. In
every period Of human life, when JUS
ice demands climax in human OPP
PRESTON the silent inspiration of. UNI
,een forces prepares the man to meet
The emergency. In meditating over the
lives Of great men, we are compelled
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-05
RUSSELL.

l.. A. Butts died at his home on Fri
day and the funeral was held from the
residence on Monday at 2 o'clock.
James GOltry and wife of Dudley
who have been visiting their parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Goltry returned
home Sunday evening.
Homer Hancock of Ballantine, Mont,
returned home Saturday after a visit
with relatives.
Carl Wiltsey left Sunday evening for
Burlington where he is attending BUSH
ness college.
Miss Edith .insel and brother Ken
meth spent Sunday at the home Of their
grandparents Mr.. and Mrs. E. NJ.
Blanchard of Charlton.
John c. Plots and granddaughter
Arlene blanchard left Friday for At
lantic for a visit at the Bert Plots
home.
J. c. Classify left Friday for De-
catur, H.. for a visit with his son
Leonard and family.
Rev. Thompson of St. Joseph Mo-,
preached in the Christian church on
Sunday.
Miss Nellie Allen. teacher in the
public schools of Chicago left Monday
for Chicago after spending the holi-
days at the home of her parents Mr..
and Mrs. Tandy Allen.
John Holingshead Of Moscow, Idaho,
came Monday morning for a visit with
relatives
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-05
FLoRIs.

Mr.. and Mrs. orman have been on
the sick list
Roy Fitzgerald Is suffering with
broken leg.
Little Edward Rhyme is spending his
weeks vacation at the w. Dunning
home.
Miss Florence Woods is spending
few days In Ottumwa with her sister
Mrs. Delp.
Walter Woods made trip to OF
tumwa Saturday.
Misses Vivian Fitzgerald OF Ottum-
wa is visiting her fathex and mother
Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Fitzgerald.
George Woods has returned from
Nebraska where he has been this sum-
,mer.
Billie Croft is working for Roy
Fitzgerald this winter
The Tindall family have moved to
Ottumwa, where they will make their
future home.
Wesley Dunning was caller at the
John Duhning home recently.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-05
PULASKI.

Lowell Anderson arrived Friday t,
spend the holidays with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. r. W. Anderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Hunt, daughter
Lala and grandson Lyle Pearson came
up from Pennington Saturday morn
ing to spend Christmas with their chill
dren Alvin and r. o. Hunt and dauga-
ter Mrs. Lora Parish OF this place.
Marshall Matthew of Chicago arrived
Saturday morning and is spending his
vacation with relatives here and al
Hit. Mo-. after which he will return 20
his school duties at the Wheaton coll
lege.
Mrs. H. c. Perdue OF WOODBURY., Ia,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-05

"He was turned out upon the world
without a dollar and this is his record:
His assets are over s600,O00,O00, be-
sides colleges, academies. etc. His
moral status will compare favorably
with any living race. Though he is ac-
cused Of being below the standard, the
truth of the situation remains with
those who have quietly and determin.
eddy made the sacrifice and paid the
price virtue demands. Our progress
would crumble in the dust if our great
effort to rise did not rest upon a firm
moral foundation. Example IS the con-
vincing proof which can be furnished
by thousands. The negro only asks
fair play. Like all other races, prog
ress with him is not temporal, but
eternal"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-05

visited her son Prof. D. j. Perdue from
Wednesday until Saturday when he ac-
companied her home to spend his va
cations.
c. w. Ramseyer Of Bloomfield spent
Christmas with relatives near here.
Miss Ruth Anderson who has been
attending school at Iowa Wesleyan Is
spending the vacation at the parental
r. w. Anderson home.
Miss Lille Blough left Wednesday Of
last week for an extended visit with
relatives in Kansas City, Los Angeles,
Calf, and Phoenix. Ariz., and will
probably be gone about nine months.
Henry Engler OF Burlington came in
Wednesday morning for visit at the
parental Engler home.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Baldwin and
family of Litchfleld, ILL.,, arrived Sal
urday to spend the holidays at the par
entail J. J. Miller home.
Harry Miller who Is attending co..
lege at Ames, Ia, and Emery Miller OF
Marion. Ia, also visited their parents
during the holidays.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-05
MANY SPECIAL
DAYS OBSERVED
FEAsTs, FAsTs AND HOLIDAYS
FOR PATRIOT, JEW AND GEN.
TILE DURING YEAR.

With the first of the notable days
of the year put out of the way
as far as 1911 is concerned PEG
pie are settling down for the year
and are prepared for the longes,
three months of the season-the cold
blustery period that must be passed
through before the arrival or spring.
The following list of important days
in the year, 1911 is well worth ming
away for reference purposes:
January New Years day.
January epiphany.
February 12-Lincoln's birthday.
February 12-Septuagesima.
February 14-St. Valentines day.
n February 19-Sexagesima.
February 22-Washington birth
day.
February Neutrality-suspicious..
February 28-Shrove Sunday, Mardl
Gras.
March Ash Wednesday.
March 8, 9, 1O-Ember days.
March 14-Purim.
March list. Patrick's day.
April Passion Sunday.
April 9-Palm Sunday.
April 13-Passover.
April 16-Easter.
April 23-Low Sunday.
May 21-Rogation Sunday.
May 25-Ascension day.
May 30-Decoration day.
June 2-Pentecost.
June Whit Sunday.
June Z, 8, 9-Ember days.
June 11-Trinity.
June 15-Corpus Christi
July 4-Independence day.
August 6-Transfiguration day.
August 15-Assumption day.
September labor day.
September 20. 81. 22-Ember day.
September 23-Rosh Hashonah
(Jewish New Years day.
October 2-Yom Kippur (day OF
Atonement.)
October 7-Sukkpth (Feast OF Tab.
ernacles.)
October 12-Columbus day.
October 14-Shemini Atzereth (Sev-
enth day of Tabernacles.)
October 31-Halloween.
November ALL Saints day.
November 2-All Souls day.
November General election day.
November 30-Thanksgiving day.
December advent Sunday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-05
BLOOMFIELD.

Mrs. Joe Swift entertained the
Swastika girls Monday afternoon in
honor of Mrs. Jesse Fleming of Mil
waukee, Wis. The afternoon was spent
at sewing and light refreshments
were served.
Monday night about thirty couples
enjoyed a dance at Pastime hall. Music
was furnished by Johnson's orchestra.
Mrs. Walter Baird and son Porter
went to Ottumwa Tuesday on business.
Miss Cliff Bells who attends the
university at Monmouth, H., returned
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-05
A Candid Opinion
THAT'S WHAT YOU WILL GET
WHEN SEEKING ADVICE ON
YOUR DISEASE '

DR.. Benjamin z. Stricken does not
claim to cure every known disease.
The knowledge possessed from IS
years of practical experience is worth
any persons attention and considera-
ton if troubled with disease. Prac-
teal treating OF possibly the very
trouble you have will undoubtedly be
of much help to you. An examination
costs nothing, and if your case is in
durable rest assured you'll be told so.
isn't it worth your while to get that
cure?
Don't be bit backward about talk
ing with me for l am here to treat
diseases.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-01-05
tuesday, to resume her work.

Tuesday to resume her work.
Mrs. Clay Black left Tuesday for
Haskins, Ia, to spend the remainder OF
the week with her sister Mrs. Pickins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse F1emming left
on Tuesday for their home in Milwau-
kee, Wis, after two weeks visit at
the Joe Swift home.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-05
PraIseqod sarehone,s Brother.

1t is perhaps in the perusal of mus
ky old parchments and parish regis
tiers that the really curious name is
found At the beginning of the sew
enteenth century and extending well
dnto Puritan times they are remark
ably numerous. Among the baptisms
are such Christian names as Repent,
iiF'reegift, Restore, Constant and Faint
mot. That remarkable member of the
parliament of 1853, Praisegod Bare
bone, was actually baptized by that
name and is so called in the records
|of the Leathersellers' company Of
lLondon. But it must be admitted that,
lBarebone's brother adopted his Chris
titan name, which ran thus and could
never have been comfortably accom-
,modated upon an ordinary visiting
card of today: If-Christ-had-not-
Idied-for- hee-thou-shouldest-h been
damned Barcelona. And this indi-
lvidual had but himself to blame be-
cause his lightsome friends and the
wits called him Damned Barebone-
From T. P.'s Weekly.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-05
FRESHIES FAIL IN GEOGRAPHY
River Rhine Is Placed in Asia and
Memphis, Mobile and Venice
Are Strange.

Madison, Wis. = Many freshmen
when they enter the University of
Wisconsin, cannot locate important
cities, rivers or mountain ranges, in
their own or foreign countries, accord
ing to recent tests made by the de-
partment of geology in the classes in
physical geography. The results of
the examinations this year corrobo-
rate those of previous years.
Surprising ignorances of the loca-
ton of prominent cities in the United
States was discovered. Many could
not tell in what state such well-known
cities as Richmond, Mobile, Memphis,
Butte, Syracuse, Nashville, Spokane,
Atlanta and Scranton were.
Some of the students could locate
only four of the following ten cities
by telling what country each was in
Vienna, Venice. Lisbon, Bombay, Bue-
nos Aires, Hongkong, Athens, Mos
COW, Shanghai and Melbourne.
Fully one-third showed remarkable
ignorance in regard to even the ap-
proximate location of the Rivers
Rhine, Volga, Gauges, Orinoco and
Euphrates. Some placed the Rhine in
Asia and others in South America.
In trying to locate the Pyrenees,
Caucasus, Himalaya and Sierra Ne
vada mountains and Mt Mckinley,
nearly half of the freshmen missed
two or three out of these five.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-05
A BODY IN STORE HE BOUGHT
Grueson1e Package Left in Closet Ono
Year by Former Owner Is
Finally Opened.

London-A mummif1ed human body.
apparently that of boy about four
teen years of age, has been discov-
cred at Nottingham under astounding
circumstances.
About a year ago, Thomas Show
croft purchased small grocery in
Nottingham. The previous owner Ga
woman) asked her to allow parcel
in a cupboard to remain there for a
few days and begged her to take
care of it.
The woman did not return, but
nothing was done until few days
ago, when Mr. Showcroft decided to
satisfy his curiosity. Placing the par
eel on the hearthrug he united the
string by the light of candle. and
was startled to find that 1T contained
a mummified body,
From an examination of the body
It is surmised the boy died ABOUT
twenty years ago. The Nottingham
notice are satisfied that the case does
not involve any crime.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-05
Man IS the Oldest Student

the university, a sight which probably
finds no parallel in the world. That
the former still preserves his mental
activity sufficiently to engage actively
in the teaching of this difficult subject,
requiring the deepest study and the
most clear-headed reasoning, is nearly
as marvellous as the fact that Rev. Mr..
Higgins at ninety-three is still suf-
ficiently active mentally and ambitious
physically to grapple with subject
that is almost entirely new to him,
such has been the change in the sys-
TENS and textbooks since he first en-.
gagged In its mysteries nearly three
quarters of a century ago.
Rev. Mr.. Higgins was born in Maine
in 1917. His early education was re-
ceived in that state, but Wesleyan col
lege was his alma mater
Prof. Wilbur Fisk was then presi-
dent of Wesleyan, and Rev. Mr.. Hig-
gins recalls many incidents connected
with that noted teacher and scholar.
The aged student attends the class
of Professor Hose every Monday, and
is busy nearly all the week with the
pages Of Rudolph Eucken, the solon Of
Jena university.
Both teacher and student are excep-
tionally bright and vigorous for their
years, and the only defect that Rev.
Mr. Higgins suffers from is slight
deafness. He is too busy to speculate
on his probable span of life. end is
anxious to fill the remaining years
with the bright light and consolation
that the study of pure reason and
philosophy only can give.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-05
OFF SEALS

at will, and kept careful watch upon
them. The members Of the crews live
on seal meat when they are unable to
get fish, and fishing by the strangers
In any Of the harbors is forbidden.
More and more the law has been
tightening on the Japanese fishermen
by cutting off their food supply, and
with another step or two the govern
ment will be able to compel them to
provision their vessels in Japan for
the fishing season. AS yet the water
supply has been uninterrupted, but, il
the government acts on the recon-
mendations of the seal patrol, this will
be cut off, and every seal island will
be a government reserve, and not to
be visited by any person save off,
Gals. under heavy penalties. Such a
motive would not inture American
companies, for there are none in the
islands. said Captain Garden.
THE natives In some of the islands
at Dutch Harbor and westward" said
Captain Garden, were In a deplorable
state. They had little food, and their
clothing was in rags. Disease had
broken out among them. Their prin-
cipal industry is basket weaving and
fishing, but they do not realize
enough from either to sustain them
selves. and are often in a starving
condition.
with the simplicity Of children.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-05
Report From Revenue Cutter of
Wanton Slaughter.
Pribyloff Islands May Be Declared
Government Reservations, Access
slble to Federal Officials Only
Water Supply Involved.

Seattle, Wash.-Because Of the
reckless slaughter of seals in the
Pribylof islands by Japanese, these
islands may be declared government
reservations, accessible only to fed
eral officials, as the only method of
preventing the Japanese from secur-
ing supplies for their sealing fleets,
which this season got away with 5000
sealskins, valued at $40 each. This
plan is the outcome of investigation
by the cutter seal patrol service
maintained the last season, in which
40 Japanese were arrested on the
charge Of poaching.
Officers Of the cutter Manning,
which reached this port from the seal
ing grounds. declared that the slaugh-
ter Of the seal herds goes on un-
abated, and that the diminution. which
even among hundreds of animals has
become rerceptible. spells positive ex-
termination within few years.
The hand of the alien fisherman
strikes at the root of the industry,
for 1t kills the helpless female while
she swims far beyond the three-mile
limits for food for the family. That
the mother is the breadwinner of the
seal family has been established to
the satisfaction of all who understand
the industry, according to Capt. God
frey L. Garden, commander of the
Manning. Fired upon when she comes
up for air, the female seal makes
toward the deadly missive out OF
curiosity, and receives her death
wound. Her pup on shore starves to
death, for no other seal mother will
nurture it. Thus two animals perish
when one Is killed.
No American vessel under the pres
ent treaty can fish within sixty miles
of the islands, while the Japanese are
allowed to go up to the three-mile
limit The United States government
this year killed 10000 seals, but they
were males and caused no permanent
damage to the herds.
There were rs Japanese vessels,
with 816 men, engaged in the traffic
last season Officers from the rev.
enue cutter patrol boarded the aliens
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-05
His Opinion, Too.

The street railroad company in a
New England town that is somewhat
celebrated for its quietude leases the
space on the back of its transfer slips
for advertising purposes.
A New Yorker, who had made visit
to the town somewhat against his will
and was much Disguised with the alb
soIute lack of amusement, decided in
desperation to take car ride with
his wife. On receiving his transfers
he turned them over and read the ad-
vertisement in idle curiosity. then a
smile spread over his face.
There" he said, turning to his wife,
f'I told you this was the deadest town
il ever saw, but l didn't suppose that
the townsfolk knew 1t themselves. just
look at that"
The advertisement for the current
month happened to be that of local
undertaken.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-05
MOVES 1000 DEAD BODIES
Michigan Gravestones and Burial
Place Ornaments Are Transported
to a New Site.

Negaunee, Mich.-The cemetery Of
this city, with its 1000 bodies and
proportionate number of headstones
and other burial place ornaments, Is
being removed to new site to per-
NIT an iron company to work the rich
bed OF ore that underlays the old
cemetery.
The burial place now being vacated
was selected 40 years ago and the per-
mission to remove it was not secured
without storm of protest, but the
mine company provided larger and
more attractive site and is paying a
local undertaken $40 for each body he
removes. Every body in the cemetery
will be removed by this undertaken,
unless others prefer to do the work at
their own expense.
The headstones and family monu-
ments are being removed to their new
places and the damages incident to
carriage and the resetting are being re-
paired in a way that promises a better
conditioned cemetery when the work
is done.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-05
A HUMAN RATTLE BOX
COVETED BY DOCTORS FOR Dis
SECTION, HE SELLS HIS
BODY.
Kansas City Man Can DisIocate Every
Joint in His Body and Move His
Heart From One Side of Body
to the Other.

Kansas City, Mo.-Every time Ellis
Whitman passes a doctor who knows
him he is followed by covetous and
endowed some of us with a special
aptitude for driving laundry wagons
or constructing bitches, it gave Whit
man a freak of body which every
true M. D. would like to look into.
Whitman can dislocate every joint in
his frame He calls himself the "Hu-
man Rattle Box"-a title which
sprang from his ability to rattle his
ribs with his shoulder blades. He ap-
pears in theaters and also does plain
or fancy dislocations for medical
clinics. Whitman also has an aero
batic heart.
put your hand here" Whitman di
rected as he prepared to prove it.
The heart was ticking away in the
regular place. Then he twisted his
interior around. Taking the hand of
his interviewer, he placed it about
seven inches lower than where the
same heart had been and on the right
hand side.
Nov she's here!" he said with par
donable pride.
She" certainly had moved Whit
man rolled up his sleeves to show
that he didn't have a second heart
about him anywhere. There are some
things he can't do. He admitted his
inability to put his lungs in his feet
or take his arms entirely off.
when I get job at a medical
school," explained Whitman, 81 lie on
an operating table and make any dis
location the doctors call for. The stu
dents set the dislocations-som
two or three of 'em working on me at
a time"
Unlike the average run of geniuses,
Whitman is an excellent financier.
Doctors are always trying to buy
my body" he said "They want to
dissect it--after I am dead, of course.
I've sold 1t twice for $500 each time.
outlived them both-my body re-
verting to myself at their deaths.
Il had to fight for it once, though.
The second time I sold it was to DIR.
Nicholas Sem of the Rush Medical
college, Chicago. He died couple
of years ago and in his will he be.
queathed the Rattle Box'-that's me
to his son, DR.. Manuel Sem. sued
for possession Of my body. The courts
upheld me and I am now living in a
body that belongs to no one in the
world except me-"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-01-05
THRILLS BLUFF GIRL
PETTlCOATED MAIL CARRIER
FOUND ROUTE TOO DAM
GEROUS.
Job Required Sixteen-Year-OId Miss
to Ride Twenty-Five Miles Daily
on Horseback Through Haunts
of Wild Animals.

Tacoma, Wash.-That life may be-
come too strenuous for even a young
woman of not yet sixteen years of
age has been brought home forcibly
to Angels Camps former mail carrier,
pretty Miss Helen Bonner, who has
left the wilds of Calaveras county's
S1erras for seat in the Fremont
school, which she has come to attend
preparatory to enrolling at a young
Woman's seminary.
Being sister-in-law of Marshal Nc
Kay, superintendent of motive power
for the United Railroads company at
Angels Camp, Miss Bonner was ap-
pointed mail carrier for Angels Camp
Her job required her to ride on horse.
back daily twenty-five miles to the
nearest postoff1ce and there receive
the communications destined for the
people at the camp. During her
twelve months incumbency OF the po-
sition she has encountered expert
ences which would cause men of
twice her age to seek the simple life
In prefence to the peaceful noun
tain regions.
Her first experience was with rat
tlesnake, which she killed after hav-
ing evaded the reptiles attack by
just hairs breadth Among her
trophies are also the skins of two
mountain bears, which at different
times had made her job as mail car
rier an arduous one, but the most
thrilling of her experiences occurred
just few days ago and caused her to
resign her position and come here.
While returning to Angels Camp
with bag of mail hitched to her sad
die she espied a panther in the
bushes.
'The animal was looking at me and
felt instinctively that it meant to
attack me-" said Miss Bonner in re-
lating her experience. Il gave the
spurs to the horse, but he also had
seen the panther and seemed too
frightened to move on l knew then
that it would only be a matter of Sec
onds before the big feline would
jump at me.
Il had revolver strapped to my
side and 1 pulled it out and fired
quicker than / can describe it now
The shot missed the panther, but sue
ceeded at least in frightening the
horse, which bolted away, and though
he seemed to run away with me his
gait could not be too swift for me
then. Never in my life was I as
scared for my life as 1 was then, and
the next day 1 resigned my job as
mail carrier.
II love animals and / am not afraid
of snakes, but have seen all want
of them during the past year and
don't think that l shall succumb to
the Call of the Wild very soon"