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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
Elmdale Items
My, how cold it is; 10 above
zero this m ,rning "wednesday }
What will it be in winter.

My, how cold 1t is; 10 above
zero this m ,rning "Wednesday }
What will it be in winter.
Ethan Cole and wife ar..
quite we'll but Daniel Cole 4
aot so we'll. He lives in India
ia, Ia.
Paul Cole is sick. He liv
with his sister, Mrs. II. Day
All the churches suffered
alike Sunday night when the
lights went out. Some had
candles and lamps. Seems
as though We are getting use
TO it.
Going 20 have a box sup Ell
st Elmdale school house Friday
night to buy a library desk and
shelves to keep library books,
Expect to have a glorious good
cine. Your correspondent has
''een invited to help make mer-
ry.
Had a pleasant surprise on
Annie Smith, Monday night
The house was full; had games
music and a sumptuous repast.
All wished her many more
happy birthdays.
saw Mr.. Culavin sprinkling
5he streets. The streets did
need a little wetting down the
way the wind blew.
A. N. Fountain says his flax
IN the sod brought him 81. rs
per ba. He broke I'D so acres.
That is the first crop that is
raised and il pays.
Wood chopping and getting
fuel to burn is the order of ex
ercise now. Corn is about
gathered.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
r=+E ;e%s co q :

A man in a very deep state
of intcxication was shouting
and kicking most vigorously at
a lamp post, when the noise at
tracted a near by policeman
"What's the NATTER" he
asked the energetic one
ooh, nevermind, misther
Thash all right" was the re
ply; 81 know she'sh home all
right shee a light up
shtairs!!"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

The quicker a cold is gotten
rid of the less the danger from
pneumonia and other serious
diseases. Mr.. B. W. L. Hall of
Waverly, Va, says: II firmly
believe Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy to be absolutely the
best preparation on the market
for colds. have recommends
ed it to my friends and they
all agree with me. For sale by
G. s. Osborne. dc.8l
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
St. John Items.

st. John Items.
Miss Mildred Townsend of
visited with st. John friends
toe last of the week.
Mrs. NJ. 5. Meats and daugh
ter Bernice visited with Mrs. S
K. McGavern Friday.
N. E. Allmon was in Logan.
on business Thursday.
Miss Carrie Meats closed !.
very successful term Of schoo!
Friday.
Frank Nc Gavren was a Lo
gan visitor Thursday after
noon. s
A number of young friends
of d. G. Allmon walked in on
him last Saturday evening and
notified him it was his birthda,
and they had come to help cele
brate it. Games of various kinds
were INDUCED in until a late
hour when refreshments were
served. All departed HON.
wishing him many more happy
birthdays.
We have heard nothing more
about that straw-board factory
With the amount of straw
available and the railway point
of distribution we don't SCI
why Mo. Valley couldn't have
! straw-board factory. II
would put Mo. Valley on the
map as a manufacturing town.
Mrs. S. X. McGavren will
spend Thanksgiving Al, the
Frank Wilson home near Cal
junction.
Frank Kehl. visited Grove
Bro vn and fanny Wednesday.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
To Water Consumers

Your water rent is now due
Please call at this office at once.
The city ordinances provide
that water rents are due and
collectible June / and Decem-
her / and are to be paid at the
City Clerks office. And, if not
paid before June or December
Is, ten per cent shall be added
to the amount due; and if not
paid, the water shall be shut
If.
This ordinance will be en-
forced.
w. F. Thornbury,
City Clerk.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
Short Weight Merchants

Des Moines, Ia, Nov. 30
Fake dairy and feed inspectors
are becoming so numerous in
Iowa that Commissioner Bar
ney today notified all mer-
chants, restaurant and cafe
proprietors to pay no attention
to any Inspector unless he can
show a license card signed by
Commissioner Barney and seal
ed with the seal of the depart
ment.
Reports are reaching Com
missioner Barney from all Sec
tions of the state that men
claiming to be inspectors from
the state feed and dairy de-
partment are gaining access to
the trade secrets and other val
liable information of merchants
and proprietors of eating
places.
The above was clipped from
the Daily Nonpareil of Nov. 80,
and is probably true and in a
way may account for some of
the false reports that have
been circulated in Missouri
Valley about the merchants
here. My opinion however. is
that all of the reports circulat-
ed on our streets Of late about
food, scale and measure inspec-
tors and which have eone
round and round and perhaps
gathered in size as they went
we're started by some cheap
curb stone loafer or cheap com
petiter and are nothing more
than common LIES.
| am so confident that the
above is true that | have de
posited in the Firsf National
Rank 500 90 and will present
the full amount to any person
Who will present positive infor-
nation of anysgrocer, coal deal.
err or restauranf.w ha has beer
accused by any ecto,, Of
giving short weigh&ar impure
foods in Missouri Valley within
The last 6 months.
This may be going a little
strong for an individual but ]
am confident that some person
is circulating these reports for
The purpose of injuring the
reputation of some Of our mer
chants and coming in for my
share, | naturally kick. l have
lived a number of years in
Valley, graduated from essoQf
high school and have spent the
time since in building up a rep.
utation for honesty in business
and ity affairs. Ihave revolu
tionized the grocery business
along the line of cleanliness.
pure goods and honest measure
even before the law said that
YOU MUST l belong to the
Retail Merchants Association
Of the State of Iowa. which or
ganization is the father of pure
food laws, all weight and meas.
i1res laws of the State of Iowa
Ehave read the laws and j
claim to be a law abiding citi
zen. Now what are you-vou
fellow who started these stories?
If any of the yarns can be
traced to the originator, the
merchants concerned will make
it very lively for the gentleman
| assure you.
Very respectfully.
F. A. Heath.
Dec. /, 1911.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

pletei'ig a new ss.i If fai'd'.- gs
On the track of lani he pur-
chased adjoining R"te Station.
1t will make a nice hume.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raw loves at
rended their Grand father
r 'dendorf's funeral Tuesday at
Magnolia Gem terry.
We are glad to note our
neighbor L r. C'!aud Cox YVES
the lucky contestant in get
ting the new Ford automobile
in the News contest Success
to you Claud, and heres hoping
you will have no accidents or
run out of gasoline.
Herman Jones is just complet-
ing a new brick arch cave. A
fine thing to have.
Well here is success to the
Mo. Valley Electric Light Plant
when they get their new boiler.
Where was Mr.. Bullock when
the light went out.
Every family has need of q
good, reliable liniment. For
sprains, bruises, soreness of the
muscles and rheumatic pains
there is none better than
Chamberlain's. For sale by G.
5. Osborne. dc-3l
Omaha retail merchants have
decided to co operate in a cam.
paign to induce early Christmas
shopping. At a meeting on
M o n d ay, Colbert H.
Manley, advel Using manager
of the Brand is stores, and
Charles e. Black, mems furnish
ings, were appointed as a COM
mittee to outline the campaign.
About the best argument
brought out at the meeting
from the stand point of bene
fit to the shoppers themselves,
was this: "If you shop during
the last week of the season, you
will perhaps be waited upon by
extra clerks who are not famil-
lar with the stocks. If you
shop now, you will re waited
upon by regular clerks, who
.re thoroughly familiar with
rhe stocks and who will give.
YOU the best service possible. {"
Other arguments which will
oe used are:
eff you shop early you will
get your pick Of the holiday
goods; if you put it off the best
may be gone.
"YOu can shop now with
much more comfort than you
can just before Christmas. =
"ior the sake of the sales
people in the stores, whose en-
,rgies will be taxed to ,he Ut
most just before Christmas, do
your Christmas shopping now"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
Machinist-

The thirteenth annual ball
of the Machinists of this
city was held last Wednesday
evening and the usual crowd
was in attendance. $50 pro-
grams were given out and 20
numbers were danced. The
hall had been very prettily de-
corated for the occasion and
the men that did the decorating
are 10 be commended for their
efforts Large streamers of
red, white and blue were strung
ah1 " the hall with a large
lodge emblem hung at the cen
ter of the stage, with a large
American flag in the back
g eound. A six piece orchestra.
~! by W. Burbank furnished
tic finest music ever heard in
tbs city and they readily re-
sronded to the encores. At 8
clock the orchestra played an
overture to which the grand
march was marched and the
progrs ms given out. This is
ono OF the events of the
year and the various
committees, composed of
the machinists saw that every
one enjoyed themselves.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
Missouri Valley 80
Sham!!rocks Q


The football game yesterday
between the Town Team and
the Shamrocks of Omaha devel-
oped into a Marathon. The final
score of SO does not show the
relative strength of the two
teams as the Valley team sim.
ply played with them in the
second half. The Omaha team
never made their first down aud
the Valley team was never held
for downs.
The bunch from Omaha came
up with only nine men and had
toplay two Missouri Valley men
as guards who did as we'll
as the rest of them even
though they did not know the
signals. The Valley boys were
at their best and could have
put up the game of their lives.
This victory gives Missouri
Valley the Championship of
Iowa and Nebraska without a
disputant. A large crowd wit
messed the game. This was the
last game of the season.
II had been troubled with
constipation for two years and
tried all of the best physicians
in Bristol. Tenn, and they
could do nothing for me, :"
writes Thos. E Williams, Mid
dleboro, Ky. "Two packages
of Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets cured me-" For
sale by G. S. Osborne. dc-3l
F L. Davis was an Omaha
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
EcrImpromptu Invitations

THE easiest way to get up informal party quickly by
telephone.
When any person, anywhere is desired immediately
the Bell telephone service demonstrates its great usefulness
particularly valuable when called upon to satisfy
gency needs.
Telephone invitations are not limited to single
neighborhood but are made possible between friends in
widely separated cities by Of the Bell Long Distance
service
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

Irene McDermo.t cc!ebfa:e6I
h II 18Th birthday yesterday hy
entertaining tW, ice Young
friends at her home or G,h St,
Several games Of childhood
were enjoyed until FIVE o'clock
waen a lap supper was served
by the ni stess, each guest re-
ceiving an individual cake de-
corated with a li,''e pink
candle. The color scheme of
pink and white was carried
throughout. Miss McDermott
received many handsome and
and useful presents.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
Birthday Surprise.

Miss Frances Withrow was
surprised last evening when
about six.een of her young
friends dropped in on her, the
occasion being her sixteenth
birthday. Game, of various
kinds were indulged in until 10
o'clock when a lap supper was
served by the hostess assisted
by her mother Mrs. w. H.
Withrow. Miss Frances was
he recipient Of many beautiful
presents.
Harry Allstranid came in
from Ames this morning and
left TO. his hone-in Sioux CITY
5his evening. .s ,,sss
Mr.. and Mrs. Ga. Arp left
for Ohio, Wednesday evening
for a ten days visit with rela:
tiveS
Woodbine is making prepar-
atoms for the Southwestern
Iowa Horticultural Society,
which will be held in that city
December 5, 6 and z and every
me attending will be given all
The apples they can eat. c. H.
Deur of this city, who will
appear on the program has do
mated a few barrels of apples
to be given away.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

h. :nlates TIN. bowels, pro
mn assv natural move nts,
cures coastipation-Doal s,,sg-
uIets. Ask your druggl t / =
tn I'M. 25c a box. d, i
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
Died

Henry Sparks died at his
hrme near Beeheetown Wed
nesday night. Obituary later.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Beagle
AMI daughters Ada and Goldie,
spent Thanksgiving in Logan
w tn relatives.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
fr!day-Dcee


Prot. all SIS. I. 81 sre in
Omaha today.
Mr.. and Mrs. S L. Black urn
entertained MIR. aud Mrs J +.
Blackburn Of Cal. Juncti m and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Sigler OF
Penny s.. at DINER yesterday.
,s"ld Cu!avjn won from Joe
NJ g. Wednesday night in
light falls OF two min
II and thirty minutes. Cul-
av v.s tn throw him twice i.
an 's'le and did it handily.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

Baby WON'T: suffer five min
utes with Group If you apply
DR.. Thomas Eclectic Oil at
once I ac S like msgic.
dc.3l..
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

C. H. Deur will leave for
South Bend Ind, this evening
where he will visit his daugh.
ter for a few DAYS.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

Misses Rosa Mcbride and
Marguerite Clarke are home
spending Thanksgiving vaca-
tion. They are attending
school at Woodbine.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

When your feet are wet and
cold, and your body chilled
through and through from ex-
posture, take a big dose of
Chamberlains Cough Remedy,
battle your feet in hot water
before going to bed, and you
are almost certain to ward off
a severe cold. For sale by G
S. Osborne. t.c.3l
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

Mrs w. L. Goodwin and Mrs.
Guy Everett are in Omaha to-
day.
Now for Christmas and early
shOpninp
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

When you have a cold get a
bottle of Chamberlain's Cou~ h
Remedy. will soonfx you .p
all right and WILL ward eff any
tendency toward pneumonia.
This remedy contains no opium
or other narcotic and may &c
given as confidently to a baby
as to an adult. Sold by G. S.
Osborne. dc-3l
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Mech
entertained MIR and Mrs. j r.
Mclaughlin and Rev. and Mrs.
Dack at dinner yesterday.
MIR. and Mrs Harry Rainbow
were the guess of their sor
Charley in On sha yesterday.
Sister Oc'avia and Sister Ed
munda are in this city for a few
days visit with their mother
Mr.; C. Burke.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

C. C. Miller of Kaukauna.
Wis, spent Thanksgiving in
this city the guest of the Briggs
families.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

F L. Davis was an Omaha
passenger this morning.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

" ,ses Alien, johnson and
w GER ate in Omaha TODAY.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

Miss Edna Hoover, of Carroll,
is the guest of Miss Bonnie Nc
Leod for a few days.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

The Southwestern Iowa Hor-
ticultural Society will hold
their thirty seventh annual
session at Woodbine on Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday.
Dec. SCI.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

Mrs. E. j. Gaver entertained
16 at dinner Yesterday.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Nichols
were called to Farmec City ILL.,,
yesterday on account Of the
serious illness of Mr.. Nichols
father.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
House Party

The following young ladies left
for Onawa last evening: Hazel
Briggs, Alice '''eebee, Fern
Owen. Marguerite Ryers, where
they will join the crowd to at
tend the several davs' House
party given by Miss lila Terry,
of OnaWa.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07

Mr. and Mrs Harry Wunders
OF Clarkson Wash. are the
proud parents of a son born
Yesterday. Mrs Wunders was
formerly Miss Lulu Williams
of this city and &c. C." has a
smile that won't come off,
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-12-07
Frank Kinds left, for Wood
lawn Ill.,, today.

Mr.. AMI Mrs. D. lien of Lin.
coin ate turkey h Mr. and
Mrs. NJ D My, returning
home tnt. ~
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-03-31
Morse Must Stay Behind Bars.

Morse Must Stay Behind Bars.
From sources close to the president
it was learned that the pardon appeals
of the bankers, Charles w. Morse, o!
New York, and John r. Walsh, of Chi
cago, undoubtedly will be denied
1t is stated that the attorney gen.
erals recommendation in both cases
is adverse and that the president will
follow it's findings.
Various reports as to the recommen-
dations of the attorney general have
been current, and two weeks ago it
was rumored that Morse was to be
pardoned.
This report was without foundation,
for even friends of the banker had not
expected anything better than a com
mutation.
1t is said that the president will
even deny a communication.
Reports that Mr.. Morse is in a
critical condition in the Atlanta peni,
tentiary are without foundation, ac-
cording to an unofficial statement by
the department Of justice.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-03-31
fLAN TO PROBE
COAL COMBINE.
Resolution in Legislature Calls
For Investigat
QUESTION OF FREIGHT RATES

Committee to Be Directed to Inquire
Into Cost of Mining and Transport
ina Anthracite and Other High
Prices.
A resolution introduced in the Penn
sylvania legislature provides for a
sweeping investigation of the anthra-
cite coal industry of Pennsylvania
and to frame laws to reduce the price
of coal.
AS an indication that the proposed
investigation will be thorough COM
mittee is empowered to inquire into
relations between mining and trans
portation companies and great bank
ing houses, which are said to be close
ly affiliated with them, and which
usually conduct their financial oper-
ations.
The resolution, which is understood
to have the approval of the Republi-
can leaders, gives the committee pow
er especially to investigate freight
rates, 1t being alleged that rates for
anthracite are much higher than those
for bituminous coal
In the preamble it is said that the
excessive cost of transporting and
handling anthracite is due, in part at
least, to Large fees and commissions
paid by transportation companies to
bankers to negotiate the sale of their
securities and for loans of money"
And also to excessive fees, COM
missions and other charges paid to
brokers, commission agents, sales
agents, factors and middlemen."
The committee is directed to IL
of mining and transporting anthracite
and the proportion paid to labor
This with a view to determine
whether the transportation rates for
hard coal are excessive as compared
with rates charged for bituminous
and other commodities for equal dis
tances.
Also whether the cost of anthracite
to the consumer is in any measure
due to 'usurious fees and commissions
paid by the transportation companies
to private and other bankers who are
in the directorate of or are closely
affiliated with such transportation
companies" for negotiation of securi-
ties.
The committee is also further to
Enquire into the relation of private
and other bankers, brokers, factors
and agents who are in the directorate
of the anthracite coal carrying COM
panies to the mining and sale of an
thracite COAL
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-03-31
Il VIII Come Inside Of Month,
R5v0IutIOniSt Says.
EIsz WILL SOON RESIGN
Declares He Will Hold Office Until
Reforms Are Put In Force-Peace
Conference Arranged.

Francis l. Madero, Sr., father Of
the provisional president of Mexico,
has arrived in San Antonio, Texas,
with his son, Gustavo, straight from
New York, and he has announced
that by arrangements which had been
concluded between himself and Jose
Yves Limantour in New York definite
measures of peace between the insur-
rectos and the Diaz government in
Mexico were in process of being for
mulated. He even allowed himself to
prophesy that within thirty days there
would be peace over the entire terri
tory of Mexivo and without the inter
vention OF American troops. He also
said that President Diaz would re-
sign with 4 few months.
There will be a peace conference
held within the next few days. pos
sibly in San Antonio, although it may
be held in Mexico" he said. Il do not
know yet who will be the representa-
tives of the Mexican government"
Francisco Madero, Sr., Alfonso Ma
dero and Gustave Madero will be the
representatives of the revolutionary
party at this conference, it was said
at the revolutionary junta.
This is part of the program of
conciliation that Francisco Madero
outlined as the basis of the reconcilia-
tion between the revolutionists and
the federal government:
There will be no armistice between
the Maderoists in the field and the fed
eral troops opposing them during the
time that whatever negotiations now
contemplated may be in the making.
Under no conditions will the reb
els lay down their arms. They will
simply guarantee to disperse upon the
conclusion of final treaty, each man
carrying his arms to his home.
peace will not become fact un
less two things are guaranteed:
"A free election and the incorpora-
ton in the national constitution of a
law prohibiting the reelection of all
government officers.
Certain changes in the newly ap-
pointed cabinet, looking toward the
inclusion therein of men who are
known not to be allied with the old
Diaz regime, must be one of the con-
ditions established before the revolu-
ton shall come to an end.
Francisco Madero, Sr., said that
President Diaz would probably con-
tinue to hold his Office for few
months longer while some reforms
agreed to by the new cabinet are be-
ing put in force.
In the meantime, said Senor Ma
dero, the resignation of Vice Presi-
dent Corral will be received by the
Mexican congress shortly after it
meets next Saturday. This, he said,
will leave Scnor de la Barra as min
lister of foreign affairs, next in line
for the presidency, but Senor de la
Barra and the Mexican congre will
take steps to have another election
for president held.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-03-31

&. 6 b, {, -; q
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1911-03-31

The new secretary to the speaker
o fthe house of representatives is to
be Wallace Bassford, a former Kansas
City, Mo-, newspaper man.
Mr.. Bassford has been Champ
Clark's private secretary for more than
ten years and has taken most of the
burden OF managing Representative
Clark's campaigns.
Should the boom for Mr.. Clark for
president be carried to successful
end Mir. Bassford will be secretary to
the president.