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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21
Latest Luxury Is Boarding Place
for Stylish Cats.
euffalo Woman Makes Specially q
Caring for Handsome Persian
and short-Haired AnGoras
"A Beautiful Animal.

Buffalo. N. Y.-Greenhouse for cats
are the latest thing in winter quar-
tiers supplied by the mistress of the
cats boarding house on Hoyt street.
who believes In furnishing her board
ers with a sun parlor as well a. with
sleeping and eating apartments.
Heavy builders paper and tar paper
line the rear wall and part Of the
roof of this new winter runway, but
the remainder IL glass. secured from
a florist, who has retired from bust
ness. Those interested In improving
the coats of their prize Angoras
should see these fourteen good-tem
pered cats frisking around in the al
most wintry sunshine. their fur grow
ing thicker and inner and glossier
every day.
Whenever the wind blows too nip
pingly, every cat retreats to the shell
ter of the house. which has been
freshly lined with builders paper, and
has piles of straw to burrow in. Ev
cry cat In the establishment is 9
handsome Persian except the foul
short-haired cats, who have Travelled
from the ends of the earth. and wht
will leave the boarding house to re
sumo their travels shortly.
Although the Angoras are a lordiy
lot, and come to the boarding house
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21

These are the days for sausage.
There is no use for person to stick
I'D his nose at sausage, for sausage
is good when it is made right. 1t Is
the response of the food world to the
polar breeze that blows through the
morning. 1t is as sweet as q plate
of strawberries on a mild June day.
But 1t must be made right Good sau-
sage is an art product 1t Is made
up Of judgment, taste and skill. 1t Ia
Q combination Of ingredients that cor.
relate with one another as the fra
GRANGE and the blush Of the rose. The
butcher doesn't understand this. Gen
orally he throws in some scraps and
odds and ends, and especially the odds
dabs of some salt, pepper and sage
grinds 1t out, and the conhding Gus
toner buys 1t because 1t is sausage
says the Ohio State Journal. He does
like 1t very well. but he eats 1t
and everything goes. The 9th
or day we saw customer in mea
shop direct the making Of his owl
sausage. He selected the meat. simon
pure cuts OFF the best parts. had !
ground and took it home to season |
there. That man knows how to taxi
care of himself. He knows art from
q bulls foot. He appreciates tn
true sentiment of sausage.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21

lowed to remain about the bone after
healing, give no Inconvenience in after
life"
The operation at Tristan da Cunha
was carried out by A. Repello. who
conducts the church services and per
forms other functions for tho ninety
nine inhabitants. He writes: "A child
was injured by a stone coming down
the hillside and falling upon her legs.
breaking both of them and making
four very bad wounds, which got full
of sand. i attended the child for
nearly three months and suppose II
will be two more months before the
wounds are healed.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21
cockNEY AS A DIALECT.

The efforts OF the London county
council to drive out the Cockney
speech from the schools OF the english
metropolis hardly needed the opposi'
ton given In a book recently issued In
defense of the dialect This book, which
is. curiously enough, the work OF man
named Mackenzie MacBride. contends
that Cockney is no modern dialect. but
that II possesses an ancient and hon
orable lineage running back nearly
1000 years. When one born within
sound of Bow Bells says tibet" Tor
shat" 'benk" for bank" and by
Iyffe" for "bailiff." he is using no mod
ern corruption of the English Ian
guage, but the pronunciation OF those
words which has obtained not only In
London, but In Kent and Surrey Tor
hundreds of years. Moreover. In an
cient times, the words were spelled as
the Cockney now sounds them So
too. are "abaht" and 'ahtside" just
fed for about" and outside" accord
ing to Mr.. MacBride. He says tna'
many Londoners have been laughed OUT
of these ancient pronunciations. and
he advises them not to change tneii
speech, because of outside pre1udices
against it, says the Chicago Tribune
Certainly Cockney would seem to be
dialect or II would not have survived
for so many centuries in the midst OF
speech which calls itself more cui
tured. 1t is a curious fact that II
the Bahama islands. which were set
tied more than 200 years ago by Lon
doners, the Cockney dialect is al
strong as in Cheapside.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21
Good
Reason for
Saving
Some of
Income
By H. w. HAYWARD

wa NV being unquesoned that time able
my wants. charge accounts and while not making habit
by any means did things halfway to regret
harder still living the careless for what had
purchased, than to get the charge account
consequently in debt when married. and in fact married
when her work would have made
and physical wreck of my wife
the added burden Of supporting two and main
tanning household
But OH feelings that have possessed at times when pressed
for money by those to whom in debt
As am honest day long, words express
those feelings.
Suffice say instead Of being happy lark which
would debt today troubled spirit and Departing
and discouraged
My save Spare the dollars would spend
less ways yourself the feelings that attend the position of the
young who writes this.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21
To Appease ~cow souls."

Seattle, Wash. = Steamer advices
tell Of the ceremony of the beef soul
celebration" recently in Tokyo. for
the purpose Of appeasing the souls Of
thousands of COWS and oxen killed dur
ing the recent war to supply the army
In Manchuria- 1t was estimated 100
day were killed A monument was
erected ito prevent the souls Of those
slaughtered animals rising IN retribu-
ton against the butchers."
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21
Grandmother Uses OId-F fashioned
Remedies, but They FaiI-Doctor
Scores "Soother."

Chicago.-"Dressing and Feeding q
Baby" lecture by DR.. Lena X. Sad
Ter. was interrupted at the public IL
brary the other night when an infant.
used to demonstrate the talk, was
seized with an attack of the collie.
It's grandmother then refused advice
from the physician. Old-fashioned
cure-alls were used by the grandpar>
ent. despite the circumstances Of the
doctor. After these failed little hot
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21

Il was in great diN1eufty at first,
as had to operate on one Of the feet,
part Of which l had to remove. includ-
ing two toes. ] have no surgical In
struments. All had was a little cot
ton wool and little lint my instru-
msnts consisting Of pair of scissors
and a pocket knife. But thank heav-
en-. she improved wonderfully.
III things were a. they used to Be
when Z British warship periodically
visited the island, should be pro
vidsd with all the necessary thingl,
but now We have not that privilege.
But hope better times are In store
for u.s.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21
Small
DANGER of
Aviation
Becoming
Common
By TX. MooREHOUsE
New York

improvement machines in months and though do not to
assert that reached it in the nature of things
that any very great development take place
The bird themselves will tell you that the passengerayng
proposition fancu OF people be carried but
remember 50hospowe engine to lift only couple
Of men, and they must not be heavyweights
something radically in the Of motor is devised
no single machine carry odoned
stage coach
Another point Have you noticed that the pion the original
demonstrators have quit game far flying
cerned.
They are still it. yes they hire others to perform and look
inc only to the commercial side Of the business
1t magnificent truly, and let hope that will get
be quite as and uttaran the automobile pastme
but this I am afraid, viii never Be.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21

Until these clinics are an estabIlshed TACT III
every large city what would you prescribe Tor
nervous people who might have tendencies toward
insanityT
'First Of all, the advice of good physician, who
would naturally prescribe regular hours, an even,
everyday life and plenty Of exercise in the open air.
in addition to any medicines which he may suggest
These are the essentials for people to follow
in their daily life if they wish to ward of insanity"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21

Abdul Hamed. former sultan OF Tur
key. is reported to be happy and grow.
ing fat. Certain middle-aged ladies
viii wonder how anybody who is
growing f.. can possibly bs happy.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21

We are glad to have that newspa.
per clipping giving the information
that flies will not alight on picture
frames If you Keep them well rubbed
with oil" but it would be just like Us
to lose it before next summer.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21

I attended several of the great aviation
meets in France and on the continent, and
my conclusion based on study and CONVEX
sation with the foreign experts is that
there is not the remotest likelihood that
the average everyday citizen will ever
journey through the air.
The talk Of reducing aerial transit to
commonplace basis, where the generality
Of the population can make safe and rapid
voyages via the aeroplane, has few sponsors
among the candid and scientific men,
The thing is simply not feasible and
never will be. There has been really no
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21

To the young men who happen to read
these lines 1 have few words, which, L
believe, are well worth their attention.
They are: No matter what your income,
save little.
My present feelings, as I write this
would not be with me now, had l saved a
little each week. each month, each year..
Always earning good monthly salary, I
always spent it, not in riotous living, but
carelessly and foolishly, for things I could
well have done without and from which /
received no returns whatever.
This kind of living led me into careless
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21
Alcohol Easily
Holds Place
at Top
Insanity
Causes
By DIR. h. H. CowLEY

"A
"a you take the necessary amount of food? Ii SO,
your family physician Nervousness of the three
4 = - prime of insanity.
HRH1 DR. Walter Of New York, who passes upon
AAl condition of many in the course OF his
ka lunacy proceedings has made close
H leading insanity and places alcoholism
& ID at the head of the list
"Relabe statistics from all the civilized world, ne
said the exciting of insanity In from 10 TO
out of five or SIX persons
have been put there not Tor
drink"
frequency OF insanity cannot be acu
of the great difficulty obtaining acu
data for statistics but Dr. Seward expressed the OPINION that sucn
they would be large Insanity brought about by
overwo develops overconienou overambous persons VINO
both ends and reduce themselves to condition OF
Recovery uncertain and conaence
slow and tedious
any provision being present for this class OF PATIENTS
simply the verge of collapsed was asked
"There seems to tendency establish clinics particularly
Hopkins hospital Baltimore for the care
Of commencing with view toward preventing insanity ID
Europe existence for time and the
results have been most gratifying"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-01-21
German Has a Talking Dog

il his plea is unanswered he adds
"Hunser!" with a long drawn empha-
sis on the last syllable.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-03-30
CONSENT PETITION UPHELD
JUDGE SAYS YOU CAN WITH
DRAW FROM WITHDRAWAL
MisspeIIing of Names On Poll Books
Does Not invalidste
Signatures.

Fort Dodge, Ia, March 2S.-Special:
In a ruling filed at Z O'Clock last even
ing by Judge c. G.. Lee, the district
court overruled the board of super
visors, and declared the mulct petit
ton of consent sufficient.
Seventy-nine Withdrawals of the
Withdrawals rejected by the supervis-
Ors were held good by Judge Lee,who
in his decision declared they were
filed before the Withdrawals from the
statement of consent were consider
ed, therefore invalidated the with
drawals from the statement. The
number of legal, valid signatures on
the statement were declared by the
court to be 1863. The supervisors
declared the number only 95S. The
number necessary to make the state
ment sufficient was 1,017. AS filed
by the saloon men. the statement
bore 1,09S signatures.
One of the important rulings of the
court is that misspelling names on
poll books so that they do not coin
eide with signatures on statement of
consent does not invalidate the lat
ter.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-03-30
EDDYV|LLEETCH|NGS
SCHOOLS ARE HAVING VACATION
ENTERTAINMENT AT Nj. e.
CHuRCH-SERIES OF MEETINGS
AT BAPTIST CHURCH..

Eddyville, March %. - The pub
schools of EddyvilIe closed Friday for
the usual spring vacation.
VIM. Edwards is moving this week
to the Gallagher farm east of Eddy,
vile. Bob Clark and family moved
Thursday from the Kussart property
to the Spencer property on Fourth
street.
Fac Watkins, Zoe Decker and Elsie
Watkins are visiting friends in OF.
tumwa this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dougherty, of Nc,
Cracker, Kansas. are visiting at the
j. B. Lee and Briggs homes.
Henry MahOney, of Webster City is
visiting his grandmother, Mrs. NJ. j.
Criswell, and other relatives.
Mrs. Al Mater and Mrs. VIM. Long
attended the funeral OF MI. Cruik
shank in OskaloOsa Thursday. Mr.
Cruikshank was formerly pit boss al
Coalfield and was well known in this
vicinity.
Miss Eta Hobson and Mrs. Me-
Stump were business callers in Abba
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Baumgartner, of OF
ley, are moving this week into the
tenant property of Mrs. Criswell in
the north part of Eddyyille
J. X. Sipes was in Oskaloosa Friday
ATTENDING meeting of the Loyal Or.
der Of Moose which he recently join.
cd.
The Old Southland Sextette will
give an entertainment at the NJ e.
church Friday evening.
Rev Warren Smith, Of Little York
Illinois. will open a series of meetings
Sunday at the Baptist church.
II. ID. Wormhoudt, Of Pella trans.
acted business in EddyviIle Wednes.
day and visited at the home of his
brother, l. A. Wormhoudt.
Miss Mary Schafer, who has been
spending the winter with relatives at
Los Angeles. returned home Friday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs Washington
Snyder, Friday, March "a, 1911. son.
G. e. Billick, of Oskaloosa, was a
business caller in Eddyville Friday.
Miss Virgie Beedle entertained the
pupils OF the fifth room Thursday ev.
ening at the home of DIR. Shahan. A
delightful evening was spent by all
present
Gervais Fails, OF Spencer, la, is yis-
iting his many friends in Eddyville
this Week.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-03-30

county, and the lowest monthly mean.
20.4 degrees, at Sibley, 0sceola coun-
ty. The highest temperature report
ed was II degrees, at keokuk, Lee
county, on the list; the lowest tenn
perature reported was-13 degrees,at
Fayette, Fayette county,and at Wash
ia. Cherokee county, on the 10th. The
average monthly maximum was 81 de-
grees, and the average monthly mini
mum was = degrees. The greatest
daily range was 81 degrees, at Iowa
Falls, Hardin county. The average
of the greatest daily ranges was 3s
degrees.
The average precipitation for the
state was 2.76 inches. which is ITO
inches above the normal. The great
est amount, $40 inches, occurred at
Lacona. Warren county, and the least
O.5O inches, at Rock Rapids, Lyon
county. The greatest amount in
twenty-four hours, $50 inches, occur
red at Ottumwa, Wapello county, on
the 18th. Measurable precipitation
occurred on an average of days.
The average depth of unmelted
Snowfall was 10 inches. The great.
est depth was at Sioux City, Wood
bury county, 1872 inches; and the
least repth was at Rock Rapids, Lyon
county, 10 inch.
The average number of clear days
was IL; partly cloudy, 6; cloudy, 10.
The duration of sunshine was below
the normal, the percentage of the
possible amount being "a at Charles
City; so at Davenport; As at Des
Moines; As at Dubuque; AZ at Keo-
kuk; and 56 at Sioux City.
Northwest winds prevailed The
highest velocity reported was 81 miles
per hour from the northwestern Sioux
City, Woodbury. county. on the LIST.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-03-30
LARGER YIELD OF CORN.

The necessity of testing seed corn
lis pretty well understood and prac.
ticed by our farmers, but there are
other elements entering into a good
stand of corn that are not generally
understood H. NJ. Cottrell, the Ag-
ricultural Commissioner of the Rock
Island lines, calls attention to these
things in recent article, in which
he in part says:
THE first step in securing large
yield is to select prolific strain
adapted to the farm. Each locality
demands some differences in type.
There are three distinct belts for
growing corn in Iowa alone and corn
well adapted to the southern belt
cannot be grown profitably in the
northern part of that state. Every
section has it's own particular type,
and to secure the largest yields, the
crop must be grown from acclimated
seed. Not only do different states
require different types of corn, but
often adjoining counties need differ
grown on bottom land is usually not
suitable to planting on upland. Where
home grown seed from high yielding
strains can be secured, it is always
to be preferred to seed grown in an
other locality -.It-is sometimes neces-
sary. in order to get high yielding
strains, to send off for seed, but in
such cases only a small amount
should be purchased and a limited
area only planted, until the strain be-
comes acclimated, which usually
takes from two to three years.
Pure bred seed from prolific
strain only should be used. The writ.
er recently saw ra2or-back pig, four
years old, that had had good feed for
four years and weighed eighty-tive
pounds. In the same yard were
old pure-bred pigs that
averaged 800 pounds each. There is
just as much difference between scrub
and pure-bred corn as there is be-
tween razorback and pure-bred hogs.
There is too great a proportion of
razorback seed corn used. If the corn
grower does not know what is the
best variety for his farm, he should
ask his Experiment Station.
THE greatest defect of Iowa corn
is immaturity and, therefore, poor
shipping quality. The first week in
DECEMBER, 1910, most of the corn Of
tered in this state to the markets con-
tained 20 per cent of moisture and
as high as q per cent,
while corn suitable for export should
contain u to Is per cent moisture.
The proportion of immature corn
produced in Iowa has been increasing
steadily from year TO year, due to
two causes; the general selection of
varieties too large to mature before
frost, and the lack of fall blowing and
of rotation with clover. Fall blowing
and clover sod force the growth of
corn to such an extent as TO practi-
cally increase the growing season
from two to four weeks, and when
most of the corn acreage of the state
is grown under these two conditions
the yield per acre will be largely in
creased and the quality greatly i'm.
proved"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-03-30
Ford Elected in #. Dodqc.

Fort Dodge, Mar. 2S.-Special: By
a majority of S2l J. r. Ford defeated
J. b. Butler for the mayoralty under
the commission plan of government,
which goes into effect April l. The
election was the most bitterly con-
tested of any in twenty-five years.
The Business Mems association,
which supported Ford, was declared
by the citizens league committee to
be made up of the saloon element.
The business mems organization de-
clared it stood for progress only. A
mountaineering vote of 2,706 was
cast, beating the previous record of
2,36S votes pOlled at The primaries
two weeks ago.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-03-30

Though it had been commonly
supposed that death marks the end
of human conduct which can give
rise to legal liability. counsel in a
Missouri case QSS) Southwestern
Reporter, 1881 attempted to hold a
decedent's estate on the theory that,
by permitting" an undertaken to
take possession of his remains, de-
cedent broke contract whereby he
had engaged plaintiff to procure ere
nation of the remains. A precedent
for the unsuccessful contention
might have been found in the Texas
case where corpse on which were
found $40 and pistol was fined the
$40 for carrying concealed weapon.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-03-30
FEBRUARY IN IOWA.

February 1911 was the wettest one
on record since statewide observa-
tons began in 1890 and the warmest
with but two exceptions since that
time. The average precipitation, ZIG
inches, was 10 inches above the
normal for the month and the aver
age temperature, 273 degrees was 81
degrees above the normal The next
greatest precipitation was 1.69 inches
in 1908. In 1892 the mean tempera-
ture was ISL degrees and in 1896 it
was 27.4 degrees. The most notable
characteristics of the month were the
heavy snow storm on the 9Th; the
heavy rains between the 18th and
18th: the long period of excessive
.cloudineSs between the 18th and 18th.
and the absence OF severely cold
weather. There were but few cold
days, and those were not extremely
so. as zero temperatures did not OBJ
tain over the southern half OF the
state, except ON one or two days and
then only on the high ground be-
tween the rivers. The coolest days
were the I'd. 80, 9Th to 10th, and the
2ist and I'D; the lowest temperature
reported being u degrees below zero
on the 10th. The maximum temper
atures were not exceptionally high
but they averaged considerably above
the normal.
The monthly mean temperature for
the state was 1913 degrees, which is
81 degrees above the normal for
Iowa. The highest monthly mean
was 34.6 degrees, at Keokuk, Lee
The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-03-30
First Commission Plan.

Marshalltown, Mar. 2S.-Special:
In the first election under the COM
mission form of government w. H..
Jones was elected mayor by a ma
jority of 1874 over Joseph Mohr, So
cialist, running on the union labor
ticket. A total of 3,106 votes were
cast. The real contest was between
the "wets" and "drys," and the sa-
loonists announced that they would
begin the circulation of petition of
consent this week
The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-03-30
Gesman at PeIla.

PelIa, Mar. 2S.-Special: The city
election resulted in the election of "A
mixed ticket Of democrats and re-
pubicans as follows: Mayor, Nick
Gesman, democrat; treasurer Van
Derlinden, republican; assessor. Kim
mel, republican; five democratic
councilmen and one republican. The
election was closer than usual on ac-
count of the split in the democratic
caucus, the opposition to the present
mayor being result of his opposing
saloons.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-03-30
City Takes Over Hospital.

Grinnell, Mar. 2S.-Special: J. Ii.
Patton, republican, was elected may
or by majority of over 200 over +.
M. Card, democrat The council,
which is republican, is composed of
FL. G. Lyman, J. +. Bailey, j. G..
Dreamer and A. McBlaih. The pro-
position that the city take charge Of
the Grinnell hospital, private insti.
tuition, carried by a large majority,
and a 3 mill tax levy for the support
of the hospital also was carried.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-03-30
Iowa CITY Democratic.

Iowa City, Mar. 2S.-Special: Iowa
City went democratic overwhelming
ly, the Hon. George w. Koontz, a
member of the Iowa legislature, be-
ing elected mayor by 100 majority,
the largest majority of either party
in the history of the city. The entire
democratic ticket was elected except
one alderman, leaving the city cOun.
Gil six to one democratic. Party lines
largely were oblterated in the fight
of the "wets" and "drys," the "wets"
winning.