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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26
BENTON SPORT
bIRDS WON OUT

The highest scoring pen of chickens
in the Ottumwa Poultry association
show was owned by E. E. Van Zant of
Bentonsporte, who was yesterday ad-
vised that his birds won the handsome
trophy offered by the association for
the best birds shown. Mr.. Van Zant
entered five white leghons, and none
of them scored below "a. His highest
bird was 951s and this topped all other
competitors. The pen, composed of the
five chickens entered by Mr.. Van Zant
were given mark of 1873 3-16, less the
two points handicap that goes with all
white birds. -..
The Ottumwa Poultry association
show closed last night. Today is be-
in spent by the various exhibitors
getting their birds to their farms. The
success of the exhibit from the stand
point of birds shown was all that could
be expected. but the financial end of
the proposition has not yet been def
nitely ascert aimed There We're a
total of 5S4 birds entered and there
were not ~nough ribbons TO go around.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26
ARGUMENTS FOR HEAI''
sl BUREAU.

The educational value OF ZIG July
tins issued by the department Oh as
culture. which has been generally
recognized. is advanced by the journal
8of the American Medical association
\ a an argument in favor of govern,
mant bureau of health. The journal
revtaws some OF the recent pupilca-
tions issued by the agricultural ae-
nartment as an evidence OF the mani
fold activities Of the agricultural eS'
merits and their intimate contact Win
the daily lives and needs OF our 1arm-
inr incubation. These bulletins con-
tain the observations and conclusions
~ axnerts on q variety OF topics ana
render valuable service to the farmer.
enc one complains that the govern
mant is exceeding its functions" the
Medical Journal observes. "or that the
incarnation and distribution OF these
pamphlets in any way interfere with
relieious or civic liberty. Yet the
scfentific facts on which these pam
nhIats are based are exactly the same
: Z those which form the foundation OF
our present knowledge of disease
Chemistry is responsible for our
knowledge of the human body and the
way III which it works." the Journal
continues "The same chemistry Is
the basis of soil analysis and modern
methods of fertilizing. Bacterlology'
which gives the farmer information re-
garding cheese, fermentation and the
diseases of animal and plant life, Is
4 lie source of our knowledge regarding
fufeventable diseases of man. If the
federal government can analyze the
soil OF jackson county, Alamaba, and
issue q report. on the conditions which
1t finds, why can it not inspect the
physical condition of the citizens or
Jackson county and report on the
ayoidable diseases which prevail there
and the best means Of preventing
them? II the government can publish
! report on the bacteriology OF ched-
dar cheese, why can it not inform the
people regarding the bacter1ology OF
typhoid, fever or cerebrospinal men
ingitil. II the preparation Of bull
letin on forest fires is a proper govern
ment function, why is not bulletin
On epid emicsof diphtheria, their causes,
extent and prevention, also a
legitimate activity Of the govern
ment
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26
Stories About People.
He Was 4 Good Sleeper.

The lawyers got Tartar when, in
a recent trial in a southern city they
summoned an aged darby who had
been an eyewitness of fight that
had occurred between number OF
persons.
TELL us what you know about this
fight" said counsel, when Nose had
been placed upon the stand.
"Fight?" asked Nose, apparently
greatly surprised. what fight?"
"You know very we'll what fight is
meant?" said counsel. TELL us about
It," .-..' ..,
II don't know nothin' about no
fight" insisted the witness. What
WAS it,"
"see, here, Nose" exclaimed the
lawyer, mo trifling! The fight day
before yesterday. You know all about
1t. Tell us" .. ..r...a..
ooh, de fight day befo' yesterday
said Moses. well, sub, you see Use
slept since de day befo' yesterday, an
I never kin rickollect anything after
Use been asleep" ..... .
And that was all they could get
from h,m.-The Green Bag. g.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26
WIDE TIRES AND GOOD ROADS.

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil brings
up one phase OF the good roads ques-
ton which has at different times re-
ceiyed attention in these columns.
That is the value Of wide tires as
conserver Of horse power and as
factor in road maintenance. The
Nonpareil insists that no good roads
program will be complete In Iowa that
does not provide some plan for chang
ing the present narrow tired wagons
to those carrying at least four inch
tires. Recent exhaustive tests made
by the government are reviewed. In
these tests tires Of all widths were
tested in every conceivable manner
and four inch widths were finally Sc
lected as the most economical. Dis
GUESSING the question Of wide tires in
its relation to the proposed good roads
program in Iowa the Nonpareil says:
"The tires in use on Iowa wagons
range In width from one and one-half
inches to one and Ave eighths. A
wagon equipped with these tires load
ed with 1000 brick means a pressure
per square inch on the road of 500
pounds. The same load on four inch
tire would mean pressure OF 200
pounds per square inch. The heaviest
road rollers average about 1870 pounds
per square inch on the road surface.
Any scheme Of road work must nee
essarily mean the expenditure Of a
considerable sum of maintenance.
Narrow tires impair the roads during
good portion of the year and, there
fore, make necessary the expenditure
Of more money for maintenance than
would otherwise be necessary. And to
lust this extent the sum available for
permanent construction is lessened. In
other words, we are spending a lot Of
money for repair work that could be
saved II we changed our narrow tired
wagons for standard four inch tires.
And, IN view of the fact that govern
mental experiment has demonstrated
that the four inch tire is conserver
Of horse power, and we know that it Is
1 cOnserver Of roads there ought to
be no very strenuous objection to
changing to wide tires" I'D.
The Nonpsrei1 quotes Col. W. F..
Baker OF Council Bluffs, who has been
talking wide tires for years, as saying
that 1t costs somewhere from $12 to
SIS to equip narrow tired wagon with
wider tires. Col. Baker suggests some
form Of tax or tax exemption to en-
courage the changing of wagons now
IA use to wide tires as we'll as to en-
courage the selection of wider tires by
those who purchase new wagons.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26
WILSON'S GIBBET.

New York Tribune: gibbet for a
man who would start panic? No,
Governor Wilson. A gibbet, literal or
metaphorical, is entirely inadequate.
If the president-elect Is a statesman
he will do something better than tie
hangman's nooses. The country re-
quires not punishment Of the starting
Of panics so much as prevention of
the starting Of panics. II Governor
Wilson really believes that there Is
danger of one mans starting panic
he owes it to the American people to
devote his administration not to glib
bet building, but to bringing about
changes in the law or it's administra-
ton which will take away from one
man that vast power over the pros
perity of the entire people. But If
Governor Wilson does not really be-
lieve that there ls danger of one
mans deliberately causing panic he
had better stop suggesting that he
does. Bryan is a problem to the pres.
ident-elect. But he cannot solve that
problem with any credit to himself
or any advantage to the country by
trying to outbid the Nebraska agi-
tator.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26

to the fullest extent the opportunity it
offers
The president intimated that sue,
cess upon the farm leads to political
preferment and public honors as sure
ly as does any other road. and he
pointed out the importance Of the
farmer in our scheme Of life and the
satisfaction to be derived from life
devoted to farming.
That is the sort of advice which is
needed. The back to the farm" move
ment is good. What is more important
however. is "stay on the farm move,
ment.' There would be farmers
enough if it were not for the lure of
the city that draws the farm boys
away from the soil.
Farm boys should stay upon the
farm, where they will not only be
more successful themselves but will
be of greater aid to the nation.
These are the days of great rewards
to the farmer who will learn his bust
ness and follow modern scientific
methods.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26
CHAPTER XVI.
The Call of the Queen.

The Call OF the queen. 10
Camels on sunlit sand-and at q
respectable distance-are, think, al
ways decorative From an artistic
point OF view it is always advisable
to keep them there-namely, on sand
and at distance, because nearness to
the workaday camel quite takes the
enchantment from the view Of him.
To begin with, he is NANCY from his
hurricane deck to his big splay feet
that ought to be covered with hair, he
wears nine square inches bald. He
emits evil noises and an evil smell
He wears camel ticks about his per
son which he shares with any one who
comes near him, and they subsequent
ly have to be removed from ones
body by minor surgical operation
When he bites-which he does with
his lips. not teeth--the effect is very
much the same as having ones fin
gers slammed into the hinge-side OF
a railway carriage door. g..
He is as ungrateful as Greek, and
as treacherous as an Armenian. A
horse will not drink after him; sheep
avoid the pasture he has soiled; and
even jackal will not eat him when he
is dead II there is any other carrfon
within reach. Also he is the only
possible beast of burden for many
thousand square miles Of this imper
feet earth's surface.
The camels tipped out from behind
a dune, with nodding heads and ridicu
lous necks, and swung down to the
beach opposite the rusted Norman
Towers, and then held along the hard
sand northward. Some had riders
some carried bales. and two wore hood
shaped tits, bright with blue and REQ
draperies.
1.-THE ladies will be inside those
covered ntraptions.' Sir George ex
planned.
How CHASTITY hot they must be
poor dears," said his sister. Those
coverings look like carpet"
They are carpet" said the saint
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26

pesered him both fore and att and raised large bumps
on his physique. His time fully taken up in in
sructing people how to his name so that 1t
wouldn't sound like explosion in pop factory that
he didn't find what he came after, and he returned
home in a very dsgruntled and flea-bitten state.
Precisely - years ago this same fountain OF eternal
youth discovered and patented for three genera
tions by Lillian Russell Being perfect gentleman We
do not give the date Of this discovery Besides,
Miss Russell has recently married athletic and high
tempered citizen of Pittsburgh who conceals punch in
ohef hand Miss Russes age is nobodys business but
her husbands aud If he is reconced to it. why should
repine?
Miss Russell is natural beauty with complexion
which is guaranteed to stand in any climate. This
complexion does look day older than the
.r44 La, ,,,ilin AIirsR alc
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26
From all outward appearances OF

From all outward appearances Of
tumwa merchants are enjoying the
best holiday business in the city's
history. The trains are crowded with
people from the surrounding towns
and country. Ottumwa people We're
early shoppers and heavy buyers. The
ideal December weather has been an
advantage II the merchant and shop
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26


up in the morning shop around all day without enough OF
complexion
that does not have to be reNarnished between acts .
OF Miss Russell accommodating wealth
with much that malicious critics refer to her
alone good for $500 week but lately she has been paving
siderable gratifying we'll for
ping against Ptsbugh smoke which
galvanized
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26
THE BOY AND THE FARM

Chicago Inter Ocean: President TAFT
talked to delegation of Ohio boys
who had participated in corn grow
ing contest. They were farm boys and
he recommended to them that they
stay upon the farm and try to utilize
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26
The Advertisements

in the Courier are fresh, live
news OF what the merchants
have to offer you.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26
Sidewalk Sketches
BY Howard L. Ram
WHY WHO'S WHO.


Of the fountain OF
tho ENorda Npper the AVE- ANN rnOSnu
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26

to the fullest extent the opportunity it
offers
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26

1t has been an ideal holiday sea-
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
Resolutions.

At a meeting of the vestry of Trim
ity church held at the rectory on the
9Th of August, the rector and Mr..
F. E. Watson were instructed to pre-
pare a fitting memorial of Mr.. Ed
ward H. Gould, copies of which were
to be sent to his sister, Mrs. Bing-
ham, and to the local papers. In ac-
cordance with the above instructions
the following has been prepared:
Whereas, at the ripe age of 70
years, Edward H. Gould was deliv-
cred from the burden of the flesh
and taken home to God. The of
ficials and members of Trinity
church recognize that in the death
of Mr.. Gould, a devout Christian and
loyal churchman has been taken from
them. And while the church has lost
faithful son, the rector and of.
ficials feel they have lost a warm
personal friend.
And the city of Ashland is the
poorer by the loss of true citizen
who stood for good quality of citi-
zenship. Deeply do we regret oul
loss, at the same time realizing that
his death is but translation from
the church militant to the church tri-
umphant.
May we who are left behind be led
to emulate his good qualities, and
be comforted by the anticipation OF
an eternal reunion in our Fathers
home on high.
Signed in behalf of the vestry by
the following
WILLIAM LUCAS,
r. r.. WATSON.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
OREGON Agricultural COLLEGE

This great institution opens it's
doors for the fall semester on Sep
tember 20. Courses of instruction
include: General Agriculture, Agron-
omy, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Hus-
bandry, Bacteriology, Botany and
Plant Pathology. Poultry Husbandry,
Horticulture, Entomology, Veteri-
nary Science, Civil Engineering,
Electrical Engineering, Mechanical
Engineering, Mining Engineering,
Highway Engineering, Domestic Sci
ence, Domestic Art, Commerce, For
estry, Pharmacy, Zoology, Chemistry,
Physics, Mathematics, English Lam
guage and Literature, Public Speak
ing, Modern Languages, History, Art,
Architecture, Industrial Pedagogy,
Physical Education, Military Science
and Tactics, and Music.
Catalogue and illustrated litera-
ture mailed free on application. Ad-
dress: Registrar, Oregon Agricul-
tural College, Corvallis, Ore.
School Year Opens September 20.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
Meat Prices to Drop Soon.

Omaha, Neb.-The prices of fresh
meats are due to take a tumble, says
President Cudahy of the Cudahy
Packing Company. Cudahy in a
statement said:
Cheaper meats will come, and
come soon, especially cheaper beef.
The season of grass-fed cattle has
arrived, and the heavy run of me-
diumgrade cattle will force prices
down. Pork also will drop, but not
until about January, when there will
be drop of about 10 per cent. By
next summer pork will have dropped
one-third.
This is all due to the tremendous
crops now being harvested in the
west. With so much corn and feed
of every kind meat prices are bounu
to go down"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
Springfield Bank President Dies.

Springfield, Ore, Sept. 5.-J. C.
Brattain, president of the First Ma
tional Bank of Springfield and a
prominent capitalist in this city, died
suddenly at his home at o'clock to-
day aged about Go years. Mr. Brit
tain had been ailing for a few days
but was not considered seriously ILL.,
as he was able to be about the house
Mr.. Britain was a pioneer who came
to Lane county with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Britain, in 1852.
Scale receipts at Tidings office.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
Pink Salmon Crop Entire Failure.

Seattle.-The humpback or pink
salmon, which supplies the cheaper
priced cans sold in the eastern and
southern states, failed to appear
abundantly in Puget Sound this year,
and the humpback pack was only
1000 cases, as against more than
100000 last year In southwest
ern Alaska, also, the late humpback
run did not occur, and the cannery-
men have given up hope. The pink
pack of southeastern Alaska is 200,-
900 cases short.
There is always irregularity in the
movements of the humpback hordes,
but no such crop failure as this
years has ever been known before.
A fish authority says there will be
no cheap canned salmon in the stores
this year. At times this fish has re-
tailed as low as 10 cents a can.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
Rural Mail Carriers Paw Increased.

Washington, Sept. 7,-Under au-
thority conferred by the postoffice
appropriation bill, Postmaster Gen
eral Hitchcock increased today the
salaries of rural letter carriers on
standard routes from $1,000 to
l,lOO year, thus affecting 10000
men, with proportionate increases to
carriers on shorter routes. The or
der is effective September 80. This
will mean an increased disbursement
of $4,O00,006 a year.
1t 1t Is Tidings work it is the best.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09

The Coos Bay Times states that
Mayor Kinney, a townsite promoter
of Marshfield, says that he will
wager $4,000 of Coos Bay property
that the train of another transconti-
METAL railroad will run into Coos Bay
before the Southern Pacific operates
a train there.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
Beaver Realty Company
ASHLAND. OREGON.
gil Il. MAIN ST.
Phones: Pacific 6S, Home 81.

Italian shipbuilders have con-
structed floating dry dock in which
submarine boats can be subjected to
external pressure tests without the
necessity of sinking them into deep
water.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
CLASSIFIED
ADVERTISEMENTS

One cent per word, first insertion;
" cent per word for each insertion
thereafter; 80 words or less 81 per
month. No advertisement inserted
for less than 25 cents.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09

Place for sale? House for rent?
Want anything? A few lines In the
Tidings' want columns will do the
business.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09

FOR SALE-A new horsepower
Flying Merkel motor cycle in per-
feet condition. Cost price, $330.
Will sell for $3.50, equipped. En-
quire or telephone Oakdale Gro
Gerry, Medford, Ore. asst
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09

FOR SALE-Five acres, one mile
from city limits, on Boulevard;
new 7-room plastered house, cleo
trio lights, barn, poultry house,
100 fruit trees, berries, deep well.
$500. l.. Miksch, R. F. D.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09

FOR SALE-Single harness 81 and
up; with collar and names. $40.
Made in Ashland; our own make.
Don't buy factory made harness.
Eastern Supply Co., 104 North
Main Tiff
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09

WANT ADS are little real
estate statesmen. A 50-cent want
ad will put you in touch with
somebody who wants the property
you have for sale. Try it.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
To Exchange

19 acres near city; II acres in al
falfa, acres bearing fruit trees and
berries, balance grain and garden.
For city property.
Groom house, barn, wood house;
good size lot with young fruit trees;
also 160 acres timber. For dairy
ranch.
16 acres in northern California for
acreage in Jackson county.
160 acres in Douglas county; 20
acres in cultivation, balance timber,
about 100000 feet. For city prop
erty.
acres in bearing fruit trees and
berries; good house and barn. A
fine place. Will net 15 per cent on
the investment. Good terms given.
Auto taken as part payment.
40 acres of good timber on upper
Wagner creek, for auto.
1 Y acres at Lemon Grove, near
San Diego, for city lots or small
house and lot.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
See s. L. ALLEN
Phone 10. 63 n. Main st.
Beaver Realty Co.
REAL ESTATE-L0ANS..INSURANCE

For sale-10S-acre hill ranch;
wood enough to pay. for it; house
and barn; 21a miles from railroad
town. $35 per acre.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09
University of Oregon Correspondence School

Offers FREE
the University
NERSITY COURSES MAIL Ability
Courses offered the departments
Education Electricity English Literature English
Mathematics Mechanical Drawing Physical Education Physics Physiology
Psychology Sociology
lOgue.
COURSES IN RESIDENCE the University
Fall
descriptive the College
Schools of Education
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09

Telephone your social items to
Miss Hawley between 8 a. m. and 4
p. m. each day. Call phone 80.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09

ders', or E. E. Bagley, 141 High
St 25-tf
FOR SALE-Petite prunes and
Crawford peaches, fine for can
ming; also canned peaches, black
berries, Strawberries, beans, apple
jelly, sweet beet pickles, apricot
jam, sweet pickles and cherries.
Also clear cider vinegar, made
from washed, wormless apples.
Brown bungalow east side Walker
avenue, south of Boulevard. K.
M Hedges, R. F. d. 3S. 27-1mo.
FOR EXCHANGGE-Good canning
peaches, ripening from now until
the middle of October, to exchange
for ounces, ripe or green toma-
toes, small cucumbers, cabbage,
sweet corn, Damson plums, onions,
pears or. grapes. Have some nice
apples which may also be eX-
changed for any of the above list.
See Miss Hawley at the Tidings Of
flee.
FOR SALE OR NGE-Eleven
acres; all fruit; free soil pears,
apples and alfalfa; three crops;
sub-irrigation; electric lights; fine
well, best of water; engine, tank,
spring, half acre of lawn, shade
trees, shrubbery, bungalow with
screened porch, all new buildings;
fine location, grand view; district
of prize apples; first-class grocery
service one mile west of Talent,
and high school, five miles west
of Ashland; short walk to expert
ment station. $4,000. Owners,
Brown Bros, Talent, Ore. 12-o
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09

320-acre stock ranch, on open
range; springs. Price $500. One
third tillable.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09

$50 acres, miles from good
town; tillable; red granite soil. $14
per acre.
so acres to trade for equity here.
Exchanges made on all kinds of
real estate. Have places in Oregon,
California, Washington and Middle
West for Ashland property.
120 acres of land in southwest
Texas, under ditch, no buildings, to
trade for Ashland home.
+ Wanted to list-Good ranches,
large and small, to trade for Ashland
property.
City property for sale; also farms,
large and small, improved and unim-
proved. Easy terms.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE for
clear property, a S4-36 H. P. RAM
bier auto, guaranteed in good re-
pair and running condition. See
Stuart Saunders at Minis & Saun-
ders', or E. E. Bagley, 141 High
st. 25-tf
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09

City lots SIS up.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-09-09

II it is Tidings work it is the best.