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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-17
North Pleasant View.

MI. and Mrs. Anton Singer visit
ed relatives near Clarion Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Coleman at
tended the picnic at Woodstock
Thursday.
Mrs. James Hemminger returned
home Sunday after visit of several
weeks with relatives in Pennsyl-
vania.
Miss Lucy Nail is spending the
week with her sister, Mrs. r. K.
Richardson, near Breeze Hill.
T. NJ. Meyers shipped carload of
fat hogs to the Chicago market
Thursday.
Miss Maybelle Priestley of Web
ster City commenced the fall term
of school in district No. 4, Blairs-
burg township, last Monday.
Mrs. Sarah Dingman returned to
her home in Webster City Saturday,
after a stay of several weeks with
her niece, Mrs. Ed shafer.
Miss Pearl shafer and Alta
Thompson were Webster City shop
pers Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Register of Brushy
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Oh
lie Tewalt.
Mrs C. w. Wright and son Har-
old spent "Wednesday with Mrs. WIS
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Flugstad.

R. E. Cooter, l.. l.. Cooter and ST.
ma Handahl were business visitors
in Webster City Saturday.
A number from here expect to
be at Webster City Watermelon Day.
NJ. D. vanHook, Grant Bawden
and Olof Jondal were business call
ers at Webster City Saturday.
Fall blowing is progressing slow
ly here on account of the recent
rains.
George Lemon was Smelling corn
for the Flugstad Farmers Grain com
pany last week.
Lacey Darnell and John F. Fill
loon of Webster City were business
visitors here Saturday.
Mrs. E. NJ. Flugstad returned to-
day from story City. where she has
been visiting friends.
D. s. Darnell of Webster City was
a business visitor here Thursday.
Mrs. Hannah Weardale and son
returned to their home in Chicago
Thursday after several weeks Wis
1T here.
Peter Burke Of near Popular
Grove has rented the W. A. Jones
place now occupied by Frank Lemon
and will farm it next season.
While switching here Thursday a
heavily loaded car of clay was de-
rallied After working several hours
the railroad men gave 1t up, help be-
ing secured the following day and
the heavy car put back on the track.
Mrs. S. J. Houston of Columbia,
Kansas, came this morning to visit
her sister, Mrs. d. Cooter.
Sept. 16.
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Neighborhood Notes.
Mulberry Center.

The Leisure Hour club held pic
mic last Sunday in the grove at the
home of MI. and Mrs. Larry Cheyne,
near Webster City.
School opened in Dist. No. 2 last
Monday, with Miss LYDIA Elefson as
teacher.
E. L. Ashpole went to Buffalo
Center last Thursday to look for a
farm to rent.
The e. e. Ashpole family were
Sunday visitors at the Will Ashpole
home.
George Bassett of Flugstad is a
visitor at the J. A. Berleen home.
Sept. 13.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-17
(From Monoay.s Daily).

DR.. and Mrs. r. w. Homan left
today for Unionville, Mo-, on three
weeks visit with relatives.
F. G. Ruegnitz left yesterday
on business trip to Chicago.
Miss Matte WEIGH went to
Eagle Grove this morning for a Wis
it at the home of her parents.
Mrs. L. d. Maxon of Iowa Falls
is visiting her daughter. Mrs. Fred
Austin, and other relatives in the
city.
&c. w. Cooper OF Harrisburg was
in the city Saturday on business.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson re-
turned last evening from Fraser,
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of the place since that time, he says
the improvement is little short OF
wonderful.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cliff Omstead OF
Woodstock are in the city today.
w, H. Cook left last night on
a few days business trip to Chicago.
Misses Helen, Alta and Ida Cox
of Council Bluffs, who have been
visiting at the NJ. B. Pringle home
in this city, returned home this
morning accompanied by their aunt,
Miss Belle Pringle.
Mrs. G. NJ. Ellis of Duncombe
was in the city today.
Misses Mildred and Fern Court
right of Duncombe are trading. in
the city today.
Dan Fitch of Williams is a
business visitor in the city today.
-Chas. Hoag was up from Blairs-
burg today.
Frank Sparks of Ames visited
relatives and friends in the city be-
tween trains today while on his way
home from Buffalo Center
Mrs. Ray Johnson of Williams
is a caller in the city today.
James Dundon and sister, Miss
Mary Dundon, went to Eagle Grove
today for a brief visit at the home
of their parents
Ben Hensel is business visitor
in Eagle Grove today
Frank Carey is looking after
business interests in Eagle Grove to-
day
Mrs. Boyd Little and baby OF
Jewell are visiting relatives In the
city today.
Mrs. Fred H.. Alexander and
son of Kamrar are in the city today.
Mrs. e. Allen and grandson,
Vernon Allen, of Des Moines, return
ed home this morning after a visit
in 4his city at the r. l.. Sterling
home.
Miss Jean Mullen left this
morning for Pocahontas to resume
her stenographic work in that city
after a summers vacation spent in
this city at the home of her mother.
Mrs. N. II. Bawden.
Mrs. o. j. Henderson Is an Iowa
Falls caller today.
Miss Erma Ide, who has been
visiting at the home of DR.. O. c.
Buxton, returned to Traer today.
MIR. and Mrs. r. w. Peterson
and son Of Spencer are visiting In
the city at the Rev. J. w. Peterson
home.
wv. c. Burleson returned this
morning from weeks business trip
to Chicago. Mrs Burleson will re-
main for more extended visit.
MIR. and Mrs. H. C. Dudley and
daughter Ruth of Des Moines, are
visiting in the city at the w. l..
Whitman home.
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North Liberty.

MrsF d. Baker and daughter Jean.
of Pomona, Calf, are visiting at
the home of the formers sister-in-
law, Mrs Edw Ackley.
Mrs. Inger Todnem and son Carl
ant9ed to Minnesota last week,
whefe they will visit relatives.
Wesley Wilkie met with a painful
accident Sunday while experiment
ing with some ginpowder.
The s. e. club meets with Mrs.
Edward Eppard, Sept. 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Oakland have re-
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where she was called by the death

where she was called by the death
of her brother.
Miss Ruth Thompson left yes
terday for Dubuque to enter st. Jo-
seph's Mercy hospital to train for a
nurse.
Miss Florence Loring left Sat-
urday for Des Moines where she
will enter the liberal arts course in
Des Moines College.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Hanson
and son Robert and Miss Irene
Thurston were over Sunday visitors
| in Radcliffe.
Walter Z. Buell. of Audubon
visited over Sunday at the home Of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. E..
Buell., in this city.
Rev A. /. Martin returned Sat
urday evening from Oskaloosa where
he attended the state convention Of
Christian churches.
DIR. e. e. Richardson left last
evening for Washington, D. c., to
attend the international Congress of
Hygiene and Demography
Misses Lola and Leila Hughes
left this morning for Mt. Vernon
where they will enter Cornell Col
lege for the coming year.
Carl Breitenkamp of LaPorte,
Ind, visited over Sunday at the
home of his parents in this city.
Dan Miles OF Newton was a
guest at the w. J. Zitterell home
yesterday.
Mrs. Keo Anderson-Minett of
Waukon visited relatives and friends
in the city Saturday.
Mrs ]. r. Faus is expected
home tomorrow evening from an ex-
tended visit at her girlhood home in
Pennsylvania.
Mrs. G. Z. McCannon returned
last week to her home in Des Moines
after a visit at the l.. G. Gensman
nome IN tnlS city.
E H. Martin left today for
Phoenix, Arizona, to look after bust
ness interests and to superintend
the erection of bungalow on his
sons ranch near Phoenix.
&C. G. Scott of Stratford, who for
the past two months has been resid-
ing in Winnipeg, Canada, returned
Saturday to this city.
Mrs. L. E. Grout Of Blue Earth
Minnesota, arrived in the city Sat-
urday for an extended visit at the
Fred Smith home near the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. C. severson OF
Jewell spent Sunday at the home OF
their son Martin in this city.
w. H. Woodland, piano salesman
with the Reugnitz Music Company
returned from Chicago this morning
after brief business visit.
-Cady Chase Jr. went to Des
Moines this morning to resume his
college work in Drake University.
Miss Bertha Teal left this
| morning for Des Moines where she
will enter Des Moines College.
Miss Jessie Hummel left this
morning for Des Moines and win en-
ter Drake University for the coming
year.
--Aionzo Halfway returned to
Ames this morning after spending
Sunday at home.
Floyd Billings, for the past
three years employed as stenograph-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-17

Even the j. c. Smith dray horse
got tired and Disguised waiting for
the train yesterday. and when his
driver was busy elsewhere, calmly
took his departure for the barns.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-17

er in the Office of v. C. Crosley, left
Saturday for Des Moines, where he
will take up the study of law at
Drake University.
George Jewett left this morn
ing for Des Moines on business.
Mrs. Fred Howard and sister,
Miss Lou McNeally, arrived in the
city this morning from Green Bay,
Wisconsin, where Mrs. Howard has
been spending the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. e. Davidson Of
Fort Dodge are visiting in the city
at the r. e. Channer home.
Raymond Bates of Ellsworth
has accepted a position as compost
tor in the Hahne printing Office.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto H. Montz-
heimer, who have been visiting at
the Harold P. Mason home, returned
to Primghar this noon.
Mrs. Anna Flair Of Des Moines
arrived in the city this noon for a
visit at the o. A. Wahl home.
Miss Aletta Anderson was a
Waterloo visitor yesterday
&C. B. Walterick of Williams
was in the city yesterday.
Ralph Moore spent Sunday in
Williams.
Misses Myrtle and Bessie Cum
ningham were Eagle Grove visitors
yesterday.
&C. I. Clement, who has been
making his home in LeMars the past
two years, is here looking for a
house in which to live. He expects
to return to this city if he can find
"a suitable residence.
From Saturdays Daily:
Mrs. C. D. HELEN, accompanied
by Mrs. Warren Collady of Denver,
returned to Des Moines today after a
visit in this city at the David Eyer
home.
Prof. J. M. Holiday, principal
of the schools of Meservey, is home
for an over Sunday visit.
Mrs. Otto H. Montzheimer OF
Primghar is visiting in the city at
the home of her sister, Mrs. Harold
P. Mason.
Cary II. Brown returned today
from business trip to Minneapolis.
-Wilfred Groves, Frank Currie
and Lewis Richardson of Ames are
home for an over Sunday visit.
Miss Olga Amundson returned
from Williams last night, where she
is teaching school, and will remain
over Sunday.
Miss Mary Kane returned to
Charles City today after visit at
the j. H. Kane home in this city.
Misses Nellie and Grace Neon
nell of Duncombe are in the city to-
day.
Tom Lilly of Minonk, Illinois,
is in the city for few days on bust
ness.
Miss Effel Van Allen of Ha-
warden arrived in the city this
morning for few days visit with
her friend, Miss Myrtle Martin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett LaBarr of
Bloomington, Illinois. who have
been visiting the w. H. Cunning
ham family. returned to their home
last evening. Mr.. LaBarr visited
here nineteen years ago. In speaking
OF the difference In the appearance
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-17

The next meeting of the Royal
Neighbors will not be held until
Oct. 2. at 1890 p. M, In Elmo hall.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-09-17

4 Large oranges 40c. Medium size
SOC Peterson Grocery Co. 17d2
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-09-19

of room for competition by other ccm-
panies.
THE timber which has been sold to
the California company lies well back
in the Sierra Nevada mountains and
will require the construction Of sew
enty miles of standard gauge railroad
to open up the area. Since this road
will also open up other national for
est timber and will be a common car
rier, it creates another safeguard
against monopoly. The company is
given a cutting period of twenty-five
years to remove the timber, besides
an additional two years for the con-
struction of logging and manufacture
ing facilities. The sale was publicly
advertised for six months in order to
give an opportunity for all who wish
make bids, as is done in all large ma
tional forest sales.
No business organization would
undertake the heavy investment nee
essary in such cases unless the han
ding of large body of timber and
sufficient period in which to remove
it under practicable logging conditions
are assured The great difficulty in
making such long-term sales is to es-
tablish a price which will be fair to
both sides. No one can foresee future
conditions well enough to know what
stumpage will be worth ten, fifteen
or twenty years hence.
Consequently the terms of sale
provide for the readjustment of
stumpage prices every five years. The
basis for fixing the prices will be, in
each case, the prices of manufactured
lumber in the markets where the tim
ber is sold during the preceding two
years.
For several years the forest serv-
ice has been selling in the neighbor-
hood of a million dollars worth of
rational forest stumpage per year,
but this combined with what is cut
for free use is only about one-eighth
of what might be cut without re-
ducing the permanent stock of the
forests. The supply will be kept up
through growth. By making long
term sales it will be possible great
ly to increase the amount available
for present needs of the timber con-
suming public, without endangering
future supplies through overcutting.
1t will alfays remain true, however,
that vastly the greater part of our
timber sales will be to small pur-
chasers, who are favored wherever
possible. Monopoly is impossible as
long as the door is open to all such
purchasers. Out of over 5000 sales
made in the fiscal year 1911, about
forty were for over $4,000 worth of
timber to a single purchaser"
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-09-19
EQUAL
SUFFRAGE
NEEDED
ALSO THAT EAST WILL RECOG.
ME WOMAN SUFFRAGE
IN A FEW YEARS
Says Roosevelt
Western Press

Western Press
WINSLOW, Ariz., Sept. 1S.-Gn
his way to New Mexico where he is
to make his appeal for the Progress
sive party before turning north to
Colorado, Colonel Roosevelt passed
through eastern Arizona today.
One thing which Arizona needed,
Colonel Roosevelt said, was equal suf-
frage. He said that while many fea-
lures of the Arizona state constitu-
tion which would serve as model
for other states, he believed women
should be permitted to exercise the
right of suffrage.
Women suffrage will be recognized
within a few years in the eastern
states" he said. Il don't want to see
Arizona fall behind in this regard
after setting the pace in other ways" +"
Colonel Roosevelt's physician, who
is making the trip with him largely
for the purpose of treating his throat
told him today he must be more care
full in the use of his voice Conver-
sation while the train is in motion
is barred Roosevelt said he could
not keep still all the time.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-09-19

GENERAL
BURIED
faiPRESSIp Il CEREMONIES MARK
FUNERAL OF HIGH J.,pA-
NESE AND WIFE
Western Press

Western Press
TOXIC, Sept. lS.-1he double fu-
neral of General Count Maresuke No
gi, supreme military councillor of ia
pan, and his wife, Countess Nogi, who
committed suicide just as the body of
the late Emperor Mutsuhito passed
out OF Toxic city on its way to the
imperial tomb at Monoyaaa, was held
today with impressive ceremony in
the presence Of enormous crowds.
The funeral cortege left the Nogi
residence in suburb Of Toxic at
o'clock this afternoon and passed
through the streets Of the capital.
The body Of Japan's great warrior
was borne on a gun carriage, while
The white casket containing the body
of the countess was carried in u
hearse. The pail bearers were from
the highest ranks if the Japanese
army and navy. A regiment of in
fantry acted as the guard of honor.
Representatives of special foreign
ENJOYS, who came to attend the fu-
neral of the late Japanese monarch,
and resident ambassadors and minis
ters participated in the ceremony,
which numbered upwards Of $4,000
persons. Marching behind the coffin
we're great numbers of relatives of
the soldiers killed at Port Arthur
while serving under General Nogi in
the spring Of 1904.
Special Ambassador of the United
States Knox did not participate in the
ceremony, he being absent at kioto
where he went to visit the grave Of
Emperor Mutsuhito. He was repre-
sented, however, by Brigadier Cen
eral Pershing of the special embassy
staff. Mr.. Knox sent a magnificent
wreath.
The ritualistic ceremony at the
great funeral was extremely impress
sive and attended by immense and or
Derby crowds. The body was entomb-
ed at exactly 5:10 this afternoon.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-09-19
WEDDING BELLS HEARD AT THE
SOUTHERN.

Last evening the parlors at the
Southern hotel were the scene of a
pretty wedding. The contracting par
ties were William A. Jackson and Mrs.
Emma Parker, both of Cortez. The
marriage was solemnized by the Rev.
Mr.. Jenkins Of the Baptist church.
Only few inmite friends witnessed
the ceremony.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson are
prominent in the business life Of Mon
tezuma valley. Mr.. jackson has va
rious interests in the section, the
most valuable being his extensive coal
lands. He has unbounded faith in the
future Of the southwest and his faith
has been backed up by his heavy in
vestments. Best Of all he is an all
around good citizen of which any
community might be proud.
Mrs. Parker has been equally prom
inent in business circles. Her shrewd
judgment has increased her original
capital many-fold. She is pleasing
womanly woman who graces the home
with the same charm which char
acterizes her in other walks Of life
This morning Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
son went out to their ranch on the
mesa where they will spend few
days before continuing to their home
in Cortez.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-09-19
TEXAS
FfUD|ST
INDICTED
MURDERER THINKS HE WILL BE
FREED UPON SHOWING OF
CONSPIRACY
Western Press

Western Press
AMARILLO, Tex, Sept. 1S.-With
the indictment of John Beal Sneed for
the murder of the man with whom she
clipped, Mrs. Lena Snecd is seeking a
IL, .te.
The young rancher had been corre-
spending with Mrs. Sneed with a view
to eloping with her again as soon as
Sneed divorced her. Sneed tumbled
10 this fact and came To Amarillo 20
kill Al Boyce and thus end his trou-
bles Since the killing, Mrs. Sneed
has been in correspondence with her
relatives as to what she should do.
John Beal Sneed does not want q
divorce. He was angered when it was
mentioned to him today.
His attorneys declared that they
will seek a change of venue for his
trial The contest for a writ of ha-
beas corpus will come up Monday.
The motive which prompted John
Beal Sneed to kill AL Boyce here Sat
urday afternoon became known today
through his counsel, Walter Scott and
w. p. Mclean.
Letters sent by the younger Boyce
from his Canadian ranch to Mrs. Lena
Sneed in an effort to win her away
from Sneed second time caused the
banker to plot against the life of the
young ranchman, who last winter
eloped with his wife.
Boyce's letters reached Mrs. Sneed
at an unlucky time, for she and her
husband were but recently reconciled
and were living together in George
town. Fearing that Boyce would
again prevail upon his wife to desert
him, Sneed cunningly and cautiously
planned every detail of the assassi-
nation, it is alleged. Sneed, upon
advice Of his counsel, still refuses to
grant any interviews to newspaper
men or friends.
The authorities today are bending
their efforts to locate and arrest a
mysterious stranger who is said to
have been Sneed's accomplice and who
rented a small house near the First
Methodist church, where The shoot
ing occurred. Sneed refuses to di-
vulge his identity.
Boyce had been in Fort Worth since
Aug. 1, and Sneed on learning that
he was here believed he was prepar-
ing to meet his wife and came here
only week ago. No person in the
city learned of Sneed's presence here,
so complete was his disguise.
The Potter county grand jury took
up consideration of the killing and
summoned Sneed before it. No one
was admitted into the grand jury
room. Sneed's attorneys declare they
will clear their client on the same
grounds used in the trial for the muir
der of Captain Boyce-that con-
spiracy existed to steal his wife from
him.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-09-19
S.A.COROON.
A M|NER,|S IS
MISSING
PARTIES HAVE SO
FAR FAILED TO LOCATE
DEMENTED MAN

Lafe ad Dan Cason, who came down
from the Needles yesterday, brought
the news of the disappearance of s.
A. Gordon, who has been working on
DR.. Dowdey's mining properties in
the Vallecito basin.
For a number of days the man
gave evidence of being mentally un-
balanced He carried an old box un-
der his arm which he believed was a
precious treasure. He refused to com
municate with any of the men in
the neighborhood as he seemed to
think they were plotting to rob him.
Five days ago he wandered away and
thus far all efforts to locate him have
been fruitless. It is feared that ne
has perished as the cold up there is
intense and it is also a considerabl1
distance to any point where he could
obtain food or shelter.
On previous occasion Gordon be
came temporarily insane and disap
peared much in the same manner, but
he was located two days lated above
Silverton near where the members OF
his family reside.
The Cason brothers have put in TIE
principal part of the past five days
and nights searching for the lost man
DR.. Dowdey also has parties aiding
in the search. That particular se,-
ton of the country is so rough and
almost inaccessible that it is only
with great difficulty the would-be res
cuers can cover the ground.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-09-19
WOMAN
SUFFRAGE
A MENACE
Says Gibbons
VENERABLE CATHOLIC pRELATE
SEES HARM IN WOMAN
SUFFRAGE
Says Gibbcns
Western Press

Western Press
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. 18.--Cardinal
Gibbons, the venerable dean of the
Catholic church in America, told Ave
hundred men at the City club lunch
con if history ever wrote "the decline
and fail Of thc American republic.
i. would not be due to an invading
army, but to the criminal sloth and
negligence and to the political apos-
tasy of our own citizens.
Before his address he said In an
authorized interview, Equal suffrage,
in my opinion, would tend toward in
creasing the divorce which is social
blot on the United States and Is tho
greatest evil of the day"
"If woman had equal political rights
with man there is the probability that
on slightest provocation that she
would seek divorce. Given such equal
ity they might overstep the bounds.
Women under the present conditions
are too prone to go to the divorce
courts, and political equality might
make them more so. 1t might have
the effect Of turning their heads"
The cardinal left for Wichita, Kas.,
early this morning to dedicate St.
Mary's Catholic church tomorrow.