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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-21
The Bloomfield ottumwa Road.

Editor of the Courier:
Through the columns Of your paper
| wish to call the attention of the
farmers Of the northern part of Davis
county to the fact that the Bloomfield
Ottumwa road has not yet been COM
pleted.s in fact, hardly started. Now,
il anything along this line is going to
be done this year, 1t must be done
soon. for December is not very far
away and that is not a very good
month for road construction in Iowa.
If this plan is going to be completed
very soon, the start had better be
made Immediately.
Frank Nimocks, the postmaster in
Ottumwa. has charge of the work In
Wapello county, and he said today
that if Davis county would do its
share, that he was certain that Wa.
pello county would fix things up to
the county line He suggested that
the way be mapped out. named and
marked Immediately and that would
be a start, at least, even II nothing
more be done at present. AS under.
stand It. the shorter route is what is
known as the "lower road" which was
once the old stage road but the better,
although a longer road Is the one 60
ing through Belknap and past the Cen.
ter school house In Soap Creek town.
ship. This has always been known
as the upper road and everyone knows
that this upper road, is the better Of
the two for four or five miles north Of
Bloomfield, and Just as good. If not
better on through the Soap Creek
hills.
Before the people of Wapello coun-
ty do much toward this enterprise
they want to know what the people of
Davis county are going to do and
which road they are going to use.
Wapello county does not know where
to meet us, as the matter stands now,
and it begins to look like Davis coun-
ty never intends to get as far as the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-21
COMMERCIAL CLUB
TO GIVE LUNCHEON

Fairfield, Nov. 20.--The downtown
Burlington depot will be ready slof
occupancy within few days and the
Fairfield Commercial club Is plan
ming to entertain q few Of the ON
cials of the road at luncheon IN the
new depot before the building - oc-
cupied. The luncheon will probably
be served next Monday or Tuesday
evening in the new structure.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-21
Piano Bargains
Careful Buyers

Discriminating piano buyers can
find many interesting things below. II
you are going to buy piano this year
don't put it off, but come in today and
make your selection. Get your share Of
the big reductions we are making on
the Saunders sacrifice stock. Only a
few left.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-21
Power of Your Dollar
Bargains

Bargains
steinway, used, ebony case, in fine
condition, cost new $3.50 rOn0I
Special ...................Q wv
Chickering, used, a good piano G6H
for beginners .................. wv
Bogart, mahogany case, used three
years, taken in exchange on player
piano. AS good as new for use. Cost
new, 1926 617S
Special ........ .........p
Schriver & Son. beautiful walnut case.
new, fine tone and action, 5000
regular price $325-Special ..1~~~
Oak case piano, new. Q127 An
regular price $275. spec@ lOs.OO
Marshall & Wendell, fine walnut case.
used three months In music studio.
Regular price $3.50 @ORk
Special price ~ ~
Belmore. beautiful oak case, new.
Regular price $685. r17R
Special price
Jessie French, walnut case. taken az
part pay for Guest Technola player.
Regular $3.50 value @O1S
Special price ~
Kurtzman. oak case, taken as part pay
on Guest Technola player piano. AS
good good. as new S137.5O
Knight-Brinkerhof, mahogany case,
slightly shopworn, but like COOS
new-Special ............... "
Waltham, walnut case, sample piano.
Regular sac ssse value 1914
The above Is only partial list. We
will furnish complete list on request.
Others are making their selection
you can do the same. Cash or easy
payments.
OPEN EVENINGS
Guest Piano Co.
Established 1s54--Neariy 80 years ago.
227 e. Main. ottumwa, L.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-21
C.. e. MAHAN ASKS
FOR "A DIVORCE

c. r. Mahan has fled suit In the
district court asking for q divorce
from his wife, Gertrude Mahan on the
grounds Of .desertion. He also asks
for the control and custody Of their
their three minor children Daisy,
Clarence, and VERNE.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-21
FILE ARTICLES
OF INCORPORATION

Articles Of Incorporation to run
twenty years were filed yesterday by
the Trio Coal Co., with County Re-
corder L. E. Cawley The capital
stock is placed at $4,000, and the
company is incorporated to transact a
coal business The officers, who also
serve as directors are as follows:
President-Howell Price.
Vice president-George West.
y-treasurer-James Nevin.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-21
STEFFANSON TO
VISIT IOWA CITY

Iowa City. Nov. 20 vilhjalmI
Stefanson, discoverer OF the blond
Eskimo, will give an illustrated lee.
ture on his expedition to the land Of
these people at the University Of Iowa
on January 10. 1t ia probable that r.
M. Anderson, his classmate and com.
panion on the expedition, will be here
at the same time.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-21
Insurance Agent In Bad.

Newton. Nov. 20.-Eugene O'Brien.
OF New Sharon. an agent for the New
Yorw Life Insurance Co., was arrested
for embezzlement Monday 1t Is
charged that he took note for 3165
belonging to Oscar Korff.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-21
aeino Tried Fer Murder.

Fort Dodge, Nov. 20.-B. r. Closky
is on trial here for ffst degree muir
der. 1t is charged that he killed
Thomas Brown at Webster City on the
night OF September 2.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-21

Miss Margaret Kehm OF Des Moines
IA visiting her cousin Miss Kathryn
Adler, 312 East Fourth strssI for :
few days
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-21
PEOPLES PULPIT

The Courier will publish in
iii. column articles contrib.
utsd by ito readers. The com
ruric atoms should be type
written or in plain hand, on
o,s side Of the paper, and
signed. g
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
The LIBERTY BELL.

Western patriotism from Chicago to
Portland. Ore, is being aroused in a
campaign to have the Liberty bell
shipped back to Philadelphia from
the San Francisco exposition by the
northern route, giving the people of
Oregon. Washington, Idaho, Montana,
North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois. Indiana and Ohio Al oppor-
tunity to act as host to the reyolu,
tionary relic.
Secretary Harry C. Wuerth of the
Spokane chamber of commerce will
start December IL the circulation of
petitions In the state of Washington,
at the same time requesting united
action by chambers of commerce and
commercial clubs in every town and
city of the states just manner. Follow
ing the example of San Francisco
which is waging a determined fight
10 bring the Liberty bell TO the Pan
ama-Pacific international exposition
in 1916, 90. 5000 schoo children of
Washington will sign petitions re.
questing that the bell be returned by
the northern route.
In this state the petitions win be
signed also by citizens generally
the mark being 100000 signatures
in the state of Washington. 'If the
Liberty bell is sent west in 1915 If
will be Just as easy to return it east
by the northern route as by the
southern" stated Secretary Weurtf
of the chamber of commerce. THE
lesson in patriotism 1t would teach
all along the line would be well
worth the effort expended in showing
the bell to millions of people in the
northwest.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
DENMARK.
. . . . e = 8 - \

Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Murphy are
proud of the fact that their boy has a
little sister this morning.
Mr.. Fisher and family have moved
into the Sawyer property which they
recently purchased.
Mr.. Brockway and niece Miss Col
ton have returned from Fairfield
where they spent Thanksgiving with
relatives and friends.
H. l.. HEM is getting barn built
on his property in northwest Den
mark.
Chas. Wharton and family were
shopping in Fort Madison Saturday.
AT the bazaar last Friday afternoon
and evening the Ladies Union cleared
about $50 which was indeed doing
very well.
Bernice Houston was shopping in
Fort Madison Saturday
The Denmark orchestra will give a
hard time entertainment on Dec. 10
Chas. Woodruff brought over his
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

and twentieth centuries was in 1859.
when it fell on April a. In 1913 and
1905 it occurred on April %. Last
Easter was on April Z.
AS Easter is the most important of
all the movable feasts OF the Chris
tian church. it determines all the rest
Hence next year Ash Wednesday
comes on February 5, Ascension
Thursday May I. and Pentecost May
IL.
Easter can never come earlier than
March %, and the. only time 1t did or
could do this from the years 1901 to
1000 was in 1873. This was made
possible by having full moon on
March 81 and the following day being
Sunday. This coincidence does not
occur more than once in a century,
and 1t is only then that the Feast OF
the Ascension can occur in April and
then on April 80.
The rule provides that Easter shall
be the Sunday that follows that four
fourteenth day OF the calendar moon
which falls upon or next after March
81.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

broad prairie lands are the chosen
places for these beautiful creatures.
and they select mounds where the
grass is short They like an open
view OF long range vision. This prom
Uses protection. The wild chicken is
swift of fight. and they move in
flocks. being quite sociable. Their
plumage is in harmony with their
places of abode. and when on dress
parade occasions, their decorations
present fine effect.
The number of river ships which
passed the Keo.-uk and Hamilton
bridge is encouraging to navigation,
and the number Of steamers and the
amount of their business viii be
much larger next year, with stetady
aovancements as the years progress.
The motto should be: Improved
streets and country highways, more
steamers on the Mississippi and gen.
erous patronage Of freight and pas
sengers. Individual devotion may &C
compiish great reforms. 1t is re-
corded that by the preaching of sain
Andrew, one Eurypilus, great man
| OF the place. being converted to chris
tianity, so influenced sentiment that
lpaganism and the worship Of Diana at
that place was abolished. A wise man
/ said long ago that it is better for a
] city or a nation to be governed by a
good man than by good laws. Good
Noah Webster's motto was: Get the
best
JASPER BLINES.
Seven Pines.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
What Does a Colt eain2

Farm and F'ireside THE best and
the only way one can tell
whether his animals are making prop
er gains or not is by the use of scales.
"A friend Of mine who gave me the
data used here tried this on a colt
last year. The colt weighed 40 pounds
when foaleJ and was weighed every
week for the first six months, with the
following results: Three and three
fourths pounds average daily gain first
month, three and one-fourth pounds
average daily gain second month,
three pounds average daily gain third
and fourth months, two and one-half
pounds average daily gain and fifth
and sixth months.
At ten months the colt weighed 870
pounds and had made daily gain of
about two and one-fourth pounds.
which is very good for a grade Perch
eron
The colt was allowed all the whole
oats and bran it would clean up until
1 five months old. Her mother was
worked nearly every day and the colt
sucked four times day from eight
O'Clock in the morning TO five O'Clock
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
THE iNcANDEscENT ELECTRIC
AND

To the ordinary user Of electricity
for home lighting the electric Iamp is
but lamp. They do not know how
It is constructed or why one lamp is
better than another The life of an
electric lamp, its economy and dur
ability, depend almost entirely upon
the little hair-like filament, or wire
located within the glass bulb, which
CLOVIS with light when the electricity
is turned on. No matter how nicely
the globe and base are made, no mat
ter what care is taken in the assem-
bly, of he various parts, the life of the
lamp and its usefulness depend upon
the filament
If an old fashioned carbon filament
is used the light will be of a poor vel.
lowish quality and the cost for cur
rent will be high. This is because the
filament is made of carbonized cellu-
lose which is a vegetable paste. Car
bon lamps are now out of date, being
replaced by he metal filament tung.
stem lamps which give better light
ioI lSSs SoSl. But II the preSBeQ-1lla
ment tungsten lamp is used the fila
ment becomes brittle with use and is
very apt 20 break into small pieces
The lamp is fragile because the tiny
wire filament is made of pulverizet
tungsten pressed into wire-like shape
The drawn wire tungsten filamentl
are stronger and will last longer. TIL,
TUNGSTEN metal is drawn into fine wir,
from which the filaments~. are made
This wire IS really very strong for It
size, being of less diameter than
hair, but it has the tensile strength o
piano steel
Strange as it may seem, there ar
thousands of people who do not knoy
that incandescent lamps can be oil
tanned in almost any candle-power d,
sired, They accept whatever is give
them and nay whatever is asked will
out question More than half til
tire oomnlaint for excessive COZ
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

of electric lighting Is traceable direct
to lamps of too high candle-power for
the light required. That cost mounts
up in direct ratio with the increase
of candle-power is shown by the fact
that an eight candle-power tungsten
lamp will burn for 100 hours for a
total cost OF but ten cents, when the
rate is 10 cents kilowatt. A twenty
candle-power lamp on the same cir
cult would only burn 40 hours for ten
cents and a thirty.two candle-power
lamp but Is cents.
With proper glass shades and re-
Electors to direct the light where 1t
is most needed lamps OF small candle
power can be used with better light
effect than those of high candle-power
where the light is misdirected, absorb
ed and wasted.
The incandescent lamp filament is
confined in small glass globe from
which the air has been exhausted to
keep the wire from burning up, which
would happen If the air was allowed
access to l. This glass globe also
acts as a very effective shield for the
lamp, making it possible to use the
lamps very near inflammable mater
iais without danger. This is espec-
tally valuable in homes where there
are children, for they cannot possibly.
set fire to the house or burn Them
selves with electric lamps. They also
eliminate the danger from matches.
Many house has been consumed by
flames because a curtain was blown
across an open gas jet lighted near a
window or door. The electric lamp
produces so little heat that nothing
can catch fire from being blown
against the globe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
NEXT EASTER COMES EARLY.
Not since 1918 Has It Come Before
March %.

Not since 1918 Has It Come Before
March %.
Dressmakers and milliners will
have to work livelier this winter than
they have in many years in order to
get Easter gowns and hats ready for
their customers on time. No. in nine
ty-fiye years has Easter come any
earlier in the year than it will In 1913
and it will not come as early again
for another eighty-seven years, ac-
cording to the New York Heraic.
It is not likely that many persons
nov living will be around 10 bother
about a new hat or gown when Eas-
ter again comes as early as 1t will in
1913.
The next Easter falls on March %.
Not since 1918 did it arrive sooner in
the year In that year it came on
March %. Not until the year 1000
will it come so early again.
sixty-seyen years ago and fif.y-siS
wears ago, respectively, Easter oc
Cured on the same date it does in
1913. The next year when Easter will
pay an early visit will be in 1910
when it will arrive on March "a. In
1851 It falls on March rs. In the yea
1875 Easter was on March rs; also II
the years 1926, 1897, 1883 and 1894
It will come again on March 26 IL
1867, 1879 and 1883.
| The latest Eas.er OF the nineteenth
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

I'm the afternoon. At night both mare
and colt were turned out to pasture.
The winter rations consisted OF a
mixture of five pounds of whole oats,
two pounds OF shelled corn, and hve
quarts of skim-milk daily. A small
amount OF silage and mixed hay for
roughage were also fed.
From the observations made by
this man 1t win be seen that the aver
age farm colt should make q daily
gain Of at least two pounds per day.
Also, that good colts can be raised
when the mares are working. From
previous experience in using scales in
feeding, this farmer says that colt
should weigh at ten months one halt
of its weight at maturity
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
THE CASE OF WOOD ALCOHOL.

How real and immediate are the
dangers which beset us in connection
with the unsupported use of wood al
cchol is made apparent by notice Of
Judgment lately published by the Of
flee of the q. S. secretary of agricul-
ture. Several individuals, acting IN.
der the name of Lucca Produce Wine
Co, had marketed product with the
distinctly pretentious label: "Gran
Liqrore Della Stella Elixir Tonico
stomatico" Analysis of a sample or
this promising elixir by the bureau
of chemistry indicated It to contain.
methyl alcohol, 20.4s per cent. by voi-
ume; ethyl alcohol, s08 per cent. by
volume; and the coai-tar dye Acid
Yellow G to furnish an attractive col
or. The case was reported for prose
cution as violation OF the food ana
drugs act, but fortunately an indict-
ment was found under a section OF
the New York criminal code. One de.
fendane Alberto Milanesi after hav-
ing spent two months In Jail awaiting
lAiai "d7 oA picdulAS Suity sentenced
to serve term Of seven months In
the New York county penitentiary.
Another defendant, Carlo Giradi, had
sentence suspended on a plea OF gull.
ty. The Journal of the American
Medical Association. commenting on
the case, express the hope that more
vigorous management of such flag
rant violations of the law will have
a wholesome effect, for there are few
deterrents like jail sentence.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

When Rev. Anna Howard shaw's
little grandunele of S years confessed
to her mother that she could not be
a suffragist because the other chill
dren made fun of her, her wee sister
of years fiercely exclaimed: q
wouldn't be q coward; they've been
making fun of Aunt Anna for hun
dreds of years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
THE MEETING.

THE MEETING.
When walkin' down a city street,
Two thousand miles from home,
The pavestones hurtin' Of the feet
That never ought to roam,
A pony jes reached to one side
And grabbed me by the clothes;
He smelled the sagebrush, durn his
hide
You bet a pony knows.
stopped and petted him. and seen
A brand upon his side;
I'll bet across the prairie green
He ulster hit his stride;
Some puncher of the gentle COW
Had owned him-that knows;
Which same is why he jes' says:
How
There's sagebrush in your clothes"
He knowed the smell-no doubt il
walked
Him out of some bright dream;
In some far stream his thirst is
He sees the mountains CLEAN;
He bears his rider far and fast,
And real the hull thing grows
When come sorter driftin, past
With sagebrush in my clothes.
Poor little boss, It's tough to be
Away from that fair land
Away from all tina. prairie sea
With all its vistas grand;
feel for you, old boss, do
It's hard the way life goes;
I'd like to travel back with YOU
Back where that sagebrush grows!
Arthur Chapman in Denver Repub
lican.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

A plurality of twenty-seven votes Is
not enough for jollification. but II
serves to give George H. Hodges.
democrat, the certificate of election
as governor of Kansas.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

Camel coal was mined to the ex-
tent of 10000 tons in 1911. according
the United States Geological Survey,
Kentucky porducing 9o,275 tons and
Pennsylvania about 10000 tons.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

gasoline engine and saw and sawed
wood for his mother.
Death relieved the suffering OF Mr..
Tom Woods. Dec. 3. The last services
were held from his late home Thurs
day Dec. 5, conducted by Rev. Lyman
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

Interment in Denmark ceme's''
the side OF his late wife, ,oo,,,re
The third number on the ~ ar.
course will be given Dec. e -, ~ vii.
chest-al entertainers and my. ~
come TO us highly recommends
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

Christmas will be here before you
are ready for it. Better shop early.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11
Many Matters Treated IN Philos-
optical Way by Jasper BIines
Of Alexandria.

II for no other use than for the con
venience of the many auto cars. this
country should build improved road
ways Next year one company, the
Stuaebaker's, will have twelve thous-
and men employed in manufacturing
automobiles.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

keokuk, iowa Dec. II, 1912
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

Mention Is made in th- county pa
pers OF northeast Missouri of the pres
ence in certain localities of that fine
class of wild fowl, the prsirie chick
en-. Here on the great valley of the
Mississippi there are quite number
of these native birds whose species
were SO multitudinous when the wild
grass abounded and the Pale Face
with axe and pillow had not broken up
their quiet homes and parks The
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

Far away to the southwest one lit
tie lonely star still shines. Well,
Utah is an elevated empire of fine at
fractions, and the place viii be
friendly and well hammered when Mr.
Taft becomes ex-President and wishes
very pleasant summer resort.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-11

Pourke Cochran, the smart Irish
man OF New York, has poor opinion
of our public schools. He pronounces
them agnostic and anti-christian. Mr..
Cochran advises sending pupils to
private schools.
The state herald., 1912-12-06

10000 death benefit: $1,000 weekly
5eneii for accident $500 weekly ben.
'ht ( or sickness; 81 10000 for loss OF
limb or eyosigh;. 81 OOOO forcmergcney
rcli' Il beneft-Cost $500 per year-No
9TH er dues nor ass essments. Old os.
'a'I!ished COMPANY with 500, 600. 10
q ite deposit for thu protection Of poll
ey holders and TO i iarantee the pay,
r,cnt Of claims Mem and women be
.wocn l6 and &c aeo ptcd. according to
occupation. For ~ -thor information
address Dept 10. A mcriean Registry
Company, Box al. h ric. Pa. ia
The state herald., 1912-12-06

WANTED--Good Housekeeping maga-
zine requires the services of repre-
sentative in Holyoke to look after sub.
scription renewals and to extend circu-
lation by special methods which have
proved unusually successful. Salary
and commission. Previous experience
desirable but not essential. Whole time
or spare time. Address with references
j. F. Fairbanks, Good Housekeeping
Magazine, 3Sl Fourth Ave, New York
City.