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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29
SALEM CHAPEL.

Mrs. e. E. Moore left last Monday
for a three weeks visit In Washington.
Mr.. and Hrs. John Mccoy returned
home Tuesday after a few days spent
at the ]. B. MILFORD home near Blakes-
burg.
Mr., and Mrs. j. M. MILFORD and
Pearl Overhaner are visiting at the
John Mccoy home.
Garrett Gilyeart returned homo Fri
day after spending a week with Lucy
Cook and Mary Aldridge and attending
chautauqua at Fremont.
Glenn Proud has been suffering the
past week with tonsilttis and an attack
OF appendicitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bonnie Rocker spent
Sunday at the John Mccoy home.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. MILFORD took din
from two months visit with relatives
ner Sunday at the parental e. e. CITY
cart home.
A. c. Gilyeart Of Mt. Union came
Sunday for few days visit with his
brothers e. E. and J. B. Gilyeart
Rev. Horn returned home Sunday
and held services at the Presbyterian
church Sunday evening.
Mrs. George Shepherd entertained
the ladies OF the Willing Workers at
her home Thursday afternoon.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29
THE THIRD TICKET.

Waterloo Courier: Yesterday there
was issued from Des Moines. under
the direction of Carl FRANKIE, chairman
Of the state central committee Of the
progressive party, and his advisors, q
call for q delegate convention to be
held in the capital city on September
a. At that time there will be an EFFORT
made to place full list of candidates
in the field under the caption OF the
progressive party.
The Courier believes that this &C
ton on the part OF the state COM
mittee Of the progressive party Is I'M
called for and Is mistake.
III the progressives, or those VINO
are temporarily at the head OF the
organization, insist upon placing the
third ticket In the field In Iowa,
they will not have strengthened the
cause of progressivism, In the opin-
ion of the Courier. Many old-time
republicans who would be glad of an
opportunity of voting for Theodore
Roosevelt as the leader Of move.
ment which promises 80 much In the
direction they have long sought to
make advances will turn from the
opportunity and refuse to cast bal
lot for presidential electors, or adopt
some other course designed to serve
as rebuke to those who would foist
themselves or others upon a ticket
simply in the hope of securing public
ONCE.
This is the situation In Black
Hawk county, recognized as one OF
the foremost progressive strong.
holds in the state.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29

ship for Teddy which causes people
to lose all ability for rational decision
in matters of right and wrong. There
were delegates at the late convention
who substituted the name Of Roosevelt
for that OF Jesus so as to make an old
hymn run, Follow, follow--we will
follow ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, every
where, we will follow on etc. Such
drivel is not only silly, but dangerous.
Citizens endowed their creator with
the power to reason and choose should
follow whom they admire as long as he
is right. We should hesitate to steer
our course over the brink OF hell even
though enjoying the company OF the
peerless Theodore. 1t Is the blind sort
of worship of the colonel which fills
the sails Of his enemies and gives
backbone to their charges that he Is a
dangerous leader to be abroad IN the
republic.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29

Judge Gemmill finds" says the Rec
ord-Herald, that in the six years I'M
mediately preceding 1911 there were
in Cook county 804 reported homi-
cides. These caused 739 arrests, 1888
trials of accused persons, 206 SEN
fences to penitentiary or reformatory,
eleven hangings and III acquittals.
The convicted, on these figures, were
$50 per cent of those tried.
.'For, the whole United States the
percentage of convictions in the last
ten years has been sixty to sixty-fve
per cent, Judge Gemmill estimates,
against which our 500 per cent ap'
pears low. The national record Is low
compared with the eighty-four per cent
convicted of homicide in Germany IN
1906, the seventy-six per cent con-
victed in that country in 1908 and the
71.5 per cent of arrested persons con-
victed in England in 1907. Why do
we not punish murders when other
nations punish them?
Partly perhaps, because our police
machinery is not so efficient as that
Of older countries; the proportion OF
trials to arrests would seem to indi.
cate that in Cook county An arrest
in European countries as rule means
a trial; trial means conviction in a
large number of cases because the
evidence is strong. But our national
attitude is too sympathetic toward
criminals and causes crime to -four
ish."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29
CHARLTON.

Mr.. and Mrs. Will Watsbaugh OF st.
Joe are expected for visit with the
latter's father Leonidas Baker and
sister Mrs. Roy Hatcher.
Mrs. J. s. Miller pleasantly entertain
ed number of, lady friends yesterday
afternoon at card party
Mrs. r. N. Brown of English town
ship left yesterday for visit with rel
atives at her old home In Milo.
MISS Bessie Byrum returned yester-
day from a visit with relatives in Gar
den Grove
ed home yesterday after visit In
Benton township with her sister Mrs,
Harvey Whiteside.
Miss Queen Frater and little brother
John of Oskaloosa arrived yesterday
for visit at the E. o. Miller home.
Mrs. nellie Bright went to Des
Moines to spend several days with her
Jas. Boylan.
Harry Hess who has been employed
at the ]. L. Piper grocery store for two
years and half, has resigned his po-
sition and will leave next Wednesday
Tor Omaha where he will study dem
tistry at Creighton college.
Miss Ruth Collier Of Osceola return
ed after a visit of several days at the
j. P. Hardin home.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Henry OF Hast
ings, Ia. who had been visiting at the
home of his sister Mrs. John Perry OF
Pleasant township returned home last
evening.
Mrs. Frank Kestler and daughter
Pauline and son Hal went to Glenwood
Yesterday to spend a week with rela-
tives and friends.
A. B. Gookin has returned from a
business trip of several days to Colo
RADIO.
Mrs. Adam Younker Of Derby return
ed home after few days visit with
Mrs. w. F. Burgess
Mrs. Nellie Vice Of Derby was In tho
city yesterday enroute home from
Fairfield. She and her daughter Opal
will move to that city in short time.
Miss Opal will attend Parsons college
and Mrs. Vice has accepted a position
there.
Mrs. w. p. Harmed OF Pawnee coun-
ty. Okla. returned home after a
months visit near Columbia with her
sister Mrs. H. e. Agan.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29

Editor COur1er.-
We have just held on the chautan-
qua grounds the seventeenth annual
reunion OF the old settlers and old
soldiers of Wapello county. To me it
was not an eminent success, but per.
haps it was because was too busy
to enjoy the occasion. Personally,
think the meeting Of those bodies
should be on separate days, with no
"set speeches" They should partake
more Of the nature of a Methodist
class meeting of old times memory.
However, this Is not what wish to
dwell upon. was surprised to learn
my old friend Elias Kitterman, that
at least one revolutionary soldier Is
buried in Wapello county; his grave
neglected and perhaps, but three per-
sons in the county who can locate that
grave, viz: the mother of Willard Bow
lin, Capt. w. H. Kitterman and Elias
Kitterman. 1t seems to me that steps
should be taken to place suitable
monument on that neglected grave.
We have Sons of the American Revolt
ution here. l will not appeal to them
but rather to the Daughters of the
American Revolution. The old revo-
lutionary hero was buried in the
Dahlonega grave yard.
Ladies, interest yourselves in this
matter. feel that this neglect Is a
disgrace to us all. l am foreign
born. l couldn't help that; l wasn't
consulted, but thank God, earned my
right of citizenship in the bloody days
| of the COS, and this old hero should
| be remembered by the descendants Of
those noble sires.
T. r. Buckley.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29
DOWN WITH FARM DRUDeERv.


Years ago when prices were low"
says Golfers Weekly, 1T was often
necessary for the farmer and all his
family to work early and late to make
q living and pay the mortgage. But
with better farming methods and In.
creasing prices that necessity Is pass
ing. The farmer and his family must
be able to earn good profit on ten
or twelve hours day. The time has
passed when intelligent, ambitious
people will be content, even under
the favorable conditions of the great
outdoors, to labor sixteen or eighteen
hours day merely to earn living
Women are not allowed to work in
stores and factories more than eight
or nine hours; but often on the farm
they work sixteen or eighteen. The
economic condition that compelled
drudgery on the farm must pass, and
then the new farm management must
teach people how to live on the farm
as well as how to raise crops"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29
A news dispatch from Des Moines

A news dispatch from Des Moines
says the Register and Leader has
come out for Roosevelt. If that Is true
it is the most consistent thing that
paper has done for some time, as 1t
has been keeping up a guerrilla var
fare on Taft without openly Joining
the opposition. Whether the news
dispatch from Des Moines Is fact or
deduction cannot be determined, how
ever, until the editorial in which the
change is announced is given closer
analysis. 1t leaves openings for an
other jump back into the Taft band
wagon that leads one to suspect has
ty conclusion might have been drawn
by the correspondent who put the
news article on the wire.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29
NOTHING THE MATTER.

What Is the matter Will Inc ohi'Pu
States anyway? asks correspondent
In letter to the New York sun
There are loud and vehement wailings
about evils and wrongs and slavery
he says. SO he asks what is the matter
with the country and suggests Few
questions to different persons VINO
might be able to throw some light on
the matter. The Suns correspondent
puts it this way:
AJAX the farmer. He will answer that
the crops this year are worth nine oil
lions Of dollars. That is at least SIX
hundred millions more than the 1arm
yield In any other year IN any otner
land.
. Agk the steel and iron makers. They
will answer that more tons OF coal,
coke and ore are being converted into
finished steel than in any previous
year in this or any other country.
Ask the railroad president. He Will
answer that traffic is almost at the
record breaking point for all time.
AK the merchant. He will answer
that sales exceed all known turnovers
in business.
Ask the car and locomotive builders.
They will answer that they are en-
ploying nearly three times the number
Of laborers that were getting wages
year ago.
Ask the shipbuilders. They will an
swer by pointing out upon the ways
ship for every berth, some Of them for
foreign owners.
Ask the laborer himself. He must
answer that his average wage is now
greater than ever before and that his
average hours of work are shorter.
Ask the banker. He will point to
check clearances that mount higher
week by week, a barometer for the
swelling tide In all business.
500 Ask anyone or every One except the
big bull moose and his political wor-
shippers and the answer must inevita-
bly, be: The country is bigger, richer,
happier, healthier than 1t ever has
been or than any other people has
been.
So what's wrong with the United
States! Are the inhabitants of this
favored land a lot Of impoverished
slaves, or are they merely being hum.
plugged by the high priest of discon-
tent?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29
PRESS COMMENT.
THE CASE AGAINST ROOSEVELT

Editorial from the st. Louis Post
Dispatch: A Roosevelt man COM
plains Of this papers attitude towards
Roosevelt's candidacy, and especially
resents our assertion that the Roose-
welt party is a one-man party. in
which the followers have no voice
which assertion our friend and critic
Interpreters as disrespectful to the fol-
lowers.
The Post-Dispatch would not need
lessly offend the admirers Of Colonel
Roosevelt, who constitute respec-
able body of men and force to be
reckoned with. But these men are
the very last who should be offended
by a recital of the colcnels record.
Our conclusion that his party was a
one-man party was based on a re-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29
TWO GENERATIONS.

Iowa Falls Citizen: Down In pas.
ture in the woods lie the remains OF
three little babes, buried some fifty
or more years ago-three ffckerlng
candles that shone for moment and
apparently went out forever. The
mounds have long ago disappeared,
and the rough stones that served as
markers have been rolled and pushed
away by man and beast. No hand
leaves a flower. The mind fingers on
the scene and multitude OF thoughts
come trooping in. What a difference
there Is between that generation and
this!
Those were the days OF the pioneer,
of the log cabin, of the prairie and
the wild wood, of the log schoolhouse.
of the OK team, of few railroads. OF
calico dresses and bare feet, of saw
ages and wild animals, OF horse
thieves, Of small education, of camp
meetings and great religious REVEALS,
Of poverty, of few advantages, Or So
liability, of stage coaches, ana SO on
and so on. A man who was worth
$50, 900 was millionaire. 1t Is not
strange that men schooled amid such
conditions look at the present gener-
alton in ominous amazement
This is a generation Of railroads,
of automobiles, of flying machines, OF
silk dresses, of diamonds, OF endless
numbers of schools and colleges, OF
millionaires, of fast living, OF nervous
wrecks, of religious forms, OF rapid
traffic, of selfishness, Of burglars, or
invention, Of fine residences, OF rap
idly increasing wealth, OF hypocrisy,
of greed and so on and so on. People
in the cities are hustling to get
enough to get to the country and i've
in cottages along the lakes, and people
in the country are hustling to get
enough to move to the city.
What a difference In the two gener'
atoms! The one was prompted large
| " by austere duty and rough but rug
ged honesty. The other is character
lied by the pursuit Of pleasure and
of wealth. Everybody Is looking for a
good time and the necessary money.
People will have it, usually honestly
~ nossible, and quite often dishonest
ly If necessary.
Viewed from the standpoint of I'M
mediate time. the change OF genera
lions Ia marvellous. perhaps alarming.
Viewed from the standpoint or unend-
ing eternity and illimitable space, 1t
is like a drop Of water IN an endless
ocean. Like Tennyson's brook, we
babble on forever.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29

In communication in today's paper
T. R. Buckley calls attention to the
fact that revolutionary soldier Is
buried in an unmarked grave in the
Dahlonega cemetery. Mr.. Buckley has
been advised that only three persons
can locate this grave, which has long
been neglected. His suggestion that
steps should be taken to provide a
suitable monument to mark the grave
of the only revolutionary hero buried
on Wapello county soil is one that
should receive favorable considera-
ton.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29
ALBA.

While Frank Daggett was trying out
his new motorcycle yesterday he col
lided with Emmett Mobiles auto. which
was driven by his young daughter.
Both machines were damaged.
Mrs. B. F. Asbury returned yesterday
from Leon where she accompanied her
granddaughters Pauline and Lucille As
bury who have spent the summer with
her.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Carlburg and two
children of Kansas City, Mo-. came
from Buxton yesterday morning to
spend few days at the home of Mrs.
Margaret Young and visit with other
Abba friends also.
Mr. and Mrs Harry Garner VIII Leave
Friday evening for Kansas where they
will visit week before the opening Of
the school year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29
WEST POINT.

John Rump left Monday for Ottum-
wa to visit his daughter Mrs. George
Otte.
Mrs. Henry whitney Of Des Moines
and Mrs. VIM. McCannon OF FIT. Madi-
son are visiting their parents Mr.. and
Mrs Thos. Avis.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fullen-
kAmp Aug. 16. 1912. son.
4Mr. and Mrs. w. Levick and children
are spending the week with relatives
Mrs. Anna Rohkar Of Keokuk visited
wednesday with her mother Mrs.
Thresa Goeble.
Joseph Wilson left Wednesday for
an extended visit with his sister at
Rocky Ford, Colo.
AL and Louis Nacke left Wednesday
for a visit with their sister Mrs. VIM.
Koett at Ottumwa
Miss Nora Kiener Of Ft. Madison Is
visiting her sister Mrs. VIM. Wonder
haar.
L. c. elites and A. M. odiorne left on
Tuesday for North Dakota to look at
land.
Mrs. Henry Krukenmeyer Of Haga-
man, N. NJ, is visiting her sister Mrs.
'o Mis-, ssn lIs1en ,nmidt who has
been sick the past weeks is very
low
Miss Lena Boeding visited ner sisters
at TT. Madison Friday and Saturday.
Miss Frances Jansen of Burlington
Is visiting her parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Jos. Jansen.
Will Wieneke Of Chicago arrived on
Thursday for visit with his parents.
Miss Freda Kleasner has been visit
ing friends in TT. Madison.
Ben Goeble who has. been working in
Moline, H., has accepted a position in
the Wieneke meat market.
fChas. Jaesche left Monday for Bowl
ing Green, Mo-, to take treatment
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Foggy Of Mt
Pleasant are visiting friends here Mr.
and Mrs .Foggy have sold their resi-
dence In Mt. Pleasant and are thinking
Of locating here.
DR.. Arnold wirsig of Des Moines is
visiting at the home Of his brother DR.
A. E. Wirsig.
!. Euella and Lera Chess Of Milton have
been visiting their aunt Mrs. L. L. Var
/ Hvming.
Mrs. Caroline Schierbrock returned
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of book review bunk while twofsted son toll who
pulls down 50 day Juggling pressed brick would be
thrown through the panels of iron fence because ne
wore q sack suit after o. M There has been great
change in since the clngtng hoop skirt and the
nnench blouse hit between the by fashions
stern decree. In the old days couldn't meet q
woman without impanting chase and roseate kiss
upon the back of her hand, but If any gallant of the
present age should revive that haowed custom
an outraged husband would spatter his physique all
the way from the dningroom to the front steps. It
used to be considered religious act to give woman
with seven bundles and 6O-pound infant in arms
seat in street Car but there is nothing in religion or
morals that justices any such familiarity nowadays
In some localities it is still considered good dorm for
to remove his hat entering elevator inhabited
by feminnity. This humiliatng practice however. is
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29
AN ABSURD CUSTOM.

Boston Transcript: The American
sense of humor is never quite IN full
working order during the early stages
of a political campaign else the Tor
NAL notification custom would have
been long since abandoned. and can
didates would have learned to put
forth their confession of faith with
out the excuse of accepting" a nom
nation which they have been seeking
with eagerness somewhere between a
year and lifetime.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29
WHAT CAN THE POLITICIANS DO
FOR US?

Wall Street Journal: To read the
debates of congress and all the
sneeches of candidates for office, anx-
ions for notoriety, salary, "perquis-
ties" and power, it might be supposed
that the country had arrived at a
desperate condition where good WORK
could no longer command It's price,
and where that aggregation OF the
whole peoples savings called "capi-
tai" exercised the bitterest oppression
upon the forces which can make cap
ital reproductive. Every politician
has a remedy. The remedies are all
different and the fact that the disease
they profess to cure Is not proven,
makes no difference. II the voter has
not a grievance, any competent poll
tictan is prepared to supply one.
what can the politicians do to give
us better railroad service? Our pas
senger service is not surpassed any
where in the world In variety, speed,
Frequency. comfort or cost. We carry
neonle cheaper for longer distances
than the railroads of any other coun-
try. Our committing rates for the
workers in the cities are actually low
err than those of European state-own-
ed railways, which grant concessions
out of the taxpayers pocket. Our
freight charges are lower on the aver
age than those of Germany, where
the stateowned railways are used.
nrofessedly, to build up the national
Commerce, playing favorites and pol
tics all the time. In point Of service
there is no comparison. To any other
country the system seems marvel OF
cheapness and efficiency; but the
noliticians cannot let it alone
They have appointed endless COM
missions to regulate it. Rates are
forcibly reduced on almost any de-
mand: while the interstate commerce
commission, to say nothing of the
state railway boards. automatically
suspend every advance, however
reasonable. Where is the grievance?
n is something vague, an invention
Of notifies land the politician says he
can redress it. But what can the poll
tician do?
our farmers were never SO pros
porous. The unearned increment OF
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29

Tuesday from VISIT at Lansing. Ia,
and La Crosse. Wis.
Mrs. Clarence Gri&ins and Mrs. An
drew Swanson of Burlington visited OF,
Tuesday at the J. S. De Spain home.
visit from all her sons during the
week. Those present were Henry Whit
lock of Chicago. Ed Whitlock Of Mitch
ell. Nebr., and John Whitlock Of Okla
homa City
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-29

It is announced that Col. Roosevelt
will make his most important political
speech of the coming tour at Des
Moines. Perhaps the colonel plans to
answer Senator LaFollette's questions
the source Of the campaign
funds raised for the unsuccessful at
tempt to win the nomination at Chi
cagO