Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-12-31

of fun with the women SuuraSlSIS OF
late years. First the senate would
kill their bill then the house would
take hand at it. Now, however,
the question is live one and all the
people of the state will be watching.
No legerdemain will be permitted
this winter.
1t is said that Joseph G. Cannon
will be a candidate for reelection to
congress two years hence. 1t is just
like Joe. He is like the darkey's old
bull dog. Bull tackled street car
one day in New Orleans and when
dragged out from under the wheels
was able to stand up and wag the
stump of his tail. "You oil fool you.
You got licked dat time, but don t
'speck you will ever find it out" re-
marked the darkey to his pet.
The papers are saying that Wood
bury county produces 10,OOO,OOO
pounds of butter per year, which at
LIS cents pound, is worth $2,5Oo,-
900. If Woodbury. county can DO
that, Hamilton county could do bet
ter. as this is much better agricul-
tural county. OF course it requires
lots of work to produce butter and
if every county in the state produce
ed as much as Woodbury. it wouldn' t
be worth twenty-five cents a pound.
Bureau county, Illinois, is to make
some experiments in lighting coun-
try roads. Already a three mile
strip has been selected which will be
Lighted with electricity. If the BEN
efits prove equal to the cost the
| lighted districts will be enlarged
and in due time all the main coun-
/ try roads in the county will have the
i convenience. If the experiment
i proves satisfactory it will be adopt
/ ed by other counties and in due time
country roads generally will be
lighted.
i Attorney General Cosson returned
home to Des Moines a few days ago
i from Washington, where he had
been before a senate committee in
4 the interest of Senator Kenyon's an
4 ti-liquor shipping bill. He says
i Senator Kenyon is going to make a
strong fight to clean up Washington
and is going to center his efforts at
first upon the red light districts.
/ Whether the senator will succeed In
| his crusade for purer Washington
or not, he will win the respect OF
the good people of Iowa and will de-
serve to win it.
| Some fools over at Fort Dodge
sought to have some fun with a
companion and while he was asleep
they secured an air pump and filled
his bowels with wind. The pressure
was SO great that the victims bow
els were perforated in eleven places
and he is lying in the hospital at
the point of death. And the parties
playing the "joke" are men of ma
ture years. 1t seems strange that
people with ordinary intelligence
| would not have more sense than do
such thing as that. OF course they
are penitent now, but that will not
| save the mans life to his family.
Despite the fact that Gov. Wilson
will not be able to visit the White
House in January, the gracious In
vitation extended by President Taft
will always remain to his credit. No
retiring president ever did the like.
Springfield Republican.
other presidents have had reason
to feel that the man who defeated
them was in some measure RESPONSE
BILE for their retiracy. but Mr.. Taft
knows he defeated himself. He
knows that almost any man on the
democratic ticket would have been
elected this year, hence he has no
feeling against the successful aspir-
ant.
A bartender, it may be presumed,
knows about as much regarding the
,ill-effects of intoxicants as anyone.