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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-04-30
Don't be Deceived on Lumber Prices

Don't be Deceived on Lumber Prices
There's a big difference in buying
just lumber and In buying the kind
of lumber we sell. Your contractor
or carpenter will tell you that some
lumber can be nailed right into a
house without a plane ever touching
it. That means the saving of hand
labor. OF course, the lumber deal
err has to charge little more for
this smoothly finished lumber. but
in the end 1t really means a big saw
ing to you. Right here is where a
lot OF mistakes are made when lum-
Der is bought solely on price-with-
out regard to quality. True, Is to
20 years ago lumber sold for from
10 to 25 per cent cheaper. but you
do yourself and your pocket book a
great injustice when you compare
that lumber with the so per cent
to rs per cent greater values you
really get today. Come in and see
the difference.
There's No Place Like Home"
diff Young & Clifton.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-04-30
(From Mondays Daily.

Frank McComb, of harrisburg,
spent Sunday in the city at the
home of his mother, Mrs, Kate Nc
Comb.
The Misses Blanche Rutledge
and Clarice Hendrickson, of Kamrar,
were in the city Saturday.
ID. B. Austin and wife and little
daughter, Agnus, left today for their
new home in Algona.
w. J. Mitchell of Phoenix. Ari-
IONA, is visiting at the J. v. Kearns
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-04-30

home, he having accompanied Mrs.
Mitchell, who arrived here Saturday
night.
Mrs. e. N. Scott of Winnebago,
MINI, who has been visiting at the
James Mullin home, went to Fort
Dodge today for brief sojourn.
Misses Rachel and Ruth Hale
returned to Blairsburg today after
an over Sunday visit at the home of
their sister, Mrs. Earl Burton.
Rev. and Mrs. Walter Metcalf
of Blairsburg are spending the day
in this city.
MIR. and Mrs. F. l.. Miller were
in Des Moines Saturday for the pur-
pose of purchasing stock for their
new furniture store.
Mrs. Guy H. Polling stopped in
the city between trains today while
enroute to her home in Nevada aft
er visiting over Sunday with rela-
tives in Duncomhe.
Martin Severson went to Ran
dali last evening to visit friends.
Miss Ruby Crowter returned to
her school work in Randall this
morning after spending Sunday with
her parents in this city.
Mrs. Blanche Miller-Graham
and little son returned to her home
in Des Moines Saturday after spend
ing week at the home of her broth
err, Ray Miller and wife.
Mrs. John H. Neel of Kamrar
spent Sunday visiting friends in this
city.
Gale Pearce returned to his col
lege work at Ames today after
spending Sunday in the city.
MIR. and Mrs. w. ]. Covil and
daughter, Miss Helen, left this
morning for Des Moines on brief
visit.
Miss Georgia Cook spent the
week end at the George Hoffman
home near Blairsburg.
e. P. Anderson, of Stanhope, is
a business caller here today.
Mrs. j. H. Irving, who has been
visiting at the c. P. Balsley home,
returned to Chicago today.
Mrs. Harry Shackleton re-
turned today to Cleveland, Ohio, aft
err visit here at the C. P. Balsley
home.
Miss Clara Schwieger of Wat
erloo is visiting her brother, Frank
Schwieger, and other relatives in the
city.
N. 7. Smith went to Mason
City today for brief visit.
w. E. Buell. of Audubon visited
relatives here Yesterday.
John Hanrahan and Dr. A. F..
Schultz were in Duncombe yesterday
in the interests of the knights of
Columbus.
Mrs. W. w Wyatt went to Des
Moines Saturday night to be with
DR.. WAITS father, who underwent
an operation there Saturday.
Mrs. S. B. Bair returned Satur-
day from business trip to Mason
City.
Miss Verne Read of harrisburg
was in the city Saturday.
Mrs. J. Peltz was up from
harrisburg shopping Saturday.
Miss Bertha Burton returned
Saturday from few days visit in
Highview.
Mrs. Emma Johnson, who has
been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Art
Treanor, returned to her home in
Iowa Falls Saturday.
Miss Margie Bellison spent Sum
day in Williams.
Miss Merle Hughes visited rela-
tives In Williams over Sunday.
Mrs. A. Westwick of Williams
was in the city Saturday on bust
ness.
Mrs. J. B. Devalcourt went to
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-04-30

H. ]. Thompson is improving the
interior of his home by putting in
new hard wood floors.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-04-30

Wanted, bright girl to learn OPP
Grating. Wages $25 to $40 per
month. Apply forenoons.
27d3f1* Martin Telephone Co.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-04-30

For sale, Early Ohio and Rural
New York seed potatoes. O. w.
Bige. Martin phone 1907. Inde-
pendent on 10. 29d3fit1
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-04-30

DR.. Homan has moved to tk
Drake Office building. 2td6 |,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-04-30

The Baptist parsonage is being
treated to new coat of paint
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-04-30

Big dance. Five piece orchestra.
Thursday, May 9.
29d6 Brown & Keyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03

telling 'em how you licked the Yankees at the Battle of Franklin
 IS. G.-No, grapevine juice will not make whiskers grow. where there ain't any whiskers. Said juice is good propo- sition for lubricating the axle of a wagon. but it's failure as hair-fertilizer.
 'Algernon P.-Freckles and tan will dis appear if lemon juice is dabbled on the skin every night for six weeks. From your Photo it's my deliberate opinion that nothing but Jack-plane and Sand-paper will remove yours. Try Ammonia and Blasting-powder.
 'sWm. F. Doodle.--You state that your nails are in bad condition. and ask where you could get a good manicure Wel-e--a blacksmith's rasp Is very satisfying instrument. but for your com plaint would suggest a Jim-Crow Cotton card A curry-comb sometimes gives sat isfactorv results. An iron-toothed har- row does tolerably well, but the best peo- pie use the Jim Crow. The Doctors say by waiting seven years you won't need these toilet accessories.
 There" said the Sheriff, drawing long breath, after he had listed the above Answers, ''I reckon the boys of coni- ing generations will rise up and call me blessed. but it's my private opinion that these so-called questions are never asked, tut exist merely in the brain of the Ed itor.''
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form Why, even the Niggers, and Dagoes. and Mules are in favor of Good roads. You might as well ask a voter if he is in favor of Good health? of the Ten Commandments or of a Virtuous wife?
 The next time one of these oily Pollti- clans comes at me with this Good Roads sammon, l am going to welt him with a fatigued egg-an egg that has been over ripe for about q year"
 q fixed one of those windy Politicians, by accident while back remarked the Country School Teacher. "He was a gifted being, who talked politics and spouted philosophy wherever two boys. three dogs and nigger were gathered together.
 ''He would mouth the heavens, at a fun eral, or a hanging or a wedding. and he was eternally a Candidate for Congress, or the Legislature, or Coroner, or some- thing or other. On his return from Mont gomery or Birmingham he ruthlessly squandered precious hours in trying to get up little knot of loafers to listen to what he thought he knew about the inner working of the Great aNtonal Polt- ical System He was the most fluent tidal wave of windy oratory this side of Geor- gia. He could talk for an entire day without advancing a single idea, but he made 1t an invariable rule to punetuate his flowing periods by scratching him seil-oil the-cr, leg, or any Otner part or the Human Frame that was handy.
 He would scratch to promote the CO., pious flow of language; had his hands been tied doubt if he could have smit- ten the Atmosphere so necessarily with empty words. It was bit embarrassing on his audience when he would pause amid a fervent denunciation of Roose- welt, or Bill Bryan, or Conner, and with poised fingers would begin to reacn around himself-Southwes by Southland while the Gang awaited in a culver of ex- pectancy unknowine where them fingers would land. he would grab the flag end of travelled idea and quietly run his hand in his trowsers pocket.
 ''When this Great Wind-bag had q crowd, and scratching room. he would overflow and spill out mutilated frag- ments of Alabama Language until the volume of facetious works edited by N Webster Esquire looked like a circular of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Pow CT Company. He came to my house one day while was mending a broken saddle l was using a chair that had basin shape to hold the glue necessary to unite the split saddle frame. Windy sat down in that chair. rnheeding the glue, and iIn-
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From the Loveman, Joseph & Loeb workroom comes the small black beaver, with encircling white plumes. but it's style is suggestive of Marcelle Demay. The shape is small oblong, with brim longer in the back and showing an en- chanting sweep. A swirl of short white ostrich plumage encircles the crown and, posed at the back are three white prin- cesse plumes, making an opulent display. This is one of the smartest hats in the city and it Is a local creation When the large black velvet French poke bonnet at the extreme right in the Illustration was exhibited, I thought of Elizabeth- for only a young and lovely face could stand its frankness. The crown is small and flat, the brim dropping at either side. A rose pink Amazon plume wreathes the top and is caught with an American Beauty bud--a fanciful thing of silk, in the two wonderful tones of the flower itself. Another rose plume is placed beneath the brim. next the hair, and again one of those lovely buds peeps out where the straight plumage of the feather covers the end of it's stem.
 A more conservative shape Is the other large model, and never have such rich colors been wrought into the making of a chapeau. It turns slightly in front,
 
 a cleft making it ravishing In it's becom- ingness. The Amazon plume which en- circles It has the three tones-amber. yell low and brown--which blend into a sym phonic whole as it meets the plush brim which s-"nigger-head brown We re- frain from making joke on the subject. Mir. Leopold Loeb is authority for the name. by which he heard it called in New York
 Here and in the other shops, individual ity of design is evident throughout the millinery display. Most of them are characterized by moderation in shape and trimming. but few show any hint of kin ship. As to whether the Birmingham woman wants or does not want her gowns and froclzs to show individuality and personal influence, MT. Loeb has this to say: ''It used to be almost impossible to sell hat that did not suggest some other hat. They had to be more or less like some model that had caught pope- lar fancy. The year that the Merry Widow Sailor (you remember) was brought out, we were in dispair. We couldn't supply the demand, but we had other beautiful And costly models by the score and nobody wanted them. That was an awful time. let me tell you. Now
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BY WELLINGTON vANDIyER

bee line for her, but the Sunday School Superintendent intercepted him, and ad vised him to jump in the creek, or burn a rag, or something: but Spraddles got in suited and swore that there wasn't thing the matter with him. Old Doctor Bledsoe came up about this time and says: Look here, Buck, there Is some thing awful the matter with your feet, or your liver. or your teeth. You must be taking the Yaller flanders. I would rec ommend charcoal and diurnal ablutions. But the young fellow just used worse cuss words than these of the Docks, and kept getting madder and madder. Grandpa Manning, who was 93 years old and hadn't smelt a thing in 40 years, sorter raised up as Buck passed him, and allowed, as he sniffed the air: Folks oughtn't to be al- lowed to dry green hides about Church 1t ought to be ergin the Law When Buck Spraddles got up to about rod of Sue Bennett that gal took one sniff of the rancid atmosphere. flung up her arms and fell over in dead faint. Buck Spraddles has kind of transferred his counting at tentions to gal who lives close to the Chemical Plant in town, and he won stand any reference to that Picnic. Linn berger Cheese is something fearful, but it's just boquets to the influence that Bi- Chloride of Carbon has on the neighbor- hood; why, Sir, would go crazy IT.
 If there is anything that makes me tired clear down to my gambrels,'' said the Old Confederate. its this political, newspaper twaddle, where the ambitious office hunter vamps for a whole page about being an Advocate of Good Roads and wants the dear people to elect him to office because he is in favor of good roads. If there is man in Alabama outside of the Lunatic Asylum not in favor of good roads will pay ten dollars for his photograph. It's getting so that if a fellow is a candidate for dog-peter in crossroads village he announces that he is running as an Advocate of Good Roads It's rot, pure rot. unadulterated hog wash, and sickening pffe. What makes me mad about it is for the shad- bellied, stall-fed Politician, to mistake me for a denb fool and think that this kind of flap doodle will delude me into voting for him. I'd see him in Hades further than al crow could fly in a month before l would stultify myself by voting for him on that kind of Jackassical fol-de-rol. I heard Of fellow in one of the wire grass counties who was a candidate for Keeper of the County Poor House and he was a running on a Good Roads plat
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mediately proceeded to give me Spring Freshet of mis-information about Good Roads. the Iniquitous fee system, and the Robber Tariff. When he reached a breathing place in his rant he made an effort with his fingers to place the usual diacritical mark over a paragraph Of ms dope, but he failed to score a touchdown. Again he tried to harrow up an idea. but found the wires were crossed, and there he sat for thirty minutes making speeches. scratching motions. but failing to come up to the scratch. After l had thawed him out with hot water and a crowbar, there aose coolness between us which has not, as vet been warmed up. but Windy has ceased to blow around me"
 The Sheriff, who had been reading a newspaper, looked up and remarked:
 T wonder if the questions published as asked by correspondents in these Side Talks with girls and Answers to core spondents,' and columns of that kind, are really asked by sane people, or is it fake on the part of the editor? Another thing curious about it is that all the answers are intended for females-thc boys are compelled to go without the wisdom of these Answers Now if I was an editor would get up lot of nswers to fit the boys. I would pile it up something like this:
 "Old Boy-If your false teeth should in- advertently fall into the gravy at a Din ner, do not throw in your wig, also Folks migbt think you had a notion of going in swimming. Just cover your confusion by
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lettering engenders dreaming. Green
 islands dot the mdstream, proud monas- teries garnish the banks. variously d. vided river veins momentarily lose them- selves in wilderness and lagoon only to emerge again with quickened course; the scenery grows wilder and stranger and more fascinating, eddies and whirlpools glance and glimmer and simmer and joyful manifestations of human life min gle their ciirn with the entrancing set ting. The sweep of vision at times com mands survey from the distant snow mountains of lower Austria to the superb Hohenstaufen in Bavaria.
 passed the notorious "Strudel," whose former terrors led an ancient author to advise travellers to pass the infamous place sleeping, but I was wide awake and upon a perpetual qu vive.
 I wish I possessed the power and time to portray the glories of Melk, that city of the Niebei1ngenlied, that hangs upon the side of the Danube. l wish I could depict it's grandiose beauty it's superb convent which no castle, no cloister and no abby. that rich in numbers multifari- ously adorn the banks of Europe's stream can surpass. Even the splendors of the Escurial, with It's myriads of courts, sa- Ions and galleries fail to eclipse the mar vels of the abby of Melk Here the whole waterscape breathes of deep boise. Lovely vineyards clothe and shore hills and scenes of sublime grandeur alternate with those of charming grace and sweetness. Mighty ruins look down from rock heights at whose feet the quiet homesteads of humans seek shelter as though they still felt the power of the tyrannical nobles cf old, who once dwelt above them. This part of the Danube is rich in assoca- tions with legends and folklore of the most romantic character. Here dwells the wild Hochemer, who must ride with out rest until the Danube's bed shall be- come as dry as the apex of the Jauser- linz
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Court week was over. the jury had been dismissed and paid off, the Judge with the visiting lawyers had departed, so that the Loafors about the entrance to the venerable old Court House could again Nhave room, and an audience to listen to
 idle chatter of the group. A smiling nldple, just married, came from the Pro- oate office. by the Gang, and this incl ent turned the minds of the Club to ,ourting and marriage
 II "Young Buck Spraddles ain't quite as devoted to Sue Bennett as he was a while back volunteered the County Surveyor. '1 have been ever on Peckerwood and the ueighbors are talking about the cause of the arrangement right smart. It seems that Buck went to town a short while back to get some Bi-Sulphide of Carbon to kill Weevis in the wheat, and after buying a bottle of it, he decided he would get some real drug store hair oil to further beautify his thick curling locks. When he got the bottles mixed and put a little of 1t on his hair he thought the stuff smeled a little rank, but as he had been spreading Guano that day he laid 1t on the fertilizer. Next day there was a picnic at Shady Grove church, so Buck applied a light sprnkling of the Bi-Sul- phide to his Ambrosia locks, put on his Sunday clothes and lit out for that gath ering, after having carefully doctored the wheat with the Hair Oil Every time Buck would pass a neighbor on the road the fellow would commence to speak to him, but would suddenly get serious, turn his head away and hold his nose But attpibuted this conduct to jealousy of his raiment. as he was wearing red socks, a blue cravat. a green hat and a pair of plaid trousers with checks in them as big as bricks-fact is, this was Bucks most gorgeous counting costume. As Spraddles drove up to the Picnic grounds Deacon Chandler's bull dog. 'Rattler,' his name was. give keen howl, tucked his tail between his legs and run under the Church. where he stayed all day, howl ing like somebody in the neighborhood was going to die; nothing could get that Purp out from under the Church; meat wasn't no temptation to him while Sprad- dies was around. When Buck lit out of his buggy two mules broke loose from their hitching posts, and old Lady Sprag- gins spanked little Bud Rowe, because. as she said, The drafted little Imp had spilled bottle of assafoedity draps on hisself.
 Buck had been in love with Sue Ben Aett for about year and he was making
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adays it's very different and women are letting their own personalities and tenn peraments have some show in the choice of costumes. It is a blessed thing too. for" he finished desperately, 'if every body wants one thing, what are we going to do with the other things?"
 Flowers to Wear
 Have you a corsage chrysanthemum7 or a couple of roses or asters2 Then why not? To the well dressed woman of Lon don and Paris a velvet flower nowadays, tucked into the front of her fur stole or coat. is almost a fetish. It is wonderful what a carefully chosen corsage bouquet will do to the general appearance Tho vogue for black and the sombre tones of our velvet and cloth suits this fall makes such touch of special importance. The natural flower has never the same effect as the velvet bloom and is apt to break off short at the stem or scatter it's petals over the gown, not to mention the fact that It can only be worn once and knows nothing of the reyiyifying effect of steam ing over fast boiling kettle which does so much for its velvet prototype. You can find charming velvet blossoms in the local shops saw some beauties just yesterday at Drennen's. Always bear in mind one thing, though. in choosing your bouquet The blossom in question must always be in season. Just now you might wear clump of two or three pur- pie and wine-red china asters or dahlias. a couple of tswny velvet chrysanthe- nuns or a bouquet of mountain berries. which gleam like a cluster of pigeons blood rubies against the soft grey or mole velvet of your autumn gown. In few weeks, when violets are plentiful, your corsage bouquet can he of Russian or English violets, scented so sweetly it will be difficult for one whose eye is not very quick to realize that you are not always the happy possessor of fresh flowers Dolly wrote once a charming little idyi about the woman with the red rose in her hair; while not fraught with the same sentiment or poesy. maybe there is an ineffable charm, too, about the woman who always gives this exquisite fiorall touch to her street gown. Dolly was one who did so last winter, by the way; the first. however. to introduce the pretty custom here was Mary Ware. whom I mentally picture always in stunning black gowns. beret hats and enormous black lynx furs. relieved with two long-stemmed American Beauty roses tucked away as only she knows how to do it. in front ol ner gown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03

shape and ever so becoming. The irreg- ular lines of the brims offer every ad- vantage and make them suitable for all most any face or figure; the colors, if black is unbecoming next the face, may be chosen from a long list of soft, beau tiful tones to be introduced as a facing or in the shape of a long, soft curling plume, or again. In rose tucked in a noticeably demure place.
 The above sketches were made in Love man, Joseph & Loeb's millinery depart ment and represent several types of the more exclusive models The little toque is one that will see service this winter. It is made of Siberian squirrel. whose grays and white make it worthy of wear at formal affairs, but whose durability Is one of its best features. It has mar row brim and cone-shaped crown; the stiff litle gray and white feather stands erectly in front and a small flat bow of the new mateet blue placed at it's base introduces a surprising trife of color. This little hat is to be crushed well down over the ears and will be fine for motor ing.