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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

kins. it sometimes becomes neces-
sary for men to take drastic steps
to preserve their self-respect, even
though their political death-knell
be sounded as the penalty for exhib-
iting Independent manhood enough
to do it. Had Gov. Cummins shown
weakness then the convention would
have been stolen and he would new
er have reached the United States
senate. ...
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25
ROMEO CAUGHT IN CHIMNEY
Curious Antics Of q Breton Lover
Arouse Excitement In Village
In Brittany.

This story comes straight from Nor.
laix, very modern place in Brittany.
Our Romeo. like Chaucer's hero, was
caught In the chimney. He was 90
ing to his sweetheart, instead Of run
ming away from her. The pretty
Juliette was a distance of some seven
miles from his home. The enamored
Romeo tramped it on foot all that
distance. At night he reached the
house, and called, but got no answer.
Az the door was shut he decided to
try tho roof. On the roof he found
the chimney, and 1t seemed to him
that was quite wide enough to let him
down. He descended for some dis
lance, but then, as he came near the
fireplace, the chimney narrowed. He
slipped and got in a narrow neck
Here he was caught, unable to move
up or down. Before long he felt q
suffocating sensation. If the thing
lasted much longer it would be the
end of him. He could stand 1t no
more. After groaning he yelled, and
he beloved so well that not only was
his sweetheart disturbed In her slum-
bers, but the whole village was ex-
cited.
The nearest chimney.sweep was
called, but he could not help him out.
The gendarmes woke up the mayor,
and he, with all the Aotables of the
place, went to look. They consulted
among them, and the only way to
iiberate the captive lover was to pull
down part Of the chimney. This was
done by some masons, and he was
presently released. but before being
allowed his freedom q police report
was drawn up, with view to inflict-
ing series OF fines for breaking into
a private Enclosure, damaging other
peoples property, waking up the au-
thorities unnecessarily, and causing q
public scandal. Poor Romeo was very
sad when it was all over.-Paris Cor
respondence, London Telegraph.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25
TEMPERANCE.
senate.

Algona Courier: But what more
can be done for the cause of temper.
ance in Algona is not apparent tc
us. We have not had saloon fol
thirty years. There is not DRUG
store in the county that has a per,
NIT to sell liquor. There is not q
bootlegger in Algona, we believe. Il
there is any evidence of drinking we
never see it and seldom hear of It
There are other communities, we
opine that are more in need of tenn.
perance lectures than this. Algona
Is omnivorous as to eloquence.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25
KENYON's VICTORY.

Manchester Press: The remark
able victory won by Senator Kenyon
last week is not so much tribute
to the man as to what he stands for.
When Senator Kenyon went to
Washington and protested against
certain procedures long sacred in
that body, he was called a penny
ante reformer and sneered at as a
notoriety seeker. He committed an
unspeakable sacrilege in opposing
huge federal building appropriations
for villages, and his attack upon the
barber shop and bath sinecures an
gered the older senators to the verge
of frenzy. But Senator Kenyon was
not opposing an individual appro-
priation merely. He was protesting
against a tendency. He knows, as
does every other man in public life,
that vast millions of the peoples
money are wasted, literally thrown
away, every year as result Of ex-
travagant practices to which con-
gress has become accustomed by pre-
cedent, tradition and familiarity. He
did not utter his protest for politi-
cal purposes. He has sought to
make no capital out of it. He be-
lieves in reduction OF the enormous
expenditures of the government by
Topping of foolish indulgences and
curtailing contracts ridiculously out
OF proportion to the actual needs Of
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25
SEWER-WALNUT STREET.
NOTICE OF PROPOSED SEWER
CONSTRUCTION.

Notice is hereby given to all per-
sons interested, that at a meeting
of the city council of Webster City
Iowa, held on the 21st day of May
A. d. 1912, the following resolution
was proposed and adopted by said
city council:
RESOLUTION OF NECESSITY.
Be it resolved by the city council
of the city of Webster City, Iowa:
That in order to preserve the
health and secure the proper SAM
tary regulations, and for the conven-
fence of the residents along the
street hereinafter named, it is here
by declared necessary and advisable
to construct an extension of the
combined sanitary and storm Sew
enth District Sewer on Walnut street
with the necessary manholes, lamp
holes, intakes and house functions
of the material and dimensions here
In specified, along and upon the fol-
lowing named street, having the ter
minal points herein named.
Commencing at the center Of the
intersection of Walnut and Grove
streets; thence west to the center of
of Beach street, of twelve (12")
inch sewer pipe.
All of said sewer pipe mentioned
or referred to herein to be vitrified
clay sewer pipe. !
The cost of construction of said
sewer, manholes, lampholes and
hv"se functions to be assessed
against the property thereon and
adjacent thereto in accordance with
the law governing the same.
The contractor who shall con-
struct said sewer, manholes, lamp
holes and house functions, shall
guarantee that the same shall en-
dure without need OF repair for one
year from date of their acceptance
by the city, or If repairs thereon are
needed within one year from the ac-
ceptance of said work, that all such
repairs shall be made without ex-
pense therefor to the city.
AND BE 1T FURTHER REsMv-
ED:
That the city council will meet
at o'clock p. m, on the LIST day OF
July, 1912, at the council room in
the city hall for the purpose of con-
sidering objections to said proposed
resolution and that notice of said
resolution and the passage of this
resolution be published as provided
by law.
Passed this 21st day Of May, 1912.
Approved this 21st day May, 1912.
H. NJ. Sparboe, Mayor.
Attest: R. P. Smock, City Clerk. 4f4
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

cures permanently Ene cAses 10 un1oEe64D
nd sends the incura BILE home without takinG4
- from them. This Is why he oeotinusl =
,ssits year after year, while other doctor. -
q Is an eminently successful specialize q .
nronic diseases, proven BY the many CURES
Elected In chronic cases which have baf1ed tho
xiii Of Ill other physicians. His hospital Oh
perience and extensive practice Naye l'ac. him
&c proficient that ho can naA2e Al Ito. Nss Gdts.
saSo IN . few minutes.
Treats al durable cases OF Catarrh, Nose,
throat and Lung diseases. Eye and Jaf.
stomach, Liver and Kidneys, Gravel, RheuiaA
ism. Paralysis, Neur algia, Nervous and Hesr
diseases, Blood and Skin diseases, Epilepsy.
3right,s Disease and Consumption in eariy
.sage; diseases Of thoBladdef and Female Organs,
Liquor and Tobacco habit. Stammering culn4
md sure methods to prevent its recurrence given,
Anever.failing remedy for Big Neck.
PILES, FISTULAE and RUPTURE guaran.
.eed cured without detention from business.
special attention given to all Surgical
.ases, and all diseases OF the Eye, Ears
Nose and Throat.
Grannlated
-. r,.e~.>nk r,~n.. $3.50. SuhtnroN -ifhny,A
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

Some of the supporters of Hon
Frank p. Woods have been defeating
Judge Conner once or twice week
ever since the primaries four years
ago. Now we suppose they will
keep busy defeating both the Judge
and the Hon. Paul E. Stillman. They
do not seem to understand when a
political contest is ended.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

value, and whom we include in this
general expression of sincere graft
tude.
We have given our opponent the
best fight we could, and he has
won. We now offer him our con-
CALCULATIONS and assure him of our
support in securing his election next
November.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

sidering objections to said proposed
resolution and that notice OF said
resolution and the passage Of this
resolution be published as provided
by law.
Passed this 21st day Of May, 1912.
Approved this 21st day May, 1912.
H. M. Sparboe, Mayor.
Attest. r. p Smock. CITY Clerk. 4f4
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25
sTILLMAN, A GOOD LOSER.

Jefferson Bee: Sometimes very
homely word is more aptly express
i've of an idea than the choicest and
most elegant selection in. the entire
vocabulary, and Clicked is the word
that appeals to us as adequately des-
cribing our political condition. We
have made the very best fight that
we could for the Congressional nom
nation, but that fight was not good
enough to win. Naturally we are
conscious of a feeling, of disappoint-
ment over the result, but there is in
that. disappointment neither humil-
iation nor bitterness. We are neith-
er languishing nor disgruntled. An
expert with magnifying glass can
not discover any sore spots on us,
and while we should have been
nightly pleased to have won, and
to have pressed forward somewhat
farther upon that political path
where the people of Greene county
have so kindly set our steps, yet we
are neither dismayed nor disheart-
ened by defeat. Our home life and
all that appertains thereto, our bust
ness and its associations, our
friends and their manifold kindnes-
ses-all these things look better to
us than they did before the siren
uous political fight Of the past few
weeks. And so, though We have lost
something we feel that we have
gained something in this contest,
and we are glad that we went into
it. s.
And speaking of friends, we ven
ture to say broadly that no man was
ever surrounded by a grander or
more loyal company of helpers than
have rallied to our assistance in JEFF
ferson and elsewhere in Greene
county. The innumerable evidences
of interest-and interest of the kind
that means time and trouble and la
bor-are engraved upon the tablets
Of our memory, and we are con-
scious of no higher ambition than
that we may in the future be able
to Offset and repay, in some sort
the countless obligations under
which we rest. And not only at
home, but elsewhere throughout the
district, we have made friends with.
out numbers, whose friendship is
more than of passing or political
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

of the case. For this he deserves
credit, not sneer The time is at
hand when these matters will be
corrected, not in a spirit of parsi-
mony but of genuine and far-reach-
ing economy. Senator Kenyon has a
certain measure of support in the
senate now, and he will have more.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25
THEN AND NOW.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The
language used in Chicago by the
assembled delegates, committeeman
and spectators is remarkable for its
strength and picturesqueness, but it
Is not more expressive than the Ian
guage used in earlier days by over
heated politicians whom we now
look back to as model statesmen
When John Quincy Adams was made
president over Andrew Jackson in
1926 a partisan newspaper report
ing the event said:
Expired at Washington on the
ninth of February (1S25) Of poison
administered by the assassin hands
of John Quincy Adams, usurper, and
Henry Clay, the virtue, liberty and
independence of the United States
The people wanted Jackson at
that time and the feeling was in
tensely bitter when he was not
chosen. Four years later he was in
vincible. Ultimately, the people
generally have their way.
But what we started out to say
was that the language used in con-
nection with the proceedings in the
Chicago convention is not SO bad by
contrast with that used at the con-
clusion of the Monroe presidential
terms which is reckoned in history
as the ezra of good feeling"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

A few years ago when Gov. Cum
Minis was a candidate for a third
term and was opposed by Hon. Geo.
d. Perkins, the governors oppon-
ents laid plans to steal the nomin-
alton, just as the Taft following
did. At that time Gov. Cum
minis made it known that he would
not submit to theft of the con-
vention and it was plain that he
was ready to bolt If the fake con-
tests were decided in favor of Per-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25
Roosevelt can draw a bigger AM

Roosevelt can draw a bigger ane
more enthusiastic crowd than any
man who ever delivered an addres:
tn the United States. The personal
ity of the colonel is unique and
whether one agrees with him or not
everybody wants to see and hear
him.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

The present strenuous fight with
In the republican party will prove
its own value. The party will come
out OF it improved and clarified. The
rank and file will be given more
power in the nomination of a pres
fdential candidate and the vote OF
a republican Of Iowa will count as
much in the final nominating round
up as vote from Georgia. 1t is
marvellous that the party has suf-
fered some Of the evils now COM
planned Of to control its delibera-
lions in the past. The only explain
alton is that the rank and file have
been Indifferent.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

Kick and the world kicks with
you. Surrender and you are tram
pied under foot. @
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

1t is nonsense to say the republi.
cans of Georgia would be discrim.
mated against by basing representa-
ton in the republican national con.
vention upon the number of votes
cast. The fact is, such plan would
do exact justice to all. But 1t is dis
elimination against Iowa republi'
cans to pursue a policy that gives
100000 of them in this state nc
more influence in national conven'
ton than is given the $4,000 in
Georgia. Precedent should not be
followed when it conflicts with the
square deal. j -.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

Col. Young doesn't owe the stand
patters of Iowa anything. He has
worked hard for that faction for ten
years. When Blythe was furnishing
the brains the colonel was supply
ing the energy and when Blythe
dropped out the colonel supplied
LATE Young and his Capital stand
patism in Iowa will soon be dead
If it Is not in that condition already
The Freeman-Tribune is coming to
believe that the fighting colonel is
cincere in his professions of repent
ance.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

Nothing is more difncu1t, nothing
is more terrible than to look things
in the face-Ford MADDOX Hueffer.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

A representative government is. a
failure in so far as the duly elected
representatives of the people fail to
represent them in good faith.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

The good roads movement in
Hamilton county needs a stimulus.
Most of the counties of the state are
doing better in this direction than
Hamilton, yet none need it more.
As automobiles increase in number
the demand for road improvement
grows. Nothing helps the farmer
and the business man more.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

The presidential campaign this
year promises to be one without en-
thusiasm so far as republicans are
concerned. The rank and file of the
party have lost interest, apparent
ly.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-06-25

n. A. Naxon. painting and paper
hanging. Martin phone AS. A-t-ti
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-22
Plays and Players

Rita Stanwood viii be the prima
donna of My Best Girl" Of which Cliff
ton Crawford Will be the star
George v. Hobart is writing a play
for Bernard Granville. who is. to be
starred next season by A. II. Wood
"Bunty Pulls the Strings" has been
running in London one year and is still
playing to packed houses.
The new musical comedy for Kolb
and Dill. the western comedians, is
called The Grocer and the Shoemaker
Edward Paulton and Charles Bradley
have written an Irish drama, The
Rose of Kildare" in which Fiske
O'Hara will star
]. Hartley Manners has written a
one-act play, The Woman Intervenes.'
in which Florence Roberts recently APP
peared in Los Angeles.
Among the promised productions OF
the coming season is a comedy from
the German, entitled The Guardsman'
1t is by the author of The Devil"
Henry W. Savage will have twelve
attractions the coming season, most OF
which will be ready for production be-
| fore the first of November The list
will include Somewhere Else" a must
cal fantasy by Avery Hopwood and
Gustav Luders; new farce by Rupert
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-22
THE LANDS DISMISSAL.

This stew. about the dismissal of
Walter Lands, postmaster at San
Juan, Porto Rico. has in it all the
elements of balderash Mr.. Lands,
who doubtless is a bright and deserv-
ing man, has had about all that is
coming to him from the government
IN the way of support, unless he is to
be pensioned for life. He has had
office for the last dozen or fifteen
years, and all of his brothers have
been in the public pay. At one time
two of them were in congress, one a
federal Judge at Chicago, where he
yet Is; one was coroner at Cincinnati,
and Walter, over whom the present
teapot tempest is waged, was post
master at San Juan. That's doing
pretty well for one family. One thing
that may to a mild extent reconcile
the country to the success or the ma
tional democratic ticket this year,
should such a calamity befali the ma
ton, will be the fact that a change
in the administration will be follow
ed by the sloughing of a lot oil
barnaeles attached to the ship Of
state, appointees who appear to think
that the republican party owes them
La living Washington Herald
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-22
THE EDITOR MAGNATE.

Opportunity is largely matter of
environment and there is no place in
the world where there are so many
opportunities for the right kind of a
man as there are in the Calumet
region of Lake county
For % years A. j. Smith has been
editor of the Hobart Gazette He has
eked out an existence chronicling
the events of the week, fighting for
this and that and making his paper
a factor in the community
He might have continued as editor
of the Hobart Gazette for another 25
years had it not been for the fact
that Gary was built as a next door
neighbor to Hobart.
This circumstance opened up a
new vista of possibilities for the
metropolis of Hobart township. Ho.
bart itself awakened from its quarter
of century of slumber 1t expended
SO as to take practically all of the
territory in hte township.
1t became a residential suburb Of
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-22
Iii e A R I'd
BY
n u B e

REVOLUTION is on in Nicaragua
again. Whenever they start something
in one of these banana republics you
can always figure on West Hammond
having sympathetic movement
LET'S see Isn't 1t almost time for
King Alfonso to become father of an
other one?
1T looks as if some city councils will
have to authorize the purchase of pad
locks for school board safes or else
compel some of the officials to put on
boxing gloves while handling the cash.
NOW that the Illinois Steel company
has been declared to be the premier
concern in the steel trust you won't be
able to touch Gene Burlington, presi-
dent, with a ten-foot pole.
CAN 1t be that Indiana Harbor is
completing it's ship canal at this time
merely for the purpose of dimming the
glory of the Panama ditch2
OUR special correspondent, Hennery
Coldbcttle, is on the job at the north
ern Indiana editorial convention today.
Hennerys headquarters are at the
Schiitz block. but mail intended for him
If it is left at the Binzenhof will also
reach its proper channels.
HAVING a big sewer contract to let
there is still faith enough in the Ho-
bart town board that it will give the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-22

Gary. Its surrounding farming COM
munity fed Gary And then the de-
mand for better transportation
facilities resulted in the organization
of an interurban company. Smith,
the editor, naturally assumed the
leadership of the project that is to
connect the steel city with Hobart.
The line has been financed The
work of construction will be complet-
ed within the next two weeks. And
so the country editor became the
traction magnate of the town.
Editors are supposed to remain
poor. At least this is true OF coun-
try editors. But Smith has so far
forgotten the ethics of the profession
as have made a small fortune in real
estate in the past two years.
An opportunity found its man in
Hobart and that man was Editor A.
]. Smith; as good a fellow as ever
wore an Orak button and as con-
cientious a fellow as ever showed a
quill. Hats off to the new traction
magnate.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-22
THE COUNTY FAIR.

Lake county is divided into two
sections; it's industrial and its agri-
cultural. BY a queer prank Of fate
the industrial section is located to
the north where the land is so
sterile and sandy that it will grow
nothing but factories and railroads
The population of the northern
part of the county is more dense for
the men who live near the factories
in which they work. In the south
ern part of the county there is less
population but the soil is fertile and
tillable.
The south end of the county has
| its place in the scheme of things for
its golden fields of grain, It's orderly
garden patches, its orchards it's
poultry farms and its dairy farms
must feed the constantly increasing
population In the northern part OF
| the county.
| Consequently the county rair is an
event of great significance 1t is the
| one occasion of the year when mill
workers of the north go to the county
seat to shake the hand of the men
who feed them. There the northern
Lake county resident learns of the
fertility of the soil in the south and
gets something of an idea of the va
riety of the products of the farms.
And the question of the high cost
of living need not be an embarrassing
one for after all it is the middleman' s
profits and the cost of transportation
that increases the price of foodstuffs
The farmer is getting no more THAI
a fair price for his products
What ought to be done is call :
joint convention of the consumer:
and the producers on one of the day.
of the fair. Speakers should present
both sides of the question.
Suggestions should be received
along the following lines:
i 1. How to increase the trans
portation facilities between cities
and country
2. The marketing of rarm pro
duce and the elimination of the mid
|, ldleman's profits.
3. How to encourage the farme
to sell his produce in the cities o
Lake county instead of the Soutl
Water street market.