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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-04-08

little changed by the passing years,
nave a home of their own out where
they can grow things.
Pomona is what its name suggests
and here near a beautiful! park is the
pretty bungalow home OF Mr.. J. w.
ChaIfant carved out of a vineyard.
He was away when | called, show
ing some people around the city in
his auto.
Petaluma was reached by pleas
ant steamer ride from San Francis
co, and here | found Comrade George
Meissner, a friend whom have
known for almost forty years. His
home looks out over the city, the
valley beyond and the grand hills
which rise around it, giving also
glimpse in the distance of his ranch
of about 900 acres. AS | write | re-
member a call | made at his Iowa
home at what the almanac calls the
same season of the year, driving that
day with two buffalo robes tucked
around me over about twenty miles
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-04-08

of snow. There was no orange tree
then and there at his door showing
its yellow fruit under bright green
leaves or vegetables in the garden.
Though much farther north, the
January freeze was not as hard here
at Petaluma as in the vine-covered
valley of the San Joaquin at Fresno,
or still further south at Los Angeles
and Riverside. Come again and
stay a week next time" was the
goodbye which / shall not forget.
Though ! am not writing on matters
in general 1t may be all right to
mention that Petaluma is the ''home
of the hen" 1t is said that over a
million and a quarter dozen eggs per
annum are used in the hatcheries
around Petaluma. The latest figures
at hand give 7,2SS,215 dozen eggs
shipped from Petaluma in 1910 and
an estimated production for 1911 of
over 100000 1000 eggs.
At Willowbrook. which may be
called suburban Los Angeles, is the
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-04-08
Obituary..

Joseph Grant Krouskup was born
In Braidwood, ILL.,, July 10, 1868.
and died in Mount Clair, Colorado,
April 3, 1913. He was the eldest
son OF G. w. and J. J. Krouskup.
The deceased leaves a wife and two
children. The funeral service was
held last Saturday with interment
in Mount Clair, Col.
Mr.. Krouskup removed from this
place to Colorado several years ago
and his friends here were saddened
to hear of his death.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-04-08

College, housed in one Of the fine
blocks Of the city while his son Guy
is secretary of the same. Our old
neighbor is radical progressive
Wilson-B Bryan Republican, with
reason, or rather several of them.
for the faith that is in him-not
only business man, but a thinker
on the topics of the day.
f. \. Lee.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10
CLEANUP OFFICIALS
WORKING ON PLANS
Committee Il Confident Money Will Be
Forthcoming to Insure
Success.

Arrangements for Clean-city Week
have assumed much greater proper
tions this year compared with last.
The District will witness this year the
biggest campaign against trash and
waste ever waged here. As plans now
stand. the city is in for a spring house
cleaning rivaling in thoroughness any
undertaken by the neatest Of house.
wives. Everything that can be Of the
least possible service in the work IL
being pressed into duty by the mem
bers OF the clean-city committee. 1t is
predicted that with the close of the
campaign on April 10 many familiar
eyesores in the District will have van
ished.
Although contributions are coming
in, the committee still needs money to
make its work thorough. Onicers of
the committee expect. however. that
before the opening Of the work, April
IA, enough citizens of the District gen.
erously will have contributed the
needed amount. Mrs. Frederick ".
Coville. 1886 California Avenue North
west. has been authorized to receive
contributions.
w. II. Richardson. chairman Of the
clean-city committee, yesterday ad-
dressed the pupils of Business High
School to enlist their cooperation. DR..
Arthur L. Murray, secretary of the
committee and a member of the Health
Department. will address the pupils OF
Eastern High School tomorrow. The
school children are expected to do
much valuable work during the cam
paign. To fully explain its importance
to them, a daily period of instruction
in sanitary matters will be given at
each school during the week.
Practically all the civic organizations
of the District have promised their
help. Among the latest to announce
their assistance are the visitors and
volunteers of the Associated Charities.
The visitors will hold meeting to-
morrow afternoon to determine the
nature of their work in the Campaign.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10
''GRIDIRON NIGHT
BY BROTHERHOOD
Brookland Orgasisa6ea Held Annual
FroIic in Lord Memorial
Hall.
TWO HUNDRED IN ATTENDANCE

The annual "Gridiron Night" of the
Brookland Brotherhood was held last
night before 200 people in the Lord
Memorial Hail.. Brookland. and proved
a great success.
Other than the musical numbers. the
programme consisted of character
sketches by the religious committee.
telegraphic grinds by the special COM
mittee; THE Story Without an End.
by Mr.. Denny Waters: THE Three
Ghosts by the finance committee:
comical stories from the first issue Of
the Brookland Brotherhood paper. by
the programme committee; jokes from
local papers. by the fellowship commit
tee; comical boxing stunt. by members
of the athletic committee; recitation. "A
Terrible 'Sperience," by Franklin T..
Howe, III, and Funny Selection" by
Denny Waters, of the exhibition commit
tee. The musical numbers consisted Of
vocal solo, Three for Jack" Mr..
Philip M. Smith; violin solo, BENJAMIN
F. Wrightman; vocal solo. Mr.. F. G..
Tansill. and the singing of America"
by the audience at the conclusion Of
the programme.
The officers and committees Of the
sill. president; c. v. Burnside, vice
president; Fred Barns, secretary. and
Louis Melius, treasurer.
Religious committee-D. ii. Oertly.
chairman; z. c. Saltzman, vice president,
and Rev. II. w. o. Wilmington.
Membership committee-H. {. Butler,
chairman; c. L. Mendel. vice chairman:
NJ. F. Norwood. B. E. Hutchinson. DR..
Alphonse Patton, J. F. McBeth,, and A.
Harry Coles.
Finance committees. d. Boss, chair
man; c. p. Judge, vice chairman, and
c. E. Remsberg.
Social committee-Noel B. Parks. chair
man; S. W. Burgess, vice chairman; G.
B. Johnston, ]. l.. whiteside, George r.
Gartrell, A. l.. Kellar, and r. w. Gala
han.
Programme committed. NJ. Long,
chairman; E. w. Callamore, vice chair
man, II. p. Childers, J. L. Primm. and
p. V. Heating.
Fellowship comittee-T. K. Saunders,
chairman; Paul D. Connor, vice chair
man, and c. H. Etz.
Athletic committee-John T. Williams,
chairman; G. II. Boyer, vice chairman,
and Paul II. Watson.
Press committee-Franklin T. Howe,
chairman; Frank III. Jackson, vice chair
man. and A. A. Carpenter.
Exhibition committee-Arthur A. Car
penter, chairman; ]. F. Bingham, vice
chairman; A J. Doeing, w. s. Ayers,
f. Eastlack. c. F. Tansill, and Denny
Waters.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10
RECALL Is PROPOSED.
RandIc Highlands Citizens After
rhafrmep who Become Derelict.

Ghafrmen VINO Become Dereict.
The recall of committe chairren is be-
ing considered by lembers of the Randle
Highlands Citizens Association. follow
ing the introduction of a resolution calling
for amendments in the constitution Of
the association by p. B. Mckinney at
the meeting Tuesday night
1t is proposed to recall chairman who
fails on two successive occasion to re-
port reolutions placed before his commit
tee The proposed change will be voted
on at the next meeting of the citizens
Attention was paid by the citizens to
what they term the waste paper nuis-
an~,' resulting from the blowing Of
waste paper from the Anacostia fats to
the streets in Randle Highlands. 1t was
decided to extend the "clean city, move
ment to the Anacostia fats, and a pro-
est is to be made to the District Street
Cleaning Department.
Efforts of the association to have the
District acquire for public parks the
sites of Forts Davis and Dupont have
been approved by the Federated Citizens
Association. Following the announce
ment of the cooperation of the FEEDER
ated association, it was decided to re-
new activities to accomplish the acqui-
sition of the property.
The Commissioners have denied
charges made by citizens of discriminA-
ton against Randle Highlands In the
matter of obtaining the parks. They de-
clare they will follow the assessment plan
of obtaining for public parks the old
forts. This plain Is instituted on the
half-and-half principle, as was done in
the case of the proposed extension of
ROCK Creek Park. Should this be done,
the Randle Highlands citizens would be
relieved of expense.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10
LOCAL MENTION.


Steamer Charles Ma0lestR leaves fsum nboe q
Seventh etzest Southwest for Mount vernon, hons
and tomb Of Washington. daily. except sunAay. st
10 q u. and LIS p n.
Nesfolk and washinston Steamboat Company's
steamen from foot q Seventh Street for Old Point
Comfort and Norfolk daily ct SIS p n.
Can Rom Fifteenth Street and New yoek Avsnue
every quarter hour Tor main entrance Zoo Paxk asa
Chevy Chase.
To Great Wsshinsten and Ola Dom1nioa
Railroad can svesy few minutes fron Thtrty-sixth
and n StreetA
ears every hour on the hour from 70 q. n % .. -.
iass car Station. Twelfth Street and Peunayivanis
Avenue
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10
CITY SENDS DELEGATES.
Washinxtonians Are at st. Louis ia
Participate in Drainage Congress.

Four delegates will represent Wash
ington at the third national drainage
congress, which will open for a three
DAYS session at st. Louis, Mo-, this
morning. The District Commissioners
named six. but only four were able to go.
A. NJ. McLachlen, president Of the Nc
Lachlen Banking Corporation; M. o.
Leighton, chief photographer Of the
Geological Survey: c. G. Elliott. chief
of the Drainage Bureau, Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, and A. d. More
house, engineer in the Department of
are the delegates.
Plans for the creation Of a national
drainage commission, with ample reve-
nue. and powers for carrying out the
draining and reclamation OF 1000 goo
acres Of swamp lands In the United
States, will be laid before the congress:
David R. Francis, former Governor Of
Missouri, is president Of the national
drainage congress, and Edmund T. Per
kins, of Chicago, formerly Of the Recla-
nation Service. il chairman Of the ex-
ecutive committee. An urgent invitation
was extended to President Wilson to at
tend and address the congress. but he
declined
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10

1The Hunchback Of Metre Dance 3.
reel sensation. Today. Virginia Theater.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10
ADDITIONAL FLOOD MONEY.
Agriculture Department Employees
as Amateur Merchants.

Employees of the Seed Distribution
Bureau of the Department of Agricul-
ture have become ice cream and candy
merchants for the benefit Of the flood
sufferers Of the Middle West.
Each of them recently Invested a
small amount of money in ice cream
or candy and sold it at profit to
other employees of the department. The
returns were reinvested and the busf-
ness extended.
A committee from the merchants"
Yesterday paid in to The Washingto ton
Herald relief fund $14, which was for
warded for the succor of the food suf-
ferers.
The merchandising is continuing, and
the merchants" say they will raise
more
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10

Pitman and Gregg Stenegraphy.
Beginners and speed classes Business
and Civil Service courses. The Drillery
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10
Child as National Asset.

Mr. Sara Wa,rath Lyons. lecturer Of
the Civic Forum Lecture Bureau OF New
York. will speak Tuesday evening, April
15 at Masonic Hall, Ninth and r Streets,
on "The Child as a National Asset"
The lecture will be illustrated with stere-
opticon views, and is under the auspices
of the District of Columbia Christian and
Endeayor Union.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10
oHIoANs ARE GRATEFUL.
Committee Thanks President
HeIp During Floods.

A committee Of prominent citizens OF
Columbus. Ohio. headed by Mayor
George Karb. called on President Will
son yesterday personally to thank him
for the aid given by the Federal gov
eminent In the recent foods in Ohio.
= The committee also called on Secre-
tary of War Garrison to thank him
for the interest shown by the War De-
partment in. the flood situation. and
also to inquire whether 1t would be
possible to appoint committee OF
army engineers TO consider the widen
ing and deepening Of the Scioto River
to prevent q recurrence OF the recent
floods. Secretary Garrison promised to
take up the matter within Q short
time
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10

Holmes Makes Pies Of HOmemade FIJI.
ings-and these filings are prepared in
our own kitchens. We can vouch for
their purity, their wholesomeness and
can prove their righteousness l0c and zoe.
Oatmeal Cakes. loo dog. We deliver all
F ST. Phone Main 45S7
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10

Meinberg's Top Noch'' Bread. It has
that sav6ry homemade" taste Grocers'.
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10

Acceptance by the United States Of the
gift Of the birthplace of Abraham Lin
coin. at Hodginsville. ky., is provided
for in . bill offered today by Senator
The Washington herald., 1913-04-10
Phy.iclans at BELGRADE

Seven American physicians have ar
rived at Belgrade. Servia, to assist the
Servian Red Cross in its relief work, ac-
cording to advices to the State Depart
ment.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-11
Enter Today.
Take a Ginger Pill.
There Are Four Autos
For Four Candidates.
Why Not Be One of
Them?

The offer of $4,000 for the first
person nominating an auto winner
will be withdrawn.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-11
Write or Phone
Contest Depart
ment or Full
Particulars
ADDITION TO RULES

In case of a tie for any of
the prizes the candidates
tying will be given a prize the
same value as the one tied
for. Is this not fair?
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-11

DAILY AND SUNDAY.
(By Mail or Carrier.)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02

about 1t was-he was going up in the
air instead of coasting down.
There's something mighty strange
about that, l says to myself. And
right then and there / started expert
mentin' and studyin.'
Il arrived at this conclusions: The
wind was carrying that eagle up And
II the air was doing that to that bird
there must be some way that it could
do more than merely turn a windmill.
| have since learned that air is, like
people. II you're gaining power and
goin up everybody helps you out, but
If you're goin' down, they help push
you down.
Il remembered reading once a piece
in the Scientific American under the
headline. Scientists Astounded,' be-
cause there was 80 per cent of the
power in ordinary machinery that was
lost no matter how well it was made.
Then those scientific fellows started
figuring on the windmill. They figured
the speed of the wind and the size of
the blades on the wheel and estimated
that it lost only 25 per cent of. the
power 1t was supposed to deliver. When
they got through figuring they discov-
cred that the wheel gave four times
as much power as they thought as in
the wind
Moreover, the speed of the wind.
after it had gone through the wheel
was undated.
Then l started to work OH my
scheme. In a long steel tube, say so
feet long, / will fasten a series of
windmill wheels, probably a dozen Now
the wind striking against the first
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02

wheel will set 1t in motion. Then 1t
will be carried back to the next with
its power undated and help turn it,
and SO ON till 1t gets past the last
wheel. Then 1t will strike a blower
like a blower in threshing machine
This blower is fastened onto the same
shaft with the rest of the fans. Now
the blower sucks the air through the
tube. which will have the same effect
on the wheels as though the wind were
blowing against them So that the air
turns the wheels and the wheels turn
the blower and the blower keeps the
air whizzin' through. And there you
are.
Power? Well, say the ordinary wind
mill generates two horsepower. With a
dozen wheels in the tube. there will be
"a horsepower, with your blower in
creasing the speed of the inrustirg air
al the time. If you want a higher
powered machine increase the number
of wheels Fasten a pulley on the end
of the shaft and you can furnish power
to any kind of a machine. If you want
to stop the machine just close the end
of the tube so the air cant come
through any more and the machine
stops.
How do 7 know the machine will
go faster Well, steam engine would
go faster and faster If there wasn't a
governor on it. I'll have to rig up
controller on this affair, too, to keep it
at a steady pace.
"Oh. yes 1 know it will be laughed
at But If man sets his head to do
anything why he's going to do 1t. I've
set my noggin to make this machine
and I'll do it. People will joke me be-
cause haven't got the money to make
it, But If they'll give me money on my
ranch I'll show EN-"
And Bancroft B. Britts patted the
government deed to his 100 acres of
desert land out in Colorado by way
of emphasis.
Am I afraid someone will steal my
idea and patient it? Well. If they do,
they won't have any success by it.
never yet seed a man try a dirty trick
but what he was tripped up sometime
or other"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
COLORADO MAN HAS
MARKED OUT PLAN
TO ENSLAVE WIND
Series of Windmills in a
Tube His Idea-Has Faith
In His Odd
Project

The idea of the wind motor came to
q. B. Britts-Bancroft was his first name,
If the reporter cared to use it-Decause
he had made bet with the government
that he could live on 100 acres of untitled
desert out in Colorado five years. Britts
won that bet says the Kansas City Star
And when man lives five years out on
desert, where there's little company
but slow-going buzzards and sweeping
eagles in the daytime and the moon and
stars by night, a man has plenty OF time,
says Britts, ito calculate abou: things
that most folk amt thinkin' much on"
That's just exactly how Britts thought
out his perpetual motion power motor
And, he says:
I'm willing to bet my ranch against
any stake that anyone might want to put
up that it'll work and make someone
money andll produce more power ct
cheaper expense than any other machine
built
That's the confidence the inventor has
in his machine. He expressed 1t yesterday
to reporter as he pulled his chair
little nearer the blast from a wall fan
and ran horny, brown hand through a
tumbled shock of iron gray na,r. He Just
dropped into the Stars office thought
maybe the world might be interested to
know about another revolutlonizing idea.
Oh, no, it wasn't necessary for the pub
lie to know about him. He was just an
ignorant man, who had a little knowledge
about mechanics. He was As years old.
Nor need it worry about his family. 1t
ms'tered little to the world whether his
wife died 10 years ago. That was his
grief. and he long ago had found that
it, was all his own hearts burden. es.
just a-knockin' about the world by him
self ever since.
In 1907 he moved to Neodesna, Kas,
from Oklahoma. But the floods came
then and like Noah-maybe the reporter
wouldn't care for this expression, but
Britts thought it would be a hitter he
sought dry land. So that two weeks after
he went to Neodesha he found himself
out In Colorado. He went to Lamar to
the government land office there, and bar
gained with the clerks to pay then, SIG
If he couldn't live on a section of land
hve years He won the land. 1t lies SO
miles south of Lamar, as fine piece of
plateau as anyone ever say.
Wen, you see, Mary-she was my wife.
you know-wasn't with me any more,
Britts said. II was all alone out there
on desert. And it's queer thing when
fellows alone like that, how his mind
just meanders into all sorts OF funny
ramblings. He naturally turns to the
things about him for company and the
first you know he's talkin', actually speak
m to the animals and birds-and even
the air. He gets that lonesome
That's how l come to notice the
birds so. guess. At any rate, one day
/ was a-restin out under a pile of
broomcorn and saw a big eagle a-cut-
in circle after circle way up in the
air. His wings barely huttered And
yet he was flying. And the funng thing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
Ozark Cedar to Germany

Cedar from the Ozarks is not only
going into the pencils used by all
America, but the wood is also being
sent to Europe in large qualities for
the making of pencils there. At pres.
ent the Branson Clancy county, mills
nave four cars of cedar logs properly
seasoned and dressed ready for ship
ment to Hamburg, Germany, and viii
| send six additional cars in the near flu !.
ture, says a Springfield dispatch to the
New York Sun.
These logs are all carefully hewn
and mill seasoned before they Start on
their long journey to the pencil fac
tories across the sea. The cedar trees
are cut off the vast timber tracts leased
In fancy and adjoining counties OF Mis-
souri, and also in northern Arkansas
and lie on the ground in the midst of
the forest until they are we'll dried
Ihen they are brought to the mil and
AFTER being properly trimmed are
sawed into shipping length. Then they
season in the drying rooms of the mill
until they can be shipped without dan
ger OF varying on their hong trip. When
the fragrant cargo reaches the other
side OF the water it may have been tWu
years from it's native Ozark forests
But cedar logs are not the only pro-
ducts of the Ozark timber lands which
go abroad. Cedar oil is being produces
In increasingly large quantities at the
Branson plant, and last month alone
1874 gallons of this byproduct Of the
mill was shipped abroad by the com
pany from this one point.
The preparation of cedar lumber for
pencil making in this country is of
course the really chief activity CT the
Branson, mill. Contrary to some ideas
the big pencil company does not man
ufacture the finished product in the
Ozarks--yet. The cedar logs after they
are properly seasoned in the Branson
plant are then sawed into short etrips
half the thickness of the ordinary
pencil These strips are sorted and tied
into bundles of about seven gross each
and are placed in the dry kiln, where
they are subjected to a tempera ture of
100 degrees for several days.
They are then resorted. retiod and
packed into cars containing inout 49,
600 gross strips of sweet smelling Ia
ney county cedar. The cars are thea
whisked away to Hoboken, where the
strips are swept through the e-eat ma
chimes of the finishing plant. The first
process grooves the strip. the next fills
the groove with lead. then two strips
are brought together and glued the
whole Is rounded. polished and stamped
and is ready for the market.
Two cars of these pencil trips, or
$4,000 gross halves of pencils, are sent
out every month from the BIanson
plant. The first process gre owes
ways strong. but 1t is believed that
wise handling of the timber lands of
the Ozarks will insure cedar for years
to come.
Nearly hundred men and women
are employed at the Branson mill. The
logging camp which handles the rougn
logs requires the labor of score more
of men and 1t takes 1876 teams to do
the hauling for the two pl,nts. The
company's pay roll in fancy county
alone amounts to $4,000 weekly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
MOTHER! IT'S CRUEL TO FORCE OIL
OR CAL0MEL INTO A SICK CHILD

bowels need cleansing give California
Syrup of Figs" It's action is positive,
but gentle. Millions of mothers keep this
harmless fruit laxative" handy; they
know children love to take it; that it
never fails to clean the liver and bowels
and sweeten the stomach, and that a
teaspoonful given today saves a sick
child tomorrow. 1t should be the first
remedy given as it always does good,
never any harm.
Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle,
of California Syrup OF Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Beware of counterfeits
sold here. See that it is made by Cali
fornia Fig Syrup company Refuse
any other kind with contempt.