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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-07-01

WANTED-TO BORROW $4,000 AT
5% for 5 years. First mortgage on
farm. Address J-23-B care Courier.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-07-01
Eggs and Poultry.

FOR SALES. G. RHODE ISLAND
Red eggs. 75c per setting; special
prices on incubator lots. New phone
1851. 1909 West Second St.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-07-01
CAME 1860;
OLT 1870

Ft. Madison, June Boy a resolu-
ton adopted by the executive commit
tee Of the Pioneers and Old Settlers
association of Lee county, at a recent
meeting, a large number Of people
throughout the county may hereafter
be classed as pioneers and old settlers.
Under the new rule people living in the
county in 1860 and since are pioneers,
and those living therein since 1870 are
classed as old settlers.
At a meeting Of the executive com
mittee is was decided to hold the next
annual reunion at Fl. Madison Thurs
day Aug. 20.
EXTEND LINE TO MoNTEZuMA.
Oskaloosa, June 30.-Preparations
are being made, for the extension OF
the Oskaloosa Traction & Light Co.
power transmission line from New
Sharon to Montezuma, a distance
across the country OF about twelve
miles. Matters have progressed $ % far
that the Montezuma people are about
to holdsa special election in order to
grant the Oskaloosa company the nec-
essary franchise. The Mckinley peo-
pie OF Illinois, who now own the Oska-
loosa company. expect to spend some
$40, 900 in the development Of this pow
err and electric light system In Monte
yuma.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-07-01
For Sale.

rop sALE-THoROUGHBRED I'M
rroved Chester White hogs. Inquire
4 W II. Vass, Eldon, 81. NO: !.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-07-01

their special train early today. They
were accompanied by Gov. McGovern,
General f. g. Winkler, Col. w. j. Cron-
yn and Major G. e. Leeman of Mil
waukee, and Adjutant General Salesman
OF Madison. Gov. McGovern said that
although the train was delayed the vet
Grams stood the journey we'll and were
in fine spirits.
Among those registered at the head
quarters Of the commission on the
campus OF Pennsylvania are Gov.
Clarke Of Iowa, General Tiletson and
Col. Heanan w. Allen Of Vermont;
Judge e. M. Gibson of Oakland, Cal;
E. L. Hawk, Sacramento, Cal; F. w.
Castleman, New Orleans; J. w. Pater-
son, New Hampshire; Col. Chas. H.
Mcconnell of Chicago brought tent
which will serve as headquarters for
the Iron Brigade and Pettigrew's North
Carolina brigade. These brigades
fought each other in the first days bat
tie and their reunions are expected to
he particularly interesting for this rea-
son.
I . Have Small Reunion.
Chicago, June 30.-Veterans OF the
Grand Army OF the Republic and Of the
confederacy who were unable to go to
Gettysburg, met In a reunion last night
at the Englewood Baptist church. Des-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-07-01
Use Courier Want Ads for Results.
For Sale.

wANTED-A FEW CAR LOADS OF
sawdust. T. P. Box, Ottumwa, Iowa.
GOOn STOCK
only; pay right prices. Fletcher 4
Schultz. 12e East Second.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-18

And, of course, if Illinois should
not happen to pass the minimum
wage bill, why then SiegeI, Cooper
& Co. will be that much ahead of the
game.
That was what the New York
headquarters of Siegel, Cooper & Co.
did about the O'Hara commissions
exposure of the miserable wages paid
in the Chicago store.
But meantime, the local store man
agement, headed by the small and
weakened Joseph Basch, had been
busy on it's own hook.
Girls have been laid off by the
local store lately almost every day,
as never was the case before.
A new system of checking up on
each girls sales for the day has been
introduced The girls are given slips,
on which they must tell not only how
many customers they actually sold
to, but how many customers so much
as approached their counter.
An order has gone out that every
girl in the store must make certain
sales in order to receive her salary
no matter how pitiful that salary may
be. ..r-
Recently, also, the local store re-
placed their white elevator boys with
negroes-at smaller wage.
What happened in one of these
negro-manned elevators. a short time
ago is a thing never mentioned in
Siegel, Cooper & Co.'s. A white girl
clerk was the only passenger in the
elevator. And the elevator was STOP
ped between floors.
And, in the meantime, Siegel,
Cooper & Co. are giving out to the |
newspapers they control through adj
vertising nice little stories about how
they have improved their, restrooms
since the O'Hara commission showed
them up, and how, in their exceeding
generosity, they now actually permit
girl EMPLOYEES to buy candy at the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-18

worker, Miss Won KettIer, is scared
stiff that these same employees will
organize and thus be able to protect
themselves and care for themselves.
Unlike Siegel, Cooper & Co, the
afraid of the enactment of any min
imum wage law Possibly the Boston
Store has some inside information
as to that end of it.
But the Boston Store Is afraid,
mortaily afraid. of organization.
=, New and stringent orders have
been issued by the management for
bidding employees to talk to each
other.
Two or three employees cannot
even be together for two minutes
before fioorwalker is down on them
with an:
saw, hire hall if you want to
hold meeting"
The store has instituted a system
Of slave drivers, who always are at
the girls backs, crying, Forward,
forward, forward your
The girls never are given chance
to rest. They never get an oppor-
tunity to use. the much-advertised
restroom. Their nerves are kept for
ever on the ragged edge. And they
are cowed, and afraid to talk, because
they might lose their jobs.
Mandel Bros, whose head, Edwin
Mandel, recently became so indig-
nant in talking to Day Book re- /
porter, because, he said, the girls
would not keep their mouths shut
about the wsges they were getting,
and so made trouble for the store,
are just as bad.
Recently a number Of girls en-
ployed by Mandel Bros. were raised
to 50 week. The management gave
these girls the impression that the
firm voluntarily had established a
minimum wage Of So. Yet again the
girls were cautioned NOT to talk about
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-24

Safe deposit boxes for rent. Thomp-
son Brothers. x
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-24

well repay those using the road to give
the farmer the equivalent in land
equally good in place of what he has
sacrificed to the common welfare.
Avoid Steep Grades.
At any rate, the office of roads is
now taking special pains to make clear
the economic advantage of avoiding
steep grades in their roads, even at
some sacrifice of better land. Inves-
tigation shows that the laying of such
roads over hills has resulted more
from attention to the preservation of
farm lines than from scientific atten-
ton to the problem of road building.
According to the testimony of farm
ers consulted, where horse might be
able to pull 1000 pounds ON a level
road, it would have difficulty in pulling
5000 pounds up steep hill. The size
of the Load, therefore, tends to be
by the grade of the largest |
hill on the road to market In a num- |
Der of cases actual experiment shows
that the relocation of roads around |
hills has been accomplished, either /
with no addition in road length in
some instances, and with the adding |
Of only a few feet to the highway in
others. The office knows of no case
where a properly relocated road which
las cut out grades has led to any ques-
ion as to it's material reduction of
hauling costs.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-24
Keep Open China Port.

TIENTSIN, Nov 24.-No longer will
this port, one of the most important in
China, and Peking's only outlet to sea,
be closed to commerce during the win
ter. The Hai-Ho Conservancy commits
sion, composed of Chinese officials,
bought an ice breaker several weeks
ago from the Kiangnan Dock and En-
cheering company of Shanghai. The
machine worked so well that the com
mission ordered another, which arrived
today. 1t is called The Dungling.
Taku, the outer port of Tietsin, here
tofore always has been ice-bound in
the winter, thus closing the Pei-ho riv-
er to shipping for several months The
Pei-ho joins Picking with Taku, on the
gulf of Chilli, distance of 105 miles,
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-24
By Carlton Ten Eyck.
(Written for the United Press

written for the United Press.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-Note to edi
tors: Mayor Ardolph Kline, filling III
the hiatus between the late Mayor
Gaynor and the next Mayor Mitchell
made Ten Eyck a municipal judge
the other day. II was not us.
Those who are old-fashioned enough
to believe that for a dissatisfied hus-
band or wife to obtain divorce is a
blight on their good names that can
never be erased, should call some We'd
nesday at the county court house, the
massive stone structure on the out
skirts of city hall park.
Obtaining a divorce nowadays in
New York is like attending a perfor-
nance of East Lynne" .Shore Acres
or "Uncle Toms Cabin" in the old
days. The audience used to chew can
dy, talk about the neighbors and in
other pleasant ways kill time until
the curtain went up. Then while Little
Eva went to Heaven through the dusty
flies, or the heroine in East Lynne"
coughed herself to death, they used to
weep handkerchief full of tears. At
forwards, while the orchestra played
the Blue Danube" or something else,
the candy, gossip and laughter would
come into play again. And so it is with
obtaining a divorce-an undefended di-
vorce in the New York supreme court |
Gather In Above.
Outside of the divorce mill in the |
county court house, which is just to
the right of the elevated entrance on
the second floor, is spacious alcove.
In this space the divorce seekers gath
er. They are mostly women, happy,
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-24
NEW YORK DIVORCES
A REGULAR SIDESHOW
Women Gather in the Court House and Enjoy All
Kinds of Gossip Before Cases are Called
Some interesting Sidelights.

laughing, chattering, carefree crea.
lures. If they are mothers of children
who can walk, they have the children
With them, and the little ones do every
thing that is disturbing in a court
house. They get between the serious
looking judges legs, shout, scream,
and do everything but fall down the
elevator shaft.
Every woman who goes to the d.
vorce court is happy She probably
would not be after divorce if she
were not happy, joyous that is, in the
anticipation of having the triple-plated
joy of a characterization. happiness
and alimOny. Before her lawyer tells
her it is time to go inside the court
room for the gala event, she laughs
and jokes with the audience, her
friends who have come to be present.
She talks about the newest play and
the style Of some sister divorcee's
gown
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-24
Threshed Holdup Man.

ABERDEEN Wash, Nov. 24.-Com-
manded to hold up his hands by a
supposed highwayman while in an au-
to with his wife and two daughters,
F. Goehrend, a business man stopped
the machine, jumped out and soundly
thrashed the man. The man whose
face was terribly pounded, explained
who had gone riding against his will,
were in the machine.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-24
Turkeys Are Up.

PORTLAND, Nov 24-First class
turkeys will in all probability cost
Portland consumers 80 cents a pound
for their Thanksgiving dinner. The
consumers for turkeys in Oregon,
Washington and Idaho is the greatest
in many years and buyers have been
forced to advance their bids.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-24
WORKING OUT
GOOD ROADS PLAN
EASY GRADIENTS FAVORED BY
GOOD ROADS DIVISION OF AG-
RICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
Department is Using Best Efforts to
Educate the People on Best Methods
to Persue In the Work.

| WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-The aver.
age life of horses and automobiles may
be increased and the cost of hauling
reduced, according to the office OF
roads, of the department of agricul-
ture, by relocating many old roads and
the more scientific laying out of new
ones. The natural tendency in road
building is to build a straight road,
whether it goes over steep grades or
hills, or not, and pulling over these
grades naturally adds to the wear and
tear on horses and vehicles.
The doctrine of the office of roads
is that the longest way around often
proves to be the shortest and most eco
nomical way home, and that frequently
by building a highway around hill or
grade, but little appreciable distance
is added and this is more than offset
by the reduced strain of hauling.
Has Some Drawbacks.
The chief drawback from the farm
owners point of view is that the lay
ing out of roads on this principle of
avoiding grades necessitates, in some
cases, running the road through good
farm land or orchards or pastures, in
stead of going around the farm line
and building the road through old
WORKOUT fields and over rocky knolls
This, of course, must raise a question
in the mind of the individual land own
er as to whether the cutting up of his
property by a road yields him indi-
vidual advantages and so benefits his
as to offset the use of such
land for a road, or to overcome the in
of having his land divided |
In this connection the office of roads |
points out that the running of road |
md the resulting traffic through a
GOOD farm where there are good sheep,
.attle, horses, grain, fruit, or vegeta-
lies, has certain advertising value
nd in many instances makes the land
more valuable. In other cases, the i'm
of such level road to the
community is so great that is might
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-24
Must Teach Girls to PLAY.

New York girls do not know how to
play" Miss Mabelle Ford, one of the
best little play-mates in the playing
business, made the assertion with all
seriousness and gravity. She is one of
those in charge of the berkeley lyceum.
a sort of club and gymnasium for wo
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-24

men, and she did not refer to New
York children, but to grown up" girls
and women. why we actually have
to teach our girls how to play the sim
plest of games" she continued. For
the first time in the lives of most of
them, they have a playhouse. They
love it. They wander about like chill
dren, and Shrek and laugh with de-
light over games that would seem dull
and tame to the child who was proper
ly reared" In the play house" they
have a gymnasium, baths, rooms for
table games and courts for athletic
games. On certain evenings they have
dancing and entertainments. Any
''girl in New York" young or old, may
have the privileges of the playhouse"
for one dollar year.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-24
Ban on BiIlbOards.

PENDLETON, Or, Nov. 24.-The city
council has passed an ordinance max
ing it unlawful for anyone to erect a
billboard within the city limits save in
front of the place or places where ex-
hibitions or theatrical entertainments
are to be held, or in front of places
where merchandise advertised is fol
sale.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-24
From Gay to Serious.

But once inside the courtroom. a
change is apparent. 1t is a change
from the gay to the grave The buoy
ancy of the plaintiffs step is gone. The
smile that only moment before
wreathed her face has vanished, and
she stands, a detected and sad sister
who appeals to the majesty of the law
for separation from brutal and faith
less husband. The tears are close, but
they do not come until she is called to
the witness stand to answer the rou-
tine questions With the first query
comes stray tear. With the question
Have you condoned the offense ?"
comes rivulet of brine and when she
is commanded to Produce your mar
riage certificate, madam" the flood
gates are opened and the salty spray
moistens cheek that for one day in
nor rabbits foot.
The closing of the door behind the |
new recruit is like the falling of the
curtain on the ascension of Little Eva
or the death of the tubercular lady in
East Lynne" The tears disappear,
the gossip is resumed, and the heart
that only moment before sobbed out
its tale of woe, is resplendent with the
happiness that comes from genuine
inv
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-11-24
Her Farewell Shot.

Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the Bri-
fish militant tonight will take her fare
well shot at New Workers, in a speech
at Carnegie hail. She is due to leave
America tomorrow, that being the I'M
derstanding when the immigration au-
thorities let her in. Mrs. Pankhurst
has completed tour of American
cities as far west as Chicago but her
work was much like carrying Goals to
Newcastle" In fact the visit of Mrs.
Pankhurst was a bit superhous. In
England, where her kind have been
smashing windows, burning houses and
exploding bombs, women are a long
way from obtaining the ballot, while in
in some of the very states
where Mrs. Pankhurst spoke, women
have the vote, and they got it without
violence. But, then, they do say one
must literally hammer an idea into an
head.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-27
THE FAMILY CUPBOARD 4s 2 ss e. ss3 @ It. 5 ss "

might have all been very different. But
the telephone rang-and Kitty's hour
passed The telephone rang and Kitty
May remembered again her debt to the
house Of Nelson!
Answer IT," said the girl.
"Hello" cried the boy into the little
instrument that was to play such big
part in his life
"Helloi No! No! Not at home No!
won't see any one"
1T was my sister" he told Kitty.
quite Internationally.
Il wonder what she'd think of me?"
said Kitty May. 1t hurt--this taking
stock of herself-this wondering what
people would think-when for so long
she had laughed at the world and
whatever it chose TO think
This mantle one you told me Of
Who is her"
Not now! don't want to talk about
him"
I'm find QUIT He's going to pay
for what he's done-to your Hfe-and
mine" stormed the boy in desperate
frenzy
Kitty spoke with weary indifference
Yes, but what good is 1t going to
DO, after all2"
She wondered what good anything did
Revenge-love- the desire to get even
the memories OF the past-ii was all a
hopeless circle, kitty had the magma
ton to plan eVents-but she had not
the penetration to toreSee how individ-
uals would act IN the situation she
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-27
SNAP SHOTS
By LILLIAN LAUFERTY.

conflicting as the Montagues and the
Capulets.
-------lays up sorrow for herself
because she can't learn to keep per-
fectly silent when dealing with an
angry mob or a drunken man.
THE LOVE OF A MAN and the Love
OF n Selected
The foam on the crest Of billow,
The head on hrimming glass,
The south winds kiss and its whis-
pering sigh,
The throb of heart, the flash of an
eye
Mans love, and It's sure TO pass
The hush Of the waiting morning,
The night birds tremulous call
The voice that sobs from the yearn-
ing deep,
The soul awakened that may not
sleep
A love tina. endures through all.
Dancing may be nonsense--but
many a woman who would get ner-
vous indigestion at the thought Of the
healthy exercise of walking two miles
will keep off nervous Indigestion and
set her blood a-tingle by dancing tent
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-27
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companied by her mother, was Evslr,
She wept all the way to Mount strs.,
where Philip would be accommodate
for the night She cried again when
she saw his poor, wounded head. hul
she laughed through her tears when an
ran off to fetch a very small and v.r
sleepy dog. with long blue hair faII,rJ
in shaggy masses over his eyes AM
curling wonderfully over his tiny boav
Mr.. James Crichton Langdon was i'm
peratively summoned TO London and
given such a lecture by Mr.. Abingdou
that he so far abandoned tn. error
his ways as to strive to forget that surb
a person as Evelyn Atherley existed
The ex-magistrate had seen him !,
Devonshire, and was so skeptical Of Nj
statements concerning the whereahont]
OF Sir Philip and Lady Morland thai
he travelled direct to York, via Glm
cester and Birmingham, to clear nr
with Philip in person a mystery rand
cred more tense by the curious lettp
and telegram he received In London
One day in August the Sea Maiden
dropped anchor off the Yorkshire coas
not far from the gaunt cliff on which
stood Grange House.
Or. Scarth entertained Mr. and Mr.,
Arson in his house for the night, and
some of the men were allowed ashore
They came back full of a story thew
had heard, how the skipper" had me.
with mishap on the big point ia
s'uth'a ard, was rescued by three fisher
men, and had bought for each man hi
freehold of the house in which he lived
besides presenting them Jointly with
fine smack.
Hes a rare good sort. there's no
doubt about that" said the chief nara.
tor. AN Of course, e can afford TO %
that sort of thing, bein the King o
Diamonds.
Hes more than the King OF Dia.
monds; he's the King of Trumps" Oh.
served a gigantic, broken-nosed stoke,
| who listened to the yarn. not being ons
of the shore going men.
you've known him this long time
haven't you, Mason?' said the first
speaker.
'Yes-ever since he was bit Of
boy Ten years it must be But wa
lost sight of each other-untl | net
him the other day. Then he gave me
job-for the sake of old times"
| TIE END.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-27
MAIDEN MEDTTATIONS.

!
IMAGINES herself a lover-and then
has to try to imagine that the paper
hanger or milllman who comes a-woO-
ing is Just as good" as the Fairy
Prince Of her dreams.
----------gets more sustenance in
love from the warm caress in her low
er's tone Of voice that from the words
he says
-----envies her brothers their
power OF doing nothing in embarrass-
ing situations-and then futters Ike
a bird with broken wing under the
same circumstances.
wonders II she is blushing
and rather hopes she is-when a
dinner conversation becomes risque
bus Sow about the luncAeons to which
brothers and sweethears are not hid
DEM
--has simple human pity to
give sufferer-and II sometimes
helps a broken arm as much as the
surgeons wisdom.
HAS such a hospitable soul
that she can be an impartial hostess
TO sentiments and opinions that are as
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-27

fered her love, devotion, of which
she was not worthy-and now the game
was interrupted.
Come in" called Kenneth.
The door opened and his sister Alice,
with Tom Harding looming big and
protecting at her side, stood on the
threshold
81 came up anyway, Kenneth, dear.
I had to sec you"
The sitter spoke with loyal love and
patience for this dear boy-man brother
who was a year older than she-and so
sadly younger.
Suddenly her eyes fell on Kitty. Al.
most of their own violation. her lips
stopped forming syllables. Tom came
quickly to her side.
Ken looked quickly from his sister
to the girl he loved. 1t was time for
them to meet.
This is" he began a bit uncer-
tainly.
Tom stepped quickly in front of Alice
seeming to blot her from the room. and
interrupted with an easy assumption of
haste and casual stopping to leave a
message.
Excuse me. Kenneth. Alice has wor-
ried because you wouldn't come to see
her She wants you 70 come TO my
mothers house tonight and have a good
Come, Alice. We will see you tonight,
Gomez
To Be Continued To.morrov-,