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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-11
BUTTERMAKERS TO
HOLD CONVENTION
Cedar Rapids Plans Entertaining
Manufacturers of Butter for
Three DAYS in February

Three Days in February
Cedar Rapids, Jan. 10.-The value
OF Iowa as a butter producing state
will be exemplified in Cedar Rapids
February IL, Is and IA when the Iowa
Buttermakers association hold it's an
nual meeting here.
We. Middlestadt Manchester,
and j. J. Bruner of Strawberry Point,
have been here comforting with Sec
rotary Wunderlich of the Commercial
club regarding the meeting. e. N.
Hart Of Plymouth is president and
l.. p. Anderson is treasurer About
800 butter men are expected.
The convention will open on the
afternoon of February IL with a
prayer by Rev. Joseph Fort Newton
and an address by Mayor Louis Roth.
The business sessions will be held in
the Comm rcial club but an exhibit
of butter and creamery supplies and
appliances will be held in the city
auditorium.
One Of the features of the meet
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-11

of the Nonpareil, died Wednesday
from spinal meningitis. He was sick
four days. Three younger children
have been quarantined at the home
with Mrs Clark, but physicians be-
leve the danger of infection is slight
owing to the precautions taken. An
other case of the disease was reported
and Henry Martin aged 10, machin-
list, died in Omaha during the night
from the disease. Under the Nebras-
ka laws quarantine is not enforced for
the disease.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-11
CONSCIENCE LED
TO MONEYS RETURN
Dollar Bill for Tablets and Pencils
Stolen Sent to Ruthven Men
Recently.

Ruthven, Jan. 10.-A few days ago
Beng & Brennan, merchants. received
an unsigned letter with a 81 bill en-
closed. from Salem. The sender eX-
planned IN the letter that when he
was a boy and went to school here
he had occasionally stolen writing tab
lets and pencils from the store. a
The money enclosed was as pay
ment.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-11
OLDEST PASTORS
WIFE IN THE STATE

Eldora, Jan. 10.-Margaret Wood
worth Brown, whose daughter is the
wife of Congressman Green, of the
ninth congressional district, is the
oldest Methodist preachers wife in
Iowa and recently celebrated her 80
birthday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-11
THE YOUNG MEN
NOW RESTRICTED
S. U. !. Students Forbidden to Dance
Later Than Midnight Is Late
Order.

Iowa City, Jan. 10.-A ban has been
placed on ultra-late dancing at Iowa
state, university. Miss Anna M.
Klingenhagen, dean of women, has is
sued an edict, forbidding the young
men to dance later than midnight.
The girls have been f "bidden to over
indulge in social pleasures hitherto,
and now the ukase is complete and
sweeping.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-11

Since Dr. Van Week found his Genu-,
Inc Relief (3-fold Absorption Method)
any thousands have already been re-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-11


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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-11
G.. P. CLARK DIED IN
COUNCIL BLUFFS

Son of Nonpareil Business Manager
Dies of Spinal Meningitis After
.... Short illness.
Council Bluffs. Jan. 1O.-George P.
Clark, son of the business mar ger
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-11

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between t charts nc of The
in
wneky and tn o. eandb
When rd wH hdh
1.-THE nd h etes unusy wi the land kng
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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-07-25
IT SHOOK HIS NERVES..
An incident That Made q Man Fee
Queer For Awhile.


Zone night" said a lawyer, 90
vas preparing some tedious plead
ings which had to be submitted to
court the following morning, and.
knowing that l would need every
moment of my time, l locked my
self in a small private consultation
room in the rear of my suit, where
no chance caller could interrupt me.
The room is very diminutiye, with
only one window, looking into a
court, and no furniture except a
table and two or three chairs. Well,
l worked on steadily hour. after
hour long after the city had settled
into sleep and silence. The build
ing was so still I could hear even an
occasional mouse scamper across
the floor alone. At last l concluded
the task and, sitting erect in my
chair, began to stretch my cramped
limbs.
Gas | did so my eyes happened
to fall on a lighted cigar stump ~
ing on the carpet not four feet
away, and / stopped stock still, fro
zen with amazement. I do not
smoke. | had been sitting for hours
In that little locked room. / could
swear that no one had entered: The
window was tightly closed, yet there
right at my feet lay a half con-
sumed cigar with a great live coal
still glowing at the end. 1t seems
ridiculous to confess, but a thrill of
horror ran through me like a gal
vanic shock. A hallucination of any
hind is an appalling thing; it makes
no difference how grotesque or
homely the subject. It carries such
frightful suggestion of breakdown
in ones mental engine room.
"Well, l finally summoned up
enough nerve to stoop down and ex-
anime the stump, and what do you
think it was? Why, a tin foil cap
sule from the top OF an ordinary
quart bottle of mucilage. In strip
ping it off it had assumedsAe cir
cular twist of a cigar and, the foil
being brown, was just the. right col
or. The red seal at the top formed
the coal, and a yard or so away the
illusion was perfect. l drew q deep
breath of relief, but It WIS actually
several days before my nerves Sc
sumed their normal, tensien."-
New Orleans Times Democrat.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-07-25
Strono Words.

Big words pass for sense with
some people and sometimes may be
very successfully used when nothing
else will answer, says an English
writer. Thus when a man, in great
alarm, ran to his minister to tell
him he could see spots on The sun
and thought the world must be COM
ing to an end, ooh, don't be afraid"
said the good minister, cts nothing
but a phantasmagoria." "1s that
all?" said the frightened man, and
then he went away relieved.
ASvery smart lawyer some time
since had the misfortune to lose q
case for a client who had every rea-
son to expect success The clients
plain old farmer, was astounded by
the long, bill Of costs and, fastening
to the lawyers Office, said, 81
thought you told me we should GER
tainly gain that suit?" $50 I did,"
answered the lawyer, ''but, you See,
when I brought it up there before
the judges they said it was a quo
rum non JUDGE" "Well, if they said
it was as bad as that" replied the
old farmer, 81 don't wonder we lost
It," And he paid the costs and a
big fee besides without another
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-07-25
Forced TO Surrender.


The young man had asked the
father for his daughter and been
refused.
"Then you will not give me
Jane? ?" he hoarsely demanded.
81 didn't speak in Volapuk, did
II" sneered James father.
The young man paused at the
door.
81 am considered a good looking
fellow" he said. Ladies turn and
stare after me as / pass along the
street. Your cook smiled at me to-
night while | fingered at the side
door. / returned the smile. Now
/ will follow up this favorable i'm
preston. | will make love to the
cook. Ia a week we will elopet"
The old man turned pale.
Don't talk like thatl" he gasped.
you wouldn't be cruel enough to
rob US of our cookl No, mol Not
another wordl Jane Is yoursl"'-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-07-25

There was something in the at
mosphere which told him that
things were not exactly the same.
Silence followed soon after the
usual greetings, but at length she
spoke. "Are you aware, sir" she
began, chat one hand Of the Bar
tholdi statue measures sixteen feet
five inches?"
$50 | have heard" he nodded,
happy to be addressed again.
"The thickness of the head from
ear to ear" she pursued Jelly, sis
ten feet"
Eyes"
"The nose is four feet six inches
long"
r'That's right"
"The mouth is three feet across"
81 believe so. Just imagine it."
"The waist thirty-fve feet
around" Il
gives. Why?"
"Then will you kindly explain.
SIR" she continued, "why you stated
In the poem which you addressed to
me that / reminded you of the God
dess of Liberty ?"-Ladies' Home
Journal.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-07-25
Street Lighting.

The streets of New York were
first lighted in 1897, the lighting
being done by a lantern suspended
from a pole stretched out from the
window of every seventh house.
The lighting of streets with gas
was first tried in 1916 in Baltimore.
At Philadelphia a theater was thus
lighted on Nov. %, 1916, the first
place of amusement in America IL
Illuminated in that manner.
Gas was first used for lighting
houses in Boston in 1922. II had
been used thirty years before at
Cornwall, Englanar.Scrap Book.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-07-25
~ CROOKED BOUNDARY.
Cause Of the Peculiar Lines That o.
vide Two States.

W. Jaws
IL you will look on the map o
New England you will see two GU
rious irregularities in the dividin,
line between Massachusetts, an'
Connecticut. One of them is il
CRANKY township, a little north
west of Hartford, and the, other il
Enfield township, on the Connect
cut river, south of Springfield. I
is a standing conundrum why, s.
long as the boundary is imaginary
they did not make it straight in
stead of crooked. But thereb
hangs a tale.
Those two little joys on tn, II;
are monuments to human obs.il
ant TO the persistency which is
of the CHIEF traits Of the. } III
character. The ancestors ot
farmers who own those little $
of ground preferred TO i've in y
sachusetts rather than in Conn
cut and fought for tic;r yrefero..
until they had their way.
The controversy began in !,
and continued for ll2 ,eqrs be.
it was finally dec.3cd. ft11a4 -
question was az; o9l"i to En- la
but the ~gcrerniacn: va 80 Ri
engrosscd II IT, seven Yeazs,' Y
that it We HCser brought to nc
tertion q ;..e crown. Up to
outbreak of the Revolution. In
states continued to levy taAt3 II
send notices of fast days and ele'
lions to the farmers WHO %occnn,
the land, and there is no record >
how they ayoided one or wi.
they paid both. Later, horeE
they voted and pa.d take. N Ma
chusetts only, Notwithstanding t
protest OF the coanty authorities i
Connecticut. In 1903. after pes
was restored, both states appoint
commissioners, but the dispute Y:
carried on until 1904, wlen q COZ
promisc\ ives reached. There VIC
several similar disputes between L
two states lesides those which rs
appear upon the map, arl an agrc,
ment was reached by which Mas
chusetts consented to surrender h,
claim to a strip Of territory !
Woodstock and Sall.cld township
provided Connecticut would vie
her claims TO Ito other tracts
dispute. No acton. howcyer, :"
taken upon The rcport.
In 1910 -" rH"t~nvr'.r "a
Pvived by SOC IL = 'r,r,din'.
another co~mis:ion @H- 49,"
but if it { - - : co."
there i re ,e,Dt. - - RI
1920 Il tn! commas
trustee Vii. tie <c.:lue
after thp. sc ..C.ti
the p
was aiopic
both state
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1913-07-25
THE ONLY WAY.

To successfully conduct any business enter
prise is to have adequate telephone facilities
furnished by the Cumberland Telephone u
Telegraph Company. Service unexcelled long
| distance connections to every important city
and town in the United States, prompt,c &C rte
| Gus, efficient service. Call our manager Tor
information, ect.
Cumberland Telephone Il Telegraph Co.
incorporated.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-11
SUMTER COUNTY GIRL
TELLS OF HER CANNING
Made Best Lecord of AIRY Girl in Georgia in Canning
Club. Received Scholarship Reward

We learned in detail the care of he
chickens from the incubator to every
stage of its life, lastly showing the
proper ways of killing and dressing L
for home and market purposes.
Here Miss Creswell, our state agent,
and instructor in cooking, took the
chickens and taught US the most di.
gestible ways of preparing them for
food. The chicken with the other food
we had prepared, made very desiia-
BILE luncheon; this was served by The
girls, fifteen in number, who were tax
ing the short course, to those VIII }
taught US SO successfully. We also
le arned bread-making. We made some
fine lightbread, which we used tor
raking sandwiches.
In cooking We were given better
, ideas about what our bodies need and
the best ways of preparing food. This
one thing today needs to be given greaI
emphasis in the minds of our girls so
that by proper preparation of food our
bodies will not need to suffer.
Lectures were given daily in horti-
culture by Prof. Firor, dwelling espe-
cially on the planning and import
ance of a home garden, hot beds and
cold frames, taking up the different
PLANTS, best methods of their cultiva-
ton, their diseases, and insects, and
how to treat them successfully.
Dairying was made doubly intedest-
,1g by Prof. Hart, who carried us
through the entire process of testing
cream and milk, the making of butter
and how to care for the milk and milk
Utensils.
The trip was, indeed, one of pleasure
and profit. We were given so man;
t"w ideas and found out so many
things that we are anxious to try fol-
o, rselves what others are doing. witt
such force behind us we feel surt
We can succeed and we will, and will
help those who have helped us in civ
i1g our help to others.
CARRIE WICKER,
Andersonville, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-11
IN
The PRICES
Cheering
TO The COTTON HOLDERS
Who Still Have Bales On
Hand

The marked Improvement in tn :
cotton market yesterday, as during the
past few days, is cheering to the hold
ers of the one thousand bales still
held in Americus warehouses, and
which the owners are quite willing to
sell when the price reaches a figure
which they would deem satisfactory.
On the advance OF fifteen points
scored yesterday cotton of the finer
grades should have brought value
very close to IL 1-2 cents again. There
were no sales, however. From the
low level to which cotton declined re-
Gently, there has been an advance of
eighty points, or more than three
fourths of cent, quite recently.
Americus buyers, especially those reD-
resenting export houses, are not in the
market at the prices demanded Most
of the cotton sold here now is for Co.
lumbus and Carolina mills
Occasionally a few bales are brought
in from the country, but the crop, hit
orally is "all in," and farmers are busy
on the next one. Americus has receiv-
ed to date total of more than $4,000
bales wagon cotton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-11
ELECTION FOR
ROAD BONDS
OF Interest
WILL OCCUR MARCH 4TH
Will Reduce COuDty'S EX-
penSGS

Interest in the forthcoming election
for bonds, for the building of new
iron bridges and concrete culverts
throughout Sumter county, grows per-
ceptibly as the date of the election
draws near, and indications point to
the success of the proposition to issue
$4,000 of bonds for the substantial
improvements mentioned
People of the county generally ap-
preciate fully the manifold advantages
that would result from such improves
ment of the good roads of Sumter in
the expenditure of this amount wholly
upon the fifty. bridges and many cul-
verts, many of which are in need Of
repair.
Not only will it reduce the cost, an
lually, of bridges, upon which Sumter
county now spends probably $4,000 a
year, but the improvement in the way
Of steel bridges will be cheaper in the
end. Of the bonds to be issued $4,000
will be retired annually during thirty
years, and thus $4,000 is saved an
nually in bridge repairs.
IN addition to this saving of approx
imately $4,000 there will be a material
saving to the county in the amounts
paid cut annually as damages for live
stock injured at poorly constructed
bridges. The bond election takes place
March 4th, the date Of the sheriff's
election, and the registration books
ciuse next Monday, 18th.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-11
HEAVY LOSSES
Of SOLDIERS
IN BALKANS
DESPERATE FIGHTING WAGED
Both Sides Lost Heavily in
Fight

Podgoritza, Montenegro, Feb. TO-
The Montenegrin army besieging the
Turkish fortress of scutari, carried
the great Bardanjoli Hill by assault
a 1O:3O this morning, after several
hours of severe fighting.
The infantrymen on several occa-
sions came into such close quarters
that hand to hand fighting was gem
eral along the line Bardanjoli Hill
dominates Scutari from the eastern
side, and the Montenegrins are
mounting siege guns on the heights
to lombard the city's principal points.
Fighting has gone on since early
morning all around the city. The
Turkish defenders are disputing the
ground against the besiegers with
fierce determination and courage.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-11
COLLEGE
TRUSTEES ANNOUNCED
Names of Trustees for Third District Agricultural
School Given Out by Governor Brown-TermS
of Trustees Run Until September 1913.

Names of the trustees for the Third
District Agricultural and Mechanical
school have been made known official
ly by Governor Brown The list has
been carefully revised, according to
Governor Browns statement, when he
made the list known, so that the most
suitable men could be obtained for the
places that we're to be filled.
The terms of all of these trustees
run until September %, 1918. This
will give them a long tenure of posi-.
ton in their advisory and executive
capacity relative to the management
of the various agricultural schools. 1t
was the purpose OF Governor Brown TO
appointment who are vitality interested
in agricultural uplift and enterprise,
and 1T is believed that he has been sue
cessful in appointing most represent
ative men in this particular.
1t win be seen that from Sumter
county Mr.. Crawford Wheatley, one
of the staunchest friends that the
Third District Agricultural college has
ever had, is the appointee. Mr.. Wheat,
ley's appointment meets with general
approval here, and he will continue
to give to the position the earnest and
careful attention which has character
lied his tenure Of this place In the
past
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-11
PROSPEROUS ERA
FOR AMERICUS
Seems ASSURED
SAY The REALTY DEALERS
Capital Has Confidence In
AmeriCuS Investment

Americus, in the opinion of local
real estate men and discerning citi-
zens generally is upon the eve of an
era of prosperity exceeding that of
any previous year in decade, for.
while the year just passed was one of
more than usual activity in the real
estate field, the demand at present Is
far greater both for business and res
idence property, 1t is said.
Building activity is very general
here now, as shown in recent articles
III The Times Recorder, the wave of
progress extending to every section OF
Americus, from Brooklyn Heights out
to the Southside. There is no land
boom; just a natural, healthy growth.
There has been considerable buying
and selling of unimproved property III
the outskirts Of the city, and the su-
burbs are fringed with a semi-circle
of structures in course of construction
This indicates, it is stated, that new
people are constantly coming into
Americus and that the business dis
trict of the city is growing steadily.
Capital is confident of the future Of
Americas, 1t is pointed out, if its gem
erosity in lending upon any kind OF
real estate with a clear title and SOM
the title Of which is clouded, is an in
dication. Anyone, 1t is stated, in need
OF funds with which to improve prop
erty or make partial payment need
not go hunting long.
The real estate dealers are basing
their opinions on the activity of last
year and the healthy conditions at
present prevailing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-11
GEORGIA SPENDS MILLIONS
BUYING WESTERN CORN
Shipments Here Annually Are
Enormous

Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 10.--A recent ed
itorial in tine Orange Judd publication
here, Southern Farming" to the eff
feet that Georgia was bringing in So
100000 bushels of corn from other
states annually at a cost of $5S,000,-
900 raised a storm of criticisms. These
figures, however, have been corrob-
Grated by p A. Methvin, state pure
food inspector, who is in close toucn
with dealers all over the state. Mr..
Methvin says that in 1910 this stare
imported 83,OOO,OOO bushels at II cents
per bushel, amounting to $$5S, 900
He believes the amount was as great
for 1911. This being true the corn
clubs still have a great work before
them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-11
.DIAz HOLDS
MEXIC rule
ONCE MORE
MADERO WAS FORCED OUT
American Citizens To Be
Protected

Mexico City, Feb. 10. The night
passed quietly in Mexico City, and 7
o'clock this morning saw no resump-
ton of the fighting that yesterday
resulted in the supposed fight Of
President Madero and the success of
General Felix Diaz, the rebel leader.
Diaz has made no new move, and
the situation this morning remains
much as it was last night when the
rebellious army practically seized the
city, after street fighting before the
national palace that resulted in the
death of Gen. Bernardo Reyes and
two hundred persons.
Stories are rife that President Ma
dero has fed the city headed for some
port on the east coast, while in other
quarters it is declared that he has ac-
ceded to the peremptory demand of
Diaz, voiced last night, that he at once
resign the presidency.
Neither of these reports could be
confirmed early this morning. Made
ro's relatives refused to divulge his
whereabouts.
Only a few troops came into the
city during the night and these show
ed little disposition to fight.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-02-11
LENTEN SERVICES TO
Be Continued here
At Calvary Church Throughout
LGnten Season

Lenten services will be continued al
Calvary church throughout the Lenten
season in accordance with the printed
announcement of the services given out
by the rector, Rev. ]. B. Lawrence.
These cards have been distributed to
all communicates. If there are any
who have not received them, they may
be obtained from the rector.
Today's services will be the same as
yesterdays. The services will be con-
Quoted at 4 o'clock, consisting of even
ing prayer and the customary musical
program. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to every one to be present.