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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-20

49, TAoapeSa ~ n kSol ~
reprsa0nt the hl9h sch0ol - ~ "
ytrict contest % b. hsid ~ 1unlnetsb1sG
In the near future. :s' "A
& q. q. Gardner has sold his intsfeGe
A tho new Gardston to his pafSnoe
Alex Johnston. and Will sDon leave ~
California. The Gariners viii be greats
~ missed by the people OF Estherviiles
Mr.. Gnrdnes has been Identified with
the business and COMMERCIAL Interests
OF the city for sever1l years
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-20
ze.r,;ns. Lodae installations.

Fearing. Jan. 20.-The following Of
Acers were installed Thursday evening.
for the encampment: Ed Reed. c. P;
Thomas young. H. p: Fred Haase. 8
W.: Edna Moore, ]. W.; Julius Tisdale.
scribe; Charles w. Haase. treasurer;
James Crosby. I. g.: N. A. Perry. o. s.
An oyster supper was enjoyed at the
Moon restaurant.
The I. o. o. F. elected the following
Officers for the coming year: I. A.
Haase, II. g., N. q. Perry. V. G.; D w.
Powell, secreatry; Joe johnson. treas
urer. installation will be held next
Tuesday evening.
on Friday evening. the Masons held
I Joint installation with the O. E. s. j
l.. Armstrong acted as installing Of
ncss. irstSl ling % follows: 9. w, Rus
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-20

sell Gololy: VI =. q. Lundy: scores
tary. II. w. Iightfoot q ~. James
Smith: s. SD Adam Ruxton; J. s.. Nv.
e: Young; tyler. George Barnard.
The members invited their husbands
and wives and others, and all enjoyed
the following program: Duet. Misses
England and .Beeny:- talk "by Geot;e
w. Phillips; duet, d. c. Mohr and wife;
solo, Russell Golly; solo. Gladys Coop
er: solo, d. G. Mohr.
The officers installed for the 0. =. 5.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-20

we're: James Smith! Nv; ~. 49,
Ruxton, w. P.; Mrs. Martin. ~
May Pollock, condustress; Elsie Hix;
associate c6ndustress; Anna Barnard.
secretary, Mrs. Bean, treasurer; Tes.
sic Young, Ada: Grace Bean, Ruth!
Myrtle Goliy, Esther: Cora Hix Mar
tina: MRS Ruxton. Electa; Mrs. w. HH.
Golly. chaplain; Mrs. Whitaker. mar-
shall: Clara GUM, warden: j. s. Smith,
sentinel; and Mrs. Fred Smith, organ
icf : =. ! | :. :
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-20
esshsrvils u - = -

Special 20 Times Fsepubltcan.
n Estherville. JAN 20. AT tho Sdeclam-
atory contest held 1t tho Presbyterian
church Thursday evening Archie
Myhre won first honors In the orators
cal. Margaret Bryan In the dramatic
and Phyllis Thompson In tho humoT
Gus classes. The entertainment was
very intcrestig one. and the contes'
close. 1t took the Judges twenty MIN
lltes 10 decide whether II ahOMI0 pc
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-20

,0eod Meetin0 CT Mason Yat Aeseeia.
\ tien hsld at Nav hampton.
special to Times-Republlcans
Charles City, Jan. 20.--Sixty dentists
81 the district comprising the territory
covered by the Mason City association.
we've present at the New Hampton
meeting. The total number of dentists
in the district is eighty. At this meet
ing Ave applications were presented.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-20

The next ssnsetlng win - held -
Charles CITY. III. II. MortOnson Vas
elected president John Petry vice pres.
ident, II. D. Hemingway secretary. and
d. w. pratt treasurer. J. d. WEIGH was
elected delegate to. the council. All
dentists. ethical In their practice. are
eligible to membership.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-20

Chemberlain's Cough Remedy has no
superior as cure for colds. Group and
whoOping cough.-Adv.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-20

Five years ago Iowa friends of mine bought through
me California land, in this identical district The
price then paid amounted to $35 per acre. Many
of them have since sold portions Of their original pur
chases at 100000 per- acre When Senator Doliiver
spoke Fresno he asked the Iowa people to stand up
Half the audience to it's feet Fresno is metro
potan cty with eight hotels, street cars, and all
modern conveniences. Every foot of this land lies
within sight of the Fresno court house.
The Santa Fe railroad is spending s1,ooo0e0oo on
freight and passenger terminal at Fresno The trunk
line Of this railroad passes through these lands may
now buy at small price easy terms.
These California lands offered for sale formed
the vast Billiard farm one Of the famous ranches of
CALIFORNIA; past produced of the finest crops
of the San joaquin valley and is being subdivded at
this time for the that the lands too valuable
to be longer cultivated wheat ranch.
There are SIX THOUSAND ACRES bounded by a
road 120 feet wide An electric railway is being
veved through the property to the Country Club which
lies Just beyond these six thousand acres FREE
booklet shows this.
Electric light and power will be available at reason
bic rates The FREE, booklet shows this Send for 1t.
Rich in iron Oxides the soil is particularly adapted
Ia deciduous fruits we'll as to the citrus. The
quality of fruit produced near Fresno is unexcelled
The drainage of these lands is perfect, the San
JOAQUIN bounding them the north and the south
west slope being just sufficient for rrigaon so easy
,,nder these circumstances that who has never
ton Of the SOIL under these circumstances is lmposs-
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-20

NO ONE ACouAINTED w1TH CALIFORNIA LAND VAL
UI,S BELIEVES THE LIMIT HAS BEEN REACHED.
The division of Billiard ranch now offered
ming OF general movement convert the grain fields
decduous and citrus fruit orchards
Experiments the immediate vicinity and completely
THE CROPS HERE RlPEN EARIJER THAN IN THE
SOUTH. thus catching the fancy prices OF
THANKSGIVING CHRISTMAS trade Send book"
This section is scale smut. the OF fumi-
eating spraying is Send for booklet
Peaches been produced weighing ONE POUND
EACH. Crop failure Ia unknown The Pacific trade
the dried peach supply and the returns
have toaled FREQuENTI.Y AS HIGH AS THREE HUN
net 500 90 per The FREE booklet shows this
Apricots. grapes raisns splenddy on the
Bnlard ranch lands FIVE s1XrHS OF THE RAIsIMs
THE vIc1NTY OF ERtSNo The returns from these
DRIED AND FIFTY DOLLARS PER ACRE. today.
Grow berries of orchard trees Straw
dewberries black berries find demand
the time FRtE, booklet shows this Send IT.
There arc e7b DAYS SUNSHINE EACH YEAR II
The prices OF per aero and
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NO MORE FOR FOUR YEARS ONE FIFTH DOWN
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MINIS. THE FREE booklet shows this Send for it,
yourself the favor Of clipping this coupon hereto
tached. and send for the FREE BOOKLET Beautifully nj
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pats the land and showing location Send today
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-10
wEEckAGE IN OMAHA.

damage to property in St Louis and its
vicinity amounted to close to SS,000,
600. and the loss of life was estimated
at more than 49, The injured mum
bcred twice that many.
During the two weeks preceding the
disaster of st Louis the southern and
western states had been visited by tor
nadoes which demolished every thing
in their path. On May 10 a storm
plowed its way through northern Tex
rs, killing 200 persons and damaging
et.o00,000 worth Of property. On May
II Kansas and kentucky were visited
with great property loss, although the
loss of life was small. Nearly every
house in La Fontaine. Kan, was de
stroyed on May IS. and three days
later eleven persons, were killed as a
result of a tornado at Cairo. Ill.
In st Louis 100 street blocks were a
mass of ruins, and scarcely n building
in the path of the storm escaped in
jury. In East St Louis the devasta-
ton was as great as in St Louis prop
er Fire added to the destruction, and
as the streets were Uttered with rub
Dish the fire department was helpless.
The fire loss alone was more than
S1000,0O0. The dead in st. Louis mum
bered 202 and seventy-four missing,
and in East st. Louis the dead mum.
bered Isl.
There have been several other vista.
tons Of death dealing tornadoes in tile
United States. Two of the most fataI
took place in Adams. Miss. on May ;
1870 when 81 persons We're Killed
and on June TO- 1912, a storm killed
800 Early in April 1880, the lower
/ Missouri towns Of Barry. Stone. Web
ster and Christian suffered life ant
property loss Almost a hundred per
sons were killed and 600 injured aut
j 81 100000 worth of property was de
+ stroyed. Twenty-Five persons wer,
killed and seventy-twO injured OF
April % Of the same year III Noxube,
county, Miss On May % forty were
killed and eighty-three injured in Fan
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-10

Action on the part of Postmaster
General Albert S. Burleson. involving
the appointment of commission to in
vcstigate the "actual financial, physical
and working conditions of the postal
service" is regarded by many business
men as the initial step toward one-ccnt
letter postage. Postmaster General
Burleson indicates that there have been
so many conflicting reports as to the
general conditions of the department
that he has decided to have a full and
complete investigation made with q
view to determining the exact status of
affairs. The commission is composed of
Daniel C. Roper, Joseph Stewart, n. NJ.
Dockery and James I. Blackslee, first,
second, third and fourth assistant post
masters general respectively, and Mer-
rit o. Chance, chief clerk of the depart
ment. These are the new officials lust
| appointed under the Wilson administra-
! ton to conduct the affairs of the post
! Office department. Now that the par
eel post is in actual operation and bids
fair to be extended during the next few
years, it is claimed by business mel
that their demand for one-eent letter
rate should be needed. They point tt
the fact that the postofice department
is now realizing an enormous surplus
something like SOS, 100000 a year, from
the letter mail. Although letter mai
constitutes but II percent of the rev
enue of the department it pays abou
IS per cent of the revenue received
from all classes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-10
A LITTLE BIT OF PARADISE.
Tahiti, In the South Seas. a Place Of
Charm and Leisure.

SnaTHl and Leisure
Rarotonga gives you a kind Of fore
taste of the whole charm and beauty of
the south seas. 1t is the appetizer, the
hors doeuvre, not the whole meal. Ia
hiti is the whole thing, the real thing,
the thing one has dreamed about all
ones life, the thing which made Ste
venson leave Europe forever. All tellers
of fairy tales and all poets from Ho-
mer downward have always imagined
the existence of certain islands which
were so full of magic and charm that
they turned man from his duty and
from all tasks, labor or occupation in
which he was engaged and held him
a willing captive who would not sell
his captivity for all the prizes of the
busy world.
Stevenson in one of his books, THE
Wrecker,' l think. says that II man
who is toiling in some English town
were to be suddenly transported to one
Of the south sea islands. in the neigh
borhood Of Tahiti, and had vision of
the beauty that is there and then were
to be transported back again to his
prosaic and ugly surroundings he
would say, AT any rate have had my
dream" That is how one feels when
one has seen Tahiti. One feels one has
had ones dream.
The bay of Papeete curves inward.
As you sail into it you are sure to see
several white schooners at anchor. At
one side is a range of light blue vol
/ canic hills stretching out into the crys-
/ talline sea. reminding one of Naples,
/ Capri and Sorrento, and in the middle
/ of the bay there is a tiny little island.
consisting of a few cocoa palms. The
/ sea is a transparent azure. Little white
/ houses are dotted all along the line of
! the beach. nesting in greenery. We
walked along the beach into the little
/ town and into the suburbs. 1t was
spring in Tahiti. and every kind of ina
! ginable blossom was Haunting its reck-
less and extravagant beauty. Every
thing grows wild in Tahiti.
The people seemed extraordinarily
contented and invincibly indolent.
was walking along the main street,
and I wanted to get to the postOfice,
which / knew was somewhere along
that street. l stopped ut a store and
( dSkGu WueLueI 1 WIS EoiuS lI1G tlSul
way. The storekeeper. who was g
Frenchman. said. Yes. you are going
right" | then asked If it was far
The storekeeper said 1t was very fal
indeed. It would take me q good
quarter Of an hour or twenty minute;
to walk there. | asked him if l coul(
hire a conveyance, as I was in hurry
He shook his head and thought it IN
likely. l then went on my way.
thought I would just time myself ant
see how long it did take to reach TIT
postofIice. | walked fast. but l found
to my amazement, that it took me ex
actly three minutes to get there
Doubtless it would have taken 81 na
tive of Tahiti twenty minutes. Their
) is no such thing as hurry and no sucl
thing as energy in these islandS.-Mau
rice Barring in Metropolitan.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-10
First Sunday Papers.

How Sunday newspapers were circu'
lated in London before the abolition OF
the taxes on knowledge" was de-
scribed by the late r. NJ. Morrell. the
founder of the National Sunday league
BARRIERS used to take in copies and LET
them out a penny an hour, and Mr.
Morrell recalled the details of the sys-
tenn. It was necessary to call at the
BARRIERS on Saturday evening and state
the hour for which you wanted the pa
per. On Sunday the customer fetched
1t, left sixpence on deposit and came
back with the paper at the end Of his
hour. receiving fiVepence change upon
its return.-London Chronicle.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-10

New York.-Tornadoes and destruc-
tive high winds have been of frequent
occurrence in the United States in the
last few years. Although these winds
are commonly called cyclones" scien-
lists distinguish between the cyclone
and the tornado. The cyclone is a
widespread low area storm moving
in an elliptical path. The tornado
drops with a single burst of violence.
Of these the most destructive to life
and property was the st. Louis lorna
do. which took place on May %. 1896,
just before the time set for the ma
tional Republican convention. The
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-10
No Dollar Diplomacy. -

Many Of you have heard the phrase,
dollar diplomacy" during the past week,
and perhaps some of you wondered what
it meant. OF course, we are all only too
familiar with what dollars are, and
most of us knew that diplomacy" IN that
sense had reference to our negotiations
with other countries. But probably some
of us failed to see just what connection
the two things had
1t would be well first to explain how
those words got into the newspaper so
often recently. 1t seems that the new
government of China needed money. That
money was to have been lent to It by a
group of bankers from six different cOun-
tries-the six power group" According
to the terms of the loan. if China was
unable to pay the interest upon it, the
governments OF the countries represented
in the combination were to step In and
collect certain taxes in China until enough
money had been secured to pay the bank
ers.
The United States was one OF the couu-
/ tries that would have been pledged to do
this but President Wilson thought that
! this would be agreeing to more than We
ought rIghtfully to do. He gave IT az ms
: opinion that such an action would be in
terfering too much with Chinas indepen-
! dence. and accordingly, refused to re-
quest the American bankers TO Join in the
loan.
I Now when the papers said that Preai
dent Wilson, by doing this. ended our
dollar diplomacy" they referred to the
policy of former Secretary Of State Knox
! and those who Immediately preceded him
in that Office, whose views upon such mat
! tiers were very different from those Of
President Wilson. and who insisted that
the government should. whenever pos
sible, lend all its influence to our mer
chants and our bankers in their effort,
abroad. dollar diplomacy" this was callec
at first reproachfully by its opponents
but finally the term was taken up by
those who defended it. And when mer
say that President Wilson has ended o.
win end this dollar diplomacy the,
mean that the government, although i
will still support our citizens in anything
they properly undertake to do in foreign
countries, will not attempt, first of all, t.
provide our merchants with customer
and our bankers with borrowers.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-10

min county. Tex. and twenty killed in
pottawatomie county, Ia. on June 10
the same year.
On July Is, 1881. 247 Buildings We're
wrecked ut New Ulm. Mimi. and on
Aug. % Il cyclone swept from Savan-
nah to Minnesota. killing 900. In the
year 1882 more than 800 persons We're
killed in various towns At McAIester
Indian Territory. OH May 10. 100 We're
killed. On June IL at Grinnell. Ia. 100
persons We're killed, 500 injured and Il
property loss of 100000 sustained.
On June n that year at Emmetsburg
500 more were killed.
IN 1883 the loss Of life numbered
ninety-three Fifty-one lost their lives
in Mississippi on April 80. and on May
IS sixteen persisted at Racine, Wis. In
Dodge and Olmstead counties. Mimi.
twenty-six were killed and eighty in
iured on Aug. Il.
On Feb. .. 1884. m unparalleled Sc
lies Of storms struck eight states 81
multaneously Illinois. Kentucky Mis-
sissippi, Georgia. Tennessee, Virginia
North Carolina and South Carolina
were visited by more than sixty lorna
does. Eight hundred persons lost their
lives, 900 We're injured, and 10000
buildings were destroyed. On Sept Q
Of that year in eastern Minnesota and
western Wisconsin seventy-ive per
sons were killed and $4,000, goo worth
of property was destroyed.
Coming down to recent times, eight
states were swept by a tornado on
April "a, 1908. which left a trail of
dead numbering more than 300 Most
Of the deaths occurred in the black
belts of Louisiana and Georgia. where
the wind destroyed the cabins, burying
the occupants in the debris. in Loui-
siana the dead numbered IS, and $50
were injured; in Mississippi 100 dead
/ 600 injured: Alabama. 81 dead, 113 in.
jured. and in Georgia % dead, 100 in.
! jured, or more than 800 in four states
On April 80. 1909. Tennessee expert
/ enced one Of the worst tornadoes ever
known in that state. Sixty-two per
( sons We're killed. and the property loss
was almost S1,O00,000. Five other
/ states We're also visited on the same
4 day. but the loss of life was small.
+ On May .. 1912. the village of Korn
Okla, was wiped out and twenty-ont
lives We're lost. On June % Vilagony
I another small village in Oklahoma. wa.
wiped ont and four were killed. Tn,
/ following day the tornado tore its wal
through Bates county and parts o
7 Johnson and Henry counties, Kan.
I killing twenty-seven persons.
Nearly 100 persons were killed OF
March IA of this year by the storm
which swept seven states. In Georgi;
the storm was accompanied by eartl
shocks, and twenty-nine persons wer
killed. The property loss amounted T.
100000 or more. In Tennessee TWEEN
ty-six were killed, Alabama thirteen
and Mississippi thirteen.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-10
Worlds Most Powerful Automobile

The Pennsylvania railroad has re-
Gently installed in its freight yardss
at Jersey City an electric automobile
for which it claims the distinction of
being the most powerful in the world.
1t is used for shifting laden ears from
the Colgate soap factory to the Penn
sylvania yards over the Colgates
tracks. 1t being dangerous to run loco
motives through the streets of Jersey
City horses were used, eight being re
CURED for each car, but even then it
was necessary to hitch them to a huge
block and tackle before they could
move the load.
The new automobile has now taken
the place of the horses. 1t combines
the strength and speed of a freight
engine with the safety of horse trac-
ton. 1t is attached to the trains of
ears by the ordinary coupling, but it
does not run on tracks, having the
familiar double rubber-tir wheels
The driver steers all four Wheels sc
the automobile can be turned around
in but little more than its own length
1t is equipped with two eighty horse
power motors and the current is sup
piled by an eighty-cell Edison storage
battery. 1t can draw 5000 pounds at
a speed of eight miles an hour an6
can be stopped III two feet
To demonstrate its power it was
tested against freight locomotive
each pushing against the other Will
all power on. Not only did it buck the
locomotive. but it pushed this and
three cars backwards IA. ag1 aas
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-10

The Springfield Republican that used
to rail at President Roosevelt for up
setting precedents and trying to be the
whole thing now comes around TO say:
g 1t is of course Mr.. Roosevelt's chief
claim upon the national gratitude that,
while he was president, he so largely
contributed to breaking up the old or
der. The spirit of slavish adherence to
establish forms and laws has passed
with the retirement of group of poll
tieians whose power depended on it. -
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-10
list are:

A circular sent out by the board says
Of its thousands of supporters:
Allowing for the necessity and in
deed desirable proportion of criticism
and dout which always accompanies
new proposals, we may say that this
great body of educated men and wom-
en-. no matter in what degree they use
the simpliied spellings themselves, vii
hereafter advise teachers to teach and
children to use these new spellings."
The reader is urged not TO be too
much infiunst by the cd appearance Of
the word. Any change must look Cd at
first"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-10
The Rhine May Get the Danube.

OF late the eyoludons of the course
of the Danube above Vienna have been
the subject of much research. Accord
ing to most authorities, the source of
the Danube is in the two streamlets
called Bregach and Breg, which de-
scend from the tanks of the Black
forest, in the grand duchy of Baden.
and unite at Donauschingen with a
spring, regarded by some as the true
source The stream from this point
flows southeastward toward the bases
of the Rhine and the Lake Of Con
stance through the calcareous beds OF
the Swabian Jura and at certain points
into sinks and riffs. COloring matter
has shown that there is leakage OF
this subterranean water to the Rhine
basin. The prediction Of Il German
scientist is that the whole Of the Dan
ube above TuttIingen will some day
be captured by the Rhine.-New York
Sun.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-10
Title of Pope.

1t is uncertain when the title pope
was first used. The earliest instance
we can cite, is that of Heraclius. Pa
triarch of Alexandria, in 222. Tt is
still the ordinary title of parish
priests in the eastern Greek church.
In the west it continued for several
centuries to be applied to bishops gen
orally, but it was restricted to the
Roman pOntiff by Gregory VII. in a
synod, held at Rome in 1073.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-04-10
Too Much For the EngIishman.

A professor from Iowa went to Eng
land last summer and was introduced
to a professor from one of the Eng
lish universities. He welcomed the
American and said: 81 met one Of
your colleagues last summer. We had
another professor from Ohio here to
visit u.s."
But am from Iowa"
Iowa. indeed! How very interest
ing! l am sure the other gentleman
called it Ohio."-Lippincott's.