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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07
CHORAL CONTESTS
WILL DRAW MANY
PITTSBURGH TO BE SCENE OF
GREAT SINGING FESTIVAL OF
THE WELSH IN JULY.

The Welsh people of Ottumwa and
the country generally are looking for
ward to the big singing festival to be
held in Pittsburgh, Pa, for four days
during the first week of July. The
greatest assent lage of Welsh singers
that has ever been gathered together
in the country is expected to be
present in Americas iron city. Many
natives of Wales in this vicinity are
planning to get their vacations during
the period the festival Is held and Will
attend.
Pittsburgh, during independence
week, will be the scene of the greatest
choral contests in the history OF the
United States, more than sixty choirs
having entered for the big Welsh
musical festival which Is attracting
competitors and visitors from every
continent Of the earth, total of $780,
600 in cash prizes being offered.
The festival Is divided into four days
as follows: :.
Wednesday, July 2 - children's
choirs.
Thursday, July 3-Ladies' choirs.
Friday, July MALE choirs.
Saturday, July 5-Chief choral COM
petition.
The festival will open with a concert
by a massed children's choir of 1000
voices and will close with magnifi-
cent production of Sir Edward Elgars
king Olaf" by choir of 1,bOO voices:
For the first time in the history OF
the United States the Ancient Gorsedd
of the Bards of Britain will meet in
session in this country, special dis
pensation having been granted by this
institution which dates from pre-hls-
toric times, the first record appearing
in the commentaries Of Julius
Caesar, in which he speaks Of a Cor
sedd held 1000 years before Christ.
There are more than one inillton
Welsh-Americans in the United States
and fully $4,000 Of this, number will be
in attendance at Pittsburgh In July.
All railroad companies have granted
concessions in the matter of fares and
elaborate arrangements for housing
visitors have been made by the Pitts
burgh committee.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07
DEED TRAVELS TO
SWEDEN AND BACK

It is not common for deeds to prop
erty sold in Wapello county to travel
about the world before being recorded,
nevertheless there Is one deed filed
late yesterday that made the trip to
Sweden before 1t was ready to be filed
In Wapello county. The instrument is
a deed for lots and 10 in block of
Garfield park addition and was sold by
Edd N. Anderson and wife Hannah
Anderson to Minnie, Cavins. Mr.. and
Mrs. Anderson who sold the lots resid !
at present in Halmsted, Holland coun-
ty, Sweden. The deed was sent to
them and passed through the hands Of
Office Of Hugo Lindgren, of the United
States consular agent at Malmo, NAL
mohus county, Sweden. The instru-
ment has attached ito it the Swedish
notorial statemen and affidavit which
is decorated with red ribbon and
bears large blue seal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07
ROCK ISLAND BEER
CASE CONTINUED

Upon motion of the special counsel
for the Rock Island railroad the suit
for an injunction against the company
for shipping beer into Ottumwa has
been continued until June II. This
action was brought by the Wapello
county civic league attorneys in the
name Of the state Of Iowa. It arises
out Of the recent seizure Of half car
load Of beer by Sheriff Knox and
deputies on search warrant issued
at the instance of George l. Gllies.
Owing to the absence OF one Of the
attorneys the motion for new trial
in the case brought by John e. Blak-
eley ct al against ]. P. Hawthorne, in
volving some 5000 for the sale Of some
mules, has been, postponed until the
January term. The verdict in the first
trial was for the defendant.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07
AD MEN MEETING.

Baltimore, Md, June 6.-Many
novel features have been planned for
the annual convention Of the Asso.
ciated Advertising Clubs Of America,
which will begin weeks session next
Monday in the Fifth regiment armory
here. Eight men from the Cross Coun.
try club Of Washington, d. c., will
take part in a forty-mile relay race
Monday. They will carry a message
from President Wilson at the white
house In Washington to President
Shay of the Baltimore Advertising
Club at Convention hall.
Each man will run five miles and
the sanction of the Southern Athletic
association Is expected to be secured
SO that the feat will 60 down officially
as a record for relay race.
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'OTTUMWA c. A. R TO
CO TO DES MONIES
ABOUT FORTY OR FIFTY VETER.
ANS WILL PARTICIPATE IN
BIG ENCAMPMENT.

| Between forty and fifty members OF
the G. A. r. of the Cloutman and futile
posts, as well as numerous other veter
ans throughout the county will attend
the big encampment at Des Monies
from June 10 to IA. Physical disabil.
ity will keep many, away who would be
glad to participate In the celebration
for many feel that it is the last real
big G.. A. r. event that they will live
| tc witness. The Ottumwans will take
a martial band with them and expect
to leave on the 1880 train over the
Rock Island the morning Of the 10th of
June. They will arrive in the capital
city in time to get located and attend
the big camp fire at the coliseum in
the evening when Governor Clarke and
Mayor Hanna make their addresses Of
welcome to which responses will be
made. ~
The local veterans have rate of
$3.50 for the round trip and as many
as can possibly attend will go from
Ottumwa. They will be joined by
numerous other comrades enroute
from Keokuk and other places below
Ottumwa and expect to march from the
station in Des Moines to the head
quarters as southern Iowa veterans.
The program thus far issued Is not
complete but Is sufficiently large to in
sure something Of great interest
throughout the entire time OF the en-
campment to the old soldiers. Some
in Ottumwa have given UP the pros
pect of attending because of their
health which increasing years and
service in the civil war has impaired to
such an extent as to make the trip one
of hazard. Those of Ottum-
wa posts who have planned to
attend, are enthusiastic as young boys
at the prospect that is held forth in the
triple celebration, for the thirty-ninth
encampment of the G. A. R., the semi
centennial OF the home coming of the
Iowa soldiers and the fiftieth ami
versary of the Vicksburg campaign
will be observed.
Thirty-two, Iowa military organiza-
tions participated in the Vicksburg
campaign and there will be enough
gatherings of small organizations of
the soldiers during the four days to
keep all of the veterans busy renew
ing old acquaintance and reviewing
years long past but unforgotten. Major
Samuel Mahon OF Ottumwa, Is among
the aids selected on the staff of the
commander, Maj. Gen. Granville NJ.
Dodge.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07
OTTUMWAN TO ENTER
THE NAVAL ACADEMY

Thomas Woodrow OF Ottumwa Is in
Davenport taking the examination for
entrance into the naval academy at
Annapolis, Md. He was recently ap.
pointed to the vacancy there by Con-
gresham SAINT Kirkpatrick Of the
sixth district. The young man is a
member Of 1913 class Ottumwa high
school and expects to finish with his
class next week. His examination in
Davenport is a special examination
and is held in the federal building of
that city.
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Can Return to Given Spot
Without Fail After Be-,
ing Taken Far Away.
IBY CLYDE H. TAvENNER.]

Washington, b. G., June g. Down
in the dry Tortugas Islands at the ex.
tremity of the Florida peninsula, in
the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, there
has been quietly going on some very
interesting experiments to prove
scientifically that certain birds have
a sixth sense, sense having no rela-
ton to sight, touch, hearing, taste or
smell.
This sense is one of location. It Is
what enables bird to perform the
wonderful "homing" achievements.
But these experiments have shown
that 1t Is something more than the
fact that the bird can find its way
home. There is apparently an absolute
sense of location which works as &C
curately over hundreds of miles as the
most accurate surveyors instrument
in making q triangulation.
The Carnegie institute has an ex-
pertinent station on the bird reserve
which includes many of the Dry Tor
tugas Islands, and here Professors
Myer and Watson have been making
scientific tests of which the following
is sample.
The professor goes into group OF
nests where the seabirds have laid
their eggs so thickly that 1t Is almost
impossible to walk without stepping
on an egg. Many Of the islands are
literally covered with birds during
breeding time. The nests are not regu-
lar nests, but are merely slight de-
pressions In the sand. In this depres-
sion the female bird lays a single egg
and proceeds to hatch 1t. The expert.
menter takes the bird from off this
egg and puts her In basket which is
covered with painted canvass to en-
tirely exclude the light, and the pack
age Is shipped away, sometimes to sea,
sometimes on land, a distance Of $50
miles or more. The bird, with green
mark painted across it's back so that
it may easily be recognized, Is then re-
leased. In a very brief time 1t has
found it's way back to the nest. II the
egg is left undisturbed, the mother set
ties on her egg and proceeds to go on
with the Matching operations. If the
egg has been removed three inches
from the spot where 1t was, the bird
is evidently disturbed and fuses
around considerably before making
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07

West Side Tennis Club, New York
June 6.-The United States and Aus
tralian tennis teams opened their
three day preliminary Davis cup tour
nament under perfect weather condf
tons. The, winner of this series will
meet the German team which defeated
France in yesterdays match at Weis
baden. Maurice Mclaughlin won the
initial set.
The test is the best three out of five
matches divided into four singles and
one double match. The schedule for
today's play brought together Nc.
Laughlin (U. S. against H. M. Rrice
(Australia), and R. Norris Williams, II.
u. ST. against N. Doust (Austrana)
Robert D. Wrenn, president OF the
United States Lawn Tennis associa-
ton, sat in the referees chair and
other prominent tennis players acted
as linesmen.
The one drawback to the conditions
was a puffy wind that blew down the
court from the south. When play be.
gan there were fully four thousand
spectators present
Promptly at o'clock Mclaughlin
and Rice entered the courts together
to be greeted with round of applause
ry the gallery. Mclaughlin won the
toss and served from the south court
with the wind at his back. The Call
forian won the first game at love, Rice
finding McLaughlin's speedy play hard
to handle. 3#n rr
Mclaughlin broke through Rice's
service, winning the second, four to
one. He easily won the third game at
love, but Rice took the fourth after
deuce had been called. The fifth was
McLaugh1in's at love. Mclaughlin
took the sixth Z to with terrific
court smash. The seventh and final
game went to Mclaughlin to l..
Mclaughlin, s: Rice, l. ---.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07
Oak Ridge No. 2.

Oak Ridge workers and school joined
with the East End church and chapels
in the Bulgin-Rose campaign during
the month of May. The total contribu-
ton for the school toward the gospel
tent work was SO. The workers of this
school took deep interest in the gos-
pei tent campaign. Next Sunday the
work will be taken up again at the
school house. Sunday school at 2:30 p.
M, Charles Pool, superintendent. Serv-
icesfor worship and preaching at $50
p. m. John Loring will have charge Of
the meeting. The regular Monday meet
ing will be taken up again next Mon
day evening at o'clock. DR.. w. H.
Horned will address the meeting on
the subject, Jacob Before Pharaoh"
Let every friend of this good work be
out. all of these meetings and bring
a friend or neighbor.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07
RETAILERS DID NOT
SELECT DELEGATES

The expected selection of delegates
to the state meeting Of the retailers
was not taken UP last evening by the
local grocers and markctmen in their
meeting at the Retail Merchants asso-
cation rooms. The meeting was attend
ed by but few and the matter Of the
state convention did not come up for
discussion. Neither was there anything
done at the gathering last night about
the coming annual picnic. These mat
te-s will go over until later date. Most
Of the time last night was taken up in
discussing the new sanitary laws ap-
plicable to storekeepers.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07
BISHOP w. S. LEWIS
WILL VISIT HERE

Bishop w. S. Lewis accompanied by
Mrs. Lewis of Sioux City arrive.in the
city tomorrow morning and will be en-
tertained at the home of Mrs. Lewis
mother Mrs. T. A. Fulton, 724 North
Court street. DR.. J. H. Cudlipp, pas
tor of the First Methodist church, has
made arrangements for Mr.. Lewis to
talk at the evening service at the
church Sunday, but conference with
the bishop will be necessary before
anything definite is decided.
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Church Notes.
Miller Presbyterian Church.

On account Of the union gospel tent
meetings in Ottumwa, there were nc
afternoon services in the church. A
number of the Miller church friends
united with the east end people in the
services conducted by DR.. Bulgin at
IL q. m. and p. m. Miss Carol Ker.
foot led the Christian Endeavor meet
ing at the church in the evening. Her
subject was "Bible Study of the Ideal
Christian" Sunday school at p. M,
Richard Elliott, superintendent. Serv.
ices for worship and preaching at 8 p.
m. DR.. w. H. HORNED will take as his
subject, "The Failure of Sampson. !"
Christian Endeavor meeting at p. M,
subject, Seek Peace and Pursue It,"
Peter 3:S-18 Leader, Miss Cora De
burn. You will be made welcome at
these services.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07
MOOSE WILL PLAY
DES MONIES MEN

The Ottumwa Moose baseball team
will try to throw the harpoon into the
Des Moines on the Myrtle street lot
Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock. The
Ottumwa Moose are at 1000 per cent
In the American joy thus far this
year, having defeated Des Moines 10
to 5 and Keokuk 16 to 3 in the pair of
games played in Des Moines and Of
tumwa.
Captain Tom Price will have his
best athletes in Sundays lineup and a
royal battle Is expected.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07
MEN IN
AID UNIQUE PARADE

Des Moines, June 6.--Six bands, a
platoon of police and an escort in auto
mobiles assisted the marching COM
mercial travellers in one of the most
unique parades on record locally this
afternoon as part of the program OF
the United Commercial Travellers con-
vention in session here. Fully two
thousand men were in line, the various
councils with their uniforms producing
novel effect.
The grand council held an important
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07
Dahloneaa Sunday School.

On Sunday afternoon, May Is, about
thirty people gathered in the school
building of Dahlonega aud organized a
union Sunday school. The following
officers were chosen: Superintendent,
Mrs. Shaffeur; assistant superintend.
ent. George Hatch; secretary, Virgil
Speer; treasurer, Mrs. Morgan. The
following were appointed teachers:
Mr.. Brownlee, Mr.. Hatch, Mrs. Shat
feur and Mrs. Morgan. Sunday school
at 9: 80 q. m. Services for worship and
preaching at II. John Loring will de-
liver the discourse. DR.. w. H. HORNED
will preach on Tuesday evening on the
subject, Jacob Before Pharaoh,
Everybody will be made welcome to
these services.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07

bv mail be sure to look at
the date on the slip with
YOUR name and renew be-
fore your subscription ex-
pires.
J. B. Dolls restaurant at Oskaloosa
Il .headuuartors for automobile parties.
When in Oskaloosa, Iowa, stop at
The 7. B. Dolls restaurant. Special Sum-
day dinner. Automobile headquarters.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. B, Gephart and lit
tie son Max of Tacoma, Wash. are
visiting at the parental J. B. Gephart
home 40 North Benton street.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Ball and daugh-
ter, George Ball, Miss Mary Stever
and Mrs. l.. w. Van Nostrand
Of Fairfield have returned home after
q visit at the A. R. Burns home, nortn
east of the city
Griswald's Best Flour makes a per-
feet loaf. Ask your grocer.
JIG. Cloudy has accepted position
rs relief clerk in the Ottumwa Ma
tional bank.
Mrs. J. K. Dougherty and two chill
dren, Martha Louise and Katherine, &C.
companied by Mrs. Mary A. Dougherty,
left this morning on Burlington NO.
10 for Washington, D. c., where they
will join Mr.. Dougherty. Mrs. Mary
Dougherty expects to spend the sum-
mer with her son and with other rela-
tives in Pennsylvania points.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Tisdale, 1877 East
Maple avenue, left on No. 10 this
morning for Chicago, where they VIII
attend the graduation exercises OF the
University Of Chicago. Their daugh-
ter Miss Florence NJ. Tisdale. is
member of the class.
ASK for Griswald's Best Flour. The
price is within reason.
Mrs. George Schleicher, 40 North
Green street, left this morning over
the Milwaukee for short visit with
relatives In Centerville.
MI. and Mrs. George Atkins of
Blakesburg were in the city today re-
ceiving medical treatment.
Claude Chidester and Donald
schamp are visiting with relatives IN
Kirkville.
Miss Edna Down, 1908 North Court
street, has gone to Blakesburg for
short visit with relatives.
Mrs. Ella Gunby of Braymer, Mo-,
is visiting at the home of c. G. Dixon
922 Russell street, enroute to Des
Moines where she will attend the
graduation exercises Of her daughter
Miss Katherine who is a student at
the Des Moines medical college.
The proof is In the baking and some
Ottumwa housewives have baked Girls
wald's Best Flour for fifteen years.
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JEFF SAYS:

Yesterday after
noon about 400
the people in the
vicinity of Third
street thought
the new p. m.
had taken pos
session, but in
vestigation re-
vealed that it
was merely the
explosion Of a
com pr g 9 8 ion
tank in a garage
across the street
from the post
office.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07
.PEARY TO. GET HONOR.

Paris, June 6.-Prince Roland Bona.
parte, president for the French geo
graphical society has asked President
RAYMOND Poincare to confer the deco.
ration Of the legion Of honor on Rear
Admiral Robert e. Peary. 1t is under
stood that it will be presented to the
lrctic explorer after his lecture to the
biographical society this evening.
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WEDDING
SOLEMNZED IN, CITY.

Miss Lottie Miller and Cla5k Derr OF
Bonaparte were married at the resi-
dence Of A b. Caldwell. ia East Second
street, yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock
Rev. Caldwell, pastor Of the Main Street
M. e. church officiating. They were at
tended by Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Eager OF
this city. Mr.. and Mrs. Derr left this
afternoon forsBonaparte where they
will live.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-07

Cures permanently the cases he un-
dertakes and sends the incurable
home without taking fee from them.
This is why he continues his visits
from year to year, while other doctors
have made q few visits and stopped.
DR.. Shallenberger Is an eminently sue.
cessful specialist In all chronic dis
eases, proven by the many cures eff
fected in chronic cases which have
baffled the skill Of all other physi-
clans. His hospital experience and
extensive practice have made him SO
proficient that he can name and locate
disease In few minutes
Treats all cases Of Catarrh, Nose,
Throat and Lung Diseases, Eye and
Ear, Stomach, Liver and Kidneys,
Gravel, Rheumatism, Paralysis, Neu-
ralgia, Nervous and Heart Diseases,
Blood and Skin Diseases, Epilepsy,
Bright's Disease and Consumption in
early stage, diseases Of the Bladder
and Female Organs, Liquor and To-
bacco habit. Stammering cured and
sure methods to prevent its recur.
renee given. A never falling remedy
for Big Neck.
PILES, FISTULA and RUPTURE
guaranteed cured without detention
from business. Special attention given
to all surgical cases and all diseases
of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat and
Granulated Lids.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
Are you nervous and respondent
weak and debilitated; tired mornings;
no ambition-lifeless; memory poor;
easily fatigued; excitable and irrit-
able; eyes sunken red and blurred;
pimples on face; dreams, restless;
haggard looking; weak back; deposit
in urine and drains at stool; distrust- I
full; want of confidence, lack Of energy.
and strength?
DISEASES OF MEN AND PRIVATE
DISEASES sAasPEcIALTY.
Blood Poison, Supermatorrhea, Vari-
cocele, Hydrocele, Debility, Nervous
ness Dizziness, Defective Memory,
etc, which ruins mind and body, posi- 4
lively cured.
4. WONDERFUL CURES.
Perfected in old cases which have
been neglected or unskillfully treated.
No experiments or failures. He ln-
dertakes no incurable cases, but cures
thousands given up to die.
Consultation Free and Confidential.
Address
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LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

Must be sold account Of shippers
one car load extra A.Star Washington
Cedar Shingles--net cash price, $500
per Ms. L. McGavic Lumber Co., ZIG
South Jefferson street.
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Experiments With Birds
Sh0w They Haze 9th Sense

sure that 1t Is her egg. But finally she
on 1t. II the egg Is removed eighteen
inches from the spot where she left 1t.
the bird is absolutely at loss. She
cannot identify her egg and will pay
no attention to 1t. Having found her
way back over the $50 miles. she can.
not correct the little error caused by
the eighteen-inch removal.
Next the experiment is tried of cut
ting down bushes or any landmarks
near the egg, and smoothing the sand,
thus changing the general appearance
OF the surroundings. This makes no
difference. It does not fool the bird.
She Identifies the egg if it Is left in
the same place.
Next the professor builds a little
tower twelve feet high and elevates
the egg from the spot where It was.
The bird returns and is little sur
prised to find the egg so far up in the
air, but has no difficulty in deciding
that it Is her egg and matches 1t sit
ting on the tower. But before the
chick matches, in another experiment,
the professor removes the tower and
puts the egg again on thu surface. The
bird, having been away and returning,
looks for the egg at spot UP in the air
twelve feet above the ground, flutters
around in very disturbed manner at
not finding 1t there, gradually and
very reluctantly settles down to the
surface of the earth and cares for the
egg there. For a period Of two weeks,
every time the bird returns to the nest
1t will flutter up in the air where the
tower formerly was, looking in that
spot for the egg, but by that time she
becomes resigned to finding it on the
ground again
All these experiments appear to
show that there is an absolute sense
Of location possessed by the bird. 1t is
not dependent on landmarks, the ap-
pearance Of the surroundings, or the
appearance of the egg itself The bird
is fooled by displacement OF only
eighteen inches from one side to an
other, although changing the location
upward. or downward does not per-
manently deceive it.
The professors are experimenting
with noodles, sotty tarns, and the man
ot-war bird. The latter, although the
strongest flyer known. has great diff
Guilty in starting from the ground and
may be caught by hand when nesting.
as it is likely to topple off the nest on
the windward side and be unable to
RISE They are also drowned If thrown
into the water, as they cannot rise
from the waves.
b