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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-14
PEPPETlNI ROOSTER
TRACES ANCESTRY
BACK 100 YEARS

A Peppetini rooster said "a be one
Of the only two living specimens. and
claiming 70 be the 75sth generation Of
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-14
MAUI COUNTY DADS
ON FINANCIAL ROCKS

WAILUKu. Maui. Oct. There
seems to be something doing h the
board Of supervisors every day that
the Maui county fathers are In ses.
sion. The dlficnlty that the county
finds itself in Il shortage Of funds
This Il not through any desire On the
part OF county officials that funds be
short. but simply that the money has
been used = little faster than +
should have been
II Is now proposed to Ak the mat.
ter up by cutting down salaries Some
members OF the board want man
dropped here aud there rather than
slash too hard It the salaries Of al.
Just what VIM be the result no one
knows. but that facts and figures are
being cxrefuIly considered there can
be ne possible question.
Report says that the county busi-
ness Is being discussed to the very
bottom.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-14

Alleging deserted and non-support.
cosa Alahiwa hes aIPd 3 petition Ia
circuit court asking divorce from
John Alahiwa
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-14

Why not send the mailed fist to Mexico by
parcel post? = i
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-14

] The Ad Club promises not to do il again for
a year. ~. -
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
PAYING COST OF
Street PAVING
Marshalltown has Evolved Plan
That Works Well-City
Pays Nearly One
Third
GIVES GENERAL SATISFACTION
Disposes of the Intersection and Cor
ner Lot Problem in Commend
able Manner.

Now that Webster City will soon
he paving it's north and south streets,
and this ought to be done to connect
up the paving already done, "the
corner lot problem" that has caused
so much dissatisfaction and litiga-
tion in Iowa, will demand the ser
ious consideration of the council.
Marshalltown seems to have solved
the problem satisfactorily and is
now paying for it's paving in an
equitable and just manner. In eX-
planning the MarShalltown way,
Harry J. Rodgers has sent out the
following to the press of the state:
Property that has had pavement
laid abutting it has been unjustly
assessed in almost all Iowa cities be-
cause of the lack of equitable state
laws governing the assessment. 1t is
very generally conceded that all the
public should pay a part of what
street pavement costs. Yet the fact
remains that in most Iowa cities the
property owners on the street paved
have to pay all the cost.
In only one Iowa city, Marshall
town, has serious and successful
effort been made to more equally
distribute the cost of paving. The
council have put in operation a plan
that is the most equitable and just
in Iowa. ..a .#
Under the Marshalltown plan all
the real property of the city was lev
led on for $23,10257 of total of
s7S,095.95, which was what forty
blocks of concrete pavement cost
that were laid in 1912. In other
cities of Iowa the entire paving bill
would have been charged to the
properties abutting the pavement.
The Marshalltown commissioners
contended that street and all inter-
sections are city property and that
the city should pay for improving
them. The commissioners likewise
argued that because a corner lot,
60x1S0 feet, has 240 linear feet
abutting pavement is no valid rea-
son why 1t should be assessed four
times as much for that paving as the
60 feet next to the corner lot.
So the commissioners deducted
one-third of the assessments against
corner lots. where the intersecting
street was already paved on the 9TH
er side and the lots had been assess
ed for the full amount, and they
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
A Very Interesting Session.

The cabinet of the Congregations
Sunday school held one of the mos
interesting meetings in it's history al
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander
Groves Saturday evening. The sub
ject considered was "The relation OF
the Sunday school to the morning
church service" Mrs. Groves read
a most excellent paper upon this
topic and the matter was discussed
by different members of the cabinet.
Mrs. NJ. A. Penny of Denison, an ex-
perienced Sunday school worker who
is in the city visiting friends, was a
guest of the cabinet and took part in
the discussion. That attendance at
the morning church service was
more essential to the proper Chris
tian growth of the child than at
tending Sunday school, was the
mind of the cabinet. Following this
feature of the program delicious
light refreshments were served by
the hostess and a very pleasant So
cial time, singing hymns, ETC., was
much enjoyed by all.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
0. K. HERALD RE-
SIGNS POSITION
Station Agent for the Northwestern
Buys Furniture Store in
Eldora.

o. X. Herald has resigned his po-
sition as station agent for the Chi
cago & Northwestern Railroad COM
pany in this city and will remove
TO Eldora to make his home. Mr..
Herald has purchased a furniture
store there and will conduct the
business during the future. He has
asked for his release and expects to
so to Eldora within the next two
weeks. The friends of Mr.. Herald
and wife will regret their going
away very much, but will wish them
the most abundant success in their
new home. Mr.. Herald has made
number one agent for the North
western and is an excellent business
man and citizen.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
COMPANY c LOSES
Basket BALL GAME
Webster City and Fort Dodge Teams
Played in Latter City Sat-
urday Night.

Company C's basket ball team left
for Fort Dodge Saturday evening ac-
companied by good sized bunch of
"rooters" and all were confident Of
winning another game-the rubber
from Company G's fast team. They
returned on a later train, however,
with their laurels trailing In the
dust, as Company G had won the
game, the score being 50 to 15 in
favor of the Fort Dodge team.
In the first half fine contest was
played by the opposing teams and
the score was to 5. In the second
luck was against our boys, as Berg
gren had been hurt and was out Of
the game. This is probably the last
game of the season.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
MRS. JOSEPHINE
HOWARD DEAD
Well Known Woman Passes Away at
Home on West Boone Street
Death Caused by Heart
Disease.
SIXTY SEVEN YEARS OF AGE
Had Been a Resident of Hamilton
County Thirty-Two Years
An Excellent Woman.
sIxTY-sEvEN YEARS OF AGE

Mrs. Josephine Howard, widow of
n. S. Howard, died yesterday fore
noon at her home on Boone street
of heart trouble. She was the
daughter of William H. and Mar
garet Reeves and was born in Pick
away county, Ohio, December IS,
1915. She was united in marriage
to n. S. Howard, October 20, 1864,
in Washington county, Iowa. Mr..
Howard served his country in the
civil war, becoming first lieutenant
of Company X, Twenty-third Iowa
Volunteer Infantry. After a year S
service, when honorably discharged
by reason of illness, he took up his
abode in Marshall county, Iowa. Lat
er they lived in Washington county
and afterward in Decatur county,
where Mr.. Howard died December
81, 1880.
Thirtytwo years ago this month
NILS. IlON diu tdNle W I1dHllltOH
county and for the last several years
has resided in Webster City. She
was a woman OF exemplary charac-
ter and leaves a large number of
loyal friends. She has been frail for
number of years but her last ILL
ness was OF less than weeks dur
alton.
Eight children were born to N. S.
and Josephine Howard, of whom
four are living: c. S. who resides
near this city; Frank, who is now at
Breckenridge, Mimi, settling busi-
ness for his brother Homer; Homer
G., who is III at the home of his
mother. having arrived Sunday
morning from Rochester, MINI; and
n. F. Howard, who resides at f.ans-
ford, y. D.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
Total paid by city. s23, 3,102.57
Assessed to abutting prop
critics 54,99333

IOtal ....- , o,o9o.'V
BY this division the whole city
paid almost one-third of the entire
cost The item of S,549.51 was the
total of the deductions taken from
the proposed assessments against
eighty-seven corner lots. Exceptions
were made of church and factory
properties that were on corners.
This plan of deducting one-third
from each corner lot, and paying the
amount deducted out of the city's
improvement fund, was tried first in
1911. How we'll 1t has succeeded
may be judged by this: That Of
more than 400 properties levied
against for paving in the two years
the owners of just seven of them
have appealed from the councils as
sessment. Only $1,000 is involved
in these appeals out of total of
$62,66942 assessed, and not nearly
all of the seven appealers are own
ers of corner lots.
Lacking any specific law to guide
them. the council arbitrarily fixed on
one-third because, in the case of cor
ner lots. that proportion of reduc-
tion seemed equitable. also, because
some reduction had to be made in
order to avoid litigation that had
harassed former administrations, and
also because the district court had
twice held that corner lots could not
be assessed for the full amount Of
the cost of the pavement laid along
their two sides.
In both the Morgan and Leech
cases the court had ruled that the
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11

city could not assess the lots for the
total cost. These cases were appeals
from the assessments. In the Morgan
case Judge c. B. Bradshaw decreed
that the assessment must be lowered
40 per cent. This property had al
ready been levied against for pave
ment along it's 1SO-foot side. This
decision, although made in 1908,
gave the council their cue.
Although the council have no law
to support their plan they have local
public sentiment backing them,
which amounts to the same thing.
The equity and justice of the meth
cd appeals to payers and few have
complained. a..a
Acting under a literal interpreta-
ton of the law, other cities have
been assessing the total cost of paw
ing street, which includes the in
tersections, against the property in
that street. For such an improve
ment the owner of Marshalltown
property in the street paved nas.
much the lighter burden of special
taxation to bear. The reason is that
in Marshalltown all the taxpayers
pay for paving the intersections.
Just how much that means is
shown best by figures. In Marshall
town it cost the owner of a 60-foot
lot an average of $3.50 last year to
pave the street in front of his prop
erty. That amount included the
cost of 100 square yards of pave
ment and 60 feet of curb, the former
costing s1.0S a square yard, and the
latter S.35 linear foot. These were
the contract prices for which the
work was done
BY adopting this method of max
ing all the property share in the ex-
pense of paving the intersections.
and by deductins one-third from the
corner lots, Marshalltown has escap-
ed endless litigation. Other cities
would probably benefit in the same
way if they would copy the Mar
shalltown plan.
Prior to 1911 the last pavement
laid in Marshaltown was in 1908.
Out of that improvement grew the
Morgan and Leech and forty-four
other appeal cases. They were drag
ged through the courts for six years,
were finally settled, but they cost the
city thousands of dollars and taught
about making special levies against
properties for street improvements.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
The New Nickel.

4 L. A. McMurray has one of the
new nickels, the latest issue put Out
by Uncle Sam. The new five cent
piece has the figure Of a buffalo on
one side of it and an Indian head
upon the other. 1t is very attract
i've looking nickel. Some of the
banks have ordered supplies of the
new coin but as yet none has been
received by these local financial in
stitutions.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
Williams Girl Hof1ored

Williams Wasp: Miss Ethel John
son. daughter sof Mr.. and Mrs. E. l..
Johnson was last week elected a
member from the Sophomore class Of
Grlnnell college to help edit the coll
lese annual. owelve other members
Were selected, We are pleased to
hear of the success that Williams
students are meeting with at Grin
nell.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
WELL. KNOWN
CITIZEN DIES
H. H. Himebaugh is Called by Death
Passed Away Saturday
Afternoon-67 Years
of Age.
RESIDED HERE SINCE 1890
Had Been Bedfast During the Past
MoLth-An Old Soldier and
Good Citizen.
RESIDED HERE SINCE 1890

Hiram Henry Himebaugh was
born in Erie county, Penn.j Dec. z,
1S45. In 1853 his parents came to
Iowa and settled on farm in Jones
county. On May IA, 1864, then 21
Years of age, he enlisted in Company
c, Forty-fourth Iowa Infantry, Third
Brigade, Sixteenth Corps His term
Of service was short, as he was dis
charged Sept. Is, 1864, at Daven-
port, Iowa, and sent home because
of bad attack of dysentery, from
which malady he never fully recov-
cred.
Mr.. Himebaugh was married on
June s, 1870, to Angeline Segar.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Sc
gar. pioneer settlers in this county,
at the farm home near town. The
young couple soon after moved to a
farm in O'Brien county, where they
resided eight years and where their
three children were born.
In 1879 the family moved to Jones
county and in 1885 to Luke county,
Nebraska. While living there the
only son, Cyrenius George, died at
the age of 10 years. In 1890 Mr.
and Mrs. Himebaugh came to this
city. where they have since made
their home.
Mr.. Himebaugh had been failing
in health for the past eighteen
months. His last illness began when
he became bedfast on the 10th of
February. Since that time he has
been most patient sufferer with an
incurable disease, and death came as
a welcome release at about 3 O'Clock
in the afternoon on Saturday, March
9Th.
The entire family including his
sister, have been with him constant
ly during his illness and all that
medical aid and good nursing could
accomplish, has been done to relieve
MS SunerlngS.
Mr.. Himebaugh was faithful to all
interests entrusted to him, and
throughout his life unselfshness has
been one of his most pronounced
characteristics. He was devoted
husband. a kind and loving father, a
good brother, trustworthy friend,
and will be incurred by many. He
leaves a wife aid two daughters,
Mrs. e. A. Morris, who resides near
town, and Mrs. Mabel yaus, who has
made her home with her parents for
the past five years. He also leaves
sour grandchildren and three sisters,
Mrs. Sarah Hughes of Boville, Ida
no; Mrs. B. W. Merwin of Peterson,
and Mrs. E. M. Remington of this
city.
Typewriter supplye at this office.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
Mourning Death of Babe.

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Carpenter
are mourning the death of their
eleven months old baby son, Richard
Lyle, which occurred Sunday even
ing at o'clock. The little one had
been sick but three days with hard
cold, and death came as a great
shock to the parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Carpenter have just recently moved
from this city to a farm near Wool
stock. ..
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
Won Second Place.

Miss Elsie Heiden of the local
high school won second place in the
district declamatory contest at Britt
Friday, the first place being taken
by a girl from Forest City. Miss Hell
den went from Britt to Dows for a
few days visit before returning
I, opoo p.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
Graduating Exercises.

Program and graduating exercises
will be given at the Swamp college,
Prairie Mound school, south of town,
Wednesday evening, March -, at s
o'clock. Admission Is cents. Pro-
ceeds will go for benefit Of the
school. Every one is invited.
Sadie VanBuskirk, Teacher.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
PRELIMINARY
DECLARATIONS
Declamatory Contest Held at Baptist
Church Saturday Night
Small Audience
Present.
DENNIS KELLY FIRST PLACE
Misses Clarine Mueller and Drucia
Hill Win First in Their
Respective Glasses. |
DENNIS KELLY FIRST PLACE

The preliminary declamatory con-
test was held at the Baptist church
Saturday evening, a small though
appreciative audience being present.
The attendance should have been
much larger according to the quality
of the entertainment. There were
eight contestants in the contest and
all did very WE'LL Dennis Kelly car
ried off first honors with his grafton,
"Emmett's Vindication." Mr.. Kelly
shows a great deal of ability along
this line and will, no doubt, prove
to be speaker of no mean ability
like his father.
Miss Clarene Mueller was the sec
ond winner with the dramatic read
ing, "The Return of Regulus." Miss
Mueller proved herself to be an ex-
cellent dramatic impersonator. This
was her first appearance on the stage
as reader and the ease and grace
with which she went through the
rendition of "The Return of Regu-
lus' easily showed that her educa-
tion in the elocutionary line should
not be neglected She has the will
power to accomplish whatever she
sets out to do and that is one of the
most important acquisitions in any
line.
The third winner was Miss Dru-
ella Hill, who read that humorous
reading, ''The Widder Johnsing." /"
This proved to be just as funny as
the name of the piece would signify
and her clever Interpretation of it
brought down the house with laugh
ter. ..-.u
Music, for the evening was fur
nished by the boys quartet compos-
ed of Messrs. Dennis Kelly, Harry
Miller, Verne Buxton and Glenn
Greenwood, and solos by Miss Ruby
Whitman. ,.r
The judges were Rev. c. H. Kamp-
hoefner, r. G. Remley and Mrs. R.
G. Clark. Mr.. Kelly will represent
our school in the coming Boone VAL
ley meet which will be in Hampton
some time in May, the date having
not yet been decided. -.H
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11

Frank Brace of this city was
found lying on the pilot of the pas
senger train which went through
this city westbound early Sunday
morning by Policeman Jones, in an
intoxicated and badly benumbed con-
dition from the cold. He was taken
to the city Jail and later assessed
the usual fine by Mayor Sparboe.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11
The Cradle Roll.

Word has been received here by
friends of the arrival of a fine baby
girl at the home of Mr.. and Mrs F.
A. Masberg in Waterloo. Mr.. and
Mrs. Masberg formerly resided in
this city and have many friends
n ere ,a -
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11

James Jinias of the Olympia can
dy kitchen, who has been in Mercy
hospital for the past week suffering
from liver trouble, went home yes
terday.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11

Miss Jennie Mott is reported on
the sick list Miss Ethel Mabbott is
substituting during her absence as
teacher in the Poplar Grove school.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-11

made all the property owners of the
city pay the one-third that were de-
Quoted The remaining two-thirds
was assessed to the corner lot.
The tabulation that follows illus
trates how this plan worked out in
Marshalltown last year. 1t shows
how the seasons paving bill of $7S,-
O95.95 was divided between the COM
paratively few properties that re-
ceived the special benefits, and all
the properties of the city that re-
ceived the public benefits:
Street and alley intersec-
tions 49,. S11, 1,6O5.54
Deducted from corner lots S,549.51
Extra grading ........ 2,947.52
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1913-04-02

81 think / suffered every pain wo-
man could before l began taking Lydia
L. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
l think it saved this baby's life, as !
lost my first one.
"My health has been very good ever
since, and praise your medicine to all
my friends" - Mrs. VERNA WILKES,
r. F. d. No. /, Plattsburg, Miss.
The darkest days of husband and wife
are when they come to look forward to
9 childless and lonely old age.
Many wife has found herself inca
pablo of motherhood owing to some
arrangement of the feminine system,
often durable by the proper remedies.
In many homes once childless there
are now children because of the fact
that Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound makes women normal.
II you want special advice write to
Lydia f. Pinkham Medicine Co. (cOnfl-
deutiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by a
woman and held in strict confidence.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1913-04-02
| No. I3

No. 4 10 acres located mile north OF
ha'ance in yearly PAYMENTS. u oaSr
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1913-04-02

out marIeuetta was not offended.
Instead she smiled over her shoulder
as she had smiled at her lover an in
slant before.
"Me like you fine. You like pie?''
Joy nodded toward the door of the
culinary department as If to make
free of his hospitality, at the instant
that Carara, VINO had circled the build
ing, came into view from the opposite
side, a fresh cigarette between his
lips. His languor vanished at the
first glimpse of the scene, and he
strobe toward the whitehead celestial,
who dove through the open door like
prairie dog into his hole. Carara
followed at his heels.
at serves him right" cried Miss
Blake, rising. 81 hope Mr.. Carara-"
A din of falling pots and pans is
sued from the cook-house, mingled
with shrill cries and soft Spanish i'm
precautions; then, with one long-drawn
wall, the pandemonium ceased as sud
denly as it had commenced, and Ca
rara issued forth, black with anger.
"Ha!" said he, scowling at Marie
delta, who had retreated, her hand
upon her bosom. He eXhaled a lung
full of cigarette smoke through his
nostrils fiercely. "You play wit me,
eh?"
"No, no." Mariedetta ran to him,
and, seizing his arm, cooed amorously
in Spanish.
Bah! Vamos!" Carara flung her
from him, and stalked away.
well, of all the outrageous things!"
said Miss Blake. "Why, she was actu-
ally flirting with that Chinaman."
"Mariedetta fiirts with every man
she can find" said Jean, calmly, "but
she doesn't mean any harm. She'll
marry Carara some time-if he doesn't
kill her."
xiii her!" Miss Blake's eyes were
round. "He wouldn't do that"
Indeed, yes. He is Mexican, and
he has terrible temper"
Miss Blake sank back into the ham,
mock. How perfectly dreadful! And
yeti must be heavenly to love a
man who would kill you"
Miss Chaplin lost herself in medita-
ton for an instant Culver is almost
like that when he is angry. Hello,
here comes our foreman!"
Slower, tall, gangling cattle-man
with dropping grizzled mustache.
came stumbling up to the steps. He
busted his boots with his sombrero
and cleared his throat.
Evening, Miss Jean. Is Mr.. Cha
pin around?"
81 think you'll find him down by the
spring-house. Can / do anything for
your"
"Nope!" Slower sighed heavily, and