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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-18

announcements to the utmost capaclty'
The Droper development of the water
mower facilities will permit the city 10
get the benefit of this power. Ihls VIII
bring new problems connected Win
the purchase and installing of equip
ment that will demand the consldera.
tio1, If men of practical knowledge and
business experience.
These matters add to the RESPONSE !.
hility of the voters in nominating and
electing men to serve as mayor ana
'councilmen under the hrst commission
plan administration in OttumWa. Inc
new CITY administration Will have full
charge of the waterWorks, assuming
all the powers now held by the board
Of waterworks trustees OttumWa
must not only nominate and elect men
capable of conducting the ordinary ad'
n,inistrative affairs Of the city, but
canable of managing the waterworks
property as we'll.
To set at naught all the improve
ments that have been made. and the
further extensions and improvements
now in contemplation, by turning the
mana cement of the plant over to In
competent men would be disastrous to
the city and costly to the taxpayers
and all the citizens.
This is too important matter to be
turned over to political caprice or to
be made matter. of political barter.
All other questions involved In the
primarv and election are Overshad-
owed by the necessity Of safeguard
ing the investment the people have
made in the waterworks. 81
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Sidewalk Sketches
BY Howard L. Ram
EXERCISE.

table from / p. m. until half past five,
which enables them to approach the
evening meal with gnawing sense
of hunger and leave the impression
with all present that they are enl-
ployed in q tobacco factory. Many
a man who thinks nothing Of cover.
ing 20 miles around pool table loses
the use of his legs at once when his
wife wants him to walk down town
after the laundry.
The most popular form OF exercise
| is buying an automobile with a first
mortgage loan and trying to see how
fast 1t will go without blowing up.
This usually gives man very rnd y
and pugnacious appetite, but 1t also
gives him a gasoline bill which takes
lit away as fast as it comes.
If some people would exercise more
during working hours and punch the
time clock some time before noon,
they would not have to frequent the
bowling alley and swing Indian clubs
in order to enjoy a square meal
There Is a whole lot of exercise going
to waste on an eight-hour schedule
that could be turned into an increase
of salary.
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VICE COMES WITH LAX GOVERN
MENT

II the Iowa legislature appoints a
committee to make so-called in
vestigation" Of the moral conditions of
the state, it is to be hoped that that
committee will not be carried away
with an unuuenchable desire to attract
attention to its.I.
While some Of the work of the ILL
nois committee has been along the
right lines. for the most part. 1t has
been handled in an amateurish man
ner. The committee, in it's seeming
anxiety to get in the public print, sue
ceeded in getting itself so badly
tangled, that by the close. of each
days session it had succeeded in cast
ing q suspicion about everyone 1t had
referred to during the day, directly
and indirectly, male and female.
That committee seems to think that
a minimum wage scale can be adopted
as easy as the minutes of the previous
meeting. 1t will be hard problem
to solve. What may be satisfactory
minimum at one place, may be en-
tirely wrong in another part Of the
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Exercise ia hard work disguised as
recreation. 1t Is used principally by
people who have mislaid their appe-
| tite and have to go around without one.
The world is full of people who are
loaded up with brain flag and wouldn't
know an appetite from any other
household utensil, and the only way
they can work up craving for food
is to lope around the golf links about
four days a week.
J Exercise can be taken in various
ways When man is all run down,
so that he has to commune with the
matted milk tablet once every hour,
his physician advices him to get up
early and walk four miles before break
fast. The patient may run across his
appetite while he is gone, but it won't
be Of any use to him, for when he re
turns home he will be too exhausted
to raise soup spoon off the tale
cloth. This VIII disappoint his appe-
title to such an extent that it will leave
him in huff and fail to come back
for several days.
A good many men are able to get
enough exercise to last them duri 'g
the day. by circling around a pool
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Daddy 'sBedtirne
- The Toad That
CtOIV-- Lived In the
Chimney Corner

~ fields and orchards
Evelyn said to Jack
waking winter
maps" a. "a. ,
daddy II think I'll tell
the winter
hole under big
his this cvery
chilly kitchen
tempting bits Of food
the cellar
an the cellar. .
notion In mere
cold outdoors
the winter
his idea Who wants sleep whole winter? he
it's cold and the flies and all gone
could him. BY and by when she him she him bit
like please the little girl
the cellar and Struggled into lovely
awhile
and cold DAY the little girl
to the hearth
bits of meat to feed him with and after
with
took that friendly toad and would allow him
taking the
when became and the peeping the ds and the
left
though the little girl looked for him she never saw him again
other toads bis strange tale Of having been awake all
believed fbbng
o. himself"
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Press Comment.
LEARNING TO TALK.

Des Moines Register and Leader:
The growth and acquisition of Ian
guage is always an interesting
thing. Aside from new slang express
sions that creep into our vocabularies
every day, there are numerous ex-
pressions that come to- be formed
and assimilated because Of new indus
tries, new discoveries or inventions
or customs or movements. Comment
ing on this phase of word develop
ment; the publishers of the new Stan
dard Dictionary call attention in the
following paragraph 90 some Of the
conspicuous changes that have been
made in the last few years:
There was time, for instance,
when the biplane was unknown, the
cabaret show formed no part of our
civilization, the cattalo, citrange,
plumcot, tangelo zebrass and zebrule
did not exist. The radiogram is fast
displacing the wireless telegram, and
although we have aerogram and mar
conigram, these terms being, so to
speak, proprietary terms, may per-
chance some day be discarded except
in the special uses Of the, companies
who have acquired title to them. The
necessity for more rapid intercommu.
nicatton led to the coming of letter
gram, day letter and night letter.
The suggesting Of the term mink
cite recently help to recall that such
a person as suffragette or such a
thing as a kitchenette was unknown
twenty years, more or less, ago. Our
new methods of locomotion have CIV
en- us the taxicab, popularity cut to
taxi, the taximeter, the motor boat,
notorious, motorcycle, not to men
ton the automobile, limousine, chauf-
feur, garage, speedometer, ETC. We
have also, the dirigible and various
types of aeropianes, such as the
monoplane, triplane, hydroplane and
hydroaeroplane, together with the
hangar which gives them shelter,
and the velodrome where some are
tried out Manicure and manicurist
are old terms compared with mas.
sage, masseur, and messeuse, yet
they all form part Of our every day
speech now The dictagraph and die
taphone, met almost daily in tho
newspapers, are Of more recent
birth and with them may be classed
the signagraph and pulmotor Al
though the populist and popocrat
have come and gone, we have more
virile subjects in the progressives
and the bull moose. In athletics the
revival Of the Olympic games has
given us the olympiad. marathon, de-
cathlon and pantathlon. In England,
the laborite is an addition to politl-
cal life as was the unionist before
him. . s.. a. t.- .-
These terms not only suggest a
whole new world of change and
progress, they indicate the delicate
and complicated processes by when
our language finally comes to an
swer our need of expression. They
indicate that manifold forces are IN,
volved in the formation Of the most
matter-of-fact speech. That every.
one owes something in the way OF
intelligent ncare regarding the use
of words is suggested by this glimpse
of the dictionary makers point OF
view.
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PACkWOOD.

Packwood was visited by another
disastrous fire Saturday morning when
the general store Of Snider and Nc
Claim, on the northeast corner of Main
street and the adjoining building, two
stories high and eighty feet long. were
totally destroyed. The first floor of the
large building was used by the Jamison
Drug Co, there being two rear rooms
used miscellaneously.
The front rooms were used for the
southeastern Iowa and Bell Telephone
exchanges. Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Britton
had charge Of the telephone exchanges
and also had their living rooms on that
floor. They were aroused about $3.50 a.
m. by a sense of suffocation and
sprang from their beds to find dense
volume of smoke pouring In the room.
They rushed down stairs clad only In
their night clothes. Mr. Britton caught
some of his clothing as he was escap-
ing. He gave the alarm and the ring
ing OF the church bells and the cry Of
fire aroused everyone in town and
number in the country, who hurried to
the conflagration to find the fire was
beyond control and with the hose cart.
chemical fire eXtinguishers and a.
bucket brigade, attention was turned to
the saving Of adjacent buildings.
Two nearby barns became SO heated
that ignition took place but prompt
| work saved the buildings. One barn is
used by the owner as storage place
for his gasoline which he kept for sale.
| made 1T very risky business to work
there. The residence Of j. E. Mckay
| across the street north OF the burning
buildings was In great danger and was
only saved by a continuous stream Of
water being thrown on 1t. At one time
the danger was so great that everything
was removed from the building. There
was but little wind or the fire of Dec. /,
1911 would have been repeated
A vacant lot between the drug store
and G. A. Gridman's grocery store, IN
which the post office Is located is all
that saved it, the bank and Nelson's
clothing store. The building on the
corner is the third one with stock OF
goods to be destroyed by fire. A fair
insurance was held on the stock OF
goods and drugs and buildings burned
Saturday.
This town was looking up in BUSH
ness and 1t was believed that Packwood
would again be a leading business
point in this county. The victims Of the
fire have made no statements as to
what their future plans are The origin
Of the fire Is unknown, but Is thought
to have started in the wareroom OF the
drug store. The loss is estimated at
S25, 000
The safes were taken from the ruins
Sunday and after being cooled were
opened and everything found intact ex-
cepting some jewelry that was ruined
by the heat AS soon as suitable quar-
tiers can be obtained the telephones will
be repaired and a new switchboard in
stalled. Less than two years ago new
switchboard was installed to take the
place Of the one destroyed by fire in
1911.
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ART AND THE NEW COINS.

The New York World wants to know
If it is not possible for congress to curb
the men in the treasury department
who periodically play tricks with our
money. "A few years ago." the World
says, "a sad attempt was made to
beautify our gold coins. Then came
the celebrated Lincoln cent. Now we
have the buffalo nickel.
whatever may be said Of the art
expressed by these pieces, they are
more like medals, tokens, bangles,
fobs or beer checks than money.
Their inscriptions are indistinct and
with a little wear will disappear.
Our coinage ought not to be left
wholly to the caprice of artists.
Legibility should be the first consid-
Grafton, with ornamentation second.
There should be absolutely no uncer-
tainty as to denominations"
The liberty head used to be con-
sidered highly appropriate for our
coins, the World adds and it holds
that if an act CT congress is necessary
to restore 1t and keep it, that body
should be heard from without delay.
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country. For instance, what would be
about the proper minimum wage that
ought to be paid to the average COM
mittee Of the Illinois legislature?
Wages have little to do with whether
a man or woman leads moral life.
The administration Of the home and
the community have much to do with
1t. Good environment and home
teachings are the strongest factors
against vice. The licensing OF vice and
crime, will break down the morals Of
many homes in any community that is
afflicted with such practice. A lack
Of conception of the duties Of civic
government by city administrations is
the greatest breeder of immortality.
Vice naturally gravitates to a city that
has an administration Of low ideals
Of decency. Wages cut no figure IN
such times and places. Moral stand
ards are not guaged by money. De-
partment stores and big factories are
of recent years--immorality antedates
the centuries of history Wages are
only a trifling incident in this con-
tpntion ..' ..
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the standard Of ability demanded for
the first commission.
There never was time when there
was a greater need of honesty, brains
and business ability in the city 8
management than at this time when
Ottumwa Is about to turn over the
management of all it's municipal af.
fairs including the waterworks and
parks, to commission OF three men.
At present the mayor and nine council
men conduct the city's ordinary al
fairs; the park commission OF three
members has supervision over the
parks: a large board Of trustees man
| ages the public library; three trustees,
mot answerable to the city council,
have full management of the water
works. When the manifold activities
are turned over to three men the voters
should be sure that they nominate and
elect men capable Of fulfilling the
trust r. l..
The new commission will have full
control of the waterworks plant. This
| is business institution in which the
citizens have invested heavily. They
should guard this investment by see
ing to 1t that the management OF this
public utility shall not fall into In
competent hands. The difference be-
tween profit and loss, between sue
cess and failure in business institu-
ton of this magnitude is solely one of
proper management. Incompetence in
the management would cost the taxpay-
ers heavily and threaten city bank
ru2tcy.
| All these things should be considered
| with cool, business judgment by the
voters when they go to the polls at
Mondays primary. Such dellberation
will demonstrate the vital necessity OF
nominating the most capable and COM
petent men in the list Of candidates.
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SAFEGUARD THE WATERWORkS
INVESTMENT,

The people of Ottumwa have made
an investment of nearly half million
dollars in a waterworks.
That investment must be safe
guarded.
The waterworks trustees have just
got to the point where they can see
the great possibilities that can be real
ICED from Ottumwa's municipal plant
They have only begun the work OF
improving the plant so that it may be
made to meet these possibilities.
improvements are contemplated, for
which estimates have been secured
that will cost $150,000. ~
The expenditure of this sum OF
money is too big matter to be made
a question of political barter; it is a
matter of too much Importance to the
people of Ottumwa, all of whom are
equal sharers in the ownership of the
waterworks, to leave the expenditure
of this money and the management OF
this plant to incompetent officials.
In the two years in which the water
works has been under municipal man
agement the trustees have put in a
filtration plant which has given the
city chemically pure water, the mains
has been increased by the extension OF
dead ends thereby materially add
inc to the facilities for fire protection.
But the work has only begun. 1t
is now planned to substitute for the
old wooden dams, which permit the
water to seep through, concrete dams
raised so as to give greater fall and
higher water power; to deepen the tail
race; to further extend the mains;
to put in direct pumping plant in.
stead of pumping from the Court street
reservoir; to put concrete basin on
the hill for increased storage facilities
1t Is planned to utilize the water
power that Will be provided by these
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AGENCY.

superintendent Shook filled the pull
pit at the M. E. church Sunday morn
ing and evening.
Ross tanning and Henry Newman
spent last week in Chicago.
Emmett Miller shipped car Of fat
cattle and car Of hogs to Chicago last
week.
Mrs. Willis Reno Of Batavia was
calling on friends here Sunday.
Miss Jessie Gilbert of Fairfield Wis
tied friends here over Sunday.
Miss Hattie Minga and Edith Foster
Of Ottumwa spent Sunday here with
friends.
A returned missionary will speak at
the NJ. r. church Friday evening
March Ia.
Roland Johnson has returned to Mt.
Pleasant to school, having recovered
from the measles.
The last baske tball game of the sea-
son will be played this evening by the
married men VS.. the single men.
G. Fl. Shearer made business trim
to Fairfield Monday. rs
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WILLIAM SBURG.

David Pugh Of the Cedar Rapids and
Iowa City interurban railway, was an
over Sunday visitor at the home or
his mother and brother Elmer.
The local P. E. O. lodge at their
|, last meeting elected officers for the
year as follows:
President-Mrs Bessie Pugh.
Vice president-Mrs. Aline Hakes.
Recording secretary-Mrs. Ella
| Jones.
Corresponding secretary-Mrs. Ella
Donahue.
Treasurer-Miss Harriet Moon.
Chaplain-Miss Edna Ogden.
GUARDIANS. l.. Micback.
.Journalist-Mrs. Lulu Blasier.
Delegates to the grand chapter
lodge, Miss Teresa Humphrey and
Mrs. Emma Moon.
Mrs. J. F. Kirby who has been away
for few days visit at the home Of
her parents at Cedar Rapids returned
Saturday.
viii l.. Jones has moved his family
and personal effects to the home re-
Gently vacated by J. J. Jones.
Dan MCCAIN, agent at Covington, for
the St. Paul railway company, is here
this week visiting at the home OF his
parents and other relatives.
Chas. Alderman Of Fort Pierre, S. d.,
is here for few days visit at the
home of his parents and other rela-
, tives and friends of this vicinity.
Mr. and Mrs. John Ahrens who have
been spending the winter months in
California, returned last week.
Mrs. Fred Nagel Of Belle PLANE, Is
of her son John.
Miss Jane Shearer of Columbus
| Junction, has accepted clerical posi-
ton here in the Hall and Leasure
store.
F. M. Richards of Ottumwa, has
moved his family to the rooms rented
of l.. ksil where they will reside
until they can secure a house to rent.
Mr.. and Mrs w. II. Neal of near
Millersburg, have moved here to their
new home recently purchased from G..
F. Gallagher.
Stephen Glenn one Of the pioneer
settlers Of Iowa City, was in the city
here this week visiting at the home
| last week visiting with his many
! friends.
Ed Mahan of Hilton township, was
| here Monday visiting at the home OF
his mother and brother Thomas.
| The Farmers club No. l met last
week at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Angus Livingston. Refreshments,
music, select reading and recitation
followed the regular program OF ex-
ercises
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Very Mistrustful.

A group Of brokers were talking
about the late James r. Keene.
"Keene" said one. "had a cynical
humor He was also mistrustful--
especially mistrustful Of his asso'
ciates in pools.
"Keene once pointed out to me an
action on the part Of pool asso-
ciate that he deemed suspicious. |
said there was nothing suspicious
about it. But Keene laughed and
said:
"I'll tell you the kind of man
am in these pool deals. I'm the
kind of man who, when he finds
a spoon in the hall after he has CIV
en- dinner party, says:
"'Alas, one of my guests had a
hole in his pocket st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
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There ID nothing of more importance
than the preservation Of the public
health. No one thing is more import
ant from the standpoint OF public
health than the need Of furnishing
pure, uncontaminated water to the peo-
pie. An efficient management of the
waterworks will assure the city pure
water supply. The health of the city
demands such efficient management of
the water plant. .....
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Needed to be Explained.

Mrs. Hennessey, who was a late
arrival in the neighborhood, was en-
PERTAINING a neighbor one afternoon
when the latter inquired:
"An' what does your old man do,
Mrs. Hennessey?" rs.
Sure, he's a di'mond cutter"
aye don't name IT."
"Yis, he cuts tn grass of tn base
ball grounds. "-Lippincott's Maya
zine.
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DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF THE REAL
ISSUE

ISSUE. ...s.
Don't let any contention get you
away from the vital issue of the prim-
ary election Monday.
Don't let any argument you may be
engaged in or overhear, cover the
important part of Mondays primary
election.
Don't let any one make you forget
that the primary next Monday Is the
most important city primary ever held
in Ottumwa-the most important for
you and for every owner of home IN
this city.
The duty Of the voter next Monday
is to select men whom he knows<are
capable Of handling the city's business
in an efficient manner.
That Is the issue, because three of
the men elected by the primary are
the ones who will have to do the work,
and bear the responsibility.
Ask yourself which of the candidates
for mayor you would rather go to for
advice. Read the list Of names. II
you wanted help in big business
proposition, wanted the advice OF a
man whom you felt was competent to
help you solve the problem success
fully. and it was just as easy for you
to 60 to one of them as the other,
which one of them would you go to-?
Which would you think the most COM
petent and best qualified to help you
tC bring your problem to a successful
conclusion? Take list Of the candi-
dates for councilmen, take into con-
sideration their success in handling
their own business and business that
has been entrusted to them, and select
" hn hnc.t
equipped to handle the city's affairs.
There is only one way to look at this
matter, and that is the right way City
government is not joke. The man
who looks upon it as light and trif-
ling subject, is menace to good gov
eminent, and not a safe citizen.
we want to impress upon the citi-
zens the Importance Of voting next
Monday.
We also want to impress upon them
the Importance of voting for the right
men. Three of the men who are nom-
mated next Monday, will manage the
affairs of this city for the next two
years. If the people place that man
agement in the hands of incompetent
men, then they will stop not only the
improvements that can be made in
CITY HOl n, Uut AoAy VI tAO AAApAO wv
ments that would otherwise be made
by private individuals. An incompet-
ent administration bankrupted this
city That was before the city owned
the waterworks. Since the city has a
half million dollar water plant in addi-
ton to it's other business to manage,
it requires a still higher degree of
efficiency.
Once more we say to the citizens to
be sure to vote early next Monday and
to be sure to vote for men who have
demonstrated their ability to success
fully manage business affairs.
Do not let any claims by any one
confuse you. Tell the man who starts
an argument with you that he must
stick to the text.
What Ottumwa has got to have now,
is efficiency in city government. .,
The responsibility of selecting the
right men, rests with the voter next
1Aonday. 1t is the duty of every citi-
zen to cast his vote for good govern
ment at next Mondays election.
VOTE EARLY.