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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
kIRKVILLE.

Miss Vida Sears is visiting at the
home of her sister Mrs. Erskine of OF
tumwa.
Mr., and Mrs. John LathrOp and Bar
ton Pelham were business callers In
Ottumwa Wednesday.
Mrs. r. J. Sinnif and son Ora of near
Eddyville visited at the home OF her
parents Mr.. and Mrs. John Parks on
Wednesday.
The odd Fellows and Rebekahs had
Joint installation Saturday evening.
Mrs, Jim Moore the district deputy and
installing officer, installed the officers
of the Rebekah lodge for the ensuing
term as follows: n. G., Miss Carrie Abb
ernathy: r. S. to N. c.. Mrs. G. c. Nc
Donough; l.. L. to N. G., Mrs Frank
Wittenmyer; v. c., Mrs. Sam Full
more; R. S. TO V. G., Mrs. Elmer
Parks; L. l.. to V. c.. Miss Gladys
Reed: secretary, Miss Bertha Nicolas
son: treasurer. Mrs. Jim Moore; war
den, Miss Bertha Parks; conductress.
Miss Cecil Moore; chaplain, Miss
Gladys Shaw; l. G.. Miss Ethel Guth-
RE; o. G., Miss Lucy Alternately. Mrs.
Steele Of Ottumwa, the district deputy
and staff installed the officers of the
Odd Fellows for the ensuing term as
follows: N. G.. George Ward; r. S. to
N. G., Joe Lathrop; L. l.. to N. G., Lam
Lent: v. G., Else Newell: r. S. to v.
G., John Ward; L. L. to v. g.. Jonathan
Parks; secretary, Charles Barnard !;
financial secretary. Jim Moore: treas
turer. Albert Hirst chaplain, Bert
Ward warden. Silas Shawver: con-
ductrcss. Dawson Funk: r. c. S., Sim
Wittenmyer: L. c.. S., Jim Allison; I.
G. George Pike: O. G.. Frank Witfen-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
Des Molnes Kept Clean.

Des Moines Register and Leader:
I'VE must give 1t to the heads Of the
city government that they have clean.
ed up the streets well and kept them
fairly clean after the recent storm"
said e. D. Rockwell. "The manner In
which the streets were handled last
winter was matter of general COM
mendation. While Des Moines had no
more to contend with than other cities
with respect to the repeated storms
which interfered with traffic Of all
kinds the fact remains that the dis
couraging storms which followed one
another with such violence were we'll
handled and the streets were kept pas
sable and then cleaned up as fast as
the department could get at them and
this was after each precipitation. The
same energy has been shown this year
and 1t is gratifying to see that In this
respect at least Des Moines takes a
place in the front rank with other pro-
gressive Cities"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
THE ShANkLAND BILL.

It is understood that the Shankland
bill, which provides for substituting
the ballot for the petition in the mat.
ter Of securing consent for the opera
ton Of saloons, will be changed Some
from tho form in which It VS. pre-
sented to the legislature two years
ago, and again presented. It is not
at all probable that this bill will be
adopted at the present session. but II
It Is ever to be adopted it should be
changed materially. The Courier
wants to tate emphatically that 1t
never should be enacted in the shape
lin which it was presented two years
ago.
The bill as then formed provided
that upon petition of electors equal
In number to 20 per centum Of the
1.-The once for which the largest number
OF votes was cast at the last preceding
Eelection, the mayor shall by proclama-
Jtion submit the question of whether or
not such city shall have saloons at a
special election
No matters Of this kind should be
, decided by special elections because
1t is very seldom that any kind of a
Representative expression Of the peo-
(ible an be obtained at special cleo
Zion. The majority at special cleo
Eion might be very small minority of
|lhe total vote. If the liquor question
Ills to be submitted to vote in any COM
munity hi Iowa it should be at the
general fall election when the full vote
is out, ami larger percentage of the
vote than per cent should be nee
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Obituary.
Margaret Howard.

Sigourney-Marga E. Howard,
daughter of Julia A. and John @. How
ard was born Jan. II, 1876; departed
this life In the st. Luke hospital. Cedar
Rapids. Ia, Jan. II, 1918. She WAS about
to, complete course In the hospital
fitting her for the important profess
sion of trained nurse. While perform
ing her duties in the operating room
preparatory to an operation, her CLOTH
ing became ignited and before the fire
could be extinguished, burned her 80
severely that death ensued three days
later.
She graduated from the Sigourney
high school In the class OF '92. She
united with the Presbyterian church
upon profession Of her faith In Jesus
Christ, July IS, 1893.
In the passing Of her immortal spirit
from it's earthly tenement there passed
one Of the noblest spirits that ever
animated human body. So witnesses
the esteem in which she was held
among the nurses and hospital faculty
at ST. Luke and especially from those
with whom her life associations have
been cast
For about twenty years she has been
most faithful member OF the First
Presbyterian church Of Sigourney. Her
influence as we'll as her words and
works, was always decidedly In favor
Of the Christlike life, and no one could
be long in her presence without re-
alizing that she lived in a spiritual at
mosphere Of close communion with
God She leave an aged mother. one
brother Bert Howard of Sigourney and
one sister Mrs. J. c. Cooper of Otturn-
wa, besides a host of friends to mourn
her departure.
Funeral services were held at the
family residence Jan. Il, on which ,oc-
casion her pastor w. Lee Vincent.
preached from Eiccl III, and the PIE.
O.'s ritual service was also observed.
The remains were laid to rest In the
West cemetery. There to wait till
Jesus comes Contributed
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
Escapjno Iowa's Winter.

Des Moines Capital: Official re-
ports from California indicate that the
weather out there is exceedingly
chilly" to use the mild terms of de-
scription employed by the Pacific
coast papers when telling Of western
meteorological conditions. It appears
that water pipes have frozen, Ice has
formed sufficiently to permit the
youngsters to skate and the citrus
crops are badly damaged even in the
much advertised "frostless belt"
Freezing temperature on the Pacific
coast is so penetrating and cold that
zero in Iowa seems warm in compari-
son. Moreover, steam radiators and
furnaces are almost unknown in many
southern California winter resorts.
Don't you suppose those middle west
erners who have gone to California to
dodge the "rigors" of an Iowa winter
would welcome hot air register and
a good warm, comfortable Iowa home ?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
No Cause to COMPLAIN.

Atlantic News-Telegraph: With the
valuation fixed for Cass county farm
lands by the board of supervisors, the
highest of which is $3.50 per acre,
on land that would sell for 5000 per
acre, there should not be much kick
among the farming communities on a
l mill state road tax. If there is any
kick coming to anyone it will be to
the people in the towns and cities
where the property is assessed from
200 to 300 per cent higher proper
tionately than in the country. Yet,
strange to say, the town and city
people who bear by far the larger
part Of the tax burden in proportion
to the value of their property. are
the most active advocates of good
country roads,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
SALEM.

Charles Davidson and Mrs. J. r. VIII
meth enjoyed visit with their brother
Asa Davidson and family from Mount
Pleasant.
Misses Sadie and Matte Jamison of
Elliott arrived last week to spend tne
winter with their sister Mrs. T. G. Rock
and other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Williams drove
to Trenton Saturday for short Visit
with the latter's sister Mrs. Doilie Nor
rison.
Mrs. j. r. Ingrim went to Danville
Wednesday, called there by the illness
of her sister-in-laW Mrs. Il. NJ. swan.
Mrs. Julia Nc Masters mother Of
John McMasters Of this place. Is quite
i'll at the home of her daughter Mrs.
Ella Baird at Redding.
Mrs. w. Fl. Johnson and two sons
spent few days with Mrs. Johns sis
ant
Miss Flora Sinkin has returned from
an extended visit with relatives in New
York and Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Peterson and children visited
the formers sister Mrs. Workman at
Birmingham last week
Mrs. D. f. Reeves and son Cook re-
Gently visited at the home OF Mrs.
Reeves father o. II. Cook.
Ed Felgar and wife came from Mt.
Plea SAINT and spent a few days at the
Jerome Eighme home.
Noah Miller Of TT. Madison recently
visited his son Albert and family at
this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harlan Doan are at
home following few weeks visit with
relatives at Osceola.
Mrs Lena Norcros of Birmingham
has been visiting her aunt Mrs. Azur
Barton.
eral Of her sister Mrs Kate Cochran at
Hillsboro Friday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18

terra stamped out of it, after which It is stained
bright yellow and sold to people who ride around IN
butter from one discouraged COW. and the cream
churned after school by small boy In gingham
apron lid was put the churn that the look on
the boys face would the cream. Sometimes
the butter would refuse to until 1t got ready and
the small boy to darn in feeling and ex'
pressive manner. Many cherishes the fond reco
lee ton of days when he stood in knockkneed attitude
hand churn and and anon received an eye
full of There various substitutes for
butter which used with great freedom by hotels
restaurants dining and boarding houses The most
popular Of these is oeomargarine which cannot be told
from butter by anybody who has cold in the head
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
Press Comment.
A Sense OF Humor.

Golfers Weekly: A very gentle
gentleman of our acquaintance once
remarked that he supposed the world
called him a reformer, but that there
was no class of persons he found so
hard to endure as the other reform
ers. Many of us feel that way. There
is one rarer thing than a man who
can laugh at himself--it is man
who can see the funny side of his pet
cause. The antiviviseotionist filters
openly at the suffragette, and the en-
thusiastic member of the society for
the suppression of unnecessary Eas-
ter eggs roars with laughter at his
neighbor of the anti-noise society.
But once suggest that his own cause
has its amusing side, and he responds
with hauteur that it is not a laughing
matter in the least. Every man-made
cause Is human, and human nature
everywhere has it's incongruities.
Thanks be to benedcent providence
those incongruities are not always
tragic or pathetic. Enough of them
are deeply or hilariously humorous
to make this imperfect world worth
reforming.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
Nav Favor Chance.

Mt Vernon Hawk-Eye: The presi-
dent-elect is reported to favor the
change urged in recent message by
Mr.. Taft of giving seats on the floor
of the house and senate to cabinet
officers. Practical politics may differ
from able craftsmanship, but the
support that has come to this sug-
gestion is largely due to a growing
sentiment to the effect that if any
thing much is to be accomplished in
congress that the president has got
to use the "big stick" made fam
Gus by Colonel Roosevelt. Already
cabinet members have the privilege
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
Two Of a Kind.

Louisville Courier.Journal: The re-
publicans going out, the democrats
coming in. and the grip Of the cultured
millionaires Of the east loosened upon
the sleek jobs of the diplomatic serv-
ice, where shall we look for ambassa-
doris and plenipos to the despots OF
Europe, not to mention the satraps OF
Asia and Africa, and punjaubs OF
Kickapoo and Kalamazoo?
The outlook is discouraging. The
democrats Of this generation have
drunk far too much Of the water Of
Salt river and Bitter creek inconti-
nent to take to the win of the gods
who are supposed to disport them
selves upon the Rhine and the Moselle,
the Rhone, the Garonne and the
Guadalouiver. A single suspender,
with billed shirt for Sunday. may an
swer for Yuba dam and Hell-for Sartin,
but they might cause remark amid the
giddy mazes Of the dance of fashion
that eddy about May Fair and the
Ringstrasse. Progressivism being the
word, however, it is time that we
taught these bloated aristrocrats les
son in democracy, and let them know
definitely and finally that true Amer
lean cares nothing for nobody"
We might as well serve them redhot
specimens first as last. Thomas Mel
son Page would not be very different
from Whitelaw Reid at London, and
William Jennings Bryan might merely
recall the traditions of Franklin at
Paris Cole Blease of South Carolina,
is the man for England, and Tom Law
son, Of Bean Town, for France. Cole
could buy himself some meal tickets
and take a lodging in Bloomsbury, liv.
ing an entire year for less than the
late ambassador paid for single day
of his existence. Thus he would give
the blarsted British rare illustration
of the radical change which has come
over the dream Of reillunlinated Amer
lea. Tom Lawson, on the other hand,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18

Is there any particular reason, by
the way, why the slush should not be
shoveled up and carted off the down
town streets during this present thaw?
Is there any municipal work of more
importance to all the people than re-
moving filth from the streets?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
Slowing Down Already.

Monticello Express: The demo.
Gratis will approach tariff revision
much as a police officer extinguishes
the burning fuse of bomb. They
are not so insistent as they were
when talking for election purposes.
Even those who were the most vio-
lent are comparatively calm and pru-
dent when they contemplate the re-
sponsibility of action. They are like
ly to be less fierce and radical than
they were when they we're sure of a
veto y4ss- $780,.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
FAMILY REUNION
AT IOWA CITY

Iowa City, Jan. ia remarkable
family reunion is in progress in Iowa
City. From numerous cities came
brothers and sisters to meet J. K.
ed with his little boy and girl broth
ers and sisters just Al years ago Tn
It'll this week they had never seen him
since.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18

Just last word to those persons
whose sidewalks have not been
cleared of snow and ice: It's thawing
today and you can sweep your walks
clear with broom If you go about 1t
before it freezes again tonight.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18

There we're enough democrats vot'
ing with the republicans in the house
to defeat the attempt to nullify the
order placing assistant postmasters
and clerks in first class offices and
fourth class postmasters under tne
civil service. There will pc just tnat
much less pie for distribution "nen
the new administration goes In.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18

Someone suggests that those who
express confidence in Mr.. Wilson's
good intentions regarding tariff re-
duction that shall not hurt business
seemingly forget that the question is
not going to be settled by those good
Intentions .y ... d.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
COMMON SENSE FROM A DOCTOR.

A areat many people fear to eat pie,
although they love it, because they
have read somewhere that pie is not
easily digested. Others like to drink
coffee with their meals, but some
scientist or other advised otherwise.
and their meal is spoiled. For such
persons DR.. Woods Hutchinson mas i
reassuring word. DR.. Hutchinson says
we should eat the things that agree
with us and eat them as we like.
Pie, he says, is almost a necessity
to life. Eat it hot or cold at any meal.
Most any fruit pie is good.
The harder you boil an egg the pet
ter it is for you, says the doctor, be-
cause you instinctively chew hard
boiled one, while you just swallow the
soft one. But the doctor is not cranky
about eggs. If you know how to eat the
soft one, it is as good as the one
cooked hard, he says. -.
As for steaks, he believes everyone
should eat them. eff you like the STEAK
rare. have it rare, but often" he ad-
yises, "If you like it we'll done, have IT
well done. One is as good as the
other" ..a.
DR.. Hutchinson plays hob with some
of our medical superstitions. He be-
lieves that the theory of simple living
ia all wrong. His advice is just to De
natural d live in the open as much as
possible, throw open the windows IN
your. sleeping room. eat heartily ana
whatever your appetite Graves ana
your stomach will not object to, and
don't worry. ~.
DR., Hutchinson believes In mixing
common sense with medicine, and
that the more common sense you use
the less medicine will be needed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
Stories About People.

$50 you were deeply touched by the
your" said Maude.
EYES," answered Mamie.
but 1t was not good poem
81 don't care. 1t was just as much
trouble for him to write it as if he
had been Shakespeare. Judge.
Mollie had been to church for the
first time. and on her return home her
grandmother asked her what she
thought of it. II liked it very much,
she replied, "but there was one thing
don't think was fair" What was
that. dear - why, one man did all
the work and then another man came
around and got all the money"
Reporter suppose your success
has been achieved only after hard
struggle.
Actor-""Yes: there was a time when
my name appeared oftSner in a board
bill than en- a billboard
Instructor of class in physiology
"What do YOU know concerning Sc
baceous follicles?" -
Boy at foot of class (making wild
guess): "Sebaceous Policies is the
name Of senator from the state OF
Wisconsin, s ,.-
"Miss Dubbkins = Marietta" STAN
mered Wimpleton, nervously, "er--
wow-willyuh-you OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ry me?'
Don't you ever ask me question
like that again. Reginald Wimpleton,"
replied the girl. proudly.
"Bub-but-whuh-w Mum -
Marietta?" suffered Wimpleton. II
lul-lul-love you alphabetically
and"
Because" the fair girl answered.
firmly. because it will not be neces-
sary for you to subject yourself to
the nervous strain. ! will '-Har-
pers Weekly.
~ was standing in the lobby of a
New York hotel late one night re-
Gently said H. L. Palmer. district
agent of the New York Telephone Co.,
at Jamaica when one of the tele-
phone operators at the hotel switch
board approached the manager, with
whom was talking. and raid:
"'What do you think that man IN
suite No % asked me to do? He said
his wife had gone to the theater with
some friends and had left him with
the two children. who were fast
asleep. Could he leave the TELEPHONE
OF the hook while he came downstairs
and walked about the lobby fer
change, and would call him il I heard
the children wake up and cry? -
New York Tribune.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18

If the legislature goes into all the
things recommended in Governor Car
rolls closing 10000 word message
they may have to put on night shift
at the capitol. ..-.-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18

would learn quickly how to swear in
French after the most approved
Apache manner, and. hailing from the
old Puritan reservation. could at once
set about the reform Of the Latin Sun
day and the regeneration of Maxim's.
And. Lord, how glad we should be
to get rid of them!
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
EDITOR NORRIS HAS FIGURES

Marshalltown, 1a.-To the editor,
Register and Leader: Let me add a
word regarding the remarks Of F. J.
Tishenbanner, ex.Postmaster Myerly
and Banker Van Erdewyk on the road
question. Mr.. Myerly and Mr.. Van
Erdweyk are correct In their belief
that the only permanent road Is the
paved road, Just as the only permanent
culvert or the only permanent street
crossing is the concrete culvert and
the concrete crossing, but Mr.. Myerlys
and Mr.. Van Erdewyk are guessing at
the cost. H..
I have on file in my office the
specifications and the contract price
of nearly every concrete pavement
laid in Iowa and Michigan. The price
varies from IS cents per square yard
at Remsen, Ia, and Ann Arbor, Mich,
to $1.08 at Marshalltown and $1.62 at
several other Iowa cities. At $l.OO per
yard rural concrete pavement IL
feet wide would cost 5000 per mile,
but the extra cutting down of hills
and the long haul In the country would
easily run this up to $4,000 per mile,
as was the experience Of Wayne coun-
ty. Mich, this summer in laying forty
miles Of rural concrete pavement. Mr..
Myerly has guessed too low at $4,000
for concrete pavements.
The lowest prices obtained on brick
pavements in Iowa cities average
around s1.50 per yard, which would
make brick pavements in the country
cost approximately $4,000 per mile
more than concrete pavements, or
$4,000 per mile, instead of $4,000, as
estimated by Mr.. Van Erdewyk. .,
Mr.. Tishenbanner, too. has guessed
too low on macadam roads at $4,000
per mile, unless local material Is at
hand nearby the road. When the
people OF Sedalia, Mo-, built sixty-four
miles OF rock macadam road this sum-
mer with 100000 special road dis
trict bond issue they found that the
cost was from $4,000 to $500 per mile
with the rock right near the road. To
ship in material, or to haul it several
miles, would make macadam roads
cost from $4,000 to $4,000 per mile.
Local gravel roads. however, should
not cost more than $4,000 per mile
where the gravel can be had within
four miles.
However, the pavements will be the.
cheapest in the long rum. and on
twenty-year state bond issue a pave
ment can be built from every other
county seat at cost Of not to exceed
the proposed 1 mill levy for one.third,
the automobile tax for another third,
and special assessments against the
farms abutting the pavements or
within two miles for the remaining
third. The one mill levy will return
only three quarters of a million per
annum, not a million and three
quarters as so often published, but, as
Mr.. Van Erdewyk says, 1t costs a
quarter section of land only $780, 1t
is the same as the road dragging FAX
in the townships and about half the
public library tax in the towns. The
cost to the farms AUDITING the pave
ments would be $500 for each quarter
section per annum, or the equivalent
of five days work for man and team
in return for a paved street from his
farm to town, and for the nearby
farms it would be $500 per quarter
section of land.
D. W. Norris Jr.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18

Cipriano Castro has been denied al.
mission to the United States. Now II
they can succeed in shooting castro
away from Central America 1t will be
a good job done all around.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18

A Des Moines man has written to
one of his home papers congratulating
the city for removing the snow and
ic, from the streets. There are hun
dreds of Ottumwa citizens waiting for
an opportunity to extend the same
congratulations.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18

n,yer. After installation refreshments
were served. Visitors were present
from Ottumwa, Eddyville, Cedar ana
Wright.
sunday with her friend Miss Bertha
McGlasson.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-18
Rla Item to The State.

Dig utem 70 tne state.
Waterloo Courier: Something ia
the matter when Iowa farmers can
not purchase the wherewithal to
save their hogs from death by
cholera, especially when it is known
that the means exists for saving all
the hogs and preventing the loss Of
millions OF dollars to the state each
year. The total treatment required to
immunize hog for life costs only
Is cents, but when 1t is not on sale
for the farmers to buy, 1t might as
well cost seventy-flve dollars. Rep.
resentative Henry Brady of Dallas
county proposes to remedy this sit
uation by the Introduction Of bill
in the legislature providing for the
appropriation Of $4,000 to $4,000
for the manufacture Of hog cholera
serum and virus in Iowa during the
next two years.