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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-14
L,nsEEp OIL COMPANY BROKE.

Dies Molnss Concern Makes an Assign
,nsnt for Benefit Of Creditors.
Des MONIES, Nov. 1.-THE Ankeney
a.inseed OIL Company, located at East
Third and Market streets, and cap
atalized at $4,000, made general as
signment for the benefit Of its cred
1tors, which was fled with Charles
Guth, county recorder. Ralph Bolton
10 named - assignee.
H. e. Ankeney Is president and own
er Of practically all Of the stock Of the
concern. The company was incorpo-
rated on july 2, 1912. Its chief bust
ness was to manufacture and sell lin
seed oil. haxseed, turpentine and sim
liar commodities.
The Central State Bank holds five
notes for $1,000 each against the con-
Germ. The Valley National Bank holds
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-14
low. Falls News Notes.

opeSidi " AlHes-hepuDi1can.
Iowa Falls. Nov 14.-John jackson, q
travelling man who lives on River
street, is very sick with typhoid fever.
Mrs. Emily Works, Of Platteville.
Wis, is here visiting friends.
The new c. e. Shaw cottage on Oak
street is about com pleted and Mr.. and
Mrs. Shaw expect to move into their
new home next week.
Hon. Ellis D. Robb, who Is national
bank examiner for northern Iowa, re-
Gently added some valuable autographs
to his famous collection. The new adj
ditions We're secured from collector
In England and includes such names
as Tennyson. Dickens, King George
and other noted Englishmen. Mr..
Robb's collection Is one OF the finest
in the country and represents many
years Of careful collection Of the sigma
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-14

lures OF the noted men and women Of
all nations.
The high school football team plays
the Mason City high school eleven here
Saturday.
Irving Van Buskirk will occupy the
Van Buvsirk farm southwest of town
when A. b. McWhirter moves to town.
Illinois Central conductors on. this
division have been instructed to call
the name of the next station, as a
train pulls out, and for passengers to
look after their hand baggage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-14
SECURE POWER RIGHTS.

Mason City Company Gains PERM sion
TO Construct Service Wire.
Special to imes-Republican.
Mason City, Nov. 1.-THE board Of
railway commissioners, represented by
Clifford Thorne and David ]. Palmer
with Reporter Blaise, were in the city
yesterday on official business. n. S.
Ketchun1, Of Marshalltown, was unable
to be here on account OF a slight ac
cident which befel him. These gentle
men granted to the Peoples Gas and
Electric Company the right to con-
struct service wire between this city
and Manly for the purpose Of trans
hitting electricity from the local plant
for light and power purposes. This is
a distance of about eight miles.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-14
NEW BANK FOR ouMoNT.
Omaha Residents Buy Building and
Expect to Open Bank Feb. I.

Special to Times Republican.
Dumont, Nov. 14.-While there has
been considerab BILE agitation over the
question Of a second bank for Dumont
for several months. only Wednesday
was the question definitely settled.
when Fred Arnlburst and o. j. Irwin.
of Omaha, Neb., purchased Of DR.. T. A.
Dumont the hotel block. The build
ing will be remodeled. and the corner
now occupied by the hotel office will be
fitted up for the bank, with possibly
corner entrance. Landlord Stella will
continue to occupy the building as
hotel. and some quite necessary i'm
provements are promised, which will
be for the comfort and convenience Of
the guests and the host and his family
as we'll.
A son of Mr.. Armburst, who has
been connected with the banking bust
ness in Omaha for several years, and
Mr.. Irwin will come here to take
charge of the new bank, which they
expect to be able to open Feb. l.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-14
Poeahonta. New. Notes.

Special to Times-Republican.
Pocahontas, Nov. 14.-Mr. and Mrs.
Charles drummer, of Tower City, n.
D., are visiting relatives and friends
here.
A stock company Of local business
men is being formed to finance the
building Of new hotel. Fifty-two
shares were sold the first three days
of the canvass.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-14

another note for $4,000 which the Arm
has been unable to meet. The total
amount Of the notes payable Is $780,
114.19.
The reason given by Mr.. Ankeney for
making the assignment is that the
company Is unable to meet Its debts as
they fall due in the usual course OF
business and a desire to sell all OF the
property SO that it may be used for the
benefit Of the creditors.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-14

year. II IL now receiving larger ship
ments Of agricultural products than
any station in northern Iowa. The
farmers are going to get behind this
institute and make II the most SUCCESS
full ever held In the county. J. H. Carr.
Of Swaledale. IL president Of the asso.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-14

here on Jan. 8. z. 8. This city IL
known over the country as having
the strongest farmers cooperative
company in the world. and number
among the very Oldest. 1t was for this
reason largely that this town was
selected as the place of meeting this
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-14
CAPTAIN HULL COMING HOME.
Former Congressman to Return
Des Moires to Reside.

Des Moires to Reside.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Nov. LIT is an
nounced here that Capt J. A. T. Hull
will return to Des Moines to live, hav
ing sold his Virginia farm and prepar-
ing to close out his law business in
Washington. He had lived in Iowa
nearly all his life prior to about eight
years ago. He expects to enter busi-
ness here.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-14
citation ana r. a. Holman. Of Rockwss

A London wireless enthusiast claims
TO recoive messages from - tar away
a. Parts with the frame Of An iron bedS
stead.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-14
INSTITUTE At ROCKWELL.

Farmers Meeting to Be Held In Homo
Of cooperative Plan.
Special to Times Republican.
Rockwell. Nov. 14.-The Cerro Gordo
county farmers institute will be held
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20

for working girls, we are now informed
by the papers that Hamilton Fish, Jr.,
and. 10 friends fed their faces at
private dinner in that city, Saturday
night week ago that cost 100000.
or nearly $3.50 apiece.
At the same hour there were nearly
100000 garment workers almost starry
ing on the firing line OF the class
struggle in their desperate contest tt
gain sufficient wages to subsist. Wha'
kind Of crazy civilization is this, any.
how? Is there no sense of shame or
justice in the hearts and minds of or
binary men and that such foul con-
trasts are becoming common occur
rences?
Just fancy the Revolutionists of so
years ago standing. for any such rotten
displays of plutocratic extravaganza
on the one side and proletarian misery
on the other!
The wild debaucheries Of the patri-
clan classes doomed the ancient civil
cations, and unless something is done
soon along intelligent lines to wipe
out the present day inequalities and
injustice history may repeat itself
Cleveland Citizen.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20
METHODIST CHURCH PAPERS GIVES PRAISE
TO MILWAUKEE SOCIALIST OFFICIALS

under the recent Socialist regime. that
they have been kept at bay. If the
Socialists had done nothing more than
to execute the law against this vicious
element they have earned the deepest
gratitude of the better class OF cit1-
zens for a generation to come.
1.-THE editor Of this paper is not a
Socialist, but we have great admira-
ton for the work done by some of the
Socialist officials, notably by Sheriff
Arnold and District Attorney label.
To these gentlemen belongs the honor
Of having done more to clean up the
city Of Milwaukee than all Of the
preachers and churches for the last
quarter Of century. The sheriff we
have known for many years, and he
has done exactly what we expected.
Instead of lining his own pocketbook
at the expense of the city's vice pre-
serve, he goes out of office every inch
man, carrying with him the respect
and appreciation of all good citizens.
= Commends label.
"The district attorney is a stranger
to US, but we take off our hat to him
here and now and commend him for
his grit and fearlesSness. His bold
and fearless execution Of the law
against the social evil alone goes far
to establish one of the strong tenets
in the creed of the Prohibitionists,
viz: that the need of our country is
not more law, but more rigid en-
forcement of the laws which we now
have. AS with the social evil, so with
the liquor question, it is SO per cent
administration and one per cent law"
The article closes with the follow
ing:
IF all the good people in Milwau-
kee would concentrate their strength
upon men who have enough respect
for their own oath, and for the honor
of the city, to enforce existing laws
these conditions will change and not
before"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20

! have to produce the wealth to pay his
wages with. Therefore they are the
only people who have a perfect right
to scrutinize every act of his and man
fully demand the thing they want.
OF course we know that Mr.. Hatfield
is capitalist and cannot be expected
to- do anything of real fundamental
benefit to the working class. but it
shall be our purpose to see that he
does not use the political powers of
the state to forward the schemes of
the capitalist class.
OF first Importance to the union men
OF West Virginia is the governors oft
repeated prediction declaration that
he would abolish the guard system.
We shall give him time, but he has
declared in his amusing bombastic
way that he had the power and if he
does not drive those reptiles from the
state we will know him for what he is.
We cannot expect this prop of CAPT
talism to really hurt the bunch who
have the coal slaves by the threats,
but we can force him to fulfill his
pledge, which will give the miners a
fair field in the class struggle now on
in the coal field.-Huntingto Star.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20
WILSON WITHOUT SALARY

Washington, March 1s.-The De
partment of Labor is established.
William B. Wilson is its chief, but
the bill creating the Department, of
Labor provided no building, staff, or
salary for the Secretary; consequent
ly, there is no money available to de-
fray the expenses of running the de-
partment. However, this is the same
condition of affairs that occurred
when the Department of Commerce
and Labor was established, and at
the opening of the extra session of
Congress, which in all probability will
occur on April l, an appropriation will
be passed to cover the expenses of the
department This appropriation would
naturally come under the sundry civil
appropriation bill, and this bill, during
the + assien OF ongress, was We
toed by the President, because labor
unions were exempted in an amend
ment to the appropriation designed
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20
A BLESSING MADE A CURSE

Some time ago the 20-mule team of
the Death Valley Borax Company made
a tour, for advertising purposes.
through several of the States, and the
itinerary of the team brought it to
Cincinnati.
While there, the driver of the team
announced in the daily papers that he
would perform the feat, which was a
difficult one, of turning his 20-mule
team and wagon in a certain narrow
street, without getting tangled, and
invited the people to see him do it.
The actual accomplishment of this
feat gave Mr.. Thomas Hunt in a let
ter to the Cincinnati Post an oportun-
ity to show that, talking of feats, the
Borax Company had already perform
ed feat which immensely exceeded
that of turning 2O;mule team in a
narrow street.
The feat he referred to was, that
the Borax Company had turned the
States from being blessing, into a
curse.
The way they did this, the writer
described as follows:
"Pre vious to the building of the
dC1l1C IdllIOduS IuSI0 w DIS uO DuIdA
found in the United States. II was
all imported-and the people of the
United States got it at the worlds
price, about three cents a pound.
"But when the Death Valley borax
was found, the rich and shrewd own
ers of that property proceeded to in
duce the Congress of the United
States to put a tariff of five cents per
pound on all borax imported. This
made all the borax used in this coun-
try cost at least eight cents per pound.
AS that article is largely used here,
! that five cents per pound adds to the
cost of every article into which borax
enters and thus contributes consider
ably to the cost of living, and on that
account is more or less of curse.
$50 that the finding of borax in the
United States, instead of being bless
| ing by making that article more abun-
ant and cheaper, was turned into a
curse by compelling the people to pay
twice as much for it.
| 'NThe feat of turning what would
have been a blessing, into a curse, is
the feat which was a greater one than
turning their 20-mule team around in
a marrow street without mixup
at is true, the protective tariff had
to be called to the assistance of the
Borax Company, otherwise the feat
could not have been performed"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20
Workers Ethical Column

that recognizes our struggle, but func-
tons entirely as religious order. 1t
is to be hoped that such society will
not attempt to take our party name
1t is source of division for any COM
rade to modify his Socialism with a
religious adjective. But there can be
no possible objection to any group of
comrades having new religious So
ciety and fighting capitalism with it,
if it is done on the religious field and
with religious, weapons And the more
seriously it is done, the better it will
be.
Frederick. Guy Strickland.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20
OUR SHORT STORY
With The Strikers
(By The esa MaIkieI.)

Judge, your honor" pleaded Simco-
witch, a striking tailor, before a city
magistrate. -
"Your honor, my wife. she is sick.
have letter from a DOCTOR cannot
move now; cannot pay my rent.
am out on strike. Your honor, give
me time"
"You must move Thursday" said the
judge CURLY, without looking at the
doctors note.
aye, ave." muttered Simcovitch.
Twenty years in America and now
on the street. For forty years have
handled the needle and shears, hand
led them early and late, in season and
out of season, made heaps and heaps
of new coats, fixed greater heaps of
old coats. Black and blue and gray
coats went through my hands until the
hands grew unsteady, my eyesight
dim. =
81 am on strike" he continued mourn
fully, addressing nobody in particular,
mot because have anything against
my boss. / am in no position to make
terms now. / know my days have
gone. l cannot keep up with the
younger men. 1 ought to be glad to
get as much as my boss gives me; /
don't know if anybody would give me
even that much.
t'Dt you know what it means to
work forty years at making coats
What have to show for all my work?
Where is it all gone to? Who bene-
fitted. by it? There's nobody that can
say l did. l have never known what
it means to have an extra dollar in
my pocket. The money / made during
the season went for food, clothing and
the payment of debts. When was
Idle, had to borrow ali the time.
What would buy during the season
would go to the pawnshop in time of
slack. Everything went there. Fanny's
ring, her suit, my coat, the new bed
spread, the curtains. the blue and
white tablecloth, the lecket with my
dead child's picture in it, and even
the little shoes we took off from her
feet.
81 was good tailor in my days. l
am a schneider fon zu house, and now
my Fanny is sick, the landlord Is dis
possessing me, the needle and shears
are idle. l am a striker.
'tNot that am complaining against
Lu0 SLT1hO. uS I14AO4o AcbA " oil AhO1
their patience came to an end; they
could not go on as they did. And who
am to go scab on them? Not that
was better off than the rest, but
am an elderly man.
Eyes, yes, your honor, Pm going!
But where? To take my sick wife into
the street. It is cold; we have no
coats. Yes, no coats after making
coats for forty years, ! have not one
to put on my back.
st did not have to strike, you say
But 1 am only one in hundred thou.
sand. They were made to strike by
the landlords, the butchers, the
grocers, the bakers Everybody want
ed more money. They did not have
it; they could not steal it; they had
to strike for it. l have to be satisfied
| with what get. am an elderly man
my days are over. ! am glad when
can get ten coats finished q day,
cents a coat, 80 cents a day; pretty
good for an elderly man. but old PEG
! pie, too, have to live unless you XII
them outright.
starvation stares me in the face
i you say. I'm almost used to- starve
and Fanny too for that matter. was
out of work for eighteen weeks las
winter. That time 1t wasn't my fault
I wanted to work. would Ike t.
work now. too. Tn no idler. but
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20
Our Attitude Toward New Religious
Movements.


There are some new religious Or
CARNATIONS on the way. 1t could not
beDtherwise in this country. We lack
economic freedom in this Land Of
Liberty" but we have always taken
the liberty to form new religious
groups just as frequently as we
change our opinions.
It is therefore inevitable that many
of the workers and those in sympathy
with them, who see the present class
struggle in society, and understand
it's spiritual as well as its economic
significance, will group themselves
in new religious movements that ex-
press in tangible form their new.
found faith"
1t is to be expected that the Social
lists will be interested in these move
ments and that they wild sustain a
friendly attitude toward them. Capt.
talism has already robbed many of our
comrades of their spiritual fellowship
and consolation. Those Of like minds
must be expected to meet in fraternal
groups and win back what they have
lost and what many of them miss.
We will be friendly to these move
ments because they will recognize the
class struggle and take their stand
with the workers. But at the same
time we must take position of neu'
trality toward them, because. they
function in a different field. We have
among us the extremes of orthodoxy
and anti-religion. We welcome all re
gardless of religion. A comrades
faith is his personal property Neither
should his religious convictions be Of
Tended If a comrade rejects all reli
gion, that is also his right.
L But it will be much better for us
when there are some distinct move
ments Cor a movement) in the field
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20
LoGGERs ORGANIZING.

Aberdeen, Wash, March 49, A rep
resentative of the American FEEDER.
alton of Labor is working in this vi
entity among the loggers and a con.
siderable number of those employed
in this industry are joining the local
organization. There are approximate
ly 1000 workers employed in the saw
mills of Aberdeen and Hoquiam and
between $500 and 5000 loggers are
working in the forest tributary to the
two places mentioned. Meetings have
been arranged for the future, and it
is expected that the increase in mem,
bership will continue.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20

Ino arClcle is enCltleu, WndC ABOUT
| the Lid-Shall it Stay on or Shall 1t
Come Off" and is, in part, as fol
lows:
L"When the newly elected district
attorney recommends the dismissal OF
prosecutions against men with young
! girls for seeking their ruin because
the offense is, committed in big beer
brewers palm garden it is to be in
ferred that the rumors afloat as to
the entire removal of the Lid" in the
near future are likely to be realized.
1t is quite generally asserted in GER
tain quarters that the things which
have been tabooed during the Social
ists administration are to have free
scope once more; that the sports,
both male and female, who have been
giving Milwaukee absent treatment
for a season are to be made as vel
come as they were in the palmiest
days of Dave Rose and of Sherble
Becker.
Must Treat All Alike.
Decent people are entitled to Con
sideration just as much as saloon
keepers, gamblers. prostitutes and
pimps. These latter classes have had
unusual protection afforded them at
the expense of the taxpayers for a
long time in Milwaukee, and it is only
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20

man must have enough to eat when
he works; the tailors did not get it
and they quit.
"Your honor, Fanny is sick. l tell
you l cannot move. 1 have no place
to move to. Give me time, Don't you
see, we must win the strike l want
to work, will work, will pay"
"The fellow talks too much; remove
him." ordered the Judge. From The
Painter and Decorator Magazine.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20

FOR the judicial department. It will,
therefore, be necessary at the opening
of the extra session to at once pass
a sundry civil appropriation bill, in
order that the salaries and expenses
of the other departments of the gov
eminent may be met.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20
WITH VIVA. EDITORS

Governor Hatfield
This servant of the people of West
Virginia should be watched carefully
by the working class of the State.
While the workers had nothing what
ever to do with his nomination, yet
they chose to elect him and they viii
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20

Have you heard any more about the
Ogden-Haskins charter that they say
will be up at special session Of the
legislature?
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20

BY Way of Contrast
AS a sequel to the recent speech de-
livered by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. the
society leader, to the garment strikers
in New York, in which she guessed
that 81 a week is low enough wages
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-20

The action Of District Attorney
Yockey, Of Milwaukee, in permit
ting fcharges of selling liquor to
youAg girls to be dropped by as
sistaRtS of his office is bitterly
scored in the current number Of
the Wisconsin Christian Advo-
cate, organ Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church of Wisconsin,
which declares that If the decent
people Of the community line up
and demand decency of the dis
trict attorneys office they will
oct it.