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The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-01-18
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Afiori5i a.ttffi Of Turkish EEsar issss
York

Nav lEerlles Jan. IL ~ AnotheF caee
OF the dreaded typhus fever came into
port today on the steamship BelFedeSs
from Trieste. A steerage passengeT
;waa the victim. Symptoms In another
passenger indicated that he also was
suffering with the disease. & q
The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-01-18

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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
Will ISSUE A new
CITY DIRECTORY
Reed & Sjuin of Iowa City Will do
the Work-Will be Out
Soon.

A new city directory is being got
ten out by Reed & Sjulin of Iowa
City, which will be out soon, probab-
ly by the last of September. The
former directory was made in Aug
ust, 1911, by this same firm, but the
constant changes in growing city
make a directory compulsory every
few years. Webster City has had
many changes in residents during
the past three years and new di-
rectory will be welcomed, especially
by the business houses of the town.
Mr.. Reed has been here for several
days and has already gathered much
of the material for the new book.
Should you be confronted by young
man at your door, who asks you in
questions which you may
think too personal to be of any pos
sible interest to him, just bear in
mind that he is the herald of new
city directory which, to be anthem
tic, will necessitate the answering of
the questions correctly and prompt
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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18

den today to spend Sunday at the Et
McFarlane home.
Rev. and Mrs. T. w. Owen re
turned home last night from thei1
three months visit in the cas-
where they attended reunions o
both the Burleson and Owen fami
lies.
Misses Leota, Gertrude and 1nei
Sparks, daughters of J. S. Sparks, q
former resident who now resides on
a farm near Pelican Lake, Mimi, are
visiting this week at the M. McFar-
land home.
Mrs. G. S. Morean is off to
Charles City, called by the serious
illness of Mr.. Morean's mother.
Mrs. N. P. Hyatt arrived home
last night from Des Moines, where
she spent couple of days with her
husband at the I. N. G. state en-
campment. Mrs. Hyatt reports ev-
erything all o. K. at Camp Dodge.
Misses Gertrude and Myrtle
Irwin arrived here today from Men
10, Iowa, for a visit at the DR.. Lar
rabee home.
Mrs H. J.. Arthur and son Her
bert arrived home last night from a
two weeks visit with relatives in
Rock Island, Ill.
Mrs. E. Edwards and two chill
dren and visiting friend, Mrs. NJ. E.
Reisinger and granddaughter of
New Hartford, went to Fort Dodge
today for an all days pleasure trip.
Miss Mabel Owens went to Har-
ris today where she will join a
friend on trip to Okoboji.
Miss Esther Eldridge went to
Laurens this noon for a short visit
with an aunt.
Miss Jeanette Duncan, super
intendent of a hospital in Whining
ton, Del, will arrive in the city to-
night for few days visit with Mrs.
Forest Hall.
Cary H. Brown arrived home
from Des Moines last night.
Mrs. w. s. Weston spent yes
terday in Ames.
Frank Mag arrived home last
night following a weeks sojourn at
the home of his uncle in Des Moines.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
SIX O'CLOCK DINNER.

Miss Clarine Mueller entertained
twenty young lady friends at 6
o'clock dinner at her home on Di-
vision street Friday night in hon
or of her visiting friend, Miss Lucille
Drummer of Waterloo.
House and table decorations fol-
lowing scheme of yellow and
brown made attractive the pleasant
home. Dinner was served in four
courses at small tables prettily dec
grated with vases of golden glow at
the center, and dainty place cards
aided in decoration. During the So
cial hour which followed, an i'm
promptu musical program furnished
in connection with
social conversation.
Other than town guests were Miss
Bethene Smith, Estherville; Miss
Eva Roberts, independence; Miss
Lilah McCauliff, Hampton.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
A WORD TO TEAM
STEERS Of THE CITY
Justice G.. F. Tucker Will Investi-
gate Complaints of Cruelty
to Animals.

Complaint has been made quite
frequently of late, that certain
teams hauling sand and gravel for
paving purposes, have been over
driven, overloaded and worked
when unfit for labor, especially so in
hauling heavy loads of sand and
gravel out of the pit and up the
dump where the loads are deposited.
The statutes of Iowa provide that
If any person overdrive, overload,
drive when overloaded, cruelty beat,
or drive or work any animal when
unfit for labor, or commit any other
act or omission by which unjustifi-
able pain or suffering is caused or
permitted to any animal, or shall
knowingly permit such act or omis-
sion or cause or procure the same to
be done, he shall be imprisoned not
to exceed thirty days in the county
Jail, or be fined not to exceed one
hundred dollars.
1t will be we'll for all persons US
ing teams for hauling in Webster
City to heed this statutory pro-
vision, as a violation of this law is
no trivial affair. A word to the
wise ought to be sufficient.
l will say, however, to the good
people of Webster City, who are
friends of the domestic animals that
cannot speak and tell of their abuse,
that if you know of and can prove
any violations of the above statute,
If you will report the same to the
the matter will be
speadily Investigated.
G. F. Tucker.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
Social Affairs
LAWN PARTY.

The Misses Amy and Irene Frank
about twenty-five friends at the
Frank home on Wilson ave. Friday
night at lawn party in honor
of the Misses Leota, Gertrude and
Inez Sparks of Amigo, Wis, former
residents of this city. A dainty sup
per was served on small tables on
the lawn at $50 o'clock and the
evening spent with a few games and
with visiting.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
For Sale by F. E. Grempel.
Standard hog regulator.

Standard hog regulator.
Standard worm powder for hogs
only.
Standard stock dip for hogs,
horses, cattle and sheep.
Standard horse and cattle regula-
tor.
Standard worm powder for horses.
Standard heave powder.
Standard stock linament.
Standard collie remedy.
Standard healing powder.
Standard fly shy.
Standard poultry tonic.
Standard lice killer.
Standard insect killer.
Standard roup remedy.
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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
PRICES HAVE MOUNT:
Ed ALARM|NCLY
Local Dealers Say There is no Rea-
son for Rise in Price of
Flour and Sugar.

In Webster City the prices of food
stuffs have mounted alarmingly
since the declaration of war by for
eign countries. Flour which former
ly sold at $1.65 per sack, has risen
to $3.50, or rise of $1.20 per bar
rel. Sugar which sold from $3.50
to S4.5S per 100 pound sack now
retails in the city for from $7.S5 to
$500 per sack, or in the neighbor-
hood of IL pounds for one dollar.
There is absolutely no reason as
known by retail merchants for a
rise in either of these important
fOodstuffs. Navy beans have also adj
vanced, as also has canned salmon
and fish of every kind, including
sardines, shrimp and lobster. I'm
less the relief promised by the presi-
dent is soon forthcoming, there will
be surprising advance in all can
ned fruits, for the average house.
wife will hesitate to put up more
fruit this season with sugar at the
highwater mark. All imported
goods will advance naturally for the
stock on hand in importing houses
is the only supply available. This
will include Italian and French mac
aroni, spaghetti and vermicelli,
olive oil and all imported foods. Figs
and dates and certain imported
vinegars will all be left off the bill
of fare should war continue. Sever
al grocers in the city who had on
hand large shipments Of -four are
not taking advantage of the rise in
prices to any extent, but are selling
these commodities at very reason
able prices. One grocer makes the
assertion that the people themselves
are responsible for the soaring Of
prices, in that they are easily scar
ed into buying large quantities of
stuff at high prices, fearing that
they may go still higher. The
dealers know this and
take advantage accordingly. If the
public would hold off and buy just
as usual, what they need and mol
more, there would not be the rise
in prices Of necessaries that there
Is.
There is absolutely no excuse for
the rise in the price of flour. Wheat
has advanced possible five to eight
cents per bushel, but the supply of
wheat is enormous. Granaries ev-
erywhere are bursting with the stor-
age of wheat kept by companies
for the price to 60 still
higher: 1t takes approximately five
bushels of wheat to make one bar
rel of flour; if wheat rises two cents
per bushel the legitimate rise in
price on a barrel of flour is ten
cents. 1t is hoped that justice will
not delay in this matter which in
wolves the sustenance of the Amer
can race.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
The Last Sad Rites.

The funeral of the late Annie G..
Smith was held at the home on Di-
vision street at ten o'clock Saturday
morning and was well attended by
neighbors and friends of the deceas-
ed. The body was laid to rest by
the side of her parents in Graceland
cemetery.
The services We're conducted by
Rev. Arthur Metcalf, assisted by
Rev. L. N. Call, a neighbor and
friend of the family since the earl
lest years of Miss Smiths life, and
the services, though brief, were we'll
suited to the occasion.
Those nearest and dearest to Miss
Smith had gone on before and the
happy reunion in Heaven of father,
mother and daughter, whose devo-
ton to each other on earth was so
marked, should make this day of
rejoicing rather than one of sadness.
The departed will be most missed
in the home by Mr.. and Mrs. Z. R.
Lee, who for a number of years have
so kindly and tenderly devoted their
time to the care and comfort of the
mother until her death, and since to
the daughter. She will also be sad
ly missed by the members of the Lit
erary Round Table of which she has
been a member for the past eighteen
years and in the interests of which
she has been a tireless and faithful
worker when her health would per-
nit. Those of their number present
in the city formed a guard of honor
at the funeral and the pail bearers
chosen were husbands of six of these
club sisters.
At the grave pink roses, the club
flower, dropped by each of the ladies
upon the casket before it was lower
ed and all felt that the memory of
this loved sister would be sweet
fragrance through all the future
years of their club life.
Old papers, sc bundle, for sale
at this office.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18

Three base hits, Sucher, Branded,
Donaldson. Two base hits, Jackson
2, Donaldson, Graves, Morgan. Bases
on four balls, off Richards, 3. Struck
out, by Graves, 8; by Richards. s..
Passed ball, Schaunburg. Double
plays, Richards to Morgan to Moose
to Ludeman; Mendez to Blattner to
Dunbar, Blattner to Dunbar. UNI
pire. Dodge.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
Death of Isabelle Montzheimer.

A dispatch was received by rela-
tives in the city Saturday a. IN. from
James Montzheimer of Newport,
WASH, telling of the death by APP
pendicitis of their second daughter,
Isabelle, at o'clock Friday night.
She had been i'll about two weeks
and had undergone an operation at
some time during the illness. She
was about twelve years of age and
was born in this city, residing here
until about three years of age. Moth
ing is known in regard to the fun
eral arrangements.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL.
Going East,

GOlng East.
No. Sc, Fl. Dodge to Water
loo Express :3s a. m.
No. Is, Sioux City to Chica-
go Express 1901 D. m.
No. ID, Omaha to Chicago
Express 3:0s pm.
No. II, Omaha & Sioux City
to Chicago Limited- 1912 p. m.
Going West.
No. IL, Chicago to Omaha &
Sioux City, Limited a. m.
No. l3, Chicago to Omaha
Express --lO:0S q. m.
No. 10 Chicago to Sioux City,
Fast % a. m.
No. IS, Chicago to Fort
Dodge Express---------7.O5 p. m.
CHICAGO & NORTHWE STERN.
Going South and East.
No. II, Des Moines Pass sos a. m.
No. 4, Chicago Express 1855 p. m.
No. "a, Ia. & Oak. Ex.---l 1910 p. m.
No. 30, Way Freight 1000 a. m.
Going North and West.
No Is, Ia. & Oak. Ex----7:O5 a. M.
No. 3, Ia. Il Oak. Pass ll:2O a. m.
No. Ii, Eagle Grove Pass $3.50 p. m
No.l3, Way Freight p. m
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
Peterson Will Pitch,

Peterson, late of the Fort Dodge
ball team, signed up with Manager
Kearns Friday as member of
the White Sox pitching squad for
the remainder of the present season.
This gives Webster City a formid-
able pitching staff-second to none
of the strong teams in this section.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
ALL NATIONS 3;
WEBSTER CITY 4
An Interesting Ball Game at River
side Park in This City-All
Nations Exceptionally
Strong.
WHITE sOX NOT AT THEIR BEST
Home. Team Makes Creditable Show.
ing Considering Strength Of
Opponents.

game in this city Friday after
noon drew big crowd of spectators
and an interesting contest was wit
messed. The visitors have trimmed
up every team they have met in this
section of country and that the home
boys should be a sacrifice to their
proves was no surprise to the fans.
In fact, the White Sox did well in
making the showing they did, espec-
tally in view of the further fact that
they put up a rather weak article of
ball. The visitors are an exception
ally strong aggregation. The score
was to s.
In the first inning for Webster
City, Morgan made two base hit,
and on error by Seymour on Suckers
grounder, Morgan scored. One hit,
one run.
Second inning, All Nations: Blat-
tner walked. Dunbar made first on
error by Mitchell, advancing Blat-
tner to second. Jackson hit for two
bases, scoring Blattner and Dunbar.
Seymour made first on felder's
choice. Graves hit to Richards and
was put out at first. Schaunburg
singled, scoring Seymour. Mendez
struck out. Two hits, three runs.
Second inning, Webster City:
Moose singled. Berggren and Clap
per struck out. Richards singled.
Ludeman singled, scoring Moose.
Morgan struck out. Three hits, one
run.
Third inning, All Nations: Bran
dell three base hit. Donaldson
singled, scoring Branded. Blattner
to first base on Richards error. Dun
bar hit into a double. Jackson flew
out to Clapper. Two hits, one run.
Third inning, Webster City: Such
er three base hit and scored on pass
ed ball. One hit, one run.
Fourth inning, All Nations:
Graves, second man up, two base hit.
Schaunburg hit by pitched ball.
Mendez singled, scoring Graves.
Branded struck out. Donaldson
singled. Mitchell caught Schaun-
burg at the plate. Three hits, one
run.
Fifth inning, All Nations: Blat
tner walked. Dunbar sacrificed, adj
vancing Blattner to second. jack
son two base hit, scoring Blattner.
Moses error on Seymour's grounder
scored Jackson. Morgan caught Sey-
mour at third. Schaunburg flew out
to Berggren. One hit, two runs.
Sixth inning, All Nations: Men
DEE walked. Branded flew out to
Morgan. Donaldson two base hit,
scoring Mendez. Blattner singled,
but Dunbar fouled out and Jackson
went out on fly to Berggren. Two
hits, one run.
Eighth inning, Webster City: Cor
bin singled. Sucher singled, but
Branded caught Corbin going to
third. An error by Mendez scored
Sucher and gave Mitchell first base |
Moose and Berggren were put out
on infield grounders. Two hits, one
run.
The tabulated score:
All Nations
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18
Roads and Roads.

Some of the farmers residing
northwest of town call attention to
the fact that it is unnecessary for
Webster City people to go to Fort
Dodge to witness some of the most
damnable road making in the state
of Iowa. Our good friend w. H. Van
Note was in town a day or two ago
and suggested that while roasting
was good it would not be out of Or
der to give the city council a few
touches for the abominable road the
council put in on the east side Of
the Kurtz farm. This strip of road
reaches from the Crooked Creek rail-
road crossing at the National Sewer
Pipe plant west to the corner and
thence north nearly a mile. This
work was under the charge of the
city. F. J. Lund gave The city sand
If the city would sand the road. The
council thought here was an oppor-
tunity to get something for nothing,
so they proceeded to put the sand
on the road about six inches deep,
with the result that it was almost
impossible to plow through it with
an automobile on low gear. Every
body avoided the new road, which
was put in last year, and drove along
the side. The city didn't propose to
let the public escape thus easily,
hence a month or so ago they put
the grader on again and threw a lot
of dirt upon the sand, but not
enough to hold the sand in place.
The result is something awful to-
contemplate and must be seen to be
Had the street and al
ley committee, or whoever had the
matter in charge in the first place,
used ordinary judgment, that strip
Of road would now be one Of the fin
est in the county and be a thing of
joy forever. If about two inches of
sand instead of six had been put
upon the roadway it would have be-
come mixed with the dirt and a good
road would be the result. Too much
sand is worse than none at all, as
it does not pack like some kinds of
gravel. 1t is a matter of general
too, that in many places
too much gravel is put upon the
roads and the roadways become wavy
and bumpy. Experienced road max
ers declare that an inch or twoI
spread at a time after the dirt road
is leveled properly insures best re-
suits. 1t will then spread evenly
and the result is smooth driveway.
Then later more gravel can be add
ed from time to time as needed. In
many places leading out of the city
too much gravel has been used and
the result is not satisfactory. I'll
on want to see a nice gravel road
go west from the Catholic cemetery.
There the road has been sanded and
but not too much of this |
has been used. Up north
Of town, along the Charlie Segar
farm, is another place where the |
men spreading the gravel used judy
ment. 1t is much cheaper to put the
gravel on as it should be than it is |
to spread it two or three times as
thick as best approved methods war
rant.
Old papers, sc a bundle, for sale
at this ofIIce
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18

Alta Advertiser: Fred d. Hath
way, who conducted the variety
store in Alta last year, but who for
the past few months has been in
the same business at Sioux Rapids,
has disposed of his business there
and will again seek another loca-
ton. ..
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18

Totals -. .37 10 27 Is 6
'Batted for Clapper in ninth.
Score by innings
All Nations 0 3 1 2 1 0 0 0-S
White Sox 1 1 1 o o 0 0 1 o.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18

Old papers, sc bundle, for sale
at this ONCE.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18

Drawing paper at this once.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-18

Old papers, &c bundle, for sale
at this office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30

was swarming with German spies and
it was essential that their operations
should be stopped and that at the same
time nothing should be done to alarm
public opinion. The writer Is informed
that at the war office and the admiralty
alone nearly thirty spies were caught
during the fortnight before the war. and
that more than hundred were caught
Throughout Great Britain.
r
Under the ordinary operation Of the
civil law these men would have been en-
titled to a police court hearing and a
trial in one of the higher courts. Instead
of this, however, they we're taken di-
rectly before high court judge in cham
bers-which means that the Judge sat
in secret in his private room-and were
committed to prison out of hand on the
mere statement of the policeman or other
official who arrested them. They will
remain in prison until the end Of the
war There were some Englishmen among
them and information was given out that
a few of the missing men advertised for
in the papers may be accounted for In
this way. .-sEs
The raids on the houses Of suspected
spies which have taken place since the
declaration Of war have had some anus
ing features. A police officer who was
in charge of the raids in one Of the
northern districts Of London says that
three Of the Germans whom he arrested
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30
.'.9WG6R
A GERMAN SPY BEING ARRESTED.

the announcement that Germany had de-
clared war an England.
Few people have realized until now
how tremendous is the structure OF
credit on which England does business.
When the boarding of gold caused the
currency famine which prevailed for
few DAYS before the issue of IS and
$3.50 notes by the government, business
practically stopped because there was
no money available smaller than the
Bank of England twenty-fve-dollar
notes, and it was impossible to change
them.
1t was the nlearned for the first time
by many people that although the stock
of gold in England is only s750000,O0O
checks for the enormous amount OF
$50, 600. 100000 pass through the London
clearing house alone in the course of
year. The fact is. of course, that the
whole elaborate system is merely a
transfer of credit from one person to an
other without the handling of single
coin. The government now has appealed
to the public to use checks as much as
possible, even for the payment OF small
bills, and so econobize gold, and ar
rangements are being made by the
bankers to handle an immensely in
creased number of small accounts A
leading banker told the writer today that
he expects that one Of the effects of the
war will be to increase the banking busi-
ness OF England by at least 70 and per.
haps 30 per cent by inducing people OF
small means to open banking accounts.
Some of the large business houses have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30

and in Holborn a little group of late
jewellers had heard that there had been
naval battle in the North sea, and
that two British and five German ships
had been sunk They even had the
names of the ships, and the fact that
one at least of the German ships was
known to be in the Mediterranean did
not shake their belief In the slightest
degree. Five miles away on the out
skirts of London was found the same
rumor half an hour later, and 1t was
current in every corner of the metropolis.
Where it came from or on what 1t was
based is stiIl a mystery.
Work in a newspaper office in these
war days Is a long nightmare. Every
minute the telephone bell rings with
new rumor and the astonishing thing fs
that the same rumor comes almost sinful
taneously from widely separated sources.
A night or two ago, for instance, news
was telephoned from Guildford, on the
main London and Southwestern railway
line to Portsmouth-and therefore, of
course, an important military road-that
German spies had blown up the railway
bridge there and that British guards
were chasing them across country. With
in five minutes noted English novelist
who has a country house near .Guildford
telephoned full particulars of the out
rage which he had received by telegraph
from his home.
Within half an hour the same news
came from a dozen different quarters
Nothing of the sort had happened. and
the thing was not printed, but all Lon