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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
oSkAlooSA's NEED.

5 Oskaloosa needs a public park. Os.
kaloosa has needed such for many
years. Oskaloosa now has an oppor-
tunity to purchase property most
suitably adapted for snch purposes.
We refer to the "Old Fair Ground"
Our advertising columns show it list.
ed for sale. For years-or since its
nonsuse for fair purposes-park ad'
yocates have looked at II with longing
eye and several attempts have been
made to interest the city in its pur'
chase but until the present time II
has not been really ION the market
1t is now and our Commercial Club
city administration and other civic
bodies SHOULD get busy" The loca
tion of this ground-a forty acre tract
its beautiful grove, its general con
tour and its proximity to the city
makes il an ideal spot for all parf
purposes. Now get busy.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
GOOD ROADS.

The Original Good Roads Booster
does not belong to the present gen.
GRAFTON, Notwithstanding that the
subject has taken on a great impetus
since the birth of the automobile.
Even in the time of Tiberius (42 B. C.
to 81 A. d. one could travel all of
Italy, Gaul and part of Spain with I'M
heard of rapidity, and Pliny relates
that this ruler made a journey to
Holland more than one hundred
leagues (300 miles) in twenty-fOur
hours. The nature of this work for
bids us to give here the we'll known
details of the mode of construction
of the imperial roads; but we must
acknowledge that in this kind of la
Dor we are much inferior to the an
clients; and although their roads did
not have great influence over the des-'
TIMES of commerce, we can but won
der at their lasting more than one
thousand years, while ours, more nee
essary. will with difficulty keep for a
few years intact. Nothing was for
gotten there; the pedestrians had
their foot-paths, and the horsemen
their resting stones for mounting and
alighting. The monuments to the dead
arose in their vicinity, as if TO
obtain the regard of the living. The
Appian way is the most admirable
of this kind which has
ever come from the hand OF man.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

of the main travelled roads into town.
We might adopt the rural pavement
OF concrete fifteen feet wide with
gravel shoulders as our solution. On
the seven year assessment city paving
plan the cost would be about $40 per
annum for, each sixty feet of abutting
property where no curb was con.
structed and the city could well af-
ford to assume third of this on
strictly agricultural land. To thus
extend paved street to the city
limits on nine main travelled roads
leading into this city would approx.
innate. 107 city blocks and the city's
authorized 6 miles for improvements
would easily take care of the city's
end Of the expense when present paw
ingv debts are out of the way. Why
not show the farmers how to build
roads? They are showing us 3. just
now
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
THE SCHOOL PLAYGROUND.

How large is your school play
ground? Henry s. Curtis, in bull.
letin issued by the United States
Bureau of Education, declares that
every city school building should
have at least one full block of ground.
whether the block is the usual city
block of two or three. acres, or one
of 10 acres, as in Salt Lake, Utah.
The high school needs at least 10
acres, he asserts. AS for the country
school, it ought never to have less
than 3 acres of play space, and could
profitably make use of 10 acres, pro-
vided the grass is kept moved.
Mr.. Curtice shows that our schools
have, in general, had very inadequate
yards. During the past 10 years,
however, with the development of
the play movement, there has come
an increased demand for ground
space around school buildings. The
State boards of education in Pennsyl-
yania and Virginia will not approve
plans for new school buildings that
do not provide for adequate play
grounds. In Little Rock, Arkansas,
the standard of one full block to a
school has been carried out with
every one of the schools for white
children. All but one or two of the
schools in Pueblo, Colo, have full
block. In San Angelo, Texas, ev-
cry school but one has two blocks at
least, and two have 10 acres Of play
space. The first school built in Gary,
Indiana, had two acres of play
ground, the second had four, the
third eleven, and a lot recently pur-
chased contains twenty acres.
There is a very strong sentiment
all over the country for larger school
grounds" Mr.. Curtis finds, land
yards are being augmented in many
cities where there Is an opportunity
to purchase adjoining pieces of land
at prices that are not prohibitive.
Cities are often paying as much as
$4,000 or more per acre for such
land. Two years ago the city Of
Houston, Texas, secured a bond issue
Of 100000 for enlarging the yards
Of several OF its old schools. The
city of Galveston has recently voted
a bond issue OF 100000 for the same
purpose"
Whether in city or country, Mr.
Curtis considers ample school play
ground vital necessity. CITY child
rem need a good-sized school yard be-
cause there is no other place to play.
Country children need a large yard
because at home there IL no one 10
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
DELTA A BUSY Town
MEMBERS OF THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH TENDER RECEPTION
TO NEW PASTOR, REV. ELAN
AND WIFE AT CHURCH..

Delta, Jan. 10: The third number
of the Lecture Series will be given
at the M. E. Church Friday evening.
The membership of the Christian
Church rendered their new pastor,
Rev. Elan and wife, who had just
located in the parsonage, reception
at the Christian Church, Wednesday
evening. Several hundred were pres
ent and during the evening someone
announced that there was a debt of
something over two hundred dollars.
Prompt action was taken and the
debt cleared and they could welcome
the new pastor with a clear book
and an earnest congregation.
F. E. Dunn and wife celebrated
Saturday evening and a large num-
Der of relatives and acquaintance
were invited to their spacious dwell
ling and spent the evening and an old
time glorious time was enjoyed.
Rev. A. A. Heath was assisting
the pastor of the NJ. E. Church in a
revival meeting last week at Rose
Hill.
C.. Ed Beman has sold his resi-
dence property to r. McKibben of
Fremont. Mr. Beman will soon move
to Oskaloosa, Iowa, to engage in the
new bank, lately Incorporated. Del
ia is sincerely sorry to lose them
as they are of Delta's best families.
He has been the superintendent of
the M. E. Sunday School continuous
| ly for the last ten years and the
church will miss one of the most &C.
tive members. We wish them sue
cess in their new home.
p. p. Shislee has sold his farm to
Ross Thompson. Mr.. Shislee will
soon hold his sale and move to Min
nesota, where he bought farm last
season. He is an old settler and a
successful farmer. He is one of the
kind of farmers who is able but has
not as yet bought an automobile.
Delta has more empty residences
than it has had for ten years, at one
time, but the weddings in view will
occupy some of them.
The front has been put in the new
Hatcher garage the past week and
makes it look fine. G. Bertlow will
soon plaster. Then comes the stock
of automobiles.
The question of ice is beginning
to be a live issue as North river is
too low to give any crop and South
river makes Ave mile haul.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

country after it had been conquered.
- - =.
We just learned something about
the cactus. 1t is not wholly bad af-
ter all. 1t would be good feed for the
cattle if it were not for the spines
or needles that cover it. These need
les stick in the cattles' tongues and
threats, cause irritation, disease and
even death. The cattle men have dis
covered that by smuggling the spines
off in bon-fires, the objectional fea'
lures are removed and the cattle eat
the cactus with relish. The only
trouble with this plan is to find any
thing to make bonfire out of. We
have not seen a tree for over 200
miles. But Burbank has come to the
rescue and has produced a spineless
cactus that is said to be a great sue.
cess. 1t ought to be, as little plant
the size of your hand sells for so
cents, and one little larger, for rs
cents. Everything goes by quarters
and half dollars here. Strange as il
may seem, the cactus, while native
of dry hot country, carries lots OF
water. Cattle could live on them
without much water, if it were not
as stated above, for the spines
This land in southwest Texas sells
for about $3.50 to $500 per acre, and
one can get 20 years time on it. But
when it is remembered that it will
take &c acres of it to support one
COW, it is not as cheap as is 5000
land in good old Iowa. '"'
The ROustabOut
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
Farm Losses HEAVY,

The report OF the treasurer of the
Henry County Farmers Mutual In
surance Company shows that the farm
losses in that county for the past year
were heavier than ever before in the
history OF the organization. The
greatest losses we're in the month of
October when the Henry county
farmers were reimbursed In the sum
of $5,523.9S. The total losses OF the
year reached $14.625.79. The total
amount OF insurance written was
1861 1855.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.

rWnHe many OI inc StdLeS nave III
ready subscribed the amount of mon
ey that was allotted them as their
portion of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs endowment fund, New
York has only just begun and has
less than $4,000 of the $4,000 re-
quired. However their is little doubt
but that the amount will be forth
coming when the General Federation
biennial is held in Chicago in June.
The endowment fund seems like the
best solution of the money problem
of all organizations, as it puts the in
stitution in a position Of dignity with
a certain income that can always be
depended upon for certain necessary
expenses.
Kansas is said. to have 1900 wom-
en- in the active management Of
farms, and not one of them has failed,
according to the reports. Most of the
women rent the farms, which they
own, but they are not counted in the
1900 who own and manage their own
farms. The Kansas farmer does not
leave things to chance, but is a scien-
tiic farmer. 1t is said that SO per
cent of the women are members of
farmers institutes.
Walking is the best exercise for
woman, but she will not walk as
she should unless she has been in the
habit of walking all her life. Con.
sequently, it is the duties of mothers
to see to it that their daughters are
good walkers. 1t should be as much
a matter of course as we'll as any
other duty of a well bred girl that
she have her daily walk, even as she
has her bath.
There is not a woman doctor in the
whole of Spain and the women OF
that country would come up to the
ideal of the man who thinks the place
for the woman is in the home. The
women of Madrid are said to be beau
tiful and indolent and not to care a
fig whether there are any educational
advantages for the children or not.
The postmistress of the National
Soldiers Home at Hampton, Va, will
be woman, Mrs. Thomas Hall Dav
is, whose husband was appointed
but died before taking office. Sew
eral men have applied for the posi-
ton, but when they heard that Mrs
Davis would like it, withdrew their
names.
-. - -.
The foreman of a jury in Christi.
ania, Norway, is recently appointed
woman, Mrs. Randi Biehr. She is
said to be the first woman in Europe
to hold this position, although women
have been serving on juries in Nor.
way for years.
| - - -
Berlin has a total of S2,845 unmar.
ried women, and 1868 women who
have passed their nineteenth birth
day as compared with Ill men.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

The practice of passing "a torch
along the galleries OF the cell houses
to enable the prisoners TO light their
pipes, has been discontinued at the
Anamosa Reformatory. This custom
was In vogue a long time. The torch
was passed at stated periods after
lookup time, and before bedtime,
during the evening hours. In lieu of
the torch, prisoners who draw smok-
ing tobacco are now provided with a
small box Of safety matches every 10
days.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

play with, except in the simplest
games for little children" He points
out that larger school grounds are de-
manded, not only for the sake of or
ganizing play, which has come to
have a recognized value In education.
but also for school gardening. open.
air classes, physical training, and 9th.
er activities that have made the
school-yard nearly as important as
the classroom in the conducts of a
modern school,"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
Gettysburg

sounds to the Peoria Herald Trans
cript like a sermon before sermons
became political TRADES against city
administrations and before ministers
of the gospel despaired of reaching
men and women through their hearts"
But not all ministers are common
scolds.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
"A new law of the state of Illinois

"A new law Of the state of Illinois
abolished the railway pass January !,
1914. Practically all the states have
wiped out free transportation. While
the movement has been directed by
the enemies Of the railway companies
II has been more TO the advantage of
the companies than any of the reform
laws of recent days.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

County Judge, John E. Owens, of
Chicago, answering a direct question,
says that offers of candidates to per.
form the duties of an officer for less
than the local salary, or for nothing,
constitutes bribery and would nullify
an election. The opinion is in line
with decision of our Iowa supreme
court handed down a few years ago.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

nomination for the various county
offices. In Mahaska county we prefer
to keep the wheels Of business grind
ing just as long rs possible without
from politics. But when
the lid is taken off, there will be
something popping this spring and
f,n
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

Sex hygiene lectures delivered in
the Chicago schools have been bar
red from the mails. which leads the
Dubuque Telegraph Herald TO say
they should also be barred from the
females '..
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
THEN SHELL POP.

New Sharon Star: The political pot
u already boiling over In PoYeshiek
County. More than u dozep candl-
dates have announced their desire for
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
GOOD DIRT ROADS.

Marshalltown Times. Republican:
The experience we have had this
winter with fairly good dirt roads up
TO the city limits and almost impass-
able roads inside the city suggests
some form OF permanent Improvement
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
Mayor schrirer. Of Ro,ek 1sll

Mayor Schriyer, Of Rock Island,
says a city market is failure. THAT
appears TO be the experience of the
smaller Cities" says the Davenport
Times. 1T may be possible to have
successful city markets in the larger
eastern cities, but here the market
gardeners prefer to sell to the house
wives at their homes or to the groc-
ars I" -
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

There are one hundred college
graduates in the dishwashers' union
In San Francisco. But, dishwashing is
an honorable occupation.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

The Des .Moines Tribune is right
in it's contention that the fast young
man spends more on bad habits than
on good clothes.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

The railways of the United States
have L699.21s persons in their EN-
ploy, seventy-five per cent Of whom
are voters.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
ence MS great success.
They Filter The Light.

With his usual enterprise the Pro-
fessor has secured the sole Mahaska
County agency for the newly discov-
cred Eye Illuminate Lenses which
protect the delicate internal parts of
the eye from the actinic as we'll as
invisible heat rays so intolerable to
sensitive eyes. '....
Scientists have demonstrated that
correct glasses are the best prophy-
Tactic possible against blindness.
In office every day but Sunday and
Christmas.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

"A French physician has discover
ed that cannibalism is sure cure for
indigestion. Sure cure for cannibalism
Is all that Is needed now.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

THE fault. Dear Brutus, lies MOI
in our stars but in ourselves that we
are underlinings. "-Shakespeare.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
MAYNE ARNOLD OPTICAL CO.,
Oskaloosa, Iowa.

Not Doctor.
Scores of people are coming hun.
dreds of miles to consult Mayne Ar
mold for their eyes and sight. His
long experience, mature, trained
Judgment, giving value to consulters,
using Eye Illuminate Lenses, superior
quality glasses, low prices with
these conditions patrons can land do)
come to him long distances and then
save their car fare twice over.
Authorized Agent Fits-U Eye
Glasses. Durable. Dependable. Ele-
nt.-Advertisement.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

Believe that story false that
ought not to be trne.-Sheridan.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15
oskALoosA SMALLEST CITY

having an exclusive optical store.
The American spirit OF commercial
ism is so strong there would be an
optical store in every hamlet il II
maid h''! - - sf s.'rAi,' s'5&'
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

The reason Mayne Arnold can ex-
list here Is he supplies the finest
glasses known to science and adjusts
them faultlessly to his patrons eyes
at moderate prices. ,r ......
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

Every city has its own way of cell
ebrating the advent of New Year. We
are glad there are none other ike
San Antonio, else Oskaloosa might
some time pattern after it. II there
we're anything that would help along
the back to the farm" movement 1t
would be such performances as mark
ed the demise of 1918 in "the Paris
of the South" 1t was regular
Fourth of July, Emancipation Procla-
nation, Thanksgiving, Remember the
Alamo, Victorious Football Demon
stration, "El Cinco de Mayo" San
Jacinta. Labor day celebration, all
crammed into one mad night and
heaped up with all the widest mis-
chief that human brain could invent.
People in times past may have rails
ed Cain or resurrected the dead, but
the San Antonioans dug UP. the Ark.
fioated 1t on sea of Champaign, put
a Happy Hooligan cap on Noah, made
more hideous noises than are accred-
tied to the fall of Babylon, and shout
ed with more gusto than the 32nd de-
gree fan could possibly do at base
ball game when in the ninth inning
with no outs and with all the bases
full, the score tied, his favorite pit
cher pulled himself out of the hole.
They kept it up too, until Gabriel
gave up the unequal struggle and lay
down to rest. Even old Sol delayed
his appearance that the echoes vibrat-
ing through shadows OF the night,
might have n chance To die away and
the jewellers get q few minutes sleep.
At midnight every whistle and bell
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

Berlin has total of s2,s45 unmar,
ried women, and 1858 women who
have passed their nineteenth birth
day as compared with Ill men.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

The foreman of jury in Christi
ania, Norway, is a recently appointed
woman, Mrs. Randi Biehr. She is
said to be the first woman in Europe
to hold this position, although women
have been serving on juries in Nor
way for years. ~
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-15

FL Paso is in the same state as
San Antonio, and yet Ell Paso is 62O
miles west from San Antonio,-not
but as the Southern Pacific railway
runs. Six hundred and twenty miles
is some distance. 1t is almost as far
as from Oskaloosa to Pittsburg, OF
would carry an Oskaloosa resident to
Chicago and back and give him side
trip to Rose Hill and return. And
what a stretch of sage brush and
cacti. We did not see enough other
vegetation on the trip to fill a silo.
But we found out all about the
war in Mexico, on the sleeper. Our
informant says hostilities will last
as long as the money and the pros
pect of loot holds out. what are
they fighting for anyway" some one
asked. why for the dollar a day,
of course" This is the cheapest
scale, of wages now prevalent for
killing men and tearing up bridges
and railroads. The trouble will end
when the money runs low. When
asked how many men 1t would take
for the United States to re-establish
peace in Mexico, our informant said,
at least two hundred and fifty thous-
and. Fifty thousand Texas Rangers
and U. s. Regulars could whip the en-
tire Mexican armies, Federals, Con-
and Rebels combined.
That is of course II they could be
brought into battle. But the Mexi-
cans will not fight that way. When
they get into tight place they run
for shelter. and remain to fight some
other day. The additional 100000
men would be necessary to police the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-23
LEE WOULD SELL
z FIRE STATIONS
Proposes City Dispose of Prop
erty on Pryor and Carnegie
Way at Good Profit,

Councilman Jesse 3. Lee, chair
man of the Fire Committee. Monday
gave further details concerning his
scheme to sell part of the most cen
trally located properly belonging to
the Atlanta fire department and re-
arrange the fire station districts.
He believes the city should dis
pose of the Pryor street property as
well as the station on Carnegie way.
He said the city had owned the
property for many years. during
which time both places increased in
value to such an extent that he
deemed their sale advisable. He pro-
posed to move the Pryor street house
to another street near it's present To-
cation. In such an exchange he
claimed the city would realize "A
handsome profit. He proposed the
same disposition for the Carnegie way
station
The Councilman also will urge that
the city motorize all its fire appa-
ratus, end he proposes to have Coun-
Gil authorize the sale Of all horse
drawn equipment
He also proposes to revise the the
alter laws so as to provide better pro-
lection to the patrons Of picture
shows
The Fire Committee will meet at
the City Hall Wednesday afternoon at
3 O'Clock.