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The Snowflake herald., 1914-01-31
HUMAN CULTURE LECTURES
BY DR.. JOHN 7. MILLER,
OF Los ANGELES

During the past few days DR..
Miller, editor of the Character
Builder, and executive secretary
of the Los Angeles Society of
Social Hygiene, has given a Sc
ries of lectures on health culture,
eugenics, character reading and
vocational guidance. The large
attendance at all the meetings
showed that the people of Snow
flake are awake to the vital prob
lens of education that are before
the world now.
Sunday night DR.. Miller gave
a lecture to a crowded house at
the Academy on the formation
and study of character. At the
close of the lecture a number of
boys and girls were invited to
the platform and their characters
were read by the lecturer to give
a practical lecture on character
reading.
Monday morning DR.. Miller
gave an inspirational talk to the
Academy students, and gave
talks to the pupils of the public
schools. In the afternoon large
audience of women and girls met
at the Academy to hear DR.. Mill
er's lecture on Eugenics and So
cial Hygiene. In the evening a
lecture on the same subject was
given to a large audience of men
and boys. This is a subject in
which the lecturer has specialized
for nearly twenty years, and du-
ring eight years he taught spec
ial classes in it at the B. Y. and
L. D. S. universities. He has
lectured on this subject in 400
cities and towns in Western
America. 1t is a subject that
should receive attention in every
home to help young people to
grow up in purity of thought
and life.
DR.. Miller's final lecture was
on the Art Of Keeping Well,
which is one of the most import
ant arts to practice in every
home. The most important con-
servation is of the mental and
physical health of the people.
Such lectures should be given
monthly in every community to
help the people in preventing dis
ease and other abnormal condi-
tions. These lectures were all
free, and the people of Snow
flake showed their appreciation
of them by the good attendance
at all the lectures.
On Monday and Tuesday DR..
Miller gave character readings
and vocational advice to the Aca-
deny students and others who
desired his professional services.
For three years DR.. Miller has
conducted classes at the Los An
geles Y. M. G. A. in Character
Reading and Vocational Guild
ance. He is recognized in this
special work throughout the west
and since the schools of America
have taken up the work of voca-
tional guidance, there is a grow
ing demand for such work.
DR.. Miller also delivered lee
lures in Taylor and st. Joseph.
Before returning to Los Angeles,
he will lecture in St. Johns,
Eagar, Woodruff, Holbrook, and
at the normal in Flagstaff.
The Snowflake herald., 1914-01-31
HOLBROOK LOCALS
And PERSONALS

IA VI OAAOV AAS+AAN'
was in town the first of the week
returning home from ST. Joseph.
Dick Gibbons, of Mesa, was
here Wednesday returning home
from a visit to Apache county,
where he formerly resided.
Joseph w. Smith, John A.
Freeman and w. E. Stratton
were here Wednesday for the
directors meeting Of the A. c.
M. |.
The board of directors of the
A. C. M. l. held meetings here
Wednesday, several of the direct
ors being present from Snow
flake and St. Johns.
Mrs. Hopen and Jack Young,
of Showlow, were here last Fri
day, coming down for a JOY ride
with the bridal couple, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Reidhead.
DR.. Hyrum Smith, Of Snow
flake, was here the first of the
week, having been to St. Joseph
for the reunion of the Bushman
family held on Mrs. Bushman S
SEVENTEEN birthday.
Judge Thorwald Larson spent
the first of the week at Flagstaff
in the interests of his clientele,
and visiting his friend Hon.
Thomas A. Finn, who has re-
Gently been appointed United
States Attorney for Arizona.~
The weather in Holbrook has
been supremely fine all winter
long until last Monday morning
a wind arose in the southwest
out of a clear blue sky that Gre
ated havoc by filing the air with
dust and turning everything
turnable with the intensity of
the Arizona Corporation Com
mission regulating corpor tie
business, and the blizzard contin-
ueS.
Married, Friday evening at the
Brunswick Hotel, Miss Mettie
Peterson, of Pinedale, to Ernest
Reidhead, of ShoWlow, John
Flanagan, justice Of the peace,
officiating. Miss Peterson is a
very accomplished young lady
and is at present the teacher of
the primary department of the
Pinedale school, and Mr.. Reid
head is one of the leading young
men of his home town.
C. L. Stratton, of Showlow,
paid Holbrook a visit Saturday
after a prolonged absence, coming
down for supplies and incidently
to inquire about the building of
the proposed railroad south. Mr..
Stratton stated that the people in
his section Of the county have
been anxious to hear the whistle
of the locomotive for a long time,
but that they have about conclud-
ed the talk of the proposed road
amounted to nothing but hot air,
as the building of same has
showed low.
Asahel H. Smith, of Hunt, was
in Holbrook Tuesday for a freight
wagon load of U. S. mail address,
ed to points in Apache county
that was too heavy for the regular
mail carriage, and which had
been collecting in the post office
here for several days. The ton
mage consisted principally of seed
from Washington, D. c., and new
scales for postmasters in the in
terror country to balance parcel
post packages on.
The wooden portion of the
bridge across the Little Colorado
river at this place has been re-
moved during the week and is
now being replaced by a steel,
the Ell Paso Bridge and Iron Com
pany having the contract to make
the change. The river being
high and the crossing bad, has
delayed and worked a consider
able hardship on the travelling
! n11hlic A11to1,oohiloc hn1rn hoor
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
BRIDGE COnPA AGREES
To DEMANDS OF COUNCIL

Solicitor Craig on Saturday, July %,
and submitted to the council members.
On Tuesday, July %, the final draft
was submitted to the council and Sec
rotary Gilman Of the bridge COM
pany. Today it has been returned
with the proper signatures affixed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
Sure Indications
of Lung Trouble

Among the indications of threat tened
Lung Trouble are continued cough,
fever and night sweats. A change of ell
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
Mayor and Industrial Association In
Vite Certain Citizens to Confer
on Plans to
Pursue.
THEY WILL MEET EARLY
To Hold Pow-Wow In Council Cham
Der In Advance Of Public
Hearing by the
Government.

On invitation Of the city commits
sioners and the Industrial association,
number of citizens will meet in the
council chamber at the city hall Mon
day morning at $3.50 a. m. to talk over
the situation and outline the plan of
action to be taken at the bridge
hearing which will be conducted at 10
o'clock by Major G. M. Hoffman Of
the United States engineer.
Feeling that there may be certain
lines Of action along which it would
be best to proceed, and to act in
concert in the matter, Mayor Moor
head communicated with many of the
leading citizens of Keokuk, asking
that they meet with the council Mon
day morning.
The same invitation was extended
to the Industrial association officers,
with the request that they supplement
the list with men they would like to
represent them at the hearing. The
lists are being made up, and the
meeting will be held in the council
chamber to discuss the method of
procedure on the part of the city of
hACohuh anu lis luIeTeSLS III tulS pro-
posed hearing. -.
Major Hoffman has called the pub
lie meeting for the purpose of hearing
all sides in the matter of the recon
structed bridge. He has sent out no.
tees to the steamboat men, who are
particularly interested in the draw
span, and to the citizens of Hamilton
and keokuk.
The government is endeavoring by
this hearing to learn all about the
proposed reconstruction of the bridge
and to learn what the cities and the
steamboat men are going to demand
that the bridge company do in this
work.
The city council here held q meet
ing recently with the Hamilton eoun-
Gil. The city council from there. to-
gether with prominent citizens, Is COM
ing over in body to present de-
mands. The conference Monday morn
ing OF the local people will give an
opportunity for outlining plan OF
action for Keoxuk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
TREASURE TRAIN ON
IT'S WAY WESTWARD
Mint of Gold Money is on Board Santa
Fe Which Went Through
Fort Madison.

Fort Madison Gem City: The fast
mail train on the Santa Fe this morn
ing carried a mint of gold money west
ward. It could not be learned where
was the destination of this valuable
cargo. but we have an idea it may be
related to the present war crisis.
The baggage car was protected by
i've armed sharpshooters whose par
ticular duty of course it was to frus-
trate any attempt to block the big
haul. The sum carried amounted to
something over seven million dollars
in gold. no small treasure when in a
lump sum.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
AUSTRIA DECLARES
WAR ON RUSSIA
VIII Take up the Task Now Of Guard
ing the Frontier Against
the Gear.

United Press Leasel Wire Service. ]
VIENNA, Aug. 7.-Assurances from
the Austria war office that Austi ia
will Immediately take up the task OF
guarding the Russian frontier were
sent to Berlin today. With the dec.
Iaraton Of war upon Russia by EN-.
pcrcr Franz Joseph, followed by the
immediate announcement Of similar
declaration against Austria by the
car, Kaiser Wilhelm may direct all
Of his attention to the Belgian and
French campaign for at least the next
two weeks. Russian mobilization ia
progress sing slowly, according to ad'
vices received here. The Austrian
war office is confident that with the
Withdrawal Of only small portion OF
forces attacking Servia, the Russian
advance can be checked. The German
border patrols have made raids into
Russian territory, burning villages,
but no general engagements have &C.
Cured. A division Of Russian cav
airy endeavored to break over the
frontier east Of Johannesburg yester-
day, It was learned here today, but
was repulsed.
Orders are expected to be immed-
lately issued permitting German and
Austrian troops to operate in the ter
ritory Of the allied countries.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
AIR BOMBS ARE
NOT EFFECTIVE
AeropIanes are Not to Play So Grea,
Part in Present War az
Expected.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON. Aug. while he
believes the war of the air will be
the war of the future, Captain Bristol,
head of the United States navy aero
nautic service predicted today that
air machines will do little actual
wholesale killing in Europe.
They will be used almost solely for
reconnaissance work, he told the Unit
ed Press today. Their chief service
will come from the fact that they c>1
scout where other machines Or per-
sons could not pen citrate.
Bombs" he said, "are not devel-
oped yet to the point where they will
be particularly destructive. Their
CHIEF effectiveness in the big war In
Europe will be to create consterna-
ton in groups Of hidden soldiers. The
death rate from an air bomb among
closely packed forces might be twenty
men
That the air machines will lend to
the spectacular element Of war was
his belief. He ventured the pred,c-
ton that some battles may be wagsd
between scout aeroplanes or aero
planes ard dirigibles and he declared
It would not be beyond the realm Of
probability that terrific explosion OF
huge gas bags in nidair will follow.
7 believe" he said, "aeroplanes viii;
be invaluable for scout service. Gov
e-nnents abroad have a big force OF
machines and their eff activeness will
be put to a test IN case this conflict
comes"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
Little Cost for City.


Practically the only expense to be
incurred by the city will be that for
paving First street from Main street
to the thoroughfare which will con-
meet the viaduct with First street.
The work Of building this street will
be undertaken by the city, but at it's
completion will be dedicated to the
city, according to the agreement and
the cost is to be borne by the COM
pany.
The bridge company will build the
viaduct according to certain restric-
tons and plans. The right of way is
to be purchased by them. 1t will cost
at least $4,000 and if the property
owners so elect the cost may be $4,-
coo, it was stated. The roadway will
be built It the cost Of the bridge COM
pany.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
Auto Bandits.

United Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Aug. 7.-Police today are
searching for two auto bandits who
escaped last night, leaving two OF
their comrades wounded, after rob
bling three cashiers of elevated road
stations, killing two men and injuring
two others.
Policeman John Roe and J. S. Stew
ems, cashier of the Oak Park elevated
station, were shot to death by the
bandits Michael Geary and Arthur
McNally, two of the bandits, were
captured after a running pistol duel.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07

Read The Daily Gate City.
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last until the big splurge Of New
Years eve. After that, If the war con.
tinues and France is cut of. New
York will have to get along wineless.
Those who drink German imported
beer are the ones who are worrying,
for the supply now on hand is barely
enough for six weeks at the ordinary
rate Of consumption.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
Contract Drafted by City and
Signed by Mayor, Returned
Today With Signatures
Of Bridge Officers.
10 BEAR ALL EXPENSE
Carnegie Syndicate Will Build
Viaduct and Pay for Right
Of Way According to
Agreement.

The Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge
company has signed the contract
which the city already has approved
IN the matter of reconstruction Of the
bridge at this point. Tho contract
has aIreday been signed by Mayor
Moorhead. The demands Of the city
Of keokuk as proposed In that con-
tract are agreed to. Many of the de-
mands made by the bridge company
on the city were not acceded to by
the council, which instead substituted
Its own demands.
Briefly stated the bridge company
agrees to buy the right Of way for the
roadway, construct the viaduct and
roadway up to the alley on First
street between Main and BIondeau
street. The bridge company will pay
$4,000 for the roadway. It may pay
an additional sum If the property
owners elect. The city will construct
the outlet.
With this contract signed, there Is
nothing to hinder the reconstruction
Of the bridge, as it is stated that the
money has been secured. The recon-
structlon Of this connecting link be-
tween keokuk and Hamilton seems
assured.
Mayor Moorhead this morning re-
ceived the signed contract of the
bridge company for the re-construc-
tioa of it's structure across the Mis-
sissippi river at Keokuk. The con-
tract which the bridge company has
signed, and which previously was
signed by the city, grants all of the
demands which the city council made
| uron the Carnegie people. 1t pro-
tects and safeguards the interest OF
the people Of Keokuk, inasmuch as it
refuses certain demands made BY Tie
bridge company and secures their
approval to plans substituted by the
city. The contract was drawn by CITY
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
Seems Sure Thing Now.

1t now seems certain that Keokuk
will have the much needed new
bridge across the river. Secretary
Gilman announced while here that the
money had been secured. The only
delay was in waiting for plans and
specification from the engineers for
the contractors, it was said. A new
double deck bridge structure which
can take care Of the traffic between
the two cities Is what the bridge COM
pany has promised. The city council
of Keokuk demanded that certain mat.
tiers be observed in the matter Of via
ducts and approaches, and in this the
company, by the signing OF the con-
tract submitted by the city, has agreed
to.
The contract was not to the liking
Of the officials of the bridge company.
1t was stated at the time of the draft
Ing, and they asked that certain other
matters be embodied in it. The city
council refused these requests, De-
lieving that the bridge company
should take care of the matters in
volved rather than the city Of Keo-
kuk. That the bridge comrany's Off
GERS will accept these demands is
shown by the fact that the contrac,
has been signed exactly as submitted
by the city.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-08-07
Horrors Of War,

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW YORK, Aug. AFTER looking
through their cellars, cafe and hotel
keepers figured today they now have
in stock just about enough wine to
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-04-07
WORDS FROM HOME.
Statements That May be Investigat.
ed.-Testimony Of Webster
City Citizens.

When a Webster City citizen
comes to the front, telling his
friends and neighbors of his exper-
fence, you can rely on his sincerity.
The statements Of people residing in
far away places do not command
your confidence. Home endorsement
is the kind that backs Doan's Kid
ney Pills. Such testimony is con-
vincing. Investigation proves it
true. Below is statement of a
Webster City resident. No stronger
proof Of merit can be had.
Mrs. Ira Smith, 215 Division St.
Webster City, Iowa, says: II had
annoyance from my kidneys. I suf-
fered from backache and the secre-
lions from my kidneys we're unnat-
ural. Doan's Kidney Pills quickly
relieved me and did me a world of
good in every way. l advise any
one suffering from kidney trouble to
give Doan's Kidney Pills trial"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the Unit
ed States. Remember the name
Doan's-and take no other.-Adv.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-04-07

dent; George Ship, vice president;
and J. H. Ship, cashier. They re-
NAMED the managing officers until
1898, when on the death of George
Shipp, Robert E. Jones became vice
president. In 1909 Robert E. Jones
was elected president. Since that
time the board of directors has con-
sisted of J. H. Shipp, J. M. Jones,
Robert E. Jones, l.. l.. Treat, o. A.
Hall, H. A. Crandall and Varick c.
Crosley.
The building owned and occupied
by the. bank was erected in 1894.
Its front is made of stone hewn out
of prairie boulders, making an ap-
propriate and substantial home for
this institution. Since 1890 the
active management of the banks
affairs has remained in the compe-
tent hands of J. M. Jones and J. H.
Ship, assisted in late years by
Robert E. Jones. Under their guild
ance the bank has grown in the
esteem and confidence of the people
of Webster City and Hamilton
county until it now enjoys the repu-
tation of being one of the strongest
banks in the state, its deposits hav-
ing increased from $4,000 in 1890
to over half a million dollars in
1912. A compilation Of the records
in the comptroller's Office at Wash
ington, D. c., shows this bank first
of all the national banks in Iowa in
ratio of surplus and undivided
profits to capital. In addition to
large patronage from the people
of Webster City this bank has an
extensive business with farmers and
stock feeders living in the extreme
ly rich agricultural district which
surrounds Webster City. Efficient,
prompt and courteous service I'M
failingly rendered is the keystone
of this banks success.
WEBSTER CITY SAVINGS BANK
was organized in 1897. Principal
stockholders at the time of organi-
cation were F. NJ. Fuller, F. A. Ed
wards, D. c. Chase, w. c. Burleson,
Geo. Olmstead, S. R. Hoyt, Bert
Arthur, J. E. Quackenbush, w. F.
Hunter, John Richardson. Capital
stock at time of organization $1O,-
10000. Has been increased several
times and is now $4,000. Officers
at present time-W. c. Burleson; F.
NJ. Fuller, vice president; w. B.
Rood. cashier; J. A. Boeye, assistant
cashier; r. H. Ash, boOkkeeper.
F. A. Edwards was the founder
and first depositor, and for years,
until the time of his death, Novem-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-04-07

lest deposits. 1t has been under the
same management for thirty-seven
years. It has been first in all move
ments in progressive banking.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
WEBSTER CITY.
The First National Bank Of
Webster City was incorporated in
1871, by Kendall Young, L. l..
Estes, e. S. Wheeler, C. T. Fenton,
A. D. Arthur, OK. Eastman, W. W.
Boak, and D. D. Chase, with a
capital of $4,000. Its charter
bears date September s, 1871, and
its number is 1874, indicating that
it was among the earliest of the
national banks organized. In 1891
its capital was increased to $780,
900. Kendall Young was its first
president and continued as such
until his death in 1896. L. l.
Estes was vice president and con-
tinued to hold this Office until mis-
death in 1909, when w. J. Covil
was elected to succeed him. The
brick building on the east side Of
Seneca street now occupied by H.
H. Himebaugh was the first home of
the bank. In 1891 the bank was
moved to the corner of Seneca and
Second street, its present location.
The first report to the comptroller
of the currency December 16, 1871,
shows deposits of $37,161.16 and
the last report September 4, 1912,
shows deposits of $762,39O.4S, with
a surplus and undivided profits Of
s77,S6S.14. The following are the
directors and officers of the bank at
this date, September. 1912: Presi-
dent w. J. Covil; vice president, E.
F.. King; cashier, w. C. Pyle; as
sistant cashier, e. M. Mason; assis-
tant cashier, H. O. Cutler. Direc-
tors. M. Richardson, w. ]. Covil,
w. c. Burleson, e. F. King, w. C..
Pyle, Wesley Martin, E. e. Mason.
M. L. Mccullough, J. w. Young.
THE FARMERS NATIONAL BANK
The Farmers National Bank was
organized as a national bank in
1885, succeeding the private bank of
Miller & Mattice. The incorpora-
tors were J. M. Jones, B. F. Miller
George Ship, Charles Fenton. j. W..
Mattice and w. P. Miller, who COM
posed its first board of directors. B.
F. Miller who had started the first
bank in webster City, became the
first president of this institution,
which Office he held until 1890,
when he resigned the presidency to
engage in other business. ]. NJ.
Jones was at that time made presi-