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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
DELTA A BUSY TOWN

Delta, Sept 14.-Wm. SmOthers
sold his property to John Deweese
and purchased the Lem White home
This will bring Mr. Smothers within
two blocks of his work as he is the
JanitOr for the High school building.
>. A. MOlyueauX has purchased the
Polly Fritzler property and will like
ly move about Oct. Is.
Frank Digger has bought the Ham
ilton Hardware and Implement stock
and expects to commence to invoice
Sept. IA.
Mack Dugan has now got settled
in his new home just finished paint.
ed and is one of the finest residences
in the town.
Mrs. Dwight Garrett is in Des
Moines with her mother who is very
sick at this time.
Burley Roberts and Howard Kerr
are on trip to Dickinson County
and to Minneapolis before return.
Mrs. Vality Hardesty and daughter
of Des MOines are visiting relatives
in this vicinity
Miss Tessie Nye will attend Penn
College the coming year. James and
John Busby and Miss Cleo Dunn will
attend Iowa College at Grinnell.
About twenty lot owners and 9th
ers interested met at the Springfield
cemetery Saturday forenoon and
cleaned it up the best it has been for
years.
The following sales are listed to
date: Roy Moore, Sept. IS; T. II. Ar
cher, Sep. Is and Harry Hall, Sep. 81
Mr.. and Mrs. Matt Hardy were
married sixty years ago Sept. II. For
ty-seven of their relatives and friends
met to enjoy the evening serving Oys
tiers, and left gifts and money to
mark the incident one to remember.
The parties are loved by all who know
them.
Delta's lecture course for the
coming season is Hinton Verdi, Sept
%, Dr. F., E. Hopkins No. 7. Hon. w.
|, Nolan, date arranged later, Mar
CORY Lacey. Feb. 3, 1915, Regimental
Quartette, April 81.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
OLIVET.

OIivet. Sept l2--P. A. Smith, OF
| Des MOineS, was in town on Tuesday
on business. -....... 1870.
Everybody attended the Pella fair
Frank MCCOmbS and Ira ShaffeT
were passengers for OskalOOSa Wed
nesday
The Herald man and H. NJ ThOmp
son spent Sunday in the country at
the Clyde Robinson home. They
were royalty entertained while there,
They called on Mrs. FiShr, who was
among the first settlers of Evans and
raised her family there. She now
has hundred acres of good land and
good home, being well cared for
by her son Robert, who tends the
farm.
Mrs. J. ]. Top spent Tuesday in
Harvey at the Cox home.
John NOssman, of Harvey, was in
town short time on Wednesday.
He has just returned from Dakota
looking after a farm he bought there
some time ago near the Black Hills,
Miss Annie Top, of OskalOOsa. Wis.
tied the parental J. J. Top home Wed
Inesday.
Mrs. A. Brown. the teacher at Burr
Oak, reports an enrolment of thirty
pupils.
|. w. Cook of OskaIoOsa, was in
town Tuesday advertising the world s
fair" to be held in OskalOOsa on DC
tOber 6, 7, s, and g.
Freight business on this end of the
Rock Island never was as good as il
is at this time.
AL DeCook didn't do a thing but
scoop the platter on horses at the
Pella fair. He won first prize on
mare and sucking colt, also on mare
colt on draft breeds. He won first
prize on horse colt draft horses, sec
ond prize on mare colt on grade draft
horses. He won first prize on pair
of matched gelding colts; first prize
on pair of carriage geldings; first
prize on Holstein bull, also first prize
on best selection of fruit. He says
he took sample of everything he
had on the place, and to cap the eli
max won second prize on the plug
horse race. When he came to town
on Friday he was smiles all over.
Miss Cora Matthews, of Knoxville,
opened school at the Rock Island
school house west of town this week.
R. w.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
DESIRE FOR LAND,

The war has not only raised food
prices over night, but there has been
created an exceptional desire for
homestead land in the west The
farmer again has absolutely demon
strated his independence and while
there is an apparent unrest in other
professions, which is to be sure I'M
warranted. the farmer above all has
before him a season of unbounded
prosperity. Whether or not the sud
den rise in foodstuffs is arbitrary or
Is the natural result OF economic con-
ditions, the fact remains that people
realize more than ever the tiller OF
the soil is assured of an abundant
living in any crisis.
1T seems as though we are unable
to make enough farms" said Albert
V. Leonard. settlement agent of the
Reclamation Service in Chicago.
we are hurrying the work as rapid
ly as possible and | believe the con.
tlnuance of war in Europe with the
consequent prosperity of the farmer
in America will create a large de-
mand for good homestead land. We
have available at this time upwards
of 200 desirable farms in the Sho-
shone project near Yellowstone Park.
and on September Is the government
will dispose of 10000 acres by a
drawing of choice land in the Truckee
Carson project, Nevada.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
ELM GRoVE-MApIsoN

Lots of rain and everybody thank.
full Pastures and wells were greatly
benefited
Jerry and Earl Stout and family
returned Tuesday from the State
Fair and report a fine time.
Leland Stigers and Edna Awtry
were married Wednesday in Oska.
loosa. All join in wishing for them a
long and prosperous life.
Mrs. Sarah McCissick doesn't i'm.
prove. Her limb is getting worse all
the time.
Frank Stout and Slas Awtry at.
tended the Pella fair Thursday.
Mr.. Wort Compton's daughter,
Grace, is visiting them.
Mrs. c. w. Dewitt and children
visited Sunday with her daughter and
family, Mrs. Beulah Stout.
John McCissick sold one of his
driving horses.
We're glad to say Mrs. Matte Stout
is gaining as fast as she could and
is able to be about most of the time
Harlie Carter and wife went to Os
kaloosa Wednesday.
Sept IL. Dew Drop.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

.ly through various wars in the 18th
and 18th centuries. In 1907 1t was
captured by the French, and Napo
leon declared ii free town. 1t was
given back to Prussia in 1914.
THORN-A fortress town of West
Prussia. on the Vistula, IL miles from
the Russian frontier. Its position
commanding the passage of the Vistu
la makes 1t a point of strategic i'm
portance; it was strongly fortified in
1878, and in 1878 was converted into
a fortress of the first class. The de
fensive works consist of a circle of
10 outlying forts. about two and a
half miles from the center of town.
Its population is close to $4,000.
Thorn carries on an active trade in
grain, timber. wine, groceries and
minerals. 1t is famous for its Pfeher'
kuchen, a kind of gingerbread.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
A PRAYER EoR PEACE.

BY Bishop David H. Greer, of the
Episcopal diocese of New York: o
God, who hast made of one blood all
nations of men to dwell on all the
face of the earth, and who in thy holy
word hast taught us that one is our
father, even God. and that all we are
brethren: We pray thee nthis dark
hour of international strife that thou
wilt open the eyes of the people, and
those who in thy name are entrusted
with tle authority of goveranCe, to
see and understand their right and
true relation to thee, and through
thee to one another. Teach them by
thy spirit that hatred and violence
are not strength, but weakness; that
the true safeguarding of a nation is
not to be found in weapons Of war,
but in those eternal principles which
make for righteousness and truth and
brotherhood and peace. Give to
those who shall suffer in the war
which is raging now the consultations
Of thy grace Heal the sick; comfort
the wounded; minister to the dying,
and bind up the broken heart. Bring,
We pray thee. to a speedy end this
international strife, and hasten the
time when peace shall flourish out Of
the earth, and all shall dwell together
in unity and love. and war shall be
no more. We ask 1t in the name of
our Savior Jesus Christ Amen.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

--Fairport may lay claim to being
the home of perhaps the most unique
industry in America, one which is
even unique in the realm of science,
being almost without precedent. This
industry is that of the artificial grow.
ing of fresh waer pearls. DR.. w. r.
Herrick, a New York City scientist,
is conducting this unusual enter
prise and at the bottom of the Mis-
sissippi river beween MusCatine and
Fairport, securely held in position by
crates, are hundreds of mussel shells
which have been treated in the hope
of bringing about an artificial growth
of the pearl.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
WRIGHT.

Sadie Mason has been sewing fol
Mrs. Clarence Perkins the past week
J. A. Baitsell is putting in new
fence around his home in Wright.
Henry Moore threshed clover last
Friday. E
John Lister and family have NOV
ed to Oskaloosa.
Hazel Bond entertained the Eight
Weeks Club" recently Refreshments
we're served and a pleasant time en-
joyed. The last meeting for the sum
mer will be held Sept. ~ at the home
OF Miss Fern Clark,
w. !. Rice and wife, N. w. Gray
and Grace Gray attended Mr.. and
Mrs. Clark Anderson's thirty-fifth
wedding anniversary on Friday
Sept 4.
Mrs. Haines entertained twenty
I've ladies' last Saturday afternoon al
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
KEEP COOP MEN IN OFFICE.

Headquarters on political parties
and of candidates for state office are
reporting that in line with the spirit
of the new nonpartisan judiciary law
the general sentiment of Iowa voters
seems to be in favor of re, eleCting
Judges Weaver, WitherOw and Ladd,
the present members of the Iowa SUI
preme court regardless of their poll
tics.
Candidates for other offices say that
voters as rule favor the election of
judges VINO have had experience on
the supreme bench. The voters fig
ure that men who have rendered &C
ceptable service in the supreme court
are better qualified to serve the pO-
pie in that capacity than are men who
are wholly untried. Also, the voters
realize that they know how the pres
ent members of the court stand on
important questions.
Democrats of the state are re,
.senting the charge that democrats in
tend to vote only for a democrat for
the supreme court and the same re
sentiment is felt by republicans in
face of the charge that they are not
looking upon the new nOnpartisan
law in the true nonpartisan spirit
Party leaders are of the opinion
that the people of the state are going
to vote for the principles and ability
of the supreme court candidates and
not for their party affiliations. PEG
pie always have been inclined to con-
tinue judges on the bench who have
proved worthy of their confidence
and they are not going to make an
exception of the present judges, With,
crow. Weaver and Ladd. Many are
supporting these men on theory that
it is better to have them as judges
than others whom we know not of.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
KEOTA.

Keota, Sept. 14.-Mrs. p. H. Tall
man. an aged resident of rs township
in Washington county, was stricken
with paralysis shortly before noon
on Saturday and died at midnight
Saturday. She and her grand daugh
ter, Gertrude Hagist, were in Keota
Saturday morning, returning to their
home about IL o'clock. Mrs. Tall
man felt the stroke coming on as
they reached home. She was assist
ed into the house and named the ply
Stefan she wished to have called, but
before he could arrive paralysis had
done its work. Mrs. Tsiiman was
so years of age and had been unus,
ually active for one OF such advanced
years. She is survived by six daugh.
tiers and one son. The daughters are
Mrs. M. f. Mickey. Junction City,
Kansas; Mrs. Singleton. Texas: Mrs.
Byron Wilson and Mrs. Tom OLA
herty, of Wellman! Mrs. Lena Houk,
of Washington. Ia, and Mrs. Henry
Hagist, of "76" township The son
Is Stanley Tallman, who resided with
his mother. Arrangements for the
funeral are not completed, but the
service will probably be held on
Thursday. Mrs. Mickey Is expected
TO arrive today. Word had not been
received from Mrs Singleton.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
EACH CORPSE COSTS $4,000.

Some cold blooded statician has
asked himself, What does 1t cost to
kill a man in warp and answering
his own question, he says: Probably
$25, 900 in the present conflict" His
deductions for arriving at the result
are interesting, and are as follows:
The cost of killing one soldier is Oh
tanned by dividing the cost of a wal
to any of the beligerants by the num-
Der of men killed on the other side.
In the Franco-Prussian war of 1870
to 1871, the cost of killing each man
was $21 900. But the cost of every ma
terial of warfare has advanced sub
stantially since then. It is safe to es-
innate - unless the terrific destruc-
tionof machine guns upsets precedent
that to bring about soldiers death
will cause an expenditure of $4,000
on the other side.
France spent $400,O00,O00 in actual
expenses of that war and 100000, 900
in repairing materials. giving help
to fatherless families, and other us
es The German dead numbered %,
coo. For every one of them France
spent approximately 1000.
The figures of the Russo Turkish
war of 1S77-1S7S give an average OF
$4,000 for every one killed.
1t cost Russia $1,2OO,OOO to kill IS,
900 Japanese in the war of 1905, max
ing the cost of the individual Staying
$2C.4OC.
Fatigue. typhus, or cholera will. of
course kill the greatest number and
reduce the effective force of the ar
mics. In the Crimean war four times
as many died through disease as were
killed in battle. Advanced hygiene
will undoubtedly do much to cut
down these figures, but death by di
sease in war times surely cannot be
entirely Obliterated
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
IN 1HE WAKE OF The WAR.

ABBEVILLE-A town of northern
France, on the Somme river, IL miles
from its mouth in the English chan
mel, and % miles northwest of Amiens
by rail. II Is built partly on an is
land and partly on both sides of the
river. Its industries include hemp
spinning, the manufacture of cloth,
sugar making. ship. building and lock
smithing. The French and English
were its masters by turn in the 14th
and early 18th centuries. In l477 II
was annexed permanently by France,
Its population Is about 10000.
CHALONS-SUR-MARNE-A town
of northeastern France, 107 miles
east of Paris, on the main line OF the
Eastern Railway to Nancy. The pop.
ulation is approximately $4,000. Huge
military barracks lie to the north and
east. The principal industry Is brew
ing, and galleries of immense length,
hewn In a limestone hill, and served
by lines of railway, are used as store
houses for beer. Tie plains near
Chalons were the scene of the defeat
of Atilla, the Hun, In the 9Th century.
The Army OF Chalons." formed by
Marshal Mcmahon, In the camp at
this place, after the first reverses OF
the French In 1870 surrendered at
Sedan. The military camp is still
used as a trading center for troops.
vITRY-LE- FRANCOIS town in
northeastern France, on the Marine,
30 miles southeast OF Chalons, and
100 miles by rail east OF Paris. The
present town was built In l545 by
Francis !, to replace the older town
burned in the previous year by Char.
les v. IL manufactures cement and
decorated wares, and has q population
Of about 5000
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
JEFFERSON

Union school started Monday with
Miss Jessie Hoff as teacher
Mr.. Kruidenier is having a house
built on his farm.
Pearl Sparks is building a cottage
on the Mrs. Cunningham place now
occupied by Joe Hyett.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Lockwood have
been visiting In Detroit, Mich.
Hubert Evans, John Eveland and
Miss Mary Evelsnd have started to
school In Penn Academy.
Opposition school will start Sept
IA, with Miss Fern Stanley as tea.
cher.
We had a fine rain over this way
this week. Des Moines river is ris-
Inc
Sept. ~ Snap Dragon
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
SOME DAY.


Bill Swiggum always liked to take
A drink or two each day;
It helped to keep aim wide awake
And drove the blues away.
He said 1t cleared his intellect
OF sorrow, gloom and doubt;
Although he always did expect
To some day cut it out.
IT'S true indeed that mountain dew
VIII grow to taste like more;
And Bill soon let his drink or two
Increase to three or four.
And when a cloud of any sort,
Disturbed his mental sky,
He drowned his troubles in quart
OF good old soothing rye.
Bits wife would always try TO smile
When Bill came home to snooZe;
With breath that reeked of cocktail
vile,
And varied other booze
And tho her life was being wrecked
With sorrow, gloom and doubt,
She thought Bill really did expect
To some day cut it out.
While twenty ducats, so to speak.
Is quite sum at that;
Bill thought his pay check every week
Was nothing very fat
For when ne paid the grocer's bill
The butcher and the rent.
And fed the barkeep's yawning TILL
II left him not cent
Were Indispensable;
Were indispesible;
Some egotist he always was,
When keyed up good and full,
And when he braced the boss one day
To boost his wage bit;
He heard that vulgar person say:
[ guess you better quit"
Bill. spent the tenspot that he drew
For high balls, rum and ale,
And soundly picked thro' and tho
They lugged him on to jail.
To languish dumbly and reflect
In sorrow. gloom and doubt,
Altho' he really. did expect,
To some day cut 1t out.
And when at last they let him go,
A jan bird in disgrace,
Bill found his little bungalow
Was not the same old place.
For this had been tAe final straw
lHAL pfOAb lhe Gamer OaSh,
And drove his wife back home to Ma,
Way down In Hackensack.
Biifs troubled heart was crushed for
fair,
And early yester-morn
He fought his last great battle there
With Old John Barley Corn.
And people said, who rubberneCked
Along the funeral route,
Poor Bin. he really did expect
To some day cut it out.
Nal Rose.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
Wolfram is not the name of

Wolfram is not the name OF a
wild beast, even If the word is appar.
emily a combination of the names Of
two well known members of animal
society. Neither wolf nor ram, taken
separately has anything to do with It.
There may be great many people
who know and again great many
more, who do, not not know that
wolframfis, q mineral, and that tung-
stem Is the metallic chemical element
found therein, fact which gives II
an importance II might otherwise not
have
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
The recent Methodist Conference

-The recent MethOdlst Conference
held at Fort Madison deserves a med
al from the Oskaloosa Commercial
Club for it's heroic efforts in boosting
the population of Oskaloosa. Rev.
Geo. l.. Minear, the new District
Superintendent who will make his
home here. has seven children. and
Rev. W II. Purdew. who will sue
coed Rev. McClelland as pastor OF
Central NJ Z. church. has six child.
rem. Seventeen new residents in one
day is worthy recognition.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
-It Is related that a Della yo

1t is related that a Delta young
lady took the receiver down and dis,
covered that the telephone was In
use. Il just put on pan OF beans
for dinner" she heard one woman
complacently informing the other
She hung up the receiver and waited.
Three times she waited, and then, ex'
asperated. she broke into the CONVEX.
sation. Madam. smell your beans
burning. she announced crisply. A
horrihed scream greeted the remark,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

AT the international Sunday
school convention in Chicago there
we're twenty-five hundred people in
terested in the work present. 1t is
gratifying to the schools of the COun-
ty to know that MahaSka county
alone turned out more people on Raj.
ly Day, interested in the Sunday
school. than we're gathered together
at the National convention.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
The live stock exhibit at the Pan

The live stock exhibit at the Fan
ANA Pacific International Exposition
in San Francisco will last throughout
the period of the exposition, from
February 20 to December A.. 1915.
Competition in the department of live
stock will take place in October and
November of next year. In addition to
s175,000 which has been set aside for
cash premiums. other sums have been
appropriated by interested live stock
associations, bringing the total to
1921, 900.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

The Creston American EXPIRE es
the hope that the European war will
not prevent the theoretical farmer
who farms with his mouth from tell
ing the real farmers how ii put up
their seed corn.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

in a letter from w. H. Needham
in the Sigourney News appears this
sentence: will torfe nif teen rs
CMHH Z T." 1t is strange what AL
effect California climate will have ON
some people.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

Chicago Tribune: Exhaustion
may be the great pacifer. We see no
other one. And If exhaustion be the
compelling condition we may have
the. supreme irony of the worlds
greatest war fought for the least DOS
sIble result. with nothing to SHOW for
IL, but tombstoneS.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

VESOUL - A town of eastern
France, situated between the La
Motto and the River Dungeon, 80
miles from the Alsace border and 236
miles east of southeast of Paris by
rail. Its medieval walls of the 18th
and 18th centuries still exist on the
northern side. Distilling and the
manufacture of files and tapioca are
among tle industries. The town suf-
fered greatly during the wars of reli.
gion and the Thirty Years war.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

--Pella has municipal ownerEhip
and the Chronicle says: "Supt Rhyns
burger OF the city electric department
has resigned. The city cannot make
a worse mistake than by falling to
secure another competent man to fill
this position at once. Electric plants
cost too much TO be allowed to deter.
iorate from lack OF proper care.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

lin an Abba clothing store: My
husband is just getting over a spell
OF sickness, and | want to buy him a
shirt, said Mrs. Binks. Yes ma am,
replied the clerk. Would yvu want
something In a stir front and cuffs?
No, sir. said Mrs Binks. The doctor
says he must avoid anything with
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

--How's this for a good one? Fred
Houser, of Humboldt, Kansas, went
bathing the other day in Neosha river
and with his naked hands caught a
pound fish.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

The Cedar Falls Recort asserts
that anyone can have money If he
will apply himself to the task of earn
ing and saving il.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

The Bloomfield Democrat Is en-
tirely too inquisitive. 1t wants TO
know who Senator Cummins support
ed for president in 1912.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

Anyway, returning American tour
lists are not causing the New York
customs force much trouble in search
ing their baggage nowadays.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

C. NJ. Hoover leaves 100000 in
his will to beautify Dodge City, Kan,
his native town.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17

is he who makes war even a worse
hell than saot and shell can make it,"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-09-17
An army" said

= An army. said Napoleon,
moves on It's belly" says the Dubu-
que Telegraph Herald. But IL It's
belly be fun Of booze II moves 70 de-
feat, rapine and murder. The soldier
drunk IN foreign lands Is a soldier
free Of I'll restraint Of decency. II