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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-05-28
Card of Thanks

We the undersigned desire to eX-
press our sincere thanks to our
friends and neighbors and especially
the members of the G. a. X. for their
many acts of kindness and words of
sympathy to us in our recent bereave-
ment and for the floral tributes in
memory of our departed husband and
father.
Mrs. Ellen NJ. Kicker
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Kicker
George Kicker
Cornville, May %, 1914.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-05-28
SUNDAY, MAY 24


News from Vera Cruz says: After
five days in hotel whore he was held
under guard against possible enemies
Dr. Aurelanio Urrutia, who was minis
ter of the interior in Huerta's cabinet
and who recently fled from the CAPT
tai to escape Huerta's wrath,
was quietly taken aboard the United
States transport Hancock which will
carry him to Galveston. Washington
correspondence states that another eX-
change Of kilograms between General
Carranza and Emilio Zuburan, minis
ter of the interior in the constitution
alist cabinet, left the question of rep
resentaton of the Carranzists at the
Niagara conference undetermined
I MONDAY, MAY p
No further important fighting be
tween Constituencies and Federals
was reported from the front. Consti-
nationalist headquarters confirmed
the report of the retirement of Gen.
Villa from Saltillo but explained
that it was due purely to military
considerations, Torreon being a bet
ter base for the advance southwark
than Saltillo. The retreating Federals
destroyed the railroad from SaltiIo as
they returned southwark and General
Villa has transferred his base of OPP
erations to Torreon, the principal
railroad center in northern Mexico,
whence he has railroad in opera
ton almost to San Luis Potosi the
next point of attack. Unofficial ad-
vices reaching Washington from Ma
CARA Falls was to the effect that the
South American medators were max
ing determined efforts to bring about
the establishment of a junta to gov
crn Mexico pending the holding of an
election. the junta to be made up Of
man chosen by Huerta, one chosen
by the Constitutionalists and a third
chosen by the mediators.-While rep
resentatives of the Constituencies
insisted that they would never consent
to such an arrangement the word from
Niagara Falls was that the mediatOrs
have not as yet lost hope of bringing
about this solution.
TTESnAV NAV 0e
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-05-28
WEDNESDAY, MAY II

Substantial agreement on many of
the main points involved in the medi-
alton conference has been reached by
the American and Mexican delegates.
John R. Silliman, the American vice
consul at Saltillo, whose arrest there
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-05-28
Plant Life In the Soil

plant food WI removed from the soil,
as the plants fell ~ the ground and
decayed @hare they grow. Tie plant
could be used again and at the same
time the organic matter content Of the
soil VAS kept up.
Man, however, must remove the
crop from the soil This means that
both plant food and organic matter
must be taken away Unless mea-
sures are taken to keep up the pro-
duetifeness Of the soil the yields Will
decrease, after continued cultivation,
because the available plant food of
the soil Will become exhausted and the
natural agencies in the soil vii not
make il available with sufficient rapi-
dity for profitable crop production.
Soil viii become productive AGAIN.
after being abandoned Tor a'Ie@ yeals.
that Nature may rcplenisA tn supply
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26

workshop. Before he had reached his
majority he had invented half a dozen
things the world wanted. Soon after
that came the downfall.
1t was discovered that the lawyer
who was managing the rich widows
business for her had embezzled a large
sum of money-so large that she was
no longer even moderately we'll off.
There must be great coming down
to make ends meet on the small sum
left. An estate all tangled up and not
to be settled up for years was placed
in the hands of law firm and Fred
Bingham went forth to make his way
almost barehanded.
At the big machine shops of Whit.
ney & Son, Boston, they had need Of
a handy man. and their advertisement
brought Fred Bingham as an appli-
cant He modestly stated his capa-
bilities in the mechanical line and
was taken on. He was pleased in q
way, and yet displeased. The elder
Mr.. Whitney liked his looks and mod
est demeanor and was friendly. The
son, James, about twenty-five years
old, had been taken in as partner and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26

Ne and Sid Hunt was standing avn
our payment this AFTERNOON, and took
hand full of marbils out of my pock1t
saying, bet you cant CESS how menys
in heer.
I bet can if, you give me a. look
ferst, sed Sid Hunt.
bet you cant I sed. And l opened
my hand to give him look and he yell
ed. Poppy lay, and hit my hand a
fearse krack underneath and the mar
bills went up in the air and awl ov1r
evveryware.
Hay, G WIZ, watts the mattir with
you, l sed.
l sed Poppy lay, dident I, wat moar
do you wunt, sed SID Hunt. Meaning
if persin ses Poppy lay ferst he Is
aloud to mock enything out of yure
hand if you haven't got sents enuff to
cloze yure hands befoar he duz 1t, ony
it is jenrelly considered derty trick
to mock marbils or enthing that's libel
to 20 awl ovir evvryware. And pick
ed them awl up exsept the wuns
coodent find, and Sid Hunt sed, Heer
kums Reddy Merry, hes got marbils,
wy don't you try it. avn him, ne cant
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26

caught the others nose between thumb
and fingsr, and after holding it for a
few seconds let go and walked out
That evening he called on the rich
Miss Gladys and she insisted that 1t
be visit She wanted to know many
things and she made the young man
talk and by and by she said:
Il am the second largest stockhold
er in the Barrett Iron Works and we
need you there
A month later, when the elder Whit.
ney returned and found his mechani
cal genius gone he threw up his hands
and exclaimed:
Gone to our strongest rival, and
that means loss of $4,000 year to
us!"
HE was getting in my way social.
ly," was the sullen reply.
why, you idiot, he'll marry that
Humphrey girl within a year, and
within two she'll buy out the rest OF
the stockholders and hand him the
business!"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26
ALBA.

In the district court Thursday OFT
Gray was sentenced to the inebriate
asylum at Knoxville but was released
with the understanding that the frst
time he became intoxicated he would
serve the sentence. The case of Stan
ley Nichols VS.. the Hooking Coal Co.
was begun.
Chester Momyre and family will
move Algona, Kossuth county, where
Mr.. Momyre has purchased set of
abstract books. He has been there for
some time but did not move his fam
lily until school was out.
Judge D. NJ. Anderson is remodeling
his business room on the north side
of the square, formerly occupied by
Mrs. Johnson's millinery store. The
room will be extended to the alley and
a new front put in. This store room
will be occupied by ladies' ready-to-
wear store, proprietors from Ottumwa.
| it is said.
The clerk of the district court issued
marriage license Thursday to 10 w.
Nicholl, %, and Miss Georgia Tress, IS,
both of Buxton.
M. A. McCord of Newton, candidate
for congress on the republican ticket.
was here this week looking after po-
litical interests.
Charles Claver Is i'll with yellow
jaundice.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. ]. Dybers of Bluff
Creek township, were visitors here
Thursday.
Ed Palmer, who lives near Frederic,
was business caller Thursday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26
Little Benny's Note Book
By LEE PAPE

say enything if you say Poppy lay
ferst
And jest then Reddy Merry CAIN UP
and wat did he have in both hands but
about 40 marbils, saying, Who wunts
to get in gain of potts.
Poppy lay, l hollired, and hit both
his hands undirneeth as hard as
Good and the marbils awl went up In
the air as if it was raneing marbles
witch wish 1t wood sumtime.
Poppy lay, hollired agen, In case
Reddy dident heer me say it the ferst
time and mite get mad.
Poppy nuthing, he sed,, you pick
evvry wun of those up agen and do II
kwick, do you heer.
sed Poppy lay, dident l, sed.
I don't care wat you sed, sed Reddy
Merry, you pick those marbils UP OF
I'll give you sumthing yure not look
ing for.
Aw, G WIZ, I sed. And picked up
awl Good find, beeing "a, and Reddy
Merry made me give him Is of mine
avn akkount OF. saying thare was 81
in his hands wen I Poppylayed him
Proving It may be fare to poppylay II
you yell it ferst, ony you bettir pick
out sumboddy you can lick to do It to-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26
Daddy Bedtime
The Fairie.
Play In
The Sand.
Beautiful Castles Can
d Built Of Sand.

ADDY knew that he could
fairy he thought tell Evelyn at
II going to tell this evening fairies latest
they had the other day said
"Goodyr cried Evelyn 1T
daddy commenced his story.
fairies
hadn't
marched
"
4
to fah4es
And the fairies. marching behind the crckeA
Here sand.
x = ss
And Of the cces
than
when
moments waiting"
when ate
to with the do
But the that
round the mulberry bush.
They played that
They fell down
They laughed
This enough to keep cheerful for the lives"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26

for the cause, and young woman with
a vexed look on her face was standing
by. AS Fred approached she smiled
and bowed. A sort of instinct told him
she was the one of the pew. With
flushed face, he lifted his cap and ad-
vanced and said:
Il beg your pardon but perhaps
can be of assistance?"
If you only could" she replied. 1T
has gone dead just when I wanted
speed the worst"
A minute later he turned to her with
/ ing these machines all the time, but
will run without gasoline There's
Miss Gladys Humphreys was an or
! counted one of the wealthiest girls In
Boston. A dozen gallants, including
young Whitney, were on her list Of
suitors, and gossip said that the latter
was the favored one so far. She and
Fred Bingham had not exchanged
names.
| "A week after the auto Incident, and
at an evening hour this TIME, Mr.. Bing.
ham was sauntering about the neigh
borhood smoking his cigar. The streets
were very quiet, but as he passed a
fine mansion, the front door of which
stood open, he heard woman scream.
In moment he was through the gate
and up the steps and in the hall he
found two tough-looking young men,
each having bundle under his arm,
fighting to free themselves from the
grasp Of a young woman.
Fred Bingham took hand in the
game at once, and it was bad for the
sneak thieves who had entered the
house during the dinner hour and had
been discovered just as they were max.
ing their exit.
1t was only when the fellows had
been turned over to the police that
Fired felt sure of the identity of the
damsel in distress. 1t was the rich
Miss Gladys. and that was the house
of her aunt. The affair had tried her
nerves, but not SO greatly that an in.
PRODUCTION was not made and Mr.. Bling.
ham effusively thanked for his services
and invited to call He waited two OF
4 three evenings before so doing, and
one of these evenings 9 call was made
by James Whitney. The matter of the
attempted robbery came up, and as
soon as he heard the name Of Fred
! Bingham he replied:
4 "Why, know him. He is one Of the
workmen at the shops
i But a gentleman as well and a
brave man. said the girl.
! Il didn't know he went about playing
the gentleman after working hours"
\ 1T seems to come perfectly natural
to him."
The next morning the elder Whit
ney left for the west on business, and
at noon the younger called Fred into
the office and fired him point-blank
Notwithstanding contract, and fur
Their said to him:
"A lot of cheek you've got to force
the acquaintance of such lady as
Miss Humphrey. Better drop that al
once if you don't want trouble with
me"
: Fred Bingham reached out and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26
WEST POINT.

Miss Viola Danbe of Fort Madison
is spending few days with relatives
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. c. elites and chill.
dren are visiting relatives in Fort
Madison.
Peter Gram, a former resident Of
West Point, died at his home in Cleve-
land, O., aged 63 years. He was born
in West Point February 1, 1851, on the
old Gram homestead and lived here
many years. He is survived by his
wife.
Mount Hamill will cross bats with
the local team here next Sunday. A
good game is expected.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hebuer of Keo-
kuK are the parents of daughter,
born May IS, 1914. Mrs. Hebuer was
formerly Miss Anna Snadt.
Mrs. Ben Vonderhaar and son, Ger
aid, and Miss Cecilia Vonderhaar
we're visitors to Burlington Tuesday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26

or organizations whatsoever, or to
take up any work along the line of
social service. At home | have had
some experience in this latter field.
Here in Washington I have been able
to give my time only to the immediate
duties that confronted me-the order
ing of my household, the care of my
children, the meeting of necessary SO.
cial engagements"
Mrs. Houston is fond of social life
Also, she possesses the requirements
for a successful social career. The
zest and enthusiasm with which she
has entered upon her life at the cap.
ital have already made her one of the
most popular of the democratic host
esses. She has naturalness and
graciousness of manner that are ex
ceedingly attractive.
Austin, Texas, is Mrs. Houston's
birthplace and girlhood home, as II
lis that of another cabinet members
wife, Mrs. Albert S. Burleson.
After having been graduated from
the university of Texas, Mrs. Houston
taught for a year in the public schools
of Austin Her husband was at one
time professor of economics, and later
dean, then president of the university
of Texas.
The Houstons' three children are
Franklin, boy of fourteen; Helen, g
little girl of three, and Lawrence. the
baby. All three are bouncing, frest
air specimens of modern methods II
baby culture. The biggest, sunnies,
room in the Houston house is devoted
to uses of nursery, and here Mrs
Houston finds time to spend many
happy hours.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26

8y SeIono Armstrong harmon. Y
Mrs. David Franklin Houston, wife
Of the secretary of agriculture, is the
busiest woman in the cabinet circle
Of the Wilson administration. ter
youngest baby is fifteen months old.
Her next youngest is three years old.
There now! Do you any longer
doubt that she is really the busiest
of the cabinet women? Moreover,
she has boy of fourteen-a boy with
q bright, eager, vivacious mind that
Is a delight to his comrade and best
friend, his mother.
Then, Mrs. Houston, like most of
the other ladies of the cabinet, en-
ploys no social secretary. She must
personally accept or decline hundreds
Of invitations; respond to the numer-
GUS appeals which every woman in
public life receives for help of one
sort or another, and reply to many let
ters from the various organizations
that solicit her cooperation and men,
bership. Add to these demands the
duties of the conscientious and fault
less housekeeper, the hundreds of
calls that must be received and re-
turned by her, and the various social
functions of an official character that
must be attended, and you get some
idea of just how busy woman she
may be.
Eyes, have many interests. think
the older one becomes the more ones
interests broaden she said to me,
looking remarkably young and girlish
as she made the remark. But since
coming to Washington it has been i'm.
possible to ally myself with any clubs
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26

given the Office department to man
age, because-because he was his faith
er's son. Even the father could fur.
nish no better excuse, unless it was
the hope of steadying the young man
down.
When two young men meet for the
first time it depends almost on the
first glance whether they are to ike
each other or not. 1t was not neces.
sary in this case that there should
be friendship between the office and
the shop. Fred Bingham would be
treated as an employee, and he would
cheerfully grant the respect due the
office but he found within two min
utes that there would be an antagon-
| ism with the son. There was tyranny
and domineering in young Whltney's
every look and attitude. The appll'
cant was a gentleman even II he hand
| led tools. He had solid education
He was an enthusiast in his work
He had way that commanded re-
spect, even thought it brought antagon
ism with it.
''That fellow needs trimming down
and it will be up to me to do it, whis'
pered young Whitney to himself as the
caller left the Office. !, ;,
| 81 see my finish here in month II
/! the son has his say about It," said
Young Bingham to himself, as ne
walked away to find a boarding place
| Fred Bingham found a temporary
home in a suburb within stones throw
of his employers grand mansion, and
when he gave in his address at the
office he was met with the sneerine
remark from young Whitney:
Il wonder that you didn't Duy
$40, 900 residence out there and ar
range to come down to the works II
your own auto!"
| No reply was made to this. 1t was
sufficient to start quarrel on, but
Of what use? Fred Bingham was
pleased to get a position in big shol
where he could fairly try himself ou
land meet the many problems tina
would arise. In fortnight the elder
Whitney was saying of him:
Fl declare, James, we've got rea
genius in Bingham"
ooh, don't know was the reply.
That's because you don't go thrlNgf
the shops. All the men are taking
about him. He has improved some o
the machines so that we get quartz
more work out of them. He'll save u
FIVE times his salary inside a year.
! The son replied with grunt OF dis
belief, and there the matter dropped
On the third Sunday of his stay Free
/ Bingham attended Sunday services a
4 q humble little church, and was usheret
into a pew in which young lady sa
i alone. There was congregational sing
ing, and as they rose she offered hin
the half of her hymn book and the!
sang together. If any one had asket
4 Fred as he walked homeward OF tn
Young lady who had been so courte
Gus, were handsome or homely, h
+, could not have told. He would hav'
admitted, however, that her voice hat
charmed him.
! On the following morning, as Free
left his boarding house to take the ca
10 his work he found an auto standing
lin the streets in helpless condition
THE chauffeur was under it searching
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26
ALBA.

An attendant from the Mt Pleasant
insane asylum came after John Greene
and took him to the asylum. The
sheriff and an attorney Of Kahoka, Mo.
were here yesterday and thanked the
Abba officials for the kind treatment
they thad shown Mr.. Greene. He owns
farm and has money in two different
banks at Kahoha, Mo.
/ County Treasurer A. c. Palmer was
called to Des Moines by the death Of
his father-in-law James Penick which
occurred Thursday night. Mrs Palmer
was there when he died. The remains
will be brought to Eddyville for inter-
ment.
Henri Gaddis and Mr.. Carr OF
Lovilia were in Abba yesterday.
Roy Gholson Of Ottumwa attended
the alumni banquet last evening. =
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26
Evening Story
RICH MISS GLADYS.
Copyright, 1912, by the Associated
Literary Press.)
BY Bryant c. Rogers.

IF his mother ever loses her money
he can make his way was often said
of Fred Bingham, the rich Widow Bling
hams son. And it was often added
that Fred was singular fellow.
His mother was rich and he was
singular. If she had her way about
It he would have been brought up as
most rich mems sons area good deal
OF pampering and dawdling- a
squeeze through some college, fash
ionable marriage and useless life.
He was started that way, but he re-
belled. What he learned at college
was sound; what he observed he re-
membered. Nature had given him a
bent toward mechanics, and early in
his career he had his tools and his
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26

cial car on Santa Fee train No. l. He
is en- route to Arizona and owing tC
the early hour of his arrival In For,
Madison no interview could be OBJ
tanned. c. W.. Kouns, general man
ager Of the Santa Fe, also had his pri
vate car attached to No. 1 at Chicago
en- route to Topeka
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26
SPEAKER>CLARK GOES
THROUGH IOWA

Fl. Madison, May "a. Speaker
Clark, better known as Champ Clark,
Ipassed through Fort Madison in spe-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-26

Mrs George Wilson and little son
Edgar of Des Moines, have returned
home after a visit with the formers
grandmother, Mrs. Josephine Haslach,
121 West Fourth street,
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