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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-27
III. ID. BUTCHER
]. L. J., BAILEY
FRED r. BAILEY
e. a. CHITTUM
DIR. C. DENHAM
Washington, D. c., Nov. 10th, 1914.
BANK OFWASHING TON

This to certify that have visited and inspected
Company known as Longfellow Terrace located in
the North West section Of the City of Washington
and found it surrounded by substantial homes and
convenient to car lines. consider the North West
section the best and most rapidly growing section of
the city and believe any one purchasing propertyn
this section will make a good investment.
Yours truly,
THOMAS. C. WHITE,
Clarksburg, w Va.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-27
Vine Lots in Weston to the Following Prominent Ctizen
Very trulyyours,
WILLIAM SELBY, Cashier.

r. III. HALL
CLINE HOOD
w. G.. LESTER
DIR. FRANK MCKINLEY
DIR. GEORGE SNYDER
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-27

]. J. TURNER
MISS LOIS TURNER
SENATOR GEO. E. WHITE
JUDGE LIJKEWIIITE
DIR. A. ]. WOOFTER
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-27
MISS MADGE TURNER
DIR. ORTIZ TALBOT
CLARK WHITE
COL. A. p. WHITE
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
Charleston

TO Whom it May Concerns
Ihave been on the property in Washington, d. G.,
owned by the National Realty Company and was
especially pleased with the location In fact was So
the city indicates that within short time this prop
erty will be in great demand
Ihave no hesitancy in recommending this invest
ment GEO. ii WT1TTF,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
EPIDEMIC OF ACCIDENTS.
Many Persons Suffer Injuries Near
WaukOn During Week.

Waukon, Ia, Nov. 2.-In a spec
tacular runaway accident here Mich
ael Keefe received a broken leg and
other painful bruises. The horses
became frightened and got beyond
Keefe's control, throwing him out.
At Frankville, Ralph Topel was
kicked by a COW, receiving a fracture
of his right thigh bone. Near Bee,
farmer named Smerud suffered a
broken leg while returning home
with his threshing rig. Francis
Wendt fell off a horse near Lansing
and dislocated his right arm. At
Columbus, Gus Lippe lost his first
joint of one of his fingers. His glove
was caught in gasoline engine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
Bee Stings Kill Horse.

Boone, Nov. 2.-While huskine
corn one day recently the team OF
John Olson, who resides about
twelve miles northeast of Boone, be-
came frightened and ran away.
They plunged into the farm yard up
setting about twenty hives of bees.
The bees of course attacked the hor-
ses and Mr.. Olson, singing them Sc
verely. One of the horses was
stung so badly that it died the next
day, but Mr.. Olson and the other
horse, although in a serious condi-
ton, will recover in due time. The
runaway was unusually serious and
for time looked as though it would
result fatally for Mr.. Olson.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
A Furious Runaway.

Michael Keefe, employed on the
John c. Opfer farm with Ed Haas
north of town met with serious &C
cident Monday evening. Mike hauled
a monument to the Mount Olivet
cemetery in the afternoon for Ed
Roggensack and was on his way
home. Going down the hill north
of the fair grounds, the road having
been washed out by the recent rains,
is very rough which caused some
plank on the wagon to slide forward
and struck the horses, frightening
them. Mr.. Keefe was thrown off the
wagon and besides a broken leg he
was severely bruised about the face
Mr.. Keefe has been at work for Mr.
Haas for the past six weeks, coming
here from Chicago. He is unmar-
ried and about 3S years of age. The
team followed the road to the foot
of the hill and jumped into the
creek, followed by the wagon and
planks, all going through the bari
wire fence. One of the horses was
severely cut by the wire. Mr.. Keefe
is in the Home hospital Waukor
Republican.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
IOWA "APPLE KING"
F. p. Spencer of Randolph Gathers
Ten Thousand Bushels of Fruit.

Shenandoah, Ia, Nov. 2.-F. p
Spencer of Randolph has harvested
10000 bushels of apples from his
orchard this fall. Of these 5000
bushels were Grimes Golden, 1000
bushels Winsaps and the remainder
various varieties. Mr.. Spencer has
besides the forty acre orchard at his
home, leased orchard and has also
recently set out a new orchard OF
forty acres which will not bear for
several more years.
The extensive yield has won for
Mr.. Spencer the title of Apple King
of this section of the state. He is
probably the grower of more Grimes
Golden than any other fruit man in
the state Of Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
A Dragging Suggestion.

There has been suggested to the
Bulletin-Journal an interesting ques-
ton in connection with the use Of
the King drag in road improvement.
The law provides that the party do
ing the dragging in his territory be
paid by the mile. AS a result Of
this, we are told, the stretch of road
bver which the drag is worked is all
treated alike. A poor piece Of road
way gets the same attention as the
good piece, the latter of which may
not need any dragging at all, but 1t
happens to be in the stretch given
man drags and as such receives at
tention as the drag is operated over
il In covering the stretch. The poor
piece may need twice as much at
tention as some other part OF the
road. 1t is suggested that the law
be changed in this respect or that
the road drags be equipped with In
struments for measuring the dis
lance travelled 80 that the draggeI
may get recompensed for the mile
age covered even IL he devoted much
time and dragging to poor stretch
of roadway and not SO much to those
sections which do not need work
ing SO NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Bulle
tin Journal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
AGED ODD FELLOW DIES.
Cerro GOrdO County Pioneer Passes
Away at l. o. o. f. Home.

Mason City, Nov. 2.-Another vet
eran of the civil war answered roll
call on the other side of the dark
river on Tuesday night, when John
w. Phillips, a pioneer resident of
Cerro Gordo county was called by
the dark messenger who summoned
him to muster of the grand army's
great majority. Mr.. Phillips, who
has been a resident of Cerro Gordo
county since 1869, and who opened
the second hotel in Clear Lake, died
about 1920 Tuesday evening at the
Odd Fellows Home for the Aged,
southwest of the city, of which he
had been an inmate, though by no
means a dependent, making his
home there because he loved the Us
sociations there.
He was one of the Oldest Odd Eel
lows in the state, and was the old
est inmate of the home, having
reached the ripe old age of SO years
on Aug. IA, last.
The funeral services were held
this afternoon at $3.50, at Clear
Lake, under the auspices of the Odd
Fellows lodges of Mason City and
Clear Lake, which attended as bod
les.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
Will Move to Iowa.

The Mutual Benefit association of
New Jersey, one of the best known
life insurance companies in the Unit
ed States, is arranging to make its
headquarters in Cedar Rapids. Of
fees have been rented in the new
American Trust & Savings bank and
the company's offices and clerical and
executive force will move here from
Des Moines about the middle of De-
cember. The company claims to
have about $1,OOO,OOO worth of bus
mess in force in Linn county alone.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
INvENTs UNIQUE MACHINE.
Iowan Has Change Making Cash
Register.

Forest City, Ia, Nov. 2.-N. l.
Baker is another man who bids fail
to make Iowa more famous in the
world of invention He will soon
have completed a novel cash regis.
ter. He has invented a combined
change making and adding and cash
register machine, which insures that
the merchant is absolutely safe from
dispute and change making of all
kinds.
When the money is rendered to a
clerk by a customer, the clerk must
put it in the machine first before he
can get any change. Second, as the
exact change for the purchase is
given him he must register that in
order to get receipt for the GUS
toner. Only one plunger has to be
touched to extract any amount of
change up to $40, there being only
twentyeight plungers on the ma
chine. After each operation of the
lplunger the machine is automatical-
| ly locked and cannot be worked
again until more change is put into
the machine. On any amount put
In only | cent less can be taken out;
all change coming through a tube
and the money IS not accessible. and
the correct change always slides
down the tube and into a cup.
This machine also records every
sale and records every amount of
change given out, and also records
the clerk for any given transaction.
Mr.. Baker has had his application
in for the patent, and he says this
machine will later be equipped with
an adding and subtracting feature at
the time of manufacturing. Mr.. Ba-
ker has had no help of any kind in
fitting out this machine, which he
has been studying for years, but on
ly started making the model this
summer.
One of the later improvements,
which will be on one of the larger
machines, will automatically haIdlc
paper money the same as coins. Mr..
Baker says these machines that he
will manufacture thoroughly pro-
tects the merchants and is much
cheaper than any other cash regis
ter on the market.
Many years ago Mr.. Baker bad an
inventive streak and made chain
less bicycle, the gears of which were
made out of wood, but he was eth
err discouraged or gave up the idea
and three years after that time three
men who are now millionaires. got
patent for the chainless bicycle.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
Teachers Institute.

An Institute will be held at
Marsh's Hall, DEBORAH, Thursday
and Friday of November 18th and
18th. Under the new law all teach
ers will be expected to attend, and
the school boards shall allow the
teachers their regular salary while
in attendance. A good program has
been planned, and we believe that
a teacher will receive help and in
spiration, and will be in position
to give better work to her school
because of such attendance. School
officers and patrons are invited to
attend any or all of the sessions.
43I2w III. E. MILLER,
County Supt
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
DiSfigured For Life.

Andrew Fryberger Jr., of Musca-
tine, aged 4 years, has been disfigur-
ed for life through an attack made
upon him by the pet dog of a neigh
Dor. AS the child was playing with
the animal it jumped upwards and
imbedded it's teeth in the boys face
almost tearing his nose off. His eye
lids were gashed and several bones
broken in his nose. A fight is now
being made to save the boys eye
sight.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
FIFTEEN TRAIN LOADS HORSES
Big Shipment of Cavalry Mounts
Bought by England EnrOute to
Canada.

More than a quarter of a million
dollars worth of horseflesh will pass
through Iowa during the latter part
of this week. Three thousand cav
airy horses purchased by the Eng
lish government are now en- route
from Fort Worth, Texas, to Montreal,
Quebec, and will be transported by
special trains over the Rock Island
road. The first train carrying 200
horses and made up of seven steel
horse cars, passed through Iowa
Thursday. Fifteen trains in all will
be operated.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04

William Johnston, one of the sue
cessful farmers of Van Buren, coun-
ty, residing in the extreme northwest
corner of Union township and against
the Jefferson county line, has twelve
hundred ears of seed corn hanging
in his barn, selected from the field
the past few weeks. He is making
sure of seed that will grow when
planted next spring.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
Our Best Seller,

We are selling more of Meritol Ec-
zema Remedy than all the others put
together. This large sale is due to
the fact that it is preparation of un-
usual merit, made expressly for one
purpose, eczema in its various forms.
If you are afflicted with this loath-
some disease, do not delay using Mer-
Exclusive Agency. Nov.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
Try This On Your Typewriter.

First be sure you can pronounce
all the words:
This celibate was a licentiate in
medicine, and held other scholastic
diplomas. His characteristics were
idiosyncrasics personified-on day
taciturn, the next garrulous. To-
day his facile pen evolves a sipient
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
The Suicide.
Farewell false world" he wildl

Farewell false world" he wildly
cries
And registers despair.
The frightened damsel vainly tries
To grab him by the hair.
Into the rushing tide he fiops
Despite the maiden's squeal.
The operator near stops
The progress of his reel.
"You did II like a pair of clans!
The chief yells from the shore.
Some action to it now, you hams
Go over it once more!''
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
Plan Municipal Tree.

Eagle Grove, Ia, Nov. Christ
mas exercises in the various churches
which have been planned will be can
celled to clear the way for a monster
municipal tree and celebration to be
held on Broadway Christmas eve.
The tree will be maintained on the
street all through the week, and APP
propriate services will be conducted.
If plans now being made are carried
out.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04

distich in piquant satire of some
literary genius; tomorrow an en-
comiastic effusion on an illiterate
voluptuary. His studies on concrete
science were exotic; his researches
in natural history, esoteric, if not
chimerical. Gregg Writer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
Women Suffer Terribly from Kidney
Trouble

Around on her feet all day-no
wonder woman has backache, head
ache, stiff swollen joints. WEAKNESS,
poor sleep and kidney trouble. Foley
Kidney Pills give quick relief for
these troubles. They strengthen the
kidneys-take away the aches. pain
and WEAKNESS. Make life worth liv-
ing again. Try Foley Kidney Pills
and see how much better you feel.
Engbertson Pharmacy. Nov.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04
The Week I'm History.

Monday, Advantageous farewell
to army, 1888.
Tuesday, 3-Texas Provincial gov
eminent organized, 1885.
Wednesday, flames Whitcomb Ri
ley born, 1852.
Thursday, 5-Wilson elected presi-
dent, 1912.
Friday, General Meade died,
1872.
Saturday, battle of Tippecanoe,
1911.
Sunday, S-Gramaphoae patented
1887.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-04

Save the letters at the bottom OF
Germans adv for valuable premi-
ums.
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-01
Cro BE coNT1NUEDJ
cron WAS LastIno wei

The discovery of carpenter, whose
father, grandfather and great-grand-
father practised the same craft has
been commented upon in several news
papers, and at Lamberhurst, in Kent,
there is a family who have been inn
keepers for four centuries. In coun-
tries where the caste system prevails
such a record would be thought utter.
ly Insignificant, says the London
Chronicle. Grant DUH notes in his
diary the answer made by a punkah-
puller in Madras to an English lady
who suggested that he might improve
his position. "Mem-sahib, my father
pulled a punkah. my grandfather
pulled punkah, all my ancestors for
four million ages pulled punkahs; and
before that the god who founded our
caste pulled a punkah for Vishnu."
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-01
CHAPTER *.
The FLIGHT to Corsica.


Qn which 1 ride the monoplane again,
with divers adventures by the way)
To fly from Paris to an island of
the coast of Corsica, there search for
an unwilling witness, and bring him
home with me within ten days, was
not an adventure that could be re-
garded lightly. 1t is small wonder,
then, that my sleep on that eventful
Friday night was a troubled one' In
the brief intervals Of Inconsistencies
that enjoyed l seemed to be perpet-
ually riding through the air, like a
witch on a broomstick, while behind
me thundered legions of the damned,
shrieking In the zest of the chase.
And one demon, with the head and
leering features Of Leopold Magniff,
headed me OF, forced me out of my
course, while below l saw Charles
writhing In bonds, crying to me ap-
pealingly-and always flelplessly.
When awoke for the last time toward
dawn 1t was to find Charles mother
standing beside me in her dressing
robe.
TT is time to prepare for your jour
ney, dear" she whispered.
dressed hastily and Joined her and
the old Comte below. None Of US had
much appetite for breakfast. It was
an eeRie sensation, sitting there in the
6rst rays Of the rising sun, in the per-
feet stiffness Of Normandy morning,
knowing that the lives Of Charles and
our grandfather and the future of our
historic house hung upon SO slender
and desperate chance as that which
was to undertake.
After breakfast we went out to the
hanger. The faithful old servant, as
sisted by the valet, had wheeled the
great monoplane out upon the dewy
lawn. Charles mother had prepared
a small package containing some food
In case Of emergency, and l had a
handbag with few Of the essentials
Of journey. These were slowed away
behind the seat. The tank was al
ready filed with gasoline and the mo-
tor, when tested, responded admirably
All was in readiness.
Ny grandfather and Charles mother
embraced me quietly; the undertak-
ing was too serious one for the dis
play of any surface emotion. / kissed
them, and entering the machine took
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swered suaveI!

to pieces here and have it conveyed
to the police station"
Excellent" answered the second
gendarme heartily. But" he added,
as l climbed into the seat, You will
not fly away, mademoiselle?
laughed. What an ideal" l ex-
claimed. But first l must fill up the
tank with gasoline; otherwise it would
be liable to explode. The conflict be-
tween centripetal and centrifugal
force, caused by the expansion of
gases, would annihilate the mechan-
ism and cause serious tangental par
ibolas,'' continued gravely.
The gendarme scratched his head.
Undoubtedly, mademoiselle," ne an
swered. There is a motor-car repair
shop across the square. Certainly
gasoline can be procured there"
A man in the crowd volunteered to
obtain it and disappeared, shortly re-
turning with companion, both bear
ing two huge tanks, with which my
own was speedily repleted. l took my
seat in the machine.
Nov, gentlemen" I said, pray
make room while l unscreW the sus-
tanning bar of the wings.
They cleared a space of several
yards around me. these good Avignon-
ese. / touched the lever and the mo-
tor hummed and throbbed. 1 pressed
the fight indicator. The wheels
turned, spun, lifted
A gasp of astonishment broke from
the crowd as 1 scared over them, and
they ducked and ran In all directions
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cHAPTER WII-contInued.

Tomorrow at dawn" said the prac
tical mother of Charles. What yor
would gain In time you would lose II
strength. You must conserve your en-
ergies. Now We viii have supper, anC
afterward we win discuss our plans
l had stopped to. purchase q maj
before returning, and after the meal
we opened 1t and pored over it. My
first course, on the morrow, we esti
mated, would pass through Troyes and
end at Dijon, where I should replenish
my gasoline tank and stay over night
Sunday would see me through Lyon
and along the Rhone to Avignon
Thence, on the Monday, l should
strike east over the Basses-Alpes and
the Alpes Maritimes to Monaco; and
on the Tuesday there would be the
perilous sea fight of two hundred odd
miles to Corsica, and along the coast
for fifty miles to Scouto. At best
could reach Scouto by Tuesday eve
ing; and this would leave me but a
single day Of four and twenty hours
In which to persuade Zeuxis to return
with me.
That night went out to the shed In
which the monoplane rested and looked
at her. For one moment, as l gazed,
a terrible fear overcame me. Next
moment something Of the brave spirit
of the machine entered into my heart
and inspired me with its own power.
There she floated, as it almost seemed,
so strong and yet so graceful, with her
enormous spread of wings outstretched
beneath the roof of the hangar.
took my seat, and at once the memory
of her control came back to me.
placed my hands upon the levers, and
to each slightest touch the mechanism
responded. l tested the motor; it
worked admirably. After I was sat
isfied 1 descended and bade the an
cient servant I'LL the tank with gaso-
Hne.j There was nothing to do now
until the morning.
A letter had come for me from Can
ada, having been forwarded from Lon
don glanced at the superscription
without enthusiasm and tore open the
envelope. 1t was from Mary Jenner,
and dated from Winnipeg three weeks
before. The weather had been sti-
fling, she wrote, but, thank heaven,
the school term was ended A party
of the teachers was going to Europe,
including herself and Mr.. Spratt,
whom she characterized as an "odious
little prosecutor" Mary intimated
that he had transferred his volatile
affections from myself to her, and that
she detested him. She hoped that 1
had met my knsmen and had gone to
visit them at the chateau, and hoped
to see me soon-perhaps sooner than
expected, were the words she used
But Mary Jenner, with whom i had
cooked SO many midnight suppers in
our tiny apartment, and sworn undy-
ing friendship, was the least of my
thoughts just now.
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-01

whole life contains little enjoyment
or pleasure. AS victims of Islam they
recognize that their fate is an unfor-
tunate and hard one. Many a Per
sian woman has complained grievously
to the European ladies. with whom
she has come into contact. While
her husband has the power of di-
yorcing her Immediately without Ques-
ton or appeal. no privilege of a CORE
spending nature Is given to the poor
woman: she lives always trembling
and often neglected slave Of her lord
and master. never knowing what Ill
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-01

nonathletic last longer as officers and
give better service In the long run.
The usual explanation has been that
athletic sports cause a strain for
which the organism is not built. The
nervous system is more or less ex.
hausted, particularly when training
is practised for long periods.
Perhaps, also, the exceedingly mus
cular are tempted, every now ana
then, to exert their fun strength for
short periods, and thus put the It's
sues to an unusual strain, although
never indulging IL athletic sports.
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-01

shore, were the sky-blue waters Of the
Mediterranean. Seeing it took cour-
age again. Let me but once get free,
as / had freed myself from greater
dangers, and nothing could stop me
till reached Corsica.
Yet the presentiment of evil re-
mained with me and sprang into new
life when, after hasty breakfast, con-
sisting of coffee and rolls, which was
brought to me by the wife of one Of
the men, l met the French officer,
looking glum and futtering a tele-
graphic dispatch in his hand.
"Mademoiselle DIVES" he began,
after. the most formal greeting, 'T re-
gret to say that I have received in
structions from the minister Of the in
terror to detain-"
l did not wait for him to conclude
his speech, but skipped lightly across
the Monaco boundary line. two meters
Middletown transcript., 1914-08-01

In no other way, for instance, can
we explain the utter collapse and
death of Petty Omcer Evans, the
strongest man In the ill-fated Scott ex-
pedition to the South pole He must
have had a weak spot which gave
way under strains which we're harm
less to the rest He may have been in
iured BY falls on the ice and he did
not have the great mentality neces-
sary to keep him alive and going in
spite Of adFersity.
t IS this unknown quality Of grit
or backbone, which enables men to