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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19
DESTROY THE WEEDS.

Township clerks were required by
law to post their weed notices between
May / and May Is, in two conspicuous
places in each township. This is pro-
vided for in the new Iowa law passed
by the Thirty-fifth general assembly.
The act provides for the destruction OF
all noxious weeds upon farms, high
ways, city streets and other places at
such times of the year as will prevent
poisoning and maturing. Between
July Is and August Is, it is specifically
stated all such weeds must be cut.
There is fine of 500 for neglect of
duty by township trustees or clerk.
The following weeds are declared to be
noxious: Quack grass, Canada thistle.
cocklebur. wild mustard, sour or curled
dock, buckhorn or ribbed plantain.
smooth dock, wild parsnip, horse
nettle, velvet weed, or button weed,
shoefy, wild carrot, and Russian
thistle.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19
Evening Story
IN THE BACKGROUND.
BY Robert 3. Smith.

Copyright, 1918, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.
Il was over at last. The bridal
couple was whirring away from the
house in a motor, followed by the
usual bombardment of rice.
The bulk Of the guests being en-
gagged in this engrossing occupation,
no one but Prince Emerson saw
Emily Morse slip quietly through the
door leading to the cellar. She was
not aware he had seen her. She fan
cied her retreat was unnoticed.
Emerson waited until the tap-tap
of her little slippered feet had died
away on the stairs. Then, while the
other guests on the porch and the
lawn in front of the little cottage
we're laughing Alphabetically, he tip
toed cautiously to that cellar door.
It was still ajar. He held his ear
close to the crack, and through it he
caught certain. unmistakable sounds.
With a hasty glance about to assure
himself no one saw, he, too, slipped
through the door.
The sounds from below were clear
err now and even more unmistakable.
Very quietly he tiptoed down the
stairs, treading very carefully that no
soueaking board might give him away.
At the foot Of the stairs he stopped
short. Emily sat deiestedly on the
shopping block. her feet dangling in
a pile of newly-cut kindling.
Young Mr.. Emerson swallowed
very hard two or three times and
looked almost regretfully at the stairs
which had just brought him hither.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19
THE FINISH COUNTS.

The long run of victories which the
Burlington team of the Central asso-
citation is experiencing should not
brighten the other towns into thinking
that the race is over. Such is not the
case. There are apt to be many
changes in the league standing before
the championship is settled, il history
repeats itself. For instance, back in
the early nineties, in the days of the
IowaIllinois league, Dubuque, then a
member of the league, started off with
run of seventeen straight. victories.
1t looked like the bunting was assured
the upriver town. Then came the
change and the Dubuque team dropped
out of the lead. And they dropped
still further than that When the sea
son ended the team which had started
of with seventeen wins, was the eel
lar champion with an undisputed title.
We take this occasion to remind Bur-
lington that the winner is not neces-
sarily the contestant that is the first
to get away from the wire at the front
end OF the race but is the one that is
first to get back to the wire at the last
end of it,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19
old school family physician.

OLD scnOOl family physician.
He moved his family at various
times as business interests demanded,
living In Wapello or Davis county until
he retired from active life in 1894.
Seeking a milder climate he bought
home at Monrovia, Cal, where ne
lived until the death OF his wife FEB.
%, 1913. ",
The past year was spent with mis-,
daughter Mrs. Swinney at Bloomfield.
Iowa. where at 8 o'clock on the morn
ing of May 4, he laid aside the burden
OF his 81 years, the tired heart ceased
beating and he was at rest He is sur
! vived by three daughters and their
families, Mrs. W. n. Baker, Monrovfa.
Cal. Mrs. q. r. Swinney, Bloomfeld
Iowa, and Mrs. J. r. Leonard, Mon.
lrovia Cal. ss
Simple funeral services were con.
Quoted by Rev. Newsom at the homo
OF his daughter, Mrs Swinney Wed.
nesday, May and the body was buried
In the family lot at Agency where
Rev T. J. Meyers; a boyhood friend
conducted the exercises. The Eldon
Masonic lodge OF which DR.. LaForcce
was a charter member and it's first
presiding officer, was present to par
1 llSIpdlC III Ltlc UuTihI SSFVlCSS.
/ The earthly pilgrimage of Dir. ia
Force was long and useful one. He
I was a man of marked integrity OF in:
firing energy. both of mind and body.
He was indonitable In his persist
fence for the right
/ He was converted and joined me
Methodist Episcopal church when oGly3
1sixteen years old and lived a cOnse-
Icro Tor h,;c %tov, IT, u
i He had excellent business judgme 1
of a conservative type He early AZ
vested in Iowa lands which under l,is
competency. He took great delight
his lands into richly cultivated faftaA
! AS physician he was one of tNo
early graduates of the state univers.
lily, he had commendable career q
an army surgeon and was a SUCCESS
full and faithful family physician also
:, wise counselor and friend.
i Having In his professional and bust
ness career acquired a comprehensive
spent the last twenty years of. his life
lin southern California, uniting with
some cousins from Davis county by the
name of Monroe, in starting the town
|of Monrovia, which has since become
lone OF the popular suburbs Of Los
l Angeles. Two OF his three daughters
with their families also have lived
there for several years.
/ n DR.. LaForce had lived until next
! July he would have been SO years old
His last illness was marked chiefly by
a gradual weakening Of all the vital
powers His intellect was retained in
unusual vigor. The manner therefore,
1, of his death was as nearly natural as
could well be and thus speaks louder
Il! than words for the sobriety and temp.
erance of long energetic and honor
able life.-Contributed by his nephew,
w. B. LaForce.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19
Little Benny's Note Book
BY LEE PAPE

tentid and pervents them from fawl-
ling out with eetch othir. sed the bar.
Dir. how about littel.
Anvil rite, sed And he shook sum
red stun out OF bottil avn top Of my
he'd and startid to rub 1t In a. hard 40
he Good. fealing as II he was trying To
skalp me or sumthing. and aftir he got
throo he combed my hare and sed.
that'll be jest han dollar. tiS
q, she ony gave me 20 sents. i sed.
Wat, sed the barbir then wat did
you meen by telling me to give you .
SINCE and tonick.
You asked me, sed.
You poor Ash. sed the barbir. You
give me that 20 sents ind run hoam
and get the rest Of the han dollar and
bring 1t GROUND to ME inside OF TO
minits or III send a patrol Vaughn afttr
you.
WITCH went hoam and told ma. and
ma sed. Well, think he had HIS nerve.
with him, that's wat think, wat DUE
meer boy like you no about singes
and tonicks, he wont get anothir sent.
out OF me, can tell you that
And I haven't went past the barbtr
shop sints, thinking he mite see ms
and KUN running out and grab me.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19
) IN Mem OriQm !
Or. James w. Lar orce.

| Ef
DR.. James William LaForce, eldest
Nancy. Stodghill LaForce. was born at
Versailles, Ky..,Jply, %. 1926, and died
May A. 1914, at. the home Of his daugh-
ter Mrs. Richard Swinney of Bloom
field, Iowa.
Or. LaForce was of French Hugue;
not descent. His ancestors were &C.
tive in the Huguenot wars and held
positions of nigh command On &C
count Of the severe prosecutions which
drove many of the Huguenots from
France some OF the LaForces came to
America, settling in Virginia. then
later In Kentucky with the immigrants
that came with Daniel Boone. In the
war of 1912 VIM. B. LaForce, grand
father Of DR.. LaForce was captured by
the Indians and British. His slaves
set free and with other members Of the
family were taken to Canada. Return.
ing later, to Kentucky he reared a
large family.
The parents of DR.. j. w. LaForce
had family Of four sons and three
daughters who lived to maturity OF
which he was the oldest and the last
survivor, his youngest brother, DR.. D.
A. LaForce having preceded him about
two years ago.
In 1927 d. G. LaForce moved his
family to Scott county, Ind, and to
Iowa in 1912. In the opening of the
new purchase they settled on a farm
near Birmingham, Van Buren, county
In few years they moved to Liberty.
Vile In Jefferson county whence they
moved to Ashland, Wapello county
where Dr. LaForce's father kept
|"tavern' and owned general store.
! In early manhood DR.. LaForce mar
tried Margaret Ann Morgan. Their
two sons died in infancy. They were
| soon followed by their young mother
In 1852 DR.. LaForce made an over
LAND trip to California returning to
Iowa in 1853 by way Of Panama. He
J also made venture into the Colorado
gold fields but soon returned to Iowa
and entered the medical department Of
! the state university, graduating there
! from with the degree M. D. In 1856 al
Keoluk. Iowa.
Jane Black He established his home
J and began practice at the then pros
!, porous village of Old Ashland, later re
moving to Agency which was his home
! at the outbreak Of the rebellion.
/ He enlisted in the Seventh Iowa
/ calvary in 1852, as assistant surgeon
and was surgeon in charge at TT. Cot
/ tonwood. Neb. He was mustered out
liz 1864.
| The thirty years following unit
1884 were very busy ones. His tire
less energy found place for many anc
varied interests besides his arduou'
lduties as general medical practition
Ter. He was of the best type of the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19
GOING 10 CHURCH.

Northern New jersey is doing great
work in the Go-to-Church movement.
Thirty-seven churches from Ridge
field to Chester, in that state, collabor-
ated IN plan to get the laZyb0nes out
to worship on the Sabbath. Pastor
Cooper of the Cresskill Congregations
al church broke all records as the
result of his forceful o-to-Church
campaign. He prepared a sermon that
especially appealed to people in his
section, where he plays tennis on
summer days and where he is greatly
liked despite the fact that the mem
bers of the tennis club generally only
10 to church when somebody gets
married or somebody's new baby is
christened.
OF course Mr.. Cooper doesn't play
tennis Sunday But his congregation
is composed mostly of men who are
employed in the big cities during the
week and Sunday is their only day OF
recreation. They say they have just
got to play tennis then. The pastor
received help from an unexpected
source. Jack Young, a big Scotch
man, Is president of the tennis club
and director of the choral society. He
delivered nlmSel1 mus.
A. president Of the tennis club and
director Of the choral society call
on all members to be up and shaved
early next Sabbath. Those in the hab.
it Of shovelino coal, cutting wood
patching up hen houses or playing on
the Sabbath day should abandon these
efforts this time. Brother Cooper Is
too good a tennis player to lack sup.
port in any such movement as this.
The tennis club and the choral soci.
ETY. will be there in the front peWs and
with boiled shirts on next Sunday or
III resign.
There was great turnout. The
church was crowded
More Jack Yonngs are wanted. Do
your part in helping this great move
ment. f
Go to church yourself tomorrow.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19

Ma gave me 20 sents to get my hare
cut yestidday AFTERNOON. avn .akkount
OF needing it, and went GROUND to
the IbArbirs and he put the big thing
GROUND my neck for the hare to fall
avn, and startid to cut II, and aftir a
vile sed Wat do you do with awl the
hare you cut awf
We sell It for bald peepil to put IN
hare reseevirs, sed the barbir. And
he kepp avn cutting, saying evvry
littel vile. Keep still, will you, and af-
tir he got awl throo he sed. You awt
to have a SINCE, everybody needs a
SINCE wunts in vile, shood give
you SINCE.
Wat duz 1t do. l sed.
It keeps the ends frum sticking up
and catching cold. shood give you
wun, sed the barbir.
Anvil rite, sed And he gave me
wun, doing 1t by liteing wax thing
and moving 1t erround ovir my hare
and eyvry wunts in a vile I Good heer
sumthing bern, beeing hares, cess,
and aftir he got throo he sed, Now
how about littel tonick.
Wat due that do, I sed.
Il keeps the hares happy and con-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19
DRUNKENNESS AS AN EXCUSE.

I'D in Rock Island where they voted
to retain the saloons and continue I'M
der the sway of the liquor interests.
conditions have come to exist that
make it almost impossible to convict
any man of crime The state of af-
fairs is such that circuit Judge re-
Gently administered severe rebuke to
jury which brought in verdict OF
acquittal after the state had produced
evidence that in the judges estima-
ton was sufficient to convict. The de-
PENDANT in the case was accused Oh
stealing valuable set of furs from
department store. He failed to get out
of the building with them for they
were found on the floor after cry OF
theft had been raised and hurried
exit became advisable. At the trial
the fellows attorney made the plea
that his client had been drinking and
that therefore he was not responsible
for what he had done: in fact had at.
tempted to steal the furs but without
being conscious of the fact.
It took the jury two hours to reach
verdict Of acquittal which in other
words meant that a man who COM
mitted crime and then admitted he
had been drinking, was not responsible
in the eyes of the law. Such verdicts
as that are the greatest possible incen.
tive to crime, and to drunkenness as
well. All one has to do is take few
drinks commit crime and then plead
drunkenness.
A court would be justified In setting
aside the verdict of jury which
brought in finding like that.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19
GOOD ROADS DAY.

Governor Clarke has officially named
June is as Good Roads day. This Is
also flag day. The combination Is a
good one. Patriotism and good roads
20 hand in hand. The jolly up spirit
that comes from everybody getting out
once in while and working together
in a common cause will help good
roads enthusiasm and foster patriot
ism. 1t Is not SO much the actual good
that will be accomplished by the one
days work though If properly direct
ed. surprising results can be accom-
plished; but the chief good will come
from, having the. whole state of Iowa
center it's one thought chiefly for the
entire day upon the one thing-goOd
roads. In effect it will be like Sc
rtes of political rallies or conventions
called to work up enthusiasm for a
candidate or for political issue. The
intimate personal touch, shoulder to
shoulder, face to face, is the leaven
which makes the issue grow to some
thing big and overwhelming. Iowa
has made a splendid start in the good
roads business. Her plans for the
foundation work are the best of any
state in the union. She has some
mighty important steps still to take.
She needs all the enthusiasm good
roads workers and speakers cab
arouse. Every loyal citizen should
make every day a good roads day, but
June Is should be the banner Good
Roads day with everybody, young and
old, big and little, doing something or
saying something to help the cause
of good roads. a
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street between Mclean and Benton.

May 20.-The river rose about two
feet Saturday night and Sunday ana
began to fall this morning. It haAs
now fallen six or eight inches.
Coach No. 105 which has been in the
shops for repairs came out this morn
ing as bright as new daddy dollar
and was attached to train No. g..
A good many farmers were in to-
day and are delighted with the rain Of
Friday and Saturday. They say they
can pillow corn in couple OF days II
1t don't rain again.
May 21.--A blind woman Travelled
twelve miles to the city yesterday. ito
see the circus as she said Fact.
The mayor this morning assessor
two DRINKS SO zach and costs ard
they are pounding rock Big.nsJ i'm,
Young chronic drunk was sent to-
Jail 30 as to get the had whiskey out
OF him. He will get HIS sentence to-
morrow. ~
May 22.-Papers in the western part
OF the state have inaugurAted the
fashion OF printing proper names
without capital letters. n we should
print mans name that way We
should expect him to visit us with
blood in his eyes
Why can't Ottumwa ihavesan electric
motor street car line. It seems to,
MS that a line from the Mineral.
Springs to the fair grounds, and one
from the Ottumwa cemetery to the,
South Side, could be made to pay
after Court street grade is in rroper
i shape
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
- From The Courier Files ~

May 16.-As the season for fruit
apnroaches the sugar trust booms up
the price, and Eranulated sugar now
retails for ten cents a pound.
Good Strawberries are now selling
two boxes for q quarter, but the bot
tom OF the box is disposed to get too
far toward the top as usual.
The police have one drunk IN the
cooler and they are waiting for him to
sober up before they trot him up TO
the rack in the mayors once tomor-
row morning.
Mrs. Robert Lowrie had very
pleasant surprise last evening. Her
sister. Mrs. Miller Of California, came
in on visit to her very Unexpectedly,
but none the less welcome.
7 May IA. heavy hail storm oc-
Cured al Peru, III. Cedar Rapids and
Waterloo. Iowa, damaging fruit and
crops to a great extent. 1t was the
heaviest storm of the kind that ever
visited these sections.
Cedar Rapids offers to donate It's
public square to the 0. r. c. II they
will erect their proposed $2OO,OOO
building on it. What's the matter that
Ottumwa can't offer its park for the
same purpose and scoop in that fine
building?
May 1s.-The dipnetters are SCOOP.
ing in good many Quillbacks and
sinners in the neighborhood Of the
Milwaukee bridge over tho water
power tail
Lawrence Guggerty will next week
commence the erection of a nice six
room tenement house on West Main
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19
THE FIGHT ON SMALLPOX.


yesterday the worlds first vaccination
by physician was performed. On
that day Dr. Edward Jenner, an Eng.
lish doctor, who had devoted thirty
years to studying the subject. drew
lymph from the hand of Sarah Newles,
q milkmaid who had contracted COW
pox while milking cows. He applied it
to the arm of an eight-year-old boy,
named James Phillips. 1t was the be,
ginning of the conquest Of smallpox.
At that time smallpox was causing one
tenth of all the deaths of the human
race. 1t had destroyed or disf1gured
more than a fourth of mankind. 1t
killed more than 50,O00,000 Europeans
during the eighteenth century. The alb
sence of pock-marks in those days was
q means Of Identification. The Lon
don police department issued the fol
lowing description of criminal sought
in the seventeenth century: Thomas
Bayly, a short, burly man, fair and
fIesh-colored, without peck marks
Before the discovery of vaccination
smallpox was as prevalent as bron-
chitis is today. A half century before
Jenner gave his discovery to the world
the dread disease wiped out seventy
per cent of Greenland's population in
. single year The Spanish explorers
carried it to the New World, and three
years after Cortez had landed in Mexi.
co over $500 ,O007 natives had fallen
victims to the scourge. More North
American Indians fell before its in
vasion than fell before the white mans
gun. Their number is estimated as
high as 100000.
Today vaccination has made small
pox negligible factor in the list OF
human Ills. 1t has practically driven 1t
out of existence as a scourge of ma.
lions. Backed by the authority of law
in many countries, medical science has
inoculated the civilized races and
made a pock-marked face a rarity to-
day Before Jenner discovered vaccin.
alton England reported smallpox cases
ct the rate. Of 1000 to every million tn
habitants. Today the vaccine point
has reduced the rate to twenty to each
million. Universal vaccination Is COM
pulsory in Germany and the rate has
fallen to less than two to million. 1t
IL rated At one case In million people
in Sweden today. Knowing that the
dread disease has killed more people
than have bullets and famine com.
bined, most of the worlds govern
ments compel It's people to be vaccin.
ated. All United States soldiers and
sailors pass through the experience
All immi grants landing on our shores
must be inoculated.a Many states have
laws that order its school children to
be vaccinated. Persons who have not
undergone the operation in Norway
are denied the privileges of voting at
any election. Both bride and groom IN
Norway and Sweden must certify that
they have been inoculated before the
minister will join them in wedlock
Every child born in Germany must
be vaccinated in its first year of life.
and again twelve years later.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19

Centerville, Iowa, thinks there is
something in name after all and is
accordingly talking up project for
changing the name so as to eliminate
the VILE part at least of the towns
cognomen. The people Of the com.
munity think that 1t is no longer in the
willie" class and they see no reason
why they should continue to mislead
outsiders with the name of their town.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-19

fee who has not identified himself
with the movement, admits that ev.
cry republican farmer In Cherokee
county in the northern part of the
state, has lined up with the move for
lower taxes and efficiency in govern
ment 49, !.