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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-17
|. n. G INSPECTION
MARCH Il Next
First Lieutenant Sidney D. Maize
Will be the One to Inspect
Company c.

Adjutant General Logan has an
nOunced the dates of inspection for
the different national guard COM
panies throughout the state. Each
company will be expected to have
it's full strength present and all
equipment and the armories will be
closely inspected. The regular army
officer who will inspect the Webster
City company will be First Lieuten-
ant Sidney d. Maize and the in
spection will be held March u.
Company commanders throughout
the state have already started call
ing special drills so as to get in
fine shape for the inspection and it
is hoped that company C will stand
as high in the inspectors report as
it has in years past. ... ..
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-17
A fine HERD OF
SHORT HORN CATTLE
Carl Sparboe of Scott Township Cap
lures Many Prizes at the
Short Course.

Carl Sparboe, one of the enter
prising and successful stockmen of
Scott township, brought fine herd
of Short Horn cattle to the short
course and took first premiums in
all classes. The herd consisted of a
two year old bull, yearling bull,
two COWS, two 2 year old heifers,
two yearlings and one calf. He
brought the animals to Webster City
by rail and returned home with
them Saturday. He has one of
the finest Short Horn herds of cat
tie in the state and Prof. Kennedy
of the Iowa State College, who judg-
ed the animal, declared that the two
year bull, which Mr.. Sparboe bred
and raised, was the finest animal in
it's class in Iowa. Mr.. Sparboe dis
played considerable enterprise in
bringing this herd from Scott town
ship, which is in the extreme south
eastern part of the county, the far
thest from Webster City of any
point in Hamilton county.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-17
Meetings Close at Cass Center.

A very successful two weeks
meeting closed last Thursday even
ing at Cass Center with thirteen ad-
ditions to the church, eleven by con-
fession of faith and two by letter.
The rite of baptism was administer
ed to the new converts that evening
at the Christian church in Webster
City A good interest was manifest
throughout the meetings and We
wish this interest to continue. All
are invited to attend each service.
Sunday school every Sunday begin
ming at 1890, preaching service ey-
cry two weeks at II a. m. and 7:30
p. m. Our regular preaching SER
vice Feb. 22nd.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-17
ing to the Kepler home.

| ing to the kepler nome.
Miss Case says that the reason she
flefts home was on account of a
money wrangle when her parents
wanted her to turn over her weeks
earnings at the Sherman laundry.
Miss Case did not want to do this.
She gave them two dollars which,
she said, was the amount she al
ways paid and then stated that she
was going to spend the remainder
for clothes which she needed. From
this a quarrel developed and the
girl left her home going to that of
girl friend, where she, presumably,
spent the night. This girl friend
told Miss Case of Mrs. Kepler's sis
ter, who lives in Fort Dodge, having
told her that the Kepler family here
were looking for a girl for general
housework. The following morning
Miss Case Immediately looked up
Mrs. Kepler's sister and told her
that she would like to have the
place. The two women came to Web
ster City Tuesday morning on the
early train and Miss Case went di-
rectly to work. However, she did
not give her right name to the KEEP
Ter family or to Mrs. Kepler's sister.
When, upon Mrs. Kepler's sisters
return to Fort Dodge Tuesday even
ing, she saw in the paper news of
lost girl with a description fitting
Miss Case, she Immediately tele-
phoned to the authorities in that
city and told them about the girl.
A number of stories have appear
I'd in this paper and Fort Dodge pa
)ers telling about the disappearance
If Miss Case and it IS no more than
air to explain how she happened to
)e found at the Kepler home here.
The Kepler family do not want it
% appear that they were in any way
implicated in this girls disappear
Lnce.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-17
CWENT SINGERS
PLEASE PEOPLE
Fine Program Of Solos and Ensemble
Satisfy Large Audience With
Their Music.

The Royal Gwents, advertised by
Manager Cook as likely to prove the
popular" event of the present mus
ical series, certainly justified Friday
evening at the Methodist church
the prediction, for never was audi
ence more attentive nor apparently
more delighted than was the good
audience gathered to listen to the
ensemble, part songs and solos of the
Gwent program and there was, to
be sure, nothing strange in their
liking SO musical a program; for the
voices justify Wales fame as the
country of fine natural male voices.
Each member of the Gwent Choir
is a Welshman and came this season
from Wales, for their second Ameri-
can tour and they are picked from
among the most beautiful voices
among the Welsh. Just what there
is in Wales-whether it is their
climate, or some inherent quality in
the native; their habits or what it
would be difficult to say; but the
fact remains that they can sing as
no other bodies have been heard to
sing in this country and that they,
therefore were not out of place in
our artist course; yet were within
the understanding of every person
in the audience and a delight to all
for, while comedy was not eliminat-
ed from the program the touches"
were entirely genteel, as we'll as
taking and did not seem incon-.
gruous in the same program with
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-17
the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's

the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's
| Messiah.
The Hallelujah Chorus having
been interpolated previous to it's or.
iginal position on the program, upon
the request of party from Kamrar
who wished to hear it without fail,
before the departure of the south
bound train, brought two of the
Welsh songs together: "Hen Wlad Fly
Nhadau" and their national anthem
which was little short of sublime as
a piece of ensemble singing and has
been pronounced by distinguished
American critic, the finest of songs.
1t held the large audience SPELL
bound.
And now, this time at Iowa Falls,
manager Cook undertakes the pre-
sentation of the worlds greatest
feminine pianist, Mrs. Fannie Bloom
field Zeisler, February 27th; after
which Webster City is again to be
regaled, with fine instrumental mu-
sic, by an ensemble of wind instru-
ments, headed by no less a person.
age than Mr.. George Barrere, the
worlds greatest player of the flute.
The Gwent Choir having been
chosen for Webster City, rather than
The pianiste, Nine. Zeisler, about |
twenty lovers Of piano music will
attend the Zeisler concert at Iowa
Falls, on the 9th from Webster
City.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-17
MORE ABOUT MISS
GERTRUDE CASE
Fort Dodge Girl Located in This City
Says She Doesn't Remember
Happenings.

Miss Gertrude Case, the Fort
Dodge girl who disappeared from
her home Monday night and who
was found in this city at the Oscar
Kepler home on the east side and
taken to Fort Dodge Thursday by
Deputy Sheriff Carl, says she doesn't
remember leaving Fort Dodge and
her father advances the theory that
she was d0ped. The Messenger of
yesterday contains the following:
Developments in the Gertrude
Case disappearance, made public to-
day, have lead the girls parents to
the conclusion that their daughter
was doped and that the note she left
her parents was either written by
her when she was not in her right
mind, or was written by someone
else, interested in her disappearance.
John Case, father of the girl, made
known these facts today.
The girls story, as told to her
father fully last night, sheds new
and unusual light on the occurrence
which this week so startled Fort
Dodge. Because she asked her faith
er to accompany her to prayer meet
ing at the Christian church last
night the father and daughter set
out for the church. On the way Miss
Case, who has been a regular at
tendant at the Christian church,
talked more freely about her disap-
pearance than she has before.
..I do not remember thing about
going away from home until what
happened after l woke up the next
morning." the girl declared.
After this statement her father
questioned, "then why did you leave
that note?"
Expressing ignorance of any note,
the girl questioned him as to what
note he meant. When he explained
about the note in her room, telling
her parents that when they read the
note she would be dead, the girl de-
MED writing it. She disclaimed any
knowledge of it.
Our daughter is a good honest
girl. whom we have never caught in
lie and | believe she was telling
the truth" declared Mr.. Case.
This fact and the fact that the
girl was suffering from sudden, Sc
we're headache when she returned to
her home Monday afternoon before
her disappearance, lead her parents
to consider seriously. the possibility
that she had been doped. The fact
that the note did not appear to be in
her hand writing, strengthens this
theory, he thinks.
In order that no blame may at
tach to Oscar Kepler and family of
this city, at whose home Miss Ger
trude Case of Fort Dodge was found
last Wednesday, we state the follow
ing particulars concerning her COM
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-17
Clarions Coming,

The Clarions, of indianapolis,
Ind, are coming to the city with a
clarion call for Prohibition, and will
appear in the Wilson hall Saturday
evening, Feb. 81. This is a trio who
know how to reach the people with
a rousing good program of music,
entertainment and evangelism.
They are said to be the finest in
their line of any on the lecture
platform. Admission free.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-17

Following is list of unclaimed
letters remaining in the Webster
City post office for the week ending
Feb. 10, 1914:
John D. Phair.
Jack Raymond.
o. Sandberg.
Geo. A. Sullivan (2).
If not called for in two weeks will
be sent to dead letter Office, Wash
ington, D. c.
D. H. Bauman, p. NJ.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-17
Personal Briefs
(From Mondays Daily.)

Irene Berg left this morning for
Ames where she is attending school.
She spent Sunday in the city visit
ing relatives.
w. E. Gossard left this morn
ing for Onawa for few days visit
with relatives.
Joe Leopold and H. c. Leopold
and wife of Mason City were over
Sunday guests at the Mrs. Catherine
Leopold home on Water street.
Miss Dorothy Tuttle, who,
teaches in the high school at Eagle
/ Grove, spent Sunday at her home in
this city.
Miss Fora Sheets, who is teach
ing school in the country near Ran
dali, spent the week end at her
home here.
MIR. and Mrs. Ralph Jewett left
today on wedding trip to Fort
Dodge, Boone, and other Iowa
points.
Mrs. A. R. Gardner of Blairs-
burg spent the day here.
Mrs. E. U. Butcher was called
to Elliott, Iowa, today by the sud-
den death of her mother. who died
Of pneumonia
Miss Emma Timms returned to
Fort Dodge today following visit
with her grandmother, Mrs. F.
Buettner on west Walnut street.
Mrs. E. E. Jackson, who is
working in a hotel at Fort Dodge,
spent Sunday visiting friends here.
Mrs. Lloyd Walterick of Will
Jams spent Sunday visiting at the G..
B. Walterick and Ralph e. Moore
homes. Mrs Walterick went to Ft.
Dodge today for a brief stay.
Misses Fannette Fassett, Izola
Doty and Zoe Pearson attended the
basket ball game in Ellsworth Sat
urday and spent Sunday there visit
Ing IL leHuS.
Mrs. T. w. Owen went to Chi
cago Saturday night for visit with
her granddaughter, Mrs. Paul D.
Potter and husband.
Mrs. F.. E. Whitley left Satur-
day night for Chicago. where she
will be Joined by her daughter. Miss
Grace of Iowa Falls, and spend sew
eral days
H. L. Hampton left today for
Mason City where he will spend the
remainder of the week on business.
Miss Marguerite Hughes, who is
the normal at Cedar Falls
spent the week end at the home of
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. J. B.
Hughes.
-Ansley Jacobs spent Sunday
here.
Miss Emma Amundson. who is
teaching in the country near Stan
hope, spent Sunday at her home in
this city.
George w. Smith of Pomeroy.
who is visiting in the w. H. Fl.
Smith home on west Second street.
went to Fort Dodge today.
Ed Sells is business visitor in
today.
H. n. Nicholson is a business
caller in Eagle Grove this afternoon.
sheldon latham is a business
caller in Eagle Grove this afternoon.
F. A. Boysen, Dentist. Second st.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-17
w. C. T. U. Attention |!

A special meeting of the w. G. T.
Z. will be held in the club room at
the library Thursday at p. m. All
members requested to be present, as
business of importance is to be
transacted.
. BY order of President.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-17

bridge work were omitted. The COM
mittee hope to secure Mr.. Dodds in
the near future to give a more COM
plete program on good roads.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-02-17
Unclaimed Letters.

BY order of President.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-09-24
Great Britain Is Silent
on Subject About Peace

Washington, d. C.-Great Britain
has received no proposal for peace,
either direct or indirect, from Ger
many or Austria, and therefore has
nothing to say on the subject.
This was the substance OF a mes
sage received late Saturday by Sir
Cecil Spring-Rice, the British Ambas-
sador here, from Sir Edward Grey, the
British foreign secretary. The ambas-
sador had inquired whether any pro
posal of peace was before his govern
ment in view of the persistent rumors
from Berlin that peace proposals were
being exchanged
Coincident with the receipt Of this
information from Great Britain it was
learned authoritatively that President
Wilson had not pursued either will
Great Britain, France of Russia, thu
informal suggestion of the lmperia
German Chancellor that sit was up t
the United States to obtain a state
ment of peace terms from the allies
The state department has not com
municated with the British or Frencl
ambassadors here on the subject, o
the German ambassador now visitin
in New York. Sir Cecil Springfield
as well as Jules Jusserand, were
the state department in conferenc
with Counsellor Robert Lansing, ac
ing secretary in the absence Of Nj
BRYAN.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-09-24
HOME RULE SIGNED
Both Houses Of Parliament Cheer
as Announcement is Made.
John Redmond Cries God SdUe
England" Leaves for Ireland
to Plea for Recruits.

London.-King George Saturday
signed the home rule and Welsh dis
establishment bills. making them laws.
Parliament was then prorogued until
October 81.
Announcement that royal assent had
been given the home rule bill was re-
ceived with cheers in both the Lords
and Commons. Especially enthusiast
tic was the demonstration in the Com
mons.
VIII Crooks, the labor leader, asked
if it was in order to sing God Save
the King" Without waiting for per
mission he started the first verse him
self and then broke down with emo
ton. The anthem was taken up by
the spectators in the gallery as wei
as by the members and the singing
was heard in the palace yard.
AS the members filed out of the
chamber Crooks cried out God SAVE
Ireland"
John Redmond, the Irish National
list leader, replied, God save Eng
land.
Mr.. Redmond, who was the recipi
ent of many warm congratulations II
the Hobbies of the house after adjourn
ment, left later in the day for ireland
where he will take part in the re
cruiting campaign.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-09-24
The Dumdum Bullets.

AS was expected the charge that
dumdum bullets are being used in the
war has appeared. There has not
been a war since the dumdum was
frowned upon at the second Hague
conference because it skaters bones
and tears great holes in the flesh.
This time it is the French who claim
that German soldiers are using it.
The dumdum is so called because 1t
was first made by the British at Dunn
dunn, India, the scene of the first out
break in the mutiny of 1857. The Brit
ish soldiers found that the small size
bullet they were using would not stop
their fanatical enemies. In civilized
warfare it was customary for man
shot through the body to think he had
enough fighting for awhile, but the
Sepoys were different, so the British
soldiers made a bullet that would flat
ten out WIN it struck bone, making
a terrible wound.
There has since been dispute as U
whether the dumdum should be out
lawed. On the one hand it is argued
that its use greatly increases the per
centage of killed, and on the othe
that it should not be outlawed whll'
artillery is permitted to throw she'll
that tear dozens of men limb iron
limb. Most of the powers now tign'
ing have agreed that it should not D.
used.-Savannah News.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-09-24
Entire Austrian Army in
Dire Peril Before Russians

notwithstanding from Rome,
the correspondent of the Daily Express
says:
'The surrender of the Austrian
army led by Generals Dankl and Won
Auffenburg is imminent. The heir to
the Austrian throne, Archduke Charles
Francis, is with General Dankl's army,
which is entirely cut off from commu-
nication.
Five German army corps marching
to the relief of the Austrians have
been checked at Grodek by the third
Russian corps.
General Dankl's army is caught
in the morass west of the River San.
Farther west fianking army of lOO,-
900 Cossacks is awaiting it. Its artil-
lery has been lost and its cavalry is in
the bog.
1.-The last hope of the Austrians is
to concentrate between the triangular
fortress works of Przemysl, Cracov
and Jaroslaw. They can accomplish
this, if at all, only by tremendous
| losses
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-09-24
So PERISH IN SEA
Steamer Leggett Sinks OFF Oregon
COaSt--TWO Rescued.
LifeboGts Containing 80, Including
Women and Children, Are
.SlOamped BY Heavy Sea.

Astoria, Or.-Fifty-eight persons, at
least, and probably more, persisted
when the steam schooner Francis II.
Leggett sank in a 90-mile gale 60 miles
south of the Columbia river and 30
miles northwest by north Of Yaquina
light, off the Oregon coast shortly az
ter 3 O'Clock Friday afternoon Other
estimates place the number OF dead
at 70. Five women, boy and girl
are among the missing.
Two persons are known to have
been rescued, after clinging several
hours to wreckage tossed by vicious
sea, and an unconfirmed report says
third person has been picked up.
The known passenger list, furnished
by the owners at San Francisco, to
tailed 80. Besides Captain Marc, the
Leggett carried crew of "a men.
Two lifeboats are reported to have
been filled and lowered. One contain
ed 30 persons and the other eight. All
the women and children were includ
ed. Heavy seas swamped the lifeboats
Immediately upon their striking the
water.
The known survivors are Alexander
Farrell, of Sacramento, Cal, an(
George Pullman, or Pollman, of Winni
peg, Man. Both were rescued by the
oil tanker Frank H. Buck, which il
lying off the mouth of the Columbi;
river awaiting a quiet sea to ente
this harbor. Farrell was transferred
to the steamer Beaver and taken t
Portland. He told a thrilling stor.
of his experience and gave. patheti
accounts of drownings of persons al
tempting to cling to wreckage.
The Leggett was en- route to Sal
Francisco from Grays Harbor ports
having left Portland a few days ag
for Washington towns to load lumber
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-09-24
ANOTHER BIG BATTLE
In FRANCE SEEMS SURE

Paris - French army headquarters
gave out statement Wednesday to
the effect that the Germans still held a
strong position north of the River
Aisne, and that the opposing armies
were in conflict along the entire line.
The army of the Crown Prince, Fred
erick William. it was declared, had
been forced to retreat still further and
was on the line marked by Varennes,
Consenvoye and Ornes. The allies
have reoccupied Rheims.
The retreat of the Germans, said the
report, was made more difficult by the
rains, which stalled heavy guns and
impedimenta of various kinds.
The official communication issued
by the French government says that
the allied armies are in close contact
with the Germans everywhere and that
the forward movement continues be
tween the Mouse and Argonne.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-09-24
Prisoners to Be Listed.

London.-The official press bureau
SAYS the government has received in
formation that the German govern
ment is prepared to communicate lists
of British prisoners in their hands in
return for similar information as to
German prisoners here. 1t is contem-
plated that such lists, which will in
clude information as to the physical
condition of the prisoners. will be in
terchanged periodically. Arrange
ments also are being made for the
transmission to Germany Of letters
parcels and money for prisoners The
German government intends to permit
correspondence by their prisoners.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-09-24
Germany Questions
British Sincerity

Berlin.-Nobody in Grmany is will
ing to admit the sincerity of Great
Britain's basing it's declaration Of war
on Germany's violation of the terri
tory Of Belgium and Luxembourg and
much alleged evidence is produced in
newspapers and magazines to prove
that Great Britain had already made
up its mind to join France and Russia
previous to Germanys advance on Bel
GUM territory.
In the highest circles of the German
government it is asserted that the
foreign office has evidence that Great
Britain was negotiating with Russia
several months before the war broke
out to furnish ships for descent oil
Russian troops on the coast OF Pom
erenia. which lies on the Baltic north
of Berlin, but it appears that nothing
came of these negotiations.
Another curious and timely piece oil
evidence is presented in the shape OF
an item purporting to be from the
Paris Gil Bias of February 20, 1918
That paper is said to have published
the following:
"a newspaper of Eastern France has
revealed a highly interesting piece O
news. In military circles there 1t Il
related that large stocks OF British
ammunition have for several weeks
been brought into Maubeuge. near thu
northeastern frontier of France, OF
the railway line from Paris to Cologne
The city of Maubeuge is OF great NIL
itary Importance. 1t is designated Il
the French general stairs plan OF cam
paign as the concentration point 10
the allied troops which will be CON
manded in case of a war by the III
glish field marshal, Sir John Frencf
under General Joffre as commander
in-chief"