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The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
LIABILITY LAW AT WORK

New York State like Iowa, is now
operating under a workmen's com
pensation law, which also became Ell
fective July l. Since July l, there
have been filed with the New York
commission, more than 1000 claims
for injuries and twenty-siX claims
for deaths. On Monday the commits
sion had its first hearing and dispos.
ed of two cases. Robert E. Bowling,
chairman of the commission Is quoteu
as having said:
1T would have taken a court
and jury weeks to have disposed
of these. cases which we have
just finished this morning"
If more than 1900 cases have ac-
crued in twenty days, that is at the
rate Of more than $50 cases day.
If $50 new claims are filed with the
compensation commission each day
and the commissino disposes OF two
cases each day, the Knickerbocker
Press of Albany wonders how long 1t
will be before the members OF the
commission are individually suffocat-
ed.
Then, suppose the commission
should get case which would take
1t as long to decide as 1t is taking
the interstate commerce commission
to decide the rate case, what would
become of the filing cabinets In the
rooms OF the commission?
1T will probably be the part OF WIS
dom TO wait at least a year before
passing final judgment upon the work
OF the commission and OF the law
under which 1t Is operating"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
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ROWlEY AND CLARKE.

The State Executive Council have
discovered a good joke on Mr.. Row
ley, of keosauqua, candidate I or
nomination for governor before the
primaries. and erstwhile severe crit
ic of Governor Clarke. In canvassing
the assessments from the various
counties of the state, the council
found that the board of supervisors
of Van Buren, county had added ST.
653,344 to the value of lands in Van
Buren, as fixed by the equalization
made. by the council last year.
The council increased the valua-
ton of land in the county last year
40 per cent.
Not satisfied with this increase,
apparently the authorities of Van
Buren, promptly added $2,653,344
more and proceeded to collect taxes
from the farmers on this aggregate
valuation.
If the tax levy in Van Buren, aver
ages 50 mills the farmer paid $33,166
this year in taxes more than the eX-
ecutive council had provided for, due
to the action of the local authorities
and will pay the same excess in 1918.
No one outside Van Buren, county,
of course, would pay any attention to
this if there had not been such an
outpouring of wrath on Governor
Clarke on account of the increase Of
taxes on farm lands in that county.
Indeed, according to Mr.. ROwley, of
Van Buren,, the fury of the taxpayers
there has no bounds.
Van Buren, land was paying on an
average assessment of $33.S7 tax
able value $847) per acre and in the
adjustment the council raised it to
S47.42 taxable value $11.85.D
To this the local authorities added
50, 653 .344-but the county went al
most unanimously against Governor
Clarke in the primary.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
COMMON SENSE RELIGION.

What doth it profit, my breth-
rem, though man say he hath
faith, and have not works.
From a valued friend in the north
ern part of the state comes the re-
quest for such discussion as our space
may permit of the general theme of
Common Sense Religion says the
Des Moines Capital Accompanied
Herewith is the complimentary as
surance that all readers of the Capt.
tai must be benefited by the discus
sion. This is sOmthing which we
would hesitate to guarantee but we
cannot help but feel that the topic is
a timely one.
We are living in a day when all
manner of new theories are being eX-
plotted in the name of religion. Some
of them are crude and fantastic and
almost shocking to the rational mind.
Others have suggestions or grains of
vital truth, surrounded by husks of
speciousness and superticialty which
appeal to the few but are rejected by
the many.
These conditions emphasize this
truth: Man is naturally a religious
creature. The worshipful elements of
his nature are constantly clamoring
for expression. The world, however,
is fast learning that true religion is
something more than fOrmality.
The day has gone by when posing
as a religionist will be accepted as an
unimpeachable indication that per
son is really religious. The long pray
er alone will not inspire confidence.
The fervent singing alone will not
convince.
Faith without words is the deadest
thing in the wide realm of the relig-
GUS universe.
Nothing better illustrates the per-
yersity of the human race than the
slowness with which it has accepted
the truth that the Great Teacher was
the farthest removed from being a
mere theori2er. He was tn most in
tensely practical being that ever
walked the earth. He did not spend
time in holding mass meetings or
formulating resolutions or organizing
societies for the relieving fthe want
or the misery of mankind. He went
straight to the poor and the blind and
the sick and He ministered there unto
with His own hands.
Do not Understand by these words
that we would in any sense dispar-
age the magnificent movements of
our time which are actuated by the
desire to work out practical philan-
thropy, but we have great many
people, who mean well, but who lack
the capacity for directness of purp-
ose.
Common sense religion is certainly
not a mystery. II can become part
of ones life wherever he may be or
no matter what he ma ybe doing. This
of course, implies that the place and
the program are in themselves com
patible with the moral law.
Common sense religion can be the
atmosphere of the home. II may be
reflected in the thoughtfulness which
seeks to tighten father or mothers
burden; which Will correct or re-
prove child not with harshness
which brushes or wounds the spirit
but which VIII inspire to do right the
next time.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
WELCOME, BUT WORK!
Oskaloosa Stone Pile Attracts Wide
Spread Attention.

The current issue TO Popular Me
chanics, gives Oskalosa a boost In
her bid for fame. II says:
Down by the railroad tracks en-
tering Oskaloosa, Iowa, Is a signiti
cant sign erected to welcome" tc
the city those lesser lights of the
travelling public classified as tramps
Incidentally 1t Is so placed that II c
hardly escape the attention of any
one arriving at the town. In diff
erent section of the city there is 9
stone pile, labor which Is usually en-
listed from the municipal calaboose
The sign mentions this fact and ex
tends hand OF welcome to the hobo
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
OUR NEIeHsoR's OPINIONS

Pella Chronicle: In Oskaloosa on
the Fourth this year absolutely nc
private fire works, fire crackers, etc.
we're allowed in the city and dealers
we're forbidden to sell the makings
This looks little drastic, but it lis
what we are surely coming to. II
cities generally had taken this pre-
cautionary attitude there would now
be much less lament over the loss
OF property gone up in smoke, mum
erous boys who are now manned for
life would still be sound of sight and
limb, and several newly-made graves
would not be the uppermost thought
in parental hearts. Indiscriminate
fireworks on the Fourth or at any
other time are inconsistent with our
efforts TO bring about safety in mod
ern life; and they should be abolish
ed along with the carrying OF pistols
and other dangerous weapons.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

Des Moines, July %. - Nineteen
horses we're burned to death in a fire
in the livery barn of NJ. S. DiCkey at
$40 East Grand evenue at 2:3O o'clock
this morning. 1t is not known how
the flames started A passerby saw
the building ablaze and turned in an
alarm By that time the heat was so
intense it was impossible to enter the
building. 1t was al old frame affair,
two stories high, and burned like
name,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

Common sense religion will be the
guiding star of the man in shop or
store or about the farm and help to
convince the world that attending
church on Sunday is not a mere mat
ter Of form but sacrement to put
ones heart in tune with the best and
noblest things for seven days in the
week.
Common sense religion is nothing
more or less than what the Inspired
Writer said it was--pure and unde-
filed living-obeying the highest i'm
pulses of the human heart and keep
ing ones self unspotted from the
world
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
HOT WEATHER ITEMS.

Perhaps" says the Marshalltown
! Times Republican, anent the contro
versy over belts and suspenders, MI
Hammond does not know that there
| is a system and a suspender whereby
concealment is made possible and
men of narrow hips and protuberant
paunch may deceive even the uner.
ring eye of the vice regent of the
| George NJ. Pullman estate. You put
them on your b. V. DIS, taking off your
shirt if you have forgotten them the
first crack out of the box Then you
hold up your pants with one hand
while you search around under the
outer shirt to the right and left OF
the median line until you find metal
button hole similar to those in use
on that article of feminine conveI
fence which a king of England made
| the insignia of knightly order. Pro.
ceeding as before you gather up some
| of tie slack of the shirt and finger
around for a pants button. Over the
button you hook the metal Contrap
ton, draw it tight, finish the act OF
"donning" trousers in the ordinary
fashion, put on a belt and go forth fit
to be seen by youth and beauty and
tender womanhood at the table of a
Milwaukee dining car, cultured, care
free, en- regle and debonair. Any
clothing store. Ask the clerk"
| - - -.
The day was hot AID the flies were
bad, when a Monroe county justice of
the peace was called upon to preside
over ais first case in which jury
had been impaneled. The case was
of negligible Importance, but had been
bitterly contested. There had been
many motions and much argument
The evidence was not particularly in.
teresting. The arguments were dull.
Then, to the CONSERVATION OF the
court. the lawyers on both sides de
manded that he charge the jury
"Gentlemen of the jury" said ais
honor. "this Is the first time / ever
presided at two-ring amachure cir
Gus. The actin has been derned poor.
and I'll only charge You a nickel
apiece"
"The roasting ear season has
came" says the Oelwein Register
"and we are INDUCING in tae succulent
corn. Once on a time some nincom.
poop or other issued an edict that the
corn should be removed from the cob
and deposited in side dish before
eating. but that edict never amounted
to much as far as people with aver.
age horse sense is concerned. The
only way Ia 10 place the cob with the
corn on IL between the teeth and pro
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
paekwood Boy Saves Companion.

PackWood Boy Saves Companion
Packwood, July 28.-The heroic &C.
ton of a twelve-year-old lad of Abb
ingdon will be called to the attention
of the trustees and a Carnegie Medal
asked for him. Three boys, Clyde
Myers and Claude Estes of Abingdon
and Carl Ramey of Fairfield, lads OF
twelve years were swimming in the
Baird pond, which is in retired spot.
The Ramey boy got into deep water
and would have drowned had not the
Myers boy gone bravely to his res
cue. When he reached the drowning
boy he (young Ramey) threw his
arms about his rescuer's neck and
would have dragged him down, had
not Myers hit him on the jaw. caus-
ing him to loosen his hold and sink
to the bottom. Myers dived for him
and grabbing him by the hair, swan
to shore, where the boy, more dead
than alive, was laid upon an impro-
vised bed of their clothing and gradu-
ally nature resumed her functions.
The Myers lad was greatly fatigued
and excited, but did not consider that
he had done anything unusual.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
Before leaving upon his summe,

Before leaving upon his summer
vacation trip to Europe, Pres. J. H.
T. Main stated definitely that he
would continue to cast his lot with
Grinnell College. Propositions which
had come to him, he said, to go to
other institutions, had been care,
fully considered and their numerous
advantages noted but he had decid.
ed to remain where for twenty-five
years he has been doing his life work.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
Preparing for Red Men.

Muscatine, July Is Preparatory
of the state of Iowa in convention
here in October, the local tribe of In
dams has completed reservation on
Hershey island in the Mississippi riv.
er. A wigwam, which will accommo-
date more than 100 persons, has been
erected.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
Melon Crop Suffers,

Muscatine, July 2S.-The Musca.
tine county melon crop is in danger
of serious injury because of drouthy
conditions. The continued dry wealth.
er of the past week baked the plants
and unless heavy rains occur in the
melon growing regions within the
next few days the melon supply will
be cut short.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

coed to MUNICH. Great isn't it? And
the green corn season will be with
us for several weeks. No wonder the
original Americans held a festival to
celebrate this season! Nothing SO good
as roasted or boiled corn'-eXcept
mora Of IL :"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
CITY Wins Paving Case.

Bloomfield, Iowa, July 28.-City At
torney Scarborough has just received
word from Judge f. NJ Hunter that
the three city cases that were tried
jointly at the last term of court had
been decided in favor of the city.
These cases were brought into court
to compel three men to pay for the
paving along the side of their prop
erty, which they refused to do, claim
ing illegality as their excuse.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
New PAVING at ottumwa.

Ottumwa, Jul y2S.-The city COM
missioners have awarded thirteen
paving jobs to the local contractor
J. c. Brunk, at $2.15 for new work
and $1.46 for resurfacing. All is brick
pavement. The job entails the ex-
pendture of some 100000.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
Enoincer Dies at Post.

Vanblack, who left Clinton this a.
m. at the throttle of Northwestern
passenger train, No. 2, was found
dead at his post by the fireman near
the first station east. The fireman
conducted the train into Sterling.
Heart disease caused the engineers
death.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

From Washington, comes infor-
nation that the opinion in the White
House is that if the president shall
go on the stump at all in the coming
campaign he will speak in Pennsyl,
vania and Iowa" At this distance the
opinion is that the president will not
go on the stump during the coming
campaign.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

the richest state in the whole country
perhaps in the whole world And yet
the state never has any money and
when the county or the city wants
to make an improvement, the money
has to be borrowed. OF course, no
private citizen would think of going
into business entirely on borrowed
capital and what is more, nobody
would give him the chance. If the
town of Oskalosa had that money ly-
ing idle perhaps the risk would not
be so great, but TO make the plant
earn the interest on SS5O,OOO Dor
rowed money, plus all sorts OF change
es, improvements and repairs and the
operating expenses, that may prove
formidable undertaking. 1t will
prove an interesting one for the men
put in charge. if the town does con
clude to go into municipal ownership.
- - -
Sigourney News: We had a good
paper at our State Clerks meeting in
Oskaloosa last week b va lady doc
tor" said Clerk c. c. Utterback. She
had a paper on the need of having
the statistics of birth records, prop
erly kept. 1t was her opinion that one
third of the births of each county, are
not turned in to the assessor, in his
yearly rounds. She is advocating that
the next legislature pass a law, that
man in each township be appointed
to turn in the birth certificates and
that parents have ten days in which
to turn them in, after which time they
will have. to answer to the law if they
do not. have a number of instances
where people came here to look up
the matter of their birth certificates
and can't find it. One young fellow
wrote for his birth record, saying
that a splendid position depended on
whether he could produce papers
from his county that he was born
there. We couldn't find it and nc
doubt but what he lost out. She cited
instances where estates were decid
ed many times and heirs thrown out
the whole thing turning on the birth
record. 1t is an important matter ant
people are too careless in turning il
those figures to the assessor. If the!
knew the Importance, they would bt
moro careful"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

Champ. Clark doesn't propose to
leave any crumbs of votes which
President Wilson may carelessly
brush from his table. The Missourian
is out and out for a suffrage amend
ment to the national constitution.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

Two of the foremost equal suf-
frage workers in America were Iowa
women. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
president of the International Equal
Suffrage association is a native OF
Davenport and Mrs. Grace Wilbur
Trout was born in MaQuoketa, Iowa.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
.SUFFRAG|STS WANT
ROOM IN BUILDING
PACKWOOD BOY IN LINE FOR
CARNEGIE MEDAL.
NINETEEN HORSES ARE BURNED
City Wins Paving Cases, Engineer
Dies at His Post. Shop Litter
Fined. $4,000 Paving Job
at OttumWa.

Des Moines, July 2S.-War is on
between the equal suffrage societies
of Iowa and Secretary Corey of the
state fair board, because he refuses
the suffragists a room in the new
womans building at the state tar
grounds. The sutfragists say he gave
as his reason his disbelief in votes
for women. AS q result OF his retus-
al the women will appeal directly to
DR.. NJ. N. Volding of Cherokee, sup
erintendent of the department which
has charge of the building and if he
fails to grant their request they will
present the matter to the full
state board and later to the legisla-
ture if necessary. The suffragists say
they worked in the legislature for the
appropriation for the building with
The understanding that they were to
be given at least one room.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

"A woman at Mexico, Missouri,
thinks the limit has been reached
when a childless woman asks the
mother of six little ones to care for
her dog while she goes to a meeting
of the Mothers Club"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

Iowa Falls, July 28.-P. 7. Jensen,
of Clarion, is suffering from a dis
located shoulder and his companions
were slightly injured in an automo-
bile accident here last night. In try.
ing to climb hill, the engine of the
machine was killed, the brakes re-
fused to work and the car ran back.
ward down the hill colliding with a
tree
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
DELTA A BUSY TOWN.
GOVERNOR CLARKE WILL At
TEND THE GOOD ROADS DAY
PICNIC ON AUGUST 5. PUBLIC
BAPTISMAL.

Delta, Iowa, July 2S.-.Delta will
hold the Good Roads Day and their
White Way Picnic. August 8. GOV.
Clarke will be the speaker The 3
regimental band OF Ottumwa viii fur
nish music. Tho Choral club OF
Williamsburg will put on THE Little
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

His identity has not been disclos-
ed, but the Keokuk Gate-City predicts
that there will be a Macmillan in
Mexico before the trouble is over
The history OIL 1867 will repeat itself
In 1914
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

I'm lieu of preparing original stuff
in hot weather, the Keokuk Gate
City is running chapters out OF the
Bible for editorials. The innovation
is not a bad one at that.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
Shop Litter is Fined,

Des Moines, Jul y28.-A fine of $50
and a sentence of fifteen days in Jail
was imposed yesterday on Grace
Lamphere, a 15-year-old girl charged
with shoplifting. The Jail sentence
was suspended.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

The second oldest club for wom-
en- in the U. S. is the Ladies Library
association at Mt. Pleasant. Iowa
Sorosis in New York is a few months
,iaar
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

In the following manner: Notice:
This City Has a Stone Pile for Buns.
You Are come.-Mayor'."
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

The Brighton Enterprise describ-
es a reformer as a man who IS al
ways looking for something to shock
him.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
Fifteen New BRIDGES.

lac board of supervisors today let
contracts for the building OF fifteen
new concrete bridges In Union oounr
ty. fG 31H 9rs
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

Under republican rule people
were not appealing to the president
to give business a chance.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

1t does seem that some PEG
pie run half way to meet bad luck.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

Which wing of the Bull Moose
party is now in control at Arranged
don?
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30

For the weeds the weed law
seems to have no terrors.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-07-30
- - -

Burlington Hawkeye: oskaloosa
is discussing the municipal owner
ship Of her water plant. II is a $780,
600 proposition and OF course the
town has no mtney. II is surely a
strange state Of affairs. Here we are
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1914-11-11
LOCAL ITEMS.

Mrs. Lon Mitchell spent Sal
urday in Appalachia shopping.
Miss Edna Stuart, of East
stone Gap, was shopping in the
Gap Saturday.
Mrs. Anna Slemp Myers and
little daughter, Melissa, aud IT,.
Slemp, spent Saturday and Sun
day in the Cove.
Miss Meta Jordan, of Blue
field, w. Va, and Miss Anna
Paige, of Ashland, who is
teaching Mt st. Paul, were the
attractive guests of Miss Janet
Bailey a few days this week in
the Gap.
Mrs. II. Il. Benedict and
daughter, Miss Sophia, spent
Sunday in Appalachia with
friends.
Miss Mary Carnes, who is
teaching at Roda, spent the
week end in the Gap with
homefolks.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. NJ. Reason
aud children spent Sunday
above East Stone Gap with
relatives.
Misses Mary and Elizabeth
Connor have returned from n
visit TO relatives in w. Va, and
are now visiting their sister,
Mrs. j. I'll. Pierpont, on limbo
ben Hill.
Mrs. Q. l.. Nash, aud little
son, left last week for Wash
lngton, where they will spend
several weeks with relatives.
Miss jamie Slemp spent a few
days in the Cove with relatives
last week.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1914-11-11

Mrs. Mike Stupolski and lit.
Tie son, George, Of Blueiield ,
w. Va, is spending a few days
IN the Gap visiting her sister.
Mrs. j. a. Jterne, at the Monte
Vista Hotel.
Senator John Catron and five
daughters, Mrs. p. II. Barron,
Mrs. Il. Stone, Misses Edna.
Bonnie and Margaret. spent
Saturday at their country home
near Clinchport.
Miss julie Bullitt left Sunday
morning for Hollins, where She
will spend several days visiting
friends at IIollins Institute.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lowry.
of Norton, spent Sunday in the
Gap with Mr.. and Mrs. ". \.
Lowry.
Largest assortment of wall
paper in Wise County for sale
by w. G. Coutts. Call and ex-
anime his stock.
Misses Coffee and Lichlieter.
Profs. Sulfrige and Owens, of
Appalachia, attended the teach
ers' meeting in the Gap Satur-
day.
Misses Wright, Winifrey
Spangler, Riggs and Daniels,
teachers in East Stone GAP
school, attended the teachers
meeting Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. d. w. Littrell.
of Horizons Summit. Scott coun.
ty, are in town this week visit
ing Mrs. Littrell's parents, MIR.
and Mrs. j NJ. Stewart.
Misses Ida Turner and Sarah
Nicely, of East Stone Gap, went
to Osaka Sunday night, where
they will spend several days
visiting relatives.