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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-23
The Petal Shaped Dome

the beautiful designs created by the
diameter
petal panels and amber
when illuminated rich yellow light is cast about
The frame chain and ceiling is fin
shed fitted with threecluser
electric light wish.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-23

Chamberlafn's Cough Remedy Is a
very valuable medicine for throat and
lung troubles. quickly relieves and
cures painful breathing and a danger
Gus sounding cough which indicates
eongested lungs. Sold by all drug
g1sts.-(AdT.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-23
$500 Delivers Both Articles

We have placed both OF these articles within the
everyone by offering to deliver both pieces TO You
$500, the balance to be paid for at the
rate of $3.50 per month. We do not consider that w
ing you great favor by offering the advantage
the advantage is really in favor; in fact woi
prefer you buy everything credit instead of
we know of better way of welding customers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-23

an extended visit with. her daughter.
Mrs. Meredith Noble.
number of young ladies were en-
tertained Saturday at the home OF Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Dodson at q pre-nup-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-23

She received a number OF things
which will be Useful In her new home.
NJ. l.. Frise. who has been visit
ing friends In this vicinity for the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-23
WANTED. men And WOMEN
To Buy Fine Winter Clothes at IS Per
Cent Reduction and S1.oo a
Week Payments.

Just think. 25 per cent on stylish
winter clothing. and you can charge
whatever you buy. and pay conven-
iently.
Make the reduction yourself. all
goods marked in plain figures. take of
% per cent yourself
For instance. any mans suit or
overcoat. marked $1,000 you can have
for $500
$500 Suits and Overcoats. 1880
1900 Suits and Overcoats. 1928
1900 Suits and Overcoats. 900
1000 Suits and Overcoats. $50
Boys Suits and Overcoats. all % per |
cent Off.
Here Is an example Of the saving In |
the woman's department
SEQ Coats and Suits. now $500 /
1000 Coats and Suits. now. 1900 \
1900 Coats and Suits. now. ....I1.25
Make your own reductions the same
way on SILK and Cloth Dresses. Waists.
Furs. Skirts. Petticcats. etc.
Millinery goes at half price. and your
credit Is always good at The Menter
Co.
Srsdy street. Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-23

past two weeks. left Tuesday for his
home in Redwood Falls. Mimi.
Mrs. Abe Swisi,er was a caller in
Aledo Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mira Bob Willis We're bns.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-23

mess callers In Aledo Tuesday.
Harry Crawford, who has been vEs
iting his mother here, returned to Ill
home IA Burlington. Kan. Saturday
evening
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19
The Serpent I'm the House
By Ewam&elime Booth
Commander OF the Salvation Army Force
i'm the united States

responsibility generally be traced
the drinking the wes
the wfes nfdei due almost brutality
neglect of the husband.
We often hear of of being driven
daughters having But incredible
daughters downfall due the
home life unbearab her and has forced her
father,
forcing the mother the
bearer of the family the drunkenness and disaster
IN number of find that the husband complains
wies driven him drink
and wed during of his periods obre Thus he
suffering downward through
relapse positively appalling the number of where
trusting have been taken in" by this
the mother the of drinking the home where
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19

has permitted the child to drink at
the family table. A sip of wine is
very pleasing thing to child and
the condition that follows is very
alluring. Common sense should
destroy the fallacy that children
should be taught to drink at home.
But it does not seem to do so and
here is where people apply the
rule made from their own narrow
observation.
W/HY teach children to drink
w at home? Is the appetite
thus created any more to be
controlled when fully developed
than the appetite created in the
saloon?
Some persons claim that if the
child is taught to drink at home he
will not drink elsewhere. One
might as we'll argue that if he eats
at home he will not eat elsewhere.
Others urge that where the child
is first permitted to drink at home
he will drink moderately there
after. So will a fire burn mod
erately so long as there is some
one there to watch it. And only
criminal or crazy man would
start a fire and then leave it to its
own devices. 1t must be remem-
bered that when you teach child
to drink, you are starting fire in
his passions that his mother will
not always be on hand to regulate.
But why teach child to drink
at all? Drink was never known to
help a child. And we all know
what it has done for men!
e ~
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19

vi Tie various aspects OI tne uQuOI
question. From the reports of the
tens of thousands of cases of
rescue by the Salvation Army
reports of cases of victims from
all parts Of the world and from all
social strata we are enabled to
form a more or less scientific de-
duction as to general conditions.
One fact alone, fact deduced
from our reports, should settle for
good and all the question, as
drink the cause or the result of
trouble in the homer" and that
fact is that more than nine-tenths
of the drunkards in the world were
habitual drunkards before they
were married, having acquired the
habit either in clubs or saloons,
according to their social status.
And the drink habit is almost in
variably due to the positive in
f1uence of social intercourse of the
wrong kind and in our great cities
to the lack of the restraining and
uplifting influence of social inter
course of the right kind.
OUR reports also show that
~ where men have contracted
the habit of drink after marriage,
an almost negligible number were
driven to the so-called solace of
the bottle through commonplace
troubles, such as nagging on the
part of the wife or of the pinchings
of poverty. The troubles at home
that cause drunkenness are the
great disasters such as the death
of the wife, the ruin of a beloved
child, a crime committed by a son
or a brother, or a continued series
of unbearable business disasters.
We find that where attempts are
made to shift the responsibility to
the shoulders of the wife, such
AR Innsr-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19

been asked the question: as drunkenness
Ia - the result of trouble in the homer"
D There has been deal of discussion of this
KY The trouble is has been regarded from point
Too draw what believe be
lyS3 general conditions from individual
ny SCSJ The family embieed by
~ perience and allows this experience dscoo warp
judgment We frequently where moderately
finally succumbed of found
oblivion soace drink Quite often people who
that their children free from the drink
taught them drink empeaey home and that fact
that all children should be taught drink home In the
relations
up for noxcaon could naggng
There villages where local obtains where drunkenness
paratve unknown Are these villages then position egsate
the liquor question of great cities?
have had exceptional opportunity forming unbiased opinion
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27
Married in a Vault.

Thursday Justice G.. F. Tucker
was hurriedly called to Clerk Ster-
ling's office to perform marriage
ceremony and upon arriving found
not only the anxious pair, but the
room full of court house employees,
some of whom had gone through the
ordeal and others who had not. They
were in hopes of seeing the cere-
mony performed. However, the mod
esty of the justice would not stand
for public ceremony, so the bride
and groom, with their friends, were
taken into the vault of the clerks
Office and Justice Tucker made them
one. In the past few years marri-
ages have been performed in the
court house so often that it has be-
come quite common, but nevertheless
such a proceeding always attracts a
crowd of curious onlookers.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27
Try the Daily a month.
DOING THEIR DUTY.
Scores of Webster City Readers Are
Learning the Duty of the
Kidneys.

To filter the blood is the kidneys
duty. When they fail to do this the
kidneys are weak. Backache and
other kidney ills may follow. Help
the kidneys do their work. Use
Doan's Kidney Pills-the tested kid
ney remedy. Webster City people
endorse their worth.
Mrs. G. E. Dye, 1899 Second St.,
Webster City, Iowa, says: Zone Of
my family suffered from pain across
his loins. Hearing Doan's Kidney
Pills highly recommended, he got a
box. In a short time the pains left.
He has had no trouble since. I high
ly recommend Doan's Kidney Pills
to anyone who has kidney COM
plant"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York. sole agents for the Unit
ed States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take NO other ADV. diff
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27
Serio- Comic Affair Pulled Off Be.
tween Detroit and
Chicago.
PATRONS PART WITH CASH
Bandit Compels Porters to Aid Him
in Collecting Coin From Sleepy
Patrons.

Chicago, Jan. 24.-With the as
| sistance of two reluctant but badly
scared porters, a lone bandit held up
four passengers on the rear sleeper
of the Michigan Central passenger
train due here from Detroit at 1870
o'clock yesterday morning.
1t was a serio-comic affair which
netted the bandit something under
$500. The robber entered the train
at Jackson, Mich, and left it about
fifteen minutes later, when Louis
Hombs, one of the porters, signaled
for the emergency brake.
T. Merritts, porter of the car at
tackled, was the first to view the
robber, who pointed a pistol at him
and handed him a bag.
Here" said the intruder, who
was dressed in a black and white
checked suit and wore a cap pulled
down over his eyes, "you go ahead
and wake the passengers. Tell them
there's robber wants their money.
No monkey business, I've got three
or four pals with me-"
The porter took the bag or hat,
he is not sure which, but thinks it
was bag, and shook the occupants
of the first berth he came to.
Excuse me, SIR" said the porter,
"but there's man here says give
him your money"
cav shut up; quit your kidding
and let me Sleep" came the angry
reply from the berth.
Tell him I'm a real robber with
a gum" interposed the bandit, who
poked the weapon between the cur
tains. whereat there was a tinkling
of coin falling in the bag in the por-
'er's hands.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27
A lone BANDIT R0BS
PASSENGERS ON TRAIN

are to be made subject to and until
otherwise disposed Of either by the
Legislature or the executive coun-
Gill;"
But as to this latter point the at
torney general reserves any decision,
as it is not necessary to the case.
There is another point in the case
decided by the attorney general. The
constitution forbids any lease or
grant of agricultural lands for more
than twenty years, and as the pro-
posed lease as to this lake was for
twenty years with an additional six
years, it is illegal. 1t was held also
to be extremely doubtful If the exec
utive council could make any lease
for twenty years which is not to
commence until long after the term
Of each member shall expire.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27
WORK ON COLLEGE
annual STOLEN
Junior Glass at Iowa Wesleyan Is
Dealt Serious Blow.

Mount Pleasant, Jan. 24.-Un-
known students forced their way in
to the editorial rooms Of the junior
class, which has charge of the COL
lege annual, the Croaker, and stole
all the material that has been gath
cred during the year.
Access to the rooms was obtained
by creeping along a narrow brick
ledge beneath the windows on the
second floor of the main building.
The lock on the inner door, where
the copy was kept was forced.
The stolen material represents the
labor of nearly five months. Every
thing that would be of the least
value to the staff was taken, includ-
ing typewriters, pictures, cameras,
contracts for the printing and en-
craving, advertising contracts, cuts.
editorials and cartoons.
The theft is believed to be the
outgrowth of a long standing feud
between the two classes. Last fall,
on Founders day, which is the offic-
ial time for the seniors to appear in
their caps and gowns, nearly forty
new gowns were stolen by the jun
iors. The seniors retaliated by raid
ing the Croaker room.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27
Personal Briefs
(From Saturdays Daily.)

Cary NJ. Jones, the live stock
auctioneer who cried the F. A. Hud-
dlestun horse sale last season, was in
this city Thursday visiting at the
Huddlestun home while on his way
from Denver, Colorado, to his home
in Chicago:
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse w. Mason
left yesterday for Co!fax, where they
will spend several weeks.
Mrs. Ben. E. Sheridan and
children returned to Clinton Thurs
day after ten days stay at the P.
j. Cunningham home, having come
here on account of the illness OF
Mrs. Sheridan's brother, Patsy Gun
ningham.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. l.. Schar and
children arrived here yesterday from
Storm Lake for visit with Mrs.
Schar's parents, Mr. and Mrs. j. P.
Rasmussen and family.
9
returned to this city after an extend
ded wedding trip to various points
in this state and Illinois. They are
making a visit with Mrs. Parrish S
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Beall.
Miss Jennie Jacobson of Jewell
spent Thursday at the Rufus E. Mel
son home.
MIR. and Mrs. R. C. Tyler and
baby daughter Of Fort Dodge are
visiting at the John Hanrahan home.
Glenn and Lee Rankin Of Arm
strong, Iowa, are visiting at the
Wilson Walton home on west First
street.
Mrs. George J. Mauch went to
Ellsworth yesterday afternoon for a
short visit with Mr.. Mauch, who is
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27
Milk May be Responsible.

There are rumOrs to the effect
that the typhoid from which several
of our people are suffering has been
contracted from milk they have US
ed. Whether this is SO or not is not
known as no ANALYSIS has been made
Of any milk, but one of the families
who have severe case of typhoid
are OF the opinion that the disease
was caused in this way. If this is
true, it would be well for milk pro-
ducers and dealers to take extra pre-
cautions and not permit cattle to
feed or drink at any place where
germs Of this disease might be To-
Gated.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27
Des Moines Creditors File Action
Against Colfax
Grocer.
A RECEIVER IS NAMED
Store Will Be Operated for Benefit
of Claimants Until Further
Order.

Des Moines, Jan. 24.-Creditors of
G. H. York, Colfax grocer, who fig
ured prominently in the investiga-
ton into the death of M. B. Whee-
lock, Colfax banker, and later was
arrested on a white slave charge,
filed petition in the United States
district court yesterday asking that
he be adjudged bankrupt.
York filed an answer to the petit
ton, through his attorneys, admit
ting his insolvency. The creditors
who instituted the action are Lam
gan Bros, Todd & Kraft and David
son Bros, all of Des Moines. Their
claims aggregate an amount some
what in excess of $1,000, according
to J. D. Wallingford, attorney.
H. H. Whitaker, referee in bank
ruptcy, appointed David r. Trip,
mayor of Colfax, as receiver for
Yorks store. He also authorized
Mr.. Trip to continue the business
until further orders.
Attorney Wallingford said last
night that the value Of York's
grocery at Colfax was estimated at
$4,000. York admitted in writing
several days ago, he says, that he
was unable to pay his bills as they
came due, which constitutes an act of
bankruptcy.
York's store was closed temper
arily few days ago by Harry Gore,
a deputy sheriff of Jasper county, at
the instance Of the Citizens State
bank, which secured writ of at
tachment against it to satisfy the
principal and interest on a note
which he gave on Dec. IS, 1906. The
amount sued for was $2,146.55. The
note originally was for $1,61S.
Now that an action has been
brought to force York into bank
ruptcy, it is possible for receiver
to operate his store. The claim of
the Citizens State bank will be filed
in the federal court. Nj
During the inquiry into the death
of Cashier Wheelock it was stated
that the bank carried an overdraft
of $4,000 for the grocer. Whether
an attempt will be made to collect
on a portion Of this amount is not
known.
York is at liberty at present on
bonds of $4,000 which he furnished
after having been arrested for trans
porting Mrs. o. E. Jackson from
Kansas City to Des Moines for i'm
moral purposes.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27
Unclaimed Letters.

Following is a list of unclaimed
letters remaining in the Webster
City postoffice for the week ending
January 20, 1914:
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Rice.
Mrs. Clark Woolsey.
John w. Thineson.
Henry Davidson.
Mrs. w. A. Smith.
Miss Laura Kidd.
Miss Clara Thompson.
William Hiland.
Mrs. Matte Willis.
Soren Jacobson.
A. T. Suddarth.
If not called for in two weeks
will be sent to dead letter office,
D. c.
D. H. Bauman, P. M.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27

will resume his studies in the col
lege at Lima, O., after brief visit
in his home town.
Miss Helen Weaver, who
teaches in the high school, went to
her home in Iowa Falls this noon for
over Sunday. ..
Miss Pearl Wallace returned to
Cherokee today after visit at the
M. w. Mansfield home. .....
Mrs. George S. Lane and daugh-
tiers, Misses Georgia and Clara, and
son, Harold, and Miss Pearl Ship
man went to Fort Dodge today. The
young ladies will remain for a week
end visit with Miss Lennie Gillian.
Mrs. Will Bauman returned
this noon to her home in Primghar
after couple of weeks stay in this
city called by the death of the late
Miss Eva Bauman, and also in KAN
rar, where she visited her parents.
Mrs. Ora Newman spent the day
in Fort Dodge, going over to visit
with Mrs. w. B. Kearns' mother,
who has been very i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Claybaugh
and baby went to Fort Dodge today
for visit with Mr.. Claybaugh's
uncle, Elmer Duckett.
Miss Ethel France, of Woodstock
is in the city for a visit with Miss
Florence Leonard.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27

on the Rock Island railway, chased
Conductor Wood, in charge of one
of the trains, and in order to escape
being gored to death he had to crawl
under the wreckage.
The wreck occurred in a cut and
the demolished cars are piled thirty
feet high over the two engines, with
dead and MANNED cattle in and about
the wreckage, parts of which are
scattered along the track for half a
mile. The property loss is very
heavy.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27
THE WALL LAKE
LEASE IS VOID
That is the Ruling Of the Attorney
General-State Has no Right to
Make Such Contract.
THE CONSTITUTION FORB1DS
Must Hold Meander Beds Subject to
Immediate Sale and Transfer
Of Title.
THE CONSTITUTION F0RB1Ds

Des Moines, Jan. 24.-Long time
leasing of lake beds in Iowa for ag-
ricultural purposes is not legal nor
will such leases avail anything. 1t
is not possible to tie up the proper
ty of the state for long period Of
time so that it can not be disposed
Of in the ordinary way.
The question arose with reference
to project for leaving Wall lake
for a period of years so that the les
see should have sufficient time to eff
feet, or complete, the drainage,
which had been decreed and started
some years ago. This matter, so it
seems, was never completed, but the
governor held it up until some legal
questions could be disposed of. In
fact the governor as soon as he made
investigation of the proposals de-
cided that the state could not enter
into longtime lease, but to make
sure of his position he submitted a
series of questions to the attorney
general as to the legal phases of the
proposed lease. This matter has been
under investigation long time and
the attorney general has just had
time to prepare legal opinion on
the same.
Attorney General Cosson in his
opinion states:
at seems perfectly obvious that
this section (under which the lease
was to be made) conveys no author
ity to the executive council to make
a contract with reference to the
meandered, nOn-navigable lakes Of a
state for a definite period of twenty
or twenty-six years, but that such
lease of any meandered, non-navig-
able lake or lake bed within the
| state must be made subject to dis
position at any time by the general
assembly, or in the language of the
statute, until otherwise disposed Of.
Surely it was not the intention of
the general assembly in the passage
of chapter $50. Acts of the Thirty
Fifth General Assembly, to give the
executive council the extraordinary
power of withdrawing from the pub
lie all meandered. non-navigable
lakes and lake beds within the state
by leasing the same to private par
ties to be drained and used for agri-
| cultural or other private purposes,
such leases to be for definite per-
Tod of years and beyond the future
control and disposition Of even the
general assembly itself, and I so
hold. 1t would seem to follow as a
necessary corrollary that if the exec
utive council is without authority to
make lease except and until other
wise disposed of by the legislature,
it is also without authority to make
a lease except and until otherwise
disposed of by itself: in other words,
that the purpose of that part of the
statute which authorizes the execu-
tive council to lease any lake or lake
bed until otherwise disposed Of is
to prevent the permanent DISPOSE
tfon Of the lakes of the state in the
form Of leases by the executive
council. but that such leases, IL any,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27
Petitions Filed.

The State Bank of Jewell has fill
ed petition in the district court
against H. J. Wiese asking Judgment
for 500 alleged due on a promisory
note.
w. H. Whitinger asks Judgment
for 1924 against r. c. Richie and
Florence l.. Richie, which plaintiff
alleges is due on a promissory note.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27
ANGRY BULL
CHASES THE
7RA|NMEN
Animal Released From Wreckage
Gives Conductor Bad Few
Moments.
REFUGE IN PILE OF WRECKAGE
Debris Piled Thirty Feet High in
Railroad Cut and Scattered
Along Track for Half Mile.
REFUGE IN PILE OF WRECKAGE

Council Bluffs, Jan. PA bull
which was released in head-on COL
lision of freight trains near Marine
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-01-27
THE MODERN CLEANERS

". R. RYAN, Mgr.
Established 1909.
Office with Cash & Lehnhard
Phone 1873 CPS Second St,
WEBSTER CITY, IOWA
Goods called for and delivered,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-11
LANES DINNER MAKES
THE PRESIDENT SICK

WASHINGTON. - Secretary Frank
lin X. Lane of the interior depart
ment has been numerically "joshed"
by his fellow cabinet officers because
President Wilson after attending the
secretarys birthday party, was taken
i'll and suffered serious attack OF
Indigestion. True, the President re.
covered in a couple of days, but that
fact did lot lessen the desire of the
other ca et officers to have little
fun with the secretary.
Frank" said one member OF the
cabinet to the secretary of the inter-
ior, when the President had fully re-
covered and had his official family
around him, ''if you intended to get
the President out of the way why
didn't you give MIN full dose, and
make a good job of 1t ?"
1T looks a little suspicious, said
another, that the President should
be the only guest at your dinner to
be affected by the food. Out Of cour-
tesy, you should at least have pre-
tended you we're suffering in the same
manner and from the same cause"