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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-11-12
Farm Loans
Lowest rates. Complete
set of Abstract of Title to all
lands and town lotsin Audi.
bon County.
CHARLES BAGLEY
A Travelling Man Cured

P. B. Counterman, travelling man Of
Joplin, Mo-, writes: Twelve years ago
was great sufferer from stomach trou.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-11-12

acres pasture 40 acres fenced slight
'ly rolling. 2 wells. 3-room house
good basement BARN 32x74. Fine
grove around buildings. One mile to
town. In consolidated school dis
trict. R. F. D. and telephone The
price, $500. Terms $1,000 cash.
$500 at time of possession. Will
give possession December /, 1914.
This place cannot be beat for To-
cation. $65.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-11-12
LUMBER PILES

LUMBER PILES
It keeps us busy to keep our
stock full, SO we can meet all de-
nands. We are especially prepared
now to take care OF orders requir-
ing cut lumber. But our stock OF
FINISH LUMBER
is also complete, Including White
Pine, YELLOW Pine and Cypress Fin
ish, etc.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-11-12

$40 acres. 6 miles from good mar
ket. Considerable hay land on this.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-11-12
List OF Farm Lands Of The
IoWa-Minnesota Land s Investment
Co. Grasston, Minnesota

->'1''~S
Co. Grasston, Minnesota
No. $3.50 acres at s56.25 per
acre About 25 acres under cultiva-
ton. balance easy to put under Gull
tiyation. Plenty of meadow and
pasture. This is a nice laying
piece. Six room brick house. Two
and one-half miles to one of the
best creameries in the state of
Minnesota, which is a good trading
point. ION rural route. Terms $4,000
cash, balance A years at er cent
s56.25.
No. 1880 acres at $53.75 per
acre. 25 acres cultivated, entire
farm tillable. Soil clay loan. Good
we'll. Six room house. Barn 32x4Sz
16, granary 12x16, corncrib and
machine shed. Insurance carried
$1,000. Three and one-half miles to
town. Encumbrance $1,000. Terms
cash $500. balance 5 years at 6
per cent. $53.75.
No. 74-sO acres at s42.50 PEI
acre. This is a nice little farm
lying in good community. 1t has
small 8 room house, shed, barn
granary and silo built new last
year. Located on rural route and
has telephone in house. Five and
one-half miles to Grasston. Encum.
brance $1,000 due in 4 years al
| 5 1-2 per cent. Price $1,000. Equity
cash. $42.5O.
No. 1870 acres at $3.50 pei
acre. Practically all clear. Coos
soil. Four room house, barn 14x24
with lean 16 feet, granary, vel
house and stone root house. 80 acre
cultivated, As acres more can b.
put under the plow. Chicken housa
10x16. sdlo and telephone, rura
routes withdn one-half mile. / mi
to school, 3 miles to good church
fifty to sixty acres of this is
good hay land. Encumbranc,
$4,000 due in 1918 at 5 1-2 per CEN
Price $3.50 per acre. Cash $4,000
Balance to suit purchaser.
l o
No. $3.50 acres at $71.s7 l..
As acres cultivated, all can be till
ed. Fenced and cross fenced. Lay,
level Good broom house, barn 80.
40x17, granary 14x1S shed on eacl
side, new chicken house 14x16, corr
crib. Mice grove around house. Riy
er cuts corner 4 1-2 miles t,
town. R. F. D. and telephone
mile to school. Well in house an,
barn. Enculmbrance $1,000 due ID
1915. Terms $1,000 balance tim
at 6 per cent. s71.s7 1-2.
No. 1880 acress at $56.25. 3!
acres cultivated, As acres pastur
20 acres tillable, all fenced. Lay
good. Good we'll. Three room house
R. F. d. In consolidated distnc
with good school advantages. Bar,
1896, granary 1922. Two mile
from market. Encumbrance $50
lduA Anril LIST 1919 Terms s1hO
cash, balance time at 6 per cent.
$56.25.
No. 1880 acres 40 acres cultiva
led, 40 acres pasture. ALI tdllable, al
fenced. Lays level. soil dark loan
2 good wells. Four room house
barn, 20x40 and other buildings.
miles to market. On R. F. D. Schoc
a trifle over one mile. Price $4,000
lTerma S36O0 cash hailanno tima a
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-11-12

$500 acres. Located in Itasca Co.,
Mimi. This tract is enclosed in a
fence which also includes some 9th
er vacant lands giving a total
range about 1000 acres. The farm
is new and the soil excellent, being
a fine clay loan that does not
bake. The clovers. potatoes and all
kinds Of vegetables and grasses
grow astondshingly. There are five
A. clover and alfalfa newly seeded
fields aggregatiug SO to 100 acres,
besides magnificent blue-joint mea-
dows along the river capable of
yielding probably 200 tons per an
mum. Nearly every forty watered by
spring, creek or by the lake. About
1900 acres uncut, log house 75x20,
barn 34x22 with two sheds attach
ed shop, hay shed, cement cell
lar etc. Feed on hand for about 100
head of stock. Immediate poss-
essipn given. Wa believe there is
timber enough ON this place to
pay for it. Price $4,000 per acre.
Long time to pay. If interested
write and we will give more de-
tailed description.
=. % >.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-11-12

No. s7-1eo A. Every foot clear.
ed. New house and barn, buildings
about sixty rods from good school
Farm slopes gently to the south. Or
R. F. D. AMI telephone. This is {
very choice quarter and one Of
the best to be found in this vicini
tty. Located just halfway between
Grasston and the County seat. Price
$500 per acre. Terms.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-11-12

No. ss-12o acres. 80 acres under
plow. All can be cultivated. 40 acres
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21

(Written Specially For The Bui1etin)
 1t was St. Patrick's day of the 1ST--. Various circumstances made 1t pos sible for Edward Mccoy to have the day to himself, and he took his bride of the previous month to visit his own family in the suburbs of the same town. That family consisted of fath- CT, mother and sister Mary besides himself Ned Mccoy and his sister. Molly had been the closest Of chums until his marriage took place. His bride was well known to them all, and valuable as a friend, but though Lena Baldwin was a cherished friend, she was not of their communion, and they were devoted Catholics. Mir. and Mrs. Mccoy loved Ned too well to re- fuse 8 welcome to his chosen wife, and soon adjusted themselves to the new condition of things, however deeply they might feel about 1t for Lena was evidently disposed to be 8 dutiful daughter to them, and wor- thy helpmeet for their dear boy. But they were married by her own pastor, and to Mollie this was too grievous an ry of previous friendship or sisterly affection. Ned had always been proudly fond of his sister, and he felt the arrangement with more than or dinary keenness.
 Mollie was just the type of Irish beauty which we all admire. with clear complexion black hair and blue eyes shaded by long curling black lashes- Her roguish glance had subdued more hearts than one, but still she seemed fonder of Ned than of all her beaux- They often said there was no chance for them while Ned remained single. and secretly rejoiced when Ned sue cumbed to the charms of Lena Bald win, Protestant though she were. She had been employed in the office of the store where Ned was a clerk, and had won his love and returned it. Lena must have had a slight strain of Swedish blood in her veins. Her straight light hair and rosy cheeks indicated it, though her family had been in the States for more than one generation.
 The McCoys' father and mother were born in Ireland, and still bore a strong affection for the old country. So on this day Ned Carried with him a pot of fiourishing shamrock to cheer his mothers heart and let her know he had not forgotten her love for St Patricks day. Lena was a skillful cook. and took a fine cake for her con- tf-ibution to the days feast. But Mol lie was not to be appeaSed by any such gifts. and soon left them for the day, accepting the invitation of one of her many admirers to spend the holiday elsewhere.
 Saddened though they were by Mol lies conduct, still the day was happf- ly spent at the old home. Ned's sad ness was mingled with Vexation al Mollie's actions. and he openly de nounced her foolishness as he called
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21
A STRIKING CONTRAST.

One cannot help being impressed by the marked contrast which exists to- day between the conditions which exist in Mexico and those in the Philippines. the former a republic directing it's own affairs and the latter under the protective wing of this country. Such might be said by some to be evidence of the Filipinos ability to take care of themselves but it is the best kind of proof of the wisdom of delaying the independence of the islands for some time to come. The Philippines are showing progress every day, the civil ization is well advanced and steadily improving through the influences of the forces which are there at work but the great majority of those people have not gotten to the point where they could not be easily returned to their former condition or where they are able to prevent strife either of an internal or external character, It would be a grand chance for the rope tition of the chaotic conditions which exist in Mexico today should they be turned adrift to conduct their own of fairs without a guiding hand of wis dom and restraint.
 The Philippines are progressing be- cause of education and Mexico is in its present plight because of the lack of it. Too meagre have been the un- dertakings in that direction and it is but natural that the children of today without even ordinary schooling should become the desperado or bandit of tomorrow. Education will be the sal vation of that republic and it becomes
 more and more evident that when Mexico gets time to think about it, it must realize that what has been done in the Philippines is just what should be done in Mexico
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21
SOUND MANAGEMENT FIRST.

Though it may be the best, honesty is not the only policy which Is fol- lowed in the conduct of a states bus mess This is one of the deplorabIe facts which is frequently revealed but particularly so in the disclosures made by the investigation in the highway scandals of the state of New York Whatever may have been previously said of the situation in that state the report of the investigation by James w. Osborne does not paint the situa- ton any brighter when it declares that the commissioners neglected their work. that their deputy was unfit that prices charged were exorbitant and that maintenance and repair work was done in such a way as to result in 8 total loss to the state
 It is not surprising in view of such statements that the New York Post should wonder what assurance the state has that other great sums would be expended with more honesty and more efficiency in other undertakings and concludes that the state govern ment might well devote itself for a while to the business of putting it's house in order, and defer the embark ing upon huge new undertakings until it has paved the way for them by solid guarantees of sound manage ment''
 It is unquestonably through just such wastes as are being revealed in the state of New York that unwar- rantable drags are being placed on state governments. Never will a state get the benefit of it's taxes. outlays and debts until such conditions are ended, but not until public opinion insists upon honesty and sound bus inesslike administration of state af- fairs and backs up prosecutions, it it likely to be obtained.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21
LETTERS TO THE EDiTOR
When Women Bieker.

Mir Editor: I did not go to the town hall on Monday night to hear the sil- ver-tongued orators, being too pleas antly (and, as 1 think, too pTofitably) engaged at home with my new jimmy pipe and the latest Scientific American. As a mere man, with an amused toi- eration for the idiosyncrasies Of all womenkind, however, I was amused at the indignation displayed by Justice" ;n the letter in yesterdays Bulletin re- garding the little boys who were ped ding anti literature in the courthouse lobby after the lecture was over.
 Seems to me, only a few weeks ago. there was considerable criticism over the fact that a small, half frozen, thoroughly ashamed looking urchin was kept parading up and down before the store where an anti-sffrage food sale was in progress. This boy car ried on his back a sandwich board bearing that anticipated suffrage slo- gan about ''woman's sphere etc, and looked ready to bolt through fright any minute.
 Why, then, this suffrage hue and cry when the antis retaliated trifie? It is certainly less harmful to ones health to hand out pamphlets in a warm, heated lobby than to walk the streets in the snow and rain, like a miniature sandwich man. Come, now.
 To mis-quote famous poet, how ever:
 'eWhen lovely women stoop to picker. The average man is prone to snicker!
 BACHELOR Norwich, March q, 1914.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21
EVERY DAY REFLECTIONS
Your Own Country.

One of the advantages of a stay in Europe is that you come to appreciate better your own country. Familiarity breeds contempt, and being too close to America. being born and brought up in intimate contact with it's cus- toms and institutions, we easily de- velop the trait in human nature, which leads us to complain of what we have and overvalue what others have
 Dr. Ludwig Fulda. @ prominent Ger man poet, novelist and dramatist, re- gently visited the United States and made a few observations that ought to stimulate our self-reSpect.
 The wonderful thing about Ameri- ca" he said, ''is the chance it gives every boy and girl You are without the class separation by which Europe is dominated. Your citizens may be what they choose to be if they have the power of achievement within them selves It is your democratic spirit which is so wholly admirable. In America labor is not a disgrace. It is an honor"
 We have not reached the millennium yet on this side of the Atlantic, and there are some serious rotten spots on our apple. but, on the whole, life here has a deal more to offer the common man than he can find anywhere else on the globe.
 pr. Fuida well says that money wor- ship is no worse here than in Europe.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21
MOVING INTO NEW HOMES.

Spring brings with it the observ- ance of periodical duties in the way of housecleaning. It is also the time for an increased amount of moving and changing about for various req sons, but in which new tenements and conditions are involved about which too much care cannot be taken. While cleanliness gets a certain amount Of attention none too much can be insist ed upon in moving into new rents. particularly where little or nothing is known about the predecessors. their manner of living or the condition of their health.
 In this connection it is a partfcu- larly good piece of advice which is given by the health bureau of PhiIa delphia which advises not only a flu irrigation of a new residence but careful inspection of the plumbing and drainage It is by such action that all chances of contracting contagious diseases in households where sickness has prevailed can be overcome. It is precautionary method which has much merit for while the authorities may require Immigration of houses where rooms have been polluted by dangerous disease germs there are often instances whifh escape attention and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. This is only one way in which attention can be given to the general cleanliness of a new rent and it serves to check dangers which may be lurking there though unknown and unseen. This is as applicable to every other city as well as PhiladeI- phia and from the practice urged and carried out there valuable protection can be gained. Sanitation is required about many other things and it can be put to good use by applying it di- rectly to the home.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21
FARMERS AND PARCEL POST.

Statements have been made that the farmers are not getting the benefit from parcel post which it was expected that they would and are not making as extensive use of it as they should Such may or may not be the case. It may vary as to locality as it is more than likely that some sections are bet Ter able to take advantage of the priv ileges than others, while the disposi- ton of some is always to wait until every undertaking has been proved a certainty without any chance for a slip-up.
 Whatever may have been the exr perience in the past fifteen months the latest extension or parcel post is of such q character to appeal partic- ular1y to the producer and the house holder. Thought has been directed to the business of the farmer for the purpose of assisting him in getting into quicker and closer contact with the trade. Tn no su-as could this have heen aerAoes-ah5snccrraee to ths
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21
WATCH YOUR STEP
Horn 6io~G na.
BY THE CONDUCTOR

~'Bout all you hear on tn streets nowadays is some motor a-blowin-' First thing a guy learns when he gets a car is to blow his honm, an he keeps on blowin' no matter if they's no body in sight Motor cars ain't the CT. : Most people doin' things blows their horns right. away If they can't blow their horns they don't do tn thinga You know us humans IS mighty, like hens layin' eggs. We get sore throats tellln' about tn eggs we laid How many Carnegie Hbrar5es q think they'd be if they had to be name to fenr? If lawyers an doctors never got theis names in the paper for winnin', thare's lot O young fel- lows d study something else. It ain't only in politics they blow their horn You read how many members a church has got. and if a cheap actor stamps around far a hundred nights he gets in the horn bJowin' class. Tlney's so much bIowin' goin' on I can do little myself. I never got drunk in my life, an I aint got a. false tooth in my head II Mrs Truu1goet gives a prty she puts all the names O dudes and dudesses she out can hear her horn toot. Then when another gets & rich goat Tor her new son-in-law, sine makes noise like the village band practicin' in tn town hall Don't fool yourself think in you don't blow a horn. I'll bet you play your bazoo every day to somebody. If a fellow didn't he swell sup an bust
 T didn't hear ye tell me! Sofrys
 All change herei
 This way out
 Watch your step-
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21
STATE INDEBTEDNESS.

Connecticut is not the only state where indebtedness is making good headway. Though other states are getting heels over head into debt. and doing it faster than we are, this state is participating in the general in crease which is to be noted in state indebtedness.
 The total debt of the forty-efght states at the end of last June amount ed to over s41s. .0oo 900. the greater part Of which was funded, with an offset of but about SIT 900 900 in sinking fund assets. This means that in addition to the obligation assumed by the net indebtedness of over S342 100000 there is also the yearly expense in connec- tion herewith of a good sized interest account
 Debt fourishes over the entire coun- try and grows rapidly though stealth lly According to reports of ten years ago for the forty -eisht states the debt amounted. less sinking funds. to but about S23a, 900 900. This means an in crease Of over s107. GOO 900 during the past decade or at the rate of s1O0eO. = o0o a year. Thus the indebtedness of the states has increased nearly 50 per cent while there has been an increase m population of slightly over twenty per cent Previous decades show 2 much smaller increase
 While debts are being piled up there is no such progress to be noted in the Increase of sinking fund assets with which to meet them. The important consideration of not only keeping with in sight of the income but of making proper provisions for obliteratine the debts are apparently being overlooked or disresarded. Debt contraction may be easily accomplished but when it comes to payment it is a far differ ent matter
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21

particular kind of business in which farmers are engaged than by the ad- mission, of packages up to fifty pounds and the permission to send butter, eggs, fruit, vegetables and similar commodities in crates outside the mail bags.
 It may take some time to develop this new avenue of business for the farmer but the producer in the country as well as the resident of the city should be alive to the advantages which are afforded for both, as they probably will after the new order of things has been given the proper in- Vestigation and study
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21

us kiss and make up, when we quar- reled 1 have kissed Lena already And she held up her lips to Ned, who clasped her close in @ fond embrace. My own sister Molie after all. We will never quarrel any more as long as Shamrocks grow green for St, Pat rick's day"
 she kissed the baby In her arms. You made peace for us all. my daEhng. whispered she In the baby's ear. Blessed are the peacemakers," and the baby smiled in its dreams
 AN IpLER
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21
SUNDAY MORNING TALK
THE RAW MATERIAL OF HAPPI,
 NESS.

Former President Eliot tells the story of a poor woman who, in her last sickness, was visited by her min ister. The good man desiring to bring her thoughts to a religious focus, be- gan by asking what chief blessings she could recall during her long and not too easy life. With beaming face and with the unmistakable accent of enthusiasm the patient replied, My victualsi"
 If not just the answer the domino expected it was none the less good one. To be able to eat with relish three meals a day through a long life is a boon for which one may devoutly thank God. The trouble with most of us is that such simple and yet such real blessings are apt to be uncounted. We demand some wonderful piece of good fortune, when numberless small pleasures are our continual portion.
 Men need to realize that the raw material for happiness lies just at hand all the time if they will but reach out and take it. Gold can be refined out of the dust of the street of South Africa, and joy may be gathered from some very commonplace experiences if one has learned the art of doing so. There are melancholy people who ride in limousines in this world and some very happy people who walk.
 Given one of these early spring morn ings and a man with fair health and a clear conscience and you have the ingredients of joy. The walk to busi- ness, the crisp air, the crunching snow or gravel beneath ones feet. the kindly greeting of friends, the bloom in florists window, these things. to a normal mind, spell happiness. One understands what the sage meant when he exclaimed, Give me health and a day and 1 will make the pomp of enporors ridiuulous!"
 Whatever the losses and disappoint ments of life many delights remain for those who are of a mind to accept enjoyed by all whose digestions have not been ruined by highly seasoned and improper diet. It is the man of simple tastes and clean life to whom life is continually interesting. A current anecdote represents an old man in Paris restaurant. The waiter, recitihs his list of dinner dishes, closed with the formula Monsieur wishes-?" T wish" falt-
 cred the old man. 'I wish-that l wish Somethingi" I would sooner be in the bread lins than in that old mans chair.
 He who has learned, whatever his
 material estate, to recognize and on joy the small, every day pleasures is rich now and storing up vast heritage of enjoyment for old age. Robert Louis Stevenson, haggard and bedridden; is Our teacher in this regard His brave words are a sort of gospel for the day for minds closed to the appeal of those common joys that are the bounty ot God.
 If ] have faltered, more CT less. ! In my great task of happiness If ! have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning face, If beams from happy human eyes Have moved me not; if morning skies Books and my food and summer rain Knocked on my sullen heart in vain Lord, thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit wide awake THE PARSON,
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21

Possibly Ambassador Page will be able to entertain the Britons with pleasantly in such manner as 10 make them forget the real meaning of the Gould victory.
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21

The consumer is anticipating an other boost in the coal bill as an off set to the expense of meeting the gov ern1nent suit for the breaking up of tls coal monopoly
Norwich bulletin., 1914-03-21

Following his success in stopping a slide Col. Goethals ought not to be overlooked by the Feds as chance to use some of their good money for q great second basen