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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-09-05
Washington Irving A
School Composition By
Dwight Garrison

George Washington was born Febru-
airy %, 1892 at Bridges Creek, Virginia.
AS a boy he had keen love for the
truth and would scorn to tell lie. He
was so calm and just when at school
that the boys would call on him to
make peace when they were at strife.
He knew how to rule his own heart
and grew up to be a wise and good
man. When he saw it was right to do q
thing he did that thing at once. He
was born to rule He had strong
mind and strong heart. He had all
the gifts which in years to come made
the great commander. On July y1775
Washington took command OF the
American army. The place where he
stood is still dear to all in the land It
was on the same place Cambridge Com-
mon, Mass, where those men met to
pray and ask God to bless them and
their plan, ere they made their start
to be free He was elected president Of
the United States and took his place on
April 30. 1889. This post he kept for
two terms of four years each. He did
so we'll that it was said of him he was
the first in war and first in peace and
the first in the hearts Of his country
men. He died December IA, 1893. He
was the greatest American that ever
lived.
Dwight Garrison. age 10,
Belknap. Iowa. r. No. 1
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Teacher Told Most Interest
ing Story Anna Ever
Heard

The most interesting story l ever
heard is one my teacher told me.
In the western part of Iowa on a
large farm, lived a man and his family
One evening while they were eating
supper some one pushed open the door
and entered. Thy all looked up at
the abrupt entrance and saw a large
man with heavy dark beard carrying
knapsack and a cane. On asking
what he wanted, he said he was hun
cry and wanted something to eat
They gave him his supper and he
wanted to stay all night, but they told
him that he could not. He insisted,
and when they again declined he look
ed angry, as much as to say, All
right I'll get my revenge
The family retired for the night but
in the morning on going to the barn
the man found his beautiful horse
gone and also his dog had been pois-
oned. The man had his suspicious and
at once spread the alarm and soon
there were several men came and they
all started in pursuit of the man.
He had not gone very far however,
for he did not know hardly where he
wanted to CO. He finally came to a
long straight, level road when he
either saw or imagined there were
men coming after him. There was a
timber on the east side of the road
and thinking he might find refuge
there he started that way.
The men were following him. When
he came into the woods he jumped
from the horses back half scared out
Of his senses. He started to climb a
tree. 1t was no easy job but he got
up in the top of the tree for the men
were riding right under the tree, but
did not see him.
AS the tree was hollow he slipped
down to the bottom of the tree, never
dreaming that he had no way to get
out.
The men went and finally found the
horse, but they wondered what be-
came of the man. In a few days it
was forgotten and he was spoken of
no more. The people thinking that
he surely made his escape some way.
About ten years afterwards this
same man whose horse was stolen cut
/ this tree down and the shelton of a
man was found. The people wondered
4 who it could be and how he got there.
Then it occurred TO some one that
possibly it might be this same tramp
| that took the horse as it was about
his size.
SO after many years the mystery
was solved.
Anna l.. Palfreyman, Age IA.
| Lucas, Iowa, Route No.
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VeOnne Tells of a Wonderful
Invention - The Tie
Laying Machine

Dear Juniors: What wonderful in.
ventions man is making each day In
line of labor saving machines.
| have just returned from seeing the
rail and tie laying machine. The G.
B. & @. Railroad Co., has it's line with
in five miles of completion. This ma
chine Is about 20 feet by 10 feet. On
the south side is long trough which
extends nearly to the engine. This
trough is used for carrying the ties
down to the front where two men
straighten them while others drop
them on the ground. In the trough
about 6 feet apart are clog wheels.
These arc run by means of steam con-
veyed In pipes from the engine to the
machine. When full of ties the wheels
turn, sending them forward. On the
north side is the trough for the rails.
After the ties are dropped the rails
are loved and bolted.
There are six fat cars carrying new
ties These are behind the engine. In
front of the tie cars are three rail cars.
After the engine, supply car, the ca
bose. then two cars for spikes and
plates.
Following the train are 80 men who
drive spikes. The tie Jewelers. come al.
ter the spike drivers
I counted in this outfit Is boarding
cars and 36 sleeping cars. There are
about $50 men.
Just few more days and the trans
continental railway will be finished.
Then the Atlantic will be connected to
the Pacific.
| heard the Douglas band met them
with an escort of about 300 people at
Center street. The band played sew
eral good selections and then the fire
whistle blew The track layers turned
and made godo speed for a little town
west, Glenrock, good joke on them.
A. Veonne Williams,
Age IA. Douglas, Wyo.
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Madeline's Best Story Told
BY Her Parents
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor;
The best story I can recall to mind
at present is told by my parents.
Many years ago on a beautiful Sep
TENDER morning, a ship sailed from the
harbor of New York bound to the East
Indies.
She was loaded with products of
American industry and was expected to
bring back a cargo of coffee and spices
The captain was a young man full of
energy and ambition, the only son of
a widowed mother
On board were two passengers, a boy
and girl, who were the children of a
merchant in India. They had been Wis
iting their aunts in America wherelthey
expected to attend one of the noted
universities. They We're called to their
distant home by the news that their
mother who had greved so sorely over
their separation from her children that
her life was in danger.
They days sped on. heightened into
weeks and months but the ship did not
return.
Months passed, but no tidings of the
missing vessel reached either shore
On one side. an aged mother alone
and friendless cried out to the sea
Bring back my boy On the other
side dying mother moaned Give back
lily ueGT oHeS. buL the sea gave 1t
sign and only continued to roll onward
in its mighty course.
Years have passed away, and botf
mothers have gone where there is nc
more sea. but still the waves hide from
the cruel story of the "Castaways,'
which will be revealed to use at judg
ment day.
My father has taken the paper for
sixteen years.
I have one brother and three sisters
so to the academy to school. My
school was out June 10th and will take
up in two more weeks
Madeline Madigan. age IL,
SIT w. Mill ST.. Ottumwa- Ioua>
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c. =, Oregon, Junior Says
g: "a Grandmother Is
Visiting Us"
Dear Juniors:

Dear .7"niors:
AS have never written you before
! will tell you Of our city. The public
library, city hall, court house, cathedral
and several other buildings are made
Of native stone which is brought from
a quarry southeast of the city.
All cf our main streets are paved
and ccInented.
We have four schools besides the
Catholic one. One of the schools also
has high school,
My grandmother who comes from
Iowa to visit us is here now and that is
how happen to be writing to you. She
is going back in October. l will have
to close now.
Maria Schaffner. age 13.
Baker, Oregon.
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4 fter the Shower
cd rose. red rose

: ed rose, red rose,
Nodding in the wind,
Deep within thy glowing heart
Is mystery enshrined.
'on gladden. all the landscape
As you bend and sway
inst the misty background
IF the gray, wet day.
Il hc1l, harebell,
- ~ slender stem,
To IF all the summer skies
Nv diadem!
P"~"5' wv, SO shyly,
u r. the South Wind pass,
~ $ cops to WOO you
= he sweet, wet grass.
- '1y,
cent and pure,
w., rsullied loneliness
'',~' shall endure!
Vi u through the ages,
c,oistered aisles of prayer,
G. souPs deep purity,
TRUE, WHITE, 1alr!
F.. rcup, buttercup,
= ny chalice gold
+ he summer sunshine
r. ''ttle heart can hold!
u he goes Drumming over
8 adden other flowers,
star with gold the highway
Thu ough the long, bright hours
] - pansy,
IA thy velvet cheek.
IT. made for soft caressing,
sra tender thoughts that seek
g. ct of thy sweetness.
ga now tell me true,-
3 w anne the answer,
lis just for you'll"
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SEVEN RULES FOR THE JUNIORS.

, 1. Use one side Of the paper only
2. Write neatly and legibly, using
Ink or sharp lead pencil.
8. Always sign your name in full
and state your age.
4. Do not copy stories or poetry and
send US as your work.
5. Number your pages.
6. Always state choice of a prize
on a separate piece of paper, with
name and address in full.
Z. Address envelope to The Courier
Junior.
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THE COURIER JUNIOR
Publisied by
THE COURIER PRINTING co.
Otturnwa, Iowa
MATILDA DEVEREAUX
EDITOR
READ ToDAY's STORIES.

Dear Juiors:n Today We have sever
al of 1.-THE Most Interesting Stories
Ever Heard" and we want all the
Juniors to read them carefully. After
reading them, we feel sure that many
of the Juniors will be able and VIII
want to send in 1.-THE Most Interesting
Story I Ever Heard" Consequently
we will use this subject for another
contest. However the prize winners
for the contest just closed will be
selected from among the writer's whose
work appears today and will appear
next week. The judges Will also an
nounce their choice next week.
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1.-THE f.osT INTERESTING STORY
EVER HEARD"

For a aev contest we want the Jun
Tors to j , mort stories, the subject
being, - I Jst Interesting Story |
Ever Hea I. We feel that many of
the JUNO! ]. IL relate splendid stories
told by t. elders.
Select D IS from among the follow
ing artic S. Roller skates, book, SOU
venir Il, ! beautiful doll, knife,
worl, ] &, box of candy, letter pa
per, 10, a., or string Of beads.
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COMPOSITIONS AND
LETTER.

We hope that many more of the
Juniors will write letters. We will
offer surprise prize for the best let
ter and all the Juniors may work for
it.
We want more of the Juniors to
send in school compositions
We will give beautiful doll, knife,
book, roller skates, letter paper or
beads for the best composition.
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ABOUT PRIZES.

If the Courier Juniors have ever
failed to receive prizes when the win
ners' names were published We want
to be told about it right away. We
also want all of our prizes acknowl-
edged. We send out prizes within two
weeks.
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31
STATE ART EXHIBIT
AT MINNESOTA FAIR
Eyes Of Art World Focused on
Gopher Exposition.

Five new spacious art galleries for
the accommodation Of quarter of a
million dollars worth of art subjects
from all parts of America have been
built at the Minnesota State Fair.
Experts declare the exhibit, Sept.
7-12, will be superior to any fine art
exhibition held west of New York,
with the possible exception of ST.
Louis and Chicago.
The Minnesota State Art Society is
cooperating with the Fair in putting
on the exhibit Maurice l. Flagg, di-
rector of the State Art Society, de-
clares the annual state art exhibition
will be held at the Fair hereafter.
The exhibit will include paintings and
examples of Industrial art. sculpture,
handicraft, and other phases of art.
There will be nearly 10000 feet OF
available wall space.
. An International Jury will award
the prizes, which include $3.50 in cash
and two gold medals. Lectures and
demonstrations will be given each
day of the Fair to explain to the thou
sands thronging the galleries the
principles underlying the exhibit In
addition there will be shown twenty
seven farm home plans, thirty-1ve
model farmyard landscape designs
and fifty excellent designs for model
village houses.
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31
CROWD WITNESSES TRAGEDY
Husband Kills Wife While Latter Is
Demonstrating Corn Cure in
Duluth Show Window.

Martin A. Johnson, formerly pro.
prietor of Duluth cigar factory but
recently of Chicago, shot and instantly
killed his wife while she was demon.
strating corn cure in the show win
dow of Duluth drug store.
Johnson escaped with a mob OF
nearly 500 persons in pursuit and
after a spectacular chase was cap
tured by a teamster, who felled him
with blow from his fist and dis
armed him. Twenty policemen were
necessary to rescue him. Lynching
was threatened.
Johnson had been separated from
his wife, who was thirty-seven years
old, for several months.
While scores of people stood in
front of the big plate glass window
in the drug store watching her John
son forced his way into the store and
began quarreling with her
The crowd outside watched it with
interest. Then Johnson, suddenly
drawing a revolver, fired point blank
at the woman, who toppled over dead
in the window with bullet through
her heart.
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31
CHAMPION HORSES ENTERED
Minnesota State Fair Horse Show
Draws From Best Stables.

The Evening Horse Show at the
Minnesota State Fair, Sept 7-12, will
be attended this year by more horses
of national reputation than at any
time previously This is to result
from a general increase in premium
money in nearly every class.
The Show will be managed in the
same way as the noted Horse Shows
at Madison Square Garden, Ne W York;
Chicago and Kansas City. The Coli
scum will be decorated deliberately,
and every, convenience and comfort
possible will be arranged. 1t is ex-
pected that large audience will be
present each evening. Several high
priced vaudeville acts will he placed
on every program, and two noted
bands will play.
Many noted horsemen from the
East and South have signified their
intention of entering their champion
horses. There appears to be unusual
interest samong driving and riding
horse owners in the Northwest.
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31
Giving Birds a Chance.

If mans instinct as a hunter could
have been diverted from birds to in
Sects the history of economic affairs,
and especially of agriculture, would
have been very different But be has
continued killing birds, not merely as a
sport, but often for greedy traffic, long
after the need to do so passed away.
The time has come when governments
must take serious thought for the pro-
lection Of bird life in order that plant
life on which human sustenance de-
ponds may noe be jeopardized and de-
Vtroyed.-Atlanta Journal.
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31
WOULD THROW OUT COUNTY
Rines Contends ST. Louis Ballots
Were Illegal.

Henry Rines, contestant against ].
A. o. Preus for the Republican nomi-
nation for state auditor, has asked
the Hennepin county district court
that the vote cast for auditor in st.
Eouis county be thrown out on the
ground that the law providing for ro-
tation of names on ballots in the pri-
mary election of June Is was ignored.
Should the court grant the demand of
Mr.. Rines it will mean that he will be
the nominee of the Republican party
for the office of state auditor.
Mr.. Rines asserts that during the
course of the recount in st. Louis
county it was found that Mr.. Preus'
name was never at the bottom of the
list; that it appeared at the top and
in second place twice as many times
as his own.
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31

two statements already issued. and
will be, his final conclusion as to what
we should do with them.
Columbus was 20 days crossing the
Atlantic, and will be at sea in an an
niversary way until Oct. IL. Lieut..
Porte, who will start across in an
aeroplane about Aug. 5, when the
moon is full, expects to make the
passage in SO hours. However, he
will have crew of but one man to
keep in subsection. whereas Columbus
had some so or go. including several
Industrial Workers of the world. He
could have discovered America some
80 days earlier than he did, but his
men only consented to land when the
food was exhausted and they smelled
cocoanuts. His performance is not to
be judged by anything done in that
line today, unless the expedition
should be joined by Upton Sinclair or
the Rev. Bouck White.
And then T. Lipton's spread of sail
Will raise the lights of Gotham
town
And Uncle Sam shall rush to nail
The celebrated trophy down.
No boat they ever did invent
Could take it back across the sea,
But no doubt Tom will be content
To get good boost for his tea.
The dog days will end Aug. IL.
when the dog star shall cease to rise
with the sun. Dogs will at once
resume their former pleasant associa.
tions with man, dogcatchers will
abandon that ignoble profession fol
horse trading or some other reputable
avocation and madstones will go into
retirement On the Goth the month,
will pass out of the influence of Lee
the Lion, the fifth sign of the Zodiac
and enter the dominion of Virgo the
Virgin the sixth, sign. People borr
under Leo are very bold, and usually
get lower berth when they are out
on a summer trip. Virgo people
upon the other hand, are very pure
minded and believe the man is telling
the truth when ne says he hasn't any
more low ers.
On Aug. 81 there will be tota
eclipse of hte sun but it will be visi
bic only in Russia. At Minsk, Russia
it will continue for two and one-fourtI
minutes, but there will be so little t.
see in Minsk after it passes that al
most nobody will go. Unless Mr.
Wilson thinks of something else, Con
gress will adjourn about the 25tI
when the members will go home to SCI
if their wives waited for them o
got married again.
And then September's orifamme
Shall 60 sedately up,
And old Jotn Bull and Uncle Sam
Shall wrestle for the cup.
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31
Severe Attack of Collie Cured

E. E. Cross. who travels in Vir-
ginia and other Southern States. was
taken suddenly and severely i'll with
collie. At the first store he came to
the merchant recommended Chamber
lain S Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. Two doses of it cured him.
No one should leave home on journey
without bottle of this preparation.
For sale by all dealers. Adv.
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31
ARGUE BEMIDJI DRY CASE
Attorneys for Liquor Interests Move
fer Rehearing.

A petition for a rehea ing of the
Bemidji Indian liquor case has been
filed in the United States supreme
court by attorneys for liquor dealers.
The petition recites that there is no
purpose of seeking a ret-gument of
the law in the case. The claim for
rehearing is based on an allegation
that the matter of whether the treaty
of 1855, under which the Minnesota
Indian country was held to be dry
territory, should be left to congress.
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31
SERIES OF FATAL ACCIDENTS
TWO Men and TWO Boys Meet Death
by Drowning.

by browning.
Two men and two boys were
drowned at Lake Nebagamon, Two
Harbors and Fond du Lac in series
of accidents.
The dead: Elmer Peterson, twenty
eight years old, Billings Park, Su-
perior; Peter Bjork, twenty-eight, Du-
luth; James Risatti, eighteen, Duluth;
Arthur Engstrom, eighteen, Two Har-
bors.
Peterson was drowned despite sew
eral persons endeavoring to save him.
Bjork swan too far from a launch
and became exhausted. The Eng
strom lad lost his life when his boat
was capsized. Risatti was seized
with cramps while bathing in the St.
Louis river.
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31
our First Admiral.

Esek Hopkins was the first admiral
Of the American navy, being appointed
in 1775 by the Continental congress
commander ia chief of the navy. While
he at first achieved great success, he
was removed in 1777 on the ground Of
incompetency. He died in 1902 at
Providence, R. l., where a monument
has been erected to his memory.
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31

at miles
a. he end of his
of
forever Visitors from other have
The efficient exhibit
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31
Appropriate Action.

Shoe Store Proprietor-So Miss Jones
on that last trip did not select for us Il
dancing slipper of proper style? Man
ager-No, sir. In selecting the slipper
she put her foot into it.-Baltimore
American
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31
HIGH DIVER LOSES HIS LIFI
PIunges Seventy Feet to Death in the
Mississippi.

To demonstrate his diving skill ].
G. Bledsoe of Indianapolis plunged
down seventy feet to his death in the
Mississippi river at Hastings. While
searchers were dragging the river c.
F. Sanders, also of indianapolis, took
the dead mans clothes and boarded
train for Red Wing.
Apprehended by Chief of Police A.
G. Jackson of Red Wing at the re-
quest of Hastings officers Sanders was
taken back. He explained that he
was merely excited and had intended
to send the clothes to Bledsoe's home
in Indianapolis. The police are in
vestigating.
Morris tribune., 1914-07-31
Notice of Filing Of and Hearing
on Ditch Petition.

Notice is hereby given that petit
ton OF which the following is copy.
has been filed in the Office of the
County Auditor of Stevens County,
State Of Minnesota. and that hear
ing will be had upon said petition be-
fore the County Board. at the Office
of the County Auditor of said County,
in the City of Morris on the 18th day
of September A. D., 1914. at 10
O'Clock A. M.
Dated at Morris, Mimi, this 9th
day Of July 1914.
~ n u
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to amount to something, not only in
New York, but in other places.
Fitzsimmons was middleweight
and heavyweight champion at the
same time and never lost the former
title
Now, at 81, heroic ~"Battling Bob"
wants to fight. I'm not. quite so
good as was, but if l couldn't dis
pose of these white hopes I've seen
I'd be ashamed of myself They're
getting money under false pre-
lenses"
Until a few weeks ago Fitzsimmons
was content to rest on his well-earn-
ed Iaurels, but when he saw Jim
Flynn and Jim Coffey founder
through ten rounds like pair of
haIf-trained sea lions he jumped into
the ring and, after sitting the tumult
of cheers, said:
after watching the exhibition
here tonight, feel it my duty to re-
enter the ring and dispose of some
of these so-caIled Fighters. y
Next day Bob was signed by one
of the Gotham fight clubs to meet
an unnamed hope" on Jan. 6. Fftz,
weighing about 200, began training.
Then the N. Y. S. B. G. applied the
brakes and barred the veteran. Fitz
pleaded in person, but the commits
sion was obdurate. They told ruby
Robert" he was of a vintage too rare.
'I1 fight any of them in private
and if 1 don't put him away in four
rounds l won't ask to box in public, -
Bob offered, but the commission was
deaf.
1t was salve the commission hand
ed Bob in. the shape of a declaration
that he is still middleweight cham
pion. They might have added he
would die champion, as they won't
let him box
"a lot of good the title 1 won from
Jack Dempsey does me when l cawnt
fO11Ouy NV limo of hUcinncc fO TooIzo a
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square" BUSINESS SAFE

Washington, Jan. 15.-In the franz
ing of supplementary antitrust laws
President Wilson has announced that
business which is square" no mat
ter. how big, is not to be molested.
His ideas for legislation include crea-
ton of an Industrial trade commits
sion, prohibition of interlocking di-
rectorates and making guilt personal
upon corporation magnates.
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per cent better than some of the jokes
now collecting the money.
And, at that, it isn't difficult to
visualize Carl Morris, Pelkey, Jesse
Willard, Jim Flynn, and few more
of the punk crop, Standing bewilder-
ed before the foxy Fitzsimmons exc
cutting one of his famous shifts.
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I'm tn marshal O. this here vii
lage, l am; an my heck, I'll pinch
ye.".
well, knew this burg was sleepy,
but l didn't suppose they had some
body pinching people to keep them
awake"
CycIist-How far is it to the near
est inn? Native-I reckon as how
it's about ten miles as the crow flies.
Cyclist-But if a crow rides bicycle
how far is it?