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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-01-13
Defiance Items.

Defiance, Jan. THE members OF
the Christian church have secured
new pastor, Rev. Hird, of Manning. He
will preach every other Sunday.
G. w Harness visited his daughter,
Mrs. Belle Mcknight, at the Edmund
son hospital in Council Bluffs Monday.
Miss Loutzenhise- spent the holt
day vacation at the home of her par
ents in Biocton.
Mrs. Arthur Brundage, OF Manila,
visited friends and relatives Monday.
Mir. and Mrs. J. p. Muller received
word last week from Sioux Falls, $.
D., that q baby girl had arrived at
the home of their daughter, Mrs. Sam
Kelley, and husband, on December
Both.
Miss Anna Quinn returned Saturday
from a visit in Harlan with her sis.
ter, Mrs. Henry Encnbac!l.
Miss Helen JaH,son, OF Manila
spent Monday afternoon with MISS
Jessie Westbrook.
Miss Beatrice Ford, OF Randolph,
arrived here Friday evening for WIS.,
it with friends and relatives.
Mrs. John, Shaw went to Council
Bluffs Saturday for a visit with her
mother.
Miss Bertha Havick arrived Thurs.
day from Sioux Falls, s. d., to visit
her sister, Mrs. E. Il. Mcbride.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Kallwite and
children, OF Columbus. Neb., are guests
d: the home of her sister, Mrs. Lee
Hulsebus.
Misses Alice Muller and Ada Sum
mers returned Saturday to school at
Council Bluffs. The formers brother.
Gilbert, accompanied them.
The boys basket ball team went to
Manila Tuesday evening and played
in the opera house, but were defeat
ed by the Manila team. Quite a
crowd from here accompanied them.
Burns Young spent the holiday va
cation at the home of his uncle, VIM.
| Porter, at Lehigh.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Clede Reynolds return
| ed Saturday from their wedding trip.
Mrs. Burgess is again in charge OF
the primary room, her health having
improved since taking treatments at
e. sanitarium in Cedar Rapids during
| the holidays.
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William Rickers spent several days
last week visiting at the home of iis
uncle, Mr.. William Rickers, southeast
of town.
Mr.. Tim Ryan, who is working for
Lew Kerrigan, received very bad
cut on the lower lip last Wednesday
while caring for the stock. A year.
ling colt kicked him in the face caus-
ing painful accident.
Mr.. William Nelson purchased a
Hampshire pig from MI. Fred Rickers
on Thursday OF last week.
Mr.. s. w. Calderwood purchased q
fine shorthorn calf last Friday from
MI. Fred Rickers.
Eddie Neunlann and one OF the
sons OF Rickie Bruins accompanied
Otto Dose and brother, Ed. to Danbury
on Thursday OF last week for few
days visit with friends and relatives.
George Dresser and brother, Ben
ME, and Edward Rickers left Satur.
day morning for a weeks visit with
relatives near Willard. Ncb. They
will also spend some time visiting in
Omaha.
S. ]. Jams and William Rickers left
Saturday evening for Chicago accom-.
panying four loads of fat cattle ship
ped by Mr.. Pruter. Mr.. Jams will re-
mail" in Chicago a few days to visit
at the home of his sister, Mrs. James
McKinnon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Dobler called
at the William Dobler home Sunday
Mr.. William Dobler has been on the
sick list for the past two weeks but
is improving somewhat at the present
time.
MI. Frank Dozark purchased two
Hampshire male hogs from William
jain Monday OF last week.
! Mr.. William Rickers is assisting
with the work at the S. j. JAMS home
while Mr.. JAMS is in Chicago.
| Mr.. John G. Dohse was engaged ir
Smelling corn on Saturday. Mr.. Wal
ter Dean furnished the Smelling out
| fit.
Miss Hattie Macumber visited will
the D. NJ. Calderwood and Thoma,
Owings families Saturday.
Messrs. William and Emil Dettbart
called Saturday at the Somers home
in Boyer.
Mr.. Fred Rickers and daughter
Miss Hilda, were county seat visitors
Saturday.
Mr.. S. w. Calderwood was pleas
ant caller at the Robert White home
Saturday.
Thursday, Jan. IA, will be the sixty
ninth anniversary Of the birth o
Mrs. John Rickers in Arcadia.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. JAMS spent I
few hours at the Rickers home Sun
day.
Mr.. William Kock did some carpen
ter work at the home OF his fathe
this week.
Art and Geo. Brotherson were ell
1 gagged in Smelling for Herman Schel
dorf on Monday.
4 The new township clerk and trus
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Mrs. Frank Dobbert returned home
from her visit with her daughters at
Early.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seth Anderson drove
to 8Odebolt Sunday
A birthday party was held at the
Sykes home Saturday evening, it be.
ing Mr.. Sykes birthday.
Mrs. Claus Frahm and daughter,
Sadie, Misses Frances Thiede and Ella
Hansen and Mrs. Jas. Albreit were
Denison visitors Saturday between
trains.
Mr.. John Nevilla drove to Kiron
Tuesday.
Miss Mabel Hansen returned home
Saturday from her weeks stay at the
Dobler home at West Side.
Mr.. Oscar Tellgren and family Sun.
dayed at the Albin Jarl home. Pearl
Jarl returned with them after a
weeks visit at the Tellgren home.
Miss Bernice Carlson returned to
Chicago Wednesday after two weeks
visit with her parents. Miss carlson
is learning to be nurse.
Mr.. Seth Anderson was Kiron cal.
Ter Saturday.
Mr.. Nels Taylor and daughter, Irene,
were passengers to Denison Satur-
day.
Miss Minnie Dobbert visited at the
home of Will Myers a few days the
latter part of the week.
Mrs. Swan Nelson returned to her
home at Odebolt Sunday after a weeks
visit with her daughters.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Clark returned
to their home at Dow City Tuesday.
Misses Jessie Fleming and Lena
Nelson returned to their school duties
at.Cedar Falls Tuesday after spending
their Christmas vacation with rela-
tives,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Erne, John Pith-
an and August Ladwig went to Deni-
son Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Seuhen, of Ida
Grove, visited with Albert Baker over
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lon Arnold went to
Council Bluffs Tuesday.
DR.. Glenn, Of Vail, was in Boyer
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gust A. Anderson, of
Odebolt, visited around Boyer Mon
Gay.
Mrs. Hunt left for Omaha Saturday
to visit her daughter.
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A basket ball game took place at
the Germania opera house Friday eve
ming between the Carroll and West
Side high school teams. Both teams
were in good shape and hard battle
was fought. resulting in score OF
Ito IA in favor of West Side TIE
town team agreed beforehand to play
the winners. They played the high
school team, who were all tired out
from the Carroll game, and the score
resulted "a to 8 in favor OF the town
team. :,
Mr.. and Mrs. Louie Thiedeman and
two children spent Saturday in Den
ison. -
Emil Evers and son. Late, returned
from Omaha Thursday, where they
attended the implement dealers con-
yention.
Miss Hattie Voss, who is attending
college at Denison. spent Saturday
and Sunday at the Aug Voss home.
Mrs. A. j. Kelley celebrated her
birthday Sunday. A large crowd OF
neighbors and friends enjoyed 9 very
pheasant time at the Kelley home.
A. ], Kelley was a DenisOn visitor
Saturday.
II. Hansen, tho electrician, took his
first degree in Masonry Friday night.
H. j. Moeller and Chris Book re-
turned Wednesday from a visit with
tho John Campbell family at West
phalia. Kans.
Fred Plotz and Herman Kruse each
sold several loads Of hogs to August
Voss Thursday.
Mrs. Henry Bornhoft was Denison
shopper Saturday.
Ed Henning, of Arcadia, attended
the Masonic lodge here Friday night
Miss Anna Petersen, aof Streeter,
H., visited at the Aug Voss home the
last of the week. She went to Deni-
son Saturday and from there will re.
turnto Streeter Sunday.
Mrs. Aug Bornhoft was doing shop
ping in CARROLL Saturday
Mrs. Chas. Englund and Mrs. =. g.
Dannett gave a very pretty party on
Saturday afternoon in honor OF Mrs.
r. B. Spottswood. who will soon leave
for her new home at Mapleton.
MI. and Mrs. Will Dresser, OF Her.
RIG, visited at the Henry PAIL home
Wednesday.
r. n. Dohse was appointed mayor at
the regular meeting Of the council on
Tuesday evening to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of e. B.
Z Spottswood. Mr.. Spottswood was a
II rood mayor; always keeping the town
In good order. We believe Mr.. Dohse
Is very capable OF filling the place
Is he has acted as mayor before.
q Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Dcbler and daugh-
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Broken Resolutions.

One OF the periodic jokes of .Ianu-
airy is the number of men who swear
off on various bad habits. and then
drop back to their old ways in few
weeks.
1t is one thing to make a good reso-
luton at home in the security OF ones
tireside with your wife looking at you,
and mothers picture over the fire
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ices NET lot tne Hrst tlHlt oHluTuay
Of last week.
Mr.. Joseph Lancaster resigned as
teacher in Dist No. i, Jackson town.
ship recently. We have not been in
formed as to who will be the new
teacher.
George and John Kock and the
Misses Dettbarn and Katie Mau,
were Carroll shoppers Saturday.
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place. Quite another thing to keep it
when you get cut with the boys at 1
a. IN. Saturday night.
Yet man who is going to command
other men along the pathways OF life
ought to be able 10 command himself
II he CANE stick to certain line OF
conduct for couple Of weeks. it is not
likely that he could brave the difficult
ties OF any advanced business :.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-15

The saucy little Dutch coat Of
velvet tops the lingerie gown of the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. girl this summer.
and as it is invariably black or navy
blue it makes a striking contrast to
the light cOlored gown.
Nine. HOsac of the Fashion Art
League of America, who is sponsor
for the Dutch" coat, says she Dor
rowed her idea from a portrait of the
Duchess Won Bismarck, taken in the
costume she wore to the chanceIIor's
birthday celebration in 1867.
The coat is made of Venetian vel
vet, and it has the new beIl-shape
sleeves. A white fox scarf may be
worn effectively with the plain, clovs
ical collaE.
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wife and Miss Nellie Russell, a Juven-
lie officer, agreed to pay the other
out Of her own pocket to help Mrs.
GichOn.

: TELEGRAPH BRIEFS
D. Weehawken, N. J.-ExpIosion in a
grain elevator of N. Y. Central rail-
road believed caused by dust. Injured
five men.
Washington. - That George T.
Marye had resigned as ambassador to
Petrograd denied by Sec'y of State
Lansing and Presidential Private
Sec'y Tumulty.
! Washington. - President Wilson
will be in Washington for Tuesdays
cabinet meeting.
!. Brazil, Ind.-OrViIIe Short, school
teacher, arrested, charged with Grim
inal assault on 15-year-old school
girl, one of his pupils. Short took the
girl home from commencement in his
buggy.
0 New YorI<.-After Or. Isidor Zip
pert had dropped from 3O5 pounds to
DOS he died. At his request seven
physicians will perform autopsy to
learn the reason.
New YorII.-rAVaunt, the Yari-coI- |
Ored shoe! Shoemen meeting here
have decreed that rainbow topped /
foOtgear is unbecoming, and next
year will see nothing but plain black
variety.
CIeVeIand.-After falling down 30
foot embanBment, the first question
Gertrude KneebUsch, 5, asked was:
SIS my dress unused much?"'
Washington. - Allen Green, ac-
CHsed of peddling garden truck with
put a license, couldn't be convicted
because policeman had eaten the evil
dence.
o. Philadelphia - Declared Baldwin |
locomotive Works has closed $780,
100000 shrapnel order for allies.
e Sullivan, Ind.-Ethel Pigg, feeble |
minded cripple girl, mistaken for a
thief, shot and killed by Joseph Trib-
By, neighbOr.
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-12
THE RICHMOND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DEcEMBER Il, 1918

tongers at the monthly meeting OF
the Chamber OF Commerce.
John I. viney. president Of the
Chamber. referred the matter to e.
w. Milstead. commissioner Of the De-
partment Of Taxation and Legislation.
NJ. G. Armstrong. Hampton packer,
notified the Chamber by letter that
he and other packers would be un-
able to be present on account of more
important engagements and requested
that the Chamber. take no action be-
fore hearing both sides OF the ques-
ton.
'why should 10000 people Oongers
and small planters) suffer and want
for the necessities Of life while fine
homes are built in Hampton" pas
sionateIy inquired President Jones, OF
the Oystermer's Protective Associa-
ton, who in the course of his speech
stated that he wanted equal rights for
all and special privileges for none
and that the packers had not kept
their promise that they would pur-
chase the output or the tongers. Mr..
Jones prefaced his remarks with the
statement that he meant no abuse to
either Mr.. Darling or Mr. Armstrong.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-12

Letter received by the Mayor OF
Stevens Point. Wis:
Dear Mr.. Mayor Pasternacki, am
"a young farmer and ! want to get
married. have "A two hundred Rcre
farm and l am lonesome. / arm single
and was never married because
could never and the right girl. Bu.
was in Stevens Point IA couple OF
weeks ago and saw nice girl there.
I was only in town for about an hour
and l lost tract OF her. I've been
thinking it over and l come to the
conclusion that will marry her. She
was about middle height ana plump
and she vas good looking. When you
ma her please let me know and Will
come in and got her. OF course II
you cant md her maybe you can And
another. I can support a wife. Yes
and wifi even get ford II she wont
marry me without one. THAI mixing
you now. Yours truly. etc.
p. 8. She had tan shoes.--Chicago
Tribune.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-12
! 1R. FLOWER IS now
A PRISON EDITOR
"A49lion-D Dollar Swindler'' Forsakcs
Gold Brick In Favor
of Pen.
HuT PRINTERS ARE SCARCE
IhAf Is, On Blackwells Island. Where
~ Doctor VIII Do His Magazine
work For While.

New York, Dec. I1.--Dr. Richard C..
Flower known from one end Of the
country to the other few years ago
as the mathematician swindIer." has
laid down the gold brick and taken
up the pen. From now on ne will
strive for q new sort of fame as
editOr-in-chief OF the latest OF prison
periodicals, the Blackwelis Island OBJ
server.
His editorial duties will not entail
change OF residence, for DIR. Flower,
by virtue of n pressing Initiation ex-
tended by Justice Davis, of the Grim
inal Branch OF the Supreme Court. is
soJourninE in the river resort In the
interests Of which the Observer is to
be published
Justice Davis invitation, which was
presented to Or. Flower just a year
ago. was for a period of two wears.
Before It IL tifne5a1theFefoPe,a for the
doctor to think Of changing his resi-
dence he expects to be able to give
The magazine sufficient impetus to
carry It on after he has refinquished
his desk.
Up Against Practical Side.
AZ the outset DR. Flower, whose life.
because of the activities of various po-
lice officials. has been pne cross after
another, has found his literary career
10 not to be without It's vexatious
side. While he finds that writing is
q natural gift, though long neglected
by him, the problem which presents
itself Is how to get his writing into
print.
With the syInnathy and support OF
Miss Katharine Il. Davis. Commission
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-12
Christmas Books for Children.

The choice OF book for q child
is rather delightful bit OF business.
The holiday counters arc the meeting
places Of uneountabie gAyetics ana
bookish charms. There are the new
books, Of course. stories and poems.
and 1ingies. tales of home and OF ad-
venture pictures. too, decorations and
gay covers-muliitudino and fasci-
mating bids for favor.
There are always many old favor
ties. books that wa ourselves read
long ago. or that were read long be-
fore our time by our fathers and our
fathers fathers. Some Of these are
In plain. dark covers that always fiat
ter the small lovers OF books and
some OF them are In beautiful new
editions. marvelously tempting to
young ana old.
There are also sets Of famous writ
ers that may be bought a volume at
81 time and given Just that way. book
by book, and which, 20 collected by
their young owners seem to take on
a special interest and attraction. Ger
tain stories by Dickens or Stevenson.
for fnstanee--and some OF Shake
sreare's plays. make their strongest
appeal to children just getting into
their teens, or even younger than that.
kipling's Just So Stories may begin
with. little readers still In the nursery.
and may be followed by the Jungle
Book Captains Coura geous." Buck
Of Books HILL" and 20 on through
"Barrack Room Ballads" ana The
Seven Seas" to the very last and new
Est book by this most inimitable OF
modern writers. Anne Pendleton. In
Southern Woman's Magazine.
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RECEIVES COMMISSION
!. AS ARMY SURGEON

Charlottesville. Va. Dec. 1l.--Dr.
r.. Lindsay Robertson has received
| his commission as surgeon In the
medical reserve corps on the active
| list and re-enters the service with the
rank Of first lieutenant.
1 DIR. Robertson IL returning to the
service in which he made an envia BILE
record in past years and In which he
I Is temperamentally. by attainmsnta
aud experience. unusually well quali-
ned 4
For some years past DIR. Robertson
has filled tho important position Of
Health Onlcer Of Charlottesville. In
spite OF III many difIlculties and the
[prActica1 imposslbility Of doing his
duty without irritating : great many
people. pr. Robertson hsld gkaAdily
to the purneoe for which HI ofIlcA v
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-12
GYPSY SMITH At LYRIC
TO-DAY TO TALK TO Mex
Last OF Series OF Thc1neer Meetings by
Noted Evangelist VIII He
Given This Afternoon,

Without question the great mems
meeting at the Lyric Theater this
afternoon At 3:30 o'clock will be one
OF the largest meetings OF the year.
Almost eleven hundred men heard
Gypsy Smith last Sunday. under the
auspices of the Central Young Mems
Christian Association. and many more
will want to hear him today. He is
an unusual speaker to men. apt in
illustration. and when he tells q story
one must listen. His address this at
ternoon. The Trickster." Is perhaps
his best.
This will be his last address to men
during his present visit to Richmond.
and the association has been exceed
insly fortunate IN securing him for
the first three great theater meetings
gypsy Smith viii be presented to the
gathering by Attorney General John
Garland Pollard. Tho doors will open
promptly at $40. and tickets can De
secured at the Central Y. NJ. G. A.,
Grace and Seventh Streets.
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Despite all this, the presses rattle

Despite all this, the presses rattle
not.
And why?
Because the penitentiary Is short
of printers. for once.
- Time was when printers were a
rollicking, red-blooded crew. They
tarried often and long on their way
home from work. drank deeply and
fought whomsoever would give bat
tie.
But now there are less than half
dozen of the trade In the penttentiary
hardly enough to take care of the
departmental work. All that Or.
Flower and his editorial associates
have been able to get into type 30
Tar Is the front page of the OBJ
server.
Daily inquiries In Vain.
Each day the DOCTOR editor makes
a dozen anxious inquiries at the war
den's Office, but printers al calss, II
seems. are either becoming extremely
abstemious or running in better luck.
Always DR.. Flower is disappointed.
The doctor Is changing his profess
sion rather late in life, for he 10 now
seyenty-two years old. With litera-
ture, except for the writing Of few
brochures on the subject of various
mining properties which uniformly
failed to live up to his predictions, he
has had little to do.
DIR. Flower. who had dropped his
medical title while in the banking line.
was doing business at 30 Wall Street
as r. G. Flower d Co. At the time
OF the death of Theodore Hasaman, a
millionaire. With the collapse OF his
Lone Star Mining Company the doc
tors dealings with Mrs. Hagaman-
who turned over n fortune to him
for investment and got nothing back.
were brought to light
Indicted in 1909 IN connection with
his mining schemes. Flower was miss
ing one day Of his trial and his bail
Of $4,000 was forfeited. In 1914,
after having been manufActurer Of
genuine gold bricks" in Philadei-
phia, the leader OF q big combination
of swindlers. with headquarters In
Richmond, Va. and . psuedc priest
In Mexico, the present editor OF the
Observer Was captured in Toronto.
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united to reach desirable results.
Those who know Of his work and the
great tenacity with which It has been
performed realize that the public SER
vice hero loses an efflcient ofYicer-
while the public service OF the nation
gains one.
DR.. Robertson's worth and author
ity have been widely recognized. the
to read papers on sanitation and
other kindred topics at various health
conventions.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-12
OYSTER TONCERS HAVE
MANY GRIEVANCES

Newport News, Va. Dec. Him
passioned pleas for the repeal Of the
seed oyster laws, declarations that
their families are suffering from hun
ger and charges that the large plant
ers and packers are responsible, the
last of which was denied by J. c. Rob-
inson, packer and planter. last night,
were made by a committee Of oyster
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-12

meeting. Many of them. huge raw
boned weather beaten men. sat sui
lenly in their chairs. venturing loud
applause when members OF their COM
niittee scored a point or muttering n
vehement denial at explanations ad :
vanced by Mr.. Robertson in his crisp
denial of the indirect charges brought
against him and his colleagues.
Vivid pictures Of the suffering of
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-12

families of the tongers were ~
by the speakers, some Of them U(l
trasting present conditions b&f0fQ
present seed oyster law went fMf1
feet 4518&
Commissioner Milstead annAUnE1
that he would name a committeos ~
give both the tongers and plantG19 u
hearing at ! O'Clock Friday mornl
December II.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-19

Is in gala attire. with flags ahoat and
colors OF the college, maroon and white.
festooned from the various buildings m
tho business section All OF the hotels
are crowded 20 capacity and hospitable
residents Of the city have thrown open
their homes to the reception OF many or
the guests. All exercises at tie college
ceased at noon and the entire community
has started to make the occasion memoir
able.
Il wns announced this morning that
honorary degrees will be conferred upon
10 men prominent In various walks OF
life Those TO receive the degree are:
For the honorary degree OF doctor OF
letters: Martin Grove Brumbaugh, Har-
risburg Pa, Governor of Pennsylvania
Ernest Gottlieb Sihler, New York, pro-
fessor Of Latin IN New York Universityi
Ethelbert Dudley warheld, Chambers
burg. Pa. eighth president OF Lafayette
College, and now president Of Wilson
College
For the honorary degree Of doctor OF
scionce Frank Henry Constant Prince
ton. ~ j.. professor of civil engineering
in Princeton University; Henry Fay, 80,
Cambridge, Mass, professor Of analytical
chemistry in the Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology; Richard Mills Pearce, Jr.,
Philadelphia. professor of research medi-