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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-15

cally count the currency necessary
for the capitalization and surplus Of
state banks. This examiner gives a
check to the bank, counts the money
and then turns the check back. In
the organization of national banks
the examiner merely sati1es himself
that the money is on hand.
'Mr. LOrimer called at our bank on
the morning of Oct. 81, 1912. He
stated to me that the state bank ex-
aminer had approved the conversion
of the La Sale Street National bank
to state bank, and asked me if the
Central Trust Co. would furnish the
necessary currency to satisfy the
bank examiner. l told him we would.
He asked me what the compensa-
ton would be. told him there would
be no charge.
II then sent for the cashier, VIM.
R. Dawes, and explained the transac-
ton to him. The whole affair did
not take more than 10 or Is min
utes. was not present at the actual
counting of the currency"
WAS anything said about the spe-
CHIC arrangements on winch the
cashiers check was drawn?" he was
asked
mot a word"
did Mr.. Lorimer say anything to
you about the method in which the
bank was organized preliminary to
the presentation of their cashiers
check?"
mo"
What relation did the Central
Trust Co. sustain with the La Sale
Street bank?"
. None at all. It was just an ac-
commodation on our part for a neigh
bOr."
ANNOUNCEMENT
Ellen Gates Starr, Hull House, will
speak on Police Brutality" at Chris
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-10-15
ANNOUNCEMENT

Ellen Gates Starr, Hull House, will
speak on Police Brutality" at Chris
tan Socialist Fellowship, COL Ma
sonic Temple, 2:45 p. M, Sunday.
Denver. -. Judge Ben Lindsey or
dered out of Judge Wright's court
yesterday. Gave lie to attorney who
charged him with defaming DenVers
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13
MAJOR RYERS' BOOK

The Los Angeles Graphic, a liter
airy journal has this to say of Major
S H. Byers' latest book, The Bells
of Capistrano:"
Major S. H. NJ. Byers, lowa's
greatest living poet, has been com
ing to Southern California for a num-
Der of successive winters. He has
found here, inspiration for his muse
and an excellent example of what it
has done for him is seen in his latest
poem, The Bells of Capi5trano,' a ro-
nance of the California missions, IL
Illustrated artistically by Langdon
Smith. Major Byers has facile deScrip-
tive powers and wealth of imagery,
which have been generously bestowed
on his Capistrano poem. The legend is
supposed to be told by an Alcade
whose garrulous tongue is looSed by
seeing a wedding procession, the
bride a desCendent of fair Dolores and
handsome Francisco, whose love af-
fair forms the basis of the poem. Told
in blank verse, the style is wonder.
fully effective,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13
MOVING TIME

The Aurora Beacon-News prints
the following editorial on moving,
which we reproduce for the benefit OF
our unfortunate readers who are
compelled to pack up their household
goods and hike during the merry
month of May.
"A young man walking along the
street carrying his mother-in.law S
enlarged picture in one hand and al
ak in the other ought not to arouse
any particular comment at this time
of year. The young man probably
has no evil intent He is merely tot.
ing those things he most cherishes
by hand since he could not possibly
cram them into the moving van.
Il move, YOU move, he moves. The
spring unrest is now on US and mani
tests itself in a desire to change land
lords. We desire greatly to try an
other gas meter We feel the need,
where the rent may be higher but the
borrowers fewer. We long for a
change in bathrooms, for a different
looking cellar.
The last June's bride is also in,
fected and is now face to face with
the crisis of the first move She is
yet so new TO the science of home
management that she is compelled to
label the nutmegs to distinguish
them from the pepper. Her eXper-
fence is so limited that our sympathy
is divided between her and the lost
children of Belgium.
OFtap -, h.. Torn -,
will she cry herself to sleep on roll
of untaCked carpet and dream OF
mother. How she will wish she was
back in those girliSh days when Har-
old still brought her chocolates and
the alarm clock held no horrors for
her. How she will long for the old
order of things when mother ironed
the shirt waists and left her to dream
how she and Harold might keep a
bright red auto!
we see her separated for the first
time from her husband, when each
makes a field bed where possible
among the boxes. crates, canned fruit
and new chairs And the crash of
fat iron falling from the piano in the
still night echoes like the crack of
doom through the vacant rooms. She
dreams uncanny dreams of Indians
and robber knights and starts up at
their imaginary cries But the cries,
she finds later, only emanate from
her brave husband, whose feet. in his
sleep, have fallen off the ironing
board into the cactus.
But in time they get settled. The
God Bless Our Home motto is in
place over the parlor door and the
lost minute hand of the clock has
finally been found. Peace finally
abides. Then they learn two things
never to pack the stove legs with
the crockery and to buy a home OF
their own, a real home with flower
beds. garden. vines and trees. home
to come back to instead of moving
away from" .,..s .s.. r.. ..
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13
THE ONE PRICE STORE.

In the commencement address at
the Creighton University at Omaha,
Ex-Governor Leslie NJ. Shaw told the
graduates that there was a time
when in applying for position a
man would find a college diploma all
asset. Today one must be able to
state definitely what he is prepared
t" do. and he must be able Ito make
good" In illuminating his point he
related the following incident of his
experiences:
Let me assure you, my young
friends, that Nature keeps ouc-price
store. Whoever pays the price gets
the goods. | don't know what you
consider industry. / am led to be.
lieve that industry at the beginning
of the twentieth century is quite 6
different thing than industry from
the early nineteenth century stand.
point At the breaking out of the
Spanish war | named two physicians
to assist the government surgeon in
examining four regiments. chose
men of more than state reputation.
One of them has passed me in his
carriage more than a hundred times,
but | have never looked through the
door without seeing him with book
or magazine in hand. | called on the
other twice at midnight unannounced
and found him at work in his office
You gentlemen and ladies need not
work like that if you do not wish to-
| am only telling you the price these
men paid for more than state reputa-
tons.
Mark Hanna once told me that he
had occasion to call on Phil Armour.
He did not tell me his mission, but it
was in 1896. He called at l o'clock.
He found the great packer in a bar
ber's chair eating his lunch and die
tating to a stenographer. 1t was the
only leisure time he had. don't
ask any of you to work that hard. !
only mention the price Phil Armour
paid for writing his name under ev-
cry sky in every language. And there
are no bargain counters for those
goods"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13
THE IRlsA ARE LOYAL

In recent speech at Manchester,
England, John Redmond said that in
the last 60 years over 100000 peO-
pie had emigrated from Ireland, and
that two-thirds of these had been men
of military age. For these reasons
Ireland had not been able to make a
contribution of young men to The war
such as she would have made if social,
political and economical conditions
had enabled her population even to
remain stationary
Though an agricultural country and
with a population which has de-
creased for many years until last year
when emigration fell off 50 per cent,
Ireland'S contribution to the the army
has been of a remarkable kind Fig
ures officially compiled up to Febru-
airy Is, show that at that date 99,7O4
lrishmen had enlisted. Since then,
Mr.. Redmond stated, recruiting had
accelerated its pace and was going on
ut the rate of about 1000 a month.
About 10000 had, up to February II,
joined the Ulster and the Irish volun-
teerS, either as reserVistS or new
army recruits.
In conclusion. Mr.. Redmond said
that calculations of the Kaiser had
been falsified He expects 20 meet a
divided empire, and ten years ago he
might have fOunl one. But he forgot
the march of events; he forgot that
the rule of the people had been sub
stituted for the rule of the asceniency
classes, and that th2 empire was unit
ed upon the only firm and sure foun-
dalton, that of liberty.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13
in THE DISTRICT COURT
Disposition Of Various Matters by
Judge and Jury.

A number of miscellaneous cases
in the equity and probate divisions of
district court were heard yesterday
and this morning by Judge SilwOld
In the case of Frank Sloan, ct al, VS..
Frederick Sloan, ct al, a partition
suit a supplemental decree was is
sued as prayed.
The case of G. G. Tice VS.. L. T.
Shangle, which was tried and sub
mitted Monday afternoon, was dis
missed by the plaintiff yesterday, and
an order was entered that the costs
be taxed against the plaintiff. In
his petition, the plaintiff alleged that
the defendant was erecting a parti-
ton fence on the land of the petition
err, and asked an injunction restrain
ing him from finishing the fence.
The cases of Thomas & Littlejohn
Vs. The Netherlands Fire and Life
Insurance Company, and Thomas &
Littlejohn VS.. the American Insur-
ance Company of Newark, N. j.,
were also dismissed by the plaintiffs
and the costs were taxed against
them.
In the divorce suits of Anna l..
WetherwaX VS.. William II. Wether.
wax, and Mary Gaines VS.. Joe Gaines,
alias Jeff Howard, default of the de-
PENDANTS was declared this morning
and the cases were tried and sub
mitted.
Report of sale was approved and
deed ordered in the partition suit of
Job T.. Stout VS.. Kate Woman ct al.
Final reports were approved and
executors discharged in the estates
of Catherine Chapman and John
Anderson.
The will of Olive NJ. Newton was
admitted to probate and Lillian NJ.
Newton and Anna S. Newton were
confirmed as executors.
Final report was approved and ad
ministrator discharg, in the estate
of David Bedford.
Final report was approved and
guardian discharged in the guardian
ship of Iva B. Upton.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH
United Com mercial Travellers Start
Celebration Ball Rolling.

At the regular meeting Of OGkalOO'
Ja, Council No. 5li L. E.. /. resolutions
were adopted to nave real o ia H.
toned Fourth of July celebration, with
contests and prizes, races, etc, some
thing doing every minute, fireworks in
the evening, to be held at the old Fair
Grounds on July 9Th.
The following committees have
been appointed to perfect the arrange.
ments.
Advertising and publicity w. Il.
Williams, Chm, o. F. Schee, G. +.
Sawyer, r. L. Ray, w. II. Keeper,
Webb Branniger. j. E. Hanna, Chas.
Johnson. j. Z. Gunder, J. e. Whitaker.
Program and Arrangements. G.
Moore, Chm. T. G. Janney, Allen Gun
niagbam, j. w. Mcdonald, r. e.
Stubs, A. J. WalSmith, J. A. Wheel
err, X. p. Law, II. F.. Shepherd, James
Lytle, George Groves, w. p. Cleaver.
Grounds and ConCessions-E. N.
Brewer, Chm, Chas. Carr, U. G. Deck,
f. f. Novels, +. K. Underwood, II. T..
Gundar, w. II. Cochran.
Tickets and Admission, o. B. New
ell, Chm, W. ID. Cole, L. J. Clynch, S.
B. Fuller. J. G. Hammes, Geo. T. Par
menter Will Scott, Franklin Frazee,
Guy White.
Dancing. X. Henderson, Chm, j.
r. Carlin, J. J. Matthews, Thos. Oliver
A. II. Peterson, Fred True, Thos. Dav-
is.
Fireworks--W. F. Steddom, Chm,
h. II. Shaw, F. l.. Moore, H. G.. Mum
sell A. ID. Morris, w. T.. Miner, w II.
Davee A. II. Clay.
A meeting. of committee members
will be held at the Hotel Downing,
Saturday the 18th, at 1920 o'clock.
will be served. after which
business pertinent to the committees
will be discussed and the machinery
put into motion which It is expected
and hoped will give Oskaloosa and
the surrounding towns and territory,
to talk about for some time.
Everybody get busy and begin to
spread the news.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13

BAKER-Oskaloosa Rebekah Lodge
No. 16. Whereas 1t has pleased the
all wise Ruler of the universe to take
from our midst, Eveline Baker, the
beloved wife of our friend and brother.
Frank Baker, and while we bow in
humble submission to his will, yet we
realize the great loss and grief of our
brother and his motheriess children
and extend to these grief stricken
ones, our heartfelt sympathy.
May the good Father in His infinite
mercy, temper their sorrow with the
comforting assurance of future meet
ing in which there will be no more
parting.
Now, therefore, be 1t resolved, that
the charter be draped in mourning for
a period of 80 days in token of SYM
patty; that copy of these resolutions
be spread upon the minutes of our
lodge; that a copy be presented to
our bereaved brother, Frank Baker.
and that they also be published in our
daily paper. .aa- ~.
Respectfully submitted,
Eta Moore,
Nellie Walraven,
Anna Barnes,
Committee
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13

lrightfully yields it a respect for its
great and generally benign influence
over mundane existence.
! The gaseous envelope of atmospher-
ic air surrounding the earth is the
medium in which we have to live, and
it bears the same relation to the hui
man family as the waters of the globe
to the order of fishes. The air and
water are essential to the life as much
a factor to man as the quality of wa
ter to the fish. The normal atmOs-
phere air eXeTts on our bodies a
definite dynamic force or physical
pressure of 147 pounds on every
square inch of our bodies, If we live
at or near the sea level, and the high
er up we go this atmospheric pressure
diminishes until on the heights of the
Rockies it is probably two pounds
! less. The normal pressure at sea
level is indicated by the barometer as
50 (inChes), and it decreases by an
established scale as it ascends these
mountain heights. Most persons know
that ascents of mountainous peaks,
thousands OF feet above sea level re-
suits in marked physical distress,
! difficult breathing, general depresS-
ion at the submits, and in extreme
cases bleeding at the nose and even
from the lungs, due to this leSsened
atmospheric pressure Just so it hap
pens that when the barometer Is
low" for a considerable period, say
a drop from 80, the normal guage, to
20 or below, when stormy or dull
weather ensues. we get the analogous
effect imperCeptibly, but in an appre-
ciable degree; for it has happened
that q definite measure of atmoSpher-
tic pressure is released from our bod
les and naturally there follows a dis
location of our normal balance. The
average adult man sustains on every
pleasant day an atmospheric pres
sure OF about IA tons at sea level,
when the barometer reads at 80 and a
drop of an inch or more, to 20 and
below practically takes off half a ton
or more of his load to which he is &C
customed. ParadoXiCally, instead OF
feeling lighter and freer man feels its
disturbing depressing effect on his It's
sues. He has to become adjusted to
this alteration from normal tensity to
one of unusual relaxation, and while
ii is slow in its manifestations, as
barometric changes are genuerally
gradual, yet the effect in miniature is
like going up to a great height on
mountain range.
1t is just as well to know these fun
damental facts about the influences
which affect our physical being so
that we can estimate that tired" or
good for nothing" feeling which &C
companies a spell of dull weather; TO
know that it has a definite and tran
STORY cause outside our bodies 1t is
really an explanation of the ups and
down of our healthy existence. Natur-
ally there is no remedy to be pre-
8cribed. AS Mark Twain said about
the weather-we talk lot about it,
but we never do anything to improve
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13

ard marketing of Strawberries in the
United States, made by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, indicates that
the eight most important CONNER
cial strawberry districts are Central
California, Tennessee, Maryland,
Delaware, Southern Louisiana, North
and South Carolina, Virginia, and
the OZarks.
The authors of the survey, which
is published in Bulletin 1877 of the
United States Department of Agri'
culture, strawberry Supply and Dis,
tributlon in 1914" point out, how,
ever, that the North plays more
important part in the strawberry in
dustry than these figures might indi-
cate. Great quantities of berries
are grown in the North in small
patches AMI shipped to market by
trolley, express, or in the producer
own wagon. Only very small por'
ton of northern grown berries are
concentrated into carload lots, the
basis for the Government survey.
The bulletin already mentioned
contains a list of all shipping sta
tions in the United States where car
load shipments originate, together
with the number of carloads sent out
in 1914. From this list ii appears
that there was grand total of a.
$500 carloads of strawberries ship
ped commercially in 1914.
In connection with this work the
Department of Agriculture is con.
Quoting a telegraphic market news
service of the daily movement OF
Strawberries to the various large
markets during the current season
together with the prices received.
Reports of these movements and
prices are telegraphed daily to pro
ducing areas ard consuming centers
in order to assist in the profitable
distribution of the crop
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13
THE 1915 ROAD FUND.

Iowa will have $4,967, 746.S7 from di-
rect taxation for use on road improve
ment in 1915. This is the estimate
made by the state auditor upon re-
turns made to him by cuonty audi.
tors. This amount is 100000 less than
the amount realized in 1914. The
bridge fund estimate is not included
The returns show that the actual
values taken from the county books
total 1892, 476,O00 or more than $1,000
600 above the total valuation for the
state fixed by the state executive
council. The county books show tot
al return for the various road funds
last year of $5,267 ,16627. The 100000
reduction for 1915 will be due to the
fact that many counties lowered the
tax rate
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13
YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER.

The year 1916 was known through.
out the United States as the year
without summer. January of that
year was so mild that most people
would have let their furnaces go out
had they had any, and February was
only occasionally colder March and
April cOaxed the buds and flowers
out. and May was a winter month.
with ice and snow. By the end of
May everything perishable had been
killed by the cold, and the young
leaves had been stripped from the
trees. June was as cold as May.
Both snow and ice were common
throughout the month all over the
corn belt and after having planted
corn two or three times the farmers
threw up their hands. Snow fell ten
inches deep in Vermont The fol
lowing winter was the hardest the
people OF the United States have ever
known. One had to have stockade
around ones smokehouse.
This seems to be without any
probable relation to the cold winds
which whistled through the streets
OF st. Louis yesterday" says the ST.
Louis PostDispatch. but there was
one possibly alarming condolences,
The democrats were also in power in
1916. Jefferson's billtaft, Madison.
had still year to serve.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13

mobile that has some court history
The automobile came into possession
of the earrings at Barnes City, deal,
ers, and they disposed of it to j. E.
Vitera, of near Tilton, for few hun,
dred dollars Vitera refused to pay
for it on the ground that the contract
had not been fulfilled and the Gar
ings ran an attachment on some corn
supposed to belong TO Vitera. In
court it developed the grain did not
belong to defendant. Then Deputy
Sheriff Gwinn went to Ti.ton and
brought the machine. which had
stood out all winter, to Montezuma
and sold it at a sheriff's sale"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13
with their industries few, far b

With their industries few, far be.
tween and primitive, and with plenty
Of cheap, rich farm land. the Serv.
lana are free living, home-staying
people, a people with no helpless pau.
pers and no idle rich. who seldom fia
ure In the immigration statistics of
any other country. Their constitution
prescribes freedom of conscience, OF
the press. and of peaceful assemblsge,
and the right to inalienate property
Every male citizen who pays SO taxes
q year and who is over 81 votes in
the election of delegates to congress.
In smaller units, the family forms a
patriarchal community, the men, often
ruled BIZ grandfather. the women mem
beers, by grandmother. The Seryian 10
careful to marry beyond the utmost
limits of his family, even TO going a
days journey from his home before
seeking bride.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13

-Triest ia the only great seaport
OF Austria. powerful commercial ri.
val of Venice and Genoa, the pride o.
Austria's Adriatic possessions, and Z
city as important to Austrian devel,
opment as is New York in the devel.
opment of the United States. 1t has
been an Austrian possession for more
than 500 years, and during this long
association it has earned the title
from the central Imperial govern.
ment of the most faithful city"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13

A feature of the recent outbreak
Of foot and mouth disease to which
the Federal authorities attach much
Importance is the unprecedentedly
large number OF hogs which have
been affected. Both actually and in
proportion to the total number of an
imals stricken, this has been much
larger than in any of the previous
outbreaks in this country. The
chief reason, the authorities say, is
the spread of the infection through
uncooked skinned milk and other
creamery by.products returned t. the
farms to be fed hogs. Infected gar
bage. II is thought, is also to be held
responsible for a portion of the loss.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13

While many Iowa citizens are ad-
vocating the narrowing of the Iowa
highways to in some instances, less
than thirty feet, half their present
width, California people are support
ing in their legislature a bill providing
money for the purchase of three hun
dred feet on either side Cf the Lincoln
highway. The idea is to save the trees
shrubs and flowers and preserve the
beauty Of the highway.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13
THE BAROMETER AND HEALTH

Every person capable OF putting two
and two together and obtaining the
correct answer has been conscious OF
feeling out of sorts, as the printer
would say. when the clouds hung low
and the sun was obscured A week
OF dull weather sets whole commun.
ity on edge and the mental. moral
and physical components OF man are.
at its close. about 1T for the scrap
heap.
This situation is generally attribu.
ted to the lack OF sunshine. for every
human being retains the ancient be-
lieis in the potentially OF the Sun in
It's relation 10 his life and It's we'll
being He knows that 1t gives warm
IN and light and brings forth his
crops from the fruitful earth. and
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-05-13
THE FATE OF THE AUTO

The question is often asked, What
becomes OF all the old automobiles"
Well, here is what became OF one as
related by the Montezuma Republi-
can:
'Sheriff Lamb, with. the aid, OF W,
s. Rath. auctioneer. sold on the pub
nc square Thursday for s55 an auto