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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01
coUNTIEs BUILD BRIDGE.

Columbus Junction, March 81
Louisa and johnson county boards of
supervisors held joint session last
week and decided to rebuild the food
destroyed Gould bridge near Lone
Tree, touching the two county lines. 1t
can be replaced for $4,000 and the
counties will divide the expense.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01
RIc TAX COLLECTION.

Bloomfield, March 31.-Monday was
the busiest day in the history of the
Davis county treasurer's office. A to-
tai of $12,064.48 was collected In
taxes. A total sum OF $21, 1896 was
taken in and handled by the treasurer
and his deputy that day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01
NEW TELEPHONE PLANT.

Il Estherville, March 31.-The tele-
s,hore company has rented the upper
ltory of the building on the corner of
Lincoln and Seventh streets and are
10 At it up with all modern improve
ments In the system.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01

Oskaloosa, March 31.-Several cases
of intoxication broke the tramp mo-
notony of the city hall Saturday night
and Monday morning, three OF them
all together. Twenty-one applied for
beds Saturday night and seven Sunday
evening.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01

BRED RINGLET' BAR
red Rocks. Have both matlngs: frize
winners. Also Golden Buff ROCKS.
Both stock and eggs for sale. c. E.
Brokaw, Plano, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01

SINGLE COMB BLACK M!NORcA
\ rood thrifty stock eggs for Matching
81 at following prices. 81 per 10; 80 per
sA 50: S. per 100. w. A. fulmer, hooy-
IN Vile Ia
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Male Help Wanted

WANTED TO THREAT ONCE,
married man with small family 10
work on farm by the month. Coca
place for the right man. BOX 49, n. .
Batavia, Iowa.
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roR sAIE-BARRED ROCK BRAD
iev strain, soc per Is. So per 100.
Special pen $3.50 per 10. Frank CIT
ner, Ottumwa, r. r. NO. l.. rhone
5S4-w or Highland phone.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01

!, 9. B. LEGHoRNS. PEN I, KULP
strain. $50 per 10. Pen 81, 81. Range
\ soc. Mrs. Monroe Marts, X. 2, Ut
tunwa. Phone 1100-U.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01

BARRED ROCK EGGS FROM LARGE
vigorous birds. 75c per Is. "a per wv
y Grace Emmons, Libertyville, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01
Railroad Time Tables
c. N. a ST. p. TRAINS

Ne. 0nsna Southwest, OScase
3A-Kansas City Local !. 1915 .. m
SSB-Ottumwa to Seymour $3.50 .. m.
ssB-Local freight ........ 100 !. N.
Going East, via cut.sfl.
"a Davenport. chicago. SIT ;. N
12A--Leave Junction $50. l1:to q. "a
4 stub train will leave station
for Junction at II: 40 D. "a. r.
turning arrive at station, as
1876 a. m.
MSrion Line, ooina North
4B-Ced. Rapids. Savanna,
losB--Cedar Rapids. Marion $40 ,. N
Marion Line, Coming South.
lo3B-From Marion ....... lo:iSa m
21B-From Marion ........ 1915 {, =
e7B-Local freight 400 n -
A-Datly.
B-Except Sunday.
Local freightg depart from and term.
mate Ottumwa Junction.
Locals s2B and 93B run on Monday.
Wednesday and Friday.
T. H. Jacobs. Agea..
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01

sOR SALE-THOROUGHBRED BUFF
Rock eggs. 81 per setting. J. 6. opp'
FOG lakewood.
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Wanted

wANTED-YOuR OLD CARPETS TO
make into rugs, beautiful and durable
rugs from old carpet at reasonable
prices. Write for descriptive catalog.
Bloomfield Rug Works. Bloomfield
lows.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01
TWO CASES OF SMALLPOX.

q TWO CASES OF SMRILFON.
New Hampton, March Sit has
zen oficially given out by physicians
hat two cases of smallpox have de-
,eloped at the>Alfred Ottoson home,
,orth of Lawler, their sons, Alfred
Id Henry being afflicted with the dis
SAse.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01
Eggs and Poultry

s. G. WHITE LEGHORNS AND AN
conas. Great winter layers. Prices
reasonable on/eggs for hatchlng. w.
II. Boon, Batavia, Iowa.
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IOWA BOY HoNoRED ANEW.

Iowa City. March 31.-Avery l..
sarlson, an alumnus of the univer-
Ety college of liberal arts, class of
911. has been reelected superintend-
mt Of the city schools of New Shar-
n. He is a former Paullina boy.
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c.. r. !. q p. RAILWAY.
WABASH RAILWAY.

No. Going South. Depart
2A-Moherly, st. L., K. c.. $500 q. m
60B-Moberly and east -. 500 p. m
7OB-Mixed ............. 800 p. m.
S6A--Local freight ..... l:45 p. m
Coming North
61B-Moberly veal $1,000. 1850 q. IA
3A-From Kansas C'ty.., 1910 p. n
s5A-Local freight ........ 1:oop.m
A-Daily.
B-Except Sunday.
s5A and ssA carry passengers
on Sunday
T., H. Jacobs. Agent
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A live money making grocery
business. Old established trade.
Fine clean stock. Invoicing So
500. Good location and reasonable
rent. II you want to get q money
making business this is your OPP
portunity, owner would consider
a farm.
A nice two story brick house IN
fine condition with two large lots.
All priced at only $500. Owner
wants a farm of so or so acres
and would assume.
so acres Of improved land to
trade for property in Ottumwa.
100 acres of good land well To-
Gated in Richland township, Wa
pello county, Iowa. Good two
story six room house. good barn,
smoke house, orchard, etc. Farm
Is we'll fenced, well watered, in a
good state of cultivation and only
$135 per acre. This farm Is near
Kirkville, In the best part of Wa
pello county. Owner will accept
property in Ottumwa II 1t Is
worth the money. This man will
give some one a good trade.
= If you have property OF any
kind to sell or exchange 1t will
cost you nothing to list 1t with
Roth Bros. No sale, no pay.
Roth Bros. Real Estate Co.
Phone 1900. 1909 w. Second St.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01
For Sale

FOR SALE-TWO SEATED WAGoN'
Telephone 2012-L.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-01
MoNoroNY is BROKEN.

MORRIS WILLIAMS.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
MOVE m RIGHT DIRECTION
Annual Cleanup Exercises Have Been
Taken Up With Enthusiasm That
Is C~ommendabIe.

The good influence of the painters
as a factor for health and cleanli-
ness is manifested in the statement
that largely through the persuasion
of the national organization 1900
cities and towns have begun annual
cleanup enterprises, and this sea-
son it is expected that about 500 more
will adopt the slogan. With 5000 cit
les and towns securing and scrubbing
and painting simultaneously it may
be said that the United States has
got the habit of cleanliness. This habit
once formed will endure. 1t will make
for a healthier, better country. It
will set a standard of appearance and
sanitation that must necessarily result
in the years to come in better citizen
ship, through sounder health and a
more definite consideration for the
general welfare. Washington has
been cleaned up each spring during re-
cent years and is proud to have been
one of the first to go after the disease
carrying fly and to rout out its breed
ing places. 1t has yet to acquire the
painting habit, but that will surely
follow.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
IMPROVING THE BACK YARD
Women's Municipal League Of New
York Is Making Elaborate Plans
For the Season.

Wasted back yards are to be, i'm
proved by members of the Women's
Municipal league of New York. Sew
eral of the members have taken
courses in landscape gardening to pre-
pare themselves for the work of plan
ming other peoples back yards. Even
the tiniest space of earth may be cul-
tivated in some way, and where soil is
lacking, flowers and shrubs in pots
can be used with good effect.
A specimen garden is described by
Mrs. Robertson Jones, chairman of
the gardening committee of the
league. First of all, the back fence
is to be painted green, and a garden
seat of lighter green put at the CEN
ter, Trellises for honeysuckle are at
either side. Stone jars containing
small box trees will mount guard
over each side of the path, with rows
of b~arberry bushes leading up to them.
This is an all-year garden, for the
honeysuckle leaves stay on until De-
cember, box is an evergreen and the
barberry bushes have leaves in sum-
mer and red berries in winter. The
cost of this garden complete is about
$40, including labor, plants, painting,
bench and jars.
Members of the league are trying
to induce the owners of whole groups
of houses to install these miniature
gardens, so that each family may have
its own small r%est-spot and play-space
for the children.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24

from the trees in this jungle, chat
tering wildly at anyone who ventures
to disturb their solitude. From high
platforms in harvest time the vii
layers watch their few impoverished
grain fields to drive off the maraud-
ing wild elephants.
Now Mere Jungle Ruins.
Once Anuradhapura must have
been one of the most thickly populat-
ed spots on the surface of the globe.
No one can know with certainty how
many people lived there. TT is a we'll
known fact, sahib," said my host,
that 10000, 900 people lived here in
the reign of the great Gamani."
l had not been long in the Orient,
yet long enough to know that the
Oriental has little regard for statis-
tics. Every statement is introduced
as a ~well-known fact. In Anuradha-
pura there are the ruins of what is
called the Elephants BATH" so
called, not because the elephants used
to battle in it, although the wild ones
do come there now every morning at
daybreak, but merely because it is
big. The word elephant" is the
Singhalese adjective for bigness.
Adopting their terms, l had already
learned that there are elephant"
beggars in Ceylon, and elephant"
liars as well. Even supposing that
my hosts estimate was three-fourths
too high, l know Of no other city of
that day which contained $500, 900
people.
Ceylon is he garden spot of the
world. What wonder that the Tamils,
who lived on that dry, hard strip of
southern India across the strait from
the island, were always jealous of their
prosperous neighbors? Repeated and
often successful attacks from the
mainland partly explain why the
northeastern end of Ceylon is literal
ly full of buried, forgotten and ruined
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
Town|
y Helps
CITY HELPED BY NEWSPAPER
Prominent Man Of Mobile, Ala, Gives
Testimony to Good Work
by Press.

THE Mobile chamber of commerce
for the last couple Of years has not
taken any page space in newspapers;
but we have had occasion recently to
have a great deal of newspaper pub
ncity on several matters and the re-
suits from 1t have been far beyond
BUR expectations.
within the last two weeks we had
a campaign for the raising of better
live stock, which vas commented on
by the newspapers throughout the
country, and brought up scores Of in
quiries from all parts of the United
States. Without this newspaper pub
licity our campaign would have been
for naught, as It was through the
newspapers that the interest was
aroused, and today everyone in this
section is talking cattle raising.
Another instance:
Some weeks ago w inaugurated a
movement to celebrate a day in honor
of the Satsuma orange, grown in this
section, which is a recent industry.
Our purpose was to advertise 1t
through the stores, hotels, etc. We
did not think our first attempt would
be a big success, but the newspapers
took up the matter with a vim, and
the attendance from surrounding Sec
lions was far in excess of what we
anticipated.
This was all accomplished entirely
by the newspapers. and without their
cooperation we do not believe we
could have had such success
George G.. Card, secretary of Mobile
Chamber of Commerce.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
War Makes John Bull soolable,

War is making the British public
sociable. Travellers, who in times OF
peace would occupy the same COM
partments for hours at a time without
exchanging a word, now start CONVEX
sations without an introduction. This
sudden breaking loose from the Vic
torian spirit of reserve and aloftness
has caused the Times to comment edi-
torially on the change, which it calls
one of the minor results of the war.
He first confesses:
Most of us in normal circumstances
go on a railway journey as we go to a
BARRIERS, with a prayer for silence in
our hearts, and at the first sign of
loquacity, we take refuge behind a
rampant of newspaper"
But now he finds it "ludicrously
solemn to sit mutely for hours, look
ing straight through the fellow crea-
ture opposite. and concludes, in be
half of friendly intercourse between
passengers:
IF we only have the honesty to ad-
nit it to ourselves, the sense of hav-
ing done our duty in being friendly
and pleasant gives a comfortable lit
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
4 GTY
~ ~ OF CEYLONs.s

cities. A~nuradhapura was built, de-
stroyed and rebuilt half a dozen
times. Since the twelfth century 1t
has been a complete ruin.
Palace Had 900 Rooms.
The Brazen palace, with its nino
floors, a hundred rooms to a floor,
rested on sixteen hundred roughly
cut stone pillars. Probably the super
structure was brick, wood and thatch.
The Singhalese were not skillful in
the use of stone. To them stone was
merely a substitute for wood. They
did not understand the principle OF
the arch. They hewed out a stone
beam as they would have shaped a
tree trunk and employed ii in the
anne way. The Brazen palace was
destroyed by fire a few years after 1t
was first erected. 1t was Immediate
ly rebuilt, destroyed many times
nor in the course of its history, and
now is marked only by this forest Of
upright, broken and fallen pillars in
the jungle.
Tissa, a great king of the pre-Chris-
tian ere, introduced Buddhism into
the land. He erected a great temple.
the Mahapali almshouse, the ruins Of
which have been almost entirely OBJ
liberated, and planted the slip from
the original DO tree.
This tree fourished to the same ex-
tent as did the new religion and the
city which afforded it a home. The
Thuparama dagaba, a huge mauso-
leum and shrine for the left collar
bone of Buddha, the oldest building
in Ceylon-now a high mound of sod
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24

covered brick, with trees growing half
way up the slope-is a witness to the
enthusiasm of Tissa and to his ambi.
tious plans. In it's ruins it stands
$50 feet high and $50 feet in diane.
ter at the base. Originally it was a
hundred feet higher than now.
Two Kinds of Ruins.
Generally speaking, there are two
kinds Of ruins to be seen in Anura-
dhapura-the vihara and the dagaba.
The viharas, or palaces, are CON.
pletely fallen. Only their founda-
lions remain. There is a typical group
of these ruins scattered among the
trees out lear the ancient Thupa.
rama dagaba. Five palaces were
grouped together, evidently as parts
of a single monastic establishment.
The beautifully nodded slabs of gram
lite which composed the foundations
are, for the most part, still in their
original places.
The dagabas, owing to their solid
construction, are in a fair state of
preservation. At first they remind
one of the pyramids, although they
are conical in shape, rising from the
plain 200 to 300 feet in height. The
interior of them is brick, packed to-
gether without mortar. The relic
which each n contained was placed
in the very center of the mound, and
well protected. In some mysterious
way the exterior of these dagabas
became covered with soil, and now
they look merely like -grass-covered
mounds.
Standing amid these ancient ruins.
under the welcome shade of the jun
gle, n has only to c%onjure up in i'm.
agination the forms of these huge
structures, and see them in their
original brilliant colors to realize that
Anuradhapura in its pristine gradeur
must have been a yeritable dream
city.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
II Arms are Too Eat.

If the arm is too fat, vigorous mas.
sage will help to reduce; but should
be supplemented by active exercises.
To massage the arm. grasp with the
open hand, ear the shoulder; and.
treating it as If 1t were a wet sheet
lifted from the washtub. twist the
flesh with a wringing motion. Go
over the entire arm in this way sey.
eral times.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24

the liver, the spleen and the bone
marrow.
Iron may be taken as a medicine
and stimulates the production of
hemoglobin and red blood corpuscles,
but 1t is better to get it If possible
directly through food and water.
The amount of iron needed appears
to be varied with different individuals,
depending on the nature of their work,
diet and other conditions. says an ex-
change. Careful experiments have
shown that the average man under
normal conditions requires about If.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24

cen milligrams of iron per day. The
average woman is supposed to require
about eight-tenths as much food as a
man and the same proportion of iron
VIII suftice. A child that needs half
as much food requires the same pro
portion of iron.
AS long as infants are drinking milk
they get only a small amount of iron,
but 1t is interesting to know that a
certain amount has been stored in
their systems at birth to tide them
over until they get a diet that con-
tains Its share Of iron. Beefsreak and
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
Patriotic Families.

Early in the wal it was announced
that n German general, in active
service, had ten ons at the front.
Something very close to this record
is now reported from France, whers
ten brothers from La Vendee region
are with the colors. Another remark.
able cast is that Of Francois Vouillon.
of Douzy-le-National, France. who has
eight sons and two sons-inlaw in the
French army. OF these one son and
n son-in-law have already been
killed in battle.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
IRON A FACTOR IN HEALTH
Science Has Proved That 1t Is Highly
Necessary In the Production
Of Red Blood.

Iron should play an important part
In preparing meals. 1t is essential
in the making OF red corpuscles of
the blood and is directly concerned
with the processes of oxidation and
reproduction.
The iron OF the food enters the cir
culation and is deposited mainly In
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
Had Mo chance 10 Grow.

Trees planted along the main streets
of a Massachusetts city failed to show
any growth for two successive years.
Then some of them were dug up to be
t%ransplanted, and it was found that
the trees had been planted just as they
came from the nursery, with the roots
all punched together and wrapped in
burlap.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24

some vegetables are rich in iron.
In meat the iron exists largely as
hemoglobin, due to the blood con-
tanned in the muscular tissue. Iron in
combination with protein matter is
found In considerable quantity in
grains. String beans. navy dried
beans, spinach especially, cabbage
and dried peas are rich in iron.
Among the fruits that have plenty OF
iron are dried prunes. apples and
raisins.
Borrowed money soon begins to look
like borrowed trouble.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
PIannIna for GOOD HOUSING.

Architects and craftsmen have been
invited to take part in an architec-
tural competition instituted by the
housing commission of the city of Los
Angeles to secure plans for tenement
houses.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24

IL 10 nunt the wild ele-
90 plants or to see the ruins
that sahib has Gomez" asked
my Singhalese host at the
resthouse in Anuradhapura,
writes Tyler bennett in the New
York Tribune. The question was not
really asked for information. He
knew that l had o come equipped
to hunt elephants. He also knew that
the game laws of the British govern
ment amply protect these valuable
beasts. He wished, merely, to i'm
press me with the range of entertain
ment afforded by Anuradhapura. l
was impressed. Elephant hunting in
the jungles of Ceylon or curio hunt
ing in the ruins of a forgotten me-
tropolis which once stood amid these
anne jungles-one may take his
choice!
Twenty-Five centuries ago the morn
ing sun cast the shadow of a nine
story building over the spot where
we we're seated. This Brazen palace
of Duttha Gamani was 166 feet high,
higher than the tallest building on
Broadway 80 years ago.
Out yonder grows the sacred DO
tree, over 2,100 years old. 1t was
grown as a slip from the sacred fig
tree under which Buddha himself sat
when fighting off the temptations Of
sense which hindered his attainment
of perfect wisdom. Crumbling ruins,
forests of pillars, grass-grown mounds
hundreds of feet high stretch back
into the dim vista of a tropical for
est on every side. Monkeys swing
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24

Just being mothers daughter was
a great help" say Jose Collins. "but
heaven bless the critics!" There you
are. boys-read it again.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24

from only one clipping bureau
and that these afford only a
rough kind of indication Of the
extent of the use of the &ateri-
al. Calculations, however, have
been made and it is perhaps
likely that they are under rath-
er than over the mark. 1t is
believed that just before the
outbreak of the European war
the material furnished by the
information Office appeared each
month on approximately 900,-
600, o. printed pages. At the
close of the last fiscal year, just
about twelve months after the
information service had been
established, the division Of pub
locations made a report to the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24

tie glow at the heart which more than
-compensates for an occasional bad
half hour"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
Beware.

Reware 80 long as you live of judg-
ing people by appearances.-La Fon-
tame.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-04-24
Smiles.

II we cannot strew life's path with
flowers, wrote Charles Dickens. We
a at least strew 1t with smiles.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-07
NEWsPAPE RERRoRs.

The capacity of some people for de-
tecting errors in the newspapers IS
marvellous, says one Of our contempo.
raries. Also it is singular how many
unexpected meanings these people can
find.
If the reporter writes that man
wore coat of such and such a char
acter, some one may call up and ask
# the coat was all the man had on To
satisfy these literartists, you must
numerate item by item the other arti.
cles of attire, or they will accuse you
of making the victim appear hall
naked
The reader, who digests his paper In
the quiet Of his home feels that he hac
shown great brilliancy If he detects an
error in grammar or capitalization. 1t
is one thing to find mistakes at yoar
leisure in another mans work, quito
another to turn out high degree of ac-
curacy and precision in the haste Of
newspaper composition
The banker makes blunders in his
figures, the lawyer draws up incorrect
papers, and the business man submits
erroneous bills. Such iblunders are
known only to the few persons whom
them concern. The newspaper man is
like the actor on the stage, whose
slightest slip is manifest to all and
seems ridiculous.
1t would be perfectly possible to pro