davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-13
ALGONQUIN CLUE MEN
 HOLD FIRST OUTING.

A large number of Algonquin club members met at RfvercIiff. Saturday afternoon when athletic events and a sheep roast were held. Many novel field events were participated in by eorlageport,s business men and man ufacturers and the first field day of the club was pronounced a big sue cess.
 The war in Europe suggests that military forces have to exist for some purpose other than to provide the an ntal military ball and a week of jolly camp life.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-13

A small riot occurred at Santiago, Cuba. when negro leaders made in ss11ting speeches about the whites, md predicted another race war.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-13

In lawn tennis, particularly in sim gIes a man must be prepared to run fncessantly forward and back, left and right, in, unexpected directions at a seconds notice. It tears the heart out of a weak man. Ordinary back yard tennis is not beyond the capac- fty of the average young man, but if he wants silver cups, he must go into strict athletic training-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-13
COURTESY IS
 NOT DEVOTION

Dear. delightfuI.f thoughtful eyes,
 Life seemed like an autumn day, Hope was as flame that dies
 Till you shone across the way. But when your bright glory broke Ger my life this love awoke.''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-13
AFTER SUFFERING . T W0 LONG YEARS
Mrs. Aselin Was Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable
 Compound.

Minneapolis, Minn. After my little one was born was sick with pains in
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-13
LAWN TENNIS HoNoRs.

The capture of the lawn tennis chanpdonship by w M. Johnston of San Francisco was battle of young Tftans that any lover of athletic manhood would have gone far to wit ness. There seems to be a question whether Johnston won by pure SUI periority of skill. or whether. his ex- tre1ne youth and greater endurance enabled him to maintain his physical -vigor better under the strain. The ex-champfon seemed exhausted at the end of the sets. This may have been because the wonderful skill of his opponent in placing the ball kept the former trophy holder running incess- antly.
 Tremendous physical endurance is needed to win high honors in lawn tennis. No game requires intensity of effort over so long a period. The baseball pitcher, who takes the brunt of the physical effort of his game, rests half the time on the bench, and his action is far from being. continu- ous. Football is short and with fre- quent moments of physical inaction.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-13

SPECIAL SALE OF
 F E R " s JOHN RICK & SON.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-13
SLIGHTLY INJURED WHEN
 AUTO PASSES OVER BODY

While riding down. North Main street yesterday afternoon on his bicycle. Fred Niedhauser, 32, of 180 Parrott avenue, was run down by a delivery car driven by $. Schurr of 166 Pembroke street. Although the automo obiIe passed over Niedhauser he was lIninjured except for a few minor bruises. He was treated at the emergency hospital.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-13

SPECIAL SALE OF
 F E R x s JOHN RR~ & SON,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-13

Coney Islands Mardi Gras begins today.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
THE PLoDoER WHO WINS

Have you ever noticed how, few
smart people amount to anything
says the Dayton News. THE slick
individuals you meet-thev do not
seem to get anywhere. The takers
are the 'smaTtest' people on earth,
but you have never known one to get
very far on the road to success.
Take the smart girl. She seems
to know everything on earth She
dresses a little louder than other
girls. She always manages to wear
lsomething that is chic She has the
boys hanging around her in groups.
She talks in terms that the palmer
girl cannot understand; but later on
in life she will be found putting up a
terrible fight against time, while the
girl who was not nearly so smart is
occupying a position of dignity and
joy at the head of a sensible home.
And as for the smart boy-the one
who gets by in manner the other
boys cannot understand. and who
may for the time being be envied by
the other boys because of his foppish
manners-he doesn't become the head
of a prosperous business. 1t is the
plodder that seems to get there in
the end-the boy who doesn't catch
on quite so rapidly as the smart boy.
Probably not one per cent of the sue
cessful men in the world today gave
any evidence of having great ability
when they were kids The prodi-
gies do not make good. The 'eX-
'ceptionar youngster in school seldom
conquers after he has entered real
life; but the plain fellow of common
sense, slow to learn, slow to become
enthused, slow to make companions,
and slow to give them up-the fellow
who sticks to a job until it is fin
ished, that is the fellow who in after
life rules and regulates the affairs of
this little green ball."
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
AUTOMOBILE MIX..IIF
Two Cars Slightly Damaged And
Lamp Post Jolted.

Mrs. Jas, COurnyer in her Overland
car had an exciting accident this
morning. She was coming north on
A street and was at the High avenue
intersection, when she noticed l.. A.
Suffer in a Ford car approaching
from the west on High avenue. In
tending to stop her car, she used her
emergency brake, but her clutch did
not release and as a result her car
went on. She turned the car to the
left so that she might pass Suffer !.
car at the rear, but not soon enough.
She struck the ear a glancing blow
and hit the electrolier in front of the
Grcenway g. Dow place. =
Suffers car was not injured to a
great extent as the only result was
bent rear axle and some denied
rear tenders. Mrs. COurnvCr'S car
suffered a bent fender, a broken IA
diatOr, one front mud shield and a
front lamp smashed. The lamp post
or clectr0licr sustained the most in
jury. No one was injured. None of
the light globes in the eIectrolicr
were broken in this accident al
though the shades were shattered
This was also the case in "A previous
accident on High avenue east a few
weeks ago when another clectrolicr
was knocked over by a car.
lights continued to burn after the
post was fiat upon the sidewalk.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
MAHASKA GETS SS,OlS
First Payment Of Automobile Tax
Received From State.

The apportionment of the automo-
bile tax for Mahaska county has been
received from the State department
and is $8,01800. This is the first
apportionment; the second one will
be received the first of October and
will no doubt be somewhat smaller
than the first. Auditor Rowland is
engaged today in making the appor-
tionment to the various townships Of
the county.
All of the counties in Iowa received
an aggregate sum of $693,246. This
sum represents 85 per cent of the to-
tai amount which had been collected
for automobile licenses up to the
morning of April 1. This sum is
1916 01 and of this total seven per
cent was retained by the state and
eight per cent was placed to the
credit of the highway commission.
new law on the distribution went into
effect in May and in the next distrib-
ution which will be made on August
4 will send 80 per cent to the coun-
ties, five to the state and five to the
highway commission.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
WILL co TO THE MEET
County Officials Plan on Attendance
at Conventions.

The Fifteenth Annual convention
for the County. Recorders Association
will be held this year at Clear Lake,
Iowa, on July 90, 81 and %, 1915.
Headquarters for the visitors will be
at the Lake Shore Hotel and a fine
program for the entertainment OF
the guests has been arranged. The
clerks of the court and the sheriGfs
will also hold their convention with
the recorders and the Commercial
Club of Clear Lake is endeavoring TO
surpGss all previous efforts in the
way of entertainment The first day
will be given over to the organiza-
tor registration of members, and
the filing, of exhibits in the Holm
Contest Address OF welcome will
be delivered by Hon. F. l.. Rogers,
mayor of Clear Lake, and the Clear
Lake Band will furnish music for the
occasion. At four o'clock on the first
day plunge in the lake will be made
by all the members of all the associa.
tions and the finest of times is anti
cipated Band concerts, auto rides
to Mason City, ball games, and last
but not least, an immense picnic din
ner has been arranged to take place
at noon of the last day, at Oakwood
Park. Several of Mahaska county's
members of the associations are
planning to be present and partici-
pate in all the good things which
have been planned for their enter
tainment.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
rRAEElc REGULATIONS

The city administration has made
a step in the right direction in es-
tablishing traffic centers on promi-
nent corners, around which all auto
mobiles and other vehicles should 60
The painted spot, however, is too
likely to become obscured or erased
by constant travel. A better ar
rangement is in vogue in many west
ern cities, especially in Southern
California. A little tower made of
gas pipe is set in the middle of the
street. II carries a flag BY day and
a lantern by night. Prominently
displayed on the tower also is the
legend. Drive Around Me to the
Right" Most drivers respect the
suggestion and very little difficulty
is experienced by city officials in
directing the Aow of traffic It is
fact also worthy of notice that in
towns where this arrangement is
used the number Of accidents is re
duced to the minimum.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
IowA's SOUTHERN BOUNDARY

An event Of importance in the year
1916 was the survey and marking of
the line which many years later came
to be Iowa's southern boundary. by
a treaty of 1908 the Usage Indians
surrendered their rights to consid-
cradle tract of land within the Louis
lana Territory. On account of the
War of 1912 the government did
after peace was declared Then
John C. Sullivan was commissioned to
mark the northern border of the In
dian cession. With the aid of few
Osages he projected a line from a
point one hundred miles north of the
mouth of the Kansas river due east,
as he supposed, to the Des Moines
river, driving. stakes in the prairie
and blazing trees in the timber.
For many years this Old Indian
Boundary Line lay undisturbed by
the tread of the white man, while the
grass grew over the stakes and the
mounds the surveyor left in his
wake and time almost weathered
away the blazed trail where the out
stretched hand of civilization had
sought to mark it's line" Not until
the State of Missouri almost twenty
five years later attempted to push
its boundary line some ten miles far
Their north, thus rousing the warlike
spirit of the people of Iowa Territory,
were steps taken to locate the posi-
ton of SuIlivan's boundary. The
United States Supreme Court finally
decided in favor of the contention
that Sullivan's Line was the true
State boundary.-From The Iowa
journal of History and Politics."
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15

Iowa City, July 13.-Iowa City's
city council has secured report
from a university engineering expert
on the Iowa CITY Water Company
plant, service and equipment, and the
results may be a new schedule of
rates for the community. 1t is pos,
sible that an artesian well may be
built. The expert also suggests that
the water be made cheaper to tax.
payers, as individual consumers, by
virtue of an increase of the city's
payment to the water company of a
vastly larger total annual rental
jumping from $4,000 to $4,000.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
IOL|VET AND VICINITY

| Olivet, July 10.-H Preston of Des
Moines was in town this week looking
after business.
Mrs. j. J. OPP of Harvey spent last
Thursday in town with old friends
and neighbors.
b. B. Brown, the Rock Island agent
of Harvey, was in town on Wednes-
day on business with the Herald man.
l.. p. Seamon spent Wednesday in
| Knoxville on timber business.
w. J. Jenkins of Des Moines was
in town, Tuesday on business.
J. A, Current of Tracy made us a
friendly call Tuesday. He expects to
do the painting at the c. NJ. Coryell
house east of town when it is ready
for the painters.
A. j. DeCook was in town Monday
AL always let's the sun shine in
front of him and says he is putting
up the best crop of clover hay he
ever had and that the corn is doing
we'll .
John Perfect finished painting the
fine home of S. Bartlema this week.
This new home has been painted
twice in the last year
Al. De Cook had all of his barns
and sheds on his farm painted white
recently. He says he will have no
other cOIor on his place.
George Dennis of Harvey was in
, town short time Thursday.
! The driver took a trip in the coun-
try on business Thursday. On re-
turning nome we stopped at the Burr
Oak school house and were very
much surprised to see conditions
there, especially the buildings. They
were in a condition that reflects no
credit on them or the community and
we might add the authority higher up.
We want these fellows to read Sec
ton 1854 of the. Code and see what
the law SAYS on this matter. This
school has an enrolment of 80 to 40
pupils during the winter months. We
pride ourselves on our school houses.
Why shouldn't Burr Oak be in the
first. class?
The township dads have not yet
put up the sign to cut those noxious
weeds which the law says must be
cut between July / and September 1.
We want all to watch this year, see
how well the law is obeyed, and find
out who has the most nerve, the
won't-ciean-ups and the knocker, or
the State of Iowa. We are going to
bet marbles to doughnuts on the
knocker.
| Mr.. Bell of the Bell & Else firm Of
IOskaloosa was in town Thursday,
talking insurance to G. w. Mercy
nolds.
w. H. Keeper, the Spencer man,
of Oskaloosa, failed to show up on
/ Thursday. There is nothing doing
when Keeper fails to come to town.
The Rock Island have changed their
roadmaster. John Dulin has been
transferred to the X. d. from Keokuk
to Altoona. Charles Flynn has been
transferred from Des Moines to the
branch of the Rock Island from
Washington to Knoxville. He made
! his first trip over this end of the line
on Friday. Both roadmasters have
headquarters in OskaloOsa.
Mrs. Alta McKinze Of Harvey visit
led at the John NoFsemau home this
week They also called on their old
friends in Olivet-R. w.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
PASTOR TO LIVE HERE
German Lutheran Church To Have
Services Regularly.

The growth of the German Luth
ern church of this city has made il
possible for the local congregation
to secure regular pastor and have
services every Sunday. For some
time Rev. J. A. Duerr, who has been
located at Four Corners, near Lock
ridge, Iowa. has been coming to Os.
kaloosa every second week and con-
Quoting services. The 0skaloosa con-
gregation have made arrangements
to have Rev. Duerr come here to live
and hold services here every Sunday.
The Four Corners congregation will
hereafter be served by Rev. Duerr
during the week. Rev. Duerr and fam
lily, comprising wife and daughter,
and Mrs Duerr's mother have come
to make Oskaloosa their home and
will reside at 90S South 18th street.
The church is located at the corner
of Fifth avenue and Eighth street
and the property is in good shape.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
MUCH WANTED man
GIVES HIMSELF UP
MRS. w. w. WILLIAMS NAMED
DELEGATE. BY GOV. CLARKE,
MAY NAME FARMS AND OWNERS
ottumwa Man Under Arrest Charged
With Forgery Farmer Near
WayIand Crushed to Death by
Threshing Machine,

Des MOines, July 13.-With the
smile of man VINO had swallowed
bad medicine and was glad it was
over, Ed Wagner, former Valley
junction saloon keeper, who has been
hunted all over the United States
since last October on a charge of the
attempted kidnapping and robbery of
Charles AShwOrth, stepped from the
train from Omaha this morning and
gave himself up. He was immedi-
ately released on $1,000 bonds.
Mrs. Wagner, who had acCompan-
led her husband from Omaha, ap-
peared with him at the arraignment.
Insanity will probably be the de-
tense offered. Attorney Thompson
said that the investigation would
disclose some traces of insanity in
the Wagner family. He said no
sane man situated as Wagner was
could have been guilty OF the crime
of which he is charged. why should
WAGNER, worth some $4,000, resort
to such a method for $500? | can
show you where he has $4,000 above
Unacceptable property. He has
wealthy relatives here from whom he
could get five or ten thousand dol
lars whenever he needed it,"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
- - -
HAWK EYE.

There was a very good attendance
at the Hawkeye Union Sunday school
last Sunday.
Miss Myra Jones, who went to &c.
dar Falls to attend summer school,
took down with the measles and had
TO return home on Saturday.
Miss Sara Fehd, who has been
working at Omaha, Nebr, is visiting
her mother.
w w. Jones went to Quincy, H.,
Saturday to see his daughter.in-law,
who is very i'll.
Mrs. August Rose of near Rose Hill
visited her sisterin-law, Mrs. Joe Sci
bert, one day last week
There will be a program at the
Hawkeye Union Sunday school next
Sunday night, July Is.
Miss Ruth Comfort called on Myra
Jones Sunday evening.
July II. White Lily.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
ENORMOUS cosr of mAR.

IF those of ultra-optiniistfc tenden.
cies have under-estimated the dufa-
ton and the appalling consequences
OF this war, IL follows they have alco
underestimate its financial effects"
says Henry Clews, in his weekly New
YORK letter. An early ending is not
yet in sight. The Allies are still
preparing on gigantic scale for their
supreme effort, which has not yet
been attempted. Next autumn the
world will probably find one side ma
terially. weakened by continuous SUI
perhuman struggle. while the other
has been strengthened by prolonged
AS for the end. that
cannot be expected until one side or
The other Is thoroughly exhausted.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
SOME DEALS IN DIRT
Record in Recent Real Estate Deals
in Mahaska County.

Mary Evans, single, to Josie Fort
ney, warranty deed lot Winders
third add to Sharon-$2,O0O.
Ike Ewing to E. G. Morgan, war
ranty deed und 4 int in NV NV
Sec. 23-75-17, also z int of stock in
the J. G.. Hammond Co., J. G. Ham
mond being trustce-$5O0.
Mary l.. Stone McFaU and husband
B. F. to Fremont McFall, warranty
deed SW NE Sec. 9-74-16, pit. NE NE
Sec. 9-74-16, pit. NE NE Sec. 9-74.16
NV NV Sec. 1O-76-16-$125.
Samuel G. Ingraham and wife, Sa-
rah A.. to NJ. D. Taylor, warranty
deed pit block Is Wells add Barnes
City-$600.
Lafayette F. Clark, single, to John
A. Spyker, correctio indeed, pit. lot 8
of S. D. and |. S. of Sc NV Sec. 49,
75-15-$1OO
c. w. Taylor and wife, Lille, to o.
o. Riggs, warranty deed und. z of w.
1-3 of lot block % o. P. Oskaloosa-
$1,000
Ralph R. Else, bachelor, to Fred
Else warranty deed und. y of E12 Sc
Sec. Is and Eh NE Sec. 19-75716--
$1.0O.
Jane Yer Steeg and husband, Will
liam, to George Yer Steeg. warranty
deed lot 1S1 block o, O'Neill's add
OskaIoosa-$700.
E. J. Morris and wife, Nettie, ct al
to John w. Mcdonald, warranty deed
ny of lots / and 2, block 10, Mont
gomery's add skaloosa-$4,500.
John w. Mcdonald and wife. Dora
NJ, to e. J. Morris, an undivided
42h -55 and to J. H.. Anderson an und.
12a-55. warranty deed, Eh of lot 8
block 3, Montgomery's add Oskaloosa
-$6,500. 20.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
PUBLISHING SERMONS,

In reply to a subscriber who offered
10 buy and pay for six copies of each
paper containing one OF Pastor
Russell's sermons. the Knoxville
Express says:
I'VE feel under obligations to our
friend for his kind offer, which we
know was well meant; vet we are
constrained to reply. Nav. nay,
Pauline!' We now have plenty OF
troubles and griefs, and are not
looking for any more. From obser-
walton we know that nothing will
make more trouble than printing a
sermon, unless II would be printing
two sermons. A year or two ago a
Knoxville paper published the Rus
sell sermons from time TO time, and
we never heard so many people
knock on any one thing it ever pub
Iished Just why, we do not profess
TO understand; but il Is a singular
fact that good religious sermon will
suit fewer good religious people than
that can be published. II
would appear that those who take
any interest in reading sermons must
have them cast exactly in their own
particular mold, or they act like
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1915-07-15
CONDITIONS IN MEXICO.

In letter to the New Sharon Star.
II. j. Vail, now of Pasadena, Califor-
mia, takes fall out with the admin.
istration on its Mexican policy, and
uses vigorous language to express
his contempt. He says:
I'VE have just had the privilege of
entertaining in our home Mr.. Edward
Hoefiish and daughter, American
citizens who have spent fifteen years
in Mexico City. Mr.. H. is a very in
telligent gentleman, was a partner of
my son, w. L. Vail, in the newspaper
business several years and came
back to Gods country to bring his
family to safety. He reports starry
ing conditions and a state of an
Iarchy, President Wilson having de-
Istroyed what government they had
and left the people at the mercy of
bandits who rob and murder to their
sweet content. He stated that he
had seen the stars and stripes tied to
the tail of mule and dragged
through the streets, had seen it torn
to bits and used as rags by boot
blacks, and other indecent outrages
that are uncomfortable; he said it
was a common saying there that the
gringOs, (AmeTicans) are afraid of
us and will not resent any insult Of
fered. Mr.. H. and his family. with
others, left under escort of the Brit
ish consul and flag, and he showed
me his papers bearing the British
seal. This he was forced to do after
himself and family had las Amcri-
cans. been lined up to be shot but
were rescued by the British consul.
Don't such facts make your blood
boil? Thank God, when Uncle Sans
kitchen door few open Bryan fell out
of the place he was too small to fill,
and FASTENED the time that an Ameri-
can citizen wherever he may be, on
land, or water, shall have full and
ample protection. Watchful wait
ing in Washington, while the ma
tons flag is trailed in the dirt at
the stern end of a mule in foreign
capital is neither wise, patriotic, use
full, or exhilarating to anybody but
a greaser.' Time was when it was
sufficient for a Roman to declare. i
am a Roman citizen to secure pro-
lection, and every American should
be protected in like manner Sher-
man knew what he was talking about
when he declared War is He'll but
even hell, and lots of it, is preferable
10 damning disgrace that is born of
eowardice and sired by dishonor A
nation that will not defend it's honor
and its flag is not entitled to respect !
not even in Mexico, where civiliza. |
ion is two thousand years behind in |
he march of ages.
"A recent letter from my son, Will |
Vail, of Mexico City, stated that he |
oaid SS5 for the last sack of -four he :,
beans 80 cents a pound: |
,alico from $3.50 to SO a yard: shoes |
40, etc. Real estate values have |
He stated that he had sold !
or 100000 gold. a business property |
bought five years ago at $4,000. /
hundreds and thousands of poor peo- |
lie are in starving condition there |
Perhaps some time some patron will |
'roceed to save Mexico from herself, |
'ut II can't be done by any country !
hat unconcernedly permits its ma.
ional emblem to adorn a mules tail
n the shadow of the halls of the
4