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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
The Mutual PeOnD

In a flower border to a pretty little
lawn on Staten Island grew a peony,
for several years sleeping and dream
ing all winter in it's soft, covered bed
Of the delight and surprise 1t would
give its devoted mistress In June.
1t never failed to perform this
miracle Of Natures program. Every
June the foliage reached perfection
and guarded the beds and blossoms OF
the large, fluffy, pure white peonies =
always a wonder as we'll as a delight.
After five years a great change came
in it's life. 1t was removed with the
family to the city Of New York, and
there planted in a flower border around
a back yard surrounded with high
board fences. It struggled to live, yet
with all the fond care bestowed upon 1t
could only reward it with a small
growth OF foliage, no bud, no fluffy
white blossom.
This experiment and sad experience
continued for twenty-five seasons.
Then another great change came into
It's life. 1t was given to a dear friend
who had a most beautiful garden on
Storm King, high, open, and healthy.
This proved its blessing and salvation.
It grew, bearing fine foliage, buds, and
blossoms, large and beautiful as of
yore, adjoining the garden, a joy to the
kind friend.
Now it is nearly forty years of age,
in the prime of life" Every June a
large bouquet of its fluffy white
peonies come to its former mistress,
which make her city home attractive
by their beauty, and fragrant with
memories.
It has become such a close and ten
der tie between the two friends who
are its lovers, not rivals, they call the
dear plant, though not a new variety,
"The Mutual Peony."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
70 CONTEST.

We have received so many wonder
fully Interesting stories In the Some
tahing Remarkable" contest since last
week that we have decided to u the
contest again. So many OF the
Senior" readers Of the Junior ex-
pressed regret that we were think
ing OF closing 1t up. Consequently
We viii publish the announcement
again.
The Courier Juniors idea of the
contest follows:
We want the Juniors to write about
some Of their ancestors (Which means
your parents, grandparents, great
grandparents, etc.. We VIII ask the
Juniors to write nice short stories
telling something remarkable or I'M
usual about their ancestors.
Wa want the Juniors who write IN
this contest to tell us the names OF
their remarkable ancestors.
The writer's car select their prizes
from among the following: A box of
candy. big flag, roller skates, book or
knife.
prize
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
The Three Gifts

When the fays seno d o"o'
F~airyland, .,ah+
shut hand;
I can't. see them, neither you.
nnt Nursey says it is perfectly true;
There's a box of Patience, a bottle OF
Tears, ~
And 4 nice mixed package OF Hopes
and Fears.
dry, ,,re
grown up high. .nd
or course, there's q lot Of Hopes n
Fears, ,v
For they've got to last a gooo mahs
~. there's most Of the Patience, far
and away.
For you've got to use Patience every
day. ro,Ls
-Josenhine Van Tassel in Little FOLKS
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
The Spite House

You're mean, Kitty Perkins"
SO are you, Patty Parker; and, II
you don't look out I shall take all my
things out of this playhouse and have
EN- somewhere else. Then how would
your old playhouse look?"
10 grandma, sitting on the veranda,
the o voices were waited loudly
from the corner playhouse under the
plum tree, and grandma looked troub-
led.
Kitty! Patty" she called clearly.
At first Kitty and Patty did not
hear, their own voices were too loud;
but, when grandma walked down
across the lawn, and stood In the door.
way of the playhouse, they both look
ed up, just a little ashamed.
did you ever hear about the old
grandma, smiling. Come up on the
veranda and have a peppermint while
tell you about It,"
Kitty and Patty loved peppermints
and, moreover, they loved %grandma's
stories, so, without looking at each
other, they walked stiffly beside
grandma up to the veranda.
Down in the queer old town Of
Marblehead on the Massachusetts
Shore" began grandma, when Kitty
and Patty were settled on either side
of her, m%unching the pink pepper
mints,, there is a very ~odd-looking
house. 1t looks just as If some one
had taken a big knife and sliced out
a quarter Of 1t, just as you cut a
square corner out of a loaf Of cake"
How funny" cried Kitty.
"What made 1t that way?" asked
Patty.
That's just what I'll tell you If
you'll listen," said grandma.
There ono were four brothers who
lived together in that house when 1t
was a whole house and not three
quarters of one. Then one day the
brothers had a quarrel, and one OF
them said, If I can't have my W
way. I shall go of and take my share
of the house with me-
But the three brothers did not give
up and the next day the other brother
came with workmen and they measur-
ed the old house and divided 1t into
quarters. Then they sawed, chopped
and cut and took away o~ne-quarter
to another place, and there the fourth
brother lived ali alone. Everyone In
Marblehead knew about the quarrel.
So the story has come down to this
day; and, If you go to Marblehead and
follow a certain winding little street
to the waters edge, there you Will
see the old Spite House, as 1t has
been named"
Kitty and Patty we're quiet as
grandma finished the story.
Then Patty said slowly: Il guess
we don't want u playhouse to be a
spite house. Come on. Kitty. Lets
have dinner for the dolls"
"All right" said Kitty happily.
"And here are some pink pepper
mfnts for dessert" said grandma, as
she kissed each little girl.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
Two Little Girls Were Play
ing Out in the Street

Once upon a time there was two
little girls playing out in the street.
They had been playing hide and go
seek.
They heard a call just as their faith
er drove inythe gate. Mother was call
ing. Mary, Betty" was the call again.
They went running to the house
neither one wanted to go.
Mamma went behind the stove and
brought out two white rabbits. That
was why mamma was calling them.
Papa had bought the Dummies for
Betty and Mary.
Rose Larkins, age 8,
Route 6, Charlton, Iowa
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
Waldo Beck Writes About
a 23-Year Old Horse,
Called Doc.
Dear Courier Juniors:

Dear Courier Juniors:
AS I have not written for some ume
50 I thought I would write In the
something remarkable contest.
My father used to own q horse that
was twenty-three years old. n
horses name was Doc. MY grandpa
gave the horse to my father when the
horse was only six years old. Papa had
the horse for sixteen years. He sold the
horse to a lady neal Hedrick. This
horse was very smart. When papa had
a dairy he drove this horse. When 1t
was about seven o'clock in the evening
the horse didn't wan to work any
more. So when papa would come out
from the houses the horse would be
gone. Papa would come home and the
horse with the milk wagon would be
standing at the gate waiting to get In.
Waldo Beck, age 8,
1888 Goth ST., Des Moines, Ia.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
A Practical Joke BY Arden
Cotton Taylor

Dear Courier Juniors:
| am very we'll pleased with the
knife l got as my prize for the school
composition that l SEN you. I have
q little brother named Sammy. He is
6 years old. He and I have fine times
together. He was nearly tickled to
death when I won the prize.
/ am sending another school com
position which l hope you will like. ]
made it up myself.
A Practical Joke.
Speaking Of Christmas gifts re:
minds me of a certain Christmas ]
spent once when we lived on a farm
We two boys, my brother and l.
thought we would like to have some
fun with father, and we finally de.
cided to give him some Christmas
presents which we knew he wouldn't
like. We planned it all out while we
were getting in the wood Of evenings,
When Christmas v came we were
late to supper, but we told mother
that we had been hunting mistletoe,
but really we had been to town and
had gotten something in a box which
we hid in the barn. We thought it
would be great fun to get up after
father and mother had gone to bed
and were asleep, and put our gift in
the box that mother was giving
father - a small footstool.
We could hardly wait for time to
go to bed. After we had gone to bed
we just lay there and talked. What ii
it should get away when we take it
out Of it's box to put it into father's,'
said Tom.
"Well," I said, well run the risk
just for the fun there is in it, won't
WEI"
After a while we thought it would
be safe to get up. So we got up and
slipped into our clothes, stole quietly
down stairs and out to the barn. We
got our box and slipped back into the
house without any mishap. Then we
crept quietly into the sitting room,
where all of the presents were ready
for the family to find in the morning.
Just as we had the footstool out of
it's box and were ready to put our gift
in instead, our monkey, for such 1t
was that we had in our box, jumped
out and got away. Luckily the door
was shut so that it could not get out
OF the room. WE IIlcut W CdCCu IL UuI
in the attempt Tom stumbled over It
and knocked over a chair. Then The
monkey began to chatter away. In all
we made so much noise that mother
and father got up thinking that there
were. burglars in the house. When
mother had lighted a light she opened
the door and looked in. When she
saw the monkey sitting up on top of
the tall clock she knew the whole
thing.
BY this time father had come up and
when mother had explained to him he
was so angry that he could not talk.
But mother could talk, all right.
"Now go back to bed" she said,
sternly.
We went. AS a punishment-w we were
not to get any presents, were not al
lowed to skate, nor could we go to
town for three months.
All for a little prank in which no
harm was meant'
Alden Cotton Taylor, aged Is.
842 Wabash avenue. Ottumwa- Iowa
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
ALL o PRIZES.

We send out prizes within t"o
weeks after the names of the winners
are published. o,,, o.
We do wish the Juniors would &C
knowledge their prizes.
II any Junior has ever failed TO re-
ceiva a pr1ze after his or her name ap-
neared IN this paper, it is because the
wrong address has been given US
when We say wrong address we espec'
islIv refer to incomplete addresses.
All c,tv Juniors should put their street
number and all Juniors living In the
country should put their box NUMBER
~ failing to have a box send IN tnelr
narents' names.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
vkv BELL,

W. still want more Liberty Bell
stories. We hope some Of our Juniors
wfll see It IN California and tell us all
about It.
The writers in the Liberty Bell con-
+..t can select their prizes from
among the following. A football, box
~ candy. roller skates or a BOOK.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
THE CoUR1ER JUNIOR
Published by
THE COURIER PRINTING CO.
Ottumwa, Iowa
MATILDA DEvEREAUx
EDITOR

a BIG COMPOSITION CONTEST.
Dear Juniors: Now that school
has commenced we want the Juniors
to become interested again in school
composition. Each week during the
month Of September we will award
two friendship links to the two Juniors
sending in the best compositions.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
SEVEN RULES FOR THE JUNIORS

/. Use one side OF the paper on1s
; Write neatly and leg1bly, using
ink or sharp lead pencil. s.,,
!. Always sign your name IN lui'
and state your age.
1 IN not copy stories or poetry
and send us as your own WORK.
s. Number your pages.
: Atwavs state choice Of a prize
on a separate piece OF paper VIII
name and address in full.
7 Address envelope to me Cour'
ier Junior.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
Ruth Staebens Lives With
Her Grandmother
in FlOris

= Dear Juniors: l have eve written
to The Courier before. I am a little
girl nine years old.
/ live with my grandma in Floris. /
20 to school. My teachers name last
winter was Ethel Harvard.
I am sorry she's not my teacher
this winter.
Ruth Steabens, Floris, la.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
WANT LETTERS.

We want the Juniors to write some
vary interesting letters, "neWsy' let
tere. Some Of the Juniors can write
to Their parents. Other Juniors might
write ~ though they were visiting
somo city. The reward for the pest
lettar will be q box OF letter paper
and envelopes, a book or a knife.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-11
Two More Juniors Seem to
Appreciate Their Prizes
Very Much

Dear Courier Junior:
I will write and tell you I received my
hammock and I thank you very much
for it as you have been so kind to me l
hope the other Juniors will have as
much success as I have had.
Marvel Gookin,
Charlton, "a, r. No. 3.
Dear Juniors:
want to thank you for the beautiful
flag you sent me.
Mary Martha Hill,
Moberly, Mo.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-03-25
Educated lmpurity.


Ohio State Journal: There should
be great care taken to keep liaisons
and such stuff out of moving pictures.
Situations that stir up low thoughts
also provoke bad thinking, and bad
thinking make poor citizenship. Sng-
gestive vileness is quite US injurious as
open obscenity. Low and disordered
thinking is the country's greatest
peril. 1t makes bad politics, bad bust
ness, bad society. bad religion, bad
family life. We can not probably elude
the fault entirely, but when it is with
in the scope of the law some restraints
should be put upon it. There are SO
many opportunities in these material
istic, progressive days to increase the
sensuahsm that is hurting society so
much that every effort should be made
to diminish them. We spend millions
for. education. 1t is money thrown away
unless we do something in behalf of
purity. Educated impurity is a greater
load than any nation can bear.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-03-25

Wisconsin people are intelligent and
know how to vote.
Classify salaries in the different de-
partments, for their is no reason for
paying from Is to 20 per cent more in
one department than in another for
the same class Of work.
Repeal the service or create a pen
sion bureau.
Do away with fiscal year ending on
June 30
Make the legislature levy the state
tax as the constitution provide and az
was the practice for years.
Do away with the state treasury
Office and transfer that department to
the secretary Of state, therefore avoid
ing duplication and saving about $780,
600 year.
Simplify the state government so that
the average man may understand it
and | think that is what the people
want
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-03-25
FOUNDED ON DEMOCRACY.

This is a country founded on democ-
racy and applies to federal, state, coun-
ty and city government. What is de-
mocracy? Simply the opposite Of mon
archial, which fosters the gloved hand,
time-killiug, inefficient overseer who
draws the largest pay. How thankful
we should be that we live in America,
where monarchy can be overthrow the
minute it pops its head in sight.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-03-25

GTATE or WISCONSIN-IOW COUNTY
- COURT-IN PROBATE.
In the matter of the estaJe OF Agnes Fisher,
deceased
Letters of administration on the estate OF
Agnes Fisher, deceased, having been issued
TO Josephine Studc.
Notice Is hereby given. that the creditors of
said Agnes Fisher, deceased, are allowed
and limited hy order Of thia court, until
aud including the first Tuesday Ot October.
1915. being the fourth day OF said month, to
present their claims and demands against said
Agnes Fisher dcctu-rd. TO the County Court
for examination and allowance.
Notice Is also hereby given. that iht claims
so presented will hN examined aud adjusted
By this court at the office OF the County
Judge AT Che Court House ia the city Of
DodgcvijlC. m said county, on the FIRST Tues,
day OF NovcmhC. tJij.
Dated this 18th day of March. 1915,
By the Court
ALDRO jerks, County Judge
Fielder & Fielder Attorneys l2wl
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-03-25
Petition for Jndemcnt.

STATE OFWlSCONSIN-IOwA COUNTY
= COURT IN PROBATE.
In the matter OF the real estate of George
hiSlngbury, deceased
Notice is hereby given that at a special term
OF the Iowa County Court to be held ia and
for said county, at the court house. in the city
of Dodgeville, Ia said county. on the nth day
of May, a. D., 1915. being the second Tues.
day Of said month, at 10 o'clock in the fore.
noon of said day, the following matters will
be heard and considered,
The petition Of Mary }. kislingbury Cora
kisiinguury, William kislingbury aud Henry
George kislugbury for the Judgment Of this
court finding and determining who are all the
heirs Of said George kiSlingbury. deceased.
and what are the respective rights and inter
eSts OF said heirs or their assign In and to the
title of said George ksliughurg in and 10
certain lands described IN the petition herein
And tits further ordered, that public notice
thereof ne given to all persons interested by
publishing "a copy of this order for three weeks
suceesSlyely. prior 70 said day of hearing in
the Mineral Point Tribune a weekly news
paper published IN said county.
by order of the Court,
ALpkO jerks. County Judge
Dated podgeyille Wis, March 20. 1915.
l2w3 7, NJ. priestley, attorney for petitioners.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-03-25
BURLEsoN ACCUSES RAILROADS.

Postmaster Burleson came out last
Saturday with a blast against the rail-
roads of the country. He accuses
them of footing the postal revenues,
of misleading the public and causing
the defeat at the last session of con
gress Of the appropriation bill which
carried the supplies for the postal SER
vice of the country. The Burleson
statement is one of the bitterest that
has come from the administration on
any subject.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-03-25

He gets up at the alarms of Con-
necticut alarm clock; buttons his Chi
cGgo suspenders to Detroit overaus.
washes his face with Cincinnati soap
in a Pennsylvania pan, sits down to
Grand Rapids table; eats Chicago meat
and Tennessee flour cooked with Kan
sas lard on st. Louis stove: puts a
New York bride on Kentucky mule
fed with Iowa corn; ploughs a farm
covered with an Ohio mortgage with
a Chattanooga plough; when bedtime
comes he reads from a Bible printed
In Boston, says a prayer written in
Jerusalem, crawls under a blanket
made in New Jersey, only to be kept
awake by an Arkansas dog the only
home product on his place. Arkansas
Democrat.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-03-25

Here is something we are inclined
to doubt, although taken from an ex-
change that reaches our table once a
week and classed among the reliable:
ION the train to Chicago the other
day a lady passenger was boo-hooing
mt to kill and a gentleman passenger
said to her: Ny dear friend, what can
/ do to console you in your troubles?"
She said her troubles were inconsolable;
that she was on her way to California
to have her fifth husband cremated.
Just then across the aisle two seats
back another lady burst out crying
with all her might and the gentleman
stepped back to get her troubles: she
said she was forty-two years of age
and had never been able to catch a
man yet while that thing across the
aisle had husbands to burn. And she
didn't think it was right.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-03-25

Oshkosh Northwestern: What Barnes
says may Ego" in New York, while
in some Jf the other states there are
bosses who are supposed to have a
strangle-hold on the machinery of the
Republican party and are thus able to
swing things TO suit themselves
Among Republicans generally, how
ever, there is disposition to repudiate
and resist such leadership, and to en-
courage the voters to think and act
for themselves. Just so certain as a
suspicion is aroused that steamroller
methods are TO used for the nomina-
ton Of any man for president, the
candidacy Of such man will have a
handicap that will prove fatal to his
success. Senator Root doubtless will
be regarded by many as desirable
candidate. but he will have to care
fully steer clear of entangling alliances.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-03-25

"A Kendaltown man, it is related,
had a very red nose, and recently a
very inquisitive person said to him
please don't take olfense, but I'm
curious TO know why your nose is al
ways SO red And this is the reply,
my nose is merely blushing with
pride over the fact that it has never
butted into anyone's business.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-03-25
FLAYS EXPERIMENT AT CAPITOL

On the 10th Of this month State
Treasurer Henry Johnson issued state
ment to the members of the Legislature
relative to legislation he believes will
promote economy and efficiency in the
administration of state affairs. He
snakes eight specific recommendations,
90 follows:
Do not make the capitol an expert
ment station.
DO not place all the responsibility
upon the governor by appointment nor
even by the advice and consent of the
senate, which in many instances mean
that a man is blacklisted before he en-
tiers upon his duties.
Make the commissioners elective,
compelling them TO give an account of
their stewardship to the people every
two years, instead of a long APP
pointment covering six or eight years.
This win help to keep down expenses
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-03-25

Sheboygan Press: The Wisconsin
Legislature should pass a law making
it impossible for any department OF the
state government to expend more than
has been appropriated. Heads Of de-
partments, violating laws, should be
open to punishment, with prison sem
fences carrying no less than a mimi
nun punishment Of one year Such q
law would be Of treat benefit in keep
ing taxes down and something Of this
kind is needed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-03-25
Legal Notices
Notice to Creditors.

>tTATE OF WISCONSIN IOWA COUNTY
> COURT-IN PROBATE.
In the matter Of the estate Of John G.
Baxter deceased.
Letters of administration ON the estate Of
John G.. Baxter, deceased. having been ss-
ued TO Jane Y. Baxter.
Notice is hereby given that the creditors Of
said John {. baIter dec cti are allowed
including the first Tuesday of October, 1915,
being the hfth day of said month, 70 present
their claims aud demands against said John
e.. Baxter, deceased. TO the county court
for examination and allowance.
Notice is also hereby given, that the claims
so presented will be examined and adjusted
by this court. at the Office Of the County
Judge at the Court House in the city of
Dodgeville, i'm said county on the first Tues
day Of November 1915
Dated this BIRD day Of March 1915
BY the Court
ALDRO jerks. County Judge,
J. Is Reynolds Attorney. i2w4