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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
PROSPECTS FINE
FOR BUMPER CROP
EXPECT PLENTY OF FRUIT
EXCEPT PEACHES

Williamsburg, April 2SThe pros
pect for bumper crop of fruit in the
vicinity Of Williamsburg was never
better, for all kinds Of fruit except
peaches. F O. Harrington, one Of the
leading horticulturists of the state
makes this encouraging report Mr..
Harrington lives seven miles east Of
town, and is surely a success in fruit
raising, and can entertain with val
liable information on fruit culture, al
most any time his friends desire to
draw on his rick fund of knowledge
The farmers are well along with
their spring blowing and could be
planting corn, If it was not considered
too early in the season to do SO.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
MAN ACCUSED OF
FORGERY is HELD

Wapello. April Or H. Boyd,
whose home is In Missouri, is lodged
in Louisa county Jail charged with
forgery. He has been working for
VIM. Newell and Monday came into
town and went into the State Savings
bank and cashed check for $4,000,
and went out on the street Cashier
John Delhi suspected that all was not
right and stepped to the door and re-
quested him to come back few mo-
ments. He did SO and Mr.. Delhi
asked him to remain until he called up
Mr.. Newell and asked him II it was !.
K. He threw the money which had
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
MILITARY USE OF AERoPLAhE.

Aeroplanes and submarines nave
helped to make the present war In
Europe the most destructive and the
most unique in history. The aero
plane especially has proved of wonder
full defensive ability. Augustus Post.
one time secretary OF the Aero Club OF
America and an expert in aerial mat
tiers holds that the United States at
this very moment needs at least 1000
aytators trained in the arts OF war and
capable of aiding in the distribution
of mail in times Of peace. Mr.. Post
has written an article on the subject
and it appears on this page today in
connection with the series of feature
editorials being run in The Courier.
Read the article and add to your store
Of information on a most interesting
subject,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
FIRE PREVENTION.

An ounce of prevention is worth q
pound of cure, runs the old adage and
it certainly applies in the case of fire.
Millions upon millions Of dollars worth
of damage is done by fires every year
and great big percentage of the loss
occurs as the results of fires that a
little care would have prevented. One
match or one spark can start blaze
that will devestate an entire city, but
the one match or the one spark needs
something in which to get good start.
A match or a spark is harmless If it
falls in spot In which there is moth
ing infammable. The attention Of all
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

customs receipts had been $244,O23,73l,
with which we have to compare this
wear a total Of customs income OF
$171 ,093,73S
At the same time there has been a
falling off in customs there mas been
an increase in internal revenue collec'
tons, which, last year on the oate
named, had amounted to $252,34S,6 Oily,
while this year they have brought IN
65,475,277. The corporation ana IN
come tax thus far this fiscal year has
doubled receipts, the amount last year
up to April "a being $6,1S4,O54, ana
This wear down to the same correspond
ing day s12,s96,1 21. 1t is believed that
the original estimates of $S0,OOO,OOO
will be exceeded.
Estimates of returns from corpora
tons do not indicate so much income
from this source as was looked 1or,
but the loss has been more than onset
on the individual side.
It Is understood that the year Will
show more individual taxables than last
wear. when about $4,000 persons paid
Secretary McAdoo and Commissioners
of Internal Revenue Osborn have made
It clear that they proposed this year
to pursue all persons suspected OF tax
lodging, and this Is believed to have
had an effect.
The statements given out each week
Of imports and exports show very
clearly, according to the government
experts, that the great cause OF the
falling off of customs Is due this year
to the war, although it was apparent
before the war began that the Under
wood tariff would no doubt produce
numerous reductions in customs re-
ceipts. The situation Is giving the ad-
ministration no solicitude, and while
the issue OF Panama canal bonds Is
from time to time suggested. 1t was
stated at the treasury department to-
day that this had not up to this time
received consideration as an actual
step required by conditions.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
Aerial Coast Defense
BY AUGUSTUS POST.
Former Secretary the Aero Club Of America.

efficiency and permits them to CO.
operate. The problem of coast defense
is thus changed entirely.
Once in attack aeroplanes come into
action directly. Locating hostile ships,
they direct gunfire from shore bat
teries and forts by dropping smoke
ers would probably never have been
attempted had English coast defenses
included at that point an efficient
aerial patrol. that would not only have
given warning far ahead, but could
have located the raiders, directed
shore fire, or even present possibilities
in attack. In the various engagements
of this war the aeroplane begins to re-
veal it's possibilities as manned mo-
bile projectile, perfectly dirigible, like
a torpedo with brain.
We need to give eyes to the army
and wings in the navy, a sufficient
force of men and machines trained and
ready. chain Of aircraft bases along
the line Of our coasts, and an auxil.
larry organization of hangar ships The
cost is small; an aeroplane costs just
as much as one shot from modern
big gun, and takes one man, possibly
two, to make it effective.
But the feature that recommends it
most strongly to the practical, peace
, believing American people is that all
this aerial equipment can not only be
used for practical purposes in time Of
peace. but should be so used to main
tain it in a state of efficiency for pos
sible. war A battleship can really be
used only for battles, and deteriorates
rapidly whether used or not, but the
United States needs at this moment at
least 1000 aviators to carry mail over
parts of the country where their SER
vices will be indispensable to civiliza-
ton. One route, typical of many, has
just been indicated where, on accoun,
of the impossible state of roads, mails
now travel 500 miles between two
points that flyer could connect with j
3O-mile trip. The aeroplane Is not fra
gile; its life in war seems to be longer
than that of an automobile or that of
a horse. Thus trained in time of peace
and for the arts of peace, a large body
of men with their machines would be
instantly available for defense in time
of war.
Augustus Post.
ionaI Editorial SerVice)
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

people should therefore be directed to
eliminating as far as possible all spots
where blaze can start A pile OF rub.
bish makes an excellent place for start
ing fire, oft-times the blaze being
from spontaneous combustion. A pile
of straw such as is used in packing, a
pile of shavings, pile of dry grass, or
quality of oiling rags, all make excel
lent places for the fire demon to find
a beginning and to cause a blaze that
does damage amounting to hundreds or
thousands OF times what it would cost
to remove the cause of the blaze
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

Alienation suits in which wealthy
parents of romantic girls are the de.
PENDANTS, received severe jolt in a
New York court Monday. A gardener
who had married his employers daugh.
ter sued the father-in-law for $500
because the girl left him and returned
to her home. The gardner said the
father had no right to influence or at.
tempt to influence the girl to leave
him The judge threw the case out Of
court and expressed his belief in the
right Of parents to continue to guide
and advise and direct a daughter even
after her marriage.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

During clean up week - which is
now being observed fire prevention
should have an important part in the
plans that are laid and the work that
is done. Remove as far as possible the
danger spots about your house and
your place of business and then exer.
else care, and fire losses in Ottumwa
will fall away to next to nothing for
the unpreventable fires are q very
small part indeed of the fires which oc.
; cur during each year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
POLICE STATION
HAS FIGHTING MAN

Muscatine, April 29.-The Musca-
tine police station housed fighting
guy. The prisoner whose name was
not docketed but who is reported to
have been youthful tiller of the soil
from near Let's, sought to give ex-
preston to his dislike Of restraint by
making a futile attempt to wreck the
bummery. Not content with seeking
to break the heavy iron rods protect
ing the windows of the bummery by
heaving heavy coal bucket against
the grating he broke of the end of the
gas jet and ignited the illuminant.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

The repeated charges of atrocities
in connection with the European war
remind one forcibly of an order issued
by General Robert e. Lee, commander
of the forces of the Southern Confed.
eracy during the great American civil
war. The order ran: mo greater dis.
grace can befall the army and through
1t our whole people than the perpetra.
tion of harbarous outrages upon the in
nocent and the defenseless. 1t must
be remembered that we make war only
on armed men,"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
DIR. GlGLINGER ON VISIT.

Davenport April 29-Dr George
Giglinger Of Keokuk, formerly chan
cellor of the Catholic dioces of Daven.
port and a professor Of ST. Ambrose
collegs, is in Davenport today coming
to see Bishop James Davis. Father
Giglinger expects to go to his old
home in Germany this summer if he
can make the necessary arrange
ments. He expects to be able go en-.
ter Germany, either by way Of Holland
or Italy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

Though admitting that he constant.
ly conferred with the bosses" Roose,
welt emphatically denies that he was
ever influenced in any of his official &C
tons by anything the bosses suggest
ed. When the records show that he
acted as they suggested, he insists it
was not because they wanted him to.
Some witness for himself, is Teddy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
WORK ON RED X ROAD.

Scion, April 29.-The county road
grading gang began work last week
at the county line and will work south
on the Red X road to Iowa City A
huge gas tractor pulling two graders
is engaged in the work. A cement
gang started from Iowa City and Is
now at the j. B. Kasper place putting
in new cement bridge. One near the
Bartarchek farm and just south of the
depot are also promised on this road
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

The money the administration is 60.
ing to get out of the direct tax upon
the people - the income and corpora.
ton tax - so far exceeds expectations
that it is now believed that the treas.
ury will hold out for some time yet
without being compelled to issue the
Panama canal bonds which under a
protective tariff regime did not have
to be issued
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
TAKES ELECTRIC GLOBE.

Muscatine, April 29.-Edward Pain
ter, youthful resident Of South Mus.
catine, was arrested when he was
caught at the P. M. Mussar library in
the act of taking one of the electric
light globes from its socket. As he is
under II years of age his case will
come up before the Juvenile court at
its next session.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

Irrigation makes 1t possible to raise
good crops in portions of some of the
western states. Iowa relies on good
old fashioned rain to water it's crops
and Iowa Is still leading all the agricul-
tural states and drawing further away
from the field every year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
ID. sfiAIiENBERoER makes q specially

Or. sflALiENBERGER makes specially
20 treatment OF Chronic and Nervous Disease
sive practice, has made him so proficient that hs
can successfully treat chronic diseases after
other physicians have failed. This IL why he has
physicians have made few visits and stopped
You should consult him II you have any Chronic
Disease. A Specialist who has made q lifetime
give you the best results. and II you are sick you
need scientific treatment.
DR. Shallenbt.xer treats Disease OF the Eye.
Ear. Nose, Throat. Lungs Heart. Blood. Skin
and Bladder; Catarrh. Ringing In Ears, Deaf
tess, Paralysis, Neuralgia, Epilepsy Headache.
Goitre, Eczema. Scrofula. Appendicitis. Gravel
and Rheumatism.
PHI Es. FlsTULA, FISSURE, and OTHER
RECTAL DISEASES TREATED
WITHOUT SURGICAL OPERATION.
WOMEN who are WEAK, NERVOUS,
and suffering from the many ailrnents peculiar
to their sex find that MS aavancea sno sc'enslI'o
methods, save many surgical operations.
PRIVATE DISEASES A SPECIALITY.
Eases Of long standing especially dearea.
often resulted In the worst afiictions. II is
hiphly important that you obtain the services OF
physician who has established 9ooo 1eputa'
don for treating these diseases.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
Are you nervous and despoident: easily exct
ted and irritable: weak ani deoilitated; tired
mornings; without ambition. energy OF strength;
Efeless' easily fatigued; distrustful and without
confidence in yourself? Have you sunken req
or blurred eyes; pimples on your face; weak
back, or deposit in urinef
DR. Shallenbcrger spares no effort to cure his
ratients. He knows that good results mean as
mach to him as to his patients. Most OF ms new
.,atients come from the Recommendation
others whom he has treated. ses.5
Specia! attertion given to Surgical Cases
and Rupture
Consultation and Examination Free ane
;Confid -ntial.
REFERENCE Drexel State Bank. Chicago
Address ~,,.,,eNpcprcp
1869 Lake Ava. CHICAGO, IL
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

Clean UP week has not ended though
many people have ended their cleanup.
Have you made your place satisfactory
from standpoint of cleanliness and
beauty?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

$50 the lady doctor Tilted Bob"
"Yes. He called her dear little
duck, and she thought he meant to
insinuate that she was quack."
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

Roosevelt denies that he received
advice from political bosses of New
York. He insists he merely consult.
ed' with them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
TREASURY DEFICIT 500, ooo, COG.

TREASURY DEFICIT $lOo,oou,ooo'
The following dispatch from the ma
tional capital, telling Of the immensely
of the treasury deficit which has come
about during the last two years, IS SER
explanatory:
The treasury deficit today, as shown
by the figures for the treasury receipts
and expenditures for last Saturday
turned the 500, OOO, 900 mark.
This is the net excess of ordinary ex-
penditures over revenue receipts. me
returns for the past ten days fiuctuat-
ed around this $1OO,000,000 point with
no steady excess of expenditures over
receipts, but general trend from
week to week toward the increase OF
the deficit.
For instance, last Thursday, the
revenue receipts we're in excess of ex-
penditures by $534,593, while on We'd
nesday the deficit was increased by an
excess of ordinary expenditures
amounting to $1,O77 $50. Friday the
expenditures outran the receipts by
$43s, 1922, and on that day the total de-
felt for the fiscal year was $99, 578, 569
Saturday it went to $100,O33,727.
The grand total of receipts for the
year down to the close of business Sat
urday has been $5o7 ,299.931. and the
disbursements $500, 399,727. Last year
for the same day the figures were, to-.
tai receipts $547,417,35O and disburse-
ments $576,372,S33, with the net deficit
on that day in 1914 of $31,202, 1875.
The differences to which may be at.
tributed the steady and large increase
OF the deficit are found in the customs
receipts mainly. Last year for the en-.
tire time down to April "a, 1914, the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

Helps Weak kidneye and Lumbago.
Get a Csc bottle Of Sloans Liniment,
apply on back and take drops four
times day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

ran but was overtaken by ondcers
two miles south Of town, arrested,
brought before Squire Hunter and ia
now in jail awaiting trial. He said he
was homesick and thought he would
get some money to go home.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

Undertakers report that they don't
remember any deaths due to kindness.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
d. n n e e
S t Ori q y

Mrs. Codding was having some
new window fixtures put up her
house one day, and she stood :. n by
watching the workman.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
WE HAVE A FREE BOOKLET
CORNER STONE LAYING.

Van Horne, April 90. The cornerstone
of the new Catholic church at Van
Horne will be laid Sunday afternoon,
May 2, at o'clock. Very Rev. ]. J..
Fitzpatrick, D. D., will conduct the
ceremonies and preach the sermon.
The cornerstone was donated by
Messrs Drummer Piherna of Cedar
Rapids.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

The normal condition of man is that
of happiness. Worry is the result of
artificial conditions.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

The teacher was drilling the class
in mental arithmetic.
Nov, boys he said, here is an
easy one. A man desiring to 60 into
business borrows million dollars at
Is per cent for four years. What's
the result? Quick!"
Fifteen hands shot up and fifteen
voices shouted in chorus:
1.-THE man goes broke"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01

seat on the grandstand. Immediately
in front of him stood a large, excited
damsel, who had whole dollar wager
ed on the favorite in the free for all
trot.
AS the horses turned into the home
stretch the woman jumped up in the
air, coming down squarely with all her
weight on the infirm extremities of the
old man. A groan escaped him, and
she turned and begged his pardon.
"Uncle Zach, Ise awfully sorry" she
said.
Oats all right, honey, answered
the old man CALAMITY II only hopes
nah feet amt too corrugated TO woah
pleasure" Saturday Evening Post
Everybody" observes New York
woman, knows one or more OF those
conscientious CYCLISTS who cannot rid
themselves of the notion that one can
be trusted to carry out the simplest de-
tails of routine work without their per-
sonal supervision.
/ 1T was one of this sort who went
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-01
Don't you think that you have
placed those fixtures too high?" she

Don't you think that you have
placed those fixtures too high?" she
asked.
The workman was stolid German
and, making no reply whatever, con-
tinued to adjust the fixtures.
Didn't you hear my question:" de-
manded Mrs. Codding. How dare
you be so rude?"
The German gulped conyulsively,
and then, in the most gentle of voices
replied:
Il hat my mouth full of screws, und
I could not spheak till swallow
some!"
The colored population In a little
Alabama town was having race meet
at the local fair grounds. An aged
negro, whose shoes were slashed to
give his gnarly toejoints air, sat in a
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Copyright. 1915, by the National Editorial service)
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west, leaving in his brothers. care q
parrot of which he was very fond. All
the way out he worried about the bird,
and at Chicago he sent his brother the
following telegram:
BE sure to feed the parrot
"Whereupon brother telegraphed
back:
Have fed him, but he is hungry
again. What shall do next?'"
"Jiggs seems awfully down hearted
since his wife eloped with the chauf.
feur."
mo wonder. They smashed up his
best car, and he had to foot the bill for
repairs"
The guide suddenly halted the party
of Americans.
"Ah, there comes the heir to the
throne" he said removing his hat as
the royal equipage appeared.
The little boy Of the party nudged
his mother and whispered:
did he take his hat of for fear the
air would blow it off?"
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-11

spinach thirty minutes or until tender,
Press it through the vegetable sieve
and season with onion and baby leaf,
salt and pepper. Seald two cups of
milk and thieken it with tablespoon
of flour blended with one tablespoon of
butter, add the spinach and strain and
cook five minutes. Serve in puree
plates and garnish each serving with a
little whipped cream.
OF all vegetable soups tomato bisque
is undoubtedly most popular. To make
it, one can tomatoes, one onion minced,
salt, parsley, pepper, celery salt, and
six cloves are cooked together about
ten minutes. Then a tablespoon of
flour is mixed with little milk until
it is smooth and is added to a full
quart of milk, and this is heated in a
separate utensil Now put fourth of
a teaspoon of soda in the tomato spice
mixture and at once pour ON the seald-
ing milk. This prevents it eurdling.
Cook the mixture five minutes, strain
it and cook again until heated through.
If the tomatoes are very acid you may
need more soda to neutralize, but too
much soda will taste
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MAUCH CHUNK BURGESS DIES
Charter Member of State Bar Associ-
alton Dies From Indigestion
TO BE CONTINUED

Charter Member of State Bar Associ-
alton Dies From Indigestion
Mauch Chunk, Pa, March IL
Frederick Bertolette, veteran law
yer and the chief burgess of this bor-
ough, died yesterday of acute indiges'
tion at the age of 63 years. He was
one of the oldest lawyers in point of
practice of the Carbon county bar.
He was born near Pottstown and was
graduated from Bucknell University in
1874. He read law with the late Col
onel John d. Bertolette, member of the
local bar, and was admitted to prac-
tice here in 1874.
He was a charter member of the
Pennsylvania Bar Association and
served as vice president of that organi-
zation for one term. He was for many
years attorney for the Central Rail
road of New Jersey, the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Company and other
corporations.
He held numerous borough offices
and was one of the leading members
of the Marion Hose Company. He
served as chief burgess one year.
Surviving are his widow and two
children, the wife of the Rev. A. G.
Diffenback, of Hartford, Conn, and
Mrs. H. M. Chaplin, of Cleveland, o.
The funeral will be held tomorrow aft
ernoOn
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A inner. loyaler-hearted girl doesn't
live. She might have been kind out
OF sympathy"
Mallow bit on the tip of his cigar.
Hes a handsome beggar. II you want
to know
! resent that tone. Better drop the
subject before l lose my temper. I'll
have your papers ready for you In the
morning." The consul general caught
up his pen savagely to indicate that
the interview was at an end.
All right" said Mallow good-natu-
redly. Il meant no harm. Just nat.
urally curious. Can't blame me-"
I'm not blaming you. But 1t has
disturbed me. and wish to be alone to
think 1t over"
TO BE CONTINUED