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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
MISS |CA BfARCF
HAS narrow ESCAPE
Takes Dose Of Carbolic Acid Through
Mistake, Thinking it Was
Medicine.

Miss lea Bearce suffered a narrow
sscaOe from death Sunday evening
at the family home on the north
side, when she took a dose of carbol-
ic acid for medicine.
Miss Bearce has been in poor
health for the past several months,
due to nervous breakdown, and was
for time this summer an inmate of
Mercy hospital. However, she i'm
proved later and has been able to be
out for the past week or two and ac-
cOrding to her custom, attended
church Sunday evening. During the
service she was taken ill and hurried
home where she went into the dark
ened kitchen to get the bottle of
medicine she knew to be there. In
her haste and owing, too, to the
darkness, she took instead a gener-
Gus dose of the acid from bottle
standing near the medicine. Three
physicians were Immediately sum-
moned and after some time were en-
abled to provide the patient some re-
lief from her intense suffering and
next morning pronounced her out
of danger.
The accident was very serious
one and Miss Bearce's many friends
will be glad to know that she is
resting as comfortably as possible
today.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
Fine Strawberries.

A box containing some fine speci-
mems of everbearing Strawberries is
in the window of the Freeman
Tribune Office. They were grown by
A. G.. Kellogg, who lives on the east
side and has a small patch of ground
devoted entirely to everbearing ber-
ries. The older strawberry plant on
display has upon it 100 developed
berries, beside the blossoms, and is
a last years plant reset this spring
for fruitage. The young plant which
came from this, set on in June, has
25 berries and blossoms upon it, and
one stem has upon it ten ripe straw
berries-an unusual occurrence.
From the plot of ground about 60x22
feet, Mr.. Kellogg picks about ten
quarts of Strawberries week.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
Petitions Filed in Court,

The R. c. Valentine company of
Marshalltown has filed a petition in
the Office of the clerk of the district
court asking judgment against M. A..
Fisher for $14.79 alleged due for a
barrel Of auto oil.
A. B. Millard and F. Millard, ex-
ecutors Of the state of B. Millard,
asks judgment against C. F. and
Mary c. Bishop for $1,250, with in
tgest an@scosts, alleged due on note
secprad BY mortage. %rF,.
Gade Bros. Mfg Co. OF Iowa Falls
asks Judgment againststEsRose
Supply Co. and A. o.FPete6pn for
sS9.S7 alleged due on ;accou9f.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
Couple Leaves City.

Willis Bailey, night man at the
Little Chicago cafe, and Miss Mae
Burns, who had been employed as
dishwater in this cafe for about six
weeks. left this city the day after
Watermelon day for parts unknown.
1t is understood they bought tickets
from here to Waterloo but did not
intend to remain there. The girls
home is in Manchester, so that town
may have been their destination.
Young Bailey was we'll liked. He
had been employed in the Little Chi
cago cafe for about a year and a half
and was junior in high school last
year. He had only four credits to
make before he would have gradu-
ated.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
AVIATOR WEEKS
HAS AN ACCIDENT
Witnessed by Mr.. and Mrs. Dan F.
Shea and Mr.. and Mrs. w.
~ r. Daniels.

Filing O. Weeks, the birdman of
Eagle Grove who made the airship
flights in this city on Watermelon
Day, met with an accident Sunday
afternoon mile or so west of Eagle
Grove while flying in his machine
accompanied by another gentle
mana young man from Thor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan F. Shea and Mr..
and Mrs. Will R. Daniels, who made
a trip in the Shea car to Fort Dodge
and Humboldt and were on their
way home from the latter place, wit
messed the accident. When the
Webster City people first sighted the
aircraft it was sailing along as beau
tifully as a bird on the wing and
not so very high, but in few mo-
ments began to descend and few
moments later dipped and alighted
head first in a clover field not far
from the Webster City party in their
car. Messrs. Shea and Daniels and
another party in a buggy, who also
happened upon the scene, rushed to
the assistance of the aviator and his
friend in the flying machine. Mr..
Weeks was uninjured but his young
man companion had a terrible cash
cut in his left cheek and was 9TH
erwise badly scratched and bruised.
He was covered with blood and ap-
peared to be badly hurt. Messrs
Shea and Daniels took the young
man to the hospital in Eagle Grove
where his wounds were dressed and
the physician in charge said he did
not believe the young mans injuries
were serious. The Webster City par
ty heard the young mans name but
Mr. Daniels, who gave us the partic-
ulars, has forgotten it.
Mr.. Weeks says the accident was
by the engine failing him.
got the matter and the
engine stopped. Both engine and
flying machine were badly damaged
BY the sudden fall to the ground.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
WIN BIG PRIZES
At STATE FAIR
F. A. Huddlestun's Fine Lot Of
Horses From Edgewood Farm
Take Notable Prizes at
Des Moines. n
THE LARGEST PRIZE OFFERED.
Ten Head of Horses From Edgewood
Farm are Exhibited at the
State Fair. I
THE LARGEST PRIZE OFFERED.

The fine bunch of horses belong.
| ing to F. A. Huddlestun which rep.
resented Edgewood Farm at the
Iowa state fair, returned Sunday
noon over the Northwestern railway
bearing with them many laurels.
The bunch ofahDrses consisted of
nine head Of shires and one Perch
eron, all owned at Edgewood farm.
The folloythgs Big. partial list of the
prizes that they brought home with
them:
Bury Cannonball, the stallion at
the head of Huddlestun's stud, with
foNr of his colts, won first place in
thsselass, a.'stallion and his get," de-
featng the horse that has been
twice granR champion of Iowa. This
prize Is the siargest prize offered by
the state fair association and is the
one most coveted by horse breeders.
Hale's Easter Eve, together with
her colt, Edgewood Eve, won first
prize in the class "mare and foar'
and Zelda May, with her colt, Edge
wood Major, won third in the same
class. This is also distinctly a breed
er's prize and is the object of envy
on the part of horsemen. The mare
referred to above, Hale's Easter Eve,
is the dam of the colt that won first
in the futurity class at the Interna-
tional Live Stock show in Chicago
in 1912.
The second and third places in the
sucking colt classes were carried off
by Mr.. Huddlestun's entries and
yearling Percheron
stallion, won seventh place in the
futurity class in which there were
forty-one entries.
According to the Des Moines daily
papers, as we'll as numerous other
this has been the great
est horse show ever held in the Unit
ed States and the Freeman-Tribune
Mr.. Huddlestun upon
his remarkable achievement in the
horse breeding line.
Mr.. Huddlestun may be depended
lpon to keep Webster City on the
nap in the matter of fine horses.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
home.

home.
Later he discovered that the at
torney had joined the dead woman S
relatives; that an administrator had
been appointed, and also that a
guardian had been chosen for the
daughter and son, both minors. Pro-
ceedings were then started to auth
orize the sale Of the estate.
Thompson then consulted his at
torney, ]. R. Files, and together they
went to Indianapolis to investigate
the case. Before leaving admins
tration papers were issued by Clerk
G. l.. Lindquist, authorizing the hus-
band to settle the estate. Armed
with these papers the Indianapolis
attorney was dismissed and an ac-
tion filed in the district court there
to set aside the proceedings which
had been taken under the Indianap-
oils arrangement.
In his investigation the local at
torney found that from the personal
effects of the dead woman the two
notes were missing and all that re-
mained of her money was a $40 bill.
1t was also discovered that the
daughter had disappeared from the
city and was with relatives at
Springfield, Mo. There the two men
hastened. They called upon the rel
ative at whose home the girl was
staying and were refused possession
If the girl. Habeas corpus proceed
Ings were at once commenced and to-
lay the action is being fought out
IN the federal court of Missouri.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
Cashier Resigns.

Chas. Quinn, who has been en-
ployed as cashier in the Illinois Cen
trail freight Office for two years, re-
signed Saturday. His place has been
filled temporarily by Glare Bowen,
who is also connected with the Office
work.
Carl Odor, freight house foreman,
is taking Mr.. Bowen's place as chief
car accountant, and VIM. Quinn,
baggageman at the passenger sta
tion, will fill Mr.. Odor's place. e.
Butler is acting as baggageman in
the place Of Mr.. Quinn. All of these
changes are temporary.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
MAY SECURE EX-
PERT AID FREE
Prof. Pearse, From Extension De-
partment of State College at
Ames, Visits Bartlett
Farm.
SERVICES FREE TO FARMERS
Remarks on Natural Beauty Of Ken
dali Young Park, Court
House Grounds, Etc.

The state agricultural college al
Ames is now furnishing in their ex
tension department, the services o1
an expert landscape gardener to any
number of farmers in each county
of the state who write for the same
provided they furnish carfare and
actual expenses of the expert. The
advice and services may be secured
for nothing.
For anyone contemplating the
erection of new farm buildings, the
opportunity should be snatched at,
for the advice given will cover a
wide field. The expert will suggest
the location of the house, as regards
weather, avoiding heat of summer
and winds of winter, and will also
suggest the erection and location of
barns, chicken houses and all farm
out buildings with regard to con-
venience, economy and beauty.
A few days ago, Mrs. A. F. Bart
lett of this city, who owns a fine
farm about six miles northeast of
town, took advantage of this oppor-
tunity to secure advice concerning
the placing of large new granary
which she will erect this fall on the
farm. Also in regard to hog houses
to be built this fall and chicken
house to be built next year.
Prof. R. J. Pearse, this year Sc
lected as the head of the landscape
gardening department at Ames, a
Harvard graduate and man of wide
experience in the east, came up to
the Bartlett farm, sent there by the
extension department, and made all
necessary suggestions. The granary
is to be double one with an ele-
vator and the arrangement of the
new buildings will be with relation
to their convenience. In about two
years new barn will be built upon
this farm and all other buildings are
located subservient to this.
For the professor to come to an
old farm and give advice upon the
placing of the newer buildings is
like making over an old garment,
but better late than never. Prof.
Pearse also gave valuable advice
concerning the trees on this farm,
the thinning out and the replacing
of any others necessary.
This is the first farm in the coun-
ty to ask the extension department.
for its services, but the offer still
stands and any number of farmers
who desire his advice may secure it |
upon paying the actual expenses of
the trip. This is very small for a /
county located as near Ames as Ham,
ilton is, where the round trip may
be made in one day.
Folliwing the visit to the farm,
Prof. Pearse was taken for an auto
mobile ride about the city and he
remarked the possibilities
Of artistic worth in the Kendall |
Young park, the natural beauty and
site of the court house grounds. etc.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
ABig Catch.

The biggest catch of fish this sea-
son, SO far as reported, was made
yesterday by party of three local
young men in the vicinity of the
Edwards farm, when a total of for
ty-six fish were caught. There were
forty-four bass, one five pound pike
and one catfish. Twenty of the bass
were tossed back into the river and
the larger ones, retained. Twenty
six Of these weighed thirty pounds
and certainly were some catch. The
river is full of fish and active fisher
men are taking advantage of this
unusual condition.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
Stanhope Enterprise Sold.

Fred Deering, who has been con-
nected with the Fort Dodge Messen-
ger for some time, has bought the
Stanhope Enterprise of Lloyd and
Paul Walterick and will continue
the business. Mr.. Deering has had
the necessary experience and will be
pretty sure to give the people of
Stanhope creditable newspaper.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
WAS LEH|CH WOMAN ! Of
MURDERED FOR MONEY?
Reported That she Committed Sui.
cide While Temporarily Living
in Indianapolis.

Fort Dodge Chronicle: A cloud
of mystery hangs around the death
of Mrs. Severn Thompson, the wife
of a prosperous farmer living near
Lehigh. During the month of May
she left Lehigh for Indianapolis, her
nome, when she married her second
husband. On the first of June she
was found dead. The coroner's YER
dict was suicide by poison. Upon
her body were found notes which
stated that she did not wish her hus-
band to receive any of her property.
Attorney j. r. Files, who has just
returned from Indianapolis, states
that the notes are forgeries and
hints that the woman did not come
to her death by her own hand.
When Mrs. Thompson married the
Lehigh man last February her two
sisters, living in Indianapolis, op-
posed the match vigorously. Not
withstanding their objections she
took the man of her choice.
According to Attorney Files the
couple lived together happily on the
farm near Lehigh. During the last
part of April they contracted for
farm near the one they lived upon
and Mrs. Thompson decided to re-
turn to her former home and dispose
of her holdings there, which consist
ed of two farms, one of forty acres
and the other of sixty, together with
some city property, the latter being
her former home, the property in all
having valuation of about $4,000,
to make payment on the land they
had purchased.
She left Fort Dodge with $3.50 in
$500 of which her husband
had given her; a $1,50O and a $500
note against one of her sisters. Her
daughter Georgia, age IA, a child by
her former marriage accompanied
her.
Her daughter became i'll in Indi-
after their arrival and the
mother placed her in a hospital
while she lived alone at her former |
place of residence. She then adver-
Used for sale the house in which she
lived and the two farms on the out
skirts of the city.
On the morning of the first of
June she was found dead in the
house where she was living alone.
rhe coroner's jury decided that she
committed suicide. There was no
police investigation of the case.
Word Of his wife's death was sent
o Thompson and he departed for In
lianapolis and buried her there.
After the funeral he placed his
xife's affairs in the hands of an In
Annapolis attorney and returned |
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
THE BUSINESS COL
LECE M|XUP AGAIN
Letter From w. B. Barger, Who Sold
Business College to A. F. . 81
c,4., :. -,

The Freeman-Tribune is in re-
ceipt of a letter from W. B. Bar
ger, who recently sold the local busi-
ness college to Mr. Plummer Of
Waterloo, the latter in turn dispos-
ling Of it to A. F. Gates. AS our
readers know, there were a number
of scholarships sold by Mr.. Barger
which Mr.. Gates refuses to honor,
claiming he knew nothing about
them, and it is likely there will be
some litigation over the matter. And
in justice to those who bought these
Scholarships in good faith, there
ought to be legal reckoning, that
those who have paid their money
may get value received-and not be
left holding the sack. Mr.. Barger's
letter is in explanation of his side of
the case and is as follows:
Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. 4.-Eds.
Freeman-Tribune: l notice in a re-
cent issue of your paper that you
made statement that the bill of
sale for the Fort Dodge school in
cluded unexpired contracts.
Now, this is entirely untrue, and
something that I will expect you to
retract, as upon this fact hinges the
entire case.
There is absolutely nothing in the
written contract concerning the un-
expired tuition. l had exactly the
same kind of contract with the Ft
Dodge school as I had with the Web
ster City school. l might suggest
that you investigate very thoroughly
any information you get concerning
the school, as there have been some
misrepresentations.
This school was sold on fair and
square agreement, and as everybody
knows that knows anything about
business college work, students en-
ter at all times Of the year, and for
different terms. Consequently, it
would be impossible for all tuition
to expire on one particular date
Mr.. Gates and Mr. Plummer knew
my method of selling tuition. Con-
sequently, it is absurd for him to try
% make you people believe he didn't
Understand. told him that Mr.. Shil-
ing's contract expired the first of
July, but absolutely nothing was
said in regard to the tuition expir-
ng at this time. With the knowl-
,dge they had of the schools, they
would know that it would be impos-
'ible for all the tuition to expire at
his time. On the face of it, it shows
hat it is a Misrepresentation.
You have always been very fair
md square with me in my work up
here, and I can understand your sit
lation with reference to the school
It this time. All ask of you is just
o present the facts of the case.
Yours very truly,
w. B, Barger.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
Carpenters Picnic.

All Webster City carpenters who
are members of the union, together
with their families and e few friends,
celebrated labor day yesterday by
picnicking in Nokomis park. Ev-
erything in the line of good things
found a place on the tables spread
for dinner at the noon hour. The
and afternoon were eele-
brated in true picnic fashion, ball
game being one of the main sources
of amusement during the afternoon.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
Buys Moving Picture Theatre.

NJ. J. Frisch of this city has pur-
chased the moving picture theatre
in east Des Moines known as the
Isis. Mr.. Frisch has been in Des
Moines for the past ten days con-
Quoting it and Mrs. Frisch and baby
son will go down to the capital city
in a short time and the family will
make that place their future home.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
To Open Job Printing Office.

Lloyd Walterick, who recently
sold his Williams and Blairsburg
newspapers. will move to Ft. Dodge
to locate permanently. He will re-
move the F. Elias Smith file machin-
cry he recently bought to that place,
will add some job printing equip
ment and open an Office in the gyp-
sum city.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07
Off to Northern Lakes,

A party of men of this city left
yesterday for a several days stay al
Catfish Lake, Mimi, on a fishing
trip. The number included Drs
Berg and McCauliff, Harry Hotch-
kiss, C. H. Richeson, R. E. Channer
and H. J. Buell..
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-07

The VIM. Quinn family have NOV
ed from 943 James street to rooms
over Hanrahan & O'Connor's store.
Mr.. Quinn is baggageman at the Il
linois Central
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-11-11
GROWTH OF GREAT FALLS.

From the Great Falls Tribune Of
October 2Sth, 1915:
Just thirty-three hundred and
thirty-three more people are living
in Great Falls than were one year
ago, according to the tenth city di-
rectory which has just been COM
pleted and is being distributed by
the r. l.. Polk directory company
The Polk company's count makes
the present population of the city
1885, compared to 26,502 one year
ago. There are 1882 names in the
present issue of the directory and in
other features it contains all foun 4
in former directories for the city
with several new ideas that afford
thoughtful aids for the subscribers
which can easily be carried in di-
rectory.
While this is the tenth directory
for the city of Great Falls to be pub
lished by the Polk company, it is not
the tenth annual. For some time it
was the custom of the company to
publish a directory only every two
years, but since the city has been
growing SO rapidly the company has
been keeping pace with the for.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-11-11
TO DECORATE HELENA.

When more than 1000 of the
1900 Shriners who are members of
Algeria Temple arrive in Helena to
attend the annual ceremonial sess-
ion December 2, they will be treated
to the sight of an entirely new
scheme of decorations upon the
streets of the capitol city. Sam
Kohlberg chairman of the decora-
tion committee, was one Of the Mon
tana Mobiles who attended the meet
ing of the Imperial divan in Seattle
last Summer, when the 100000
Shriners from all over the United
States were entertained. Mr.. Kohl
berg plans to decorate Helena sim
ilarly to the manner in which the
Puget Sound city was attired for
that event.
In fact some of the same material
used in Seattle will be used in Hele-
ma, and particularly in the way of
electrical adornment, which will
be profuse in Helena at the coming
ceremonial. Heretofore upon these
occasions it has been the custom of
the Shrine decorating committee to
have one big electrical device in the
shape of the Crescent and the Scin,-
itar, this year there will be many
smaller devices along the same or
| der.
Reports given out at the head
quarters of the Algerian Temple
here by r. j. Lemert, chairman OF
the executive committee in charge
of the arrangements for the cere-
monia1, and by Recorder Shoemaker
of the Temple, are to the effect that
the coming meeting will be the larg-
est gathering of Shriners which has
ever been held in the state. The
red fez of the order will be largely
in evidence.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-11-11
FARM SCHOOL PLANNED
FOR HAVRE THIS WINTER


Bohemian, Mont, Nov. 6.-The
plan for farm school to be held at
Havre beginning on February z, and
lasting for one or more weeks, has
been completed by the authorities
at the Montana State College. The
faculty will include F. S. Cooley, di.
rector of the extension department
of the college, and DR.. w. J. Hart
man and Miss Katherine Jensen oil
the extension staff M. l.. Wilson
leader of the county agricultural
agent work, and Paul V. Banker and
R. A. Blanchard, county agents
and Prof Alfred Atkinson, agrono.
mist, and Prof. G. N. Arnett, animal
husbandman at the college.