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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09
THE CLUB CALENDAR.

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The Royal Auction Bridge club
meets with Mrs. Geo. E, Younkee
Wednesday afternoon at $3.50.
Mrs. George Ambrose, who resides
west of town, will be hostess to the
Q. e. w. club on Wednesday after
noon.
The members of the Wednesday
club will be guests of Mrs. G. T.
Chamberlin Wednesday afternoon at
$3.50.
Mrs. Ella Burleson will be hostess
to the members of the Thursday
Card club at one o'clock luncheon on
Thursday.
The Thursday Needle Work club
will meet on Thursday afternoon
with Mrs. Jennie Ainslie.
The One O'Clock Auction Bridge
club will meet with Mrs. M. J. Mat
tice on Wednesday for one O'Clock
luncheon. ~
The Bridge club which was to
have met with Mrs. Harry Carson
this week VIII not meet until next
week.
The Campfire Girls will meet We'd
nesday night at 1880 o'clock in the
north club room in the basement Of
the library. DR.. Berg will address
the girls at this session upon the
ANCare of the Teeth
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09
Study Club Meeting.

The Municipal Study club will
meet this evening at 1880
o'clock in the court room for organ
ization, instead of the city hall, as
previously announced. Officers will
be elected and the body Of men plac-
ed upon a substantial basis for study
this winter.
About one hundred and twenty
men Of the city have received circu-
lar letters in the past week inviting
them to join this municipal study
club. At this nights meeting
the Chicago Respiratory company
will have a demonstrator here with
q life motor which is in use by many
Of the best equipped city depart
ments. This life motor Is superior
to the pulmotor which was the first
trial invention Of its kind. Next
was the lung motor, and the third
and best was the life motor. This
motor is used In cases Of asphyxia-
tion and drowning or suntccation of
any kind. 1t is hoped that large
crowd will be in attendance tcmor-
row evening.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09
Hare and Hounds Chase,

The Campfire girls Friday afternoon
indulged in hare and hounds
chase" which began at the court
house park at 9 O'Clock. The hares
comprising one half the girls of
the Campfire-scattering a trail of
corn which wound about through the
north part Of the city and ended up
in the Kendall Young park. About
ten O'Clock the hounds also started
from the court house park, taking up
the trail of the hares, and after about
an hours chase, leading over hill and
dale, found their waiting Campfire
members around a huge bonfire in
the Kendall Young park, where
wienies and marshmallows were
jolly ending to the morn
ing's game participated in by the If
teen gathered girls.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09
G. S. DUNLAP SELLS
JEWELRY BUSINESS
Fred D. Downward, Monona, New Pro
prietor- or-Mr. Dunlap Continues
Optical Business.

G. s. Dunlap has sold his jewelry
business to Fred d. Downard Of Mo-
mona, Ia, and the latter gentleman
will take possession of the stock as
soon as the invoicing, now under
way. has been completed. Mr.. Down
ard arrived here yesterday from
Monona. He is an experienced jew
eler and will continue the business
as it has been conducted heretofore.
Mr.. Dunlap has sold the jewelry de-
partment because his optical business
has grown to such proportions that
he desires to give it all his time. He
retains the optical room and one
show window with which to conduct
his half of the business.
Ralph Bringolf, who has been en-
ployed In the repair department of
the Dunlap store for two months,
has accepted a position as watch
maker and salesman with the firm Of
Lewis & Van Sickel in Des Moines
and left for the capital city this
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09
Autos Collide.

Yesterday afternoon some un-
known driver of an automobile ran
into the car being driven by VIM.
Greenwood near the Briggs farm,
south OF this city. Mr.. and Mrs.
Greenwood were both in the car, a
Ford, and had noticed for some time
that q man driving a heavy car was
directly back of them. He would
slow down and then speed up, mar
rowly escaping running into them
several times before he finally did
collide with them. When the ma
chimes were stopped the front wheel
of the heavy car was locked with the
rear wheel of the Ford and it had
pushed the Ford car ahead Of 1t for
some little distance.
Fortunately none of the occupants
were thrown out, although Mrs.
Greenwood sustained severe ner-
vous shock. The heavy car had both
lights and one wheel broken, the
glass Windshield and three springs
broken and the car was scratched
badly. The Ford only received a
bent fender. The driver Of the heavy
,ar did not care to reveal his iden-
.ity and Mr.. Greenwood was glad
to get of so fortunately that
ne did not press the question.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09
"The Menace Of Socialism" !"


Peter w. Collins will lecture In
this city on Monday evening, Nov.
%, at the armory opera house. His;
subject will be "The Menace of So
cialism." There will be absolutely
no charge for admission and cord
ial invitation is extended to ALL.
In speaking Of Mr.. Collins lect-'
ure in Keokuk on Oct. oath, the
Daily Gate City Of that place says:
Peter w. Collins in a pointed and
well balanced address on ''The Work
ers in Industry and Their Protec-
tion," delivered at the Grand theatre
yesterday afternoon, under the aus
pices of the De LaSalle council,
knights Of Columbus. and before a
packed house, said that II the work
ers were to progress, socialism has
to be abolished, child labor would
have to be stopped, better and safer
working conditions would have to be
secured and labor legislation would
have to be passed by the states Of
the union, especially to relieve the
burdens Of the working woman who
is to be the mother Of the coming
generation. Mr.. Collins handled his
in a mastery way ana
there was no wasted energy; every
point had its place in the frame Of
the structure he pictured. The large
audience heard the speaker with rapt
interest. Il
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09
CROOKED CREEK
TO THE SCRAP PILE |:
So Says Receiver Sam Mcclure IN
less Road is Allowed to
Borrow Money.

Fort Dodge Chronicles: Receiver
Sam Mcclure of the Crooked Creek
railroad, running between Lehigh
and Webster City, said yesterday af-
ternoon that he would ask Judge
Henry T. Reed, who will convene
federal court here Tuesday, to give
him permission to borrow $40, 900
to $4,000 to rehabilitate the road.
II that amount is refused him, he de-
clared that he would recommend the
"junking" of the property"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09
LOCAL GROCER BUYS
CANNING INDUSTRY
T. B. Kearns Purchases Canning
Factory of J. W. Hawk-0n
East Side.

T. B. Kearns, of the Kearns groc-
cry on Seneca street, has just pur.
chased the east side hot house and
canning factory Of J. w. Hawk, to-
gether with the two or three acres
of ground which make up the tract
near the factory. The deal carries
with it all equipments of the factory.
Mr.. Hawk will manage the concern
and it will open up next summer.
The factory closed down about six
years ago and has not been in run
ming operation since. It is the inten-
tion of the new owner and manager
to only can what may be produced
upon the five or six acre tract, which
includes the acreage in this deal and
other land lying near by.
Mr.. Hawk is an expert market
gardner and is also proficient in the
canning Of tomatoes, the putting
down Of pickles and sauer kraut, and
the making of chilli sauce, catsup
and several relishes. A new building
is already under way for the hous-
ing of horse radish department
which will supply not only this groc-
cry store, but other concerns of the
city.
No more will be canned, at least
this coming season, than may be
raised right on the ground, but fut-
ure seasons it is hoped to build up
by degrees a canning industry that
will be worthy Of home patronage.
The one hot house will be used
during this winter for the starting
of thousands of cabbage, lettuce and
other spring plants which will ma
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09
KENYON
IN THE CITY
Swinging Around the Circle to See
the People With the
Larrabees.

Senator Kenyon, Senator Larrabee
and Charlie Larrabee of Fort Dodge
were in the city yesterday. They came
over from Fort Dodge by automobile,
and went to Stanhope in the after
noon. They are simply swinging
around the circle to meet friends and
acquaintances. The old friends Of
Senator Kenyon In this county are al
ways glad to meet him and to know.
that he is getting along we'll and en-
joying good health.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09
Head.tc.Fo Outftter

lost like the sheep or the coin, but
like the Prodigal for you may come
back If you will, or like the other
son. you may refuse to repent, and
be lost. You can come home by CIV
ing yourself to Christ. BY so doing
you will make your home happy, you
will have the peace Of God in your
own heart, and there will be Joy in
the presence Of the angels of God.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09

almost always in the direction o1
Walden pond, which was then alse
rendezvous for tramps. OF course
pious Concord was shocked at this.
When he was about % years Of
age, he got permission from Emer.
son to go into his wood lot and cut
some birch saplings with which to
finish off a rude shanty bought from
an Irish section hand. He borrowed
the ak from Bronson Alcott and Al
colt afterwards said he returned the
ak, sharper than it was when he
borrowed it--an unusual proceeding.
Here in this rude cabin he lived
for two years and two months in
blessed solitude, not as hermit or
a recluse, as the Encyclopedia Brit
|tianica would have us believe, but in
close companionship with his best
friends and in closer companionship
with great nature. He would sit on
a log in front of his shack for hours,
motionless, apparently doing moth
ing, but he was thinking, thinking,
and his mind was reaching out after
the things of the mind which fade
not. The little creatures of the wood,
the raccoons, squirrels, snakes and
birds, came to know him as one of
their own and crawled around him,
feeding out of his hand. There in
his little cabin Of solitude he wrote
walden" his most enduring monu-
ment. This was the experiment of a
man of literature. He was not sci
enlist, although he was endowed
with powers which would have made
him a rare naturalist. He was no
book worm-he loved books too we'll
for that. Thoreau loved profoundly
but few people. His greatest emo
tional crisis was the hanging of John
Brown. That is explainable through
Thorean's great passion for justice.
For the first time in his life he could
not sleep. Thoreau would allow no
one to talk to him about the next
life, he said one world was enough
for him, but he had no contempt for
life: upon the other hand, he was
serenely sure of Immortality. Tub
erculosis claimed him at last, like it
has so many of his stamp Keats,
Sidney Lanier and many
Others. During his illness he was as
he mad lived, stole, accomplishing,
and was full OF life to his last
breath, which came May 6, 1862.
Ellery Charming, the poet, wrote the
inscription for the silver plate upon
his casket, and he penned the fol-
lowing: "Hail to thee, oh man, who
hast come from the transitory place
into the imperishable."
What Thoreau longed to write
was sentences-senten which
would be like Roman aqueducts,
which would be like tongues OF fame
and burn themselves into mems
souls. True, he was short on the So
,ial side. He was more at home in
solitude than in society, but there is
IN him that quality which is like the
acrid taste Of the wild crab apple,
,he tonic astringent quality which
enters into our being like iron, to
.ebuke us for easy living and self
indulgence.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09
Real Estate Transfera

Geo. w. Lee and VT to A. B. Sta
ples-qcd-lots 13 and IA, blk 5,
NJ. & H. addition, Erlsworth--s2.-
10000.
David ]. Hook and VT to e. M.
Adams II and east 20 It
lot IL. O. & w. additicn, w. &C.
10000
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09
Operation on Eve.

H. L. Graham, residing six miles
south Of town, will undergo an oper-
alton for the removal Of cataract
from his left eye today in Des
Moines. Mr.. and Mrs. Graham left
yesterday morning for the capital
city. ...-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09

Miss Helen Derr, who recently un-
derwent a serious operation, has re-
turned to her work as office girl for
the Brown skate factory. During
her absence her work was done by
Miss Neva Garrick,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09

You cannot understand how a
black cow can eat green grass and
give white milk, but you do not re-
fuse to drink the milk.-Sunday.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-11-09
Big LAWSUIT RE-
PORTED SETTLED
Hanson & Tyer Auto Co. and WHY'S.
Overland Co. Reach Basis Hf
Agreement

Fort Dodge Chronicle: Attorneys
for the Hanson & Tyler Auto COM
pany met this afternoon with the at
torneys of the ys-Overland COM
pany and the National Bank Of COM
merce of Toledo and it is reported
that basis of settlement agreeable
TO both parties was arrived at.
The case grew out of the suit fled
a year ago to recover from Hanson
& Tyler $4,000 for cars delivered.
Hanson & Tyler Immediately filed a
counter claim of $4,000. They
claimed damages because the Toledo
company had preached their con-
tract with them.
The case was entered for trial at
the term of federal court commenc-
ing in this city Monday.
Yesterdays Register and Leader
contains picture of the new resi-
dence recently erected in Des Moines
by c. D. HELEN, a former we'll known
local citizen. 1t is an eight-room
bungalow Of dark red brick and
green stucco, and the Des Moines
paper says it Is one of the most at
tractive residences on Kingman
boulevard. The Hellens moved into
the new home the first Of September.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-04-14
Use of Cotton in War.

Cotton statisticians who find diff
Guilty in accounting for the large err
ports of the staple to Europe, where
a large portion of the manufacture
ing industry is Frustrated, will do
we'll to investigate the use of this
raw material for val purposes. They
are well aware that unusual quaint
ties of khaki for uniforms, duck for
tents, tarpaulins and artillery covers
tire cloth for automobiles and other
woven and knitted fabrics are be-
ing demanded by the belligerents,
but they are likely to overlook two
important uses Of cotton that are
absorbing hundreds of thousands of
bales of the staple.
1t is rather startling to learn that
it takes a bale of cotton to shoot
one of the big German 42-centime-
ter siege guns, and that a modern
dreadnaught in action explodes 10
to IL bales of cotton every minute.
Approximately a pound of raw cot
ton is needed in making every
pound of guncotton, and the pow
der production Of Europe and this
country is not far from 350,000,O 900
pounds annually under present fore
ed conditions. This accounts for
about 10000 bales Of cotton, large
ly linters and waste.
Then there is the enormous de-
mand for absorbent cotton and band
ages. This probably calls for about
50,000,O00 pounds of cotton annu-
ally, or about 100000 bales. In
fact, it is quite likely that figures
could be deduced to show that the
war demand for cotton is largely
counter-balancing the loss of regu-
lar demand due to the p%rostration
of the industry in Germany, Austria,
Belgium and France.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-04-14

than the total length of the railroads
in the United States fifty years ago,
bringing the total mileage in the
eleven States to 69,014.
Their corporation capital now
amounts to $4,496, 117,000, of which
S1,594,291,0O are in transportation
S1,478,7 $4,000 in production and
s4OS, $4,000 in banking and other
finance, the whole yielding an an
nual net income of $316,666,000
Their banking resources have in
creased in thirty-fve years from
500, $685. OO to $2,12S,522,oOO, more
than twenty-five times; their bank
ing capital from $39,185,948 to
315,6S3,O 900, about eight times, to
an amount of S121,262,OO greater
than the banking capital of the
whole country in 1860, and the de-
posts in their financial institutions,
more than three times as great, have
increased from S66,564,000 to ST.
229,O64,OO0.
1t is not surprising, therefore,
that the estimated true value of all
property in the eleven. States has
more than quadrupled and is now
nearly $500, 600, 900 greater than
that of the whole country in 1860.
What are the eleven States doing
with their increasing wealth? Much
more than did the whole country ff-
ty years ago. In 1860 there were
expended upon the common schools
of the United States S2~2,54S,519.
In 1911-12 the eleven States spent
for that purpose $53,838,031, or
more than twice as much, the differ
ence being emphasized by the differ
ence in population, the expenditure
by the United States at the earliest
period being less than ~ cents per
capita of population, while the pre-
sent expenditure by the eleven Stat
es is more than S2,13 per capita.
The concern for their common
schools has been recorded in an in
crease in expenditures for them
from s6,O3s,52s in 1880, or nearly
nine times, and has paralleled in
crease in material wealth. And
what has happened in the case of
the schools has also been manifested
in other directions, in better houses
and public buildings and churches,
in improved highways, 27,273 miles
of the latter having been construct
ed in the past ten years, and in car
rying out generally the aspirations
and hopes of the men of fifty years
or more ago.
What two generations of men in
these eleven Southern States have
achieved in fifty years, starting from
ruins, is an inspiration to courage
and energy for the younger men not
only of the South, but. of the whole
country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-04-14

With an increase in population in
thirty-fve years, from 12,990,246 to
23,848,507, or by 1O,S58,261, equal
to 83.6 per cent, these States ha re
accumulated for manufacturing, az
riculture and banking '$6,97D,922,.
900 of capital, an increase of 1861
per cent, from $1,759,562,0nG to
$s,730,4s4,0OO. They are produc-
ing in agriculture, mining, lurater-
ing and manufacturing to an aggre-
gate value yearly of S4,658,838,OO0
an increase of s3,s13,310,OoO, or at
the rate of 450.9 per cent, and
$966,348,00 0 more than the aggre-
gate of production on those lines by
the whole country in 1850.
They have built 51,663 miles of
railroad, nearly 10000 miles more
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-04-14
How Editors Get Rich.

After a great deal of worry and
study, we have at last figured out
how so many country editors get
rich. Here is the secret of their suc-
cess. There is a child born in the
neighborhood. The attending ply
sician gets SO. The editor gives
the loud-lunged youngster a great
send-off and gets so. 1t is chris
tened, and the minister gets SIS, and
the editor gets 500. 1t grows and
marries. The editor publishes an
other long-winded fiowery article,
and. tells a dozen different lies about
"the beautiful and accomplished
BRIDE" The minister gets $40 and
a piece of cake. The editor gets
5000 and a request to carry the
groom's subscription account an
other year. In the course of time
she dies.
The doctor gets from SIS to 500,
the minister gets from SIS to 500,
the editor publishes a notice of
death and an obituary two columns
long, lodge resolutions, a lot of poet
ry and a card of thanks, and gets
10000. No wonder so many coun-
try editors get rich.-Exchange.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-04-14
Abbeville People Entertained.
(Spartanburg Journal.)

Mrs. Frank McGhee entertained
with three tables of bridge this af-
ternoon in honor of Miss Floride
Smith, a bride of the week. Besides
the close friends of the honorees,
several visitors were present, Miss
Mary Quarles Link, of Abbeville;
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-04-14

Miss Annie Akers, of Atlanta; and
Miss Tounds, of Michigan. After
several interesting games the hostess
served a salad course. The high
est winner received a pair of silk
hose, while the honoree was present
ed with a set of tea napkins. The
occasion was most informal and
pleasant.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-04-14
Working Both.

DR.. Sharp is quite wealthy, isn't
he? Did he make all his money
from his practice?"
"Not all Of it. He's the principal
owner of a very large oil we'll up
the State and"
"And he makes money from the
sick and the we'll too"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-04-14

Here is one that will take you
back quite a distance. "What be-
came of the old-fashioned farmer
boy who believed if he killed a toad,
the milk of the COWS would turn to
blood?-- Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-04-14

Comparison is the highest form of
hattery. ALI cigars sold in Abbeville
are represented to be as good, or better,
than Speeds Cinco's. There is nothing
like chem. Stick to them. They keep
a good taste in your mouth and a clear
head.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-08

"TIZ' makes sore, burning, tired
feet fairly dance with delight. Away
90 the aches and pains, the corns, cal
louses, blisters, bunions and chill
Dlains.
TIL" draws out the acids and poi
sons that puff up your feet. NO mat
ter how hard you work, how long you
dance. how far you walk, or how long
you remain on your feet, "TlZ''
brings restful foot comfort "TIZ' is
magical, grand. wonderful for tired.
aching. swollen, smarting feet. All!
! how comfortable. how happy you feel.
Your feet just tingle for joy; shoes
never hurt Or seem tight.
/ Get a 20 cent box of "TIZ" now
from any druggist Or department
store. Enc foot torture fo-ever-wear
! smaller shoes. keep your feet fresh.
sweet and happy Just think, a whole
years foot comfort for only % cents.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-08
c,a-.:o, Welsh Confident.

limited Press Leased Wire Seryice-j
NEW YORK FEB. S.-Confdence
was coztrg from the champs OF
Champion Freddie Welsh and Joe
Shugrue today-the champion claim
ing he would show the world that ne
was not IN the best condition When
they met before and the Jersey City
contender claiming be would out-bat-
tie the champion 80 decisively that
there would be no doubt az TO who y
entitled to a twenty round bout to a
decision.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-08
Powers Gets Fed Club.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK. Feb. S.-The Federal
ogre in New York grew to large pro-
portions today with the announcement
that Pat Powers, one time president
OF the international league and pro-
moter of sporting events, had secured
the franchise of the Kansas City Feds
ana is going to move the club east.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-08
SPORTS
smith.cIbbons Bout In March.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
NEW. YORK, Feb. S.-Mike GID
bons. middle-weight champion, prop
ably will not meet Gunboat smith IN
til March. He was scheduled TO mix
with the Gunner at the garden here
on February 26, but in telegram 10
club officials today, Gibbons said he
was boxing McGoorty at Hudson, Wis.
March and didn't care to fight too
close to that date.