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The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
HOW TO KEEP WELL,

The L. S. lost nearly a billion dol
lars through illness among its wage
earners last year according the u.
Is. Public Health Service.
Not only was this a loss in dollars
and cents to the wage earners them
selves but it was an economic loss to
the country. In addition the working
efficiency of the wage earners was
lowered just so much after the illness
and during the time of recuperation
from the illness. IL. .-..,... ...- 49,
Probably so per cent of this loss or
lone half a billion dollars was due 10
Icarelessness and ignorance of the
common laws of hygiene and could
have been saved to the country had
those who had been i'll been educat-
ed on proper diet, clothing, external
and internal bathing AMI the errors
of over eating.
The L. S. Government through the
Public Health Service is endeayoring
to educate the American public at
large along these lines AMI by such
education, hopes to do away with this
vast loss and with this idea in view
has just issued a pamphlet entitled,
Fighting Trim" by Surgeon J. NJ.
Eager who lays great stress upon
the value of personal endeayor of
every individual as of the highest
public importance in the organized
war against disease. He claims that
the wonderful victories that have
been won in combating Infectious d.
seases have had a tendency to divert
public attention from the equally i'm
portant body fortificatiOn against all
diseases. He asks, Are we prepared
against the attacks OF the enemy"
DR.. Eager lays special stress on the
dangers threatening by disease which
he calls the permanent enemy of
mankind, and says, Are We all per
sonally prepared for the hand to hand
encounter which sooner or later we
will be forced into. Unless you are
willing to succumb without struggle
battle you must, no matter how feeble
your fighting abilities. Peace be-
tween nations may not be an unat-
hope, but even when the
much desired era of human concord
comes around and armed strife
among men ceases there still will be
the battle against disease. The
struggle for a few more
years of health and life The foe is
a desperate one but may be conquer
cd
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
Ex.sALooN KEEPER rEsTIFIEs.

A former Red Wing (Minn) saloon
keeper, Mr.. Lehman, now engaged in
the clothing business in McHenry, N.
D., recently visited his old friends in
Red Wing. While disclaiming any
pretensions to being a total abstainer,
he gave some excellent testimony to
the value Of prohibition.
zone reason why we are not anxious
to have a saloon in our town is that
it would draw the kind Of people from
other places that we do not want; we
like a good, clean town"
at is said so often that prohibition
does not prohibit, Mr.. Lehman" re-
marked a reporter. "If a man goes to
McHenry and wants a drink, can be
get it," mo, not for love nor money, "
replied Mr.. Lehman with emphasis.
There is no liquor to be had in our
town except for medicinal purposes"
Then a crowd Of young men cannot
start out and have a gloriously good
time in McHenry?" 81 should say they
cannot" replied Mr.. Lehman, be
cause there is no place where they can
get the liquor. There has been no
bootlegging during the last few years.
The law is being enforced rigidly and
there Is no evidence anywhere of
drunkenness"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
BACK TO THE SOIL

In advising people to go back to
the soil, Prof. H. NJ. Cottrell, agricul,
tural Commission for the Rock Island
lines, supplemented his exhOrtations
with the advice:
DO not separate yourself from the
payroll until the land is paid for, well
equipped and you have enough money
in the bank to operate your country
place for year. A person without eX.
perience, no matter how intelligent
and hard working, can not hope to
pay expenses the first year. II usually
takes at least three years to learn TO
do even this and. then there are the
payments and interest to be met. You
can learn much about your farm
while you are paying for it. If you are
not employed. rent farm a year be-
fore buying"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
aREwERsruReE ,MooERAIIoNa

The annual meeting of the United
States Brewers association was re-
Gently held in New Orleans. Com
menting on the printed report of that
meeting, Henry ]. Allen, in the Wich-
ita Beacon says;
We note that the deepest concern of
the annual meeting was, as usual for
the taxpayer. They made 1t perfectly
plain to everybody that so far as the
brewers themselves were concerned,
they didn't care anything for prohibit
tion-they could, in fact, sell more
booze under prohibition than without
it-but they did not want the govern
ment to lose the revenue. they didn't
want the taxpayer burdened; they
Just wanted everything to go on in a
free and easy and open way, with the
taxpayer as he is now in the states
where the saloons run the politics.
And above all, the brewers urged
moderation" not in drinking, but in
the language with which the discus
sions against liquor are carried on.
They also desire to save the hop and
barley fields from being destroyed.
While prohibition increases beer sales,
it apparently ruins the hop and barley
crops.
One gem from the wisdom OF this
convention is that beer may be sub
stituted for bread"
Frequently 1t is also substituted for
shoes and school books and clothes
and meat and house rent and furni-
ture. In fact, a liberal use Of 1t will
make it a substitute for everything
except the grave.
Another piece Of philosophy gar
nered from the book of brewers wis
dom is that "the only difference be-
tween bread and beer is that bread Is
baked, while beer is boiled"
1t did not add, however, that the
user of it is frequently stewed.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

Governor That fellow is Ernest r.
Mooreof Cedar Rapids
Mr.. Moore is banker and a thor
ough going business man, and the fact
tina. he is willing to take second place
on the ticket proves that he will be
a formidable candidate Mr.. Moore re-
alizes he is new in the field and that
there are others more entitled to the
GOV ernorship than he is, and he is
willing to crawl before he attempts to
run. 1t is regarded as likely that he
will have the support of both the Cum
Minis and Kenyon followers, and this
of itself is sufficient to determine the
result of the race months in advance.
Mr. Moore is aligned with no politi-
cal faction of the republican party.
He has fought shy of sO-Called dirty
politics, but has taken stand on all
political issues.
Dawson and Moore" would make a
euphonious Republican war cry for
1916, and the party could go far and
look sharp without finding a better
team for the race.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
ANCIENT ENos.

Telling of Enes, where the Allies
recently landed troops to cooperate
with their feet in connection with
their attack upon the Dardanelles.
the National Geographic Society
says.
THE rocky ridge OF Enos is back.
door way to the ancient city on the
Golden Horn II lies about 155 miles
west of Constantinople, upon the
Gulf OF Enos, in the northeast. Aegean
Sea. Thirty miles away is the north.
ern shore of the Gallipoli peninsula,
around which the Allied feet has
been conducting operations for
months.
Enos. insignificant. built on rock
ledge, and surrounded by broad
marshes, becomes of unusual interest
TO the world in its new character as
a base OF land operations against the
physical heart of the Ottomen EN-
pire. The respectable antiquity or
the town Is attended by mention In
Homer's Illiad. Formerly, Enos was
q trading port OF some importance,
but u has lately lost much OF its ex-
port 70 the adjacent seaport OF Ded-
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
ELM GRoVE--MADISoN
aY to relebrate.

A lovely day to celebrate.
A. son was born to Wilbur Shroyer
and wife Friday.
Mrs. Wise Wiun is reported much
worse today. Her many friends wish
for her speedy recovery
Charlie De Witt drives a new car
these days. @ ct
George Minarj and wife of Colfax
went home Sunday, Jerry Stout TAX
ing them in his auto.
C.. w DE Witt aud family. visited
Sunday at Charlie yanaults.
Church at Greenwood every Sun
day al 81 ..'@
Mrs. Sarah McCisick has been poor
ly for several days again.
Mrs. Emma Hite was on the sick
list a few days but is better now.
Fred Bishop drives new car now.
Walter and Ray Dewitt and Galen
Stout visited Saturday night and Sun
day at Pearl Smiths.
Haying and corn blowing is now
the order of the day.
July 5. Dew Drop.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
Kansas city Cattle Market.

Kansas City Stock Yards. July T.
Shipments of stockers and feeders
from this market last week aggregat-
ed close to 1000 head, the rather light
business in that trade due to season
able summer dullness. Owners of
cattle on grass are not anxious to dis
pose of them, particularly fas market
prospects are very fattering and pas
lures are all that could be desired.
Every grade of stock cattle is includ-
ed in the offerings though first grade
stuff is very scarce. Most of the
stock steers, yearlings and twos, sell
at $3.50 to $3.50. Prices have a very
wide range, however, some plain
stock calves selling as low as S. here
last week, the same having grown
stale in the hands of a trader. A
car load of $50 lb. yearlings sold to
an Indiana buyer at Sc, and good
yearlings at Sis, while choice stock
calves, of highest breeding, are quot
ed up to $3.50. Some fieshy feeders
sold at 1856 last week. and feeders
weighing 1900 lbs. brought 1926 yes
terday, choice 800 Id. feeders $40.
In July and August last year Illinois
buyers paid as high as $3.50 for
choice fieshy feeders here, for short
feed, Prospects for high beef cattle
prices are even more favorable this
year than last, in view of shortage of
beef steers in Illinois, and Iowa, cou-
pied with the large volume of meat
now being exported, particularly
fresh beef, and the belief that exports
of live cattle will soon he on a large
scale. Kansas has more cattle this
year than last, while Oklahoma has
less, a switching of conditions that
will mean large receipts in the ma
tive division at Kansas CITY thig fall,
and smaller receipts in the quaran-
tine division Cattle breeders in the
West and Southwest are making
strong efforts to get into cattle and
breeding cows are selling at record
prices on the range, sale of $500
common yellow back Texas coast
ers" at $50 head being reported
here today.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
BETTER LIE Low.

The following incident is told by the
Philadelphia North American Re-
view:
"a West Philadelphia liquor dealer
recently consulted an acquaintance in
the real estate business about the ad-
visibility Of transferring his license
from side street location to q Mar
ket street corner. The change would
involve an increased investment.
Stay where you are counseled the
real estate expert. You would get
more prominent situation by NOV.
ing; but that, in my judgment, Is just
what you should avoid. Better stay
where you're tolerated. II you try
to get out on Market street, you'll only
attract attention and stir up opposi-
ton. Public opinion is getting
mighty sensitive about the saloon
business, and you'd run the chance Of
losing the place you've got
81 guess you're right said the
saloon-keeper. I put the proposition
up to one of the biggest men in the
wholesale trade. Don't think of it.
he said. Don't invest another dollar.
And make all you can now, for inside
of ten years we'll all be put out Of
business ... .....
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

eagatch. The city's harbor is roomy
and well formed, but so neglected
that it ia too shallow for the larger
going vessels. Its export which
it retains to-day is due to its position
on the Martha River, the great water
highway from Adrianople, so miles
inland, to the sea.
The population of Enos is largely
Greek seafarers, commission dealers,
and merchants. 1t numbered in 1905
about 5000. Its climate is supposed
to be very unhealthy, malaria and
swamp.damp being as great obstacles
to the city's commercial growth as
the drifting sand bars that have fill
ed it's habor. The first part of the
way from EnOs toward CONSTANT
n0ple is through level country, but
the broken, mountainous regions be-
gin long before the Bosphorus is
reached"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

gether with certain of the insular
possessions of European and Ameri-
can countries. The only countries and
provinces in which the ratios of the
blind to the total population are low
er than that for the United States
1923 per 100,000) are Canada, where
the ratio was 449 per 100000 in 1911;
Belgium, where il was f3.5 in 1910;
Denmark, 52.7 in 1911; Germany, 60.9
in 1900; Netherlands, 463 in 1903;
New South Wales, 6l.4 in 1911; West
ern Australia, SOB in 1911; and New
Zealand, 47.S in 1911.
OF the S1,4f3 blind males 10 years
of age and over In 1910, only 1876, or
.25.3 per Gent we're reported as being
gaihfully employed. while of the "a
900 blind females 10 years of age and
over, only 1916, or SO per cent, were
reported as gainfully employed. The
corresponding percentages with rel
erence to the total population were
lS1.3 for males and 23.4 for females. 1t
does not follow; however, that more
than 5000 blind persons were actual
ly self-supporting, since in most cas-
es their earnings were far from sur
ficient to constitute a livelihood, and
Ioften amounted to mere pittance oil
less than 800 year. In this cOnnec-
ton it should, of course, be borne in
mind that very considerable proper
ton of the blind population have al
READY passed the age when retire
ment from active employment usually
occurs, SO that the number OF blind
persons not reporting an occupation
does not by any means indicate the
number of individuals lost to the
working force of the United States
by reason of blindness.
OF the 1876 blind males reported
as gainfully employed, 1,76S, or 22 per
cent, we're returned as farmers; 665
or S.3 per cent, as broom makers, SAC,
or 81 per cent as musicians and teach
ers of music; 6l9, or rs per cent, as
retail merchants and dealers (other
than hucksters and peddiers); 40l,
or ) per cent as hucksters AMI ped
dlers; 349, or "A per cent, as piano
tuners, and 242, or per cent as chair
Gamers.
Particular interest attaches to the
figures for those trades which have
been found especially available as
means of employment for the blind,
and the reporting of which presum-
ably indicates the receipt of special
vocational training after the loss OF
vision. The most important of these
trades are broom making, piano tun-
ing, chair Gaming, basket making, mat
tress making, carpet and rug making,
weaving, and hammock and net max
ing. The numbers of blind males en-
gagged in these trades in 1910 We're
Sos, 349, 24-, so, As, 80, 10, and Is,
respectively, making total of l,41S,
or 17.S per cent of the entire number
of gainfully employed blind males.
OF the 1876 blind females 10 years
of age and over reported as gainfully
employed in 1910, 167, or 12.4 per cent
were returned as musicians and teach
ers of music; 1877, or "a per cent,
as farmers: 1902, of rs per cent, as
knitters; sc or GA per cent as fancy
workers: and Sc, or AZ per cent as
professors, school principals, and
teachers.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
NEWS FROM NEARBY
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
GATHERED BY WIDE AWAKE
HERALD CORRESPONDENTS IN
TOWNS AND COMMUNITIES.
ELM GRovE-eARFIELD.

Mrs. r. c. Reynolds is spending the
week in Oskaloosa at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Jones,
and taking care of the new grand
daughter which arrived the oath of
June.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Chord of Oska-
loosa we're Sunday visitors at the par
entail Ed Worthy home.
Mr. and Mrs. Halbert Allgood were
Sunday visitors at the parental John
gPeters homer. BFE7r~ T-e-s7Fg''~r
Children's Day was observed at the
Elm Grove Sunday school on Sun
day. June u, with recitations and
song. Miss ,Wickersham Of Oska-
loosa was a visitor and favored the
audience with a reading which was
highly appreciated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clinton Springer of
jefferson township were Sunday VS.
itors with Mrs. Springer's parents.
A company of young folks to the
number of fifty spent Friday even
ing of last week at the Robert kirk
home to meet Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Kirk, Jr, who were married June 10,
at Bethel. Maine. at the home of the
BRIDGE parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Wear
Bean.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Morgan ate din
ner Sunday at the John Morgan
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Wilson visited
Sunday with the Harry Wilson fam
lily.
Mrs. Petit of Buxton visited few
days last week at the Harry Wilson
home.
Mrs. S. j. Moffet visited last week
at the home of her sons, Ralph and
Homer Moffet
The Robert Kirk family were Sun
day visitors at the John Hunter
home.
Mrs Mary Carney has returned to
her home in Charlton after visiting
here with relatives and friends for
several weeks.
Leonard Burgraaff died at the
home of his sister. Mrs. Everett
Plate, Thursday, July l, 1915. of
Brights disease, after week of in
tense sueffring.
v July g. n.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
DELTA A BUSY TOWN

Delta. July 6.--Chautauqua came
satisfactory they contracted the same
company, Travers-Wick Co, for next
year, with a better talent than this
year; that is, it costs more, but Delta
was shown that she, will support a
good Chautauqua.
G. Ed Beman of the Peoples Trust
& Savings Bank of Oskaloosa was a
business caller in Delta Saturday.
Union meetings were to be held in
the school park July 4, evening, but
owing to the cool wave it was post
poned.
Parker & jersey Co. will be with
us this week. They always have a
good business at this point.
Many of our citizens attended the
celebrations at Rose Hill and He'd
rick this year
Basil f., son OF VIII N. Sargent, OF
Bedwell. Nebr,. came in Thursday for
few days visit at the parental home.
In company with his mother, brother
and father, antoed TO Deep River on
Sunday afternoon. This is his first
visit home for four years.
Mrs Lon Bowen is having her resi-
dence PAINTED and IL makes quite an
Improvement in the appearance.
The oil for our streets has been or
dered and the streets have been put
in shape.
Bills are out for the July 18th Or
angemen's picnic at Deep River. Miss
Frances Lloyd will be the female or
ator OF the day. She has been a
teacher in parochial schools for TWEEN
ty years in Chicago. Several from
here are going to attend
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
SLUMP in VALUES.

Federal Judge Lands of Chicago,
undertaking to dispose OF the SO IL
censes that came into his possession
with. the bankruptcy OF the Tosetti
Brewing company, found that while a
year ago licenses brought from $4,000
to $4,000, but one offer was made, and
that for only $1,000. This he refused
Fear of successful antisaloon legisla-
ton is the reason given, brewers, spec
ulators and license brokers anticipat-
ing further dry activity.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
AZ the meeting Of the council Of

AT the meeting OF the council of
the General Federation OF Women's
clubs In Portland, Oregon, Mrs. Thorn.
as G. Winter Of Minneapolis suggested
that each club woman In the country,
that is, z,0Jd.O00 women, deny them
selves pair OF silk stockings each
year and give the money to the endow-
ment fund of the General Federation.
The plan was endorsed by the women
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
Cash Quotations.

Chicago, July 7.--Wheat = No. 2
red, old, $123; No. red, new.
Sligo; No. Q hard, old, $1.316132.
Corn-No 2 yellow, 76% @77c; No.
yellow, 761z@76%c; No. a yellow,
76c; No. yellow, 76Ac; No. vel
low, 75k @76c; No. 2 white. TO
THO; No. 8 white, TIC; No. 2 mixed,
1914 @77c; No. mixed, 76A @76Ac;
No. mixed, 75A @75%c; No, 6 mix
ed, 75R@76c.
Oats-No. 2. 47@47hc; No.
white, 50% @51Ac; No. 3 white, 80
@5O%c; No. 4 white, 49R@49%c;
standard, 50R oslo
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

1t must be humiIiating for the Ad-
ministration to. be compelled, alter
long delay to publish statistics OF its
own gathering showing that retail
prices for 1914 average two per cent
higher than in 1913. This is the record
which follows the platform promise of
reduced cost of living.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
REPueLIcAN CANDIDATES.

In these days OF candidates and ru-
mors of candidates for the Republican
nomination for Governor OF Iowa. IL
is refreshing 10 have waited through
the mails the announcement that
there Is at least one fellow in the state
humble enough, and brave enough
TO be candidate for Lieutenant
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

"A recent investigation into the
cost of beet growing IN England show
ed that the expense incurred by the
farmer in growing an acre of sugar
beets was approximately $40. repre-
senting a cost per ton of $4.15. The
charge of loading and Transporting
brought the cost of beets delivered
at the factory up to $50 a ton.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

After so years service in the
Treasury Department, sherman Plat,
principal book-keeper in the Office of
the treasurer of the United States
since 1888. has resigned. During the
civil war, Mr. Plat served three years
in the Twenty-first Wisconsin Infantry
and entered the Treasury Department
the day he was mustered out OF the
army.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

Postmaster General Burleson
says that the postal deficit would
have been much greater but for the
parcel post. And it was a Republican
Senate that forced the parcel post
provision into the Post Office Approp-
ration bill after the Democratic
House had refused to take such &C
ton. A Republican president signed
the law
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
Can il be possible" reflects t

Can it be possible" reflects the
Sigourney Review, that the reason
the Legislature forgot to make an ap-
preparation for the printing and dis
tribution fthe Session laws is be-
cause that body felt safer while the
people were kept in ignorance of the
work of the last Legislature"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
Clover Bloat Fatal.

Reports are coming in to the office
of the state veterinarian of cows dy.
ing of clover bloat In various parts Of
the state. Quite number of cases
are reported to have occurred in Cal
houn county The abundance of clov-
er this season is thought to be re.
sponsible for 1t.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

To the Williamsburg Journal it
looks like a crime TO sell a faithful
farm horse to buyers who will ship
MIN away to the battle front where
on the average he will live less than
a week. Truly does the jingling of
the guinae heal many hurts"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

We love to read the figures in
the Nations Daily balance sheet"
says the Des Moines News, but are
more vitality interested in feeling in
to our pants pocket to see if that car
fare and lunch money is still there.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

The Pella Chronicle complains
that mulberries used to4grow on tall
trees and boys would risk their lives
to obtain the fruit. Now they grow on
bushes and the birds will hardly eat
them.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

Where is that baseball team we
were going to organize?" asks the ke-
ota Eagle. You can search us. We
don't know. 0skaloosa has three OF
her own, but there may be other play
ers here who would serve keota.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08
KING ALCOHOL DESERTED.

The troops OF King Alcohol have
gone over to the enemy, This is the
reading Of the handwriting on the
wall. There's an ocean of significant
chirography on the wall just now
Herbert Quick, Press Correspondent
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

Organization gives efficiency,
numbers give enthusiasm, but the
power is from above. 1t is Gods gift
to those who in humility and faith so
forth to work out his will. "-Rev. j.
n Nichols
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

Work has been commenced on
the new High School building in Pei
la, and the Booster observes that we
may look for many suggestions from
those who know more than the CON
tractors. The wise ones will be on
the job every day, and possibly it will
be a good thing that they will be
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

ing only $4,000 bu. for shipment.
Sample values here were AGAc low
|er. st. Louis unchanged TO lc lower,
Kansas City unchanged to NC lower.
Omaha unchanged to &c lower and
Peoria and Milwaukee Nc lower.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-07-08

Nine Congregational ministers
donned overalls and shingled a church
in st. Louis. They had boast
ed they could do it, and the pastor of
the roofless church called the bluff.