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

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True, Germany has been gaining
many months, but the resources OF
the allies are so great that if it
comes to conflict of endurance, as
seems likely, the allies certainly
stand the best chance of winning in
the end. Russia alone could hold
off the central powers for years.
Webster City is in a dilemma. The
citizens of that place recently decid-
ed to adopt the city manager system.
Now they are unable to find man
in the entire community willing to
take the responsibility and the kicks
and abuse that will surely be his
Stanhope Enterprise.
The Enterprise is mistaken in it's
conclusion. 1t is not because no one,
can be found who will accept the po-
lsition of city manager that a selec-
|tion has not been made. The coun-
Gil is proceeding carefully in the
hope of securing the best man posi-
|ble. They want the new plan to
istart out under the direction of a
capable and trustworthy manager
and that such a man will be chosen
there is no doubt.
1t is reported that a bunch Of
boys and girls of Jewell one day the
latter part Of last week caused the
death of little kitten by the most
cruel and inhuman means. It Is
claimed that members of the crowd
threw the kitten at each other until
it was fairly crushed to a pulp and
left dead on the sidewalk. Consider
able indignation is felt by several
who know Of the affair and there has
been serious talk of forcing the gull
ty persons to pay the penalty of the
law for such inhuman treatment Of
a dumb animal.-Jewell Record.
1t is mystery to people who have
sympathetic and kindly dispositions
how any normal person can do such
. thing az above recorded, yet there
are some who apparently enjoy caus-
ing suffering and pain to dumb ami
mails that cannot take care Of them
selves and cannot tell Of the cruel
treatment accorded them by humans.
| An official statement in regard to
the recent temperance in northern
Illinois of the foot-and-mouth dis
ease after it had been apparently
stamped out early in the year, was
issued few days ago by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
From this statement it appears that
the outbreak has been definitely
traced to an anti-hog cholera serum
prepared from the blood of hogs in
fected with foot-and-mouth disease,
but showing at the time the serum
was manufactured no symptoms Of
the contagion. According to the
statement, the serum was thorough
ly tested before 1t was permitted to
be placed upon the market, and the
tests failed to reveal any evidence
of contamination. After the recur-
renee of the disease in Illinois, sam
pies Of the serum were tested again
and again by the department OF ag-
riculture and also tested by the Unit
ed States public health service. It
was not until the sixty-second ami
NAL used in the tests had been In
oculated with the serum, however,
that the Psychologists of the de-
partment were able to produce any
symptoms of foot-and-mouth dis
ease.
The. legislature last winter en-
acted law making it possible for
voters to vote when they expect to
be away from home on election day,
and this law was taken advantage OF
by several voters in this city when