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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-28
IN II: :.:.. !.
Street PAVING
Two Companies now Laying Pave
ments at Fort Dodge-Good
Jobs Being Done.

Fort Dodge Messenger: Competi
tion is the life of trade, says the olt
maxim, and the rivalry between tht
Bryant Asphalt Paving Company
and the John A. McGarry Company
of Chicago in laying asphalt shows
that Fort Dodge is not suffering as
a result Of it.
John Ruge and James Ashton, two
inspectors on the paving jobs, say
that both companies are laying the
best jobs they can. Ruge declared
this morning that the Bryant COM
pany in some places on Central av-
enue between Third and Fourth
streets has put a coat of asphalt bet
ter than three inches thick in place
of the two inch layer called for in
the specifications in the contract.
From appearances, it looks as though
the Bryant people were backing
their pavement to last longer than
the McGarry product. The Bryant
people are laying the "natural'' as
phalt while the McGarry company is
putting down Texaco, an asphalt re-
fined from petroleum.
The McGarry company has been
having labor troubles. Because of
the large amount Of paving in Rock
we'll City, Emmetsburg, Estherville,
Clear Lake, Des Moines and in other
cities in this section, scarcity of
labor has arisen. AS result, the la
borers have shown considerable in
The McGarry company also has
been handicapped by the breaking
down of machinery. The heavy
rains caused a washout once and the
plant broke down Thursday, caus-
ing a half days delay A foreman
who understands the machinery has
been put on now, however, and the
work is expected to go along faster.
The company has been averaging
about half a block of two inch as
phalt day.
The Bryant people made a record
Thursday when they paved half way
M the Central avenue hill from the
illinois Central tracks with brick.
Work of putting in about $500
square yards of patches in asphalt
paving around town began today.
Of the paving needs
patching.
Everyone knows that asphalt isl
aid when it is hot, but John Ruge
his morning showed how hot the as
,halt is when it is delivered to the
;hovelers He stuck his thermometer
nto a pile that showed 3O5 degrees
If heat. The asphalt laid is averag-
ng about 800 degrees temperature.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-28
Back From Minnesota.

Mr.. and Mrs. P. w. Lee are home
from two weeks trip up in Mime
sofa. Mr.. L. owns couple of
large farms in Norman county, in
the Red river valley, and reports the
crops Of small grain there this year
as excellent. They raise little corn
in that section. Corn in southern
Minnesota and northern Iowa is in
bad condition and will not make
better than twenty per cent of an av-
erage yield, in Mr.. Lees opinion.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-28
Lad Breaks Arm.

While playing hide and seek dur
ing the noon hour Monday, Freddie,
the fourteen year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Lachmiller, who reside
three miles south of town, fell off
the front step at the German school
house and broke both. bones in his
left forearm. The lad was immedi-
ately taken to physician who dress
ed the injured member.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-28
Lose Little One.

An eight and half pound baby
girl was born to Mr.. and Mrs Arch
Foster at Mercy hospital Sunday
morning, but the little one passed
out of the world almost as soon as it
entered, and the parents have the
sympathy of the community in their
bereavement. The remains Of the
babe will be taken today to Inde-
pendence, the old home Of the par
ents, for burial.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-28
Track is Weakened.

Sunday forenoon the track on
the Illinois Central in the vicinity of
the high bridge gave way in several
places. The bitches on either side
of the high grade were filled with a
torrent of water into which little by
little the bank, which holds up the
track. slid. Portions of it kept drop
ming into the ditch until there were
many places from two to three feet
in width where the earth had en-
tirely left the ties, leaving the ties
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-28
Has His Own Electricity.

Stanhope Enterprise: II. E. Satire
has installed an eight II. p. Cush-
man engine and dynamo large
enough to furnish 80 lights, in his
up-to-date garage on Main street.
Friday evening was the first he had
the current on and with the two
lights ne has outside, it illuminated
cur business street hne.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-28
Is Critically Ill

John A. Berggren is critically i'll
with heart trouble and asthma at his
home on Second street. During the
past two days a physician has been
with him almost constantly and a
trained nurse is in charge of the pa
tient.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-28
WEBSTER CITY TEAM
wins SifN|NC GAME
Iowa Falls Football Team Defeated
on Their Home Grounds
Score 20 to 6.

Coach Earl R. Sifert's high school
football warriors initiated the 1915
season at Iowa Falls last Saturday
afternoon, by scoring three touch
downs to their opponents one. The
score indicates fairly we'll the COM
parative strength of the two teams.
The game was played in a drizzling
rain, which made fast playing diff
cult, but which failed to daunt the
spirits Of the Webster City eleven in
their consistent ground-gaining
smashes through the stiff opposition
afforded by the Iowa Falls line. This
was the second game of the season
for Iowa Falls, their first encounter
having occurred last week with the
Eldora Industrial team.
Webster City was without the SER
vices of Captain Glenn Greenwood in
the opening struggle. However, his
absence was more than compensated
for by the showing made by some of
the new players, particularly From
ing at full-back, Britson at center,
Sparboe at quarter, and Daniels at
right tackle.
Iowa Falls scored their only touch
down in the first three minutes of
play. Receiving the ball after the
kickoff, three p1ays-a line smash,
a forward pass and well executed
fake-carried the ball beyond the
goal line. From this time. on, the
Webster City defense stiffened, and
after Gilmore's touchdown in the
second quarter, followed by a sue
cessful goal-kick from a difficult an
gle by Lane, the outcome was never
In doubt.
The second half was ali Webster
City's. The Iowa Falls team fought
hard and number OF times almost
held their opponents for downs, but
the superior condition and fighting
spirit of the visitors always proved
more than a match for the Iowa
Falls veterans. France at end and
ironing in the back field excelled in
plunging through the line. The sec
ond touchdown was made by Clark
in the third quarter, and the third
was pushed over by ironing two
minutes before the final whistle, a
spectacular forward pass from
France to Lane contributing large
ly to this result.
The team as whole displayed en-
couraging signs of developing into
real football aggregation. For an
early-season game, the tackling was
good, and the offensive work at times
was above the average. The team
is showing the results of the best at
tention to training attained by any
local team for several years.
Britson at center was an accurate
passer and strong on defense. Daniels
and Simpson at the tackle positions
were aggressive. and latham and :
Isham held down right and left
guard with credit to the team.
In the last quarter, Mason, Bate
man, DeFrance, Mcconnell and
Spielman were given a chance to
earn their spurs, and gain experience
for the hard games of the coming
weeks.
Next week the famous East Des
Moines eleven, proclaimed as the
probable Iowa champions of 1915,
will meet the locals at Riverside
Park in this city. This will give
Webster City fans chance to see
one of the fastest games ever played
in the city, and a record-breaklns
attendance is assured.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-28

In spite of the downpour OF rain
Saturday afternoon and evening. the
chicken pie supper given by the L.
A. S. of the Christian church was
greeted with a large crowd and the
ladies cleared about s25 for their
work.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-28
The Census.

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Ra-
ven. Sept. 26, 1915, at Mercy hos
pital, son.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-28

band a much better organization
than it has been in the past.
Many of the larger cities have two
or three municipal bands of this ma
ture, and find that they are success
full, Mr.. Reed asserted. Minneapolis
has two bands which play almost ev-
cry evening in the parks of the city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11

breathe purer air, as a rule, and the
oxygen Of the air also has more access
10 the skin, on account Of light cloth
ing. The flushing of the system is,
therefore, even more necessary in win
ter than in summer. Children brought
up TO love fresh air and fresh water
have the advantage Of the health
which these bring. They are also
much less apt to fall victims to dis
ease, as the impurities are constantly
thrown out from the system.
If temperance workers would include
in their propaganda an article on wa
ter drinking and instil this idea into
the minds of mothers, it would help in
the spread Of temperance. The taste
for whiskey and drugs is an abnormal
one, and the more normal the child
the less likely it is 10 fall a victim
20 abnormal habits. Then, too, It has
been estimated that the increase in
kidney disease is 13l per cent in the
last thirty years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11
Women and
Politics i'm Chicago

was explaining to her neighbor prop.
osition that seemed somehow strangely
familiar, to the effect that some one
had made a serious blunder in putting
two good men in the field agains. one
bad one, for II the good vote were d.
vided It might result IN a victory for
the bad one.
After sitting quietly some time the
New York woman glanced toward the
doctor at the head OF the table; but
she was explaining 10 the Librarian and
the Kindergarten that the county hos
pital would be under the Board Of
Health and 1t would not be like voting
a large bond issue into the hands Of
lot OF grafters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11

one Of the gases which form in the
stomach from Indigestion, and there
fore it is not reasonable to suppose
that Il is healthful or desirable.
Many mothers say: 81 seldom, II
ever. drink water" To one who has
studied the Importance Of water to the
human system, this statement IS as
disgusting as if they had Dragged OF
never taking a bath. The system
needs flushing with solvent such as
pure water is known TO be, and no
amount of tea, coffee or other liquid
will take its place. Those who have
had the water habit broken in child
hood should commence by drinking a
small quantity of water at time I'M
til they are able to drink from four
to six glasses a day.
The idea that water is mainly use
full for quenching thirst leads many
people to drink copiously in summer
and neglect to do the same in winter.
This is a mistake, as in summer we
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11

tend to increase. Deep we'll waters,
on account Of contact with earth and
rocks, collect a great amount of mat
ter, much of which prevents the water
from acting in the stomach as a SOL
vent. These waters, known as hard,
should preferably be drunk between
meals rather than at meals; whereas
soft water actually aids in digesting
food
If children are inclined to swallow
their food too rapidly and TO use milk
or water to wash it down without
proper mastication, these liquids
should be allowed only between meals,
as boiling down the food is injurious
to the digestive organs. AS for ice
water, the fact that it retards diges-
ton when taken with meals is too
well known 20 need emphasis.
The use Of carbonated waters or ice
cream soda, for which carbOnated wa
ter is used, is not a healthful habit
to encourage Carbonic acid gas is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11
Chr0matic Kitchens--Achieve-
rment Of q Woman Decorator

women. Why should not kitchen be
a place of rest as well az work? A
green kitchen, and the door opens on
to vine-covered piazza. and there
stands a comfortable rocker. with its
movable cushions covered with green
and white cretonne in pattern of hops.
The tired housewife drops into the
chair for a few moments while things
are doing themselves, and the green
harmony rests her eyes. her brain, and
she goes back to her work rested mem
tally as well as physically. Beauty is
a practical asset.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11

TIVE drinking OF water is largely
matter of habit with the HUI
man family. 1t should be a mat
ter of instinct Little mammals of the
animal kingdom follow this instinct
which is strong in the young OF all
animals, including the human animal,
but the baby must depend for the
qualification Of this instinct upon the
wisdom of its mother. It is too help
less TO make its needs known, and
the mother. whose own mother may
have neglected to provide a water
bottle for her baby, is not apt to De
water drinker herself; is, indeed
unaware of the advantage gained BY
forming such habit, and so the in
stinct born in the child suffers from
neglect.
Sometimes the instinct will assert
itself strongly when the child IS old
enough 10 help itself TO what attracts
it, but often by that time the instinct
has become stifed and the need of
water is never felt unless in the heat
of summer the child is attracted to
il because of its GOODNESS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11
No Longer One Of Them.

The New York woman SANK back in
her chair and drank her coffee in
silence. What had come over the old
boarding house? As a rule, she had no
trouble in making herself agreeable,
and here she was a general fsvorite.
But all her efforts at pleasantly had
failed humiliatingly. Suddenly she was
no longer one of them.
However, she waited politely for the
rest of the table to finish, her chagrin
perhaps showing a little on her face in
spite of herself. For as the others rose
the doctor glanced toward her and ex-
claimed: ooh! done you known We
are all going to vote on Tuesday, and
it is so important not to make q mis-
take!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11
A Jolt to the Feminist.

II was a jolt even to the feminist TO
find only one mother shown with her
baby. OF the five children shown with
women two were with their nurses;
the third, g little nude figure, with its
semi-nude mother asleep in the wood
land, and the fourth. a mother in
quaint 1880 costume, with her baby in
q garden and entitled "Roses Of Yester
Year" Something about the picture.
however, seems TO suggest that the
baby's position in its mothers arms
belongs to "yester year" as well
1t positively made one ache for one
Of Mary Cassatt's famous babies in
their own mothers arms, with all the
rest of their pre-teacher-mother at
mosphere.
Whatever the feminist movement has
done or has failed TO do in impressing
the importance Of its new trades and
soapbox speechmaking as new poses
for the artist, certainly there is
clean sweep Of all sentiment from the
exhibits in name as well as pose. Per
haps in all the "primping" poses we
are supposed to imagine the masculine
visitor downstairs, the indirect re-
cipjent OF all this, but certainly no
men appear with the women, and re-
mote is all air of romance. Nowhere
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11

FORGETTING Woman
Achievements, the Artist at
the National Academy Of
Design Poses Her Fanci-
fully as Of Old. Albeit
UnSentimentally.

look we'll in kimonos that II was with
disloyal regret that we saw his sub
ject thus attired singled out for hon
ors.
Even in their next favorite attitude for
feminine sitters -sewing-thc artists
of this years Academy often seem un-
able TO tear themselves away from the
dressing room. Christine Herter's
"Girl Sewing" is so far from complet-
ing her costume that we feel sure that
she has paused to take stitch which
is not the time honored one which saves
nine. The same combination OF un-
dress and needlework appears In "A
Spring Morning" for here the young
woman is trimming her Easter hat. Al
though there Is unmlstskable evidence
that this selfsame young woman has
not vet taken of her winter fannels,
still her feet are depicted as clad in
low white canvas shoes. We need not
turn to the name Charles Hawthorne TO
know that no woman painted thisl
In HildebrSnt's "The Sewing Bee
after so much desultory sewing going
on, we are relieved to see that they
have progressed far enough for final
fitting. Here four women make up the
group, all busily engaged. Is it too
much 20 venture the hope that this was
meant silently to portray the advsn-
tages of cooperation?
In the "Willow Pond" honors are d.
vided between reading and sewing as
occupations on the principle of fifty
fifty"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11
Water an Aid to Beauty.

In this way the child is deprived OF
one of the most valuable aids TO
health and beauty, since the free use
Of water has marked effect upon
the complexion when used internally,
as we'll as when used externally. II
makes the skin much clearer and Of
ten more rosy. This indicates the
great value Of water as a cleanser OF
the system.
Every baby should be provided with
a water bottle. The water should be
boiled and cooled in a cellar or re-
mote corner of the ice chest. The
boiling eliminates the carbonc gas
and the carbonates OF lime, as we'll as
the bacteria, in the water. These are
oil Objectionable, and the former par
ticularly so, to weak and delicate
stomachs, but the boiling also eliml-
mates a very desirable element-free
oxygen. To partially overcome this I'll!
the baby's bottle not more than half
full. Shake the bottle vigorously for
I
a minute or more, and some little or
the oxygen Of the air will be retained
in the water. Another way is TO pour
cupful Of water back and forth a
few times. In either case the water
retains some of the oxygen OF the
air and will be more wholesome.
After the child has reached an age
when he eats solid food it is best to
take the water from the tap, assum-
ing that the water supply is not pol
luted by bacteria or that the water IS
not very hard. Most cities guarantee
a certain purity, and, further, running
water tends to purify itself, whereas
in stagnant water or water standing
in vessels and bottles the organisms
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11
ENVOY.
ANTI.sUFFRAGE ACTIVITIES.

Under the party lash vigorously by the majority leader
harold Iinman bill which increases the time women ana
Haren work factories during the summer months from
% venty-two barely squeezed through
Clipping.
But Mr. his antsurage speeches. most
the questions o government questions Of business not morals
"e seems to them such.
Senator Brown this has vent to radoa s'u
"eht lie he is o Il of child slavery.
But he child the rural districts VINO hao
oe industrious by years would amount to any
Jung Industry inter- acquired only the canning factory
eao Albany has introduced Dill WHICH,
"sOng The Albany Argus would prevent the early closing OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11

.rsn,cjon that Rosamond was an caves
dropper, but when we found she was
painted by a woman we thought per-
haps she wasn't.
Idle Hands That Are Too Posed
% In the sitting poses the hands are
most often not called upon to DO any
thing more arduous than hold rose
In one portrait, at least, the very mucn
dressed UP young woman is either
noureau richie or has just given up ner
lob 70 marry a man who refuses her
~. iov of continuing it, for her idle
hands are too posed to be natural
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11

umphantly.
Done WHAT" queried her friend.
Persuaded those people for whom l
am doing over that lovely old house to
have a green kitchen"
"A green kitchen ?" gasped her listen
er.
Dutch Kitchen Not Always Suitable.
eyes, a green kitchen, and if it had
not been green il must have been anne
thyst. | was very firm about it. You
see" she continued, when people first
came TO realize that kitchens could be
more than mere places TO cook IN, they
all went wild over the so-called Dutch
models. Everything must be blue and
white, with FURNISHED copper kettles
and pots. Soon, however, they became
convinced that copper was dangerous
10 use in cooking, and very difficult
to keep FURNISHED just for an orna-
ment.
80 that craze subsidized, but still the
tradition of blue and white persisted.
II has taken lot OF educating 10 per-
suade people that the color of kitch-
en-, like any other room in the house,
should depend upon its location and
outlook. For example, TO make a kitch-
en- with a northern exposure into a
white kitchen. or into a blue and white
kitchen, or even into serviceable gray
kitchen, is TO accentuate its lack Of
sunshine and make it seem colder ald
more unfriendly than it is. On the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11
ACTIVITIES
She Idles Gracefully Where
Her Maker Lists, and Is
Found i'm Her BOudoir in
Various Pastures, Dress
ing Being Her Princi-
pal Occupation.

One Of the few other portraits shows
a woman of the age when 10 fold her
hands seems her right, although the
posture Is evidently still new enough
to her to be slightly amusing.
Perhaps here after all. family OLD
fashioned though she Is, we have found
the answer to our growing feeling OF
resentment that the artists have en-
tirely overlooked women in their new
roles. Perhaps women are % busy
elsewhere in their manifold activities
that they are glad enough 20 fold their
hands when they reach studio!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11

is a moonlight night, "His Answer"
The girl whose lips have proved ire
sistible to her masculine companion
seemed altogether RELOCATED to the
covers Of our sex-o'clock magazines.
Even the three fair feminine subjects
idly playing instruments play in soil
tary splendor or, at best. to a couple of
their own sex. No wrapt and sdoring
nearer is theirs!
Missing as well is such delicate, ten
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-11

der sentiment as Sterner's intimate lit
tie family scene Of some seasons ago,
where the young wife played in the
deepening shadows to the father in re-
Taxed, dreamy posture before the fire
light. As he held the sleeping child
Graded on his knee one would think II
was advanced enough in its sentiment
TO have been inspiring.
We failed TO locate single picture
in which man was paying any atten-
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ton whatever to a woman with him.
So unlike a certain book advertised as
a delight 70 the schoolgirl. we cannot
predict the girl Of sixteen will find this
years Academy at all satisfactory to
her romantic demands,
Far from being q young woman bat
Ting with the high cost OF living, the
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the

lone marketer is an old peasant whose
market basket is far CRY from any
American municipal happenings.
The overwhelming majority Of
women are depicted just sitting or
standing in doorways, open, closed and,
as in Emily Hatchs "Rosamond En-
ters," just about to open. We had a