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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28

Chris Hickman, a farmer living
about four miles south of this city
and father of Mrs. Rube McFerren
was badly bruised Saturday in a
runaway accident at the west end OF
Walnut street. Mr.. Hickman, with
another man, was driving into this
city with load of hogs and when
on Wood street the team became
frightened and started to run. Mr..
Hickman was thrown out but the
other man jumped into the back of
the wagon among the hogs and was
uninjured.
The team ran into a telephone
post near the end of Walnut street
and were stopped, with no further
injury to wagon or occupants. Mr..
Hickman was brought to plWsic-
ian's Office down town where his in
juries were found to consist of some
bad bruises, but nothing more SER
ious.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
The Street IMPROVE
MENTS COMPLETED. ] 4 !
Paving Grew Put the Finishing
Touches Upon the Pavement
Repairs.

The crew Of men at work upon
the paving have completed the job
for the present season. The strip OF
paving in front of the G. E. Atkin-
son home on Wilson avenue and the
pavement on Seneca street, which
has been the bane of automobile
drivers for the past year or more,
was finished Saturday. The Seneca
street pavement has been so full Of
holes that car driving in that sec
tion has consisted of a series of
bumps for the occupants of autos.
Des Moines street was also patched
up Saturday. .h
All the sidewalks ordered by the
city are now in. Other concrete
work will be done next year. The
continued fair weather Of this fall
has been favorable for work upon
the newly paved streets and the few
cold snaps are said to have had no
effect upon the asphalt.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
THE LA VOGUE SHOP
CHANGES HANDS
n. j. Buell. Buys the Business from
w. J. Barnes and Will
Continue it.

The La Vogue Shop has been sold
by w. J. Barnes to H. ]. Buell., who
is now sole proprietor and is in pos
session. The store will continue to
be known as the La Vogue Shop and
will retain it's former clerks-Miss
Josephine Beck as head of the cloak
and suit department and Miss Velva
Mert2, of the millinery department.
The shop handles all lines of ready
to wear garments for women and en-
joyed good patronage since it's be-
ginning about seven OF eight months
ago. Mr.. and Mrs. Barnes left the
city Sunday. Their destination is
unknown, although it is presumed
they are visiting relatives and will
return to this city later.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
Making Good.

Floyd Helmick, who left here q
few years ago, is now employed as 6
telegraph operator for the Big Four
oy the C. c. c. & S. l.. railroad, al
BeavSrville, ILL., having worked ur
to that position from yard clerk
WheE Floyd left his position as q
baggageman on the Illinois Central
in this city and went to Illinois he
secured employment as a call boy in
,the Office Of the chief dispatcher on
the Santa Fe road at Chillicothe, Ill
He was recommended to the place OF
yard clerk at Kankakee on the Big
Four road, the recommen dation COM
ing from the chief dispatcher with
whom he worked. From the work of
yard clerk he made rapid advance
ment until now he holds one of the
many responsible positions open to
young men who take up railroad
work. Floyd's younger brother,
Percy Helmick, Is following in the
footsteps of his brother, and now
holds the position of yard clerk at
Kankakee with the Big Four.
These young men are sons of the
late Walter Helmick of Williams,
and grandsons of Mrs F. P. Helmick
of this city. They came here with
their mother shortly after their
fathers death and resided in this
city for a year or two.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
WOODSTOCK C|T|-
ZEN PASSES AWAY
A. J. Frakes, Father of Mrs. F. A.
Dooittle, succumbs to
Chronic Illness.

A. J. Frakes, an old and highly re-
spected resident of Woodstock, passed
away at the family home early Fri
day morning, death coming as
welcome relief from much suffering.
He had been ill with cancer of the
stomach for long time and all that
medical aid could do had been done
for him.
Mr.. Frakes came to iowa in the
pioneer days, settling first in Hamil-
ton and then in Wright county. He
|served in the Civil war and was a
member of the local G. A. r. post. A
wife, three daughters and four sons
are left to mourn his demise. The
daughters and sons are Mrs. Fannie
Pierce, Austin, Mimi; Mrs. Anna
Balm, Woodstock; Mrs. F. A. Doolit-
tie, this city; Wesley Frakes, Eagle
Grove; Andrew, Charles and Walter
Frakes, Renwick. He also leaves a
brother, John Frakes of Woodstock,
and many other relatives residing in
and near there.
A. J. Frakes was the third broth
er living in Woodstock to pass away
within the past two years. Samuel
Frakes died less than two, years ago
and Walter Frakes passed away less
than year ago.
Funeral services were held at
the home in Woodstock Sunday
forenoon at II o'clock and interment
will be made in the Cass Center
cemetery.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
Auto Accident.

G., ,<fgo- Hoffman, a retired farmer
living on west Water street, was the
unfortunate victim of an automobile
accident which occurred Saturday
: afternoon abdnt four o'clock on the
corner of FIST and Des Moines
streets. 4
Mr.. Hoffman attempted to cross
the street at this corner and owing
to the somewhat obscured view of the
intersection due to the materials pill
ed in the street for the new Hanson
& Tyler garage, did not see the ap-
proach of a Ford car driven by Ira
Miller of this place. Mr.. Hoff-
man was knocked to the ground,
receiving a fractured right fore arn
and many bruises. He was assisted
into the car and taken Immediately
to his home and today is getting
along nicely although the fracture
will inconvenience him for some
time.
The San Tox medicines, only at
Teed'a d-f-tf
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
SOME GOOD REAL ES-
TATE TRANSACTIONS
A Number of Deals Effected by
Which Considerable Property
Changes Ownership.

The Will R. Daniels farm, located
one mile south of Duncombe, has
just been sold to R. M. Ives OF
Bridgeport, Conn. The farm en-
braces 100 acres and brought the
sum of $2O5 per acre. Mr.. Daniels
bought the place three or four years
ago as speculation and made quite
a neat sum in the deal. 1t is one OF
the best quarter section farms in the
vicinity of Duncombe. Mr.. Ives ex-
poets to conduct it himself.
The former C. A. Near residence
property, Immediately east of c. A.
Brennecke's on First street, has been
sold by A. 6. Ottobaugh of Iowa
Falls to Casper Edvenson of Rose
Grove township. The consideration
was $2,700. Mr.. Edvenson is one of
the well-to-do and successful farmers
of Rose Grove and expects to remove
to this city to make his permanent
home here.
Charles T. Smith has traded the
business property on west Second
street, formerly occupied by the
Johnson photograph gallery to v. p.
Hubert of Bingham, Lake, Mimi, in
on 12O acre farm in Cottonwood
county. The farm was valued at
$11O per acre and the business prop
erty at $4,000.
These deals We're made by the
& Hampton real estate firm
Of this city.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
ADAMS0N LAW IN
COURT AT Fl. DODGE
).
The Minneapolis & St. Louis Rail.
road Company Join in Attack
ing its Validity.

The Minneapolis & St. Louis rail-
road has Joined with other steam
roads in an attack on the Adamson
law. passed by congress late in the
summer. Application for temporary
injunction to prevent the institution
OF suits to force the railroad to come
under the law is to be heard by Judge
Henry r. Reed, Of the northern dis
trict Of Iowa. at Fort Dodge, at 10
o'clock, Dec. II.
The notice of the application runs
against Frank A. O'Connor, Of New
Hampton, United States attorney for
the northern district of Iowa, and
committeeman of the railroad broth
erhOods.
Among the latter are c. E. Sin
clair, of Fort Dodge, a conductor and
committeeman for the Order of Rail-
way Conductors; William Jennings,
of Marshalltown, an engineer and
general chairman of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers committee;
E. Sinclair, of Fort Dodge, general
chairman of the committee of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen, and J. E. Arnold of
Oskaloosa, committeeman of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
The application, the notice re-
cites, will be made for temporary
injunction to prevent the govern
ment, through it's district attorney,
or the brotherhoods, through their
committeeman, from instituting any
proceedings to enforce compliance
under the law.
The application is considered a
precautionary move to prevent the
instit, tion of suits to compel the
railroad to obey the law when it be-
comes effective Jan. 1, 1917.
The M. & st. l.. engineers voted
against the strike, but the law hav-
ing been passed, the fact that they
were not in sympathy with the en-
gine and trainmen's movement would
!. ot hinder them or the other unions,
dr the government. from bringing
svss,rfo compel the railroad to come
ufi, he provisions of the law.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
Broke Several Ribs.

Charles Closz fell from wagon
in which he was standing Saturday
and broke several ribs. He was
standing too near the side of the ve-
hicle, which was being driven, and
when o wheel went into a deep
chuck hole, Mr.. Closz pitched over
the side to the ground. As a re-
suit OF his injuries he will be con-
fined to his home for several days
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
O. F.. s.. Attention! I!

By special invitation of the Brom-
ley party the members of the Eastern
Star will attend the service at the
tabernacle on Wednesday evening.
The members are requested to meet
in the Baptist church parlors at
7:10, so all may go together. We
are a large organization, so let US
have a large representation. Masons
and o. e. S. will march together.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
Ellsworth Midwinter Courses.

Ellsworth College offers special
Business, Music. Teachers, Mechan-
ical Drawing, Manual Training, Ag-
riculture, Domestic Science courses.
Also, special Shorthand, and Type
writing courses. Why not enter
Monday, December 4th, or any
during December or January?
Take up one of these midwinter
courses. Many are entering Mon
day, December 4th. dill
Paints and yarnishes at Teed's.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
Mrs. Teed Breaks Wrist.

Mrs. G. w. Teed fell from chair
Saturday night upon which she was
standing to hang some curtains and
as a result of the fall, sustained a
broken right wrist. An X-ray pict-
ure was taken of the fracture and
the injury will Inconvenience Mrs.
Teed for some time.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
Perry VS., Webster City.

A game of football will be played
at Riverside park in this city next
Thursday-Thanksgiving Day-with
the Perry high school and Webster
City high school teams as contest
ants. The game will be called at
$3.50 in the afternoon. This being
a legal holiday and the closing con-
test of the season, 1t is very likely
that a large crowd of people will
turn out to witness the game.
Silver goods that will always be
silver, ut Teed & Teed's. diff
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
Onerator III.

r. w. Hughes, the western Union
telegraph operator, is ill with Sc
we're attack of tonsilitis. The Office is
open with Mrs. Hughes in charge
and the messages are being sent
through the Western Union branch
at the Illinois Central passenger sta
tion.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28
A Great Football Game.

Rivalry runs high between Ellis
worth and the Teachers College. For
a number of years they have played
an annual football game Thanksgiv-
ing Day. For the past four years the
record has been as follows:
1912 Teachers. &c Ellsworth 3
1913 Teachers @ Ellsworth. 6
1914 Teachers. % Ellsworth 26
1915 Teachers "a Ellsworth. %
Total. 80 Total. S5
The game this year is called at
Iowa Falls on the Ellsworth Ath-
letic Filed at 2::30 p. m. Thursday,
Nov. 80, Thanksgiving Day.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-11-28

The San Tox medicines, only q
Teed'A d-f-tf
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-07-25
MORE RECRUITS ARE SOUGHT
Gov. Philip Orders Effort to Enlist
1000 New Men for Wisconsin Reg
q. ments-AIi Will Go South.

Madison-Acting upon instructions
from Washington, Gov. Philip has ap-
pointed Capt NJ ID. Imhoff and Lieut..
Casimir Gonski of Milwaukee and
Capt George O'Connell of Madison
to open a recruiting office in Milwau-
kee. These three officers represent
the First regiment. of the Wisconsin
National guard.
Maj. Emanuel Rossiter OF Superior,
Capt. Milton Schwandt of Menomonie
and Capt Charles Rawlinson have
been selected to represent the Third
regiment and their headquarters prob
ably will be in La Crosse. Lieut.. Jill
son of Beaver Dam is one of the three
to represent the Second regiment, and
offices probably will be opened in APP
pleton.
The three Wisconsin regiments, the
battery and troop now stationed in
Texas are lacking about 1000 men to
bring them up to full war strength,
and the recruits obtained in the three
offices in the state will be sent south
as rapidly as they enlist to fill up the
ranks. As soon as they enlist, they
will be sent to Camp Douglas where
they will be examined by United
States army surgeons, inoculated with
typhoid vaccine and then drilled with
complete equipment They will be
sent south at the end of two weeks,
the first to leave about July %.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-07-25
Navajo Therapeutics

The Medical Council, a medical
magazine of Philadelphia, in an article
by DIR. Basil A. Warren, who is in
charge of the United States govern
ment hospital at Leupp, Ariz., de-
scribed some of the methods employed
by the Navajo Indians in the treat
ment of diseases. The Navajos have
a strong belief in demons or evil spir-
it's and think that when a body is bur-
led care must be taken to cover
up all tracks of those who left the
give so that the demons attending
the burial could not follow them to
their hOgan-the hogan is the rude
hut of the Indians-and do them harm.
The chief measures used in treating
disease are singing, dancing and in
vOcations. The singing idea is much
in favor and might perhaps be adopt
ed by civilization in some cases to the
exclusion of less palatable potions.
Certain songs are specific for certain
diseases, but the song to be effective
must be sung without a single error.
These songs are not to be sung by
quacks or irregulars, and to keep out
such practitioners the regular profess
sion employs a language which is not
understood by any but themselves,
dead language which the Indians be-
lieve was spoken by "the ancient holy
people"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-07-25

The pupils learned that pig could
not thrive entirely on scraps from
lunches and occasional ears of corn.
An interested member of the school
committee offered the use of his team
and implements and the pupils started
to work cleaning the forest land to
use as a forage pasture. They then
planted crops of rye, wheat. rape, and
grass to afford the pig grazing plots of
green forage. A cold frame was also
put in and cabbage plants were grown
for sale, the money thus realized being
turned over to buy whatever additional
feed was necessary to keep the young
animal.
AS a result of the interest aroused,
taxpayers and members of the school
board have given their support TO the
establishment of small demonstration
farm. More land is to be purchased
and the county agent is to visit the
school each week. Since the pig was
brought into the school less than a
year ago, the membership of the coun-
ty pig club has more than trebled.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-07-25
BAD ROADS CAUSE BIG LOSS
Dairy and Food Commissioners Weigle
Estimates Badger Farmers Lost
$4,000 in May and June.

Madison-Bad roads cost almost
100000 TO the dairy farmers of Wis
consin in the months of May and June.
This does not refer to all the loss
caused by bad roads, but merely to
that one feature of loss, the delay In
delivery to the creameries.
Such is the statement issued by the
Good Roads association of Wisconsin
in its campaign for better and more
continuous highways. 1t is issued on
the authority Of State Dairy and Food
Commissioner George Weigle. based
on the prices and information re-
ceived from throughout the state dur
ing these two months.
May and June were exceedingly
rainy months. This resulted in slow
and infrequent deliveries of cream =
weekly or twice weekly instead of oft
ener. 1t is conservatively figured that
because of delay in delivery there was
a loss of one-half cent per pound in
the price ofnbutter The approximate
of the output last year was 136,000,000
pounds. One-quarter of the output is
in the months of May and June, which
would mean approximately 34,000,OG0
pounds. One-half cent pound means
a loss of $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-07-25
Where Reading Is Scarce.

Corners of the world still produce
men who live in ignorance of it's
current literature. 1t was a French
man on AIdabra island, 400 miles east
of Zanzibar, who, the only white man,
welcomed the papers and magazines
from the British ship. He didn't know
Turkey was at war-and he nearly
wept at the presentation Of tobacco,
not grown on that .Irtle island.
In prison or such an island as Aida
bra you must become an epicure-a
gluttOn-of such print as available.
The Crusoe of Aldabra island had not
the best hundred books. Two maya
zines of two and four years old. And
by that time he knew them by heart.
With such a prospect before one
and the question of bulk a man
should certainly go for Shakespeare
and the Bible. And If a third choice
were allowed for three years reading
1t would be the dictionary of Walker
and Webster.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-07-25

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
How one teacher of go pupils in a
one-room schoolhouse, situated in the
forests of North Carolina, succeeded
in getting her pupils interested in prac-
teal agriculture with a pig and less
than an acre of uncultivated land. is
told in a report of one of the field work
ers of the United States department
of agriculture.
A farm paper offered a pure-bred
pig as a prize for securing certain
number of subscriptions. This ener-
getic schoolteacher set out among the
parents of her pupils and succeeded
in selling enough subscriptions to win
the pig. When the pig arrived the pen
was already built by the schoolgirl
dren on the school grounds for its re-
ception. The parents were invited and
talks on pig-raising were made. The
rest of the day was spent in driving
around to some of the best pig farms in
the county where various kinds of live
stock were scored and discussed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-07-25
The Forbidden Vine.

Among the things to be avoided
when you stroll into the country
poison ivy. 1t chambers luXurIant!
over walls and fences and trees and
late in the season, the old gloss
leaves, each of which Is divided Int
three lObeS, turn to reds, browns anl
yellows. It's fruit is a small dun
colored berry. The flesh that touches
1t becomes inflamed and swollen an.
breaks into blisters that are cOmmu
nicated to other parts as the ylcdn
rubs them. Some persons are so sen
sitive to the poison that they eanno
go near the ivy without being affected
The ivy is good to look upon, buI !
is bad to handle.
A couple of years ago there was
project to organize a society to MAKE
war on this enemy of the human KIDD
but it seems to have disappeared-
perhaps with the disease from Wnla
it's chief promoter was at the time SUI
fering. In the absence Of any organ
lied effort to destroy the poison w
it behooves every individual to LOOK
out for his own welfare The poison
ivy is the forbidden ylne,-COlumDH
Dispatch.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-07-25
The Wora That Turned.

Just by looking at him as he sat in
the witness chair in the courtroom, one
could tell that he was harmless, but a
close inspection would also have re-
vealed that there lurked behind his
narrowed and apologize orbs, latent
fire indicative of a past when his life
had been his own--a past now long
distant. His general air was that of
one having been detected by the min
lister while hoeing his garden on Sun
day.
Counsel for the plaintiff in the case
proceeded to ask him the usual ques-
tions:
please state your name to the
jury"
John Jones'"
"Your age?"
"Fifty-eight."
MARRIED."
Then 1T was that John slid lower
into his chair as q flash of determina-
ton came into his eye, and he an
swered in a voice that could be heard
distinctly, Eyes, very"
In the rear of the room a woman of
$50 pounds glared at the timid little
witness as he was seen trying to con-
ceal half-worried smile beneath his
struggling mustache.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-07-25
THOMAS NAMED TO BENCH
Gov Appoints Former AssembIyman
to Succeed the Late Judge Nue.
kieston-Other Places Filled.

Madison-Gov. Philip has appoint
ed former Assemblyman James E,
Thomas, Waukesha, as judge of the
municipal court of the Eastern district
of Waukesha county, to fill the vacan-
cy cused by the death of Judge Milo
Muckleston, who was killed in an au-
tomobile accident.
The appointment of Mr.. Thomas is
for term ending the first Monday in
January, 1919. Mr.. Thomas was a
partner of Judge Muckleston IN the
practice of law before the latter was
elected to the bench.
The governor reappointed Judge e.
B. Belden, Racine, member of the
board of visitors of the University of
Wisconsin, for a term ending on July
1, 1920. He also reappointed B. j.
Kremer, Fond du Lac, member of the
state board of pharmacy for a term
ending on April II, 1921, and F. H.
Elwell, Madison, member of the state
board of accountancy, for term end
ing on June 25, 1919.