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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
A Sure Cure.

Times-Republican: Judge Carlson
of Des Moines, sent three persons
self convicted of speeding on the
streets, to Jail for three days the
other day. They began serving their
sentences yesterday.
There is three day cure for the
liquor habit which is said to work
fairly we'll: but it isn't as effective
as the three day treatment for
scorching administered by Judge
Carlson. Those speedcrs are cured.
They will speed no more--in the
Carlson territory. They will have
small appetite for scorching in any
bailiwick where the authorities fol-
low Judge Carlson's precedent. It's
cure. Try it.
The chronic scorcher scorches
where he thinks he can get away
with it. Sometimes he is the son of
somebody who has pull. Some
times he is the somebody himself.
Otherwise he is one who seeing the
others get past with it figures that
if they scorch unchecked and UNI
punished he has similar privileges.
Next thing we know they are all
beating it, and the pedestrian is
jumping sidewise and the law abid-
ing driver is wondering whether he
will get back to the garage with the
wheels on and life in his body.
1t isn't really question of too
many scorchers but of too few Carl
sons. The more Carlsons the less
scorchers. The fact is that practic-
ally every person who now violates
the speed laws would become i'm
mediately amenable and lawabiding
| il the knowledge that arrest and
suitable punishment rode with him
and stared at him from his wind
shield. The whole difficulty lies in
authority that fears to punish, that
builds hope for continuance in Of
flee on weak administration and eX-
ecution of laws. One Carlson is an
antidote for a thousand spceders
His medicine cures. 1t is a specific
Three days in Jail may not seem
long to those on the outside but it
is sufficient period for meditation
to the party of the first part He
will come out with his passion for
speed much modified.
"Carlsons Cure" for speed mania
should be in every city hall
Calling cards printed at this office
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
DOCTOR TO SIAM
TO GUST HO0KWoRM

Toxic, Japan, Sept. 1S.-Dr. r.
w. Mendelson of New York City IS
on his way from here to Siam today
las representative of the United
States War Department, to take the
laziness out of the Siamese by killing
off their over supply of hookworms
The government of Siam asked him
to do it. After investigating the
cause of so much laZiness in Siam
the government decided it was the
hookworm that caused it and asked
the War Department to send a doc
tor to set the country right with in
dustry and energy. DR.. Mendelson
was one of the American physicians
sent to Servia to fight the typhus ep'
idemic early in 1915. After the fall
of Belgrade he made the retreat
across Servia with the regiment to
which he was attached.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
Sells Residence Property.

Mrs. w. T. Wright has SOLD her
residence property at 402 Broadway
to Mrs. Albert Blue and the latter
and two children will move into
their newly purchased home in about
ten days, upon their return from an
extended visit with relatives in Blue
Island, Ill. Mrs. Blue is daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Fl. Breiten-
kamp, west of town, and has made
her home in this city and with her
parents since her husband died sew
eral years ago.
Mrs. Wright accompanied her
granddaughter, Mrs. Ed Zahner, to
the latter's home in Chicago this
noon, where she will remain perma-
nently.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
TWENTY YEARS AGO
in the Freeman-Tribune.
From the Freeman Tribune of Sept, %, 1896.

The work of taking down and re-
moving the big warehouse belonging
Ito w. B. Howard, near the North
western passenger depot, was begun
yesterday. The building has been
bought by F. A. Edwards, who will
remove it to his Bluffview farm east
of town and. convert it into cattle
barn. The building is 32xS0 feet in
size and will answer well the pur-
pose for which F. A. bought it. Dick
Ash has the contract for tearing
down, removing and putting up, the
building.
E. H. Martin, who now has a
force of men at work putting in a
telephone system, will commence the
first of next month on series of
improvements on the local exchange,
and an extension of his system east
to Iowa Falls. The local lines will
be thoroughly overhauled, all cables
taken out and single wire system
put in, with the poles now in use
replaced by so foot poles. The line
will be extended from Williams east
to Iowa Falls and connect there with
the Cedar Valley Telephone Co., one
of the largest independent compan-
les in the state. This will give the
Martin system access to Waterloo,
Cedar Falls, and a large number Of
other cities and towns in the eastern
part of the state. The wires of the
Postal telegraph company will be ex-
tended to Iowa Falls at the same
time, giving that and intermediate
towns a competing telegraph line.
This work will be commenced as
soon as the Clinton exchange is fin
ished and completed before cold
weather.
Webster City was favored Satur-
|day by a visit from the ladies band
and the Industrial School band Of Ell
dora and one continuous round of
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
Big Men Honor YaWter.

c'Seith Vawter of Cedar Rapids, or
phator of the circuit chautauqua
Item and member Of the Red
'th-Vawter Chautauqua company,
lose lectures and musicians have
.tertained thousands of Webster
ty people every summer for sever
years, was the guest of honor at
lie Congress hotel in Chicago We'd
esday evening when a banquet was
iven by United States senators, ma
onal representatives, governors of
iates, famous preachers, judges, ed
Gators, social reformers, grand OPP
"a singers end authors. These men
ave been able to present their mes
ages to millions of Americans be-
'ause of the ingenuity of the Cedar
Rapids man in deyising a system
the smallest communities
could maintain chautauQua assemb-
les. Among those who responded to
casts at the banquet were w. j. Bry-
In, Colonel George w. Balm of Ken
lucky, j. Adam Bede of Minnesota,
Ralph Bigham of Philadelphia, Opie
Reed and Judge Marcus Kavanaugh,
most of whom appeared upon our
platform last summer.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
Kenyon is Sincere.

Stanhope Enterprise: Nobody
questions Senator Kenyon's SINGER
ity-.in supporting Harding for gov.
ernor. 1t is in Lille with Senator
Kenyon's consistency as a republii
can. Besides that Senator Kenyon's
character is beyond reproach and is
unassailable. The writer has known
him almost from the day he made
Fort Dodge his home. You can't
throw mud at Senator Kenyon. He
is clean, morally and politically, and
the attempts of few to assail his
character because he is acting as he
sees the right, will fail because OF
lack of good grounds to sustain
them. They are actuated through
spite.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
Make Fine Collections.

At the last scout meeting it was
discovered that fifteen teams of boys
are working as hard as boys can on
their natural history collections for
the scout contest conducted by the
|scoutmaster again this fall. This is
the best month for the catching Of
butterflies and moths and the boys
after school and Saturdays are trek
king through the woods in search of
good specimens. ALI varieties OF
stones, woods, flora and fauna are as
fish to their nets and some splendid
collections are being made. Great
interest is evinced, perhaps more
than ever before for when thirty cut
of the fifty boys enrolled under the
scout banner, are busily trying to
make good collections it shows there
is something doing. The offer recent
ly made by the scoutmaster to the
four boys who have won the great
est number of points at the end of
the scout year, has much to do with
the increased activity and interest
in making collections.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19

pretty girls, we'll drilled boys and
sweet music gave the town a holt
day air and made it nearly impossi-
BILE to transact business in the accus-
toned hum-drum manner. The la
dies band was Of course the chief at
traction and the impressionable
young man and the susceptible old
one were in a state of nervous eX-
citement that kept them in the vi
entity of The Wilson all afternoon.
The bands arrived in the morning
at 9:37 o'clock and left at 4:45 in
the afternoon.
Born, Sept. 81, 1896, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Shaffer of Blairsburg
township, a girl of standard fineness
j. B. Mccullough commenced exca-
waiting yesterday for his new resi-
dence on west Second street, oppo.
site P. w. Lees place.
Cards have been issued announc-
ing the marriage of w. r. McComb,
proprietor of the Syndicate block
grocery of this city, and Miss Kittie
l.. Miller, one of the estimable and
popular young ladies of Stanhope.
The ceremony will take place at high
noon at the home of Mrs. Laura J.
Miller, mother OF the bride, in Stan
hope.
Jesse Corbin, about II years OF
age, son of Hamp Corbin of Homer,
was severely injured in an accident
Sunday night. While returning home
from church the horse he was riding
slipped ON the muddy road and fell,
throwing the rider to the ground
with great force. He was rendered
unconscious by the fall and lay in
this condition for several hours The
horse he was riding broke it's neck
by the fall. The doctor says he eX-
poets the boy to be all right in few
days.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
Real Estate Transfers.

John Lawless to Ole Rasmussen
wd-sa nwa and swi mel 16-S9-23
$50, 100000.
II. A. .Teget to Daniel Goehring-
wd-lot -, blk 10, w. F. & Cos ad-
dition, w. C.-$9S3.55.
N. F. Christensen to Laura E.
Christenson-wd-lot A, blk So, W.
C.-s1.OO.
Clarence Clafiin to C. H. Hill-wd
part Out Lot B, Lawn Hill addi-
ton, w. C.-$1.0O.
Nancy A. Wright to Emma Blue
-wd-lots Z and s, blk 10, w. f. &
Co. addition, w. C.-$1.00.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19

out into the world seeking employ
ment and love and friendship. She
found the employment. She seems
to have failed to find the others. And
so the homely, melancholy school
girl with no sense of humor and no
style turned on the gas in disap-
pointment and went on out of the
world that had looked to her so
gloomy.
Girls like that need friends, WON
an friends. 1t is rather sharp crit
icism on human charity and happy
womanhood that this girl had no
such friend to lean upon. She need
ed some woman with heart and I'M
derstanding. some personal friend.
To be sure the Y. w. G. A. was open
to her but with all its splendid SER
vice no institution can fill the place
of personal friendship. And this
girl was worthy the notice and the
time and the real friendship and help
|of a good woman. She needed a
friend to whom she might go and
|say the things she wrote in her dairy
and who might give her new view
point wherefrom to see the world.
80, it was pitiful, in a whole cityful,
friend she had none.'
There is more to this than appears
on the surface. There are hundreds
of girls who lack what the girl with
the diary lacked, whose true wom-
anliness and fine character keep them
home of nights and refuse the ordin-
airy loves and friendships created and
acquired by the frivolous and care
less, good girls, who crave friends
and seek love .unavailingly And ev-
cry one of these should have good
woman to whom she may go in her
depression and disappointments and
thus gain new strength and stimu-
lated purpose. And it is one of the
duties of good women to their sex,
to themselves and to society to see
that such girls have such friends.
1t is pitiful story. 1t hasn't a
faint upon it of wrongdoing or wick
ed impulse. She was homely, melan-
choly, seemed to be in the way, and
lonely. That seems to have been all.
That she was morbid is not unnatur-
al. Men and women grow morbid
when thrust back upon themselves.
There is no loneliness like that of a
big town, not even the loneliness of
the sheep herders who go crazy in
the vast silences of the plains.
1t isn't enough to subscribe to a
fund. 1t will not suffice to assist in
paying rent for working girls dor
mitory. 1t remains still a duty and a
privilege. The good woman is still
her sisters keeper. The girl starry
ed to death for friendship.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19

named the Sinissippi farm. He has
lived there since, conducting mod
ell dairy and breeding fine stock.
He was elected to congress in
1906 from the Thirteenth district
to fill the unexpired term of Robert
R. Hit, who had died. He was re.
elected the two following terms, but
retired in 1911 on account of i'll
health.
Adam Holt of this city was pu-
pill of,LoWdenl l1h en- 18th ey Aa.bt aaIsMrss
teaching in Hardin county.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
Notice Of Appointment of Admins.
TRAITOR.


In the District Court of the State
of Iowa. in and for Hamilton Coun-
ty, in probate.
In the Matter of the Estate of Car.
RE f. Devine, deceased.
To whom it may concern: Notice
is hereby given, that the undersign-
ed has been appointed and has quail
fled as administrator of the estate OF
Carrie F. Devine, late of Hamilton
County, Iowa, deceased. All persons
in any manner indebted to said de-
ceased or her estate will make pay
ment to the undersigned; and those
having claims against said deceased
or his estate will present them in
manner and form as by law required
for allowance and payment.
Dated this 18th day of Sept. A.
d. 1916.
w. J. Devine.
Administrator of said estate.
22F3* 0. ]. Henderson, Atty
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
The Girl Who Lacked a Friend.

es-Republican: A telephone
girl suicidcd the other evening in
Des Moines leaving diary behind
which revealed the cause Of her act.
The diary began when she was 1S
and ends with her determination to
die in her twenty third year. 1t re-
veals really fine character. She
was anxious to be good girl and
do something true and useful. 1t be-
gins with the confession that she
was every homely, melancholy and
with no sense of humor or what is
called STYLE" compares herself with
her sister who sis so different from
me. being young, ambitious and pop
ular" and says Il felt somehow al
WAYS in the way" She wanted to
earn her own living. When she left
her home in the country town OF
Mount Pleasant she wrote in the
diary her aspirations for higher
and nobler and greater life and ex-
pressed her sorrow that she must
leave her "little happy home and as
sociates." Some day." she said,
"when am old and gray l will look
over this little book and think OF
those dear school day! memories.
She was reading Shakespeare. She
liked it better than Chambers and
Locke and London who she conclud-
ed were not writers from the heart
but for money" And so she went
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
FRANKLIN J. DRAKE.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

Office No. us Wilson Ave. Mar
tin phone 76. Ind. 1873. Martin
telephone building.) Residence No.
613 First St, Martin phone 1O3.
Ind. 1854. Office hours, 100 to
400 p. ms Others by appointment,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19

Miss Bernice Dunbar of Williams
who underwent a major operation
for appendicitis and gall stones at
Mercy hospital several weeks ago
has been moved from the hospital tc
the G. 3. Walterick home, where she
is convalescing.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19

The Methodist ladies aid society
meeting has been, postponed until
Wednesday, Sept. 9th. The meet
ing will be held in the church. and
"a large attendance is desired as the
annual election of officers will take
Dlace
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
G. F. TUCKER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Webster City, Iowa.

Will practice in all the courts of
Iowa. Office over Kane's Variety
Store.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19

G. T. McCAULIFF, M. D.
Office over Browns drug store,
corner of Des Moines and Second
streets. Calls attended day or night.
Both phones.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19
DIR. F. A. BOYSEN,
DENTIST,

Over Aug. Mueller's hardware
store. Martin phone 261. Indepen-
dent phone 166,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19

Address letters to
DIR. wILBERT SHALLENBERGER
768 Oakw0od Blvd. CHICi>Aatl'
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19

Calling cards printed at this office
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-19

Are you nervous and deSpondent: easily excl.
ted and irritable: weak and debtated; tired
m ornings; without ambition, energy or strength;
leless, easily fatigued: distrustful. and without
confidence In yourself? Have you sunken. red
or blurred eyes: pimples on, your face; weak
back or deposit In urineI
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-28

|GAN EXPEDITIONS ~ MEXiCO
|coLoNIA. DUBLIN, March - Nia
|aeroplanc 20 Columbus. y. Nj
Evidence thar, ruucio Villa * pro-
pairing 10 resist the American pur-
sums columns. and that til" McoI-
can people nr. not Il. yet rally
ing 20 him. has been collected by the
officers ana scout. OF the American
troops. Troops who have ridden over
tho various fronts ~ the state Of
Guerrero. where Villa flcd whcu tn.
expedition crossed the hordcr. have
found numerous indications tina; villa
miscaiculated completely when he pre-
Iictcd that his columbus raid would
cause general UPRISING against
Americans
Tho status OF the chase to-day is that
Villa is retiring continually southwark.
trying 10 force recruits into his ranks.
His men are feeling the pinch OF
hunger. and are hoping for an early
summer TO shield against tho cold of
the mountains. where they have re-
treated somewhere south OF Namiquipa.
The question OF ovcrshadowiuE inI-
portancc is.
"Wll Villa continue TO preiar. for
resistance?
II Is 1ranki! hOpcI mat ne Wall, Tor
that Is considered the best chance.
barring trcachcry Of Villas own men,
OF bringing the American expedition TO
an carly successful conclusion lf
Villa refuses TO make any resistance.
II may require months TO crush him.
VILLA FAILS TO INFLAME
SENTIMENT AGAINST L. =.
IN officer who had passed where
Villa had passed within week found
10 all appearances the bandit had
tal!ed to infamc sentiment against
Americans.
These rural people said the officer,
ARE in ignorance Of any reliable facts
about the nature Of the American cx-
petition They have heen told that the
Americans are a ravarinG army; that
they must fight for their lives The
majority seemed TO be quite crcduious
They appeared TO be waiting-with
some suspicion, ii is true---hut, never
theiess. waiting before making up their
minds. This waiting | took TO be IA
hopeful sign. II was like going into
villages where the inhabitants regard
"ne with open suspicion
For Two weeks reports along Villas
,rail show he had forced recruits III
his band His custom has been to line
,ContinLcd on Second Page)
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-28
|||LLA TRYING To
FORCE RECRUITS
INTO HIS RANKS
|1exican People Not Yet
Rallying to Bandit
Leader.
PREPARING TO RESIST
AMERICAN COLUMNS
His Men Are Feeling Pinch Of
Hunger, as They Retire
Southwark.
40 REAL TEST OF STRENGTH
constttutionaiist Troops Appear to
Re Cooperating With
Americans.
o REAL TEST OF STRENGTH
Attempting 10 Drive
Bandit Into Corner

tt>%~ IRt>DE>. tHtiii tH,a,
MENItu ID. wireless {" Columbus.
y. VI. Nnrch .T-NiIin - n!inC
southwest toward the foothilIs OF
the Sicrrn-. According tU army re-
ports received hero to-day. Ihr
rnpidit. Of his Night l. hnatcning
tho American pursuit. All nrms of
the service arc being used IN M
effort 10 force the banhit q" u cor
nrr.
The Ne>IvHn residents al this .rr-
lion. which has bccu ruNagcd time
and time nEnin o.! NiIln hundit>, ntc
freely giving imformnti"r conccrn-
Ing Niiin's hi2 hit. supplies, arma-
n,'nt md strength to the American
military authorities.
Although the tuitrd states troops
nrc following c:uhei. IN his wnkr.
=" fRr. 81 l. stnted no lighting has
taken pIncr.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-28
GERMAN TRENCHES
WON BY BRITISH
Forces Storm and Occupy First
and Second Lines on 800
Yard Front.
ALSO BLOW UP 100 YARDS
Bo1nbardrnent Again Becomes
Intense North and North
east Of Vcrdun.
.LsO BLOW UP 100 YARDS

Iiri:ish and Germans have been fight
inr h.rce!y in the region ~ So. EIoi
just south Of Yprcs. five miles north
or .trraS. and the british, through the
explosion Of a big mine and by infan-
try exchanges. have captured or dc
s,rcyed q portion az Nh German
trenches.
y British fore. stormed ana took
frs, and second line trenches along a
line Of 500 yards. London reports Of
ticialiy. and the German trenches in
this region were blown UT 10 an extent
Of 100 yards.
Again the bombardn,ent mas become
intense north and northeast of Ner-
dun. and the big guns also have been
active In the Wocvrc region. south :
east Of the fortress The time seem
inEiy is not ripe. however. for an in
fantry attack. aud the men Of both
sides have lain idle in their trenches,
awaiting the moment for attack and
counterattack.
The Germans. after a period OF com
parative quiet have again begun she'll
ing Bethincourt, Lc Mort Homme and
Cumicrcs west of the Meuse. and arc
Keeping up with increasing volume
their bomba rdment OF the French po-
stions in the region or Naux and
Douaumont, which have been stumbling
blocks for several weeks in their at
tempts TO gain ground north OF Yer
DIM