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Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-15

There is a backward movement along the eastern. western and Italian fronts but it cannot be said it is because the central powers are "too proud to fight"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-15
OTHER VIEW POINTS

"Americanisn" is a word often used these days and certain to be sounded all over the land between now and election day. What does it zenship. Good citizenship has been defined as requiring implicit obedience to the laws enacted by the Legislature within the scope of it's constitutional power, to the orders and decrees of the judiciary. Tn all matters of which they have Jurisdiction, to the com mands of the executive in preserving the peace and enforcing the laws New Haven Times-Leader.
 It will not be long now before the long looked for rural credit banks are established in all parts of the United States. The newly created Federal work Of permanent organization, and the men appointed to this task are enthusiastic in their cndcavors. Farm CTS who have been sorely in need of money for cons and cons will soon be in a position to derive the benefits of this system of finance. They will be enabled to obtain working capital at reasonable rates.-NeW Britain Herald.
 If something doesn't happen pretty soon, the business of publishing news papers will soon be to adopt a nauti-
 
 There's nothing to be said about the scarcity of news print paper except that it exists. All Of us face it as an uncompromising condition. As it was said of specie payments that the way is to resume, so the only way to save paper is to stop using so much. The great economy wave which has swept over New York, the chief center of the needles waste of wood pulp, is bound to extend to the whole country. If your newspaper assumes a tabloid shape and character in the coming months, you may know the simple req SOn.-New Haven Register.
 Every driver who applies for a H- CenSe to drive an automobile in this state should be given an examina- tion as to his or her ability to drive car. Furthermore the test should be so thorough that there would be no question but that the applicant could handle the car in traffic and extri- cate himself or herself when in diff ficulty. The number of cars in this state, the speed at which they are and ignorance of drivers demands that this be done or else there will be an alarming increase in the mum - Der of accidents. There are a. great many drivers of machines who only have the use of their cars a limited number of hours during the week and become what is called lone day. drivers. Some of these persons try tc drive as rapidly and as intricateIy as do those who drive every day and as a result of this there are many accidents Of course not all the danger to other cars and to pedestrians can be blamed upon these unskilied drivers fol there are many who are skilled who are a real menace to life and limb or the streets of Meriden and every other city in the state.-Meriden Jour- nal.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-15

Johnny Parker, Please Note.
 Billy SuIzer is a shining example of the eternal verity that something
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-15

Norwich, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 1916.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-15

more than a roar is needed to make a tatesman.--AnaccOnd Standard. .,.H
Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-15

The Japanese make an imitation oE silk from the hemp of New Zealand.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12
SALVATION IN HAWAI-.

G.. n. Wilcox, owner of nearly the
entire Island of Kauai, Hawaiian lisp
ands. has just given $4,000 for the
building and equipment or a home
for boys, to be erected and operated
by the Salvation Army in Honolulu.
A similar institution is now being
operated by the Army for girls, To-
Gated partly on grounds owned by
Queen Lilioukalani and leased to the
home for one dollar per year. TINS
home has been doing such excellent
work that the Islanders requested the
Salvation Army to establish a similar
institution for boys.
Sixteen acres of rich garden land
has been donated for this purpose
valued at $4,000, which with cash on
hand. makes total of $4,000 avail
able. for the new boys home. This
added to the land on which the girls
home stands. makes total OF forty
four acres for the training of the boys
in farm activities.
The location is close to the Queen
estate, between two extinct volcanoes
with a magnificent view of Honolulu
and the Pacific Ocean beyond.
Seventy-fve homeless boys Will be
placed amidst good, clean, healthtuI
surroundings and taught to be useful
independent men and citizens.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12
AvAlJNT. suMMER coTToNs

Frost on the Pumpkin" weather
brings with it its annual list Of get.
ready.for-winter duties for the house
wife. One of these is the storing OF
summer clothes. The home econom-
les department Of Iowa State College
makes these suggestions:
Summer woolens should be well
summed and thoroughly brushed and
shaken. Fold garments with a layer
of clean newspaper between the folds
Pack away in boxes carefully wrapped
in newspaper and sealed. Tobacco
camphor and camphor tar do not Kill
Matching moths.
To get light, summer clothes ready
for storing wash them free of starch
dust and CRIME. Fold them neatly
and cover from the light. PACK
summer frocks in boxes.
As to summer room tittings-Denlm
which washes badly may be stored
simply after good brushing. Chlntz'
muslin and net hangings are best put
away rough dry.
From hats remove all trimmings
dust and brush and pack away in
tissue paper to avoid crushing. Brush
the frame and pack away in boxes
with tissue paper.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12
THE TIE THAT BINDS.

Delta Press: Many business men
Of other places turn envious eyes
toward Oskaloosa when they see
their patrons going to that place TO
trade. But the Oskaloosa Business
Men, are live wires. are alive, alert.
and not afraid to tell with printers
ink what they have for sale; and they
point with pride to what Oskaloosa
has accomplished in the past year in
the way of improvements and enter.
tafnment, for the surrounding terri
tory all of which costs money and
they as a people have done their best
possible to make their city a live
competitor of catalogue houses and
ask that they be allowed to show
patrons. We congratulate oskaloosa
on the friends they have by their cam,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12

street cars; fourth, increasing the
penalty for violating the liquor laws;
NTH, making possession of Federal
revenue license prima facie evidence
OF keeping with intent to sell; sixth,
the Byers removal law Mr.. Harding
was not" in the legislature when the
mulct law was passed. He voted for
each Of the other measures referred
to-
How the Saloons Disappeared.
The record of the gradual decrease
of the saloon in Iowa, and it's final
disappearance, as given in the state
ment, is an interesting one. It de-
velOpS that in 1906 the state had Ito
saloons in operation, in ZAP cities and
towns, distributed over AZ counties
and 81 Townships; in 1908 there were
1886 saloons, in 204 cities and towns,
in SO counties and 8 townships; in
1912 there were TAI saloons in 1877
cities and towns, in "a counties; in
1914 only II of. the SO counties had
the open saloon, and the total number
was reduced to 4S3. All of these
were put out of business by the mulct
law repeal of 1915.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12

p
es such opposition, SO violent and
positive?. You know him and know
him. He always did what he agreed
to, do when In the legislature, and |
believe he will do what he now
agrees to do.
AS to theTpersonal conduct when.
at Des Moines, 1t was more circum-
spect than mine. and / apprehend
than yours. never saw him loafing
around the capitol, hotel Hobbies or
at the THEATRE when / wanted to
him looked for him at his room with
his family or at his seat in the
capitol, and always found him. His
votes on ali temperance legislations
were in harmony with the republican
platform; he did not keep his cellar
full of beer, wine and Scotch whiskey
and, though living in Sioux City, new
err signed saloon petition He did
not electioneer nor vote for the wet
candidate for governor in 1914. If
Meredth's candidate for governor
had been elected in 1914 we would
still have saloons in Iowa
ITO say was surprised and in
dignant in reading your late editorial
calling on Harding to resign, is put
ting it mildly; was disguised; also
grieved and Inundated. If you do not
know it, | will tell you that what gave
Harding his nomination was the fact
that the farmers rallied around him
as forlorn hope in their fight again
the taxeaters of Des Moines. Our
country which has always given from
500 to 1000 for prohibition, gave Hard
ing 200; you will hear from them
again in a few weeks. You can con-
slider this an open letter or a closed
one; you can publish it or answer it
or ignore it. Be it as it may, | wanted
you to know what surprise you have
been to some of your old admirers and
friends.-E. r. Zeller."
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12
DOG SAVED HIS LIFE
Owen Parcell's Remarkable Rescue
From Infatuated Bull.

Owen PARCEL, a prominent farmer
living three miles west of town Oh
the Knoxville Road, had a desperate
encounter with a mad bull, Monday
afternoon and owes his.life to the help
rendered him at critical moment by
a little dog.
Mr.. PARCEL had gone to the pasture
to get the bull, which had been sold.
He was all alone except that, the lit
tie dog came running along. Sud
denly the bull charged Mr.. PARCEL
and knocked him down. The infuri-
ated animal then jumped on the
PROSTATE form and was endeaVoring
to crush him. Mr.. PARCEL was help
less and had just about surrendered
to his fate when the little dog iunged
at the bull and grabbed it on the
nose, sinking his teeth into either
nostr:l.
The pain checked the bulls attack
and being unable to shake the dog
loose, he turned and ran across the
field, with the dog clinging to his
nose. Though badly hurt, Mr., Par
cell was able to make his escape be-
fore the bull returned
DIR. b. G.. Williams was called and
dressed Ar. Parcelfs wounds. He
sustained two broken ribs, two bad
scalp wounds. and his entire body was
more or less bruised.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12
CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR.

MOnteZuma Republican,; 1t is an
easy matter sometimes to prove a
candidate inconsistent. +. T. Mere
Hth, democratic nominee for COVER
nor, is particularly emphatic in his
denunciation of his opponent, who he
says has been vacillating We as
sumo that Mr.. Meredith has been a
loyal democrat for number of years,
and that he has supported the state
ticket TIE last enunciation of the
democratic party in Iowa on the IL
quor question, prior to 1916, was con-
tanned in the platform of 1910, which
said:
The democratic party is in
favor of as large a degree of in
diyidual liberty as is compati.
BILE with the rights of organized
society and therefore, with refer.
ence TO the use and sale of H.
quor, we are in favor of a strict
local option law with high license
and the minimum to be fixed by
the legislature under which the
municipality shall declare by a
vote of the people thereof, wheth-
er or not intoxicants shall be sold
therein" tE H
Mr.. Meredith no doubt voted the
party ticket in 1910 and If so he
cast ballot favorable to the licens.
ed saloon. His party has, in this
state, never favored prohibition prior
to this year, The Republican does
not wish TO question Mr.. Meredith's
present position. He says he is for
II. We take him at his word. Mr..
Harding says he is equally strong for
it and the Republican platform is un.
equivocaI on the subject.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12
TELLER ON HARDING.

Z. r. Zeller of Winterset, Iowa.
farmer, educator Methodist preacher
and former member Of the general
assembly, has addressed a letter to
Paul E. Stillman, editor and owner OF
the Jefferson Bee, concerning his edi-
torial article calling upon Lieut. Gov.
w. L. Harding to retire from the race
for governor.
The letter, copy Of which was sent
to Mr.. Harding follows:
"WinterSet, Ia, Sept. 20, l916-Paul
j.. ,Stillman: You doubtless have not
forgotten how we all united i'll tn
Thirty-fourth and made you speaker
without a contest; how eight or l.
of us broke the deadlock and helped
YOU elect your favorite to the United
States senate-all for the good OF the
<. O. p. Then again you have not for
gotten how your crowd bolted the par
ty nomination for president in 1917
and helped make a democratic presi'
dent. / with some fifty prohibitionists
met in the Slavery hotel in 1914, day
of the state convention, and pulled
every string to get prohibition plank
in the platform, but your crowd con-
trolled the resolutions committee an"
reported that the party is opposed to
any change in the mulct law, and on
this proposition elected Cummins and
Clark.
During the session of the legisla
tuIo which followed your crowd fel
over one another to do just what they
had pledged the people they would
not do All these things we have
borne for the good of the party.
Again, primary law which was
passed largely, il not exclusively. by
! progressives, and for which you take
most of the credit, has been in op-
Grafton for eight or ten years; by
means of this law most OF the state
and national offices have been filed
! by progressives.
! This year four good men contested
/ for the Office of governor, and Mr..
! Harding was nominated by the larg'
est plurality of any candidate since
the law went into effect. did nc
! vote for him at the primary, but 1t
occurs to me that if the primary law
or the republican party are OF any
further use to the country this bolt.
ing must stop. 1t is not for you or
me to say man properly nominated
should resign.
IF the Des Moines Register or the
Jefferson Bee are to dictate who is
to be the candidate for governor,
what further use Is there for a pr.
mary law or a republican party?
These propositions are true and rele-
want without considering the respec.
tive merits of Harding or Meredith.
In connection with that we consider
this: What is there in the character
and record OF Mr.. Harding that caus.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12
PROPERTY At AUCTION
Suburban Home Brings 5000. An
Acre At Public Sale.

wv. d. Taylor, of California, dis
posed of, at auction sale, Monday at
ternoon, his property of nine acres.
located on Eleventh street, north of
c avenue, for the sum of $4,000, or
$662.0O per acre
F. V. Mathis of Givin was the pur-
chaser. |. M. Reed handled the sale.
The bids opened in the neighborhood
of four thousand and several offers
were made, that of Mr.. Mathis bring.
ing the property. 1t is a splendid
piece of ground, well located, good i'm.
provements and well worth the money
paid
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12
POSSIBILITIES OF FAIR.

During the recent Southern Iowa
Fair and Exposition in Oskaloosa
about sixty head of the prize winning
hogs were sold to live stock buyers
and breeders from Nebraska, Illinois
and Missouri, and at the close OF the
tair they were shipped out to various
points in these states. This event
in. connection with the fair has OPP
ened up the idea of the grounds and
buildings being used at different
dates dufing the year for the sale
of horses and live stock. K. j. Hei,
sci of Fremont and other dealers Of
Mahaska county have the matter I'M
der consideration and in this manner
the grounds could be made source
of income to the association outside
of the regular fair season. Oska-
loosa already has quite an extended
name among horse buyers as a fine
horse and cattle market and spe-
Cial place of this character would
greatly enlarge the possibilities OF
sales among this class Of buyers. The
question is at least worthy of inVcsti-
CATION aud if headed by the right men
could be made a strong adjunct to
the business interests of OSkalOOsa
and Mahaska county.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12
GETTING READY FOR NOV. 7
New Registration Books Must Be
Made Up In Cities of More
Than $500 Population.

Des Moines, Oct. 10-In prepare
ton for the ELECTION Nov. Z, w. S.
Allen, secretary of state, is calling
the attention of the proper officials to
the laws governing the printing of the
ballos, registration, and the absent
voters law.
Travelling men and others who
will be away from home on election
day are planning on voting by mail.
The absent voters law will for the
first time in Iowa be given full test.
1t might have been used in the pri-
mary last June, but only few voters
took advantage Of it.
In cities of $500 population or ov.
er, new registration books must be
made up this year. The old books will
be thrown away. Voters in order to
cast a ballot at the, November election
must be through the form of register
ing again. ..- IA.
Registration boards will be in ses'
sion Oct. &c, 81, and 90, in every vot-
ing precinct from 8 a. m. to p. m.
for the purpose of registering voters.
The boards will be in session again
Saturday, Nov. 4.
Absent voters ballots can be secured
tby applying to the county auditor not
earlier than Oct "a and not later than
Nov. 4. Each absent voter must secure
a ballot from the auditor of the cOun.
ty in which he resides. The auditor
has a regulation form Of application
for the ballot, which is to be filled out
The law makes no provision for
registering by mail.
Az electors must register again in
lthcir voting precinct sometime before
| Gle otiOn. ii they expect TO vote IL per
| son by mail, the state officials say.
Pcrsons who vote by mail, will fill
out their ballots in the presence OF
some official authorized to administer
oaths, but in manner so that the
official shall not know how tht ballot
is marked. The ballot then shall be
lplaced in an envelop and sealed by
, the official.
The envelop may be mailed or de
nvered in person to the county auditor
and the auditor on election day shall
see that the ballot is placed in the
ballot box in the proper precinct.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12
HARDING s RECORD
ON PROHIBITION
Continued from Page ~

ment says, which was ignored by the
ministers, includes these;
prohibiting persons engaged in the
manufacturing, brewing, distilIing or
refining of intoxicating liquods from
engaging in the retail sale of the
same. Passed senate 80 to &. Passed
house Is to IS; absent or not voting,
IS. Harding voted for it.
Making the drinking of intoxicating
liquors on any passenger train or
street car a misdemeanOr Passed
senate 43 to 0. PASSED hose 93 to
0. Harding voted for it!j '"
Moon law, limiting saloons to one
for each 1000 population. Passed
senate 81 to II. Passed house II to
%. Harding voted for it.
Prohibiting immoral plays, exhibit
tions, entertainments, etc. Passed
senate 81 to O. Passed house 81 to 0.
Harding voted for it. ,,rr -
Relating to the distribution Of the
mulct tax. Passed house 80 to l.
Harding as chairman of municipal cor
porations committee recommended
passage and voted for it.
"Byers' removal law, (also called the
Cosson removal law. Passed. senate
"a to IS. Passed house 81 70 Il.
Harding voted for it.
Increasing penalty for first and
in
laws. Harding voted for it.
Making possession Of Federal H.
cense prima facie evidence of keeping
intoxicating liquors with intent to
sell. Harding voted for it,
Harding as Presiding officer.
Coming down to the 35th general
assembly, the first time Mr.. Harding
presided over the senate as lieutenant
governor, the statement by the laymen
declares that though several matters.
which they outline in detail, favorable
to the temperance cause were adopt
ed, they were entirely ignored by the
ministers in their Statement" The
laymen close this part of their report
by the declaration: 1--WE assert with
out hesitation, that the record does
not reveal word, syllable or para
graph that would warrant any nnpre-
JUDGED mind in assuming that Presi-
dent Harding was unfayorable to tenn
perance legislation" AS, to the last
general assembly, the 36th, the state
ment by the laymen says: Many
more measures affecting intoxicating
liquors were introduced in the 36th
general assembly than in any recent
legislature. Many were introduced
with the expectation that II others
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12

passed they would not be pressed for
passage Early in the session the
temperance sentiment became crystal
lized and pronounced. Few, at the
beginning of the session expected the
repeal of the mulct law. In fact
many just as good temperance men as
there are in the state doubted the ad-
disability of repeating the law pending
the adoption of a prohibitory amend
ment 1t is upon the record Of this
assembly that the ministers seek to
visit the sins of the members upon
the head of the presiding officer to the
second third year after its adjourn.
ment." The record is then reviewed
in detail by senate and house file
numbers and dates, with the showing
that tho prOhibitOry constitutional
amendment resolution was reported
by committee without recommends
ton, and that it passed 80 to 10; the
suffrage resolution, recommended for
passage, passed SO to II. The mulct
repeal bill, substitute for the orig
inal bill by Senator Clarkson, was
taken up and passed without reference
to the committee; six or more meas
ures acted upon unanimously for in
definite postponement, because they
were needless with the mulct law re-
pealed; the special agent law, giving
more force to enforcement of prohi.
bition, was passed after the judiciary
committee had recommended it for
indefinite postponement; the law
making bootlegging a, misdemeano1
recommended for passage by the com
mittee on suppression of intemper-
ance, and passed; bill requiring com.
mon carriers to keep a daily record
of shipments of intoxicating liquors,
passed; providing for seizure and con-
fiscation of vehicles used for transpor.
tation of liquor for Illegal purposes
passed senate, killed in house; max
ing it misdemeanor for other than
a common carrier to carry intoXicat-
ing liquors, passed; providing punish
ment for persistent violators of pro-
hibitory law, passed; relating to &C.
ton to abate liquor nuisances, passed.
In concluding its report the lay
mems committee says: From the
foregoing record 1t will be seen that
the only act of Mr.. Harding that the
most ardent temperance advocate
could justly criticise is his vote
against the constitutional prohibitory
amendmenty in 1909, when men like
Senator Van. Law and Francis doubt
ed the ACCESSIBILITY of submitting such
Gn amendment. To recapitulate, we
call attention to the facts revealed by
the foregoing record and the expert
ence of the state that the outstanding
legislation, which has driven the sa.
loon out of the state, was: first, the
Pc ssage of the mulct law, which regu-
lated the saloon while public senti.
ment was growing against it.; second.
the passage of the Moon law, which
reduced the number of saloons; third,
prohibiting drinking on trains and
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-10-12
"FArAL SPOTS"


New ways occurring constantly
to snuff the human breath,
II matters little where we go
we fiirt with old grim Death
For instance there's the Waterman
who was mangled on the bridge,
And the farmer who was snake-bit
On his sweet-potato ridge.
A Kansas man was stabbed between
the pig pen and the gate
Two mountain-climbers persisted
in fall-'Twas 1908.
A merchant shot q robber
In the entrance of his store,
And a hornet stung a housewife
Just behind the kitchen door.
A freight train hit hobo
in the middle of the track
A street car struck woman
On the switch and hurt her back;
An airship man was buried
when his air ship looped the loop
And the gent whose car turned turtle
left his family in the soup.
A mad dog hit baby
on the door step. Fatal spot -
And lightning struck a cowboy
in the cattle branding lot;
A huckster shot a prowler
in his melon patch we hear,
And circus rider broke three legs
all three within a year!
A COW got fresh one day and Kicked
a milkman on the calf.
The milkman kicked the bucket
when his wife horned in, to laugh
So viewing all these tragic saints
we feel constrained to state
IT matters little where we go
we take a chance with Fate.
NAL Rose, Oskaloosa, la.