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The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
TO BUILD BIG CULVERT
Sand UnlOaded and Work to Begin
Next Week. ~.

Olivet, May 5 (by r. W)-Gen.
Hanford, foreman for j. p. Riddle OF
Creighton, Neb., was in town on Sat.
urday. Mr. Riddle has two car loads OF
sand unloaded here to build a large
culvert on the road west of town on
the county line Mr.. Hanford informs
us it will be a weak before he gets
started with his culvert. He has a con,
tract for some work to finish at Mon.
roe first.
We are sorry to note of the accident
last week of our neighbours daughter,
Miss BlakeIey, having her limb brok-
en-.
Mrs. Alice Brown closed a very sue
cessful nine months term of school at
Burr Oak on Friday and moved her
household goods to her home in Oska-
loosa. She has not decided as to wheth
err she will teach this coming year,
but has an offer in Harvey.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. A. McRyndas visit
ed this week with relatives and friends
in Ottumwa and Eldon
w, F. Pendergast of ST. Louis was
in town this week talking Chamber
& Son.
II sometimes interests a person to
hear people talk on this preparedness,
and we want to ask them a question.
FIf pacific measures can prohibit wars,
why couldn't pacific measures prOhib
it crime, and discharge the sheriff,
|cCnstables, police force? One is as
reasonable as the other.
James Boeard of Newton was a
business caller at the Rock Island
station on Tuesday.
John Dulin, road master, and a crew
of men were in town this week re-
pairing a culvert west of town.
c. Voss spent the latter part OF the
week in Oskaloosa with his little son,
who is in the hospital there. after be-
ing operated upon for appendicitis. He
informs us his son is now doing well
after the operation.
Mrs, j. p Vanderbeck of Pella re-
turned home on Thursday after a visit
At the C. Voss home east of town.
Mesdames " Bond, Geo. McCombs,
spent Friday in Oskaloosa trading.
William A. Neal of Chicago was in
this locality this week looking after
business matters.
Mrs. Annie Steward of Detroit,
writes Mrs. Williams they are having
all kinds of cold weather there the
same as here.
Mrs. Hatfield of Oskaloosa was out
OH Tuesday planting flowers on the
graves Of her departed family, buried
here. She has three of them. This is
the first decorating we have noticed
this year at this place.
The writer notes with much interest
ceipt of an invitation from the Ottum-
wa Commercial Club to attend their
short course held there last week, but
was unable to attend, much to our re.
greet. ...
The writer notss with much interest
Uncle Sam is not going to take his
soldiers out of Mexico. This is right
and proper for we want our Uncle to
stand on his dignity in this case, for
they would no sooner get home than
hey would be called back.
G. Heemstra east of town was in
town on Monday and took two scrap
eTs out to work the roads. He is fore.
nan on that end.
S. H. RensCater was in town on
Monday. He informs us he planted on
his farm south of town on April %
seven acres Of corn. He is the first
man reported planting in Scott town.
slip at that date.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
EGdYXille Wants Trail

Eddyvlle Tribune: A delegation
from EddyVille was in Oskaloosa on
Wednesday in attendance at the
meeting of the officials of the Dan
iel Boone Trail and delegations from
nearby towns. Rev. Jones and
Mayor Lamis each gave talks and
told the association OF the many ad-
vantages gained by bringing the
road through Eddyville, instead of
taking the prairie road, the longer
route to Ottumwa. The boys receiy-
ed considerable encouragement and
it looks favorable that this national
highway that soon is to extend from
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico will
come through Eddyville, one of the
most picturesque places on the Des
Moines river and from which radi-
ates some of the best roads in Iowa.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
The Great White Nav

Pella Booster: Workmen have start,
ed ON the west end of the Great White
Wav to repaint the poles from Des
Moines to Oskaloosa will be marked.
After this is done the remainder of the
trail will be cared for in the same
manner from oskaloosa to Davenport.
There is no doubt but what the White
Way is one of the best marked trails
IN the West. and the people who live
along this route across the state take
a pride In keeping 1t up,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
Notice Of Levy Of Execution.

Notice of Levy Of Execution.
State of Iowa, Mahaska County, IS.
Floyd Lewis, Plaintift,
Against
Sam Keel and Mrs. Sam Keel Defend.
ants.
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT:
TO Sam Keel and Mrs. Sam Keel:
Sir:-TOu are hereby notified, that
by virtue Of an execution issued by
the Clerk Of the District Court of
Mahaska County, Iowa, in the
above entitled cause to me di,
rected, | have levied upon and exc.
uted as your property, the following
described real estate, in Mahaska
County, Iowa, tO-Wit
Lot 60 Block a. Houtz Addition
to OskalOosa, Iowa.
And | have advertised the same TO
be sold on the Bird day of June, A. d.
1916, at 200 O'Clock p. m., at the door
OF the Court House in Oskaloosa. Ma
haska County, Iowa.
WITNESS my, official signature,
this 9Th day of May, A. d. 1916.
d. h. HENLEY,
Sheriff of Mahaska County.
Observation-Disclosures.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11

A suffrage meeting will be held in
the town hall at Leighton Monday ev.
ening, May 7th. at 8 O'Clock. Mr.. Yer
Ploeg and Mrs. Dewitt will speak and
Oskaloosa talent will furnish the mus.
ic. All are invited to hear the discus.
sion of the live issue.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
Burglars Sentenced.

Finley M. Cruthers, Harley Briste.
and Fred Newman, three of the young
men who burglarized the home of
Mrs. Thomas MARI near Ainsworth.
on March 81, were sentenced to serve
terms not to exceed ten years In the
state penitentiary at Fort Madison.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
New elder al what Cheer church

Elder M. Mitchum of Murphsborough
Illinois, has come to What Cheer to
take Rev. Houghton's place at the
Christian church and he comes high
ly recommended. He is young man
OF much energy ami is well beloved
and fluent speaker.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
Few Want the Lob

Difficulty is being experienced in
filling out boards of judges and clerks
for the June Primary election. Those
previously appointed are declining to
serve and are Withdrawing, The
work is unpopular on account Of the
long hours
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
Favorable For Farm Work

Farm work last week went forward
on the warm days in great jumps.
Some report corn all planted. Small
grain is obtaining an excellent stand
and grass is coming along splendidly.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
Birth Date Arrival.

Charles Tohren who operates farm
near Givin received fine birthday
gift last week when fayorite mare
him with handsome
spring colt. 1000
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
TAXES PAID IN APRIL
Over Eight Thousand Dollars Dis
tributed into Many Channels.

The total tax collections for the
month of April at the office of the
county treasurer amount to $8,2G5.2O
OF this amount $56763 was special
paving, side walk and sewer tax. The
collections Of the month as disbursed
into the different funds are as fol
lows.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
What Cheer Memorial Day.

Hon. w. H. Hamilton of Sigourney
will deliver the Memorial Day address
at What Cheer in the Masonic Opera
House, May 80. 1t will be we'll worth
hearing. III ...
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE.

A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE.
IA NOTICE. is hereby given to all per-
sons interested, that on the 9Th day Of
May A. D., 1916, the undersigned was
appointed by the District Court of Ma
haska County, Iowa, administrator of
the estate of M. Jennie Gibbs, de-
ceased, late Of said Mahaska County,
Iowa. all persons indebted to said es-
tate will make payment to the UNDER
signed, and those having claims against
the same will present them legally au-
thenticated TO said court for allowance.
Dated this 5th day of May, 1916.
Guy g. Woodin, Administrators.
w. t. Martin, Clerk. .l
By Bess Martin, Deputy. 43w3
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
BIRTHS, DEATHS. MARRIAGES

COOK-Word came to Mrs. Ben
Cruzen, Monday, of the death of her
brother-in-law, George D. Cook, a res
ident of Bows. Wright county, for
mer we'll known resident of Oska-
lOoSa and Mahaska county. De-
ceased was married with Miss Emma
LambOrn, sister of Mrs. CruZen.
Mr.. CruZen, Dave .Jamison and Miss
Hazel McDonough went to Bows yes
terday to be in attendance at the fun
eral, to be held today (Tuesday).
HULE-Geo. w. Hull passed away
at the Mercy Hospital, May 7, 1916,
at 4:5O o'clock, a. m, age GO years, 2
months and IL days, of cancer, from
which he had been suffering for six
months. He was born on February
25, 1853. and has lived in Iowa since
1886. He leaves vile, four brothers
and two sisters. Funeral services
were held from the M. E. church in
New Sharon, Monday afternoon at
O'clock Interment was made in
North cemetery at New Sharon.
BOWERS--Mrs. Arthur James Bow.
ers died Thursday, April 81, 1916, at
st. GATHERINGS hospital in Omaha, Ne
braska. Mrs. Bowers was formerly an
Oskaloosa girl, Miss Irene Corrigan.
daughter OF Frank Corrisan of this
city. She was born December 1st, 1891
and spent most of her girlhood here,
and later attended school at Concep.
ton, Mo. She was united in marriage
to Arthur James Bowers of Omaha,
July 81, 1918 at st. Joseph. Mo-. and
has since that time made her home
in Omaha. Deceased is survived by her
husband and infant son. Her father,
Frank Corrigan, and sisters, Mrs. F.
G. Johnson of Omaha, Mrs E. C. John
son of North Yakima. Washington,
Miss Teresa Corrigan of Minneapolis,
Mimi, and Mrs. T. r. Anderson, and
one brother, Pat Corrigan of this city. |
Funeral services were held Saturday. !
April 20, 1916, from st. Johns church,
Omaha, Neb. |
The Oskaloosa herald., 1916-05-11
commencement al Hand.

commencement AT Rand.
College and High school people are
making plans for Commencement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

Being 8 woman, she was inclined to be a little unjust in her judgment. 'Those stupid police have bungled again." was her first wrathful thought as she took a loaded revolver from the drawer in which it always reposed. Covering Hong Kong Harry, who real ly gave her very little heed, she cried shrilly:
 Hands up, or shootw Those ominous words penetrated an atrophied brain, and he started back from Najla's bedside with every as- pect of alarm.
 Don't point that thing at me- I'm not doing any harm,' he whined.
 You're just going to stop here till my brother arrives" said the girl bravely. 'Najla, don't you think that you and I can handle the situation !: The police seem to muddle everything they touch. If you feel strong enough | to keep this villain covered with the gun and don't hesitate to fire at him should he show the slightest sign of molesting you or endeavoring to es cape I'll chase Errol in my car. know where he is, or, at any rate, car soon get to know. I shan't be long It means only ten minutes or a quar ter of an hour"
 Najla sat up bravely enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
8'CsTB

principle Is the same whether you are beneath twenty feet of water or 200"
 T concede nothing," said Ali Singh quietly. T must be thoroughly con- vinced, MT. Smithson, both personally and by the reports of two of my as- sistants who will come with me, but who need not make the descent on the first occasion, as fully recognize that you will not care to throw open your secrets to promiscuous inspection
 "Oh, want to be aboveboard in every respect" cried Smithson. Tt has always been well understood by the naval authorities that I must be free to exhibit my invention. Our navy department would keep me hanging about for the next twenty years if l didn't stir them into competition by arousing the fear that I may sell to some foreign power You quite under stand, Mir. Maznan, that, though shall show you my air lock in operation and absolutely prove it's efficiency and sim plicity, I'll not tell you how is done. That will only be revealed to the gov ernment which purchases the rights in my invention.'
 You have only to convince me, MT. Smithson,' conceded Ali Singh gra- ciously. After that negotiations will be carried on in businesslike way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
SYNOPSIS.

MT. Thomas 1T. Clark, United States consul at the Chinese treaty port of Kan koi worried over the activities of Ali singh, who has succeeded in banding to- sether the antagonistic races of the far east, writes to Errol Manning, confidential state department agent at Washington. All Slnghs niece, Mme. Najla, is being educated at Vassar college. A riot breaks out, which is quelled by Ali Singh, who seems to bear a charmed life. Ali Singh sails for the United States. Manning takes steps to prevent his entry. It is re- ported that Ali Singh is drowned. It later develops that this was a ruse, that Ali singh is in the United States. He threat ems the life of Banker Bronson's daughter, Margaret, who is chum of Mme. Najla. May Manning and Margaret Bronson are walking in the garden when they are rendered unconscious. Margaret Bronson is taken to a Chinese joint in New York where she is held as hostage until her father withdraws his support of Senator Johnstons anti-alien bill. Manning and young Bronson rescue the girl. Senator Johnston is found dead in the library. Najla saves her old friends from a similar fate. She explains that Senator John ston's death was brought about by a poisonous insect. Hong Kong Harry makes violent love to Najla. She is res cued from his clutches by Captain Kemp
 
 after Ali Singh, who again escapes. Sena- tor Stevens, an advocate of the anti-alien law, is assassinated. Margaret Bronson, Najla and May Manning are decoyed in an auto and kidnapped. Banker Bronson is assassinated. Najla Is put on the tor ture rack. She is saved by Hong Kong Harry, who shuts off the electric current. May Manning escapes, but Margaret and Najla are still held prisoners. Ali Singh and his minions steal an airship. Najla saves the life of Hong Kong Harry. From the airship Ali Singh wrathfully views military tournament in New York. May Manning and Margaret Bronson are again Kidnapped. Manning decides to give him- self up to All Sigh to save the girls. Hong Kong Harry, temporarily deserting Ali Singh, tells Captain Kemp how to outwit Ali Singh. Manning gives himself up. At signal the police rush in. There is a furious battle Manning and tho girls are rescued, but Ali Singh, who seems to bear 8 charmed life, again escapes. Although Najla is at the Manning home Ali Singh occasionally manifests his hypnotic pow CTS over her. Hong Kong Harry attacks May Manning. detective saves her and releases Hong Kong Harry after a beat ing. Two of Ali Singhs men who steal an aeroplane are killed when the machine which had been fixed to fall at 8 certain height, plunges to earth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

that particular apartment without be | ing observed and stopped. It should not be forgotten that the man was really a marvellous acrobat and could climb like a; monkey, so he determined at once to swarm up rain pipe, from which a precarious footing on a narrow cornice above the lower tier of windows might enable him to cling to the sill of the window from which May Manning had vanished.
 The feat was highly dangerous, but quite practicable, and the fact that 1t formed, oddly enough, the surest safe guard against detection, since the po- lice in charge of the villa were on the qui vive for human beings, but not for monkeys or birds, and it did seem a reasonable thing that Najla's bed room was safe from marauders of any species short of those two.
 The girls distress and fear may well be imagined when, as she was lying in bed, her attention was attracted by a slight noise, and she found Hong Kong Harry creeping across the car pet, having evidently entered by the window.
 The man was glaring at her, and, al- though his manner seemed to indicate that he intended no harm, she scream ed loudly. Her cries brought May Manning running from a neighboring room. She acted with force and res olution hardly to be expected from an inexperienced and somewhat frail girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
The Biggest Thrills Are Yet to Come.
Read This Serial Every Week.
ECopyright, 1916, by Louis Tracy.l

"Yes," she said confidently, "I'll do that"
 Then, bending a wrathful glance on Hong Kong Harry, she cried with a touch of her old time imperiousness: 'Sit down and don't move! At the slightest movement on your part I'll fire straight at your body. You must not even stand upr'
 Assured that her friend could carry out her part of the program, May ran out on self imposed mission. Driving small runabout with great skill, though with little regard for speed reg ulations, she hurried to the residence of Hartwell Smithson, the inventor.
 She was well acquainted with Smith son, so, finding the door of his house wide open, had no hesitation in cross ing a spacious hall and making straight for the room which the inventor used as an office.
 The door was guarded by heavy cur tains, meant to shut out noise and she
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

the real purport Of this talk and sensed it's great danger. Ali Singh was pump ing Smithson dry and thereby obtain ing facts which should certainly not be made known to any one. This was bad enough. An unforeseen develop ment which arose suddenly was far worse.
 "I1l tell you what I'll do with you,'' cried Smithson heatedly, after Ali Singh had politely but firmly negatived some theory voiced by the inventor, 'T'll take you to the navy yard and show you the principle actually in op- eration! Seeing is believing, isn't itT'
 "Not always" was the smooth an- swer. q shall be delighted to accom- pany you, MT. Smithson, but I warn you now that you will find me very awkward person to convince. You see, every navy owns it's own pet baby in the air lock, but no one has yet sue ceeded in perfecting a device which en- ables the crew of a submarine to leave the vessel and rise to the surface when from one cause or another she is dis abled and sinks"
 "Confound you,' stormed Smithson. q tell you I've done it! Can you swim?'
 "Oh, yes"
 "Very well, then. If you have pluck enough to obey my instructions you will bob up to the surface like cork within few yards of the quay along side which the vessel will be submerg- ed. Of course the depth will not be great, but you surely can see that the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
CHAPTER xxvIII.
The Air Lock

me AIT LOCK-
 IF ever girl had cause for alarm
 it was May Manning at that mo ment. No more astounding thing
 could have happened.
 She soon picked up the drift of the talk between the two men. Ali Singh, of course, had called on the inventor in an assumed name, and evidently fig ured as very important person, prob ably representing himself as the pur- chasing agent of some eastern govern ment. She gathered that he was pur- posely deprecating Mir. Smithson's sci entific ideas, and it soon became ap- parent that the other man was putty in his hands, since he defended the air lock principle with more vehemence than discretion, and went so fully into details of an intricate subject that the listening girl could not follow him at all.
 But her nimble intellect appreciated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03

A T this period in the history of Ali "A Singh's raid on the lives and 4 N liberties of American citizens
 the love mania of an Asiatic half caste assumed an importance out of all proportion to the place its prin- cipaI filled in the community.
 Hong Kong Harry was a person of no account, either in San Francisco, where he was born and bred, or in New York, where he had become a blunted tool in the hands of his mas ter. Moreover, by this time the half caste was trusted by none. He had betrayed All Singh time and time again, and the latter was well aware of the fact, while his allegiance to Najla's friends had given way repeat edly. Yet in considering the curious ly interwoven and recondite annals of Ali Singh's concluding escapades it Is impossible not to be struck by the fact that Hong Kong Harry maintained a foothold in both camps.
 I1G AClu a. plCCoI1OQ pClSby IL A6 tAoO' He always covered before Ali Singh, and on three occasions at least All Singh had doomed him to death, while the police had arrested him a dozen times, but he managed to wriggle out of his difficulties by making himself useful as a spy on each side. In the matter of the aeroplane, for instance Ali Singh was certain that his aide had betrayed him, yet he could not deny the validity of the mans plea that were it not for the fact of his Hong Kong Harry's, presence in Man ning's house at a critical moment Al Singh himself would have ascended 1T the new aeroplane and been straight way dashed to atoms.
 Similarly the creature had the au dacity to present himself once more Manning's residence in quest of Najla though he knew that Bronson would probably give him another unmercifu beating for the outrageous insult h' had offered to May Manning!
 In the very truth the half caste wa -. .i his right senses. At that tim he must have been literally living ol drugs.
 Najla as it happened, was ill in bed The strain of life had reached poin for this persecuted girl at which doc tor had ordered complete rest and ah sence of noise. The medico would no even allow her to read.
 When, therefore, Hong Kong Harr crept sheepishly into the porch an asked to be allowed to see Najla h was promptly grabbed by detectiv and hauled into the dining room, wher Manning and Bronson, with their re spective sisters, were seated at break fast.
 At the first glimpse of the half cast Bronson sprang up with obvious inten to take him on to the lawn and inhic the chastisement which the youn banker was itching to administer. Maj ming barely succeeded in grasping hi friend before Willard's fingers close on the miscreant's throat.
 ''You must control yourself," UhiS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
SIT DOWN AND DON'T MOVE" ORDERED NAJLA

actually had her hand out to draw them aside when she heard voice the mere sound of which almost froze her heart with terror And in very truth poor May had good reason to be scared, because the person then engaged in close conversation with. MT. Smithson was none other than Ali Singh!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-03
THIRTEENTH EPISODE The Submarine
cHAPTEP StxVIi.
he Half CastI 1eappear.

he Half CastN HeapPears. | T this period in the history of Ali A Singh's raid on the lives and N liberties of American citizens
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21

Hill and Middle streets, three blocks from the scene of the fire. The ring ing in of the second alarm called thousands to the scene and the police had great difficulty in keeping the crowds back.
 Papers and tinware in the rear storehouse were ruined by flames and smoke The total damage caused is estimated at about $4OO, according to Chief Daniel E. Johnson. Damage to the building is about $2OO and about $2oO more was done the stock in the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21

discussions and ready Darwin Spencer, Huxley and other world known char acters. MT. Brock, too, says that the boys need more oxygen and so~th1s next Sunday will conclude the Sunday afternoon discussions and on April 80 mem bers of the class and their friends will take a hike out into the country to view the wonders of nature and listen to the birds. If the hike, and t'dog roast meet with the approval of the young men, they will be repeat ed through the spring.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21

Interested in the principles of right Such topics as. Race Culture and Race Degeneracy," Survival of the Fittest'' Reproduction of Life, Life's Supreme Function,'' and many other topics that are of vital interest to all persons interested in living right, have been discussed.
 As the ba1my spring days draw near and the flowers and other pretty things begin to come out, it is also well for the young men to come out into the sunshine instead of listening to deep
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-21
Accompanies Every Rug

As an added inducement to the spec
 ialIy low price we will grant the un-