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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-04-20
MILLIONS I'M
HARRISON COUNTY.

Harrison county, which is do
ing some good work upon its
roads and bridges now With the
cooperation of the state high
way engineers. is one of those
counties which illustrate most
forceably the waste of temporary
work in the past. Harrison
county spent last year more
money in repairs and temporary
bridge work than its bridge fund
for that year amounted to. 1t
spent more for repairs to old
bridges, mostly OF wood, than all
the new bridges and repairs COM
bined cost in an average Iowa
county.
If the board of supervisors of
Harrison county would built per
manent bridges whenever tenn
porary bridges wear out the fund
would be overdrawn each year
and the oNerdraft could be funded
with twenty year bonds at a very
low rate of interest and during
the next ten years the county
could be completely bridged with
masonry. After that the bridge
tax could be applied upon The
bonds and by the time the last
bonds were paid Harrison county
ct II 70.
manent bridges and would not
need moro than ne-fourth its
present road tax.
Contrast this With he history
Of the past forty years dufing
which time the bridge fax has
been growing larger and the
bridges weaker in Harrison
county Today after forty years
of bridge tax it requires more for
repairs to wooden bridges than
the total bridge tax
Contrast This with The condition
in Cerro Gordo county. where the
supervisors began building per
manent bridges ten years ago
Today all of their bonds for the
first bridges have been paid and
within the next five years Cerrc
Gordo county will be completely
bridged with permanent masonry
out of current funds. No Won
der Cerro Gordo county has de-
cided to grade and gravel it's en-
tire county road system within
three years and issue bonds
Property subject to taxation in
Harrison county doubles in TWEEN
ty years approximately. Fixec
levies for roads and bridges bring
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-04-20
FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS
sos RHEUMATISM KIDNEYS AND BLADDER
WITH SWISS SYSTEM U. S.
WOULD NOT RUSH TO WAR.
Every Father and Mother with a
Son in the Reserves Would Feel
that Their Boy Might Fall
0ompers and Furuseth See the
End of Need of National Pre-
paredness.
(From the Spokane Spokesman
Review

NTIoII IuC 'opohdHc 'opVhCSIlloii-
Review
Significant was the action of
the American Federation of La
Dor in annual convention at San
Francisco in voting down a reso-
luton to condemn all military in
fluences in the public schools.
offered two years ago, before
the start Of the European war. a
resolution of that tenor probably
would have gone through with lit
tie opposition, whether it came
before the Federation of Labor,
farmers convention or a gath
ering of bankers and business
men.
The hope then mounted high
amounting to conviction in
mary minds-that a new thought
and a broadencd consciousness
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-04-20

decide by vote as they would if
some school board desired to
build a new school house. Grant
this power of local option and
every request of the road boost
ers of Iowa has been met. The
man who says that the road boost
ers want to pave all the roads of
the state and confiscate the farms
is maliciously disappointing
his neighhors and the big men OF
Iowa. or he is too ignorant of
ruAl;c affairs to express an intel
ligent opinion. The road boost
ers have printed their platform
where everybody can read it. 1t
expresses the belief that hard
roads are possible by bonding
without increased taxation and it
calls for submitting the bond plan
to vote of the people in the
townships in special districts and
in the counties. If any roads are
paved it will be when a majority
at home so decides and then it
will be their own business. Until
majority so decides there will
be no paving and when majority
of a mans own neighbors DELHI
erately take upon themselves a
tax burden the average citizen can
AID MILLIONS
afford to pay his share. If the
people are not to be trusted with
the right to build roads With
bonds why not take away from
them the right to build school
houses that way?
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-04-20

Ladies skirts Of the new
est fashions and fabrics,
such as tafeta, poplin, CAB
berdine, serges, made of
newest fabrics taken from
the modes worn on Fifth
Avenue, New York.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
BRYAN ENTERS PROTEST.
Objects 10 Paying His Own Expenses
to Give Testimony in Suit
IS for Libel. IS

New York, Jan. 5. = William Jen-
nings Bryan vigorously protested yes
terday against the law Of New York
State. because he was required to
come here at his own expense and
give testimony in suit for libel.
81 am here under duress,' declared
Mr.. Bryan, because it is the only
way l can avoid contempt proceed
ings."
Mr.. Bryan was examined in an ac-
ton brought against Greek news
paper. He was questioned concern
ing the sale by the United States to
Greece of the old battleships Idaho
and Mississippi, but said he knew no
thing of the details. He denied that
he gave any secrets of gunfre control
to the Greek government, or that
while Secretary of State he had seen
any letters written to influence him
against Agamemnon Schliemann,
former Greek minister to the United
States. He also said he had not
heard criticisms alleged to have been
made of him by Schliemann.
According to Mr.. Bryan. the sale
of the battleships was a matter which
rested entirely with the Navy Depart
ment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
WANT A PIECE OF MEXICO
arizona and California Would Like
Strip to Gulf Of California

Phoenix. .Ariz.. Jan. "a move
ment launched by various commercial
organizations of the State to SECURE
the annexation, virtually by pGr-
chase. of sufficient land from MeSico
to extend the boundary of ARIZONA
and California to the Gulf. OF Cali
fornia, has been furthered by Gov.
ernor George w. p Hunt, who an
nounced today that he had written
to Governor Johnson, Of California
asking cooperation.
~~rA An offer"on the part of the United
States to cancel all indemnity claims
for loss of life and damage to pro-
perty during the Mexican revolution.
in return for this land, which would
straighten the southern boundary line
of Arizona and give California strip
of Lower California, is the plan of
leaders of the movement. 1t has been
pointed out by those interested in the
plan that such an annexation OF ter
ritory would give Arizona port on
the Gulf of California and also bring
under American control the mouth of
the Colorado River and the entire
Imperial Valley irrigation system,
with many thousands of acres Of ag-
ricultura! land in the Mexican ter
ritory of Lower California.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
JEW RELIEF PASSES MILLION
Subscriptions for War Victims Ex.
pect to Exceed $2.Q00,000

New York, Jan. 5-The American
Jewish Relief Committee announced
yesterday that its fund for the re-
lief of Jewish war sufferers in Eu-
rope had passed the million mark.
The actual figures given out were ST.
7O0,S93.67.
There is not the slightest doubt now,
it is said, that the fund. will go well
beyond the two-million mark before
the end Of January. 1t is believed that
at least S500,000 will be raised at
the big mass-meeting to be held in
Chicago.
DR.. J. L. Magness, whose appeal
was largely responsible for the sue
cess of the Carnegie Hall meeting,
will address the Chicago meeting.
He also made arrangements tonight
to address a mass-meeting in Kan
sas City.
The largest contribution received
Yesterday was one of $4,000 from the
Pittsburgh committee. More than $780,
900 has been received to date from
that city. A meeting is also being
planned there which will be address
sed by DR.. Magness.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
KAISER'S ILLNESS A MYSTERY.
Capital Specialists Say No Accurate
Information About Diagnosis
Has Leaked Out.

Washington, Jan. 5.-The nature OF
Emperor Williams illness is as much
a mystery to throat specialists as tc
the layman. Medical journals have
not discussed the subject. and Wash
ington specialists assert that no ac-
curate information has sifted out
about the exact diagnosis of the kais-
cr's complaint.
"The nearst approach to definite
ness I have seen and | read German
medical journals rather closely" said
DR.. Walter A. Wells, "was that the
Emperor is suffering from an abscess
of the cellular tissues.
"That is vague, and the seriousness
of his malady depends upon the cause
of the abscess. assuming that that
much of the diagnosis is correct. The
abscess might come from cancer of
the larynx, and if so the illness of the
Emperor would be dangerous. On
the other hand it might come from
phlegmonous inflammation, and, in
that case, the malady would be 2
saource of great discomfort, but not
necessarily critical"
DR.. I Germann, German throat
specialist, said thai all that has been
published about the Emperor's i'll
ness is mere speculation.
"My personal belief" he said, SIS
that the ailment is not cancer. or
anything nearly so dangerous.
II base that opinion On the fact
that the Emperor suffered previously
from throat trouble of minor ma
ture; once when he was treated by
Prof. Moritz Schmidt, of Frankfort.
one of the foremost physicians in Ger
many. and second time when he was
under treatment by Prof. Spiess, OF
Frankfort, successor to DR.. Schmidt.
"All speculation about the kaiser's
illness is foolish" said DR.. Joseph H..
Bryan, "Only those who attend him
know what the nature OF it is, and OF
course they carefully guard the Sc
cret," he declared.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
BLOCKADE OF GERMANY
Ninety Two Per Cent of Exports to
America Stopped

London. Jan. 5-A Parliamentary
memorandum was issued last night
dealing with the "'interception Of sea-
borne commerce of Germany Re
ferring to German exports to Amer
ica, the report says:
"rhe latest returns available name
" those of September, show that over
% pcr cent Of the German exports
20 America have been stopped" The
report also states that effective meas
Ires have been taken to stop eX-
ports on a small scale from Ger
many and Austria TO America by
parcel post
Summing up the results of the
blockade. the memorandum says:
German exports to oversea coun-
tries have been almost entirely stop
ped. The exceptions made are in
cases where refusal to allow the ex-
ports of goods would hurt the neutral
concerned without inficting injury on
Germany.
"Al shipments to neutrals ada
cent to Germany have been carefully
scrutinized with view to the detec--
ton of a concealed enemy destination.
Wherever there is reasonable ground
for suspectng the destination of
the goods they are placed in prize
courts. Doubtful consignments are
detained pending satisfactory guaran-
tees" 10 49,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
Make Desperate Assaults on
Austrian Positions in
Galicia
FIGHT
Berlin Dispatch Says Efforts of Slavs
to Break Through Teuton Lines
Were Unsuccessful.

Berlin. Jan. 5.-Desperate attempts
bv the Russians to break through the
Austrian lines in Galicia are contlnu-
ing. but, according to an Official
statement by the Austro- Hungarian
War Office, they have been nowhere
successful. and the Russians are de-
clared to have suffered very heavy
losses.
Capture by the Austrians of
trench north of Dole, in the ToImno
section of the Italian front, is am
nounced The statement says:
"Thc battle in East Galicia is con-
tinuing. The Russians continued
unsuccessfully their attempts to break
through our lines near ToproutZ.
Bitter hand-to- hand fighting took
place in destroyed trenches near Heg-
ehaus. east of Rarinczle, where the
Thirteenth Infantry Regiment again
distinguished itself.
"Russian attacks northeast OF OK
ma and against the bridgehead at US
cZiebko and northeast Of BucZacZ like
wise failed The Russian losses were
appalIing. In district 10 klio-
metres broad the bodies Of 2,3oO Rus-
slams were counted. The number OF
prisoners made northeast OF BuczacZ
reached 500.
"Gen. -Ermom's troops on
the Upper Ikwa shot down a Russian
aeroplane and made its occupants,
two officers, prisoners.
son the Italian front Austro-Hun-
oarian aircraft shellcd the enemy'S
sheds in Ala.
"An !Austro-Hungarian troop cap
t,,red trench north of Dole. Three
Italian countcr-at attacks were repuis-
ed :, :. .:
London, Jan. "a Reuter- dispatch
from Petrograd says that the Teuton-
ic forces are reported to have evacua-
ed Czernowitz (Bukowina);, 1t adds
that large number Of prisoners have
been taken, including many Germans
The Russian official communications
does not confirm the evacuation OF
CZernowitZ. but says:
"Northwest Of Czcrnowitz We have
occupicd i line Of trenches and re-
pulsed strong enemy counter-at-
tacks."
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
ARMENIAN HORRORS
Turks Are Said to Have Been Urged
By Germans

London, Jan. 5-The Times pub
fishes the following from a woman mis-.
sionary of the American board in Tur-
kew. whose name is withheld:
"At Aleppo were the remnants OF
5000 Armenian exiles who had started
from Kharput. When they began the
journey they were of all ages and
both sexes, including many refined
Young women graduates from the Con-
stantinople and Euphrates colleges.
Their treatment at the hands of the
eendarmes and their fate as the oc-
cupants of harems were almost un-
thinkable.
"When the refugees came to cross
the river the able-bodied men were
drowned. Father on the survivors,
old men. women and children, were
stripped naked. They waded through
the streams, slept on chilly nights and
bore the heat Of the sun. They were
brought into Aleppo in railway car
riages herded like animals and jeer-
ed at by the populace.
"Of the 5000 that started, only 215
were left. On the way, one party of
30 women came to a river at dusk.
The gendarmes turned back, taking
all the animals. baggage, clothing
and food and leaving he naked wo-
men alone for the night.
an the Marash Orphanage the oc-
cupants are young women made
orphans by former massaeres. Many
of them are cultured girls. The con-
dition of those not yet dead is worse
than death.
an the German Orphanage lat
Marash, there were more than 1000
girls. An order for their expatriation
came, and to shield a few Of the older
girls the head mistress kept them
under her own protection. Soon the
German consul at Aleppo wired
"'You have hidden some girls. You
have no business to do such thing.
Give them up
"The girls who had to he given up
were taken away to suffer the in
evitable at the hands of the Turks. ;"
The woman missionary alleges she
appealed to. Germans, but they were
deaf to her entreaties, and seemed to
be consenting to the horrors.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
IN DINING SALOON

Alexandria, Jan. 5.-Scores of pass
engers aboard the liner Persia, who
were at luncheon when the ship was
torpedoed. were trapped and drowned
in the dining saloon when the Per-
sia turned turtle, survivors said to-
day. They had remained seated af-
ter the explosion.
Mothers had no time to find their
children. Only two Of the 30 chill
dren aboard the vessel were rescued
The Persia carried between 10000
and 10000 bags of mail for Egypt
and India.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
Portugal Would Serve Allies.

Paris, Jan. 5.-A Havas dispatch
from Lisbon says: "The President Of
the republic. in receiving members
of the parliament, manifested desire
that the sacred union of all parties be
maintained during the war, in Or
der that the allies might have rea-
son to be satisfied with the services
rendered by the Portuguese nation"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
FIERcEsT FIGHTER
Fifty-P Founder Claws and Bites Away
After Two Legs Break.

/ Towanda, Pa. Jan. 5. = Joseph
Camp, proprietor of a hotel Powell,
near here, killed monster wildcat
after a terrific battle, during which
the beast badly whipped and nearly
killed Camps dog. With two brok-
en- legs. the cat continued to fight, and
held man and dog at bay until bull
let pierced its heart.
The wildcat weighed nearly so
pounds and was the largest one ever
killed in this county.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
sNOwED-IN TOWN STARVING
Colorado Hamlet Buried So Deep II
Can't Be Reached.

Grand Junction, Col, Jan. 5.-Gate-
way. a mining town with popula-
ton of 100, 55 miles southwest Of
here last night was snow-bound, cut
off from all outside communication
and almost without food and coal sup
plies. Snow is piled from two to
eight feet deep. Attempts of stock
men to break a trail to care for live
stock have failed. More snow was
predicted for tonight.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
MISTRESS OF WHITE HOUSE
New First Lady Of Land, Back From
Honeymoon, Takes Over Her
Domain.

Washington, Jan. 5.-Mrs. Wood
row Wilson, the new first lady of the
land, took her place as mistress OF
the White House for the first time
yesterday. Within less than an hour
after she and the President reached
Washington, yesterday, on their
return from their honeymoon, Mrs.
Wilson was directing household af-
fairs at the White House.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
BOY KILLED By AUTOMOBILE
Jumped From Wagon Directly i'll
Path Of MOtOrcar.

Philadelphia, Jan. 5.-The efforts
of Mrs. Shute to save the life Of
wear old Edward Aubrey, when ne
fell against the mud guard of the au-
tomobile of her husband, DR.. Fur
man R. Shute, at Fifteenth street and
Lehigh avenue yesterday afternoon,
were unavailing, the boy dying just
as he was admitted to the Samaritan
Hospital.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
OYSTER SCHOONER HERE

Schooner D. P. Milford, has just
arrived at McKenney's oyster house
with a fine load of saltwater oysters,
for the market. Also several hund-
red bushels of fine select oysters
which we will sell for S1.OO per gal.
running measure, and $1.20 solid meas
ure. delivered to anyparty of the city,
Bell Phone 7S0. House at II Strand.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual stockholders meeting
of the Alexandria Building and Loan
Association will be held in the Offices
of the company III the Alexandria
National Bank Building, Tuesday,
January 11th at 7:30 o'clock.
3-td. c. P. WALLER, jr. Sety.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
DEATH NOTICE

DIED Tuesday, January 4th, at l
n. m. EMMA r. JENKINS, age "a.
Funeral Thursday, January 9Th at
o:30 from, st. Mary's Catholic Church
Friends and relatives invited.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
Suggests Change in State
Law to Meet Provision
of Platform
ELECT THE DELEGATES
Suggested, However, That Plan Would
Take From Conventions Last Ele.
ment of Interest

Richmond, Jan. 5-AmendmeAV o.
the State primary law in order tc
permit the holding of a sepcial prl'
mary some time this spring for the
election of delegates to the Democra'
cratic National Convention is recon-
mended in a statement issued yester-
day by Lieutenant-Governor j. Tay-
lor Ellyson, chairman Of the State
Democratic Committee.
"The last Democratic National Con-
vention," said Mr.. Ellyson, adopted as
a part of it's platform Il resolution
directing that the national committee
incorporate in the call for the next
nomination convention requirement
that all expressions of preference for
presidential candidates shall be given
and the selection of delegates and
alternatcs made, through primary
election, conducted by the party or
ganization in each State where such
expressions and election are not pro-
vided for by State law. National COM
whose election is not pro-
vided for by law, it is required, shall
be chosen in each State at such prl-
mary elections.
81 am of the opinion, therefore, that
we should comply with the provisions
Of the platform as above enumerated
and make proper arrangement for the
selection of delegates by primary cleo
lion, and for the choice of Il member
Of the national committee by such
amendments to our primary law as
nay be found to be necessary. This, |
I'm sure, the Legislature will be ready
10 do"
The section of the primary act
which will have to be amended, accord
ng to Mr.. Ellyson's recommendation,
'eads:
primary for the nomination of cam
lidates coming within the terms Of
his act shall be held as follows: (a)
4 primary for the nomination of can
lidates to be voted for at the general
election shall be held on the first Tues
lay in August of each year: (b) A
primary for the nomination Of candi-
dates for officers to be voted for or
the second Tuesday in June in the
cities of the State shall be held on the
first Tuesday in April next preceding
such election -. 80 es...<--,
at will be comparatively simple
matter to amend the law so as to make
possible a full compliance with the
party requirements" said Mr.. Ely
son. "This could be done by authoriz-
ing the holding of a special primary
for the sole purpose of electing dele
gates to the national convention and
a national committeeman, or. moving;
up the date of the August primary,
making it early enough to allow the
selection of the delegates in time for
the national convention which will be
held at st. Louis on June a." :.
Delegates to the national copven-
ton and the State member of the
national committee, have in the past
been chosen by State conventions held
some time before the national meet
ings.
The State of Virginia is entitled to
twenty-four delegates to the national
convention-two from each of the ten
congressional districts and four dele
gates at large. There are also chosen
twenty-four alternates.
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05

merchant ships even though they are
armed for defense only. Secretary
Lansing is of the opinion that much
depends upon what. use,, if any was
made of the iPersia's gun. 4
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05

The Columbia Steam Fire Engine
Company will meet tonight at 7:30
o'clock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05

Samaritan Rebecca Lodge, will hold
their regular meeting tomorrow at
2:30 o'clock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05

At a meeting of the board of sup
ervisors of Fairfax county Frank Bal
lenper was elected chairman.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05
LOCAL BREYlI'TIES

The recently elected officers OF
Alva Aerie, No. S7l, Fraternal Order
Of Eagles, will be installed toright
by the officers Of Washington Ae.a.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05

Oysters in all styles at the Ram
mel Cate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05

William Goings, we'll known colc.-
ed man died this morning at
his home, $50 south Columbus street
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-01-05

Oysters in All Styles At The fam-
mel Cafe.