Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-12-26
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Uncle Falstaf Pays a Visit to the
County Jail-Four Soldiers
are Among the In
mates.
INVITATION 70 IOWA PEOPLE
Mr.. satter is Going to Write a Story
Of Conditions in Texas and
Across the Border.
INVITATION TO IOWA. PEOPLE

Brownsville, Texas, Dec. IA
Couldn't wait a minute longer with
out telling about the silent man
ual'' that the boys of the Second Iowa
began rehearsing yesterday. The
band plays a slow march and the
men of the company go through a
series Orwell, it looks like charades
but their unison and harmony are
so nearly perfect that it makes one
feel like he had not spent a part of
his life in vain, when he is allowed
to stand on the side lines and gaze
upon a sight that is all inspiring.
Every move is in almost perfect
unison; the right shoulder, present.
order, inspect arms, ETC., is so good
and so perfectly rendered that we
would advise Iowa people who can
break away from business, to come
down and see the work done.
If WI could give a pencil picture
So accurate that Freeman-Tribune
readers could see the drill as it is,
We would use oceans Of space in de-
scribing it; but as it is necessary to
be seen to be appreciated, we are not
going to make. the attempt.
Chick DeFrance, Alvin and Earl
Fort. Claire Draper, O. A. Satter and
your Uncle E!alstaff went down town
this afternoon and went through the
court house and county Jail. The
court house was erected in 1912 and
cost $26O,OO0 to complete and fur
nish.. It is one of the most artistic
court houses in the United States. 1t
is a three story affair with full base
ment and is one of four buildings in
the city that has modern heat appli-
ances installed. The outside walls
are constructed of concrete and
brick. Every floor in the building is
Of tile. A huge concrete balcony in
the court room gives oom for hum
dreds of spectators and a chance to
listen to some very interesting cases.
Besides the district court room are
two justice court rooms. The wains-
coting and stairways are made of
marble, and the decorations (which
are numerous but neat) are Of plas-.
ter of paris. The dome is made of
beautifully colored glass and the cir
cular balusters allows mi to stand
on the ground floor and view the
beauties of the dome, arranged SIM
liar to the capitol building at Des
Moines. 1t is absolutely fire proof,
the only things inflamable being the
castings and the furniture. Besides
two sets OF, marble stairways, a spir-
al stair leads to the roof of the build
ing and the .sextette aforementioned
wound our way to the roof and sew
eral pictures were taken. We sort
OF went down in pairs-as~if we're
and when we had congregated at
one of the entrances we. were short
a man. Claire Draper was the last
man through the man hole at the
top, and when he came through he
locked the door-from the inside of
course, we waited-waited some
more, then began searching for Earl
Fort, who was the one absent, and
when we could locate him nowhere
else, we figured that he must be lock-
ed on the roof. He was. When a
couple of the boys got to the top of
the building to liberate him, he was
racing around the roof, trying to fig
ure out how in Sam Hill he was go
ing to square himself for not being
able to be present when roll call
sounded at retreat.
From the court house we mean
dered over to the county Jail. The
Jail in Brownsville is one place we
are going to do our best to keep out
of--as a prisoner. 1t lacked about
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