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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-12-14
News Snapshots
Of the Week

Mrs. Al Cleaver is reported
quite sick at her home at Mobiles
Lake.
Jeff Pounds, an old time resi-
dent of this city, died at his home
on Fifth street Saturday evening
Following a long and painful ILL
mess. The funeral services We're
held from the Christian church
this afternoon and the body was
laid to rest i'm Rose Hill cemetery.
The cold snap will serve to re-
mind people that Christmas is
only two weeks away and that
their Christmas shopping must
be done in a hurry.
The warm weather of the past
few weeks has delayed Christmas
shopping to an alarming extent
so that the stores will be crowded
from now on. Better get in line
early if you want to be waited on
before all the goods are picked
over.
j. NJ. Hefley of Omaha has ac-
cepted a position as linotype OPP
orator at the Times and will soon
fmove his, family hersa.
The services which have been
held the past weeks at the Chris
titan church closed last evening
after a very successful session
A wonderful crowd Of people were
in attendance last evening and
seemed TO thoroughly enjoy the
meeting.
Maurice O'Connor of Fort
Dodge spent the weekend in the
Valley among relatives.
The rural carriers and their
wives of Logan, A. M. Keeney and
wife, Hans Hansen and wife of
this city, were entertained at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. T.. Hall
Saturday evening. After pleas
ant evening, luncheon was served
by the hostess, assisted by Mrs.
La May.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-12-14

Mrs. John Walker of Logan
was the guest yesterday of Mr..
land Mrs. Milford Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. C. Cramer ar
rived today from Davidson, Can
ada, for a visit with the William
Powell family in the country.
Miss Margaret Powell of Oma-
ha came up this morning for a
brief visit with home folks.
Raymond Cox of Omaha spent
the week end with home folks.
DR.. A. H. Konighmacher spent
j Sunday in the Bluffs with rel.
atives.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Warehouse
Iof Pisgah were in the city today
ION business.
DIR. Lusk reports the birth of q
mine pound son to. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Nelson.
Mrs. r.. Steadman returned to
lhcr home in Ccnterville, s. D.,
this morning after enjoying q
brief visit here with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. G. U. Johnson.
| Mrs. Peter Berg returned to
|Orson this morning after spend
ing a few days in the Valley with
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kreiler
and daughter of Chadron spent
the weekend in the city with
Mr.. and Mrs. George Arpp.
George Arpp, who has been
confined to his home by illness
for some time, is much better and
Twill soon be able to be out again.
Mr.: and Mrs. d. C. Reel were
Omaha visitors today. They ex-
pect to leave tor New Mexico
about the goth of this month for
an extended visit.
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FrankIIn-Johnson.

A quiet wedding occurred al
the country home of Mr.. and Mrs
VIM. Orr at one O'Clock Monday
afternoon, Dec. A, when Mrs
Orr's mother, Mrs. Mary Wooster
Johnson, was united in marriage
to Mr.. H. J. Franklin of Ocean
side, Cal. Rev. Crcwdson of the
Christian church officiated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin left or
the afternoon train for the west,
and will be at home to then
friends at Oceanside, Cal. after
the first of January.
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EImdale Items.

II. L. Davis has seven hens and
one rooster and he gets four to
five eggs a day. | know quite a
number who have 100 and don't
get that number. They will have
to get instruction from Mr.. Davis.
jim Pounds and wife will make
| it their home for the present at
Charlie Barlow's place. They
saved nothing out of the house.
Old Mr.. Blunt is improving SO
he is able to be around the house
I. Bonham has concluded to
keep up with the state so he has
an auto. Now we will all take a
ride.
II seems as though lots and lots
of farmers are satisfied with the
price of corn, for Crawford, Price,
Piercy and LaMay have shelled
their corn.
l don't know what the farmers
would do if there had been no
bounty on gophers. One farmer
told me the boys had caught over
100 from his alfalfa field and he
caught sixty. They do like al
falfa.
Mrs. S. G. Friend, who has
been quite sick, is some better
now. Her mother, Mrs. G. Jones,
has been taking care of her.
Mr.. G. Golden and wife and G
Owens and wife were visiting Mr..
and Mrs. G. Jones the first of the
week.
am thinking that in the spring
when we plant potatoes one must
take greater pains to raise them
than ever before. There is scab,
dry rot and bugs to kill them that
didn't used to be, but it is differ
ent now and unless we do differ
ent we won't get no potatoes or
not enough to pay.
Mr.. Kelly has a new mill neal
the Perkins place.
Bert Perkins says he won't run
his greenhouse this winter. Goa
is too high.
II t
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MONDAY

Paul Bostwick of Woodbine
was in the Valley today renewing
calls upon Drs. Gamble.
sS Ellis christensen of Boomer
has recently installed a Delco
electric light plant in his home
]; and barns.
The Misses Louise Smith and
Bess Green returned to their
homes in York, Neb., this after
noon, after week $ visit here
with the g. +. Smith family.
a large crowd attended the
dance at the K. C. hall Saturday
evening. Miss Martha Anderson
was the most popular young lady
present and received a manicure
set. Buster Brown was cIos-
EN- as the most popular young
man and was given fountain
I pen. Several couples from Logan
were in attendance.
Roy Vincent and daughter of
M00rhead and James Vincent of
Council Bluffs were here few
hours today on business.
Mrs. M. D. Bramon was the
9uest today of her daughter,
rs Vim. Mills, in Omaha.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. J. Deur and
fiss Irene Cody drove to Mon
amin yesterday to visit friends.
Charles Mccullough left this
n0rning on business trip to
Grange City.
hoy Carpenter received a box
Of beautiful orange blossoms this
" ornlng which had been waxed,
from his sister, Miss Laura, who
4 epending the winter in Cali
osnia.
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MeIrose.

Mrs. David Garner is slowly
improving, but is not out of dan
ger yet.
Mr.. Columbis Croft and wife
and Elmor Coffman were calling
on Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Mcdonald
Friday evening.
Mrs. John Garner is quite
sick.
A Christmas program is being
arranged for the entertainment at
the schoolhouse Christmas eve.
Mr.. and Mrs. b. w. Fallon and
daughter Ada were calling on the
Phillips family Friday afternoon.
Morris Edwards and family
helped Mr.. Phillips pack up their
belongings Thursday, preparing
for their southern trip.
Mr.. Potter of Missouri Valley
was i'm Melrose Tuesday getting
the farmers to contract their corn
at eighty cents per bushel.
Mrs i. M. O'Connor and
daughter had their buggy wrecked
Wednesday by an auto hog run
ming into it. The occupants were
pretty badly frightened but not
seriously hurt. The hog did not
stop. but fastened on, caring
nothing for what he had done.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Phillips and
children of Melrose left Saturday
from Missouri Valley by way Of
Council Bluffs, Kansas City,
through Arkansas, down TO Eros,
La. where they expect to make
their future home. All wish them
success here.
Jackson Motz shelled corn
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Spires, Mr..
and Mrs. j. S. Mcdonald ate oy-
sters with the Ladies Aid society
of the l.. d. s. church, Missouri
Valley. Saturday evening.
Mr.. d. H. Reedy and wife came
home Saturday from Council
Bluffs, where they had gone to
visit their children.
Someone had almost an auto
wreck on the Dennis Fitzgibbons
farm Sunday. The driver SEEM
ingly lost control OF the car and
it went head end down into ths
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-12-14
About the Factory.

There was misunderstanding
IN regard to the recent notice ap-
nearing in the Times about the
shirt and overall factory which
may locate here. In the first
place, when Mr.. Ranger first ap-
preached these people. they
turned him down flat for the rea-
son they did not think enough
girls and women could be Sc
cured to operate the factory in
Missouri Valley. Mr.. Fanger was
confident this was untrue and
suggested that he would make a
canvass of theetow1r and neigh
borhood to see how many girls
would apply for work. He has
opened a registration book at his
store and as soon as all the
names possible to secure have
come in, the matter will be taken
up further with the factory peo-
pie.
There are other towns about
our size where similar factories
have located and there is no rea-
son why we should not have one.
Our railroad facilities are such
that the factory wants to come
here, providing sufficient help
can be obtained. If you want
nice work at good wages, regis
ter with Mr.. Fanger at once. They
want at least 200 girls and wom-
en- registered before they will
consider the proposition.
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she is leaving here, and hope She
will find In her new home just as
many loyal ones as she is leav-
ing.
During the afternoon the hosts
ess served splendid refreshments.
1t was a day long TO be remem-
bered by all the ladies present,
which numbered about fifty.
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TUESDAY,

DR.. 5. +. DeNorc of Omaha WAS
in the city today calling on old
friends.
Mrs. w. E. Deur and sons left
this morning for their home in
Lake View, after enjoying a len
days visit here with the G.. j.
Deur family and other relatives.
c. H. Deur left this morning for
a three days stay in Des MONIES
to attend the State Horticultural
meeting.
#. NJ. Hoycr was Blair bust
ness caller today.
Mrs. Carrie Porter of Mon
DAMN was shopping today in the
Valley.
w. Il. Rodcn spent The day in
Orson with relatives.
Grandma Baldwin is spending
a few days With relatives and
friends in Mondamin.
Miss Gladys Collier of Omaha
was the weekend guest OF the
Reed Hatcher home.
Mrs. Frank Purcell spent the
day in Omaha visiting and shop
ping.
r Ward Ncr'avfcn Translated
business today in WALL Lake.
Miss Clara Servoss returned to
her home i'm Omaha after a few
days visit with Mrs. M. p. lIalcS.
DR.. Hugh Tamisiea reports the
birth OF 91a-pound girl to Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Carlisle yester-
day.
N. G. Nelson purchased an Ed
ison diamond disc monograph of
Doty & Peterson yesterday.
Mrs. Mack BeclSley suffered a
slight stroke of paralysis at her
home in Omaha Sunday. While
she is still confined to her bed,
the physicians pronounce her
much improved.
Martin Postle. aged 5 years,
who was i'm the Dick SHELTON auto
accident two weeks ago, when the
car ran into the ditch, throwing
all OF the occupants out, was
brought to DIR. Heise this morn
ing TO have his wrist examined
and see what was causing so
much suffering. An X-ray pic
ture was taken and small bone
was found fractured.
DR.. G.. A. Heisc reports the
birth of an SM pound SON to Mr..
About $3.50 This morning fire
was discovered i'm the V. |. Tamil
siea warehouse ON Erie street,
and when the department ar
rived the whole roof was ON fire.
The fire was a mean one on ae-
count of being located between
the ceiling and roof, but by good
work ON the part of the Depart
menl ii was confined To this part
of the building. Tho roof and
ceiling We're destroyed. but the
only damage beyond that is from
water. A number of buggics and
farm implements We're stored in
the upstairs and were water
soaked, but it is thought this
damage will be nominal. The
fire started from a defective flue.
The loss is covered l,y insurance.
Mr. Tamisiea was upstairs in
the building soon after The fire
started. The smoke became so
thick he lost his way and had to
call for help to get out, and he
is still suffering from the smoke
he inhaled.
and Mrs. Homer Jones last night.
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Homesteaders Election.

Last Friday at the Homestead
ers regular election, the follow
ing officers were elected for the
year 1917:
President, A. A. Greene.
Vice president, Harry Golver.
Secretary, X. E. Brundige.
Chaplain, Mrs. K. L. Brundige.
Marshall, Mrs. A. A. Greene.
Man at Arms, L. ]. Hatcher.
Herald, G. H. Bash.
Lady of Entertainment, Mrs.
George Colver.
Lady of Charity, Mrs. Gus
Bash.
Musician, Mrs. Harry Colyer,
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-12-14

CLOSING HOURS.
Christmas, closed all day.
Fourth of July, closed all day.
Labor Day, closed all day.
New Years, half day.
Memorial Day, half day.
Thanksgiving, half day.
Open until midnight before
Xmas, Fourth of July, Labor Day
and Saturday nights.
Regularly close at 500 p. m.
j.. A. TAMISIEA,
A. l.. GAINES,
x. X. HUNTSINGER,
FRANK ALGER,
o. T. SMITH.
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Schedule Of Prices.

The BARRIERS of this city have
agreed to the following schedule
of prices and closing hours. to
take effect Friday. Dee. IS, 1916:
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-11-24

deed seem to slumber in the soft bed of long
enjoyed peace and security. But let war come
against the land and no man need doubt that that
spirit will spring up instantly awake.
We can r~ightfully be grateful that 1t has fallen
to our happy lot to live In this most wonderful
Of all ages and to be citizens of this most Won
derful of all the nations.
Let your hearts swell with just pride as you
contemplate your country, so august, so splendid,
so renOwne in the earth.
Look upon your flag as 1t streams its bright
folds yonder above your heads with proud and
happy eyes. Remember how honorable is its
story, and forget not how many thousands Of
brave and good men died that 1t might wave yOn-
der, the ensign of a free people.
Tell to your children the story of their fore
bears, of those men and women who, amid the
wilderness and forests that stood where now
stand mighty cities and stretch cultivated farms,
erected, with hardships and endurance and most
heroic faith and valor, the noble edlhce Of our
republican liberties.
Speak to them of Bunker Hill and Valley Forge
and Saratoga and Yorktown, and of the great
Declaratlon-that most famous Charter of HUI
man Freedom.
Tell them to thank God for their fathers and
mothers hardihood and courage, for the wars
they fought, for the victories they won.
Tell them to salute their flag with high and
proud hearts.
Tell them to thank God this Thanksgiving day
that they are Americans.
And then do you soberly, gratefully, proudly
thank God yourself that you are an American
Oh, dear and mighty mOtherland, what better
gift or more to be desired could God give than t
be born and to die, strong Daughter Of Liberty
between thy shining feet From the Chicago
American.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-11-24

In the pursuit Of villa and his bandits through
the arid regions of northern Mexico the United
States troops traversed a region whose only vege-
tatlOn is the barbed and forbldding cactus. To
any but a cowboy or a trained p|lainsman Of the
Southwest, inhabitants themselves of the cactus
belt" this plant seemingly has no more value than
the veriest weed, but it may well be that it may
prove of great value TO the troops In the absence
OF water, fodder, or even food for human beings.
In the punitive expedition there are many COW
punchers of the cactus belt' serving as scouts,
and In the cowboy and the Indian Of the South
west the lOwly cactus has Its greatest admlrer, for
they know what a game struggle for life this plant
has to make against an unlaved desert soil. Even
their ponies and cattle and the poor beasts of the
desert know Of these uses of the cactus for water
and fodder, says the New York Herald.
There are some thousand varieties of this mon
strous vegetable family, not counting the 300 va
rietes Of the agave, or century plant-lncorrectly
Included by many-in northern Mexico. The va
rieties Of the yucca palm and all other forms Of
vegetation known to the arid region have the same
faculty of sucking up from the soil every drop OF
the all too little moisture In 1t and storing 1t up In
their tough and leGthery leaves and roots.
OF the many varieties perhaps the most remark
able is that member Of the family known to those
schOOled in desert craft as the water barrel" This
plant Is shaped somewhat like n beer keg and Is
about the same size. Through all the years of Its
growth II has been sopping up what moisture the
famlshed earth contained and retaining II. 1t is the
sole reliance Of desert dwellers I'm time OF drought,
and the troops, far from water holes and with wa
ter scarce. may yet be obliged to drink from IL
The water barrel" is tapped by sliclng on the
top with a sword or machete and pounding the
pulp until the water contained In 1t wells up into
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-11-24

the saucer thus formed. The pulp itself is pure
and the water stored In 1t is likewise pure and re-
freshing.
Not all the water-bearing cacti are as gracious to
furnishing man, however, as the water barrel" for
most Of them have protected themselves against
the maraudings Of those who would drink and live
by imparting a bitter taste to the water they con-
tain. The 'peyote" especially. which abounds In
the plains and deserts Of Arizona, has a trick of
discouraging depredations upon 1t, for its plump
and juicy pulp ~secretes a bitter and poisonous
juice.
In the last dozen years scientists have interested
themselves 10 the study Of the cactus for its posi-
bilities as food, fodder and economic by-prOducts.
DR.. Leon p. LandOne, foremost In the study OF this
desert plant, several years ago conducted extensive
experiments In Los Angeles to ascertain the value
OF the thornless cactus as an article Of food for
human beings. In an effort to prove his eonten-
ton that 1t contains food properties sufficient to
enable a man TO work IS hours a day, he and his
two secretaries for two weeks lived on a daily diet
of the leaves and fruit Of the cactus, the former
being served green or fried and the latter either
raw or cooked. While the cactus squad" sur
vived the experience aud professor to have en-
jOyed their novel diet, 1t is a fact that the cactus
never has attained the popularity Of a hlet mlgnon.
In the whole vegetable kingdom probably there
Is not another plant family having so many diff
ferentlations OF form as the cactl. For It is pos
sible to find among them species that crawl and
creep like vines, other than stand erect in a single
unbending stalk, like a green living monument OF
the desert; still others that are rooted to the spot,
with their highest growth close to the ground and
bearing almost no resemblance to usual forms OF
vegetation. and others. again, that branch out In
thick unblOOminE branches.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-11-24

And So we FIRMLY believe you do feel.
We all hear 1t repeated that patriotism is a
thing of the past that our people have become
commercialized that the masses have no deep
rooted loyalty to the country that our rich men
put dollars above the obligations Of their citizen
ship that our poor folk care little for the ideals
of free government; that we Americans are de-
cadent in the virtues and valor which marked
our fathers.
That is not true.
If there be any power in the world which plots
war against us Americans and promises itself vic
tory over us on the assumption Of our decadence
In loyalty, that power will find how terrible was
its mistake when our country calls her sons to
battle In her defense.
We have, 1t is true, I'm our capacity as a col
lectlve people, left undone things that should
have been done and done things which should
have been left undOne; and there is more truth
than there should be in much that is jeeringly
said by those who hate us.
We acknowledge that much of our politics Of
tends common decency.
We see, here and there, painful evidence of cor
ruption among lawmakers and even among the
judges, who should know only justice and In
tegrity.
We see rich men who do betray their country
and foul their hands and soil their souls with
most infamous dealings and most shameful
profits.
We see Americans who do put the dollar above
every consideration Of right and duty, above the
claims Of our common humanity.
But while these things are true, 1t is true also
that the heart and conscience of the American
people, take them as a nation, are sound and
sane and wholesome.
The blood Of our fathers still runs in the veins
of their sons. The spirit Of the nation may In
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-11-24

He reflected that across the Atlantic millions
of human beings were at that very moment en-
gagged In the dreadful task Of killing other human
beings with every invention which Ingenuity and
skill could bring forth from the laboratories OF
science and the workshops OF industry.
In other lands at that very moment tens of
thousands upon tens Of thousands of helpless
fOlk-feeble, aged men and women, mothers with
babes cllnging convuislvely to their breasts, little
children sobbing in terror, a vast army of the in
nOcent and the angulshed-were enduring the ex-
tremlties OF exposure. Of hunger, and of despair
as they ned from their wasted farmsteads and
burning villages, escaping from the pltiless cruelty
of savage men only to lie down to suffer and die
under the pltlless skies Of God In the winter and
the bitter storms.
At that very moment most dreadful war hid
half the world I'm the blackness of Its darkness
and from that horrid cloud rained destruction
upon unhappy Europe-upon her ancient capitals,
upon her pleasant cities, upon her villages, her
fields, her temples, her treasures Of art, upon all
the denominations Of a thousand years OF genius,
of learning, OF industry, Of skill and OF patient
advancement OF the happiness and the civilization
of the race Of man.
So he that considered all this wickedness that
was being done under the sun, this drunken dance
OF death and hell above the fetid cOrpses and the
multtudlnOus graves, this awful nightmare OF In
describable woe AMI wrath. said In the bitterness
of his heart that no God ruled over such a maniac
world and there was no thanksgiving due TO the
Oliver Of Gifts that were not good, but everyone
altogether evil.
And when the man had made an end Of his
thinking, he went and stood In a window and
hooked out upon the evening, because 1t was fair
TO see.
He saw in vision at that instant the vastness
Of the republic and the multitude of the good and
happy folk who live under the shelter Of It's
strength. He reflected how brief a time had thus
magnIhed the works OF our pioneer fathers and
our pioneer mothers, those brave and simple men
and women whose names should never be men
toned with anything but profound gratitude.
And to this American, glad with a great pride
IN the deeds OF his people and the story Of his
country. and grateful to the Goodness which has
guided and sheltered his fathers and his folk,
lifted up his eyes to the night, to the quiet stars,
TO the brOoding immensely above, and said In his
heart:
Thank God that ! I'm an Americana
And. citizens, that is the one outstanding,
spIendId fact for which each one OF us should
soberly and most gratefully thank God on Thanks
giving day this year.
The finest thing you possess or ever can pos
sess Is Just your American citizenship. II Is
ne. lher necessary nor becoming, on this day or
on any Jther day, to cheaper this blrthright OF
ours by brag or spreadeagle ~clamatio
But Il Is highly becoming on this Thanksgiving
day to feel a deep gratitude and a manly pride
In this heritage.
Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-11-24
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