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The Washington herald., 1916-11-06

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The Johnson-Powell Parent-Teachers
Association will meet this evening in the
kindergar rten room of the Powell School.
1t will be the first meeting of the season
and plans will be made for the year
work.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-09-29
CRESCO, HOWARD COUNTY IOWA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 49,

the appreciation of the delegates for
the cordial hospitality of the Union and
ladies of Lime Springs who so delight
fully entertained the convention.
The following resolution was pre-
sented and unanimously endorsed by
the delegates and a large audience,
which filled the entire church.
Resolved, by the 23rd Dist. of the
w. c. T. U. of Iowa in convention as
sembled at Lime Springs. that we here
in voice our protest against the election
of w. L. Harding to the responsible
position of Governor of the State of
Iowa, because of the stand he he's
taken in the Senate against all temper
ance legislation and in opposition to all
questions involving the moral welfare
of the Commonwealth.
Signed by the Committee.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-09-29

present candidate for governor of the
republican party hasbeen so consistent,
persistent and continuous in its hos
tility to temperance that there is not
and never has been any question where
he stood on the prohibition question.
Because his record is we'll known and
undisputed we are convinced that his
election would be accepted everywhere
as victory for the liquor interests.
Therefore, be it resolved, That we as
ministers Of the truth, members of the
Upper Iowa Conference, would be trait
ors to our trust if we kept silence, and
unworthy successors to the prophets of
old, if we did not frankly and openly
condemn the candidacy of this nominee.
We believe that this nominee is en-
titled to and will receive the votes of
all supporters of the liquor traffic re-
gardless of party lines. So we believe
that all who are opposed to the liquor
traffic, regardless of party lines, should
vote for the opposing candidate, a man
whose legislative record and we'll known
public attitude is uniformly opposed to
the liquor interests.
We do this with no desire to change
the party allegiance of any man but to
call on all lovers of righteousness to
place principles above party and public
record above vague promises.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-09-29
w. C. 7. u. Convention At Lime
Springs.

The gathering of the 2Srd District
was a success in every way. It COM
prises the counties of Allamakee, Clay
ton, Fayette, Howard and Winneshiek.
Delegates from the local unions in
these counties met in the Methodist
Church at Lime Springs. Members of
the union of Lime Springs had taste
fully decorated the church with ban
ners and flowers. An unique feature
of the decorations, was chain of 500
red, white and blue cards all of which
bore the total abstinence pledge, and
which had been signed by Sunday
School scholars, both boys and girls.
There was also quite large flag male'
of the same signed cards.
Routine business was dispatched, and
interspersed with many pleasant feat
ures, the introduction of former loyal
and faithful officers. the tying of the
White Ribbon on little Alice and David,
the grandchildren of Mrs. Claudia T.
Price, also on the mother of the child
rem Mrs. Thomas md on the dear old
great grandmother who is "a years old
and who SO years ago signed the pledge.
The evening session was presided over
by the President and delightful song
service and devotions were conducted
by the pastor of the church, Rev. D. C.
Perry, which was followed by a plat
form meeting.
Saturday was devoted to business and
reports of the County Presidents and
Department Superintendents, inter-
spersed with music and many pleasant
ries, that are always part of these
conventions.
The President, Mrs. Flower, deliver
ed her annual address in the afternoon
which was fine exhibit of the spirit
and methods of the work, and its prog
ress in the district during the years
just closing, and a general outlook
which gives promise of final victory
over the liquor traffic, in our state and
nation.
At the close of the afternoon meet.
ing Saturday a meeting of the county
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-09-29
Horror. Of the Reconstruction in ds
Birth of a Nation.

The period of the reconstruction %
vividly brought back to the memory
of thoss who may have gone through
it and reproduced afresh for those new.
er generations who now view it for the
first time, in Griffith's Birth of a Ma
ton, shows the time of Johnson's adj
ministration, and he, as the nations ex.s
ecutive, in the hands of ring of poll
ticians and power seekers, who are
manipulating the affairs of the south to
suit their own ends. It turns to the
ruins of the flower decked> South Caro-
lima village of ante bellum days, the
place where the blacks were light heart
ed and care free, even under the bonds
of slavery, turns back to the town that
by war has been left half in ruins, the
streets grass grown, the stately man-
sions of the old days tottering and
crumbling, to town where those once
wealthy now are in direst poverty
where the "black is good as white
man," as was the slogan of the north
ern men of the Lynch and Stoneman
tpye. Women are menaced by the
black minions of the northern whites.
or are attacked, whites are driven from
the streets, menaced by the colored
troops, or assaulted. Homes are in
vaded. Justice is forgotten thing.
The land knows no law but that con-
ceived by the race then in control. Then
the chivalry of the whites is given new
life. The Ku Klux Klan is formed. These
riders of the night, in ghostly white.
rally by dozens, by scores and hund-
reds and thousands. They ride like
the wind. They strike without even
the warning the rattlesnake gives, but
are far more deadly. This, all won-
derful, soul stirring, breath-taking as
it is, is but another of the innumerable
dramas within dramas" of which The
Birth of Nation consists.
This glorious spectacle is to be given
here in its entirety, with its accom-
panying symphonyorchestra, its effects
paraphernalia and its trained mechanics
ians for that purpose and is to be put
on here in the same fashion down to
the smallest detail that amazed New
York and the other cities.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-09-29

was called for the election of officers
and on resignation of Mrs. M. Bell
Miller the following officers were elect
ed:
President of Howard County-Mrs.
Barney Thorne, Bonair.
Vice-President of Howard County
Mrs. Lettie Dodd, Lime Springs.
Secretary of Howard County-Mrs.
Smith, Bonair.
Treasurer of Howard County-Mrs.
Sidney Culbert, Cresco.
Early in the evening the convention
assembled for Gold Medal contest.
Seven contestants acquitted themselves
very honorably. There were six ladies'
and one young man, Mr.. Percy Ed
yards of Oelwein who in every respect
worthily won the medal.
Sunday was really feast of good
things. First the church service and
delightfully."- inspiring sermon by the
pastor of the church, Rev. D. C. Perry,
set the key note for the day.
The convention held a platform meet
ing in the afternoon, presided over by
the President, Mrs. Flower. Excellent
addresses were given by Mr.. Foster
Hughes, young man of Lime Springs
and Mr.. r. H. Waters of Waukon.
Both these gentlemen discussed the
liquor problem from the economic and
moral standpoint and the necessity for
National Prohibition. Mr.. Hughes
suggested the necessity of memorable
ing congress to protect Iowa from the
shipment of liquor into our state from
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. A
resolution was passed by the conven-
tion for the presentation of such me-
mortal through the State w. G. T. U.
Sunday evening Rev. Caldwell con-
Quoted the devotions after happy SER
vice of song led by Rev. Perry.
Mrs. L. D. Carhart, State Cor. Secy.,
gave helpful address. This was fol-
lowed by the presentation by Mrs.
Flower of handsomely framed pic
ture of Frances E. Willard to the High
School of Lime Springs which was re-
ceived by the superintendent of schools.
Mrs. Gates of Oelwein happily voiced
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-09-29
M. E. Conference Appointments.

In accordance with the expressed
wish of the Cresco M. E. Church, Rev.
Kerwin was returned to the Cresco
charge at the Waterloo Conference
which closed on Monday.
Rev. Guy Rutherford. of Bonair, re-
ceives promotion to the pastorate at
Quasqueton and Rowley which carries
with it salary of $500 and use of par
sonage.
Rev. John Gammons re-entered ac-
tive work in the Conference and was
assigned to New Albin, in Allamakee
County.
w. G. Crowder, former Dist. Supt.
was assigned to the Marshalltown pas
torate and is succeeded by A. B. Cur
ran.
Appointments in this vicinity are as
follows:
Bonair-E. C. Farce.
Chester-J. C. Olson.
Decorah-G. S. Lakeland.
Lime Springs-D. C. Perry.
Ridgeway-G. N. Shoemaker.
Elma-Ray Busenbark.
Riceville- C. c. Casper.
Osage-A. T. Bishop.
Oelwein-Rev. F. P. Shaffer.
The Conference adopted the follow
ing resolutions concerning the candi-
dacy of w. L. Harding, the republican
candidate for governor.
Whereas, 1t seems clear to the
members of this Conference that the
record of w. L. Harding in public life
shows him to be out of harmony with
the attitude of the state on the whole
en- the temperance question, as ex-
pressed in the platforms of both par
ties.
And because it seems incredible that
any man will as governor support and
further a cause to enforce laws that he
has fought and opposed with all his
power as legislator.
And because to elect any man gov
ernor who has opposed moral reform is
to reward treacherous policy with
public approval and honor.
Be it resolved, that the record of the
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-09-29
Rural School Notes.

The schools of Vernon Springs Town
ship are very much pleased this fall
with the large wall pictures received
as the premium for the best exhibit at
the Farmers Institute last winter.
Sixteen dollars was turned over by the
Institute for premium to be given to
each school in the township. Asit:was
difficult to get the teachers together to
make a choice of the premium, the
decision was not made in time to put
the pictures into the schools in the
spring. Districts four and five had
some money earned by sociables which
they offered to use with their share of
the premium money for oil stoves for
the work in domestic science. The
other districts preferred the pictures,
and picture study leaflets for each
school. Following is the account:
District 4-Stove. 1.75
District 5-Stove. ............ 1.75
C. M. Parker Study Leaflets 2.00
w. o. Swenson-P Pictures. -. 1000
Total. SIG. 90
Snaps!
Overland, Studebaker, and Saxon
Six for Sale. See C. M. Wentworth
for demonstration. 6t2
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-09-29
To Our Advertisers.

Every week during the past few
weeks we have been compelled on ac-
count of lack of space to refuse adver-
tising handed US on publication day or
the day previous. The extraordinary
high price of print paper makes the
printing of supplements rather un-
profitable, and while we would do it to
accommodate our advertisers, we need
some time to arrange for and print the
supplemental can't be done the day
we 60 to press. If you want an adver-
tisement in the Plain Dealer, make
sure of it by arranging early for the
space.
For Sale.
Several good homes in Cresco, also
good Howard County farm. Get my
descriptive price list. A. ]. EVANS.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10
From the Register
Twenty-Five Years Ago

. D .
Mrs. Lucy Reynolds is visiting
friends in Illinois. She will be absent
from Bookings several weeks.
Messrs. Harry and Charlie Bennett
were down from Watertown last Fri
day looking over the city with a view
Of establishing a new store here.
Grant Davis has been quite i'll and
confined to his home tie past few
days.
Mrs. c. H. Collins returned Tuesday
from a pleasant visit at Waupun and
Berlin, Wis.
Mrs. DR.. MacMurphy, Of Elkton, has
been 4 guest of Mrs. J. V. Walker dur
ing commencement.
Mrs. Jennie Davis, of Minneapolis,
arrived on Tuesday and is visiting her
brother, Ed Davis and family.
Judge Jno. E. Bennett, of the SUI,
preme court, was in the city on bust
ness the first of the week. We &C
knowledge a pleasant call.
L. J. Beynon is at Madison attending
tho meeting of the South Dakota Mil.
lels Association.
Mrs. E. H. Lyon, of Schenectady, N.
Y, is the guest of her son, Ripley S.
Lyon, of the Merchants Bank and her
brother, D. ]. barrow.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10
STATE NEWS


Residents at Isabel and Dupree are
beginning to wonder if they are to go
back to the pioneer days again. A re-
cent order received by the postmaster
at Dupree would seem to s~ubstantiate
this theory. The order states that
hereafter until further notice the Unit
ed States mail will be carried overland
between Isabel and Dupree, although
the railroad connects these two points.
The action of the government is said to
be the result of poor train service.
Peter Klein, aged Is, who arrived in
Armour from Holland last spring, met
his death through injuries while work.
ing in a hay field. He was engaged in
raking hay when the horses became
frightened and threw him in front of
the rake. He was dragged a consider.
able distance. When found he was
badly tangled up in the rake, with one
leg broken and serious cuts all over
the body. He was taken to Geddes,
where n leg and one hand were
amputated. He failed to rally from
the shock.
Word has been received in Pierre
from Congressman Candy saying that
the president will appoint a commits.
sion to be composed Of the heads of
the various departments and of which
the chief of the bureau of standards
will be chairman, to investigate the
various sites for the location of the
government nitrate plant.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10

First Baptist church, delivered a pleas
ing discourse.
The baccalaureate Sermon was de-
livered by DR.. Lewis McLouth Sunday
evening. his theme being What is
TRUTH"
The Junior Class exercises were held
on Tuesday evening. H. B. Mathews.
president of the class, made a neat ad-
dress followed by an interesting and
mirthful "Class History" by Miss Ida
McLouth. A. s. Harding then deliver
ed a defamation entitled "Old Mans
Council" followed by an grafton by /.
H. Hatfield. Miss Nettie Sloan sang a
solo followed by a recitation by Emma
Keeney. The balance of the program
was an GRAFTON by Sam Davis and a
farewell address by David Grifiths.
The Senior Class Day exercises were
all good, many of which are worthy Of
more extended mention then we are
able to give from lack CT space. The
presidents address by Homer Davis
and the grafton by w. d. Bell were
well delivered. The class grafton by
J. B. Ham was not only well delivered
but showed a thorough acquaintance
with his subject. The "Class poem"
by Miss Fannie Shannon, and the
"class prophesy" by l. D. Aldrich, were
among the very enjoyable features Of
the evening. Distribute Donorum,"
by Grant Houston, brought down the
house. A. B. Crane, Alice Robinson
and w. S. Bentley also participated in
the program with much credit.
On commencement day the chapel
was crowded to suffocation. Without
going into the entire detail of the pro-
gram we will say that among the pleas
ing features was the grafton by Mary
Frick, the essay delivered by Miss
Nora Updyke, the grafton Of Hugh H.
West on the Relation of the Public
Schools to the College," the essay on
THE Forest Supply of the United
States" by V. B. Valleau and the ora
ton on "Individualism," by H. c. Sol
berg.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10

Much Is said and much can be said
about the speed maniac. There is a
proneness in the majority of us to
hurry, and the man at the auto wheel
Is no exception to the rule. Autoists
Will rush over rough country roads at
the rate Of forty or fifty miles an hour
and at the end of the trip fool hours
away doing nothing. An hour longer
on the road might be the means Of pre-
venting a catastrophy the result of
which may be regretted to the end of
life. Joy riding is all right but there
Il . sane way and a safe way IN Its
accomplishment. The man at the
wheel should ever have before him the
thought that human life Is far moro
precious than any amount OF time
and govern his driving accordingly.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10

With almost the entire neighborhood
participating In the search, little Z.
year-old Bertha Weiss, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Weiss, about two miles
south of Phillip. was found about TWEEN.
ty-1ve miles from her home after a
continuous search lasting several
hours. According to her story she
started out to go to the pasture, but
lost her bearings and continued walk
ing. When found she was nearly ex.
hausted. -U
About 5000 worth of automobile cas-.
ings were stolen from the garage of
Stonebect & Abbott at Harrisburg re-
Gently by thieves of whom no clew has
yet been found. About $3.50 worth of
castings were left behind and other ac-
c~essories were not touched. An at
tempt was evidently made to get an
automobile out of the garage, but after
moving 1t about forty feet the thieves
evidently became alarmed and gave up
the idea.
G. F. McNally, of Emery, was
brought to Mitchell n day last week
badly bruised and cut from contact
with a gan of ~harvesters. 1t is re-
ported that Mr.. McNally, who is a bar
Der in Emery, made a disparaging re-
mark about the l. w. WIS who at once
seized him, cutting his neck and beat
ing him in a horrible ann He was
brought to Mitchell and had his
wounds dressed, but he is still in a ser
ious condition.
Shot while seeking to perform his
duty, Dan A.. Passage, veteran night
watch at Andover, died at st. Luke's
hospital recently from a bullet wound
inflicted by a hold-up man operating
in the Andover railroad yards. The
murderer has not been a~ppreEended.
Miss Susie Morgan. stenographer
and bookkeeper for the Farmers ele-
vator in De Smet, had a thrilling ex-
perience with two hold-up men, but
fortunately escaped personal injury.
They accosted her while she was 60
ing home through the railroad yards
and by threats attempted to force her
to accompany them back to the ele-
vator so they could secure her money.
By watching her chance the young
woman succeeded in releasing herself
from their grasp and took to her heels
understanding the holdups and escap-
ing from them.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10

The Register regrets to see J. G.
Sanders, who has been editorial writer
on the Aberdeen Daily News for the
past twelve years, leave the state. We
have regarded Mr.. Sanders as the
ablest editorial writer in the state and
South Dakota can i'll afford to lose
him. His going. however. does not
take him out OF northwestern news.
paper making as he goes to the Sioux
City Journal to fill the place made
vacant by the resignation OF J. w,
Carey. who entered business for him.
self at Rock Rapids, Iowa. MI. San
ders made the Daily News a widely
read paper and his thousands If South
Dakota friends will watch his Sioux
City career with interest and will wish
him success.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10

Over in Iowa the farmers, who wish
to 50 farther west and buy cheaper
land. are selling for $500 to $3.50 per
acre. The price ID good and the land
- good and the land Il worth every
cent Of It. Thirty years Of good farm
ing and attention to improvements
have sent prices up from $12 per acre
~ the present range. And what has
occurred In Iowa Is quietly working
ont n eastern South Dakota. Ten
yeaxs ago good farm land could be
bought here 1t t16 70 so per aero.
Iltfle of 4 can b had today under the
e1Oo marx. Ia ten years II II safe 70
;nto6ict that much Of this same land
81 NJ ~ bought fof 800. Brookings
6ofu1y men Who hold land: here tor TIA
- yooT1 - Going - grow rich
01YnncQ ~ 0oiF hQldings aAone.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10

The United States governm ant is
negotiating with the Danish foreign
Office for the purchase of the Danish
West Indies at a price said to be
$685. 200. 900. There are three principal
islands in this group which lie not far
from Cuba and Porto Rico, and are
worth much as a naval strategy basis
In defense Of the Panama canal. There
was an escort made = few years az, to
purchase this group but for some I'M
known reason the deal fell through.
The price at that time was fixed at
$4,000, 900. Under existing circum-
stances the present price may not be
too high. 1t is sure never to be lower,
and the government would be justified
in closing the deal.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10

Recently the publisher of the Huron
State Spirit sued a subscriber who re-
fused to pay for the paper, and secured
a judgment for the back subscription
amounting to eight dollars. Costs
we're added and the subscriber had to
pay these too. 1t was a test case.
There are no federal post Office rul-
ings which exempt a man from the
payment of any amount of back sub
scription to a newspaper. A subscrip-
ton debt is as valid as a grocery bill
laws.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10

Boston is being plagued by the
birth control" social reformers who
are distributing their rotten litera-
ture over the city. One magistrate
sen an offender to serve a three year
term in the house of correction for be-
ing o~ver-zealous in this n%efarious and
pernicious work. This class of So
called reformers forget the real pur-
pose Of life, and are a stencil in the
nostrils of all right thinking men and
women. There is not and should not
be any room for them among decent
and honorable people.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10

Now that the South Dakota boys
have gone to the front on the Mexican
border every citizen of the state will
watch the trend of affairs there with
keener interest than usual. The
Fourth regiment represents the pa
triotism of the state and all feel that
IL put to the test the men will give a
good account of themselves. 1t is
hoped that they may " have to be
put to the supreme test, that our coun-
try may come through the Mexican
trouble without war. But if war
should come we all expect the South
Dakota men at the front to do their
duty, and feel they will not be a dis
appointment.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10
College Commencement

The fourth annual commencement of
the South Dakota Agricultural College
began last Sunday afternoon with the
anniversary of the G.. P. S. c. E. of the
college. Rev. B. H. Breasted, of the
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10

II the people of South Dakota are
wise they will boost and vote for that
constitutional amendment which will
give US government aid in building
good roads.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10

Watertown is parking the autos in
the center of the street and If 1t is a
success other towns will follow in the
same course.