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LlBERTYvILLE.

Mr.. AM, Mrs Hiram Davis are visit
Ing with their da1.ghte. Mrs. Richard
Swanson in Abba.
Mrs. Luther Lcedy very pleasantly
entertained the N NJ. A. club Friday
afternoon at her home here. The after
noon was spent IN fancy work and So
cial chat. Refreshments were served by
the kostes s. -
Mrs. Oscar Swanson will be hostess
to the Rebekah Embroidery club at her
home Friday March 3. '
Martha Trout Is critically ill at the
home Of her granddaughter Mrs. Earl
Howard. .... ..> -
Mrs. Mary Gurnmere was called to
Nebraska last week by the serious Ill
ness Of her sister. s.
Mrs. Herman Keys Of Gary, Ind, Is
here visiting with her parents. ..
Mrs Tom Moss and daughter are
visiting relatives IN Missouri.
Ed Sellers and family are moving
this week on a farm north Of Fairfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. M. Bowers were very
pleasantly surprised February rs when
forty"two Of their relatives and friends
came to their home to help them cele-
brate their twenty sixth wedding an
niversary At noon hountiful dinner
was served. The afternoon was spent
in visiting and short devotional serv-
ice was led by their pastor Rev.
Stodghill. ~,
Miss Daisy Rodabaugh Of Agency
attended Mrs. Henry Rodibaugh's fun
eral Thursday.
A few friends and neighbors sur
prised Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Burnaugh
Friday night. Oysters were served by
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WEST POINT.

Barney Dierker, life long resident
OF West Point township passed away
at his home south Of town Feb. %, 1915
aged 10 years. Funeral services were
held at St. Mary's church Saturday
morning.
BON, tc Mr. ana Mrs Ed Kaltefleiter
Feb. %, 1913, a daughter: to Mr.. and
Mrs B. J. Soppe. nvar st. Paul, Feb. 4 7,
a daughter; to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Trout, east of West Point February II,
q son.
The marriage bars'of Frank Gerveler
OF Fl Ma Olson and Miss Katharyn
Sommers Of West Point have been pub
lished The marriage will take place at
st. Marys church March 7.
Prof Bell Of Parsons college Of Fair
field Will have charge Of the services
at Pi.man Chapel, Pleasant Ridge and
West Point Sunday March 5.
Mr. and Mrs. c.. A, Bonneville were
CALEB to Bowen. ILL.,, to attend the
funeral of the formers brother in law
Raymond Martin. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Metzger were in
TT. Madison TUESDAY to attend the
funeral o" Mrs. MctZger's sister Mrs.
Barbara Lesch.
Mrs. H J. Schroeder, Mrs. B. H.
Schro. der and Mrs J. B. Kempker of
TT. Madison visited Saturday at the
Mrs. John Schroeder home.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Peitz have
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purchased the Voter homestead. con-
sideration $3.50.
Mrs. w. A. Sminderman and chill
dren are spending the week with her
mother at New Boston.
Jos. Link Of Warrington, Iowa Wis
tied his mother here Wednesday and
Thursday
Misc Regina King Is visiting her sis
ter Mrs. N. K. Alderdice at Burlington
Mrs. Henry Boeding entertained the
Amity club at her home last Thursday.
Mrs Il. Harmeyer and Mrs. J. w. Spiek-
ermeir winning the honors. Refresh
ments were served and all enjoyed a
pleasant evening.
T. N Shook departed Wednesday for
Wichita Kans., where he will address
the Tri state meeting of threshers OF
Kansas Oklahoma and Texas. ..
r. and Mrs. George Couradt who
ha &c been farming on the Mckee farm
the past two years have moved back
Carl and Tom Conredt have rented
Miss Hettie will stay with them.
Mis- Ada Fletcher is visiting her
grandmother at Carthage, Ill.
Miss Freda Resuer Of Burlington is
visiting Ler parents south of town.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fullenkamp and Mr..
and Mrs. John REmp visited Tuesday
at the bedside Of Mrs. Jos. Fullenkamp
at the Sacred Heart hospital. Mrs. Full
lenkamp is rapidly recovering and will
return home in q short time.
Mrs. Cnas. Henderson of Detroit,
Mich. Is visiting relatives here.
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ASKS DAMAGESF0
INJURIES TO LEG
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION HEARS
CASE AGAINST MoRRELL a
CO., At CITY HALL.

The case Of John Bybee VS.. John
Morrell & Co., for damages is being
tried before the industrial commits
sioner at the city hall this afternoon.
Mr.. Bybee claims damages for an in
jury received July IA, 1914, when his
left leg was caught in an elevator
rope. The board is made up of Sena-
ton A. B. Funk Of Storm Lake, r. Il.
Ramsell and G. r. Miller.
Mr.. Bybee who at the time OF his
injury was employed at tie Morrell
packing plant claims that on July "a,
1914, while operating an elevator his
left leg was caught in the rope injury
ing the member permanently. The
counsel for the plaintiff in his opening
argument stated that Mr.. Bybee's leg
was cut above the left knee In two
places. He also said that the COM
pany paid Mr.. Bybee SIS as relief.
The plaintiff asks for damages for
$50 weeks, claiming the accident
equivalent to the loss of hand.
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property ARE today the managers in
! the political, religious, social and econ
omic world. Through their rapacity
and greed they involve nations in war
and to insure perpetual existence Of
their kind, they bond unborn genera.
tons to pay them interest for instigat-
ing wholesale murder.
Without being able to understand
the relation that exists between the
nations political and economic man
agement in the Industrial departments,
and our own interests, as producers of
wealth, we continue to remain hope
lessly entangled in the spiders web
Of an insane system. Content with
our poverty and one dollar and fifty
cents day, we hope, at some time
to become capitalists, and be masters
in the financial world.
Being interested in my own welfare,
that I am of my fellow man, will say
that am highly dissatisfied with things
as they are at this time. To continue
our present management of the ma
TONS industries, will in time produce
a revolution.
To feel secure in making this state
ment 1t is not necessary that we
SnOuiQ De- prophet. through legal
practice in the marts of trade and
exchange, profit and interest, must at
soma time, reduce large numbers Of
our people to point below the line Of
subsistence. To guard against such
calamity is not possible under our
present system.
Our danger as nation is not from
powers that are without, but from
within.
Individual property holdings are al.
ready mountain high, while millions
of working people are on the desert of
want and despair.
The ability Of the wage Garner to
rise above tenantry only in isolated
cases, is hardly possible. His wages
will hardly cover the cost of living
necessities and his opportunity to
work at all depends not on his own
free will, but the interest of his en-
ployers. ...
A government by the people, for the
people and of the people is a dream
that has never materialized.
H. Grimes, Agency, Ia.
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In the Religious World
5y WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

of straight quotation from scripture
he made the application:
''Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised
In hearts and ears, We do always re-
sist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers
did, SO do ye. Which OF the prophets
did not your fathers prosecute? and
they killed them that showed before
of the coming Of the Righteous One;
ers and murderers; We who received
the law as it was ordained by an
gels and kept it not"
When Aristocrats Become q Mob.
Most of us have seen at some time
or other a cultivated man lose his
poise and return to tho primitive.
The sight Is not a pretty one. That
is what happened with the Sanhedrin.
Those learned and reverend doctors
of the law, clothed In robes of state
and dignity, began to gnash their
teeth like an unrestrained rabble. lm-
agine the flow OF the aristocracy Of
the Hebrew nation becoming howl
ing mob, crying with loud voice, STOP
ping their ears and rushing upon
sanity faced Stephen, and hustling
him outside the city walls. where they
began to stone him to death.
The Man Who Held the Coat
There are strange links In history.
Stephens was not the only apparent
defeat that led to real victory. Most
jealous among the mob Of his muir
derers was young man named Saul,
an aristocrat Pharisee of the stricter
sect. It is not recorded of him that
he lost control Of himself as some OF
the elders did, and shouted and froth-
ed and fumed, but he kept watch over
the coats Of those who stoned Sto-
phen. He thoroughly approved Of the
deed. While his philosophic mind
must have been sorely puzzled, yet
his religious training taught him that
this pestiferous Christian sect must
be wiped out by force.
Saul, Saul! How little you knew
that the torch that Stephen dropped
from his bruised and broken hand was
to be picked up by you and carried as
blazing beacon across the then
known world and throughout the ages!
As dramatic az the death of this
young man was to be saul's CONVEX
sion to the faith. for which he died.
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ALBA.

A marriage license was issued yes
tercay by the county clerk to Anna
Carver IL, Abba and Isaac Hunt, "a,
Lock.nan.
Mrs. Ray Hemming who has been
visiting with friends here has returnCd
to her home in Fairfield.
Mrs Homer Harris Of Ottun1wa has
returned home after visiting with Mrs.
A. J. Beckett Of this place.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wilson OF OF
tumwa returned to their home the hrst
Of the week after visiting at the par
enta. Wilson home over Sunday.
Mrs John Pabst who has been the
guest Of relatives here has gone to her
home in Centervillo.
Miss Maud Gay returned to Des
Moines after spending Sunday with rel
atives here.
Mrs. John r. Price went to Ogden,
Ia, for visit with relatives Monday.
Miss Grace Harper who Is attending
business college at Cedar Rapids is
visiting her parents parents here.
Mrs. Adah Harding and daughter OF
Eddyville are the guests of Mrs. Ida
Webb here
Mrs. J. P. Early has returned from
visit In Red Oak.
Carl Hilton has returned from visit
in Des Moines. VIII
w. S. Scott is At home again after a
visit in Mt Pleasant and Osceola
Mrs. John R.. Duncan has returned
from Chicago.
Mrs. o. e. Mcbride has returned from
a visit with relatives in Osceola. gr
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Cooper have re-
turned from q visit with relatives in
Fairfield 81
Ms. Helen Potter of Galesburg, Ill.,.
arrived with her son Frank the first of
the week for visit with her mother
Mrs. Helen Potter Of this place.
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RICHlAND ..

J. D. Bruins went to Peoria Sunday
on a business trip.
G. j. Davis and wife are visiting rel
atives near Martinsburs.
Howard Fuller snd his parents have
moved to the James Morrow place north
Of the C. NJ. & St. p. depot.
I Mrs. S. r. Tracey who was called to
Sigourney last Monday on account OF
sudden death Of her sister Mrs. L. A.
Funk came home Saturday.
F. w. johnson, Bent Bottorff and
John Carmichael have been summoned
to appeal in Ottu1nwa March to serve
as Jurors In the federal court.
Saturday about 8 p. IN. the dwelling
house Of Samuel Lewis of Agency, and
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Now
ry caught fire from a defective flue
and would have burned down had not
the citizens turned out enmasse and
worked with the Two hand fire engines
to save it. The structure is badly dam
aged. The househ' Id goods were saved
with but little damage and were insur-
ed. The house was also insured.
Some twelve or fifteen families In
town will be moving this week to their
several locations. r&1s.a-.. .
Vanlaw Hadley mas gone to Excelsior
Springs for treatment for rheumatism.
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CANT Ril.

Dr. Geo. Reed of Sumner was in
Cantril the past week, the guest Of his
sister Mrs. o. M. Cassidy.
Nellie Wagner If Memphis, Mo. WIS.,
tied her parents Mr.. and Mrs. w. G.
Casady near Cantril.
Chas. Notestein and John O.. Adams
purchased the Lee Harbidge store
building.
N. >: Guernsey Of Milton was in
town Friday.
Lee Harbidge and Tom Brooks of
Pulaski were In Cantril Sunday.
Ruth Allender. Jaunetta and Ethel
Warner were In Ottumwa shopping
Saturday
Howard Suit IS spending a few
weeks in Loveland Colo.
The high school gave a program on
Friday afternoon.
Mrs Albert and Mrs. Steve Short
were in Cttumwa Saturday.
Mrs. H G.. Parks is visiting her par
ents in Bloomfield.
The county engineer was in town on
Saturday the guest of John Saar.
Missionary society will meet We'd
Ora Alternately moved to the farm he
recently purchased.
nesday OF this week with Mrs. Howard
Suit.
g., L. Norris transacted business in
Memphis Thursday and Friday
Ralph Linn moved to his farm near
Bloomfield. sE . -&. ...... "a
Blanche Mallott returned to her home
near Memphis, Mo. Friday.
CLANCY Creath is moving to the
Swank ana Creath farm near town.
Fred Frazey Of Wyaconda was in
town over Sunday
Frank Casady made a business trip
to Keokuh and Ottumwa this week.
Will Steckel Of Bloomfield was in
town Wednesday,.
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A LAYMEN'S LAURELs.
The International Sunday School
Lesson for March 8 10 1.-THE Death
of Stephen."-Acts ~ to 8:3.
(By William T. Ellis.)

All sorts Of honors have come to
laymen in the long history OF the
Christian church. Their greatest dis
tinction, however, is that the first
crown Of Christian martyrdom was
laid on the brow of layman Deacon
Stephen led that long procession Of
martyrs which has extended through
the centuries from Jerusalem to Ar
menia, and which has held priests and
laymen. women and children.
Although he was only a layman,
Stephen was singularly popular in the
early church. Immediately after the
experience of the last lesson, DR..
ILuke's story proceeds to tell OF the
ministry of Stephen. .-
When Might Gets After Right.
Unable to Withstand the wisdom
and the spirit by which Stephen spoke
when his gospel was challenged, the
Jews resorted to that stupid old trick
of the strong throughout all ages
they tried to crush him by power.
Adopting the same ruse as they used
in the case of Jesus, they bribed wit
nesses to make charges of blasphemy
against Stephen and carried him be-
fore the Sanhedrin. ....
The ordeal was no easy one for
this ministering layman. To be taken
from his lowly tasks of service to face
the very tribunal that had crucided
his Lord. We should not be surprised
had he been afflicted with conster-
nation and fear. On the contrary, this
seems to have been the experience
that brought Stephen to his height.
When the high priests challenged
him, "Are these things so Stephen
was ready with an answer that is one
of the longest sermons in the New
Testament. ..,-
Like good preacher, stephen found
common ground with his hearers, even
though he had to go clear back 10
Mesopotamia. He got to the applica-
ton in good time and it certainly was
not remote; for hard upon the heels
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In Memoriam
Arthur Allen Clark.

Arthur Allen Clark was born near
Abingdon, April 20, 1908, and died at
the home of his parents, Feb. 10, 1916,
at the age of twelve years, nine
months and twenty-eight days. Fun
eral services were held from the
Christian church at Abingdon Satur.
day, Feb. 10, conducted by Rev. s. X.
Coats. Interment was made In
Abingdon cemetery.
Little Arthur had been afflicted
eleven years and was patient suf-
ferer. Too much can not be said Of
the loving, sympathetic care that was
given him by his father and step
mother. His mother died eleven years
ago and left him when but babe. Mr..
and Mrs. Clark wish to express their
thankful appreciation to the kind
friends who through all Arthur's afflic-
ton manifested 50 much loving kind
ness and especially do they thank Mr..
and Mrs. Fleener for the labors Of lovo
they performed. for after the mother
passed away they took Arthur and
cared for him two and half years.
He is survived by his father and
and Herbert, two uncles and four
aunts.-Contributed.
Robert Cameron Buchanan.
Robert Cameron Buchanan was
born in Railway, N. J., March 81, 1850,
and died at his home in Agency, Feb.
%, 1916, at the age Of sixty-hve years,
eleven months and one day. The fun
eral service was held from the Meth
od1st church at Agency, Feb. "a, at
1880 o'clock, conducted by Rev. M. D.
Cox. Interpent was made in Agency
cemetery.
When he was six months old he
came with his parents to Princeville,
ILL.,, where he grew to young manhood.
In the spring of 1871 he came to Wa
polio county where he has lived since
with the exception of two years In
Ringgold county. He united with
the Methodist church in 1885 and was
always a faithful follower. f ~
He is survived by his widow and nine
children, A. K. Buchanan Of Salmon,
Idaho; J. w. Buchanan of Num-, Colo:
Orville Buchanan Of Parsons, Kan;
Mrs. G.. w. Gosselman of Willard,
Colo; Mrs. J. H. Stull of Birmingham,
and A. L. Buchanan, Mrs. l.. L. Crem-
er and Mrs. M. D. Whipple Of Agency,
and Mrs. Guy Dale of Ottumwa. They
were all at his bedside when the end
came. He also leaves three sisters,
Mrs. E. p Scott Of Hedrick; Mrs. E.
M. Bowlin of Ottumwa, and Mrs. E. J.
Thompson of Fremont.
We shall meet but We shall miss
him; there will be one vacant chair
but we trust that we shall meet him
IN +ho+ 1opd whore corr0wS and mart.
ings shall be no more. A large mum.
Der of relatives and friends were pres
emit to pay respect to the memory OF
the deceased and to show sympathy
for the sorrowing family.
The pail bearers were his brethren
in the church.-Contribute
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What b the Matter With Our Thinking
Machine? .a.wE

Bditor The Courier:
Mans rights" are governed by a
natural law that il recognized and
compiled with, will insure him against
poverty and want. Everything neces-
:sary to his comfort and happiness Is
TO be found in the crude state in ma
lures storehouse. BY the application
81 his mental and physical powers to
Tho natural resources of the earth.
nnder sane and just system the
world can be changed from field of
carnage and crime, to a country OF
beautiful homes and happy people.
Poverty of nations wealth pro-
ducers is the greatest crime that the
human brain ever conceived OF. 1t
stands in class Of It's own, unpar-
alleled in the annals Of criminology.
With millions of people struggling for
an existence, and nature ladened with
the combined forces that can by hui
man touch be transformed into fool
and relathing is nothing less than In
competent and unjust management OF
the worlds natural property.
Through the game Of speculation the
cunning and wise are now in control
Of nearly all Of the machinery of pro-
duction and distribution, which means,
degeneracy Of the workers, through
economic slavery.
In the development Of human intel
ligence from barbarism, it will be
noticed that the transition from the
lower to the higher state has been in
conformity with the natural law of
brutality when viewing it from an
economic standpoint.
The more advanced or higher de-
Teloped IN the art Of accommodating
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VERSATILE YOUTHS
MOTHER GETS $17,50O

Iowa City, March 1.-The Sioux
City street Railway company, mulct-
ed $17,5O0 because of the death Of
Rae snydey,' an Iowa university en-.
cheering college alumnus, in street
car.automobile collision, is asking a
new trial in the United States court.
Dean w. G.. Raymond of the college
here testified in the original trial that
Snyder was a genius" He was an
expert engineer as well as an author,
musician and playwright.
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NAVY MAN HAS TIME.

Iowa City, March Harold e.
Ashmore of Chadron, Neb., the young
sailor who deserted from the United
States navy last year, months after
enlisting at Davenport, and who was
arrested in Iowa City, has been tried
before a court martial, found guilty.
sentenced to be dishonorably discharg-
ed from the navy, and to spend two
years at hard labor and has been pa
rolled without serving day.
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FIT. MADISON WATER
PLANT GOES AT SALE

Fort Madison, March AT fore
closure sale the Fort Madison water
works system was bid in by c.. F.
Street of New York, former general
manager OF the company, for $33, 700.
The Citizens Water company was
the only other bidder and offered
$4,000 The Citizens company,
which was voted franchise at a De.
cember election, announces it will In.
stall new plant the coming summer.
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Tuesday evening, the service being
conducted by the pastor, Rev. w. A.
Searcy and a corps of members and
officers at the home Of her grandson,
e. T. Jackson in Riverview. The sac
rament of the Lords supper was ad-
to Mrs. Talbot, who had
not been a member of any church
since coming to Ottumwa from Abba
several years ago. She has been an
active Christian for fifty years.
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People $ Pulpit

The Courier will publish in this
column articles contributed by
Nc rsaders. 7'Ss communications
sheuid 10 typewriter er Ia plain
hand, on ore side Of the paper;
md sjDns1. H..
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town voted in favor of consolidation
ninety-one to twenty-three, but the
country voters turned down the pro
ject.
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the neighhors and pleasant evening
spent. Mr.. and Mrs. Burnaugh leave
this week for their home in Missouri
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CONSOLIDATION VOTED DOWN.
Gearing, March 1. A proposition to
consolidate several school districts in
Lincoln township failed to carry. The
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'TRI !. WEEKLY COURIER
CHANGING ADDRESSES.

TEI0 VNNN0IN0 NOVNE00G0.
Subscribers wishing their address
changed viii please give the names OF
the postohice to which the paper has
been sent as well as tho postoffice
whore they desire it to be changed to.
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JEFF SAYS:

It seems that a year or two after
some Of the much needed reforms
have been adopted that there Is
something wrong with them.
Sometimes suspect that the fell
Ter who was agin 'em had sense
enuff to think about how they WIZ
goin' to turn out, and that was
why he wuz agin 'em.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1916-07-19

II you wake up with u bad taste
bad breath and tongue l. coated: Il
your head Is dull or aching: II whsi
you eat sours and forms gas and acid
In stomach. or you are bilious. consti.
'pated. nervous. sallow. and can't ge,
feeling Just right. begin inside bath
Ing. Drink before breakfast. . glas.
OF real hot water with q teaspoonfu
Of limestone phosphate In Il. Thi,
will nush the poisons and toxins from
stomach. liver. kidneys and bowels
and cleanse. swseten and purify the
entire slimeptary tract. Do your 10.
side bathing Immediately upon aris.
Ing In the morning to wash out OF the
system all the previous days poison.
Gus waste. gases add sour bile before
putting more food into the stomach.
To feel like young folks feel: like
You felt before your blood. nerves and
muscles became loaded with body i'm.
purities. get from your pharmacist q
quarter pound Of limestone phosp
which 10 inexpensive and almost taste
'ess. except for sourish twinge which
IL not unpleasant.
Just as soap and hot water act on
The skin. cleansing. swsstsuinE and