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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-31

large crowd was present to witness
the parade.
Concerning our homecoming:
Special to the Freeman-Tribune
by wireless via the Northwestern
route: President Wilson says the
troops are not on the border to pre-
pare for preparedness but to quiet
the bandits who have been commit
ting grave crimes which may lead to
trouble with Mexico. Also that he
may need troops on the border when
Mexico borrows $1O0,O0O,00O Of the
United States.
In other words just as soon as
Woodrow Wilson or Secretary Bak-
er or Gen. Funston says: Go home,
you Iowa suckers" there will be a
stampede and don't you fail to for
get it.
However. the only manner in
which the boys here are being mis-
used, is by restlessness caused by in
action-and we'll be home soon
take 1t from yours truly.
But he sure to build that $780,
900 school house.
Falstaff O'Satter.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-31
SOLDIER BOYS ARE I.
FOR JUDGE HUGHES
That is the Report Coming From the
Troops Stationed at Browns
vile, Texas.

Brownsville, Texas, Oct. 2S.-The
Iowa soldiers in camp here are not
taking much interest in the contest
between Harding and Meredith, as
they cannot fully understand the is
sues from the meager reports secur-
ed. On state issues there will be
little scratching and the guardsmen
will vote their party preference.
This will be true on all offices except
the president. Here every old party
tie is to be broken. The strong talk
for Hughes as the logical man indi-
Gates a stampede for the republican
presidential candidate and an almost
entire desertion of Wilson.
There is no one reason given for
this view. Some of the militiamen
believe that Hughes. with a firmer
determination, will make the settle
ment of the Mexican question much
more simple. Others contend that
they are willing to take a chance on
him If they may only be ordered
home.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-31
Odd Gold Coinage.

The First National Bank of this
city during the past week has had q
|few samples of the gold coinage OF
|1910 which recalls the peculiar in
cidents connected with a former
coinage. The ten dollar gold pieces
Of 1907 were decidedly unpopular.
In the first place. the banks all de-
murred over the coinage because the
center Of the coin was higher than
the rim and when pile of ten was
stacked up it tumbled over. The
ministers all protested over the COIN
age because In God We Trust" was
left off the products of the mint
which were coined in the year 1907.
The cartoonists all made fun of the
eagle upon its side, because it bears
much more resemblance to a turkey
buzzard than any eagle. The 1907
coinage therefore was recalled and
the ten dollar gold pieces of 1910
were corrections of the old model, so
to speak. The rims were raised to
q level with the center, so the coins
could be stacked in the banks, and
I'm God We Trust" was stamped be-
low the ridiculed eagle. in which,
alone, nothing was corrected. It re-
mains a turkey buzzard.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-31
TEACHERS ATTEND
STUDY Center
Efty-four Teachers Present at Study
in Jewell-Receive Helpful
Instruction.

Fifty-four Hamilton county teach
ers gathered in the Jewell high
school building Saturday to receive
instruction from members of the
faculty of the State Teachers COL
Ilege at Cedar Falls. The subjects
for study were geography. and read
ing and were presented by Miss Ut
|tley and Miss Tier, respectively. The
meeting was splendid one, one of
the best ever held in Hamilton coun-
|ty, and the attendance was unusual
ly large. Nine Webster City teach
|ers were among those present. Sew
|eral Study Centers, as these meetings
are called, are held during the school
year and the county superintendent
requires each teacher to attend two
of the Study Centers aside from the
annual inspirational institute.
The next meeting will be held in
Williams on Saturday, December g.,
when Miss Luce will present Ian
guage and Miss Lambert, arithmetic.
The last Study Center will be held in
the Webster City high school build
ing on Saturday, Jan. 10, Miss
Fritsz presenting phonics and prim-
ary reading and c. A. Fullerton, mu-
sic. The instruction at all meetings
is given by members of the State
Teachers college faculty of Cedar
Falls.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-31
A Line FROM THE
MEXICAN BORDER
Soldier Life Near Brownsville is
Very Tame-The Boys are
Yearning for Active
Service.
UNCLE FALsTAFF PROMOTED
Advanced From a Job Paying $50
Per Month to One That
Pays Only $50.
UNCLE FAIsTAFF PROMOTED

Brownsville, Texas, Oct. "a, 1916
Readers of the Freeman-Tribune:
The publishers of this paper have
offered your uncle Falstaff some.
thing less than $3.50 a word for a
series of ever bearing, non-refillable
stories of life on the Mexican bor-
der, and you may depend upon it,
dear hearts, there will be no long
words stirred into the stories-be-
cause money would be coming in too
slow.
To begin with, so much has been
told of life on the border; and the
past two months have been so quiet
here that life has been so tame it
has not been necessary to use cage,
it may be hard matter to furnish
dope that will be interesting to the
thousands of Freeman-Tribune read
ers who are in some way interested
in the happenings on the Mexico
line.
Joy" Hanson, publisher of the
News in civil life, and
corporal of the second squad in
army life, left here one day last
week for Iowa to spend a few days
with his family-consisting of a
wife and two printing presses-and
we'd be willing to gamble our
chances of future enlightenment on
the rules and regulations concern
ing standing army, against the
salary of private in the infantry,
that Joy" is enjoying life to the
full extent of the law. He got a
fourteen day furlough and an hour
after he had made his application
for a furlough. orders were posted
that no furlough would be granted
for a period of more than seven
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-31
Laundry Moves,

The Smith Laundry Company. for
merly the Vacuum laundry, has NOV
ed from the building on Seneca street
to the east half of the J. r. White
fats in the 500 block on Bank street
This electric laundry, owned by Geo.
w. Steep and Marion Smith, has de-
veloped good business since start
ing about year ago. The new To-
cation gives the workers much more
room than they had heretofore, the
building being seventy feet in length
and has full basement. Mr.. Smith
will go to Des Moines within a few
days to procure some new electric
machinery which the company expect
to install. More help has been seeur-
ed also.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-31
US. Joys" a lucky chap.

Gays. Joy lucky cnap.
Miles Loring has been boiled and
par-boiled and boiled over again, sc
much that he hasn't sign of a boil
and his disposition is much better
than it was a few weeks ago.
Chas. Mckay, also of c company
was in the hospital for a few days
suffering with an intended attack OF
malaria but it failed to materialize
and he was sent back to duty. How
ever, Chas. Calkins has been all
wrapped up in the hospital for more
than three weeks and up to yester-
day had been given no reasons to
believe that he would ever be dis
charged. He has been taken off
quinine and given the blood test but
there is still faint trace of malaria
and it may be several days before
the doctor can be induced to let him
return to duty. One reason Chas.
has hard luck getting away from the
hospital is because he is over am
bilious. He is SO in love with work
that he attends to the larger part of
the duties in his ward and you can
bet they are not anxious to lose him.
Wonder whether or not we ever
wrote to any one concerning our
promotion? Well, anyway, when
mess sergeant Grover Huston re-
ceived his discharge, your Uncle
was promoted from band
sergeant to mess sergeant. The du-
ties of band sergeant are nit"
All he has to do is to rehearse at
regular rehearsals and draw $50 a
with board and clothes. A
mess sergeant has to learn to make
20 cents feed man for day and
learn to draw feed for 76 men in the
company, get cussed If you get too
much of any one kind of fodder and
get cussed if you don't draw enough.
For this Is hour a day service, one
draws the sum of $50 per month.
with board and clothes. Just think
If there for severalteen years we
have been trying to draw rations
for a family Of two, and three
months later we are trying to draw
Tor family of &c grown men who
have appetites that would make the
much touted wolf at the door look
ike the shadow of bloated bond
holder.
Bugs" Berggren is top soak" of
he headquarters company and gets
away with his new job like a NAL
.ese kitten with a baby mouse.
The first battalion went out on
today-left early this
and are not home yet and
It is now o'clock.
Last evening the entire regiment
went on parade at Fort Brown and
made another splendid showing. A
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-31
Sold Restaurant.

H. H. Nicholson and family, who
have been living in Eagle Grove for
some time, where Mr.. NJ. has been
running restaurant, have returned
to this city to remain, having sold
out the restaurant business. They
have rented the property at 1887
First street where they will make
their home.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-31
SERIOUS PROBLEM
FOR many PEOPLE
High Cost of Living will Cause Some
Suffering During the Coming
Winter Months.

Many of the people in Webster
City this winter will have daily to
face the problem of providing enough
to eat for their families. The mat
ter is the most serious one which has
confronted this community in many
years.
Today in Des Moines forty-eight
pound sack of flour is So; it will be
that and more than that in Webster
City, say the local grocers. Flour
agents in this city for the past few
weeks have been talking of $14
barrel -four and the time was when
grocers here laughed at the idea;
but not now. It will come. $3.50
and 81 for a sack of -four will come
to Webster City people without .
doubt.
Yesterday cornmeal might be pur-
chased for soc the 10 pound sack;
this morning the price went up and
the consumer will pay 35c for that
amount OF meal. =,
Rice, coffee and tea are really the
only groceries which have not ad-
vanced in price in the last year. The
humble navy bean is now an aris-
tocrat and sells for IA cents pound,
when it was once z cents pound.
Sugar has doubled and is selling
from Sc to 1Oc per pound, according
to the sized quantities purchased.
Potatoes are now priced like an-
pies and other fruits and retail from
$3.50 to 81 per bushel. Butter has
been high all summer and remains
between soc and 40c per pound
There are many homes in Webster
City where butter never appears up
on the table. Oleo or other substi
tutes are the only fats offered.
Sorghum is very high and has
been for = year. Esgs. are today 81
cents and In Fort Dodge are retail
ing at 40c. In the cities they are
much higher and predictions Of soc
eggs may yet come true this winter.
1t will even cost to keep clean. for
soap is higher. The humble dish Of
sauer kraut will cost more than ever
for there was a shortage OF cabbage
last summer and cabbage and all its
products are extremely high in price.
Every commodity containing
wheat is high. Cooked wheats for
breakfast foods are selling for 1sc
md zoe and upwards, where 1t for
nerly sold at 15c per package. Puff
led wheat, which was 2 packages for
25c, is now 15c straight. Condensed
milk is 1c and &c per can higher
han last winter.
Never in the history Of America
has soda cracker been higher than
l0c per pound or pounds for Csc.
Crackers are now 123 cents per
,ound and going up. Cookies ad-
'ance every day.
The burning question Of the win
er is going to be. What may we
,uy to eat?'
a
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-31

FOR SALE-Saturday, Nov. 4, 1t
public auction, school house in
district number 6, Cass township.
Board will reserve right to reject
any or all bids. t1f1d1~
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-31

The finest perfumes at Teed &
Teed's. diff
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-10-31

One dark red calf, / year old,
strayed from pasture miles north
of town. Finder notify A. w. Cater.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28
Broadway Methodist Church.

We enjoyed greatly our fraternal ar
rangement with Brother Burns and
his good people. We always enjoy
such good fellowship. No pickering
of denominationa strife for us,
please. We will be back at home
Sunday for all services. Preaching at
II a m. and S:15 p. m. by the pastor.
Good music at both services. Miss
Thompson has charge of the organ.
Our Sunday school aeeps in fine
shape despite the excessively hot
weather We can noS afford to let
our interest lag. SO put forth little
more effort and help us tide across
the summer in good shape. 1t will be
appreciated if the men will leave
their coats at home. Keep cool, be
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28
First Presbyterian Church.

Sunday school at GAS a. m. Meet
ing of session at 10:45. Christian
Endeavor at 7:15 p. m. Evening
worship at SIS p. m. Prof Chas.
Evans will speak at the morning ser
vice You all know him and his
splendid work as president of the
Central Normal at Edmond. On Aug
ust first he begins his duties as presi-
dent of Kendall college. AS it is our
own synodical college we are all in
terested in its welfare, DR.. Evans
will give us an idea or his plans and
purposes and you can not afford to
miss it. a specfaI invitation is eX-
tended to all his former students in
the city At night the sermon will
be by DR. James G. Patterson, of New
York Presbytery Come to both ser
vices and enjoy a day of good things.
CHAS. c. WEITH, Pastor.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28
"Doctors of Humanity."

There is no law to validate the
degree of doctor Of humanity" con
ferred by the convicts at Sing Sing
prison upon Warden Osborne and
upon ex-Tean Kirchwey, on the oc-
casion of the return of Mr.. Osborne
to his place in the management of
that great penal institution, but he
verdict of humane people everywhere
will be that it was worthily bestowed.
The demonstration at Sing Sing was
welcome to Mr.. Osborne that was OF
incalculable significance, and marked
an epoch in the history of practical
penology. There will be many in
whose Judgment Mr. Osborne's meth
ods in dealing with the convicts in
the New York penitentiary ere too
lenient: they look upon him as vision
airy and deprecate his tendency to
"coddle" the criminal. The latter is
a fear that has no foundation in fact,
for he expressly disclaims any such
tendency and purpose. But ne is
working out the great experiment of
treating these people as human he
ings, of assuming that il the% are
evil there must be at the same time
some good in them capable OF belnE
developed and encouraged for their
own salvation and the good of society.
He acts on the principle that in the
vast majority of cases even a convict
will react to decent human treatment,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28
1T DOESN'T HURT TO
BE HIT BY LIGHTNING

Atlanta, Ga, July EFT doesn't
hurt at all to be struck by lightning.
The pain comes after the Hctim re.
gains consciousness.
F. r. Askew, railroad conductor of
White Plains, Ga, was struck by
lightning and realized it only when
he found himself on ile floor, the
soes torn from his shoes, and his
body bruised and bleeding.
q thought someone had slipped up
behind me while | was reading and
had beaten me insensible," Askew
says. He crept to the porch and look
ed out into the rain. The big oak
in the yard was in splinters. Then
he realized he had been struck by
lightning.
q then crawled back in the house
and took account of myself" Askew
says, at had taken two hours for
me to realize what had happened.
Did you ever drop off to sleep and
remember the exact moment you lost
consciousness? That's how it feels TO
be struck by iigntning'
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28
Horses Exceed Autos in Value.

William II. Hunt, Brookline, Mass,
treasurer of the Massachusetts Pro-
tective association for horses, recent
ly said that the value of the horses
and mules in the United States is
three times as great as the value of
automobiles.
"If all the horses died tomorrow
we should all probably starve 20
DEATH" said Mr.. Hunt. 1--WE depend
upon the horse for what we eat and
for what we wear"
His statistics showed that as re-
ported by the department of agricul-
ture there were on January !, 1916,
21,16G,OOO horses on farms, 4,565,OO
mules and 31S2,7O9 horses in the
cities, a total of 2S,913,7O9. In 1890,
in round numbers, there were 14,O0O,-
600 horses on farms in the United
States and in 1900 there were 49,
100000. The value of the horses and
mules in the country is $3,O32, 292, OOo.
Mr.. Hunt said that there are 1,SOO.-
goo automobiles in the country and
their value is $1,26O,OOO, 900.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28
Shutting Down Drilling.

]. l.. Hamon came in from the fields
last night. He has recently made a
trip to Okmulgee, where for $37,5OO
he purchased a lease Of 160 acres in
the Bald Hill district Three offsets
are due now to be drilled on this
property and Mr.. Hamon will spend
much of his time there this fall in
the development of that lease. Mr..
Hamon states that after he completes
the wells he is now drilling at Heald-
ton that J. L. Hamon and Hamon &
Colcord will drill no more wells at
Healdton, until conditions change.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28
PARENTS FIGHT FOR CHILD.
Texas Woman Stages Scene on Train
Near Shawnee.

Shawnee, Okla, July 27.-Mrs.
John Sheehan, of El Paso, Texas, to-
day made a desperate attempt while
aboard Rock Island train near here,
to forcibly take her son, Johnnie
Sheehan, s years old, from his father
Sheehan grappled with his wife, how
ever, and prevented her jumping with
the boy fromthe rapidly moving
train. Mrs. Sheehan left the train
here and started legal proceedings in
an effort to recover custody of the
Iboy.
Sheehan who has been separated
from his wife for some time, was not
aware of her presence on the train
until she appeared suddenly in the
isle near his seat, grabbed up the
youngster and hurried to the rear
vestbule Of the car, ostensibly with
the intention of jumping off.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28
Uncle Sam OIL Company.

Dixie, Okla, July 2S.-The Uncle
Sam Oil company now has tools on
the ground for well No. ! in section
l, township south, range west
with contract to drill five wells or
8 south, 4 west, with three wells or
section /, and one well on SECTION l.
and one well on section 5, all on town
ship south range A west No, l to
be drilled to a depth of 2OO0 feet and
$4,000 to be used in operations in
exchange for a large acreage in
leases.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28

that if he is trusted he will keep
faith. and that there is sense of
honor even in the lowest of human
beings which can be appealed to sue
cessfully. The recent voluntary re-
turn to Sing Sing of an escaped con
vict, under the spur of conscience
and the prompting of his fellows in
the underworld in which he sought re
fuge, is one signal proof ofHhe practi-
cal correctness of Mr. Osborne's the
ory and practice.
The iubilation at Sing Sing was
more than a personal and triumphant
home coming for Mr. Osborne; it was
demonstration of the essential hui
m&nity that is not eXtingushed or
blunted by prison sentence. 1t was
recognition of which any official
might be proud, but the satisfaction
Will not be confined to Mr.. Osborne's
wards at Sing Sing. 1t marks a great
step forward toward the overthrow
| of inhumane traditions in the treat
ment of those against whom society
is forced to protect itself, And, more
than that, it signalizes the utter de
feat of the sinister forces which for
selfish and criminal purposes sought
20 defeat Mr.. Osborne's work and
| faster, again upon Sing Sing the re
gime of cruelty and graft which had
made it notorious among American
penal institutions, breeding place
for crime. over whose portals might
well have been inscribed those words
which Dante found on his approach tC
tie Inferno: "All hope abandon, yc
who enter here" What Mr. Osborn.
has done has been to bring back hope
to the convicts, to appeal to theil
better natures, to stimulate the flick
ering traces of honor which crime has
not been able wholly to blot out
For such a man, what better title
than doctor of humanity" - Phila
delphia Public Ledger.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28
MORRIS HILLQUITT

Socialists the world over continue
their endeavOrs to unite in behalf of
peace, although their course in all
the warning countries is attended
with difficulties, since many Of the
most ardent of 'internationalists, be
fore the war, are now just as earnest
advocates of nationalism. On July 81
an international meeting of socialists
working for peace will be held in The
Hague. The American delegate to the
conference is Morris Hillquitt. the
well known New York writer and
orator.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28
First Christian Church.

Bible school, communion and
preaching service, 10 "A. m. Subject
of morning sermon, Attending In
fueuces." Christian EndeavOr Z p.
m, Leader, Miss Lucy Benton.
Praise and preaching service s p. m.
Subject of evening sermon, "A Dual
Life" All other regular services dur
ing the week. The public is cordially
invited to attend all of our services.
We try to make you feel at home
with us This is The Church With q
Smile" where strangers and visitors
in the city are given the glad hand
Best music in the city.
j. W. BURNS, Pastor
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28

Holy communion will be celebrated
at 1880 a. m. and at II with sermon
The Sunday school will meet prompt
ly at 9:45 for a short session at the
close of which the Sunday school will
be dismissed for the month of August
to open promptly on the first Sunday
in September.
During the absence of the rector
the services, consisting of simple
morning prayer, will be read by ouI
Lay Reader Mr.. H. l.. Gregory
f. w. GOLDEN HOWES, Rector
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28
Starts Two to New Sand.

Hamon & Colcord on Coffey lease A
in 15-4-3 have started two wells, to be
drilled TO the Simpson sand. The
wells are being started with a larger
hole than has been the custom in that
section, and every effort will be made
to land the S-inch on the Simpson
sand.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28

At the Ardmore Horse & Mule Mar
ket, Saturday, July 90. we will sell to
the highest bidder 40 head mares and
colts, ranging from three to seven
years old, from 1f1s to 15lR hands
high. Terms 80 days with good Sc
curity, 5 per cent off for cash Phone
red 922. 2@I
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28
Will Deepen Gas Well.

Hamon & Colcord No. 1 on the COT
fey A lease in section 1913, which
was completed several months ago at
1925 feet and which made 52,OOO,OOO
feet of gas, is being deepened and
that portion of section 10 will be test
ed for the Simpson sand. This well
is about one quarter of mile north
west of the initial well drilled to this
sand.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-07-28
Bought Ten Tanks.

Gates Oil company has purchased
ten more steel tanks. The company
has the assurance that the steel will
be delivered at once and under the
contract one tank is to be completed
every two weeks until the full number
has been completed.