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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31
THE METHODISTS IN SESSION
seventy-third Iowa Conference Open
ed at Mt. Pleasant Today.

Mount Pleasant, Aug 3O.-A bust
ness session of the I'D Iowa Confer
ence of the NJ. E. church opened here
this morning after the formal opening
last night. The morning was taken
up by two sermons by Bishop McCon'
mel and Rev T. J. Myers.
There will be reports from various
committees this afternoon and Rev
Forsythe was to speak at the evening
meeting.
Hundreds of ministers are attend
ing the conference, which will end
next Monday, when appointments will
be made.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31
Leaps to Death,

Lacrosse, Wis., Aug. 30.-Miss Mel
lie Wilson, member of a prominent
family, committed suicide yesterday
afternoon by leaping from boat into
the Mississippi river outside the La
Crosse harbor. g..
She had been making a trip from
her home in Mediapolis, Iowa, to st.
Paul on a boat operating between st.
Louis and St. Paul. A travelling COM
Tanion made an unsuccessful effort to
prevent the suicide. The body has
not yet been recovered
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31
Funeral Services For Wright.

Centerville, Aug. 30.-Funeral SER
vices for private Henry Wright of the
Centeryille militia, were held yester-
day. Wright swallowed poison while
serving in the Iowa National Guard on
the border.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31
$4,000 At STATE FAIR TODAY
Estimated That Fully 100000 Mark
Will Be Reached.

Des Moines, Aug. 30.-Secretary Cor
ey said that probably $4,000 would WIS.,
it the fair before Wednesday night.
This makes the total well above the
$50, 900 mark and it is thought that the
300, 900 mark will be easily reached in
the two days to come and will prob
ably be beyond that.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31
POLICE GUARD IS DOUBLED
Five Men Are Shot and One Has a
Broken Skull as Result of Riot.

st. Louis, Aug. 30.-Police guard on
wagons of dairies, whose drivers are
on a strike, was doubled today fol-
lowing a riot last night in which five
men were shot and a sixth taken to
the hospital with broken skull.
Strikers today said that strike
breakers opened fire on them. Strike
breakers say the strikers stoned them
beore they fred The police arrest
ed eight strike breakers.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31
Sioux City Bridge is Sold.

Sioux City, Ia, Aug. 30.-The COM
bination bridge over the Missouri river
here was sold at auction yesterday af-
ternoon to w. l.. Selby & Son of Oma-
ha The bridge was built about twenty
years ago at a cost of nearly $1,000
900.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31
Held for steaIino Horses.

Britt, Aug. 30.-Fred Taylor has
been arrested for the theft of a wagon
Friday night fro mthe farm Of Sieyert
Severson. When his place was
searched several other wagons two
horses and some harness was found
that had been taken from farmers
near here. He was lodged in Jail and
will await action of the grand jury.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31
ALL SENATORS MUST RETURN
Resolution So Ordering Unanimously
Passed This Morning.

Washington, Aug. 90.-Because OF
the present emergency, Senator Kern
introduced a resolution which was
unanimously passed instructing all alb.
sent senators to return at once unless
excused for illness.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31
increased Rates SUSPENDED.

Washington, Aug. S0.-The Inter
state Commerce Commission Today
suspended increased trans-continental
rates recently proposed by coast to
coast roads.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31
Three Murder Cases.

Centerville, Aug. 3O,-Three muir
der cases and other criminal action
will make the court docket the heavi-
est OF the year in the September term
OF district court which opened yester-
day by Judge Hunt.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31
Accident May Cost Life.

r Greenfield, Aug. 3O-Jay Chapman
received perhaps fatal injuries Sun
day when an automobile in which he
was riding turned turtle on one of the
main streets of the city. His skull
was fractured.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-31

CONTINUED on Page %
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
CHRONIC
CONSTIP ALTON

Constipation leads to many other
diseases. 1t poisons your system, up
sets the stomach and liver, has a bad
action on the heart and blood which
causes the skin to become yellow and
1eathery. You lose your energy and
action. A bottle of Leonardfs Liver
Aid is the right remedy for chronic
constipation, inactive liver, bilious
ness, flatulency, chtl1s, pains, aches.
jaundice, indigestion and all disor-
ders of the liver, stomach and bowels.
Delicious to take, gives a healthy and
natural action to the liver. Being
purely vegetable, it contains no
harmful ca1ome1 or Injurious drugs.
A fine tonic for the entire system.
Get bottle from yours druggist to-
day. soc. or Htnd1e's Drug Stores, 9S7
Main street and 909 Main street,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
LITTLE BENNY'S
NOTEBOOK
By les Pan

That Mrs. Wilkins serteny must be
a giddy young thing, ma sed to pop
wen he came home yestidday.f
Wy. I always thawt she seemed ex-
sepshinilly quiet, sed pop.
Its just the quiet seeming ones that
are awffen the giddiest, jest look at
this book she forgot to take with her
wen she left this afternoon, sed ma.
And she showed pop a book, and pop
sed, The 2 Loves of Donald Trevver,
well for the love of bad reputayshin,
that's the book the pub1ik 1iberys have
jest refused to put on thare shelves,
izent it.
That's the book, all rite, the ideer Of
Mrs. wilkins carrying it GROUND and
leeving it in peepils houses, wy wat if
GIaddis saod ever get hold of it, it
wood be dreadful, III hide it immeed-
lily, 1sed ma.
Wfch she did, putting it in the
bookcase behind aN1ot of uthir books.
and after suppir pop went out and
wen he came home agen ma was reed
ing book in the setting room, being
so intristed in it she dident heer pop
come up stares and he sed, O, the
familiar wicked red cover on that
book, PaWIeen. watts that your reed
ing
o, is that you, Willyurn, how you
fritened me, sed ma, wy, I'm jest,
was merry l. was sO111y S1dnIS1nS over
this dreadful Loves of Donald Trevver
book to see if it was RELY unfit for
GIaddis to see3
All hah, and how long have you
bin glants1ng over it, sed pop.
Not so very long, sed ma. And she
quick put it back in the bookcase, pop
saying, Well, and is it RELY so bad
It's dredfi1l, its terribi1, sed ma
What do you no about Mrs wilkins,
sed pop. And pritty soon after that
I went to bed and pritty soon after
that I went to sleep, and a lawng
vile after that I woke up agen feel
ing as if I wunted a glass of wattir
And got up and went to the bath
room to get and thare was a lite in
the setting room, and I went and
looked in, and who was in thare but
pop reeding a book in his pidjammers-
Watts you reeding pop, I sed.
For the lover Mike, wy don't you
scare a fello to deth. go strate back
to bed before you catch cold, sed pop
Yes sir, watts you reeding, sed.
Never mind sed pop. Wfch I dident
mind, only noo,wat it was all rite by
the color of it, and went back to
bed and left pop thare reeding it in
his pidjammers.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
TEA Down, COFFEE UP.

Some rather surprising statistics
were published the other day, to the
effect that the consumption of tea has
decreased in this country L I per cent,
while that of coffee has gone up 81
per cent. during a recent period.
One would think the Americans
were drinking more tea In the draw
ing rooms of the Smart Set, at 'Coun-
try Clubs, church functions, and all
society events, there is a hutter OF
feminity about the pervasive tea urn
More or less of the male persuasion
are drawn into the current, and drink
pale nippers from Oolong, sharpened
by pungent slices of lemon.
But one questions whether you see
as much actual tea drinking at table
as you used to. There is an aroma
of good form that attaches to the af-
ter dinner coffee. The lady with
hair streaked with grey may boldly
sufficiently smart to satisfy those
incomprehensible DEGREES of table
fashions that prevail among the
young set?
Meanwhile the reign of the coffee
pot stands. based on satisfactions
more tangible than the styles and
manners of formal feeding. To the
working man the tang of the coffee
cup puts zest into life again. The
hash may be pale grey instead of gol-
den brown, the mullins may have a
specific gravity far beyond what would
be normal for their size.
But if the coffee has the true tang
of the tropics, it puts life into his
veins again. He breaks the moody
silence of his prematurely early start,
life looks CHEEKY again. He grabs
the dinner pail and starts with
round pace for the shop or the field.
All hail to the coffee cup, and may
the working man always be able to
afford it's hearty summons to life and
labor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08

SUFFRAGE NEWS

Included in the extensive plans for
educational work which are being put
into operation with the opening of the
New Year by the Sufragists are four
lectures under the auspices of the
Hartford Equal Franchise NLeague.
The first is to be held next Wednes-
day evening at Unity Hall, and the
speaker will be Professor Zueblin, one
of the best known speakers on democ-
racy and woman suffrage in the
United States. Professor ZuebIin' s
subject is announced as MAN and
Woman and the H. E. F. L. is i'd
vertising the meeting largely and ex-
poets to gather a full audience. The
other three lectures in the series will
be given by Rabbi Wise, on February
L; Max Eastman on March z3, and
Mrs. Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale
on April Is.
Another meeting to be held next
week is one at Bristol at the home of
Mrs. Edward E. Newell, when Mrs.
Thomas N. Hepburn, President of the
Connecticut Woman Suffrage associa-
ton will be the speaker. This week
the first week of 1916-has been COM
memorated by the Suffragists with a
whole burst of suffrage meetings.
Almost every town has had a suffrage
meeting of a more or less public char
acter. There was one in Bridgeport,
before the Philosophical society when
Mrs. Hepburn was the speakers one
at Stratford when Miss Catherine
Flanagan of Hartford gave an ac-
count of the recent annual suffrage
convention at Washington, one at
South Manchester, when Mrs. Porritt
spoke of Congress and the recent
congressi ona1 hearings on woman suf-
frage. Besides these meetings Miss
Emily Pierson addressed several
gatherings. On Tuesday she spoke be-
fore the Morths' Neighborhood club
of Hartford. On wednesday she a4d-
dressed the Hartford Equal Rights
club, and later in the week she was
in New Haven and Bridgeport
Miss Pierson has only just resum-
ed work in Connecticut after an alb
sence lasting almost continuously
since the first week of April. Just
as soon as the vote was taken in the
House of Representatives at Hartford
on the state suffrage amendment, Miss
Pierson started for New Jersey where
she workd herd all through the sum-
rner in the campaign that eliminated
in the popular vote fon October 10.
She came back to Connecticut TO
speak at the annual state suffrage
convention which was in session from
October 10 to ri; and then went to
New York for the final weeks of the
campaign there. That over she took
a. much needed vacation and now that
this holiday is at an end she is back
in this state infusing her usual yigor
and zeal into the campaign of educa-
ton which the c. w. s. A! has UNDER
taken
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
WOMEN'S ADVISER
HAS NO SWEETHEART

Dear Miss Libbey:-
am young man reader of 10 and
ask to obtain information. Several
girl friends, some older than I am,
come to me for advice in my profess
sion 7 gain their confidence, as ad-
wiser, but not so in the regard of a
sweetheart. Can you suggest a proper
way in which I may? Thanks in ad-
vance
He.
You have not found the right one
Rest assured it is the unexpected that
happens in bringing sweetheartst to-
gether. You will meet your ideal in
the near future,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
BUILDING NOTES


Nine building permits we're granted
by the building nnissioners last
night the aggregate OF which will be
$429,865- The permits were:
To change store front, east side OF
East Main street, for Mary Pezzella-
A two-family house, south side of
Garfield avenue, for H A Halli-
day.
Two-famI1y house east side of Mid
land street, for Carl A.. II. Carlson
Two-family house on east side of
sarlton street, for Mrs. Bertha Hur-
lock.
One family house, south side Of
Lorraine street, for Henry j. Nal.
Frame private garage. north side
OF. Clarence street, for william and
Ida 'Gensia- e &
8 Two-fanily frame dwelling. north
side OF Ford place, for Edward H.
Jones.
Two-fanr1y frame dwelling, north
side of Ford place, for Edward Fo-
ley
Two-story frame and brick building,
Huntington road and East Main street
for Jennie A. C1neo.
FUNERAL DESIGNS AND
n
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
IF ONE VISITS,
OTHERS STAY AWAY

Dear Miss Libbey:-
I, a girl reader of IS, have an old
lover. Now I care little about him
My parents liked him very much
Some infer if I permit him to come
steady no one else will appear. like
company. Do you consider encourag-
ing old lover if honorably I may win
another? Can I decide in any other
way? Please advise.
MN
The idea is right. If one visits you
whom you do not care for others will
stay away. Decide at once. It is hon
orable not to be changeable and to,
know your own naind.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
TODAY'S POEM
WHERE THE WEST BEGINS

WHERE THE WEST BEGINS
Out where the handcIasp's a little
stronger,
Out where smile dwelIs little long
err,
That's where the West begins.
Out where the SUMS a little brighter
Where the snow that falls is a trif1e
whittier,
Where the bonds of home are a wee
bit tighter,
That's where the West begins.
Out where skies are a trif1e bluer,
Out where friendships a little truer,
That's where the West begins.
Out where a fresher breeze is blowing,
Where there is laughter in every
streamlet flowing,
Where there's more of reaping and
less of sowing, F.
That's where the West begins.
Out where the world is in the making
Where fewer hearts with despair are
aching:
That's where the West begins
Where there is more of singing and
less of signing,
Where there is more of giving and
less of buying,
And man makes friends without
half trying
That's where the West begins.
Arthur Chairman
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08

Reply was, ''I have no objection to
her having you only you are too
young Youth spoke up tartly. ssshe
is old enough to marry. Why keep US
from being wed? If you are not will
ing, we may run OFF, Please tel,
what you think of a young man ask
ing in that way. Kindly reply.
b. F. G.
1t is an odd way he has of express
ing his wants. Perhaps it was not
meant in earnest. Yet he had no
right to think of clipping However.
"Alls well that ends we'll" Time will
tell.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
MISS LIBBEYS REPLIES
TO YOUR LETTERS

Miss Libbey's answers to your
letters. Correct name and adj
dress must be given to in
sure attention. Initials printed.
Write short letters on one side
of paper only. Use ink. Per-
SOnal letters cannot be answer
ed. Address Miss Laura Jean
Libbey, No. 916 President ST.,
Brooklyn, ~. Y.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
ANIMAL COOKEs

For these cookies. use one pound
of sifted flour, mixed with one cup
of cornstarch; liberal one-quarter
pound of butter, three quarters of a
pound of sugar. even tablespoonful
of soda, dissolved in milk. Mix with
milk to dough stiff enough to roll out
rather thin, If baking powder Is
used one and one-haIf teaspoonfuls is
sufficient, as cookies should not be
too light. Cut into various animal
forms and bake in a quick oven tn
a delicate brown.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
OATMEAL MuFFTNs

Pour / cup Of seaIding milk over
2-S of cup of, raw rolled oats, let
stand five minutes, 1 1-2 cups OF
flour, tablespoons of baking pow
der, 1 tablespoon of melted shorten
ing Outer or lard) and L tablespoon
of milk. Makes II gems. Bake from
IL to Is minutes
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
NOT. JEALOUS,
YET UNHAPPY
Dear Miss Llbbey:-

Dear Miss Libbey:-
My husband and I do not live hap
PLY the five years we have been wed
He is 80 years older than I am. cross,
never friendly with respectful people.
He makes money AS a girl I never
wished for anything. Can a lady be
happy with man always angry with
his wife for cause? When she
says home and works to save his pay?
He enjoys others company to go
about, [ am not Jealous these five
years. If he gives little money wishes
me to stay home all times. Kindly
advise troubled
MRS. X H.
Try even harder to aid your cause
for future happiness by not fancying
woes Most married couples have now
and then little differences But nus
bands who support and shield one are
best to try to mold into harmony and
love.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
AsPIC JELLY

Soak LIZ box of gelatin in 1-2pint
of water an hour. Cook tomatoes
with i small onion. sliced, 2 tea
spoons of sugar, a bay leaf and tea
spoon minced parsley, with pepper
and salt to taste Drain and then
add gelatin; stir until dissolved and
strain through coarse cloth into small
moIds. Chill. and when firm serve
on lettuce with mayonnaise:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
DISHEARTENED
BY HEARSAY
Dear Miss Libbey:-

Dear Miss Libbey:-
am a girl in my teens. Go with a
youth my. senior now for years. He
told me he thought considerable of me.
Girl friends intimate most attention to
other young ladies. re boards with
uncle, distance from home. Is nice
in every respect. Must give him up
owing to hearsay? I am devoted to,
him truly. The world would be lonely
without him. Can win him?
DISHEA RTENED C. L. =,
Foolish to do SO. Try to be bright
and more interesting to him than the
other girls and you MY win.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08


Old doubts. make my spirit their
Oh, come through the darkness and
save me
For am alone
When a widower tacit1y admits to
his dear five hundred friends ana the
public at large that he is looking
around again there is very often a Sc
cret hue and cry, not only among his
acquaintance, but among those who
know of him. How can he forget thus
the loved and lost? He should be sit
ting by his dreside hugging memory
to his lone heart
widows make mo comment. They
understand the situation and hold
their peace. Men, too, understand the
heart of man, and quote tersely:
is not well for man to live alone"
The widower who has been led along
by this persons opinion and that per-
sons views and another ones remarks,
finds when he sits down and goes
thoughtfully over his life, past, pres
ent and future, that the ideas of others
should not influence him,
Every man must live out his own
existence, independent of any ono else.
Those who warn him the most vigor-
ous1y that he is better off single are
not eating at a lonely table or sitting
at a lonely Preside as he is They
nave In6lT uV1nS loves CHERISHED
face by their side, some one to speak
to, a warm gentle hand to clasp their
own lovingly.
! Such friends can talk well and mean,
well, no doubt. But when it comes
down to it, what do they care for his
lonely hours? His heartaches are his,
not theirs. His beautiful past, tender
with it's memories, is a page that has
been turned The present alone is his,
hour by hour and day by day.
The lonely heart is sad one. Life
should be measured by it's sunshine
that drifts across the present, not by
its gloom Because the heart may
bloom a second time it must not be
supposed that it's frs bloom which
less cherished It is neither wise nor
best to keep the sharp knife of mem
Dry ever at an old wound. It is more
merciful that it should heal.
Love is essential to life just as the
dew is to flowers and the sunshine. to
the heart shrivels- Tenderness and
hope die within it. There is nothing
to look forward to.
Love is the strongest staff which de-
clining years can lean upon. 1t salts
hes the heart as nothing else can. The
heart is peaceful when there is no
void The widower's path should not
be made hard which leads to his sec
ond diving. On the contrary, it should
be smoothed for him For he, and
he alone, knows best what his heart
Graves
1T love, pure and true,
Is to the soul sweet, immortal dew.
That gems 1ife's petals in its hours of
dusk
When life is falling from US like a
withered husk."
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
sCALLOPED FISH

This can be made of left over fish
from dinner or salt Goldfish freshened-
Flake your fish, add cream sauce,
salt. pepper and crumbs on top with
dots of butter and bake.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
CORNER FOR COOKS
CORN CHoWDER

Two slices of salt pork cut fine and
fried brown. Two onions and two po-
tatoes,s sliced thin and boiled. Take
a can of corn or six or eight grated,
add a quart Of milk and your pork
and onions. Add water If too thick.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
BUTTER FROsTTNG

One cup of confecttoners' sugar, 1
tablespoon of butter. 2 tablespoons
milk, 1-2 teaspoon of vanilla. Beat
with a fork. until creamy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
BOLD YOUTH TO
RUN OFF AND WED f?

Dear Miss 1jbbey:-
My sister, twenty years DID, is going
with a youth her age. Lately he
asked fathers consent to wed her.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
a:(anorY
POINT.

You will find here the biggest values
ever offered in winter millinery, fur
scarfs and muffs. coats, shirtwaists,
petticoats, sweaters and angora wool
scarfs and caps at e. H. Dillon &
Co.'S. 1105 Main street.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08

Prison reform. the housing problem,
the immigrant question Especially in
relation to the European WARP coun-
try life and rural betterment are some
of the topics that will be considered
at the meeting of the woman's de-
partment of the national civic fedora
ton which will meet at the New viii
lard hotel in Washington, Jan. IT and
10. The federation has a committee
which has devoted much time to the
study of conditions of women in rural
communities and will make an ina
portant report at the meeting. Miss
Maude Wetmore of Rhode Island IS
head of the woman's department Of
the federation.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08

The Scientific American says the
average woman who wears no cor
sets. has I'll inches lung capacity, as
against 134 for the corset wearer. But
the latter may be more popular be-
cause they can't talk so long.
It is complained that telephone ep-
orators never let you finish SEN
tence. which shows that they possess
excellent Judgment.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08

"a st. Louis German killed himself
because he could not speak English.
though it was never supposed that
that pleasing accomplishment was
needful in that city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08

After the Austrian note on the An
coma, our fighting editors had to lock
up their rusty horse pistols in the
bottom drawer; but now that the
Persia has been sunk, they are bran
dishing them more ferociously than
ever.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08

Many towns have an annual clean
up day. but in time that will he re-
garded as only as satisfactory as the
man who takes an annual bath
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08

When the compositors don't have
much to do, it is always q good plan
to put the obituaries of some more
aviators into type.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08

AN DUN o E M MT
DIR. CHA RLEs NJ. ENY
Dentist
is now located at his now dental
Office. Rooms SOC, 500 Security
Building, HIS Main Street, Bridge
mort, Conn. Phone 245s-2.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-08
IF LOVE SHOULD
COME AGAIN

81 need you, my darling, my darling!
With it's yearnings, my very heart
aches,
The load that divides US weighs hard
I think from the jar that it makes
Old sorrows rise up to beset me;
Old doubts. make my spirit their
own.
Oh, come through the darkness and
save me
For [ am alone"