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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
April 20, 1896.
FRIDAYS PICNIC.

b.
The picnic given by the Webster
City schools last week was an enjoy
able affair. At an early hour Friday
forenoon, buggies, carriages, hay
racks, ETC., we'll filled with expect
ant happy picnickers, might have
been seen hurrying to and fro on the
streets, all eager for the days out
ing. Many Of the turnouts were
brightly decorated with the stars
and stripes and they left town with
the colors flying. The schools, sep
arated into different crowds, some of
the rooms going up the river, and
others to different points down the
Boone. One of the crowds expert
enced a little excitement on account
of a runaway but there were no SER
ious casualties to mar the days en-
joyment. The unanimous verdict of
the participants seems to be that
the days outing was a huge success.
F. M. Merchant, the Seneca street
timer, has moved into the old Det-
lor room, corner Bank and Seneca
streets.
The gay and festive tramp is be-
coming altogether too previous in
Webster City this spring and it may
become necessary for those who
have business in the suburbs after
night to return to the custom of
carrying six-shooters or Winchester
rifles as a precau tionary measure, A
few evenings ago a young man was
held up in the east part of town and
relieved Of his odd change, and Mon
day night two attempts at high way
robbery were made near the cross
ing of the Illinois Central tracks in
the, northeast part of town. DR.. A..
M Pond was returning from a call
in the country at about 1 o'clock in
the morning and while near the
Central tracks in the neighborhood
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

a message, and she delivers it in
good, plain English with pronounced
German accent. Her address was
not without its flavor of homely but
wholesome humor. Combating one
argument of the ants that woman
would not vote if they could, she
said, perhaps not; they don't have
to; they can stay at home. The law
allows all women to marry, but they
don't all want to-"
Altogether the Webster City suf-
fragists feel that they could not have
had a stronger presentation. of their
cause than was given by this prac-
tical home keeper, farm manager
and law maker-Mrs. Agnes l.. Rid
die of Colorado.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
FILED |! !
IN DISTRICT J. COURT
Suit for Divorce 5000 Damage De-
manded Because Of Alleged
Diseased Hogs.

Howard Hale has filed petition
in the county clerks Office asking for
a divorce from his wife, Eta J. Hale.
The parties were married in October,
1885, and lived together until last
February. Cruel treatment is charg-
ed. Il
The Willmers Bros. Cigar Co. of
Dubuque want Judgment against
Alexander Christian and Bert Pres
colt Of harrisburg for $3o.75, claim
ed due for goods.
Kate Naber demands Judgment
against o. F. Donaldson ct al for
1927 10. It is alleged that plaintiff
bought some lots of defendant and
that defendants agreed to pay sewer
assessments against said property,
but. have failed to do SO.
Charles Nelson sues for judgment
against w. D. Adams for $500. It
is alleged that Nelson bought hogs
of Adams and that the hogs had the
cholera, inoculating Nelson's herd
with the disease.
The Standard Cigar Co. of Ga
lena, ILL.,, has filed a petition in the
county clerks office asking judg-
ment against Alexander Christian
and Bert Prescott of harrisburg for
$40. claimed due on account.
F. L. Hodgkins demands, judgment
for $1.O70 against w. j. and Alice
Biernatzki and the foreclosure of
mortgage on lot Z, block 80, Webster
City.
Arch Cormaney prays for judg-s
ment against G.. B. Segar for $3.50
claimed due on note. "
F. c. Ruegnitz asks for possession
of plano sold by him to d. A. and
Viola M. Ritchie of Jewell in 1912.
on which 500 is now due, and
which the First National Bank of
Jewell now has in its wrongful pos
session.
The Miller Rubber company asks
Judgment against the Webster City
Auto Co. ct al for $26o.14 claimed
due for goods.
The Standard Glass & Paint Co.
ask judgment against H. L, Dow &
Co. ct al. for 5000 alleged due
~ rs !. ". j. y . a
for goods. M
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
gen
ERAL CONFERENCE

Saratoga Springs, N y, May To-
AS the quadrennial session of the
Methodist General Conference open
ed here today to continue through
the month, interest became keen
about who will be the bishops,
The conference will elect six, per-
haps seven bishops, and perhaps
more If new law is. enacted per-
hitting bishops for races, it is as
sumed negro bishop will >be .chos-
en-. One Of the clergymen who is ex-
pected to be elected bishop is the
Rev. DR.. Ezra s. Triple, president of
the Drew Theological Seminary,
Madison, n, J. DR.. Triple is chair
man of one of the conference COM
mittees. Perhaps the next most
talked of man for bishop is the Rev.
Thomas Nicholson, of New York,
secretary of the Methodist Board of
Euucation.
DR.. James Roscoe Day, chancellor
of Syracuse University, will attend.
DR.. Day is the only living man in
the history of Methodism ever elect
ed to the bishopric who refused the
honor. Another candidate for bish-
op is the Rev. DR.. Franklin Hamil-
ton, chancellor of the American
Methodist University, at Washing
ton, D. C. He is a brother of Bish-
OPP John w. Hamilton, of Boston.
The Rev. DR.. L. J. Birney, dean Of
the Boston Methodist School OF The
ology, is said to have his hat in the
ring. DR.. David R. Downey, book
editor of the Methodist denomina-
tion just missed election at the Min
neapolis convention. Friends Of the
Rev. DR.. Allan MacRossie, superin-
tendent of the New York district,
have episcopal aspirations for him.
There is some gossip that Professor
F.. Watson Hannah, of Drew Semin-
airy, may receive good vote. He
was until q few years ago pastor OF
one Of the largest churches in Brook
Ign. Many leading Methodists are
of the opinion that some of the new
bishops should be chosen among
men who have made good" only as
pastors. Among the pastors being
advocated is the Rev. Dr.. Andrew
fGillies. pastor of Hennepin Avenue
Church, Minneapolis His salary is
7,500-larger than that of any 9TH
err pastor and as large as the bish-
ops salaries. Other pastors who are
possibilities are the Rev. DR.. Charles
B. Mitchell, of st. James Church,
Chicago; the Rev. DR.. Matt S.
Hughes, of Pasadena, CAL, brother
of Bishop Edwin F. Hughes, of San
Francisco, and the Rev. DR.. Charles
Wesley Burns, of Germantown, Pa.
The Rev. DIR. Bertrand S. Triple,
pastor of the American Methodist
rChurch in Rome, may be made bish-
op for Southern Europe. He is at
present in this country DIR. Ezra S.
Triple is his brother.
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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

work, in like a pair Of scissors, being
outspread at the start and gradually
coming together. Then they open
again as they go around the corn
and when getting to. the far side of
the corn automatically come togeth-
er again.
To eliminate danger Of cutting the
corn down, If the blades do not come
together at the right moment there
lis a lever that is regulated by the
driver from his seat. This can be
adjusted at any time and by slight
touch on the lever.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
Boys Enjoy Picnic.

About twenty boys who attend the
junior department OF the Baptist
church had another Of their pleas
urable picnics Friday evening down
in the vicinity of Hogsback. A big
bonfire was built and sandwiches
and other eatables consumed around
its cheerful blaze. Mock battles
and other vigorous games were en-
joyed and the boys were in a vicin-
ity where they could ''holler all they
wanted to-" Messrs. George Steep
and Frank Wetkavska were present
all evening and conducted the boys
safely home.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
THE SW|IzER-
LAND METHOD

Berne, May 1.-THE men of Swift
Hzerland aren't soldiers, in peace
times. They are only citizens who
know how to be soldiers if they have
to. The United States doesn't need
100000 soldiers. What it does
need is 100000 men who know
how to be soldiers in case the need
arises.
81 had boy in college" wrote the
father Of a young British soldier.
zone day he ran off and enlisted in
a London foot regiment After
three months training his regiment
was sent to Flanders. He was killed
lat Ypres. l am telling you this to
help you preach the gospel of COM
pulsory training, not CONSUMPTION.
II am grieved and proud about my
boy. But I feel that his regiment
did not have a sporting chance.
They only knew how to go
on and die. l feel that the men in
England who oppose compulsory mil
itary training are guilty of a great
er felony than those who sank the
Lusitania. This is the sort of feel
ing find, this feeling expressed by
this father, that brought about COM
pulsory military training in Switzer-
land.
Here in Switzerland where, under
the marvellous system of military
training, fifth of million Of the
finest soldiers in Europe were pIac-
ed on the frontiers of their country
to guard them before the first shots
at Liege had died down, you get it
driven into your American mind
that compulsory military training
isn't intended to create soldiers. It's
purpose is to create nation OF fine.
strong young men and hale, hearty
old men who will know how to be
soldiers if an enemy forces them to
play that role.
The Swiss aren't fussy; they don't
love fighting. All these years OF
learning how to be soldiers, If tho
need comes. has taught them that
fighting is no picnic and that it
doesn't pay to start row just fol-
the sake of rowing.
The Swiss are not fighting ma
ton, like the Serbs, for instance
and yet, man for man the Swiss
army is the equal of any army in the
world. Every citizen in the ever
fighting Balkans is soldier; a DO
tential killer That's one of the
troubles with the Balkans. But ev-
cry citizen of switzerland because OF
his scientific training, is citizen
who'd be soldier only when some
enemy drives him to play that role
That's the big reason Switzerland il
at peace today.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
81 100000 Worth Of Tools.

Pittsburgh, May With author
ity to spend million dollars, N. C..
Chu and Gee Sing Sam, Hongkong
brokers, arrived in Pittsburgh today
to buy tools, hardware and builders
supplies for use in China. Because
of the war, it Is said, China has been
unable to get needed steel goods de-
Iivered 1t is believed one of the
reasons for the mission OF the Chin
ese is to secure contracts direct that
will carry better delivery accommo-
.dations.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
Paint for everything at Teed's.
a UNIQUE Service.

Next Sunday the Baptist Juniors
will enjoy unique service. Mr.. and
Mrs. George Steep are planning
flower service at this time. The chill
dren will be divided into groups and
Mr.. and Mrs. Steep and Mrs. Il. S.
Clifton as leaders, will go into the
woods northwest of town and gath
err flowers, meeting later at central
location in the woods when Rev.
Staples will deliver talk on flowers
and birds. The services will be con-
Quoted by the boys Gospel Team, the
leader being Howard Parkhurst. Mu-
sic will be furnished by Glenn Steep
and James White and readings Civ
en- by Harold Cunningham and
George Steep, Jr.
Finest watches and clocks, at
Teed e. Teed'S diff
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
MRS. AGNESL. RIDDLE
DELIVERS ADDRESS
Speaks in Court Room on Subject Of
Sufrage-Fair Sized Audience
Present. .

~ Notwithstanding the rainy WeatH-
er, fair sized audience was present
Saturday night at the court room to
hear the suffrage address by Mrs.
Agnes l.. Riddle of Colorado. The
address was a plain unassuming talk
by plain unassuming woman, bas-
ed upon her own observations dur
ing twenty-five years of life in a
suffrage state and her own expert
ence in three terms in the Colorado
legislature. Her logic was sound
but simple and she carried her audi
ence with her from her first sem
tence. She spoke from the stand
point of a thoroughly domestic wona-
an who managed her household, sent
her children to SCHOOL, baked bread
and made kraut and still found time
to attend to her public duties as leg
islator.
Mrs. Riddle is not politician in
the ordinary meaning of the term.
Her only motive in entering the leg
islative race was to introduce and
look after bills for the betterment Of
conditions surrounding the isolated
farmer and his family. Realizing
how these widely separated settlers
were handicapped by ignorance, iso-
lation and poverty and feeling that
children born under such conditions
would be dwarfed mentally and
physically, she was moved to study
the conditions with view to their
remedy and found that she could not
help them better than by acting on
the suggestions of men with whom
she talked and becoming candidate
for the legislature, where she could
personally introduce and look after
bills to accomplish the purpose dear
to herS heart.
She was elected to the. 18th As
sembly and at once got busy. She
secured an appropriation for the
State Agricultural College for the
education of a corps of teachers to
be sent to the remote and desolate
ranches to teach, simple lessons Of
hygiene and sanitation to the house
wife and simple scientific facts about
the peculiarities OF the soil to the
struggling farmer. She also formed
and secured the passage of a bill for
demonstrating dry farming in the
eastern part Of the state.
Mrs. Riddle claims that woman
raturallys finds her work and her in
terest is helping the helpless and
down trodden and that her exercise
of the right Of suffrage will be with
a view of furthering reforms dear to
her heart. II she enters the race for
Office it will be because she can bet
ter, accomplish her work for child
welfare, or in aiding the unfortun-
ate. She has no word of censure for
men who do not take these matters
up; they have big business on their
hands, she says, and these other
matters are womans care in the
state as they are in the home and
community.
Mrs. Riddle is woman of strong
and unique personality. She indul-
ges in no flowers Of speech she has
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

Mrs. A. I. Hart and mother, Mrs.
Mary A. Hoag, who have been spend
ing the past several months in Mi
ami, Florida, returned home Friday
night and will take possession OF
their home about June 1st.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
Told Him to Hire a Hail.

Akron, o., May Postmaster A.
R. Reed, upon being advised to shire
a half while, airing his personal
views one day, took the suggestion
seriously. He did hire hall and
he opened it here today "for the free
discussion by everybody and any
body of every subject of interest and
benefit to humanity" The forum,
as Reed calls it, is ito promote civic
harmony and progress"
Reed pays the rent.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
A Bouquet for the Editor.

/ The Freeman Tribune received a
large and beautiful May basket this
filled with marguerites, a
present from the county equal suf-
frage association. The editor ex-
tends hearty thanks to the donors. A
neat and humorous poem accompan-
led the gift, as follows:
THE EDITOR,
The editor gets piles of goo
And he's supposed to run it," too!
There's seed corn talk, and gasoline,
And spring poetry about the green
OF meadow grass and leafy trees,
And robins song upon the breeze.
The baseball fans are with us yet
And now, the woman suffragette
Can find just tons of stuff to print!
They send it in, without hint
That other stuff has had a rout
And weighty things must be left out.
So, lest We printer men may state
We women don't appreciate
The kindness of your friendly press,
These flowers come, and you may
guess
That best of thanks to you they say
For Woman's Rights, this first Of
May. s4. a,,.,,.. sa..ss 60;
With compliments of County
Equal Suffrage Association.
Bessie Lyon, Co. Press Chm.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
100000 MORE
FOR Big CATHEDRAL

New York, May about mil
lion dollars already has been spent
getting part of the great Cathedral
of st. John the Divine built, and to-
day the church started work on the
nave that will take million more.
Several million more than that will
be needed to complete the structure,
which was started several years ago
and when finished, will rival any Of
the old European cathedrals.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

Gold beads and pearl beads, all
sizes, at Teed & Teed's. diff
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

Gold and silver goods for the baby
at Teed & Teed's. diff
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

Varnishes, stains and wall finishes
at Teed's. diff
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

Everything for the office at TeeTs.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

Finest watches and clocks, at
Teed = Teed's. diff
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-08
STRIKERS SHOT; ONE
DEAD AT WORCESTER
Guards Fire into Rioters Outside Mill
When Portuguese Come to Re-
place Poles.

Worcester, Mass, Aug. s. Several
strikers at the mills of the Barre Wool
company and the Norway Worsted com.
pany were shot yesterday afternoon dur
ing riot that attended an attempt by
the mill managers to reopen their plants
with Portuguese strike breakers. The
mills have had trouble with their Polish
employees for the past three weeks, and
Portuguese were brought to town yes
terday to take their places. In the riot
that followed, special officers on duty to
protect the mill property fired their re-
volvers into the rioters. II is reported
that half dozen people in the mob were
shot and four were seriously wounded.
One victim was taken to Worcester City
hospital in a serious condition.
At 2 o'clock the rioters were not under
control The man being brought TO this
city died on the road before he reached
Rutland.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-08
BASEBALL BRIEFS

| While the Browns attack on the Amer
J lean league record for consecutive wins
was halted by the Red Sox in Saturdays
game, the Athletics are still on their way
! to break the reverse mark. Tn IS far
they have lost 10 in a row, and have only
one more TO tie the Boston record in 1906
when they dropped 20 in one stretch. 1t
looks as though they would more than
equal the record made by Boston, as they
used three of their best bets against
Cleveland in Sundays game to check
their losing streak but the endeasor was
in vain.
Two wins for the Braves yesterday
looked good to an interested spectator.
Announcement was made at Williams
college yesterday that Ira Thomas, the
veteran catcher of the Athletics. had been
secured TO coach the Williams college
team for five years He will commence
his duties in February, when the Purple
candidates are called out for practice in
the cage. The signing of Thomas came
as a big surprise TO the baseball public,
as it was generally understood that Andy
Coakley was to return to his old place.
Coakley coached the Williams mines in
1912 and 1918.
When the laurels for durability are
passed around, Frank Schultz of the Pr
rates shouldn't be overlooked. Chicago
bought Schultz from Syracuse in 1904
and he has been wearing a Cub uniform
ever since.
After being a sensation in the spring,
Cliff Msrkle of the Yankees has become a
sad disappointment in mid season. Since
he won three straight in the spring he
has not pitched a good game.
The Pirates are bolstering their pitch
ing staff of late. having purchased VIII
liam J. Evans of the Morgantown team
in the Western North Carolina league
and B. II. Grimes from the Birmingham
team in the Southern association, &C. |
cording to announcement made at the |
Pittsburg league headquarters yesterday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-08
Served Him Right.

The credit for imposing the hea West
penalty yet placed in Vermont for reck-
less automobile driving belongs, we be-
| lieve, to Judge Frank Barber of the
/ Brattleboro municipal court. Wednes-
day he sentenced Harry Boyd, of that
town, to serve six months in the house
Of correction at Rutland, and to pay a
! fine of $500 for driving while drunk. His
ear collided with a bridge and smashed
into team severely injuring several
persons. The state law for reckless driv-
ing being too mild for such cases, Boyd
was arrested and had hearing on the
charge of breach OF the peace. This
procedure gave Judge Barber the oppor-
tunty to punish Boyd somewhere near
what he well deserved. If the present
law against drunken automobile drivers
and reckless driving generally is not
broad enough to permit a judge to i'm
pose fitting penalty in such cases with
out trumping up charge under some
other clause in order to get at the Of
fender, it should be the business of the
lawmakers at the next session of the
legislature to enact a new automobile
law drastic enough to make such per-
sons understand that there will be some
thing coming to them more than a dinkey
little five or ten dollar fine when they
are hailed into court for attractions of
the automobile law. Judge Barber takes
a place with that Detroit judge and the
New York magistrate who recently set
the pace by giving such violators SEN
fences BETTING them.
Fortunately the great majority OF au-
tomobile drivers are careful for their
own sake and considerate for the rights
and safety of others, but a few DRINKS
or reckless Joy riders can and do make
life on the road dread for the safe and
sane automobiles. 1t is this class that
jail sentences fit first rate.-St. Adams
Messenger.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-08
GRANTED COUPLING PATENT.
Alfred E. Hyland, Formerly of Barre,
Has Perfected Device.

A Keeseville, \. Y, paper tells OF the
granting of a patent in an improved cou-
ping device to Alfred r. Hyland, for
merly of the Barre granite region, in the
I following clipping:
Through the issuing of patent for
an improved coupling device to Alfred
f. Hylsnd, one OF the firm of the A. E.
Hyland Granite company of this village,
it seems quite probable that a new in
dustry may be established here. Negotia-
tons to this end are under way and if
successful, will not only furnish employ
ment to number of workmen, but prove
a valuable addition TO the local industrial
interests.
The coupling device on which Mr.. Hy-
land has recently been granted a pat
ent, is the development of several years
of study and ingenuity, and as finally
perfected, is a most useful article which
can be applied to a great variety of
uses, effecting a saving in time. labor
and expense as well as being practical
and efficient.
1T can be used with equal efficiency
as coupling for fire hose, garden hose,
pneumatic hose, gas and steam pipe,
shafting. or wherever a coupling is re-
quired and is much easier to adjust and
more positive in action than the ordinary
coupling.
Its simplicity is one of its most val
liable features. Made of three parts, two
coacting parts and housing box. the
eoseting parts being attached to the ends
of the hose or shafting to be coupled,
and the housing box fitting closely over
these when drawn together, completes
the coupling by the simple pressure on