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WASHINGTON WILL BACK TIP
 Fsas'F sSLOCUM IN BORDER FIGHT

senator Tillman declared the news was almost incredible
 There never has been a President who tried so hard to keep out of war as President Wilson, he said, "but it iooks now as if General Funston would nave to get busy at nncen
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

gathering begins tomorrow and will
list three days.
Miss Bertha Hickman, who has
been visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Chris Klockman, four I miles
south of town, and sister, Mrs. Rube
McFerren and family, returned this
noon to Sioux City, where she IS TAX
ing the nurses training course in the
German Lutheran hospital.
Little Miss Mary Eleanor Cros-
ley, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Varick
&c. Crosley, spent Sunday with her
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Max
Hemingway, in Fort Dodge.
Mrs. G. T. Chamberlin left this
noon for Galena, ILL.,, to visit rela-
|tives. .f..;
Jack Clarkson of the roller
skating rink is a caller in Ackley to.
day. y,
Henry Teget left today for Iowa
Falls and points north of there on
business.
Mrs. R. T. Harvey left today for
Dubuque for short stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. N. Merrill and
little son, Billy, went to Blue Earth
Mimi, Saturday for visit with Mr.
and Mrs. Maris Merrill. ... p.
Miss Rebecca J. Mason who has
been spending the past four months
in the city at the home of her sis
tier, Mrs. ]. r. White, will return tc
her home in Holder, ILL.,, tomorrow.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

women and children, and driving
Them into the highways and byways.
b Then what. is described as the first
colored soldiers recruited in<the war
appear, swarming into a village,
where they murder everyone in
sight irrespective of age. They are
finally scattered by a gallant column
|of southern white militia, and the
audience bursts into cheers. It so
happens that the first colored sold
Tiers Of the civil war were recruited
and commanded by the late Gen.
lGrenville M: Dodge Of this state.
Careful scrutiny of the screen fail
led to reveal the figure Of General
Dodge, but presumably he ordered
the outrage which Mr.. Griffith puts
upon the screen, and may have been
lin the inglorious retreat before the
gallant confederates.
There are many scenes in the play
which are truly inspiring, and some
i ~ = . .
Il that awake q sense of the unutter-
able pathos of the civil war. The
plot Of the play is rather lightly
lsketched, with a love element Of the
typical southern girl and an excep-
ltional northern captain-Stoneman's
son-for one match, and the north
ern captains sister and the south
ern girls brother in the other
match. '' s.as'
The rise of the Ku Klux is wildly
depicted, A girl leaps to death from
high rock to escape Negro sold
Ter of the United States army. Her
brother recruits group Of white
men from a blacksmith shop, they
put on white sheets and pursue the
renegade. One brother Of the girl
whips a dozen or so'&Unfted States
soldiers and others holding forth in
d gin mill where the man is hidden,
i but is himself shot. The Ku Klux-
ers pursue the girls assailant, catch
him and kill him. The audience ap-
fplauds till the rafters ring.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

This is not Nearly as Funny as it
Sounds-It Works in Actual
Practice.

A Boone woman has solved the
tin can problem, and now that the
spring clean up week is at hand has
no cans at all to send to the dump
heap. Last winter an idea came to
her one day when in the furnace
room of her home and she threw in a
half dozen cans on the hot Goals OF
the furnace. It was an experiment
and she watched it with interest. A
few hours later she went to the fur
mace and upon Investigating found
that the cans had been melted down
and that there was no trace at all
of them. The experiment. was con-
tinued from time to time and this
spring an investigation of the fur
mace crate was made. The furnace
had not been damaged or injured in
the least particle and there was no
big pile of cans to be dumped into
the alley and left for several weeks
waiting the city's wagon, says the
News Republican.
y The woman who tried the expert
ment states that cans must not be
put into the furnace except when the
fire is hot. OF course all through the
winter the furnace fires have to be
going full blast, therefore the cans
can be gotten out of the way day by
day. The cans left from the summer
months are stored in convenient
bin and this fall will be given the
same treatment as those of last win
ter. The melted cans did not make
big clinkers, in fact there seemed to
be no difference in the ash refuse at
ter the cans had been burned, than
before the woman tried the expert
ment. This suggestion is offered to
the people of Boone with the view Of
aiding in keeping the alleys clean,
and save the city from unsigltly
piles of apparently unburnable rub
Dish, such as nearly every city has
featured in some prominent place
near town.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
new ELECTRIC LAMPS
TO Be INSTALLED
City to Replace 40 Watt With SO
Watt-Also Replace 60 Watt
With. rs Watt Light.

During the present week the city
will institute slight change in the
| light globes it furnishes to patrons.
The old 40 watt light will be replace
ed by the so watt globe and the 60
watt lamp with one of rs watt pow
|er. ,tt,.. II a-.& FiE,5tf
Until recently there has been no
such thing as SO watt electric
lamp but experiments conducted by
the National Electric Association
have resulted in the invention Of
lamp of much higher power which
will consume but little more cleo
tricity. With the Is watt lamp, just
two and quarter times more light
| is furnished than with the go watt
lamp and the difference as register
ed upon the electric meters, will be
slight. The lamp will replace in
measure, the 100 watt lamp, for
there is 25 per cent saving upon
the Is watt lamp over the 60 watt.
The change in lamps goes into eff
fleet all over the United States but it
| will take about two and half
months to make the change COM
lplete. Ak.
| This means that when you go<to
the city electric shop to buy 40
watt lamp globe, you will be sup,
Iplied with SO watt one at the same
price you formerly paid. The price
of SO watt lamp will at least for a
time be 25 cents, but Supt. Long
looks to see this price even lower.
T Patrons of the city electric shop
are not all aware of the low prices
they are paying for electric sup
plies. 1t is matter Of note, that
when city books are inspected by
Representatives from the state aud
itor's office in Des Moines, the men
always take occasion to stock up on
electric supplies on account of the
low price they are able to obtain
here. a.s
The ZOE watt lamp is sold for IS
cents and costs 70 cents. Anywhere
else in the state it sells for 81. The
40 watt has been selling slightly un-
der cost for the sole reason of ac-
commodating the public.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

helper to Rev. H., L., Haywood OF
Waterloo, is home for few days
visit with his parents. Mr. May
wald's work with Rev. Haywood is
finished and he will go from this
city to Arnold's Park, Okoboji,
where he will work for his uncle in
a store during the coming season.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r. Hall Of New
ton are guests of their old friends,
Mr.. and MIS-. j. c.. Robson.
Mrs. l.. o. Middleton of Kansas
City, Mo-, arrived here this noon and
tomorrow night will occupy the Con-
gregational church pulpit.
Thomas and Jack Flesher and
sister, Mrs. Jane Ralston, of Charles
ton, Ill.,, arrived here this morning
to attend the funeral services for the
late Mrs. James E. Wilson.
Edgar Beck Of Marathon is Wis
iting his uncle, H. N. Beck and fam
lily, at the St.. James hotel.
Kenneth Wilson arrived here
last night from Charles City, called
by the sudden death of his mother,
Mrs. James E. Wilson.
Miss Hazel Bemis, teacher in :
the high school, went to her home in
Bondurant yesterday for the week
end.
E Mrs. J. H. Hoag returned last
night from two weeks visit with
relatives and friends in Sioux City,
Merrill, Kingsley and Wall Lake.
Mrs. George Jewett returned
last night from BOWS where she was
called recently by the critical con-
dition of her father, G. D. Cook.
Mr. Cook is suffering with a tumor
on the brain and last night was TAX
en- to a hospital for surgical work.
Miss Fairie Smock, cashier and
bookkeeper at the Metcalf dry goods
store, will go to Mercy hospital to-
morrow to prepare for an immedi-
ate operation for appendicitis. Miss
Smock has not been in robust health
for some time and hopes to be great
ly benefited by the operation. In
her absence her place at the CASH
ier's desk will be taken by her sis
ter, Miss Cecile Smock, who is
spending the spring and summer in
A.
the concert platform.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
Church Advertising.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The
Christian Herald pertinently OBJ
serves that the writing OF sermons
and writing Of advertisements for the
newspapers are two very different
things. The preacher puts his head
lines into his climax, whereas the
advertising man puts his into the
text at the very beginning Of the
story. Church advertising should
not only tell Of the work OF the
church but should make men under
stand its spirit. There is distinct
value in paying for advertising
space in a newspaper. Such adver-
Using begets confidence in the
church on the part of the public.
We have no right to look upon a
newspaper as philanthropic enter
prise. 1t is usually conducted upon
a business basis. If the church re-
ceives direct benefit from newspa-
per advertising, it should be willing
to pay for 1t. just as it pays for its
coal and gas and general upkeep."
Church people have, as rule,
failed to modernize their work by
utilizing the methods which contrib
ute so materially to the success Of
business enterprises. Most churches
do their advertising through an
nouncements to their own members.
They do not reach the general pub
lie outside their own circles. What
success would a merchant have IL
he confined his announcements to
the comparatively few people who
might happen to be in hts place or
business at the announcement time?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
In the Tenth District.

Register and Leader: Maybe Of
tosen OF Ottosen, Humboldt county,
will not be able to defeat Frank
Plowman Woods to the republican
nomination. for congress in the tenth
district this year but the voters OF
the biggest federal division Of the
state will know there is a race. J.
F. Temple, editor of the Bode Bugle,
is manager Of Ottosen's campaign.
He is a firm believer in advertising
and his candidate will be one of the
best known residents Of the district
before June S If he is not already en-
titled to that distinction. He has
been travelling over the big tenth
assiduously for many years-durins
his two campaigns for state railroad
commissioner and as an inspector OF
food products for State Commission
er Barney. Mr.. Ottosen will make
his first political speech in this par
|ticular contest before the Bode Com
mercial club Tuesday evening. He
will talk of practical affairs. Mr.. Of
tosen founded the town Of Ottosen.
He has had all the experiences there
are to be enjoyed and suffered by
the Independent shipper who tries tc
get empty cars to haul his outgoing
farm products and tries to get filled
|cars to stop at his particular siding.
He knows what railroad service
means to communities and to ship
pers and in his campaigning over the
tenth district expects to tell the
farmers, the business men and other
voters just the relation between the
varying grades Of service railroads
may give and the prosperity and
growth Of the communities and bust
ness in which they are interested. In
the forthcoming inquiries instituted
by the United States congress the
friends of Mr.. Ottosen hope to have
him in the national house to support
Clifford Thorne OF the first district
in putting teeth into the investiga-
ton into railroad affairs. Mr.. Otto
sen is one-was there ever another?
Officer Of the state government
who refused to take his salary while
making campaign for office on his
own behalf.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
Webster City and Company c.

Burlington Hawkeye: Webster
City has received word that her mi
|litia company, which has been in ex-
istence sthirty years, must either be
recruited up to the full number and
the members must attend drill regu-
larly or the town will lose the COM
pany. Perhaps Webster City has not
given the company the encourage
ment. the moral support which it re-
|quires. The members of such COM
panies are usually young lads who
like to be noticed and recognized.
The company whose members are
patted on the back now and then by
the town people, who are given oc-
casional demonstration of the fact
that their town is interested in them
and their work, is sure to have a
first-class company. 1t all comes
back to the old saying that town
can have anything that it desires. II
the town wants company with a
low rating, she can get that without
any difficulty. And with very little
exertion a town can get company
every member of which will be proud
of the organization and try to make
1T one of the best in the state, just
because their city wants that kind
of a company. And why should any
town want any other Kind of COM
pany?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
Only Two Candidates.

1t has been thought among lead
ing republicans of the county that
there would be three or four repr,h-
lican candidates before the June
primary for member of the legisla-
ture, but there are only two. The
time for filing nominations has pass
ed and Hon. Rube McFerren of this
city and Joe Fardal are the only
candidates for the republican romin-
alton. The name of John Carey has
been filed as the democratic candi-
date
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
PERSONAL BRIEFS.
{From Mondays Daily.)

B. Like arrived home Saturday
night from two weeks visit with
his daughter and family at Omaha
While there Mr.. Like made his
daughter birthday present of a fine
five room modern cottage.
The. Misses Airline Kearns and
Marguerite Hanrahan went to Ames
Saturday afternoon where that even,
ing they attended an Acacia dance
at the state college.
&C. w. Stonebarger, pharmacist
at the W; E. Brown drug store, left
Saturday night for a weeks visit at
his home in Burlington, Ora New
man is assisting in the store during
his absence.
w. J.. Barnes has returned from
a business trip to Chicago and other
Illinois points. Mrs. Barnes broth
ter, Henry Kautz of Mt. Pulaski, Ill.,,
who spent several months here last
summer, accompanied him home for
a visit.
Miss Gladys Moose OF Fort
Dodge Sundayed at the J. B. Baxter
home.
Mrs. Viola Seys of Nation, ILL.,,
is expected to arrive here within a
few days for an extended visit with
her sister, Mrs. w. J. Birdsell and
family, three miles southwest OF
town.
IL Mrs. p. w. Lee has returned
from visit with her son, Ralph
Lee and family, at Irvington, where
she was called last week because OF
the illness of! Mrs. Lee. She is much
improved now, however.
Mrs. S. &c. Zitterell is taking a
weeks vacation from her duties in
the Star laundry and is spending it
with her daughter, Mrs. Ralph Brin-
golf and husband. at Grafton, Iowa.
I Mrs. F. C. Garrick and daugh-
ter, Miss Neva, went to Cedar Rap
ids Saturday to attend the funeral
of a relative. Miss Garrick return
ed this morning but her mother will
remain for weeks visit.
w. H. Cook is Fort Dodge Wis
ftor today for the purpose Of adver-
Using the Minneapolis orchestra
concert In this city on May 18th.
Miss Myra Call, one Of the in
structors in the State Teachers Col
lege at Cedar Falls, spent Sunday in
this city at the Rev. L. N. Call home.
Miss Mayme Cunningham went
to Dubuque today for days visit
and shopping trip.
Miss Marguerite Hughes, a stu
dent at the State Teachers College
in Cedar Falls, spent the week end
at the Nome of her parents in this
city.
j. B. Hughes is business visi-
tor at Cherokee today.
DR.. F. A. Boysen left this at
ternoon for Des Moines to attend the
state dental association meeting. The
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
The Census.

Announcements have been receiv-
ed in this city OF the birth of a
daughter, Evelyn Rose, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Dan r. Conway of East Stobey,
Mont. Mr.. Conway is former en-
ployee in this ONCE and the present
editor Of the East Stobey Sentinel.
A son was born Friday to Mr..
and Mrs. E. T. Schweppe, who re-
side on west Third street.
Born, April &c, 1916, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Groves Of Eagle Grove, a
son-Howard Jackson Groves. This
is the sixth grandchild of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alexander Groves of this city.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
The Reaction.

Cedar Rapids Republican: We be-
gin to hear and to read ofninous
things about the doings of bootleg
Igers in various parts Of the state.
For few months, following the re-
peal of the mulct law, we all seemed
to be sanity good, but here and
there brother IS falling from
grace. Perhapst we were good while
the stuff that we hadmlaid in under
the old regime held out. Now we
are going after 1t again. Any man
who could have all the money that is
shipped out of Iowa for stuff to, be
shipped in would feel comfortably
well off. And for year, well even
Carnegie might build dozen or fif-
teen libraries with what we, send out
to get the stuff that spells damna-
ton for us. But damnation some
persons will have. IN Davenport the
street railway system has picked up
SO greatly that 1t is now said to be
making big money, all the result OF
the thirsty crowds who make the
daily journey across the Mississippi
to Rock Island where hell is on tap
all the time and where it is doled
tout in glasses, in casks, in TASKS that
fit the pocket and inscarload lots for
distribution all over the dry terri
tories. But In the meantime, some
Of us are more sober than we used
to be and we are rieasurably hap
pier, too.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
! Pilkingtorl Sued.

w. J. Pilkington, former publish
er of the Graphic-Herald in this
city, is defendant in a damage suit
TAT Des Moines and is Charged with
crooked real estate transactions. The
Capital contains the following re-
garding the action in court:
w. j. Pilkington Of Des Moines,
prohibition worker and editor Of the
Merchants Trade Journal, was sued
for 81 800 in districtscou today by
Joe Dollister, Racine, Wis. retail
merchant, who alleges he was fleec-
led in a shady land deal. He wants
This money back.
Dollister claims he was induced
fby Pilkfngton to buy. a ten-acre
peach orchard in Howell county,
Missouri. which proved to be a ''fliv-
YER" The merchant%rsays that on
the strength Of roseate pictures Of
wealth painted by the defendant, he
paid $500 an acre for land which he
afterwards learned was worth only
500 or $50 an acre. Dollister says
he gave Pilkington 1880 cash and
promissory notes for the balance. He
has demanded the return Of the
notes and his money intvain, he as
serts. ..s:s
'fPilkington told me he had pur-
chased one hundred acres of the
peach land. and had cut the tract
into ten smaller ones,- which were
selling for $4,000 apiece said Dol
lister. II afterward learned these
statements were. false. I believed
iPilkington because Of his high
fstanding and reputation" ~
| The Wisconsin merchant has in
|stitnted two separate suits. In the
law action he seeks to recover the
leash paid out. In an equity action
he asks the court to nullify the con-
|rtact, restrain Pilkington from
transferring the promissory notes
which he holds, and compel him to
surrender same. NJ II
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
STORY CITY BOY
s SCOUT A 1! \ |
Luther Hanson Of Story County
Awarded Medal for Saving
Life Of Young Boy.

ne annual report Oh LHe DOy
Scouts of America is out and some
interesting statistics are recorded
therein for 1915.
The state Of Iowa has IA local
councils, 2O4 local council members;
1t has 81 troops which are under
the control Of a local council and
15O troops which are not under
council supervision; it has 25 scout
masters who are under the super
vision Of a local council and l43
scoutmasters who are at the heads
Of troops not under local, council.
Iowa has 52S scouts who belong to
troops under council and 2771 scouts
+, who belong to troops not SO super
vised; the total numbes of scouts
and scout workers in IOWA now
reach 1415.
The total number of scouts In
America for the year 1915 was 1884,
500 and many merit badges and
honor badges were given during the
year. A merit badge may be earn
ed by acquiring proficiency in some
certain thing such as swimming,
firemanship, personal and public
health and some forty or fifty other
arts, pursuits gor knowledge.
An oonor badge is not, however,
so easily won. It is only awarded
when a scout places his own life in
Jeopardy to save that of another per-
son. No scout has ever applied for
an honor medal himself. In many
cases months have elapsed before a
report Of a rescue performed by the
scout reached the ear of the scout
master who applied for the medal.
The modesty Of the scouts who have
done heroic deeds has been as note
worthy as their efficiency in the face
of emergencies. Thirty-one honor
medals were awarded in the year
1915 in the U. S.
Iowa is represented in the list of
Honor medals in the heroic deed
performed by Luther Hanson, age
thirteen, tenderfoot scout Of troop
one, Story City, who savedN a boy
from drowning in the Des Moines
river by walking twelve feet along
he bottom In five and one-half feet
Il water after the boy whom ne was
escuing pushed him under and held
Sim there. He was only four feet
lie inches tall, so the water was
II ovex his head. Three other
teen year old scouts received
s.,or medals for saving life. Har-
S Kiederling, OF Plainfeld, N. J.,
h hirteen year old scout went un-
h a heavy team of rearing horses
"a ,circus parade to carry q little
old to safety. He escaped death
W only fraction Of a second.
Marcellus Hatcher Of East Orange,
N. j., entered burning house and
saved a child. He was also thirteen
years of age In Gatun Lake on the
Panama Canal, tenderfoot scout
George Summers Brownell dove for
three year old child who had tod
died down the face Of the dam. He
was fully dressed and the water was
twenty feet deep but he made the
rescue. Brownell was also only
thirteen years old.
The entire report of the boy
scouts is surprising in the almost
unbelievable good accomplished by
this organization Of boys and boy
ish endeavors.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

Des Moines, May 1.-The district
court refused an injunction to pre-
vent the showing of the film, "The
Birth of q Nation" this morning
and the city will institute prosecu-
tion of the threatre people.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02

-
letters remaining In the Webster
City postoffice for the week ending
April &c, 1916: i.'5,
John Blue.
C. E. Brown.
w. S. Brownfield.
A. !. Busting.
w. s. Gerber.
C. M. Greiner. 45&t
Caleb Hartshorn.
D. Hanson.
X. E. Klein.
Dom LeForge.
J. E. Mack. W.
Aaron McAtkins.
N. w. Meyers.
A. r. Miller.
e. p. Moore.
Ed Nelson. 3G0
~, Nelson. s
c. Northrup.
A. J. Porter.
Miss Edna Redding.
B. Fl. Shinn.
C. A. Smith.
Mrs. Frank Smith, care Mrs. M.
w. Smith.
M. r. Smith.
H. Williams.
If not called for within two weeks
will be sent to the dead letter office
at Washington, d. c.
D. H. Bauman, p. M.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-02
Letter List.

Following is list OF unclaimed
letters remaining In the Webster
City postoffice for the week ending
April 2s, 1916: l.i