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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
Wy CHICIlADEE

ALL winter long a friendly little
chickadee remained in my orchard.
When the other birds flew off to
the sunny South this little bird
stayed on. | wonder if he knew that
Iwould gladly feed him during
the winter?
l fed him for months, and from
the frs day that put crumbs and
seeds out on the window ledge, we
became the best of friends.
Other birds came and went dur
ing the winter but my chickadee
stayed. Il
Sometimes he would eat out of
my hand and even perch on my
shoulder in the open window.
But at other times he would
flutter on a limb near by and look
at me with shiny eyes until had
closed the window and then how he
would eat.
And what sport he had with a
piece of frozen suet that l hung on
the limb of a tree near by. He
would peck, peck, peck at it, break
Ing off bits here and there until
his hunger was satisfied.
He never seemed to fly out of the
orchard and if there were other
chlckadees wintering in the neigh
borhood they never came to visit
him.
When a snowstorm came he did
not seek a shelterd nook, but often
sat on a bare limb with his feathers
fluffed out until he looked like a
fat ball.
AS spring drew on, and the first
VAIN days brought back some of
the birds that had gone away
months before, there was new
note in his song; note of joy ran
through it which gave it an added
charm.
Ard now he has left the orchard
and gone away into the woods.
We miss him, but somehow we
feel sure that when next winter
comes he will be back and visit
our window ledge again.
N. J. Hatch.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

What can the little childrenn do,
When Decoration Day is here,
To show their love for soldiers
brave,
Who, fighting for their country,
The life that was to them so dear?
Just bring the Lovely flowers of
spring
That in the fields and gardens
grow,
And on the soldiers graves today
These garlands you can gladly lay,
Your loving tho S of them to- show.
Then raise aloft the stars and
stripes :
On this Memorial Day, to show
You honor tohse who for it bled.
Some now are living, some are dead,
For this was many years ago.
Then bring the blossoms fair and
sweet
To deck each grass-grown bed,
While, reverently, we all repeat
Here lies our honored dead"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
LITTLE BoPEEP

Mother Goose up-to-date. How
Bopeep found her sheep.
Little Bopeep has lost her sheep
And can:t tell where to find them
Let them alone and they'll come
home
And bring their tails behind them
Little Bopeep fell fast asleep
And dreamt she heard them bleat-
ing;
But when she awoke she found it a
joke
For still they all We're fleeting.
Then UP she took her little crook,
Determined for to find them;
She found them indeed, but it made
her heart bleed;
For they'd left their tails behind
them.
1t happened one day as Bopeep did
stray
Unto a field hard by,
There she espied their tails side by
side,
All hung on tree to dry.
Then she heaved a sigh and wiped
her eye,
And ran DER hill and dale.
And tried what she could as a shep-
herdess should.
To tack each sheep to its tail.
But to her dismay they would not
stay
Though she tried both pins and
glue
And to weep and vail for each lost
Was the only thing left to do.
OF hair tonic she thought and a
bottle she bought,
And after applying it found
In a night and day each sheep
did display
"A tail that reached down to the
ground.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
POTATOE CAKES

Season two cups finely mashed
potatoes with pepper and salt. Sift
in one cupful flour with one tea
spoon baking powder. Add enough
milk to make a soft dough. Flour
we'll and roll one-half inch thick.
Cut into cakes two inches square.
Grease hot gridiron lightly, Lay
the cakes on it and cook on top
of stove. Cover until they raise
and are brown on one side, turn
and brown the other side When
done split open while hot and but
ter them. Serve at once.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
A Change of Mind

ooh, far from farmers let me live"
Said little Bunny Brown.
The fields I thought so safe 1
find J,
No safer than the town.
For only yesterday, you know,
My life was free from care,
Till Farmer Jones harrow came
To harrow up hare
my brows, as was browsing them
1T very rudely hit.
Some fur lies in a furrow, where
My back was torn a bit.
But now I've packed my little bag,
For am done. A Ounce
I'd be to stay, and so I'll leave
For foreign parts at once"
But back came Farmer Jones, and
said,
I'm sorry now, you know.
Pray, do you care for carrots?
Here,
Take these, and do not go.
I did not see you when drove
So near you with my drag;
And here's bun, dear Bunny
Brown"
So Bun unpacked his bag.
by Blanche Elizabeth Wade
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

She praises it highly as shs has been
relieved of all these pains by its use.
Allmothers should know of this rem 9 ly,
and all young girls who suffer should
try it. Mrs. MATILDA KURTzwEG, 500
High ST., Buffalo, N. Y.
Young women who are troubled with
painful or irregular periods, backache,
headache, dragging-down sensations,
fainting spells or Indigestion, should
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. Thousands have been re-
stored to health by this root and herb
remedy.
If you know of any young wo-
man who is sick and needs helps
full advice, ask her to write to the
Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co.,
Lynn, Mass. Only women will
receive her letter, and it will be
held in strictest confidence.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
Jalnies Wishes

II don't see why we can't always
have what we wish for" said Jamie
as he sprawled under the apple
tree.
THAT would be FOOLISH" said
Aunt Sadie, who was sitting on a
low bench near him. st wouldn't
be good for us to have everything
we wish for"
Jamie looked up in establishment.
Wouldn't be good for us? Why
Auntle, why not?"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
MEXICAN BEEFsTAKE

Ask the butcher to cut a round
about two inches thick. Wash it
and sprinkle with flour which has
been added salt and pepper. Cover
the meat with flour, and pound I'M
til no more flour will stick to it..
Scar to a Light brown in hot but
ter. Place in a cassarole,, smother
with onions, or add potatoes instead
and bake.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
RHUBARB PUDDING

Butter thin slices of bread. Lay
in bottom of deep pudding dish,
then a layer of rhu barb cut in small
pieces, sprinkle with sugar. Then
another layer of buttered bread.
rhubarb and sugar and SO on until
as deep as you wish with a layer
pfibread on top. Cover closely and
bake 80 minutes. Serve cold with
a syrup of butter, sugar and lit
tile water.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
THE ROBINS NEST i,

THE ROBINS NEST
There's robin in the orchard,
A bluebird and wren;
There's sound of happy singing
The birds are back again.
The robin is so busy
He's looking for the best;
He must have leafy shelter
In which to build nest.
r'y~~ -
1 wonder how he does it?
took some twigs one day,
tried my best to weave them, S
But could not make them stay.
But the robin has no trouble,
His nest is round and strong,
And the twigs hold fast together,
Tho the wind blows all day long.
He's not half as old as am,
And so | can't see why
Such a tiny little fellow
Should know much more than
Harriet G. Brown.
Old Mother Hubbard
went to the cupboard,
To MUNICH at the turkey there;
She cleaned all the bones,
Now she bitterly groans,
And wishes the shelf had been bare.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01


Madam Robins Afternoon Tea
(By Clinton Scollard)
One afternoon
In the heart of June
The very brightest, bluest weather
Some of the song-birds came togeth-
They met at Madam Robins, you
see,
In the top of breezy maple tree,
For she'd asked them in to an
''early tea"
All were dressed
In their vely best;
MIR. Jay wore AN azure vest;
Mist .ess Sparrow and Lady Wren,
The one in brown and the one in
yellow,
Fluttered merrily in, and then
Came Sir Bobolink--jolly fellow,
Timid Miss Phoebe and pert Miss
Thrush
Fol owed Lord Oriole, spick and
sprightly;
Next the Finches with rustic and
rush,
And Parson Blackbird beaming
brightly,
And there were others, score
Or more
All in the very merriest mood, too;
And there arose such a patter,
And clatter, and chatter,
That those not invited
Were soon quite affrighted
For nobody knew what ON earth
was the matter,
Or what such Babel of talk could
allude to-
But nothing alarming
Heard those overhead, so
They found it quite charming,
And each of them said SO; (
For they'd all been south, and they
hadn't met
Since the autumn time with it's
chill and Wet
So this was all that the babel
meant;
They were asking each other with
rapt intent,
where and how was your winter
spent?''
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
SNOW BALLS

Make batter of a tablespoon
! of butter, onehalf cupful sugar,
onehalf cupful milk, one cup flour,
one teaspoonful baking powder, a
little salt, and the whites of two
. eggs beaten stiff. Add the egg
whites after the rest is mixed to-
gether Fill SMALL cups lit
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

To lick a piece of court plaster
and put it over fresh wound
is to invite trouble. The saliva Of
ten contains pus-forming germs;
Furthermore, wounds should be
kept open to promote free drainage.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
CHOCOLATE SAUCE

One square of chocolate, one table
spoon butter, one tablespoon flour,
one-half cup milk and teaspoon
full vanilla. Cook the sauce in a
double boiler and keep hot until
served.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

Spring medicines always contain
laxatives that hurry the unused
heavy food out of the body before
it has time to ferment, decompose
and poison us. A far better plan
is to eat only what heavy food the
spring seasS requires.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
YOUNG women
May AVOID PAIN
Need Only Trust to Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, says Mrs. kurtzweg.
Buffalo, NY" My daughter, whose
picture is herewith, was much troubled

pains IN her
back and sides every
month and they
would sometimes be
so bad that it would
seem like acute in-
aammation Of some
or an. She read
your advertisement
in the newspapers
and tried Lydia E.
Pinkham's V ege-
+ q hla Cnmno,1nd
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

- for Our
Bird Club

The first annual report of the
Naturalist club issued last Feb
ruaIy, gives a list of 139 different
kinds of birds seen within 20
miles of Charles City within a year.
Among them We're six different
kinds of owls, six different thrush
es, eight different hawks and four
teen varities CT sparrows. The
first robin and the first bluebird
were seen March {.
l wonder how many of our club
members wake up these bright
mornings early enough to hear the
medley of songs with which the
birds greet the sun. Many begin
their carols with the first streak
of light, and when the sun makes
his appearance there is a burst of
melodious sorgs which is bewild-
ering in its intensity.
A redheaded woodpecker comes
to our feeding shelf for suet.
We heard the note of a cuckoo,
sometimes called the raincrow, a
few evenings ago. They come in
May and leave in September. They
are valuable birds consuming guam
titles of the fuzzy caterpillars.
They are very shy and are aftener
heard than seen. They have long
broad tails and short wings, and
are browntsh gray with white
on the tips of the tail feathers.
A pair of wrels are building a
nest in tomato can which is
fastened up under the roof of our
back porch.
The rof ms in our bird house
opening to the south are occupied
by martins, those opening to the
| north by the sparrows.
We will appreciate a chance to
renew your loan CT make a new
real estate lean for you. Best
terms and lowest rates. tt
Laurits Hansen and James Carlson
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

Pears or peaches, fresh or canned
are delicious annd attractive looking
halved, and the cavity left by the
core. or seed filled with whipped
cream, and sprinkled with chopped
nuts. .......
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

The foregoing recipes were
given us for the Housewives Cor
ner. We are indebted to the lady
who sent them for several Others
which have appeared in this col
umn. We hope others will respond
to the invitation to contribute.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
OLD.FAsHIONED. POPCORN PUD-
8f DING,

Run two cupfu,s of popcorn thru
the grinder, add two cups milk
one tablespoon butter, onehalf cup
sugar, two eggs beaten light an a
little salt. Bake half an hour.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

The German army eats palmer
food and less of it than any other
of the armies engaged in the great
conflict
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
Eggs A La Goldenrca.
8 hard boiled eggs,

3 hard boiled eggs,
l tablespoon butter, Il teaspoon salt
l tablespoon flour, 1s teaspoon pep
per. .........
5 slices toast, l cup milk, parsley.
Make thin white sauce with the
butter, flour, milk and seasonings.
Separate the whites from the yolks
OF the eggs, chop the whites fine
ly and add them to the sauce. Out
four slices of the toast in halves
lengthwise. Arrange on platter and
pour sauce over them. Force the
yolks through potato ricer or
strainer and sprinkle over the top.
iGarnish with parc.ey and the re-
manning toast cut in pieces.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

A whole lemon in glass OF hot
water every morning on rising,
and less heavy food, is not only
far cheaper than auinine at war
prices, but it is productive of much
more good.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

tie more than half full of the mix
ture, and steam three-quarters of
an hour. Turn out and serve hot
with chocolate sauce. These are
said to be delicious.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

1t is Difficult, to find stomach
disorder that is not due to the "a
buse of food, Or the use of 'tobac-
co, coffee or alcohol.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

Milk is good fer babies, but
poor food for the avera ge adult.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

Me.ancholia is usually due to in
digestion; the blues are a diges-
tive disorder.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

Coffee contains not the smallest
amount of nat tive material; COT
fee is dis inctly stimulant,
nerve-whip.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
DOWN EAST RICE PUDDING.

Mix onehalf cup washed rice
with two cups milk, onehalf cup
molasses, a level tablespoon but
ter, a little salt. Bake very slowly
for two hours, adding more milk
when it thickens.. Serve hot with
cream. 1t is delicious.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

Digestion begins in the mouth,
providing the food is we'll mastic,-
ated; but when digestion is not
properly begun the food often fails
to digest
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

The study of the child's teeth in
dictates that natrre did not intend
the baby to eat anything but
milk until after its first year.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

Mary, who was here to see youl
last night?
Only Myrtle, father:
Well, tell Myrtle she left her
pipe ON the piano.:
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

Eggs are no more easily digested
than met that is properly cooked.
In fact the yolk of the egg is a
frequent cause for biliousness.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01
HeaHhogrQms
By DR.. R. R. Daniels.

"Creaky' joints mean too much
bread and potatoes.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

We will appreciate chance to
renew your loan CT make a new
real estate lean for you. Best
terms and lowest rates. TT
Laurits Hansen and James Carlson
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

The roe ms in our bird house
opening to the south are occupied
by martins, those opening to the
north by the sparrows.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-06-01

lE =: :: =: =; e: !; =: :: : ....'
Healthograms
By DR.. R. R. Daniels.
'Creaky' joints mean too much
bread and potatoes.
Milk is good fer babies, but
poor food for the ayera ge adult.
Me.ancholia is usually due to in
sthe blues are a diges-
tive disorder.
The Gslman army eats palmer
food and less of it than any other
of the armies engaged in the great
conflict.
Coffee contains not the smallest
amount of nat tive material; COT
fee is dis inctly a stimulant,
nervewhip.
1t is difficult to find a stomach
disorder that is not due to, the "a
buse of food, Or the use of tobac-
co, coffee or alcohol.
The study of the child's teeth in
dictates that nature did not intend
the baby to eat anything but
milk until after its first year.
Eggs are no more easily digested
than met that is properly cooked.
In fact the yolk of the egg is a
frequent cause for biliousness.
Digestion begins in the mouth,
plONldluS Tic Lou Is We'll mdSCfC-
ated; but when digestion is not
properly begun the food often fails
to digest.
A whole lemon in glass OF hot
water every morning on rising,
and less heavy food, is not only
far cheaper than quinine at war
prices, but it is productive of much
more good.
To lick piece of court plaster
and put it over a fresh wound
is to invite trouble. The saliva Of
ten contains pus-forming germs;
Furthermore, wounds should be
kept open to promote free drainage.
Spring medicines always contain
laxatives that hurry the unused
heavy food out of the body before
it has time to ferment, decompose
and poison us. A far better plan
is to eat only what heavy food the
spring seast requires.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-11-29
AUTO STAGE IN RIVER;
 NINE ARE DROWNED

VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. it,, Eight and possibly nine persons wein drowned in the North Arm of the Fr,- ser river tonight when the Vancou- ver-Ladner stage plunged through all open draw in the bridge joining the mainland with Lulu island into the river. Two men and little girl were rescued, and the body of another girl has been recovered. The police are still working with grappling irons i2 the hope of finding others.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-11-29
Would Expand Navy Yard.

SEATTLE. Nov. 2S.-Commander E. Coontz, of the Puget Sound navy yard, at a meeting last night of the Bremerton Commercial club, which was attended by members of the Bre- merton city council, asked the coop eration of Bremerton citizens in ac- quiring a part of the business dis trict for the expansion of the navy yard. The Commercial club appoint ed committee to urge property own CTS not to ask exorbitant prices for desired land and the councilmen voted to vacate all streets and alleys in any property wanted by the gov ernment. The property to be acquir- ed is occupied mostly by old wooden buildings. It is understood that the government desires the land for use in erecting buildings for building ways for battleship construction.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-11-29
HES SELLS OUT
 ELECTRIC PLANT
CONSIDERATION IS $1OO,OOO.OO
Announced Today In Seattle that the CT & Telephone Company Had Alp sOrbed Rival Plant.

SEATTLE, Nov. 29.-It was an nounced here today that the Prince William Sound Light, Power & Tele- phone Company, Seattle Corpora tion operating at Valdez, Alaska, had purchased the Hes Hydro-Electric plant at Solomon Gulch, near Valdez, for the sum of $1OO,OO0. Alfred B. Hes, the principal owner of the Hes plant, has been in this city for several days completing the negotiations, and has left for the East.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-11-29
Interior Trail Conditions.
Valdez, Alaska. Nov. 29, 1916

Valdez, Alaska, Nov. 29, 1916.
 Fairbanks, Il, 1 inch of sno.; {; cloudy, calm, mail south 8 a. m.
 Salcha, 10, 1 inch of snow; showing, trail fair; Moore arrived 11:30 a. m. and departed north a. ID.
 Richardson, -S, cloudy, light wind, trail good.
 McCarty, zero. 1 inch of snow; cloudy. light wind, trail good.
 Donnelly; operator. on line trouble.
 McCallum, -12, inches snow; cloudy, light wind, trail fair, stage north and south 3 p. m.
 Paxson, 10, 5 inches of snow; cloudy, calm, trail fair, mail north and south out a. m. S Hogan, A, inches of snow; cloudy, calm, trail fair; Sourdough stage leaves south passengers.
 Gulkana, 8, inches of snow; cloudy, calm. trail fair, stage north 6 a. m.
 Copper Center, -3, 4 inches of snow; cloudy, calm. trail fair; no travel.
 Tonsina, -5, 2 inches of snow; cloudy, calm, trail fair.
 Teikhell, -4, 8 inches of snow; cloudy, showing, trail drifted.
 Beaver Dam, 1, 12 inches of snow; cloudy. calm, trail good; Davis and Rowbottom arrived 2:20 p. m. Jep- son south g a. m. yesterday.
 Summit, -5, 40 inches of snow; cloudy, calm, trail good, drifted south; Jepson south 7:30 a. m. with dog team.
 Wortman's, 10, 4 inches of snow cloudy, showing, calm, trail fair.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-11-29
AIRSHIP CIRCLES ABOVE
 WASHINGTON MONUMENT

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 29-- o. D. Blakely, of Franklin, Pa, con .gressman elect, made an aeroplane flight in his own machine from Phil- adelphia to Washington and circled the Washington monument several times
 Blakely declares that he is the first congressman to arrive from his home to Washington City through the air, and that before many years, all of the members may be flying to the na- tional capital.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-11-29
BODY FOUND
 WRAPPED IN DEATH ROBE

BERKELEY, Calif., Nov. 15.-Ev erett Gilbert Morgan of Oakland. a junior student at the University of California, was found dead in his bed. his naked body wrapped in bath robe laced with a network of copper wire and the wire connected with tho current from an electric lighting fix ture.
 Morgan had been suffering from rheumatism and it was believed that he contrived what proved to be his death robe in an effort to cure him. self. The coronor found that he llet his death from electrocution.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-11-29
TEUTONS ADVANCE
 0N THE CAPITAL
CLOSING IN ON RUMANIANs
Germans and Austrians Now on Both Sides of Bucharest and Are Press- ing Forward-Rumanian in Pro. cariOus Position.

BERLIN, Nov. 29.-The war office today issued a bulletin stating that the Teutons have captured the Ru- manian town of Gurgevo, on the Dan- ube, due south of Bucharest, and are now within thirty-seven miles of the capital. On the north Falkenhayn' E forces have occupied the valleys Of the Curtea, Dearges and Areguchu rivers, about fifty miles northwest. of Bucharest, and are driving, towar l the capital, tightening the semi-cir- cle about the Rumanians.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-11-29
UNION SERVICES AT
 THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Thanksgiving Day. November 30, 1916, at II a. m., there will be the service of the Morning Prayer, with the special Thanksgiving service and sermon. The sermon will be given by the Rev. R. D. Nichols. pastor of the Congregational church. Everybody welcome.
 REV. GEORGE JOHN FINN,
 Rector Episcopal Church.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-11-29

On May 10, 1872, what Is said to be the largest piece of gold ever talk en from the ground was mined from claim. in New South Wales; Austra3 lia. It was four feet nine inches high, three feet two inches wide, four inches thick on an average. and weighed $40 pounds. The value of the metal was about $140,O0O, but it sold at much higher rate as cur iOsity.
Valdez daily prospector., 1916-11-29
PARALYSIS GERMS
 IN MOTHERS MILK

SPOKANE, Wash, Nov. 29.- At a meeting of the Spokane Coun- try Medical society, Dr. Earl Current told the society that infantile para lysis is caused by the fungus growth on raw fruits or vegetables either eaten by children or communicated to an infant nursing from 8 mother who has previously eaten such raw foods. He described the experiments that he had conducted since last June.