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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-12-15

ture almost as contemptuous that
Rastus Watson. Jemima's lord and
master. nung the same sheet Of paper
down On their kitchen table when the
same vas placed before him as the ex-
tsnt Of days ~pfckin's."
Nov. Rastus. who was Of much port
Her frame than his spouse, was a firm
believer IN the efficiency Of forced
feeding And since the days harvest
had been . lean one. and the larder
showed disturbing signs of emptiness,
that plump-bodied negro possessed
htmSeaf OF worn gunnysack and an
nounced bis determination Of acquir-
ang Q few pullets while hunger ran
htGh and the moon swung low. In.
Dt4nct combined with fate to lead Ras-
tu1 By the nose. take him stealthily
Over the backyard fence Of the afore-
aneutjoned Hannah. and from there to
me door Of the padlocked coop.
Th6e. amer . moment of cautious re-
counoltAfnG he discovered tho vul-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-12-15
Gale of Trouble.

During one of our gales an elderly
gentleman was striving to reach his
home with the assistance of his son.
Just as they passed along a row of
small houses there was loud crash,
and a heavy tin chimney-pOt struck
the pavement at their very feet.
Good heavens!" gasped the feeble
old man. THAT was narrow es-
cape. 1t might have killed us BOTH"
They paused for moment to ex-
anime the fallen chimney, and at once
a window was banged up and shrill
female voice shrieked:
"Ere, you, two, you needn't think
as you're a-goin' to steal that there
thing, cause it belongs to my housed"
London Answers.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-12-15
u DON'T SUFFER
ANY MORE"
sFeel Like a New Person."
says Mrs. Hamilton.
New Castle, Ind.-"From the time
Twas eleven years old until was SEVEN

teen ! suffered each
month so I had to be
in bed. ! had head
ache, backache and
such pains ! would
cramp double every
month. ! did not
know what it was
to be easy a minute.
My health was all
run down and the
doctors did not do
me any Oood A
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-12-15

my wife asked me to match piece
Of ribbon for her this morning and !
refused. Now ! wish ! had done a.
she asked"
what did she do?"
"She went down to match 1t herself
and ordered about fifty dollars worth
Of stuff sent home collect"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-12-15
Whenever You Need q General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old Standard Groves Tasteles
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen.
eral Tonic because it contains the well
known tonic properties of QUININE and
IRON. II acts on the Liver. Drives out
Malaria. Enriches the Blood and Builds
mp the Whole System 50 cents
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-12-15

THAT GRIM WHITE SPECTRE,
Pneumonia, follows on the heels of Q
neglected cough or cold. Delay no
longer. Take Mansfleld's Cough Bal
sam. Price soc and $1.00.-Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-12-15
Envy.

Bugs-Shucks, here we have to
freeze while Mr.. Caterpillar has nice
fur overcOat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30
PRICES STILL CLIM BIN G.
Staples Go Up Average Of 8 Per Cent
in Last Year.

Washington. May 80. Prices Of
staple food in the United States IN
creased on an average Of per cent
from Feb Is to March y. Figures made
public today by the department OF LABOR
show that all meat prices increased
as did sugar Eggs, milk. -four and
pota toes were cheaper.
Prices advanced 5 per cent during
the year from March. 1915, TO March.
1915. and prices on March Is. 1916,
averaged per cent higher than for
the entire year of 1915.
A table covering prices for the las,
fifteen years shows the purchasing
power Of a dollar has decreased stead
liz in all foods In 1890 a dollar bought
81 pounds Of round steak. today II
will purchase - pounds; pork chops
sold at SO pounds for dollar against
"a pounds now; bacon pounds.
against SIS pounds now: ham. 90
pounds. against 3.S pounds now LARD
nos pounds against SO pounds now
hens, - pounds. against 40 POUNDS
now: eggs. As dozen, against - dozen
now: butter. 39 pounds, against 26
pounds now: milk. l4.7 quarts. asa!nsf
III quarts now: -four l.4 sacks
against 10 sacks now: meal 90
pounds. pounds. against 3.23 pounds
now potatoes 4S pecks. against SO
pecks now: sugar, 14.5 pounds. against
mounds
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30
TIMES REPUBLICAN, MARsHAILTowN, iowa MAY 50. 1915

!. By the British and French govern
fmef4tS have resulted most disastrously
Fto &i6xens of the United States. Inn
portant papers which never can be
duplicated or can be duplicated only
with great difficulty have been lost.
Delays in receiving shipping docu-
ments have caused great loss and in-
convenience by preventing prompt
delivery Of goods. y
Mot only are American commercial
interests injured. but rights Of prop
erty are violated. can only add this
continuing offense has led to such
losses to American citizens and to a
possible responsibility of the United
States to repair them, that this gov
eminent win be compelled In the near
future to press claims for full recla-
nation upon the attention OF Ibis
majesty's government and that OF the
French republic.
1.-The government Of the United
States can no longer tolerate the
wrongs which citizens of the United
Sattes suffer and continue to suffer
thru these methods. ~.
'"Thed government Of he Unite
States expects the practice OF
the British and French authorities in
the treatment Of mails from or to the
United States to cease. Only q radi-
cal change in the present British and
French policy. restoring to the United
States its full rights as neutral
power will satisfy this government.
Il have, ETC..
Robert Lansing"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30
HAPPY FAMILY PICNIC ENDS IN
ooURlE TRAGEDY AT
HITEMAN. a.
SONS OF THAD GRETTEN .
GO WADlNG IN CREEK
Step Into Deep Hole in Small Stream
Which Appeared to be Shallow
Bend in Stream Hides Tragedy From
Mother, Who Finds One Body Before
Searchers Arrive.

Hiteman. May 30.-The happiness OF
day in the woods that was planned
and being carried out pleasantly by the
family of Thad Gretten here was
marred when death by drowning
claimed the two boys of the happy
family during the afternoon. The lads
were drowned within 100 feet of where
their mother sat on the bank OF the
creek fishing. A bend in the stream
hid the boys from View.
With a basket packed with picnic
goodies for the day, the family, con-
sistIng Of Mr.. and Mrs. Thad Gretten.
Leonard. aged IS, Earl, aged 9, and
little Goldje, the baby sister aged 4
years, started from their home here
for the woods TWO miles west Of town.
During the afternoon while the moth
er sat on the bank fishing the boys
asked if they might wade in the creek
and We're told they could. but to re-
move their outer clothing. The stream
seemed shallow and the mother felt
safe in giving permission. The father
was attracted by the dog having freed
an object and went TO see what oc-
>
ing away at the time the mother
missed her boys who lad wandered
some distance from where they en-
tered the stream.
Becoming uneasy she sought the
lads and called to them but receiving
no answer began a search for them
and called her husband. Fearing that
they night have gone beyond their
depth the father FASTENED TO neigh
hors for aid and while he was gone
the mother found Earl. youngest of
the boys. who had waded into the
creek and was searching for his broth
er when the neighbors with her hus-
band arrived The body of Leonard
was found within a short distance,
some gfteen feet from where Earl was
located
The funeral was held this after
noon at o'clock in the Latter Day
Saints church, conducted by Rev. Ted
Giles.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30
SHARP NOTE TO ALLIES.
Lansing Tells England and France
Patience is Exhausted.

-Washington. MAY a9.--The United
States denouncing interference with
neutral mails, has notified Great Brit
ain and France that il can no long er
tolerate the wrongs which American
citizens have suffered and continue to
suffer thru the lawless practice those
governments have INDUCED in, and
that only radical change in policy
restoring the United States to its full
rights as a neutral power. Will be sat
isfartory.
This notification IS given in the lat
est American communication to the
two governments, the text of which
was made public by the state depart
ment Friday night The time in which
the change must be effected is not
specified but the United States eX-
poets prompt action.
The text of the communication, ad-
dressed TO the British and French am
bassadors. to whom it was delivered
Wednesday, said In part:
Department Of State. Washington.
May -. 1915 Exceilency: l have the
honor 10 acknowledge receipt OF your
exceIlency's note of April 5 last trans
hitting a memorandum dated Febru-
ary Is, 1915, and communicated in sub
stance to the American ambassador IN
London ON February IS. in which are
stated the contentious Of the British
and French governments IN regard to
the right TO, detain and examine parcel
and lett ter mails en- route by, sea between
the United States and Europe.
"In reply the government Of, the
United States desires to state that II
does not consider that the postal union
convention Of 1915 necessarily applies
to the interference by the. British and
French governme nts with the oversee
TRANSFORMATION Of mails.
The government of the United
States must again insist with empha-
sis that the British and French gov
ernments do not obtain ;rightful jurfs-
diction of ships by forcing or inducing
them to visi.~their ports for the pur-
pose Of Selling their mails.
THE present practice is in violation
not only of the spirit of the announce
rrent of February u. but Of the rule
Of the Hague convention upon which
il Is concededly based.
The arbitrary methods employed
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30
Thew Were All Named,

4 party Of engineers were making a
railway survey thru the backwoods hill
country of Kentucky and were board
ing at the various farmhouses along
their route One day they stopped a,
a slatternlycabn for dinner During
the meal the housewife explained the
lack Of sufficient cutlery TO go around
by saying that tine children had been
playing with her knives and lost them
At that moment a. precorious young
ster at the foot Of the table interrupt
ed her with:
Nav. O NAV, They're all here"
Hush. Johnny"
But, nav, they're all here" and he
rose in his place and pointed to each
piece as he named them: Big Butch
Little Butch. Case Knife and Stub
Youths Companion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30

from noon toll midnight. Mr.. Greg
son is also night man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry McMurray, 1890
Fourth avenue. announce the birth OF
a daughter Margaret Virginia, on Sat
urday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Casper Chenoweth are
having visit from Mrs. c. Q. Bowers.
of Taylor Ridge, Ill. They had also as
over Sunday guests Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Dunmier, of Dexter.
Miss Ruth Calderwool, niece or j.
A. Flock, of this city, is expected home
this evening from The Ward school for
girls. in Nashville. Tenn, TO spend her
summer vacation here.
E. p. Peters. of Ewart.'is suffering
from a badly mangled left hand which
he had placed on a gate post when an
excited horse forced him thru the
opening and damned his shoulder
against the hand with such force as
to Zip open the flesh between thumb
and first finger and into the palm.
Lawrence Stenger died from
peculiar complication Of diseases not
often found together, measles. ap-
pendicius and pneumonia. He was at
the home of his uncle. Joseph Reitzler'
near Brooklyn.
Miss Myrtle McEwen, who was taken
with scarlet fever While at the cry
hospital. thus forcing quarantine OF
the place. is said TO nave the whole
hospital to herself as far as patients
go but is recovering very satisfac-
torlly
ora StllW ell has given up the posi-
trnn in the Register office OF TINS
r.lN where he has been for several
years. and gone to take simila. one
At Nledn. III.
The members of the Woman's Re-
lief corps gathered in the post rooms
as - their annual custom, yesterday,
and made over 120 evergreen wreaths
to lay today upon the resting place OF
the bodies of the comrades of the
Grand Army that have responded TO
the final earthly muster-out- Inc
way 10 the cemetery is SO torn up by
the preparation for paving the hill
that enters from the north and by
reason OF the making OF new concrete
bridges on First avenue west near the
old tannerv. and on WASHINGTON ave-
nue. on the east crossing an arm OF
Arbor lake that il is Impossible 10 get
to the cemetery with teams or autos
except by going mile west into the
country and returning on First ave
nue. extended.
j. NJ. Campbell is confined TO his
home by a very sudden and very
severe case Of lumbago.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30
Northern Io1ua Items

ing and uprooting them. Farm build
| ihgs were demolished and the windmill
wrenched from its base. Next in line
was the rural home of Mrs. VIII Kehnle.
Then came the w. F. Drummy place.
| the Joe Smith farm, the Charles War
ner farm and Henry Hawker place.
| Machine sheds were destroyed and
| their contents laid open to the winds.
! On the Warner farm the garage was
left ruin and the motor car it shell
! tered was wrecked. Orchards of fruit
| trees were destroyed. The damage done
to Mr.. Hawker's property was perhaps
the least suffered here. The storm
raised and moved off toward the north
east.
Cherokee.
George Morgan, a farmer living
northeast of Larrabee, killed himself
Friday by slashing his throat with a
| razor. He has been mentally unbal-
anced and went to the barn and wrote
note assuming all blame for his rash
act He cut his throat, severing the
| jugular vein. He leaves widow and
four small children. His parents live
| in Peterson. ...-~
PleasantviIie. s.j o#
The whole neighborhood took part In
a hunt for 2-year- old Arthur Vernon
Friday morning when his parents Mr..
and Mrs. Doc Vernon discovered his
absence shortly after breakfast. With
! the aid Of the rural telephone. every
i farmer on the line was asked to as
sist. An organized search of the fields
about the Vernon farm lasted for two
hours. Finally about 1880 O'Clock the
little fellow was spied making cross
country run for his grandfather's house.
a short distance away. The lad had
! walked thru an oat field, which was
higher than his head.
Dubuque.
| When the libel suit Of Thomas F.
Ayers, Of Waterloo, against the Tele-
graph Herald, q daily newspaper q
this city. was called In district cour1
Friday afternoon it was announced that
a settlement Of the case had been made
out Of court. Ayers won the first trial
a few months ago, receiving q judy
jment Of $500. A new trial was grant.
ed the defendant upon request at tina,
time. The paper had printed under
small Illinois town date line the al.
legged confession of Ayers to the MUIR
!, der Of a man some dozen years before
Ayers was supposed to have made The
confession on his death bed. Ayers al
\ a matter of fact was in very good
health and working every day at Wa.
terloo for the light and gas compan,
there gF' 80 81 -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30
CHILD scALDED 70 DEATH.
Grinneli Girl Falls Into Bucket Con-
tanning Hot Coffee.

STtVueH 0IFt ais INTO 6ucNoS SoU.
tanning Hot Coffee.
Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell. May 30.-The sympathy Of
the entire community here goes out to
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl c. Phelps and their
Older children in the terrible loss by
death in the most tragic way of the
youngest child the little daughter
Pauline, who was so badly scalded
late Sunday night that she died early
yesterday mornlns. The accident
occurred in the restaurant above
which the Phelps family lives. One
of, the employees of the restraint
was cleaning out the coffee urn and
turned out a large bucketfull Of almost
boiling coffee and set it on the floor
while he rinsed the urn. The little
one came into the room and. in looking
up to see what the man was doing,
stepped back against the bucket and
stumbled into the scalding liquid.
Everything possible was done to ease
her pain and save her life but she was
too badly burned to live. She was
very bright. attractive child. beloved
not only by every member of the
family but by every one who met her.
She was Just about two and half
years old.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30

to the chief operator No 500" Nhad
been a hard morning, and everything
had gone wrong. Finally the lady Of
the house. in desperation. turned to the
trusty telephone and called No. 600.
This Is the chief operator" an
swered the chief, sweetly.
rs this where you report your trout
ble?" asked the lady.
Yes, ma'am." h
We'll, only wanted to report that
our cat got drowned In the cistern this
morning; the baby is cutting . new
tooth; the cook left without warning:
we are out of sugar and starch: the
stove pipe fell down; the milkman left
only one pint instead Of q quart today;
the bread won't rise; my oldest child
is coming down with the measles; we
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30
RUNAWAY BOY KILLED.
Davenport Youth Who Jumped Bal
Bond Crushed Under Cars.

Bond Crushed Under Cars.
Davenport. May 3O.-Roy Mockmore.
10 years old. who on May S was bound
over TO the grand jury from the court
Of Magistrate Claussen. and later re-
leased on bonds in the sum Of $3.50,
was Killed under train IN Rogers.
Ark. according to advices received by
his mother here yesterday morning.
Mockmore. it is belieyed was trying
10 escape from justice when he was
killed. He left Davenport shortly after
he was released. and the first word re-
ceived by relatives here was yesterday
morning. when the news Of his death
came.
The lad was arrested at the insti
CATION Of one Of his fellowworkmen at
the shops in Betendorf. who accused
him Of displaying a gun and threaten :
ing to kill him. In his preliminary
hearing. Nockmore claimed that the
men al the plant were continually per
scouting him. and that he was made to
do all the dirty work" around the
place.
The evidence against the lad. how
ever, seemed tso strong. and he was
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30

| Dubuque
The Rev. w. B. Simmons. Of Nc
Pherson, Kan. has accepted call to
the pastorate Of the summit Congre-
gational church of this city. The sum
nit church has been without pastor
since last December. when the Rev. +.
A. Zickefoos, the former pastor. died
Sioux City.
Becoming violently insane, Walter
Monogue, of Bay City. Mich. who at
tempted suicide at st. Vincent's hos
pital, grabbed a chair and felled a
nurse. Miss Sylvia Tippy. He then
turned and set his teeth in the hand of
DR.. P. E. Keesee, the attending physi-
clan, who had just entered the room.
Monticello.
Mrs. Jessie Boys, the domestic sci
ence teacher here, has resigned the po-
sition and Ruth McClintock of Cedar
Rapids has been elected to fill the va
cancy. Mrs. Boys has given universal
satisfaction but declines to remain.
Miss McClintock comes to Monticello
with excellent recommendations.
Charles City.
The fishing in the Cedar river in this
vicinity Is the best it has been in many
years. The last week several record
breaking sized fish have been caught,
among them being a seven and one
half pound pickerel and ten pound
pike. A petition Is being circulated to
help get fish hatchery located here.
Sunv1:>- ..-e~
John Deery, pioneer attorney. CAPT.
talist and Mississippi river improve
nent enthusiast, died suddenly in his
apartments at the Merchants hotel
Wednesday night, aged so. He had
been about the hotel during the even
ling and complained only slightly. His
only relatives are nieces and nephews
In the New England states.
Dubuque.
The last OF the six new powerful elec-
trio motors has been installed in the
car and mill departments Of the Chica'
go, Milwaukee g. st. Paul railroad
shops and final work on the installation
of the new electrical system thruou'
the shops has been completed, leayins
the shops among the most modern ane
up to date In the country. f-5'
Ryan.
Severe damage to farm property wa,
done by a tornado which passed owe
this city Friday night, destroying
buildings and uprooting trees which
stood in its path. The storm formed
north of Ehler. The first farm In 1t,
path was that of Herman Keegans. /
worked havoc on his place. tearinl
among grove Of oa:-trees and twist
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30
MAY EXCLUDE FOREIGNERS.
Movement in Germany Renewed
Against Outside Students.

Movement in Germany Renewed
Against Outside Students.
Correspondence Of Associated Press.1
Berlin. May 1.-THE old opposition
to the unrestricted admittance Of
foreigners to the German universities
! has sprung up, in new form, in a
movement for the exclusion from
university privileges after the war OF
all that is nonGerman. This opposi-
ton before the war was directed prin-
cipally against Russian Jews, who
fiocked to German colleges in great
numbers and the agitation led to GER
tain restrictive measures aimed at
chat element.
y The new movement Is directed
against foreigners generally. APP
parently Ii originated among German
students who considered it an Injustice
to themselves to allow lecture rooms
and laboratories to be overcrowded
with foreigners
The students at several universities
have already adopted resolutions not
demanding the total exclusion OF for
eigners, but the RELOCATION Of them to
a secondary position 10 the enjoyment
Of university privileges. 1t Is de-
manded, in particular, that no Tor
eign student shall select a seat for
any course Of lectures, or position
at Ia boratory tables. before all the Ger
mans have made their selections. The
contention Of the students Is that, IN
asmuch as the German people are
taxed for the support OF the un.ver-
sites, it is only fair that Germans have
first choice of seats and other faciii-
ties: and foreigners should be content
l.. 40, n nt,tf
seats altogether when none Is left.
The question came up recently IN inc
Prussian Chamber during the discus
sion Of the educational and church
budget. A national liberal speaker
took much the same stand as the
students. emphasizing the Idea that
the universities exist primarily to SUB
serve German interests. The speaker
said that. While he did not want
Numerically to seal the. universities
against foreigners, still some things In
lGermany's ante -bellum practice must
be changed; terms Of admission Tor
foreigners must be closed against them
altogether wherever German interests
are even remotely endangered by al
mitting them" In this connection be
alluded to the Japanese. who learned
from us the use Of arms. only to turn
them against us at moment when we
needed all our fists for pounding our
enemies" :
DR.. Trott zu Solz.. the minister OF
education and religion. said the COM
plants about the hardships caused oy
foreigners at the universities are very
much exaggerated. but that the whole
subject must be re-examined after the
u,ar While avoiding expressly any
intirna ton as to what might be done,
then. he said that the question must
be settled from the standpoint OF Ger
man interests. The minister thought
that the whole general attitude or
Germans toward foreigners called Tor
a revision, The minister began his
budget speech by referring to the fact
that Prussia was keeping up her edu.
cational and cultural activity I'M
abated. Schools Of all grades, scien-
tiic establishments, and art museums
ha said had been kept open unin-
terruptedly since the war began.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-30

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