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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29
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Mr.. and Mrs. c. a. McWilliams OF
Washington arrived for short visit
with friends.
The Misses Elizabeth and Gladys
HAYDEN arrived home from Iowa City
to spend the holidays with their par
ents. M. and Mrs. James Hayden.
Ray McHaffey Of Ames arrived to
spend Christmas with his sister, Mrs.
A. J. Mckay.
Joe Roberts of Ottumwa visited
rclativ here this week.
Miss Violet Roberts and Ross Ship
Ter will leave for Lber:yville to spend
Xmas with Mr.. SHIPPERS mother
Mrs. II. l.. Cross and Mrs. J. E.
Easton and son Edward spent the day
in Fairfield with relatives.
I Mrs. Helen Wright and Miss Hazel
Waller spent few days in Des
Moines this week.
Fred Shines went to Chicago this
week
Mrs. Lininger moved her household
goods out of the Obi building today.
Mr. and Mrs Guy Lambert of New
ton spent Christmas at the parental
W. H. Stauffer home.
II. O. Crow of Fairfield spent Sun
dav at the W. II. Crow home.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Jaques and chill
dren of BURLINGTON arrived to spend
Christmas at the parental Tom Jaques
home.
Mrs. Alice Nordyke Of Trenton. ar
rived TO spend the holidays with her
mother, Mrs. |. T. Smith
John Lutz of Trenton. visited his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. X. LutZ this
week.
Ray Sawash Of WASHINGTON spent
Christmas day with his sister Mrs. J.
a. Bundy.
Mr. and Mrs Frank JaQues Of OF.
tumwa spent Christmas at The home Of
/ Mrs. Jaques' sister, Mrs Charles Rob-
| inson.
| Miss Marie Hilleary of Grinnell ar
rived to spend the holidays with her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. II. r. Hilleary.
Miss Myrtle Huston of Kansas City,
Mo-. spent a few days with friends
here. returning to her home Monday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. D. Grow spent
Tuesday in Fairfield with Mrs. Crows
parents. Mr. and Mrs. r. NJ. McIn
toSh.
! Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Appleby went to
Woodward for a few days visit with
Mrs. Appleby's sisters.
Marve. Jr.. the two weeks old sor
of Mr. and Mrs. Marve Jaques Of Tren-
ton. Mo-. after few days illness with
pneumonia passed away at heir home
Mt 10 O'Clock Monday. The body will
, be taken to Marshalltown for burial
this morning. T. J. Jaques and Frank
: Jaques of Ottumwa went to Trenton
Monday afternoon to attend the flu.
neral.
The following were the first com
munion class at the St. AlOysius
church al Christmas mass Monday
morning. Madeline Hunter. Donald
Russell. Frances Reed, Mary Isbell
Robinson and Donald Conrad
The G.. G. T. club gave dance at
the Moose hall Christmas night.
| Miss Elizabeth Millisack of Ottnm-
wa spent Christmas day with her
friend. Miss Violet Roberts.
o. s. Haywood. who has been work
/ ing in Ottumwa, is home Tor thirty
day vacation.
:. Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Daughterty and
children of Ottumwa spent Christmas
at the parental John Daugherty home.
Miss Margaret Reed Of Ottumwa is
spending the holidays with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. James Reed.
Guy Littlefield of Ames is home for
his vacation al the parental W. A.
I.ittlefeld home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boston of Centerville
spent the week end at the Clyde Mel
son hcme.
MIR. and Mrs. c. X. Robinson Were
host and hostess at a family dinner
Christmas day.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29
GREAT AFT EXHIBIT.

y Many Iowans hove spent hundreds
AID hundreds of dollars to visit the art
galleries of Belgium and France. There
IRE thousands and thous nds of
Iowans who have lorg wanted to see
some of the art treasures of Europe.
Through the act witty of some OF the
public spirited men Of Iowa the arr
exhibit of France and Belgium, which
ere ated srch a sensation at the Fana-
na.Pacific International exposition at
San Francisco last year. is to be
brought to Iowa, complete i, every de-
tail The greater Iowa association has
contr buted to the fund that VIII de-
frav the expense of Installing this ex-
bihit in the rublic library at Des
Moines. 1t will be exhibited n Des
Moines probably the latter part Of
March and the entire month CT April
the exact date to be n~ounced later.
II will be free to all Iowans.
Believing that the women of Iowa
will be especially interested in en- OK
hibit of this sort the greater lows
association has asked the cooperat on
of the Iowa federation of womer's
clubs, in order to insure good at
tendance from all parts OF the state.
The exhibit is valued at hundreds OF
thousands of dollars: in fact. many of
the canvases are not for sale at any
,price. The collection includes work
Nv some of the best known ar'ists and
will be far and away ahead of anvtbing
ever displayed in Iowa heretofore,
II was the intention of tho French
government, which has charge Of the
exhibit to return the eut're co'lec' i'm
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29
GAME WARDEN EARNS SALARY.

Des Moines. Dec. 27.-Game Warden
E. c. Hinshaw of Spirit Lake has is
sued his report for the month of No
vember. Out of total of 119 persons
prosecuted for game law violations,
113 We're convicted and the total fines
for the month amounted TO sS.2S6.50.
Furs to the number of l .221 were seiz.
ed and sold and 202 illegal devices,
consisting of guns. nets and traps,
were either destroyed or sold
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29
GERMANY COMMENT.

Amsterdam, Dec 81. Via London)
on the German reply to
President Wilson's note the Lokal An
zeiger of Berlin says:
From the fact that Germany has
not allowed the Christmas festival to
pass without replying to President
Wilson's note even our enemies must
gain the conviction that We made the
peace offer seriously. Should Mr.. Will
son be induced by our note to recon-
mend to our enemies that they send
representatives to neutral place Tor
the purpose OF peace negotiations. we
should still be far from abandoning
ourselves to the hope that the move
would meet with success at London,
Paris. Petrosrad and Rome
The Taegliche Rundschau of Berlin
says:
Our governments announcement OF
its desire to bring about an end of the
conflict with our enemies in personal
negotiations without the cooperation
of neutrals is very satisfactory because
II gives us a guarantee that we will
decline decisively the interference of
non participants in the fighting and in
the creation OF peace
The Vossiche Zeituns referring to
the Swiss note. says
IF further neutral notes are couch
ed in similar tone they certainly will
find sympathetic understanding
among us. The Swiss note breathes
the honesty of that true neutrality
which has characterized Switzerland
during the entire war"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29
BADLY MANNED IN ACCIDENT.

Strawberry Point, Dec. 27.-While
Whes!ey. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Dill
lon, and Claud Newton were engaged
in saving down trees one of the trees
did not fall in the direction the boys
expected it to and in running to get
out of the way Dillon tripped and fell.
the tree striking him. breaking his left
limb in two places below the knee. dis.
locating the ankle, injuring his hip
and cutting severe cash in the head.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29
country HOME READY.

FL DCdge. Dec. 81. Webster coun-
i've new $4,000 county home is prac-
tica,ly completed Steward j. w.
RYAN and his family will move in some
tine next week. The board of super
viso-s Md final examination of tn .
building today.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29
ANNOUNCE DEPOSITS.

Des Moines, Dec 27.-State banking
department announced the total assets
of the Iowa state and savings banks
and trust companies on December
was $465.3 1859.
The total deposits was 1884 49,
6O4.76, or nearly s55.OO00oo more than
thirteen months ago.
The average reserve in all banks
December | was 1913 per cent
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29
BIG AuskiNG RECORD.

George, Dec. 27-Henry Schote
stated that this fall he had picked
3.4O3 bushels of corn in exactly S51a
days. and that from the start to the
finish os the work he had lost only a
day and half of time. For picking
this corn he received the sum OF
sI71.5O and this is pretty good corn
to permit man making a record like
the above.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29
NAV GET PACKING PLANT

Des Moines. Dec. 2I.-The presence
of agents of Morris Packing Co. of
chicago in Des Mones led to a re.
yival of the rumor that the Morris
company was contemplating the es-
adjustment here of a 81 100000 pack
inc plant and stock yards.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29
o,ncREAME1Y ABANDONED.

Usage. Dec. 27.-The Orchard
creamery. five miles south of Usage,
is to be abandoned after being in oper-
alton thirty-five years or more. The
high cost of feed has made the eX-
pense of producing the butter too
heavy. This creamery IS said TO be
the oldest cooperative concern of the
kind in the state with one possible ex
ception
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29
NO SURPRISE FOR coNvicTs.

Dies MONIES. Dec. 2i.-Ihe sIaTt
board of parole is not planning on sur.
prising any of the convicts in the state
penittentiaries by granting paroles as
christmas presents. The board has
released 400 prisoners on parole in
1916. Work is found for each man
before he is released.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29
MASON CITY LEADS THE STATE.

MASON CITY. DC. -I.-NaSUH NTly
leads all the cities in the state the
past wear in the matter of public I'M
movements. The total value of the
buildings erected reached the huge
sum of s5.426.000. Des MoineS was
second with building improvements
estimated al S4,6o0O00.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29

Be sure and clean the snow and
ice off your sidewalks. You are JUS
as liable as anyone else to suffer an
injury through falling on the ice or
cnOw
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29

People are getting little bit mora
thrifty. Merchants state that major
ity of Christmas presents this year
were useful.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29

Los Angeles. Crl.. self ccnte sci
land of Sunshine and flowers. had 4
snow storm the other CAV. but it was
not a resident of ] os Angeles who sent
out the news to the world. Speaking
of such things in California is crime.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29

Christmas day was IDEAL from 4
weather standpoint but of the next
succeeding day. the least said is the
better
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29
JEwelRY STORE RoesEp.

Dubuque. Dec. 21.-"An inside 1ot
in which burglars secured $500
jewelry. mostly watches, was pull{
off in the j. F. Stamper Co. depul
mcpt store.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29

People who have sampled it, s"v
that bootleg whisky is about iha
fieriest stuff this side of Satan's d.
main from whence it comes
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29

Now that negotiations with MeXco
Fave failed Mr.. Wilson will proha'l
adopt policy of watchful waiting
Maybe be is waiting for Carra"za anq
Villa and the rest of the Mexicans TO
die. or maybe ornects them 10 run
themselves to daath in hunting up
mericanS to kill
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29

Merry Chr'stnas" saws he post
card to the soldier in Erro"e'
trenches. Merry He'll he mutte's.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-29

Address. The Courier Printing Co:''-
pany, Ottumwa Iowa.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-06-29

When the members Of Company A
marched to the depot to entrain for
Camp Douglas, those who were able of
the veterans Of 80, twenty in num-
Der, marched behind the band; some
with canes, some with long white
boards, more feeble ones in automo-
biles, all thinking undoubtedly of the
time when another company left
Reedsburg, more than fifty years ago.
Then came Company A, following the
new flag which had been presented to
them by the Reedsburg Relief Corps a
year ago. A number of recruits have
been added to the company in the
last few days.
1t was a trying time to the boys who
went, and to the loved ones who
stayed at home, both for the present
separation and the thought of when
and where the next meeting may be,
for at such time the mystery of un-
certainty surrounds them all.
superintendent Doyle was with the
train, helping to see that the Chicago
& Northwestern did its part in getting
the soldiers to Camp Douglas in safe
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-06-29

ACCOUNTS IN CITY TREASURER'S
OFFICE ARE BEING LOOKED
lNTO-WILL REPORT TO
COUNCIL TONIGHT

At the request Of the city council,
the ST. Louis Audit company has sent
to Baraboo an auditor, who was in
structed to go over all the city books
and audit the accounts for the past
year. 1t is expected that he will
be able to make his report at the
council meeting tonight.
1t is understood that the represen-
tatiVe Of the audit company claims to
have discovered several discrepancies
in the books of the water department
amounting to a considerable sum. 1t
is alleged that the totals for certain
days receipts do not seem to show
correct footing according to the
amounts put down.
The investigation was ordered pri-
marily on account OF a financial mud
die that seems toj have arisen on ac-
count of double taxation of one of Bar
abOo's business firms and the later re-
funding of the tax.
The representative of the audit
now going over the books of
the city is the same person who
looked into the highway accounts not
long ago.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-06-29
FIRST REAL BATTLE
IS FOUGHT IN MEXICO
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY

American and Carranza troops
fought a bloody battle "Wednesday
only a few hours after President Will
sons 5000 word rebuke yesterday to
General Carranza had gone forward
to Mexico City With which side vic
tory rested is not known.
The engagement took place on the
Santo Domingo ranch near the Mexi-
can town of Carrizal, which is nine
miles southwest of Villa Ahumada,
Mexican field headquarters in north
ern Chihuahua, and 80 miles south of
Eel Paso.
The number of dead, American or
Mexican, was not definitely known,
but nearly a score Of General Perish
ings men are said to have been killed
and the Mexicans are said to have
lost more than two score. Seventeen
Americans are declared by Mexican
officers to have been captured and to
have been hurried to Chihuahua City
under guard
Mexican General Killed
The Americans engaged are said by
Mexican officials to have been mem
bers of a troop from the Tenth cav
airy, a negro regiment, returning
from a scouting trip to Guzman. The
size of the Mexican force, whose com
mander, General Felix Gomez, was
killed, is not known.
News of the battle was received in
Juarez yesterday afternoon by Gener-
al Gonzales, Carranza commander of
the military zone on the border. For
some reason General Gonzales kept
the story secret until late in the aft
ernOon, when an American, J. G.. Hub
Bile, returning to the border from the
interior, brought to Ell Paso the news
that he had seen numbers of Mexican
dead along the Mexican Central rail-
road tracks at Villa Ahumada, and
had been told that there had been
an encounter with the "gringoes."
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-06-29
BARABOO MAN AGAIN SELECTED
BY PROGRESSIVES TO RUN
FOR LIEUTENANT
GOVERNOR
HATTON CHOICE
FOR GOVERNOR
Ringing Endorsement Given Hughes
for Presidency, Which Was
Wildly Cheered
(FrOlG Fridays DaIIy.)

At the Republican Progressive con.
ference held in Madison yesterday
Lieutenant Governor E. F. Dithmar of
Baraboo was indorsed for reelection
by acclamatiOn. The scheme of some
party leaders to sidetrack him fell by
the wayside and his selection became
practically unanimous
w. H. HattOn of New London was in
dorsed for governor over F. e. Nc
Govern, and as it is said the latter in
tends to run anyway, there will be
three Republican tickets in the field
again this fall. Merlin Hull of Black
River Falls, we'll known in BarabOo,
and a frequent visitor here, was in
dorsed for secretary of state; Alvin
Peterson, Soldiers Grove, was the
choice for treasurer and Walter c..
Owen was selected for reelection as
attorney general
lndorse Hughes
A ringing Endorsement of Hughes for
president which was wildly cheered
and lengthy laudation of La Toilette
and an Endorsement of his candidacy
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-06-29
W|RflFSS STATION
NOW At FERN DELL
UNIVERSITY MEN, INTERESTED
IN BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT,
INSTALL APPARATUS
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY

Professor Ingersoll. scoutmaster of
the Beaver patrol of Madison, which
has been camping at Mirror Lake the
past ten days, with the assistance Of
others, M. P. Hansen, of the signal
corps, Captain BeQua Of the wireless
station of the university, a. L. God
dard of the engineering department
of the university, and Professor Terry
who has charge Of the university
wireless station, are constructing a
wireless station and receiving appa-
ratus near Mrs H. w Pages cottage
on top of the hill at Fern Dell. This
is the first portable boy scout wireless
station to be established. They ex-
pect to establish communication be-
tween here and Madison by the end Of
the week. They have already received
communication from Arlington, Va,
and point several hundred miles dis
tant in Illinois, but as yet their send
ing apparatus has not been complet-
ed, Professor Ingersoll went to Madi-
son today and left Professor w. l..
Dabney, of the engineering faculty,
in charge Of the scouts the remainder
OF the week. After the tryout at Fern
Dell, in all probability the apparatus
will be moved to Baraboo and located
on some available high point, possibly
Cheeks Hill, where communication
will be established with Madison and
other points. Possibly the outfit will
be left here for testing out during the
summer.
The boy scouts Of the patrol feel
quite indebted to Mayor G. T. Thuerer,
w. H. Potter, H. Parsley, M. Debrey
and w. H. McFetridge in taking an in
terest in the undertaking and assist
ing in establishing a base of operation
in Baraboo They are also grateful to
A L. Reeden for his ability as a
guide and for his willing service.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-06-29
Hunting Birds viii
I'll Camera On Island
In Pacific Ocean

youngest birds, but here our gun came
into play and a few shots from the
Colt six shooter frightened them
away.
The gulls build their nests on the
west side Of the island and probably
hundred feet above the pelicans' and
fish hawks. The nests are built Of
sticks and grass mostly carried from
the mainland twelve miles away and
appear to be used from year to year to
save carrying Of new material. The
nests are built among the rocks where
the salt weed grows, as this weed is
a natural protection to the little birds,
as the plants, blossom, and little gulls
are all of the same color, brown and
white spotted. AS the young gulls
keep perfectly still one will walk with
in few inches of them without MOTTO
ing them. This protection and the
ever Watchfulness Of the parent birds
is well warranted, for the old-fashion-
ed hen hawk makes her regular visits
to the island, and it's rarely ever that
she goes away without a dainty meal.
The gull has an entirely different way
of feeding her young. Every time the
pelican goes to fish, at least one gull
goes with them, and if perchance the
pelican Injuries fish that does not
get into her pouch, or for any reason
loses one, the gull is right there to
grab it. And as the fishermen return
ing to San Diego with their nights
catch are dressing the fish on the way,
the gull is ever with them to catch
every scrap that is thrown overheard. |
They also follow all vessels going in
or out of the harbors and snatch up all
refuse from the cooks galley. All
these dainty morsels are carried home |
to the young gulls, who seem to en- |
JOY it as well as if it were honestly |
caught.
We returned to camp at O'clock
we'll pleased that we had shot up the |
birds with our cameras) to our
hearts content. But never bird had |
we killed.
Guy O. Glazier
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-06-29
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AC 81 D {: \ 7
At ABLE: E:MAN
ITALIAN LABORER Is KILLED
INSTANTLY IN DYNAMITE
EXPLOSION AT LA RUE
QUARRY
FROM THURSDAYS DAILY

A frightful accident occurred yes
terday afternoon at the La Rue qaar-
ry in Ableman when Joe Bose was in
stantly killed in a dynamite explosion
! in which the top of his skull and one
side of his face were blown off.
The unfortunate affair happened at
twenty minutes to three as Bose, who
was an Italian, was about TO explode
a charge. AS near as can be learned
he had drilled three side holes twenty
feet from the top of the ledge ranging
in depth from ten to twelve feet, and
was pocketing or enlarging the holes,
having previously placed charges of
dynamite in them, and had fred one
charge and was about to connect up
the wires for a second blast when the
dynamite in the second hole went off.
Although killed instantly, he did not
topple over the ledge, but was left
standing in an almost upright posi-
ton, and his body was lowered to the
ground by his fellow employees.
1t is not known just how the prema-
ture explosion occurred, but the opin-
ion has been advanced that possibly
the heat generated in the first explo-
sion came through the seams in the
quartzite intense enough to explode
the second, nearby, change.
The deceased was unmarried, but
had father, mother, brothers and sis
ters in the old country. He was TWEEN
ty-tive years of age and had taken out
his first citizenship papers and made
for his second ones. Bose
had been engaged in steam drilling
and blasting for eleven years, having
worked for the Wisconsin Granite
company, the White Rock Quarry
and for the past month and
a half at the La Rue quarry He was
regarded as a good workman.
The remains were brought to Bara-
boo yesterday and prepared for burial
at the Melzl & McGann Undertaking
parlOrS.
By peculiar coincidence a part
ner Of Bosses that came from Italy,
was killed while unloading stone just
a year ago tomorrow.
Some of the unfortunate mans com
panion's who were in the city today
state that lis name is spelled Boca.