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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

the finest of swimming birds"
Mrs Ducks husband, Mr.. Mallard
Drake, began at once TO speak of the
beautiful green hat he was wearing.
You are good swimmers, and you
both can fly WELL" said the Green
Winged and Blue Winged Teal family,
but we are so delicate and refined.
We are not coarse and tough. It's not
nice to be too strong"
Nonsense" said Mr.. Mallard Drake
''Give me good wings and the power to
swim 1 don't want to be delicate and
refined. 1t will get you nowhere, no.
where in the duck world"
''Of course" said Mrs. Mallard Duck,
1--WE have a very fine reputation for
being most delicious when eaten"
As soon as Mrs. Mallard Duck had
said that, she was sorry, for it made
her feel sad to think of such q thing.
and of course in her boasting she had
not realized how it would sound. Mr..
Nallard Drake had shivered a little
and was about to fly off, as he does
when danger is near, when he said:
"Quack, quack, never say that again.
Let's talk about our strong wings"
good to eatI The other creatures were
quite amused that Mrs. AIallard Duck
had actually known herself that she
had boosted too much.
"When anyone is talking about beau
ty,' said Mr.. and Mrs. Mandarin Duck
together, ''they should simply speak OF
US, for of all the coloring and plumage
ours takes the lead"
"'Pm not so sure about that" said
Mrs. Paradise Sheldrake, who is just
between a duck and a goose in looks
and ways. I'm almost like two crea
lures and I'm far more beautiful than
Mr.. Sheldrake,''. which was perfectly
true. But at once they started quar-
reling, for they are very apt to argue
and quarrel.
'fDon't fight" said the Lesser Scaup
st will dive for you and make you for
get your troubles" So the Lesser
Scaup made many fine dives, for be
belonged to the sea duck family. He
likes to dive way down until he reach
| es mud and there he hunts for his
| food.
The Sheldrakes had stopped quar-
reIing, for they were listening to the
| Pintail Duck family telling the Man
| DARN or Wood Duck family that the!
were quite handsome.
ave have softer coloring," they said
but the GadwaI had interrupted b!
saying:
'What have you to say to me?
am a handsome gray bird"
The Baldpate family were trying tt
]
bur they could not dive at all well ant
they felt quite badly about it.
ST am interesting" said the Shovel
er. 'My bill has become so used t.
getting the goodies out of the mud ant
il is very big and anyone passing M
notices it first of ali. 1t really is tn
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
Ready for Hard Eiohtinu.

Them Japs." said a man in a Flat
bush barber shop. TO the second-chaIr
artist, "ain't a-gOin' to let them Ger
mans get too far inter Russia"
Coin to fight emp asked the artist
"Sure thing. First thing We know
them Japs will be over there"
They are hard fighters. them
JapS." ventured the artist.
Hard? 1 should say So" declared
the man. land az this very mint the
whole Jap army is marbleized for ac-
ton"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
misunderstanding Material

A heat-resisting composition OF spe-
cial value in constructing easements In
heating apparatuses, shingles, chimney
shelves, ct cetera. is a combination OF
cement and asbestos. Two Swiss ar
chitects are responsible for the inven-
ton OF this fre-proof material.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
THE F55 IS INVADED BY THE WEIRD MONSTERS AND
PAGET HAS A TERRIBLE STRUGGLE TO SAVE HIM
SELF AND IDA-THE OTHERS ARE DEV0URED.

command OF sub
distinguished though
just
expedition bringing with him member OF
he asserts menaceS
family. the March Hares Masterman e
MacEeard and
fatap MasterInans body Paget
proceeds
his submarine the
a but finds
himself of invisible
forces
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
DidnIt knov, the LINGO.

''How do you like your new fatherT'
the visitor asked Johnny. who had re-
Gently acquired a stepfather.
'.Aw. he's a nut"
"a nut is he; and why do you call
him thatT''
Jaw, he asked me would rather be
the stopper or the throEer in a ban
game"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

shape Of a shovel.
too, which is a
good way for
ones bill, or beak,
to be-"
For the Shovel
er can strain mud
through his bill
and simply swal-
low all the food
he finds in the
mud.
"Quack, quack, +"
they all began to-
gether, for the
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

all the creatures
began at once to
chatter in their
shrill voice 5,
quack quacking
without stopping
for breath, il
Seemde.
I'm an excel
lent swimmer"
said Mrs. AIallard
Duck. "And when
1 am frightened,
how 1 can fly I
am really one of
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
Cheaper Than Other Meat.

Chickens and fowls give Us supply
of wholesome, quick-grown meat that,
at the present time. is as cheap as any
other meat we can buy, and far better
food than a good deal Of meat that Is
offered
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
Mintatorx Bind Protect.a-

The federal migratory bird law
prohibits spring shooting OF water
fowl and other game birds throughout
the United States. The season IS
closed from February 1 to September
8, inclusive.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
Clean uo Garden.

Clean up the garden and burn ali
weeds and trash. You viii destroy
and make homeless many insects that
had figured on eating your next years
cron.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

One horse power is not what q
horse can pull It is a mechanical
unit Of power that can raise $1,000
pounds one foot high per minute. or
one pound $1,000 feet high per min
ute.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
uou... Clean and Sanitary.

The poultry houses should be clean
and sanitary and the fowls free from
insect pests, thereby preventing dis
ease and mortality.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
H.r...t Garden Seeds.

Garden seeds should be harvested
as soon as they are sufficiently ma
tured to insure their keeping through
She winter.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

A girl may not let you kiss her, but
the chances are she appreciates your
wanting to.-T7ger.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
EasY 20 Look PIeasant.

'It Is just as easy to look pleasant
as e Is to wear q long face and look
es Il you had dined on crab apples"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

FAIRY TALE
ROASTING AND EATING.
81 MAQY GRAlIAN bonner

The ducks and geese were giving a.
party in the Wild-F'lower Pond, and
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

The villain, MacBeard, pos
sessed of the dead Masterman's
papers, sets out for the abode of
the unknown creatures, off the
Shetland islands His purpose is
deadly.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

Always Find Company.
The man who plays fair can always
find somebody 70 play with.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
Value Of Good Highways.

Even heather countries realize ths
value OF good highways.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17

tCopyright By W. G. ChapmaD
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29

of this fall term. This she finally
consented to do, resigning but short
time before her wedding day.
After finishing high school, the
groom, who is a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Middents, we'll known farmers
residing southeast of Kamrar, attend
ed Dubuque college, Dubuque, where
he was a pupil under the Rev. Stef-
fens, who officiated at the wedding.
After graduating from that school he
took post graduate work at Prince
ton and is now filling his first pastor
ate in the German Presbyterian
church at Steambo at Rock. -
The happy welded pair left Friday
night on a south bound train-desti-
nation unknown. After a short we'd
ding trip they will go at once to
Steamboat Rock where the groom has
a furnished home awaiting his bride
Supt. and Mrs. E. F. Snow and Miss
Mae Bahrenfus were the only guests
from this city. Many relatives and
friends of the bride and groom from
all over Hamilton county were pres
ent, however, and the following
guests, also from away, attended the
happy event: Mrs. Arthur Neessen,
Minneapolis; Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Pet
ers, Grundy Center; Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Peters, Wellsburg; Mr.. and
Mrs. Ben Peters, Wellsburg; Mrs. Pc
ter Peters, Worthington, Mimi; Mrs.
H. A. Voss, Biglow, Mimi; Mrs. AL
Kelso, Wilmot, Mimi; Miss Bertha
Denne, Waukon, Mimi; Mr.. and Mrs.
Dick Eekhoff, Austinville, Mimi;
Mrs. Geo. Zacharias, Ackley; Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Cordes, Parkersburg;
Mrs. Will Bissell, Goldfield, and Mr..
and Mrs. F. B. Cordes, Parkersburg.
The latter couple are grandparents Of
the bride.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
Political Pot Boiling.

Jewell Record: The political pot in
Hamilton county appears to be quite
decidedly in the boil, SO far as the mat
ter of successor to Cady Chase for
the state senatorship is concerned.
The Webster City Freeman-Journal
recently stated that RUDE McFerren
who has been Hamilton county's rep
resentative in the state legislature the
past two terms, has come out definite
ly as candidate for the state senate.
And the Williams Enterprise last week
urged the candidacy of E. 1. Johnson,
a well known banker of Williams and
a former chairman of the republican
county central committee, for the
place. Johnson is an able man and il
he chould get in the race would UNI
doubtedly command good support
in this county. 1t is reported that
both of the other two counties in this
sentorial district. Hardin and Wright,
will also have a candidate for the
place.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
WAR SHORTENS SKIRTS
IN GERMANY THIS WINTER
Official Announcement of Savings to
Be Practiced.

Copenhagen, Oct. 27.-Some of the
prospects which the German people
are called upon to face the coming
winter are officially announced in to-
days German newspapers as follows:
There is only enough shoe leather
for the use of miners, fishermen, ca
nal workers and a few allied trades.
The manufacture of leather footwear
for the rest of the population will
soon be suspended. They will have
to get along with wooden soles and
cloth uppers.
There is a big shortage in veget-
ables and no hope of any material
improvement in the fresh vegetable
supply.
The fuel problem has not been
solved.
Finally after the fashion plates for
winter are out the government has
decreed that women's skirts must be
made with a reduced amount of ma
terial, which will necessitate their
being made both shorter and tighter.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
New Member Of Board.

o. j. Henderson has been elected to
fill the vacancy in the Webster City
Outing club board of directors made
by the retirement of Geo. e. Younkee,
who has just finished the last year OF
his term The term of an Outing club
director is three years and with the
retirement of Mr.. Younkee the club
loses one of the best directors and
officers it has ever had. Mr.. Younkee
served as president and treasurer and
from the financial condition of the
club, the members have found that he
was a painstaking official
r. S. Phillips, another member OF
the board, has resigned. This move
by him is necessitated, he says, be-
cause of business responsibilities
which occupy so much of his time and
make it necessary for him to be out
of the city so often. A member to fill
this vacancy will be soon elected by
the board, as well as new president
and treasurer.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
BUYS Prize Horses.

Stratford Courier: ]. C. Richie, G..
M. Longhenry, Willis Fry and Art
Hedlund of Dayton motored to Cedar
Falls and independence last week
where they attended two large Belgian
horse sales.
j. c. Richie purchased a pair Of
two-year-old tillies at the great Crown
over Dispersion Sale held at Cedar
Falls. Mr.. Crownover is noted for
owning the worlds champion herd Of
Belgians. His champion stallion Far
ceur was sold to G. G. Good of Ogden
for $47,500.00, the highest price ever
paid for draft stallion in America
Farceur's last spring colts sold from
100000 to $1,S50.O0. One man came
all the way from France to buy this
stallion but the Iowa men were too
game for him. Every lover of good
horses is proud we have the worlds
champion so near home.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
SECOND CALL ARMY MEN
CAN STUDY SIGNAL WORK
Will Have Opportunity to Join Army
Signal Corps.

d. "a.
Washington, Oct. 27.-Men subject
to the second call to the National
army are to be given an opportunity
to study for work in the army signal
corps. !.
The new federal board for voca-
tional education announced today
that, in cooperation with the War
Department, it had planned to use
every school in the country that can
be equipped for this work, and volun-
teer select men will be assigned to
schools in their towns or districts.
Radio and telegraphing will be
taught in night courses. The first call
is for the training of $4,000 men.
Officials intimated that this is but
the first step in nationwide scheme
of vocational training.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
Want MORE FOOD
PLEDGES SIGNED
Herbert Hoover, Food Administrator,
Appeals to People Of Hamilton
, County for a Wider
Cooperation.
MUST "GRUB.STAKE" ALLIES
Yarick c. Crosley, Chairman of Coun.
ty Defense Council, Gets
Urgent Letter.

Varick G. Crosley, chairman of the
Defense Council in Hamilton county,
is in receipt of a letter from Herbert
Hoover asking that every cooperation
be given the women of this county in
the matter of completing the national
food pledge campaign. These pledges
mean that everything possible will be
done to conserve food and save waste.
The government will buy all surplus
food at market prices, from those who
wish to SELL Mr.. Crosley has the fol-
lowing appeal from Mr.. Hoover:
HoOyer's Appeal.
Uncle Sam is mighty big and
strong, but he is not so big and strong
that he can afford to break promise.
There is not a real American in this
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
German in the Schools.

Editor Freeman Journal: Your dis
cussion Of German in the public
schools reminds me that some years
ago the course of study in Webster
City gave three years to the study of
that language. think the principal
had been a teacher in Chicago AMI
may ihave brought the idea from that
cityi AS regular subject it was later
dropped from the course, but students
who desired to do SO were permitted
to take it up. This was not done from
any hostility to the study and use Of
the language, or from failure to APP
preciate the riches of German litera-
ture, but it was thought that while
language study was of great value,
school life was all too short for the
many things which ought to be known
of our own literature and history and
the sciences which are interviewer
with all the activities of modern life;
that a thorough knowledge of few
things was better than a smattering of
many, for then, as now, the graduate
was sometimes short even on the
Three RS" ,s !.
Once only have the republicans of
Wisconsin seen defeat since their
party was organized and that was in
q campaign with the war cry, "The
Little Red School-House". The pre-
vious legislature had enacted COM
pulsory education law which aimed to
secure better education in the Ian
guage of the country. While the Re-
publican platform disclaimed "abso-
lutely any purpose whatever to inter-
fere in any manner with private and
parochial schools, either as to their
terms, government or branches to be
taught therein"
1t did contain this plank:
"We affirm the right and duty of the
state to enact laws that will guarantee
to all children sufficient instruction in
the legal language of the state to en-
able them to read and write the same"
E. N. l..
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29

country who would not fight to make
good one of Uncle Sans promises
When Uncle Sam says anything, that
means that all his loyal sons and
daughters have said it. The honor
and the interest Of this nation are in
the keeping of our splendid citizenry.
"Here is the proposition: We have
promised to "grub-stake" the Allies.
We said: you need not farm-you
fight"
They did not farm, but how they
did fight!
Winter is coming on. There were
few for the sowing and there are few
err now for the harvest. The pinch
has come. In France they are looking
across the sea and saying:
How about that 'grub-stake, Uncle
Sam; how about that 'grub-stake!'
"They are not whimpering, the
Frenchmen, they are not that kind,
but they are hungry and if we fail
them with our 'grub-stake' they Will
starve! Thousands of them-men,
women and little children.
"Gnawing at a mere empty promise
will not help them. Nothing will help
them but food.
at is food that will win the war!
"How are we going to get it?
eve are going to save it--save 1t to
save our pals, because that's what the
Allies are in this fight.
"We are going to make good on
Uncle Sans promise that he would
furnish the grub stake" for this war.
"The Allies need more wheat, more
meat, more sugar. 1t is either wheat
less and meatless days for us or
wheatless and meatless months for
them.
"And we are going to help-every
one of us. There is no mistake about
that. We will make good on the
"grub-stake" promise for the sake OF
the folks who trusted US and for the
sake of our soldiers as well.
"Just remember that they are
bound for France-the land where we
are sending the grub-stake.
eve want no regrets after this war.
We have had ample warning OF the
condition which awaits US, unless ev-
cry American citizen responds to the
call of duty. You and want to feel,
when the regiments of our boys re-
turn from the battlefields of Europe,
some of them possibly broken, but all
victorious, that we have done our
part, even to the last detail, and We
may not have to lay upon our own
the loss, through our
neglect, of a single American"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
Evening Address.

The lecture and gallery talk by Mr..
Ross Crane, head OF the Extension De-
partment of the Art Institute of Chic
ago, in the Methodist church last eve
ming was wonderfully soul satisfying
to the small but most appreciative
audience present. Another such lee
ture will be given at the same place
this evening. This undertaking of the
board of trustees of the Kendall Young
library for the civic betterment of
Webster City in an effort to bring
home to the people of this city the
relationship OF art to life and to what
art might mean to this community is
interested.
Interprets Paintings.
The paintings exhibited last even
ing are among the best of the works
of leading American artists and the
brief talk which accompanied the
showing of each canvas was intensely
interesting and Illuminating. The
rare pleasure of the evening was en-
HANGED by the further Interpretation
given each masterpiece by the musi-
cal selections of Miss Rosalind Cook
and Mrs. E. E. Mason, violinist. Miss
Cook, Webster City's fine musicians,
chose her piano numbers from the
music of the masters to accord with
the individual theme of each painting
and Mrs. Masons several appearances
added to the artistic element of the
whole.
The artistic program beggars the
descriptive powers of the novice and
as another opportunity will be given
Webster City people to enjoy the ex-
hibition, it is only possible to suggest
that seeing is believing" cart teach
es people how to see" and no sunset
scene or exquisite stretch of woodland
was ever appreciated until after it had
been put upon canvas by the seeing
eye of the artist
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
CZECHS REPROACH GERM
FOR NOT NEEDING ENTENTE

Washington, Oct. 27.-Sternly re-
pressive censorship for the last two
weeks by the Austrian authorities has
failed to prevent the leakage Of re-
ports to this country by cable of
fierce attacks upon the government
in the reichrath by Czech leaders.
Premier Czernin was reproached for
passing over in silence the practical
demands of the entente, especially the
guarantees for general peace based
upon the recognition of small nations
as free and Independent.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
Received Splendid OTer.

Miss Lydia Edwards, one of the
grade teachers in the public schools
here, who took the civil service exam
nations in Fort Dodge this summer,
recently received an offer to assume
clerical work in the exports building
at Washington, d. c., at salary of
from 5000 to $1,000 per year. Miss
Edwards, however, did not accept,
having a number of reasons for not
wishing to enter other employment
lust now,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29

"Architecture is an art. Home
building is architecture raised to tht
nth power" This is the belief of Ros:
Crane, who gave the second of his
series of practical art lectures to {
gathering of women in the Methods
church at o'clock Friday after
noon.
Every house reveals the training
the aspiration and character of the
builder" A few brief architectural
pointers cleaned from Mr.. Cranes
talk on the home beautiful follow:
Some Hints.
The basement should be wide,
light and airy-always we'll venti-
lated.
The rooms above may be placed
at the conveniences of those
dwelling there.
The roof covers all, carrying
out the idea of shelter Low roofs
are good. Bring your roofs down
low, it will give your house the
appearance of homelikeness-sh shell
tering. asn
Dormer windows are good but
they must be small Windows
should be placed close under the
caves, again the idea Of shelter
predominating.
Windows should be small.
French windows are recommend
ed. They may be a trial to the
housewife to keep clean, but their
artistic merit is great. Only
where the view is picture in it
self is the old fashioned front
window justified.
Entrances should be simple and
small. H..s.
The chimney may be real dec
Grafton to the house. They should
be large and substantial.
Porches should not adorn the
front of the house. They are not
practical there. If placed at the
h end of the house they give it an 4
y elongated appearance, (which Is 4
desirable.
A fireplace is wonderful addi-
ton to a house. It is a place for
the children to hang their Christ
mas stockings, a place to hear the
others bedtime story. The
hearth is the heart of the home.
And after all as the artist said
in closing "home is not a place,
it is state of mind