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The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01
WOMEN AND Wells.

Our Fashion expert says, the scor'
city of foreign wells and yelling in this
market, coupled with the existing un-
certainty as to when American stocks
of them can be replenished and the
excellent demand for these goods gen.
orally, is giving domestic producers a
chance to make hay while the sun
shines. And they are doing it, from
all accounts. The current run on
small hats is resulting in splendid
call for wells of the "chin" variety and
for narrow yelling in the piece. Those
of the pattern" order, which leave
the vision unobstructed but give the
wearer the benefit of the dainty de-
signs them embody, are especially ac-
tive. Large, flowing wells have their
'adherents, too. and there seems to be
no question that they will grow in
favor as the season advances. Lighter
colors are reported to be coming into
more prominence Tinsel and color.
ed silk floss are much used in garni-
lures and-novalty borders continue to
be feature of the offerings OF UNI
usual things.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01
CORN At sl.l3 PER.
AucTloNEER CONVEY GETS THAT
PRICE AT HouGHTALlNG SALE.

Won't somebody please stop that
corn? Jud Covey at farm sale of
William Houghtaling, southwest of
town near the Gately bridge, Monday
got $1.13 for quantity of corn and it
was not intended for seed corn pur-
poses at that. This is the highest
mark yet and prediction is heard of
$125 corn within few weeks. What
will it be before the next crop comes
on? ,
This was a lively little sale with a
good attendance and spirited bidding
for the property offered. Jersey
cows sold up to $1,000 and heifers of
the same blood brought up to $54. All
hogs sold well, brood sows command
ing as high as $50 each. Total
amount of the sale was $1,42000.
Over in the Bellefountaine neigh
borhood, Ira Garden had a much
talked of sale and those who were
there are still talking about it. Some
sale it was. Jud Covey, the popular
auctioneer, was in charge and he had
big crowd to handle and he sure got
the prices. Y'H
m. A. Co." who was there, tells
about the sale in the following lively
fashion,:
Mr.. Convey is a great favorite with
the people around here and his work
always is satisfactory, The tota'
amount of the sale was $2,241.52, and
exceeded what Mr.. G. thought II
would come to by good deal. The
day was fair and the crowd big and
Mr.. Covey kept them all in excellent
good humor, Nine dozen chickens
were sold to Pete Kelderman fol
S13S5 per dozen. In fifteen years
of Mr.. Covey's experience as auction
eer this is the highest price he evel
got for chickens, and when chickens
right off the farm bring over dollar
each it makes ones fancy turn tC
chicken raising. R. l.. Hogate pur-
chased the corn, giving $106 per BIZ
in the crib for it. Young, good stool
! Poland China sows brought $27.5l
each; 81 head of sheep brought s13.7t
per head. The Bellefountaine AID
served the dinner; it was good anC
there was an abundance of it, Mr.
| Floyd Lyman, cashier of the Iowa
Savings Bank in Tracy, was clerk, Irs
Garden was well pleased with thu
results of his sale and especial!
pleased with Mr.. Coveys part of it.
Among the truly youthful people a
this sale was Grandma johnson. Sh
is only little past seventy-one year
of youth, and was enjoying hersel
and helping with the big dinner
Grandpa Johnson was not able to b,
out. He has been pretty busy thi
winter taking care of orders TO
honey"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01
A BIG NUT TO CRACK.

The job that has been wished on
loosa city council to discover an
loosa city councilfi to riscoyer an
adequate supply of good water and
possibly construct a municipal plant,
will be no holiday diversion, if the
committee really undertakes the
problem.
The franchise of the Peoples Water
Company expires in about two years,
and there are rumors to the effect
that the company at that time will
ask for an arbitration from the courts
for REIMBURSEMENT of rates, so that
interest on the bonds at least can be
earned. The city has the right at
any time to acquire the property at
a price to be determined by COM
mission.
There is now, or at least can be Sc
cured an adequate supply of good
water at the present location by the
sinking of more settling wells and the
establishment of a larger filter plant,
provided the Strengthening of the
upset this supply as the water COM
pany claims it will do.
The next best available supply OF
water would be from the Des Moines
river, from Z to 9 miles from town
But it must be remembered that the
sewage from the ,sity of oskaloosa and
from various other cities and towns
is dumped into the river above where
Oskaloosa would get it's supply.
There is this other question to be
considered and that is unless the city
took over the present system of mains
within the city at least, the public
would be at an enormous expense ir
putting in a new, system. Then il
also is to be remembered that Oska
loosa is at a level over 100 feet above
either river and this lift together
with the to miles that the water
must be carried will always make oul
supply expensive.
But Oskaloosa is entitled to an ad-
equate supply of good water if it car
be had, be the cost what it may. AnC
if the city feels that it can take care
of it's own needs better than it car
buy the supply from a private corpor-
alton, then it should acquire or built
its own plant. But to find this ade-
quate supply and deliver it on higl
and dry ground is no small problem
and we repeat that the Water Com
mittee has no holiday diversion on its
hands
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01

to J. NJ. Bittner, lots 1-2-3 block 6
SHELLS add Sharon-Cons. $1,000.
e. C. Lambert and wife Emma to
J. A. McMains, pit. lot 1 Sewers End
add Oskaloosa $l.00.
E. C. Lambert and wife Emma ct al
to same party. NE NV Sec. Is, pit. NV
Sc Sec. Is, SW Sc Sec. 10, and pit
Sc SW Sec. 15-76-14-Cons $1.00.
E. C.. Lambert and wife Emma to
same party. NE NE Sec. %. Sc Sc
Sec 10, So SW Sec. 14-76-14-Cons.
$1.00.
U. G. Morgan and wife Libbie to
Maggie NJ. Hammond, land in Sec.
6-74-17-Cons. 1925.
Frank Reed and wife Anna to S.
Saryis, lot A S. d. of lot 5 of NE NE
Sec. 4-77-14-Cons $1,000.
/. Cornelius De Geus and wife to H. H.
Bennink, Sc NE and pit. NE Sc Sec.
10 and SW NV Sec. 11-77-17--Cons.
$500.
c. d. Nash unmd. to H. c. Indy,
SW NE Sec. 27-74-15-Cons $4,000.
Frank w. Wright unmd. to Flor
ence l.. Wright, lot block 8 Dona'-
hey's add Oskaloosa-C $1.00.
Quit Claim Deeds.
9 Della Walker to Fora Tice, SW Sec.
33-77-15 NV Sec. 4-76-15 NE NE
See. SIC 15--Cons. $1.00.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01
July,
To-day. 1916.
THE INLAND DAILY PRESS.

The Inland Daily Press Association of
which the Herald was a charter mem
Der and which in the ten or twelve
years of its existence has grown into
an institution of influence in the states
of Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Indiana, Minnesota, Kentucky and
Missouri, held its semiannual meeting
in Chicago last week. Iowa was in
evidence in the annual election of Of
ficers, L p. Adler, the live wire Of
the Davenport Times being chosen
president. and Viii. V. TufrOrd, Of
Clinton being elected secretary for
the 'steenth time. Orvil Elder who
has the reputation of running the
best Daily paper printed in town
the size of Washington was elected
thevice-president for Iowa, and Chas.
S. Walling of the Herald was chosen
the Iowa member of the executive
committee.
Over one hundred daily papers are
members of the association, and more
than half of them were represented
at the meeting. Various matters of
interest to the craft were discussed,
the print paper situation coming in
for a lions share of the discussion.
Up to a year ago the ruling price on
print paper i'm car lots was right
around two cents per pound. 1t de-
yeloped at the meeting that only one
and he an unusually large consumer
was able to buy paper at less than
three cents a pound. The average
was 3.75 to cents, while some were
paying as high as 7 cents pound. To
a newspaper using say four car loads
year, the cost at the old price was
about $4,000. Now it could not be less
than $500 or a difference of $4,000
which means big loss TO the aver
age plant. The consensus of opinion
at the meeting was that the day of
cheap paper was over and that 1t
would never sell for less than three
cents again. In event of war with
Germany it was predicted that paper
might go as high as ten cents y
pound. If such thing should happen
it would be goodbye to a lot of little
dailies throughout the country, and o
straight 5 cents per copy for Metro
politan sheets.
And speaking about the probability
of war with Germany or even with
Mexico, the entire assembly of news
paper men were heartily in favor OF
a program of preparedness and of eff
a. n
was remarkable, also, that nearly
every fellow present had had some
kind of military training either in
in the National Guard or in.
the Regular Army. All of which goes
to show if the country ever is involved
in war old glory will have no more
loyal supporters than the fellows con-
nected with the Inland Daily Press
Association.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01
RICHES AND POVERTY.

The old story of riches and poverty
dwelling together in the cities, is be.
ing exemplified by the food riots and
other demonstrations in New York
And again the situation is not due to
"a scarcity of foodstuffs, but the in
ability of the poor to pay the pre-
MUM price which the greedy rich
have placed on things to eat.
For months we have been reading
about the delirium of prosperity that
has ragged in New York owing to the
enormous profits being made on war
contracts. People seeking hotel ac-
ccmmodations in the city have had
to make reservations weeks in adj
vance, and pay several times the
usual price for their rooms. Ordinary
meals in swell cafes have ranged FROM
S. to SIS, and the erstwhile devotee
of the bright lights has been pushed
into his hole by the extravaganza of
the newly rich wishing to impress on
the motley crowd the enormous size
of their pile"
And while all this has been going
on and waste has been the measure
of wealth. the poor have felt their
burdens increase, and the ordinary
wage earners has found the contents
of his pay envelope and the budget
necessary to feed his family getting
farther and farther apart. Maybe the
government at Washington can help
solve the problem, but governments in
the past have not been wise enough
to stay the hand of gluttony until the
revolutions born of poverty over turn
ed the entire national structure.
Are we to-day, facing the beginning
of an era that swallowed ancient
Rome and ended with Nero drunk
and gorged, playing his fiddle while
the city burned and the poor cried for
bread.
God grant that we are not, and yet
the situation must look that was to
the poor New Yorker who finds this
situation in the rise of the price of
foodstuffs confronting him:
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01
DOCTOR FINDS
WOMAN HANGING
FATE OR PREMoNITIoN DIRECTS
PHYSICIAN TO CALL.
oTTUMWA PRISONER ESCAPES
TWO Young Men of MarshaIltown Are
Held to Grand Jury For Chicken
SteaIing-GrinneII May, Get
Cavalry Company.

Des Moines, Feb. 27.-Maybe it was
fate that directed the footsteps of DR..
Charming Smith to the Reed home,
near Woodward.
Il might have been premonition
of danger that sometimes comes to
physicians He had not been sum-
moned. AS far as he knew neither
of the three members of the family
were in need of medical assistance.N
'1'll just run in to see how my old
friends are getting along anyhow,
he thought to himself.
He was hardly prepared for the
thing that met his sight.
Dangling at the end of rope sus-
pended from the ceiling, the life al
most choked out Of her body, was
Mary Reed, the 36-year-old sister OF
Will and John Reed with whom she
lived.
Life was almost extinct when the
physician cut her down and restora-
tives were applied. She lived only
few hours.
It is believed the woman was de-
mented. Three years ago she was
thrown from a buggy striking on hei
head Since that time she had not
been in her normal mental condition
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01

THREE BOARD MEMBERS TO BE
ELECTED THIS SPRING.

School election occurs on Monday,
March II, in the independent school
district of Oskaloosa, and this is the
last week for filing nomination papers
for place on the official ballot.
Thus far three nomination petitions
have been filed with L. T. Shanglc,
secretary of the School Board, those
OF the three incumbents seeking re-
election to the board.
Three board members are to be
elected, one member to be chosen for
one year to fill the unexpired term of
John H. Anderson, resigned, and two
for three years each, to replace John
II. Perry and John H. Shoemake,
whose terms expire by limitation.
Candidates filing nomination papers
are H. S. Howard, John H. Perry and
John II. Shoemake.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01
HE RURAL SCHOOL TERM.

| The advantages of a State with a
mandatory compulsory school atten
dance law and a long rural school
term over a State with only an option.
al compulsory school attendance law
and a short rural school term are
clearly seen in California and South
I Carolina. The average school term in
California is 17S days while the aver
age rural term in South Carolina is
94.5 days, according to the latest sta
tistics showing separately the length
of rural and urban school terms. The
average number of days attended by
California children between the ages
Of and Is, that is, during their COM
lpulsory school period is i'll. 8 days per
year, while in South Carolina it is on
! ~ Alb days per year. On this basis
of attendance from the first to the
twelfth grades, inclusive, that is, ex-
tended from the first grade through
the high school,, the average education
for each child in California was L.
342.S days, while the average educa-
tion for each child in South Carolina
is only 1856 days, thus making the
average education for each child in
California S472 days more than the
average education for each child in
South Carolina. California gives a
higher average number of days educa-
ton for each child than any other
state in the union; only the district of
Columbia 1892 days-56 more days
than California and 9036 days more
than South Carolina.
Even where a State has long rur-
al term, as Maryland has had for sew
eral years past with only week OPP
tional compulsory attendance law. the
rural school term is materially short
ened by low average daily attend
ance. The average rural school term
in Maryland has been for some years
1898 days, but under this "puerile
and defenceless" compulsory law, to
quote the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction in that State, the
number of pupils attending daily in
every 100 enrolled in the rural schools
OF Maryland was only 81. This makes
the actual average rural school term
ia Maryland only 91.7 days. On the
other hand, Oregon, with state wide
school attendance law. has
had rural school term of 1887 days;
the number Of pupils attending daily
in every 100 enrolled was 90.6. While
Oregon's legal rural school term was
GIL days shorter than that Of Mary
land, yet on account of Oregon's state
wide mandatory compulsory attend
ance law her. actual average rural
school term was 1915 days, or 15.S
days longer than Maryland's actual
average rural school term, However,.
he last session Of the General Assem-
oly og Maryland passed q Statewide
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01
DEEDS OF RECORD
RECENT REAL ESTATE DEALS IN
MALAYSIA COUNTY.
Warranty Deeds.

w. E. Webster, single, to Lanning
Bros. Lumber Co, lot Is, blk. /, La
konta, cons. $1.O0
c. p. Anderson to Jennie Anderson
wife, pit. lot A in S d of SW NV sec.
1855, cons. $1.00.
julius Albert Henusel and wife, Net
tic A. to Duncan Reid, NE NE sec. 81,
76.14, cons. $1.00. .asa
George Barcus and wife Phoebe to
Joseph G. Bell, lots 6, Z, of S ID of lot
40 Davidson's add Fremont. cons, 1915
Byron Lenius and wife Lizzie to F
W. Else, lots /, 2, 3, Bars S ID lot g.
Ninde & Searles add Oskaloosa, cons
$i.QO.
Robert II. Dickson and wife Annie
TO Arthur A. Hanna, L NW'sec. 80,
and w ) NE sec. SOs76-14, cons $4,000
o. r. Phelps and wife Hattie E. to
Madison M. Hull NV NV and pit. SW
NV G. pit. NE NV sec. 1, and pit. Sc
NV sec. 1-77-17, cons $4,000.
August Rose and wife Clara to Roy
AIlgood, pit. NV SW sec. 4-76-14, cons
$3.50.
Robert Doak unmd. to w. s. and
Hattie Hawkins, lot IA, Rose Hill, cons
$500.
Charles H. Rohleder, BACH, ct al to
T w. Haughey, lots ia, lis, Green
view Park Add, Oskaloosa, cons $3.50.
w. s. Kitch and wife Anna K, to
Penn College. lot Is, blk Penn Col
lege add Oskaloosa, cons. $500.
William Kelderman and wife to Il.
l.. Hogate, land in secs. 20-27-28 and 20
1884, twp. 1917, cons $92,500.
William A. McBurney and wife to AL
va McCurdy. ) SW Fri / sec. 6-74-14.
cons. $4,000.
Referees Deeds.
Jay Forbes. Ref. to Rosetta Sarvis,
lots IS, 10, 20, and pit, lots IL, Wells
add Fremont. cons. $1,000.
Quit Claim Deeds.
William Kelderman and wife to r..
r.. Hogate, lots Z. 5, blk. ] and lots q,
8, blk Q Bellefountain, cons. $1.00.
Warranty Deeds.
]. M. Bittner Wild. to Walter and
Margaret De Mise. portion of land In
Atwood's add New Sharon Cons.
$500.
Leendert Wiser and wife Lillian to
Martin Wiser ct al, SW Sec. zz-74-17
subject to certain coal and mineral
purchase, also =, =. right Of way
Cons. $4,000. nt.s. sa 44
Emma Hetherington and: husband,
John w to Curtis Lowry, LOT In
Bprnside's 81. p. Of LOT OF Byers 8.
y. .of out lot 2 West pskalopsa Gems,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01
OUR CROP REPORTS
STATISTICS COMPILED BY THE
COUNTY AUDITOR.
Mahaska Farmers Raised Much Grain
and Own Many Horses and
other Animals.

The annual crop report, compiled
from the reports which are made by
the assessors, and turned over to the
county auditor has been mailed out
from the office of County Auditor Roy
F. Rowland and directed to the state
department of Agriculture. The re-
port as made shows no material
change in the yield of any one partic'
ular crop; and on an average held its
own with records of previous years in
some cases being much better.
Mahaska county farmers raised A.
l140,261 bushels of corn on l02,53l
acres of land during the year 1915.
There were 51,487 bushels of potatoes
raised on GIT acres of land, and Ma
haska county hens laid 1,533,290 dozen
eggs during the past year. There
were 1,423,357 bushels of oats raised
on 1885 acres of land, and on 1926
acres of land there were 1883 bush
els of winter wheat raised. On 1868
acres of land, 22,04S bushels of
spring wheat were harvested; on pa
acres of land 1892 bushels of barley
was raised; and 1854 bushels of rye
were harvested from 479 acres Of land.
SO 800 tons of tame hay was the yield
from 239 acres of land. 1,1O6 tons of
alfalfa was the yield from 445 acres
OF land.
There are 1924 horses of all ages
in the county, and 1,460 mules. There
are 1858 head of hogs on the farms
LOT the county, of which number there
were 21,574 lost by cholera during the
year 1915.
1910 cows and heifers are kept in
the county for milk and 23,370 other
cattle in the county are not kept for
milk; making total number of cattle
in the country of all ages 34,2S0 There
are sheep to the number of 14,6S6 in
the county; and there were 12,157
sheep shipped from the county in
feeding. 7O,315 pounds of wool was
clipped from the sheep during theyear
1915. H.,.. .
Poultry of all varieties in the coun-
try numbers 614,S7S. Nineteen acres
of land in the county was planted in
sweet corn during the year, and there
were so tons of green corn gathered
for canning purposes. There were only
1.-TWO acres in the entire county planted
lin pop corn last year but from these
two acres there were 80 bushels of
corn raised.
SOS acres of land were sown in tim
othy seed and yielded 1900 bushels of
Iseed. 1,749 acres of land were sown in
clover seed, and the yield was LAG
bushels. 111,009 acres of Mahaska
county land was used for paSturagc
during the year; 6S5 acres for garden;
2,918 acres used for orchards; and
from the orchards there were 150,61S
bushels of apples harvested. 1929
acres of land are not otherwise enum
Grated above; and 5,732 acres of land
in the county were not utilized for any
purpose.
141 silos are scattered here and
there over the county; and the aver
age wage paid for farm help was $29 SIS
and during the winter months the av-
eraGe wage paid was $2744.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01
Prisoner Escapes.

Ottumwa, Feb. 27.-Bert c. Young,
colored, indicted for breaking and en-
tering freight car late Saturday on
four charges growing out of the al
legged breaking and entering of rail-
road cars in the local yards, sawed his
way out of the county jail
When the place was locked up for
the night Young managed to keep in
the outer cell and in this way had
easier access to the window through
which he made his escape.
Two bars were loosened and the
man dropped through an opening less
than foot square into the alley
which skirts the Jail on the north
side and was gone.
Sheriff. Cremer discovered the deliv-
cry soon after the man had left and
he and the local constables have been
on his trail all day.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01
EAST GARFIELD NEWS.
Health is reported Generally Good in
That Neighborhood.

East Garfield, Feb. 23-By Blue
Bell.-H Health is generally good in this
vicinity. Mrs. B. D. Bolsom who had a
light attack OF pneumonia is slowly
improving.
Miss Gladys Knight and Mr.. Roy
Gregory spent Sunday at the L. NJ.
Dilley home.
Word has been received that Mr..
and Mrs. Homer Hook are located in
their new home at Consol
Mr.. Lew Nelson delivered hogs in
the city Wednesday, driving them
through.
Mont Wharton delivered hogs in the
city Thursday, he had forty head in
all
Isaac Bolsom was business caller
in your city Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. NJ Dilley were call
ers at the Bolsom home Thursday ev.
ening.
Miss Tillie Members is assisting
Mrs. John Van Alst with her sewing.
John Van Alst took his hogs and
colts to his farm near what Cheer on
Thursday, where he intends TO move
this spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Davis were
callers Sunday at the l.. NJ. Dilley
home i'm their new car.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Lockers and daugh
tiers. Mary and Jeanette We're callers
recently at the Isaac Bolsom home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Logue Shafer are Wis
ting Sunday at the parental Ed Rem.
mic home.
Mrs. Fred Cole who has been quiet
sick is slowly improving at this writ
ing
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. M. Dilley took din
ner at the Elmer knight home We'd
nesday and attended the funeral Of
Mrs. Nellie Cruzen,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01
SURVEY STARTED.
Active Work On PreIiminaries is Be-
ing Mapped Out.

Active work has been started on
the preliminary survey of the South
Skunk river drainage district extend
ing from the M. & St. L. right OF way,
north of town, to point north of the
Currier mill east of town. The field
work was commenced Friday OF last
week and it will proceed as rapidly as
possible to completion in the pro-
posed district. The survey is a pre-
liminary work to map the present
course of the stream, No levels are
being run" and only the meanderings
OF the stream noted. The work in
hand is being supervised and direct
ed by 7. ]. Blank, engineer.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01

I'm lieu Of many measures that
might be worse the Iowa legislature
should tackle the daylight saving time
schedules now being inaugurated in
Europe. Why not move the clocks up
an hour during the late spring, sum-
mer and early fall months 1t would
not only be more economical but
pleasanter to work earlier in the
morning than late in the evening dur
ing the heated term.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-03-01
May Get Cavalry.

Des Moines. Feb. 27.-It is an
nounced at Fort Des Moines that the
troop of Iowa cavalry formerly sta
toned at West Branch probably would
be transferred to Grinnell.
At the time of the mobilization oil
the guard more than half of she West
Branch troop refused to take the fed
eral oath and a number of citizens
of Grinnell volunteered to enlist in
the troop to bring the troop UP to
minimum strength.