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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
C05S|PERS BEWARE
CIRCULATION OF UNTRUE RE.
PORTS TO BE PROSECUTED.

H. S. Rosecrans and James A. De
witt, members of the County Council
of Defense, are angered over the dis,
loyal and unfounded reports circul-
ated from time to time, and give warn.
ing that the perpetrators are liable to
prosecution. The real news of the
war will be bad enough, without hay.
ing the stories exaggerated by idle
gossip or German sympathy.
A case in point are the rumors cir
culated regarding Roy Kemble now in
the Ambulance Service in France. Mr.
Kemble took a day off and ran over
to Paris to have his eyes treated and
his glasses readjusted-a thing that
he often did at home. Some one add.
ed color to the story and said he had
been the victim of bomb explosion
and had lost both eyes. This is wholly
without foundation and has been a
source of alarm and embarrassment TO
his relatives and friends.
Idle talk and exaggerated war stor-
les are as much an element of treach'
cry as are other disloyal acts, and will
be treated as such hereafter by the
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27

The total number of steamboat
accidents during the year ending June
80, resulting in loss of life was 257.
The total number of lives was 592, of
which II were passengers. OF the
lives lost 21O were from suicide, acct
dental drowning and other causes be-
?ond the power of the service to pre-
vent, leaving a loss of 3S2 lives as
fairly chargeable to accidents, coils
ions, founderings, etc. There was a
decrease of ga in the number of lives
lost as compared with the previous
fiscal year. Passengers to the num-
Der of 317,095,171 were carried on
vessels required by law to make re-
port Of the number of passengers car.
ricd Dividing this number by II
tie total number of passengers lost
shows that.4, 466, 129 passengers were
carried for each passenger lost. Elev-
en- hundred and ninety-three lives
were saved by means of life saving ap,
pliances required by law.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27

the United States the value OF q quar-
ter,ythat properly Invested it will help
win the fight against Kaiserism.
People have been heard to scott at
the idea of investing a quarter now
and then in a thrift stamp.
"Too small to bother WITH" men
have said And those same men have
have walked blocks out of their way
to spend that quarter on some abso-
lutely worthless article. ~
We are so used to thinking in big
figures that even $4,000 900, 000,-the
sum to be raised in the next year by
the sale of War Savings Stamps fails
to impress us. IL mightsshelp us II
realize the figure to know that it has
been only q matter of 1,007,575, zoe
minutes since Christ was born.
Just as those minutes mount into
billions, so your quarters will make
billions.
Twenty dollars-$166 a month, All
cents a week, cents day for the
next year--from each of the 100000,
900 people in the United States will
raise the required sum.
Set those quarters to work buying
Thrift Stamps and War Savings
Stamps. The war is going to be worth
every penny it costs if it teaches thi'
country a lesson in thrift.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
"coME CLEAN"

Who is the most patriotic? Why ask;
When now, face to face with noun
famous task,
When every mans place is beside I'm
Gle Sam,
Full square, and no cloak of deception
or sham
When rich man and poor man and beg
gar and thief
Go forth side by side, through the val
ley of grief,
From home fires and comfort to heaV-
en- knows where
And all for the love of the freedom
they share.
But who is the least patriotic, pray
tell,
OF those with their storage of life's
blood to sell
The Packer, The Hoarder, The Baron
in coal
Who figure that profit is life's high,
est goal
Who sacrifice nothing and care not
at all,
Should tyranny triumph and liberty
fall
Still holding their wares for sordid
advance,
While multitudes perish in Flanders
and France.
If mothers by millions must give up
their sons
To fight in the fire of an enemy's
guns,
And widows be heartsick and babes
left alone,
Let no man believe that his stores
are his own.
Make wealth, every dollar, come into
the pool,
And labor, for once, let its grievances
cool,
While rich man and poor man and
beggar and thief
March on, side by side, through the
valley of grief.
And let no man claim that at heart
he is true,
Nor take off his hat to the red, white
and blue,
Nor cheer from the curb when the
Jackies parade,
Nor rise when the Star Spangled Ban
ner is played
While Uncle Sam stands with his back
to the wall,
And heroes are giving their lives and
their all
Unless he is willing and eager and
keen
To give up his all and come through
and come clean.
NAL Rose, Oskaloosa, la.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
REp CROSS.

" "
Out where the line of battle cleaves,
The horizon of woe,
And sightless warriors clutch the
leaves,
The Red Cross nurses go.
In whefe the cots of agony
Mark deaths unmeasured tide
Bear up the battles harvestry-
The Red Cross nurses glide.
Look! Where the hell of steel has torn
It's way through slumbering earth,
The orphaned urchins kneel, forlorn,
And wonder at their birth
Until, above them, calm and wise,
With smile and guiding hand,
God looked through their gentle eyes,
The Red Cross nurses stand
Here, in our sheltered kcmes we sit,
Remote from wars red sweep,
Doing half-heartedly our bit,
Sleeping our painless sleep.
See where the Red Cross flags unroll.
With red, and white, ind blue;
Let us pour out our treasured gold
To guide the Red Cross true.
Thomas L. Mason.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
A TEA PARTY WITHOUT TEA.

Three meals a day are enough for
any of us. When we add another meal
TO the three, we are using just s. much
somebody else needs badly. When
you ask your friends in for the after
noon ask them to a talk End work
party, not tea party.
Let ii be known that you have TAX.
en- stand against the extra meal, and
be urcUd of doing what you consider
right. Don't be apologize for lack Of
refres' ments. 'reat it as matter Of
course, and do it in the sarln spirit
that you knit socks or sweater t,r the
soldiers.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27

David himself kept his court in the
castle of Zion, and SO ever since that
time has Urusalim been known as the
city of David. That was twenty-seyen
centuries ago, and today some at all
events of the troops of General Allen
by have marched to the ridge of the
Jebusites over the very ground trod-
Gen by the fact of all Israel after the
elders had anointed David King over
Israel in Hebron. Here tnen in the
castle of Zion David lived and ruled,
and here after him his son Solomon
lived and ruled, and builded the great
temple which bore his name, though
the materials for it had been collected
by his father.
Some four hundred and twenty year
after the mighty men of valor had
climbed up the hill of the Jebusites
behind Joab, Nebuchadnezzar the
King of Babylon came to Jerusalem,
and carried the people away into
captivity. 1t was the beginning of Is
raeps sorrows, because, though, when
Cyrus conquered Babylon, the people
of Judah were permitted to return
with Ezra and Nehemiah, to Jerusa-
lem, and to rebuild the temple, the
Jews never were free again. Only now
after twenty-four centuries of the lash
of the Babylonian task-master, the
ghetto of the Christian, and the bas-
tinado of the Turk, do As the pen of
Mr.. Balfour offer to Lord Rothschild,
the descendant of the man who once
declared that, if the Jews went back
to Zion, he would ask to be appointed
permanent ambassador in London, Sc
curity for this very return of the Jew
ny to Jerusalem.
Between the hour of the proclama-
ton of Cyrus, King of Persia, and the
hour of the letter written by Mr.. Bal,
four, much has happened in Jerusa-
lem. 1t has seen Sanballat come down
from Beth-horon, from whence the
British troops have come today, and
lie in wait to destroy tie people as
they labored on the wall. 1t has seen
one of the fiercest and most savage
sieges in history. 1t has seen the dawn
of the Christian era, the coming of the
Christ, the trial on the Pavement, and
heard the roar of the storm over Cal
vary. 1t has seen the down of the
morning of the resurrection, and the
night of the vengeance of Caesar 1t
has risen from its ashes, under the
hand of another Caesar, Roman city,
by name ELLA Capitolina. 1t has seen
Jupiter and Apollo go the way of Baal
and the craven manages. and the
Christian pilgrims flocking to the Da-
mascus gate, when Constantine ruled
on the Bosphorus. 1t has seen the
builders of Justinian and the torch
bearers of Chosroes, and then the long
night of Islam, broken only by the
flashes of the Crusaders.
II was 1874 that the last vestiges of
Christianity disappeared in the Khar-
ezmian massacres. And then in 1917
came the Sultan Selim I. and Jerusa-
lem became Turkish city. That was
just four hundred years ago, and the
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
SAVE coAL-SloGAN.

AS the campaign for the saving of
coal progresses in the state, Fuel Ad-
ninistrator Charles Webster has had
his attention called to the fact that
there are many boilers in the state be-
longing to and under the direction of
the many boards of supervisors, and
in most all cases these plants are very
inefficient on account of the class of
help employed, as quite often employ.
ment is apt to be in reward for some
political factors shown In every such
case it is hoped that a request will be
sent at once to the office Of the Fuel
Department at Des
Moines for a visit by the engineering
experts who are now touring he
state so that their route can be ar
ranged at the least expense tC all par
ties concerned. The object of this en-
TIRE movement is to save coal and
upon good authority it is said that in
IOWA alone a million of tons should
be conserved for other purposes rath-
or than make black smoke and big ash
heaps. There are ninety-nine boards
of supervisors in this state and each
is expected to file an invitation or
request at once so that work on there
lines can begin after the holidays.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
CHRISTMAS CIT IS
COMMISSIONS TO OFFICERS OF
TIE RESERVE LIST

Christmas presents in the form of
service commissions were handed to
hundreds of deserving young men in
the middle west last week.
The officers commissioned were
given places in the engineer, ordnance,
quartermaster, signal, and medical re-
serve corps. they represent men Sc
lected from private life for the conf
missioned ranks, and were commits
stoned without attending training
camps.
The list includes officers commits
stoned for several months past and
most of these men are now in active
service, but it is the first announce
ment by the war department of the
commission given.
Included in the list announced last
Saturday appear the following of local
significance.
Captain, engineers, H. X, Davis of
Knoxville and E. f. Bridges of Oska-
loosa.
First Lieutenants, medical corps, M.
Brannister of Ottumwa and C. E.
Moore of Newton.
First Lieutenants, Dental section, C.
Nichols of Newton, g. H. Lankelha
of Pella, and E. R. Watts of What
Cneer.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
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Chas. Duboc, of Chicago, and Will
of Columbia, spent Christmas with
relatives in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. Pierce and fam
lily, of Ottumwa, spent Christmas with
relatives in Oskaloosa
Button" Drinkle has left for Logan,
Ohio, to attend to business in the fur
niture factory he represents.
Mrs. Polly SwickSand son James are
visiting at the home ofllMtiIatid Mrs.
Chas. Perry and with friends.
Grace Duboc who has been teaching
at Fs Scott, Kansas, is spending the
week end with Miss Jessie Duboc.
Guerdon Spike Parker, now resid-
ing at Des Moines, spent Cristmas here
visiting with friends and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Warder, Of
Farson, spent Christmas at the par
entail Mrs. j. H. Crowder and ]. c..
Warder homes.
Max Martin, employed at a Des
Moines clothing house, spent Christ
mas here with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. T. Martin.
Carl p. Smith left this morning for
Camp Dodge after the Christmas visit
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Nj.
Smith 500 A avenue east.
Hubbard Shoemake, freshman at
the University of Illinois, was a Wis
itor at the parental J. H. Shoemake
home through the holidays
Roy and Robert Ginett, OF Iowa
nCity, former residents at University
Park, are visiting here with friends
and relatives. Both young men are
students at the State University.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
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Saturday, Christmas, 1897

Saturday, Christmas, 1897
The Holiday fell on Saturday and a
big busy day it was all. The whole
town was alive with merry people
The eleventh annual meeting of the
Iowa Eisteddfod Association was held
at the Masonic Opera House, morning
and afternoon, and evening with
crowds from all interested sections.
The exhibits of the annual state
meeting of the Iowa Poultry Associat-
ion that opened Monday in Armory
hall began arriving
County Clerk l.. M. Hadley issued SO
marriage licenses for this years holt
day week.
Personals-Jos Van Draska went to
spend Christmas with his parents in
Lynnville. Miss Lii Tice who had
charge of business in Hampton de-
turned for the holidays at her home
here. Ralph and Lena McCurdy were
home from their studies at Iowa City
for two weeks vacation. Henry Fran.
KEEL came down from Des Moines for
a visit with his parents. Harry Phin-
ney spent the day among relatives in
Abba.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
"CALL HER BACK"

rage, the old red mooley cow
Call her back she's wanted here.
Hang halo on her brow, a.r
Let the hungry legions cheer.
Bring her back from yesterday
When her wares were good enough
And the housewife didn't pay
Seven prices for the stuff.
When her reign was at its height
1t was true and not a dream
That at supper every night
Folks could fairly splash in cream.
Custard, cream and pumpkin pie
Always lined the pantry shelf
Where a fat and lazy guy
Could go in and help himself.
Bring her back, her country calls;
Fighting men must have their grease
Thoroughbreds in marble stalls
Haven't seemed to hasten peace.
Mix for her no fancy feeds
AS required by finer blood;
Give her just patch of weeds
And the friendship of her cud.
Though she had no pedigree.
To the length of seren blocks;
Though her low-brow family tree
Didn't sprout from Adams OK;
uven though her sires and dams
Kept no dentists for their teeth,
andy stay your scornful slams
She deserves a laurel wreath.
She who lives all winter long
On dollar and half ...
She who crooned her cradle song
To spindling knock-kneed calf
Hang a halo on her brow ...
Let the hungry legends cheer.
age the old red mooley COW, ,n.
Call her back She's wanted here.
NAL Rose, Oskaloosa, Ia.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27

The care with which the Allied
forces besieged Jerusalem avoided
damage to the sacred places within
the holy city contracts well with the
rutblessness of the Hun in France and
Belgium, where priceless religious
structures and irreplaceabls coliec-
tions of manuscripts. books and paint
ings have been looted ard destroyed.
To both Christendom and Jewry the
object lesson should be effective.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
THE TWILIGHT OF BOOZE,

The submission of the prohibition
amendment by Congress marks the be
ginning of the twilight of another god,
observes the Chicago Herald. Submits
sion does not necessarily mean accept
ance, but the record is strongly sug-
gestive. Of the twentyone amend
nents proposed by Congress since the
adoption of the Constitution all but
lour have been adopted. And two of
the remainder needed only one more
vote to give them the victory.
An interesting feature of the pend
ing amendment is the provision that
il must be ratified by the necessary
three-fourths within seven years in
order to become operative. The con-
stitutionality of this has been chaE
lenged on the ground that the Con-
stitution gives Congress no such pow
er of limitation on the right of ac-
ceptance of the state. A senator ar
gued thai it didn't matter how long
the states took to accept it-that the
amendment was operative'at any time
that three-fourths of them regularly
manifested their approval.
The question is not new. The legi5-
lature of Ohio in 1873 voted to ratify
constitutional amendment submitted
in 1889 on the apportionment of rec.
resentation but which ha failed to Sc
cure the required majority. Certainly
the Constitution does not prohibit rat
ification at any time, and the con-
gressional insertion of the seven-yeGr
limit was evidently intended to meet
that point and give defniteness to the
result within reasonable period.
Questions as to the right of states to
change their minds, after having once
acted while the proposition is still
pending, nave arisen in the past and
might possibly arise again.
But for the moment the main point
is that congressional submission car
ries constitutional proposition very
| far on the road to complete victory.
Experience indicates that this is hard
ly ever done before public opinion is
ripe for the change. 1t is fairly hard
to get Congress to act on such pro
posal. About 1900 propositions of this
sort were submitted to Congress dur
ing the first hundred years of our his
tory. Few of them ever reached the
stage of congressional discussion and
fewer still had the slightest chance
of securing submission. After Con
gress has acted, however, the proba-
bilities change greatly.
A great many people not averse to
prohibition have felt that it might be
wiser, now that the government has
gone as far as it feels disposed in
dealing with the liquor question as a
war problem, to postpone the question
of an amendment till the end of the
struggle. They felt it might engender
certain division and bitterness and
distraction that would tend to take
mems minds from the c'ief business
of the nation-winning the war. All
such arguments, however, are beside
the mark, now that Congress has vot
ed. The only thing for all good Ameri
cans to do is to resolve That this fore
boding shall not be realized, no mat
ter how long or strong the fight for
adoption may prove to be.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27

The Burlington Hawk-Eye OBJ
serves that the old-fashioned winter,
when there was plenty of sleigh-riding
ard skating and rabbit hunting, does
not appeal to the people of today,
"And who wants to ride in Sled" it
continues, when there are rubber
tired automobiles in which one can be
whirled over the country at three
times the sped that was ever attempt
ed by horse-drawn sled!"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
child of our hundred million popula-
ton.

lit used to be that wedding bells
rang more at Christmas time than any
other period of the year. But wedding
bells ring at the Mahaska county
Court House nearly every day. In fact
the wedding bells at the court house
at cit yhall one time. Ana here is hop
at the han one time. And here is hop
ing that the ratio will grow more and
more in favor of the wedding bells,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
LUNCH POSTPONED
COMMERCIAL CLUB ABANDONED
FOR THIS WEEK.

No regular Commercial Club lun-
cheon this week. With the checking
up on Christmas business on hand,
and with the annual invoicing period
approaching Oskaloosa business men
have requested that the luncheon be
cropped this week. Unless some spec
ial business makes it's appearance
there will be no weekly meeting until
the new year.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
Sunday, December goth, 1897

Sunday, December 26th, 1897
A day of comparative quiet followed
he festivities of the day before.
Usual services at the churches was
we'll attended.
Rev. A. M. Haggard addressed the
Y. NJ. G. A. aftrnoon meeting.
Exhibits were arriving for the big
poultry show with every train. Sun.
day was given over to arranging thu
exhibits and the hall was visited by
many people. E yr
Personals-Frank Morse and Carroll
Saver visited over Sunday at the home
of Mr.. Savers parents in Grinnell.
Clarence Ross of Chicago joined his
wife here for visit at the parental
Ninde home on South Seventh street.
Secretary E. w. Hearne of the "Y
was being entertained at Washington,
in the home of his sister Evan Nor
gan arrived from Danville, illinois,
for a few weeks with friends here.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27

Senator Kenyon came back from
the war zone with plenty of real cour-
age left in his system as is evidenced
by his will to reduce the pay of con-
grcssmep and senators $4,000 during
the war.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
THE VALUE OF A QUARTER.

The average American attaches as
much Importance to quarter as the
Kaiser does to treaty. While in
many countries strong men work an
entire day for a much smaller sum.
One purpose of the War Savings
Stamp plan is to teach the people of
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27

"A service flag 81 feet square bear
ing $50 stars now hangs between the
pillars of the Old Capital as a remem-
brance of the men of the student body
and faculty of the Stare University
who have entered war service.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
.GEKa

Estimates of the amount of lum-
Ter in the state-owned forests of New
York hat could be used for war pur-
poses give total of S,000,0O0,00O
board feet.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27
CLUBS AND SOCIETY
SAePY OCCASIONS AMONG TOWN
AND COUNTRY roLk

The joiner Club gave dance Christ
mas night, December 25, at Trades
Assembly hall. About seventy-two
couples were present. many out of
town guests from Ottumwa, Grinnell,
New Sharon and Montezuma were
present, also soldier and sailor boys
from camp. Music was furnished by
Coughs orchestra. 1t was splen-
did holiday party.
- -'--:-
Members of Oskaloosa Lodge No. So,
Knights of Pythias, their families and
out of town guests gave a daylight
dancing party at the X. of p, Club
rooms Christmas afternoon at three
o'clock. About thirty-five couples were
present and an enjoyable afternoon
was spent in dancing. Music was fur
nished by Cloughs orchestra.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27

Exercising authority vested in it
at the last convention the executive
committee of the State Teachers as
sociation has named Charles F. Pye
of Waukon to be the permanent sec
letary of the organization and his
headquarters will be established in
Des Moines about January Is.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27

Last year the people in this coun-
tiy used 160. 100000 gallons of distilled
liquors. l,S00.0O0,OO0 gallons of malt
liquors and about 50.000.000 gallons OF
wine. This is equivalent,io something
over 20 gallons Of beverage contain
ing alcohol for every man. woman and
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27

The organization of Cuban avi-
ator WHIT to he offered France with
complete equipment has been an
nouaGeu in havana. Probably the
Escadrille Cubaine, as the flying unit
is called, will be the first body of
fighting men from Cuba to serve on
French soil.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-12-27

Red Cross relief shipments to Eur.
ope average over 10000 tons a month.
In one shipment was consignment
of b59 soccer footballs ard $50 rugby
footballs for the American soldiers
purchased with funds raised by Har.
yard graduates