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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06
(From Mondays Daily.)

Miss Pearl Richards, daughter
OF W. O. Richards. residing north OF
this city, has been spending the week
end at her home on short vacation
from her duties as teacher of English
in the schools of Jessup.
Miss Luella Kephart is spending
few weeks visiting relatives in Ep-
worth and Farley.
Herman Rutledge spent yester-
day with his brother, Joe Rutledge,
in Fort Dodge.
Mrs. w. II. France and son came
down from Woodstock this morning,
for short soiourn.
+. A. Huddlestun went to Sac
City this forenoon on business trip.
Mrs. II. E. Daily of Fort Dodge,
mother of Geo. E. Dye, and Mrs. j.
B. Bunker of Fort Dodge and Mrs. J.
II. knight and son. Ronald, OF Eagle
Grove, the two women sisters of Mr..
Dye, We're in the city Saturday to at
tend the funeral of their grandson
and nephew, Clyde Dye.
The Misses Hannah and Carrie
Johnson of Jewell arrived today to :
visit their sister, Mrs Henry Ingert-
son.
w c. Burleson leaves tomorrow
morning for Des Moines to attend the
State Retailers Shoe Convention
which will be in session at the Cham
berlin hotel Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday Mr. Burleson will take
line of felt shoes and slippers from
the Northwestern Felt Shoe factory.
Mrs. Leah Johnson Russell and
baby, who have been spending the
winter at the home of Mrs. Russells
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. John
son, on south Wilson avenue, will
return tomorrow to their home in
kincaid, Saskatchewan.
"A. A. Furman has returned
home from Daytona Beach, Florida.
Mrs. Furman and daughter, Mrs.
John Lage and child of Pittsburg.
will remain another month, when
they will return with the large num-
Der of Jewell people who are spend
ing the winter at that resort.
Conrad Imelmann, window dec
orator for Shipley & Black, is spend
ing the week end at his home in
Sterling, Neb.
Low w. Pearce, now of Denver,
where he is q salesman for the Nohr-
Bonney- Wager Auto Company. is in
town today visiting his brother, w.
w. Pearce and family.
Mrs. Lee Bradshaw OF Kamrar
spent several hours in town today on
her way to harrisburg where she will
visit her parents, Nh. and Mrs. War
rem Hayes.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

Japan and Mexico deny that they
have any intention of joining Ger
many in a war against the United
States. If the statements OF diplomats
could be relied upon these assurances
would settle the matter and restore
confidence in mis- country. But ia
pan and Mexican diplomats have
been known to use words merely 10
conceal facts, and they may be doing
SO at present.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06
WANTS A MANS CHANCE.


President Wilson has received the
following cablegram from Austin Y.
Hoy. whose mother and sister were
lost when the I-acOnia was torpedoed
without warning by German sub
marine:
II am an American citizen repre-
Isenting the Sullivan Machinery COM
pany Of Chicago, living abroad, not
as an expatriate but for the promo
ton of American trade. l love the
flag, believing in its significance. My
beloved mother and sister, passengers
on the Laconia, have been foully
murdered on the high seas.
GAS an American citizen outraged
and as such fully within my rights
and as an American son and broth
er bereaved, | call upon my govern
ment to preserve its citizens self-re-
spect and save others of my country
men from such deep grief as / now
feel. l am of military age, able to
fight. If my country can use me
against these brutal assassins l am
lat it's call.
"If it stultifies my manhood and
my nations, by remaining passive
under outrage, l shall seek mans
chance under another flag
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1917.

! 4 i 4 4efls i +.
Draper and wife,, left yesterday af-
ternoon for Grundy Center to visit
another brother.
Mrs. VIM. Garden and children,
who have been visiting the formers
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Parry, at
1881 Water street, returned this
forenoon to their home in Duncombe.
Mrs. G. H. Swiney an" two
daughters went to -Duncombe today
to visit relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. r. T. Earl returns
ed home yesterday from a two months
visit with their daughter and family
at Veedersburg, Indiana.
Miss Marie Boylan of Eldora is
in the city for ten days or two
weeks visit with her brother, Oliver
Boylan and family.
The Misses Nellie Baker, Annet--
tie Mcfarland and Eva Hopley, teaeh-
ers in the public schools, ACCOMPANY
led Miss Helen Cordes to her home
in Kamrar yesterday afternoon for a
week end visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Smock left
this noon for their new home in Chi
cago
Mrs. Lon Smith returned this
noon from a short sojourn in Iowa
Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Schneider
of Duncombe, who have been spend
ing several days at the Dan Goehring
home on west Second street since
Mrs. Schmoker's removal from Mercy
hospital, left this noon for Fort
Dodge to visit the latter's parents for
a couple of weeks.
Mrs. J. Il. Chapman of Lake,
City, mother Of Miss nellie Chapman,
one of the eighth grade teachers, ar
rived in the city last night for an ov-
er Sunday visit with her daughter at
the Elsie Wickware home. Miss Chap
man went down to Kamrar on the
dlLcl lOOu " all ySotSludS " dtISAu
a house party at the home of Miss
Helen Cordes, and returned home
with her mother on the evening pas
senger train.
Mrs. r. D. Young has returned
home from her winters stay with
her daughter, Mrs. Max Whitacre
and family, in Des Moines.
Charles L. Hoot of WalkerVille,
Ontario, Canada, is making an over
Sunday visit with his uncle, A. c.
Hoot and family, on Third street.
Mr.. Hoot is en- route home from at
tending the National Superintend-
|ents convention at Kansas City. He
is superintendent of a night school
lat Ford, Ontario, near Walkcrville,
which is conducted solely for foreign
|ers coming to this country with no
knowledge Of our language. Nineteen
teachers are employed in the school
to teach the common branches to two
hundred pupils, imposed mostly OF
Russians, Poles and Armenians.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06
TIDE is SETTING STRONG.

Register: 1t is idle to ignore the
tremendous public opinion forming
against Germany in the present sit
uation, or to ignore it.
Among the signers of the latest
call upon all Americans to rally to
the support of the president in an
affirmative policy are Joseph Fl.
Choate. William H. Taft, Alton 3.
Parker, James r. Garfield, Elihu
Root, John B. Stanchfield, Henry L..
Stimson, James Byrne, and Martin
w. Littleton.
These men call for prompt and Wig
orous action. They say:
at is no longer permissible for
those to remain silent who wish to
support the president in the protec-
ton of our national rights and the
defense of our national honor. The
time has come to assure the presi-
dent that he will have. the over
whelming support of his fellow
countrymen in taking effective meas
ures to meet the intolerable situa-
ton with which the country is now
confronted"
This is the formal statement. What
they really would have said if they
had spoken their minds was said by
William ]. Schiffelin, one of the sign
ers of the call:
"Those who believe with the pres
ident in the formation of a League
to Enforce Peace, feel that now is
the time to join the allies and have
u real League to Enforce Peace. We
feel sure that Americans who hope
that the president, will act now on
the question of American rights are
vastly more numerous than the pa
cifists.'
The determination to make the
cause of the allies our own cause is
stronger every day.
What the German submarines are
doing now is merely to touch the
spark of the powder magazine of
American sentiment.
The German campaign shocked
America with the entry into Belgium
and every event since has made
American neutrality harder to main
tain.
The one opportunity Germany had
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

1t is to be hoped that Germany
will not issue orders to the effect
that no boats will be allowed to ply
the waters of the Mississippi river, at
least not before war is declared
against this country. If Germany did
do that some of her few sympathiz-
ers in the United States would in
sist that we had no right to use the
Mississippi.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

to regain American support was
wasted when a peace conference was
suggested and no terms were named,
and no encouragement given to the
American appeal for an end of mill
tarism and of war.
We might just as we'll recognize
the tide and take note of where it
lis bearing us.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

If the allies succeed IN getting
China into the war upon their side
they will have plenty of men to train
and equip. Moreover, the Chinese
can get along without much of any
thing to eat But it would take sew
eral years to make soldier out Ct
John Chinaman. The awakening of
China might be world peril. With
that country converted into war
like realm, with modern engines of
war, no nation or no combination OF
nations could conquer her.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

1t is proposed in Massachusetts to
license cats and to require them to
wear bells during certain months Of
the year, as measure of bird pro-
lection, but the Des Moines Register
doubts that the proposal will be en-
acted into law. "Why should Mas
sachusetts be expected to show an Ill
ira progressive attitude, inquiries the
Register, when a state like Iowa
will not adjust its laws on the kill
ing of birds to jibe with the laws of
the United States and the treaty be-
tween the United States and Cana
,da?"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

President Wilson insists that the
Zimmerman letter is genuine, but
both Japan and Mexico. deny that
they have ever received any commun-
ication from Germany making such
propositions. 1t might be that the
document is a forgery and that the
president has been deceived, or 1t
might be that Mexico and Japan are
lying. They are capable of doing
such things.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06
Attention, Farmers.

Now is the time to bring in your
discs, plows and cultivator shovels,
and have them put in shape for your
spring work. Bring them in now.
Yours for business,
A. S. Holt.
Second door south of city scales.
street, in Wilke building.
2-19f3t3*
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

Chancellor Hollweg's recent war
address before the German reichstas
was misleading in many respects, as
il was probably intended to be. Per
haps the most glazing misrepresenta-
ton was his attempt to prove that
this government was inconsistent in
its treatment of belligerents in the
selling of munitions to Mexico and
Europe. He said the United States
had put an embargo upon munitions
to Mexico, but continued to sell to
the enemies of Germany. There is
no similarity in the two cases, and
nobody knows it better than the able
German chancellor. The United
States has stood ready at all times TO
sell munitions to> all nations at war,
Germany among the rest. The stu
alton in, Mexico is problem of a
different nature. They are having
q, rebellion down there, and are not
at war with another country. Were
Mexico engaged in war with Great
Britain this country would sell to
Mexico just as it would sell to Great
Britain. This matter was thorough
ly .hreshed out in The Hague. Some
of the powers wanted to stop selling
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

Did you get that stack of blotters
with the lads on the backs this
year? OF course you didn't. It's the
I. thigh cost of blotters' now. Owing
to the decreased production and the
increased cost of paper stock it is
predicted that blotters this year arc
going to be about as scarce as eggs.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

munitions, but Germany was the
strongest opponent of the proposition
that had Representatives at the var
ious conferences. Germany never
hesitated to sell to any country at
war with another country. 1t is
quite different thing when merely
a rebellion is in progress. Under
such circumstances each government
is at liberty to take it's own course.
Germany has no just cause for COM
plaint because the United States has
sold and is selling to all countries at
war.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

1t is not good for the system Il
eat too many potatoes at this time o.
year, anyway.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

If Japan goes back upon the allies
now she will reveal herself as the
biggest traitor nation the world has
ever seen.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

England, according to all reports,
has captured a great many German
submarines, but evidence is irrefut-
able that there are great many
which she has not captured.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

If Cara MIA deserts President Will
son after all the president has done
for him he will prove himself less
Of a man than is the average MeAl-
can.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06
Seed Corn for Sale.

Early picked and carefully dried.
Write Follingio Farm, Tjernagel
Bros, Props, Story City, la. 47fl1*
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

Now would be a good time for con-
gress to establish that experimental
paper mill some place in Iowa and
see what can be done in the way OF
making paper from cornstalks and
other materials. That paper can be
has been proven by experiments, but
whether the process can produce pa
per cheap enough to pay is the prob
lem yet to be solved, and now, while
paper is abnormally high, would be
good time to try it out.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

known, had made it necessary to
hold the men trif1ing time longer
while a quarantine was applied and
health measures taken. And at last
reports Washington has grown exas-
perated, thinks the issue Of the pris-
oners can no longer be ignored and IS
considering the ACCESSIBILITY Of doing
something radical.
Can it be that this is what Berlin
wants? Is it conceivable that the
roguish Germans have contrived to
make a quarrel Of the first magnitude
out of mere neighborly misunder-
standing? Is one justified in surmis-
ing that a magnanimous surrender"
to American demands in the matter
of the Yarrowdale prisoners at the
proper time may be contemplated Us
Offering some chance Of soothing
American susceptibilities and i'll
some measure turning public atten
ton from the crisis of the busy little
U-boats? At any rate there is no
law against surmise.
If you love and serve men, yorl
cannot by any hiding or stratagem
escape remuneration. Secret retribu-
lions are always restoring the level
when disturbed, of the divine JUS
tice. 1t is impossible to tilt the
beam. All the tyrants and proprie-
tors and monopolists Of the world in
vain set their shoulders to heave the
bar. Settles forever the ponderous
mote, and star and sun, must range
to it, or be pulverized by the recoii.
EMERSON
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Begins to look as though it would
be drier than bone dry" says the
Perry Chief.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

DO moi think of one falslty as
harmless, and another as slight, and
another as unintended. Cast them
all aside: they may be light and ac-
cidental, but they are an ugly SCOT
from the smoke of the pit for all
that. and it is better that ones heart
should be kept clear of them, With
out overcare as to which is the larg-
est and blackest.-Ruskin.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

According to statements Of Ameri-
cans recently returning to this coun-
try from England, Great Britain will
soon enforce rule that will prevent
all passenger service between Eng
land, France. America and other
countries. All ships are to be devot-
ed to the service of the war. Passen-
ger vessels will carry only supplies
and soldiers. It is surprising to many
people that so many passengers have
risked their lives upon ships in the
war zone during the past two years.
ocean travel is more or less hazard
Gus under the best of conditions, but
since the war there has been so many
boats summarized and destroyed by
mines that it is wonder that trav-
elers have not been terrorized more
THAN they have.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06


OF course the mothers of this coun-
try didn't raise their boys to be sold
iers, nor did they raise them to be
towards and mollycoddles. Just
where that unfortunate statement
about not raising boys to be soldiers
originated the Freeman-Tribune does
not recall, but it has caused all man
ner of trouble. The brave mothers of
our country, like the mothers OF
other countries, and like their an
cestors, are ready to make any sacri-
flee that is necessary. In the event
of war, the mothers of the soldiers
suffer more than the soldiers them
selves and for the mothers sake, ii
for no other consideration, war ought
to be avoided if it can possibly be
done without Gishonor to the coun-
try. However, the United States
must defend it's rights and its integ-
rity. AS somebody has well said, lib
erty doesn't tarry long in the keep
ling Of towards.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

Out of long experience in politi-
cal and other contests the Manson
Journal has reached the conclusion
that people in the main are honest,
but are slow to take an interest in
matters that do not Immediately con-
Germ their pocketbooks. THAT is the
trouble with this insurance matter,
the Journal adds.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

The solution of the paradox
when is an American not an Amer
ican," has just been discovered by
Benno Weller, born in Nebraska, and
more recently engaged as farmer in
Canada. Weller went to Canada some
years ago and, in order to obtain
patent on farm there, became a
naturalized citizen of Great Britain.
A few weeks ago he returned to this
country and tried to enlist in the
United States Marine Corps, but was
rejected as an alien. The secretary
of labor was appealed to and decided
that Weller would be required to go
throug h the same procedure as for
eigner in order to again become a
Icitizen of the United States, which
he did and was enlisted. He says he
would not change nationalities again
for a farm.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

Everything is going up; even the
American flag" observes the Grundy
Democrat.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

The Burlington Hawkeye says that
vacant lot gardening is not going to
be regarded as a fad in the year
1917.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

The Charles City Press says the
general assembly should not repeal
the present road law without max
ing sure that it provides the state a
better one in it's place. 1.-THE present
law has made good record" the
Press continues, land there seems to
be a good chance for getting one not
so good.''
There is real work ahead for the
department of justice, considering
the high prices wholesalers charge"
says the Davenport Times.
eff nations, to preserve themselves
from destruction, must Danish alco
hol, why should America harbor it?"
asks the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
The Iowa City Citizen says that
some modification of the insurance
law may be needed, but it commends
the antidiscriminatory feature and
asks why it should not be preserved.
Even if the legislature doesn't do
much this session, isn't that what we
have been asking of legislatures"
asks the Marshalltown Times-Repub-
liCan.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-03-06

ever seen.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-07-06
Shark Fishing Arabian Industry.

Shark fishing is quite an industry among the Arab fishermen of Alden. The best grounds are between Alden and Shukra, an Arabian port about eleven miles east of Alden, writes Con- sul Southard from Alden, Arabia. There are also good shark fishing grounds at Makalla, another Arabian port some distance beyond Shukra. Shark fisher men also have good luck at most places along the British Soplaliland coast. The usual fishing vessel is the typical Arab sailing dhow. Both nets and hooks are used in fishing. The nets are very strongly woven, the best ones coming from the Persian Gulf, and are from 100 to 15O feet in length and about p feet wide. Sharks from to feet in length are usually caught in the nets, while hooks are used for the capture of larger sizes. Fishing with hooks is often done from small boats and requires considerable courage, as large fish will sometimes overturn the boat and throw the occupants into the water, where they have more than an even chance of being attacked by other sharks.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-07-06
EJECT OFFICERS THIS MORNING FIR
 COLORED (l. E. 5,
C;o7l1nl,i;;.tlcc ! Named to Confer With Negro Masons, Over
 Joining of Two Papers.

(Ry Mrs. Ida Drew, Grand Editress.}
 Yesterday afternoons session of the Royal Grand Court Of the Order of Eastern Star now ccnV,ning here was taken up in hearing the remaining reports. It was announced at this session that an electi,n of officers will be held this evening to wind up the business that will: precede the election.
 A committee was appointed to con- fer with similar committee at the convening of the Masonic grand lodge wl:~3h mee,,s the second week in Au gust. Steps gill be taken by these two committees, toward the joining to- gcther of the two journals, the Ma sonic Monitor and the Eastern Star with the understanding that the join ing does not abolish the editresshiD 0f the Eastern Star.
 Mrs. Ida Drew, the grand editress was complimented fo' the faithful service she has rendered to this de- pertinent Several hI rdred dollars were paid this afternoon to the bene- ficiaries and their repse sentatives fo: the E. s. B. A. department. This .department still has several thousand dollars.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-07-06
INCREASE SHOWN
 IN ASSESSMENTS
 IN PERSONAL LIST
Assessment Board Is Now in Session at Courthouse,
 and Kept Busy.

The Vaugine township board of as- sessors is in session now at the court house. Assessor Fred T Fucker hay ing completed tour of the county. to hold sessions at the various pre- board for the purpose of receiving , and making assessments on real and personal property.
 Assessments must be made not lat CT than July 20, after which date a penalty of 9 per cent will accrue. Because of this fact, property owners are declared to be showing consid- erably more promptness in making assessments this year than they hays displayed in the past.
 While Assessor Fucker will not dis cuss the results of the work already accomplished it is known that there has been considerable increase in the amount of property assessed, par ticularly personal property, and as 2 result, it is estimated Jefferson coun ty, and incidentally the city and state, will find their tax receipts in creased by neat amount.
 It is understood that the increase in personal property assessed in th' rural townships will range from 9 to 40 pcr cent, and it IS expected the increase in this class of city property will be even greater.