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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-09-07

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every obstacle. You who are inter
ested in practical education should
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Drive your car into Olson and
Hemming's big garage and have your
batteries tested free. You will never
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for they are guaranteed not to sulph-
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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-09-07

north along the town line between
ranges AZ and AZ to the southeast corner
west along the town line between town
ships 131 and 100 to the intersection of
the Bots des Sioux river on the western
boundary of the State of Minnesota; and
from thence south and southwesterly
along the west boundary of the State
through the center channel of the Bots
deS Sioux river and Lake Traverse to
the place of beginning; all of which
territory lies within the basin or water
shed from which drainage and flood
waters naturally flow into and through
Lake Traverse and the Bots des Sioux
river; and it appearing to the satisfac-
ton of the Court that such petition sets
forth cause for the formation of the Dis
trict and that necessity exists to con-
troll drainage into and through said Lake
Traverse and the Bots des Sioux river,
which forms the boundary line between
this State and the States Of South Oak
ota and North Dakota; and it appearing
that said petition has been regularly
filed and security given for the payment
of all expenses connected with this pro-
ceeding to organize said District and
that all things have been done necessary
to entitle said petitioners to hearing
NOW THEREFORE,, 1t is hereby or
dered that a hearing be had upon said
petition at the courtroom at the Court
House, in the Village Of Wheaton, Coun-
tv of Traverse, State of Minnesota, on
the 10th day of September, 1917, at 10
o'clock, A. M, and all parties owning
property within the proposed District or
in any manner affected by the organiza-
ton thereof are hereby ordered and re-
quired to show cause before said court
at the time and place above mentioned
why an order should not be made grant
ing the prayer of the petitioners and or
ganiZing said district as prayed for, or
with such modification as the court may
at said hearing determine; and it is
further ordered that notice of said hear
ing and service Of this order shall be
made by the publication thereof in at
least one legal weekly newspaper pub
lished in each county containing terri
tory to be included in the proposed dis
trict for three successive weeks, the last
of which publication shall be at least
ten days prior to the date set for said
hearing.
Dated August 18th, 1917
S. A. FLAHERTY,
District Judge.
Notice is Therefore Hereby Given,
that a hearing will be had upon said petit
ton before the Judge of the District
Court of the 18th Judicial District in
said State, at the time and place speci-
fed in said order and all parties in any
manner interested in and affected by the
formation of the proposed District are
hereby notified to appear at the time and
place specified in said order and show
cause if any they have why the relief
prayed for in said petition should not be
granted and said District organized.
Dated August 18th, 1917.
LUDWIG WIBERG,
Clerk of District Court,
Traverse County, Minnesota.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-09-07

daughter Lois of Hooper, Neb., were
pleasantly entertained at the Henry
Bergherr home the past week.
Misses Helen Kohl and Florence
Filipeck visited at the Kohl home
Sunday.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1917-09-07

You'll enjoy the Radisson, Mime
apolis. advtf.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08

A pipe of tobacco in the trenches Is =
very dieffrent thing from booze in the
canteen. Why argue over it?
preacher who promulgates treason
from his pulpit needs the same course
OF treatment as the loafer that does
the same thing on a street corner.
II the governor goes the limit" on
tho coal question it will probably lower
the limit considerably at the mines
and thus at the dealers. The coaa re-
taller isn't getting especially rich this
year So don't blame him.
Perhaps urging the farmers to raise
ten acres OF wheat on every farm
may help some but the average farmer
things he knows pretty well what his
farm is adapted to.
Baseball will come back when condi-
tons call it. The game isn't dead or
discarded, merely laid aside like many
other activities until the hard work OF
war has been accomplished. The
American people will never lose base
ball The game is still the national
amusement Just now a bigger ma
tional game is on and baseball is over
Swallowed by it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08

sumner is entirely willing to pay cost
and a fair profit. 1t Is, however, like
individuals. very much opposed to be-
ing held up and secrecy is the surest
way to impress the consumer that he
is being jockeyed.
The impression is very strong that
the operators are taking advantages OF
the opportunity to get while the get
ting is good. That tendency Is natural
enough. Mos. OF US have It. Railroads
and street car lines and electric light
plants and public utilities that enjoy
a monopoly by popular permission
have the same tendency. However, "a
reasonable return" Is all they can
legally take. They ought to have tna''
So had the Goa. mine which Is a
monopoly os natural resource. Ana
the coal mine should not have more
especially in a time of crisis like the
present
Let the governor go the limit. 20
% II. Do the fair thing by people ana
nperators. And do it as suggested oS
himse!f-imm ediately.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
THE PHYSICAL EXAM INAION.

Too much cutlery that physical man
hood is degenerating is being made
because 25 per cent of the men exam
ined by the doctors on the examining
fit for the army.
The fact Is that a man must be
practically perfect physically to get by
and it is presumably true that al any
time in the history Of this country as
many would have been rejected under
as searching an examination as are
being rejected now.
Minor defects unfit men for this
draft. Many a man who takes his
hammer toes" daily over ten or TWEEN
ty miles Of plowed ground is refused
for this defect. A hammer toe is one
that is bent UP at the joint perhaps
from wearing too short a shoe, in snort
q crooked toe. Slight defects in eye
sight, a variety Of defects which are
not at all serious or noticeable in or
binary life rejects the candidate
There is no occasion to assume that
We are physically deteriorating because
men are rejected under the physical
examination. The men examined
mostly peel we'll" They are husky
set, even those rejected
This army is to take the physically
perfect 10 all practical purposes. It
will leave behind many reflections that
if the war continues and millions are
drawn will be acceptable under later
rules Of examination. The rejected
man need not feel that he is cripple
or a monstrosity because the sharp
eyed medics find him Eot up to the
standard set for this draft
But the accepted man may pride
himself on his physique. He is fit in
every way to represent the American
man II the finest army ever drawn gu.
under the American flag.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08

You remember in the last story how
the Luckymobile had run in to milk
wagon? Well. after Billy Bunny had
and Uncle Lucky had filled the milk
cans with ice cream and soda water
from a nearby candy store so as not
to have all the little boys and girls
disappointed when they didn't get their
milk, our two little rabbit friends got
into the Luckymobile and started off
again. Well it was still evening, you
know. and the little fireflies who had
crawled into the lamps made them as
bright as possible. so it wasn't hard to
steer the automobile. And, after a
house, where lived a gray mouse. all
alone by herself in hole near shelf,
where cake and mince pies made her
open her eyes. for they looked, oh so
good, as a pie or cake should Now I
didn't know 1 was going to write poetry
or should have let my hair grow long
like poet instead Of going TO the bar
Der for shave. Well anyway. the two
little rabbits stopped the automobile
right In front of mousie's door and
when she heard the horn go honk, honk.
out
Why. it's Mr.. Lucky Lefthindfoot,"
she squeaked, and then opened the
door and asked the two little rabbits
in and gave them some pie and cake
You can put the automobile in the
barn ii you like she said. "and spend
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
Ripping Rhymes
EASY WORK,


It's easy for the man who's rich to
talk like seven sages to fellows toll
ing in the ditch. long hours for meager
wages, to tell them that all wealth Is
dross, a. frost or pretty near it, that
everything's total loss except cheer
fui spirit. Now. 1 have earned one
bone day. at heavy. grinding labors,
SO feel honest when L say wise things
to toiling neighbors. It's easy for the
man who's hale, who ne'er had yaller
1anders TO hand out bunk to those who
all with itch or mumps or CHAMBERS;
to tell them that they ought to smile
and wave their hats and chortle when
toothache OF disordered bile Is causing
pain immortal. But !. who write the
cheer-up rhyme, to brace some aching
brother have, rheumatism half the
time and jumping govt the other. So
many giving us advice and optimistic
chatter, and telling how to cut the ice,
when busted fiat or fiatter. And most
OF them have never known the lack OF
ample riches, the toiling for a wretch
ed bone in quarries, fields and bitches.
And few Of them have been, 1 ween,
from humble homes eyicted. and few
OF them, methinks, have seen the couch
OF the afflicted. It's easy work to dish
the bunk when you are clothed in
plenty, to one who, sweating for a
PUNK, is sore IL need ot twenty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
High Summer.

High Summer.
Pinks and Syringa in the garden closes,
And the sweet privet hedge and golden
roses.
The pines hot in the sun, the drone
of the bee:
They die in Flanders 10 keep these for
me.
The long sunny days and the still
weather,
The cuckoo and the blackbird shouting
together
The lambs calling their mothers out
on the lea:
They die in Flanders to keep these
for me.
The doors and windows open; south
wind blowing
Warm thru the clean, sweet rooms. on
tip toe going.
Where many sanctities, dear and de-
lightsome be
They die in Flanders to keep these for
me.
Daisies leaping in foam on the green
grasses,
The dappled sky and the stream that
sings as it passes
These are bought at a price, a bitter
fee
They die in Flanders TO keep these for
me.
katherine lyman, The Holy War"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
Billy Bunny and His Friends

the night here, for it's getting very dark
and maybe you'll run into something
So Billy Bunny took the Luckymobile
owl began to foot:
I'm very fond of little gray mice.
And little white rabbits. too, are NICE
And then that old owl flew down and
made grab for Billy Bunny. But he
didn't catch him. No sireeman! For the
little rabbit hoped into the henhouse
thru the little round door and the big
red rooster began to crow:
Look here, Mr. Owl, if you come in
side
Iii hurt you VITA: my spur.
Don't you dare get funny with Billy
Bunny.
Or muss his pretty white fur"
(, And then he flew down from his
perch and said Cook "a doodle do. "
three times and half, and after that
the owl few away. That was very
kind of YOU" said the little rabbit. "Oh,
don't mention it," said the red rooster,
but there is one thing you can do for
me" whats that?" asked Billy Bunny.
Take me Luckymobiling," laughed the
red rooster.
"All right. Tomorrow Uncle Lucky
and I will invite you for nice drive"
said the little rabbit, and if the Lucky
mobile doesn't get sick maybe, Uncle
Lucky will ask some little boy or girl
to. go, too, and maybe it might be you.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
Topics of the Times

Our warriors are ordered not to
drink intoxicants while in uniform;
which seems to necessitate numerous
daily changes Of clothing by staff Of
ficers.
Newspaper expression over Secre-
tary Aliens proposal to run again, re-
calls the story Of the man who was
thrown out of the dance hall six times
and finally suspected that he wasn't
wanted there.
OF course you may have to enter the
service if the war continues but you
can go from college or good job just
as we'll as from the pool hall.
What il congress were to make n
day a minimum wage for labor?
and labor+is one of the elementals and
essentials Of production. Imagine what
q congressman's mail would look like
And to recall the days when, corn
sold in Iowa for II cents bnshel!
Man! Man!
or course nobody commends the use
Of tobacco but millions use 1t, the sol
diers want it and are going to get II,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
GO the RIGHTEOUS LIMIT GOVERNOR

The Illinois state council OF defense
has asked the governors Of sixteen
states to meet next week in Chicago to
take action to reduce coal prices. The
Illinois council suggests that the states
go to the extent Of Selling the mines
if necessary.
Governor Harding is quoted in the
Des Moines papers as saying he -
ready to "go the limit" to protect coal
consumers. This expression from the
governor was called out by the invita-
ton to attend the Illinois meeting
which he announces he will attend.
The governor is quoted as saying that
he does not know how precisely what
means are to be taken but that some
thing must be done and INN ediately
on the coal question.
Clifford Thorne, representing the
Iowa League of Municipalities, with
the federal trade commission asking
Immediate establishment Of tentative
maximum prices &c snpplant the ex-
orbftant Peabody committee prices
Thorne urges public instead of private
hearings on the cost Of coal production
If anything rs to be done it is time
it were doing. The governor is right
about that. He is right also when he
proposes to "go the limit in order tG
exact justice for the consumer
Thornes proposal to permit the con-
sumner to know and thus understand
the cost of coal production by admit
ting the public to knowledge OF the
expense la one that coal operators
should accept if their claims are hon.
estly founded For the public as con-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
ELECTION MACHINES,
IIowa CITY CNizen.l


There is a saving in the incidental
EXPENSE of elections in the use of vot-
inc MACHINES. Paper ballots and theit
istribu' ion thruout county cost sew
4raI huni ID dollars for each election.
The counti.g Of the ballots consumes
-,rc DAY of extra time for each mem
Der of the T. tction board. clerks, police
etc. To say nothing about the loss q
sleep TO patriots who stay up all niSft
to get the returns on sheriff, coun-E
fully will make a saving that would
amount To fair interest on the inves:-
ment. The Citizen believes the pr ce
charged for voting machines Is 100
high. but does not question the al
vantage of the best type Of machines.
The experience in the precincts OF
johnson county which are equipped
with machines is SO satisfactory that
there is no demand for going back 20
Ire old way. If the entire county was
so equipped i. would be still more sat
isfactory.
The main advantage OF the voting
machine is that the result in each pre-
einct may be known five minutes after
the polls close and there are no con-
tests &C iing for recounts. Voting ma
chimes furnish modern and scienti1c
method. ard are fully as useful as ado
ing machines in bank.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
the PLACE TO GET BUSY.

If Davenport is entitled to censure
for Wallace and his meeting, it is en-
titled 10 commentator for what it has
done since the Wallace meeting
Davenport Democrat.
Which is true to considerable ex-
tent Simply to the extent that an
individual is co;nmendable for doing
a plain duty and endeavoring to offer
recompense for duty neglected.
Leave it that way. Commend DAY.
export for the activity Of some OF its
citizens in pressing the case against
reasonable utterances. However. it
is not easily forgotten that the barn
was locked after the horse had been
lifted.
Let criticism and commentator Of
Davenport drop. That's water that has
run under the bridge. Instead lets
get busy everywhere in Iowa TO see
that it doesn't happen to US.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08

D. . 4 e. -
national war intelligence bureau is
a development Of the last few days in
Washington. Henry L. Stirnson, of
New York, former secretary Of war.
will be virtually, II not nominally. at
the head Of It. At the outbreak Of the
war the secret service department
found that 1t was divided into nine
branches. Out Of this tangle the best
solution was an agreement to coop
crate as, far as practicable and divide
the field among them. The president
solved the problem by providing funds
for the expansion Of the war depart
ment's bureau. Spying around has all
ways been dangerous business. but
when the new bureau gets going woe
unto unfriendly aliens and disloyal
Americans.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
Iona Newspapers
SYZYGY.
EDaVenport Democrat

Just q word-but it blazed across the
political sky of New York, City this
week and put all other political con-
siderations in temporary eclipse. As
sistant District Attorney William Black
wrote it. after he had been re- elected
president Of the citizens Independent
democracy. In a statement explaining
objects Of the c. l. D! Mr. Black said
Of the Mitchell administration: They
are in syzygy with the worst predatory
elements OF the community"
No one had ever before accused the
administration of being in syzygy. In
fact, it is doubtful if any Of its mem
bers would have known it when they
were in. There was a rush for die
tlonaries and encyclopedias. Tammany
chieftains scratched their heads and
rallied at the administrations high
brow critic. They didn't know wheth-
er it was safe to adopt campaign
slogan of Soak the syzygists." or not.
In the meantime Mr.. Black is smiling
to himself at the thought that he threw
the biggest furry into New York
municipal politics that has disturbed
the course Of events for some time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08

manys chance to win the war. The
name. please?
The Gazette desires to state here
with and for all time that, 1t has no
apology to offer for any comment
made regarding Germanys end OF
the war. 1t will continue to fight 1t
out along these lines. until Germany
has been humbled to the point of re-
specting the rights of other nations.
This will be brought about by the
United States military forces. in spite
of the peace winnings of Mr.. Hearst
and his allies, the pro-German and
German language press and their CO.
horts.
There IS reference in the editorial
to the ''rancorous. abusive American.
Perhaps the Gazette is sraSely sus-
pected of being in this class.
Well, anything just so it is Amer
lean.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
NJ Tim. For stutter;no.

VI =
There is a certain member of con-
gress who shutters except when he
makes a speech or talks over the tele-
phone. Recently he had occasion TO
call up friend in Seattle on a matter
of personal Importance. When the
transcontinental connection had been
made, the man in Seattle shouted thru
the telephone:
who is talkingY
"This is Tom Smith," answered the
congressman at the capital end of the
wire
mo. it is not Tom Smith," snapped
the man in Seattle.
Eyes. tits Tom Smith, tell YOU" the
congressman fairly beloved. why do
you doubt IL 2"
why, Tom Smith suffers"
Darn it. DO you think am going
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
npAE~r THE ALIENS.

CWebster City Freeman Tribune-l
II is a burning shame that citizens
Of this country must close up theiT
business or quit their Jobs to DEFEND
the flag while their competitors wh'
happen to be aliens are left free TO fol-
low such pursuits as they see fit. This
is all wrong and congress should enact
without delay law making aliens sub
ject TO the same duties IN ume OIL
war as native or naturalized- citizens.
The alien must obey all other laws OF
the land, and why not make him ooeE
the mandate calling every able -bodied
man Of military age to the coiors
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

News Republican and explains Iowa
is getting an unenviable reputation as
the harboring place of treason. There
are three places in which anti-con-
scription agitation has gone beyond the
rights of freedom of speech"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
Masonic Meetings
Sisieors always welcome.

~ Vssieors always weieon,e.
MARSHALL LODGE. No. 1os A. T. q
A. M.-Stated communication. Regular
meeting Friday, Aug. II. p. m. 1ohI'
". Wells secretary; W. H. steiner
W. M.
s,cNEr CHAPTER. No. ss, r. A. NJ
Stated convocation Monday eVenins'
Aug. 20. at s o'clock. Business sess! ',t.
Carl sharner, H. P; John W.
secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King SOLO
mon Council No. 90, r. & s. NJ Mon
dav Aug. 90, 40. Regular business
7 T. Forbes, recorder; George Gregory
l. ".
SPECIAL coNcLAVE. ST. Aldernar
commandery, No. 80. X t. fuesoat.
August IA. 1880 For work. Oroer oi
the Temple. I. T. Forbes, recotoeH'
H. c. Mueller, commander
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. o. E.
ESPECIAL meeting for initiation wed
nesday, Aug. s, at p. m. Mrs. Georse
Downing, secretary: Mrs. J. E. Fred
erick. W. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
rying passengers Tor hire" and that 1t
should be rated at 35 cents per horse


should be rated at S5 cents per horse
power. t st
A motor vehicle OF a total capacity
per wheel Of more than 1000 pounds,
carrying passengers or freight for hire,
was designated as commercial We
hicle, the fec being based upon the
carrying capacity Of the car and not
upon the load hauled as evidenced by
the language used In the act: For
each commercial vehicle the annual
fee shall he based upon the carrying
capacity per wheel" -
The schedule Of graduated fees as
shown in the issue Of May 10 Is as
follows:
WI. in lbs. per wheel Fee
1.t01 TO 1000 200
2,001 to 1000 1000
4,001 TO 5000 ................ $1,000
S,00l to 10000 .a........... 10000
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08

Nowadays it is harder to locate an
old fashioned rum blossom nose than a
a four-leaved clover asserts the Des
VI oines Register.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08

The Des Moines Capital insists 1T
ough to be known everywhere that If
there are traitors in Iowa. they must
keep their mouths show and they must
obey the laws"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-08
MUCH OBLIGED NAME. PLEASE?

TBurll1IB lUii H<a-S~ts.s
Some kaiser admirer sends the Ga
zette a literally blue penciled copy OF
the posterior section Of the Chicago
Examiner, which contains one OF It's
justly infamous peace dribbles. The
Gazette arises to remark, without emo
ton, that it perused the aforesaid
Hearstblatt on the day it was pub
lished before M yon Blue Pencil had
arisen from his dreams of kaiser con-
quest.
And we have had no occasion to
change our views regarding the afore-
said treachery They will be expressed
in person to the assiduous goose-step-
per who wasted his efforts marking tho
paper with pencil Of the hue Of Ger