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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-26

opens the ensuing calendar year with
thirty-three members. The first meet
ing will be held on Monday, Oct. l..
and the meetings VIII continue to be
held on alternate Mondays during the
club year. The officers for the new
year are Mrs. Robert Stevens, OF AL
bion, president; Mrs. l.. j. Patterson,
vice president; Mrs. James McNally,
recording secretary; Mrs. Il. Nj. Sim
gleton, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
J. @. Parks, treasurer; Mrs. l.. r..
kellogg. chaplain; Mrs. c. c. Urine,
guard; and Mrs. William Barrie, jour
nalist.
The years work will be devoted to
the study of current events and vari-
Gus periodicals on subjects of present.
day interest, and during the meetings
the members will work for the Red
Cross. A study of Mexico from the
past to the present was completed last
year. During the year the chapter
generally has several open days, but
this year only three will be held two OF
which will be for the husbands, and
the other an all-day meeting to sew
for the Red Cross All of them will be
very simple and informal,
Entire Nous Club.
The Entire Nous Club. which is also
one of the older study clubs of the
city. will start it's twenty eighth year
on Tuesday Oct. ., when it will re-
sumo its weekly meetings thru the
club year. This year the members will
devote their time to a study of the
Conservation of American Resources.
and will also do Red Cross work at
their meetings Last year papers on
THE Civilization of the Eighteenth
Century were read and a historical
outline and study of the government
of the eighteenth century was taken
up.
The officers who will take up their
work this fall are Mrs. Maude PATHS.
presidents. Mrs. n. A. Capron. first
vice president; Mrs. Fannie Sheldon,
recording secretary; Mrs. A. G. john
son, corresponding secretary; Mrs. F..
C. Nichols, treasurer; and Mrs, NJ. u.
Chesire, leader.
The Shakespeare Club.
The study of one or more of Shake
speare's works is taken up during the
year by the Shakespeare Club, whose
membership is limited to fifteen. las
You Like IT, was the Study taken up
last year. and this year the members
will read Anthony and Cleopatra"
The opening meeting will be held
on Tuesday, Oct. g and each alternate
Tuesday following during the year.
The officers for the new year are Mrs.
F. E. Northup, president; Mrs. II. II.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-26
NEXT MONTH WILL FIND AL
LITERARY CLUBS OF CITY
IN ACTIVE WORK.
WoMAN's CLUB OPENS
ITS SEASON ON OCT. 8
Programs Will Include Addresses on
Varied Line of Sub eots--Many Clubs
to Do Red Cross Work in Connection
With Other Dutes-Outlne of Sea.
sons Activities.

With the beginning of October most
city will enter upon a season of pro-
gressive and interesting activities. as
promised by their calendars. 4 few
Of the clubs have already begun their
work in September, but for the most
part October Will see work begun in
earnest. All but one of the clubs Will
continue to study, while this one will
take up Red Cross work only. Several
of the remainder will doERed Cross
work during the study period.
Oct. 3 has been chosen as the open
ing day for the Marshaltown Woman :
Club, the largest club in the city, which
will open its calendar year with an
active membership of l54. On that day
the annual reception TO new members
viii be given.
The officers of the club for the sea-
son are Miss Anna Maude Kimberly.
president; Mrs. Susie White first vice
president; Mrs. VIII Wallace, second
Vice president; Mrs. VIII Miller re-
cording secretary; Mrs. +. NJ. Hara don.
corresponding secretary; Mrs. Joseph
Whitacre. financial secretary; and Mis-;
Kate Price, treasurer.
The different departments and their
chairmen follow: Art and music Mrs.
George Price chairman. Miss Fannie
Flower. representative; bible study,
Mrs A. F. Nickel cha irman. Mrs w.
J. Head representative; current events.
Mrs. E. A. Forkner chairman. Mrs. W.
3. Wood representative; home and
education. Mrs. D. r Jackson chair
man. Mrs. II. c. Stowell representative;
literature. Mrs Phillip EOst chairman,
Mrs. \. /. Mershon representative:
travel. Mrs H r. HamaCher chairman n.
Mrs. Robert Mullin representative.
The program for the year follows:
. Oct. 3-Opening day; recital. ~rs
Blanche Irbe Bremner. Of San Fran =
cisco: reception TO new members.
oct. 17-BibIe study: address by
Prof. Herbert Lockwood Wtllett, Of the
University OF Chicago.
Oct, 31-Literature: lecture recital,
:'The One Act Play" Mrs Flora
Schaeter Evans. Of Des Moines.
Nov. 14-Travel: address. Patriot
ism" LAFAYETTE Young Of Des Moines
Nov 2s-Current events: The Man
of Today" Rev. Charles T. Medbur"
of Des Moines.
Dec. Pm charge of the art and MIL
sic department.
Ian. e-Social day.
Jan. 23-Travel: address by Prof
Charles F. Curtiss Of Ames.
Feb. s-Home and education: address
on Interior Decorating" by r. J. Hen
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-26

vice president; Mrs. Carl Cole, secrs-
tary; Mrs. p. l.. Collins, treasurer;
and Mrs. Hannah Kurtz. chaplain.
Last year the club study WAS divided
in two parts In the fall Government
and the Study Of Children and Their
Education" was the subject and at the
beginning OF the new year study OF
the bible was taken up. This Will be
continued this year along with study
CT the history of the countries at war.
This club was organized in 1897. and
last year celebrated its twentieth an
niversary with homecoming on May
10. During the year the members also
enjoy BANQUET and "a picnic, at which,
they entertain their husbands and fam
lilies, and this year have arranged spe-
cial program for husbands day,
mothers day and children's day.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-26
Local Weather Record.

The extremes Tuesday were II and
81, compared with 80 and so Monday
and "a and Sc year ago Tuesday.
At thi. morning the temperature was
50. compared with 81 at the CORE
spending hour Tuesday morning. The
rainfall up to this morning was 80
of an inch.
Evening star., 1917-03-04
ONE summer, lUhen

one summer n E, 'he"
all the folks ,cere
amay and l wds wdn-
dering around the
house looking for
something to read, l
picked up a norel en-
titled "Ihe Glory of
the Conquered. That
nouel made me an
enthusiastic admirer
Of Susan CiaspeH. /
think you ,oiH under-
stand why ,ohen you
hare finished this
story the first Of
seuerai that she is to
Write for us.
Evening star., 1917-03-04

the rocker. But
she did not sit
down. Some
thing kept her
from sitting
down in that
C h air. S h e
straigh tened
stepped back,
and, half turned
way, S TODD
looking at it,
S e e ing G t h e
woman W ho
had sat there
"pleatin' at her
apron"
II h e t h i n
voice of the
III erif' s wife
broke in upon
her: 81 must be
getting those
things from the
Evening star., 1917-03-04

4NotulHS HSIS Dub hlOCuCIl tulIlSS, He
said, with little laugh for the insignifi-
cance of kitchen things.
The county attorney was looking at
the cupboard-a peculiar, unganly struc-
ture half closet and half cupboard, the
upper part of it being built in the wall,
and the lower part just the old-fashioned
kitchen cupboard. AS if its queerness at
tracted him, he got chair and opened
the upper part and looked in. After IA
moment he drew his hand away sticky.
Here's a nice mess he said resent
fully.
The two women had drawn nearer, and
now the sheriff wife spoke.
"Oh-her fruit" she said, looking to
Mrs. Hale for sympathetic understand
ing She turned back to the county at
torney and explained: "She worried
about that when it turned so cold last
night She said the fire would go out
and her jars might burst"
Mrs. Peters husband broke into a
laugh.
well can you beat the women Held
for murder. and worrying about her pre-
serves!"
The young attorney set his lips.
she may have something more serious
than preserves to worry about"
"Oh, well," said Mrs. Hales husband,
with good-natured superiority, women
are used to worrying over trifies."
The two women moved little closer
together. Neither of them spoke. The
county attorney seemed suddenly to re-
member his manners-and think of his
future.
"And yet" said he, with the gallantry
of young politician, "for all their worries,
what would we do without the LADIES'"
The women did not speak, did not un-
bend He went to the sink and began
washing his hands. He turned to wipe
them on the roller towel-whirled it for
a cleaner place.
"Dirty towels! Not much of house.
keeper, would you say, ladies?"
He kicked his foot against some dirty
pans under the sink.
"Theres great deal of work to be done
on farm said Mrs. Hale stiffly.
"To be sure. And yet"-with a little
bow to her-"I know there are some
Dickson County farm-houses that do not
have such roller towels" He gave it
pull to expose its full length again.
"Those towels get dirty awful quick.
Mems hands aren't always as clean as
they might be-
"Ah, loyal to your sex, see," he
laughed. He stopped and gave her keen
look. "But you and Mrs Wright We're
neighbors. / suppose you were friends,
too
Martha Hale shook her head.
"I've seen little enough of her of late
years. I've not been in this house-its
more than year."
"And why was that? You didn't like
her." r...
81 liked her well enough, she replied
with spirit. Farmers wives have their
hands full Mr.. Henderson. And then"
She looked around the kitchen
"4es?' he encouraged.
at never seemed a very cheerful place,
said she, more to herself than to him.
NO." he agreed; II don't think any
one would call it cheerful. | shouldn't
say she had the home-making instinct"
"Well, | don't know as Wright had,
either" she muttered
Evening star., 1917-03-04
MAGAZINE SECTION for March 4, 1917

know-and a
ew Ii t t | e
things. We left
in such a hurry
yesterday.
The county
attorney looked
at tn e t W o
women whom
they were leav-
ing alone there
a m o ng t h e
kitchen things.
"Yes-Mrs.
p e eters," h e
said, his glance
resting on the
woman who was
not Mrs. Peters,
the big farmer
woman W no
stood behind
the herif' s
wife. "Of course
Evening star., 1917-03-04

things from the
front room closet" She opened the door
into the other room, started in, stepped
back. "You coming with me, Mrs. Hale?'
she asked nervously. "You-you could
help me get them"
They were soon back-the stark cold
thing to linger in.
"My!" said Mrs. Peters, dropping the
things on the table and hurrying to the
stove.
Mrs. Hale stood examining the clothes
the woman who was being detained in
town had said she wanted
wright was close!" she exclaimed,
holding up a shabby black skirt that
bore the marks of much making over.
"I think maybe that's why she kept so
much to herself. l spose she felt she
couldn't do her part; and then, you don't
enjoy things when you feel shabby. She
used to wear pretty clothes and be lively
when she was Minnie Foster, one of the
town girls, singing in the choir. But that
oh, that was twenty years ago"
With carefulness in which there was
something tender, she folded the shabby
the table. She looked up at Mrs. Peters,
and there was something in the other
womans look that irritated her.
"She don't care" she said to herself
"Much difference it makes to her whether
Minnie Foster had pretty clothes when
she was a girl.
Then she looked again, and she wasn't
so sure; in fact she hadn't at any time
been perfectly sure about Mrs. Peters
She had that shrinking manner, and yet
her eyes looked as if they could see long
way into things.
"This all you was to take in?" asked
Mrs. Hale.
NO. said the sheriff's wife; "she said
she wanted an apron. Funny thing to
want" she ventured in her nervous little
way, "for there's not much to get you
dirty in Jail, goodness knows But |
suppose just to make her feel more nat
ural. If you're used to wearing an apron
She said they were in the bottom drawer
of this cupboard. Yes-here they are
And then her little shawl that always
hung on the stair door.
She took the small gray shawl from be-
hind the door leading upstairs, and stood
a minute looking at it.
SUDDENLY Mrs. Hale took a quick
step toward the other woman.
Mrs Peters!7
"Yes, Mrs. Hale?"
"Do you think she-did it?"
A frightened look blurred the other
thing in Mrs. Peters eyes.
"Oh, don't know" she said, in a
voice that seemed to shrink away from
the subject.
"Well, don't think she did, affirmed
Mrs. Hale stoutly. asking for an apron,
and her little shawl. Worryin about her
fruit"
"Mr. Peters says" Footsteps were
heard in the room above; she stopped,
looked up then went on in lowered voice:
"Mr. Peters says-it looks bad for her.
Mr.. Henderson is awful sarcastic in a
speech, and he's going to make fun of
her saying she didn t-wake up.
Evening star., 1917-03-04

ulIu WuhS uhUy Woo SbPPih
that rope under his neck" she muttered. =
mo, it's strange" breathed Mrs.
Peters. "They think it was such "a
funny way to kill man."
She began to laugh; at sound of the
laugh, abruptly stopped.
"Thats just what Mr.. Hale said," said
Mrs Hale, in resolutely natural voice.
"There was gun in the house. He says
that's what he cant understand.
"Mr. Henderson said, coming out, that
what was needed for the case was
motive. Something to show anger-or
sudden feeling"
"Well, | don't see any signs of anger
around here, said Mrs. Hale. "I don't
She stopped 1t was as if her mind
tripped on something Her eye was
caught by dish-towel in the middle of
the kitchen table. Slowly she moved
toward the table. One half of it was
wiped clean, the other half messy Her
eyes made slow, almost unwilling turn
to the bucket of sugar and the half empty
bag beside it. Things begun-and not
finished.
AFTER moment she stepped back,
dlu Sttltl, III tldU IIdIlHeT OI releasing
herself:
"Wonder how they're finding things up
stairs? | hope she had it little more
red up up there. You know, she
paused, and feeling gathered,-"it seems
kind of sneaking. locking her up in
town and coming out here to get her own
house to turn against her!"
"But, Mrs. Hale said the sheriff's
wife, "the law is the law
IL s'pose 'tis,' answered Mrs. Hale
shortly.
She turned to the stove, saying some
thing about that fire not being much to
brag of. She worked with it a minute.
and when she Strengthened up she said
aggressvely:
"The law is the law-and bad stove
is bad stove. How'd you like to cook
on this?'-pointing with the poker to the
broken lining. She opened the oven door
and started to express her opinion of the
oven; but she was swept into her own
thoughts, thinking of what it would mean,
year after year, to have that stove to
wrestle with. The thought of Minnie
Foster trying to bake in that Overland
the thought OF her never going over to
see Minnie Foster
She was startled by hearing Mrs
Peters say: "A person gets discouraged
and loses heart"
The sheriff's wife had looked from the
stove to the sink-to the pail of water
which had been carried in from outside.
The two women stood there silent, above
them the footsteps of the men who were
looking for evidence against the woman
who had worked in that kitchen. That
look of seeing into things, of seeing
through a thing to something else, was
in the eyes of the sheriff's wife now. When
Mrs Hale next spoke to her, it was
gently:
Better loosen up your things, Mrs.
Peters. Wen not feel them when we 90
out.
Mrs. Peters went to the back of the
room to hang up the fur tippet she was
wearing. A moment later she exclaimed,
"Why, she was piecing quilt" and held
up large sewing basket piled high with
quilt pieces.
Mrs. Hale spread some of the blocks
out on the table
Evening star., 1917-03-04


wife. "Ofcourse
Mrs. Peters is one of US he said, in
manner of intrusting responsibility. "And
keep your eye out, Mrs. Peters, for
anything that might be of use. No
telling; you women might come upon
clue to the motive-and that's the thing
we need"
Mr.. Hale rubbed his face after the
fashion of show man getting ready for a
pleasantly.
"But would the women know clue if
they did come upon it?" he said; and,
having delivered himself of this, he fol-
lowed the others through the stair door.
THE women stood motionless and silent,
listening to the footsteps, first upon
the stairs, then in the room above
them.
Then, as if releasing herself from some
thing strange, Mrs Hale began to arrange
the dirty pans under the sink, which the
county attorneys disdainful push of the
foot had deranged.
"Fd hate to have men coming into
my Kitchen" she said testify" snoopin'
round and criticizing.'
"Of course it's no more than their duty"
said the sheriff's wife, in her manner of
timid acquiescence.
"Duty's all right" replied Mrs. Hale
bluffly; "but | guess that deputy sheriff
that come out to make the fire might
have got little of this on She gave
the roller towel a pull "Wish I'd
thought of that sooner Seems mean to
talk about her for not having things
slicked up, when she had to come away
in such hurry"
She looked around the kitchen. Ger
tainly it was not "slicked up" Her eye
was held by a bucket of sugar on low
shelf. The cover was off the wooden
bucket, and beside it was paper bag
half full.
Mrs. Hale moved toward it.
"She was putting this in there she
said to herself-slowly
She thought of the -four in her kitchen
at home-half sifted, half not sifted She
had been interrupted, and had left things
half done. What had interrupted Minnie
Foster? Why had that work been left
half done? She made move as if to
finish it,-unfnished things always both
cred her,-and then she glanced around
and saw that Mrs. Peters was watching
her-and she didn't want Mrs. Peters to
get that feeling she had got of work begun
and then-for some reason-not finished.
"lt's a shame about her fruit" she
said, and walked toward the cupboard
that the county attorney had opened,
and got on the chair murmuring: 81
wonder if it's all gone"
1t was a sorry enough looking sight,
but Heres one that's all right" she
said at last. She held it toward the light
"This is cherries, too" She looked again.
"I declare believe that's the only one"
With sigh, she got down from the
chair, went to the sink, and wiped off
the bottle.
"Shell feel awful bad, after all her hard
work in the hot weather. | remember
the afternoon | put up my cherries last
summer
She set the bottle on the table, and
with another sigh, started to sit down in
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-07-15
+. M. MURPHY, BUILDER AND DoER

\ of SORROW swept over Tombstone when the
Associated Press announced the passing of Frank NJ
Murphy. at Prescott last week.
Frank Murphy was of the notable men III Arl-
He primarily man of great creative genus
and docr of biz things. When he came I" Arizona
forty years ago this commonwealth needed moth
ing much of his type. The then Territory
1ccmcd with possibilities. but lacked everything that
would transform them into realities. Capital and cap-
tai in staggering quantities. what needed. Many
men could have conceived of this great and fundamental
need but few there who could supply il. Frank
Murphy was one those few and mdauntcdly he quick
Is addressed himself the tremendous task of securing
capital for the development and exploitation OF Arizona
fabulous ht dormant To the East he hlcd
himself and by virtue of his Supcrative ability and mag
mctc and convincing personality soon had an aurferous
of capital flowing into Arizona for the financing
of the great enterprises that had their origin III his fer
tile brain Murphy honor and integrity great
his ability and originality, and soon and unglrldglng
~ he looked upon Of the greatest and most III
tiucntial men of the Territory.
1t would be tritc and commonplace to recount the
many projects with which he identified himself during
his long. brilliant and honorable his personal
itv was dominant vet benign and admirable. to
raise him quite above the enterprises that he created
He combined the gcnality of the typical AriZonan with
The culture and polish Of the Fastener.
The people of Tombstone. particularly the old tim
ers, will always cherish the memory of Frank Murphy.
for they recall; that il his answering faith in the per
and extent of deposits that caused him
lift the pail Of silence that hung the camp and
store the hum of industry back IN the dark days when all
but the Stoucs hearted had given mp all hope for the u-
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-07-15
NOTICE OF CONTEST
Department Of the interior

United States Land Office, Phoe-
nix, Arizona. May IS. 1917.
To Charles Knapp of Los Angeles,
Cal. address of record, Contestee:
You are hereby notified that Mau-
rice W. Thurman. who gives Webb.
Cochise County. Arizona. as his post
Office address. did on April Goth.
1917. file in this Office his duly cor
roborated application 10 contest and
secure the cancellation OF your Des-
ert Entry No. Serial No. 01s79 made
I. IL. 1919. for SWI. OF the NV
u. Section 3 Township 10 South,
Range rs F.. C. & s. r.. Meridian.
and as grounds for his contest he
alleges that said Charles Knapp has
never made any improvements on
this entry or expended one dollar
per acre each year as required by
law. or made his yearly desert proofs,
and has wholly abandoned the entry.
and the said alleged absence from
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-07-15
CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS

Francisco Campo, was met at Os-
borne on Friday night by parties who
he least expected to meet and to say
the least did not desire to meet. As
he ctepped from the west bound
train carrying with him a heavy suit
case he was met by Deputy Sheriff
William Brakfield who detecting that
the suit case did not contain wearing
apparel from its weight. opened the
same and found that it contained
about case and a half of whiskey.
He took Mr.. Campo and the whiskey
in custody and now Mr.. Campo is So
journing in Hotel De Wheeler in
Tombstone until such time as he vii,
visit the employment camp at Gov.
eminent Draw where they enlist men
for labor on the highway between this
city and Tombstone.-Review.
Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-07-15
sHATTTUcK RESUMES
OPE RATiONS

BlSBEE. July 10-Shattuck-Ari-
IONA Copper company for the first
time since June -. opened its mine
yesterday morning with considerable
force of men and produced several car
loads of ore. With the additions to
the working forces of the other mines
in the Warren district Monday proved
a gala day in the history of the local
trouble.
The fact that the Shattuck- Arizona
resumed is considered good omen
in the Warren district II is locat-
I'd farther away from transportation
than any other shaft in this region
and that men have gone back to
work there is a certain sign that the
backbone of the Bisbee lockout is
gone and only the remnants of the
affair remain.