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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05

The recent instructions from ma
tional Red Cross headquarters, based
on the passage of a law by congress,
that no Red Cross benefits can be CIV
en- unless the gross receipts are turn
ed to the society, will in no wise 'af-
feet the lecture course to be given in
Webster City this winter. It has been
widely advertised that the profits of
this course would be given to the Red
Cross and for this reason many peo-
pie had supposed the Webster City
chapter was standing sponsor for this
course. Such, however, is not the
case. This course is being put on
here by ten men who guaranteed the
expenses of it and these men are obli-
gated to pay any deficit, should there
be any. On the other hand these men
propose to turn over any profits to-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
sBonest, Dry Law in Alaska.

Under the act Of congress organic
ing the territory Of Alaska, the legis-
lature meets every two weeks. 1t did
not meet in 1916, but the legislature
of 1915 passed law providing for a
popular vote on the liquor question in
November, 1916.
At that election the people voted by
large majority that from and after
January /, 1918, spirituous liquors
should not be manufactured, sold,
transported or given away anywhere
within the territory.
The prohibition law thus to be es-
tablished by popular vote probably
will be the most stringent of any in
the United States.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
Letter From Camp Cody.

A letter from Camp Cody brings
news that the soldiers there have
started on their sixteen weeks course
Of intensified training.
Captain and Mrs. A. NJ. Martin and
Lieut.. and Mrs. Shook are living to-
gether in the Martin shack until the
Shook house is finished. Practically
all the former Supply Company from
Webster City are now in Captain
Martins wagon train and some of the
men from the former Company G have
also been transferred to this train.
A rdelousing station" is soon to be
estab ablished In the camp in connection
Win the d6SpItaf: Stations 81 this
kind are maintained at all the big
European camps.
Butter at the commissary depart
ment sells at IS cents a pound, eggs
at 60 cents a dozen and milk at 20
cents a quart. Groceries, however, are
cheap.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
ton that shipments be made.

ton that shipments be made.
I hope the public will exercise
patience, as this is "a situation
never known in this country be-
fore and it will be a physical i'm
possibility to take care of all COM
munities without some friction.
It is the administrations desire
ito apportion the available supply
fairly and equitably.
Talk Municipal Coal Yards.
A big meeting of Iowa mayors was
held in Des Moines Thursday to talk
over the coal situation. The mayors
are asking a thorough probe and, if
necessary, that the state or the gov
ernment take over the mines. There
has been much talk in various cities
of establishing municipal coal yards.
It has even been discussed in Web
ster City. Members of the council
have taken no official cognizance of
1t as yet, though they have discussed
1t privately and it is not at all out
side the bounds of reason that some
thing of the kind may be done here
should the situation become serious
enough to warrant 1t.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
WEBSTER CRY, IOWA MONDAY, NOVEMBER s, 1917.
Lair On Red Cross Benefits UiA Not
Stop Lecture Course This Uinter

the Red Cross. but the Red Cross is
in no wise connected with the course.
To Remove Emblems.
Through a misunderstanding Red
Cross embfems were used upon win
dow posters advertising this course.
The ladies' Of the Red Cross will re-
move these. The lecture course was
signed for in January and the Red
Cross was not organized here until
June. The course was guaranteed by
its ten sponsors after the women's
clubs of the city had given it their
unqualified approval.
A recent law passed by congress
forbids the Red Cross, as an organi-
zation, from giving any benefits unless
the organization gets the gross profits.
But there is nothing to prevent other
or individuals from CIV
ing any amount or any share of the
profits of any venture to the Red
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
Shook Still With Iowans.

Shook Still With IOwans.
A copy of the Ell Paso, Texas, Her
aid at hand has the following dis
patch from Camp Cody:
Among the many officers who were
assigned to military units permanent
ly here this week was First Lieut..
Harry F. Shook, who was given the
permanent chaplaincy Of the 109th en-
gineers, composed Of a battalion of
the First Iowa engineers and the head
quarters supply company and the sec
ond battalion of the Sixth Nebraska
infantry
Lieut.. Shook is 80 years of age. He
was commissioned as first lieutenant
and made chaplain of the Second Iowa
infantry, which was broken into bits
by the reorganization of the division
under the socalled "Pershing plan"
Since then he had been unassigned.
Chaplain Shook is Universalist
minister and was pastor of st. Paups
Universalist church in Webster City,
Iowa, when he was commissioned. He
was formerly local preacher in the
Methodist Episcopal church and ex-
pected to become a fully ordained
minister of that faith, but change of
opinions led him to his present faith,
it was said.
Other than his being minister and
active, genial, wholesouled man, Lieut..
Shook has had training which fits
him for the varied duties of modern
army chaplain and has put them in
active practice and has been anxious
for permanent assignment For nine
years he was a bank clerk in Peoria,
ILL.,, to which position he rose from
Office boy. He was also secretary of
the John c. Proctor recreation center
in that city for one year.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05

Miss Tressa Meyer has accepted a
position in the First National bank.
Miss Meyer has been Judge q. D.
'Thompson's efficiest stenographer for
years and assumes the stenographic
work in the bank, relieving Miss
Mayme Cunningham that the latter
may devote all her time to the in
creasing business of the savings de-
partment. Heretofore Miss Cunning
ham has done all the stenographic
work, the legal work for Attorney w.
J. Covil, and taken full responsibility
Of the savings department. Her work
has grown gradually heavier until it
has become necessary for her TO have
assistance.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
SOME BIG REAL ESTATE
DEALS PULLED OFF
1,OO6 Acres Of Hamilton County Soil
Sold Mt Prices Ranging From
500 to 1925 Per Acre.

During the past few days quite a
number of land sales have taken place
in this vicinity and all the farms sold
brought high prices. 1,OO6 acres
changed hands at 5000 to 1925 pei
acre.
Robert e. Jones and varick c. Cros.
ley sold their 800 acre farm six miles
east of Webster City to Lloyd Bick-
ford at $225 per acre. This is part
of the Reinicker estate and is one OF
the best farms in the state. Messrs.
Jones and Crosley bought * few
years ago at right around $17O per
acre. They have added some improve
ments, but realized fine profit out OF
the deal.
Lloyd and Frank Bickford have sold
their 240 acre farm six miles north
east of town to Henry Bertels at $21O
per acre. This is also one Of the well
improved farms of that section OF
country.
Frank Young has disposed of his
2O6 acre farm north of Homer at
$225 per acre. This is finely i'm
proved place and R. D. Kennedy is
the purchaser. varick c. Crosley has
bought the eighty belonging to James
Yungclas adjoining his farm six miles
southwest of town. This eighty
brought 5000 per acre. 1t is fine
piece of land, but has no Improve
ments aside from being fenced and
tiled.
The A. r. Burleson 160 acre farm
five miles northeast of town has been
sold 10 w. B. Fielder at 5000 per
acre,htThis is cash deal.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
harrisburg Raised Quota.

P. w. Keith of Blairsburg called at
the Freeman-Journal Office Thursday
to say that Blairsburg township rails
ed her quota in the recent liberty
loan drive. The township was allot-
ted $4,000 and $4,000 was sold by
the Blairsburg committee. $4,000 was
sold In the Blairsburg territory by
Webster City committees, bringing
the township $1,000 above its quota.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
THE WOMEN BOUGHT
$4,000 IN BONDS
Mrs. ]. L. Kamrar Reports That Ham.
iltOn County Women Did Well
Marion Second.

A late report received by Mrs. ]. l..
Kamrar, county chairman of the lib
erty loan, from Marion township
shows that the women of that town
ship led the sale of bonds throughout
the county with the exception of Web
ster City. $4,000 worth of bonds were
purchased by the women of Stratford
and Marion township. This report
brings the total of the women's sales
throughout the county to nearly $70,-
900. A fine showing, surely.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
KAMRAR MERCHANTS ARE
NOT OUT OF SUGAR
Freeman.Journal Wrongly Informed
BY Local Man.

The merchants OF Kamrar are not
out of sugar, as reported in these
columns yesterday, the Freeman
Journal having been wrongly inform
ed by local restaurant man who
probably misunderstood the situation
in Kamrar through a message receiv-
ed from that place over the telephone.
The dealers In Kamrar have supply
of sugar that will last a few weeks,
but they are conserving it and are
selling only tiftJ cents worth to a
customer, so we were informed by a
message from a merchant in Kamrar
this morning.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
Four Thousand Letters In One Day
Returned From Camp Cody as
Unbelievable, Though Ey.
cry Effort is Made.
IS BUT ONE RIGHT ADDRESS
Parents, Sweetkearts, Relatives and
Friends Should Exercise
Great Care.

On one day IN OCTOBER rOur thOuS-
and letters were returned to the send
ers from the Camp Cody postofice
because their addresses were 50 in
complete that delivery was impossible.
That 10 not 50 unusual as to be start
fha HI to TIN. tiamHn statiu st ucnsd there;
but It may help to explain to some
worried parents in Webster City, and
sweethearts from Frisco to Boston,
why their messages do not go
through.
Every effort has been made to prop
erly deliver this mass of misdirected
mail. Sometimes single letter has
been sent to every organization in
camp in the hope that some regiment
al mail orderly would recognize the
name but without success.
Over 10000 In Camp.
Camp Cody contains today some-
thing over 10000 men organized in
forty big units and sub-divided into
nearly 200 smaller units. Out of those
10000 men there are probably not
more than twenty or thirty men prom
inent enough to be known by name to
the mail clerks. The average run of
incoming mail is around twenty-five
thousand letters. and an almost equal
number of parcel post packages day
so one may appreciate slightly the job
that Camp Cody's mail man has on
his hands.
The Christmas rush will be begin
ming soon and everyone knows what
that means to the postal service. With
the military mail service it means
sleepless nights and nightmare days.
1t means twenty hours work a day
and even then it means that no end
of the stuff will never be delivered
and a lot of it lost and never recov-
cred.
There are great many wrong
ways to address mail to the soldiers
at Camp Cody, but only one right
way. The soldiers name should be
spelled out in full first, and it would
be even better to give his rank, then
his company, battery or troop, and his
regiment or battalion. Next should be
damn Codvo then "Deminp N NJ
Ambulance companies and field hos
pitals are organized independently, so
that their designation alone is suf-
ficient.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
First Number Wednesday.

First Number Wednesday.
The first number of the coming lect-
ure course will be given at the Orphe-
um theatre Wednesday evening. The
attraction is Charles Crawford Gorst,
probably the greatest authority in
America on birds. This lecture, as
well as all other numbers on the
course, are worthy the fullest patron
age otthe people of this city. It has
been some years since Webster City
had a winters lecture course. A
course of this kind ought to be foster
ed here to the end that it become a
permanent institution in Webster
City. A crowded house ought to greet
Mr.. Gorst Wednesday evening to show
the ten men who are backing this
course that Webster City appreciates
their efforts to establish a lecture
course here as a permanent thing.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
Puts It up to Washington.

City Manager G. J. Long has a let
ter from Charles Webster, fuel admin
istrator for Iowa, saying that he has
written the department at Washington
for ruling on the question of wheth-
er Webster City can enforce its con-
tract with the Dallas Coal company.
Under this contract the city was TO
get coal until next spring for $1.35
and the company is now demanding
$2.95. AS soon as he hears from
Washington he will notify Manager
Long.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
VIII Play Pipe Organ.

Miss Florence Langford, who is a
graduate from the music department
at Morningside college, Sioux City, is
in Omaha for several weeks taking
postgraduate work in pipe organ un-
der Prof. Simms, her former instruct
or, preparatory to assuming the du-
ties of organist in the Webster City
Methodist church. Miss Langford left
last week for Omaha, spending day
or two with her mother in LeMars be-
fore starting her course.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
Petitions Filed in Court.

Ms. Ollie Neel of Randall has filed
a petition asking divorce from John
Neel, whom she charges with deser-
tion.
Henry G. Hoyer ct al have filed a
petition against R. ]. Hurd ct al ask
ing the abatement of a fence nuisance.
Hurd is charged with having construc-
ted Tense across public highway.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
Marriage Licenses.

Harry Smith, age 10.
PEARL Waldo, age II.
James Parker Ferrell, age 20.
Olga Amelia Neset, age 20.
Lester DeFrance, age IS.
Lucie Sorenson, age Is.
Peter N. Peterson, age q.
Minnie E. Bernsmier, age 20.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
Committees in Charge.

The central committee in Webster
City is composed of Murray McMur.
ray, county chairman; ]. A. Boeye.
treasurer; o. J. Henderson, Geo. c.
Tucker and H. L. Hampton. The
town committeeman outside this city
are:
Jewell-Carl P. Miller.
Williams-Ray T. Johnson.
Ellsworth-John E. Peterson.
Randall-M. L. Henderson.
Blairsburg-Jas. w. McNee.
Stanhope-H. E. Fardal.
Kamrar-A. H. Alexander.
Stratford-Edward Peterson.
Plan In Webster City.
The plans for raising this money
have not been completed. Commit
tees, however, will make a thorough
canvass of each town and the rural
routes running from the place. In
Webster City Mr.. McMurray plans to
ask a hundred individuals or firms
to head the subscription with $25
each. This will be necessary in order
to reach the quota of $4,000 in this
city. If this can be done, there will
remain $500 to be raised by smaller
personal subscriptions.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
I'll i T,faf Tranters,

= ~ al a. to to r O. .. .Mc.
Kee eWd north half NV and NV ne
and sw NV and M Sc NV 32-S8-25
and 81 Sc ne 31-SS-25.-$35, 100000.
A. E. Blocklund to Hilda Young ct
al-wd-sa Sc 27-87-26.-$1.00.
Eva Beaver and husb to l. G. Kem-
merer-wd-und 1-2S share lots 9, 10
and II, B. e." R. R. addition, w. C..
800.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
WILL Sell Bonds.

The E. w. Wagner grain Office in
this city has orders to sell liberty
bonds and Manager H. NJ. Sharpe will
handle them at the rate of twenty
cents per thousand dollars, twenty
cents being the minimum charge.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
MIX Depot Moved.

B. F. Hollingshead's milk depot has
been moved from the Wise bottling
works building to the former White
Front bakery location on Des Moines
street.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
Orderlies With Col. Hyatt.

A letter from Adolph Boeye, now at
Camp Cody, to his mother in this city,
states that all the orderlies who en-
ised in Webster City are now at
tached to Col. Hyatt's headquarters.
This pleased the boys very much for
in all the transferring that was done
among the men, they feared they
would be cast among strangers.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
Able to Return Home.

Mrs. T. F. Desmond, whose life was
despaired of for several days during
her intense suffering with rheuma-
tism and neuritis, but who has been
improving gradually during the past
week or so, was able to return home
from Mercy hospital Saturday.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
Chairman Murray McMurray An.
nOunces Allotment Of Each Town
in County in Campaign for
$4,000 for Army Y. N. C. A.
CoMMHTEEMEN IN THE TOWNS
AppOrtionment in Each Town In.
cludes Rural Routes Running
Out of the Town.

Murray McMurray, county chair
man of the organization that will
raise $4,000 In Hamilton county for
the army Y. M. C. A., has announced
the apportionment by towns, The
money to bsstaisxSA Il this eeSIty II
a part Of a. nationwide i16d q ys5:-
100000. all 81 which Is 70 be raised
in a weeks campaign Nov. l1-1S.
Secretary Biglow of the Camp
Dodge Y. NJ. c. A. will speak at a
luncheon in Webster City Tuesday
and in the evening will speak in Jew
ell. The luncheon here will be held
at the Elks club at 1880 O'Clock.
There will be no solicitation of funds
at this meeting, but Mr.. Biglow will
explain the need for raising $4,000 in
Hamilton county and will outline
plan of campaign.
What Towns Have to Raise.
The apportionment within the coun-
ty has been made by towns. The al
lotment given each town, however,
includes all the town and the rural
mail routes out of the town. The ap-
portionment thus made is as follows:
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05

Continued on page p 1erd
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-05
Need Strict Training.

Such exercises would be worth
while as plan affording physical
culture for all and would not simply
provide training for the physically
"well-fitted" as is now the custom,
The Tupelo journal., 1917-08-03

The only thing to do with the Town Knocker" sto kick him out. Tolerate him
for a minute, and he spreads like N epidemic all over the community. He is the
original Calamity Howler" and "Bmd-ofULOmen" He is never SO happy as when
he can persuade other people to think the same way as he does. If allowed to "gt
the floor" he viii knock the pins from mder. the best proposition on earth. He is
against every form Of Improvement and if he converts enough people to his way OF
THINKING, the town will com to a dead stop. After having killed everything, he go-
rs in the fact that nothing can be done for the town. tt doomed. The only thing
to do with the "Town Knocker' is to head him for the cemetery. His habit Of
knocking is SO Infectious that it has been known to spread among ONE Of the best
people, Kick the lnocker out
The Tupelo journal., 1917-08-03
THE T'0CGERY

ON MAIN STREET NOW
Everything for men. Furnish
ings, Clothing, shoes and hats.
Suits made to measure, $40
and up.
Mail Orders given careful at
tention. Postage paid.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-13
LANDS

FOR RENT-Good 4SO acre improved
farm, with good buildings located
two miles from good town on main
line r: r. Will make an attractive
proposition to right party. Farm is
ideal for stock raising and small
grain. Write A. L. Jones, Bismarck,
n. D. ~. 8 13 lot
FOR RENT-Good ESQ acre improved
farm, partly broken, with good build
ings and plenty of water. located
six miles from good town on Pin
Il gree.WiltOn branch on N. p This
farm';tsi ideal for stock raising as
. there is plenty of pasture land near
by which can be rented il desired
j. Write A. E. Jones, Bismarck, N. D.
FOR RENT-Cood $50 acre improved
farm. Exceptionally good buildings,
house built this year, one half in
cultivation, good water supply To-,
Gated near town 5000 population,
This farm is ideal for stock raising
with plenty of pasture land nearby
that can be rented If desired. Write
A. e. Jones', Bismarck, N. D. 4
e. 10 lot
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-13
GUIDES FOR IT'S SOLDIERS
Great Britain Carefully Provides fo'
the Men Home on Leave =.
From the Front. @Es

London.-Soldiers on leave from the
front in the early days Of the war had
the greatest difficulty in finding their
way about, London and across it to
main line centers leading to their pro.
viEcial homes, but this has all been
altered, and what was once chaos at
Victoria station now works like any
part Of the military machine.
This has been made possible by the
help Of the volunteers of the National
Guard and by members of the Won.
ans Reserve Ambulance company, who
take charge Of the men on arrival,
change their French money into Eng.
lish, grant them loans and personally
conduct them to the various statioas
they may require to travel from. The
same thing is done when leave, is up.
The soldier, used to discipline, likes
being handed on from one to another
rather than being left in strange
place to his own devices. ~
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-13
SCULPTOR 10 Do HIS BIT
Will Turn Talents From Modelling In
Clay to Remaking Faces Of the
Wounded.

Cleveland, O.-AIux Kalish, Cleve.
land sculptor, is going to do his bit
AND it's Il strange bit, too. Kalish is
turning his talents from creating faces
in clay to ren!aking those of human
beings. Kalisll is one of a small army
of American sculptors who are going
to the battle front to help battle
Scared veterans. They propose to re-
make the mangled features Of the SOL
diers injured in battle.
They call these fellows plastic
scnlpters. They replace the missing
parts of the face with copper or
papier mache and then graft skin over
1t. Little is known of the science in
America and the sculptors are going
to France shortly to learn the fine
points of the. art.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-13
"''EAT ALL you CAN'T CAM
New Slogan Of the Federal Depart.
ment Of Agriculture An.
nounced.

Washington.-"Eat all you can't
can" is the new slogan of the depart
ment of agriculture in its campaign
for conservation Of perishable fruits
and vegetables. Heretofore, it has
been 'Acan all you can" but now with
big output of fruits and vegetables
the department IS pointing out that
the housewives might well vary her
menus by devising dishes composed in
large part of these products which
will not keep.
"While 1t is imperative that as
much food as possible should be put
up In tins or glass Jars, or else dried
and properly stored" says a depart
mert statement, ut is nevertheless
well to bear in mind that by varying
the diet much food which would 9th
erwise be lost can be made to sustain
life" -