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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-09

The land shark, as usual, is
abroad in Iowa. This state seems to
furnish favorable field for the op-
Grafton of real estate swindlers who
represent that they have great bar
gains in Oklahoma, Texas, California
or elsewhere. Such fellows are u.s.
ually men of fine address and pleas
ing personality, and are successful
in winning the confidence of VIC
Tins. They offer land at astonish-
ingly low prices and trump up some
good sounding argument to explain
Why they are selling an acre for
50 or 81 that is really worth SIS
or $40. They usually work among
clerks, school teachers and others
having limited incomes and little ex-
perfence in the land-buying game.
There are millions OF acres of land
In Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Cal
ifornia, northern Minnesota, north
ern Wisconsin and other places that
are almost worthless. 1t is high at
50 or SO per acre. The writer was
In San Antonio. Texas, a few years
ago, and somehow the real estate
men there, or some of them, heard
he was from Iowa They all think
a man from Iowa must have a lot of
money, and Of course they want to
put a wedge between him and his
wealth as soon as possible. Many
solicitations to buy land were re-
ceived. One that appeareJ very at
tractive was a large tract of thou
sands of acres in Mexico at 2S cents |
per acre. That looked cheap but |
there are millions of acres in Mex. |
leo that are absolutely worthless And
the owner would never reap any
hing from them except trouble ard
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-09

city of Webster City, and that the
county auditor publish a notice for
hearing on the question of said ex-
tension, said hearing to be held Oc-
tober 3, 1917, at l o'clock p. M, in
court house at Webster City, Iowa.
Resolution adopted, all members
voting AYE"
Minutes Of Sept. 10, 13 and Ia
were read and approved.
On motion the board adjourned to
meet Sept %, 1917.
G. ]. Knickerbocker,
Chairman B. of S.
A, j. Peterson,
Co. Aud & elk. of B. of s.
FOR SALE-Barler oil stove in good
condition. Henry Ingertson at the
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-09
PROCEEDINGS OF
THE SUPERVISORS

Stigge, II C, farm work co
farm 1900
Stigge, Mrs Fl C, cook at co
farm 21.5
SPAIN e Rose Lbr Co, lbr
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-09

includes / mill county road fund,
1 mill county road drainage fund
on all property in county, and 2
mills county road building fund on
all property outside of incorporated
towns, making a total of 25.7 mills.
Williams township - General
school 1873 mills, road 3, road drag
l, road drain 5.
Blairsburg-gen. school 10, GEM
etery 5, road 5, road drag /, road
drain rs.
Cass-Gen. school, 1873, Gem. l.,
road A, road drag 1, road drain 2.
Fremont-Gen. school 11.3, road
4, road drag 1, road drain 5.
Freedom-Gen. school 11.2, road
4, road drag 1, road drain 8.
Independence-Road 4, road drag
/, road drain 4.
Liberty-Gen. school rs, school
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-09

expense. The best thing for Iowa
people to do who want to invest in
land is to invest in Iowa. Let a
number of them join in a purchase,
if that is necessary to raise the
money. Iowa land that can be
bought today at from $50 to 5000
will double in value in the next ten
or fifteen years, while the cheap
stuff in Texas, Colorado, California
and other states will never be worth
any more than it is now, for the
good and sufficient reason that it is
productive. If you are bound to
make investments outside this state,
eastern Nebraska, southeastern
South Dakota and southern Minneso-
ia furnish the best fields. All of
these regions border on Iowa and in
some instances the land is just as
good as in this state.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30
GERMANY WON'T REcEDE.

= HANCELLOR Won BETENANN-HOLLWEG
~ declared in the Reichstag yesterday that Germany
had undertaken unrestricted submarine warfare for
the defense Of the nation and that the American people
consider this for which to declare war we shall
not have to bear the burden Of responsibility for it.
This quite different reason from the one advanced
when Germany warned the world that she was going to
unleash the Uboats and turn pirate but for US on this side
of the Atlantic the most interesting aspect of this speech
rs that it cuts the ground clean from under the so-caed
paci6sts.
Germany leaves no opportunity for mediation or tenn
porting of any kind We must either get off the seas or
take the consequences That kind of talk is calculated
to make the blood of the calmest American bol-but it
will not make US declare What will do unless
all the signs wrong. 10 go hunting for the underseas
German navy with all the elaboration Of man going out
TO shoot maneains tiger and if Germany does not like
that kind Of treatment for her murdcrous crews she can
declare war
The unrestricted undcrscas warfare already is more
CHASTITY failure than the campaign for the capture Of Yer
dun. What official Germany means by talking as Eio-
veg did yesterday in the face of this failure is beyond all
finding Out in this country hat there is deep ex-
PLANTATION Of domestic politics is the only guess that seems
reasonable.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30
OVERWORKED MINISTER
TELLS HOW VINoL RESTORED
STRENGTH AND VITALITY.

FaIrmont people will realize that we
could not publish such letters as the
following II they were not genuine
and truthful statements of facts. The
Rev. Mr. Hughes, Holly Springs, Ark,
says
81 am Methodist minister. and SUI.
fered from broken.down nerves, loss
of appetite and sleeplessness. / was
weak, my circulation was very poor,
and was not able TO do my duty In
my parish as l felt should. ] had
tried various remedies, but did not
seem to get any better. Through Mr..
Gatlin, of Bearden, Ark. learned Of
Vinol, aud it built me up. l regained
my appetite. can sleep better and do
more work"
There is no secret about Vinol, 1t de.
rlves its power to build up the over.
worked. brokendown, nervous system
from beef and cod liver peptones, iron
and manganese peptonates. and giyc-
erophosphates, etc, which It contains.
Any one in Fairmont who wishes to
try Vinol can do SO with the under
standing that we will return their
money If they are not satisfied.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30
NOT A PARTICLE
OF DANDRUFF OR
A'FALLING HAIR
SAVE YOUR HAIR DOUBLE ITS
BEAUTY IN JUST A FEW
MOMENTS.
z5-cENT "pANpERINE" MAKES
HAIR THICK, GLOSSY, WAvY
AND BEAUTIFUL.

Within ten minutes after an appli.
cation OF Danderine you can not find a
single trace OF dandruff or falling hair
and your scalp will not itch, but what
will please you most will be after q few
weeks use, when you sec new hair,
fine and downy at first-yes-but real.
ly new hair - growing all over the
scalp.
Danderine is to the hair what fresh
showers Of rain and sunshine are to
vegetation. 1t goes right to the roots,
invigorates and strengthens them. Its
celebrating, stimulating and life.pro-
ductng properties cause the hair to
grow long, strong and beautiful.
A little Danderine Immediately dou-
bles the beauty of your hair No diff
ference how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy, just moisten cloth with Dan.
derine and carefully draw It through
your hair, taking one small strand at
time. The effect is amazing-you
hair will be light, fluffy and wavy, and
have an appearance of abundance; an
incompatible lustre, softness and lux
uriance.
Get 25-cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine from any drug store or toll.
ct counter, and prove that your hair is
as pretty and soft as any-that II has
been neglected or injured by careless
treatment-that's ali--you surely can
have beautiful hair and lots OF 1t II
you will just try little Danderine.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30
FOOD PRICES.

r HE Faimont merchant who closed his mea, DEPART
mst because he believes prices are so high that peo
= pie should foreso meat doubtless meant we'll but he
VIII soon be out of job if he permits this line Of reason
with beans. most canned goods cheese, dried fruits aor
and potatoes meat has increased but moderately in price
In one short year the increase in some of the commodities
enumerated has been almost 100 per cent and the ind.
cations are that the price tendency will be constantly up
ward for some time W
This the richest country in the world TIL. v.ul. 81
our banks are literally stuffed with money Yellow SoJ
and gilt edged securities. New York and Chicago and
TIE resort towns throughout the country are running over
with men and women who have so much more money than
they know what to do with that they actually are throwing
II away Yet if the crops in this country are as poor this
yearss they were last year there will be an untold amount
Of sqferns and maybe some dangerous outbreaks in II.
big cites before this time next year So much for mere
wealth and the kind of civilization we enjoy
The only way in which you, MIR. Reader of These
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30
RUFF STUFF
az RED
az RED

.Rsd Gross bandages soaked with
Wei. the Germans will soon realize
what this has done for them in this
country.
Salute the flag, and unless you know
WHERE you're going, keep of the rail.
roBd bridges.
9seszse No heard one soldier say
last evening:
.'The first guy that looks Dutch at
me when I'm guarding a bridge viii 20
hight 70 Aesyen."
% so coal rates, then gas rates
then everything else and soon the
price % stun Will be twice as high.
WnY not call the camp at the Fair
eguunes Camp Clam Shayer?"
= eped way 70 be sure all the spies
eFa pliled is 70 issue instructions that
s'y % shot on the spot
Srt nax Xasther Shrewsbury
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30
WASHINGTON NEWS =
" GOSSIP q szzszs. ssgss. .a55.!:
lay coNpol

Ho1d-over Democrats of the House
Ways and Means committee have be-
gun daily meetings. getting ready to
devise some new and additional meth.
DDS Of taxation. Ever since this vari.
able administration came into power,
inventing more and new tax methods
has been its speciality. Double taxa
ton! Shush! That's nothing to the
kitchin revenue.raisers. They have
multiplied that to a quadruple with
ease. Fact is, there's about seven
different kinds of taxation for SONS
firms and individuals to pay. The
last Congress pulled up the income
taxes a peg, raised rates on in herit-
ances, and gave to the country that
masterpiece Of all tax novelties, the
excess profits tax. With persistent
partisan blindness the Kitchiners re-
fuse to see any merit in collecting
large revenues at the customs houses
and letting in the foreign shippers
for their share. This would be PRO
lection" and protection for the home
markets is a sensible, tried out and
successful principle to which they are
ure of preparedness for the worldwide
tariff readjustments after the war, they
are just as much opposed to getting
the coin with which to run big part
of the governmental machinery at the
customs houses. 1t is not. however,
that deep down in their partisan hearts
they do not believe that the principle
is a good thing, but they got started
opposing it so many years ago 1t has
become fetish with them. They pre-.
fer to remain consistently wrong be.
cause they are ashamed to confess
that they have been wrong all these
years. So they go on piling up direct
taxes on the people, blaming it on the
war, but none of that money has gone
for war or preparations for war yet.
That expense will be met with bond
sales. There has been no letup on
cHtravangance. economy hasn't been
practiced anywhere in the government
service; 100000 new jobs have been
created in three years; and the poor
old public-long.sufferi and patti
ent-is getting soaked with more and
higher direct taxes every time Con
gress meets. To do II again Is what
the ways and means committee is at
work planning now. Their next rev.
enue will provide for wholesale bond
issues. OF course, to meet war emer-
geneles. but there are needs outside
OF that which are going to be provided
for. Another novelty similar to the
excess profits tax, which will not hurt
that section OF the country south of
Mason.Dixon's line. NAV be confident.
ly expected to eyentuete.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30
Ask TAFr % NIX sPEEcA.

CHARLESTON. w va. March 90
Gov. John J. oornwell today extended
an invitation to William Howard TAFT
to address the citizens of Charleston
next Monday night on the occasion OF
patriotic demonstration showing ap-
prevail by the public for the Nations
course in connection with the war cri.
sis. No answer has been received
Heads Of the various civic and CON
mercisl organizations OF Charleston -
qpested thpt the invitation be sent,
The governor will be one OF seyorai.
speakers OF prominence at the meeiA
ing. He asks the former President 70
be his guest while here II he accepts.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30

Miller is a German spy or not, but he's
making plans Of the bridges.
This guy Hollweg is either bstty in
his belfry or they're telling an awful
lot of lies about him.
Things amt what they seem.
Patriotism only Is real when it at
fects the pocketbeok.
The real neutral who Is willing to
be martyr Is the duck who uses
French dressing on his imburger.
Or who mixes bis Pilsslsr with his
Liptous.
Hook the Kaiser;
And buy flags with the eush.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30

Lines can be that you, too are not gong to be
victim of conditions which double the pnee of staple food
produetsn year to start garden and work it so that
will grow such quantities of vegetables that there will be
plenty to put away for winter consumption after has kept
you all summer You get along without meat if you
have plenty Of vegetables but if you have no vegetables
of your own you will fund is cheaper go back the
habits Of the hardy pioneers who came INTO this region
when it was bowling wilderness and live on meat Beef
the hOof sold at Chicago year ago for $3.50.
Wednesday the price in the same market was So TO- mar
rOwfat beans year ago were $3.50 per hundred pounds
Last week the price for the same quantity and quality was
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30
MANUFACTURERS IGNORED.

1T is indeed remarkable that the new tariff commission
does not contain single member who can speak from
experience for the manufacturing interests of the coun-
Try MIR. Kent may be taken to represent the farming in
tees, perhaps, though he not farmer in the general
Mr. Lewis may be taken to represent labor or at
least that part of it which highly unonzed and inclined
to socialism The others represent professional and heo-
rehcal views economic subjecs-and there is no one
to represent that vast volume of capital and that emend
amount of enterprise which are wrapped up in The
industrial establishments Of the country
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30

but Il must be- said for him that ma
scrambled over with more haste than
sL9ce' when he found out that he was
eolng coulter TO the sentiment Of che
country Had such law been in OK.
lstence during his administration as
knie 8 above referred to, President
wilson, on the wrong side OF q number
o. national questions would probably
nave stayed on the wrong side, the
press being so manacled by cenSorious
laws as TO be helpless to criticise him
and set him right. The Fourth Is.
tate Is going to guard its freedom with
scrupulous care, and II Congress and
the administration 90 too far In the
way OF censorship. Congress and the
administration will likely hear some,
thing drop.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30
FACES PERJURY CHARGE

CHARLESTON. W. Va. March 30
Dow Dempsey is being held here
for q hearins before a United States
Commissioner for alleged perjury. He
Is charged with having falsely testi.
lied In United States District Court
in the election fraud case of Gren.
way Hatfield OF litngo county. last
feu. Dempsey Is from Omar, Logan
county,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30

Hrs. James Robert Mckee, of New
York. will come to Washington on
April Is to be the guest of Mrs.
Stephen B. Elkins, a number of en-.
tertainments have already been plan.
ned for Mrs. Mckee, whose visits here
are always the signal for a round OF
social gayeties among her wide cir.
Gle OF old friends, made not only dur.
ing the regime of her father. the late
General BENJAMIN Harrison in the
White House, but during her girlhood
when her father was in the Senate.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30
BRITISH IN THE HOLY LAND.

RITIsH at the gates of JerusaIeml What ratling
ID Of dry bones that will cause as the news spreads
throughout the Moslem world. And what tender
memories it will sur in chrstendom.
Few cities have much of warfare; few been so
buasisd by fate. Egyptians Jebusites Iraetes Baby.
lonians. I,reeks Maceabeans, Romans. Persians, Ma
hommedans, Crusaders under Godfrey of Bouilon and
his successors. and Turks. each in their turn have taken
and held it. some of them for centuries in stretch. 1t
has been RACED and rebuilt so many times that none but
specialist in its history could tell off hand Just how MANY
defended BY of the greatest military engineers of
history and conquered by of the greatest captains
Il was the capital of the Jewish nation when Solomon
was IN his greatest glory and the scene of the most nspir
ing episodes of the life of Christ Likewise some classic
instances Of bsscness took place within its walls
he remnant of the government set up as result of the
Srusades was driven out in 1877 and mosques have
asaked the Christian churches ever since Turks have
ruled over the city since 1917. -Four hundred years is
lens time even in the history of nation or city. It
y tune for change and the event will not be long delay
ed unless the God that Allah prays to is more of miracle
Sorker.than the one the English suppicate
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30
4 NOW CAN EAT
PIE, CAKE, ONIONS
AND CABBAGE"
Thankful Montana Mines
Nerv-Worth User So
Writes to Cranes Drug
Store.

Only those persons who have gone
through the happy experience record.
ed In the following signed statement
can fully realize the deep pleasures
OF the table. One must have suffered
severely from indigestion and then
found a way TO eat without distress e
he wants to know what the enjoyment
or his meals really means. Mrs. Par.
thena Keener, Of Montana Mines, THIS
county, found such enjoyment by the
use Of Nerv.Worth, as the foIIowins
letter, which she wrote a few DAYS
ago to Cranes drug store, fully proves:
Il have taken three bottles Of Nery.
Worth and 1t has helped me wonder.
fully.
u was SO nervous that / could not
stand the noise Of children playing.
u now can eat onions, cabbage,
cake and pie.
.,,c Z NOW CAN SLEEP NINE
tMrs) "PARTHENA KEENER,
Montana Mines, W. Va. |"
Your dollar back-at the ". r. Crane
& Cos. drug store, Fairmont, II Merry.
Worth does not benefit YOU. Ask a.
Cranes for the new Nerv.worth Laxa,
tive tablets. % cents a box. Wonder.
fully good for liver and bowels, espe.
cially in connastion with Nery!Worth
the tonic,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30

Lots of the little coal companies that are being organ
lied these days headed straight for disaster but
the Knob Coal company, which has taken the precau-
lions to provide for outlet by from its prop
erty in Monongala county probably will be earning
dividends when the rest are going the rocky
road to liquidation.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30

Speaking at ST. Paul yesterday. Miss Rankin. the
Congressman from Montana, said: Eastern men, if
they not careful will. the first thing they know,
be ruled by Western women instead of by their own
women" Not If the women of the East can help 1t.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30

It will be no news to the country
that a state of war with Germany ex.
lists when Congress passes resolu.
ton to that effect, but II will be a
matter of decided interest to the PEG.
pie of the country how that resolution
is worded. An out and out declaration
of war is not eXpected-not at this
time-uuless, in the meantime, an,
other American ship is torpedoed and
moro American men, women and chill.
dren are sent TO the bottom of the
ocean for an eternal sleep. For, upon
the wording of that resolution, the
country's judgment may be formed as
to whether this is to be a timid war or
the real thing. Whether the United
States is going into 1t with the de.
termination to be the factor that will
end 1t, or is going to play the role OF
the naymby.pamby. That is the issue,
It is now plainly developed here, which
Congress will begin next week shresh
out. There has sprung up an element
which, realizing that Germany has
forced this government to declare a
state of war existing, advocates a de.
fensive war" which, as best their po.
sition Is understood in Washington,
means doing nothing; and leaving Ger.
many to continue as she has been do.
ing. Germany would certainly find no
fault with that plan of campaign. op.
posing this element, there is war
party In Congress which favors war
and waging 1t with all the country's
resources OF men and money, sparing
no effort nor expenditure to bring
defeat to Germany in as, short time
as possible to do 1t, with the aid of
tina Atlas. This 10 the controversy
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30

Coal miners and glass workers. says dispatch from
Charleston, In demand in West Virginia. Some
Charleston journalist is just about two years behind
the procession 1t would be real news if some one
would tell the world how West Virginia could get the
skilled labor it needs.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30

Kentucky hen has laid SO eggs in So consecutive
days. In Germany right now this hen probably would
be given Iron Cross but the best this ungratefu
Republic do for her is to print story about her
on the front pages of the newspapers. Her name is
Lady Walnut aud she is q white Leghorn.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30

Yesterday Chancellor Won Bethmann- Hollweg said
for the benefit of the Russian democracy that
many would not raise finger to restore carbon But
of what good are such promises made on behalf
of government that regards treaties as scraps of
paper?
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-30

That jump of $40 per in the price of pipe for oil
lines ought to have the effect of cleaning visible
supply of the second hand article.