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The Home news., 1917-08-31

Mrs. T. T. McFall of Newark is the guest of Miss Pauline Me- Fall.
 Maj. c. W. McCrory is home from three weeks stay in Hot Springs.
 Mrs. A. N. Middleton arrived Wednesday from Little Rock and is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Kate Angus.
 Miss Elizabeth Johnson return ed Tuesday from Cotton Plant where she visited her sister, Mrs. Frank Angelo.
 County Judge A. L. Hutchins was here couple of days this week looking after the roads in this part of the county.
 Col. I. T. Andrews, one of Cotton Plants oldest and best citizens, was the guest of old time friends here this week.
 Mesdames Kate Angus and family and Lou McFall left to- day, Friday, for Keevil, where they will be guests of Mrs. w. N. Wilkes.
The Home news., 1917-08-31
CONNECTS ODD NIckNAMEs.

Every inmate of the federal peni- tentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., has a nickname. The following are some of the nicknames of the men "in," ," which are taken from recent issues of the New Era, the penitentiary paper:
 Snipes, Mule, Skinner, Pawnee, Dummy, Ducky, Wop, HoonI onbul, Indian Dan, Brownskin, Human Spider, Honolulu, Midnight, Old Bill, Red, Slim, Fatty, Silas, Nose, Oleo, Oats, Home Town, Booster, Toots, Doc, Blink, Horseshoer, Grip, Soldier, Headney, Chick, Happy, Crab, Lake, Tony, Old Folks, May be and Bots.
The Home news., 1917-08-31
Road District Is Formed

The County Court with Judge A. L. Hutchins presiding today issued an order which made the proposed road district, formed to build a rock road from Fakes to Fair Oaks, a reality.
 Judge Hutchins also appointed commissioners, whom he had al- ready left up to the people to select, as follows: Messrs Fetch CT Lewis, J. H. Crossett and T. A. Jeffries.
 About 285 of the $50 property owners in the district signed the petitions asking for the district to be created which was a big majority in number. The peti- tions also contained a nice ma jority in acreage and lacked only very small amount of having a majority in valuation. Either of the three was sufficient.
 MT. M. H. Patterson of Jelks was present and filed a petition against the road district being formed which was over-ruled by
 
 the Court. He stated that the matter will be appealed but the only thing MT. Patterson can do, if that, is to delay the matter. He can not possibly, it is thought, prevent the road being built and the people are unani- nous in desiring to see construc- tion of same begin as soon as possible.
 The commissioners selected are some of the best farmers and business men in7the county; they are each capabable and enjoy the respect and full confidence of our people and we are sure will turn the wheels of progress as swiftly as possible so far as the building of this permanent highway is concerned.
The Home news., 1917-08-31
GENERAL DIRECTORY
COUNTY OFFICIALS

J. M. Jackson, Helena. .Circri+
 F. R. Andrews, Helena 'uuge R'M.Hutchins, Augusta Dep. Pros t.y Att E.D.Robertson. .Wynne. .Chancer1, ]At'y' Sam Vann, Vanndale. O"uee
 State Senator, Seventh Distr,o. Ross Mathis, Cotton Plant '''ct
 '''''.''..'. ...'...... Representa-, A. !. Hutchins. Augusta County Tndas ss Alex McGregor, Augusta. shoass l.. w. Winfree Augusta. .Circui+ c,.., Walter Jimerson, Augusta. .Co rlas' E,esk Roy Mitchell, Augusta. .Trea o,n.A Edgar Miller. McCrory. AssoaaeI Alex Bellis, Augusta. srrvo,'O T. W. Woodbury, McCrory. .Examina, c. c. Hunnicutt. Cotton Plant
 h., D o 'i..:......D Deputy Examiner Dr IT, Q' Patterson' Augusta. Coroner pr. R. N. Smith, Augusta Health oa3oo.
The Home news., 1917-08-31
McCrory High School Will
 Open Monday, Sept. 10th,


 In compliance with the recent law passed by the Legislature, all children will be required to present to the principal of the school a certificate of vaccination against small pox before they can enter this school.
 By order of the Board of Di. rectors of the McCrory Special School District.
 FLETCHER LEWIS, Pres.
 GROVER MCCRoRY, Sec.
The Home news., 1917-08-31

Esq. L. B. Winfree has re- turned from a vacation spent in Heber Springs.
The Home news., 1917-08-31
EXPLAIN ED.

"How do you suppose that dog came to bite me?"
 q suppose he thought you were a bonehead."
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14
EMERGENCY FOOD
AGENT FOR COUNTIES

Ames, Iowa, Aug. 13.-An emer-
gency food agent for every county
in Iowa not already organized for a
county agent is the opportunity that
the passage of the food bill opens up
for Iowa, according to J; w. Cover
dale, state leader of county agents
with the agricultural extension de-
partment at Iowa State college. Mr..
Coverdale explains just what the bill
means in the way of providing such
food agents, what counties will get
them, and how.
"These special food agents will
assist in the development of COM
munity and county organization for
the purpose of stimulating produce
tion and conservation of food prod
ucts," he explains, "and to aid in
problems of marketing and distri-
button. Additional farm labor bu-
reaus and exchanges will be estab-
lished."
District home economic agents
will also be provided. Mr.. Cover
dale will be state leader of the food
agents, and Miss Neale S. Knowles
of the agricultural extension depart
ment, of the home economics agents.
Before the appropriation becomes
available in any county or before a
food agent will be provided" ex-
plains Mr.. Coverdale, "an organiza-
tion Of at least 200 farmers, land
owners and business residents must
be formed, known as the war emer-
gency farm bureau association. The
affairs of the association, including
the selection of the food agents, will
be under the supervision of board
of directors elected by its members.
This board will act in cooperation
with the agricultural extension de-
partment at Iowa State college and
the United States department of ag7
riculture.
with an agricultural organiza-
ton in each county and food agent
with farm experience and special
training, the service of the extern
sion department can be made more
effective and the benefits from the
government more readily available"
The government will pay the sal
airy of the food agents and each asso-
citation will take care of the local
expenses. Such funds will be pro-
vided through membership fees, SUBJ
scriptions and county appropria-
lions.
''This is purely a voluntary move
ment," points out Mr.. Coverdale,
land the emergency food agents will
be placed in only such counties aa
form the necessary organization.
Assistance will then be furnished by
the agricultural extension depart
ment which is cooperating with all
organizations working in the cause
of national defense and food produce
tion.'
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14
Harpoons "Cady."

Jewell Record: There seems to
be doubt in some timid breasts as
to the acceptance of Dean Marston
as chief of engineers because he is a
few years over age. Why should
there be? He comes from Ames.
The above is from the Webster
City Herald, Senator Cady Chase's
paper. On the face Of it, this squib
may look harmless, but to one in any
respect familiar with Chase's per-
|sistent attitude in regard to the col
|lege at Ames, it is merely one more
and an uncalled for slur at the Ames
college. In his official capacity as
state senator, Cady has well estab-
lished reputation for never permit
ting an opportunity to be lost to do
some hurtful act to Ames college. He
consistently opposes the college at
every turn and never passes up q
chance to do or say anything that
might even in the least degree Grip
pie the school. 1t appears to be an
obsession with him. No college
freshman, imbued with the wrong
kind of college spirit, ever hated a
rival college as Cady appears to hate
the college at Ames-to judge him
from his official actions, which GER
tainly is fair way to Judge. Every
friend of the college at Ames ought
to refuse, once and for all, ever to
vote again for Cady Chase for any
public office in which he may have
any chance to do injury to the col
lege.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14
ANNUL THE PATENTS.

The injustice of United States pat
ent laws in drugs and chemicals is
more apparent in time of war than
in time of peace, points out Dean
W.. J. Teeters, head OF the State
University college of pharmacy.
There are actual provision in the
laws on this subject which are act
ing to the benefit of Germany and
to the detriment of this country, he
asserts.
AS an example of this injustice he
points out the fact that it was pos
sible for a German, before the war,
to receive from this country pat
ent ON the product itself as well as
on the processes in the manufacture,
while the most that an American
could do was to get patent protec-
ton on the processes alone. Be-
cause of the great patent privileges
the Germans, America paid
As cents an ounce for aspirin while
who refused to grant them
any special privileges bought as
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14
Williams Young Lady to Wed.

Des Moines Register: Mr.. and
Mrs. e. /. johnson of Williams an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Ethel, to We're v. Lopez,
son of Adjt. and Mrs. J. C. Lopez Of
Marshalltown, formerly of this city.
Both Miss Johnson and Mr.. Lopez
were graduated with the class of
1915 from Grinnell college, where
both were prominent in the school
activities. Miss Johnson is an ac-
complished pianist, and since her
graduation has been teaching music
in Williams and vicinity. Mr.. Lopez
took postgraduate work in Yale and
is at present at the officers training
camp in the artillery division at TT.
Smelling. The wedding will take
place soon and the young couple
will make their home in Des Moines,
where Mr.. Lopez will be assigned to
duty.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14
SAME OLD CHESTNUT.

One hundred barrels of 50-year-
old whiskey may be the reward OF
E. E. Wenner, county surveyor OF
Union county, S. D., through the sal
vaging of the partly buried steamer
Leodora, which was sunk in the Mis-
souri, river. in the early seventies.
The Leodora was used for traffic
on the "Big Muddy" when railroads
were scarce in the middle west. On
her last trip the ship caught fire
and was abandoned by the crew. The
ship was stranded on the Nebraska
side of the river, about twenty miles
north of Sioux City, but since then
the river has changed its sandy
course and now the hull is partly
buried on the South Dakota side.
When the vessel went down its en-
tire cargo consisted of 200 barrels
of whiskey. Half of it was recov-
cred some time afterward.-Sioux
City Dispatch.
This is the same old chestnut that
is distributed broadcast over the
country every few years. This cargo
of whiskey has been rescued and
sold to the thirsty public about
'steen times in the past forty years.
The fellows who buy whiskey pur-
porting to have been buried in the
sand and water for fifty years think
they are getting something fine,
when in fact they may be getting
stuff only few months old perhaps
made by moonshiner at that. Au-
thorities tell us that whiskey does
not "age" when confined in air-tight
containers, and whiskey buried in
water and sand would certainly be
sealed up about as tightly as could
be. Hence this "fifty-year-old bour-
bon" is not a day older than it was
when buried, considered from the
viewpoint Of "age" as applied to
liquor.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14
The Bells Not Safe.

Manson Democrat: Up in Mime
apolis the junk thieves are stealing
church and school bells and getting
away with them. A 900-pound bell
that has hung in the Glyndon school
building for forty years, was stolen
recently. 1t would have brought
$3.50 for junk and that is quite like
ly where it has gone. Several school
and church bells have mysteriously
disappeared lately from that section
of the Gopher state.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14
THE WARS END.

J. F. Glover in Sioux City Jour.
nal: There are some reasons VIII!
the war will be over in year from
this fall. In war it is not SO much
the place where blows are inflicted
as it is which side inflicts the
weightier blows. More veterans OF
Germany have fallen at Verdun than
veterans Of France. More soldiers OF
Austria have fallen near the port
city of Trieste than have fallen in
the Italian army. One of the heav-
lest blows of the war is being now
inflicted by the United States
against Germany by limiting of ex-
portations of provisions to the neu-
trail nations contiguous to Germany.
During all the war, the efficiency
of Great Britain and France in the
employment of artillery has been
up to the efficiency OF
Germany. In the one real conflict
between battleship fleets, Germany
left the theater of war in possession
of England. At the opening of the
war England had less than a mil
lion soldiers; now France and Eng
land, together, have as many veter-
ans as Germany had when she be-
gan the war.
The tremendous power of the Unit
ed States in bombing military and
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14
ophy, deep; moral philosophy, grave;
logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Bacon.
THAT FRENCH PLOT.

Charles City Press: The German
government has once more found the
true justification for it's war of
self-defense.'' Chancellor Michaelis
announced the other day, with i'm
pressive formality, that a French
plot had been discovered, looking to
the seizure of German lands beyond
the Rhine. 1t is French "greed of
conquest" that righteous Prussian-
ism is combating.
1t is hard to keep from smiling at
this naive accusation. A German
government, with it's hands red with
blood and it's paunch gorged with
criminal conquest, venturing so to
indict nation against whom it has
launched an unproyoked attack, is a
spectacle for gods and men. Moth
ling is said, of course, concerning
Prussia's plots for the conquest OF
France, Belgium, Serbia, Poland and
|other needs for its imperial pro-
gram of world domination. Nothing
is said of the fact that every step
in the evolution of Prussian power,
from brutal seizure of Schleswig-
Holstein, through the attack on Aus
tria and the rape of Alsace-Lorraine,
up to the present expansion of Ger
man dominion, has been wrought by
deliberate, violent robbery of unof-
Tending neighbors.
The Prussian statesmen, of course
prefer that the world would forget
all that. They may also imagine
that the world is so short-memoried
as to forget the previous excuses
they have given for this war. Any
body who thinks back through the
past three years will recall that
Germany, according to Berlin ex-
plantations, was fighting at first to
defend herself from the great Slav
peril-a Russia aiming to crush civ
lilization. A little later Germany
was represented as fighting for her
|"place in the sum-" to break through
a barrier of foreign repression. Then
she discovered that she was fighting
for freedom of the seas" to save
the world from British tyranny
Now she is fighting because France
weak France-whom she thought
to crush so easily---has plotted her
Acknowledgement.
What will it be next? No doubt
it's our turn. Soon we may learn
that Germany has been fighting
from the first to protect her people
and possessions from the violent ag-
gression of a United States of Amer
lea seeking to dominate Europe.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14
The Iowa Way.
Many

Burlington Hawk-Eye: Many
people in other sections of the coun-
try do not seem to have fathomed
the Iowa way. They look over our
fence and they note everybody quiet
ly and busily at work. They do not
see Iowans tearing their hair and
splitting their threats with all sorts
of yells and cutting all sorts of fan
tastic capers, and they arrive at the
conclusion that Iowa is not awak-
ened. Because they have come to
the conclusion that patriotism con-
sists mainly of speeches and parades
and cheering the red fire.
Perhaps some of these people
never heard of the First Iowa regi-
ment back in the early days of the
civil war. They were fellows who
made little noise. They were the
first troops from Iowa to respond to
President Lincoln's call for $4,000
volunteers to serve ninety days and
went into a battle at Wilson Creek
in Missouri, after their time of en-
listment had expired. Not a man of
them refused, and they proved mag
nificent soldiers. That is the Iowa
way.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14

naval Germany by multiplied thou
sands of battle planes will soon be in
startling evidence. The giant fleet
|of United States war merchant ma
rine, carrying provisions, munitions
and military forces, will soon be in
evidence. In year from next
Christmas we shall all be singing,
when Sammy Comes Marching
Home"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14
WE ARE LIKE RUSSIA.

The fusing of the blood of the Fort
Dodge Chronicle with that of the
Fort Dodge Messenger has certainly
had a most desirable effect. For
years the old Messenger was a blank
in the discussion of public questions
that demanded the taking of sides
and required the exhibition of lit
tie independence and courage. Now,
however, the Messenger and Chron-
icle is standing right up to the rack
and yisn talking real United States
stuff, regardless Of offense that
might be given to pro-Germans at
home. This is what the Freeman
Tribune likes, and it wants to see
all the loyal papers of the country
take a stand that offers absolutely
no satisfaction to any German alien
or disloyal German-American in this
country. There are only a few of
them, anyhow, but they are power
full and resourceful, and the time is
=,
here when the government must deal
with them in accordance with the
needs of the hour. just listen to
the Messenger and Chronicles:
"Russia's greatest danger is Ger
man intrigue. This is the message
Of the American commission which
has just returned from visit to the
new republic.
Germany has spent $4S,000, 900
in Russia since the overthrow of
the car. The money has been spent
largely in peace propaganda and in
promoting strikes and internal dis
orders of every sort. If Russia can
stop this work the country is saved.
'The United States is in a position
somewhat similar to Russia. Our
greatest danger today is German in
trigue. And, like Russia, our coun-
try can be saved only by success
full war against those who seek to
destroy us from within our borders.
ct is not enough that we raise
big armies to fight the Germans on
foreign soil. There are German ar
mics on our own land, organized to
the greatest degree of German eff
cheney. that must be met and con-
quered.
in the German American press,
openly waging campaign against
Americas interests, we find one of
these internal German armies. Pub
lished largely in the German Ian
guage, although some are in Eng
lish, these papers are daily conduct
ing enemy propaganda. They are
opposed to practically every meas
ure proposed to crush Germany.
Suppression of our o-German press
is an immediate necessity.
Besides the German press we
have a great and powerful army of
German agitators who are respon-
sible for most of our labor troubles
and peace agitation. So far the gov
eminent has been lenient, and as
a result these German agitators are
becoming more brazen. Nothing
but stern measures will evel put a
stop to this menace.
1--WE must act against the enemy
in Europe, but let us not forget we
have an enemy at home that has
got to be conquered before the fu-
ture of our country is secure"
Reading maketh full man; con-
ference, a steady man; histories
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14
perrin for 10 cents an ounce.

A clever trick of strategy, says
Dean Teeters, was that of Germany
of transferring German patent rights
in America to pro-German citizens OF
the United States when war was be-
coming imminent. England and
France both annulled German pat
ents in their territory with the out
break of the war, but with patent
rights in the hands of German sup
porters in America, Germany is in
"a position to dictate effectively, &C
cording to the university pharma-
|ciSt.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14

According to advices from Am
sterdam, 5000 German miners at
tended recent mass meeting at
Essen and adopted resolutions de-
manding pease based upon demo-
cratic reforms and humanity. Essen
is the center of war activities and
war sentiment, and the fact that
workingmen in that section dare
take such action is significant.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14

The administration Ought to come
to the protection of coal consumers
before the consumers get in their
winters supply. 1t is time to curb
the thieves who are selling coal, as
we'll as all other thieves who are TAX
ing advantage of the situation to
rob the consuming public. Present
laws are ample and the President
ought to see that they are enforced.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14

A fine farm of 100 acres near
here. The land lies perfectly, is
well drained and well improved,
fenced and cross fenced. Will take
a good residence property in Web
ster City as part payment. Price
per acre 5000. A. F. Schrader. diff
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14

r. A. O'Connor, United States at
torney for the northern district OF
Iowa, has issued a warning to all
disloyal citizens that the time IS
here for the government to act.
Among other things he quotes the
law as follows: whoever, owing
allegiance to the United States, lev
les war against them, or adheres to
their enemies, giving them aid and
comfort within the United States or
elsewhere, is guilty Of treason" Mr..
O'Connor says this law is going to
be enforced. Well, that's good, but
why in the name of the old flag, the
government of the United States, the
memory of George Washington and
Abraham Lincoln, doesn't he do
something besides talking to en-
force it? A firm hand is now need
ed to put stop to the German prop
uganda which is gaining strength
daily because of the apparent lack
of courage on the part Of the United
States government to crush treason
with a strong and relentless hand.
The wealthy traitor who is running
a big newspaper and breathing forth
seditious utterances every day is the
one who should first come under the
ban of the law. He has taken an
oath of allegiance to this govern
ment and it is up to him to make
that oath good or suffer the conse-
quences. Freedom of the press does
not mean license to breathe forth
poison during war, neither does it
mean freedom to aid Germany in this
great conflict at the expense OF the
United States These German sym
pathizers should be given a dose of
their own medicine. They like the
German way OF doing things or they
wouldn't be UNFOLDING Germany in
this war. Germany would not toll
crate for a moment naturalized citi-
.zens in that country spreading sedi-
ton and giving material aid to it's
enemies. Let an American in Ger
many get out upon the streets of
any city and damn the kaiser, curse
the German government, defend
America and make fun of linden
burg, and he would be up before the
shooting squad at sunrise the next
morning. And no right thinking
man would blame the German gov
eminent for taking such action.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14

Make the alien enemies living
here fight in the ranks of the United
States army ior get out of the coun-
try. zs's tsF
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-08-14

$50 long as he continues on the firing
line and in the retreats near BY
The soldiers have gone to the front
to give their lives, if necessary; the
least those who remain behind can
do is to give them what they ask, if
the request is in reason"