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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-21

The town Of Union Is one of the
strictly "all modern" little cities of
Iowa. With two good hotels, one
American plan and the other European
the traveller is accorded a CHEEKY well
come at which ever one he may choose
to stop. Union has a good city water
system and $4,000 feet of sewer mains
have been laid. 1t also has a small
sewage disposal plant. With an eye
to the future, the town has provided
itself with a school building that IS
up to- date in it's equipment. The town
also has developed a sustaining bust
ness ample to it's needs and meeting IN
good measure its ambitions on bust
ness lines. No traveller can visit the
little city without observing that pro-
gress- has been it's watchword. 1t has
a lovli bunch Of citizens who delight in
,xtolling the towns good points and
virtues and it is safe to presume that
it has not reached the summit of it's
ambitions. .l.. r, ..a
II, L, Anderson, of Union. recently pur-
chased a $500 home there with which
he is highly pleased. The place COM
prises six acres and is beautifully stu
ated on one of the most popular streets
of the town. Mr. Anderson is mem
Der of the school board and takes great
pride in his wrk in connection with
the schools. AS a retired farmer he
has much time to devote to public
service ~
b. Fitzgerald is one Of the real old
timers of Iowa He first passed thru
Marshalltown in 1865, when Marietta
was the county seat. When Marshall
town was laid out" he lived at New
Providence In those days Oskaloosa
was the nearest milling point, with the
possible exception of a corn cracker
on Wolf creek in Grundy county. AS
boy Mr.. Fitzgerald went to mill at
Oskaloosa, passing thru Mafshalltown
when there were but three dwelling
houses and. Wiltigrods dry goods
store and Clicks apothecary shop.
Fitzgerald cast his first vote for John
c. Fremont, and has voted for every
presidential candidate Of the republican
party since that year-1S56. He wants
to live to vote for Theodore Roosevelt
again. He joined the church at II and
at 81 he chose for wife the black
eyed girl who to this day. with him.
has climbed the hill of life and has
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-21
there is moro soft corn than any one
ut first thought there was.

~ hrst thought there was.
While It has been a long time ago. q
few remember that A. G.. Swain, pros
porous farmer and stock raiser living
between Written and Union, was once
clerk of courts of Hardin county and
also "a member of the lower house OF
the state legislature. He takes as much
interest in public aaffirs as In his
younger years. and he has vein OF
humor that appears inexhaustible. Mr..
Swain acknowledges that there was
some foundation for the rumor some
years ago that had the late Belva
Lockwood been elected president of the
United States on the woman Suffrage
ticket the treasury portfolio would
have been rendered the Hardin county
ex-legislator.
Mr.. Swain subscrlbes for many news
papcrs-and he reads them, too. And
woe to the mailing room employee OF
any one Of them who dares place the
stamp of his name on the reading mat
ter Of the first page. When that occurs
he takes his humorous and caustic pen
in hand and writes a letter telling
the aforesaid employee that he wants
his paper sent to him so every line on
page one may he read.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-21
Sparrows Numerous.

The house sparrow, or the avian
rat" as he has been termed, Is respon-
sible for one of the biggest leaks suf-
fered by this country. Numbering one
fifth Of the total bird population, 1t
requires an enormous amount Of good
seeds, fruits, buds and young vege-
tables to feed the sparrow tribe.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-21
Stomach Trouble ard Consultation

Those who are afflicted with stomach
trouble and constipation should read
the following: Il have never found
anything so good for stomach trouble
and constipation as Chamberlain's
Tablets. 1 have used them off and on
now for the past two years. They
not only regulate the action of the
bowels but stimulate the liver and keep
ones body in healthy condition."
writes Mrs. Benjamin Hooper, Auburn,
N. Y. For sale by all druggists.-Adv.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-21
Nishtshirt Parade at erinnelI.

Special to meS-RepubHcan.
Grinnell, Nov. 21.-Last night the
college Fresh went on their annual
nightshirt spree and invaded the,
movies Hike the Ku Klux Khan Of old
Every variation Of Morpheuistic
attire from the good old fashioned
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-21
Useful Blrds,

Ducks. geese and guineas are 40
good as a watchdog to give an alarm
OF approaching strangers. They are
more profitable, too, because the food
they consume Is converted into salable
products.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-21

The biggest packing trust evan
known has been formed under thu
sanction of the government and
Joseph P. Cotton, . lawyer of promi-
hence, has been appointed to control
it. All packing plants are licensed
by the government, and Mr.. Cotton
will be in charge Of the regulation al
tile great industry.
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Lecture to Buttermakers

+. w. Bouska, recognized among
creamery men as one of the nations
foremost authorities in the field of
buttermaking. will give daily talks to
the buttermakers who will assemble
at the M. A. c. from December IL to
% for a weeks special schooling. The
Bouska lectures. il has been announc-
ed by Prof. A. G. Anderson. will deal
with most important problems that
within the year have presented them
selves in the creamery industry.
Inasmuch as the weeks course win
be advanced in character, it will be
omen only to experienced buttermak-
ers, creamery men and creamery
managers. In a general way it will
be patterned after that conducted &
year ago. No fees will be asked of
those enrolling. An invitation is ex-
tended by the college and the state
dairy and pure food department to all
buttermakers to attend.
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WOMAN AND HOME
f0od--45e,O ,OOo, 600 pounds Of valuable

food-456, 600, 900 pounds of valuable
animal food year.
At average dressed weights, il
would take the gross weight of over
$4,000 steers, or over 100000 hogs
bones and ALTO provide this
weight of meat or fat for each gar
bage pail or kitchen sink. If the
bones and butchers waste are elimi-
mated, these figures would be in
creased to 1,150,000 cattle and $780,
900 hogs.
Or, again, if the waste were dis
tributed according to the per capita
consumption of the various meats
(excluding bones), it would use up a
combined herd of over $4,000 beef ami
mails, POI 900 calves, over 625,000
sheep and lambs, and over 2,132,000
hogs.
Millions of tons of feed and hay,
the grass from vast pastures and the
labor of armies of cattlemen and
butchers also would be scrapped by
this meat-waste route.
But--every household doesn't waste
an ounce of meat or fat every day :?
Very small-make it one out of a
hundred families, but keep in mind
that all meat allowed to spoil and all
meat and fat rendered inedible by i'm
proper cooking, scorching or burning,
must be counted as waste. Make it
an ounce every other day or one a
month. Such waste still would be un-
endurable, when meat is scarce and
when fat is of such vital Importance
to many nations.
Waste of meat or fat is inexcusable.
Every bit of lean meat can be used in
soups, stews, or in combination with
cereals; every spoonful of fat can be
employed in cookery; every bit Of
drippings and gravy can be served so
easily and used to add flavor and
nourishment to other dishes.
The United States department of
agriculture, Washington, ID. c., or
your state agricultural college will
tell you how to use bits of meat to
make appetizing and nutritious dishes
and how to use leftover fat in cook
cry.
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The Care Of Young Children

Much of a child's earliest education.
often tse most valuable and most en-
during part, is that which is uncon-
sciously acquired at hume, net by pre-
cept but by imitation. From the ear
liest beginnings Of learning the child
is copying the sights and Sounds
about him.
Thus he learns to speak his first
vcrds. and from this time until he be-
gins his formal education in school.
and indeed through his entire child
hood, he is initiating the language,
manners. and emotions of the older
people about him. His behavior and
opinions are undoubtedly to some ex
tent the direct result Of this copying
Of his elders. He will repeat the tricks
of speech and manner which they con-
stantly employ.
If child lives among people whose
language is correct and agreeable,
whose manners are pleasant, who
show always a thoughtful considera-
tion for others and whose behavior is
gentle and kindly, he unconsciously
acquires similar ways. The habit OF
courtesy comes not alone nor chiefly
fr7r1 direct instruction, but from imi-
taton. If a child sees that his elders
are habitually courteous in their as
sociation with each other, if kindli-
ness and consideration for each other
Nare the habits of the home, these
qualities will inevitably stamp them
selves upon the child. Good manners
are in an invaluable asset to every
person, but good manners have their
root and foundation in fine qualities
of mind and heart, and only the con-
slant daily exercise of them will help
give the children that charm of man.
ner which is such a delight to per-
sons of every age. The opposite
qualities are likewise and help 20
produce another sort of child.
Clearly, therefore, parents have an
enormous responsibility in molding
and shaping child into the kind of
man he is to be, for these early les
sons in conduct and manners are prob
ably never quite eradicated. Men who
as children were accustomed to hear
ing uncouth language still lapse in
manhood into this fault, however well
educated they may have become. and
the same is true of physical manner
isms and even of the mental attitude.
If a child grows up among people
who are scolding. faultfinding, COM
planning or quarrelsome, he is almost
sure to show a tendency to these qua
lities however much he may learn
to abhcr them in later life.
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Through the unthinking indulgence
of fond parents, many a child is al
lowed TO sow the seeds of future ill
health and consequent inefiiciency by
being allowed to eat whatever ca
PRECIOUS appetite may call for. Many
a woman devoted heart and soul to
the cause of temperance will allow a
random blending of sweets, acids, and
starches at her own table, with the re-
sulting manufacture of alcohol in the
stomachs of her family!
Ii is a good plan to select one dish
as the keynote to tn meal, choosing
the others to harmonize with it.
On the back of menu card in a
vegetarian cafeteria i'm California
were the following tables of food COM
binations which seem well worth pre-
serving:
Good Combinations
Grains and fruits-not acid.
Grain and nuts.
Grain and vegetables.
Grain and milk.
Grain and vegetables.
Grain and milk.
Grain and eggs.
Fruits and nuts.
Vegetables and nuts.
Poor Combinations
Milk and gar-fermentative
Milk and acid fruits-hard curds.-
Fruits and vegetables--fermenta-
tive.
Fats with fruits or vegetables.
Acid fruits and grains.
Remember These:
Vary the diet from day to day.
IL - L r
daily.
Eat nothing between meals.
Eat for efficiency.
Treat your body at least as we'll as
you would that of valuable animal
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No Liquor for Our Soldiers in France

Inc report having reacned tnlS
country, that American troops in
France are allowed to purchase liquor
at their company canteens, the mat
ter was referred to Gen. Pershing
for investigation. That officer replies:
"No canteens of the kind referred to
are maintained with the American
forces in France, and none such are
contemplated. Exchanges similar TO
post exchanges. and at which only
so1t drinks are sold. are maintained
by the Y. M. c. A. for the soldiers" /"
Gen. Pershing further states that ev-
cry proper effort has been made and
will be made to insure temperance
among officers and men of his COM
mand and that no one has so great an
interest in the matter as those offers
who are charged with the duty and
responsibility of the command of our
troops in France. Gen. Pershing's
general orders to commanding officers
urge the maintenance of high moral
standards among their men. All this
is most gratifying, and is as it should
be.
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Consultation, Examination and
Advice Free
Making No Charge Except for Cos
of Medicine or Material Used in
Treatment

DR.. Hayden was for years examin-
ing physician employed by the U. S.
Government.
That every one may have an oppor-
tunity to consult with the doctor, it
has been decided that he will visit the
principal towns and demonstrate to
the sick and afflicted in every COM
munity the latest successful methods
of treating these long standing
diseases.
A partial list cf diseases treated:
Diseases of stomach, bowels, includ-
ing appendicitis; liver, including gall
stones; kidneys, spleen, blood, skin,
heart, eye, ear, nose, throat, worms,
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w. c. T. U. ITEMS


That the consumption of intoxicat-
ing liquors in Osceola county is great
ly on the decrease is shown by figures
fiiven out by Prosecuting Attorney w.
f.. Umphrey. All druggists selling
same are required by law to give re-
ports and same show that where five
gallons were being consumed a year
ago only as many quarts are being
used now. Some of the doctors Of
the county have stopped giving pre-
scriptions to anyone and there are
even drug stores that will not sell a
drop
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For Tired Women
With Aching Heads

They help me so much and find
relief as soon as begin taking your
Foley Kidney Pills" Mrs. Frank p.
Wood, Morrill,, Maine, r. +. d. No. 2.
Sometimes It seems as II you can't
stand the pain across your back. It
IS just making your life miserable
and robbing you CT oil energy and
strength, When you are constantly
tired. head always aching. nerves ''on
edge" kidney action painful and burn
lag. then Is the time to start In at
once on Foley Kidney Pills.
They strengthen the weak. ailing
kidneys. improve their action, enable
them to throw on the poisons that
cause your trouble. Your nerves grow
peaceful, sleep becomes sounder. nerv-
Gus headaches disappear. As Mrs.
Wood says: II and relief as soon as
begin. to take your Foley kidney
Pills" Be sure you get the genuine
Foley Kidney Pills, for they are
purely medicinal and contain no
harmful drugs,
Wortlcy 4 French
ConneII's Drug Store
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CHILDRENS PULPIT


Onc day as Jesus was preaching to
Ills followers it seems that He grew
.irst4. for lie toiled diligently. lie
dc sided to go out on the lake in boat
e. get little rest. Having gotten
ell started on their way (it seems
tAst the disciples went with Tesusl
lie laid down and dropped off to sleep.
Sut great storm arose which threat
ered TO destroy the boat with all on
beard. The disciples became very
mGch alarmed. They went to Him
ard, awakening him, asked # He did
not care as TO whether they all per-
ished or not. They marveled that He
could lie there and sleep when there
as SO much danger.
But Jesus saw no cause for fear
His trust vas in Cod, whom He knew
vould care for them. Nevertheless,
in order to quiet His disciples, lie
arose and rebuked the wind and the
vaves. Immediately the wind ceased
blowing and the waters, of course,
we're calm. HIS disciples then mar
ve'ed still more at His power. They
wondered what kind of a man he
must be to be able TO thus calm the
storm.
He did do great work, in1n I'd.
We can hardly imagine anything
stronger or more difficult to control
than such storm. Those who have
seen the work of some cyclone realize
what power there is in a storm. Yet
on another occasion Jesus showed His
power over such forces of nature. He
walked on the water while storm
was raging, yet knew no fear, for
again His trust was in God. And
again He saved His disciples from
possible death. And once more they
marveled at His power TO calm the
storm.
But Jesus speciality is not calming
storms at sea, but calming the storms
within ones own life. Probably all
of us have seen someone raging with
anger. So often anger, appetite or
some passion RACES within our hearts
like some storm at sea. trouble and
serious danger arise before us. But
when Jesus is allowed to take con-
troll of our lives, how quickly He
calms that raging storm of the heart.
Once a phrenologist was trying to
prove to a crowd of people that he
could tell the kind of man one was
by feeling of the bumps on ones
head. He blindfolded himself so that
he could not see the man with whom
hew as working. 1t happened that
noted preacher stepped up and the
man began to feel of his head. Soon
he said, This man is deceitful and
will lie. He Is not to be trusted at
all."
At this the crowd began to laugh,
for they knew that the old man had
made mistake. They told him that
he did not know anything. But the
preacher bade them not to laugh, say
ing, "That is just what would have
been had | not accepted Jesus as my
Saviour, and allowed Him to rule my
life"
Many of us know the same. For
in the lives of thousands of us Jesus
has come and calmed those wild, rag
ing forces that otherwise would lead
us to destruction.
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An Ounce of Meat

An ounce of edible meat-lear
meat, fat and lean, suet or fat trim
med from steak, chop, or roast
seems hardly worth saving.
Many households take just this
view of the matter-do not trouble to
put such an insignificant scrap into
the icebox or soup pot-do not both
er to save for cookery a spoonful of
two Of drippings or tiny bit of suet
or fat.
Yet if every one of our 20,000,00O
American families on the average
wastes each day only one ounce Of
edible meat or fat, it means daily
waste Of 1,250,000 pounds of animal
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Meats and Their ReIishes

Roast beef, grated horseradish
roast pork, apple sauce; roast veal
tomato or mushroom sauce; roast
mutton, currant jelly; boiled mutton
caper sauce; boiled chicken, bread
sauce; roast lamb, mint sauce; roast
turkey, cranberry sauce; boiled tur-
key, oyster sauce; boiled bluefsh.
white cream sauce; boiled shad, boil
rice and salad; compete of pigeons,
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One day Mark Norris of Grand
Rapids was being shaved by the very
talkative barber at the Peninsular
Club and was forced to listen to
many of the BARRIERS anecdotes.
Stopping to strop his razor, and
prepared, brush in hand, to commence
again, the barber said, "Shall go
over it again ?"
"No, thanks" drawled Mark. "It's
hardly necessary. / think can re-
member every word"
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Home-Made Crackers

Beat two eggs very lightly, white
and yolks together. Sift into them a
quart of -four, teaspoonful of salt
and a tablespoonful each of butter
and lard and nearly tumbler Of
milk. Work thoroughly together;
take fourth Of the dough at time
and roll out half as thick as milk
cracker, cut in small rounds and bake
quickly tosa light brown.
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Robbing the People

1t is not alone in sugar that the
brewers are robbing the people of
that which they urgently need. Re-
member that the liquor trade is US
ing 100000 tons of coal year and
would be using 100000 tons if the
distilling of whiskey had not been
stopped.
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THE LAFAYETTE.

A stunning model this when we are
all so interested in everything French
1t takes its name from the exceeding
ly clever adaptation Of the headgear
worn by the great general
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His Discovery

Friend-Well, old man, have you
found that two can live as cheaply as
one?
Newly ved-Perhaps, but not as
peaceab,y.
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Enacted 1916. ENACTED 1917
States Which Vote i'm 1917
Iowaff Ohio New Mexico
States Which Vote i'm 1918
Utahff Missouri Florida
Minnesota Wyoming Nevada
ffNow have statutory prohibition.
Will vote on constitutional amend
ment.
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Meat Turnoyers

Place any chopped or cooked meat
available on circles of biscuit dough
about the size Of saucer. Fold the
dough over rhc meat crimp the edges,
and bake in hot oven. Vegetaf les
may be combined with the meat fill
ing as desired, and the whole MAJ be
served with gravy.
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Science can cut through almost
anything-except mental concrete.
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Mind your own business and put
others in mind of IL.
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What will the hen do now--poor
thing? 1t is strictly against the law
for an elevator man to sell wheat to
be used for chicken feed and when
corn is retailing at $3.50 per bushel
we imagine many people will be oblig-
cd TO kill their hens in order to keep
their focks from starving. We are
informed also that no mill has a
right to grind wheat to be used for
any other purpose except flour.
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Honor Roll

Prohibition states and territorie:
and date of going into effect:
Maipa 1or,
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If you want to hire a man, hire one
whose children always go with him
in the morning as far as the street
car and who then stand on the cor
er waving as long as the car remains
in sight. You won't make any mis-
take in that man.
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Baked Onions

Bdktu OnIOHS
The large Bermuda onions are bes
for this purpose. Remove the Quite
skin and boil the onions in salt watel
and milk until tender. Place in bak
ing pan with butter on top and |
little fresh milk. Bake in the over
until brown.
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mushroom sauce; fresh salmon, green
peas, cream sauce; roast goose, apple
sauce; venison or wild duck, black
currant jelly.
Baked Ham With Apples
Have slice of ham cut an inch
thick, wipe, trim off most Of the fat,
and rub in as much as one and one
half cupfuls of brown sugar as it
will take up. Lay in pan and cover
with ten cloves. Pare and cut six
tart apples in quarters and lay them
naming sugar over the apples and
not to dislodge the sugar. Cover and
bake forty-five minutes, or until the
ham is tender.
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Meat Pie

Meat pies are made most satisfac
torily by first cooking the meat anC
vegetables as for stew. Line par
earthenware dish or casserole with
biscuit dough rolled fairly thin; put
in the meat, vegetables and gravy
cover with dough and bake in hot
oven.
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vember 1, IyII
To Grenville and Big Rapids, $40
p. m.
To Lowell and Grand Rapids, 1887
a. m; 200 p. m, and 1851 p. m.
sDaily