Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-01-02

1t is little wonder that President
Wilson is tripped up SO often. A
man who is constantly going back
ward can hardly see whittier he is,
drifting.
Land in Northern Iowa is going
toward the $500 per acre mark. Re
Gently an unimproved eighty near
Wesley sold at $3.50 per acre to an
Illinois man.
The author Of ..There'n be a hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight" IS
dead and we are all hoping that he is
not now experiencing a hot time,
though we have our fears.
Always Ipatronize the firm that
sees to it that their horses are we'll
fed, well housed and well bIanketed.
The other firms will Don fall in line
and take the hint that lit pays to be
kind"
Germany thinks the time to play
for peace is when she has all the
trump cards and the spells. But the
allies cannot see it that way. They
want something to arbitrate besides
the things Germany has captured.
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1t is well to remember that the
first society IN the world for the pre-
vention Of cruelty to children was
founded by Henry Bergh. the found
er Of the first society in this country
Tor the prevention Of, cruelty. to ami
mails.
The Freeman-T Tribune is glad that
the report that the government was
going tc take the soldiers clothes
away from them before they arriv-
ed home proves to be false. They are
to be allowed the clothing until they
get back to their home armory.
According to careful estimates
made by newspaper authorities. over.
eight hundred newspapers in the
smaller towns of the country have
been forced to suspend on account Of
the un~reasonably high price Of print
paper, which high price is nothing
more than a tribute to the paper
combine.
Alaska might help out on the pa
per shortage. The stand of timber
on the two great national forests in
that country is estimated by the for
est service as more than seventy bill
lion board feet, while the annual
growth will, 1t is said, produce pulp
wood enough for the manufacture Of
5000 tons Of wood pulp a day.
f8.at
Hazard. Kentucky, is a town Of
537 people, according to the last fed
eral s The postal receipts
there for the past year amounted to
approximately $4,000. Yet Hazard
is down in the pork barrel bill for
an appropriation of $4,000 for a.
postofice building. But Hazard Is
in a democratic state. That explains
it.
With Switzerland to back us why
should the president be bashful in
talking right up to the war iords?-
Times-Republican.
The president shouldn't be afraid
with such backing. Switzerland is
not numerically strong, but she is
prepared and is not too proud to
fight. We are mighty lucky to have
little Switz at u back.
What has become of the old fash
toned farmer who used to lay down
in your shed a big load of hard wood
for $3.25?-Waterloo Times-Trib-
une.
Oh, he is coming to town in his au-
tomobile. bringing 20 pounds of but
ter and 20 dozen eggs which he lays
down In your cellar for $14, and
you pay n Dill q
A straw stack from which the cat
tie are allowed to feed at will is al
ways a source Of danger to the
stock. who gradually eat the straw
from the lower portion of the stack,
making 1t liable to topple over and
bury them. That is what happened
at a farmers place up neal Esther
Vile the other day and six head of
cattle were smothered under the
straw.
Germany seems to be in dead earn
est in her desire for a peace confer
ence. That is really no indication,
however, that she lis in favor of
peace unless upon terms dictated by
hersp1f There never was a time