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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19
TWENTY-FIVE FARM
OWNERS TAKE APPEAL
Farm Owners Appeal From Assess.
ments in Whalen and Phillips
Drainage Districts.

Twenty-Five farm owners living
in the watersheds of the Whalen and
Phillips drainage bitches near Stan
hope have appealed to the district
court from the assessments made
against them by the board of super
visors. The owners interested are:
Barta and Clara Olson, Charles Davis,
w. R. East, Martin Oleson, F. F. Buck
woldt, A. N. Stark, o. w. Kepler, Emil
Peterson, Elmer c. Sandal, Martin
Sandal, A. Peterson, Ellen S. Chal-
lie, Bertha Oleson, Annie Wing, John
G. Nelson, J. S. Philip, A. T. Ellen,
Barney Benson, James Olson, Olaf
Nelson, Morgan Hill. The total
amount involved is about $1,000.
A. A. Furman and Jennie Buxton
have filed suits against the county
treasurer and city of Webster City to
enjoin them from collecting electric
light taxes ON farm lands owned by
them inside the corporate limits of
Webster City.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19
Families to be Well Cared Por.

The families of Webster City's sold
ier contingent are to be we'll taken
care of during the period Of their SER
vice. And the plan proposed by the
government is one in which the men
themselves share the responsibility
and will relieve each individuals
case of every possible stigma of char
ity.
War insurance for the soldiers has
three separate subdivisions. Insur-
ance is one Of these. The allotment
of an allowance to the enlisted mans
dependents while he is in service is
another. The compensation of offic-
ers and men in case of disability is
the third feature. The last, with the
insurance, practically form d pension.
In the allotment and allowance
provision, those men who have left
families behind, receive additional
pay for their patriotism and for the
patriotism of their families in this
manner:
Certain proportions of pay are to
be withheld from the man and paid
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19
Speaking Of Hogs.

Manson Democrat: For the life of
us we cannot figure out why pork is
so unearthly high when there are SO
many hogs in the country. There is
the sugar hogs, the car seat hog, the
coal profit hog, the wholesaler hog.
the retailer hog, the "you'll-have-to-
pay the price-for- I've-got-a -cinch"
hog, the hog that will not buy Liberty
bonds or help the Red Cross, the hog
that is taking advantage Of the war
crisis to get rich in any old way he
can and numerous other kinds Of
hogs. If hog cholera should break out
there would not be more than one
third enough undertakers to plant the
carcasses. Yet pork is high and prob
ably will not go any lower. The
trouble may be that the pork pack
ing trust is also made up of hogs
that are cholera immune and not
afraid of the consequences of their
hoggishness.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19
FINDS A BUFFALO
HEAD IN WATER
Francis COnkling Finds Buffalo Head
Floating In Boone River and
Brings It in.

Francis Conkling made a rare find
Friday. He was walking along
the Boone river bank about mile
north of town near the old Kennedy
swimming hole when he saw good
sized object floating in the water
Upon investigation, it proved to be
very large buffalo head. Mr.. Conk-
ling brought the find to town and
gave it to Guy r. Bissell, who has a
liking for relics.
Old timers say there hasn't been a
buffalo in this part of the country for
some fifty or sixty years and yet this
old head is in fairly good condition
Nr. Bissell says it is not petrified but
that the waters have preserved it.
The hide and hairy coat are, OF
course, all gone and the outer part Of
the horns also. The teeth show The
animal to have been, q very large one
The head has kept it shape, alowev-
q. and NJ RsSsn, with tie ssyists
41JcE 81, Chas. B. Miller, will furnish
what is left of it and let Mr.. Bissell's
son, Floyd, who is "a boy scout, have
it for his natural science collection.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19
Tells Of First Trip in Plane.

Donald Doty. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
F. M. Doty, who returned to the
states a little over a month ago from
British flying school at Toronto.
Can, and is stationed at Fort Worth,
Texas, writes his parents from Dallas
concerning his aviation training, as
follows:
"You told me to let you know the
very first time l was in the air. Well,
I went up for the first time last Fri
day and sure had good flight. Be-
fore we left the ground the officer in
charge of flying told the pilot to go
up about four or five Thousand feet
and patrol the camp for about five
miles on each side and to stay in the
air sixty minutes. The pilot told me
had better not go but said I could
stand it if he could so we both went
up.
1T sure is great to sail through
the air at height of from one to
five thousand feet. 1t just seems as
il you are looking down out of space
on the earth, which looks like map.
We could see all the ranches for
many miles around. We got clear
out of sight of the camp but knew
just about where it was most of the
time. When iC was time to come
down we were about five miles away
and some five thousand feet high.
will always say We travelled five miles
about the latest that have ever had
the pleasure of going. That pilot just
headed the machine right for the
camp and we sure did travel some
but lit on the field just as easy as We
left it.
'At first when We started to come
down began to catch my breath, but
after dropping about three hundred
feet I was alright and really liked it.
1t looked as if old Mother Earth was
coming right UP to us.
well, got out of that one and am
going to fly whenever l get chance.
81 must close now as this is all the
paper I have. l am in Dallas now
with one of my Royal Flying Corps
friends. We are waiting for car to
go back to Fort Worth.
nny,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19
LETTER FROM fort
PORTER, new YORK
DR.. II. C. Crumpton Writes From His
New Location I'm New York
State.

The Freeman-Journal is in receipt
of the following letter from Lieut.. r
c. Crumpton, formerly Of this city
written from Fort Porter, N. Y:
We are here at Fort Porter and are
here to complete our training just
how long this will take, nobody seems
to know.
Our enlisted men under Major Ma.
crae came in this morning and it was
beautiful to see them come marching
in, just like bunch of regulars, every
man looking every inch military man
There are three other base hospital
units here, one of them having been
here since August 2S-and they can't
begin to drill like our own boys, who
haven't had a great deal of training
extraordinarily I'm partial to my
own men.
Since coming into the service, have
noticed how nice everybody seems to
us. Down at Chattanooga they charg-
ed us like the dickens though the civil
lians were kind, but up here in Buffalo
the merchants seem to discriminate in
our favor-and the civilians are fine
about extending us the courtesies OF
the clubs.
The boys say that the good people
of Council Bluffs gave them rousing
send-off and the supply of food given
them by the people is not near ex-
hausted yet. l am told that lot of the
boys preferred pie for breakfast this
morning to the other good things they
had left. Love to all my friends.
Yours heartily, r. c. Crumpton.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19
Suffered Severe Attack of Blood Pol.
soning and Limb was Amputaled
in Hope of Saving her
Life.
HAS BEEN AT MERCY HOSPITAL
Leaves Husband and Four Children
Death is Peculiarly Sad
One.

After weeks of indescribable suffer-
ing and pain caused from blood pois-
oning, Mrs. c. F. Gardner passed
away at Mercy hospital at about noon
Saturday after having sustained
the amputation of one limb. The
physicians, who have been in attend
ance, made the amputation as last
effort of saving the sufferers life.
Dental work had caused an infec-
ton, resulting in blood poisoning that
settled in the left knee and, after her
condition had not improved in a fort
nights time, she was removed to
Mercy hospital. No relief seemed in
store for her, however, and death
came as. sweet release from the ter
rible suffering.
The deceased was born in Lehigh
and had lived in Webster City all but
one year of her life. She was in the
prime of life-thirty-five years of age
and is survived by her aged mother,
Mrs. Sarah E. Taylor, of this city.
The husband, who is unable to leave
his chair as result of a recent ATTACK
.of infantile paralysis, and four chill
dren are left to mourn the loss of
wife and mother. The children are
Hayward and Gwendolyn Morean,
aged sixteen and thirteen years, re-
spectively; Evelyn and Fremont
Gardner, six and five years of age.
Another child, Chas. Morean, was
drowned this summer. Four sisters
and one brother also survive the de-
ceased. They are the Misses Mae and
June Taylor of this city: Mrs. Helen
Norcross, Springfield. Ill.,, Mrs. Clara
Moore Long see sSae ch, Cal; and WI! XillI!11s' IL
Taylor, Port Angeles; Wash.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19

applauded by an audience in thor
ough sympathy with every word that
was uttered.
Mrs. Whitley gave very brief talk
upon the grand work the women OF
the country are doing and enlarged
upon the plans they have in view to
do their very utmost in this greatest
crisis in the country's history.
The addresses of Messrs. Hender-
son and Kelly were patriotic in ma
ture and were brief and very much to
the point. They felt that at no time
in all the worlds history was love OF
country, loyalty to ideals and fealty
to the government more needed than
at this very moment We stand at an
epoch in the worlds history and
thousands of years of future history
will be incubated in the world war
now being fought.
Money the Present Need.
BY the time H. M. sparboe was call
ed upon, the audience had been rous-
ed to high state Of patriotic feeling
and the speaker felt that the time was
propitious to ask for tangible evidence
Of the willingness of the people of
this community to render the very
best aid possible ito the government.
He felt that the need of the moment
is the army Y. M. c. A., toward which
movement the nation is now raising
0,O0O,0O0 and of which sum Hamil-
ton county has been asked for $12,-
900 and Webster City and vicinity for
$3.50. Up to this morning $3,334 had
been raised, leaving some $1,S36 to
come in before Webster City's quota
is reached.
Mr.. Sparboe has had considerable
experience of late in raising money
for the liberty loan and Y. M. G. A.
work and he started right in this af-
ternoon without any waste Of words
to raise this balance. $25 contribu-
tions were first called for. There were
responses from all over the audience
and without lingering long enough to
tire the audience, he dropped his re-
quest to SIS. Many responses also
greeted this request and then the
speaker dropped to $40. No contri-
buttons below this figure were ac-
cepted.
Mr.. Sparboe kept the audience in a
good humor throughout and asked
fRese contributions purely as a pa
triotic oduty incumbent on all-not as
a donation gwen nnnwSkl!lipglx
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19
Fred Metcalf Gets Lieutenantcy.

Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Metcalf have
received word that their son, Fred,
has successfully passed his examina-
tion and has received commission as
second lieutenant in Battery d of the
Fourth Field Artillery, U. S. A, sta
toned at Brownsville, Texas.
This is very unusual record, Fred
having enlisted as private only last
July. He graduated from the Webster
City high school in 1911 and from
Grinnell college in 1915, He then
taught year at Dallas Center and
year at Boone. Las year he was
elected principal at knoxville, but.
Joined the army befoj be opening g
the school year
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19
Writes From French Front.

The following letter was written BY
"a Williams boy and is taken from the
Enterprise of that place:
Somewhere in France.-Dear Father
Mother and Sister: Yesterday l re-
ceived your letter written Sept. 20
Also received bundle of papers and
cartoon of Bull Durham" so you
can bet was a mighty happy fellow
that day.
Glad to hear that you are all well
and that every thing is o. k. in and
around "Billtown." also received
the three pair of wristlets that "aunt
Olive" sent to us boys. We all certain
ly appreciated them and, believe me
they come in mighty handy in this
cold and wet climate.
Well, suppose school is going at
full blast now. They ought to have a
fine time in their new building.
This is Thursday afternoon and
am writing this letter in our Y. M. c.
A. 1t is very quiet in here now, as this
morning we were paid off and all the
fellows are out celebrating. Ralph
is sitting beside me writing some let
ters. Right at this moment fellow
is playing the piano and an American
girl is playing the cello. Gosh, they
are playing a pretty piece, it is so soft
and low, it almost makes you cry.
Yesterday / worked in the orderly
room making out liberty bond certi-
ficates. Our company alone took out
$4,000 worth of bonds and the whole
regiment raised over $250,000 worth,
SO you can see what the army is do
ing towards raising the liberty loan
bond fund and take in consideration
that by Christmas we will have around
- regiments.
This is the rainy season over here.
1t has trained steady day and night
for two weeks. Ralph and go down
to STAINS camp every night and sit
around his fire. Last night we were
down there and he fried some steak
and spuds and made tapioca pudding
and toast. We had the best feed since
we have been in the army.
am feeling fine. Haven't caught a
cold so far. Rest of boys are feeling
good. We have had it pretty soft this
week. Yesterday all we did was TO
sharpen our bayonets and oil our
shoes; but it isn't that way all the
time. The tobacco came just in time
as / was on my last sack, which was
issued to us. l sure appreciate all
you are doing for me and when I get
back home l will show you.
With love, your son and brother,
Harold Wilkinson,
Co. 13, 16 Inf.
A. E. F., France.
Wedding invitations printed At
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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19
THE SUGAR BOWL HAS
CLOSED ITS DOORS
Tenn Birbilis, Who Has Been Conduct.
ing the Store, OF to Nebraska.

The Sugar Bowl closed Friday eve-
ming, Tom Birbilis, who has been con-
ducting the business since his brother
Geo. Birbilis, enlisted in the army
having turned the keys of the building
over to the owner, E. H. Martin. The
scarcity of sugar and financial reasons
were given for closing the store. Mr.
Birbilis and his wife left last night for
Lincoln. Neb., where the former will
be employed in candy store owned
by his uncle.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19
Local Operators Get Raise.

According to word from the Illi-
nois Central offices in Chicago salar-
les of telegraphers on this road will
be advanced $9.75 per man per month.
The ruling will affect three oper-
atcrs at the passenger station in this
city-Forrest S. Prater, F. o. Honz
and James G. Burton. The Office is
kept open all day Sunday but the new
law in which twenty-siX eight hour
days constitute a month will give all
operators seventy-five cents for one
hour of overtime and fifty cents for
each additional hour. If the local Of
flee is kept open eight hours on Sun
day it will net the operator $A.25 for
the days work.
{ Wedding invitations printed al
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19

Some of the readers of the
Freeman and Journal do not
seem to understand the sit.
uation since the consali-
datiOn Of the Freeman.Trib-
une and the Journal. Read
ers Of the former Weekly Jour.
nal now get twice q week
service, the Freeman the fore.
part of the week and the Jour-
nal the latter part of the week.
In like manner, the readers of
the former Freeman and Trib.
une now get the Freeman and
J0urnal-the service being the
same rs heretofore. Since the
consolidation, the twice q week
service Is q new thing to the
former Weekly Journal read.
ers, hut we believe they will
be greatly pleased over the
new order Of things after they
have given 1t fair trial.
X X IN Il X x * y X X * X
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19

Asked today by the Freeman-Jour-
nal as to whether he would be can
didate for congress in this district,
Senator D. C. Chase of this city made
the above statement. This expression
was brought out because of the fact
that a number of tentative candidates
for the place have visited Webster
City lately in an effort to learn the
situation here.
Numbers Favor Woods.
Senator Chase would like very
much to make the race. Should he
go in, he will make a vigorous, cam
paign, he says, cost what it may. He
feels, however, that large field Of
candidates would result in the GER
tain reelection of Congressman
Woods. A large field would more
than likely throw the nomination in
to a convention, in which event Mr..
Woods would be a certain winner be-
cause the other candidates would find
1t advantageous to unite for him so
that they might have chance to run
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19

P. J. Cunningham, Jr., cashier al
the Illinois Central freight depot, has
severed his connection with the road
and NJ. L. Butler, formerly bill clerk
is filing the position. Ray Wood
formerly baggageman at the passen-
ger station, has been promoted to
bill clerk and J. E. Bateman of Eagle
Grove IN acting as, baggageman.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19
Much Interest Here.

There is much Interest here aad
generally over the district in the yri-
maries. The names of many prosriec-
Itive candidates have been mentioned
and several of thess have made trips,
over the district Is ascert.in ttle pre-
velant feeling. ldr. Dickson Of Al,
gona was nefe short title ago and
Mr.. Wildey of Graetinger was here
yesterday. Mr.. Woods has been in
congress ten years and there is very
general feeling over the district that
a strong man could beat him. Mr..
Chase, however, feels that the Woods
opposition ought to unite on one man
and make the strongest possible fight.
Senator Chase was leader in the
state legislature during the two terms
that he served there and is one of the
best known men in Iowa. He made a
strong state senator and he would
make an unusually strong congress-
man. But if he is to make the race,
he feels that he ought to be given
clear field and that if this field is not
given him he favors giving it to some
other man who would stand a chance
Of making winning race.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19

UlTSCLly " due Idlufiy VI utpeuueLtS
The most that can be deducted from
the pay is one half of it, and the
minimum amount to be deducted is
SIS. In return, the government makes
the following allowance under classes
A and B respectively:
Glass A-Wife but no child, SIS;
wife and one child, $25; wife and two
children, $32.50, with SIS per month
additional for each additional child /;
no wife, but one child, SIS; no wife,
but two children, $12.5O; no wife, but
three children, $40; no wife, but four
children, $50, with SIS per month ad-
ditional for each additional child.
Glass B-Grandchild, parent, broth
er or sister. If there be one parent,
$40; two parents, $40; each grand
child, brother, sister and additional
parent, SIS.
Family allowances will be paid
from the time of enlistment and cease
one month after the termination of
the war.
Another beneficial feature of the
act is the compensation that is pro-
vided for the officers, enlisted men
and their dependents in case If death
or disability resulting from personal
injury suffered or disease contracted
in line of duty. There are no blanks
to be filled out relative to the COM
pensation, it is simply a gratuitous
act on the part of the government. It
is further provided in this act that
the United States shall pay burial ex-
penses not to exceed $100.
Following is a schedule Of the
amount of compensation allowed in
the case of death or total disability
and in case Impartial disability, the
amount of compensation due is
a percentage of the compensation
provided in case of total disability.
In case of death: For widow
alone, $25; widow and one child, $35;
widow and two children, $47.50, with
SIS for each additional child up to
two; if there be no widow, then for
one child, $40; for two children, $50;
for three children, $40, with S. for
each additional child up to two; for a
widowed mother, $40. The amount
payable under this subdivision shall
not be greater than sum which,
when added to the total amount pay
E5ie as Is Sfs Il wid5w al and O.. ]. Z, ss,
not exceed SIS.
In case Of total disabi. ,,.
visions are: le1.
If the soldier has neit,ity. Ss;,a }br
child living, $50; wife but 10, did
living, S45; wife and two c. Fen
living, SOS; wife and three or more
children living, SIS; no wife but one
child living, $40 with $40 for each
additional child up to two; widowed
mother dependent, then, in addition
% the above amounts, $40.
To any injured person who is to-
ally disabled and in addition so help
ess as to be in constant need of a |
lurse or attendant, such additional
sum shall be paid, but not exceeding
go per month, as the director may
leem reasonable.
For certain specified conditions, or
f the injured person is permanently
$100 monthly compensa-
ion is provided. No allowance for a
lurse shall be made.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-11-19
CHASE WILL Be
CANDIDATE #
GIVEN A field.
Will Make Race for Congress If Civ
en- Clear Field Against Con-
gressman Woods In the
Spring Primaries.
WILL NOT RUN OTHERWISE
Feels That q Large Field Of Candi-
dates Will Only Make Certain
Woods Reelection.

IF given field, I will run for
congress against Frank P. Woods.
In a field with as many candi-
dates as are now being talked ee,
I would not be a candidate. -
D. C.. Chase.