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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
LIEUT.. COL. CL0MAN RESIGNS
No Reason Is Given for Action of the
United States Army
officer.

San Francisco, CAL, Jan. 29.-Lieut-
Col. Sydney A. Cloman, United States
infantry, now stationed at Nogales,
Ariz., has resigned from the United
States army and his resignation has
been accepted by President Wilson, ac-
cording to news received here by
friends of Cloman. No reason was
given for the resignation. Cloman was
graduated from the Military academy
at West Point in 1889. A few years
ago he served as military attache at
the American embassy In London.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
IN THE HEAVENS.

Next Saturday morning Mercury and
Venus can be seen in the eastern sky
before sunrise, in conjunction. That is
In appearance they are at their near
est point to each other. Mercury will
Z show red and Venus white.
Mercury at it's greatest distance
from the sun, is only % degrees away
Five degrees separate the stars in the
outer edge of the bowl of the Big Dip
per. That is the measuring stick OF
the heavens and will indicate how
closely the innermost planet clings in
its course to it's parent luminary.
The orbits of the planets beyond tho
earth completely ..encircles the sky
but those of Venus and Mercury ap
pear as loops extending only short
distance from the sun. A person
watching one of these planets as il
described o revolution would see il
move away from the sun along a path
near the ecliptic rapidly at first, then
slower, until at length it stopped in
the sky turned and gradually retreat
ed back into the glare OF the solar
rays. Because they are nearer to the
sun than the earth both Venus and
Mercury exhibit phases like our moon
At the conjunction Saturday morn
ing Mercury is at it's greatest brilli
ancy, but Venus has long since passed
hers.
l. he ftrys Gle IF no t
She is 400 miles in diameter, while
the earth is 5000 miles, and she re
sembles our world more closely than
does any other member of the solar
system. Her atmosphere is very ex
tensive, and is filed with vapors and
steaming fogs. The sunlight which
these encircling clouds reflect is as
white as that from new fallen snow
and renders this world a ball of blind
ing Wilderness to our eyes. Mercury
on the other hand, has a diameter only
little greater than our moon, 1900
miles, to be exact. There is no water
and little, if any, air. The Mercur
ian land is a blazing desert of burn
ing crags and parched plains. The face
of the whole planet is red; as our own
western deserts would be If viewed
from afar. These two planets, side
by side at the dawn OF day, reveal in
terms of colors the difference between
young. living world and one burned
and dead.
Venus is the second planet in order
from the sun. Mercury is S5,000,O0C
miles from the sun; Venus is $1,000,
600 miles distant, and the earth Is
SO. 900, 900 miles away. Venus and
Mercury are between us and the sun
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
ovERALLs FOR WOMEN.

Overalls for women, is the latest
Every little while they start a fad,
This one though is sure to prove the
greatest,
Should they roam at large while
thusly clad.
Mills are working double to prepare
them
Every store is putting them in
stock
So, presuming someone's sure to weal
them.
Timid folks are .bracing for the
shock.
Modern factory girls were first to don
them
Finding greater comfort in the same
So, in letting no one have it on them
Nurses, maids, and clerks got in the
game.
Those we most expected would abhol
them
Seeming more enthused than all the
rest
Indicates and early scramble for them
Can our nervous systems stand the
test?
Suffragists, those stoutly ones of fifty
(Hist! Who dared to whisper sixty
fiveO
Will they not look most petitely nifty
When their little overalls arrive
Suffragists, those wee in years AMI
girdles
will they not be some "bewitches'
Leaping nimbly DER the suffrage
hurdles,
Swathed in grown-up rompers,
bright and blue.
What will be society's decision?
VIII these danes and damsels risk
the chance
Joining in the knickerbock division
Quitting gowns for coarse and vul'
gar pants?
Think of moonlight evenings on the
beaches,
StrolIing where the spoony, spoon
er spoon,
Think of holding hands with spoony
peaches,
Peaches CARRIED in baggy pantaloons,
Picture, also sweetheart. wife or sister
Fitting yon and thither, making
calls
Telling folks how fondly you had
kissed her
When she took to wearing overalls.
Pink ones they are sure to have and
yellows
Mixtures, cross-bars, gawdy stripes
and sports.
Gracious! Will we poor defenseless
fellows
Need to see protection in the
courts
NAL Rose, Oskaloosa, la.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
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The MARKETS
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Cash Grain Markets.
Chicago, Jan. 81.
Open High Low Close
Cash Quotations.

Chicago, Jan. S1--Wheat - No. 2
red, $1.76hQ1.77$4; No 9 red, S1..0
@17Ok; No. red, $1.G7@1.6S; No.
hard winter, $1.75; No. hard win
ter, $3.50; No. 8 northern spring,
$I.70%.
Corn-No. 2 mixed, 800; No. 3
mixed, 99c@s1.0O; No. A mixed, 500
9Skc; No. mixed, 94B@G6hc; No.
mixed, 94@97c; No. yellow, 9S&
@$1.0GA; No. 3 yellow, 99c@$103,
No. 4 yellow, 96@9SAc; No. yellow
94K@961sc; No. white, G912c0
$1.OOA; No. white, 96Q99c; No. )
white; 95c; S. G., sec.
Oats-No. 2 white, 56@57c; No. 8
white, 55% @5Ghc; No. te.'Gi&
@561sc; No. white, 54% 0a5At;
standard, 56A G57c; S. G., 53Cl65 h2e.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
FREIGHT CAR EFFICIENCY.

The recent "car shortage" and con-
gestion of traffic have occurred in
spite of the most efficient use of
freight cars ever known, according TO
an editorial in the current issue of the
Railway Age Gazette.
On the basis of statistics furnished
to it by 46 railway systems operating
65 per cent of the total mileage of the
country, the average miles each
freight car was moved per day in the
fiscal year 1916 was per cent greater
than in the fiscal year 1913 when the
previous high record was made, and
that in September, 1916, average miles
per car per day were IL per cent
greater than in September, 1913. 1t
adds:
The statement that there was an in
crease of per cent in car efficiency
in the fiscal year 1913, and an increase
of II per cent in car efficiency in Sep
TENDER, 1916, over September, 1913,
may not seem important to persons
unfamiliar with railway affairs. When,
however, it is stated that there are
now 100000 freight cars on the rail
ways of the United States and that
therefore an increase of 8 per cent in
their average efficiency is equivalent
to an increase of $4,000 in the num-
beI of cars, and that an increase of
II per cent in efficiency is equivalent
to IN increase of $4,000 in the num-
Der of cars, the true Significance of
the increase in efficiency becomes ap-
parent.
That increase in the average tons
carried per train do not have ten
dency to reduce the average miles
made per car per day is indicated by
the fact that betweetn 1913 and 1915
the average load per train on all the
railways of the United States increas-
ed from 445.4 tons, and that the aver
age load per train on 81 OF the 46
roads increased from SIG tons in 1915
to 567 tons in 1916. In other words,
the increase in efficiency has been ac-
cogmpanied, and, in fact, promoted by
increases in the average train load.
In the year ended on June 80, 1913,
the average miles per car per day on
the as lines was 1859 miles. In the
fiscal year 1916 the average for these
roads was 1903 miles, an increase of 8
per cent. The average daily mileage
per car for these same railways in
September, 1913, was 1851 miles. In
september, 1916, it was 1854 miles,
an increase OF II per cent. Thirty-five
roads which reported their results for
October, 1916, averaged 3217 miles
per car per day.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
SAY DEUTSCHLAND CAPTURED
German Merchant Submarine Now
Seven Days oyerdue-In Penn.
broke Backyard, Report.

New York, Jan. 30.-The local
agents OF the German merchant sub
marine Deutschland are anxious over
the nonarrival of the vessel, which was
reported to have left Bremen for New
London on January A and should have
arrived there on January 90.
The captains and officers Of an
American liner and British liner
which arrived from Liverpool last
week were positive in their statement
that the Deutschland had been cap
tured by British light cruiser and
taken to the naval dockyard at Penn
broke, South Wales, where they were
told the Bremen had been kept since
she was captured on her first voyage
to New York.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
COAL CREEK NEWS.
C. w. Dewitt Moves to Farm vacat-
ed by Glen Hargraves.

Coal Creek. Jan. 80. (By Dew Drop
Mr.. Middleton has been poorly with
a growth in his nose. He was operated
on Saturday. There will have to be
another operation performed in about
ten days. He is getting along as well
as could be expected.
A baby daughter was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Lenard Rosenbloom, Jan. %
All doing well.
c. w. Dewitt from Madison town
ship moved on the farm vacated by
Glen Hargrave. Glen will move near
Glendale Mills.
Lots of moving in here soon to take
place as moving time will soon be
here.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

"Pa, what is phenomenal" Son, II
you go out in the orchard and see a
COW climb q tree backwards, that
would be phenomena" According to
the Knoxville Journal. in the actions
Of men who have been ranting around
over the state, making a grandstand
play for prohibition and we are now
just as active in opposing the bills
before the legislature that will give
us real prohibition"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
Records Early American History.

Mrs. w. II. Otis of Dandy Four Cor
ners, VT, is the possessor of a copy of
the Newport, r.. l., Mercury, dated Feb
ruary II, ITO, published by Solomon
Southwick. The paper contains an ac-
count of IAN assembly of people" in
Faneuil hall, Boston, which adopted
vigorous resolutions against William
jackson, Theophilus Lille and Nathan
lei Rogers for refusing to deliver up
certain packages Of tea Remaining UNI
sold by them"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
PROHIBITION IN IOWA.

Generally speaking a great majority
of the people of Iowa are satisfied with
prohibition, and very few would vel.
come a return of the saloon. Business
in all retail lines has been better,
crime has been elssened and the condi-
ton of families and individuals greatly
improved since the law became opera
tive in Iowa nearly two years ago.
There has been one pernicious fea-
ture, and that was the ease with which
liquor could be shipped from other
states into Iowa. The boot-legger as a
consequence has fiourished and an obi
um has been cast on the local law such
as it did not deserve. The Govern
ment at Washington was to blame,
and it seems in keeping with the eter.
nal fitness of things that an Iowa
Senator should father national law
that has just been upheld by the SUI
pre.ne court, stopping the nefarious
traffic.
The Webb-Kenyon law now becomes
effective and the most objectional fea-
ture to prohibition in Iowa will be
eliminated. Unless the present legis.
lature does some unheard of thing,
Iowa will now really be in the dry col.
umn and our people. will be able to
test out the consequences in all their
phases. The amendment is yet to be
voted on but there is little reason to
think that it would fail Of success by
an enormous vote.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

Owing to the sale of arms and
ammunition to the allies, American
exports for 1916 reached the un-
precedented total Of S5.4S1 900 1000.
This exceeds the total for 1915 by
$1,926, 100000 and the total for 1913
by s2,997, 100000. The exports for
December are announced as $521,-
100000, which exceeds the previous
high monthly total by 100000.
The December average for the five
years previous was $26S,OOO,OOO.
What untold suffering these figures
spell for the people Of Europe.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

The representative of a Des
Moines paper has been standing
around on the street corners of Os-
kaloosa for several days, telling the
people that the reason he can offer
his paper so cheap is that the Des
Moines business people pay enormous
prices for advertising. This may
be good for the people but we Won
der how the Des Moines advertiser
enjoys not only paying for the space
they use but the subscription price
as well.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
Neatly Turned.

Miss RIVAL (triumphantly)--"I sup
pose Jack never told you he once pro-
posed to me-" Jacks Eiancee-"No;
he told me there were a number OF
things in his life he was ashamed of,
but ! didn't ask him what they were."
Boston Transcript.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
Today's Markets.

Chicago Union Stock Yards, Jan.
31.-Aithough hog receipts this morn
ing exceeded the expectations, de-
mand was strong from all directions,
Canadian and eastern buyers being
very active. Quality of offerings was
good The market opened with q
rush at 10 cents above yesterdays
average and with range of prices
small 1t was active trading all day
and pens were we'll cleared.
The bulk today sold at $11.50 q
LIS, against $11.35@11.65 yesterday;
$111O@11.4O last Wednesday; $3.50
@10.35 four weeks ago; $770@7.90
corresponding "Wednesday in 1916;
$7.OO@7.1O in 1885, $SS5QS.45 in
1914; $7.7O@7.9O in 1913, and $1,000
$50 in 1912.
The top paid today was $11.90;yes
terday Sits; last Wednesday $11.50;
four weeks ago $1,000; one year
ago $500; two years ago 1920; three
years ago $3.50; four years ago $7.95
and five years ago $6.32B.
Cattle receipts were liberal today
High grade finished steers were
scarce and were strong to shade
higher. The general market was
steady with yesterday. Buyers
show discrimination against dairy
stock.
Sheep and lambs held steady with
yesterday. Aged stock was most in
demand.
The estimated receipts for tomor-
row are $4,000 hogs, 5000 cattle and
$4,000 sheep.
Receipts for today, $1,000 cattle,
$4,000 hogs and $4,000 sheep, against
1858 cattle, 47,497 hogs and 1902
sheep year ago.
The average price Of hogs at Chi.
cago yesterday was SLIGO compared
with $11.56 Monday. $11.15 a week
ago, 1888 year ago and $685. two
years ago.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

The state legislature has been
asked to provide adequate punish
ment for any intoxicated person who
drives an automobile. Adjacent
punishment would be denial of his
rights to drive a car, under a pen
atty of Imprisonment for life.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

If the Iowa Primary Law is not
entirely repealed, it should be left
alone. 1t is complicated enough now,
without lot of confusing amend
ments Governor Harding to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, we think the
law is a useless expense maker.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
Prevalent COMPLAINT.

All the worlds a stage and one Of
the most pathetic of all the pathetic
features Of everyday life is the way
mediocre performers so often contrive
to get into the leading roles for a
time.-Ohio State Journal.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

Has it occurred to you that build
ing lots in Oskaloosa are becoming
few and rather far out. "Close-in
properties are not to be secured for
like a reasonable quotation
The town do grow"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

So far as biologists have made in.
vestigations the greatest coal field in
the state of Iowa lies in Lucas county.
Sometimes the ledge in that field
breaks down eleven feet of pure coal
the greatest thickness being eleven
feet and two inches.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

There can be no objection to any
adult taking up with any religion or
school of healing which he sees fit.
but it is not right to impose fads on
children. They deserve the best and
most accepted treatment that human
ity has to offer.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

Amy other big business might
expect to sponge a part OF its pub
licity, but would be willing to pay
for part of it,-while the Govern
ment goes on assuming that the
newspapers were created to promote
any scheme any politician at Wash
ington proposes,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

Secretary Redfield announces tha
the packers of grayfish estimate thai
the present demand is tenfold the
available supply. The Puget Sound
packers now canning grayfish are
hampered by difficulty in obtaining
enough cans but II is evident that
grayfish win become a commodity OF
considerable Importance during the
current year.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

Rose Hill in the loss of her pub
lie school by fire stands much in the
same position as Oskaloosa in the
Penn College fire. The people will
build greater and better.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
SEESU. S. HELPLESS
AGAINST AIR RAIDS
Admiral Peary Gives Warning at
Defense Meet.
BIG CITIES ARE IN PERIL
Declares Six Foreign Powers Have the
Men and Machines That Would
Enable Them to Do Great
Damage.

Washington, Jan. 29.-Emphatic ap-
prevail of broad scheme of national
defense was given unanimously by the
Congress of Constructive Patriotism at
the closing business session of its
meeting here under the auspices of the
National Security league. In Il state
ment of principles the congress de-
clared for universal military training,
for restoration of the navy to second
place in the Atlantic and first place in
the Pacific, for development of Ameri-
can woman power, for a nationwide
campaign for patriotism through edu-
cation and for effective Americaniza-
ton efforts to destroy dual citizenship.
The meeting came to an end with n
banquet attended by more than 500
delegates, who heard addresses by
Rear Admiral Robert L. Peary, Sena-
tor Chamberlain, chairman of the SEN
ate military committee; Lafayette
Young, former senator from Iowa, and
George w. Wickersham, former attor-
hey general.
FcdTy FOintS 10 FcTil.
Admiral Peary outlined program
for developing air power for defense
and reviewed the part air attacks have
had in the fighting of the present war.
Then he told the congress that this
country was facing peril from which 1t
could not defend itself.
"At the present time" he said, flour
foreign powers, probably six, have the
men, the machines and the expert
knowledge that would enable any one
Of them by issuing an order today to
destroy Washington or any other of
our great coastal cities from the air in
a single night two weeks from now. We
have neither airplanes nor dlrigibles
nor aviatOrs nor anti-aircraft guns nor
any other means of preventing such de-
struction."
Thinks Command of Air Vital. .
The millions spent on the army and
navy, he added, twill be wasted I'M
less we have such an air fleet as will
give the United States unquestiOned
command of the air for the continent
of North America"
p. ii. w. Ross, president of the Ma
tional Marine league, declared at the
meeting that the upbullding of an
American merchant marine must have
a part in any preparedness program
for both military and economic rea-
sons.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

Accurate diagnosis is of i'm
portance to the public health because
an early and correct knowledge of
the presence of a disease affords
opportunity to prevent its spread.
The case of tuberculosis which is
found early has an infinitely greater
chance of recovery than the one
which is found late.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

One Georgia apple tree, seven
ty-eight years old, is still bearing
regularly, and in 1916 bore a crop OF
eight barrels of marketable apples.
This tree has paid the taxes on a
32O-acre farm for twenty-six years.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
Patriotic Community sing.

The Davis County Flower and
Community Club Is planning its sec
ond Sing" to be held Sunday. Febru.
airy is. II win present a patriotic
OF old familiar tunes,
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

U. S. Yards, H., Jan. 81. 8 a. m.
HOGS-10 higher than yesterdays
average; mixed and butchers, $11.S0
@11.S5; good to choice heavy, $11.55
@11.9O; rough heavy, $11.35@11.59
light, $11.2O@11.75; Workers, $1,000
11.75; bulk, $11.50@11.75; pigs, $500
@10.75.
Steady; beeves, $3.50
1875; cows and heifers, $5!00@1O.25;
stockers and feeders, $6.0O@910;
westerns, $775@10.15; native calves,
$1O.75@14.5O.
SHEEP - Steady; native sheep,
$10.OG@1125; western sheep, $10.25
@11.50; yearlings, $11.5O@134o; ma
tive lambs, $11.75@14.35; western
lambs, $12.O0@14.40; ewes, $500
1855.
Closing Prices.
HOGS-Closing steady at early
prices; mixed and butchers, $11.S00
1880; good to choice heavy, $11.55@
1870; rough heavy, $11.35@11.5G;
light, $112O@1175; Workers, $1160Q
HIS; bulk, $115O@11.75; pigs, 1856
@1O.75; clearance yesterday fair.
Cattle closing steady.
Sheep closing steady.
Official receipts yesterday
2S,699; cattle, S,426; sheep, 10,96S.
Official shipments yesterdays Hogs
1856; cattle, 1876; sheep, 654.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

Ground hog day comes on Friday
this year, so it is foregone con-
clusion that we will have six weeks
more of winter.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
ORIGINAL BIRD MAN.

Frank Brinton has been explaining
bis new airship TO Alex Miller, and he
contesses in his Washington Demo,
Graf, that II beat, anything in the
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01
oh, Girls.

81 intend to marry for love-" said
the girl with the dreamy eyes. "You
are wise, my dear" replied her dear.
est friend. "Men with money are
oftan "a hard ~ niaaaau
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

The bark of blnck oak, or "yellow
oak. as It is often called on account
Of the colcraof the inner bark, Is now
used for dye-making ~ tr y
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

Dubuque has turned her baseball
park into a winter skating rink.
Whew! Do you remember when
Oskaloosa tried this out?
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

"A tramp drummer has discov-
cred that electric lights installed
inside his drums keep the moisture
out and makes the drum head tight.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-01

The fellow who advocates having
csal bins filled in August, ought to be
having his straw hat cleaned now.