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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
WOMAN IN THE WAR.
PLANT kitchen garden and en-.

WOMAN IN THE WAR.
Plant kitchen garden and en-
courage your neighbors to do like
wise.
Avoid waste in buying, prepar-
ing, cooking and serving good
stuffs.
Do without food you do not
need.
These simple rules are laid down for
women Of Iowa to follow by the state
branch Of the National League for
Woman's Service, which has hundreds
Of thousands Of women enrolled in
scores of cooperating organizations in
thirty-four states.
There is some sort Of work for
every woman to do in the movement
to conserve and increase the nations
food supply" is one Of the typical SEN
fences in the leagues appeal to 1owa's
patriotic women.
Already the response Is evident.
The women will do their part and the
men must.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
LITTLE BENNY'S
N !OTE BOOK
py LEE PAPE

. .
Me and Skinny Martin and Sid Hunt
wasent going enywares In pertick1er.
and who came along but Sam Gross 60
ing home frum the market with a big
fish raped up in brown paper. witch he
undid the brown paper and showed It
to us, being hole fish with it's tale and
everything jest the way 1t was born
and Skinny Martin pulled peece Of
string out Of his pants pockit, saying,
Herray. look at all the wattir in the
guttir in the guttir, lets go fishing.
WITCH the wattir was running down
the guttir Jest like little river. not be-
ing very cleen looking wattir on ac-
count Of the soap suds and things In It.
and we tied the string Ground the
fishes tale and throo the fish in the gut.
tir and the wattir took it down TIL It
got to the end of the string, and then
we took terms pulling it up and pertend.
ing we eetch had cawt fish, Sam
Cross pulling it up ferst on account Of
It belonging to his family, yelling Her
ray, cawt q shark, I cawt shark.
Herray, herray, we all yelled. And
Sam throo the fish back in the gutt1r
and Skinny Martin pulled 1t up, yelling
A porpiss, q porpiss, cawt . porp1ss.
Herray, herray, we all yelled. And
then me and Sid Hunt eetch pulled It
up quick on account Of not being mulch
wattir left, being more mud than eny-
thing e3.s, me catching q sordflsh and
Sid catching a vale, wich Jest vile he
was pretending to be having fearse
time, pulling 1t UP, Sam sed. Cheese It,
cheese it, heer comes my father And
he quick grabbed the fsh and put Il
back in the paper and ran home and in
minnit Mr.. Cross came past, saying,
Hello, boys, having injoyabil time?
Yes sir, sea 1ae AMI Gid s.nd Skinny.
And aftir supper wen Sam Cross came
out sed, Did you get the mud OF all
rite Sam?
Sure. put 1t under the hydrint in
the yard. sed Sam.
How did it taist wen it was cooked!
I sed.
Fine, sed Sam.
Proving you never know ~ the taist
Of thing wat kind Of lie 1t has led
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24

message to her soldiers and sailors.
In it's pages are the funniest pictures
an stories from the Bystander, Punch,
the Taller, the Sketch. London Opin.
ion and other periodicals which serve
England's sense of humor.
Blighty contains no war news, no
politics-just hearty laugh from COW
or to cover. It lightens the long days
in the hospitals; it blots out the mem
ory Of manned and dying comrades at
the firing line; it counteracts the war
lust and brings welcome memories OF
home.
And it speaks volumes for the men
and women who make 1t possible. A
nation which can retain its sense OF
proportions and propriety, its saving
grace Of human interest, amid the
storm and stress of history's most ter
rible war, is too big nation, too
whole-souled people to suffer defeat.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
BRICK PAVEMENT
PROMOTERS WIN CASE

Clinton. April 81. The taxpayers OF
Clinton who brought suit for an injunc-
ton to restrain the city council from
paving several miles of streets with
brick, have won their case in the dis
trict court.
Judge A. J. House has issued an in
junction prayed for sustaining most OF
the contentious of the property owners.
The property owners along the
streets in question insisted on asphaltc
concrete for paving material while the
council passed in favor Of brick paving,
the contract for which was at higher
figure.
The case has been holly contested
for months.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
SPAIN is FIRING.

Snain. too, is reaching the limit OF
nat,ence. a fact revealed by the laconic
announcement which filtered through
the hands OF strict censors and an
nounced to the world the sudden res
ipnotion of Alfonsos entire cabinet.
Count Romanones, rendering his res
ienation, said he was convinced the
lives and interests of Span1ards could
not be assured if the government con.
tfnued bound by the limitations thas
have existed.
The Spanish king has maintained an
attitude Of neutrality, turning the 9TH
er cheek as rapidly as Germany's IN
suits were assimilated. But the sink
ing of Spanish vessels without warn.
ing. the destruction Of lives without
offer of succor, the waging Of the Ger
mans war on all the world. including
neutral Spain, is not accepted with
quiescence by the Spanish people.
Norway lost merchant ship few
DAYS ago and the report OF the tnves.
tigators says the submarine which had
torpedoed it fred on the life boats as
they were being lowered. Afterward
the report says, the crew OF the Ger
man vessel looted the ship before 1t
sank. ,,,
These are not nations at war with
GERMANY. They are victims OF the
same unreasoning contempt Tor law
and humanity which, multiplied many
fold, tried Americas patience to the
breaking point.
These little nations soon must assert
their self-respect by recognizing the
state of war which Germany has Great
ed. Weakened governments will be
forced by public opinion.
Meanwhile, German statesmen and
an inspired press labor with increasing
difficulty to delude their disheartened
people with frantic protestations that
Germany Is wronged, misunderstood
and the virtuous victim of vicious
conspiracy.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
MEETS HONOLULU MAN
AND WILL WE'D HIM

Glenwood, April 21.-Miss Ella New
man left for San Francisco, where i'm
mediately upon her arrival she will be
met by former Mills county boy Ser
geant Charles r. Seitz, who has jour
neyed from Honolulu, II. r., to San
Francisco, where he has the necessary
arrangements completed for an immed-
late wedding to take place after his ar
rival Of Miss Newman, his fancee.
After a few days Of sight seeing in
the city of San Francisco, they will
Journey to the Hawaiian islands. where
Sergeant Seitz is stationed with his
COMPANY.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
GETS OUT OF JAIL
IF HE WILL FARM

Waterloo. April 2l.-If Vernon Seese.
a Waterloo youth under Indictment for
larceny, will go to work on farm and
stay there. he viii be released from
Jail on bonds fixed at 500, according
to a ruling by Judge c. w. Mullan..
Attached to the order is the ironclad
condition that he secure employment
near Waterloo and remain continuous
" at work until his case is finally dis
posed Of in court.
II at any TIME Seese quits work, or
refuses to work the judge says he will
increase the bail to a prohibitory figure
and commit him to jail.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
TIME TO VOLUNTEER.

"A great many young ueH III LES
Moines refuse to engage in any manual
labor more strenuous than welding a
cue," says statement issued yester,
day by the recruiting officers, chief
Of police and Judges Of municipal
court in Des Moines. IF they refuse
to work they will be given choice
of going into the army. or navy, or to
jail." Is the conclusion.
Unfortunately for the other cities,
Des Moines is only one Of many COM
mumties in which similar statement
easily may be issued without depart
ing from the truth.
Very properly the government
authorities refuse to accept as re-
cruits many men who offer to enlist
to escape imprisonment for crime. The
loafers. for that matter.
But many young men fall into ways
of idleness unconsciously and uninten'
tionally. It Is true that some may be
found frequenting billiard halls and
other places where chairs are free.
They are capable Of reclamation, and
a few years in the army or navy will
teach them industry and the principles
Of good citizenhip.
They are the ideal potential re-
cruits. Their responsibilities are few !:
they are able bodied; they need
action. Shouldering gun Is nobler
occupation than chalking cue. wheth.
or the billiard game be in million.
aires club or an alley resort lit by
Pickering gas flames.
~ 40 y
teered for service. Many more are
half-persuaded. 1t is to waken them
to 4 sense Of their opportunities and
their Unborn responsibilities that such
demonstrations as the one in which
thousands OF loyal Ottumwans partf-
cipated last night are planned.
Now is the time to volunteer. There
is every reason to believe the presi.
dents CONSUMPTION plan will be adopt-
ed by congress within few days. The
volunteers WILL escape the draft and
forever after they will have the salts
faction Of having offered their SERVES
to their country without the spur OF
compulsion.
The nation Is rising to defend hui
mainly and its own honor. Every citi'
zen's responsibility in the present
crisis is the same. Universal military
service, the only proper plan OF defen-
sive preparation and defense, is de-
manded of congress. When it be-
comes effective 1t should find the army
and navy fully recruited and the re-
mainder of the citizenship awaiting
assignment to the jobs which will most
effectively second the efforts of the
fighting men.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
|IOWAN DEALS
WITH GERMANY
FORMER ALTOONA BOY CLOSES UP
AFFAIRS AFTER GERARD
COMES TO U. s. i,

Algona, April II. 1t was an Iowa.
boy who was left in charge of Ameri-'
can affairs in Berlin after Ambassador
Gerard and his party withdrew from
the German empire.
Harold Quarton, son Of Judge and !,
Mrs. H. c. Qua1ton Of this city is the
man. They have received word from
him now that he had successfully fin1u
ished all business in connection with
the diplomatic service in the Germano
capital and, at the request Of his gov.
eminent, has withdrawn to Rotterdam.
Quarton was first vice consul when
the American embassy was ordered
closed. With a. force Of about eighty
clerks and vice consuls under his direc-
ton the young Iowan took over the
work
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
TWO SIDES.

Too many crusades 1or reform, 1nos
itorious In themselves, fall victim to
the oyer-enthusiasm Of their expon-
ents. and with the utmost good will
The Courier venture the suggestion
that this patent fact should be consid-
cred By Miss Jeanette Rankin, mem
Der of congress from Montana.
Only recently, in these columns, ap-
proyal Of Miss Randn's espousal OF
child welfare was voiced, inspired by
an article from her pen which de-
plored the employment Of boys az mes
sengers throughout the night. The
temptations to which they are ex.
posed form dozens of reasons for
agreement with Miss Rankin.
But this plea was followed BY anoth-
or. which indicates that the congress
woman is permitting her sympathies
to outrun good judgment. She holds
that there should be no newsboys sell
ing papers on the streets, where they
are "apt students" in what she calls
"a school Of duplicity which teaches
self respect"
/. Your average newsboy is honest,
1ust a. your average business man is
honest. He does not give short
change, and II he exaggerates trifie
in crying his wares he is offending no
moro than the business man who
praises his potatoes. his brand Of
cough syrup or the bay mare he wants
to sell.
His life IL one OF keen competition.
He recommends the paper he sells. but
refrains from knocking the journal
offered by the Lad on the opposite
corner.
Best Of an, he learns to save. and he
b we'll Informed as to the value of .
dollar long in advance Of the boy who
Wives . sheltered life.
u While It IL true that his environ
menta arc not Of the best. It is equally
5trsses ysNasss Aes staxads At-hc.nA they
would 80 no better. And in every
large city the newsboys' club exercises
potent influence for good which
would be denied II there were no
newUies.
The weak always will drop behind
wherever there Is rivalry. But for
every down.and-outer who can lay his
fall to the sinister influences Of his
life q q street merchant there are
! dozens of successful men who trace
their progress and prosperity to the
lessons they learned In the thorough,
\ albeit stern school Of curbstone COM
petition.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
CAUSE FOR NERVOUSNESS

Count Won Reventlow is terrible agi.
tated because the Austrian foreign
minister has proposed peace confer
ence of all the belligerents. A confer.
ence on the basis proposed by Count
Czernin would destroy Germany in
ternally and externally" he AYERS.
Why state obvious facts? But, also
why fight longer in war which seems
certain to end in double defeat for the
central powers?
With disheartened workmen menac.
ing the autocratic government from
within and discouraged soldiers giving
up their lives vainly to defend it along
the crumblinR battle line. there is little
wonder that Won Reventlow is appre'
hensive.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
sLloHTY At THE FRONT,

Blighty Is the name Of Tommy
IAtkins' joke book. Published in Eng
hand and paid for by means of contri-
buttons from patriotic Britishers. it is
)Sent to the trenches where the union
hack floats over scenes OF carnage and
wig-wags its message of death across
.the shell-torn stretches Of No Mans
"A and to the eagles of the harassed
Fritz.
Rlighty is stay-at-home England's
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
TURNS UP 1oMAHAWk.

Bloomfield. April 81. While discing
some new ground on the Fox river bot
tom, II. c. Guernsey unearthed war
like implement. 1t is one of the old
models and one not used extensively at
this time; stone tomahawk. 1t is sup
posed to have belonged to member
Of the Fox or Sac tribe of Indians
which inhabited this vicinity seventy
five years ago.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
OPERATORS ON STRIKE.

ST. Louis, Mo-, April 81. Telegraph
operators on the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas road are out on a strike. It was
called Thursday by H. P. Perham. pres
ident of the Order Of Railway Teleg-
raphers. He said the company had re-
fused to negotiate with committee
representing the operators which last
summer applied for revision OF the
wage schedule and working hours.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24

Poor old Cupid IL being walloped
trom both sides. Young mon who wed
new feel called on to defend them
/ slves against the charge Of being
lackers; and 40 II that were not
lough, the Ottumwa school board de-
rees that no more married women
hall be employed as teachers. But.
1.-THE course of true love never did run
ann0the
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
HAVE RECRUITS SOUGHT.

Kansas City, Mo. April 81. The
Kansas City naval recruiting station is
the first In the country to reach the
Quota of enlistments asked for by the
government. The total is sos. The
number asked for was 500. Enrolling
of one hundred and one yester@
broke all records Of enlistment
single day.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
HIGH GRADES IN LAW.

Mt Pleasant. April 81. Floyd c..
Duncan of this city is one Of the five
seniors in the college Of law at the
state university Of Iowa who has elect
ed to membership In the Order of the
Golf. This is an honor only granted to
those who stand among the first five
in the graduating class each year.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
WILL ENTER WEST POINT.

Esoclntield. April q. Arthur Noor-
expects to leave early in June for West
Point military academy, where he VIII
enter as a cadet Moore is the ap-
pointee from the sixth district and
successfully passed the preliminary ex-
aminations for entry.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
WEEKS WEATHER FORECAST.

Washington. D. c.. April 2l.--
Weather predictions for the week be-
ginning Sunday, issued gy the weather
bureau today. include:
Great lakes region, upper and mid
die Mississippi valleys and plains
states: Generally fair except for local
showers Tuesday or Wednesday. Nor
NAL temperature.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
mans as fast as they marched into

mans as fast as they marched into
range.
They retreated. as they had been
doing for three whole days. Those
who retreated too slowly were cap
tured.
And when the news of the rout came
from Berlin it was that they had "es-
tablished themselves in a rearward
line" because "the forest position be-
came unsuitable"
"Unsuitable'' Is right.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24

Miss Virginia O'Brien needs no les
sons in loyalty. When one of her p,t
pills called the stars and stripes "a
dirty rag" this school ma'am forced
him to kneel on the banner and kiss
every stripe. If the school board at
Gravity fails to reflect her it will be
safe to wager there will be a new
board soon.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
DINNER STORIES

There's difference in time, yr~
know, between this country and Euro& !.
said gentleman in New York to Nv
newly arrived Irishman. For instance
your friends in Cork are in bed and
fast asleep by this time, while we are n
enjoying ourselves in the early even Al
ing" g
That's always the way" exclaimed. (
Pat. ireland niver got justice yit." vi
"Poor John, he was a kind and for.
bearing husband" sobbed the widow 4
on her return from the funeral.
YES" said sympathizlng neighbor. )
"but 1t is all for the best. You must try
the thought that your husband r. ut Il
peace at last" There was silence for
about five minutes. Then the poor Wild
ow looked for the neighbor, but she had
disappeared.
A certain lady brought her child 20
clergyman to get It christened aAd
during the ceremony he remarked:
This child may be destined for great ]
things. He may become a great orator
great statesman. or brave soldier {
Of war, or perhaps follow my own 90 )
cupation in life Well, now madam /
what name do you wish to call this /
child?" i
Eliza Jane" was the reply.
The financially involved manufacture |
er was obliged to sack q porter who
had been for forty years in the service
of the firm
I'm sorry, John. but you will have to
! CO." he said. 1
I'm sorry myself" said John. 'If /
had known it wasn't going to be a 4
steady Job wouldn't have taken it."
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24

War bridegrooms truly are i'll
starred Yesterdays order issued by
the war department finds many fel-
low. married hastily and recently. only
to find that in choosing warfare of the
domestic sort in preference to the mil.
itary kind he merely has encountered
both
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
WAR BRIDEGROOM CRIES QUITS.

Chicago. April q. Edward c. Dorm.
married by Judge Dean Franklin in the
courtroom on April 10, during the re-
cent rush to the altar, filed bill for
divorce in the superior court yesterday
against Bertha Dorm, alleging that his
ten day bride has displayed undue az
lection for another man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
DEEP RIVER FARMER INJURED.

Deep River. April y. w D. Swain,
a farmer. living north OF town, met with
painful accident while trimming
grape vines. In some manner the knife
slipped. cutting his left hand through
the palm. He was brought to DIR.
Grains Office. where his hand was
blood
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24

1t is better to twist your muscles In
to painful knots while making garden
than to wait while and crick your
back while moving weeds in non.
producing back yard or vacant lot.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24
RoesER GETS % YEARS.

Mt. Ayr, April Civ. Z. Ward, who
confessed to having robbed the First
National Bank OF Diagonal last week
was sentenced TO twenty years In the
penitentiary by Judge Maxwell here.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24

Join the clean up army. And while
you are about It, spade up the back
yard for garden.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-24

] This Is National Recruiting day. A
IFrenchman and Belgian volunteered
Ifor service at Ottumwa's recruiting
stations yesterday. 1t is Americas
Il urn
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-30
THE ALECk

! saw young man fired, ON jan
ny 10; he never will be hired by his
boss again. When first he start
in at Watson's beeswax store, he
eemed like one who'd win the lau-
els by the score. For he had push
Iad vim. he was no sluggish poke;
I waved an active limb, left a trail
smoke. All this was passing well,
Ut after sundry moons, his head be-
fn to swell, as young heads swell
|ftsoons. H4 thought the beeswax
pore would close il he should quit;
Pc Old Man was bore. and he alone
|as 1t. Now, when ayoung man feels
pat he's the prop Of trade, that all
pe plunks and wheels by his address
re made, he's walking to fall, his
eet will hit the dump; and when too
'te he'll bawl that he was such a
hump. He travels verst and league,
Keeps the pavement hot, his spir-
Knows fatigue, his head has shrunk
lot He has no job as yet, he may
u one next week and when he does,
l oet' we'll find him pretty meek
<.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-30
NOTICE OF MASTERS SALE
Patented Ap1|I %. 1NA

Notice is hereby given that under
and by virtue OF final decree rem
dered by the Hon. John s. Edwards.
Judge Of the Circuit Court of Polk
county, Florida, in chancery sitting. in
certain cause lately pending in said
court wherein Mrs. L. M. Kuhn was
complainant. and John B. Speth ct al .
We're defendants. will on Monday, the
9th day Of August. A. d. 1917, at the
south door Of the court house in. Bar
tow. Florida. between the legal hours
OF sale, offer for sale and sell to the
highest and best bidder for cash the
following described property in Polk
county, Florida. to-wit: One city lot
with one room house thereon de-
scribed as follows Fifty feet Off the
west side Of lot I fronting on Rose
street and running back to the At.
lantic Coast Line Railroad right OF
way in NJ. w. Rogers subdivision Of
block T of Morton's addition to Lake
land, Florida.
This 7th day of July. A. d. 1917.
A. r. CARVER.
65S7 Special Master.