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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27
(From Mondays Daily.)

Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard Mckee
returned home this morning from
weeks wedding trip to Minneapolis
and st. Paul.
%. f. Farr and son and daugh-
ter, B. H. Farr of Reading. Pa, and
Mrs. J. O. Crawford of Chicago, and
also an intimate friend of the fam
lily, Miss Smith of Chicago, arrived
here this morning with the remains
of the late Mrs. o. +. Farr for the
burial service this afternoon.
Miss Kathryn Voss has returned
to her duties in the Whitson G. Voss
grocery store after spending several
weeks at her home in Jewell because
of the illness of her mother, who is
now much improved.
Miss Emma Amundson of Eagle
Grove Sundayed with Miss Blanche
Hoot and other friends.
Henry Roskopf went to Mar
shalltown Sunday to visit his broth
err and attend to business interests.
Clark Voss of Jewell has re-
turned home after short visit with
his uncle, Henry Voss and family.
Simon Sogard of Ellsworth is in
the city today.
Miss Leta Mines of Clarion spent
Saturday, and Sunday with her for
mer college friend, Miss Bertha Tear,
one of the high school teachers of
this city.
Miss Claire Richardson, stu
dent at the Iowa State College in
Ames, spent the week end with her
father and mother in this city. r
Mr.. and Mrs.. Roy Woodland and
little son of Eagle, Grove returned
home yesterday after visit with
Mrs, WIS parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
r. Donovan and family. The Wood
ard family are moving to farm four
miles from Goldfield.
The Misses olga Amundson and
Clara Gabrielson spent yesterday af-
ternoon with friends in Williams.
Mrs. Lyle Davis and little
daughter leave tomorrow morning
for Garner and Bows to spend a
month or six weeks with relatives.
&C. w. Black left yesterday for
Chicago to buy the spring and sum-
mer stock for the Shipley & Black
dry goods store.
Miss Clara Goodfelow of Cedar
Rapids arrived in the city yesterday
to begin her duties in the hosiery
and underwear department of the
Shipley & Black store. Miss Good
fellow will also have charge of the
corset department as she is an .ex-
perienced corsetiere.
Hamilton County's legislators,
Senator d. C. Chase and Representa-
i've Rube McFerren, arrived, home
night to remain during the
'ecess now being taken by the Thir-
y-Seyenth General Assembly.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27
SOUTHERN FRAUDS AGAIN.

Charles City Press: Brother Bier
mann, of the DEBORAH Journal, says
he objects to Negro domination in
any part of the country, and he be-
lieves his white fellow-citizens of
the south are right when they devise
means for seeing to it that, SO far as
their power goes, this shall be a
white mans country. And then he
submits the following proposition:
We should be- interested in see
ing what answer Brother Henry
would make to such questions as
these: Do you want 100000 ne
groes to vote on the presidency
Would you want the negro vote to
determine the election in the nation,
Or in any state, or any congressional
district, or county, or city, against
the wishes of the majority of the
whites? If there were 1000 negroes
in Charles City would you want them
to vote on mayor in your city?
To the first proposition we will
state that if these votes are to be cast
they should be cast by the colored
man, and if they are not to be per-
mitted to be cast by the colored cleo
tors, they should not be counted TO
increase any section represented in
congress or in the electoral college.
Does Brother Biermann believe in
fraud and intimidation? According
to the Journal he does. He believes
it right that the southern white man
should say to the colored man, you
can't vote but l will vote for you,
one southern white man having from
two to five votes to Brother Bier
one, according to the proper
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27
FRIEND CARRANZA?

Carroll Herald: During his work
as president of Princeton college,
President Wilson dealt with a great
many perpleXing problems, but we
venture that no freshman or sopho-
more ever taxed his patience and re-
sources quite SO severely as this
friend Of his known as gCarranza. +.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27
MINpRs on coAL PRICES.

United Mine Workers Journal: We
know that the anthracite collieries
Iof Pennsylvania can produce as
largely as ever in the history of the
industry, and heretofore they were
able to produce more than sufficient
Ito supply all demand. However it
may be hidden by changes of names
of operating companies, dummy di-
!rectors and other ways that are dark,
we know that there is close ALI
lance amounting to at least thor
|ough mutual understanding between
the large coal-producing companies
land the transportation companies.
Inasmuch as these companies,
through their publicity agents, have
seen fit to charge that the coal short
age and the high prices that are de-
manded are due to the few days that
the miners lay idle of their own
choice, it is we'll to consider first
whom the present famine prices BEN
eft. Unlike the greater number of
the bituminous coal operators, the
anthracite operators maintain con-
troll of the selling price of coal on
the retail market, and profit largely
by the enhanced prices. In Phila-
delphia, federal Investigations have
determined that the shortage Of the
supply of anthracite coal and the re-
|sulting high prices that have been
eXtorted from the consumers were
deliberately planned by those who
stood to profit thereby. The exceed
ingly high prices are certainly not
Justified by any increase in the pro-
ductive cost or in the cost of trans
portation, but are rapidly developing
into real menace.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

According to the estimates of the
of coal in the United States last year
was the largest in the history of the
industry, amounting to 60S,000, 900
tons. In 1914 the production was
513, 100000 tons and in 1915 it was
ST., 100000. Hence the production
of last year, according to the best
available authority, was 91,000,O00
tons greater than ever before, an in
crease OF more than II per cent. Yet
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

Sir Edward Carson, first lord of
the British admiralty, in a state
ment the other day said that the sub
marines had claimed 118 ships in
the first eighteen days of the unre-
strained piratical warfare of the
German navy. That sounds like q
terrible toll. And it is. But when
it is recalled that during those
eighteen days 6,076 vessels entered
English ports and G,S73 left the per-
centage of losses is very low, less
than one per cent. In other words,
the submarine gets less than one
boat out of each hundred in is days.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

According to the statement of Sir
Edward Carson, first lord of the Brit
ish admiralty, there are approx
mately 5000 ships constantly in the
waters of the. war zone outlined by
Germany.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

Our advice to the suffrage ladies
in Iowa, is to go slow. The state o.
Iowa will probably revise its opinion
on the question Of suffrage, If it is
given plenty of time to think it ov-
er.-Boone News-Republican.
That is some good advice from a
friend Of universal suffrage. The
women who are trying to crowd the
matter to the breaking point would
do well to heed it. Evidence of un-
due anxiety often defeats meritor-
ious legislation. Give the state time
TO cool off from the heat of the last
suffrage campaign and the cause will
benefit.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

Just how it happens that the Euro
spean war continues when some fell
low has written book telling how
to stop it and is selling the book at
five cents the copy has not been sat
isfactorily explained
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

1t is well for the country that the
mother of George Washington didn't
carry around a banner upon which
was inscribed the words, 81 didn't
raise my boy to be soldier Mrs.
Washington wasn't that kind of a
mother and George wasn't that kind
of son. otherwise the nation would
not have observed Georges birth an
niversary as a holiday.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

The people of old England seem
to have considerable money salted
4 down and there is no discount upon
their patriotism. They have sub
scribed $4,000, 100000 to recent war
loans.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

Il The greatest possible service that
William j. Bryan can do his country
at this critical time is to keep still.
Fort Dodge Chronicle.
The Chronicle is right, but there
is nothing Col. Bryan could do that
would entail so much personal sacri-
flee and there is some doubt of his
ability to meet the test successfully.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27
SUNK THE HYPHEN.

Marshs,lltown Times-Republican
One excellent achievement may be
credited to the German submarine
it torpedoed and sunk the American
Hyphen.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

According to all reports the musk
rat that told us last fall that we
were going to have mild winter is
frozen to death. He lacked the judg-
ment of the grounding that waited
until past the middle of the winter
to express an opinion.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

If the fellows who are worrying
over the bone dry legislation sweep
ing the country would take seat
upon the water wagon the days of
their worry would be over.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

Wonder what the New York wom-
en- who led in the recent dread riot
would do if they lived in Germany
instead of in the United States.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

England has figured out that she
and the neutrals are building ships
as fast as they are being destroyed
by German submarines. She also
figures that German resources will
be exhausted first.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27
FEARLESS AND RIGHT.

AIgona Republican: Senator Ken
yon is the most fearless of U. S. Sen
Iators in his fight on the pork barrel
bill, and best OF all, he is absolutely
fright.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

The Chicago Tribune says that in
the event of war we must get rid OF
our politicians, but it fails to state
Just how we could go about it to get
rid Of the editor of the Chicago rriO-
une.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

If you want to make sure that
your friends will never forget you,
borrow money from them.-Fort
Dodge Chronicle.
Well, Charlie, how much loose
change have you to loan?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

|tion, while another has torpedo
that will be drawn toward the enc
|my's ship by magnetism and clings
there minute or two until it eX-
plodes. Both are called successful.
1t has been stated by English
newspapers, and is probably true,
that some $4,000 citizens of the
United States have volunteered to
aid the allies and have gone to Eur
ope as soldiers. This is an indication
that there would be many thousands
volunteer in the event> of war be-
tween this country and Germany.
Col. Roosevelt has already volunteer
ed his services and offered to raise
an eXpeditionary force. He did the
same thing in the Spanish-American
war and made good. 1t is also said
that the colonel has been deluged
with letters from men who are ready
to volunteer under his leadership.
Possibly half million men would
offer their services the first year. If
they did the moral effect would
count. It would give heart to the
French and Belgians and demon
strate to the world that the United
States was, ready to do it's full part.
The United States has experienced
and probably is to further expert
ence the delight of a war tax with
out war. If such conditions as are
indicated by New York dispatches OF
food riots continue it might be we'll
to, copy again after the European ma
tons and install a food dictator. If
a war tax when we have no war is
logical why not food dictator when
we have no food?-SiouX City Trib-
une.
Energetic and persistent enforce
ment of the Sherman antitrust law
would help in solving the price of
the necessaries of life. Spectators
and trusts are responsible in many
instances for almost prohibitive
prices and the government could
protect the people to just the extent
that high prices are the result of
corners and combinations. A food
dictator may yet be necessary. The
situation is certainly alarming.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

.'Therefore judge nothing before
the time, until the Lord come. who
both will bring to light the hidden
things of darkness, and will make
manifest the counsels of the hearts"
- Cor. AS.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

The Bethlehem Steel Works has
contract to furnish the allies with
$7,000,0OO worth of shells, or rather
shells costing $70,000,O0O. A short
time ago Russia owed the institu-
tion s10,000,0O0 for supplies and
the company refused to furnish more
until this bill was paid. England
promptly came to the front with the
ducats, the debt was liquidated and
the company is now working on the
balance of the contract. 1t was little
Belgium that halted the first adj
vance of the German army. France
held them at bay. Russia has done
well for the allies throughout the
war, but it is old John Bull who is
now furnishing the financial sinews
to carry on the conflict. Some critics
have said that England was not do
ing her part, but this criticism is
unjust and unfair. Great Britain
has not lost as many men as France
or Russia, but her navy has saved
France from starvation, made it pos
sible for her to ship in munitions
and supplies and has furnished mon
ey to all the allies. Really, each and
every country involved in the war,
except Japan, has done her full
share and possibly Japan has done
all that has been expected of her.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

School boys throughout the state
ought this year to try their hand at
farming in small way. Chances are
that the industrious lad can make
enough money out of a small piece
of ground to well repay him for the
expense incurred and the labor ex-
pended. 1t is likely that high prices
for all foodstuffs will continue for
at least year. Prices may not be
as high as now, but it is reasonable
to expect potatoes to be worth $3.50
per bushel next winter and other
produce proportionately high. If the
season is favorable and the soil
adaptable 100 bushels of potatoes is
not an unusual crop from an ordin-
airy city residence lot. An industri-
GUS lad can easily attend to lot or
two without neglecting his school
duties. Onions will pay even better
than potatoes. Beans also yield we'll
and are bringing extraordinarily high
prices. There is also good opportun-
ity for young men who are out of
school and have some time to devote
to agricultural pursuits. They could
rent two or three acres of ground
close to town and try some intensive
farming. There is plenty of land
within a mile of Webster City that
could be thus utilized and could be
secured at from rental of from s12I
to SIS per acre in two, three, five or
even ten acre patches. This is the
best year to try the experiment, as
prices are bound to be high, perhaps
higher on the average than they will
be for number of years.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

such other relief as the court deems
} fair and equitable in the premises"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-02-27

ton, while another has torpedo
that will be drawn toward the enc
my's ship by magnetism and clings
there a minute or two until it eX-
plodes. Both are called successful.
The Robesonian., 1917-05-03
IT. is SERIOUS

Some Lumberton People Fail to Real
ize the Seriousness of a Bad Back
The constant aching of bad back,
The WEAKNESS, the tired feeling.
The pains and aches of kidney ills
May result seriously if neglected.
Dangerous urinary troubles often
A Lumberton citizen shows YOU
what to do.
c. M. Prevatt, 300 Cedar st.. Lum-
berton, says: "My back panied me
so badly that I often felt as though
it would break. Sharp pains caught
me through my loins and couldn't
straighten up for a week at a time.
Ny kidneys didn't act as they should.
Hearing so many people recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills, 1 gave them a
trial, getting my supply from McMil-
lan's Drug Store. The first box
helped me and after, taking several
boxes my kidneys were in coed shape
and my back caused me little trouble.
Since then I have kept Doan's Kid
ney Pills on hand and have taken a
few doses when necessary"
:. Price SOC. at. all -dealers. Don't
SIMPLY ask for kidney refmnedy-get
slaoan's, Kidney Pills 1.-The same : that
Mr.. Prevatt had. Foster Milburn
Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Robesonian., 1917-05-03
Juice Of Lemons!
How to Make Skin
White and Beautiful

At the cost of a small lar of
dinary cold cream one can nra,c. 70 or-
full quarter pint cf the most Po1 Pase
derful lemon skin softener and onn "oll'
plexlon beautifier, by soueezino In. n.
juice of two fresh lemons int bat me
tie containing three ounces Of 4 0Os' W
chard white. Care should be tato-
to strain the juice through Gea fiea
cloth so no lemon pulp gets in tbas ,as
this lotion will keep fresh ea fos
months. Every woman knows tbOt Ot
lemon juice is used to bleach ard ra' va
move such blen1ishes as saIlowness
freckles and tan and is the ideal sI;n'
softener, smoothener and beautif;ori i
Just try it! Get three ounces NJ
orchard white at any pharmacy and NJ
two lemons from the grocer and maLo
up quarter pint of this sweetIv
fragrant lemon lotion and n,assaas
it daily into the face, neck, arms and
hands. It naturally should helm ~
soften, freshen, bleach and bring ont
the loses and beauty of any skin. T.
IS wonderful to smoother rough, red
hanos. ea
The Robesonian., 1917-05-03
JUSTIFIES ENTRY OF
u. S. INTO THE WAR
Noted German Jurist Refutes Argu-
ments That This Country Was In
spired by Dollar Chasing

spired by Dollar Chasing
Cponehagen Dispatch, April 80.
Macmillan Harden, the German
"entfant terrible, publishes in the
latest issue of Die Zukunft another
daringly frank article exposing to
German readers the "shams, preten-
ces and mistakes" of their govern
ment's policy.
The article is devoted to the en-
try of the United States into the
war, which Herr Harden warns the
people must be taken most seriously,
both from the moral side, as a symp-
tom of the weakness of Germany's
appeal to the neutral world and the
failure of the foreign policy, and be-
cause of the physician aspects Of
weight that America will ultimately
be able to throw into the scale.
Urges DemOcratization
Another article by Herr Harden
eliminates in an appeal to Germany
to put the interior of her house in
order and int. 0d1ee democratic con-
ditions, which the writer says is the
only sure basis for future peace.
Scarcely less noteworthy than his
s,cathing criticism of German diplom-
acy (but not that of Count Won Bern
storff, former ambassaor to the
United States, whose work he prais-
es) is Herr Harden's justification to
German readers of Americas demo-
3ition, for example, of the favorite
pan-German argument that the Unit
ed States was inspired solely by dol
lar-chasing and looked upon war on
ly as a source for enormous profits
from munition supplies.
Profitable Neutrality Rejected
The United States, Herr Harden
declares, could have continued to
amass unmeasured riches, not from
munition contracts, but as world s
source of supply. Instead, he adds,
the United States chose for an ideal
TO reject a continuance of it's prof
liable neutrality to load itself with
a burden of expenditures which no
other country could safely bear.
Condemns Limitations
Herr Harden condemns the limita-
tons of the peace offer of the Cen
trail Powers, whose purpose was, he
says, to pave the way for declara-
tion of submarine war and the rejec-
tion of President Wilson's offer OF
mediation, and the, German official
efforts to deceive and mislead the
President regarding the coming sub
marine campaign. A rupture Of re-
lations was inevitable from Presi-
dent Wilson's notes the monument
this was proclaimed, but Herr Har-
den believes that it might have limit
ed to this and armed neutrality if il
had not been for the overtures look.
ing to an alliance with Mexico and
Japan, upon which he lavishes all
The language of ridicule and con-
tempt. He laments that this did not
8 lead to the fall of the imperial chan
cellor, DR.. Won Bethmann- ollweg
and the foreign secretary, DIR. Zim-
norman, which President Wilson may
perhaps have expected, when the pub.
iication occurred. -, -
The Robesonian., 1917-05-03
the present levy.

the present levy.
With all these facts before US
would it not be wise to save our
county any further debt and espec,,
tally till we learn how to make and
keep up roads at less expense for
the amount of service rendered:
There is too much graft, "grab''
or "pull" as roads are now worked
too little work done for the amount
of money expended. Only few days
ago We saw sample Of the waste
practiced in road building, or road
repairs five men operating road
scraper to. which was hitched six
mules, when one man ana two mules
with good drag could have done the
same amount of work in the same
time.
Let US think well before we act
A. H. STONE
Fairmont, N. C.
April 27, 1917.
The Robesonian., 1917-05-03
MRS. CLAYTON'S LETTER
To Rundown, Nervous Wome,

10 3su00OW1I3 1So1 VOuS "OII6u
Louisville, KY was a nervous
wreck, and in a weak, rundown con-
dition when a friend asked me to try
Vinol. I did SO, and as result I have
gained in health and strength. I think
Vinol is the best medicine in the world
for a nervous, weak, rundown system
and for elderly people" Mrs. w. G.
CLAYTON, Louisville, Ky.
Vinol,. which contains beef and cod
liver peptones, iron and manganese
peptonates, aid glycerophosphates,
Is guaranteed to overcome ~lall run.
down, weak, devitalized conditions.
DR.. J. D. Mcmillan & San. Drug
glsts, Lumberton. N. C..