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kIRkVILLE.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Seigrist. Miss
Ollie Bedford of Ottumwa. Mrs. Henry
Segrist and children spent Monday at
the home of their parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Brown Bedford.
Mr. and Mrs Roscoe Marshall and
little daughter of Ottumwa spent Mon
day at the home of her parents Mr.. and
Mrs Fred Cummins.
The Rebekah lodge installed the Of
iicers Tuesday evening for the ensuing
year as follows: n. G., Mrs. blanche
Mohler: r. S. to n. c.. Mrs Jim Alb
ernathy: l.. S. to N. G., Mrs. Frank
Wittenmyer; V. c.. Miss Ethel Guthrie:
r. s. to V. G., Miss Lucy Alternately;
l.. s. to V. g., Mrs. Hazel Garrett: sec
rotary. Miss Bertha McGlasson; treas
urer. Mrs. Bert Ward: warden, Mrs.
Jim Moore; conductress. Mrs. Esther
Lancy; l. G., Miss Bertha Parks: 0. G.,
Miss May Forsythe.
Mrs Lizzie Rupe and children of
Montana returned home Tuesday after
a three months visit at the home of her
mother Mrs. Emily Bunch.
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CANTRlL.

Clint and Ben Fisher received mes
sage Monday stating the death Of theii
brother Milt Fisher aged 70 years VIII.
died of pneumonia at his home in Mt
Hamel Tuesday Jan. 9th.
Chas. McNamer and Mary J. Bel
were married Dec. %, 1916. Rev. ]. G
Berhens officiating Mr.. McNamer I;
track foreman and they will be at hom,
to their friends in the Evans property.
Mrs. Amos Vale died at Mt. Sterll
ing Tuesday. She was the mother n
VIM. Vale and Mrs. Efma Struble u
Cantril Arrangements for the funer
have not yet been made.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Chas Vale Jar
4 1916 boy, Paul Willard Vale.
Laura Pierce spent the week end o.
Bloomfield.
Mrs NJ. F.. Jack left Tuesday for Ket
sauqua where she will spend the winf,s
with Mrs. f. Manning while Mrs Pail
rot and son Bryant are absent in Calf
ornia. IS
Mary Cannady spent Saturday AL
Sunday in Bloomfield.
Paul Roberts of Keosauqua was II
town Monday.
Rev. Jones is holding special NEE q
ings at Upton. His pulpit in CantrE
was filled Sunday eve by Prof. Hen
Erickson
Mr. Cockeral and bride have gone n
house keeping in the Leslie Shaw prors
erty.
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OF BIG BLAZE
JANUARY II, 1916 THE DATE OF
FIRE THAT COST NEARLY
100000.

Today is the anniversary of the big
fire that visited Ottumwas business
district Tuesday morning, January IL,
1916 and before controlled had de-
stroyed or badly damaged five build
ings and caused losses to twice that
number of firms large and small.
Starting in the elevator shaft of the
Friedman department store at an
early hour in the morning, it soon
spread to the adjoining buildings and
the Stevens shoe store, the Nelson
Cloak Co.. Swirles dry goods store,
Woolworth & Co., the Fair, Carl Wal
lace's print shop, Witherell Fixit shop,
and DR.. Hansell's office suffered eth
er total or partial destruction by fire
or damage through smoke and water.
The buildings owned by ]. B. Sax, j.
T. Hackworth, Harper & Browning, II.
L. Edmunds and R. E. Stevens all SUI
fered severe loss or complete destruc-
ton.
The fire was one of the biggest suf-
fered by the city and affected more
firms than any blaze that had oc-
Cured here for several years. The
loss totalled nearly 100000 with in
surance amounting to $242,300.
The replacing of the buildings has
shown the Ottumwa spirit for all OF
the structures doomed in the fire have
since been replaced and remodeled.
All Of the firms suffering losses save
the Friedman store resumed opera
ton during the past year and more
modern buildings have replaced those
destroyed. One of these, on the site
occupied by the Friedman store is not
yet completed but promises to be
handsome business building when fin
ished.
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MUTE IS MURDERED
BY HIGHWAY ROBBER

Council Bluffs. Jan. ll.-Sidney
Smith, 90 years old. deaf mute, was
murdered by a highwayman
The murder took place under a
street light in the business district, a
block from the police station
After shooting Smith. who failed to
hear his command Of Throw up your
hands, the robber escaped.
Two holdups by a man of the de-
scription of the robber, which were
reported within thirty minutes after
the shooting led the police to think
the same man committed all three
crimes.
3. Shepard and B. Thornton, rail
road men. were held up and robbed
and Mr. and Mrs. E. Rushenberger
were followed for two blocks to their
door
The community is at high pitch of
excitement. Holdups have been of
nightly occurrence for several weeks.
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ELDON

c. W. Suffer, Elmer Weber and w.
o. Lyons went to Chicago on business
Tuesday.
Harold Grant worked at the Lyon
e Heady grocery this week.
The Bay View reading club met
with Mrs. George Myers Wednesday
with Mrs. Elmer Finney as leader
Mesdames Elmer Weber and Omar
Cresup will be hostess at the home of
the former Thursday afternoon. Janu-
airy II, to the Fortnightly club.
Mesdames Paul Ramser and Eunice
Friend returned home from a few
days visit in Des Moines with friends.
Mrs. Paul Ramser is visiting rela-
tives in Batavia this week.
Miss Esther Willard will be hostess
to the Shakespeare club at her home,
Wednesday afternoon. January II,
with Mrs. Harley Flint as leader in a
general review of Tanning of the
Shrew.
Mr.. William Van Aus Deln and son
Of near Batavia were in the city on
business Wednesday.
R. D. Crow was in Selma on bus
mess Wednesday of this week.
Mrs. c. c. Boxx is on the sick list
this week.
Noah S. Stump went to Selma We'd
nesday evening to attend Rehekah
lodge.
Ed Sawyers was in Chicago on bus
mess this week.
William Smith was on the sick list
Wednesday.
The E1don concert band will give a
concert at McHaffey's opera house,
January 16. The program follows:
Part March. Universal Peace,
Bampe: overture. Bridal Rose, Laval
lee; clarinet duet, Swiss Boy, Frank
and Dwight Shore, concert waltzes,
Wilhelmina, Hall; grand selection
from II Trovatore. Verdi
Part 2-Reading. selected. Re1la
Kriese; reading, Impotence Hath It's
Privilege. Eula Mcclure; overture
Raymond. Thomas; Eupboniam solo,
Old Folks at Home. Dale Brooks: dis
criptive. The Min in the Forest. Elm
burg; United We Stand, Hayse.
Our old war songs. containing
Tramp. Tramp, Hail Columbia. Amer
lea, Glory. Glory, Hallelujah, Tenting
on the Old Camp Ground Yankee
Doodle, Red, White and Blue, Dixie.
Marching Through Georgia, and Star
Spaneled Banner. (On your feet for
Old Glory.)
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and seventy-second year as resident
of Wapello county Friday.
Despite his nearly four score years
he enjoys good health and few men
his age are as able to be about as is
this well known Ottumwan. His regu-
larity is like that of the clock and
daily he may be seen at his desk in
the presidents Office of the bank at
the southwest corner of Main and Mar
ket streets.
Few men in Ottumwa have had
such an active part in the life and
business of this city and community
as James r. Hackworth. Most of his
life in Ottumwa has been spent in
some industry Of business that has
played an important part in the com
munity's welfare.
Born in Adams county, Ohio. Janu-
airy ~, 1889, Mr. Hackworth at the age
of years came with his parents to
Ottumwa, his father taking 200 acres
of land on the south side near what
is now the southern boundary OF Of
tumwa in the vicinity of the Jefferson
school. AS an instance of the develop
ment of Ottumwa and Wapello county,
one needs but to consider the price
paid for the land by the elder Hack
worth. who gave $1.25 per acre for the
homestead upon which the family re-
sided for many years, when he entered
it and today it is valued at perhaps
$3.50 per acre.
The schooling of young Hackworth
was in the primitive schools of Of
tumwa in the very early day when
that portion of the city was consider
able distance out from the village that
has since become the best business,
railroad. manufacturing and residence
city in southern Iowa. Mr.. Hackworth
has vivid recollection Of the old school
house where he learned his a. b, c's.
He says the benches lacked the COM
fort that the present school seats
have It was in a pioneer day and
style gave way to simple necessities
and the rough hewn logs served where
the modernly finished school furniture
and equipment now is used. Logs with
wooden pegs for legs were used as
seats. The building was constructed
of logs also and his teachers were
Charles Hickenlooper. John Snod
grass and Miss Sarah Bird, later Mrs.
John Pumroy.
John George Hackworth, a brother
of Mr.. Hackworth, was the first per.
son buried in Shaul cemetery.
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vice only by close study Of existing
law, in connection with such new ones
as shall be proposed, and the measure
of it's service is not the number of bills
passed, but the care with which those
that pass shall be drawn and the con-
sideration and study they shall receive
before passage, and the benefit they
may be to all the people. In this view
and in the present state of the public
mind to which l have referred, the dis
tinction of having introduced the most
bills in this session will not be an en-
viable one.
The people of this commonwealth
expect this legislature to do a few big
things and then adjourn. You will not,
if you desire to regard the opinion Of
the people, be here more than seventy
days.
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MOVES TO SPEAK.

Grinnell Jan. 11.-Alfred Noyes. the
celebrated English poet, will give an
address in Grinnell Saturday. January
20, as the first number of The lecture
course of the college Y. NJ. C. A. Fred
erick Palmer, the famous war cores
pondent, has been booked to appear on
February 10 as the second number Of
the course An attempt is being made
to secure Fl. G.. Wells for February
date but as yet no definite arrange
ments have been made.
Noyes was in Grinnell last winter
and was so we'll liked that return
date was desired for this years course.
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FARM iNGToN.

On Friday evening at the Masonic
hall Mizpah. chapter o. E. S. installed
the following officers: Worthy matrorE
Mrs. Eva Cleave; worthy patron, r: III
Hawk; associate matYon, Mrs. Mauds
Ross secretary, Miss Inez Goodwin
treasurer. Mrs. Alice Jack; conductressI
Miss Cora Stevens; associate conduc.
tress, Mrs. Mabel Folker: Adah. Mr.
Gertrude Turner; Ruth. Mrs. CapitolS
Jones: Esther. Mrs. Lydia Gentnef
Martha, Mrs May Beeson; Eecta. Mn
Minnie Westcott; chaplain. Mrs. AlicS
Coulter; marshal, Mrs. Charlotte Eddy |
warder, Mrs Laura Gentner; sentinel
A. T. S. Owen. At this meeting ths
floral addenda was conferred upoll
Henry Hartman. A committee compos
ed Of the past natrons served creameA
oysters and coffee during the social
hour.
Mrs. Myra Hossler returned Monday
evening from five weeks visit Wt3N
friends at Versailles, Mo. and Ramsay
City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Monroe Barton Of chi 1
cago who have been visiting relative.I
for the past three week returned homo
q
The funeral services over the remainS
of Mrs. Alpha Ware were held from hev
home Tuesday afternoon, conducted bJ
Elder James McKiernan, assisted I'll
Rev. w. A. Nelson. The deceased wal
born at Bonaparte in August, 1850 anM
was married to Elias Ware in Septen8
Der, 1869. For the past fifteen years.
Mrs. Ware has made her home III
Pennington where she endeared herself
to a large circle of friends. Threit
daughters and three sons, Mrs. DoHl
othy McKiernan of Pendleton, Ofegc&l
Mrs. Frank Locke OF Bonaparte, Miss
Trixie Ware of Pennington, Ed Ware
of Pendleton. Oregon. Clare Ware oil
HillsbOro and p K. Ware Of Earnings
ton are left to mourn the death of thi.s
devoted mother.
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MAT DOG ESCAPES.

Iowa city. Jan. Lift black and
white fox terrier. running around
mouth afoam, is discovered in Iowa
City, the people Of the city Of culture
will do well to scatter-he's mad. The
dog in question was captured at Lake
Park few days ago, after he had bit.
ten several people. Health department
officials Grated him up and shipped
him to the Pasteur department Of the
university meteorological department,
pending examination for rabies germs.
The expressman in charge of the de.
livery dropped the crate accidentally,
while unloading it. and the structure
broke open, releasing the dog. The
terrier fed.
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HAVE LENS COMPANY.

GrinnelI, Jan. 1.-THE Grinneli Lens
Manufacturing Co. has just been or
ganized by local people to manufacture
lenses for the wholesale market.
The new firm is composed Of DR.. E.
r. Talley, the inventor of an invisible
bi-focal lens that has proven to be a
great success; G.. S. George and e. r.
Graham.
Machinery and equipment have been
ordered and Offices and factory are be-
ing located here. Mr.. Graham, who is
of local hotel, will be bust.
ness manager of the new concern.
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INAUGURATION DAY
AT IOWA MAY 4 AND 5

Iowa City. an. 11.-1nauguration
day-or days-at Iowa university will
be May 4 and 5. according to the ten
tat;ve plans of the senate committee.
which will be submitted to the state
board of education for approval. DR..
w A. Jessup will be welcomed to the
fraternity of university presidents by
notable educators and orators, and he
will respond to the address on the
afternoon of the second day of the
festivities and formalities. The first
day will be devoted to reception of
delegates from other colleges and uni
versities and official and invited
guests.
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BANK TAKES BONDS
FOR COURT HOUSE

Bowling Green, Mo-, Jan. 1.-THE
Farmers bank of Bowling Green clos
ed deal with the Pike county court,
purchasing the bonds for the new
court house to be erected here. The
bonds were purchased at 100000 par,
plus 800 premium.
Work on the new court house win
be started in early spring. The build
ing will be erected on the site of the
old one, which was badly damaged by
fire some months ago.
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SILVER IN FURNACE.

Narengo. Jan. 11.-George McKefg,
a prominent farmer residing near
here, made an interesting discovery
while cleaning the CRATES of his fur
mace. He found mass of metal which
had melted in the fire, and on bring
ing it to town discovered it was silver
and worth about $50. He had been
burning chunks that had been cut
along the Iowa river and his theory is
that someone must have hidden money
in the tree years ago and then forgot
ten the hiding place.
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ROCK ISL AND MANS VENTURE.

Iowa City. Jan 11.-Steve P Oar
row, formerly of Iowa unversity's col
lege of engineering and former Rock
Island. H., man. has resigned his post
as SUPERINTENDENT of the Ellsworth
Klaner Construction Co. at Pitts
burgh. Kan, and will leave the mines
there to assume charge of great
contract at Oronogo. Mo. where an in
novation in mining Is to be attempted
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HAVE MANY BILLS.

jefferson City, Mo-, Jan. IL
Sixty-fve bills were introduced in the
lower house of the Missouri legislature.
One provides for constitutional con-
vention. to convene in June, 1917. An
other bill provides for the repeal of the
law prohibiting railroads from owning
stock in other roads. Another prohib-
it's the killing Of quail for nine years,
and another establishes the eight hour
day for women workers.
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ACTION IS WITHDRAWN.

Grinnell, Jan. 11.-W. G. Rayburn
dismissed his action against the city
administration.
Attorney Rayburn's petition for a
writ of certiorari which was filed last
week attacked the action of the city
council in raising the salary of the
city manager and in handling the
city's financial operations.
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FALL FROM MACON FArAl

Grand Mound. Jan. 11.-Heng
Schwein is dead as a result Of injuriel
received when he fell from WACO
while on his way to town with a loa
of hogs. His skull was fractured. M
Schweim was 60 years old. His wi{
ow, son and daughter survive.
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IOWA SOLDIER KILLED.

Iowa City, Jan. IA message from
overseas announces the killing in the
European war of Leslie Herr, formerly
an Iowa boy and later young resi-
dent of Canada. where he en'rxsd in
the British army.
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BIBLE STUDY is ON.

Abba, Jan. 1.-THE Union Mission
airy society has commenced a week of
bible study under the direction Of Mrs.
Alverta Bowman Of the Moody Bible
Institute, Chicago. III. The instruc-
tions will last all week and will be
held in the different churches in the
CITY
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LOCAL BANKER
IS A PIONEER
j. T. HACkWORTH HAS LIVED IN
OTTUMWA FOR SEVENTY-TWO
YEARS.

]. r. Hackworth, president Of the
Ottumwa National and the Wapello
County Savings banks, will have COM
pleted his seventy-eighth year of age
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JEFF SAYS:

Some peepul say that the new
dimes are in demand. Around
here the new ones are not in any
more demand than the old ones
are.
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pulses, which make efficiency in this
respect a glad duty, would be inculcat-
ed in the breasts of the youth?
The Primary
It has been seriously proposed by
some that the primary principle be
abandoned by this commonwealth.
and that election laws embodying that
principle be repealed. The same pro-
posal has been made touching the
same principle as applied to the non
partisan section of the judiciary.
When the Fathers drew up the De
claration of Independence and framed
the constitution, upon which our liber-
ties rest, they declared new con-
fidence in the individual. and in the
capacity of the average man to have
his share of power and responsibility
in framing the laws of his govern
ment. and in choosing the men who
should administer them
Since those great days in the history
of freedom, every piece of machinery
which has been designed to enlarge
that participation by the people, has
justified itself. by the capacity which
it has developed in the people for it's
employment to that end, and the force
of public opinion is a vital one in just
the degree that such machinery has
been developed for it's exertion.
The primary principle is funda-
mental By it, the unit for the ex-
preston of public opinion has been
reduced from the mass meeting to the
individual. and no mans voice need
be drowned by the crowd. His right
to be heard. and to be counted, has
been transferred from the will of the
presiding officer to the quiet protec-
ton of the ballot box, and this right
to be heard in the preliminary selec-
ton accomplished by the primary is
as sacred to the individual, and as
valuable to the commonwealth, as the
major right of suffrage.
The arguments for repeal are funda-
mental, and of great antiquity. Their
base is the distrust which the tory
of all ages has felt of the populace.
That feeling has made war upon every
enlargement of the franchise. 1t Is
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the essential belief of those who hold
that the people must be trusted. that
a confession that they cannot be Is
a confession that our form of govern
ment is doomed This does not as
sert that the people make no mis-
takes, but that they learn to use
power rightly by being given it to use.
The use of the primary will better
it. Even now, there speaks for its re-
tention, one great fact which out
weighs all objections made-that it is
better for the state, that those who
administer it's affairs cannot know
with dangerous exactness where their
redeemer liveth-that he is best
guarded against giving what he has in
trust. to satisfy sense Of obligation,
who is obliged to unknown thousands.
If you shall feel as I do, that the
preservation of this principle is vital
l am sure you will, no more than |,
hear with patience, pleas for saving
by abp1ishing the machinery by
which it is given play.
No saving of money which involves
curtailing the liberty and power of the
individual citizen is an economy.
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Semi.WEEKLY COURIER
CHANGING ADDREss.

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Subscribers wishing their ADDRESS
changed will please give the name OF
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been sent as we'll as the postohce
to which they desire it changed.
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HARDING DEFENDS
THE PRIMARY LAW
CONTINUED From Page u

The fires of patriotism cannot be
lighted too early nor fed too frequent
". Might not the public school sys-
tenn adopt a course by which the i'm
pulses, which make efficiency in this
respect a glad duty, would be inculcat-
ed in the breasts of the youth?
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Economy

In the same way. and evidenced in
the same way, is demand for reduc-
ton of public expenditures. and for
economies in the expenditure Of such
funds as shall be necessarily expended.
They expect you TO reduce the num-
Der of persons employed in govern
mental activity, wherever possible, and
to reduce, or at least to not increase
the present burden of taxation.
Legislation during the past few
years has resulted in an enlargement
of the activities Of the state govern
ment There are instances in which
the same powers are being exercised
by representatives of the central gov
eminent and by the local governing
bodies The limit of the activities of
these officers should be well defined
In the interest of economy there
should not be two sets of officers to
perform a single function. | suggest
this subject for your consideration and
that you correct this condition where
you find it.
A legislative assembly is a deliber-
alive body and can perform real SER
Arizona sentinel., 1917-11-08

The entire entertainment committee is under obliga- tons of Gus Contreras for his generosity in furnishing quartette for the various and umreous entertainments scheduled for the two visiting governors. He made spe- ca trip to Los Angeles select the very best talent that could be found and that his selections highly sats
 factory be aested by all who heard the four gentlemen composing the quartette, first at the monday banquet the Stag Cafe then the Southern Pacific Hotel banquet and afterwards the reception and ball Eks hall given in honor of the governors and their distinguished renue
Arizona sentinel., 1917-11-08

Mrs. George Marable, the accomplished and estimabe wife of one of the leading members of the board of govern of the Water Users Association the acknowledged champion cotton picker of all the womens clubs of Yuma Valley. She insisted on having patch of cotton all her own, consisting of small parcel of land adjacent her country home, containing less than of land It planted to the Egyptian variety, and with her hands she has already picked 7OO lbs just fraction less than full 500 lbs of lint cotton and she insists that she will get two pickingS nearly bales of Egyptian cotton on less than of ground This will be equivalent over $500 per Mrs. Marable certainly deserves great praise for her splendid work