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The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

OF course the vaccine under discus
sion is new thing and its efficacy
as a specific preventative is not fully
established; but DR.. Rosenow's fig
ures are Of a convincing character.
DR.. Rosenow. himself. is one OF the
few men in the world whose asser-
tions are taken authoritatively in his
profession and his figures are to be
trusted as the result of careful OBJ
servation by great investigator and
scientist. So that the conclusion is
that vaccination for FLU" is a sensible
and effective step in prevntion OF
serious sickness and death.
The Dubuque Times-JOurnal has the
following item:
AS a preventive measure
against influenza. several firms of
the city are having their en-
ployes inoculated with the Rose
now serum. The Central Lum-
ber and Coal Company and the
Spahn-Rose Company are among
the firms to take the precaution
| NlAuAH Ant past AN" d@s
doctors assistant stated she had
administered the serum to $50
people, and of that number only
a few had contracted the distase.
Those who did had it in a very
light form"
Another very effective preventive
of influenza and its complications is
simple, plain common sense which
tends to personal precaution.
The attitude of altogether too many
people toward an epidemic reminds OF
La little girl of acquaintance who would
sit sleepily Nm her chair and say
Mamma make us go to bed" She
wanted to be told and ordered. And
seem to await orders. They want
authority to make them stay out OF
crowds, take common personal pre-
caution and shift responsibility upon
Authority. And with a fatahsm thai
would do credit to a Hindoo they ex
pose themselves to infection throwing
all responsibility upon the authori
ltleS or God Almighty.
There is a responsibility every per
son owes the community. He SHOULD
mot become a disease carrier, ht
should not take unnecessary chances
of infection. If his family has the
disease his duty is to keep them il
and others out until the danger ha!
ceased, il is the duty of the uninfect
ed TO stay out-not entirely because
of the rules established by the healtl
boards but from a sense of decen
citizenship. Health boards make
rules with penalties attached because
10 community is fool proof.
The vaccination appears to be al
excellent thing. Common sense ant
personal acknowledgment of respons
libility are proved prevcntives. TT!
Them Marshalltown Times-Republi
leaa
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

The wheat flour substitutes will
begin TO be collected for the Grain
Corporation the ensuing week. They
can be handled only in car lots. Car
lots may be assembled at different
points and if packed can be shipped
direct to seaboard if of a single COM
modify Partial car lots must be
shipped through Chicago to be recon
ditioned. Merchants are earnestly
urged to retain and sell their substf'
tutes. Handling in small amounts
will be expensive to them. p s.-
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
Today,s Livestock Markets.

Chicago, Union Stock Yards. Dec
1S.-Livestock receipts today increas
ed 10000 over actual arrivals last
Wednesday and $4,000 over one year
ago Cattle decreased 1900 from a
week ago and increased 1000 over g
year ago. Sheep and lambs decreased
5000 from last Wednesday and in
creased 1000 over a year ago.
Hog receipts today at $1,000 were
10000 more than expected. In addi
tion to arrivals there was Al 900 over
from Tuesday. There was but little
change to note in today's general
market with the average price re-
naming about the same as yesterday
and Monday and being within one
cent of the minimum. Packers again
favored the better grades and this
class met with good call while pack,
ers were filling their orders. Common
packing grades and underweights
Jared poorly and the great bulk of
these went over without receiving bids
as packers were compelled to take the
better grades to hold the average above
the minimum of $3.50.
The bulk sold at $16.70917.6O, the
same as yesterday; last Wednesday
$l6.90@17.75; four weeks ago s16.659
1880. ....... -.,.. .....
Top today.was S16.65; yesterday
s177O; last Wednesday $17.S5; four
weeks ago $500.
Average price yesterday was s1751,
same as Monday, against $17.52 a
week ago, 1852. year ago, and $9. 9.95
two years ago. Three years ago the
average price was 1918.
Cattle receipts at $4,000 were IL 900
under the estimate. Market for good
fat and feeding steers was about
steady with yesterdays quotations.
Fat cows and heifers were hard to dis.
pose of and We're generally lower.
Calves were sharply lower. Gamers
were considered steady. Trade was
slow on all classes.
Sheep and lamb receipts at Is 600
were 5000 below the estimate and 8.
900 less than actual arrivals a week
ago. Trade was slow and dull. with
a downward trend on all killing
grades. There was practically no
feeding sheep offered. Feeding lambs
were a shade higher.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
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TWfdTY YEARS AGO

Sunday, peeember 10, 1ess

Sunday, December IL, 1893.
A quiet Sunday with everybody rest
ing in anticipation of strenuous week
preceding Christmas. No special pro
grams were held in any of the
churches but regular services were
well attended at all pulpits.
Personals: Rodney Wells of Mar.
shalltown was in town for the day, a
guest of his friend. Archie Ratekin,
Cole Van Gordon was in town for the
day. Colonel l.. s. Stedman arrived
at home from the north for few days
OF rest Mrs. J. w. Bateman was
convalescing from recent severe in
disposition. Jack p. Gruwell arrived
from a visit among friends and rela.
tiyes In Grinnell. Robert Law OF
Burlington spent the day in the city.
J. II. Pickett looked after business az.
fairs In ottumwa. n. J. Erwin start.
ed on southern business excursion.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
THE COST OF PAPER.

What is said below by the Des
Moines Capital applies to every news
paper in America:
The cost of white paper to news
papers is now the highest it has been
since the war started. The Des
Moines Capital is now paying s75.05
ton for the white paper on which it
is printed, and when the war broke out
the average price was $4,000 a ton.
There have been two increases in
the cost, of white paper within the
past ninety days, one of $500 a ton
and one of $500 a ton, and in the case
of the Des Moines Capital both of
January 1st The Federal Trade Com.
mission and the Circuit court have
been handling the matter, and are al
lowing the paper manufacturers $3.50
a ton profit. This Is unjustified by
any standards heretofore known in
fixing profits, and it is a very severe
blow to the publishing business.
''In spite Of the present high prices
Of paper, and in spite Of the fact that
the war is over. the International Pa
per Company. which is the largest cor.
poration of its kind in America. is Of,
fering contracts for the year 1919 at
ss0.00 a ton, or $500 a ton increase
over the present price being paid by
the Capital.
we thought our subscribers might
be interested in these tremendous in.
creases, as subscribers are aware that
they are being asked 10 pay the high
est subscription prices in the history
of the Capital"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

Somebody spread the rumor in To
.peka that by eating a cake of com.
pressed yeast a day one would not
contract influenza. Many credited
the story and began taking yeast, dis
solved in milk, root beer or plain wat
er. A Topeka physician interviewed
on the subject said: They probably
won't take the influenza as long as they
faithfully take a cake of yeast a day
They won't take anything else either
They won't live long enough"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
CHICAGO METHODS.

Chicago wholesale houses are send
ing through the mails to all Of theiI
customers in surrounding states a
card which among other things says:
The influenza epidemic is past.
Chicago suffered less than other
cities. Normal conditions were
quickly restored. Chicago con-.
tinues to be the healthiest city in
America"
The Chicago papers ar every care
full TO say nothing regarding the infiu
enza situation in that city, but press
report sent out from Chicago yester
day said:
Chicago is again in the throes
OF the epidemic. Reports 10
Health Department show SGT new
cases of flu and 12S of pneumo-
nia-695 new cases-and thirty
nine deaths from flu and seven
teen from pneumonia for the last
twenty-fOur hours. Evanston re-
ported such an increase in the cpl
demic that ali public gatherings
except schools have been again for
/ bidden."
In the light of the dispatch, the
cards being distributed broadcast are
a deliberate Misrepresentation, anC
criminal attempt to put the dollar
above lives of the people of the Mid
die West. It is such misrepresenta
tions that are helping to keep the epi
demic alive and are directly responsi
BILE for suffering and death.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
PRIEST VIOLATES ORDER.
Rev. Father William koerner is Fined
Fifty Dollars.

Iowa City, Dec. 1S.-When Mayor
IAtebbins puts out an order he wants
lit enforced and he bars no one from
it's mandate. The Rev. Father VIII
liam Koerner, pastor of st. Wences
laus' church found this out the other
day.
The pastor held services despite the
quarantine regulation which forbade
services during the flu" epidemic. A
$50 fine was assessed against the
priest for violation of the order.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
SOIL DEMONSTRATION
To Be Held in Hamilton County Dur.
ing January.

Webster City, Dec. lS.-Hamilton
county is going to have a real soil DEM
onstration during January, 1t was an.
nounced by the county farm bureau.
A soils expert from the farm exten.
sion bureau of Iowa State college will
conduct the soil tests in cooperation
with the county agent. Every town
IN the county will have a demonstra-
tion and farmers are already getting
ready to submit soil from their farms
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
The Review Club

Mrs. e. G. Allen and Miss Bess
Brown we're hostesses Tuesday even
ing To the Review Club at the home
OF Mrs. Aliens mother. Mrs. J. X. Lins-
ley No. 407 South 3rd street. Music
and the usual Christmas Grab Bag
furnished amusement of the evening.
Fancy work and social conversation
were also INDUCED in. The table was
prettIly decorated In red and green,
and delicious rsyeshments were seryy.
cd by the hosteAses. +
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK

L. S. Yards, TIL, Dec. IS, IL a. m.
HOGS - Butcher hogs $l7.35@
1850; butcher hogs, heavy, $l7.55g
1855; medium and light, $17.45@1765;
packing hogs, heavy, $16.6Oq17.35;
medium and mixed, $1715@l7.4O;
light hogs (bacon, light, mixed, etc)
s16.65017.45; pigs, good and choice
$1375@15.O0; throw-out sows, $l5.5OG
1850. .... p. .. ,.-.,..
CATTLE-Beef cattle, good. choice
and prime, S1525@19.75; common and
medium, $9.25Q15.25; butcher stock
'heifers, $725@l425; cows, $1,000
1880; bulls, bologna and beef, $3.50
1850; Gamers. and cutters, $6.5OQ
200; stockers and feeders, good
choice and fancy selected, $1O.25q
1850; inferior, comomn and medium
veal calves, good tC
choice, $1500@15.50; western range
cattle, medium, good and choice, $l4.OC
@17.50; cows and heifers, medium
good and choice, $760@12.25.
SHEEP-Lambs. choice and prime
I65082 pounds, s14.75@14.90; medium
and good 65@1OO pounds, $1350G
14.75; culls, $9.50@12O0; medium anC
choice feeders, $12;75@1425;, year
Ilings, choice and prime 1890 pounds
$12.35@12.75; medium and good 75d
12O pounds, s1O.5O@12.25; wethers
medium, good and choice, $9.50@10.65
ewes, choice and prime, s9.OO@9.5O
medium and good, S775@9OO; culls
$4OO06.75. .'
Official receipts yesterday-Hogs
33,968; cattle, 22,S97; sheep, 1896.
Official shipments yesterday-Hogs
2,462; cattle, 2,761; sheep, $500
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
Embargo on Shipments.

Chicago, Dec. 1S.-An embargo has
been placed on fresh loading of hogs
for the Chicago market. This ban
viii be for an indefinite period, de.
pending on how long 1t will take to
eliminate the prevailing congestion.
There are around 1000 cars Of hogs
unloaded at various stations and in
transit for Chicago that will be allow.
ed to come to market gradually before
any new loadIngs will be permitted.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
There Is never ending complain

There is never ending complaint
OF the wickedness Of the cities and
the larger the town the more wicked
it's supposed to be. As matter OF
fact says the Burlington Hawkeye
there is just as much. and, perhaps.
II the thing is averaged, there is more
cussedness and deyiltry in the small
town in proportion than there is In
the cities. And this for the one reason
that the small town has no peace
officers who are constantly on the job.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
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TODAY'S MARKETS
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Cash Grain Markets.
Chicago, Dec. IS.
Open. High. Low. Close.
Cash Quotations.

Chicago, Dec. 10.
CORN-No. 4 mixed, $1.4l; No. D
mixed. $1.36@T.3S; No. yellow
s14661.49; No. 4 yellow, $1.4Oq
143; No. 5 yellow, $1.37!4I3S; No. 6
yellow, S1.SS; No. 4 white, $3.50
j. 40; No. 5 white, $1.36@1.3S; No. q
white, $1.35; sample grade, $1,000
135.
WHEAT-No. l northern spring
1928; No. 2 northern spring, s2.25q
I2.26.
OATS-No. 2 mixed, 1850; No.
white. 7190724c; No. white, esq
69c; standard, 72l073c.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

United States Geological Survey,
amounted to 5,564.2O0 short tons, val
ued at s15.544.957. about : per cent of
the quantity and 19 per cent of the
value Of the entire output of stone
during the year The figures show a
decrease of 40 per cent in quantity
and II per cent in value from 1916 and
were the lowest recorded in any year
since 1901 ..-
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
THE FIRST step is TO solemnly

The first step Is TO solemnly re-
solve, every one OF US, children as well
as men and women, not TO waste a
crumb. "And | am inclined TO think II
every one OF US never ate unless he
either needed or wanted TO eat there
would be a vast sum saved. And even
a yaster sum If we did not so often
spoil good food by bad cooking. DC
faye Thanet.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
pTvyY Up


When Christmas is approaching,
And late December comes,
And enemies grow friendly,
And strangers speak as chums,
Let's look our blessings over,
To see what we can see,
And diyvy up with some one,
Less fortunate than We.
At home we're snug and cozy,
Before a dancing fire,
With comfy robes and blankets,
And heaps OF warm attire.
Down wonderland We know it
Lives some one III and cold
A sample of our surplus,
Would serve them many fold
Our swinging shelves are bending.
With canning times display.
From pantry stores a plenty.
Come three big squares day
So let's adopt this slogan
OF duty when we dine
a fifty-fifty diyyy,
With some one. down the line.
'Tis Christmas, lets be merry,
Let frovns give place TO Smiles
And Danish selfish notions
To by-gone yesterwhiles-
T-bs ra-fd needs Santa Clauses,
And many q Christmas tree
Let's dIyvy up with some one
Less fortunate than We.
Nal Rose, Oskaloosa, Ia.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

The Christmas Roll Call gives ev-
cry one of us chance to have a part
in the gerat work the Red Cross is do
ing. BY joining the Red Cross now
and paying the dollar we become act
lively engaged in the work and back up
those who give their time 20 II.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

The proofs are at hand every
where. The reasons are manifest. Ev-
cry one should become member OF
the widest, best, holiest Crusade the
world has ever known. Red Cross
membership should be more universal
than taxes as universal as the public
al-for all.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
Roads Are Soft.

Last weeks rains played hob with
the roads and made getting about diff
ficult not, TO say unpleasant, Many
are deferring shoBpipg errands In the
hope Of having better going the latter
part OF the week.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

Billy Sundays OskalOOsa friends
will be glad TO know that he's still
hitting them up against the center
field fence. In a recent sermon Billy
remarked that the kaiser has sunk
so low he'll have to take an airplane
TO get 10 hell
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

Not everyone who becomes i'll has
influenza. There are old fashioned
colds, some pneumonia cases, bron-
chitis, and cases Of other ailments.
Let's be cheerful, observe good health
rules and some day the FLU" '"ill slip
away as stealthiIy as it came.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

hundreds of thousands OF dollars are
being spent to replace the buildings
destroyed at that time. The country
would like to see such wastes come
10 a halt
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

Says Hindenburg to his army:
''The returning warriors will first re-
ceive the thanks Of the country for
more than four years work in thous-
and battles in which they were never
beaten" Those Huns will kid them
selves yet into thinking they won the
war
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

Says the Boone News-Republican:
After our successful efforts TO make
the world safe for democracy doesn't
it seem rather strange that our rulers
should break their necks TO get across
the pond TO hobnob with royalty?'
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

The latest in book agents runs
something like this: The author asked
the local editor to run a prepared re-
view. Then the author came around
and asked the editor to buy copy of
IL, as the review was so very fetching.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

Iowa people have laid away in
their strong boxes $5,0O0,00O,000 in
government securities. They have
paid for most of them and the banks
still have as much money on deposi.
as they had before the war.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
aFIuo peeyeNTIvEs

DIR. Rosenow's report upon the anti
influenza and pneumonia vaccine con
cludes that 80 per cent of the deaths
from influenza and pneumonia are
preventable when a properly prepared
vaccine is used. He had figures on
the results obtained by the use OF the
vaccine which corroborate his asser-
tion. Those figures are well worth
reprinting here though most of use
have read them:
AFTER the third inoculation
there were nine cases Of infiuen-
"a per 1000 against 220 per 1000
among the uninoculated, and one
and eight-tenths cases. per 1000
against fourteen per 1000 among
those not inoculated. Over 20
900 persons were given the three
inoculations and their cases were
compared with $1,000 not given
the treatment The deaths from
I. ipfiuenza and pneumonia among
those inoculated were one-tenth
those among the uninoculated."
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

Is Henry Ford going to throw in
z subscription to his new weekly with
every hfyyer or a fiiyVer with every
new subscription!
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

The parsonage in which the crown
prince is living has billiard table in
il. Before he gets out there probably
will be bar in 1t, opines the Kansas
City Star
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
Service FLAGS.

Help the Red Cross workers put a
service s., flag in every house in. town,
They are going up by y tue hundreds
every day. Y there one, up At your
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
THE NEW v|ADUCT
MUST Be BETTER
RAILWAY PLAns OBJECTED TO
BY MISSIONER.
NOT IN KEEPING WITH CITY
Center Pillars and Low Bridge Are
Serious Objections to South Mar
ket Street Thoroushfare-New
plans to Be Submitted.

E. S. Phelps, the engineer of the
BOARD of Railroad Commissioners of
Iowa, was in Oskaloosa Teusday and
after consultation with Mayor ]. G.
Harold in regard to the proposed
changes and remodeling, that the M.
& st. L. r. r. are expecting to do in
the case of the South Market street
bridge, a trip of inspection was made
to the location and comprehensive
review of the general conditions was
outlined in a report to the Board of
r. r. Commissioners at Des Moines.
Railroad Plans Objectionable.
The plan proposed by the railroad
| in their remodeling of the bridge was
decidedly Objectionable to the engineer
of the Board and the idea of two road
ways with q central support, was re.
garded as an element of danger to
those who approach the bridge from
the south and particularly SO as there
is bend or curve in the highway just
little south of the location
Plans Must Be Approved.
Mayor ]. G. Harold has made for
NAL application to the Board of Rail-
foad Commissioners for a permanent
bridge at this point and this follows
closely the action taken by the city
council at their last meeting. The
plans of the Railroad Commission as
meeting the requirements of the con-
ditions as they exist here. Az.
Low Bridge is Objectionable.
Farmers in coming to Oskaioosa
with loads of hay or other high mer-
,chandise, are obliged to go around by
South Second street, several blocks to
the east, and this is decidedly detri-
mental as South Market street is the
Iprncipal highway of travel out of Os-
'kaloosa toward the south. The en-
tire matter is now up to the Railway
, Company and the Railroad Commits.
sioneres of Iowa and no doubt some
satisfactory plan will be worked out
by spring that will present salts
4 factory solution to the problem.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

Ice cream may be served TOT des-
sert in France, providing it contains
no sugar, no milk, no eggs and no
-four. How's that for ice crIsam?,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
In addition g cancelling contracts

In duuItlOu 70 faittiIIHs C"HtI"t
for further munitions. Secretary Ba'
ker would do well 10 stop the erection
a additional factories for the making
of those munitions. The great ellis
pie LOADING plant. In New Jersey was
wiped kut BY an explosion short time
ago. Work IL aow being rushed and
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
Out Of Town shnnn.rs

Several out Of town shoppers were
IN the city Tuesday from Sigourney,
Fremont. Cedar, Wright, MARSHALL
town and Abba.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

I DE COOK-HIATT-Mr. Arthur De
Cook and Miss Daisy Maud Hiatt were
united in marriage Tuesday evening.
Dec. II, 1918, by Justice o. c. G. Phil
lips, at his Office.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

We'll" demands the Webster
City Freeman-JouTnal, wouldn't the
Office still be just as vacant if Tom
Marshall should try to fill it?"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

Cables continue 10 report that the
Kaiser has the grip. That is what We
thought he had lost
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

The Red Cross membership cam
paigu begins tomorrow. Be sure your
name Is on the list
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

Lower prices are coming" sayg
the Manhattan Mercury. So is the
millennium.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

The granite sold In the Unites
States in 1917 as shown by fgures
compiled by @. r. Loughlin OF the
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

WALKER.-Born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Glen Walker, of Barnes City, Thurs
day, December IL, 1918, a son.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

War stirs some of our worst pas
sions and all of our worst poets.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

Art De Cook, Oskaloosa. ................ SO
3047 and
Daisy Maud Hiatt, Oskaloosa.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

CoX.-Funeraf services for the late
Mrs. Eta Cox were held this (Wed.
nesday) afternoon at o'clock, at the
Wilcox-Garland-Wilbur chapel. Inter.
ment in Forest cemetery.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

COoK.-Mrs. Eta Cook, aged fifty
years, passed away Monday evening.
Dec. 16, 1918, at her home. No. s21
North Il street, at Q o'clock, OF con.
SUMPTION of the bowels, after an MI.
ness OF one year. For the past six
months she has been bedfast. She is
survived by a daughter and cousin,
James Brown, of this city. Funeral
announcement later.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

McVAY.-The body of Mrs. Anna
MeVay will be taken to Delta Thurs
day morning at 1880. Grave services
will be held at the Springfield Gene
terry.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19
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BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES

X = i. \ Il !. !. !. I. = 4. !. !.
Fred D. Stephenson, Rose HILL
3O46 and
Veta B. Kent, Rose Hill 20
The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-12-19

McVAY.-Mrs. Anna Mcvay, aged
A years, passed away at the Mahaska
hospital. this morning, Dec. II, 1918.
OF influenza, after an illness of six
days She is survived by her hus-
pand, three sons, three daughters.
three sisters and three brothers. Fun
eral announcement later.