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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-31
KARscHNER DIVORCE TRIAL
ENDED: DECREE GRANTED

Logan, Jan. PA divorce. and
the custody of the eldest boy for
Illc husband, the custody Of he
three youngest children for the
wife. who is to be assisted by an
aunt and mother; The farm of il5
acres and all other property to be
sold, all debts, including attor-
ney's fees to be paid and the re-
mainder of the money TO be di-
vidcd between the Two, are among
the features of the sensational
w. G. karschner against Elda M.
Karschncr divorce trial here this
week. ending last evening. In the
closing, Judge Arthur sxonerated
from unwarranted charges the
girls and women who had been
unfortunately dragged into the
case. and then he scored the
plaintiff and defendant for using
the names of neighbors to fight
each other; neighbors that had
been kind to both in times of sick
ness, when their house was de-
stroyed by fire, and when other
misfortuncs overlook them. The
trial was exceptionally sensational
and attended by many from Logan
and its vicinity packing the court
room to standing.
The plaintiff was represented
by Cochran and Wolfe of Logan
and the defendant by VIM. p
Welch of Logan.
ADVERTISED letter LIST.
For the week ending January
90, 1913:
Card, Murel.
r. L. FINLEY, P. N.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-31
COMMERCIAL CLUB ELEcTlor.

About seventy-five business
men and farmers gathered at the
Methodist church last evening fc
partake of the fine dinner set be-
fore them by the ladies Of this
church. The new dining room in
the basement of the church is one
of the incest and best arranged
in the city. A fine three course
dinner was served, to- which all
the men present did ample justice
After the tables had been cleared
Secretary Rhodabeck gave fl
nancial report for the year which
showed nice balance on hand in
the treasury.
A nominating committee was
then appointed to select the Of
ficers for the coming year. They
recommended the following Off
Gers, who we're unanimously
elected by the club: President, j.
n. Jones; vice president, w. S.
Peterson; secretary, Ned Irwin
treasurer, J. b. Barrett. Direct
ors: Oscar Doty, NJ. j., Fitzgib-
bon, L. G. Morrison, r.. G. Lah-
man, S. R. Williams, j. S. Dewell,
w. A. Jones, R. D. McEvoy and c..
W..Kellogg.
The refining president, R. D.
McEvoy, outlined the work the
club has done the past year, and
complimented the retiring secre-
tary, r. NJ. Rhodabeck, very high
ly and in token of the apprecia-
tion of the work Mr.. Rhodabeck
has done the past year, the club
presented him with a fine briar
pipe. Mr.. Rhodabeck and family
leave the first of February for
Texas, where they will make their
future home.
Grove Brown then made short
talk advocating planting all va
can't lots in town in war gardens
by the school children. Supt.
Graham also advocated the same
ideas, and the club went on record
as willing to do anything they
could to assist the school children
in this work.
G. w. Hammans, county agri-
! cultural advisor, was then intro
duced and gave a brief outline of
the work his office wants to do
for the farmers of Harrison coun-
ty. His talk was listened to with
a great deal OF attention and en-
thusiasm. Mr.. Hammans is full.
of ginger and anxious to have any
farmer who is having difficulties
Il 8ofsany Kind to consult him. He
has his office full of boxes now
testing seed corn. Any farmer
can send his seed corn to Logan
and have it tested and if it does
mol test out, Mr. Hammans hopes
TO be able to tell that farmer ex-
actly where he can purchase seed
corn that will grow. This is but
one of the many ways he hopes TO
be Of assistance to the farmers of
Harrison county.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-31
WILL BUY S. w. s. 8.
EVERY DAY UNTIL
KAISER Is DEFEATED

LeMars, La, Jan. 24.-Charles
.Flaugher, a German-A american,
has pledged himself to buy a $5
war savings stamp every day nn-
til the kaiser is defeated. III he
purchases the $1,000 maximum
the government will permit one
person TO buy before that is ac-
complished. hen his wife will
buy a war savings stamp day
until she has purchased $1,000
worth. or the kaiser is defeated.
And il by that time the kaiser has
not been defeated, then Flaugher
says he will buy stamps for his
children i'm the same way.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-31
Use of Old Corn for Seed

Much objection will be heard to
the idea of using old corn for
seed Such corn must be as
carefully tested as any, espe-
cially this season. However, good
stands can be secured from seed
not more than two years old. The
crop of 1916 in northern Iowa
was planted almost entirely from
old seed, and very good stand
resulted. The following recon-
mendalions are made regarding
the use of old corn:
1. Test carefully, and plant
nothing but strong seed.
2. Do not plant loo early in
the season.
3. Do not plant too deep.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-31
BATTLE CRY OF FEED 'EM.

Yes, We'll rally round the farm,
boys,
Well rally once again,
Shouting the battle cry of Feed
EN-.
We've got The ships and money
And the best of fighting men,
Shouting the battle cry of Feed
En-.
The onion forever, The beans and
the corn,
Down with the tater-it's up the
next morn
While we rally round the plow
boys,
And take the hoe again,
Shouting the battle cry of Feed
En-.
-O.-
Want to Sell? Use The Times
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-31
WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST

For Upper Mississippi and
Lower Missouri Valleys: Fair and
continued cold during the early
days Of the week, followed by ris-
ing temperature after Tuesday.
Some prospects Of snow Wednes-
day and Thursday, followed by
fair at the end of the week.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-31

The business men Of Logan
held meeting with the local fuel
administrator at Logan today and
decided to open their stores at 9
a. m. and close at 6 p. M. The
state fuel administrator is per-
fccIly willing they should agree
on these hours, just so long as
they are not open more hours
than the state has specified.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-31
Pcesbxterlan Notes.

Bible school, 10 a. m.
Morning worship, IA a. m.
C. f. Society, $40.
Nesper service, 1880.
A very cordial welcome awaits
you to attend these services.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-31

Tom Dennison of Omaha, one
of the best konwn men in the
city, is very i'll with pneumonia at
his home there.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-31
TINE KAISER IN HOOK.

TINE KAISER IN HOOK.
Out in Lagrange township in
stead of singing "Hoch der Kais-
Ter" the boys and girls have
Worked out a formula for putting
his Satanic Majesty i'm hook. At
the N. ID. Bessire sale Friday the
proprietor put into the ring a
rose comb Rhode Island Red cock
Ierel to be sold for the benefit of
1.-THE Council Bluffs chapter of the
Red Cross. After inspiring talks
from both "Old Pigeon Toes and
1.-THE Cub as to the origin, object
fand necessity of the Red Cross in
protecting our boys from the saw
age brutality of the Hun. the
bidding commenced and it was
fast and furious. Mrs. Cant. the
local teacher, got in the first bid,
but it never landed. Before the
Tuppers could cry the bid, and
you know you have to be awfully
fast to beat the Tuppers to it, ii
was taken up by half dozen 9th
ers and all the Tups could do was
to arbitrate between buyers and
decide which fellow got the chick
en-. No one seemed to want to
| die with the rooster i'm his pos
session and every buyer made
haste to put it back in the ring,
and so it went again and again.
1t looked at one time as though
(they would never be able to break
the endless chain of selling and
buying, but the shades of night
coming on and the Dutch Fred"
hill staring them i'm the face, they
finally decided for about the
'steenth time, that this time who
ever buys it will have to keep it.
Even then they could not find a
home for the chicken until they
got up a contest between Boomer.
Lagrange and jefferson town
ships.
The boys stood by their guns
to the last ditch, but the shrapnel,
|siege guns, trench mortars and
l2-ccntimeter rifles of the La
grange boys were too much for
! their enemies and they wound up
with the legal and physical pos
session of Mr.. Rooster. The last
battle cost them nineteen dollars
Rand six bits. The sale realized
ESl7l.25 for the Red Gross, thanks
to the efforts of Tupper & Son
and the generousness and pa
triotism of Mr.. and Mrs. Bessire
and their neighbors.
The appended list Of buyers,
many of whom INDUCED several
times, if it could be read by the
kaiser would open his eyes to a
fact which he seems to have over
looked, viz: that the German
Observation-Disclosures has
no more use for kaiserism than
the Kaiser seems to have for the
doctrine of brotherly love, or the
golden rule or live and let live,
which have been adopted for the
guidance Of humanity since the
Sermon on the Mount.
p. w. Peterson.
+. w. Bolliger.
N. C. BertlesOn.
James Olsen.
James Walsh.
G. G. Weatherly.
O. E. Hammitt.
Clyde Jones.
Charles Duncan.
J. d. Weatherly.
Henry Rebehn.
Albert Chambers.
!, Dick Shelton.
James Lundengapd.
Hans Johnson.
G. w. Wohlers and his two lads.
NJ. T. Christians.
G. NJ. Mullen.
H. d. Bessire.
w. G. Kiger.
A. Lewis.
Vess Pagan.
w. j. OLeary.
Chas. Longmsysr.
F. W.. Peters.
Mrs. CANT.
Mrs. A. Lewis.
Mrs. P. w. Peterson.
Mrs. Adams.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-31

Miss Myrtle Casey of Council
Bluffs was the over night guest
of home folks.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-31

What's going TO be grown on
that vacant lot the coming year?
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-01-31
ADVERTISED letter LIST.

For the week ending January
90, 1913:
Card, Murel.
r. L. FINLEY, P. N.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-11-29

nobody but you, Ell through my lie,
from the time I got your first letters to
the time you came to see me at the
Misses Harpers' school, and from then
to now.s'
Mark looked at her in incredulous
joy; he was no longer capable of feel
ing establishment, but it all seemed like
a happy dream, unreliable but, while it
lasted, dear beyond all imagining.
"The Colonel knew it. And-others.
Everybody did but you. And do you
know why / have told you what I've
often pinched myself to keep from tell
ing you? Because you loved me with
out exactly knowing it"
'But / did know it, my DEAR"
Without exactly knowing il, and
when you admitted little bit Of it to
yourself you were prompted to commit
those foolish acts, to be so rude to me
and hurt me SO much. But woman is
never deceived. She always knows. /
knew"
MY DEAR" said Mark solemnly, ''you
have been everything in the world to
me since that very first day outside
Santiago
"Of course have. AS you have been
to me. And that is why / told you, so
that we two should not be unhappy all
our lives. You see, dear Captain Mark,
1t isn't as If you didn't care for me. If
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your upDringing. 1t was that, BE-
lieve, which made you think it your
duty to follow your adopted fathers
unit to the front. / think you ought to
know who you are. Your father died
on the battlefield of Santiago. He was
a fugitive from justice. He was the
notorious Hampton
Mark uttered cry. He sprang to-
ward Kellerman, but Kellerman dealt
/ him a blow that sent him stumbling
among the bricks.
''That's lie, Kellerman - said Colo
nel'Howard quietly.
The old Colonel's eyes were wide
open. He laid his hands laboriously
upon the edge of the brick wall and,
with a great effort, raised himself to
his feet.
THAT'S lie," he repeated
sit is no lie, Colonel Howard. You
told the whole story to Captain Wal
lace in the hospital tent. Never mind
how know. knew"
'sYou damned, dirty spy!'' said the
old Colonel.
"a confession" answered Kellerman
5landly. "Your words were strong
ones, Colonel Howard. Deny them if
you can. You said, "A thousand years
Of hell wouldn't atone for that crime
You said 1t was calculated, cold
blooGed deliberation.' You said, The
case against Hampton was absolutely
proven. He was to have been hanged
as soon as we captured Santiago. He
was born rotten. He sold his country
to pay his gambling debts And you
called him by the worst name one man
can call another. That was why you
tried to persuade Mark Wallace not to
adopt Hampton's child. Like father,
like daughter"
He swung round upon Eleanor, and
for the first time seemed to lose his
Self-ccntrOl.
"That's who you are' he cried. '"The
child Of wretched traitor, who worked
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(THE END.)
Absolutely Nothing Left of the Once
Beautiful Woods That Were the
Pride of Verdun.

Lovers used to stroll arm in arm
through the well-ordered forests of
Verdun. To stroll arm in arm where
these forests once stood Is no longer
possible, Gouverneur Morris writes in
Golfers. You must go alone. If there
has been rain you should have nails
in your boots. The smooth convolu-
tons of the hills have been tortured
and turned into ridges and hollows like
the Atlantic ocean during the equi-
noctial gales. e
| doubt If there is to be found one
single square yard of the original for
est floor. l doubt if there Is to be
found one single perfect example of
shell crater. One crater breaks into
the next and there, merged into one
shocking hollow, are dozen which
at the first moment Of looking ap-
peared to have been but one.
1t has been well but truly worked"
that forest floor but not for 100 years
can it ever again be worked by man
in any peaceful and profitable pursuit.
Rich soil (doubly rich now, it will be
Stunned by the farmer with his pillow:
a prospect very rich in copper and
iron, the prospector will shun it, for
here, buried and haIf-buried, the shells,
great and little, which did not explode
at all, are as thick as temptation In
the life of every man.
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CHAPTER xVll9.

Perhaps it was because they ha(
seen so many horrors during the pas
four-and-twenty hours that these
seemed all to have fallen away that
night st staff headquarters. There
was a brief hour of rest after inter
minable labors, the lines had been helt
and the great assault repealed in con
fusion; for that hour every man seemed
bent upon forgetting the incidents OF
war, and something Ike gaiety ruled
In the meSsroom.
All tn past seemed very far away tc
Captain Marx Wallace as Il stood
with Eleanor in the little cottage gar
den.
when the auto comes TO take you
back to the hospital ! shall feel that
my new life has lost the best part OF
its PROMISE" said Mark.
1t was long and extraordinarily
imaginative speech for him, and he
stood shanefaced after he had said it,
like boy who has delivered a grown
mans aphorism.
Captain Mark said Eleanor, "ycu
knew who was, and you could not
you could not have believed my father
innocent, and yet you had faith in me.
You must have suffered when used to
talk about my dreams Of him, and you
hid your suffering and your knowledge
because of me-
sThat was nothing, Eleanor"
captain Mark" she whispered, bend
ing toward him. ''E-I kissed you to.
day."
s'That was nothing, Eleanor"
captain Mark What do you mean
How dare your
Mark looked utterly disconnected. IL
meant mean, Eleanor, Tn just your
old guardian--a sort cf old friend, you
know, and you were glad I had come
back safe.'
80, Captain Marki" said Eleanor,
shaking with helpless laughter which
disconnected him still more; and yet
he thought her lashes were wet with
tears. captain Mark, are you really
going to make me say it?"
"Say what, my dear"
''That 1t ought to have been YOU"
"But you mustn't let that worry you,
Eleanor. It's often done in such cases
II just thought you were too old to
kiss. You know, wanted to-"
20 thank you, thank you." said Flea
nor YEARLY. Captain Mark, you dear,
absurd guardian of mine, I see you
aren't going to spare me. So listen.
love you, and have loved you only, and
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she kneeled by Hartley.
A single look showed him that The
man was dying.
Mark kneeled on one side of him
with Eleanor facing him over the
Stretcher. The bearers, who had faller
back, stood still as images behind. AnC
behind them Mark had the dim con
seriousness in the background OF his
mind of Kellerman, broken as he haG
broken SO many, and fumbling, always
fumbling, now with his tunic, now
with the belt that he was trying tC
detach with shaking fingers.
Hartley" whispered Mark, hold
ing the dying mans hand in his. ''That
was you today missed you, but
believed in you. You saved me-
There was fiuttering pressure of
Marks hand in turn. Hampton was
speaking; he was asking for the Colo
mel.
u am here, Hampton" said Colonel
Howard in choked voice. as he
leaned over him.
"YOu believe In me now, sir?" NUT
tered the dying man, rolling his head
uneasily in the effort to see.
'May God forgive me, Hampton
May she-your wife--forgive me. Tell
her thet. and tell her her words came
true. betrayed my best friend, and
i've suffered for it, and l shall suffer
to the last day of my life"
"She forgiyes you, Howard" said
Hampton, speaking now with such SOL
emnity that his words seemed to his
listeners to be inspired. 'There's-only
--one thing-I want, Howard, old
man."
ayes, my dear boy--yes, Hampton"
''Put my name-back on the mess
list" whispered Hampton.
Through his tears Mark was con-
scious that the interminable fumbiing
outside the cave had ceased. as;
Hampton fell back there came the sud
den crack of a revolver shot.
The Generals form blocked the en-
trance as they raised their heads. Marx
placed his hands across ELeanor's eyes
and drew her away.
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the entrance 1io Tie recess. They Bore
stretcher. propped up In 1t, swathed
in a bloody clout Of bandages, was
Hartley.
There he Isl" he cried, pointing his
hand in triumph. Il lsnew he'd come
this way. He's here, STRIP he cried to
some one outside the orifce.
The strctcher bearers set down their
burden on ledge Of the wall. Into
the little place strobe the General.
His appearance there exercised a
paralyZing effect upon them all. Kel-
lerman was the first to recover his self
possession. He saluted stifily.
"This man" be said, pointing to
Mark, lis the prisoner who was to have
been executed this morning."
The General, without word, strobe
toward Mark and clasped him by the
hand.
Keilerman gulped and moved toward
the entrance for the last time. The
General turned.
sHaIt, sir! !" he commanded. s'CoIonel
Howard, will you have the goodness to
go to the man on the-why, I beg your
pardon, Colonel! Not badly hurt?"
Nothing much, SIR" answered the
Colonel, attempting to make the pas
sage.
The General gave him his arm and
assisted him, and, when lie stood still,
placed one arm about him to steady
him.
e'Do you recognize that MANI" he
asked.
The Colonel stiffened; Kellerman
fell back against the wall.
GAS Tin g living man," cried Colo
pei Howard, ''it's Hampton!"
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in the war department with Colonel
Howard and me, man without honor,
entangled with a wretched woman spy,
who sold our secrets. And that man
your adopted father, whom you love
and revere, spied on him in turn,
watched him, read his letters, went
through his pockets, shared him,
trapped him, brought him to his de-
serts-and adopted YOU"
Eleanor staggered toward the Colo
mel, her arms raised imploringly, and
cried in choking voice:
essay it's untrue! Only say that it's
untrue!"
'It's a damned lie," said the Colonel |;
but there was not the least conviction
in his voice.
''Tell me the TRUTH"
cts true, then-it's more or less
true" said Howard YEARLY.
'It's not true!'' shouted Mark. ERE
member, Colonel, the mans face had
been practically blown away. How do
we know that it was Hampton who
was with the child? It might have
been another. We don't know for sure.
and we can't know. I've never believed
it. wouldn't ever dare to let myself
believe it,
'You found his papers," said Keller
man.
Nobody answered him. Eleanor went
up to Mark and raised her white face
| to his. sTell me what Won think. Can
tain Mark" she pleaded.
And once more Mark was mute. She
read his face as If by inches. She
turned toward Kellerman. Snow will
| you go?' she asked.
Kellerman saluted her with mock
formality. "I'll go" he said, "but he's
spent his chance. A spy's daughter
and spy's-"
| The ambulance bearers appeared at
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"lsn't that SO, Mark, dear3"

isn't that SO, Mark, dear3"
"Of course 1t is" said Mark.
$50 you have actually told me that
you care for me, and you want me to
give you my answer. Is that what you
want me to understand, Captain
Mark?"
Yes, my dear, Of course it is" an
swered Mark.
Eleanor looked down thoughtfully.
AWell, I'm not sure" she said, in
meditative manner. ssYOu know, you
have been terribly, abominably rude to
me so often"
Mark had great horror Of losing
her.
"And you've broken your solemn
promise, and you can't imagine what
shock that gave me, because idealized
you in childish way, and / never
dreamed that you were capable of not
keeping your word, Captain Mark"
i. Eleanor?" asked Mark in bewil-
derment. "Eleanor, surely never
promised anything that / didn't do"
"Do you remember that evening In
Washington, the evening when you
came to see us, and we didn't get on
well together at all, at first?"
"And suddenly you became the little
girl that had adopted, Eleanor"
Sand suddenly you became my dear
Uncle Mark again! Well, do you re-
member promising me that you would
never give me up any more, no matter
who might seem to have better claim
on me? Do you remember that, Cap
tain Mark-Mark?
"Of course do, dear, but you were
speaking of guardians"
II, Captain Mark? Guardians?" she
asked. II was speaking Of"
"Of Colonel Howard and me-"
"Of you, dear. Just Of you," an
swered Eleanor. ESQ won't you please,
please not make me humble myself
again, and take me into your arms and
--and--iliss me?''
(YHE END1
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"a Love You and Have Loved You
Only"

/ had cared and you hadn't, I should
have hidden my feelings and never lei
You dream Of them, and you never
would have. So it's really you who
have told me all this, and I've just
been interpreting your thoughts, be
cause all ! did just now was to tell
you what you wanted to tell me with
out knowing that you wanted to tell
me what you did want all the time.
Isn't that so, Captain Mark?"
''Yes," answered Mark, feeling COM
pletely at sea, but incapable of contra.
dieting anything that Eleanor chose to
say
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FOR SALE-AUTOMOBEEES

1913 FORD, 5 pass, run about G
weeks, good as new in every respect.
You can get this new car at a saving OF
over $100. MARK r. BELL, Lady
smith.
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WANTED-FARM LANDS
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FOR REAh ESTATE

$3.50 DOWN buys fine home at city
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