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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-04

drawn revolver on his wife who is
suing him for divorce. The st
Johns are known here and at Web
ster City, having been employed in
both places.
Lou Overbo has purchased the
property belonging to Miss Lou Cole
for $2,O50.
Among the out of town visitors here
for the funeral of Carmen Ricke were
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Maury Of Alden
and their daughter Marie and Mrs
r. c. Daily and her daughter Lathelle
of Odebolt.
John Gresslin is struggling with
a case of pink eye" this week
Rumor hath it that a petition has
been sent to the district exemption
board asking an investigation of the
claims of the young single business
men in town who ask for deferred
classification for business reasons"
This part Of the county is pretty
badly stirred up over the affair and
as local reporter we mention this,
and not as some of the young mems
mothers seem to think, through
malice. 1t is the duty of reporter
to give the clean, interesting news Of
a community, and anything per-
tanning to the war, the Red Cross or
food conservation is not personal
it is strictly the affair of the entire
community 1t is the opinion Of
every one who has expressed an
opinion upon this matter that boys
on the farm are entitled to deferred
because of the great
need of increased food production,
but that young men shall be excused
to stand behind a counter causes
even the Riddles to grin.
All Of the amateurs booked for ap- |
pearance in the contest at the opera
house side-stepped with the eXcep- |
ton of little Jeanette Martinson and |
Arthur Keane. The young man sang
an Irish ballad very pleasingly and |
Jeanette brought the house down |
with some of the popular patriotic !
songs about a farmer boy who bade
goodbye to his ma, his pa and his
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-04

mule with the old he-haw' and
started out to capture the Kaiser
and king or two. Guess she will
buy w. S. S. with her So.
Every where one looks these days
they see patient steeds drawing piles
Of household goods through the mud
dy streets and small boys guiding
miniature express wagons loaded
with fine china and bric-a-brac too
precious to be trusted to the dray,
for these are moving days." and
many changes are going on in
town and country side. Among the
changes was that of the F. Daniels
family from the Chaplinski house
to the Fear house at the corner of
the park; the Mayors to the Rankin
house at the north end Of town; the
r. Hanson's to the Loban farm; Mrs.
Ed Fjetland to the Chaplinski house;
Swatleys to the house where John
Sloan Jr has been living; the Jack
Brighton family to the Ed Cole place
in the Vincent church neighborhood.
There has been quite lot of illness
here during the last few weeks and
the list is still growing. Clarence
Meyers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Will
Meyers, is i'll with typhoid fever and
they have a nurse from Fl Dodge
with him. He is reported to be
quite i'll.
A large group of neighbors and
of the Presbyterian
pastor, Rev. John Todd, gathered at
the parsonage Thursday evening and
held a donation surprise party:
Everything to eat, from home made
to sides of meat, were
brought by the crowd and left for
the pastor and his family. The eve
ming was pleasantly spent in con-
versation, games, and a program of
vocal and instrumental. solos. Rev. |
Todd, who is very popular with his
is having much more
peaceful career here than any of his
predecessors, and is re-uniting the
church, as many of the old families |
are returning to the services.
The painters and decorators Of this
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-04

town are right at work, fixing up the
various homes While the good wealth
er lasts. The Thos. Snow home on
the north edge of town is being re-
decorated for the Chas NJ. Trumbauer
family, who are planning to move
here from harrisburg.
Mrs. John Sloan Jr., and baby
daughter returned from a two weeks
visit to Chicago Friday.
Mrs. Peter Rolling went to Jewell
Thursday, by way of Webster City,
and she stopped off to take the $780,
so to Red Cross headquarters. This
money was earned by a group Of
women who have been serving sale
lunches this season. and by the sale
of a pig donated by Chris. Topper
berg. Mrs. Rolling also brought back
the information that Mrs. Zitterell is
to come to Williams Friday afternoon
of this week for the purpose of
organizing a Red Cross Chapter.
Williams is the only unorganized
town in the county and we ought to
show our desire to cooperate by be-
ing present at the meeting which
will in all probability be held in
the city hall, SO that no one need
stay away because they do not like
the hostess.
Margaret Rolling and Dorothy
futile went to Webster City Saturday
to meet Mrs. Rolling, who was re-
turning from a trip to Jewell, where
she went to spend a few days with
her father, Mr. Larson, and with Mr..
and Mrs. R. Rolling.
The Needle Club will meet Friday
afternoon with Mrs. J. B. Tedrow,
unless there is another notice to
the contrary given.
The NJ. & NJ. Music club will meet
at the home of Mrs. R. E. Wilson for
practice, instead Of for the lesson,
which will be postponed until the
next meeting.
March 4.
WIS.,
Advertising is like the proverbial
bread cast upon the waters. 1t al
ways returns to reward.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-04
Williams Items.

Carmen Agnes Ricke was born a
Williams, Ia, Jan. 80, 1917, and dice
Feb. 10, 1918, after about two weeks
! illness with pneumonia and obstruc.
| ton Of the intestines. She leaves tc
mourn her her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. B. Ricke, and her two sisters
! her maternal grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. L. Maury Of Alden, and her
grandmother, Mrs. Ricke, also great
grandmother, Mrs. Mason, and num-
erous other relatives.
Lying there in her little coffin with
a pure white lilly in her hands little
Carmen looked as though she had
fallen asleep, and we thought of
those lines of James Whitcomb
Riley's, the children's poet:
This is the way the baby slept,
With the wee head backward
thrown,
And the dainty mouth where kisses
crep;
With warnings she had never
known;
The little hands were closely kept
About lily newly blown
And God was with her. And we
wept-
And this is the way the baby
slept"
Rev. J. J. O'Meara preached the
effective funeral sermon and baby
Carmen was laid to rest in the
Catholic Cemetery southwest Of
town.
The writer joins with other friends
Of the stricken family in extending
sympathy in this hour of bereaye-
ment.
Monday, March II, will be the
date for the school election for the
Williams Independent District. Polls
open at city hall from l to p. m.
One director is to be elected for a.
three year term to succeed VIM.
Gerber, and treasurer for a two
year term to succeed E. I. Johnson.
Word from Fonda has been re-
ceived telling of the attempted sui
eide of John st. John after he had
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-04
On Strength OF st. Louis and Illinois
Grain Association Report and
also Talk Of Car
Shortage.
WINTER WHEAT NEWS CHEERFUL
Suggests only Il Nominal Abandoned
Acrcage.-March Wheat Re.
serves Small.
Furnished by L. W. Wagner & Co.
Office in BOsscrt Bldg. Phone $40.
II. NJ. Sharpe, Manager.
AFTERNOON GRAIN LETTER.

AFTERNOON GRAIN LETTER.
Chicago, March 4.-Oats market
higher on strength at st. Louis and
the Illinois Grain Association report
indicating winter grain movement
be completed March 81 Also the
further talk of car shortage is a
factor. The oats visible increases
100000 bushels but the total Of A.
047 600 is small.
More attention given to the dwind-
ling wheat visible now reduced g.
$4,000. Winter wheat news outside
Texas and Oklahoma cheerful, sug-
costing only a nominal abandoned
acreage. The 113,O00,0O0 estimate Of
March LIST wheat reserves is small.
1t compares with 100000 in 1917
when wheat was scarce.
RANGE OF PRICES.
CORN.
Open High Low Close
Mar. 80. 127 1.275 1.27 1.27s
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-04
GIRLS SAVE COUPONS TO
BUY RED CROSS SUPPLIES.

Two little girls, Alberta Doc
- little and Mildred Shaffer, who
live near Stonega. became very
" much interested in the Red Cross
through hearing the conversa-
ton Of their elders. Their in
terest developed from day to
day, until finally they became
DESTROYS of breaking into" this
mysterious place Of khaki yarn
and knitting needles, and forth
with began to devise ways of
accomplishing that end. They
didn't want to just work; they
!" wanted to belong"
y After discussing the subject at
y some length, they decided to be-
s. gin at once to save coupons
given with cash purchases at
many stores about town. So
. gradually the little pile of cou-
Is pons grew until the girls both
y had a dollars worth. They took
" them to the bank to be cashed,
and with the money tucked safe
= ly away in their pocketbooks,
made their way to the Red Cross
8 rooms from whence they betook
" themselves some time later,
. armed with knitting needles and =
g the necessary things to make =
socks and wristlets and what
nots for Uncle Sans boys. a
Where there's will there's 81
way.
i u : Il It SIS =
-W.S.S.-
Speech, silver; silence, gold; good
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-04

Advertising is like the proverbiaI
bread cast upon the waters. 1t al
ways returns to reward.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-04
CHICAGO CASH PRICES.

These prices are subject to COM
Receipts grain at Chicago-Wheat
1; corn 243; oats 120.
Estimated-W Wheat 10; corn $40;
oats 214.
Barley $3.50 to $3.50.
Corn
mixed $1.55 to SLIGO.
mixed $1.25 to $1.5O.
4 yellow $164 to Sligo.
yellow $1.52 to $162.
yellow $1.40 to $1.51.
white $156 to $1.60
white $1.45 to $1.60.
Sample so to $1.25.
white .92i to .93d.
white .91a to .92a.
Standard .921 to .92a.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-04
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK MARKET.


Receipts hogs $4,000.
Leftover 1896.
Market slow and mostly 10 lower
than Saturdays average.
Estimated tomorrow 100000
Bulk $16.35 to $16.75.
Mixed $16.15 to $16.S5.
Rough $3.50 to $780,
Pigs $12.75 to $1625.
Light $3.50 to $1,000.
Heavy $3.50 to $1665.
Cattle receipts $1,000. Estimated
tomorrow $1,000.
Market steady to Is lower.
Beeves $685. to $11.S5.
Cows $685. to $11.S5.
Stockers $3.50 to $1,000.
Calves $S.75 to SLABS.
Sheep receipts $4,000.
Market 10 higher.
Estimated tomorrow 10000.
Western SLIGO to $13.40.
Yearlings $3.50 to $3.50.
Western lambs $14.25 to $3.50.
Native 5000 to $3.50.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-04

MARY NJ. NELSEN.H0TCHKISS,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and residence at GA Di.
vision street. Office hours 8 to II
a. M; 2 to S p. M. Calls answered.
Both phones.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-04
-W.S.S.-

Speech, silver; silence, gold; good
advertising is the medium that brings
both.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-04

DIR. E. s. MITTERLING,
OSTEOPATIIIC PHYSICIAN.
Over WoOIwOrth store. Hours, 3 to
IL q. NJ; l to s p. m. Phone, Martin
l5S. Independent phone G6.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-04
G. II. McCAULIFF, NJ. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON

Office over Browns drug store, cor.
ner of Des MOines and Second streets.
Calls attended day or night. Both
phones.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-02
GermanyS Financial Burden
Dir. Paul Michaels Discusses War Problems in The
sBerlner TagebZaH'
The Mem York Tribune Foreign Press Bureau

ing and IN rebuilding industries. 1t may
safely be said that the figure is TOO low when
we estimate that the country's debt at the
close OF the war viii amount TO 100 billions
The state has far not had the ambition
to pay the war expenses by means OF higher
revenues. 1t may be said that such q step.
with the war expenses increasing from day to
day, would be without any effective results
England was the first one to try it, but it had
to be discontinued. Also the United States
viii see themselves confronted by higher
obligations. Germany's object has been to
maintain the financial balance with the pur-
pose of covering her war expenses and pay
ing the interest her debt On the other
hand, the payment Of German debts has been
postponed till peace times.
Germany even seems to have succeeded In
part at least, in reducing our war loans bv
means Of taxation. This shows that as far as
Obligations OF the state are concerned We
have not Lived entirely on oq,i loans To SAT
isfy our conscience. We ought 10 say that We
have not contracted new debts in order to
straighten our old debts. On the whole oul
war taxes have done their task; they have
even brought more than it had been ex-
pected of them. Among these in the first
place, there is the tax profits, which
/ IS designated to-day as the war tax although
outside of this one there arc also other taxes.
1t has so far produced, according to reports,
income of five billions
"ln addition to this real war tax, there is
whole series OF other taxes which are neces-
sary to cover the expenses Of the state. First
OF all there is q tax the exchange OF goods
the incomes from which are quite consider
able. To this must be added the rise in pos
tai and telegraph rates, the increase Of the
revenues from cigarettes and tobacco, and tho
additional railroad rates for freight and pas
senger traffic. The coal tax was later added.
AS far it be seen from the report Of
the Secretary of the Treasury, also these
taxes have very largely helped to balance the
incomes of the state with tho expenses. The
coal alone brought during the month OF Octo-
Der an income Of ,S,'00,0O0 marks, which
means about 900 million marks q year. The
Cigarette tax brings 500 millions. The taxes
on traffic arc coming in very slowly. .
1t is even possible that the taxes viii not only
enable us to pay the interest on our debts
but also contribute toward decreasing our fut
ure loans.
This favorable picture of conditions how
ever, will naturally change the very moment
when peace will be established All the real
war taxes viii then be given up, and the per
manent burden OF the way loans viii press
down the country. In part, some of the war
taxes viii remain as, for example, the tax
traffic. But this Will help as much as q
drop of water can affect red hot stonc'
New-York tribune., 1918-02-02
Hints to Neutrals

Our government has been obliged from
time to time TO hint very broadly to the
neutral European powers that the neu-
trality which they practise toward us must
be tingcd with Il certain amount of neigh
borly accommodation. There must be
some reciprocity in our relations with the
nations which hold aloof from the war
II they expect courteses and favors from
US We are certainly entitled TO expect Il
quid pro quo.
This issue has been thrashcd gu; With
Holland and the outcome of the negotia-
tions, which have stretched wcarily over
many months, has been entirely satiSfac-
tory. Holland has been asking us for food
supplies and other necessarics. We are
glad to send her what we can spare. But
it is only proper that We should insist on
being partners to u mutually beneficial
compact. Holland has a large amount of
surplus marine tonnage. We have stood
New-York tribune., 1918-02-02

to their abolishment. Yet, after assum-
ing office the Mayor appointed his friend
cN-Alderman Bent to be director of the
Bureau of Contract Supervision, despite
certain well defined opposition from the
rest of the Board of Estimate. The
proposed reorganization Of these bureaus
is the sequel
Political gossips aver that there is latent
antagonism between the Mayor and Pres-
dent Smith OF the Board Of Aldermen,
whose Office makes him kind of Vice
Mayor. There is no question about the
alignment of "Al' Smith with Tammany
Halt; there has always been a question
about the disposition Of the Tammany
leaders to back the Mayor in all his under
takings, based largely on the notion that
the Mayor was much more likely to play
his individual game than an organization
or party game wherever he got the
chance. 1t is altogether likely that the
shift in control of those bureaus is a for
NAL serving of notice on the Mayor that
he isn't to consider himself the whole ad-
minstration, because the other members
cf the Board of Estimate have powers
which entitle them 10 full participation
in affairs
New-York tribune., 1918-02-02
What Price Fixing Did for Coal

A very remarkable article was that
printed in Thursdays Tribune from Mr..
knappen, giving the big consumers side
of the coal controversy. It was quite an
unlovely picture of the confusion and lacl,
of direction which have characterized the
fuel administration ever since its crea-
ton, last August. Mr.. Knappen makes
clear. as indeed the fourteen days shut
down order Of Dr. Garfield confessed, tha.
in its three principal lines the fuel admin
iStration has been practically q complete
failure:
% 1t failed to stimulate production.
(2) 1t failed to bring about lessening
of the car famine or to introduce any
more effective method of distribution.
(3) 1t has substantially failed to reduce
the price Of coal.
AS to the latter contention there is evi-
dent room for difference. IF the price
fixing order had not thrown the whole
coal industry into confusion by the dras-
tic lowering Of the prevailing prices. then
it would seem that we should have had
more coal and better q'G!jty of coal.
AHA WC nave lldu HtltIlSI. ~NHU there is
Il further phase OF the situation of which
Mr.. Knappen did not take note. That
is that since last June, when the Lane
Peabody agreement was repudated by
Secretary Baker, it is estimated that the
total number of coal producers in the
country has fallen from around 10000 to
somewhere about half this.
1t Is true that almost all Of these were
small mines, often of only a few hundred
tons capacity, and that probably mono of
The large mines have been shut up. But
it is definitely known that many large Ell
terprises which had been projected under
the prevailing high prices Of last spring
were not gone on with, and therefore there
seems at present no hope Of a considerable
increase in coal production for the coming
year. And this is what VIC have needed
most.
1t is on this side that the failure of the
Garfield administration has been most
complete. It is possible that with the
coming of warmer weather and the pool.
ing of the railroads. resources the trans
portation jam may be broken. If then the
country fails to get an adequate supply OF
coal of normal quality, we shall have, as
it were, fixed in frame an almost classic
picture of the failure of'price- fixing meth
DDS to control a great industry. And ii
will be one which our legislators and the
people at large will long bear in mind.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-02

out for permission to borrow that tonnage
for use in replcnishing our own sup
plies We have also stood out for an iron
clad agreement by which our expectations
of food to Holland shall not operate to
release supplies for German use. In order
to enforce our claims many Dutch mer-
chant vessels were held up for months in
our ports. We had the right to refuse
them bunker coal, as we'll as to prevent
their taking away American goods. In
the end the reciprocity argument pre-
vailed. 1t prevailed because it was rca-
sonablc. And we arc now about TO com
plctc similar reasonable agreements with
Norway and Sweden.
If Spanish vessels arc to be detained
temporarily in our ports, it is safe to as
sumo that the government has now found
it advisable 70 drop q diplomatic hint OF
the same nature to the Spanish govern
mcnt. German influence is very powerful
in Spain, and Spanish neutrality is being
constantly twisted and violated in Ger
many's interest. Germany has no sea
commerce with Spain and no legitimate
land commerce.
Our policy toward all the ncutrals will
be just and fair. But in return they mus.
be fair and just to US. For those neutrals
who have counted on getting more and Civ
ing less than an equitable exchange Of
services object lessons like the hold-up Of
their shipping have been necessary, and
in some cases they may continue to be nee
CSSarV.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-02
San Francisco Bus Experiment

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: In view OF the suggestions that have
been heard of late as to municipal 'bus
routes IN this city, the experience OF San
Francisco with a municipality owned bus
line, which for the first few months of oper-
alton of only four five buses has resulted
in a loss of over $4,000, is Of special signlti-
cancc to New Workers.
When operation was started by the munich
pal authorities in San Francisco last Sen
tomber everything favored "a successful won't
ure. The route passed through the great
residential district near Golden Gate Park
and there was u tremendous need for addi-
tonal transportation facilities. With even
these advantages. (and it should be noted
that during their operation the buses are re-
ported to have been we'll patronized from
early morning to midnight the city was not
able TO surmount its inexperience in bus
operation, with the result Of the SIG, 900 net
loss
1t is generally conceded that our bus SER
vice is good in New York City There has
been less criticism o. it than Of any other
transportation service. Does it not seem
better for the city first to turn its attention
to those industries or public services which
really need "A doctor?
GRIFFIN NJ BATES.
New York, Jan. 81, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-02-02
Minute Men and Women
o the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: As an English girl confined to small
space ( was taught to strike at evil when
seen so as TO obscure or forever obliteratc
us pernIcious influences. Sure have gotten
INTO trouble many times in my life for so
doing, but, God he thanked, the wrong has
been rlghted in its early stages am now
an American and love this country for its
ideals, also for what it has done for me and
nine AS a missionary worker in this coun
try | have tried to infuse into the minds of
all my listeners the spirit Of striking while
the iron is hot
We need to-day millions of minute men
and women who, after they first get II vision
OF wrong or neglect, whether it be in high
places or low, on the street, in the market.
IN the camp in the press, in Il e school. or
IN civic life, will seize the first opportunity
to denounce it and not wait until the evil has
grown to such an alarming capacity.
A SOLDIERS MOTHER
Newark, \. j., Jan. 81, 1915