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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
County Auditor Sends Notice to Vari.
Gus Taxing Bodies in County.
Asking Leyies in Dollars
Instead of Mills.
TAXING BODIES HERE
Levics are Asked for in Dollars and
Reduced TO Mills by Board Of
Supervisors.

| County Auditor A. J. Peterson has
bodies in Hamilton county of change
made this year in the method Of levy
| ing taxes. Instead of each levying
body making it's levy in mills, it is
now asked to report to the county
auditor and the board of supervisors
the amount Of money in dollars that it
| wishes to raise. This report is made
in July The county auditor then
figures out the amount of tax in mills
necessary to raise the amount asked
and the board makes the levy in Sept
ember.
There are seventy-one taxing bodies
in Hamilton county. These are divid-
ed as follows:
AZ school boards.
16 boards of township trustees
8 town councils.
Letter to Tax Bodies.
Mr.. Petersons letter to the various
taxing bodies follows:
under section No. l, it is required
that the rate of taxation fixed for any
public purporse shall, in all cases, be
estimated upon the adjusted taxable
valuation for the preceding calendar
year, in the district in which the levy
is made, and section No. 2 provides,
that in certifying such levy to any tax
ing body, the officers charged with the
duty of certifying such levy or rate,
compute upon the adjusted taxable
valuation of the district for the pre-
ceding calendar year, excluding
moneys and credits and other moneyed
capital taxed at fiat rate. and certify
the computed amount in dollars to the
county auditor and board of supervi-
sors.
Section No makes it the duty of
the county auditor, after the valuation
for the various taxing districts have
been computed and reported, to COM
pute and spread upon the records such
rate levied on the adjusted taxable
valuations for the year, excluding
moneys and credits and other moneyed
capital taxed at a fiat rate, as will
raise the amount required for eac,
taxing district for the evident purpose
of uniformity. This section also pro-
vides that where fractional mill levy
exceeds one-half of one-tenth Of a mill
it should be recorded as tenth and
that no fraction smaller than one
tenth shall be required to be spread
upon the records for any purpose other
than state tax"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
what Boy win Learn in Trenches.

what Boy VIII Learn Ill trenches.
Private Peat, the famous soldier
lecturer, says in the March American
Magazine:
when the war came, hundreds OF
these remittance men enlisted. A good
many Of them had been drunkards,
good for-nothings gamblers, buns,
But the record they have made in the
trenches is one of the finest pages in
the war Some of them have died
heroes deaths Some of them are
still living and fighting. I know OF
one man who was down and out, NOR
ally-just a plain drunkard. That
man to-day is lieutenant, self-re-
specting and llonored. q
Il tell you, there are worse things
in the world than war. It's bitter
hard, I know, to send your son away
to fight But if you realize that the
war is going to give him a post-grad-
uate course in the very things you
have u leu AeilueoI " .ea.ii hiii' Aio! NC
it won't seem so hard. Those things
are courage and loyalty, obedience,
self-sacrifice, honesty, trust in God
aren't they? Well, those are the
things he will learn in the trenches.
Believing this. you certainly can send
him away with smile on your face,
a smile of pride and of hope
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
FARMERS
Remember sharpen Discs, Gull
tivator Shovels and Plows.
Bring Them In Now
Yours For Business
A S. HOLT
12d1-16d1-j2f2
Moving Time.

The Geo. w. Mccullough family have
rented the H. A. Crandall bungalow
which will soon be vacated by the
Francis Powers family, who are max
ing ready to move into their newly
purchased home-the A. H. Greeley
bungalow on west Boone street. D.
M. Anderson, salesman in the Aug f.
Mueller hardware store, has rented
the Mrs. Ollie Warren house on Elm
street to be vacated by the McCol-
loughs, the Anderson family moving
from the Geo. n Gardner house at
$40 Second street.
The C. Wack 100 acre farm, Az
miles southwest of town, has been sol |
to D. E. Klein of this city and his
brother, Geo. Klein of Onawa, Ill.,, ana
the latter gentleman and his family
will live on it, expecting to move hero
before March l. Mrs. G. J. Wack, who
has been living on the farm, expects
TO move to town the forepart of March
and will occupy the Aug. Witte cot
tage on Division street. Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank w. Miller, who now rent the
White cottage, will move to the Mrs.
Palmer latham house in the 900 block
on Second street, now occupied by the
Meade Hughes family. Mr.. Hughes
has rented the cement block residence
on Stockdale street, north side, own'i
by his father, T. NJ Hughes of Will
Jams, and at present occupied by the
D. A. Barnes family. Mr.. Barnes has
rented the Mrs. A. H. Quincy resi-
dence in the 600 block on Division
street, which will soon be vacated by
the w. F. Wanamaker family who are
preparing to move into their newly
purchased property-the f. NJ. Beal
house on Division street.
The AL. Callies family, who have
been living with John Berogan, 1921
Seneca street, expect to move into the
Mrs. J. w. Hurst home, l4l4 Seneca
street, which will be vacated by Mr..
and Mrs. Stoffer Gray, who intend
soon to move into their own home on
First street.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25

might attend a dinner given last even
ing in honor of two young gentlemen
who are members of the choir. The
guests of honor are members of the
select draft and have been called to
service.
Ray and Ben Brooks of Williams
came over yesterday to attend the
funeral of their uncle, James A
Shelton, held at Homer in the after
noon.
Mrs. Henry Roskopf, who has
been spending the past five weeks
with her sister, Mrs. o. G. Furman
and husband, near Jewell, arrived
home yesterday. r.a
Mrs. Peter Blake left yesterday
for Charles City to be with her sis
ter, Mrs. E. e. Johnson, a short time
while the latters son leaves for an
army training camp.
w. D. Ringenberg, who has been in
Mercy hospital for a week or so suffer-
ing with a severe case OF autointoxica-
ton, was able to return to his home
near Mason City yesterday. Mrs. Ring
enberg, who has been here with her
husband, accompanied him home.
John Soren of Clarion, a former
Webster City citizen, was in town yes
terday greeting friends.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
Trench mirrors at Teed's
Flour Dealers Must Use Care.
--W.S.S.-

Flour DeNlerS MUST Use NAIcs
Varick c. Crosley, one Of the food
administrators in this county, is in
receipt of the following letter from
the state food administrations:
"a great many certificates are COM
ing into this office showing that deal
crs are giving out -four on certification
that the consumer has in his posses
sion potatoes, beans and other items.
1--WE wish you would take immediate
steps to advise all dealers in your
county that this must be stopped.
Beans, canned goods of any kind,
and breakfast foods must not be used
as substitutes.
Potatoes can only be sold by deal
crs as substitute in the ratio Of four
to one in cases Of emergency.
1--WE also want to call your atten-
ton to the fact that while it is grow
ing increasingly difficult to obtain a
sufficient quantity Of substitutes, retail!
dealers must not under any circum-
stances sell -four to consumers unless
they have substitutes on hand or UNI
less the consumer can certify the
necessary substitutes in his posses
sion.
Dealers are not permitted to apply
past purchases of wheat flour substi-
tutes on wheat purchased, without
certification that such past purchases
of substitutes still remain on hand
In other words, unless the consumer
has these substitutes on hand and
certifies to the fact, to the dealer, he
is not permitted to buy wheat -four
without the substitutes.
"Certification has already been stop
ped in some sections and from present
indications it may be necessary for us
to take the same step within a short
time"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
Before End of Week. ii is Expected
That Every School Child in City
and Majority, in Comfy
Will Have Stamps.
EXPRESSING IDEA OF THRIFT
Postmaster Rauman Believes Sal.
viii go Over Amount Asked in
This County.

Instead of a toy bank, the modern
child has war savings stamps.
Before the end of the week, it is
believed that every school child in the
city and the majority Of those in the
county, will have at least one war
savings stamp on card. This ac-
compAshment, while wonderful in it
self, IS only the beginning, not the end
of the campaign. Teachers, parents
and others. who have any relations
with child, are striving to impress
the idea of thrift.
Curbs ThriitleSSnesS.
Every child receives a gift or earns
a small sum of money occasionally.
Such change should be used to pur-
chase thrift stamps and not foolishly
spent without thought of its valne.
The besetting sin of the American
people, as nation, is thrift!essness,
No better time than the present could
le found to curb this tendency in both
this and the younger generation.
PCstoffice authorities report the sale
of war savings stamps daily, varying
in amounts from two, three and five
hundred dollars to fifteen hundred
dollars and above. Postmaster Bau-
man declares that. without doubt the
sale of thrift and war-savings stamps
will go we'll over that prescribed for
this county. 1T is wonderful, the way
the people are taking hold of this
thing" the postma ster declared. II
is, indeed, and the lesson in thrift now
inculcated in the youth of the land,
will be significant in its advantages
as a quality of future American citi-
zenship.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
--W.S.S..
New Fashions in Rhyme and Prose.

new FISuIOUS Ill Hi Mc huu AVsCs
Grace Margaret Gould, Fashion
Editor of the Woman's Home Compan-
ion, in the March issue gives an &C
count of Miss Manhattan's shopping
tour in which the latest modes are re-
vealed. She says:
"'Man wants but little here below
But girls are different, and SO,
She visits shop, boutique and store,
Supplying wants and wanting more
"At the milliner's she buys hat OF
folded georgette and straw with teath-
err trimming.
"At the boot shop she learns that
ties are in, and that in high shoes the
combination Of materials is favored.
an accessory land she discovers
that the tassel bag now has wooden
handle, the embroidered veil is round
the rain and sun umbrella has ivory
points and blunt tip, stockings are
open-worked and embroidered"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
w. 8 s
A Patriotic Pun.

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cup
board
To find her poor dog bone,
But when she got there the cupboard
was bare
And SO the poor doggie had none.
Did the dog get sore and howl? Not
at all!
He just wriggled his tail to say:
I'm no pro-German pup forgot;
This IS my homeless day"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
Ropeat Program mt Lawn Hill.

The program given at the Lawn
Hill school Wednesday evening was
such decided success that it was
repeated Thursday night. So great
was interest among the patrons OF the
school, that standing room was at a
premium, and a number of people
We're turned away each evening.
While the enthusiasm with which the
entertainment was received showed
no lack of appreciation for the efforts
put forth by the teachers and pupils.
The object of the program was to
secure funds for the purchase of
Thrift stamps and the results clearly
demonstrated the spirit Of patriotism,
which is sweeping the public schools
of Webster City.
Lawn Hill school is now hun
dred per cent school. This means
that each child has a Thrift card
with one or more stamps thereon, or
that the school has purchased a
stamp in their name. The enrolment
is one hundred and thirty-five pupils
and there are now three hundred and
sixty stamps owned in the school.
The following program was given:
Star Spangled Banner. School
Rec.-The Flag Goes BY ........
Ruth COulson
Mrs. Wilson's Tea Party. .........
Girls Room
Russian Folk Dance. Girls Room 2
Rec.-Our Boys l...... Evelyn Lund
Songs-Our Flag-two Heroes -.
................... Room l
SolO-Joan of Arc. ....... .Glee Hill
Flag Drill. ........ ........ Room Z
Rec.-A Hero Exposed. -. Ralph Hill
Song-The Nation. Room
The Little Army. ...... Boys Room l
Song-Your Flag and My Flag.
Rooms 3 and 4
Rec.-Slacker, Think it Over.
Harold Schweppe
Hoover Exercise. ..... Boys Room 8
Two Washington Songs. Room l
Piano Duet .Glee Hill, Francis Lorins
Rec.-What Happens When We Try
Ruth Jackson
Jumping Jacks ....... Boys Room
ill
Rec.-What's In Name. ........
Robert McFerren
Song-Many Flags ......... Room
Drill ............. Girls Room 4
Piano Solo. Helen Campbell
Rec.-Do Your Share. Virgil Carrier
l Junior Home Guards. Boys Room z
Rec.-Iowa's Good Enough For Me
Edison Carrier
g-Washington's Birthday. 49,.
Boys Room +
Parade -. HShooi
Song-The Good Old U. S. A.. School
Nv G
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
MSS.
OF For Washington.

Miss Neva Garrick, who recently
received an appointment to lucra-
tive position in the war Offices at
Washington, D. c., has resigned as
apher-bookkeeper in the Sc
curity Title & Loan company's office
and expects to leave for the east to-
morrow night Her new position is
in Surgeon General Gorgas' offices.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
Married in Waterloo.

Miss Delta Bateman and Mr.. Frank
w. Hughes were married in> Waterloo
Monday, but the news has just been
made known here, the young couple
thinking they could keep the secret
from their friends. They were mar
ried at 80 in the afternoon at the
nome of the brides brother, Orie Bate
man, the Rev. J. B. Smith of the First
Baptist church in Waterloo, former
Webster City pastor, reading the serv-
ice in the presence of a few relatives
and friends.
Mr. and Mrs Hughes will make
their home in the front apartment in
the Iowa Telephone building.
w. SS.-
Carl Leopold, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dell Leopold, has been promoted 70
corporal Carl will be remembered as
second cook in Company when they
left this city, He was later transfer
red to Camp Travis. Bakery Company
No. 1886. the only Iowa man in that
company.
-W.S.S.-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
Unclaimed Letters.

Following is list of unclaimed let
tiers remaining in the Webster Cit.
postoffice for the week ending Feb
ruary 10:
j. M. Bell.
Kenneth Bidwell.
Miss Harriet Crosley.
VIM. l.. Doss, Jr. (Homer, Iowa.
G. M. Ellis.
Walter Essig.
II. l.. Granger.
Roy Hickman.
Mrs E. kiburZ
Miss Henrietta Kordels.
Master Alvin Marlin.
Earl Nelson.
Mrs. NJ. J. O'Conner.
H. w. Schroeder.
c. l.. Stanley.
Miss Mary Striver.
Mr.. S. NJ Teget
II not called iOr within two weeks
will be sent to the dead letter branch
Chicago, III. -
ID. II. Bauman, p. M.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
Rig Woman Meeting Wednesda!
Night.

All members are urged to be pres
ent as there will be initiation OF
candidates. There will also be talk
by D. c. Voss, one of the best in
surance experts in the Z. S., who
will explain your insurance to you.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
A Former Teacher Here.

Miss Julia Beach, mentioned in the
following item from the Des Moines
Register, is a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. B. S. Beach. Says the item:
Whittier and Wallace schools,
which are under the supervision OF
Miss Julia Beach as principal, have
gone over the top in War Thrift
Stamps.
Wallace school bought $437.54
and Whittier $32733. making a total
of $754.S7, or $1.27 per pupil for
Wallace and $1.55 for Whittier.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
-W.S.S.

r. T. Harvey, food administrator
for hotels and restaurants in Hamil-
ton county, has received notice oil
the fine imposed by the food admins
tration on George n. Felgar of Mount
Pleasant, probably as hint as to
what can happen, even here. Mr.
Felgar was fined $500 by the Iowa
foor administration at Burlington for
selling flour without wholesaler
license and without substitutes and
for serving meat in his restaurant
on meatless day.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25

Miss Leatha Tilghman, who has
had the position of attendant in the
office of DR.. w. w. Watt for the past
year or more, will leave in two
weeks for Cleveland, Ohio, to enter
the Lakeside Training School for
nurses. Miss Tilghman has long had
the desire to enter the nurses pro-
fession and after the three years
training given at this school will be
very capable in that field.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25
W.S.S.

Friends here have received cards
announcing the birth of bouncing
baby boy, January &c, 1918, to Rev.
and Mrs. Arthur Hitler Beatty OF Lead,
s. d. The child has been christened
Beecher Tole Beatty The mother will
be remembered as Miss Joyce Ballard,
daughter of Mr., and Mrs. II. d. Bal
IL rd. former Webster City residents.
-W.S.S.-
All kinds Of clocks at Teed & Teed's.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25

Business cards at this Office.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25

Trench fountain pens at Teed &
Teed's. f-J-d-e0d-u
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25

Mr.. and Mrs. J. Wilmer Lee are
the happy parents of new son, born
at Mercy hospital Feb. %. 1918.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-02-25

All kinds of clocks at Teed 6 Teed's
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-08-22
JAMES II. HAWLEY FOR
UNITED STATES SENATOR

The candidacy of Former Govern
or James H. Hawley for the nomin-
alton for United States Senator for
the short term is proving an inspira-
tion to the members of the Demo-
cratic party, who are rallying to his
standard Governor Hawley's can
didacy is direct challenge to the
Non-Partisan league attempt TO cap
ture the party and will cause an out
pouring of Democrats on primary day
unequalled in the annals of the
state. With one accord and regard
less of party Governor Hawley is
proclaimed "Idaho's Grand Old Man. -
and there is not a nook or corner
of the state in which he is not known
and esteemed and his following is
statewide For more than fifty years
he has been a resident of the state
coming to the then territory as a
boy in his teens. without relatives
or friends. and thrown among the
vicissitudes of a mining camp of 20.-
600 people-the old camp of Idaho
City-where he withstood every
temptation and dug in the ground
by day and into books at night until
he earned the money to go through
law school in San Francisco. Think
of that for boy and you will real
ize something of the mettle that has
made Jim Hawley the acknowledged
most beloved citizen of Idaho Richly
has he earned the honor of term
in the United States Senate from the
commonwealth of which he has beer
factor for more than half a cen
tury.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-08-22
SECOND DISTRICT WAR
CONFERENCES ARE HELD

The state conner of defense has
of county and district war confer
ences. The itinerary covered sections
of the eastern part of the state. in
Guiding the upper Snake river valley.
These resulted in accomplishing a
great deal of good from a war-work
ing and organization standpoint. The
party attending the conferences as
representing the state council was
made up as follows: Chief Justice
Alfred Bulge of the Idaho Supreme
Court: Mrs. S. II. Hays, chairman of
| the woman's committee. Idaho divi-
sion. Council of National Defense
Mrs. Frank Kinyon. director OF the
state speakers bureau; Joseph Han
sen, secretary of the state council
and Joseph Spencer. formerly of the
second Idaho regiment. who saw ser
vice in France.
The itinerary covered was as fol
lows: Mackay. July 25; Challis, Jul,
25 and 26: Salmon, July %: st. An
thony. July 20; Idaho Falls. Jul,
S0 Blackfoot. July 81; and Arc'
August l. At all of these confer
ences were held either in the morn
ings or afternoons with the count,
councils. Individually or collectivel,
and at night there were public mas
meetings Chief Justice Bulge an'
Mr.. Spencer we're the principa
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-08-22
'oU MUST REGISTER TO VOTE
Saturday. August 3fst, is the Last
Day

Contrary to the opinion of many
persons who think that because they
voted, or were registered two years
ago. it will not be necessary to reg
lister to vote this year. but such Is
not the case Every person must
register this year to vote.
Under the new statute, passed al
the last session of the Idaho legisla
ture, no one may vote at either the
primary or the general election un
less he registers this year. All form
er registrations are cancelled. ant
no one may swear In" his vote oI
election day.
Registration must be done in th'
precinct in which the voter resides
and the books are required to b
open at the place of the registra
each Saturday.
For North Jerome l.. NJ. Zug /
the registrar and can be found a
the Jerome National bank during tn
day and at the Rialto theatre even
ings.
w. d. Hardwick is the registra
for South Jerome and has an offic
in the city hall.
Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1918-08-22
CANDIDATE FOR LEGISLATURES

Sam w. Hills. farmer of Grand
View, is a candidate for the nomina-
tion for representative of the state
Legislature, filed on the Democratic
ticket. He owns and has been farm
ing very extensively on the North
Side tract for the past several years
at Grand View. Mr.. Hills has al
ways taken a great deal of interest
In the development of Lincoln coun-
ty He is good. patriotic citizen,
having done good work In the Liber-
ty loan and Red Cross drives. He
is especially we'll qualified TO fill the
Office for which he is a candidate and
we believe deserves the undivided
support of his party. Mr.. Nelson.
who opposes Mr.. Hills in the primary,
is q Socialist from north of Shoshone
and has had but little, If any, afiili-
alton with the Democratic party
heretofore.