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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24
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TO THE HUNS.
BY CLARENCE HE1DAL,
i Radcliffe, Iowa, n

I Have you forgotten, one and
I all, that you were beaten just.
I last fall? November 'leventh =
I was the day when your resis-
/ lance fell away. We might have
I tramped throughout your land
( and ruined you on every hand;
+ as you in Belgium once performs
I ed, we might your country, too,
/ have stormed; but still our
/ mercy never swerved; we gave
I you not what you deserved. You
/ flung the flag of truce alOft and
I while we might have only scott
, ed, we stopped our armies, there
I and then; we shot down no more
/ of your men. The terms we Of
/ fered as to peace were mild and
I honest as you please. We took
I your word when you agreed; W.
7 thought your word was guaran-
I teed; but now Of late you act
I as though you still were scrap 8
I ping with the foe. You would
/ forget that you are lick
I ed; you think you're going to
I get us tricked. Against the
/ armistice you storm; the words
I you use are pretty warm. Say,
I Hindenburg, get Off your horse
I and stop that modifying chorus,
else we, entente, will take ycu
I all across our knee and make
/ you squall.
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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24
A Rig Farm Sale.

The John Cox farm sale near StO-
mega Thursday was one OF the most
successful farm sales held hereabouts
this season. 1t tOtalled approximately
$4,000. Over a thousand chickens were
sold. many of them bringing as high
as $3.50 each. One of the largest
crowds seen ut a farm sale in this
county in several seasons was present
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24
Real Estate Transfers.

Geo. 4. Chamberlin .et al to Pedel
Lund-lot 10 blk Z Add Jewell-$7OO
O. A. VAIL and VT to N. p. Ohm
stead-lot 2 blk o. & w. Add W.
G. and parcels in " Sc 32-S9-25--
$1,000.
/ Peter Cannon and VT to A. p. Olson
lot II and 10 it lot u blk l STRAIT
ford-$4, 200.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24
METHODISTS
Plan JUBILEE.
The Northwest Iowa Con-
ference Will Celebrate
it's Fiftieth Ami
versary.
TO OCCUR IN 1922
To Publish Chronological
List of Conference
Ministers.
TO OCCUR IN 1922

Plans are being made to celebrate the
tiftieth anniversary of the founding OF
the Northwest Iowa Methodist Confer
ence. A meeting was held Saturday in
Sioux City attended by number of
the prominent ministers of the confer.
ence, including Rev. G. H. Kapphoef.
ner, district superintendent, Of Sioux
City, formerly "A well known Webster
City pastor. Says the Sioux City Jour.
nal:
Initial plans for the celebration OF
the semi-centennial of the founding OF
the Northwest Iowa conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal church were made
at a meeting Of some of the members Of
tile conference historical society held
yesterday afternoon at the First Meth
odist Episcopal church. The confer.
ence was organized in 1872, which will
make the celebration OCCUR at the regu-
lar conference in the fall of 1922.
List Of Minister'S
It was decided at the meeting to pub
fish manual that will contain clrOn.
0logical list OF all the ministers who
have been members Of the conference,
either past or present. The list will
show the years they have been members
and the method by which they began
or terminated membership in the con-
ference, such as death or transfer.
The manual will also contain list
of the towns within the bounds of the
conference in which Methodist church.
es have been organized, together with
the pastors who have served them.
1t is alsa planned to publish list OF
the pioneer church members who are
still living and those who were mem,
bers for the first fifteen or twenty years
Of the conference.
File Of Minutes.
1t was also decided ut the meeting to
purchase a safe in which to preserve
valuable records from fire and also a
cabinet ip which historical objects OF
interest will be exhibited. 1t Is plan.
ned to devote an entire day of the 1922
session to the celebration. The confer.
ence journals are expected to play an
important part in collecting the data.
Rev. A. Starr Black of North Yakima,
Wash. has donated file Of the min
.utes from 1883 to ,Morningside college,
which are being bound and will be plac-
ed in the college Library. Rev. Mr.,
Black is a pioneer minister of the con.
ference, now on the retired list.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24
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SOCIAL EVENTS.

The Congregat ional ladies aid society
will meet at the home Of Mrs. w. F..
Wanamaker, 72o Division street. at
. 80 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Mem
bers are requested to come prepared to
sew. A % cent tea will be served by
the February committee.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24

John Landers of Ignacio, Colorado.
is in the city for few days visit
with his parents, Capt. and Mrs. +.
Il. Landers. 1t has been four years
since John was here. He is engaged
in irrigation and similar construction
work in Colorado
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24

Stanley Workman of Fairfield arriv-
cd here Friday from Camp Macarthur.
Cal, for u few days visit at the G. W.
Lee home OH First street. Mr.. Work
man has but recently returned from Ov-
erseas and has received his honorable
discharge from military service.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24

Miss Elizabeth Mullen of Chicago.
cd of penmanship. is spending the day
in this city and is giving special in
structon in penmanship in the Webster
City schools.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24

Miss Lenadore Berg visited over
Sunday in Des Moines with her sister.
Miss Helen Berg, who teaches in the
schools there. and also her friend, Miss
Helen HOyt.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24
Alfalfa Still Profitable Feed.

In reply to Inquiries as to whether
an attempt should he made to fatten
cattle without alfalfa, on account OF
its scarcity and high price. the animal
husbandry department Of Iowa State
college says alfalfa, even at $50 ton,
is still comparatively cheap form OF
roughness. and it will pay to feed 1t.
at least IN limited quantities. Fatten-
ing cattle do not need alfalfa for all
their roughness, however. Cattle fed
corn with half of their roughness al
falfa and the other half well cured
corn fodder without ears should make
almost as great gains as cattle receiv-
ing corn and alfalfa for all their
rOughnesS.
Anything in the printing line ut the
I'll
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24
BRIEF NEWS NOTES.

Emmett Riley and sister, Miss Fern.
of Whiting, returned to their home
this morning following two weeks
visit with their uncle, Ed Riley and
family, south of town.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24

Mrs. ID. NJ. Anderson has been quite
i'll at her home on Elm street during
the past two weeks. She is suffering
with an attack of pleurisy but is some
what improved today.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24

w. r. G. members are requested to
meet early Tuesday for the regular
meeting as the corps session begins
promptly at o'clock. BY order Of Pres
ident.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24

J. L. Rasmussen has sold the new
modern house erected last year in the
1900 block on Second street to Ash
bury Johnson of Stratford.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24

Elmer Benton of Wrenshall. Mimi,
returned to his home this noon, having
spent a week here visiting his brother.
Lawrence Benton. He was accOmpani-
ed home by Frank Hall who will visit
for short time with his sister. Mrs.
George Benton, who resides at Wren
shall.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24
FOR SALE-one of my registered Per.

cheron three year old gray stations.
Best in county. a show horse. AIT
quick. Price reasonable. II. NJ. Rise.
breeder of Percherons. Hubbard,
Iowa. 24f2j2*
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24
Soldiers to Meet at Lehnhard Store

Soldiers to Meet Ut Lehnhafd StOfe.
All returned sailors and soldiers,
civil war veterans and Spanish
American soldiers are requested to
meet at the L. A. Lehnhard store to-.
morrow evening at $3.50 o'clock,
from which place they will go in a
body to tile Odd Fellows hall to at.
tend the banquet.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24
saw PRESIl De NJ
WHILE ! !! IN ROME
Roy Met Comb, Former Web
steE City Boy, on Naval
Ship at Rome Dur
ing Visit.
HoNoRED BY WILSON
Acted as His Personal Mes
senger While in the
!. City.
H0NORED BY WILSON

Roy McCOmD, grandson OF MIS-. hate
McComb of this city, and who formerly
lived here, was highly honored by Pres
ident Wilson while in Rome. Roy Is
on board the Western Hope, which was
in Italian waters when the president
visited the king and queen of Italy. lie
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Nc
Comb of Waterloo, former Webster
City residents. Says the Waterloo
Courier:
Wilson Visited Ship.
Roy McComb, perhaps better known
as Red. McComb, has had an exper-
fence that he says will compensate him
amply for the many months of tedious
and hard work in the service. On Jan.
he was one of the crew of the ship
.West9rn Hope and was stationed in
waters near Rome. Officers making
preparations for the visit of Americas
great war president, Woodrow Wilson,
visited the ship and selected ten sailors
to decorate the queens dining hall for
the luncheon reception Of the president
and his party. Roy McComb was one
Of the ten selected. Later>iIe was CLOS
en- with others to act as the presidents
personal messengers while he was in
Rome.
Highly H0nored.
A recent letter from the Waterloo
lad has been received by his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. McCOmb, ZIG Con-
ger street. In this letter he tells of his
having been thus honored but does not
give many details. He was one of the
party of American sailors from the
westerns Hope" to escort the crew Of
the presidents ship around the city.
The ten men who did the decorating
were also complimented highly by ofti-
Gals on their achievement.
He is an East High graduate and
was one of the best gridirOn men In
1911 He was called into service April
10, but had enlisted some time before.
He is 10 years of age.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24

HOUSES FOR RENT. See Geo. W.
Lee. 11-14d-j-f-tf
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24

WsANTED-to buy, Liberty bonds. viii
pay cash for all issues. w. w
Pearcc, Webster City. Iowa.
2-21d-f-jtf !.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-02-24

Anything in the printing line at the
Freeman-J Office. Give a. Il call.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-06
nucklNe RESPONSIBILITY.

How little effort Is made by com runities to do their own thinking is Fell illustrated by the situation which has developed in the city of To- edo. That city has been having it's troubles with the street railway in terests for years. Trolley. franchises and service were open sores and when increased cost of operations made. il necessary to advance the fares the situation became even worse.
 The result was that at the sugges- ton of the mayor ar ordinance was passed by the council ordering the company to stop operations. It was g matter that had to be referred to the people and by rather a narrow margin the voters of that city approved tho ordinance. Understanding that it hal been ordered out of the city the com. psny obeyed sooner than expected ant removed its cars into Michigan. Tn, result was that everybody had to wall or patronize the jitneys. One bii concern there has been paying $1,00, a day to transport it's help, and there can be no surprise when the head q 1t declares the city to be the laughing stock of the country.
 Naturally jitney service has no s2tisfed and arrangements for the re turn of the trolley service have beer s1ade The people are annarantt
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-06
STORES ,: OF HE WAR
 Shells Still surstins.
[The Associated Press

The Associated Press.l
 Residents of the devastated districts of France are still fleeing from bursts of shell and, sllrapnel. The new mem ace is, caused by the small grass and swamp fires which ,frequently set 0n the shells that have beeR piled, up to be hanied away and exploded in some
 Major H. c. Greene; of, Rosson,,, had la thrilling ride and narrowly escap- ed 8 hail of. ,shra pnel; on his, way from St. Quentin to Laon as 8, result of eae of these fires.ie,A French woman working in; a field. near Reuconyille was gassed. and considerable damage has been done. 4-e; ss:, k, d. In the vast. desolate fields, thens- ands of unexploded shells have been Iicked up by German prisoners and though there are details hauling them away, and exploding them in. remote valleys every day there are still long ranks of them everywhere. Sparks from small fires where battlefield rAb-
 bish is being. burned, occasionally set fire. to patches of. dry weeds and the
 accidental, bursts are numerous. Roads
 passing places where shells are, be ing set off are guarded but it is from 1 tlles seeidental blasts that the daiige, l cbfueS
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-06
Sunday Morning Talk
HIDDEN RICHES.

This inner life is a tremendous real- ity its very invisibi1ity emphasizes the realness of the reality. It is one of the richest heritages of the child of God. The outer life is only the scaf- folding; it is only the husk or shell. The inner life is the real building; it is the germ hiding kernel.
 All moral and spiritual defeats are due to .vitiation of the inner life. The whitening, blasting and uprooting ,ot the souls choice plants are never ac- complished through the forces of the outer life; they begin within.
 How can we possess the rich, pow erfu1 inner life when body. mind and soul are constantly exercising their
 energies upon the vain. perishing
 things of earth. We must take time
 to cultivate the unseen fields of the soul. We must constantly stand face
 to face with God, drink in the strength Of his nature and the inspiration of his presence. If we do not, the inner life will perish. Prayer, meditation. read ing-these are the channels through which God pours his golden. vitalizing streams into the inner life.
 The saddest moment in life to man or woman is when there is a discovery that the inner. life is gone and only the outer shell is left Yet the inner life goes gradually and secretly; no one has ever been robbed fof it.
 Let us be. watchfu1. Let US remem | Der that as long as God is in this inner life there is security there, and that no thief has ever yet been, able tc break the lock of prayer and trust and 1 divine wisdom. y
 Why will ye waste on tri1ing cares the life which Gods .compassior spares? While in the various range ot thought, the one thing needful is for
 got"
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-06
JAW ok .EAW CEssN Ess.

The calling of q federal grand jury in special session for thes purpose of Investigating the conditions in the coal industry, with ParticuIar reference to violation of. the Lever fuel control act and the Sherman anti trust law is prompted by the sftuat ton in the bitu- minous coal industry today. But it is time. as. the federal authorfties de- clare. to find out. whether this is "a government of law or of group of men" ezs e ,..,1
 Certain of the mine leaders have secn. arrested on the. charge, of vioiat i.ig' thc .iliunGttop recently. granted by
 JuCsc .Andcrsea and others will be
 hroueh- before the court eu tie same chGrge, put it is atpbatently from tho
 Investigations that nave been con ducted into this. phase of the matter and the fsrt -th;t. the production is, ,noi being increascd that there. is beliel
 thar there $ collision between tho miners. and o,5eIistors. + such | con Spirac5' exists iel5 order to let both oi
 those groups benefit from the new rates at the 1x.iensea Of the consumer lit is '6f codrst high time that it was &npw1 Aid #. the operators ar, working with the miners through any undorstsndjhG they are as guilty un, der. the iaw.
 It is therefore well that the whole situation should be carefully investi gated ana certainly any investigatioi should be welcomed by those who arr
 not involved but who are doing. thei utmost to, clear up; the deplorable sit uation.< The country has suffered
 enough. from the defiant attitud, manifested and if it can be showl that a conspiracy exists the penalt! of the law deserves to fall wherever guilt is found. :, The special session indicates that no time is to be lost il getting to tine bottom of the matte
 and in the meantime it is to be hope 1 that either it wfll have the effect Q getting more coal mined or else. som way can be. devised for breaking tn present ho1dup.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-06
LET TIERS TO THE EDITOR
Tending to the Job at Hand.

L. NHS AS 1t'S SSS caA ttoiie' MT. Editor: 4 man that can clean d l lamp without breaking the chimney
 can certainly do better job than President. Wilson did when he made his. mighty plea for America to elect q democratic congress. A man who can throw on a hod of coal without spilling half of it is certainly doing more than, the entire American out fit of ineompetents did at Versailles. President Wilson surely did find the job was a big one when he ran up afoul of genuine statesmanship of the Lloyd George sort in Europe. Secre- tary Lansing found the job of trying to be heard such a gigantic task that he threw up the sponge. his only re- port being: If the American people understood this treaty they would be against"
 | Those are his alleged words and 1 have never been eontradicted. e Lloyd ] George and Clemenceau certainly 1 found themselves up against a big job 1 to get rid of the much talked. of four i teen points, but they did the job all fright. The first of the great CD four l teen points was that. all business should be open and free to the people back of the commissions and this was gottenyrid of first. The other thirteen followed in their order. The attempt to dictate to the. world to assume all power and authority fooled Europe fol
 a time but now to use the words ot a very prominent democratic senator 'Italy hates us, France distrusts us
 Japan bluffs us and England uses us.'
 Arguments that are unanswerablt usually bring out personal abuse iron the Ignorant, arguments that are daily I,x-. a+,1o o1 hon ings are met by the vulgar with per
 sona1 slurs and filings that have. abou as much affect as the sting of a knat
 on the hide of an elephant.
 "A dozen thinking men" is about thu
 number left of that class of thinker:
 up in Willirhantic if the election re-
 turns are anything to go by.
 II c. B. MONTGOMERY Oneco Dec. f, 1919.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-06

The attack on and deterltion over
 night of the Harbord Mission to Ar
 menia by bands of Kurds, Tartars and
 Turks is Illustrative of the slawless
 conditions existing throughout the
 Sea countries writes staff corre-
 spondent of the Associated Press.
 While fraught with extreme danger,
 the members of the party were neith-
 CT robbed stripped of their clothes
 and turned adift to make the best of
 their way to some friendly city, Or ev-
 en killed as happens to other cara
 vans because of the magic name of America.
 It was the mind of Shamil Beg,
 chieftain of the nomad band en-
 trenched against the Armenians at
 the village of Kulp, which saved the
 lesser members of the mission from
 the customary fate of captured cara vans. @
 Shamil Beg came to the knowledge of the mission members after this fashion. For three weeks they had been travelling from Constantinople, intent on really seeing the lands of Asia Minor as these lands have prob ably not yet been seen by outsiders They had come up from dusty Alep7 DO by train across the north strip oi the shimmering Mesop9tamian Des- ert, until reaching Mardin, the mag nificent stone city set upon a noun tain. There the seven automobiles oi the party had been taken off the fiat cars of. the Bagdad railway and after countless adventures with impossible roads, bridging the unabridged Eu- pirates and the Tigris, climbing afld [ descending the Taurus range toi mountains which gradually cliInf l thrice their height to the plateaus o1 Ararat, the party crossed the Turkisl frontier into Russian Asia Minor, ol
 Armenia as is now called part of tht l country.
 A few. miles out of Kagizman, 1T 1 the almost. dry bed of the AraXes General Harbord's car twas stopped by a humble patriarch offering melon. carried by his son and the .latter'' strangely beautiful little girl, dressed 1 in a. bundle of rags. Then the mis sion's forward machines met a wiT6 | old man on horseback, who talked yolubly,. possibly to disguise his SD! 1 character.
 l Following the lonely valley, whil ! Billy" Poland of the commission 10 1 al richness, next the mission roIe' around a gigantic bend of the roa, ] to behold the river bottom coverei with cattle and tents of some n0mat tribe. Then Major H. W. Clark, Q Boston, declared he heard shots com ing from the mountain side to th right. At the same time General liar boards car was seen to stop, and tn
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-06
GETTING COAL.

Just at the present time the coun- :ry Is confronted wfth serious sit : nation in the failure to secure enough cosl for people to keep warm. to keep industries going and to keep the rail- 'oads in operation. It is q situation hat has developed from the strike # the coal miners The coal adrninis- ~ trator after considering inc demands he conditions and the public decided hat the miners should havo an ad- rance of 14 per cent. and this wage increase was to come out of the oper- ltors without being thrown oyer onto Inc public. For once it was decided hat the public had load enough
 The result of it is that it has not sent the miners back to work. It is not what could be called satisfactory to either miners or operators but in agreeing to accept the terms the op- orators are powerless to make the miners work and Of course the fuel administrator or the government can not make them work We are there lore getting only between 40 and 50 per cent. production in the soft coal regions. It is to be noted in this con hection that some of tho operators are prepared to give the miners a bigger increase than authorized in order tc get coal mined but as yet this appar- snt break among the operators has moi taken place.
 Where the greatest progress seem. 10 be made is in the taking over of tho soal mines by the respective states and operating them with such help al can be obtained. With the people suffering and the demand for coa steadily increasing it is certainly tint Tor action. When Massachusetts,. wa confronted with a serious situation only 8 short time ago Governor Cool Idge acted promptly and effectivel! and in taking over the mines of Kan. sas Governor Allen has likewise actet Cor the public good. One got respec Tor law and order and the other is get ing coal His example promises t, be followed by the governors of Mis- spuri and Arkansas in which state many volunteers are ready to go t work and in their efforts to meet tn public needs they should be given ev sry possible protection.