Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-01-06

the rounding up of the flu germs and
that every yestige Of the disease will
be completely stamped out before
another thaw sets in.
LoOk-a-here, girls! If this para
grapher we're a hen we'd lay for that
man Ben" who is too burned good a
fellow to be going around peddline
sweet milk to the married people OF
this town, to feed to their babies
He ought to be married himself and
feed his milk to his own baby. Ben
is 'baching it, on an eighty acre
farm somewhere in the suburbs of
this city and is going fine. But he
is tired Of getting up first in the
morning to build the fire and prepare
his own meals. He is fixed just about
right-has everything but "com-
forter" and he needs her. more than
anything else. He is good looking,
too, tall, straight as an Indian, and
young. He is good for at least fifty
years more. What more do you
want?
3 And then there is "John." Have
you ever seen him in the company of
young woman more than minute
at time? Well, we have, but it is
a long time ago. He used to like the
girls first rate when he lived in the
country and there is every indication
that he does yet, but he is always
putting off till tomorrow what he
ought to do today. There are lots of
girls in this town whom he likes.
We know it. But perhaps You girls
think that just because he meets
nearly every passenger train nearly
every day in the week, that he is look
ing for someone from Missouri. That
is not the case, however. We know
that, too. Meeting passenger trains
is perfectly legitimate. Lots Of mar
ried men do the same thing married
men, mind you, who have wives at
home. John used to be a good repub-
lican, but it is hard now to make out
just what he is. However, we be-
lieve he is honest in his convictions,
trying to do the right thing
as he sees it. He is Industrious, al
ways painstaking and extremely
economical He, too, would make the
right little woman corking good
man.
AS far as is known nobody ever
heard of Jim Williams, proprietor of
the Fair Store, having had any mill
tary training of any kind, but when
it comes to handling "his men, in the
game called '"rhree Guardsmen,'
.Jim's natural military instinct is Of
such high order that even Foch him
self, should he be confronted by
Jim's army would think twice be-
fore he would order an attack. Jim
usually adopts Won Hindenburg's
tactics, those Of massed formations,
but he handles his men with such con-
summate skill and fine leadership
that it is impossible for the three
guardsmen, Athos. Aramis
and Porthos, commanded by Jim's
valiant adversary to break through.
Dir. w. S! Allen, one of the best
in the Mississippi val
lev, has on many occasions marched
up the Hill against Cen" Williams
silent army and then marched down
again. John Graves, Hans Hendrick-
son, A. j.. Fleen0r, Oscar Johnson,
Chris Robson, Herby Hood, Bob Imly
and scores of others have gone down
in crushing defeat long before they
succeeded in getting half way across
no mans land-and that's the end OF
it. Everybody meets the same fate.
1t is either unconditional surrender
or die in your boots. Jim shows no
mercy. In this he is like the Hun.
He asks no quarter and gives none.
His battle cry is Lay on MacDuff
and damned be he who first cries
hold, enough!" Jim sure is some