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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-21
CLASSIFIED COLUMN
WANTED.

WANTED Boy to set pins at Keo-
kuk club. Inquire at club house.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-21

WANTED-At once, 10000 dull safet,
razor blades to sharpen at Wood
bury's. 1104 Main street.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-21

bookkeeper wants
position; good accountant Address
J, care Gate City.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-10-24
BOARD PROCEEDINGS.

Cresco, October o.
County Iowa met pursuant to
The meeting by F. Hale, with the following
Wells and J. Watson, al memb being present
The of the meeting read and approved
IN THE MATTER OF DRAINAGE DISTRICT NO. 6, HOWARD
COUNTY, IOWA
of benefits on
No f continued October 7.
o'clock the Board adjourned to
o'clock III. October
= SECOND DAY
The met with all members present
in THE MATTER OF DRAINAGE DISTRICT NO. 6, HOWARD
COUNTY, IOWA
RESOLUTION CONFIRMING ASSESSMENT OF BENEFITS
NOW, this 9TH day of October 1910 being the gay
consideration of the report the
lands
equitable
damages fees to be assessed
within said district and form as PROVIDED
filed said assessments and
determined that effect
served notice this hearing the
within the provided by that al
Board
and of all lands erected
thereby, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED of Howard County
Iowa that made by Commission
shown Auditors office hereby fixed
hereby assessed lands and highways
District benefited by said the
Nine Hundred Seventy soooo Dollars said sum be-
the reclamation for said District the ratio
against land highway within said Drainage District the
description each such tract Of land set out
BE IT RESOLVED, that the special each
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-10-24

shall
adoption this resolution until
and from and after the date of
On
follows:
Aye, Hale; Wells; Watson Nay None
Adopted this 9TH day Of October, 1919, ,
duly seconded 10
500 o'clock a m October 8, 1919
THIRD DAY
Board nursuan adjournment
RESOLUTION
Railo
OF certified
the number miles and the value
Per Per Mile
G. w Main Line s3o3oo 90 %5z ~ 90
" ST. Mson5 W MINI" b rac $50 e6eS 90 5oo
BE IT RESOLVED Howard County
mileage the several railroads.
townships fixed according
the County Auditor hereby ordered
'p'~N' CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN RAILROAD Main Line
District . Miles Taxable value
fnd Dist EIma Alton Twp (outsde Corps "
Ind Dist Elma Howard Twp (outside Corp) zzs 5s4s
c HE GREAT WEsrERN RAiLRoAD-Ws: MINI. Fae:
cc 2as %hWRuKEE ST. PAUL RAIRoA
2nd Ssf SP creseo 1G }cuside co1p
Cresco CORPORATION 1860
Howard Center Township rs
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-10-24

More About CO-Opera-
tive Filling Stations
1T is reported by Field Secretary Trust Company
PEORIA promoting cooperative filling stations IN Illinois, and
made certain rehners tor quota
Information bulletin last week the effect
Service Station Company had stations operating at Ackey
Dodge has investigation to be erroneous
regretted has reached such develop
healthy condition the industry
should be wrecked by promotions of this kind lntms OF stress
of the Red Seal Oil Company and
Others dupes sadder and result of their at
tempt to monopoze of business who
given and their lives to developing legitimate
rade*
This a bulletin out by the American
Petroleum Association ID East Jackson Bvd Chi
caqo Illinois, that this should such
advise customers wherein 1t is unsound
No guarantee to individual losses. flow.
erv future is shown that oil company
gone bump Monopoly starting their and that's
will happen to schemes of this kind
Can't the public you think scheme Offer
ING $4,000 worth of stock $4,000 good legitimate
business? 100 profit Why
full that get for cent Think
these things before gamble:
friends desire further nforma
ton enlightened actual facts please address
cation H. c. Wurse, Secretary
The Hawkeye Oil Company
Waterloo, Iowa, u. S. A.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-04
LOOKING AHEAD

The bill in congress, introduced the other day by Mr..
Iufkin of Massachusetts and intended, we are told, to eX-
clude the BOlshevik from this country, is deserving of some
serious consideration. 1t is limited to a period OF two years
and is drastic enough, too, for it will affect many others as
we'll as the classes it is aimed against. But this is due to the
fact that such bills have to be of a more or less general ma
ture. However, if it accomplishes the purposes alleged it
will be a good measure to pass, even if by so doing we may
exclude others who may be desirable, OF at least are not OBJ
jectionable.
If the Russian revolution breaks down, as, we believe, it
will break down, there will be a natural outpOuring of the
people who have been concerned in the atrocities which have
been praciced under the Trotzky government. They will be
hated at home and despised and they will be inclined to flee
their own country and, of course, America will be their first
refuge, although they have been sneering at the kind OF lib
erty we have in this country. Bany of the Bolshevik lead
es, including TrOzky, have been in America, and, like Trotz-
Ky, they have gone back to impose their ideas on Russia, and
between times they have berated America roundly.
But these same birds with dirty and soned feathers will
seek to come back to America and to crowd themselves into
cities like New York to become again soap box agitators. And
thousands of others, all of the same kind of riffraff, will
want TO come with them.
In truth, if the Bolshevik government in Russia breaks
down, and it's followers are not forced or permitted to enter
Germany, thousands and hundreds of thousands will want to
leave those lands and flock into America.
Do we want them? Shall we permit them to land on our
shores? Our labor markets are already glutted with that
kind of laborers-and they are mostly mere agitators. We
believe that the bars ought to be put high and tight against
all such human creatures. They cannot be made over in
America because they have no desire to be made over into
anything that is orderly or decent. They want to remain
what they are, and the question is shall we permit them to
make over parts of our institutions into their own likenesses?
We believe that the bill now pending, or something like
it, ought to be passed and that it ought to be enforced. We
still have a welcome for some, but we must close our doors
to others.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-04
WE AND THE OTHER FELLOW

The neace delegation in Paris is not confined to the five
commissioners. They are banked by an array OF talent wnch
is called expert, that is bewildering. We are told that the
government has leased a whole row of offices, ana tha' III
those offices 400 men, growing to five hundred, are employ
ed These men are supposed to have all knowledge in their
hands and what they do not have they find in BOOKS, having
taken whole libraries of universal knowledge with them
The EXPERTS include everything of knowledge, from hogs on
Iowa farms and oranges in California to negroes in Africa
They are searching, tabulaing, pointing and what not! oh
every question that comes up they are supposed TO De aDle
TO furnish Immediately everything that is known on it. This
organization is said to be the handiwork of the mysterious
Colonel House, who is the real genius of the undertaking,
whatever his kind of genius may be.
The French and the British are said to regard the Amerl-
can experts as in part theorists and also idealists. They look
unon them as men enamored of their first worldwide job
and as eager to settle once and for all every human questlon
now up or ever to come up. They may come to the con-
clusion that we are an ambitious, industrious, ideallstlc peo-
pie. the forerunners of the earthly millennium. And, OF
course, they look for us to meet with many setbacks ana
disappointments. But we will at least have enjoyed te
pleasures of roaming with Alice in the Wonderland OF World
poltics-the Weltpolitic of the Germans, who used TO dream
of settling the same questions, but not out of books, or the
%highbrows of college professors, but with the sword and the
mailed fist. OF the two methods the American is at least
the most altruistc and phlanthropic-and it may turn out to
be the least harmful.
The great stumbling blocks in the way of an lrldescent
idealsm will be of at least two kinds, the things that we de-
not have what they desire-a seacoast, for instance, Tor every
newly created republic in Europe. And the things to give up,
all, there is the hardest rub. England will not want to give
up her navy, nor will France consent to have no gun left in
the house. as long as there are still Germans left in the world.
The French have known the Germans for a thousand years,
and even in the days of Tacitus they were in the habit of CO
veting what belonged to their %neighbors. And America, will
we be willing to give up and to make junk of the Monroe doc
trine? But if there is to be a universal entente cordiale, why
a Monroe doctrine-and why military posts along the Rio
Grande?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-04
THE AUSTRIAN ADMISSIONS

The Austrians are now willing to admit that the acts of
their generals in the field were so atrOciOus that they ought
to be hanged for what they did. But that is in accordance
with the faith in which Germany and Austria went into the
war. They wanted not merely to conquer other lands, but to
wipe the people who lived in them off the earth, so as to
make room for Germans and Austrian Germans. That was
their deliberate faith, nothing more nor less. They taught it
assidiously and they practiced it industriously in the war.
They regarded Belgians and Frenchmen and Serbians and
Rumanians and Poles, living on their own lands, as so much
u%nderbrush which they must clear away as others clear away
real brush in the wilderness, in order that they might plant
there in their own kind.
But it is at least worth something that the Austrians have
found out what they stood for, and it is worth more to have
them now saying in their newspapers that the perpetrators
ought to be hanged. Repentance after the fact is better than
no repentance at all.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-04
THE DRUG

Alex Aabel, who is mentioned as the chief of a steamer,
says he had a significant conversation with a German scien-
list some time ago. The scientist seemed to have been pro-
voked with the conduct of the military men of Germany.
He said that if they had kept hands off the scientists of Ger
many would have made the conquest of the world by the
kaiseris forces possible through the universal use of drugs,
by which they could have weakened the wills of all peoples.
The following news item will throw more light on this terri
BILE subject:
eff they had only waited" the German said, I'VE, the
scientists and chemists of Germany, could have infused poison
into the blood of the whole world SO skirfuny and so insidi-
ousy that in the course of comparatively few years Germany
would have had to fight only an alliance of drug fend nations.
In patent medicines, in tooth pastes and powders, in vari-
Gus well-known and must used prophylactc preparations we
had planned to introduce our morphia, our cocaine and other
habi-forming drugs.
Tooth paste containing drugs had already been distrib-
ued to natives on the coast of Africa, who, without knowing
why, enjoyed the sensation which resulted from it's use and be-
came addicted to it."
It is not impossible of belief. On the contrary, there are
many reasons for believing that the Germans were using such
methods among certain of the colonies in Africa. The science
of Germany had become wholly materialsic and it was made
the hand maiden of the political and world ambition of the
German rulers. We cannot realize it here, but many books
were being written in Germany setting forth the idea that the
Germans were the only people who had a culture and a viz
tality that entitled them not only to rule all others, but to supP
plant all others. 1t is inconceivable, but national insanity
had reached exactly such a stage.
The suggestions in this news item may well put nations
on their guard, even now. Science has revealed how it is
possible to break down whole nations by simply introducing
a few drugs into the food or beverages of the people. The
use that the Germans made of poisonous gases and of disease
germs, probably, show that such things are possible in the
minds of men. The world will have to take it's drugs in the
future with some knowledge of where they come from. Such
revelations will tend to hamper German trade even more than
all the trade restrictions that nations may put on their statute
books.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-04
WHO PAYS ?

Some one has proposed that all men not otherwise en-
ployed shall be set to work building roads at public expense.
We like the roads and we like the IDEA, but someone has to
work to pay the men so employed. Unfortunately the men
who will build the roads will not be able to work for moth
ing, and the materials which they use will cost money. And
there must be someone to raise the money for these purpos-
es. The tax payers are the ones who will be so called upon,
and if everyone is going to work for the government doing
this or that, who is going to work to provide the tax moneys?
1t is the same nice old dream about lifting ones self over
the high barbed-wire fence by his own boot straps. For ev-
cry spender there must be a provider and the more you in
crease the spenders the more you will have to burden the
providers, who already have enough to keep themselves busy.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-04
WE CAN ENDORSE THIS LEAGUE

We can heartily endorse one Interpretation of the league
of nations, and that is the Interpretation recetly given by
President Wilson, speaking before the university of Paris,
when he said:
my conception of the league of nations is just ths-that
it shall. operate a the organized moral force of men through
out the world and that whenever and wherever wrong and a-
gression Ire planned or contemplated, this searching light of
conscience will be turned upon them, and me- everywhere will
ask: What are the purposes that you hold in your heart
against the fortunes of the world?'"
This is Ineligible to us and it is possible. A league of
moral forces and purposes is one thing and a political league
binding nations of all kinds together is another thing. We
would not be willing to submit our destinies to what they
might vote ten thousand miles from home. The league of
nations as a moral force imposed upon the world is conceiv-
able, for it is tantamount to a worldwide public sentiment,
and out of this great good may come to all nations.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-04
LIFE SAVING CRITICISM

Lawrence (Kan) Journal World: The constant fault
finding Of Roosevelt has in a way minimized his influence for
good, and vet the Nation has saved millions in money and
thousands of lives through just that sort of criticism. The
president objected to criticism, fought to the last against hav-
ing any limit set to his actions, and yet he again and again
guided himself by the very criticism he opposed. Perhaps all
the criticism may not have been merited, but it is probable
that much more might well have been directed against other,
extravagances, delays, ineffciency and CRAFTS. This criticism
came from democrats brave enough to face the presidents
wrath as we'll as from republicans. 1t has been the salvation
of the country, as it has speeded up supplies, has fastened
the sending of troops abroad, has corrected evils in the can
comments at home and saved the aircraft program from utter
failure.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-04
WHY THIS CHANGE ?
The New York Tribune has the following:

The New York Tribune has the following:
OF all the petty, spteful and ingeniousy perveBe per-
formances of the picketing sufragists the burning o the
presidents speeches takes the prize. Mr.. wilson as Ia
bored hard for the passage of the federal amendment. 10
insult him is to insult not only the president OF the unteo
States, but a staunch convert to the cause. 1t pe
easy to become irate YER such antics we're 1t not for the
very Stiffness which they display. AS it is, we do not
cefve that they do any serious harm to a cause which nus
be judged by its sane and patriotic millions, not by its blum
dering dozens.
And yet it is less than two months since the picketers
had a picketer standing as a candidate for the United states
senate in Nevada whose appeal for votes contained such
promises as these:
ITO back the president in his a aims and in pro-
gressive legislation"
"To back the president in his request for women in our
councils'o
effect Anne Martin to o. s. Senate"
What change can have disturbed this loyalty to the presi-
since the votes were cast?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-04

The French orphans who are writing to the American
little boys and girls who stand as gOd-fathers and gOd-moth-
es to those who are fatherless, made so by the great war,
will be able to dispense a great many French ideas through
America. And these ideas are not to be regretted, but to be
coveted, for France has something to give that for America
is worth receiving and that will be worth as much to us as
what we give in money.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-01-04

The man who votes to sink the German ships which were
surrendered will have something to explain that is unex-
plainable. We are now appropriatng millions more to build
new naval vessels, then why sink those which have been
built already?
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-07

Greig. 5S5 Frank L. Bennett, 535.
 atic-Assessor James R. Walsh. 322; board of relief Arthur V. Woodwork, 30s: selectmen, George E. Avoid, 327; Alcott D. Sayles. 355; town clerk. Frederick F. Bitgood, 314 . town treasurer. Frederick F Bitgood, 2s2; agent of town deposit fund, Fred erick F. Bitgood. 289: auditor Thom- as Bradford, 295; grand jurors Albert !. Cavanaugh, 29S; Henry Peachie, 2g0. Claud R. Moran. 290: collector of taxes, Joseph Halle. g.; constab1es John B. Morin, 29G: George F. Avoid 329; AL colt D. Sayles, 315; registrars of voters, second district, George T. Moran 29I third district, James P. Aldrich. 277 town school committee, Frederick E. Bitgood. 311.
 The democrats of Brooklyn swept every candidate on their ticket into of ice in clear cut victory Monday. The democrats expected 10 win bat they had no hopes for such a complete victory as they achieved.
 The unanimous vote at Mondays an nual business meeting of the town in favor of appropriating $40 for free bed in the name of the town al the Day kintpalI hospital in Putnam was comneEda ble action ions delayed. In time of emergency the Putnam insti- tuition has been d refuge of hope for many grieVously injured or desper- ately i'll res.dent of this town. and tiFnes without number the hospital has been the means of saving the lives of local people who but for the institution would have passed beyond While KiI- unSlN has been late in acting. II has finally acted with it's usual whole heartedness, for which many who stuff CT will later bless it's people.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-07
PUTNAM

Two automobiies-one owned by carl Hopkins of Putnam, the other by Nazaire Pepln, Jr.. or Danielson- were almost completely wrecked Sun day night about 930 when they were in collision on the state highway near what is known as Dr. overlook's cor ner, in Pomfret. The passengers in the cars escaped without injury.
 Pepln s car was a practically brand new Chandler sport model and was bound toward Putnam. The Hop kIns car is an enclosed Cadillac The cars met with terrific crash near " head-on and the Pepin ear shot away across the street. bringing up near the house of Hugh Murphy This car is badly battered and it is esti- mated that the expense of repairing it Will be several hundred dollars. The Hopkins ear is also badly used up and the cost of repairing it would be very heavy. The damage to the nafr of cars is said to be not less than s1.- eco. in all proba bility
 Those who heard details of the ac- cident on Monday consider that it is re1narkab ble that none of the persons who figured in the affair were ini1,r
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-07
LEBANON

MT and Mrs H W. Sweet were in Stafford Springs Saturday. the 27th, ro attend ths funeral of Mrs. Sweet mother
 Mrs Helena Spencer of Sufieid spent the week end with Miss Bertha Perry
 Eleven young people from the Con -cEarional Y F. S C. F. attended the recent Norwich Christian Endeavor union meeting at Scotland Road hall
 P N Taylor and family spent Sun 9av the 18th in Scotland with Mrs -avHo-s parents Mir and Mrs. Kim hzil Mrs Kim ball being very ill
 Mr and Mrs Nelson Lyon and Mrs. Aadie Waldo Of Canterbury spent ---es5ay with Mrs c. NJ Geer-
 NJ and Mrs George Chappeu and MT and Mrs Everett ChappeH spent SInGzv ct lzs- week with relatives in 7a--Sde. also called on friends in E14-o--
 surprise party from 3 10 5 was gwen Mss Win71e Robinson Oct 1sc 5- being her btr-hdz- Miss Robinson received several gifts Sandwiches cake and coEee were served
 Mrs Sz-ah Gzge- has returned after spezdinE ! month with friends In E-c6e Island
 Mrs Hollis Campbell is visiting rel z-l-es IT Massachusetts
 p-o Fuller z visiting his son in
Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-07
&e3E2SzY8 80&1&Es&S22

old Elliott Edith Pease. Myrtice War ren.
 israel Putnam School: Napoleon " -lIiams Michael Hannifin, Phoebe Franklin, Dominic Bove. Pauline Chandler.
 smith Street School: Edward Au- thier. Elizabeth AuthIer.
 Sawyer District School; Walter Ja- cobs, Madeline De Phillips, Veronica Kampanis Marian Olson, Helen Russe
 Gary School. Ralph Davis.
 Among interested locomotive ex- hibits that have been run through this city recently in hauling heavy freights was one that went north on Sunday afternoon-a big Hog" that had N, Y. Central markings also a |. S. the soldiers who saw it de- claring that it was of the type the American army railroad forces used overseas.
 City Clerk Thomas p. Ryan acted as moderator at the annual town meeting Monday. Although during the greater part of the day there' was no rush al the booths. there was a steady flew of voters past the check CTS and the party workers of obth the leading organizations were out bring ing in voters from all parts of the town. The rain. however, kept a considerable number away from the polls
 Game bird hunters will be out on Wednesday when the shooting season will be open.
 Sympathetic persons here have been lending their efforts to bring some measure of relief to Mrs. Michael Mar<ovich and children of the town of Union. who have been left to face the world with very little since the husband and father pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to the state prison at Wethersfield for life.
 Judge Haines will preside here Wed nesday morning when prisoners who are held to face criminal charges will be arraigned and puts to plea in the superior court. The jury will be sum- moned for Friday to hear only cas- es that may not be disposed of at We'd