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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-10-27
StaIltlOpe.

Dale Squirting of Stratford visited
over last Sunday with his father,
Harry Squirting.
Mrs. c. A. Peterson was Il passenger
to Des Moines Saturday Of last week
fer an over Sunday visit.
Emma Miller, q teacher III the Web
SER City school, came last Saturday
for a days visit with her sister, Mrs.
Peter Hove.
Irving Nelson was up from Story
City Saturday spending the day.
Chas. kesler and Keo arrived here
from Swea City Saturday, joining
Mrs. Kesler, who spent several days
last week visiting here. She returned
with them by auto Sunday.
Harold Humiston of Fayettc, Iowa,
was in town Saturday visiting his
brother, Dr. a. n. Humiston. They
both left Saturday on the afternoon
train, Dr.. Humiston going to Cedar
Rapids for an, over Sunday visit.
Alice and Lillian Nelson, Helen
Mature, Belle Iverson, Alice Oppedal.
Grace and Hazel McGlynn and niger
Hanson attended the teacher meetings
at Stratford Saturday.
J Ed SogGrd was up from Ames last
Saturday., calling on old friends.
leo. WEIGHS Oh STORY lily came
Saturday for visit with old friends,
and former acquaintances.
Mrs. Julius Crum returned Monday
from Hampton, where she had been to
see her sister. Mrs. J. kropuenski,
who is at the hospital at that place.
l.. c. Morrison came up from Des
Mcincs and is husking corn for Claire
Cottington.
John Largcnt of Iowa Falls is visit
ing at the L.. X. Largent home this
week. Mrs. Largent came by auto
Sunday with Albert Larsent, her
brcther-in-law. who returned from Il
two days visit at Iowa Falls.
Arvid l.. Sealine spent the past week
in Dcs Moines on business.
Pearl Schmidt spent the week end
at her home at kamrar.
Albert Largent drove to Iowa City
Friday OF last week to visit his sister
Mr. and Mrs. Don Coats left Mon
day for Underwood, Indiana. and
later for Scottsburg, Indiana. where
they will reside.
c. +. Cummings. who has been work
ing for Harry Howey. left Monday
for Des Moines, where he will remain.
Claude Hopkins came~up from Mel
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-10-27
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SUPPORT RED
CRoss.W|L
President Wilson Writes a
Letter Appealing to Pe0-
pie for Red Cross
Support.
ASKS ENROLLMENTs
Asks a Generous Response
to Roll Call Campaign
> Next Week.

President Wilson has addressed til,
following letter to the people Of til.
country appealing for support Of thu
third Red Cross roll call, which is t
be held from November 2 to IL:
''As president of the United State.
and as president OF the American Rec
Cross, ! recommend and urge gen
erous response to the third Red eros.
Eroll call which opens on Nov. , Will
| the observance of Red Cross Sunday
and appropriately closes on Nov. II
| the first anniversary of the signing OF
the armistice.
Twenty million adults Joined t1le
Red Cross during the war, prompted
| by Il patriotic desire to render service
to their country and to the cause fol
which the United States was engaged
in war. Our patriotism should stanC
the test of peace as well as the test
of war, and it is an intelligently
patriotic program which the Rec
Cross proposes, continuance of scrv
ice to our soldiers and sailors who
look to it for many things, and a
transference TO the problems Of peace
at home Of the experience and methods
which it acquired during the war
Want Memberships.
1T is on membership, more thar
money contributions. that the stress
of the present campaign is laid, fol
the Red Cross seeks to associate the
people in welfare work throughout the
land, especially in those communities
where neither official nor unofficial
provision has been made for adequate
public health and social service.
1T is in the spirit Of democracy
that the people should undertake their
own welfare activities, and the IA.
tional Red Cross wisely intends to
exert upon community action a slim
ulating and co-ordinating influence
and to place the energies of the Orga'
nization behind all sound public
health and welfare agencies.
Not to PrOlong Work.
1.-THE American Red Cross does not
purpose indefinite prolongation of its
relief work abroad, policy which
would lay an unjust burden upon our
own people and tend to undermine the
self reliance OF the peoples relieved,
but there is a necessary work of com
pletion to be performed before the
American Red Cross can honorably
withdraw from Europe. The congress
of the United States has imposed
upon the Red Cross continuing re-
sponsibility abroad by authorizing the
secretary of war to transfer 10 the
American Red Cross such surplus
army medical supplies and supple
mentary and dietary food stllffs now
in Europe as shall not be required by
the army, to be used by the, Red Cross
to relieve the distress which continues
in certain countries of Europe as re-
suit Of the war.
ITO finance these operations, to
conclude work which was begun dur
ing the war, and to carry out some
comparatively inexpensive construc-
tive plans for assisting peoples in
eastern Europe to develop their own
welfare. organizations, the, American
Red Cross :, requires, in addition 10
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-10-27

membership fees, sum Of money
small in comparison with gifts poured
into it's treasury hy orr generous peo-
pie during the war;
"Both the greater enduring dOmes-
tic program and the lesser temporary
foreign program Of the Red Cross
deserve enthusiastic support, and l
venture to hope that it's peace time
membership will exceed. rather than
fall below, its impressive war mem
bership.
.IVnoG,o,,- y1y;I.~,,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-10-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Burns of Eagle
Grove visited here yesterday at the
home of Mrs. Burns parents. DR.. and
Mrs. f. T.. Richardson. and later in the
day went to Ames to visit relatives OF
NJ. Burns.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-10-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Clement went tC
Ircton this afternoon to attend the
funeral of nephew of Mr.. Clements
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-10-27

f. Fl. Martin Of Los Angeles arriv
ed in the city Saturday night for 4
few days business stay.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-10-27

Mrs. Clarence ROdine of Stratford
spent Sunday here at the home Of her
sister, Mrs. Albert Greeley.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-10-27

w. Il. Foster Of Williams was in
Webster City between trains yester-
day.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-10-27

FOR SALE-office building of Webster
City Clay Products Co. Also all the
lumber and factory buildings. Inquire
of Hawkeyc Construction CO., room
3, Hamilton County State Bank
building. d-f-j-f
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-10-27

DIR. r. C. CRUMPTON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office over Buster Browns store.
Office hours 2 to s p. M. Office phone
20, residence "a.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-10-27

NJ. B. GALLOWAY, M. d.
Special attention to diseases Of gas
tro intestinal tract. Office over Dessert
Bros. store. Phone All. 10-17d-f-i-tf
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22
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WHY POLAND AND WHY US?

It has been announced in Paris that the United States has in formed the allied authorities that it willing and ready send expedionary divisions tend distressing there Possibly and possibly It already denied but it in keeping with the amplitude of ideas.
 We projecting ourselves European affairs the guons for punishment who endeavoed to take the world from the Arctic the Antarctic ocean, from China to Kansas into phanthropic embrace
 We have fighting i'll the about Archangel and they do know and do not know what they hope compsh by their fighting They and do accomplish casualties but what else is beyond perception and comprehension.
 Now go into Poland? Are be the European consabuary along the Danube and the Vsla the head of the Adaic and the Aegean htoral; guardians of every folk and custOdans of every people in Europe
 With whom in Poland and why? Are against Ruthenans against the Ukanans Are for the Poles Paderewsk the Red Poles the White Blue Poles? Are to determine exactly what the territory of Poland should be and having decided that decision accepted by the force army divisions?
 The American nation be going long way from the hemisphere get trouble which does naturally inherit We glutons for it. What is the need of League of nations? Let the U. s: A.. do it.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22
 THE SILVER LINING

With prices for lead and copper reoedng rapidly from poducon-a condition brought about by the mining interests uphold promise supply the necessary news of tungsten manganese and other cocaled brought suddenly competition with cheap foreign labor the prosperity silver and its promise of higher rating price supply the traditional lining cloud which hangs the It expected that government of the price will end within the month which will allow the law of supply and demand And that means upward trend for al indefinite period.
 Silver necessary metal (except gold, which has own) which there oversuppy the end the war Strange happenings recorded in the world Of finance since the European struggle commenced and these the discovery by the that perhaps all there something besides wind behind the pleas the 16 1 advocates of the early 9Os ..
 It generally admitted that saved the United States in the Civil And, the facts probably would be found less that the 35000O silver dollars which melted and shipped India 1918 prevented only but revolution there
 fa-reacng consequences That contingency would have the spark cenagration which combined with Gemany activities, would have ragged for years.
 Those dollars taken from the only available reservoir the world But they have been swallowed up the sink of In da and will They replaced from the mines and the simple looks It is known that the of the Entente Allies 1914 have been conng each year exceeding by 22OOOOOO 52OOOOOO worlds production metal for the period The latter averages 15900O yearly including of 30 100000 which required industry and the And still the currency of many nations is inflated until they practically a paper basis
 The figures prove the for the expected encanccmen in the price of silver they also show that will
 silver which necessary backing for silver certificates
 The white metal again should sell around $29 the ratio of 16 is doubtful because gold may day" future
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22

THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
 

Roosevelts last article written the American people of too confidence the league of nations and of loose handling of their intimate values.
 We have nothing to do in Europe unless it involves security Europe has nothing do in tie North and South Americas except to keep. out of them politically
 A league which would involve unnecessarily in Europe project Europe hemisphere would merely the dangerous complexities of international life
 If diplomats wise they will attempt the United States down subscription agreements which do necessarily involve If the United States and firm will permit such sanction be given by the United States
 It possible for this nation declare itself willing sub questions arbitral body Many has been avoided in that fashion. It device. It old We have employed it number of tne and have been satisfied with theh working of the scheme.
 What nation afford agree submit is question which security have only determination only question be good the United States its
 We make our decisions regarding the Monroe doctrine for instance of nations decide such for We decide them for ourselves and must have the power to enforce decisions.
 Any other policy is of madness If agree to another doctrine shall only put the shame of repudag every agreement which they have been bound which does consult their necessities.
 scheme built upon the hopes of generation and deny ing the needs of another will be maintained It will fall only needless and confusion been caused by it.
 league nations may have justifabIe purpose It may work real good limitations the United all nations should seek go beyond them go beyond them in accomplishment It ought go beyond them in promises
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22
SAFE OVERSEAS.
(From Tuesdav,s DaiIv.)

Morris Goldwater is in receipt of "a letter from Charles Riggio, now in France, which announces his safe ty, after going over the top many time. On the day of the signing of the armistice he was wounded, and has recovered and is with a Pennsy1- vania regiment, the fatalities of which have been frightful. Riggio states that he heard that Judge Frank o. Smith was somewhere on the front lines, but diligent inquiry mad failed to definitely locate him. It is difficult to have a single indi- vidual identified there, he says, as there arc SO many thousands to pick out of all arms of the service Rig gio cler1Sd in the Goldwater store while residing in this city and he will probably come back to Prescott.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22
KEEPING TEMPERATE IN THE ARCTIC

Conccivaby the Tank in Russia scratches head and wonders why he is kept running the gamu of latidcsswevng from pursuit of the pquant Mexican hot tamac trailing fur bearing mujik the frozen wastes of Murmansk
 Our Yank perceived duty in casigatng the unruly they being might say, bow throw ing stones through it; and he marvecd being called away from his task before he had begun it. Now thcn his of mind upon being transported miles from home into drcay glacial where his snaring Bolshevss that nothing in his life
 We exhibited fine and tender regard for Mexican tonPcrshng marching in the sand alongside railroad that denied him of diplomatic respect for Mexican ngbut Russia, nobody knowing why the Yank most of a quandar Is he expected temperature i'll his frigid enterprise?
 It would be gratifying service if would tell what doing about do in Russia It explained that certain of munitions danger ton and destruction That danger has passed Then advised that of support for the Russian would have the effect bolstcrng their courage fight restoration of order Well, what of it?
 Certainly country needed restoration than dis hevelcd ncighbor, Mexco still permitted celebrated family irreparable injury American G2ropcrty interests considering of affair If Mex have o patriotism that should be mcdded with ,gha of the Russians
 An army capable of entering Russia effectively, maintaining respectable front and also hundreds of miles necessary
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22
HUGE TOLL TAKEN ON GREAT LAKES
 BY STORM KING.
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
 DETROIT, Jan. 21.-Ninety-three deaths and a loss to shipping of from $6,0O000O to $8OOO,OOO is the disast- CT toll of the 1918 shipping season on the Great Lakes, according to figures compiled here. The loss of life was unusually heavy, due to the drowning of 7S men of the two French mine sweepers that disappeared in a gale on Lake Superior, November "A. Loss to shipping was the lightest in many years.
 Four vessels were sunk in colli- sions, five foundered in storms, and the Congdon, one of the largest new ships on the lakes, went to pieces on Canoe rocks, near Passage Island, Lake Superior with it's cargo of grain, involving a loss of $l,500,000.
 The two French minesweepers, Eerisolles and Inkerman, ocean bound from Fort William, Ont, be- came separated from their fleet and disappeared like shadow craft, with an estimated loss of $2,000,O00.
 Tn 1918 three vessels were raised including the whaleback, Henry Cort sunk by the steamer Midvale in Lake Erie in December, 1917.
 War restrictions on such commodi' ties as coal, and the transfer of large vessels to oceansserrice, made traffic lighter than during the previous foul years. Traffic through the Sault Ste Marie locks aggregated 86,680,327 tons, the lightest in four years, witt a combined registered tonnage oi .61, 100,244, the lowest since 1915 Total passages were 20,610, the low est in four years.
 Copper shipments were light ir 1918, but iron ore shipments were un- usually heavy
 Marine men predict that a new high tonnage record will be estab- lisned next season, starting with the big grain movement down the lake: in the spring. They declare that a greater quantity of grain is stored in the holds of ships on the lake; this winter than ever befofe in Great Lakes navigation history.
 The fourth United States govern ment lock at Sault Ste. Marie, the largest in the world, was practically completed this season.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22
OFFICERS MADE MEMBERS
 OF |. OF |.

At the annual meeting of the Va vapai County Chamber of Commerce, the officers now stationed at Whip pie Barracks were unanimously elect cd as Honorary members of the or ganization It is believed by this action that the officers will taken a keen interest in civic affairs and will in large measure be responsi- ble for an added cooperative spirit between the Post and the city and county in general.
 Following is the list of names of those elected: Major Richard Bew, Major Leopold Shumacker, Captain Gail D. Alice, Captain James B. Van Horn, Captain Walter E. Cary, Cap tain Louis H. Tales, Captain Charles A. Shepard, Captain Iverson H. Jew ell, Captain Frank J. Ronaync, Cap tain Albert c. Walker, Captain Henry McGraw Lieut. Raymond Nelson, Lieut. Francis J. Stejskal, Lieut. John Mallery, Lieut.. Harold Kipp, Lieut.. Ned Snyder, embracing the medical corps. Captain Theodore H. Connor, Captain C. E. Yaeger, Lieut.. ]. F. Moreno, Second Lieut.. B. V. Moore of the sanitary corps, Lieut. Walter S. Barnes of the quar- termaster's corps, Lieut.. William A. Baker. of the dental corps, Chaplain Robert E. Zeigler. Major Charles F.-i Coffin, Captain Harry c. Palmer, Captain Jule. w. Market and Captain Richard L. Martell of the construct ing quartermaster's corps.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22
MUCH ACTIVITY IN H. 5. CADET
 ORGANIZATION
CFrom Tuesdays DaiIyl

The high school cadets of Prescott began their first outdoor training yesterday. The drill will be given daily now, and the upper-class stu dents are running a close race for the commissions that are to be given out about the first of the month.
 A teachers meeting was held after school yesterday and it was decided that everything will go on as usual in the high school, The grades, how ever, may remain closed until We'd nesday.
 The comets were released by the express office on Monday and the pupils all tried to get one. Several were little late and it will be i'm possible for the instruments to go around.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22
NATIONALFOREST ROAD FUNDS
 APPORTIONED

ALBUQUERQUE, Jan. 2l-The of the national forest share of federal aid to the road funds for the fiscal year 1920 has been made, according to information re- ceived by the district forester here The apportionment amounts to $54,- 40 for Arizona and S37,750 for New Mexico, for constructing roads with n or partly within the national for csts of these two states, under Sec ton Eight of the Bankhead bill
 District Forester Redington states that as all restrictions on the use of labor, material and government funds have been removed by the national highways council, road building will be pushed during this spring and summer.
 Several projects were approved for construction last year; but in view of the urgent need for labor and materi- al for war purposes, the work was postponed until later date Among the projects that are of particular interest are the Tijeras Canyon road, the Pocos River road, which extends from Valley Ranch to Cowles, the Cimarron-Taos road, the Hondo- Mescalero road, Gall in New Mex icaJ, and the Clifton-Springeryille road in Arizona.
 Sufficient funds are now available to keep large force of men busy during the open season, and will as sist in solving the labor problem re- sulting from the demobilization of the army.
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22

unicaons could be raised What then do expect of small orce Is it possible that instead of supporting the rvaves supplying the Boshevists with the propagand slogan of Aggression which will only consolidate their position?
 If the Boshevss alege external menace they will have found grand patriotic ayng cry; but if bolshevism left to its poor devices it will soon filter
 Americans convinced that their advancing the of humanity reports of Boshevs outrags ick home The whole proceeding haphazard, weakly mtted and certainly lacking any large national purpose
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22
TRICKS OF THE BOOTLEGGERS
 WERE VARIED

SPOKANE, Wash, Jan. 2l.- When Montana went dry" at mid night, December 30, last, by popular vote, the "bootlegger," as the dealer in contraband liquor popularly IS known, realized that his day was go- ing, if it already had not gone. Since 1915, when Washington became prohibition state, the business ot bootlegging has been a thriving one and one fraught with little risk to the clever dodger of the law.
 Officers of the law tell many stories of the ingenuity used ill bringing in contraband into this ctate. Baby collins often served that purpose; the silk and furbelows of an actress often concealed bot tic of whiskey or wine; imitation Bibles fooled the officers more tnan once: false bottoms in trunks aud travelling cases frequently held bot ties. And more than one shipment of rags and junkmen's stuff covered up pints and quarts of the most profitable liquor.
 One illicit dealer had a scheme all his own. He telegraphed to the Spokane officers from a town ill Western Montana that shipment of liquor, concealed in a carload of wood would reach Spokane on a cer tain freight train, He gave the num- Der Of the car. Sure enough the train arrived. A perspiring crew of up holders and enforcers of the law toil- ed industriously and unloaded every stick of wood, but there was no li- quor. It developed later than there was another carload of wood in that train, and that it had been unloaded by a stranger who left the wood but carried off the contraband. The willy bootlegger had sent the tele- gram to keep the officers busy while he unIoaded his stuff.
 Anonymous information helps the officers. but often it is given in an effort to mislead. Other informants fail to aid the officers. Quarrels or jealousy between bootleggers often result in the arrest of some
 Tie illicit dealers use automobiles with double tanks and trunks with false bottoms. built expressly for transporting the liquor, said well known and active member of the city detective force "Once I opened the top of a piano. he said, "and found 10 quarts of the best They will cache it between walls, over ceilings and under floors or dig hole in the cellar and bury it. Many a furnish ed house has been rented just as a cover for storing liquor"
 As to amusing incidents. the de- tective says, "There's the fellow who went around with a water bag-dish- ing it out for 50 cents drink.
 Until recently a well-known char acter of Spokane served his regular customers in his automobile, between , and 7 in the morning. His recep- tacle was made to look like a Bible and it held two quarts.
 The detective tells ono on himself He observed a woman leaving the lunch room of a certain railroad sta ton and mysterious clinking sound accompanying her footsteps caught his ear.
 "This sounded like the real thing" unused the officer.
 When the lady was brought to the police station to be searched, a bot tie of catsup was found in one stock ing and Worcestershire sauce in the other, souvenirs of her recent lunch"
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22
ANOTHER FATALITY.

PENSACOLA, Fla., Jan. 1S.-Stu- dent Aviator John Wigmore of Los was killed today with En- sign A. D. Honeywell of Geneva, New York, and Student Aviator James J. Gray of Pittsburg when their seaplane fell into Pensacola Raw
Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22
ANOTHER LEASE oN LIFE.

DENVER, Jan. l8.-The public utilities commission postponed the date for dismantling the Colorado Midland railroad to February 8th, to allow an appeal to the railroad ad- nI11istration for aid.