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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-07-28
z MORE: | DROWN
IN D. N. RIVER
James WEIGH, aged IS, and
Clarence Taxtad, Aged
IL, Drown Sunday
Afternoon.
WERE in. BATHING
Caught in Whirlpool and
Sucked Under.-Others
in Danger.

The Des Moines river last evening
claimed two more victims when Jane.
WEIGH, aged IS, and Clarence Taxtad
aged IL, were drowned south o.
Brushy. The body of WEIGH was re
covered within an hour, but that Of
young Taxtad was not found until thi:
morning, some two miles below the
spot where the accident occurred
This makes four drownings in the Des
Moines river near Brushy and STRAIT
ford within month.
Both Lived in Country.
James WEIGH was the son Of Mrs
Alfred Jones, who lives near Judd
Clarence Taxtad was the fourth child
of Mrs. Julia Taxtad, a widow who
with her five remaining children, lives
on the old John w. Hurst farm in Ere.
mont township, now owned by Max
Stark.
How 1t Happened.
A party of some fifteen men and
boys, including Sam Nicholson, on
whose farm WEIGH worked. Went to
the Des Moines river yesterday to 60
bathing. WEIGH and young Taxtad
were in the party. The river was not
over waist deep at the point where
they went in. A sudden whirlpool,
however, caught six Of the party and
it was with great difficulty that four
escaped. The two boys who were
drowned We're sucked under by this
pool. Strenuous efforts were made by
their companions to rescue them, but
they We're unable to reach WEIGH or
young TaXtad.
The drowning of these boys is especi-
ally sad and much sympathy is felt
by the community for the Borrowing
mothers and other relatives who mourn
their untimely passing.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-07-28

John Walsh of Williams was caller
in the county seat Saturday afternoon.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

II = 49,
larged in every way the usefulness
of the newspapers of the United
States. More people are reading to-
day than ever before in the history
of the country, and in this period of
REIMBURSEMENT the same press will do
much to compose differences which
too often arise through misunder-
standing and lack of appreciation of
the; other fellows viewpoint. ,{3 \
fToday the news9apef., 81 an in,
efeasingly potent, faetor}dn business
expansion and the advertising element
in. business success has long since
recognized as vital. 1t is the secret
of the development of most winners
i'm: the business game.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

The peopoe Of Washington may
well be assured that they are at faul
about the negro troubles they arc
undergoing. They have the novelty
of wide general condemnation in the
south to face. II is not matter &c
boast about. The negro out of his place
suffers more than anybody, but those
who will lead him to a mistaken i'm
preston as to where he belongs
land then jump on him for getting out
of his place, are far more unfair to
him than anybody in the south. Here
both negro and white know where to
place the colored man.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23


Those who are conducting the fill
buster to prevent the rejection of the
suffrage amendment in the Georgia
Legislature, are now accused of deli
berately getting in the way of the
big bills Of Importance. 1t should be
remembered that those who introduc
ed the resolution to kill the amend
ment did so for spite, openly stated
If they had left it alone, nobodys
time would have been lost with it
for the suffrage advocates saw they
had no chance before any sort OF
Legislative move was taken.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23
SHORTAGE OF MILK
IN GREATER BERL IN

Berlin, May Is, Correspondence of
the Associated Press. )-Authorities of
Greater Berlin entrusted with the dis
tribution of fats and milk declare, in
communication to the Imperial Food
Minister, that Berlin is now receiving
only 100000 quarts of milk daily,
which 1873 quarts less than the city
had year ago. This, it is said, is
sufficient only for children and the
sick. The minimum required for the
needs of those entitled to milk is
about to collapse, says the authorities,
who accuse the Food Ministry of fail
ing to take proper measures to relieve
the situation.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

Every Crisp County man who
earns his living on the farm ought to
see the starting demonstration of
stump pulling here August md. That
is going to be a most important event
for Georgia farms. Somehow, we feel
that it is going to mean the elimina.
ton Of the stump in south Georgia
farms. When that day arrives, the
farm will be worth $500 an acre, b.
cause the crop yield will he more and
1t will cost less to produce. The go
ing of the stump means the advent of
improved farming.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

If this l4h't Tie day for the bog
raiser to "goA down the road" ne will
never sect it again. Pork prices are
fabulous. They certainly are high
enough to make hog raising a great
industry in this section where their
food can be raised with such ease.
No cotton or weevil fight for us.-not
as long as hog prices stand where they
ate q? anywhere near that point.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

The little jerk water bank failures
Of the south of few years ago were
nothing in comparison with that of a
Philadelphia state bank which went
under with aiAhortage Of nine Hundred
Thousand Ahe1pther day. In The days
of old the Quaker believed in doing
the. thing right, May be that same
principle guided in the finish of the
financial institution.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23
THE. PURPOSE oE TIE FAIR

Those who are going to have to dc
with the county fair in Crisp this
fall have for one Of their large pur-
poses the displaying to all the county
that which the best of her food pro
ducers have done, that which the best
stock raisers are accomplished, that
which the boys and girls are doing in
their best campaigns.
Educative is a small wordA The
spread of information regarding the
best that has been accomplished is
rapid and sure at the county fair. 1t
is wonderful how one farmer will be-
come enthusiastic when he sees what
another Of the same community has
done. And it takes the success of his
neighbor to arouse the slothful man.
That will do it more quickly than
anything else in the world
On this subject the editor of the
Atlanta Journal writes a splendid
paragraph:
Fairs of this kind are county
builders. They arouse the peoples
attention to home attainments and
home opportunities. They bring
forth a spirit of generous rivalry
that makes for farm progress, and
also spirit of loyal cooperation
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

Judge Beverly Evans is going after
the moonshners. He said it SC
loudly in Macon the other day when
he was passing sentence upon a man
who admitted that he had worked al
an illicit distllery that all of them
ought to know he intends to send the
moonshiners the federal pen at the
second offense.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

Japan left THE peace conference
under the agreement that Shantune
should be returned to China. Japan
has thus far made no move which
should cause the allies to mistrust
and disbelieye this statement. The
world has every cause to believe the
promise will be kept That being the
case, the United States senate need
not get worried about it.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

II the refusal to approve Wilson's
appointment on the PREPARATIONS
board is any indication of what the
United States senate really thinks
about the peace threaty, that docu-
ment is in for a shameless death at
the hands Of the presidents enemies.
and this country is in for dis
graceful future relation with the ma
tons We have helped to beat Germany
Only the foreign relations committee
of the senate has thus far acted. Let
us hope that the senate viii be about
to reach 4 clearer more just DISPOSE
ton OF the request of the president.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

Congressman Rose, Of Pennsylvania
urges the coinage of a six-cent piece.
There is no surer way to keep in exile
the five cent trolley fare, cigar and
certain other wartime Injuries than
to coin siX-cent piece.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

The price of corn Is gong to be
so very good the coming fall and
winter and the next spring that farm.
ers Of Crisp county ought to get pro
lit out of it. A tremendous corn crop
is coming but nothing like il will take
to break down the high prices.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23
NEWSPAPERS AND BUSINESS

That newspaper advertising is go
ng a long way toward solving tn,
problems of business reconstruction
is shown by review just issued by
the Bureau of Advertising. American
Newspaper Publishers Association
Says the review: J
Immediately after the war
great increase in newspaper ad,
vertising was noticed. Each month
it has continued and today it is
not unusual for newspapers to re-
port 100 per cent increases in
national advertising in lineage
over the same period of 1918 and
there is scarcely newspaper any
where that does not show ire
mendous gains
For few months after the arm
stice was signed business men were
asking whether or not this adver-
Using would pay. Today they
are wondering whether they can
fill their orders and get help
enough to run their factories.
While there are still some evil
dences of han-to-mouth buying and
disposition to play safe in
case of lowered prices, retail
business has increased in volume
that seems to indicate an out
look for full speed" head. A
federal investigation into trade
conditions just completed shows
that the big retail stores in New
York had siXty-six per cent increase
in business during April and MaN
over the corresponding months
last year. Reports from Chicago,
Boston, Philadelphia and other
larger cities indicate the same
tremendous release of buying
power.
Many manufacturers of advertis-
ed products report that they are
unable to fill demands and are
running behind on orders.
1t is fair to say that news
paper advertising is responsible
for large part of this improve
ment in retail and wholesale
business and that the newspapers
will render as notable a service
in the readjustment period as they
performed during the war.
Their important and patriotic part
Il the winning of the war has en-
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

Nothing wrong about the marriage
of the doughnut lassie to lieutenant.
Ii half the good things are true that
are said about those girls in the war,
they deserve many, many good things
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

When Henry Ford said there was
no hate in the trenches he probably
Judged from the business like way in
which the doughboys slaughtered
the Huns that no more feeling enter.
ed into it than is found in the butcher
business.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY.

President Wilson's preservation OF
the daylight saving was more of a
shock to the light and gas compan-
les than to the farmers.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

FgLtEiItiliLIsIitE az q Iii EET T
Count Won Bernstorff, Germany's
former ambassador to the United
States, now declares for pro-Amer-
lean policy. Bernstorff = is cute if
nothing else
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23
Members of Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
OF all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this pa
per and also the local news published
herein.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

Communications on all topics pub
lished when not too long accom-
panied by full names and address.
Not responsible for views of contribu-
tors.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

that is invaluably constructive.
bring together the people of all
parts of the county in a way that
warns and widens the feeling of
neighborliness and of public an
distinguished from merely private
interests. They quicken the sense
of community pride. which when
when rightly directed e is one of the
basic ingredients Of patriotism.
Georgia's notable development in
late years has been due in con-
siderable measure to her county
fair"
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-23

Tri angular wiling desks that fit q
corner of a room have been design
ed for residences.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10

grand jury, District Attorney Swami has
embarked upon an investigation Of rent
profiteering.
The tenants committee, immortalized
in court record, is to have wider fame.
Motion picture reels have recorded that
Professor Robert Livingstone Schuyler,
of Columbia University, after carrying
banner Inscribed, "The Landlords
Couldn't Get Away With It," amid gen
cral acclamations, wiped his gold-rimmcd
eyeglasses, and the tenants committee
lives on rs permanent institution. Let
ters travel to Albany, urging legislation
standardzing leases; borough presi-
dent incites rcprisas on prohtccring
landlords; . Municipal Court justice
urges immediate Legislation to safeguard
tenants, and in The Bronx, at the head
quarters of the Greater New York Ten
ants League, can be heard rounds Of
Jubllation and threats Of strikes against
unjustifcd rent increases. Thousands
Of crstwhilc worms are obviously pre-
parlng to turn, a hue and cry against
our old friend, Unearncd Increment, is
on once again, but the betting seems to
be that the seasoned offender will make
his getaway, for the report from the
real estate market is of rising prices
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10
"Parlorisn"

Parlorism, it appears, is not confined
to the United States. LIE Goulois records
its appearance in Paris "in the cosey and
perfumed atmosphere Of homes where
one goes to dine, and salons where one
goes to talk" There sympathy for muir
der "becomes dilettantism, manner
of coquetry, an elegance" Bolshevism is
worn like an orchid in the buttonhole:
"Just look at them, listen to their talk,
Detachlng with an elegant finger the
ashes Of their cigarettes, smiling with
bitterness that is replete with grace, they
say, softly: 'Alasl society has grown
tired and feeble with age Every day it
decays a little more There is no more
poiteness and cultures gone to the dogs
Life offers no thrills, manners have stiff
cned, tastes coarsened Under such cir
cumstances, what's the good Of pcrpetu-
ating with artificial effort state Of
things so lamentable. Isn't it much bet
ter TO destroy everything and to begin
over again? Who knows? Perhaps this
is the only way in which our moribund
society can ever be rcjuvcnatcd. Let's 20
under, all together. We may Just
as we'll resign us to it, Some more tea,
madame?"
We stand in the presence Of one Of the
Oldest Of human traits. Alcibiadcs was
much admired as he sauntcrcd about
Athens with the Attic equivalent of
monocle and cane. Cleopatra divided her
time between drinking pearls and SYM
pathizing with the felaheen. Nothing
was more delightful to a Roman dandy
than to feel the muscles of gladiator.
Pugllsm was the favorite affection of
the English aristocrat. Decadence dotcs
on savagery. So it has bcen-so it will be.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10
The Turning Worms

Peace, not without, but with victory,
garnished with parades, banners and
congratulations, IL being celebrated by
the tenants Of certain apartment house
on Riverside Drive. For they have cstab
lished that the word tenant is not
synonyme for worm, or doormat, but
may on occasion, definitely signify
human being.
The tenants in question defeated de-
rnands for 40 10 go per cent increase
In rents by Offering to buy the apartment
house. The landlords attempted TO
justify their demands by saying that
ofherwise the apartment house would
not pay, but we're cornered by profYcr
OF the cost price Of 100000. As con-
sequcnce Of the activities Of this group
Of tenants, who have become organized
ag a committee, aided and abettcd by a
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10
Little for France

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: AS citizens and as nation VIZ bovo
done very little to help France. Private funds
organized magnfccntly by individual cf
'orts, labors md gcncrositics, have prand1v
alded the great war victim and her grateful
people, but as whole We must remcmbcr
mat war chests" and our "drivcs" for tho
Red Cross the "Y," etc, the food VIC saved.
were for our own splendid army. The French
government has paid for any food allotted
TO the French refugees, and our CASTOR
clothing and refugee garments were divided
the world over
Tho American Red Cross is leavinc
france, to extend her work throughout
other lands. Monsieur dc Billy, Assistant
High French Commissioner here, dcnes
that France has requested this as reported.
and warns us of n movement on foot tn ho-
little the needs of Franco. Never. he tells
US, have they been greater
surely VIC are not going to fail our noble
sister Mt tho eleventh hour. Twice have we
been snvcd by France and Washincton
never would have dubbed "cntanplincn nm
alliance with the land of LAFAYETTE. dc
Grassc, and Kochambcnu
MARY b. WINGATE.
Sarntoga Springs. April 8. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10

Lorraine's proximity to the border is Of
high Importance. Big Berthas, such as
bonbarded Paris, could destroy the
French furnaces in few hours. If per-
1nitted, the Germans will busy themselves
on emplacements and in mounting huge
cannon. France needs some sort of bull
wark to protect the Industrial works
which she hopes will be able to sustain u
population which will place her once
more on level with Germany. The Saar
Valley must at least be effectively ncu-
tralized if France is to have chance to
prevent another German raid.
Since the signing Of the armsticc
great has been the effort to mislead the
American people. The correspondents
sent to Paris have been tanned by the
knowledge that if they sent anything dis
pleasing they might be denied access to
all information. Even The French Mess
has been muzzled. The intimaton reached
Clemcnceau that if anything like free
discussion were permitted it would be as
sumed that the French government in
spired it, and thus offend a distinguished
visitor
But gimmers Of the truth are begin
ming to shine through and it is more and
more being realized that The chief fault
of the arrangements sought to be forced
is that they make, not for peace, but for
war and more war.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10
Soft Stuff

1t has never been satisfactorily decided
who invented the classic picture of the
two Harvard boys staggering out Of
Huyler's' Al Joson first gave it wide
dissemination, at any rate. And thou
sands have gutfawcd loudly-thousand
who now must not only learn to cuffaw
on the other side Of the face but (what
may be even harder) learn the trick of
staggering home with load of soft stuff
aboard. Even the Union Club has captu-
lated to the call of the soda fountain.
After this tragic fall there is room for
neither holdouts nor jecrs. Frothing
rivers of soda and limitless foes of nut
sundacs must be accepted at their cosmic
value.
All down the line the consequences
run. Only the other day we saw "rcn
Nights in a Barroom' projected all over
a billboard. "The Strongest Play Ever
Written,' said the legend Will there be
"Softest Play" some day, an appealing
dramatzation of the Harvard bevy hav-
ing just one more raspberry soda, while
broken-hearted debutante sobs into her
tWenty-flrst cup of tea? We doubt it.
We doubt much that we hear these days
Of backyard vineyards laid out stealth
lily at night while the neighbors sleep;
OF attic stills and mysterious powders
operating upon the we'll known principle
that near-beer x - alcohol Tasting
Will be believing after July /. But that all
America, the strongest with the weakest,
must now take up the soda fountain in
a serious way. there can be no doubt.
The brass rail departs, enters the marble
top. The ancient, rafting, to-and-fro
shake, generator of such marvellous and
manifold results, yields to the purrlng,
rotary, electric mixer Soft is the word.
It's all there is. There isn't any other.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10
f~&A~

but the chiefs of political parties who are
making an earnest effort to heal the wounds
and dry the tears Of their beloved patria. In
times past they have been believed. some of
them, for time at least, in our own coun-
try, but not here.
The decent Mexican looks upon bandit
precisely as "A New Yorker does a gunman.
lie is to be put out Of business in the quick
est and most convenient way and the less
said about it the better. But nightstick
IS not the surest of weapons for "A New York
policeman, and it does not seem that the
quickest way Of eliminating the bandits Of
Mexico is to embargo arms and munitions in
tended for The recognized government.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10
RONDEAU

KONDEAU
Where them PONIES The Tower once knew
Before r. Woodrow Wilson blew
The call to arms those zppy lays
That happier made those happy days
Of pcacefulncss Now that we're through
With war I want 'cm back! Don't YOU7
o Tapestry, please take the cuel
Flaccus, resume your lyric ways
Where them PONIES?
Bah and A. n. F. we're blue
Without the stunts you used to do.
Your silence saddens and dismays.
write and land the Boss raise,
And cheer lives, dear gifted crewi
WHERE ARE THEM POMESf
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10

And perhaps the President, paraphrasing
the doughboys' song, may sing:
Covenants whistle and conferences roar;
I don't want to go back to Paris any more.
Take mo over the sea,
Where the conferrces can't get at me-
Oh N.Y. let me say goodby!
| want to go home.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10
sunscRlrrloN NArrs-ny Man. lnclualns ro.taae.
GUARANTEE

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back request. no rcd tape. No aulbbllng.
W. make good promptly II the advertiser rot.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10
urNRrn or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Associated Press exclusively entitled to the
for republication Of nil dispatches credited TO II
not otherwise credited in this paper and the local
news Of spontaneous origin published herein.
All rights Of republication Of all other matter herein
also reserved.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10

Roar Admiral Grayson usually is referred
to tho Presidents personal physician, but
we offer the liberal odds of II to 3 that
the President is Admiral Graysons imper-
sonal patient.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10

Just as ones depression over the about
to-be-lost art of copyreading is at it's
nethermoat, the Elizabeth, N. j., Journal
sends elation to the peak with "Presdent
Now III in Bed. Secretary Baker Tells
Mission Good News"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10

the pyrotcchnlcs business. "Thc fans sure
got their moneys WORTH" said tho Albany
Argus, cas- fireworks were brewing all the
time"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10

History does not mention the compost
tion which Nero was performing says
B L. T. in the Chicago Tribune. That was
thrashed out years ago; and it was, if
Rothless memory serves, "There1l Be
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10

Cursory reading of much war verse has
convinced us that it takes more than the
mention of poppies to make q good poem;
and of 3,781 answers" to 1t. Col McRae's
first rate poem, only two or three Of the
"answerers" are un-lazy enough to write true
rondeaus.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-10
The Tryns HpciDe

From the FORT Stockton CTcX) Pioneer
Senor Ruis and hts wifc were both born and
reared IN Pecos County and by hard work and
unfailing loyalty have reared family Of seven
children. i've boys and two girls, who we'll
thought o.