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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-23
Ancient Battle Standards.

It is probable that til" first nag was
carrind hy the Saracens In their bat
Ties with the Crusaders, the latter
adopting the idc2, which thus spread
over Europe. Loag before that there
had been nations standards, however
as the ancient Egyptians carried be
for, ,hrir hosts the figure of "A sacred
animal on u spear. \ STUFFED eat I'M
polcd ON a stick was the forerunher OF
fine banners now used. In the days o'
,he old Persian empire blacksmith
npron was carried aloft at the hea'
of tho army. while the standard OF
the Turks was horses tuil.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-23
How to Make Money Go.

Pick up half dollar with Two
needles, or pins, by placing the points
on the milled edge Of the coin d.amet-
really opposite each other by keep
ing the needles firmly pressed against
the coin it will be held with sufficient
tirmness. Then blow against the coin,
directing your breath either above or
below the center line, anc !. will spin
round at great rate, producing u
buZ2ing sound.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-23
Growino Old Before Your Time.

Kidney trouble tends to so" up
mon and women in middle life and
they fear oncoming old age when IL
is only the kidneys that are at fault.
Foley's Kidney Pills assist Nature TO
restore sound, healthy CONDITION
ana to Danish backache, soreness
lamoncss and stiffness. w. W. Wells
Tonoun, Mich, writes: Foley s kid
ncy pills make me feel like ne"
man" Recommended also for blad
dor trouble For sale by w. d. Dun
can.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-23
Patterns for
Home Sewing

A pattern OF this illustration
Will be sent your address. I'll
out the attached blank and naII
to the Free Trader journal er.
CLOSING Toe IN money or stamps.
Please allow ten days time in
which to have pattern delivered
you.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-23
"THE PEOLPE TO BLAME

"Eyeryone must begin at once q
curtail expenditures for luXu1le5 no"
selling at exorbitant prices
So advised William Mather Lewis
United States treasury department OH
dcial speaking in New York. lie
thinks curtailment would put an enH
to our high cost of living spree
Maybe so. but how about coffee
bread. meat. butter, eggs. potatoes.
shoes clothing, fuel, rent milk ana
other such "luxuries" now selling az
exorbjtant prices? How can we Guy
tail ON them when our stomachs have
been trained by nature to aDhor VIZ
crum and our bodies have acquired "
habit OF demanding such protection
as clothing and shoes give?
Must be that Lewis did his shopplE@
in Fifth avenue, New York, and not
La Sale or Main streets in Ottawa.
Another thing he said: THE p"o
ple themselves were to blame il price.
Of necessities rose, because merchants
observed the absolute carele7SheS~
with which people parted with th"iF
money
And. no doubt, many highway men
have observed the speed with "h'c"
holdup victims part with their money
when confronted with a gun late al
night on deserted street, but the
law doesn't blame a victim; II sends
the robber to prison,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-08-23
'r.rlunphed Over Misfortune.

The famous French artist. Gustave
Uore. was born ANA reared in the
shadow Of Str0shrg cathedral, says
Mrs ACCOMPLISHMENTS, in "Thr Heart
of the Nusgrs.' AZ the age Of eight
years he broke his right arm. but he
came, as II hv magic, ambideXtrous
As he lay ia bed Ne checrily drew pie
lures III day long with his left hand.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17
Bapaor Items.

! Mrs. r VI. SwitZer returned tues
! day from I.adora where she attended
! the funeral of cousin.
Hiss Nellie Russell. of Iiscomb. spent
the first Of the week with her grand
mother. Mrs Olive Russell.
Elwood Johnson. OF Oskaloosa. VS.
tied at the home of Rev. w. G. kitch
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Kinzer and
daughter Margery visited at the Ear
Grant home at Gearing Sunday.
Mrs. Harry Bender and children. OF
New Sharon. are spending the week
with the formers mother, Mrs. Fred
Lake.
d. r. Dickens and son Henry spent
a few days at the viii Myers home at
Clemens.
Alva kersey and family visited
Quincy Dillon's, at Chester, Sunday
afternoon.
J. A. Speer accompanied shipment
of stock to Chicago Monday.
Misses Gertrude Norman and lillian
Willis attended the teachers meet
ing at Marshalltown Saturday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17
PLAN EXTENSIVE
5000 ROAD WORK
COUNTY TO HAVE APPROXIMATE
~ 100000 FROM STATE AND
FEDERAL AID.
PLANS DEPENDENT ON
INTERPRETATION OF LAW
Would Permanently Grade Eighteen to
Twenty Miles Of Highway and Pave
Eight to Ten MiIes-Perransnt Work
Requires Special Election - May
Form Improvement Districts.

With a big program for road inn
provement planned for the county, and
approximately 100000 to be available
from federal and state aid. the board
OF supervisors patiently awaits
final, clear and definite ruling on it's
powers and an opinion with regard to
the electoral features of the new road
law which will make improvement
work possible.
The tentative plans of the board in
cluded permanent grading over eiga-
teen to twenty miles of highway, and
paving eight to ten miles, if the APP
prevail of the voters could be secured
for the latter work.
Work OF permanent character.
such as paving highways. can be
undertaken only after submission OF
the plans at a general election and APP
proval by the electors Grading work
may be undertaken with the approval
of the state highway commission but
without an expression of the voters.
May Form Improvement Districts.
II taxpayers of q township or dis
triCt desire certain road improvement
! they may ask for the creation of an
| improvement district it is believed,
much as drainage districts are asked
| for and established. There is n ques-
| ton in the minds of members of the
| board as to whether. in the event of
| the creation Of improvement districts,
improvements in such districts would
be possible only on submission Of the
question to the voters of the entire
county or merely TO the voters of the
district affected.
If the Improvement was OF such ma
ture as to require the expenditure of
county funds there is no doubt but
that the election would be a general
one and the voters of the entire county
would be asked to vote on the matter.
County Road Improvement.
There Is little doubt that some OF
the roads of the county's primary sys-
TEN will BE improved this year. The
county must bear its share of the ex-
pense in order to secure the federal
and state aid, and wherever improve
ment is planned it is likely to meet
with approval OF the voters, as few
would care to risk the loss of the
proffered monetary aid.
The law tends to tie the hands Of
the board of supervisors to the ex-
tent that no work of permanent
character can be attempted. wherein
county funds are to be expended and
tax assessments made against prop
erty deriving direct benefit The
board may. however, plan such i'm
provement and then submit the pro-
posal to the voters.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17
COURT DIRECTS VERDICT.
o. c. Blankenship Awarded $2SA,os
Damages From Former Employer.

o. c, BlanKenship was awarded
s2s4OS damages againsr his former
employer, w. T. Baumgnr;, in district
court Wednesday afternoon. when
Judge Willett directed a verdict for the
plaintiff. The court fixed the amount
of damages and the jury returned a
verdict for the amount specified.
Blankenship sued Baumgart on a
contract for labor. which purported "a
show the plaintiff had been engaged
as farm la5orer for period or one
year at an agreed wage, Blankenship
alleged he was dismissed from Baum
CARTS employ IN violation of the con-
tract and asked damages III the sum
of the wages due for the unfulfiiieo
period of the contract.
Following the disposal OF the BLANK
cnship- Baumpart case a jury was EN-
penneled for the suit of +. r. ford!
VS.. Guy Sherman, which was being
heard today. The plaintiff asks dam
ages in the sum of $1,000, alleging ne
purchased stock of defendant fol
breeding purposes and stock furnisheo
proved of poor quality.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17
CONDITION ENCOURAGING.
Dr.. Devine's Temperature Normal
DAUGHTER Writes Friend.

A letter from Miss Forestine Devine,
who Is with her mother at Rochester,
Mimi, where her father, DR.. w. 5.
Devine, is in hospital recovering from
an operation performed last week,
brings encouraging news Of DR.. De-
vines condition. Miss Devine wrote
that on Tuesday her fathers tempera-
ture was normal for the first times
the operation was performed. She
added that he was able to eat little
and looked better altho suffering con-
siderable pain. Miss Devine, who ex-
pected to return home today, said that
she was not coming until the end OF
the week, providing her father con-
tinued to improve.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17
Foss FOR BOY FEEDERS:
Nice Souvenirs to Be Presented to
Members Of Club.

County Agent W. A. Buchanan is IN
receipt of forty watch fobs to he pre-
scented to the members Of the Marshall
County Baby Beef Club. The fobs are
the gift of the Iowa Beef Producers
Association. There are forty mem
bers OF the club and total Of forty
six baby beeves are being fed by the
boys.
The fobs are nice souvenirs OF the
work. being of triangular metal design
with leather guards. On the FOB in
relief are three heads Of cattle, win
the words Member Iowa Boys BABY
Beef Club" On the reverse are the
words Presented by the Iowa Beef
Producers Association
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17
FOUR WANT DIVORCE.
One Wife and Three Husbands Plain
tiffs in Actions Filed.


Four suits in divorce were. filed
Wednesday in district court, and one
of the cases was disposed of before
court adjourned for the day. Three OF
the suits were filed by husbands.
Floyd G. Slaves, who began suit
against Mrs. Tressa B. Slaves, was
granted a decree, the defendant not
appearing in court.
Arthur C. Shockley seeks a divorce
from Mrs. Alice Shockley, the petition
stating the couple was married in this
city, Oct. 80, 1914.
Mrs. Ruth Williams is made de-
PENDANT in a suit filed by Roy VIII
liams, who asks custody Of three minor
children. Kenneth, Naomi and Howard
and title to household goods and GER
tain real estate owned by the plain
tiff. The couple was married at Atchi-
son, Kan, Feb. %. 1911.
Mrs. Blanche B. Walker has filed
suit in divorce against John w. Walker
and asks the restoration Of her maiden
name, Blanche 3. Swigert. The couple
was married June "a, 1914, at Buring
ton.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17

shailtown. visited with relatives and
friends here few days last week.
Mann Everhart was IN Cedar RAP
Ids Thursdsy., s. N ~,
Mesdarnss Chrsstine' HerboN and
Clarence johnson and daughter Grace
vert In Marshalltown Thursday.
Mrs. Michael Mslloy has been visit
ing with relatives In Marshalltown.
Walter HlS has opened general
store.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Jaroleman, of
Marshalltown, visited with relatives
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17
put Addre.. in Parcel Packages.

Senders Of parcel post packages are
urged by the postal department to
place inside each package card bear
Ing the name and address OF the send
er and of the person to whom tne
package Is being sent.
The local post office has received
notice from the postal department to
the effect that often the address OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17

both sender ana addressee II eifaced
or lost and the package is then sent
to the dead letter office because no
return address or forwarding address
can be found. The package must nec-
essarily then remain lost. II the name
and address Of both parties Is placed
inside the package II can be opened
and either forwarded or returned to
the sender
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17

a. X. coover. Of Mt. Auburn. offioiated.
burial was in Eden cemetery. The
pail bearers were J. c. Roebuck, Ed
Bucklin. Harrison White. Isaac Gray
Henry Buck and Charles Haddock.
Roy Baker, of Colo. spent the week
end with his mother. Mrs. Katie Bak-
or.
II. NJ. Weeks was In Marshalltown
on business Thursday.
Mrs, Ed. Beyc, OF Melbourne, visited
a few days last week with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs John w. Long, OF Mar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17
Rhodes News,

Henry Phillips, Of Dixon, H., who
was here to attend the funeral OF his
aunt, Mrs. Miriam Phillips. returned
to his home Thursday.
Funeral services for Mrs. Miriam
Phillips were held from the residence
at . o'clock Wednesday afternoon. Rev.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17
RAISE FOR EXPRESS WORKERS.
Local Employees Probably Will Profit
Rx Increase Allowed.

By Increase NIIcWed.
Wage increases, averaging SIS per
month for approximately $4,000 en-
ployes of the American Railway Elk
press Company, have been announced
by Director General Hines The In
crease Is said TO represent an advance
of s25 a month above the wage scale
in effect, Jan. T. 1918.
e. B. Abbott, manager Of the local
office, has not been notified OF the In
crease but it is presumed the increase
VIII apply to local express employees
as we'll as those elsewhere. 1t was
said, however, Ioca! employees we're
averaging more than $25 month
above the wage scale Of Jan. !, 1918,
without the increase just granted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17

and friends few days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles, sarsfisld. Of
Colo. spent Saturday at the Lon Rich.
mond home. NJ 800 Az
Mr.. and Mra. Clifford Emery are the
parents OF son. born April IL.
Mrs. Nina Baker spent Tuesday II
MarshalltowN.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-17

Buy your wheat bran, shorts. wheas
screenings and nour at the mill. 500
South First avenue. Marshalltown Mil.
Ing Company.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-10-08
Hogs and Men

j with reason pray that we were hogs
and thus might escape the treatment
accorded human beings. Hundreds of
thousands of school children in New
York City alone go to school in the
, morning without enough to eat. If
they were hogs, they would be sure to
have breakfast. Millions Of our people
live in one and two-room homes tene-
ment houses in the city and shacks in
the mining camps whereas if they
were hogs they would have so much room
that all the family could be at home at
one time.
If 100000 hogs had died OF flu last
year, congress would have appropriated
several millions in few minutes to
find out what the causes were and the
best means Of combating the disease,
but since only human died of flu, congress
refuses to turn hand.
Not long ago the department. of
agriculture discovered that stock foods
and medicines were being adulterated,
and it Immediately began campaign
to wipe out the dangerous frauds.
But frauds, substitutions, authorizations
and poisonings Of food for the people
flourish as never before. Again only
humans suffer.
If the government were to conscript
all the hogs for a years, or even six
months service, a mighty howl would
go up. But the government proposes
to take the youth Of 19 just at the
| time when they need to be making
the beginnings Of a career and throws
! them into an atmosphere which we
must call moral because of espionage
laws, and this is considered just and
proper by our. best people. The boy
has as much to say about it as the hog
does about slaughtering time.
When any Of us suggest that people
should have as much consideration as
hogs, we are hailed as Socialists, Boil
/ sheviki, anarchists, and other names
! by which reactionaries designate those
who do not believe we have a perfect
fertilization And we will probably con-
tinue to get worse treatment than the
hogs receive until we stop trusting those
who announce themselves as superior
4 to the common herd. sl
su.% ~
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-10-08
Wilson The Politician

It.8was not Wilson the prophet and
idealist, but Wilson the politician, who
was defeated at Paris, according to Dr..
Walter Weyl, writing in the New Repub-
lic:
'.The man who was discounted was
Woodrow Wilson the politician, the man
who thought he could play the European
game, who was not afraid Of the dark,
who at times seemed to bargain for his
own hand, for his personal prestige
and his political party, instead OF fight
ing always and solely, win or lose, for his
ideals A man cannot both be celestial
and subterranean; he cannot at once
stand on the mountain top and IN the
cellar. When the President OF the
United States who had stirred mankind
as it had not been stirred for decades
withdrew from the inspiration OF the
peoples Of the, world and agreed to a
give-and- take-peace secretly arrived at
by bargaining when Mr.. Wilson sur
rendered the role of prophet and ac-
cepted the role of opportunities, pol
iticians- he became as one of the others,
a little less than the others.
We have always maintained that.
Wilson would have to appear before the
bar of history and that her final judg-
ment would be according to his actions
and not according to his words. Ear
lier than anticipated people begin to
see their former idol in a different light
and the high pedestal on which he was
standing is being lowered day by day.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-10-08
SENATOR TAKES KINDERGARTEN
COURSE.

Senator Sterling of South Dakota is
taking a kindergarten course In indus
trial relations, during the senate con-
mittee investigation of the steel strike.
What do you mean he asked
Samuel Gompers, in an rritated tone,
when you say that there has been no
chance for these men to present their
grievances to the company, or to Judge
Gary, the chairman of the United
States Steel corporation"
Gompers gazed at him in astonish-
ment.
Why, senator s he finally gasped,
imagine how much chance one Of these
poor devils, not even speaking the
language well, and with nobody back
Of him imagine what chance he would
have to see Judge Gary, the head OF this
billion dollar concern, or even to see
any Of Judge Gary's representatives.
But why persisted Sterling, don't
they present their grievances through
a committee?'
Committ exploded Gompers,
these men are not even permitted to
! get together to discuss their wrongs
and determine which Of them ought to
be taken up first. They are not per
mitted to get to the point Of deter
mining their own minds, much less
appoint a committee There is no such
thing as free assembly and free dis
]cussion for them, in the very towns
where they ive!'
And Gompers went on to testify to
Iplaces, dates and persons involved in
/ the reign Of terror which Judge Gary's
corporation has maintained in the
Isteel towns ever since the campaign to
organize the men began.
AT another point il the hearing,
John Fitzpatrick, chairman Of the strik-
ers committee, had mentioned the
combination Of q international unions
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton 81 Labor. - being. the final author
lily which called the strike and IS re-
Isponsble for its success.
What Is an international union!''
inquired the statesman 8 Do you mean
that You have unions with branches
|in America and a Hum 8. -, fos ii
L
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-10-08
More Tel Sparlt Needed.

Persons who as children used to thrill
with emotion when reading the story Of
how William Tell refused to bow to the
the tyrant Gessler's hat, was outlawed,
and later led Switzerland to independence
will be. reminded Of the old times when
they read the following order issued by
the British government in India:
Whereas, it has come to my notice
that certain inhabitants OF Lyllapur
district are habitually exhibiting lack
of respect for gazetted European or civil
and military officers Of his mjestys
services, thereby failing to maintain
the dignity Of the government, hereby
order that the inhabitants OF the Lyallpur
district shall accord the salutation to all
such officers whenever met. That is to.
say, persons riding on animals or on or
in wheeled conveyances, will ahght, per-
sons carry ing open and raised umbrellas
shall lower the n, and all persons shall
salute or salaam' with the hand.
Signed &C. "A. HODGsON,
Area Officer, Lyallpur.
And here is another item of interest
for us in it. Suppose some Hindu
William Tell refuses to get down off his
beast of burden, is outlaWed, and later
leads his country to war for Independence.
Will our sympathies still be with Tell or
will we, as part Of the league Of nations,
help to catch this enemy Of Claw and
order? The answer depends not so
much on what article 10 means as on
whether America gets a rebirth Of the
Tell spirit.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-10-08
A Dishonest Peace.

Peace! What farce The treaty
does not contain single clause tending
to peace Short of free land, free trade
and disarmament there can be no peace.
1t is dishonest peace" not so much
to the loser as to the victor. 1t secures
planned to secure by their abominable
secret treaties.
The peace treaty was conceived in
iniquity and executed in trickery and to
make international burglary safe bust
ness they form a League Of Nations.
1t is nothing but league Of pirates for
purposes of plundering their own and
foreign peoples.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-10-08


Siberia has cost 104 American lives.
One out Of every five killed is q, suicide.
What reflection this appalling ratio
Of one to FIVE IS on condi tions which our
boys are facing there! Think Of what
a healthy, vigorous young man will
put up with before he takes this course
|of last resort!
Another Indication is the fact that
many Of them are committing small
crimes 50 as to be sentenced to prison
at home, and our government sends
these misused, homesick men to the
hell-hole Of Acatraz, the federal mill
tary prison ii San Francisco bay The
boys themselves are unable "a tell IS
Of what they are going through because
Iof tkf government ofship.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-10-08
UNIVERSITIES IN SOVIET RUSSIA.

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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-10-08

London. AS q protest against the
recent brutalities Of the English in
the Pumjab, friends Of India in Lon
don recently called . huge mass meet
ing, and passed ringing resolution
excoriating the conduct Of British officials.
The meeting was presided over by
Hasan Imam, who arrived recently
from the scene Of the worst blood
shed, the Punjab. In the course Of his
speech, he declared that q 4 matter
Of fact not even a flower pot was
broken at Lahore and that if peace
was broken it was first by the police
and a state Of rebellion was declared
on that slender basis. In conclusion
he said that the hopes built upon the
reforms could not be realized so long
as the people in India were not granted
a declaration Of rights.
+ B. G. Horniman, late editor Of the
Bombay Chronicle" who was deported
to England from India, for daring to
express his opinion Of the atrocities Of
martial law in the country, stated that
the, enactment Of martial law was not
only unjustifiable but inherently inhuman,
as being against an unarmed civil popu-
lation. Condemnation Of British poll
cy was also voiced by Mr.. George Lans-
bury, editor Of the Daily Herald
London.