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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-15

Texas. II am going down there to
even matters with q fellow with whom
I had a fight a number Of years ago,
Daily told q friend AZ he was leaving
Audubon. DAILY went directly to Can
non City and started a search for his
enemy. He was armed with two re-
volvers. The other fellow, bearing
Daily was after him, laid In wait and
shot him down. Where Days fam
lily lives is not known.
FairfieId-Parsons College is the first
institution to be chosen by the Presby-
terrain board of education to share in
the $2.O00,O0O to be- raised annually
during the next five years. The col
lese will raise $4,000 before March
81, 1891, and thesgeneral church board
will give s per cent Of the funds COM
ing into its hands thru the New Era
movement in 192o-21. estimated at
$100, 900.
Davsnpot-S<ott county. among its
other noted POSSESSIONS, may now
board the champion cooks among the
teams engaged in Junior extension
work, for the second congressional dis
trlct Of Iowa. Three little girls with
hair hanging down their backs, all
freshmen in the LeClaire high school.
walked or with tho culinary laurels in
. Demonstration contest held at the
homo economies building Of the DAY.
export high school between teams OF
Clinton and Scott counties.
Anlta-Leon q. voorhees,, DrsAdsnt
Of tho Anita bank. u homo 6om Ard
moro, Okla, bringing with him . bank
draft for 10000. which he received
for q lease on forty acres Of land
owned by him twenty miles west OF
Ardmore. Besides this he n to receive
one eighth royalty on Ill oil produced
from this land. Mr.. voorhees, owns
20 acres adjoining the eighty which
he leased, and has another $50 sores
a few miles north. From present
prospects it looks like Mr.. voorhees,
will make several million dollars on
his Oklahoma lands, a..
oris~oid-K. B. Kirby, aged Is
years. one Of the most prominent
farmers Of Pleasant township. was n
stantly killed when he broke his neck
IN fall from . manure spreader on
which he was riding. Tho accident
occurred in field on tho Kirby farm
three miles east Of Griswold. No one
saw the accident. The lifelsss body
Of the aged farmer Vas found by mem
bers Of the family shortly aftSr the &C.
oident. They had> gone to look Tor him
when he did not appear Tor dinner Mr..
Kirby had been resident Of Pleasant
township for many years He was .
hkAly respected man and had . hest
OF friends.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-15
IOWA POET Is PRAISED.
Edwin Ford Piper, University Teacher
Gains National Recognition.

Gains National Recognition.
Iowa City. Oct 15.-Of Edwin Ford
Piper. the Iowa poet who Is to speak
in Chicago on Oct. 10 before the Beck
and Play Club, Henry Blackman Sell.
literary critic for the Chicago Daily
News. writes:
when William Allen White. the
Kansas sage. was in our midst few
days ago, he said he had just got hold
Of new book that is one Of the best
in long while.
"Tf I like a book said White. Z
Immediately become one of the SIX
best buyers Of, 1t. That's the way
am about this book. The name of 1t
Is "Barbed Wire and Other Poems"
The man who wrote It is Edwin Ford
Piper. He seems to be from Iowa and
he Is doing real poetry. What do you
know about him.
I'VE told him Piper teaches English
at the University Of Iowa and pipes his
poems thru a pipeline on the side"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-15
his escape from Cherokee he has been
working In tho harvest fields of Kan
.ceuldn't stay Away"

% knew they would get me II I re-
turned" he declared, but I couldn't
stay away
Many sensational things were told
about Broker AZ the thmo OF his escape
from Cherokee. Persons living In the
vicinity of his haunts said that Brick
er's long life In the woods had made
Il possible FOR Aim To do many strange
things. II was said that the man
could climb u tree with persfect ease
and that a ravoritc hiding place for
him was In the tree tops. II was Snio
that he could run like a deer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-15
EDITOR T. 3. HorcHktss DEAD.
Lake City Publisher Established Sew.
erai Iowa Newspapers.


Lake City, Oct. 15.-The Masonic
fraternity conducted the funeral of
Theodore Burton 1Iotchkiss here yes
terday.
Mr.. Hotchkiss was a member Of the
republican state central committee in
1884, was postmaster Of Pomeroy. for
year, resigning the office, was mayor
of Lake City for seven years. and
when the cyclone occurred in Pomeroy
in 1893. ne was put In sole charge Of
the relief finances. experimenting the
Job with great success.
He founded the Pioneer in Lake City
in 1872, before the railroad reached
here. He founded the Manson Journal
in 1874. He returned to Lake City to
found the Blade in 1878. 1t later
merged with the News. Mr.. Hotchkiss
then went to Pomeroy, but returned to
Lake City In 1887 to found the Graphic,
which he published at the time of his
death Sunday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-15
Buttons For Hampton Soldiers.

Special to TlmeS-Republ1can.
Hampton, Oct. 15--All soldiers Of the
world war are requested to appear in
uniform next Friday, the day Of the
big homecoming. This action was TAX
en- at a recent meeting Of the new post
Of the American Legion, recently or
ganized here. If the boys wear their
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-15

The corporate period Of this cor
poration shall begin on tho date the
secretary OF state Issues the certif1-
cate Of Incorporation. and shall termi-
nate at the expiration Of twenty C30)
years from said date. unleps sooner
dissolved by vote Of a majority In In.
terest Of all the stockholders at any
annual meeting, or at . special meet
Int called for that purpose. or BY
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
to
Culture
A Brief Prospectus of the
PerSeph07e Club, Its
Methods and Members
By Harry S. Godfrey

b We COME to see if you wouldn't like
to join our club-the Persephone Club;
Il pronounced er-sif-o-nee. Yet, it's
neW-nuite And there's such q won-
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horse-drawn cart, farm wagon, lumber
wagon, coal cart or grocery van; again in
a fivver, or the high powered car of the
locally rich and great, and once in a long
and shining limousine
1t is all interesting, all delightful, and 7
really enjoy the walk so much that can
find no envy in my heart when as | prepare
to go to my noon dinner | see two younger
members of my profession walk across the
square to where their cars are awaiting
them, eisurely and elegantly pull on their
away, while I walk up the street with
certain red headed tinsmth with whom I
am very chummy.
There has been in those forty years some
changes in the square. The old iron fence
Bdwill in east Lynne" "Billie Morris's
Minstrels" and "Washburn's Grand Sensa-
ton" has been pulled down and stored in
the basement The old pump that seldom
was in order and which was regularly
blown up every FOURTH has disappeared,
and, mirabile dctu! the Blind Goddess was
temporarily removed for some necessary
repairs to her empire gown, and was taken
on journey lasting several weeks. Even
Blind Goddesses must be up to date.
And there have been marked changes in
customs. Why, forty years ago we were
congratulating ourselves upon our shrewd-
ness in selling our beautiful old mahogany
furniture and buying the then fashionable
but dreadful black walnut sets with
punches of grapes and oak leaves carved
thereon-grapes that raised ridges on ones
spinal column, and oak leaves that gave one
the sensation of sitting down on paddock
And now we wondering whether or
not we can thoroughly disguise our golden
oak sets, that have come in their turn to
displace the black walnut, by coating of
white enamel.
Forty years ago we were hand painting
tambourines and hanging them with parti-
coored ribbons to the hectic wallpaper,
next to the chromos of "Wide Awake" and
EAST Asleep" and scarcely day passed
without some visitor being painfully i'm
paled on pin securing lace tidy to the
upholstered rocker in the parlor,
Forty years ago tobacco chewing WAS the
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but we are astonished and panied at the
realization that so many women were AL
lowed to walk at too tender an age.
1t was Scott who said, in describing
the beautiful but unfortunate Constance De
Beverly:
Her cloak and doublet, loosely tied,
Obscured her charms, but could not hide"
Is it too much to hope that cloaks and
doublets may some day be fashionable once
more?
In the churches hope of salvation was
stimulated and gratifed by that beautiful
hymn, ballad or madrigal, ",The Sweet Bye
and Bye" either in solo, duet, quartet or
chorus 1t has not wholly lost its charm,
especially to man in the alto section.
How we'll | remember it:
The soprano and altos in thirds, Motto
saccharino-"In the swee-eet"
The basses and tenors, raucoso e pom
deroso-"In the sweet"
The sopranos and altos, in thirds, dolcis-
simo-"Bye and by-ee"
The basso and tenor, Ben marcato-"Bye
and bye-eye'
Tutti con laryngitoso-"W shall mee-eet
on that bee eyew-t ti-fool sho-ore"
The sopranos and altos in thirds, Dolore
al stomaco-"In the sweet"
The basses and tenors, Dolore al pulmore
TN the sweet"
The sopranos and altos in thirds con
junctiva-"Bye-e and bye-ee"
The basses and tenors, POGO a POGO.
Asno e. Barbercordo-"By and bve-even
Tutti chilli con carne-"We shall mee-eet
n fh ar foo ~ .Ln
At the close of which selection thor.
would be few dry eyes in the congrega-
tlon and each impressonsble woman would
resolve to give up bangs, to reduce the
size of her hustle, to loosen the bands of
her pull-back and to give up other soul
destroying vices
And to man the male members would
register solemn VOW to renounce the
least serious of their sinful habits. such
as tobacco chewing, murder, horse racing
arson, profane swearing, burglary, pedro
and slxty-three, mayhem, rooster fighting,
craps, sippio, blind pool and other simple
msdemeanors of the day.
Forty years ago Pull down YOUR vestn
was regarded as the acme of jocose saluta
ton, having supplanted, and happily so. the
wipe Oft your chin" of the late '70s
Bands were playing "The Mulican
Guards" vocalists were warbling "Mollv
Daring where's Rosanna Gone" and
orchestras were playing "The Turkish
Patrol which was cavare to the general
public.
Forty years ago | could kick to the ton
OF my office door and to-day could
scarcely climb there with a stepladder.
But the world, am sure, has vastly i'm
proved.
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lunch-time," he corrected with smile.
Funny, how they seem to have got out of
the eating habit most of them. Yes, four
hundred, and a few over, in here now And
how many jobs do you suppose we have on
the slate? Exactly fve And they are
'cookups Oh, don't know what a cook-up'
is? That's job made to order for a soldier
or sailor by some patriotic employer. He
doesn't need the man, of course, but he
squeezes him in. Oh, there are few pa
triots living still. Not many, though.
They're almost extinct. l was on field work
before was sent here; went around inter-
viewing employers and asking them how
many of their old men who were in the
service they would take back They all said
they'd take back every one of them. Yes,
that's what they said"
He waved his hand in the direction of the
double doors through which sea of blue
and khaki was doing it's utmost to break in.
ut looks to me though you needed a
little more help" l commented, noticing a
clerk at near desk who was trying to an
swer twenty questions at once and at the
same time keep the twenty questioners off
his feet.
"a little more is good. We have to close
up here at $3.50 o'clock in order to go over
the records and get out our reports. By
right these places should be open all night
at time like this"
Then, looking out upon the towering Office
buildings around US, l was prompted to ask
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if many hundreds of men were not needed
for clerical work
"a few DOZENS" he answered "You see,
when these clerks went to war most of their
jobs were taken by &women. And these
women haves done the same work for less
money, and are willing to go on doing it
for less money. This is q problem which
we are not only up against here in New
York but in every city of this country.
them to factories, when we are lucky
enough to find jobs for them"
l asked him then what he thought Of
Secretary Bakers offer to the soldiers to
allow them to remain in the army until they
found outside employment
"It's a pretty thought he commented.
"But if the men remain in the army how
are they to find jobs outside, when they will
be allowed only night liberty? l was talk
ing to soldier the other day about this
offer of Baker's-just a simple fellow from
out West, but he had his ideas, and he had
done his eighteen months in the trenches.
He looked at me for minute, and then with
a twinkle in his eye he sad Ever hear tell
of the warden that offered to let a man
overstay his time in the pen, just for old
times sake?"
Out of the mouths of "bums,' etc
Nothing, of course, is to be gained by
panickyism; but everything is to be gained
by frank and fearless facing of facts, ac-
tion now by those in whose hands the power
lies, action before it is too late
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

national indoor sport, and the cuspdor a
household necessity. In the houses of the
rich they were brilliantly enamelled and
hand painted, with roses, tulips, gentians,
and made brave show with the variegated
afghan, the gaudily carpeted ottoman and
the gilt edged mustache cup on the jap
anese shelf next to the whatnot, with its
store of useless articles.
The passing of tobacco chewing and the
gradual disappearance of these articles, and
the gradual but not complete extinction of
the marble topped tables, the gided Grim
son velvet album and the fringed and tin
selied bookmarker, was accompanied by the
outlawing of the frock coat and the white
string tie.
Forty years ago frock coat was ma
tional institution and the wearing Of one
a mark of greatness Twenty years ago, so
slowly do we see the light, it was merely
a misdemeanor. Now it is a felony, and
justly
In this and in other things have we
greatly improved. Hark back to the boards
We used to wear. Some, who dated from
the Civil War, wore "Burnsides" that
foated gracefully over their shoulders and
through which the wind soughed eerily.
Others practised domestic economy in
boards that rendered the wearing of collar
and necktie, vest or chest protector need
less extravaganza.
Some wore then pointed, some parted in
the middle, some fancied themselves with
the whiskbroom style. In Difference to the
fashion I wore beard for years. am
quite unable at this day to correctly dag
nose it. 1t looked as il field mouse might
jump out of it at any moment.
l have a picture Of myself lurking fur
lively behind that beard, and when I am
low spirited or wish to entertain friends I
produce this picture and the desired result
is quickly accomplished SO it has served
a purpose.
Womens dress is so bewilderingly
changeable that I will not attempt to de-
scribe it as it was in the early $685. but
am quite confident that she who did not
have several blobs Of black velvet on her
hips and shoulders would not have been
regarded as properly dressed. And I am
equally sure that had any woman then ap-
peared in evening gown of fashion less
discreet than modest and becoming "V" she
would have been smothered in shawls and
afghans by her scandalized friends and
hustled out Of the reach of the local con-
stabulary.
In those days VIC merely guessed that
women had legs. To-day we are not only
convinced beyond peradvenspre of the fact,
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Back to the Alto Section

TO the former it is the stepping stone
the first round on the ladder leading to
the sublime eminence of the solo B-Aat
cornet; to the latter the last link of the
and enables him to bask yet longer in the
sunshine of local popularity.
am beginning to realize as never before
that this is true in professional life, and,
in looking at the different phases of the
life of a professional man in a country
town, | am forced to acknowledge the up
palatable truth that after nearly forty
years of the practice Of law in the same
town, on the same street and without ever
having attained better position than the
second cornet Of my profession I am slow
ly drifting back to the alto section, in
which started and from which painfully
climbed SO many years ago.
True enough, I am holding on with teeth,
claws and eyelds and am blowing my pro-
fessional cornet Justify, but 1 am bit un-
reliable on the attack, and my sustained
tones bit liable to crack or to become
fuzzy, and like part with bars and bars
and bars of rests.
Is it any wonder that l do? Think of
forty years of drafting deeds and Wills and
declarations and bills in equity! And forty
years Of appearing before justices of the
peace, and masters and referees and all
manner Of courts and tribunals for and
against all sorts and conditions of men,
and women, too
And forty years Of walking to And from
the Office, morning, noon and night, max
ing the same crossings, turning the same
Of the street and back on the opposite side.
What jog trot life! What a dusty road
What an interminable stretch of sameness!
Think so? And yet had the coiner of the
phrase "Thcre is nothing new under the
sun" practiscd law in country town for
forty years, he would have revised his
opinion and never have made the remark
And yet the walk of five furlongs each
way is pleasant. Sometimes / walk with a
business man, sometimes with workman
carrying pail a woodchopper with an axe
over his shoulder and short black pipe
in his mouth, sometimes with a chattering
shopgirl.
Frequently am invited to ride--.now in
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

Boy"
TN military band, particularly in the
brass band Of country fame, there is
n one section or division known as the
"alto" section. The players on the alto
horn, from which instrument this section
derives its name, are generally combina-
tion Of the newest and most inexperienced
members and of the oldest and most expe-
rienced ones. 1t is the one place this side of
the penitentiary and the silent tomb where
spring and winter, youth and old age, lion
and lamb meet on an equal footing and lie
down and dwell together in complete amity
if not in perfect harmony.
This section is also known as the
"umpah" or "tunker section" from the
nature Of the part written for it, and occa-
sionaly played as written, mainly after
beats to the bass. Also the "cowhide sec
tion," because the players usually beat
time with their boots.
The bass or tuba players, after duly in
fating themselves for the purpose, like La
Fontaines frog,
"Qui Wit un beuf
Qui lui sembla de belle taille"
vociferatc the tonic syllable "oomp!" with
all the strength Of their lungs, whereupon
the alto players Immediately answer with
the staccato interval "pah" or "pah-pah"
or "pah-pah-pah" as is best suited to
march, waltz or andante con moto.
This preserves the rhythm of tho music
and prevents noble grands. worthy stew
ards, grand keepers Of wampum, high
priests, chief rangers and other insignia
and jewel laden dignitaries from breaking
suspender, bursting off button or con-
tracing locomotor ataxia in cndeavoring to
keep in step when parading in the rear of
country band in full cry.
The part written for the alto section ia
no undue strain on the intellectual facili-
ties Of the players or on their lips. Nor
does 1t call for a technique Of high grade.
but 1t Is important. and IS the easiest part
in the band 1t marks the first step in tho
upward progress Of the tyro and the well
CONS refugs of the aged musician on the
down grade.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
From Bondage to
Vagabondage
By Frank H. Williams

4 LGERNON OFFICEWORM took sauint
n through the windows which the jani-
tors able assistants had forgotten to wash.
Dimly he could see the 92-story Monster
Building opposite him, and, in the distance.
the 1O8- and S7-story Gigantic and Orful
apartment houses. Disgustedly, Algernon
glanced back into the office of which he
was atomic part Green shaded lights
were as profuse as flies around molasses in
the summer time and each light shone
upon the huddled figure of a companion
atom.
Algernon ran his rather grimy hand
through his thinning yellow locks, adjusted
his pea green necktie, and, gathering the
papers upon his desk into big bundle. he
gave a loud yell and threw them into tho
air Whereupon the other atoms glanced
up in the utmost astonishment and felt in
stinctively for their smelling salts.
"Im through" yelled Algernon in high
pitched, excited voice. "1'm through No
more of this here Office life for me. I'm
going to get out and see things and get
into the country every day and look at the
sky and everythingl I've had enough of
this here indoor office lifel I'm through
I'm through"
He slammed down the cover of his desk
with bang and raced for the elevator
not, however, neglecting to stop at the
cashiers window for his pay.
I'm going to get out into the country
every day." he shouted in parting. "rm
not going to be tied to any one spot any
more."
Aigernon, it is interesting to note,
achieved his desires. He is now one of the
most happy and efficient subway guards in
the ethyl
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The Pause at
P1uckennin
An Untold Tale of Wash.
ingfon, and the Tailor
Who Patched His Army
By George Quarrie

A f: ! T. : !: :: ::::: !: : il: :': % &:
1776 and again at Princeton on
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

1t we may place even the semblance Of con-
tdence in statements officially issued by the
Department of Labor, the conditions them
selves, basically and in general, are identi-
cal everywhere. Taking into due account
the very few localities where workers of
special classes are needed, we may say that
in San Francisco, in Seattle, in Chicago. in
New Orleans and in every labor centre of
the country, as here, the returned service
men are receiving this polite invitation,
Get up, you bum!" May we not, then, in
strict justice, allow one of these "bums" to
have his say? Out of the mouths of "bums,"
as out of the mouths of babes, great truths
may come.
"Where are you from?" I asked as
friendly beginning.
Missouri" he answered cordially, and
with touch of pride in his tone
"Have you home out there?"
"Sure."
"Well, why don't you go back?"
mo jobs out there, for one thing. A
kid O. sixteen got my job, ans doin' the
work for less than I could. An besides,
sent my transportation money home to nv
mother. She needs it all right, with six
youngsters, and my father dyn' after en-
listed"
ooh, you enlisted?"
"Sure."
GLOW old are YOU?
New-York tribune., 1919-02-23
BY Judge Henry A. Shute

Author of "The Real Diary of Re
Boy"