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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-01
auto OWNERS
DUE FOR JOLT
Several Points in New Law Which
Auto Owners Should Know in
Order to Avoid Trouble
GET LICENSE BEFORE JANUARY I
Can Pay Any Time Between Novem'
ber 1st and December 31st-Dclin-
quent After January list

Automobile owners who have ac-
quired a careless habit with regard to
the prompt payment of auto licenses
are due for a rude awakening under
the new automobile law. There are
several points in this new law which
every motor car owner should take
cognizance of If he is to avoid trouble.
the state department officials say.
In the first place auto licenses for
the year 1890 must be taken out be-
fore Jan. 1, 1920, or in that period
from November 1st to December 3lst.
or else the auto owner becomes delin-
quent. Under the old law the owner
did not become delinquent until after
April 1st if he had not paid his fees
and although there has been consider
able in the papers about this new law,
past experience has taught those in
charge OF the state auto department
that there are q considerable number
of auto owners who know very little
about what is required of them and
hence it is judged they are paying but
little attention to the new law.
The new law goes into effect Decem-
ber 1st, but licenses will be taken out
under it from November 1st on. On
January 1st a penalty of 81 goes on
il the fee is not paid and 81 penalty is
added for each month thereafter
The law further provides that on
April l, 1891, and annually thereafter.
the state department shall forward
to each county treasurer a list of mo-
tor vehicles on which the fees have
not been paid. This list Is published
by the treasurer in a county newspa-
per the first week in May and if the
license and~penalty are not paid with
in fifteen days the list is turned over
to the sheriff who may seize the car
and sell it for unpaid fees. All Of the
costs in the proceedings must be paid
by the delinquent owner.
County treasurers throughout the
state are now preparing to institute
the new system providing for regis
-tration in their Offices. 1t Is estimat-t
ed that there will be an average of
$500 cars registered in each county.
In some counties the registration will
OF course be very much heavier than
that, while in Cthers it will not run so
heavy.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-01
HIGH RENTS

1t is only by general cooperation OF
everyone that prices can be kept down
Landlords who have doubled on rent
ais may be able to figure out that re-
pairs cost twice as much as they did
a few years ago.
Yet in these times most tenants are
not as fussy as they used to be. Peo-
pie understand that houses can not be
kept in spick and span condition of
the days before labor and materials
cost so much. Also taxes have not
increased as fast as the general range
of prices. 1t is probably usually the
case that actual cost of keeping up a
house for rental purposes has not in.
creased as fast as average cost Of liv-
ing.
When rents are raised, it makes liv-
ing costs higher for all work people.
Pretty soon they go out on strike for
more pay and that makes the cost Of
keeping up houses go up another
notch. Landlords can contribute
much to stabilize, the present indus
trial situation by making their rent
charges just as lgF as possible.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-01
News and Comment About Iowa People and Events

ordinance for the privilege OF the
floor but young women are admitted
free. Fl Dodge has just imposed re-
strictions provided in an ordinance
recently passed. A license of $75 a
year is eXacted. Rigid inspection is
provided. 1t is made unlawful for
young women to be admitted free so
they must pay the same as the young
men. No one under IS is to be allowed
in the hall. At Cedar Rapids license
is imposed and list of tabooed dane
es is posted and police inspectors see
that the ruling is observed.
At the annual session of Des Moines
conference of the Methodist church,
presided over by Bishop Homer c..
Stuntz, years ago farmer boy near
Nevada, Story county, but now a
world character, a new question
touching ministerial conduct came to
! the surface. 1t was neither dancing,
card playing or theater going, but
rather whether minister could
preach and be an aviator at the same
time. Rev. A. J. Nielsen, of Council
Bluffs, entered the aviation service
when he enlisted in the army. He
became proficient in the work and
rendered the nation valuable service
in the great world war. Upon his re-
turn to civic life he bought an airplane
and has been giving exhibitions at
various county fairs and the like and
incidentally making money by charg-
ing people dollar minute for ride
through space. In the meantime he
held his parchments as a minister in
the Methodist church. When his
character was passed" at conference
charges were found lodged against
him for conduct unbecoming a minis
| ter and Bishop Stuntz communicated
this fact to the aviator and requested
either a discontinuance of flying eX-
hibitions or a surrender of his parch.
ments. And here is the reply Brother
Nielsen made: Il am not opposed to
the church in general but l am op-
posing any doctrine or any thought
which robs the people of their right
full place. If, through my actions. the
church sends me to hell, it will be a
happy hell for me-"
Mills county has professional beg
gar who makes good at the business.
He owns some good land near the lit
tie town of Mineola. He goes under
the name of A. J. Anderson, A. J..
Moore and an occasional other as
sumed name. He has a family we'll
respected but they and some of his
near neighbors do not know the cause
of his absence from home so much of
the time 1t is claimed that he bought
his land from money received by beg
ging. He dresses up in dilapidated
suit after he leaves home and care
fully selects the community where he
is to do his begging stunt. He claims
to be suffering from lung affliction
and puts up cough that justifies his
claim. He begs, for money that he
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-01
FIRE PREVENTION
DAY OCTOBER 9
making Iowa Fireproof" if the slo-
gan Of Fire Prevention Day, Oc-
tober th9-State Proclamation
e6 DEATHS FROM FIRE LAST YEAR
The Total Property Loss From 1888
Fires in Iowa During Year 1918
Was $6,440,771.O

The Iowa Fire Prevention day post
ers are being sent out over the state
by T. A. Tracy, state fire marshal, and
the Review acknowledges receipt OF
one. October 9th is the day named
by Governor Harding for special EN-
phasis on making Iowa fireproof."
Ninety-six deaths as the direct re-
suit of fires last year were reported
to the state fire marshal's office. In
forty-nine of these cases gasoline or
coal oil were involved.
The total loss from 4,339 fires IN
Iowa during 1918 was $6.440,77l. Three
fourths Of these fires were preventible,
the poster says. Pictures of fire men
aces and their results are shown on
the poster.
among some of the fire causes that
can be eliminated are: Defective flues,
match carelessness, smokers careless
ness, starting fire with coal oil or
gasoline, children playing with match
es. stovepipe through wall or roof. in
cendiary, electric iron carelessness.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-01
NEGRO
| LYNCHED SUNDAY
Mob Made up of Thousands of Men
and Boys Succeed in Gaining En-
trance to Jail and Get Negro
Mayor Ed Smith Twice Raised From
Ground With Rope Around Neck
-In Critical Condition

William Brown, a negro, charged
with assault upon young woman in
Omaha, was late Sunday night drag
ged from the Douglas county Jail at
pole A mob OF more than five thous-
and men an0 boys gathered around
the court house, and for more than
nine hours battled with the city police
land county sheriff in an effort to get
at the negro. The fine Douglas coun.
tyrcourt house was very badly dam
aged by fire and missiles of all kinds.
After the negro was secured the mCb
tore his clothing from him and drag
ged the body to suitable place for
hanging and after having fired many
hundreds of shots into his body hung
the nude figure to the pole. Not sat
isfed with their work they dragged
the body through many OF the down
town streets, hooting and hurling mis-
sles at it. Mayor Ed Smith. on going
to the court house and attempting to
quell the mob, was seriously if not
critically hurt Twice the mob threw
a rope around his neck and twice he
was raised from the ground. Each
time the police succeeded in rescuing
the mayor and finally secured his re-
lease from the mob and he was rushed
to hospital, where he remained un-
conscious for many hours. The fire
department was called out, but as soon
as a piece of hose was laidhsome one
OF the mob would cut it. The soldiers
from Ft Crook and Ft. Omaha were
called but because of SO much rout-
inc in getting orders for entrainment
the soldiers did not reach the scene
until after mob began to disDerse.
Early Sunday afternoon the mob be-
gan gathering in the downtown dis
tricts of Omaha, and at o'clock there
were many hundreds of men and boys
parading the streets surrounding the
court house. and demanding the negro.
The police officers did all in their pow
er to prevent the lynching. but were
powerless to quell the mob. Ammuni-
ton stores were raided and the mob
secured many guns, revolvers and
much ammunition. Many valuable
records in the court house were de-
stroyed and other property damaged.
The top floor of the court house is
where the Jail is located, and there
were more than 100 prisoners confined
therein The fire below the Jail burn
ed fiercely and the Jail became al.
most unbearably hot. The fire de-
partment rescued many people from
the window lodges.
"A coincidence is that just twenty
eight years ago Sunday a negro named
Neal was lypched just across the
street from the scene of Sundays moa
violence.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-01
THANKS

Three unusual newspapers were re-
ceived at this office last week. The
Iowa City Citizen, published by Elmer
E. Johnston. formerly publisher OF
the Rockwell City Advocate, issued an
eighty page number devoted to the
livestock interests of Johnson county
and it was indeed a remarkable issue.
1t declares to the world that the
Johnson county breeders are very
much alive and that they are breed
ing the very best livestock. The Spen-
Ger News. Herald issued fortyeight
page number filled with the advertis-
ing of the merchants Of Spencer and
other Clay county towns and OF the
breeders of livestock of Clay county
and devoted largely to the Clay coun-
ty fair which is in session this week.
The Denison Review issued it's an
nual fall fashion number, and not
withstanding the fact that Publisher
Raymond Conner is in the west. the
edition was great one in every re.
spect, thanks to the efforts OF e. F..
Lake Pllot-Tribune.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-01
SUNFLOWER INJURIES EYE
Fred ShirtcIiff, Of Willow Township,
Meets With Painful Accident to
Eye-Struck by SunfIower

From the Charter Oak Times. we
learn that Fred Shirtcliff, of Willow
township, is in Sioux City, where he
is receiving treatment for badly dam
aged eye. Fred was working with the
road grader over in Willow township,
and a sunflower, drawn forward by the
grader, swung back and struck him in
the eye. At the time he thought moth
ing Of the accident. but tie next day
the eye became inflamed and sore. He
consulted a physician in Charter Oak,
and for day or so was treated, but
the injured eye kept getting worse,
and Mr.. ,Shirtclitf was advised to con-
suit an eye specialist. He went up to
Sioux City and secured the services
OF the best eye specialist in the city.
and while the pain has been abated,
not much encouragement is given as
to saving the eyesight.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-01
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

Grace Kepford, from Spirit Lake.
! has been visiting school with Marie
Weiss the past week.
Student government is now fully
Established. The students council
with Carol Weberg as its president
has been elected. Other> members OF
the council are: Seniors. Ed Flynn.
martha Helsley and Vivian Bouslough;
juniors, VIM. Binkley, Margaret Kim
new and John Roeh. BY voting 1t was
decided to admit the sophomores to
student government AS yet they have
| not elected their representatives. The
lgovernment seems to be taken up with
better spirit this year than it ws>
Hast. 1t is hoped that it may be per-
Imanenuly established in the senior
| high school. -.. .- ....
Beryl Faul and Ruth Silletto were
on the sick list last week.
Those who went home last week
end were: Willis Barber, of Yeter;
Clifford Richardson, of Vail; Mabel
IOgren, Gladys and Royal Nelson, OF
Kiron; Jenny Woodruff, of Carnavon;
Ruby Riggleman. of Deloit. and Geo.
Sleeper, of Dow City.
Both girls and boys athletics are
coming right along. The boys prom
ise to have an unusually fast team
this wear with several Of the old stand
bys back from the army. Evidence
that some hard practicing is being
done may be seen by Leslie Rollins
stiff knee, Floyd Buckleys sprained
ankle and Carol Weberg's black eyes.
The first game of the season will be
at Rockwell City next Friday. The
boys would appreciate large number
of Denison boosters at this first game.
| The senior high school girls have
been faithfully practicing tennis since
school began. AS result some really
good players are developing. Last
Monday the junior highs organized
their hockey club. Tuesday the senior
team was organized. A large num-
Der were out for both teams.
AS usual there will be a boys and
girls glee club. Besides, there will
be a boys quartet consisting of An
ldrew Lorenzen, Orris Suitor, Rex Moi
Ifitt and Willis Barber.
The high school orchestra is organ
lied this year again under the direc-
ton of Professor Gratke. Hard work
is being done in anticipation of a trip
to nearby towns during the Christmas
vacation. ...
Miss Lee and Miss Reimers, who
have been rooming at the Cushman
home, moved to frankie Faul's last
week end
The apparatus has arrived for the
chemistry laboratory SO work will be-
lgin this week.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-01
J. W. J A R N A G. | N

NAV go to a sanitarium. He never
visits the same community a second
time and thus is enabled to throw OH
suspicion.
Hugh l.. Cooper is the engineer that
planned and executed the constructor
of the dam across the Mississippi rlv'
er at Keokuk. The dam caused the for
nation of great lake some forty
miles in length and from one to three
miles wide. Several suits for dam
ages on account Of overtiowed lands
followed but these were all compro'
missed and now efforts are being made
to put a line of pleasure boats on the
lake next season and summer cottages
are to be erected on the high bluhs
overlooking this great body OF wafer
With the large river packets making
trips I'D and down the stream during
the boating season the scene IS sald
to he a most attractive one. The Dody
of water was first named Cooper Lake
after the engineer but the government
changed it to Lake Keokuk in order 10
give an historical setting. Engineer
Cooper is now planning the greatest
piece of engineering in the history OF
the world-a dam across the Su
Lawrence river.
A number of Iowa young women dis
tinguished themselves during the wal
by patriotic service both at home and
across the sea. And now that peace
has come there is still wide field OF
usefulness open. Miss Frances Welsh
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Matthew
Welsh of Boone. has been commission
ed by the national Catholic war coun
Gil to proceed to Italy in compan!
with sixteen other selected young
women to take up community WORK
among the people of that country. The
Italian headquarters for this party OF
educators will be at Rome. MISS
Welsh received her degree from the
Laurel university at Chicago last June
and during the summer has been lee
turing at the national service school
at Washington, d. c.
According to an estimate made by
|State Supt. P. E. McClenahan today
Iowa is fully 1000 teachers short ol
the number needed this fall to meet
the demands of the schools OF the
state. That other states are CORE
spondingly short is indicated by the
requests coming to the state superln
itendent from other localities asking
for teachers. "a school board member
in here the other day." said the state
superintendent. recalled that a few
years ago the board was asking thai
teachers making application for posi-
tions in the schools furnish photo
graphs with their application. Now
this board member says the board is
sending out to teachers and teachers
!agencies literature boosting the town
photograph of the school building
and information concerning the advan1
lagos Of the community"
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-01
0'HARA
COMING SOON
The ater Goers in This Community
Pleased to Learn Of the Coming OF
the Popular irish Singer
HERE ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 9TH
fNew Romantic Comedy, "Down Linz
erick Wav." by Anna Nichols
Supported by Strong Company

Theater goers of this city will be
pleased at the announcement that
their popular Irish actor-singer, Flske
O'Hara, will be seen at the opera
house in Denison on Monday, October
9th, in his. new romantic comedy
Down Limerick Way" by Anna Mich
OILS.
The new vehicle chosen by Angus
tus Pitou for Mr.. O'Hara this season
has all the qualities of laughter anu
sentiment, mirth was touch OF tears
that has endeared him to his friends
who look forward to his presentation
in this city. And the new songs this
Irish favorite will sing cast charm
that is all his very own.
Mr.. O'Hara is supported by an ex'
cellent company, including Patricia
Clary, Nan Bernard, Mary Louis NAL
10y, Laurette Allen, Robert H. Irving.
J. P. Sullivan, j. r. Miller, w. T. Siee.
han and Norman Post. The produc.
ton is a new and an elaborate one.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-01

Alfred Rohwer, Of the Model Elec-
trio shop, was at Sioux City last week
in attendance at the state electrical
contractors meeting. There was a
good attendance from over the state,
and considerable interest manifest.
Mr.. Rohwer was elected as one Of the
executive committee at this meeting.
At the district meeting held Wednes-
day and Thursday he was elected
president for the district. The cleo
ton is an honor to Mr. Rohwer, and a
position he willefll with credit to the
association.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-01

Western or National league games
are tame and commonplace in compar'
ison with local contests where coun.
ty championship is involved. Grinnell
had two ball games to its credit and
Montezuma had two. The flfth game
was for the county championship and
there was blood and other ingredients
on the moon. Neither town had conf
dence in local talent Montezuma had
over $1,000 in it's treasury and so an
emissary was sent out to procure some
crack players He landed in Omaha
and secured eight men and with one
Montezuma player the team was COM
plete. The Omaha men charged $50
each and expenses. Among them was
Marty O'Toole, at one time one OF the
best known twirlers in the United
States, for whom Pittsburg once paid
$22, 500. Grinnell drew on Mason City,
Marshalltown and other places and
with formidable array of talent on
both sides the game proceeded. 1t was
nip and tuck through all Of the innings
out during the ninth an Omaha man
showed the ball far infeld, permitting
two scores and final tally of to 4
in favor of Montezuma.
H. A. Cronin, a glass blower from
Terre Haute, Ind, was advised by his
physician to seek higher and dryer
climate and to live outdoors as much
as possible so he started for Arizona
on foot without funds. When he
reached Decatur county a farmer, j.
w. Hurst by name. found the poor fel'
low vending his way along the dusty
highway and took him to Leon where
Mr.. Hurst, Mrs Hurst, Mrs. Caroline
Young Smith and J. F. Harvey raised
a sufficient amount about town to pay
his railroad fare on to his destination.
He was an intelligent young man and
most appreciative Of the kindness or
the Leon people.
Knoxville is soon to be without a
state institution. Years ago the leg
islature appropriated money sufficient
to establish an industrial institution
fer the blind. 1t was to be used in
teaching trades to blind people and
men and women from all over the state
WHO were uSVOlu VI SlSuI NcAt l.iCi =
and it afforded live colony for a
time. Finally love making became a
prosperous and dangerous industry
and after several matrimonial ven.
lures and the prospect of numerous
blind people becoming public charges
instead of self supporting citizens the
institution was closed and later made
an asylum for the treatment of drunk.
ards and dope fiends. For number
of years the asylum flourished but as
saloons here and there were put out
of business the attendance began to
wane and nally with state wide pro-
Inhibition and only nine inmates the leg
lislature ordered it closed. The heat
ling plant is being dismantled and TAX
len to the new orphanage at Toledo
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-01

Iout. His first vote was for Martin
VanBuren for president, and he lived
under every president except Wash
ington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison.
He was Is years of age when lie heard
people talking about the building OF
the first railroad in America.
A new bridge across Paint creek
near Waukon went down as steam
threshing outfit was passing over 1t.
The threshing engine dropped fourteen
feet to the bottom Of the creek taking
the engineer with it. Neither the man
nor the engine sustained any injury
and the steam engine pulled itself out
with its own power.
James Cosgrove, of Council Blufs,
forged a search warrant. went to the
home Of q farmer, searched his cellar
and carried off several bottles, OF
choice refreshments stored away be-
fore the saloons left Omaha. 1t was
not so much the result of his search
ing that got Cosgrove into the clutches
of the law as it was that he impersOn-
ated an officer and committed forgery.
Judge Woodruff fined him $1,000 and
Imposed a sentence of three years at
AnamOsa and then parOled him, one OF
the conditions being that he Is not to
return to either Iowa or Nebraska dur
ing the three year period and during
that time he is not to violate the laws
of any state where he may reside.
It has been forty years since the
disappearance of Charley Ross, a flax
en- haired boy, making his home with
his uncle at Philadelphia. For years
a search was made for the missing
boy, whom it was believed had been
stolen BY gypsies. Every gypsy camp
in the country was searched for the
lost boy but without result. Living
at Ida Grove is granddaughter OF the
boys uncle with whom he lived. Her
maiden name was Bessie Ross, but she
is now married to Charles Christy and
the name of Charles Ross has been
given to her baby boy, born September
9th, in memory of the little boy who
never returned Scores of imposters
tried to obtain the reward offered.
Iowa had kidnapping some years ago
when Ray Elliott Marengo boy, was
enticed away by a band of gypsies.
After more than a years search the
boy was located at gypsy camp near
Waterloo. Two of the women fortune
Itellers in the camp got into a quarrel
and to get even one of the women re-
ported to the officers the hiding place
of the boy.
The public dance is live issue in
a good many Iowa communities. In
does Moines official inspectors from the
police force make the rounds Of all the
dance halls to see that everything is
lproperly conducted. Questionable
dances are strictly forbidden. Young
linen must pay the fees fixed by city