Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-11-24
Notes from Jewell.

The Jewell gun CLUB Will hold Spe
cial shoot at the park Thanksgiving
day. The shoot will begin at O'Clock
p. III. and fifty targets will be shot at
There will be three prizes. first a goose
second duck and third an old fat hen
All trapShOoterS are welcome.
Martin G1aman is JEWELS new Chief
of police and he fits in nicely. Martin
is no novice as a peace officer. He has
held this position before. Moreover, he
saw service i'll France and fought the
Germans to standstill at Chateau
Thierry. Burglars, robbers and sneak
thieves would better give this old town
wide berth if they don't want their
cutaneOus covering punctured with cold
lead.
Next year is leap year again. The
earth is 93,O00,0O0 miles distant from
the sun. 1t revolves around the sun
and requires 365 days, hours and
nearly forty nine minutes to make the
trip. These extra hours and minutes
are not recorded on the calendar of a
common year, but every fourth year,
these extra hours and minutes are add
ed together and donated to the month
of February This makes a leap year,
the year 4 woman, if she hasn't done
SO already. has the right to choose her
mate. Well, the writer called an old
bachelors attention to this fact few
days ago, but he shook his head and
said grufi'ly: i've lived through half
a score of 'em already. but have never
seen the slightest difference between a
leap year and any other old year.
There's nothing to it,. Are you girls
willing to concede that this call0used,
unhitched male inhabitant is right in
his deduction?
Land prices here are still doing avia-
ton stunts. Land hereabouts and. of
course no better land ever laid out of
doors, is increasing in value day by
day. week by week, month by month.
Prices are from $50 to $3.50 per acre
higher here now than last year. The
fact is, land prices in JEWELS territory
are higher now than the city flag pole
and are still going up, up. up. 1t would
-sssce,5as that 1;nnH'> is a good time to sell,
if man wants to sell and mighty
good time to buy if a man wants to
buy, before values go still higher. This
reminds us of an incident here in
Jewell a few years ago. Some years
ago the town had pair OF scales con-
veniently located. These scales We're
for the use of everybody, farmers as
well as townspeOpde, over which to
weigh their stuff. But the scales were
not always reliable. Sometimes they
would weigh little too much. Well,
one day in winter when the wind was
damp with coming wet, farmer
brought in load of hay which he had
sold to business man. Mr.. Business
Man was waiting for him and had the
scales balanced when the farmer
drove on. The load weighed little
more than Mr.. b. thought it ought to
and he asked the farmer to drive off.
Mr.. i. then made an adjustment some
where and the farmer drove on again.
This time the load weighed several
pounds more than the first time and
again the farmer drove off and Mr..
B. went to work and frightened Il nut
here and loosened another there and |
gave the scales thorough Overhauling.
When the farmer drove on the third
time, the load weighed some forty |
pounds more than it did the second |
time it was weighed. Mr.. B., without |
saying aonther wor, walked briskly |
down the street towards his barn. Not
hearing the wagon coming, he stopped
and looked back. The farmer with
the load of hay was still on the scales.
And then Mr.. Is. called to him, saying
Come on I've bought the hay, let's I'M
load and for the love of Mike hurry be-
fore it weighs any more!'
Nov 1o