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Middletown transcript., 1920-03-13
Food Oil From Grapes.

The palatable and highly nutritious
new food oil from grapes is suggest
ed as q rival for olive and cottonseed
oils for cooking and salad dressing.
DR.. J. Il. Shrader Of the United States
bureau of plant industry finds that not
only may a profitable quantity of such
oil be derived from the waste Of vine
yards, but that the seeds Of pumpkins,
tomatoes and other vegetables may be
utilized in q similar way. A method
Of separating the seeds without send
ing to q central station is being de-
Veloped
Middletown transcript., 1920-03-13
ReoraanIzIna Chilean Army.

Announcement of plans for a fur.
ther reorganization Of the Chilean
army has recently been made by
the minister of war. The plans are
to operate along three distinct lines.
First, q organization Of number
Of civ- IN bodies is to be made for
the pL. ose Of stimulating interest
In and I; welopment of military aero
nautics. Second, an attempt is to
be made to increase the standing
army to $4,000. Third, number Of
military railways are to be built
which are to have strategic character.
To aid in bringing about the latter
a number Of japanese military rail-
road authorities have been retained.
Middletown transcript., 1920-03-13
LOAN NOTICE!

The State Annual Meeting Of the
Mutual Loan Association, of Middle
town. Delaware, will be held at the
Office of D. w. Stevens,
On Tuesday, March 18th, 1920
at z o'clock, P. M
At which time q President, Vice
President, Secretary and Treasurer
will be elected to serve one year and
three (3 Directors to serve three years.
D. w. STEVENS,
Secretary.
Middletown transcript., 1920-03-13
sardonlo Suggestion.

! 'Did you tell the janitor we need
more warmthr
\ YES" replied Mrs. Trizzle.
did he pay any attention to the
mattert"
Immediately. He sent up booklet
ef winter resort Advertisements"
Middletown transcript., 1920-03-13
The TOILET NECESSITIES

of the 10th century women are
many and varied. There are GER
tain articles which every woman
must have. We have them all in
large assortment, to say nothing
of our patent medicines and drugs.
Everything that q druggist sells
can be found at our pharmacy.
Give us call.
MIDDLETOWN DRUG co.
Ear nest A. Truitt, Ph. g. Manager
Middlet0wn, Del
Middletown transcript., 1920-03-13
Gasoline Locomotives Now.

Gasoline Locomotives NOW.
Gasoline locomotives that are safe to
use in coal mines have been invented
in England, their ignition taking plac,
inside Of tight boxes and their ex
haust through water.
Unl<lnd Romarbes.
In haste to catch q street car be.
fore tho conductor closed the door, q
man dropped q two-pound package OF
sugar In the street. The sack burst;
the granulated cane was ruined. He
had to wait for the next car and to
hear what the vox populi exclaimed
over the disaster. Here's some Of It:
"Just watt until hiS old woman
meets him."
His crushed oats wll taste foggy
for three wooaA"
"Swoetsn The corner whaco you
Middletown transcript., 1920-03-13

Tho Trouble With Wills.
Redd-Why don't somebody down In
Mexico kill that fellow Villaf
Greene They have, but the trouble
q - yao't stay dead
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Council Room, Missouri Valley,

Dec. 10, 1919.
Council met as per adjournment,
and was called to order by Mayor
Pike. Officers present: Mayor Pike,
Attorney Tamisiea, Clerk Bower;
Councilmen Rhodabeck, Malsi, and
Miller; absent, Brundige and Halsey.
Water Com. was instructed by
Mayor and Council to make an ex-
animation of all water hydrants and
taps, making a report to the Council
of the condition of same.
Moved by Rhodabeck. seconded by
Malsi, that we adjourn until Dec. 1S;
carried.
Council met Dec. 1s, as per ad-
journment. Called to order by Mayor
Pike. Officers present, Mayor Pike,
Clerk Bower, and Attorney Tamisiea
Councilmen present, Rhodabeck, Mill
err, Malsi, Brundige.
Rhodabeck introduced the following
resolution of necessity, and moved its
provisional adoption; motion seconded
by Malsi.
Resolution of Necessity for con-
struction of grading, paving and
street improvement.
Resolution read; roll call on the
adoption of said resolution resulted
as follows:
All Councilmen voting yea, Mayor
Pike declared the resolution adopted
Malsi introduced The following reso.
luton of necessity for curb and gut
ter, and moved it's provisional adopt
ion; seconded by Miller.
Resolution read; roll called on the
adoption of said resolution resulted
as follows:
All councilmen voting yea, Mayor
Pike declared the resolution adopted
Brundige introduced the following
resolution of necessity, establishing
lateral sewer and moved its provis-
ional adoption; seconded by Malsi.
Resolution read; roll called on the
adoption of said resolution resulted
as follows.
All councilmcn voting yea, Mayor
Pike declared the resolution adopted
! Moved by Rhodabeck, seconded by
Miller, that we adjourn; carried.
William Bower, City Clerk.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
UNCOMMON SENSE.

Spread less propaganda and more
gravel on the roads.
In meanness contest we'd all get
a few votes.
Wanted, somebody to wollop that
fellow Everett True.
Let the other fellow talk and he'll
soon run down.
!. We set the clocks back, but not the
ROSTERS crow.
Russia needs free lunch counters
instead Of soviets.
Some fishermen return at dusk and
buy box of sardines.
In cold weather one has to do some
shinlmie dancing for warmth.
The woman who marries man to
reform him is sure hunting trouble.
A statesman is politician you
agree with.
Fats helped win the war, but not
fatheads.
With the 17-cent loaf there should
be less loafers.
The Senate keeps hammering ahead
mostly Wilson's.
In these big drives, how much goes
70 pay the drivers?
There should be a more equal divis.
i n-of common sense.
Cotton is awful high, considering
how much is being spit.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
Lily Leaves AZ Rata

Down in the Madras district Of In.
dia there are lilies that grow leaves Of
phenomenal size. Indeed, these leaves
are several feet in diameter and have
turned-up edges to form a shallow
bowl which floats on the water. The
buoyancy Of these leaves is such that
they win readily carry the weight Of
a small child, as shown In the accom-.
panying illustration. This variety Of
lily is known as the Victoria Resia.-
Scientific American.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
Walter G. Axtell, Prop
UPPER son, Aucts H. NJ SIISBY, Clerk
Arctic LIGHT.

At noon of December 81, the short.
est and darkest day Of the year, we
could easily detect n faint glow of
light In the south. The true dasl.-
ness of night is result of the com
plete disappearance of all traces of
twilight, which occurs when the sun
reaches a point of 10 degrees below
Inc horizon. Our latitude was 78 de-
grees 20 minutes, therefore the sun
at this time was only about ~ degrees
below the horlzon.-From -Four Years
IN the White North" by Donald B.
Mcmillan.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
Glory Of : Nation.

The true glory of a nation is an in
telligent, honest. Industrious people.
The civilization OF people depends
on their individual character. and a
constitution which is not an outgrowth
OF this character is not worth the
parchment on which 1t Is written. You
look in vain in the past for a single
Instance where the people have pre-
served their liberties after their indi.
vidual character was lost.-E. p.
Whipple.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
SCIENCE ATTk -; DEATH.

OClENSE AL E -..J OEA 1ds
Did you know that there is large
company of scientific sharps in Ameri-
ca and elsewhere mostly biologists
who are spending their lives in ex-
periments to determine why we don't
live forever?
The editor of The Times and most
of the folks Of Mo. Valley have taken
death to be an inevitable fact of life
everlasting for individuals as un-
thinkable. But just the same it is in
teresting to know what the scientific
fellows are doing and thinking about.
The biggest recent fact discovered
is that the first forms Of life do not
die. That is, the microscopic forms
that in scientific language are called
"one-celled" organisms, and protozoa.
Human life sprang from these organ
isms millions and millions Of years
ago. If the things we sprang from
don't die, what have we built into our
systems since then that makes us
die? That's the one point science is
now eager to learn. If the savants
ever find the answer to the question
will we ever be able 20 throw off the
death element just as our early or
ganisms took it on?
And if we shall be able to throw
off the death element, what then?
But what's the use? It's like specu-
lating on the end of time or the end
Of distance in straight line. For
ourselves, we'd rather go on editing
a newspaper.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
When Piano Was New.

The first put':c performance on a
piano was at Covent Garden, London,
l52 years ago. The invention of the in
strument is credited to CristofA!li, an
Italian; j. Q. Schroter, n German, and
Marius, Frenchmn' The first crude
planofortes were lnade early in the
eighteenth century, hut for many years
they received no serious consideration
from musicians. Johannes lump, a
German, established the first piano fac
tory in Englani, and 1t was he who
built the instrument that was used In
Covent Garden.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
Public Sale

As moving Illinois, will sell at public auction at
farm miles southwest Of Missouri Valley, and miles south
east of California Junction. the following property on
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8. 1920
Sale starts at IL O'Clock; free lunch before sale.
Head of Horses team Of browns mare and geldng
years DID, 3OOO black years Old W.T. 1885, gray
geldng years Old W.T. 1900; bay geding years DID, W.T.
1900; bay mare VT. 1850; bay driving
Five Head of Cattle milk and three yearng eers
Eight Brood Sowsdue to farow about first week in April
Farm Implements, Etc wagon low wagon, hay rack
hay rake Keystone hay loader Deerng moving machine,
disc gang disc harrow, suky pillow, harrow pulverize
1row John Deere lister, Grow goodwill, John Deere corn
pillow, disc cultivator grain drill Deering 8oo binder
top buggy, harness. tank Rayo $50 egg incubator
200 bushels Karson OATS alfalfa hay and other articles
not mentioned.
TERMS-A credit of - months will be given all
$l0 to draw per interest $40 and under cash
Upper Son, Auctioneers First National Bank Clerk.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01

sraturs o. " the spcksnf 1qld.
e K NorSis the advisiug and o.
enly advocating the unlawful Shstruc-
ton Of industry and the unlawful and
violent destruction Of property s
crime under the United States gen-
eral statutes"
In other words, the United States.
is q wide-open country to every ma
tive-born moron and every alien agi-
tator who desires to slaughter public
officials and soldiers. undertake
wholesale sabotage, obstruct the en-
forcement Of laws and preach treason
and anarchy. The nation is ct the
mercy Of red propagandists and Boil
shevik plotters sedition mongers for
the most part living in ease and lux
ury on funds supplied by the Russian
|plunderers.
In the face of this situation we
hear and read impassioned protests
against any legislation that may cur
tail the sacred freedom Of the
pressw Freedom to advocate nullifi-
cation of tie entire constitution and
forcible overthrow of the government
is urged b. boudoir Bolshevists as
paramount to the preservation Of the
constitution and the government!
1 The attorney general has warned
congress of the governments impo-
tency against sedition and anarchy.
President Wilson. in his latest mes
sage, supplemented the warning with
this recommendation:
! 1T (congressl should arm the fed
eral government with power to deal
in its criminal carts with those who
by liolent metho,,, would abrogate
our time-tested institutions. With
the free expression of or,nion and
with the advocacy of orderly political
change, however, fundamental, there
must be no interference; but toward
passion and NAL, -olence tending to
incite crime and instruction under
guise of political evolution there
\ should be no leniency. Legislation to
this end has been recommended by
the attornew general and should be
enacted"
The legislation referred to by the
president and recommended by the
attorney general is the Davey Sedi-
ton bill, introduced in the House by
Representative Martin L. Davey of
this congressional district, and pre-
pared by the United States depart
ment of justice.
The United States government
cannot continue at the mercy Of an
archists and insurrectionists who
shoot down American soldiers and
wage a war Of terrorism by means Of
bombs. The Davs bill strikes at the
root of this evil. 1t may require
some slight amendment in phraseolo-
gy, but its general provisions are
vitality necessary t 1t the menace
which is daily grow II. bolder.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
PRESIDENT WILL RETURN THE
ROADS TO OWNERS

Washington, D. c., Dec. 25.-Presi-
dent Wilson last night issued proc
lamation returning the railroads and
express companies to private control
March LIST.
Failure of congress to enact legis-
lation was given as the reason for
extending by two months the time
originally announced for relinquish-
ing government control of the rail-
road properties. In his message to
congress last May, President Wilson
said the roads would be turned back
at the end Of the calendar year.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
PITH AND POINT.
Most any pretty girl will admit it

Most any pretty girl will admit it.
The easiest thing to neglect is a
grave.
A boy prefers picnic to party
because Of more eats.
A lot Of theories are all right until
put into practice.
AS you grow older marry occasion
ally but not too often.
Most of Hearst's subscribers are
being deported.
Separate the innocent bystander
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
from his coin q painlsasly as posi-.

from his coin y painlsssly ~ possi-i
Bile.
That derned fatted calf is in cold
storage.
The contortionist has nothing on
the strap-hanger.
Civilization must put out Wars
flame Of anarchy.
Personal liberty? Huh! There
amt none!
According to the tombstones no
wicked people ever die.
All other kings have abdicated ex-
cept the money kings.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
TOO MANY UNCONFINED
FREAKS

This editorial waste basket is al
ways damned full of junk that con-
tinually comes through the mail, sent
by every conceivable idiot that has so
far escaped being caught up with and
confined in an asylum, as he ought to
be. 1t is perfectly wonderful how
many people there are running loose
who are possessed with the idea that
they are born to rule the universe
and tell everybody else just what
ought to be done, and in every in
stance such simps use up good paper
and ink and stamps trying to get
free advertisement and notoriety from
the newspapers. We are going to take
to giving such public nuisances some
free advertisements and notoriety
that they are not looking for and will
not relish.
One is at hand as this is being
written, from league formed for the
purpose of educating the people and
creating public sentiment in favor of
a weekly rest day law.
Any law-abiding citizen of this
state, or any other state, who attends
to his own business, supports his fam
lily and pays his just debts has a right
to rest as many days week as he
can afford and wants to, pick out the
particular days for himself and, work
any other day. or all days, as may
best suit his pleasure, and he doesn't
need jaundiced-e fanatic or zee
nut-headed politician to tell him any
thing about it whatever. The state
has no more right to pick out day
of rest for it's citizens than it has to
pick out certain nights and say he
shall toll instead of sleeping 1t has
just as much right to say when man
shall go to bed and when he shall get
up as to say when he shall work and
when he shall rest. AS far as this
scribe is concerned, he proposes tc
work as much or little as he chooses
and rest whenever he is lucky enough
to get chance, molly-cooddles anc
! political pee-wees to the contrary not.
withstanding.
1t is class legislation from A to
and as rank patchwork of freak
folderol as was ever Matched in the
morbid Imagination of a disorderec
i mentality. If it was submitted tt
the people SO per cent of them would
vote against it. 1t is a wobbly- pated
club-footed, politico-f eligious, mon
1 strosity, conceived i'll iniquity, stree
/, by freak and damned by everybod,
with the sense of a shrimp.
And we do not wish to be under
stood as being against either a week
~ rest day or the proper observanc,
of the Sabbath. either. A day of res
once week is necessary and bene
ficial, and it is well to take Sunda,
for it, as big majority do, and tt
have respect for other peoples feel
ings and their religion, and all that
but to say that it is wrong or WICKED
+, for us to write these editorials OF
Sunday and yet all right for som,
bat-nosed and blear-eyed bartender
/ to deal out near beer booze on tn,
Sabbath day is a rank Hypocrisy borl
! of stupidity and deserving of nothing
| less than a swift kick with stog,
boots loaded with feet.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01

Father. you took a science degree
at college. didn't youes' .yes, my boy !;
I spent two years ON science" "When
you look In mirror the left side Of
your face appears to be the right side
and the light side seems to be the left.
The looking-gla reverses it, doesn't
TT Yes, my lad Then, why,
papa. DOESN'T It reverse the top and
bottom 4 your face in the same way?'
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
Male and Femaie swimners.

Swimming comes easier to women
than men because The specific gravity
II their bodies is less than those Of
men. The proportion of flesh is great.
sr IN the body of a woman than In that
II a man and the proportion OF bone
less. Therefore the woman is light
.r In proportion to her size and floats
more readily. This gives her an adj
snntage us a swimmer. 81;
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
seek Per,fection,.

Aim at perfection in everything,
though In most things ills unattain-
able however. they who aim at ii
and Haxseyere will come much nearer
70 Y than those whose laginess and
dependency mako lem give 1t M as
unattainsble.- Chesterfield.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
AN UNHINDERED MENACE

Before us as we write are two
pamphlets. One is a manifesto" Of
anarchists and communists" pub
lished by the Federation of Unions of
Russian Workers of the United States
and Canada. The other report of
Attorney General Palmer to the Unit
ed States senate, answering certain
questions as to the activities of the
department of justice in dealing with
sadition and anarchy.
The manifesto" of the Russian
Workers unions is an open appeal to
anarchy, a demand for the overehrow
of the government of the United
States. Among the methods of pro-
cedure is advises for members Of the
unions are the following:
Seizure of all means of production
by the working classes"
Destruction of "all remains Of gov
arnmental authority and class dom
nation"
LlOcIdCiOIl VI pElSOueTS.
Demolition of all prisons and police
officers.
Destruction Of all legal papers
pertaining to private ownership of
property"
Burning of all certificates Of in
d btedness.
Destruction of all fences and boun-
daries-"in word, we must take care
that everything is wiped from the
.arth that is reminder of the right
to private ownership of property"
The blowing up of barracks and
police stations.
The shooting of the "lnost promi-
nent military and police officers"
The Inauguration of general
strike, the use of violence to half pro-
duction and the seizure Of industries,
etc.
| This pamphlet is being distributed
throughout the Industrial centers of
America. Hundreds of them have
been circulated in Akron. What they
may lead to in the hands Of the ignor-
ant native-born and the alien who
has no comprehension of our govern
ment is easily imaginable. What they
have already led to, indeed, is appar-
ent.
Why does the United States gov
eminent tolerate the spreading OF
such doctrine? you ask. The an
swer is contained in the other pam.
phlet above mentioned-th the attorney
generals report to the senate.
Under the laws as they stand the
circulation of such literature is not q
crime.
Attorney general Palmer, afte,
making various test cases in the fed
(, eral courts and securing the opinions
Of the country's ablest criminal law.
yers, thus advises the senate:
"(l) Those who have attempted to
bring about the forcible overthrow
of the government of the United
States have committed no crime, un.
less their acts amount to treason, re.
Z bellion or seditious conspiracy. This
is defined in Sections 1, and OF
the Criminal Code above quoted.
] "(2) The preaching of anarchy anG
sedition is not crime under the gen.
eral criminal statutes Of the United
States.
"(3) Advising the defiance of Law
is not crime under the general
criminal laws, whether the same be
done by printing and circulating lit.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
Venerable American Civ.

Absecon, N. j.. was the site Of an old
indian mint Of pre-C Constitution DAYS.
Wampum was extensively manufac-
ured there. Its name, meaning Place
IF Swans, was given on account Of the
focks Of these birds which In the early
Jays freGuented the town.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
Few rhInas Really Count.

A -na.i can pile up palace of mar-
ole and live the life of pauper with,
n It. o he may be able to build only
hoyel and yet live princely life
within Its poor walls. The things that
:an really help or hinder hrnan
soul are. after all. comparatively few.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
lnaenIous Rxouee.

Billy's mother was particular that
be should say his prayers upon Blended
knee before retiring. and one cold
night she was surprised to find him
already in bed when she stepped in
his room to hear him repeat his prayer.
sWhy. son, You haven't said your
prayers" she began, but he interrupt
ed her: "Oh. yes. mother. I have !;
I said them In bed. but I got In Just
- uncomfortable position a. could"
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01
MONDAY, JANUARY s, 1920,
Sale starts at one Clock, free lunch at moo

Sale starts at one CLOCK free lunch at noon.
-Four Horseshoe bay 10 years DID, gray horse -
years old, 2 bay horses Z and years old
Twelve CattleThree will be fresh before the sale .
giving milk, fresh beog2 r registered Holstein bu
years DID, Artrs Conrcora Agge 246907 F. H b, finr
calves.
Thirteen Dozen Chickens
Eight Head Of Hogs--Two Poland China sows bred six
spring shoats.
Farm Implements, Etc lumber wagon, hay rack and
running gear, spring wagon buggy Moline sulky pillow,
16nch walking pillow, Moline riding cuvator, ;section
harrow Disc Standard mower, planter broadcast
seeder Champion binder 7foot; grain drill hand corn
Shelter feed grdner Galloway M horse gas engine pump
jack water trough one 0. X. chicken waerel De Laval
separator, 15-gaon chun, Wisconsin incubator
brooder 13Oegg sets work harness. single harness. sets
fly nes kitchen range heater burner Perfection Oil
with oven; dining table, dresser beds chairs and
other articles not mentioned
TERNfS-Sums Of $40 and under cash; $40 10 months
will be gven purchaser giving note with approved security
at per cent interest from date Of sale.
OSCAR FALK, Proprietor
Upper Son, Aucts. j. B Barrett, Clerk
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-01

Hybrid.
The eattallo is in animal one par
emit IT which is 'he buffalo and the
other the cow. Tho hybrids have teen
raised In co..s.ds sahIe numbers on a
cattle ranch iii The Panhandle Of
Texas.