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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-24
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The Priscilla Club will meet We'd
nesday afternoon with Mrs. Charles
Ackley, 606 East Main.
Sunshine Circle Aid will meet
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. H.
Eiler, GOA East Boone street.
Busy Bee Circle will enjoy picnic
at RiVervieW park Wednesday after
noon Members will bring a covered
dish, dishes, sandwiches and coffee
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-24
TEST OUT NEW ENGINE.
Equipment for City Lighting Plan
Beino Installed RAPIDLY.

Being Installed Rapidly.
The machinery and equipment for
the new city lighting plant Is being
rapidly installed and the first test of
the engine was made Sunday.The en-
CINE is ready to connect up as soon
as the switchboard is completely in
stalled. The tests Sunday were said
to be ntirely satisfactory. An expert
who will test the generator, is ex-
pectod here soon and when he has
completed his work the new plant
will be ready for operation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-24
Permit to Casino Theater.

The city council at its regular
weekly meeting Monday granted a
permit to the Casino theater to hang
an electric sign over the theater
canopy. The sign, which is an excep-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-24

10 90. At Z this morning the tenn
perature was 90. one degree warmer
than at the corresponding hour Mon
day morning.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-24
or the theater, but has been enlarged
and reconstructed.

Mrs. Lydia Sherman. of Gilman,
spent Monday in the city.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-24
ARRESTED FOR LARCENY.
MRS. Verne Race Complainant
Against Earl Stevens.

Earl Stevens was arrested Monday,
charged with larceny, on information
filed by Mrs. Verne Race. Stevens
is accused of the theft of $55 in
cash belonging to Mrs. Race. Stevens
hearing was set for late today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-24
1 ocaI Weather Record.

Local Weather Record.
Seventy four and 49 were the ex-
tremes Of temperature Monday, the
same as the extremes Sunday. A>year
ago Monday the range was from 80
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-24
Estray Notice.

There strayed from my pasture
span Of mules. One black and one
brown. Send any information to me.
T. w. Reece, St. Anthony.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-24
PLAN FOR LAGET

Named by Elm Broth
erhood and Fran Society for En-
tertainment Of Visitors--To Make
Canvass for Rooms-Parade to Be
Feature,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-24

consideration has not been made
public. The transaction was closed
for the hospital by President III. M.
Vawter OF tho Security Savings
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
Inspeet Shippers Methods.

An investigation, by the agricuitur-
al economics department OF Iowa State
college of all livestock shipping associ-
atoms in Iowa, is underway to deter
mine the best methods of making these
organizations permanent.
1t is the plan Of the department to
look into all organizations which
handle livestock, regardless of the ma
ture of the company and try and form
ulate a plan whereby weaknesses can
be eliminated. The cooperation of the
Cooperative Livestock Shippers assO-
citation recently organized in Iowa
has been secured and two men are al
ready in the field to Investigate.
'There are in Iowa $50 shipping as.
sociations handling livestock, explain,
ed II. G. Nourse Of the agricultural
economics department" Half Of these
have been organized in the last year
and it has been our experience that
many do not last because of an imprOp-
err foundation. 1t is Our plan to es.
tablish certain fundamental features
that will insure their permanency. 1t
is our plan to investigate all such as
sOciatiOns and get the stable features
from the few organiza tons that have
been in existence for ten years and to
find out why those which failed in their
purpose could not continue
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
ASSEMBLING
WAR EXHIBITS
England is Mon
ster Exhibit of war
Relics at Crystal
Palace.
TO OPEN IN JUNE
War Paintings add Realistic
Touch to Fighting Inn
Elements. \

London, May l4.-Sign posts bearing
the inscriptions Hell Fire Corner"
|..Picadilly'' and "Haig Avenue"
erected by British troops just behind
the front lines in France, are among
the more than 10000 exhibits being
assembled at Crystal Palace, London,
to form the Imperial War Museum.
1t will be opened by the king in June
land will continue for four years.
Exhibits Vulnerable have been
gathered from every land where the
war cast its trail to show the common
effort of the empire during the great
conflict. Shortly after the signing OF
the armistice, the memorable sign
posts mentioned were found discarded
as lumber. In addition to those bear
ling street" Names, which, to many
of the men who knew them best, had
meant so many direction posts to
.lavenues of agony, there was found the
rallying trench sign of Verdun with
its 'nothorOughfare." They were all
rescued and are % to be preserved
|as relics Of posterity.
First Guns.
There will be on display the gun that
fired the first British shot in the war
from the decks of destroyer Lance at
the minelayer K0enig Louise; the j.
battery gun that opened the military
Ihostilities; the anti-aircraft pOm-pom
(which, mounted at Gresham. college,
fired the first shot eve directed at q
foreign foe from London since the
days of the ROmans-the occasion be-
ing the Zeppelin raid in September,
il915,-and scores of other entries
which have equally vivid associations.
The larger pieces of ordinance, some
which weigh II tons, are being arrang-
led on the floor Of the spacious hall.
But the galleries will hold displays Of
|equal, if not greater interest. These
inclued war paintings and trench imp
Elements, realistic scenic models and
protective devices and curiOs that
throw an Illuminating light on con-
Editions which existed in the German
army. Some Of these are amusing,
IsOme tragic.
Other Exhibits.
There is a cycle with a dynamo at
tachment for lighting an officers dug
out which two of the worst offenders
had to sit in shifts and pedal in order
that those within might have illumina-
ton while they devised new plans Of
aggression.
Far less amusing is a specimen Of
the enemy's bear trap" A soldier ex-
ploring No-Man's-Land might step in
to its ugly spikes, concealed in the
grass, and escape from their grip was
VIRTUALLY hopeless.
Looking ut the lifebuoys of the Lusi-
tania, the shattered funnel of the Vim
dictive, the portion of the Zeebrugge
Mole and the formidable mines that
bestrewed the Dardenelles, the ex-
hibit will recall to "thOse who were
there" many chapters of Il great epic.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
Watch Young Cucumbers.

Cucumbers are one of the vegetables
which the housewife wants for many
purposes. However, the invasion of
the beetles, plant lice and blight have
almost discouraged Iowa gardeners i'll
their attempt to raise cucumbers, ac-
cording to C. V. Holsinger, garden ex-
pert of the extension department OF
Iowa State college.
CucnmberS are a warm weather crop
and should not be planted until all
danger Of frost is gone. If they are to
he used for pickles June first is plenty
of time to plant them.
They require a good soil with plenty
of organic matter or and plenty
of moisture. As Don as the plants
come up they should be guarded against
the beetles. A good method is to place
small boxes over them. These boxes
should have the top and bottom open
and screen Over the upper side to admit
sunlight. If the young plants can get
la good start the damage from beetles
lis not great. 4 Stacked lime mixed
with two tablespOonfuls of kerosene
land busted on the plants from the
time they are out of the ground will
lrepel the bugs.
Plant lice which come later i'll the
season can he overcome by spraying
with BLACK Leaf 49," During the sum
Imer it is very essential that the plants
ibe watered for they o dry out.
Where the plants are to he used foi
pickles the cucumbers should be pick
led very often so that they will not &c,
ltoo large and take all the plant FOOD
flor seed.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
Helping out on Strike.

Eagle Grove Eagle: TrainmaSter
Bonner returned home Wednesday
morning after a five weeks stay In
Chicago where he has been assisting In
the Chicago yards since the strike.
He says no one can realize the
magnitude of the work handled in the
Chicago yards who has not been there
while the work was actually being
done. Hundreds of cars are. handled
60 feet underground. The government
has several carloads of whiskey cached
on one of these underground tracks.
and they will allow no one not eve
ian Iowa switchman, to enter this part
of the yards without u government man
Ialons.
Freight in and out OF Chicago is be-
ing handled about the same as before
the strike but freight from outside
lof Chicago which has to go through
Chicago to reach its destination Is not
being handled very we'll and shipments
will not be reliable or regular for some
time to come.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
Shortage Of Potatoes.

Although local produce merchants
are optimistic, the Potato Magazine in
statistics compiled after a careful ma
|tion-wide canvass sees the worst short
age of potatoes in many years. Stats.
tics compiled for data sent in TO the
periodical from correspondents turnout
the country indicate that the area IN
potatoes will be less by many thous.
and acres than last year. The 19i!
crop was S4,2O7,0 900 bushels shOrte,
than the bumper crop of 1917, and 49,
100000 bushels less than the poor year
of 1918. Four factors are assigned by
the farmers for this curtailmen. when
high prices would normally stimulate
production. These reasons are tn,
scarcity Of farm labor, increased cost
|Of labor, scarcity of good seed AMI
high cost of seed potatoes.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
RAINS HINDER
COUNTY ROAD WORK
County Contemplating Pur-
chase of Tractor for
Dragging.

The little road work which had been
begun in this county was again inter
fered with by the rains the first of last
week. but will be resumed as soon as
the weather permits.
travelling was begun recently on the
Stanhope road just beyond the Pleas
ant Hill corner. where about a quarter
of AZ mile is to be improved. after
which work will be begun on the Web
|stcr City-Stratford road. The Blairs-
burg to Williams road and the Blairs-
burg to Jewell road also are being
gravelled, and on the latter highway, a
new contract for two miles is to be
completed. When this has been done.
the entire ten miles between the two
will be %gravelled.
The county is at present cOntemp-
lating the purchase of Il small tractor
for road maintenance nea Webster
City. Dragging the roads by the farm
ers has proved unsatisfactory and the
county may undertake to do the work
itself,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
4 K X 4 4 4 4 K X K X K !
4 IT WOULD COST !
4 $40 PER MONTH 4
4 4

Marshalltown Times-Republi c a II
The mechanic was speaking. He was
talking about his work and his wages
He is employed on railroad work and
his wage is entirely satisfactory to
him. He says he is doing fine. "The
only thing I'm afraid Of" he said, lis
that they'll cut the time down to an
|eight-hour day. 1t would make a DIFF,
ference Of about $40 a month to me
I can't expect to have the wage rails
ed under present circumstances and
want a chance to earn that $40. I've
got a place for it and want it,"
Now this mechanic owns his own
home. It's a very good home. He
bought it for $3.50 some years ago when
it was Il tu~mble-dOwn old house on q
good lot, rebuilt the house, mostly with
his own labor, improved it n and
another way and the place is worth
somewhere about $500 to $500 to
day. The house and the improvements
represent his extra production prOduc-
ed for himself. He wants to keep Oh
adding to it that production that brings
him that $40 a month he speaks of.
That's for himself also. It's his share
of the production that would be lost
to everyone if the time is cut. This
production thing isn't all a question
for the manufacturer and employing
interests. 1t hits everybody and hits
hardest on the wage worker himself.
OF course that man has made
money by the boost Of realty prices
and the growth of the city, but sly
as you keep it it was his W thrift
that made it for him. It's his be-
cause he worked for 1t. In the last
analysis it's his because he put in the
time. The old house on the same lot
might be worth $500 to $1,000 today.
The difference abetween 1T and this
mans home today will be found in
the extra hours he put in working for
himself and making a house and a
home. That's how he got it. Somebody
had to do the work or pay for it. He
couldn't pay for it 70 he did it him
self. Extra production.
If a man wishes to go two miles he
can't get there by walking one mile.
A foot isn't eighteen inches, and no
amount of legislation or rulings OF
agreements CuIl uldhc IL So. NAedSuTllS
production by wages is the same thing
as using a rubber string for a tape line.
You can stretch a dollar but you can't
produce without using the labor and
the hours that production requires.
You can, If you r. sufficiently foolish,
call two feet a. yard but when you
come to cut the cloth you'll find 1t will
NOT cover the territory.
II the hours are cut down the me-
|chanic loses that $40 a month. If the
hours of. production and the amount
produced in those hours are cut all
of us lose.
You can't get away from It. Nobody
was ever able to make something of
nothing since the Creator made the
world.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
Old RESIDENT
IS CALLED
VIM. i. Horn Passes Away
at Family Home on
Bank Street at age
of. q.
RESULT OF PARALYSIS
Came to Webster City III
1876 Was Well known
Tailor.

Shortly after 2 o'clock Friday morn.
ing the death angel called home to its
Maker the spirit of William l.. Horn OF
this city. His death came not unex
pectedly and was the result of a pro.
tracted siege of paralysis. He was
first stricken two years ago and since
then has suffered additional strokes
from time to time, being finally render.
ed practically helpless. Almost two
weeks ago he became belfast and fail.
ed rapidly until the end came.
Obituary.
William I. Horn was born in
Province Pommern, Germany. April 20,
1917, and passed away at his home,
S41 Bank street, May IA, 1920, being
seventy-three years and twenty-fOur
days of age. He immigrated to this
country when a young man Of twenty
one years, coming directly to this vicin-
ity, where he had lived ever since.
July 81, 1875, he was married to
Jennie Deaumber of Fort Dodge. They
established their home in this city
and thus can be classed among the
early settlers here. The deceased fol.
lowed the occupation Of tailor and piled
his trade zealOusly and faithfully, as
Is cVlueIlCtu Dy Tic luCI tHul HC was y
the employ Of +. /. Cash 4 Son for
some ~forty-six years, quite an unusual
record.
Besides the wife, nine children sur
vive, namely: Mrs. August +. Mueller,
Mrs. Gus Schweiger, Albert II. Horn,
Carl C. Horn and Mrs. A. NJ. Porter, all
Of this city; Mrs. Frank G. Beermann
of near Highview; Mrs. Orville w.
Thomas of Fort Dodge, and William Q.
Horn and Letha s. Horn, still at home.
There are thirteen living grandchil-
|dren. One brother, August Horn, OF
|DOws, survives. John Horn, another
brother, died six years ago.
The deceased a d man of the old
German type. He was Of a quiet
nature, his chief interests centering
about his home and family. He was
ever on the lookout for the comfort OF
his loved ones and was indeed a kind
and devoted husband and father. He
was a very patient sufferer and, though
his passing will leave an aching void
in the hearts Of many, it would indeed
be on unkind fate. to permit n 50
stricken to linger' here longer. Mr..
Horn was a staunch member of the
German Lutheran church and died
firm in the faith.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
Farmers Restaurant Sold.

Mr.. and Mrs. q. j. Page. who have
operated the Farmers restaurant here
for almost ten years. have sold theil
interest in that establishment to Mr.
and Mrs. NJ. c. Hartung, who have al
ready taken ovcr the management. Mr.
'fiartuns was formerly employed by The
Northwestern Felt Shoe company ant
Mrs. Hartung has been employed il
the restaurant for the past two years
Mr.. and Mrs. Page will retire from
active business. for Il time at least
but will continue 10 reside in Webster
City.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
Examination for Cadets and Cadet
Engineers.

The L. s. coast guard announces II
competitive examination, commencing
July II, for appointment of cadets and
cadet engineers, which is an excep-
tional opportunity for young men Of
the right caliber to complete their edu-
cation and receive special training at
government expense and to become
commissioned officers in the U. s. coast
guard, one of the military services of
the United States.
Age limits, for appointment as cadet,
are Is to "a years; and for appoint
ment as cadet engineer. 20 to % years.
Cadets and cadet engineers are train
ed to become commissioned officers OF
the coast guard ut the coast guard
academy at New London, Conn. Each
summer the cadets are taken on ex-
tended practice cruises, which have in
cluded visits to ports in Nova Scotia,
West Indies, the Canal Zone. and when
conditions permitted, European ports,
(The cruise this year extends to tile
channel ports of France and England. }
Cadets receive the same pay and
allowance as midshipmen in the navy
$500 per annum and n ration pei
day. Cadet engineers receive $50 pei
month and one ration per day.
The opportunity this year is parti'
cularly favorable because there Is M
unusually large number of vacancies
1t Is hoped that an exceptionally large
number Of cadets and cadet engineers
will be appointed.
A circular giving full information
about the examination may he obtained
by writing to the commandment, U. =
Coast Guard, Washington, ID. G. Any
special information relative to the
academy or the service will be furnish
ed upon request.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
Closing Out business.

j. Nj. WhitSon, who has owned a
grocery store OF Seneca street for the
past number of years, is closing out
his place of business. Mr.. and Mrs
Whitson expect to take an extended
automobile tour beginning next month,
and Will visit in North Dakota and Il
number of western states and may
possibly go as far as the Pacific coast
Mr.. Whitson OWNS a large farm III
North Dakota where they will visit
However, they will continue their
permanent home in Webster City.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17

Marshalltown Times-Republi c a II
Mr.. Middle Aged Man do you recall
those days when you were sen out with
old Bet and Badly to pillow for corn.
Your equipment was the ancient and
trustworthy team and tw%elve-inch stir
ring pillow. You were supposed to turn
over abOnt two acres and Il half from
sun to sun with orders to pillow out
your corners and not to cut and cover,
Perhaps you have n lively recollec-
Mon of that time and how immense
"a f%orty-acre field looked to you then.
If so you will be interested in a little
incident of modern day farming where
a farmer down near Perry, Iowa, plOw-
ed fifty-three acres in fOrty-eight
hours. Two days.
He had a tractor instead of a eve
necked team and Il t%welve-inch plow.
True enough he kept the tractor go.
ing night and day for the time. How
ever that isn't the point. He did it.
He was able to do it. 1t is Il late sea
son like that II when dad had every.
body out on the plOw handles at day
light and shifted horses when they
looked as though they would play out
under the hot sun. He didn't shift boys
however. You pegged along in the fur.
row with your shoes full of black dirt
This tractor man didn't shift tractors
He shifted men and the men and the
tractor did what would have been a hall
months work for you and old Bet and
Badly and did it in two days.
It's a long way from then to now
from old Bet and Badly to the trac
tor, between a leg weary lad reach
ing up to plowhandles and that untir
ling gasoline giant %crunching its ire
Isistabie way across a field with two OF
three plows behind it, untiring day ant
might, a very long way. 1t marks thu
greatest advance that civilization has
lever made. In between the boy ant
the tractor are the rural mail route ant
Its diffusion of information and intelli
lgence, the rural telephone and its so
cial and business prOpinquity, al
lalOng the way are modern farm homes
with every modern convenience, ant
ieven modern luxury, builded on thu
sites of former discomfort and incon
.lvenience. The finest cattle in the wOrl(
graze along the way on this end Of thu
route, 11,1OO cows among them ant
the occupants of autos flying forty
miles an hour along country highway.
Icatch fleeting glimpses Of wonderful
things, of farm machinery turned b,
electric power generated 100 mile.
away and others marvels of the mod
FERN day. It's a long, long way from
ITiperary and we still have a long
long way to go to the Ultima Thule
Fifty-three acres in ~fOrty-eight hours
three shifts on the farm as in a factory
all this and all those are not only &C
accomplishments but prophecies.
Listen, we who are about to die: IL
grateful that you lived in this tim,
and still live when every mornin.
lbrings Its marvel and surprise.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
Shiu Much Stock.

Story City Herald: The story CITY
Shipping association shipped twenty
carloads Of stock Saturday n Moh-
day. This is probably a c for the
association, and We do not believe tina.
n similar quantity Of live stock was
eve shipped from this place IN two
DAYS.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
Curiosity.

Jay +. House in The Philadelphia
Public Ledger: Now that the war
nominally is q and practically the
last of the buck privates have discard
ed their uniforms. we should like to
know whether they kept the solemn!
promises. made to themselves, to whip
their second l%ieutenants.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17

Boston Transcript: A visitor going
through a rug factory stopped beside
an Armenian who was busy plying ms
shuttle. .You make antique rugs, o
he inquired, presently.
.Oh, yes" was the. grinning reply:
.Dis rug when hees finished is 200
years old"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
Real Estate Transfers..

Michael Meyer and VT to G. +.
Keane-lOts g., Z blk IS I'd Add Viii.
|liams-$4,OOO.
Mary d. Fisher ct nj to II. T.. Doc
little-lots 1. 2, 81, % blk 5 j. N. +.
Add w. C.-$1,25O. f..
J. u. Sketchley to f. A. Schroeder
8 l-3 " lot 8 blk SO w. C.-$1,OOO.
Martha and III. s. Allen to Daisy
Fairchild-M oore-nw he 1S-S9-25-$1.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17
Masculine Wisdom.

: Kloda Hans, Copenhagen: He-Be
.lieve me, a nan can never understand
a woman.
She-DO you really think so?
He--Yes, 1 do-and l understand
women.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-05-17

Call on us for the best In job WORK.