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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27

eighteen inches long. He had just ex-
planned how he is able to do won
drous things with the Magis Pen, as
he calls it. and is now screwing it to-
sether, having shown the bystanders
that ii Is merely hollow tube, with
nothing concealed in it, yet possessed
of wonderful power
AS he distributes sheets of paper
and pencils among his listeners, he
cries:
Write your initials plainly. Then
the Magic Pen will tell your fortune.
1t will reveal your past. and it will
foreteii you'd future The Magic Pen
sees all. The Magic Pen knows all.
Sign your initials! Sign. sign. sign!"
As he passes the paper he catches
sight OF Billy, and laughingly betows
en- him paper and pencil, much to the
merriment of the crowd.
Tomorrow Billy surprises the
crowd by his writing.l
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27
lowa Newspapers
TuRERcULAR COWS.
ICedar lRanid, c.

ana there is James ], Dorsey
called the millionaire cattle king. .
some time ago Dorsey was convicted
on the charge of selling several
thousand head of tubercnlar cat,Ie
turnout the west, on forged naners
representing the livestock as govern
ment tested and healthy. Judge
henesaw Mountain Lands SEN
fenced Dorsey to eight years in
Leavenworth. He began serving his
sentence in June. last year. In July of
this year the president cut the sem
tehce to four years, and Judge Lam
dis then declared he could not un1
derstand the workings of the presi-
dents mind
Last week Dorsey was pardoned by
the president. and he has returned to
illinois and opened UP his business
again. Judge Lands heard OF the
pardon yesterday. just as he was
handling the case OF six men charged
with stealing 500 bags of sugar from
trains IN interstate commerce. With
the news OF Dorsey's release fresh in
his mind, the Judge refused to SEN
~-AA~S vic pliSolcIS, nut POSTPONED
their case indefinitely. He said he
could not bring himself to sending
these men to the penitentiary for a
crime that was far less serious than
that Of the liberated Dorsey.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
ana there is question as to the JUS
tice and wisdom of Judge Lands
treatment of the sugar stea,ers, but
one can sympathize with a jurist who
Furnishes proved criminal for his
misdeeds and is angered when that
punishment is lifted.
There are many Dorsey cattle in
iowa, where tuberculosis may be
found in more than 10 per cent of the
dairy cows. Iowa babies have con-
tracted tuberculosis from the milk
produced by the diseased Dorsey
cattle. 1t is possible that there are
people in this state who. like Judge
Lands. will be unable to understand
the circumstances surrounding this
pardon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27
Conditions In Poland.

Ihere are entire provinces OF Po-
land In which 1t is impossible to find
healthy child, according to a letter
received by the European Relief
Council from the arch bishop of War
saw.
The bolshevist INVASION" writes
Cardinal Kakowsk. to Mr.. Hoover,
which has devasted and ruined a
great part of the country has contri-
outed to the children's misery. Ap-
peals reach us from everywhere in
regard to the children who are per-
lshing victims of disease and hat
red. Before the soviet troops de-
troyed the farming and food pro-
dueing areas the children of on
province were wont to help their
little suffering friends in other pro-
vinces. Many times they took up col
lections. saved pieces of their own
clothes and went hungry themseI yes
to give to their little friends.
Now the children who used to de-
pend on their parents for support /"
writes Minister of Approximation
Sliwinski, at Warsaw, ARE them
selves IN desperate condition. MANY
less by the inability OF their parents
10 care for them and have been put In
hospitals and asylums. The same sht,-
dren who marched before Mr.. Hoover
In Warsaw year ago to show their
gratitude for the help rendered by
ms association are now appealing for
heip themselves. Most of them are
TOO small to read or write so Il is
oiiticult to get news OF their plight
TO the outer world
Inc problem OF food for children is
very acute. They have been starved
Tor so long that they are unable to
digest any but the simplest food. =
is impossible to feed many of them
on milk since, because CT the dearth
or COWS. there is very little milk
scientific men are trying to com
pound a substitute for milk but so
iar nave been unsuccessful, tho SOW
erai compound foods have been made
Tor adults. Every pound of rice or
iiour, every can of milk will be n
me saver to the children In Poland )"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27
PAID ADVICE TO RETaIlER.o

One of the prominent commercial
bulletin services ~hich business men
! buy for authentic advice as to the
! trend of the markets and prophecy
SOUND and wholesome advice to re-
! t;ilers.
Retail trade is at It's worst" says
the expert explaining that the public
! has been on a buying strike while II
waited for prices to get clear down
but that necessity would soon compel
! the public to buy again.
'.As prices decline the volume OF
Business will increase says the ex-
pert predicting that more yards and
mere pounds Of goods win so over
the, retail counters this coming year
| than before because more can be
bought for the same money than was
srent before.
Business men make a mistake in
| cutting out their advertising at this
time says the expert. The time to
spend money on advertising is when
one needs the business. not when one
happens to have the money" He
evidently thinks that the purpose OF
ali advertising is to get business
more than to help the publisher.
70 be prepared for business should
be the slogan now and to that end
tho expert advises that the clerks
and sales forces should be assembled
and taught the necessity for extreme
courtesy and aggressive salesman
shir. The take it or let 1t alone
attitude on the part of clerks must
Ego. People can and will shop around
now and they must be sold by real
statesmen in our stores.
And then the public's taste is
changing. The section hand has
ceased to demand So silk shirts.
Even the farmer is asking for
cheaper goods instead of the best
there is and back pay bonuses on the
railroads are at an end. Merchants
should emphasize their medium
priced lines and get out from In
under their high priced stuff as soon
as possible.
Retailers should pay no attention
to the advice of statesmen calling up
on chem, their prices will be lower,
Notwithstanding their talk to the
contrary" advises the expert. Every
month from now on retailers should
be able to buy goods for less money!
which, means that manufacturers
should either guarantee their dealers
against decline or that dealers should
buy from hand to mouth and come
dowrt with the market.
InsL!;much as these words Of wis
dom are uttered by the experts who
are paid by business ment to serve
them with wise counsel there should
be NJ, criticism Of a general J, news
paper which gives the little merchant
as well as the big merchant the
benefits. of the same advice
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27
lo 9 Burroughs
. s ;l Mature

i.--HoW does winter bring us in
closer touch with wild animals?
Are new nests ever built on top
or the last years nest?
SIS farm life as picturesnue az
formerly?
Answers to Previous Questions.
Where does the bobolink build
It's nest?
The bobolink selects the most
monotonous and uniform place she
can find amid the daisies or the tim
othy and clover, and places her
simple structure upon the ground in
the midst of 1t. There is no conceal
ment, except as the great concea,s
| the little, as the desert conceals the
pebble, as the myriad conceais the
unit.
Are the black fox and silver
gray fox distinct species7
Old fox hunters will tell you, on
! the evidence OF their own eyes that
there Is black fox and n silver gray
| fox, two species, but there are not
the black fox Is black when coming
| toward you or running from you, and
silver gray at pointblank view, when
the eye penetrates the FUR; each sep.
arate hair Is gray the first half and
| black the last.
| 3.-How was maple sugar made?
In my sugar-making days, the sap
! was carried to the boiling place in
| pals by the aid of a neck yoke and
stored IN hogsheads. and boiled or
[ evaporated In immense kettles or
caldrons set In huge stone arches;
now the hogshead goes to the trees
hauled upon a. sled by team, and
the sap is evaporated in broad, shall
low, sheet-iron pans--a great saw
| ing of fuel and of labor
| do birds of different species
flock together In winter?
2.-Do animals ever eat dirt in
winter?
| S.-Does a mans house reflect his
| character?
Answers to Yesterdays Questions.
How does winter bring us in
euloser touch with wild animals?
Under the pressure OF the cold. all
| the wild creatures. become outlaws
and roam abroad beyond their usual
| haunts. In fact. winter like some
4
| of most creatures and sets them
adrift. Winter, like poverty, makes
us acquainted with strange bedfel-
lows.
s.-Are new nests ever Quilt on tor
of the last years nest?
A farmer took me out under his
porch one April day, and showed me
a phoebebird's nest six stories high.
The same bird had no doubt returned
year after year; and as there was
| room for only one nest upon her fav-
orite shelf. she had each season
reared q new superstructure upon
the old as a foundation.
S.--Is farm life as picturesque as
formerly?
1t is .unquestionably true that
farm life and farm scenes In this
country are less picturesque than
they were fifty or one hundred years
ago. This is owing partly to the ad-
vent of machinery, which enables the
farmer to do so much of his work
by proxy. and hence removes him
farther from the soil.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27
TIL: CHILD is FATHER TO THE MtH.

The report on paroled convicts is
reassuring. This system has been in
operation in Iowa for twelve years.
1--WE are told that the records OF the
parole board show that with COM
paratIVely very few exceptions
paroled persons make good in posi-
lions Of trust and become valuable
and respectable members Of society.
The, parole board wants a little
fund, 9. sort of revolving fund that it
may use to assist the paroled where
needed during. the period when those
persons are striving to secure a new
foot hold.
This is a matter that the coming
legislature should look into very
carefully and a need that it should
certainly supply. There is a period
when the shedding is hard for the
paroled man. 1t is the critical time
for him. 1t is when, if ever, he needs
humane assistance and human atten-
ton. Moreover it is only fair that the
state which has everything to gain
and nothing to lose by an attempt to
revive and create a new citizenship
in the paroled person, it is but fair
to the paroled and to the state that
1t should give certain financial as
sistance where needed to those who
are actually striving to rehabilitate
themselves. Rehabilitation after a
penitentiary sentence is, hard task.
II 1t can be lightened it should be
done, not only willingly but CRATE
fully.
In connection with the rehabilita-
ktion Of convicts and the attempt to
renew or create citizens the state
and community should turn also to
the prevention Of crime and that
poverty which, leads to crime. After
years of agitation we have finally a
refuge for neglected and orphaned
children which is not reform
school" and which carries no stigma
into the future Of the unfortunate.
If we concede that every child has a
right to fair chance in the world
and equally that. the community has
the right to protect itself by giving
each child fair chance and insisting
that the opportunity shall be matched
with action that children's home at
Toledo should be filled to overflow
with the children who need it and its
cleanliness and teaching. We must,
If we are to dam at its source the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27

tide that flows into our prisons and
our aims houses begin making citi-
zens from the children. We must
teach youth to desire to earn a good
living and not only the desire but
how to earn it.
There is q very we'll defined con-
nection between the paroled man and
the neglected and unframed boy.
The child is the father Of the man.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27
Ripping Rhymes
Bv WALT MASON
By WALT .MASOl
A SINLEss WORLD.


triumph is denied in
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27
Topics of the Times

Those killers who broke out of
Fort Madison have not been appre-
hended at this writing. Let's hope
that they will not be able, as one es-
ctped convict~from Anamosa, to pass
thru several states and get out Of
the United States. In event that
they should however let's also hope
that the Canadian police force will
round them up as it did the other
assassin.
Speaking Of short courses. why not
a short course for housewaids? 1t
would greatly advantage them and
tend to increase their value and con-
sequently their wage while advan-
tagging those who employ them.
Along with it might run short
course for employers teaching the
essentials of relationship that should
exist between those who pay and
those who work for it.
OF course the officers elect are to
take office January 1; also your
automobile license must have been
paid by that date or the penalty be-
gins to accrue. And the latter is the
thing You need worry obout. The
officers elect will be waiting at the
door New Year morning.
A Chicago alderman nropo,.o, l.,
offer a reward for the killing Of
crooks by policemen. Will the DO
iceman be obliged to bring in the
scalp with the ears on in order to
collect the money?
\ Christmas is over. Now start
New Years with sense of a duty
performed by getting the check for
Your share Of the fund for starving
children promptly into the hands of
those appointed to receive it. Hun
ger can not wait While we argue and
children are dying while we delay.
II any of US have objections to the
way the fund for the Hoover move
ment is being raised or any other
objections to offer let's wait and fight
1t out after the kids have been fed.
Argument right now ia like a discus
sion between firemen while the house
burns down.
The surest sign of complete de-
Votlon between man and wife is
when he smokes the cigars she
bought him.
nevertheless a sales tax would be
Infinitely cheaper to the consumer
than the system Of success profits
taxes that stings the consumer on
every turnover.
Disarmament is the solution of
course but SO is the sermon on the
mount and we are still a long way
from practical adoption of that ser
mons ethics.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27

enough tables to take care of his
crowds. AT n season Of the year
when the crowds were larger he had
more tables. but never quite enough
A few people always had to stand a
little while before obtaining seats. In
this way customers got the impress
sion that they were in on something
especially good, because it appeared
that the demand exceeded the supply
Nations Business.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27

combination of the two, and that is
about all there is to it.
In score of ways we may note
how seriously people take that which
Is success. Let a theater put up n
sign that tickets are to be had only
for performances three weeks in nd-
vance and crowd will form in line
for two blocks trying to reach the
box office. One restaurant man hit
on the scheme OF never having quite
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27
Explainina Success.

Most OF the involved explanations
we see in print about why one bust
ness is a great success and another a
failure are pure humbug. One man or
one business succeeds, while another
fails, largely because of superior a bill
ity, or greater opportunity, or happy
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27
The E Made a Differences.

Griggs-When / don't catch the
name of the person I've been intro
duced to, ask If it's spelled with re"
or an 81" 1t generally works, too.
Briggs-I used to try that dodge
myself until I was introduced to
young lady at a party. When / put
the question about the sc" or "i' she
flushed angrily and wouldn't speak
the whole evening"
What was her name?'
Il found out later 1t was HILL"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27
HANDY DIRECTORY
--oF THE
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Meetings
vlsi.ors Always welcome.

= IN Visitors Always Weicome.
MARSHALL LODGE NO. los, A.
f A. Nj. Thursday, Dec. 2s, 1900 p. M.
sharp. First degree. c. c. Jennings,
w NJ: John w. Wells, Secretary.
sTGNET CHAPTER NO. IS. r. A.
M, Monday, Dec. 81, 7;so Mark
Masters degree FraplS r. Nolses, III.
p; John w. Wells,f secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL NO,
20, stated assembly: Monday. Dec. 20.
Business meeting. Carl Shaffner. w.
NJ. John W. Wells. recorder
coNcLAvE ST. ALDEMAR COM
MANDERy NO. 80. TUESDAY. Dec.
IS. 1880 o'clock. Red Cross and Order
of Malta. Clyde H Stewart, COM
mander; John w. Wells recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. CT q.
e. s. Special meeting for installation
OF officers Wednesday evening. Jan.
S, at 1880 o'clock. Mrs. O. B. Waters,
A. NJ; Mrs. Archer Walton, secre-
tary.,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27

The surest sign of complete de-
Votlon between man and wife is
When he smokes the cigars she
bought him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27

Nevertheless sales tax would he
INFINITELY cheaper to the consumer
than the system Of success profits
lakes that stinss the consumer on
every turnover.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-27

disarmament is the solution of
course but SO is the sermon on the
mount and we are still a long way
from practical adoption of that ser
mons ethics.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-04-01
CONTRACT AWARDED TO DRAIN
SUMAS LAKE IN CANADA

A contract has been awarded for
the construction Of the Sumas recie-
nation scheme. The successful bid
ders are the Marsh Bourne Company,
and the announcement of the accept
ance of the bid came from Premier
Oliver subject to the ratification by
the property owners.
Marsh, Bourne & Co. are the sue
cessful tenderers, and have given a
cheque for 100000 to the govern
ment as earnest money with their bid.
They will be called upon to file a
bond for 100000 for the success
full carrying out of the work.
The portion of the work covered
in the tender is $1,2OO,OOO, said to
exceed two-thirds of the cost of the
work, making the estimated cost of
the whole within $1,8OO,OOO. Thirty
thousand acres of land of exception
al fertility and served by three lines
of railway will be brought under cul-
tivation.
The first work to be carried out
will be the digging Of the great ca
nal, three miles in length, to divert
the Vedder river. The canal at its
lowest will have a width of 270 feet
and when i'm flood width of $50
feet. The plans prepared by Engi-
neer F. N. Sinclair call for the two
great earth dykes to be thrown up
out of the earth excavated from the
canal. Lines of railway will run
down the head dredging equipment
which will carry by means of convey
ors and dredged material to the out
side of the dykes.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-04-01
LINDEN SCHOOL NEWS

! The primary grades have very in
teresting sand tables now, with
chickens. rabbits and colored Easter
eggs.
The school house was empty in SO
seconds after the fire bell rang Tues
day afternoon.
In an eighth grade arithmetic test
Wednesday, the following got 100:
Norma Weeks, Irene Smith, Orilla
Holloway, Clarence White. Gladys Den
Abel, Evelyn bunker, Mary Talmage
and Myrtle Sheriff.
Catherine Warner entered the sec
ond grade last week.
Everyone is busy with the six
weeks exams.
The seventh graders have nearly
finished their temperance essays for
the w. G. T. U. contest.
The second grade won the attend
ance banner with an average of 98.-
per cent attendance for March.
Again the sixth graders are wag-
ing war in spelling contest with
Teddy Hardness and Donald Cruick-
shank as captains.
Freda Klocke has returned to
school after an illness of several
weeks.
The punctuality banner is claimed
! by both the fifth grade and Mrs. Hig-
ginson's first grade, neither having
had any tardies during the month.
The sixth graders enjoyed a party
in the gymnasium a week ago Fri
day. In spite of the fact that lights
were turned off by providers, they
had a very enjoyable time playing
games until ten o'clock, when they
did Justice to bounteous feed. and
went home happy.
Mrs. Bay substituted in the second
grade Friday.
Freda .Klocke's side won by ITO
of point in a seven weeks spelling
contest.
Mrs. +. Cruikshank, Mrs. w.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-04-01

Cruikshank. Mrs. w. Jacobs, Mrs.
Van Os and Mrs. Ecker were sixth
grade visitors Friday afternoon.
Three eighth grade pupils, Norma
Weeks, Ruth Sturman and Evelyn
Wiley. nave had perfect scores for
ten weeks in the Health Crusade.
Florence Freeman and Margaret
Shagren have been absent from the
sixth grade on account of illness.
Harold Raethke returned to the
Fifth Grade last week after a long
absence.
Ellen Porter is absent from the
Fourth Grade on account of sickness.
Fifteen pupils of the Fourth and
Fifth Grades have won the title of
knight" in the Health Crusade.
Viola Rinehart has returned to the
Fourth Grade after being absent.
week.
Miss Edith Harris of Everett Wis.,
tied school Tuesday
In reading examination Tuesday
afternoon, the following received a
grade of 100: Agnes Gale, Agnes
Porter, Norma Weeks, Gordon Ser
rurier. Ruth Sturman, Orilla Hollo-
way, Gladys Den Abel.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-04-01

To the State Tax Commissioner OF
the State of Washington. and to Mary
Waldemarson and Martin Waldo
marson, children of Dan S. Wal
demarsOn, deceased, and to all 9TH
err persons having or claiming to
have any right, title or interest in
the estate of said Dan S. Waldo
marson, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the UNI
dersigned has filed in the above en-
titled court a petition praying for
an adjudication as to inheritance tax,
il any, affecting the property de-
scribed in the said petition, and as to
such other matters as are set forth
in said petition, and that the said
court has made and entered an order
in said matter fixing Monday the 10th
day of May, 1920 at $3.50 A. M, at
the court house at Bellingham,
Whatcom County, Washington, as
the time and place for hearing said
petition, at which time and place the
said court will adjudicate the matter
of inheritance tax as affecting the
property described in said petition,
and such further matters as prayed
for in said petition.
Dated this 4th day of March, 1920.
ANNA NJ. WALDEMARSON,
Petitioner.
First publication March 4, 1920.
Last publication April 8. 1920.
R. B. LIE coco,
Lynden, Washington.
Attorney for Petitioner.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-04-01

DR.. S. S. HOWE. Practice limited
to the EYE, EAR, NOSE, and
THROAT. GLASSES FITTED. Bel
lingham.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-04-01

DIR. VAN KIRK, Specialist in dis
eases of the EYE, EAR, NOSE and
THROAT. Glasses accurately fit
ted. Bellingham National Bank
Building, Bellingham. ito
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-04-01

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY
OF WHATCOM
NO. 4063
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-04-01

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE
OF DAN s. WALDEMARSON,
DECEASED.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1920-04-01

NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION
FOR ADJUDICATION OF IN
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