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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-12-09
NOnpostage Stamps on Mail for
Foreign Countries

Foreign countries generally pro-
on mail matter unless such stamps
are placed on the back of letters or
articles presented for mailing, While
nonpOstage stamps (such as Christ
mas seals) are permitted on domes-
tic mail matter, patrons are advised
to always place them on the back of
letters or parcels, and not on the adj
dress side, or near postage stamps.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-12-09
Claimed the Purse.

Guests having been there, the chill.
dren were up later than usual and I'M
DULY excited. Aunty couldn't make
them go to sleep; she had heard their
prayers, told them stories, and they
were wider awake than ever. 1.-THE
first one of you to go to sleep shall
have an orange" she finally said. Dead
silence followed. Presently Tottie
called: "Aunty, dive me my orange;
is the first one asleep. Me dest woke
MP again."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-12-09
U. S. MINE SWEEPER WRECKED
Famous Craft Which helped Lay
North Sea Mine Barrage
Goes Aground.

Duxbury, Mass, No. 3O.-The mine
sweeper Swan, famous as a war time
figure for it's part in laying the North
sea mine barrage, is a wreck on the
Gurnet sand spit with it's crew safe
ashore as a result of the life saving
exploits of Capt. Jack Glynn and his
Gurnet coast guard crew.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-12-09
AWAIT MEMORIAL AT YPRES
Belgian Government Won't Chance
Ruins of Cloth Hall Until
British Act.

London, Nov. 3O.-The Belgian gov
eminent has agreed to leave the IA
nous Cloth hall, the cathedral and the
ramparts of Ypres in their existing
state until the British government de-
cides what kind of memorial to erect
to the troops who fought there This
fact has been announced by Premier
Lloyd George.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-12-09

Headaches, Constipation, sour
stomach, poor appetite, put a wom-
an down and out-Take HOLLIS
TIERS ROCKY MOUNTAIN TEA.
1t will purk you up, fill you with vim
make you hustle, sing and play.
Women recommend it to each other.
METZ PHARMACY
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1920-12-09
NO MORE RATS

or mice, after you use RAT-SNAP.
It's sure rodent killer. Try Pkg.
and prove it. Rats killed with RAT
SNAP leave no smell. Cats or dogs
won't touch it. Guaranteed.
Soc size Ct cake) enough for Pan
try, Kitchen or Cellar.
65c size q cakes) for Chicken
House, coops, or small buildings.
$1.25 size g Cakes) enough for all
farm and out buildings, storage build
ings or factory buildings.
Sold and Guaranteed by
Metz Pharmacy
n. T. Martin Hardware Co.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-08-11
$500 miles to the set of

tire life can only result from less road
and that means greater comfort for rider
liver. Franklin comfort is as unusual as
e mileage it's owners get.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17

uois sssm - pssesr - -. ~ bai,1-
ing permits now are averasias aAsse
Si1ooo.ooo per month, Ths means
ten $1,000 homes completed svssy
week day. or more than one per hour
during the working day. That y
what $50 land In Iowa and Illinois
Ia doing for the country that has
paved roads.
Well. II they are going to pas mp
the kaiser perhaps II would helD
some to close with the crown prince
and hang him.
Comment on Meredith suggests
that he can not measure up TO Tama
Jim's efficiency In the agricultural
secretaryship. The Job Is very much
more complicated than the one that
Mr.. Wilson went to. and the depart
ment has grown so great that 1t over
shadows its head, where in the early
days the head overshadowed the de-
partment. Then, too, We are never
so well satisfied with any man so
well as is the next generation. Let's
let Meredith cut loose without any
handicap OF comparison. Compare
sons between yesterday and today are
mighty hard 10 make justly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
GLASS OF SALTS IF
YOUR KIDNEYS HURT
EAT LESS MEAT IF YOU FEEL
BACkAcHY OR HAVE BLAD-
DER TROUBLE.

Meat forms uric acid which e1cites
and overworks the kidneys In their
efforts to filter it from the system.
Regular caters of meat must flush
the kidneys occasionally. You must
relieve them like you relieve your
bowels; removing all the acids,
waste and poison, else you feel a dull
misery in the kidney region. sharp
pains in the back or sick headache,
dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue
is coated and when tho weather IL
bad you have rheumatic twinges. The
urine Is cloudy, full OF sediment; the
channels often get irritated, obliging
you to get UP two or three times dur
ing the night.
To neutralize these irritating aoids
and flush off the body's urinous
waste get about four ounces Of Jad
Salts from any pharmacy; take
tablespoonful of water before break
fast for few days and your kidneys
will then act fine and bladder dis
orders disappear. This famous salts
is made from the acid Of grapes and
lemon Juice, combined with lithia.
and has been used for generations to
clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys
and stop bladder irritation. Jad
Salts is inexpensive: harmless and
makes a delightful eftervescent hth-
Ia water drink which millions Of men
and women take now and then, thus
avoiding serious kidney and bladder
diseases.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
LADIES! SECRET TO
DARKEN GRAY HAIR
BRING BACK lTs COLOR AND
LUSTER WITH GRANDMA'S
SAGE TEA RECIPE.

Common garden sage brewed Into
a heavy tea, with sulphur and alco-
hol added. will turn gray. streaked
and faded hair beautifully dark and
luxuriant. Mixing the Sage Tea and
Sulphur recipe at home. tho, Is
troublesome. An easier way II to get
the ready-to-use preparation i'm
proved by the addition Of other in
gradients q large bottle. At little cost.
at drug stores, known A Wyeth's
Sage and Sulphur Compound" thus
avoiding q lot of muss.
While gray, faded hair 10 not sim
full, we all desire to retain our youth
full appearance and attractiveness. BY
darkening your hair with Wyeth's
Sage and Sulphur Compound, no one
can tell, because 1t does 1t 30 natural
ly, 80 evenly. You Just dampen .
sponge or soft brush with 1t and
draw this thru your hair, taking one
small strand at time; by morning
all gray hairs have disappeared. AZ
ter another application or two your
hair becomes beautifully DARK, CLOS
sy, soft and luxuriant and you appear
years younger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
TIM "sAR'u ATT. MADISON.

Fit. Madison, In its efforts TO stem
the rising tide of influenza got
barrel Of that once common and still
popular beverage that used 10 make
folks wear old clothes. That the
aforesaid stingo has cost none of its
popularity is evidenced by the dis
patch from TT. Madison which re-
lates that the dispenser OF "fu medi-
cine was forced TO send a hurry
call for police protection and that
two OF Fl. Madison's fines" are on
duty, standing presumably on each
side OF the barl like the lion and
the unicorn in the British arms,
Down there at the pen town they
must consider the stun a real speci-
iic, serum like that for dlphtheria
and vaccination for smallpox.
Now prominent physicians approve
the use Of alcohol as stimulant i'll
certain diseases and against their
dicla the opinions of laymen and the
Anti Saloon league must run second
and third: but this mob and police
rather scares the average citizen.
The dispatch from TT. Madison
brings to the imagination trenz!ed
mob. equipped with jug and bottle
- N NJ
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
Il Thin and Nervous
Try Bitro-Phosphate

While excessive thinness might b
attributed to various and subtle
causes in different individuals, it II
q well known fact that the lack Of
PHOSPHORUS in the human system 10
very largely responsible for this con-
dition.
It seems to be well established that
this deficiency in PHOSPHORUS may
now be met by the use Of Bitro-
Phosphate, which can be obtained
from any good druggist In conyeni-
ent tablet form.
In many instances the assimilation
of this phosphate by the nerve tissue
soon produces a welcome change
nerve tension disappears. vigor and
strength replace weakness and lack
of energy and the whole body loses
its ugly hollow and abrupt angles.
becoming enveloped in a glow of per-
feet health and beauty and the will
and strength to be up and doing.
CAUTION: White Bitro- Phos-
phate Is unsurpassed for the relief of
nervousness, general debility, ETC..
those taking it who do not desire to
put on flesh should use extra care In
avoiding flesh producing foods.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17

today of any kind. either In private
Industry or In quasi public service.
are very largely unjustined. because
almost any worker, II underpaid. can
set q better job somewhere else for
the asking. When he resorts TO the
organized strike he Is usually trying
mass formation TO obtain some class
advantage which 10 more than he
could obtain on the market single
handed. With employment so plen-
tiful and wages so high, the public
instinctively recoils from the strike
today, suspicious that the radicals
have seized upon an opportunity by
organization TO gouge,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
HlsH COSTS AND puslic WORKS

Sss'S SNS '"
Paving projects such as those In
towns and which are not considered
immediate necessities in order 10
capture federal aid funds can well
be deferred for year or two in the
hope that prices may come down,
Concrete paving which cost sl.47 per
yard in Denison, Iowa, before the
war is about to be let this year at
$S.49 an increase OF more than 100
per cent. II is too much. Public
works should no more be purchased
on the top of the market than pr.-
yate investments.
Houses in which to live We must
have. Construction Of these should
proceed regardless Of price, Some
times industrial. and business build
ings can not probably wait until the
building boom SUBSIDIES because the
loss 10 the business Is greater than
the probable saving IN construction
that could be accomp Ashed by wait
ing. PuoNc works. however. mostly
can wait lower marHet which Is
-
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
JOHN BURROUGHS
oToEs


John 0urrouoh's Nature Noesss
1. What weed can hold It's own
AGAINST Kentucky bluegrass?
,. Do the bees that get the pollen
also pack Il In the cellsf
4. is the red-eyed vireo common
birdY
Answers 70 Yesterdays ouestionA
/. what effect has the English ell
mate on vegetation?
The softness and humidity OF the
English climate act in two ways In
promoting that marvellous greenness
OF the land. namely: by growth and
by decay. AS the grass springs
quickly, so its matured stalk or dry
leaf decays quickly. Every dead
thing Is quickly converted back 70
vegetable mould. Where rain rails
on nearly three hundred days In the
year, as in the British islands, the
conversion of the mould into grass,
and vice versa, takes place very rap
idly.
2. How many eggs do our BIRDS
usually produce?
The highest number OF eggs OF the
majority of our birds Is five; some
Of the wrens and creepens and utmice
produce six, or even more; but as
rule one sees only three or four eggs
in the nests of our common birds.
Our quail seems TO produce more
eggs than the European species, and
our swift more.
3. Is the skunk hasty IN using Its
weapon Of defense?
The skunk visits every farm sooner
or later. One night came near
shaking hands with one on my very
door stone. I thought 1t was the cat,
and put down my hand to stroke 1t,
when the creature. probably appre-
ciating my mistake. moved of UP the
bank. revealing to me the white
stripe on It's body and the kind OF
cat / had saluted. The skunk is not
easily rufred, and seems TO employ
excellent Judgment IN the use OF its
terrible weapon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
Ripping Rhymes
Bv WALT MASON
RETlREM EMIT.
By WALT MASON

The punch Tyre; and passing
retire? bundle
locoed bent and and need
the rhythmic
gided And
to
his TOOLS
bunch doos around the Blue
be Will
Oh the rocking cha
a har1
I'll satisfied TO around
ride For have
make Bill Shakespeare and that
in their
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
The Windmill

Ny FIRST.
D1d her beauty evoke my young rap
tursf
An. that was . symbol . aGn!
Tho immediate cause of my capture
Was that hers was the next desk
to mine
And once I was late with the cube
root of eight
Which she shot to me hot from
the line.
fell for her mental reactions
As she stood at the bad OF the
And wrestled with oSdurant frac-
lions.
Or botanised bunchss Of grass,
While 30 frankly and freely her
smile beamed on me
was lost in that charming
crevasse.
I was lost, was STEPPED IN emotion
Which 1 suffered in vain TO ex-
press,
But gave her my boyhood's devo-
Tho she helped me biz 1 con-
fess.
For the first time whispered
yearned for a kiss
She smiled ON me still and said
"Yesi"
For . season shaved N her servant,
- IA
ran all her errands, moro fervent
And fresh every time was
lamped.
But her eyes rolled away to an
other one day
was vamped, I was vamped,
was vamped!
Alack for the hearts that shs har-
Tho her passion was power. not
pelf.
For the prosperous fellow she mar
ried
Was tossed, hke the rest on the
shelf
She's now q grass widow with one
little kid
And I-well I'm married myself.
r. T.. N.
Edna says she doesn't think the
new dance steps are 90 difficult If
you get the right partner to lead
you, you can do almost anything
in fact you're liable to.
| TO AN AID.
oh. collar man, sweet collar man
How girlishly you grapple
With thoughts that keep your linen
UP
And down your Adams apple.
Our idea Of comfort and style for
man Is felt shoes and a patent
leather hat
A man must necessarily be a
square head to produce cubist art.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
the RIGHT TO STRIKE.

Spokesman for the four largest
national ORGANIZATIONS of farmers
have memorialized congress to the
effect that labor unions have no in
herent right TO strike and no moral
right TO starve or to freeze na-
ton by means Of their organized con-
spiracies TO tie up basic industry
by a strike The American Fedora
ton of Labor has announced It's de-
termination to destroy politically eV-
cry congressman "ho voted to
abridge the labor unions right l.
strike and here we have the issue
clearly drawn between our two lar5-
est classes OF producers.
President Taft, experienced as
q jurist, explains that in law an or
ganized strike - always a Conspir-
acy; that it may. however, be a .a"-
full or an unlawful conspiracy &C
cording as our statutes are drmn.
This fact pretty effectually dismissc@
the contention that the right 10
strike III organized trades union ood-
les is inherent and therefore in
capable of being abridged 1t is
merely not unlawful because it has
not yet been made unlawful by stat
ute.
This narrows the issue to the con-
| tention presented by the farmers
unions that labor unions have no
more moral right to starve a ma
ton by stopping trains than farm
ers' union would have to burn wheat
! fields or that coal miners union
has no more right to freeze a nation
than a doctors union would have to
refuse TO save the sick.
OF course, when confined TO basic
industries Of national scope and con-
trolling the essentials Of life for the
public the right to strike must be
subord!nated to the public's larger
right to live and the time has ar
rived for our lawmakers to make
this kind Of strike an unlawful
conspiracy. When it Is done com.
mon justice to the worker requires
that his demands be adjudicated by q
disinterested tribunal, but he gives
up mono Of his private rights. HI
stilI retains the right az an individual
to either stay out Of the public serv
fee in which his strike conspiracy hai
been made unlawful or to quit worl
as an individual and get another job
There could be no hardship or servi
tude about this.
The facts are that organized strike
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
AND OTHER TRADES.

lTrder Star tlipper.J
The Iowa Press Association at Its
meeting in Des Moines the last of
the week went on record favoring the
establishment by the state Of a
school of printing IN connection
with the state college at Ames 10
teach the printing trade. This would
be an immense help in relieving
the shortage Of printers. Boys are
not learning trades as boys did ten
years ago. Every small town office
used to have one or two apprentices
But with the coming OF the type
casting machine small town Offices
have less use for the services Of boys
Another factor Is the present high
wages for common labor. There IL
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17

no object for a youngster to learn
trade when he can draw nearly as
much wage sas a man for unskiued
work. Something must be done to
develop more skilled printers, and
the state could perform a great SER
vice to the press by founding a
school OF printing. State trade
schools would teach not only trade,
but also high ideals and standards
Of craftsmanship.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
SOME OF THESE DAYS"
LRurlington HaWkeye.l

An epidemic Of smallpox. scarlet
fever and measles is reported from
several southern Illinois towns and
cities. OF course. there Is no ex-
cuse for this. There is no reason
why smallpox should not be wiped
out in Illinois. as it has been in many
other states and in some European
countries. The people are too much
like the native OF Arkansas When
it rained he coulyd not fix the roof of
the cabin and when the sun shone 1t
did not need fixing" Some OF these
days there will be zeal smallpox
epidemic and then the people who 90
not die of the disease will awaken
to the situation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
Topics of the Times

So the allies are to back up on the
demand for the ex-kaiser. Which Is
another illustration Of how much
better II IL 10 do what we can than
to propose to do what We can't
Wouldn't you think the spirits OF
the departed would become peeved
by every Tom, Dick and Jenny call
ing them 10 answer silly questions on
a ouita board?
However, the chances are that
Europe will go right on setting
European matters. Once the word
of Caesar stood against the world
but that was when Caesar was say
ing what Europe wanted him 10 say
and when visions Of unlimited credit
danced before European eyes.
Notice how modestly Mr.. Bryan re-
Trains from saying Il told you So
but notice also the cat and canary ex-
preston on the face of Mr.. B.
Hoover is being used in California
as an antidote TO Johnson by John
sons political opponents just as the
/ Hoover hurrah is being used else
/ where in an effort to distract from
other candidates whose advancing
popularity doesn't suit certain I2liti-
/ cal interests and purposes.
Out at Long Beach, Cal. a town
about the size Of Sioux City, where
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
A. KILKENNY SCRAP.

Woodwork Clum. of Davenport,
has sued Jim Pierce for S2o5,eoo for
damages on account Of libelous
statements published in the Iowa
Homestead. II Is understood that
Clum does not expect to get over
5000. 600 but n fellow always asks for
a little more than he expects. so the
jury can make IL look as If they did
some deliberate figuring when they
got into session in the jury room all
by themselves. Still. there are plenty
OF fellows in Iowa who hope Cium
will get the whole blame account
and some of them do not think much
more OF Clum than they do of Pierce
either.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
WATCH THE ROOST.
INCatar,pn ColIrierI

w dlerlOO SOuiitI'1
We presume the action Of Iowa
democratic editors IN expressing an
overwhelming preference, in poll
recently taken, for New Jerseys
wet" executive, Governor Edwards,
as the presidential candidate of that
party, was intended to give Colonel
Bryan one right in the solar plexus.
However, we fear they have mis-
calculated and that there will be
chickens coming home to roost one
Of these days. Colonel Bryan can not
be frightened away by umbrellas up
on which have been painted dragons.
Suppose the Nebraskan would come
back to Iowa and get in touch with
the masses Of democracy?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17

The platinum obtained in the Urals
amounts to about IS per cent of the
quantity obtained II the whole world.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
HANDY DIRECTORY
--oF THE
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Meetings
visitors Always Welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE NO. los A.
=. A. NJ, Friday. Feb, 20, at 1880,
First degree. c. c. Jennings, w. M;
John w. Wells. secretary.
! srGNEr CHAPTER, No. IS, r. A.
NJ, Monday. Feb. 1s. 1880. Business
conyocation. Frank T. Nokes, II. p;
John w. Wells, secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL No.
70. stated assembly Monday Feb, 10,
business session. o. c. Fox. MASTER:
John w. Wells, recorder.
CoNcLAvE st. ALDEMAR CON-
MANDERY No. 30 X. T., Tuesday,
FEB. II, 1880 o'clock. Stated con-
clave. clyde II. Stewart, com
mandsr; John w, Wells, recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No, 81 o. f.
q. Regular meeting Wednesday,
Fab. II, 1880 o'clock. Business. Mrs.
W, J. Richards. w. NJ; Mrs. Archer
Walton, secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17

No alien who wants to get back
home need travel storage any more
nor even pay his fare.
All he has to do is to buy a soap
box and lot Of whiskers, select a
conspicuous corner and chant the
praise of the bolsheviks for rive
minutes.
Lots of these deported reds believ-
ed in the slogan: See America
First" =. r. v.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
DUMP THE JUNK.
Ttpnas. Tribune.

DUMP THE JUNK.
Waterloo Times -Tribune.l
There In no virtue In the storing
away OF unused furniture or house,
hold goods. The hoarder Of such
belongings deserves little more from
this country than the hoarders OF
sugar or meat, and he makes him
self vastly more trouble. Rid the
attic and the cellar Of the selfish
load of years, or call in the man
with the oldest job Of all to attend
to II. It's the one way to help re-
lieve n world shortage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17

Armenia has copper mine that
has been operated without interrupt
ton since prehistoric times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

There probably is nothing in re-
cent cabinet history that is compar-
able TO the downright cruelty,
thanklessness and heartlessness OF
the letter OF the president to Secre-
tary Lansing declares the Daven-
port Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-17

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says:
This incident is illuminative of
in "A way Tor the reason that II will
help people generally in getting
proper or correct view of the presi-
uent."