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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-09-12
Crowds at Fair.

Jewell Record: Good crowds from
Jewell and vicinity are attending the
county fair at Webster City this week
The roads and weather have been fine
and many have taken advantage of the
fact to drive to the fair. A particularly
big crowd went up Tuesday afternoon
when jewell played ball ut the fair.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-09-12
AGRIGRAPHS.

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Little maid. pretty maid whittier
gocst thou?'
II 30 to the harnyard to milk the
cow"
"And shall | go with thce?' "No
need, alack,
She's only scrub: I'll he right
back
Farm Journal.
Uncle Alb says: There wouldn't be
SO many lawyers owning farms If
farmers were more careful about going
to law
Madison county. Nebraska. on July
Is had Il farm bureau picnic at which
4,3O4 automobiles were counted. aud
the crowd was estimated at $1,000 per-
sons. This shows how farmers can
rally to their organization.
An idea of the progress of the bet
tcr-sires campaign in New York can he
Gained from Il report of the Finger
Lakes dairy Improvement association
of Cayuga county In the 26 herds
included in this association there is
hut one sire that could not be reg
istcred.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-09-12
Vertebrate u, the Neck.

New York World All mammals have
the same number of vertebrate in their
necks-seven. These seem adequate
enough for man or mouse or a
tiger. but very few for a giraffe. Yet
there arc--couM thcm--Scvcn
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-09-12
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lettings About the
COllIltu.
Raise Peaches in Stratfor,l.

StratfOrd Courier: Mrs. r. e. Hall
has peach tree in her door yard in
west Stratford that has produced sew
eral very fine peaches this season.
There are not many Of them but they
are as fine as can be produced any
where, being large and delicious to the
taste. 1t follows that Iowa can pro-
duce about anything that any other
state can produce.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-09-12
HONlESPUN YARN.

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Tossing dice with typhoid fever is
drinking from any old water supply
when Oh picnic.
Gorgeous fall weather is meant tu
tc enjoyed. Spend all the time out
doors that you can.
Don't think of system as red tape.
il makes Homework as well as Office
work easier.
Fall house cleaning has fewer ter
Tors for the woman who has even some
OF the modern convcnienccs.
Aunt Ada's AxiOms: Don't punish
one day fault that is condoned the
next: even Il baby recognizes injus-
ticc and inconsistency.
Nothing but we'll sweetcned cold tea
IS what one woman brushes over her
black silk umbrella when it begins to
look Il little rusty.
-
Tin cans in the backyard are more
likely to furnish the source of the mos
Guitocs that bother you than is the
swamp that is further away.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-09-12
Wins Creased Pig.

The creased pig contest at the fair
grounds Thursday afternoon drew II
big crowd. Albert Nelson was the first
boy to catch the pOrker and. luckily.
he caught the animal near the crate
aud was successful in putting him in
thus winning. The contest was open
only to boys under IL years of age.
Albert was with one of the concessions
on the fair grounds.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-09-12

Washington Star: Don't you wish
you were boy again"
And have no motion pictures OF
Paragraphs! Not for worlds ~
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-09-12
BADLY HURT IN
A TRAIN WRECK
C.. D. Doolittle, Formerly of
This City, Badly In
Injured Near Mar
shalltOwn.
IS IN HOSPITAL
Broken Truck on Baggage
Car is Cause of the
Wreck.

C.. d. D0Olittle, formerly of this city
but now of Dcs Moines and who is
widely known over Hamilton county,
was badly hurt in a wreck near Green
Mountain on the Chicago Great West
ern Thursday night. He is still in Il
hospital in Marshalltown.
Says the Marshalltown Times -Rcpub-
lican:
Twenty-Five persons were injured.
three probably seriously. and two
coaches were destroyed by fire. entail
ing loss of approximately $4,000,
when Chicago Great Western local pas
senger train No. IS, south bound, due
here at 6 20 p. m, was wrecked at GIL
Thursday night, four miles north OF
Green Mountain. The scene of the
wreck was mile south Of that oe the
disastrous wreck of the Rock Island
trains OH the Great Western. March 81.
1910. when fifty-one lives were lost.
The wreck was caused by broken
truck on the baggage car, which caught
the rail, turned 1t out, and caused the
chair car and combinat ton buffet and
observation car to be derailed. These
cars. the last of the train, turned over
on their sides and later burned. after
all the passengers had been removed.
That the wreck was not more dis
astrOus, was due to the fact that the
train carried few passengers and that
the train crew realized instantly what
had happened and the air was at once
applied, bringing the train to quick
stop.
Injured Brought Here.
There we're not more than forty pas
sengers OH the train but more than
half this number suffered injury. In
most cases hurts were confined to
slight bruises or cuts.
Surgeons were at once summoned
from this City and the injured were
brought here on special train. made
up in the local yards. Five were re-
moved to the Deaconess hospital, where
today only three, c. ID. DOolittle. of Des
Moincs. Mrs. j. w. Kennedy. of Chi
cago. and Max Il. Rubin, Of Cleveland.
Ohio. the most seriously hurt remain.
Most of the injured We're cared for at
the scene of the wreck or cn route to
this city.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-09-12

Best watch repair service in the
county mt Downard's. 9-3f-j-tf
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-09-12

Call me up for Standard hog regu-
lator. Will deliver. +. +. Gremel
Phone BOW. S-l3f-J-lmO
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-09-12


Railway System Value Mileage Value
Burlington S516,256,4O4 S57.250.
Northwestern 451.433.733 54,1SO.
Milwaukee G61,731,0S4 G5,G'5.
Rock Island 392.426.76o 51,035.
III, Central 2j0.372, 465 54.O35.
The valuations foregoing were sub
stantially adopted by the interstate
commerce commission, which there
upon so fixed transportation rates as
to Weld an annual return Of per cent
thereon, and the railroad companies
have ever since been in the full enjoy
ment Of the rates SO established.
Again. for the purpose of influencing
Transportation rates within the state
the companies on December 81. 1920,
certified to the Iowa Railway commits
sion as follows:
Railway System Value Mileage Value
Burlington $jO7.454,O94 $56.270
Northwestern 441,921.19O u 5000.
Milwaukee 6J5.225,9GO 63.99O.
Rock Island 274,636,3S9 37,OlS.
III. Central 81. 251.1SO.5SO $3.50.
Here, then on two different oc-
casions of two different tribunals the
companies affected by the recent Iowa
assessment reported the actual valua-
lions Of their roads for rate-making
purposes. Should they now be per-
mitted to insist upon vastly lower valu-
atoms for tax-fixing purposes? In my
opinion the inquiry answers itself.
Comparisons are sometimes inform
ing, where conditions are similar. and
the Iowa assessment is materially be-
low that of Illinois. Nebraska and Wis
consin. and closely approyimates that
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31
RIPPING RHYMES
BY Walt Mason.
THE DISCORD

Though grateful people may re-
ioice DER blessings they possess.
you'll always hear a plaintive voice
proclaiming bleak distress. The
most of us are CHEEKY guys who
brandish pleasant grins; we don't
send up our doleful cries until we
bark u shins. We know this worlds
a good old joint in which to spend
orr years. and so don't linger to an
oint the veldt with useless tears. A
better world we could not wish. life
is its own reward: but there is al
ways some poor fish who hits a mi
nor chord. And while we sing OF
azure skies and blue and silver seas,
he jars us with d~iscordant cries of
Grape and soup and cheese. We
travel on a sunlit track and play the
fife and drum, but he has read the
almanac. and knows that storms Will
come. We see the bride and BRIDE
groom pass. and boost their wedding
rags: but he is sure that flesh is grass
and brides will be old hays. We sing,
of hope and happy days. and dance
upon the sward: but always there
are dreary jays who hit the minor
chord.
Copyright, George Matthew Adams.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31
THE ISOLATED MAN
BY DIR. w. E. BARTON

been of that sort
But there is another change
worth speaking of. The root lido"
is common in Greek, and enters as
a compound into our words i'd
iom." 'idiomatic." "idiopathic" and
others. Its meaning is ones own"
or zones SELF Naturally, our
English derivatives from this root
IRE not all adjectives and adverbs;
there is a noun descriptive of the
4 who acknowledges no stand
ards but his own. and seeks no
others welfare than his own. That
word as everyone knows is idiot"
1t means nothing more nor less than
a completely s~elf-centered person.
Now, it is interesting to see how
this word has modified its meaning.
The isolated man who lives the is
olated life, the life of complete self
hood, cannot be that of a person of
much learning: SO. by Jeremy Tay-
lor's day, the word idiot was used
of ignorant persons; and he said
that the Scriptures were good for
them as we'll as for the learned.
But the word still changed, and by
the time Blackstone wrote his great
lawbpok, he defined an idiot as "a
natural fool hat hath no UNDER
standing"
Really, if you stop to think of it.
that definition is not wholly strange
II one could find a man completely
satisfied with himself. completely
willing to learn nothing and receive
nothing from any other human be-
ing, and determined to do nothing
for anyone else there would be
some justice in maintaining that
the change in the meaning of the
word had done no great violence to
| its generic idea.
A social world is no place for a
completely self-centered man.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

Words have a queer way of drift
ing from their original meanings.
The word prevent" for instance,
means ito go before" 1t is a word
built up as. plainly as a word can
possibly be constructed. out of a
Latin verb which means to go, and
a proposition which means ahead.
This was the simple meaning of the
word In the days of Shakespeare
and the Pilgrim fathers. Governor
John Winthrop tells that when the
Massachusetts colony had set a day
of prayer for rain, 1.-THE Lord pre-
vented our prayers" that is, 1t
rained before the day of prayer ar
rived. The English prayer book
asks that the grace of God may
always prevent and follow us"
One of the psalms tells us of a sor-
rowful singer who prevented the
dawning of the morning and cried"
That does not mean that he cried
so loud the sun was afraid to rise.
but that he woke before morning
and wept.
1t has come about. and we may
well be sorry for it, that the man
who gets there first so often stops
the other man from getting there at
all, that we have come to use the
word prevent" not of going and of
arriving first, but of impeding,
whether one goes himself or not.
Such a change in meaning could not
have occurred in an ideally unset
fish world: the man who gets there
first would be a helper of the next
man to arrive. What a blessing it
would have been. and what a fine
| comment on humanity, if prevent
had come to mean ito help" in the
sense of a person who has the ad-
vantage using it for another's good!
The change might quite as we'll have
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

Q. who first proclaimed the free
dom of the seas?-M. c. H.
A. This doctrine wal first pro-
pounded by Grotius in his Mare LII
! berum-"The air. the running wa
ter, the - common to ALL
o. What is TIE reason for not us
ing the letter ~" when naming
army units ?-H. E. w.
A. The War Department says
that the reason the letter -" is
not used for an organization of the
United States army is because the
letter is so much like the letter Il"
that confusion results.
Q. Is Old Point Comfort an Is
land?-C. G..
A. Old Point Comfort, Virginia,
is situated on a small peninsula
where Hampton Roads and Chesa-
peake Bay join the Atlantic Ocean.
@. Why Is ten usually the basis
for a system of counting?-H. Z.
A. The explanation of the fact
that ten is so generally used as the
base in a scale of notation is to be
found in the fact that the ten fin
gers of the two hands were the most
elementary counters that were
used.
@. What is the difference between
The ana lnS IuAl-
tars?"-G. w.
A. The Pilgrims were those 102
Puritans, members of John Robin
sons Church at Leyden, who. on
September 6, 1920. sailed from Ply
mouth in the "May1ower," to seek
freedom of worship in New Eng
land. The Puritans were a large
body of men and women who as
carly as in the days Of Queen Eliza
beth, wished to purge the ecclesi-
astical system" of what they called
"popish abuses" The term was
used as early as 1904.
q. When was Brooklyn bridge
built and how much did it COST
A. NJ. w.
A. Brooklyn bridge was begun
January 8, 1870. and opened May
"a. 1883. 1t cost 1909 12. The
cost of the land used wa ~$7.1S5,165
making a total cost of S25,09d,5I7.
@. What is the record for wire
less message "a. L. c.
4. Probably the record for wire
.ess communication was establish
Ell recently when q message was
sent from Cavite. Philippine Is
lands, to Washington. a distance Of
more than 10000 miles, in three
minutes. The message was relayed
via Goat Island and San Diego by
automatic relay devices.
Q. What is the origin of the ex-
preston manners of a Chester
field &C. B. N.
A. The Earl of Chesterfield
dates 1694-1774-was a famous
| courtier and statesman whose youth
was spent as a member of the house
| hold of the Prince of Wales, later
George II. His fame is based large
ly on his letters to his son., wherein
he endeavored to preach to him the
graces rather than the morals of
society. Chesterfield has been call
ed 1.-The most elegant of mankind"
Q. What are the postal regula-
tions regarding a mail order busi-
negs?-D. z. A
A. The P~ostofice Department
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31
Remarkable Remarks

'In no other land are so many
homes wrecked bY divorce."-Inter-
national Reform Bureau.
"BoIshevist government is the
most despotic government that has
ever been known in the history of
man."-Morris Schwartz, Russian
born Socialist.
ireland will fight to the bitter
end for complete independence
Archbishop Mannix.
mo settlement COT the Irish ques-
tion) can be reached except through
a truce which hourly becomes appar-
emily more difficult. Lord North
cliffe.
There is a strong probability of
recall of Charles of H~apSburg to the
throne of Hungary. This move will
threaten world peace."-Bf. Charles
Epson Clark, formerly of Yale Uni
versity.
IF you are a business woman,
substitute the backbone for the
Mrs. Frank Boyce Topper. Boston
University.
"a war between Japan and the
United States is very unlikely
Sydney Stephens. American mer'
chant at Kobe. Japan.
"I feel that had I stopped working
ten years ago I would be dead now
General ]. Warren Keifer. eighty
five, former speaker of House o,
Representatives.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31
Luke NIcLuke Saws

A hunk of stained glass looks nice in a church
window, but it looks different in the ring.
Even if our paper currency was covered with
liquid glue, some men couldn't hang on to any
of it.
After he has been married for six months, a
youth begins to note the difference between the
Parental roof and the Pay-Rental roof.
Eskimos and Church Janitors are not sup
posed to know anything about ventilation.
After a girl has gotten over being thin she
has to start in and try to get over being fat.
A bartender was a man who listened to your
troubles and kept his troubles to himself. And
there amt any more bartenders.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

a y that there is no law preventing
a person or persons from having
a mail order business, SO long as
they give what they advertise to
the public. The law does not allow
any false or exaggerated advertis-
ing. If a person uses this, he will
have his mail stopped at once by
the postal authorities. Unused
stamps can be sold to individuals.
express companies or stores. A
person may receive mail, and have
a checking account under a ficti-
tious name, but cannot sign it to
any legal papers. In advertising. a
person must be careful not to
aggerate; for instance, "the great
est is an expression that is for
hidden.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31
SWE TO QUESTIONS

Any reader can get the answer to
any question by writing The Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau, Frederic j.. Haskin. Direc
applies strictly to information. The
bureau cannot give advice on legal.
medical and financial troubles. 1t
does not attempt 10 settle domestic
troubles. nor to undertake exhaus-
tive research on any subject. Write
YOU. question plainly and briefly.
Give full name and address and en-
close two cents in stamps for return
postage. All replies are sent direct
to the inquirer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

The best thing for Perth Amboy to do is to
put its main business street in fit condition and
trust to the future for reimbursement. Espec-
ally should the crossing at High and Smith
streets be made passable for the enormous traf-
sie that will soon be turning that corner.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

He peddles rugs, but he's not bugs.
And some day he'll have wealth.;
He walks so much to sell his rugs
That he's in rugged health.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31
Tho Ready Letter Writer.

From a letter received by a CINCINNATI tirm
from a Toledo, Ohio. firm:
I'VE have the honor to ask you regarding
painting roller mills cts. We are able to do the
work in reasonable price and IN satisfaction
guaranteed we are five brothers and doing the
work ourselfs also we have shelters and work
ingman like hoping to appreciate us we are able
to hasting at your service as soon as possible"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31
Notice!
now

If you think | should be boosted. boost me now
while / am here,
While I'm Iiving let your kind remarks be
said;
1 don't want your ~epitaffy when I'm sleeping on
my bier,
For / cannot hear your boosting when I'm
dead,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31
BITS OF BYPLAY
BY Luke McLuke.
Copyright, 1890. by The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Ho. HUM

The melancholy days are come,
The saddest of the year;
For spring don't seem the same old thing
When there is no Book Beer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

Crude oil prices have been cut in two. but
gasoline made from the crude oil continues
high. How about it, Standard Oil?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

Butchers say the average family is buyinl
less meat. Depression may starve some of u
into good health, but that's poor consolation
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

That American Hall of Fame might include
the fellow who started the story that tobacco
smoke is good for plants so he could smoke
in the house.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

(HOuStOn, Texas, Post.J
I'VE always dodge a man when he is drunk,
saws Luke McLuke. Yes, when he's drunk, it is
a pretty good sign he has drunk 1t all up and
thrown the bottle away.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

AS cost Of living drops. the landlord who
doesn't cut rents is in effect raising them. fol-
his dollar steadily buys more.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31
The Wise Fool.

1T is a proud thing to be able to say that you
are a self-mad man. observed the sage.
rs that sol" commented the fool. -
Don't you think there is a little credit coming
to the woman's auxiliary?
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31
Then 1t Happened!

What is the difference between a painting
and a condemned man % asked the cheerful idiot
"Well, I'll bite" replied the wise guy. "Mnaes
the difference 2"
You can't hang a painting until after it has
been executed" replied the cheerful idiot.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

Willie-Paw, what is meant by pride soetn
before a fall?"
Paw-Tnat is when a fool is showing off on
a motorcycle, my son.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

wears man has been hunting a perfect

For years man has been hunting a perfect
woman. But what we started TO tell you was
that Mrs. A. Perfect, of 1T. Wayne, Ind, was
registered at a hotel in Martfnsville. Ind, last
week.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31
With Apologies to Horace Gre

With Apologies 20 Horace UfttIe!'
Go West, young mani Don't be a slob!
Go West. young man! Don't be a geek!
Go get yourself a movie job
AT forty thousand bucks per week!
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

oINnhth ~ oNhti1H
-Four Irishmen went to a bathing beach neal
Boston one Saturday afternoon. At 10 O'Clock
that night Mrs. Callahan's door bell rang. She
opened the door and O'Brien was standing with
his hat in his hand.
Mrs. Callahan said O'Brien, your husband
will not be home this night"
AN why won't hep demanded Mrs. Gala
han.
well. his bathing suit was lost in the ocean
down at the beach this afternoon replied
O'Brien.
"What has that to do with his not coming
home?" asked Mrs. Callahan.
well" replied O'Brien. Your husband was
inside the bathing suit
No Birds Like These.
A rare young man
Is Oswald Pokes;
He doesn't laugh
At his own jokes.
Luke McLuhe.
Rare among men
Is Abner Lock;
He's silent when
You want to talk.
Canton (Ohio) News.
We find this in a syndicated column of medi-
cal advlce:
eyes or head?-A Reader.
Alt will cause them to grow thicker"
Bet Helen Wasn't Settin' Pretty.
(Liberty, Ind, Express,)
Helen Henry was sick Sunday night and had
TO be set up with.
Names Is Names.
Page Wilson lives in Urbana, Ohio.
Our Daily Special.
Eternal Vigilance Is The Price of a Good
Figure.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

Plebiscite: Heads I win, tails you lose"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

Our Daily Special.
Eternal Vigilance Is The Price of a Good
Figure.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-31

Page Wilson lives in Urbana, Ohio.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-10-27
BLOW THAT SHOCKED DADDY
Old Gentleman Now Naturally Fears
He Has Lost the Confidence
Of His Neighbors.

Susan was having her first beau, q
youngster who drove truck. And
often when he came to Susan's home
at night, since he lived In the other
part Of town, he came in the truck.
The family continually twitted her
about 1t, saying such things as n
suppose the neighbors will think we're
having our coal hauled at night" or
"our -four" or some other cOmnod-
ity.
But one evening even father was
Mortified when one Of the ten-year-old
boys in the neighborhood said limo
Gently: my pa said that your pa
would get pinched some night IL he
didn't quit having so much booze
hauled here after dark"
Investigation disclosed the fact that
the truck that stood at their door one
evening each week was an old brew
cry truck.-Indianapolis News.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1921-10-27
WOMEN NEED SWAMP-ROOT

Thousands Of women have kidney and
bladder trouble and never suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in healthy
condition, they may cause the other or
ganf to become diseased.
Pain in the back, headache, loss of am.
bition, nervousness, are often times symp-
toms of kidney trouble.
Don't delay starting treatment. DR.
Kilmer's Swamp Root, a physicians pre-
0cription, obtained atNany drug store, may
be just the remedy needed to overcome
such conditions.
Get medium or large size bottle i'm
mediately from any drug store.
However, if you wish first to test thil
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Advertiseme