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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20
A "Nfodern" Cane.

"a friend in Chicago has presented
Julius Bermann with cane that is
something Of novelty here, but is said
to be more or less common in some of
the larger cities. 1t is rather heavy
cane. BY removing the head, long
glass tube is revealed running the full
length of the cane The supposition is
that 1t would be quite possible to carry
certain contraband wet goods in this
t.lhe--provided one could get the
goods
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20
Kamrar Affairs.

J. J.. Kist was a business caller In
Peterson Tuesday.
II. A. Hendricks has bought the
Screnson Bros building and will move
it to his vacant lot.
Misses Jennie and Esther Cordes
autoed to Webster City Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nels p. Hanson return
eel home Monday from weeks visit
with their son Harry and family al
Jackson. MINI.
Glen Kennedy of Clarion visited his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. ]. B. Kennedy
Sunday.
The Childrcn's day program at the
NJ. L. church was well attended. There
were seventeen baptisms.
Misses Esther Berryhill and Alice
Carson returned Thursday from sew
cral days visit at the Ed Halliday home
near Webster City.
Grover Gilbert left Monday for Var
Vert, where he has employment this
summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Alexander, Mr.
and Mrs. Otto Christensen and Millart
Riley returned Thursday from DE:
Moines, where they attend the Shriner
cGnclave.
DIR. w. w. Wyatt Of Webster Cit!
was a professional caller here Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. Kennedy wen
to Clarion Friday for few days visi
with their son Glen and family.
The young people had a surprise
party on Mr.. and Mrs. Hilko JOne:
Thursday evening. They all report ;
good time. At a late hour refreshment:
were served.
Mrs. Matte BRANDON and Mrs. o. L
Gilbert and daughter Violet and Jennie
DcGroot were Webster City caller:
Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. c. Nelson and sol
Melbourne and Willard Riley and Littl'
| MISS lOltl duloNurNO WIDOW
City Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Chris Nelson and daugil
ter Gladys and Miss Florence JaycO!
were Webster City callers Sunday even
ing
Miss Mildred Seamands visited Mt TIL
+. w. Brewer home near Webster Cit!
Saturday night.
Geo. Seal returned to Fort DOdg'
Saturday after spending week il
kamrar.
Grace Arnold entertained her Sunda.
school class Friday afternoon at he
home north of town. The girls all en-
joyed themselves and are hoping SOM
one else will give them party.
Mrs. F. p. Mckay and small Sol
Francis of Webster City visited few
days this week at the s. G. Thompson
,homc.
June 10.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

This hot weather is hard on many
things as well as hard on the human
race and trying to the human disposi-
ton. Even the cement sidewalks seem
to have suffered in many places from
the torrid heat Of the sun, bulging and
buckling where proper measures to al
low for expansion have not been TAX
en- Cement workers didn't use to I'M
derstand the necessity of expansion
joints in sidewalks and the older side
walks are being damaged more by the
heat than those laid more recently.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20
Kills SO Gopl,ers.

j.. w. Jones Of Fremont township
last week brought to the COMFY audi
tors Office u gophers feet, making
claim for the bounty on the SO gophers
which he had killed. The bounty on
these animals is 10 cents each. A
total Of $40 has been paid out thus
far this year in gopher bounties. ss1
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

resistance, it explodes or burns. Hence,
il home were to be piped with this
gas, there would be no danger from
a leak, so far as fire is concerned. When
Intensely hot blaze. At the Bundy plant
Saturday, the Freeman-Journal man
saw this fame burn aluminium as easily
and as quickly as the average gasoline
torch will melt solder-and aluminium
is one Of the hardest of the metals to
melt. AS to what this intense heat may
he used for, the company are making
no claims other than that they have II
cheap heat, hotter by far than that Of
any other gas. The possibility of de-
veloping this into heating plants and for
other uses are many, but just at pres
cnt the company is putting all its efforts
on the generator, with the idea that it
is bound to revolutionize the gasoline
industry.
To Have Factory Here.
It is their plan to get factory
building here, or. possibly erect one of
their own, and manufacture this genera
tor for the wholesale and retail trade.
The generator is absolutely fool proof"
and would be the last thing on any car
to break down. 1t needs no attention.
makes the cleaning out or burning out
of engine cylinders unnecessary and it
makes use of every bit Of power in the
gasoline because there is no waste
through residue-due alone to the gas
being dry instead Of vaporized. 1t has
been thoroughly tested by the company
in every conceivable way and experts
from many factories have seen it.
There is nothing marvellous, however, in
its working. Mr.. Bundy has simply
applied-and this is all he claims for it
the principle Of making dry gas
from gasoline instead Of vapOr, a
thing which engineers for years have
known would sometime come and which
authorities believe will revolutiOnize the
gasoline engine industry.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

Mr. and Mrs. Paul +. NickerSOn have
moved from their fiat over the Hanra-
Ian & O'Connor shoe store to rooms in
the Geo. s. Necl home Mr.. and Mrs.
l.. N. Fear. of Waterloo. who are mov-
ing here. will occupy the former Nick
erson suite. Mr.. Fear is brother of
J. X. Fear of this city He will engage
in road work here for this county.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Furman of Jewel!
and the latter's visiting father OF
Waterloo were guests at the home OF
Mr.. Furman's parents. Mr. and Mrs. a
A. Furman, in this city yesterday.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20
Car Hits Buggy.

"A buggy in which Mr.. and Mrs. +. A.
Kinman and Mrs. Robert Lewis were
riding last night was struck by an
auto on. Bank street in front of the
lower city park. The car was driven
by two men. They did not even stop
The Kinman buggy was damaged and
Mrs. Lewis quite badly shaken up. tysa
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Kiddcr and
daughter, Miss Ardys Kidder, and Mr..
and Mrs. ID. A. Barnes and children
spent yesterday at Clear Lake They
made the trip in the Barnes car.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. c. Tucker and Mrs
Ella NJ. Jennings mOtored to Ames yes.
terday and spent the afternoon with
MI. and Mrs. G. l.. Caswell. Mr.. Cas-.
we'll is field secretary for the Iowa Press
association.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

The hands on the city clock haven't
been working faithfully the past few
weeks. They have been late most of
the time. They ought to be discharge
and more reliable ones put upon the
job.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. W.
NJ Hicks, who reside on the Alexander
Groves farm, near Kamrar, was buried
this morning in Graccland cemetery.
The little one was dead at birth.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

The Misses Elizabeth Hoffman, Ger
trmde Stebbins, Mary Tilghman and
Olive Flack expect to motor to Blairs-
burg this evening to attend chautauqua
now being held there.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

WANTED salesmen. Experience not
necessary. Big money.maker. Adj
dress H." care of Freeman Journal.
.m: j.d-Mf-d-T-tf
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Kane and daugh-
ter, Miss Beatrice, drove to Charles
City Saturday where they will spend
two weeks with relatives and friends.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

The fire truck took run to Pleas
ant street Saturday night. 1t was
thought that lightning had struck there
somewhere, but it was false alarm.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

Hugh Marin is building fine new
porch on his north side home-formerly
the C. w. Soule property.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Ray w. Miller and
daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. J. Il. White
and Mr. and Mrs. G. III. Currie and chill
dren motored to Ames yesterday.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Seymour Eichman and
Mr.. and Mrs. Vivian Mccullough en-
joyed an outing at Cellar Lake ycster-
day.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

WANTED competent girl for general
:housework. Apply to Mrs. s. B.
Bair, $40 Wilson avenue. Phone 2S9.
- 20d2f1j1
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

Theodore Bowen of Maxwell is in tho
city for visit with his brother, S. c
Bowen and family.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

Miss Helen Fort, who is employed in
the Woolworth store, is enjoying a
weeks vacation from her duties.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

Miss Dollie Copper, saleslady in the
Eichman store, spent Sunday at he,
home in Lake City.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20

Lewis Hansel of Ellsworth was a
business caller in this city Saturday.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-06-20
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
BRIEF NEWS NOTES

Mrs. Ben Segar of Woodstock was a
visitor in the city Saturday.
The spectator., 1921-10-07
Miss Kirby Lee Smith Honored

Miss Kirby Lee Smith, daugh- ter of Rev. J. K. Smith of this place, has been elected President of Student Council in Central Col lege at Conway, where she is at- tending school. This is a very important position and is d much coveted honor in that institution. and to be able to win this place over young ladies from all over Arkansas and from other states shows that Miss Smith is an ex- ceptionally talentedt and popular young lady. Her grades show that she is doing splendid work in college.
The spectator., 1921-10-07
Farmers Union Wants
 County Agents.

At a regular session of the South Franklin County Farmers Union held with Vesta local Sept ember 30 and October lst. A large representation of the diff ferent locals besides many lay members were present. C. M. Tuggle County Agent for the Ft. Smith district of Sebastian County was present by special invitation and gave some very wholesome instructions. to the delegates. A resolution asking the coming leveying court to ap- propriate money for four demon strators passed unanimously. Potts local at a recent meeting asked the whole people to be pre- sent. The same resolution pass ed in their mass mee ting I49 to l. Webb City also passed 1t by a large moi ority.
 Subscriber.
The spectator., 1921-10-07
Which Way Up Or Down?

It was rare poetic vision and understanding of human lives which inspired the verse:
 Heaven is not reached at a
 single bound.
 We build the ladder by which
 we rise
 From the lowly earth to the
 vaulted skies
 And we mount to the summit
 round by round"
 The poet might have also written the contrast in similar vein, for we never leap from the heights to the depts "at a single bound" Humans who travel downward. descend round by round" also. The valleys which opens the way to the depths are nearly always beautiful entic- ing. Flowers of pleasure and scenes and senses which lure dot the way. It is step by step but every step downword. Not until the closing in of the way begin to shut out the sunlight of heaven do young men and women often become conscious that the way leadsi downward.
 And from there on. none who have not tread the downward way know nor can realize the pitful struggles to find the way back: to throw off the shackles and the gripping lures that drag back kward the tra veler who would return to the heights. The shadows and the menace of the precipice at the end of the down. ward way, grow heavier and darker; and more and more ines capable.
 These two ways are not poeti-
The spectator., 1921-10-07
A Card of Thanks

We take this method of eX- tending our heartfelt thanks to those who attentively helped to wait on our husband and father, Eld. J. F. Oneal. through his ill., ness and death. Also for the many beautiful flowers for the funeral occasion.
 Sincerly.
 His Wife aud Children.
The spectator., 1921-10-07

tom, and that the water be treat ed with lime.
 If Dr. Perdue is right the country has the wrong concep- tion of pellagra and what cause. it. If he is wrong, the public health service should refute his statements. Regardless of it's cause. the disease has spread to an extent that makes means of eradicating it of great import ance.- K. c. Weekly.
The spectator., 1921-10-07

This is Fire Prevention Week." and it is opened in this section with a milho dollar fire in Morrilton. Fortunately for the losers, the loss was covered by insurance. But insurance does not eliminate fire loss it merely distributes it, and passes the loss from the individual to a large number of policy holders who jointly bear the burden. Every fire is a net loss. whether covered by insurance or not
 -Russellvillc CD.
The spectator., 1921-10-07
Cifcuit;. Court Docket
CRIMINAL

Hoyt Jeffers attempt to cause abortion; plea guilty. fine $50 and 30 days in jail.
 J. w. Tennison. appeal from mayor court, charge with trans porting liquor; continued for next term of court for absence of wit ness.
 Melvin Jackson, contempt of court; dismissed at cost of de- fendanr.
 Roy Jones contempt of court; dismiss ed at cost of defe ndant. Troy Sells. disturbing the peace; jury trial; not guilty.
 Troy Sells. disturbing the peace: jury trial; fine $l.
 Troy Sells. drukenness: jury trial: not guilty.
 John Tefdord. refusing to work the road. dimissed at the cost of the defendant.
 Lloyd Bowman. drunkenness mol pros.
 John Hill, selling liquor: jury trial not guilty.
 James Stevens. obtaining goods and money under false pretens e; plea of guilty: l year in penitenti ary.
 H. B. Johnson. overdraft: dis. missed at cost of defendant.
 Raymod Powell and Zeke Burns; drunkenness: plea of guilty: both fined $1O.
 CIVIL
 Geo. Pearson vs. Western Coal & Mining Go: settled and dismiss ed at cost of defendant.
 A. N. Altman vs. Central Coal Go; plaintiff elects to take a non- suit.
 Liquor Carbine Co. vs.; Model Drug Co.,; judgment by consent $2lO. ..,...
 In the matter of Jury Commis sioners: w. 1. Agee. Geo. A. Rankin. and N. B. Burrow were empannelled and selected men for jurors for the February term of court.
 The petit juries were discargeo Tuesday at noon, and after hear ing the Bill versus Mckinney suit Tuesday afternoon. court adjourned.
The spectator., 1921-10-07
Methodist Sunday School

Opened on time with q good attendance. Every teacher in the school in their place which shows good indication.
 The classes all seem to be do- ing good work. This week Miss Lula McWhorter tells us about Bartholomew.
 Bartholomew
 Bartholomew Is the son of Tal- mai, and one of the twelve apos- ties Eusebius and Jerome relate that Hantaenus, q christian mis- sionary of the second century. found in India, the gospel of Matthew written in Hebrew, which had been left there by Bartholomew. It is said Bar- tholomew preached is different parts of Asia. and at last his body was skined alived. then crucified with his head down. wards, at Albauopolis in Arm enia. His corpse was miraculously conveyed to the Island of Lipari. near the northern coast of Sicily. but later it was transferred to Beneven,o in the Southern part of Italy, and in A. D. 9S3 to Rome.
 St. Bartholomew day is cele- brated Aug. 25th in Rome. Bar tholomew is almost certainly indentical with Nathanael. The proof of this:Q) Philip and Nath- anael are associated together by John, even as Philip and Bar tholomew are in l, he parallel pas sages of the Synopties; (2) Bartholomew is not mentioned in Johns list of the twelve, but Nathannael is: while the synoptie do not mention Nathanael in the list, but do Bartholomew. It is likely that he had two names. as so many others did. In Johns Gospel our lord extols Nathanael as 'an Israelite indeed. in whom is no guile.'
The spectator., 1921-10-07
What Causes PeI|agra?

Dr. F. M. Perdue, a Kansas City physician, has a rather startling article in the current issue of the Manufacturers Re- cord in which he differs with the United States pu bile health ser vice regarding the cause and treatment of pellagra. the disease that has been prevalent in the South. and which IS generally attributed to subsistence to a one-sided diet. Dr. Perdue says the public health service prop aganda" is objectionable for the following reasons:
 l. As to cause and remedy of pellagra 1t is wholly untrue.
 2. As to recudesence and pre- valence of pellagra it is mislead- ing and alarmist in its natue.
 3 It flagrantly misrepresents the South.
 1 It creates newspaper epidemic for the purpose of se- curing an appropriation of Sl50. GOO.
 The public health service, af- ter the conclusion of it's investi- gations, announced the disease could be produced by the contin- uonS administration of a diet con- sisting to a large extent of pro- tens. It's conclusions were based upon an experiment per formed on Mississippi state pen itentiary farm A number of convict were given an unbalanc- en diet for an extended period, after which they developed a diseased which the health ser vice physician diagnosed as pellagra.
 Here is where MT. Perdue takes issue with the government auth critics. These men." he says, were fed the same meal three times a day for nine months. This was calculated to kill the most hardy. When one of them developed sympt m of scurvy, Dr. Challenger and his conferees made the previously agt eed upon diagnosis of pell4- gra. and their reports were pub. lished and circulated with the prestige and under the frank of the United States government. U Dr. Perdue believes the most authentic researches regarding pellagra have been made by Prof. Guila Alessandrini and Prof. Albert Scala. emment Italian scientists, who "definitly and finally" determined that the disease is caused by drinking soft water coming from clay soi containing no alkalis. and that il can be cured by a hyperdermit administration of a 10 per .cent solution citrate, \
 The Italianscientists also have devised means of prevention. According to Dr. Perdue, they direct that wells and springs bt cleaned out an walled with lime stone; that they be clrbed, SC that clay may not wash in iron the top: that a quantity of broker limestone be placed in the bot
The spectator., 1921-10-07

I'll. McSwain of Enterprise, Johnson county. was transactlng business in Ozark yesterday and called at The Spectator office to join our list of readers in that community.
The spectator., 1921-10-07

cal imagiings. The eye of understanding can note them and those who are traveling one or other of them day by day among those whose lives eaily touch ours. The primrose paths which enter the downward valley road are merry every day with the voices and the songs of thoughtless boys and girls. Farther down the valley we can catch glimpses of those who have entered the darker trails and are struggling with the chains of habit, of indulged license, of slipping moral an chors. And occasionally we hear the last call of the one who have plunged over the final precipice and will wokennb o mo more in our lives.
 And not alone individuals but society itself has part in bulld- ing and strengthing the ladder by which we climb" Society itself digs the pitfalls and spreads the lures which marks the downward valley. The one who go over the precipice did not build. but only travelled the valley downward. Society's and mothers and fathers iblin d ness make the primrose paths and the valley lures possible.
 Society has knowledge of that valley and itself planted many of the lures. Society sets up few warning sign boards but closes it's eyes to the pitfalls. Tt will be somebody else's boy or girl and not mine. who will go, over the precipice" and society takes little note. Mine will come back" Even when one goes over and out of. life CT hope society refuses to bear it's share of responsibility for the boys and girls who daily along the primrose path.
 Wild oats and they do things and look at things differently now" says society. and it turns it's back with a shrug when reaping day comes.
 These things come more closely home to our everyday life than most people are willing to admit. For the first time young man dons the handkerchief and takes to the night street with a gun. his very weapon waves to the man at it's muzzle the truth that here is another who has just gone over. Society tolerates a cesspool and the girl who goes through it downward is another call of society. The young man risks his employers money and another society trap lures downward. Thus beckOn a thousand lures of the primrose path. It's all part of 1921 life settings and what story it te Ills of the responsibility of those whose duty it is to point and lead to the right choice between up and down.
 Exchange.
The spectator., 1921-10-07

of Chattanooga. where they will be the guests of the Chattanooga citizens. It will help us if you get word to all the soldiers who are coming that are able 10 pay their way we are going to get them accommodations at the most reasonable rates that have ever been secured in any convention city.
 We would like for you to advise this office directly by return mail just how many you think can be depended upon to come from your locality.
 Yours very truly.
 w. N. Hudiburg. Chairman of the Executive Com mittee.
 To Veterans and Sons of Veterans:
 Chattanooga will entertain the Thirty-First Annual Reunion of the U. c. T. on October p. 26, and 27; the Twenty-Second An nual Convention of the Confede- rate Memorial Association on October "A. 25, 26. 27; and the Twety. Sixth Annual Reunion of the Sons of Confederate Veterans on the same date. Chattanooga is making every effort to make this reunion the greatest that has even been, and 1 am request ed to extend to you cordial in- vitations to come to that city on this occasion. You can get rates in private homes of from $l to S2 per day for lodging and break fast, Hotel prices range from $l to $3 per day. am anxious to have the name of the Sponsors Maids and Chape rones, together with photographs of same with name and title of each written plainly on the back of the photo graph. We have been asured of the rate of one cent per mile on all the roads in the South. We are going to make this re- union with old soldier one that they will never forget. It will not be possible for us to maintain a free mess hall, on account of the shortness of time. but our committee is preparing to take care of all the old soldiers in private homes who cannot pay their way.
 Fraternal'y.
 H. C. Hunt
 The above was published at the request of members of the Fitzhugh Lee Camp. U. c. ", of this place, for the benefit of any one who wants to attend the re- union.