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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1922-02-20
". C., jewell,
RANDALL WIN
Three Towns Will Send De-
clamatOry Contestants
to Pre-District
Contest.
SUB-DISTRICT HELD
Louis Macg0ey, Florence
Williams, Vernon Sick
enger Chosen.

Louis MAcgoey. of this city. Florence
Williams Randall. and Vernon Sicken
ger. Jewell. winners in the humorous
dramatic and oratOrical divisions res
pcctivcly of the Snb-diStrict declaml
tory contcs. held Friday evening in the
auditorium of Lincoln high school. will
90 10 the pre-diStrici contest to be held
ut time and place not yet announced
Thirteen towns were represented at the
contest here Friday night.
The contest. which was largely at
tended was said TO be one of the finest
ever held here. All taking part did
great credit to themselves. their
schools. and their Instructors.
The program was opened with music
by !he fourth grade boys under the
direction of Miss Meta Robinson. Be-
tween the variouS divisions of the pro-
gram. the audience joined in commu-
nifty singing, led by G. NJ. Ross.
Speakers Show Training.
The contest was interesting and all
the speakers showed careful prepare
lion There were three selections in the
uratorical class. six in the dramatic.
and four in the humorous.
Vernon Sickengcr, who won the ora
torical. read THE Race Problem of the
South" Miss Williams won the dra-
matte division with "Twcnty-tive Years
After" and Louis Macgocy took the
humorous with THE Tar Fight"
The Webster City high school is TO
he heartily congratulated upon winning
IL place in the pre-diStrict declamatory
contest
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1922-02-20
Homer.

Fred Jones. of Flugstad, was in this
vicinity buying cattle Thursday.
Nj. and Mrs. NJ. G.. .Iuhl and Girls
Iuhl visited at thc V. V. Vcgors home
Friday.
The Heads Bros. of Jefferson, were
over looking after their farm Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Frost from STRAIT
ford viii move into Homer this spring.
Clyde Naylor is moving on the II.
+ Vcgors' farm. west of town.
Ward Carson. of Webster City, was
in this ncighborhood buying horses
Monday.
Il. +. Daily. of Webster City, is
spending the week end with his sister,
Mrs. j. o. johnson.
\ good many from here attended the
j. {. Richie sale south Of Stratforl
Thursday.
Fl. l.. Corbn. +. \. Lekscll and w. II.
Johnson drove down to Des Moines
Wednesday.
]. p. Harrison and family drove TO
Webster City Tuesday.
W. u. VegOrS. of near Lehigh, was
calling in this vicinity Thursday.
Frank ellison will move to Webster
City March l.
John Il. Barr of Fort Dodge will
move back on his farm. two miles
southwest of town, March L.
Eph IL
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1922-02-20
Real Estate Transfers.

Sevig-lOt S blk 4 David Jewels Add
Jewell Jct.-S2J0
Norman V. Anderson and VT to ii. II.
Hoyt-lUt 3 blk > W. +. & Co. Add W.
C--$1.OO.
George .lcwctt and VT TO Blunicc II.
Browne y g y sw of NV of SO and
tract 32-S92J-Sl
Patrick Roach to Frank Brewer
lots 6 and blk % W. +. e. Co. Add
W. C.-$23O.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1922-02-20

{. OsmundSon who has been in the
hospital AT Rochester, Mimi. for the
past seven weeks. returned home Friday
evening. He had the legation opera
ton for gotcr performed while there
and will return in the spring to have
the Soiicr removed. Mrs. OsmundSon.
who has been with him fer the past
three weeks accompanied him home.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1922-02-20
Finger ,Annputated.

DR.. +. !. Drake had the third finger
of his left hand amputated and also
underwent one or two minor operations
at Mercy hospital Thursday morning.
The doctor has been troubled with a
growth upon his hand for
some time. caused by operating an
NRay machine several years ago.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1922-02-20
The Hearts Guests.
When age has rast it's shadows

When age has rast its shadows
Over life's declining way,
When evening twilight gathers
Round our retiring day.
Then shall we sit and ponder
On the dim and shadowy past,
In the hearts silent chamber
The guests will gather fast.
Guests that in youth we cherished
Shall come to us once more,
And we shall hold communion
AS in the days before;
They may he dark and somber.
They may be bright and fair;
But the heart will have its chamber.
The guests will gather there.
How shall it he, my sisters,
Who will be our hearts guest?
How shall it he. my brothers,
When life'S shadows on us rest?
Shall we not mind the silence
Hear voices sweet and lOw
Speak the old familiar language.
The words of long ago?
Shall we not see dear faces
Sweet smiling as of old?
Til the mists of that long chamber
Are sunset clouds Of gold.
When age has cast its shadows
\ Over LIES declining way.
When evening twilight gathers
Round our retiring day
Mrs Jack Purcell,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1922-02-20
* X * X 4 X j. X X X \
MARKET REVIEW.

Chicago. Feb. IS. especially The
| United States bureau OF markets today
| furnished the following market review
! for the week
Grain.
| All grain sold at new high points
| during the week. Principal market
| factors were: Close adjust of world
supply and demand, higher foreign
ma rkcts, unfavorable crop reports from
southwest and Argentina, and improv-
ed milling and flour demand. Closing
prices in Chicago cash market: No.
red winter wheat S134 No . hard win
ter wheat S1.32; No. > mixed corn 51c:
No. 2 yellow corn sc; No. 3 white oats
about 36ac. Average farm prices: No.
liked corn in central Iowa about 44c:
No 1 dark Northern wheat in central
North Dakota S1.32a No. , hard Win
ter wheat in central Kansas S1.2O. For
the week Chicago May wheat advanced
L5a net closing at S137s: Chicago May
corn up cents at G2d Minneapolis
May wheat up AZ cents at S1.40i ; Kan
sas City May wheat up "a cents ut
81 2Ga; Winnipeg May wheat up q
cents at S1.34a.
Hay.
Receipts generally lighter and mar
kcts ruled firm to higher. Fairly good
demand at most markets. Good quail
ity alfalfa wanted at Chicago. Quoted
Feb. IT, No. timothy New York 500.
Philadelphia S24. Pittsburgh $3.50.
Cincinnati $50, Chicago $22.5O, Mem
phiS 500. No. alfalfa Chicago $3.50,
Memphis S2j. M. l prairie Chicago
So. !
Live Stock and Meats.
Chicago hog prices advanced Il tot
40 cents during the week, heavy hogs
advancing most. Beef steers generally
steady with some of the cheaper grades |
up 10 to % cents. Butcher cows and
heifers weak to 20 cents lower: feeder
steers generally II to % cents higher. |
Fat lambs advanced steadily, tOday'S
prices ranging from 80 cents to $1.1O
higher than that of week ago. Year
lings up 80 to Is cents. feeding lambs |
generally p cents. Feb. II Chicago
prices: Hogs top 5000; bulk of sales |
$9.S5.S1O.25; medium and good beef
steers S7.25-S9.15; butcher cows and
leifers $3.90-$7.75; feeder steers S5.35-
$7.2j; light and medium weight veal
calves SSH: fat lambs $13.25-$15.S5:
feeding lambs Sl1.IO-$13.:O: yearlngs
S10.5O-S14; fat ewes $550-$S.7j. Stock
or and feeder shipments from II impOr-
tant markets during the week ending |
Feb. 10 were: Cattle and calves 90
SOS: hogs 1850; sheep 32Ojj. Eastern
Wholesale fresh meat prices advanced. |
Pork loins advanced 1888: mutton ST.
50: lamb S1-S2; beef 80 cents to 81 ;
veal firm 10 81 higher. Feb II prices
good grade meats: Beef $12.5O-$14
veal S16-S20 lamb $25-$2S mutton 3d.
Slc, lSnt PORK IONS SlC-SgO; npaVy |
lOinS $14-S17.
Dairy Products.
Butter markets irregular at begin.
ming of week but steady to firm ut |
close. Closing prices % score: New
York 3S: Chicago 3G1a Philadelphia
3d. Boston 371h.
Rp(ecOrate Millinery DEPARTMENT.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1922-02-20
Dairy Products.

Butter markets irregular at begin.
ming of week but steady to firm ut
close Closing prices % score: New
York IS: Chicago 3G1a y; Philadelphia
3d.: Boston 371h.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26

critic his opinion of prohibition was irresistible. He smiled a faintly ironical smile before he answered:
 It was in dry America that I got drunk for the first time in my life.' he said. Your compatriots are, l be- lieTe. the most hospitable people in the world. Everyone that met in sisted on sharing with me whatever little stock of alcohol he could as~ semble. and with such an air of be- slowing a truly regal favor that re- lusai was impossible.
 Anyhow" he unused. lone must drink something and between in toxicating oneself with distilled spirits and wrecking ones digestion with ice cream and fantastic mix lures of sweet syrups and ice cream, the former Is to be chosen without hesitation.
 But don't imagine share ths opinion Of so many Americans that the permitting of wines and beer would bring an end to the illicit traf- fife Tn spirits Most of those I met pressed frank distain for wine. Wine is not a substitute for whisky any more than whisky is a substl- tute for cocaine.
 "No. I see no reason for an Euro- pean to quarrel with America's de- cision on the prohibition question. on the contrary. it seems to me dis tinctly American trait to wish to re- form the world in its own image. Americans generally seem to havs the idea that if Europe were only more like America it would be far better off"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26
ADAMS0N TRACTOR LOCOMOTIVE IN NEW ORLEANS Fl
nr GnANr GnRnnN
Fly NhANI GohOON rial Correspondent cf The Age Herald 1929. by The Age c-Hcrald)

tCOpyEAEnts ioses DN Aut +ANt-ANt"iNf
 Paris. February 25.-"Thc thing that puzzled me the most about your country" said the Frenehman who just returned from America, was the startling contrast between your hotels and sleeping cars,
 When I arrived in New York I went to a hotel that boasted priv ate bath for every guest. When I travelled to Chicago, I spent 24 hours in a Pullman ear that had four wash basins for fifteen men. We herded into a tiny smoking compartment at eight a, m. and stood with our coats and waistcoats over our arms. wai-- ing our turn to wash and shave,
 After the lavish privacy of the New York hotel the promiscuity ot the American sleeping car is dis concerting | assure you that when 1 contemplated the sleeping arTange-- ments that first night in the train with a score of people of both sexes disposed on shelves in one vast com par tment. separated only by s5raEiag curtains. my first impulse was to pack my valise and alight at the next stop,
 T overcame the wild thought, but as l lay there behind that palpitating green drapery and listened to the low even breathing of those about me. I could not help imagining my self in some den of opium smokers and thinking that only the stupefy ing fumes of some lulling drug could make such a situation tolerable to my ultra modern American friends who built the hotel with 2,eo0 rooms. 2.0o0 baths,
 When finally the surprise of this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26
PLAYING yIOLINS

Essentially different from any thing in the nature of an automatic musical instrument is new group contro, violin player that was re- gently demonstrated in Chicago. as the first violin basis or an orchestra of 80 pieces. The new instrument. according to an illustrated article in the Popular Mechanics magazine. singly or in groups, is played from the Keyboard of a console by means of which the musician's fingers do exactly the same things-and more of them-that are done by yiciinist with the instrument in his hand. Moreover. from one keyboard one performer can. play any number O. ,violins. Each violin is a complete unit. and is mounted on a stand that is connected with the console by an electric cable controlled by a switch. A small motor on the violin stand rotates four celiuloid disks--one tS each sfring---that take the place ot the ordinary bow. but 60 what. tha. can never dc. because ihry ton play all four ahrtnss (; -,aoe- OrSer the ssrsrEz. 'zstead as oser them. gre the fingers .sa. are electrically -,n- Eei'ed by the keyboard and by sw 'eches on the usual lowing effects. Further control is by means of three pedals. one piano. ono forte, and the other for playing progressively. or simultaneously, on any number of violins desired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26
F k|DNEYSACT
 BAD TAKE SALTS Says Backache is sign you have been eating too
 much meat

When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means you have been eating too much meat. says a we'll known authority. Meat forms. uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they become sort of paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys get sluggish and clog you must relieve them, like you relieve your bowels; removing all the body's urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spells; your stomach sours, tongue Is coated. and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy. full of sediments. channels often get sore. water scalds and you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night.
 Either consult good reliable physician at once or get from your pharmacist about four ounces of lad Salts; take a tablespoonful in . glass of water before breakfast for . few days and your kidneys will then act fine This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and iea1on juice, combined with iith<L and hhs been used for g4reratiof.a to clean and sssrsxfats e.rg x..sa aisnsys. n,so to neetfn,&es acids in che srtne so 1t ao ierxsr irrftstes, thus erding 5Adder weAkness-
 Jad Salts Is a life saver for -egu- lar meat eaters. It Is inexpensive. cannot injure and makes delight full, effervescent Whitewater drink. Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26
FRENCHMAN FRANKLY PUZZLED BY
 AMERICAN SLEEPING CARS, WHICH
 DIFFER SO MUCH FROM EUROPEAN

situation wore off I discovered an other astonishing fact about Ameri- can railway travel and more than once longed heartily for some poppy or lotus to still my slumDer, ! thinS | had just lapsed into unconscious ness when there was a violent shock of steel against steel, l could not be sure a first whether it was zn earthquake or merely collision be- tween our train and another. I sat up in a cold precipitation, wondering impotentiy if 1t were worth while 10 make a gesture of saving my8eif To my surprise. the car seemed to oe still intact there was no shattered glass, no splintered wood no twisted iron. Not even the shricks of the wounded and dying were audible. ] pushed up the window curtain. All that had happened was that the train mad come to rest in railway sta ticn.
 "I sank back in relief. Soon, with norc clanking and 5oltins, the train resumed it's march westward A dozen times during the night. I -a.nk. tho experience was repeated. The last timc-Awhen I learned later thc dining car was attached--it seemed as if Vulcan and his wholly Olympian blacksmith shop were endeaYoring with gigantic hammers to pound tho train to bits.
 Why, when the simple introduc- ton of spring buffers at the ends of each car would make night travel almost q pleasure instead of a hide ous torture. Why you practical Americans will tolerate such nerve shatterinRs, will always remain one of the deepest mysteries of your nays terious land"
 Tho impulse to ask 90 frank [
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26
REAL PROGRESS IS SHOWN IN NATIONS
 COMMERCIAL LIF [
Coal Strike Only Real Cloud on Horizon-Freight Traf-
 fiC Heaviest in Sever al Years
By HARDEN CoLFAx ciaI Correspondent of The Age-Heraid ,onyriehf. 1929. by The Age-Heraldb

Washington, February ,25.-More freight is rolling over the rails tor day than in any February since 1919. Also, for the first time since the period of economic adjustment start ed, the traffic is heavier than it was during the corresponding period in 1921 or 1920.
 Corporations with authorized cap- ital stock of more than S2,000,0 0,000,0O9 have taken out charters since January l. This is an increase of 25 per cent over the corresponding period in 1921.
 Stocks and bonds are climbing to high ground The price level is equal to about the highest reached last year
 Wheat is up. due possibly for re- action. and then as market observers see it, in for a long, steady. healthy climb to reasonably higher levels.
 Foreign exchange is showing a somewhat faltering tendency toward better conditions, resulting in im- provement in the export situation.
 Real Progress
 These arc signs~of the times that tell of steady but real progress n the nations commercial and indus trial life In no one line is the ten dency extremely marked but the cumulative effect of betterment in all lines is manifest in a generally healthier tone in the business world. a slightly larger volume of transac- tions and a much more optimistic outlook. Were it not for one trouble some factor. in the opinion of off, cials here, the country could count itself as facing an unilter-upted re- turn toward an era of prosperity.
 That one factor is the threatened coal strike. Indications seem to point with certainty to it's coming. As April hears the coal situation will be- come more and more dominant in the countrys industrial affairs. The big volume of traffic on American roads today is due in no small measure to. tie fact that consumers are ex- pecting a strike and laying in stocks The amount of traffic probably will increase as we approach April l. Every industrial upheayal is preceded
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26

Hitherto 1t has been the custom for each side to blame the other for all acts of violence. discrimination now has been ruled out by obvious facts. The killings and maimings are the work of miscreants on both sides.
 Even if most of tho 32 Belfast deaths could be traced to Catholics it is still true that the most diaboli- cal act in the northern capital was the throwing of bomb into crowd of children at play in the Catholic part of the city.
 Leaders Abashed
 The leaders on both sides are some what abashed. In that chastened to reach a common understanding. Michael Collins, head of the Free State, and Sir James Craig. Ulster premier, have each appointed raison officers to patrol the boundary line with a view of preventing further outbreaks or raids from either side.
 John Devy. an old associate of Michael Davit's, has come out on the side of Collins and the southern peo- ple on the whole appear to be settling down to normal life. All of this can be counted on the asset side from the point of view of the restoration of order and a new era in Irish life on the terms of the Downing street agreement
 But there is an element in tho sit nation which cannot be ignored and that is time. The heads of the pro- visional government are in an unen- -viable position in that they are act ing in behalf of people difficult to govern because of past misgovern- meIft It is condition of things which is bound to develop difficul- ties the longer it lasts.
 DeVaIera Carries Point
 Eamonn DeValera has carried his point with the Sim Fein of postpon-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26

ing an election until after the for1nu- lation of constitution. It Is also to be observed that in the propaganda on which he has launched himself he has dropped the much discussed document No. g." which was to be the Dublin alternative to the agree ment signed by his original plenipo- tentiaries and he Is focusing the at tention of the prospective electors to the clear and narrow issue of ac- ceptance or rejection of the treaty.
 Meantime. there are two other rather disquieting features in the sit uation which have presented them selves during the week.
 First there Is the fact that some of the southern Irish armed forces have been out of hand, and second. there was the feeling against the treaty ex- hibited at the Sim Fein clubs con vention in Dublin on Wednesday.
 Neither of these. however, need be taken too seriously. They are after all but expressions of emotional ex- tremist sections bred and nurtured in few years of ferment Yet they do serve to emphasize a need for the earliest possible appeal to people who must ultimately assume final respon- sibility
 The fixing of the boundary lines is going to be the most troublesome element in the near future. 1t should. if possible, be settled now by consent, but unfortunately neither side seems disposed at present to approach 1t in a reasonable spirit. Failing such a settlement now it should be allowed to stand over until such time as both Dublin and Belfast get settled down to administer the respective areas as delimited in the act of 1920. By that time both may be imbued with a due sense of responsibility. There Is no urgency for any adjustment of the boundary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26
DeValera Is Playing For Indefinite Postponen1ent or Irish Treaty Election Last Weeks Violence Improved Situation in Ireland. Southern People Seem to Be Settling
 Down
By GEORGE N. BARNES Britieh Parliament Leader Special Wireless Dispatch to Ths Age
 Herald

 25Last weeks this weeks murders of British officers Cork Dublin paadoxcay improved the situation spkesmen both unhappy country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26

The finest floors are said to bein Russian houses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-26

, by period of unwonted activity and apparently the present is no excep-
New-York tribune., 1922-01-19
Discuss Foreign Investment
Bankers Forum Told Need Of
Innroxed Banking system

Further development of Americas
technique for extending dollar accept
ances abroad is important, H. c. Some,
senior partner of the international
banking house Of Huth &; Co, told the
Bankers Forum last night at its regu-
Lar monthly meeting at the Hotel Penn
sylvania. He stressed the need of in
dependent. local accepting institutions.
to which can be granted more leeway
than to local banks carrying deposits
and having to concentrate on home al
fairs
Philip B. Kennedy, vice-president of
the First Federal Foreign Banking AS
socjation, cxtolled the work of banks,
both here and abroad, in their careful
easement of the business situation
during 1921. He urged further I'M
nrovement of our banking machinery'
so that bank credits may most fully
~ the various needs of commerce. and
greater assster to tio e521sS ather
4;nns "a bring about more settled
;o4nrnational business conditions
New-York tribune., 1922-01-19
Protective Committee
For ID. G II. e.. Bonds
Group Assc~,s Rights of Hold
crs Have Not Been Served;
Sic. .nNO. coo Outstanding

Announcement was made yesterday
Of the formation of a protective com
mittoe for the per cent cun.u lativc
adjustment mortgage bonds OF the
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Com
pany. due April l. 1899. and for the
olders Of certificates of deposit of the
New York Trust Company, with respect
to this issue.
The committee said it had reached
the conclusion that the rights Of the
adjustment bondholders had not been
properly served in the pest transac-
tions Of the company, and asserts that
IL order TO secure the rights OF the
bondh elders the enforcement Of GER
tain legal rights may become neccs-
sary.
The committee consists of Richard
SutrO chailman. Of Sutro Brothers e.
Co.: Thomas L. Robinson, vice-presi-
dent Of the American Exchange Ma
.ioNa' Bank. and William Loeb jr., vice
president of the American Smelling
and Refining Company. Samuel Inter
myer is counsel and Harry Hoffman,
of l20 Broadway, is secretary.
There are $4,000 coo face amount Of
the bonds outstanding, all of which are
secured by q mortgage to the New York
Trust Company as trustee. The rail
road dcfaultcd under the provisions Of
the mortgage in failing to pay the in
stallment of interest due October l.,
1921.