The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 12

THE REGISTER AND LEADER: THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 23. 1914. LATEST NEWS DISPATCHES FROM ALL OVER THE STATE OF IOWA THREE CRACK FIRE TEAMS MEET SOON Plans for World's Championship Race Discussed at Maquoketa. INTEREST IS AROUSED Clinton, Council Bluffs and Shenandoah Departments Back Proposed Event.

MAQUOKETA, July Fire departments from nearly thirty cities were represented here today, the second day of the annual state tournament. An average daily attendance of 15,000 18 expected the remaining days the tournament. Lost Nation had the distinction of being the first department to register, the entire department coming for the four days' events. Plans for a world's championship race to be held between the fire teams of Clinton, Council Bluffs and Shenandoah have been discussed here for several days by representatives of the three departments. It is expected that announcement concerning the plans will be forthcoming soon, The fire teams entered have made records in past state tournaments and the arrangement for a three-cornered contest between the winning teams of the past 19 expected to arouse tremendous interest among the firemen of Iowa.

Intense rivalry between the Sac City, been of some spirited conproductive" and Perry teams has testa this week and may be the cause of some new records before the week is over. Nearly three hundred persons from Marion are here today watching the a brass band. Anamosa also brought event. The firemen a were headed by band with Its large delegation. Other departments well represented are: Wheatland, Grand Mound, Preston, Lost Nation, Calamus, Bellevue, Hampton, Liberty, Sac City, Waverly, Vinton, Brooklyn, Woodland, Denison, Atlantic, Audubon, Ryan, Manning, Harlan and Perry, The opening parade was two miles In length and was one of the largest ever held at a state tournament.

parade was given in five divisions. The order of the parade was as follows: Fifty-third Regimental band of Cedar Rapids, the city officials, members of the Iowa State sociation, the local association, Chief Thomas Price of Clinton and Alfred Hurst, the oldest living volunteer fireman in Iowa; the old Alf Hurst running team, and the Lyona veteran volunteer department of Wheatland, the Council Bluffs paid department, Iowa City, Anamosa, the Iowa City band, Preston, Clinton, paid department No. Manning, Belle Plaine, five compantes from Marion led by Chief E. H. Shorman, and including the famous Mentzer drill corps; the Marion running team, the George H.

Whitney Independent Hose Co. No. 1, Grand Mound, Vinton, Shenandoah paid department, Miles, Muscatine, West Branch, Maquoketa fife and drum corps, Calamus, Bellevue, Tama, Lost Nation, and the four Maquoketa teams, rescue hook and ladder, Barnes and the fire kings and representatives from thirty cities and towns of the state. The first prize of $100 for the largest department in attendance went to Marion. Preston secured the second prize of $50.

The B. F. Mentzer drill corps of Marion won the first prize of $50 AB the best appearing company. Preston taking second prize of $25. CALIFORNIA-ITS EXPOSITIONS AND ITS CLIMATE.

Enjoy Both This Summer. Come to California this summer so that you can enjoy a delightful outing and learn how to lay your plans for next year's visit to the Expositions. The principal exposition buildings at both San Francisco and San Diego are now up and can be enjoyed without the obstacle of the crowds that will be on hand next year. California at this season of the year is Cool, bracing, beautiful. The fares this year are low and train service excellent.

"The Pacific Limited" or on the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul, Union Pacific Line provides through fast service to both San Francisco and Los Angeles daily without extra fare. Send for descriptive literature and full particulars-410 Walnut Des Moines. -Adv. WATER WORKS COMPLETED Mount Ayr 1 to Enjoy Benefits of Sys.

tem This Week. MOUNT AYR, July The water was turned on today in the water works system recently constructed here and which will be completed this week. It will take 40,000 gallons of water to fill the mains and then the supply tank will be filled. The town council are now considering the advisability of enlarging the surace reservoir to be used in case of a long continued drought. Iowa Chautauqua News DENISON -The Denison Chautauqua is now in full swing, having commenced on last Friday.

The speakers are Dr. Alva M. Reitzel, Dr. Frederick Poole, Chancellor George H. Bradford, Frank J.

Cannon, James E. Watson, Julius Caesar Mayphe, Henry Buchtel and Prof. M. Wood. PERRY-Durant Jones, manager of the Jones Chautauqua system of this elty, announced today that next year 400 semblies would be held by his system in Iowa and the surrounding states.

This year the number will be about 300. It's a Very Good Idea to help your poor, tired Stomach, lazy liver or clogged bowels back to health and strength, but the longer you delay the harder it is going to be. Today you should start taking HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS It has helped thousands of others- will help you. CHAIRMAN OF RECENT G. O.

P. CONVENTION A SELF MADE MAN Will E. Johnston of Ida Grove Acquired Standing in Legal and Political Way by Hard Work. IDA GROVE, la, -Special: The permanent chairmanship of a state convention is an honor seldom conferred upon a citizen from as small a town as Ida Grove, and the fact that Will E. Johnston of this place was given that honor at the republican state convention held in Des Moines recently, is pointed te with pride by his many friends, Irrespective of poMi litical party affiliations.

Will E. Johnston la a self -made man from every point that one can look at that expression. He was born in Cedar county, forty-six years ago, and in 1882 moved with his parents to Ida Grove. His boyhood days were spent In hustling, his parents being poor, and the habit has clung to him in every capacity during him life since. He fought his way through high school, came through vacation from a four years' course at the State univerwity at Iowa City and earned enough money to carry him through the next semester and graduated in 1890.

He entered the law office of C. C. Warren In 1892, having previously served a two year term as clerk of the courts, and at the death of Attorney Warren mix years later, took over his practice, together with his library, and his practice has been continuous from the same office a ever since. During the last ten years the title of the law firm been Johnston A. a brother having been admitted to the firm.

He also is a graduate of the law department of his brother's alma mater. Politically, in Ida county, Mr. Johnston has been a power ever since his tenure of the county clerk's office. His courta was at the hands of the demoelection to the office of a the cratic party and he had barely passed County Home Inmate Mistakes Kindness for Love; Is Disappointed WATERLOO, July Inmate Mintz of' the county home, treadurIng the memory of a pretty face, left his prosaic task of feeding the chickens and hied himself to Garner, where Miss Rose Hanslik, for two years an employe at the home, was visiting her mother. Mintz, who is a cripple, 50 years of age, left Friday and the first knowledge of his whereabouts came in the form of a telegram from Mra.

Hanszlik to the county auditor, pleading for some one to come and take the stranger back to Waterloo. It appears that mistook Miss Hanszlik's kindness for love, but she was surprised to find that the inmate had been obsessed by romantic thoughts. In years past owned a farm in Bremer county. Reverses came and he applied for a place in the county home as a public ward. How he managed to get to Garner le more than the steward knows.

If Mintz comes back the in the county where he has authorities, have to provide him with transportation. TO RECONSTRUCT BRIDGE ACROSS MISSISSIPPI Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge Company Waiting on Engineers' Specifications. KEOKUK, July Theodore Gilman, secretary of the Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge company, declared yesterday that R8 8000 88 specifications could be secured from the engineers from which to advertise for contracts, work of recontructing the Keokuk and Hamilton bridge at this point would commence. It 18 understood from authoritative sources that the Carnegie company, owners of the bridge, have Chairman Adamson of the Joint committee on interstate and foreign commerce that the financial end of the reconstruction of the bridge la taken care of, and that the company the money. The reconstruction of the present structure is planned to make the bridge a double decked affair, capable of caring for heavy traffic.

The Inter City Bridge company has asked permission of congress to use the top of the Keokuk dam for a bridge for railroad traffic. It is believed that the commerce committee is waiting the Carnegle bridge company's move before either granting or refusing to grant the charter to this company. CHILD KILLED BY TRAIN Fisherman's Son Wanders Onto Track Near Bellevue. BELLVUE. July George Ellis, 18-months-old son of George Ellis, a fisherman residing two and one one-halt miles south of Bellevue, was struck and instantly killed by a Milwaukee passenger train, No.

10, this morning. Mr. Ellis came here in May with Paul Cameron from Des Moines and has been clamming and fishing south of town. The child wandered onto the track near the camp and was struck on the head by the pilot. MANY ANIMAL PESTS SLAIN Winneshiek Pays Out Large Sum As Bounties.

DECORAH, July 22. -Special: Winneshiek county during the first six months of the year paid out $1,300.80 as bounties for wild animals. The number of animal pests slain, as shown by the county auditor's books, is as follows: Seven cub foxes at 50 cents, seventy-nine old foxes at $1.50 each nineteen cub wolves at $2 each, $38: twelve old wolves at $20 each, $240; 6,083 pocket gophers at 10 cents, 2,915 woodchucks at cents, $291.50. Birthdays of Famous Iowans JULY 23, 1914. Albert Shaw, the journalist and editor of the Amerlean Revlew of Revlews, was born in Shandon, Ohio, July 23, 1837.

He came to Towa when a young man and entered Iowa College at Grinnell where he graduated in 1879. He worked on the Grinnell Herald for a time and in 1881 entered Johns Hopkins university. Mr. Shaw also worked on the Minneapolis Tribune and in 1891 he established the American Review of Reviews. He is the author of a number of books, among his most famous being "Municipal Government in Great Brittain," History of the ment in Great Britain." "History of the States History from the Civil War to the Close of the Nineteenth Dr.

Shaw has delivered many lectures in colleges and universities and is a ber of the American Economic association. American Antiquarian society and a fellow of the American Statistical soniaty. MUSCATINE PLANS WHITE WAY PICNIC Three Days' Programme Expected to Attract Thousands Aug. 17-20. VARIETY OF SPORTS Motor Boat and Aqua-Plane Racing, Baseball and Aeroplane Flights.

MUSCATINE, July Muscatine will be the scene of the greatest good roads celebration ever held in the state of Iowa when the Great White Way picnic is staged here from Aug. 17 to 20. Fifteen thousand visitors are expected to be attracted to Muscatine by the elaborate entertainment which is to be provided. Three thousand dollars is to be appropriated to meet the. expenses of the event, which will be of such magnitude as to attract tourists from the Mississippi to the Missouri river.

A wide variety of events will mark the celebration, for aerial, aquatic and terrestrial exhibitions are to be arranged. A feature which will surely hold the attention of the inland visitor will be the water events. Motor boat racing, aquaplane racing and hydro-aeroplane flights, A8 well 8.8 an illuminated motor boat parade are among the river diversions. To Secure Aviator. Admiral Charles P.

Hanley of the Mississippi Valley Power Boat association, who is chairman of the river committee, announces that Tom Benolst, who ranks as one of the leading aviators of the world, will likely be among the performers who will be seen here. Mr. Hanley today wired the St. Louisan as to the terms of his flying. Admiral Hanley will also inform motor boat owners of the racing programme and the entrance of six to eight speed boats is believed to be assured.

The inland visitor will view a speed of forty-five to fifty-miles an hour on water as somewhat of a revelation and hence the river front will likely prove an attractive point. Another aquatic exhibition wihch will provide excitement will be equaplane racing. A plank attached to the rear of a high powered speed boat and swishing through the water at a rate of forty miles an hour is difficult to ride, and this form of racing is as hazardous as it is original. Boat Men to Picnic. Admiral Hanley plans to hold a picnic of the upper river motor boat fans in connection with the White Way picnic in order to attract as many boats as possible to take part in the "Venetian night," when an illuminated motor boat parade will be staged.

Several large excursion steamers will carry visitors on the river trips. Lovers of baseball will be permitted to enjoy this form of amusement to their hearts' content, as the Muscatine and Burlington Central association clubs will participate in the closing series in catine. visitors will also be permitted to Indulge in a Muscatine watermelon orgy. Thousands of melons from the Muscatine island, the richest melon producing In the world, will be brought to area during the picnic days, and Muscatine another of free for all treats this is which will be afforded the visitors. MAN WHO HELPED LAY BOUNDARY STONES DEAD Who Died in ArkanW.

J. Wagoner, Prominent Part in sas, Played North Iowa History. July W. J. DENISON, Wagoner, aged 80, who helped place many of the corner stones in the northern tier counties in 1867, was buried at of Iowa Denison Saturday.

Mr. Wagoner died at in Menna, July 16. Dehis home to Crawford county in 1875 ceased came in the real estate business and ngaged the owner of hundreds of and became Iowa and Nebraska land. When acres of massacre at Spirit Lake the Sioux City took place, Mr. Wagoner formed a rescue started from Ida Grove in party and of the Indians.

He is survived by pursuit six children. NEW DAM AT Work Begun on Project to Increase City's Water Supply. OTTUMWA, July Work started on the west dam of the has been city water st works to replace the present that has been ineffective in furnishdam for the pumping of the ing water power This 18 one of the dams city's supply. planned to replace with that it was structure for the conservation of modern with which to light the city when power held up the work the war department grounds that it interfered with a navthe gable stream. The work was stopped the city had voted bonds the after construction.

Plan Big Perry Revival. PERRY, July Arrangements have been completed for a big union revival meeting in this city from Aug. 16 to Sept. 6. Several of the Protestant churches of the city are back of the movement.

Charles Cullen Smith will be the evangelist in charge, with Prof. A. V. Gilmore as choir leader. A mammoth tent has been secured and the meetings will be conducted on the Washington school grounds.

Elimino for the blood, at druggists. -Adv. Suicide Attempt Succeeds. KNOXVILLE. July Mrs.

Elwood Cecil, wife of a Flagler miner, died last night at an Oskaloosa hospital from the effects poison taken Sunday with suicidal intent. Family trouble is supposed to have caused her to end her life. The funeral services will be held tomorrow, with burial in Breckinridge cemetery. LET WHEATON MOVE YOU Stake Wagons, $1.00 per hour; Box Wagons, 75c. Service You'll Like.

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Iowa Men and Affairs CHARLES CITY -Miss Nona Kempffer, who during the past year has been at Batavia, Java, the guest of her sister, Mre. Fredrick Kanttenkaump, and family and with her father, who is located at Hong Kong, China, as well as a visitor at other points of interest in the far east, will arrive in New York st city, Wednesday and is expected to reach home the latter part of this week GRINNELL-S. P. Randall, field secretary for Iowa for the Daughon Practical Business college company is in this here A strug of about fifty colleges are city investigating the situaton, as to the advisability of opening a business college controlled by the Daughon company, and a new one was recently opened in Newten. Mr.

Randall has presented the matter w0 the Grinnell Commercial club and is desirous of obtaining the cooperation of on that organization. new school will 00 known as the Grinnell Business College. VINTON-Genevieve Lipka suffered a broken right limb in two places and was bruised somewhat near here Friday, when the surrey in which she was riding with Dean Spencer, William Miller, and Flossie Fry, overturned as the party drove upon a high bank. Miss Lipka was caught underneath the buggy. Following the accident she was taken to Vinton where she received mdical attntion.

GRINNEL -The contracts calling for improvements at Grinnell college which will total $159,180 have been awarded to BaileyMarsh company of Minnepolis for construction of the building, and the plumbing and heating contract was awarded to Wallace-Linnane of Des Moines. The amount bid on the building by BaileyMarsh company was $136,000 while the plumbing and heating bid of WallaceLinnane totaled $16,686. IOWA -Dr. Charles Weller, professor of Greek and archaeology, at the State university here, and who is also president of the Iowa State Federated Advertising clubs, will make a tour of the state during the month of August and will deliver a series of lectures on municipal questions The lectures are to be given under the direction of the common cial clubs of the different cities where Dr. Weller is to appear.

-The farmers are nearly through harvesting their small grain and expect to begin threshing by the last of this week. The oats are a little light here on account of the hot dry weather. The rain last week nel the corn wonderfully and the prospects are excellent for a good crop. SMITHLAND-The Modern Woodmen of America will hold a picnic here July 29. A chopping and wood sawing contest is to be held, also a tug of war, relay race and several other athletic event.

WAUKON-Tom W. Miller, for a number of years manager of the Eclipse Lumber company yards at this place, has tendered his resignation and will remove with his family to Cedar Falls, where he will operate a lumber yard of his own. LOST NATION--John Hunawartzen was seriously injured near this city Saturday while installing a pump on the farm of Former Sioux Cityan To Receive $37,500 for Kindness to a Stranger BOONE, July R. Maxwell Ward of Columbia Cross Roads, In return for an outlay of $23.63 and kindness to a man in misfortune, is to receive an inheritance of $37,500. Ward was a telephone lineman at Sioux City, in December, 1904.

One cold morning as he going to work a stranger asked him for the price of a meal. He took in the applicant, paid his board at a hotel and doctor bill through his Illness. The landloard was asked to go halves on the board but refused, so Ward paid all, amounting with medical attention to $23.63, In time the two men went their ways. There WAs no exchange of letters or other word between them. When the stranger, who was Oscar J.

Wanderleu, was about to die a few months ago, he caused a will to be drawn in which for his kindness of ten years ago, Ward was named as the sole or principal beneficiary. To locate the heir Wanderleu's executors advertised in a paper published they in Elmira, N. near which town thought he lived. After he had been located, the next step was to establish the fact that he was in reality the man wanted. To do this Ward produced the which he had received from the receipts landlord and doctor.

The Sioux City man's executors accepted these dead proof of his identity, and he receipts as receive his money at once. His is to share is to be $7,500 cash and $3,000 a year for ten years. PACKING COMPANY FACES PROSECTION IN MISSOURI Keokuk Branch of Swift Company Accused of Violating AntiTrust Laws, KEOKUK, July Charges that the Keokuk branch of Swift has been violating the anti-trust laws of Missouri are being investigated here Nat M. Shelton of Macon, by Judge appointed examiner to take who was Supreme Court of Missdepositions ourl. general of Missouri filed The attorney application in June in which he stated an he had reason to believe the wholethat produce company was using unfair sale discrimination and competition in its busness.

If the facts in this hearing are sustained, it is understood proceedings will be started to oust the company from doing business in Missouri. Electric Lights For your Buggy or Surrey $10 Complete Battery System While You Wait Kratzer Carriage Co, casint The Pure Air Theater SPECIAL FEATURE LILLIAN WALKER IN Bread Upon the Waters In Two Parts 5c-TODAY-5c IOWA CITY MASONIC TEMPLE COMPLETED William Kinney. Hunawartzen was working with a pump jack when it slipped and struck him a glancing blow, cutting open his cheek. He was brought here and given medical attention. He still is very weak from the loss of blood.

BELLE PLAINE-The Benton County Veterans association will meet in this city Sept 15 and 16. Committees have been appointed to make the necessary arrangements and prepare a programme, and the atter is to be announced at a later date. SIOUX CITY- The annual reunion of Woodbury county old settlers is to be held at Sergeant Bluffs Aug. 20. Band concerts, addresses by prominent persons, stories of early life in Woodbury county by the settlers themselves and a chicken dinner are to be features of the programme which is now in preparation.

MUSCATINE-The J. J. O'Keefe Plumbing and Heating company has been and heating of the new city hall, the esawarded the contract 1 for the plumbing timated bid being $6,000. LE MARS-H. W.

Hood, recently of Fort Dodge, has been appointed manager of the local office of the American Express company, and succeeds Henry Lorenzen, who has secured a position in St. Paul. DUBUQUE-'The writings of Mrs. Eunice Gibbs Allyn are to be placed in the state historical department, and Benjamin F. Shambaugh, superintendent and editor of that department, is endeavoring to collect and compile enem.

Mrs. Allyn is at present in enfeebled health and is unable to render any assistance. The clippings are being collected in a local newspaper office and being forwarded to Mr. Shambaugh at Des Moines. DUBUQUE-The second annual picnic of the Audubon Alumni association is to be held at Park Life on Aug.

8. A programme of athletic events and a baseball game are to be features of the afternoon's entertainment. STOCKPORT-Fire destroyed the dwelling on the Vine Warner farm near this city early Tuesday morning. Marion Davis and his family, who occupied the house escaped, being awakened by their little 3-year-old son. The origin of the fire is unknown.

Only a small amount of clothing and household goods were saved. But a small amount of insurance covered the personal property of Mr. Warner. DENISON-Mr. and Mrs.

J. P. Conner and sister, Mrs. Ashby, are now 80- journing in Paris, and a word from them received today says they enjoyed the ocean voyage hugely. On July 4, aboard the steamship Minneapolis, a regular Independence day was carried out.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt delivered the address of the day and many of the passengers took part in the programme. GREENE R. Landis, accompanied by his mother and sister, left Tuesday for an extended trip through Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota in hts automobile. They will visit Spirit Lake, Okoboji and points in Minnesota and South Dakota.

They were accompanied as far as Okoboji by Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hart, who will stop there for a few days.

FORMER IOWANS GO OVER CLIFF IN AN AUTOMOBILE Mrs. Mattie Mason and Daughter Drop Eighty Feet Near Los Angeles, But Will Live. WATERLOO, July News of the thrilling experience of Mrs. Mattie Mason and daughter, Miss Orbie, who were in automobile that went over a cliff near Las Angeles, making a sheer drop of eighty feet, has jest been received. They were with Mrs.

Nellie Krnetter and daughter, and all were badly injured. Mrs. Mason and daughter will live, but the others are in a critical condition. The accident occurred in the heart of the San Antonio canyon, at Hog's Back. Failure of the brakes to work properly 1s ascribed as the cause of the accident.

At a turn the car went on at a tangent, somersaulting twice before striking the bottom of the ravine. Only Mrs. Kruetter was pinned under the machine. The others were all thrown out. All were unconscious, and Miss Orbie, who was the first to regain the use of her senses, though suffering intensely, began climb the almost sheer precipice for help.

Reaching the road, her strength failed, and she crept a half mile to the plant of a powder company. Mrs. Mason and daughter went west last May to live with another daughter, Mrs. George H. Sunday, wife of the oldest son of Evangelist "Billy" Sunday.

Iowa's Daily Death Toll WAUKON, July Mrs. Benedict Troendle, aged 80, passed away at her home in this city following an illness of several years dropsy. She was a pioneer resident of the county and besides her husband, is survived by several children. The funeral will be held from the Catholic church of which she was a member. WAUKON, July The death toll the last week in this county includes Mrs.

Ella Gruber, aged 45, who passed away Friday at her home in Lansing. Mrs. John Baxter died Saturday at the hospital at Rochester, and Mrs. Mary Shuff at her home in Volney. Elaborate Dedicatory Exercises Will Be Held Next Tuesday Afternoon.

WILL E. JOHNSTON of Ida Grove. his majority when elected. He changed his party affiliation to the republican party in 1896, and 18 of the old line, and faithful to the principles of the party, and his recognition as permanent chairman of the state convention is only A partial reward for his constancy. seat in congress as member the Eleventh district, is being proposed by his friends throughout the district.

Mr. Johnston's father, A. J. Johnston, and his sister, Miss Jessie, are now touring Europe. The father and brother, A.

C. Johnston, are leaders in democratic politics in Ida county. Attorney Johnston was corporation lawyer for the C. N. W.

railway for two years, and in the will contest of the late Alex McHugh, one of the richest citizens of Ida county, he has been counsel for the legatee, D. H. Hedrick, and in the contests in this estate and court hearings he has won some notable victories. THOUSANDS SPEND SUMMER AT LAKES Directory to Show ity of Lake Okoboji and Spirit Lake. SPIRIT LAKE, July According to the advance reports from the publishers of the new directory of the summer people who own or occupy cottages on the shores of Spirit lake or the Okobojis, there are nearly six hundred cottages West Okoboji, and not far from two hundred on Spirit lake.

The number exceeded the estimate by more than a hundred. pants, and have two or three famAs each cottage, has at least five occuIlies living in them it is conservatively estimated that the total summer population will approach six or seven thousand persons. The majority of the vacation Inhabitants are from Des Moines, but Sioux City, Fort Dodge, and other large cities of Iowa are well represented. Omaha has a large delegation, and Lincoln sends dozens of its wealthy citizens to these Iowa lakes and the visitors come from as far as California. BANKER AND WIFE ON HIKE Shenandoah Couple in Forty-five Mile Hike to Omaha.

SHENANDOAH, July A vacation cross country trip of fortyfive miles to Omaha was made last week by W. A. Ruehlman, a banker, and Mrs. Ruehlman, the walk being made between 6 o'clock Wednesday night and 11:30 o'clock Saturday morning. During the hot part of the days they rested at hotels at their stops along the road.

In walking outfits, they departed about 6 o'clock Wednesday night, making seven miles the first lap of the journey, reaching Ensley Parrish's about 9 o'clock. The trip was completed when they got to the car line at the deaf and dumb institution at Omaha, as it was the hot part of the day they rode the remaining distance to the city. Neither Mr. or Mrs. Ruehlman felt any ill effects after their walk.

Many Deaths at Denison. last week been one of many deaths DENISON, Nina July The of Denison people. Among the first to be recorded was the passing away of Mrs. Clark Sly, one of the pioneer women of Denison. The death of 'Miss Gena Hart occurred at Kansas City.

She was a niece of Mrs. J. P. Conner, Mrs. Morgan and Mra.

C. M. Jensen. An operation for gall stones was the cause of her death. The burial took place at Fort Scott, Kas.

Mrs. Anna Berto, mother of Mrs. C. A. Lee, also died during the week.

Mrs. Minnie Messenbrink, well known in this community, passed away Tuesday after a long illness. Old Settlers to Meet Aug. 18. PRAIRIE CITY, July The annual old settlere' reunion will be held August 18 at Prairie City, according to an announcement just made by Stephen Johnson, president of the association.

Elaborate plans are being made for the entertainment of the visitors on that day. Oiled Streets Prove Success. WINFIELD, July The tory oiled that streets the last citizens, year both were in so the satisfac- bustness and resident districts, are again resorting to this method of getting rid of the dust. Buying a Dog Blanket. "What's the matter there? Can't.

you please that lady in a dog can please her, all right," answered the clerk: "but she wants the dog to indicate his preference, and he's one of these blase pups that doesn't seem to care for -Judge. Iowa City Police Chief Serves As Peacemaker IOWA CITY. July -Special: Not long ago a woman with her little son left her home in a a a a a a a city near Des Moines and fled to Towa City. At the same time man left the same city and suspicion pointed to the two having come to lowa City together. Then a bit of clever detective work by Chief of Police John W.

Miller located the woman and boy, secured evidence of the woman's innocence, and brought about a reconciliation between husband and wife. The local police communicated with the father and told he came and his fugitive wife him the facts tooth case. Yesterday and boy back home. IOWA CITY, July Eleven of the thirteen members of the Masonic Grand Lodge lowa have signified their intention of being present at the dedication of Iowa City's new 000 Masonie temple which will take place next Tuesday. The dedication exercises will be in charge of the Most Worshipful Grand Master Charles W.

Walton of Dubuque and the other grand lodge officers. The dedication ceremonies will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and will be followed by the principal address by Past Grand Master William Hutchinson. From 5:30 to 7:30 o'clock lunch will be served in the dining room of the new temple and at 7:30 o'clock a programme of music and short addresses will be given in the lodge rooms. To all of these ceremonies Masons and their wives and members of the Eastern Star are invited. As there are from 500 to 600 of these connected with the local lodges and several hundred visitors are expected, it is impossible to extend an invitation to those not connected with the order.

The Masonic temple association, however, has arranged for an "open house" day for the general public at the new temple soon after the dedication, SO that Iowa City people may feel free to inspect it. Invitations to the dedication have been sent to the membership of the Masonic lodges in Johnson county and towns adjoining the county. In addition to this officers of the lodges at Cedar Raplas, Muscatine and Davenport have been invited. It is expected that supper will be served to 600 or 700. To Lay Temple Cornerstone.

WEST LIBERTY, July The cornerstone of the new Masonic temple in West Liberty will be laid next Wednesday under the direction of Grand Master R. W. Walton of Dubuque. Grand Secretary N. R.

Parvin of Cedar Rapids also will be here for the ceremony, together with several other grand officers. Past Masters W. F. Cleveland of Harlan and Louis Block of Davenport are pected and one of them will give the address of the day. Many of the most prominent masons of the state will be in Iowa City Tuesday for the dedication of the new temple there, and all will be invited to attend the cornerstone ceremonles here.

NEW TRAFFIC ORGANIZATION Interior Iowa Association Formed at Cedar Rapids. CEDAR RAPIDS, July The Interior Iowa Traffic Men's association was permanently organized here today with following officers: F. K. Mahon Ottumwa, president; A. B.

Combs of Marshalltown, vice president: C. O. Dawson of Ottumwa, secretary, and H. F. Sunberg of Cedar Rapids, treasurer.

Plans were discussed to compel the railroads to give more equitable rates to interior Iowa cities. SAVED FROM DRINK HABIT BY NEAL TREATMENT Hundreds of Men and Women- Have Been Saved From Drink Habit at the Des Moines Institute. No other organization in Iowa is accomplishing so much for the uplift of humanity. Few people realize what it means to restore hundreds of drinking men to sober, industrious citizenship every year. Hundreds of families are today living in comfort with a future full of hope who were struggling with poverty before the husband or father was saved by the Neal Drink Habit Treatment.

You also can be saved. Take the Neal Treatment now and be sober. Insist that those dependent upon you take treatment before something terrible happens to them. The Neal Treatment is a safe, sure, internal, vegetable treatment -hypodermic injections are never used--that will remove the craving necessity for drink in three days. It is administered at sixty Neal Institutes in the principal cities of the world.

Call today at the Des Moines Neal Institute, 802 Fifth street, and investigate, or write or phone C. B. Collins, superintendent, for full information. Phone Walnut 3968. All drug habits treated.

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