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2 FINISH COURSE IN BIBLE SCHOOL STUDY Class of Fight Given Diplomas at Exercises Held at Plymouth Church. DR. TRUMBULL IS SPEAKER Editor of Sunday School Times Delivers Address on Secret of Personal Success. "In a victorious Christian life our will power has no part. To gain: a personal victory as a Christian the essential is faith, not effort.

When you make an effort to float in the water you sink but when you relax and let the tons of water below you do their part you succeed and you float," said Dr. Charles G. Trumal bull of Philadelphia, editor of the FA Sunday School Times, in the comfur mencement address of the graduating exercises of the Des Moines Sunhot day School institute at the Plymouth Congregational church last night. Dr. Trumball spoke on "Personal Victory, the Secret of Power." He HI cited the story of the man who tried to float as analogous to that of the man who to victorious in a declared Christian that tries, that strength road of leads will only and to failure and contributes largely to the membership of the class of changed by confession ChrisChristians whose, lives not are, tianity, though it be made in all A sincerity.

"Christ offers not only freedom from the penalty of our sins but freedom from the power of our sins and we must yield not only our sins but also our wills if we are to be vietoripushans some of this graduation class has already mapped out a program of Christian service to follow the completion of this course in teaching. Nothing could be more futile. We must not attempt to make our own program of service, but must allow God to make it. As of our him, he will take soon as made the surrender warhave up our guidance. We must realize that God, wants to be not only our savior our life." A large congregation attended the commencement exercises last night which opened with an organ prelude by Miss Edith Uary, a song led by Graham Stewart, and the invocation the Rev.

J. Edward Kirbye. Orlo Eastman sang a solo, "Fear Not Ye, 0 Israel." The graduating class consisted of six women and two men: Nina Dale, Nellie Jay-Farrand. Carrie Williams-Hoffman, Lila Adelaide Patton, Cora Jane Spoor, Blanche Virginia Williams, David E. Heetner and Clifton DeBeVoise Royal.

The class was introduced by Dean Arthur E. Bennett and the diplomas were presented by Newton B. Ashby, president of the Des Moines Federation of Churches. SIMPSON CO-EDS PLAN GIRLS' TRACK MEET' Left right, Ruth Jackson, Charlotte Thornley, Helen Wright, Aural Anderson, Lois Porterfield, Josephine Kolmire, Florence Currier, Fannie Picard, Ruby Moore, Florence Sweet, Estelle Snow, Dorthea Porterfield, Anna Karr and Mary Samson. INDIANOLA, May The Meccawee club, girl's athletic organization of Simpson college, will hold an invitation track meet for high school girls May 13 at Simpson college.

It is to be an all-state affair and a number of high schools have already entered teams. There will be nine different events in the meet, consisting of running races, hurdles and jumping. The Meccawee club is composed of girls who have won their either in basketball or tennis. It was organized a little more than a year ago and has fifteen members. Miss Aural Anderson, a junior in the seience department, is head of orthe ganization.

The club is very active in boosting athletic events at Simpson and in stimulating interest in all college activities. Membership in it is very much prized by the Simpson co-eds. MAKE TALKS FOR SUFFRAGE Prominent Waterloo Men Deliver Addresses on Street Corners. W. W.

Marsh Gives His Indorsement to the Amendment. WATERLOO, May 8. -Special: With the streets thronged with thousands of people the Men's Suffrage club spoke on the business corners in both sections of the city Saturday night. They urged the voters to cast a ballot for the suffrage amendment June S. B.

Reed, the Rev. Liarold Parr and T. E. Tullar, a candidate the legislature on the republican ticket, were the speakers. While the street cornr talks were being delivered members of the Junior Suffrage league pleaded the cause by means of a big chart in the suffrage headquarters.

Suffrage advocates claim the amendment will carry in this county. W. W. Marsh, national democratic committeeman, has given strong and convincing speeches for the amendment. Both the suffragists and those opposed to the amendment will wage a lively campaign until the primary day.

Condemn Irish Rebels. cial: SIOUX The CITY. activity of the May Irish rebels was denounced and pictured as an "insane stand" by the members of the Sioux City division of the A. O. H.

in resolutions passed by the order. The Cup That Cheers Most is the cup that is the most wholesome--for unpleasant after-effects can mar the keenest pleasure. With the usual hot table drink, whether it be coffee or tea, there results to many persons an inconvenience in health which calls for a change. Instant Postum is rapidly filling this table want, and in a way satisfactory to taste, comfort and enjoyment. The rich, mellow flavour of Instant Postum closely resembles that of mild Java coffee, and its absolute purity makes it a prime favorite of both parents and children.

Instant Postum is quickly a time. Simply place a level powder in the cup, pour on cream and sugar to taste. prepared at table, a cup at teaspoonful of the soluble hot water, then stir and add No waste. "There's a Reason" for POSTUM At Grocers everywhere. THE REGISTER AND LEADER: TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1916.

TEN HORSES ARE BURNED TO DEATH Fire of Unknown Origin Destroys Barn of Evans Lloyd Fuel Company. Fire of unknown origin last night destroyed the horse barn of the Evans-Lloyd Fuel company on Cherry street between Eighth and Ninth streets, and burned to death ten head of horses, entailing a loss of $9,500. The blaze was discovered by a pedestrian, who turned in the alarm at 7:45 o'clock. When department arrived on the the chectire flames were bursting from all of the windows in the barn. The horses practically were suffocated before the water was turned on the burning building.

No effort was made to rescue the tortured animals. When the doors were broken in by barn the was firemen lying down. every Most horse of in them the hO were dead and others were dying. News of the fire did not reach the members of the firm until the first official to C. flames had been The Can.p, weighmaster.

W. E. Evans. president of the company, is ill and confined to his home. Mr.

Camp declared he had no idea as to the origin of the fire. J. M. Hemenway, secretary of the firm, said it was her opinion that the blaze was started by a spark from a switch engine, which she declared was known to have been switching just back of the barn a few minutes before the alarm was sounded. Camp said Wiley Wright, the barn foreman, left about 6 o'clock after feeding and bedding the stock.

The horses were valued at $200 each. It is timated the damage to the building will amount to $500. The structure is a long one story building. It is 175 in length and extends along railroad tracks and Cherry street Eighth and Ninth street. Fuel is kept in west end of the building and the horses occupied the east end.

The blaze is believed to have originated in the straw used as bedding for the animals. Swift Companys sales of beef in Moines for the week ending Saturday, May 6, averaged 13.19 cents per GERMANS FOUND GUILTY Robert Fay and Aids Convicted of Conspiring to Destroy Ships. NEW YORK. May jury which for ten days heard testimony at the trial of Robert Fay, a former lieutenant in the German army; Walter icholz and Paul Daeche, with conspiracy to destroy munition ships through contrivances, returned a verdict of guilty tonight against all the defendants. The jury deliberated on the case for five hours and reaching a verdiet asked for clemency in behalf of Daeche, who, according to his own statements and those of Fay and Scholz, was an employe of Fay and knew little of the details of the "fire bomb" plots.

River Flood Now Receding at Dubuque How flood brought water up Into Dubuque wholesale district. DUBUQUE, May After reaching the highest stage since 1881, last Wednesday, 19.8, the Mississippi flood has begun to recede. Today the stage is about eighteen feet. By Tuesday it is believed it will be down to seventeen feet, but the fall will continue to be gradual for a couple of weeks according to the local weather bureau which says there are still immense quantities of water in the north. Principal sufferers from the flood here have been the T.

J. Mulgrew Ice company, the Seippel Lumber company, the Dubuque Excelsior works REQUEST ALL TO HONOR DEAD lowans Asked to Bare Heads for 5 Minutes on May 30. Gov. Clarke Indorses PlanTime From 12 Noon to 12:05. Governor Clarke is encouraging a movement for a general observation of Memorial day in Iowa.

He is urging that from 12 o'clock to 12:05 at noon on May 30 all Iowans stand with heads bared in silent contemplation of the nation's dead and the ideals for which they died. The governor was asked to incorporate this provision in his morial day, proclamation. It has not been custom to issue such a proclamation, but the governor feels it is a good suggestion and that it should be taken up throughout the state. George A. Newman, adjutant general of the G.

A. R. of Iowa, says although the order for Memorial day issued by the G. A. R.

did not include the suggestion that five minutes at noon on May 30 be given to silent tribute to the soldier dead, he believes it is a splendid feature to add to the memorial services. "A five minute tribute at noon to the nation's dead will cause many persons, who otherwise would not enter into the spirit of the day, to take an interest in it," said Dr. Newman. "It should have an excellent effect in arousing the patriotism of the people of the state." Planes for National Guards. NEW YORK, May -The movement to equip the national guard with aeroplanes through public subscriptions has been extended to Indiana, Massachusetts, West Virginia and Oklahoma, it was announced here today by the Aero club of America which inaugurated the plan last fall.

The militia of Island, where $25,000 has been raised, has been authorized to organize an aeronautic section, the club's announcement added. Thirty states have now joined the movement. Opens Indian Lands. WASHINGTON, D. May President Wilson has signed a proclamation for the opening of the Colville Indian reservation in Okanogan and Ferry counties, Washington, embracing about 1,300,000 acres.

of about 350.000 acres will be I subject to settlement at an average price of $1.50 an acre. and the Dubuque Boat Boiler works. The Mulgrew company's 10.000 ton ice houses were flooded to a depth of about three feet. The Seippel Lumber company had 3,000,000 feet of lumber partly submerged. The Excelsior works and the Dubuque Boat Boiler works were compelled to suspend operations.

Scores of business houses in the lower sections had their basements flooded while nearly a hundred families living in the poor quarters of the city were forced to move out and in some instances their home floors were five and six feet under water. SIXTH AND WALNUT Your Government oi the United States has prescribed certain rules for the conduct of National Banks, looking to the safeguarding of the funds committed by depositors to their care. All these rules the Des Moines National Bank complies with gladly, adding also some of its own for the security and well being of those who transact their business here. Des Moines National Bank CAPITAL $750,000.00 DES MOINES, IOWA INTEREST ON ACCOUNTS INTEREST ON SAVINGS ACCOUNTS RAWSON STOPS HERE A DAY Then Hurries West to Join Cummins in Oregon. Says lowan Is Making Good Showing in the East.

Charles A. Rawson, chairman of the republican state central committee, who returned yesterday morning from several weeks in Washington, D. where he has been managing Senator Cummins' campaign for the presidential nomination. left last night for Portland, where he will join the Iowa candidate for A speaking tour of that state. He was accompanied by L.

C. Kurtz of Des Moines. J. U. Sammis of Le Mars accompanied the senator, who left for the west from Chicago yesterday.

Mr. Rawson will return to Iowa in time to attend the first republican state convention at Cedar. Rapids, May 17. Mr. Kurtz and Mr.

Sammis will remain with Senator Cummins during his stay in Oregon, leaving there probably on 18. the day before the Oregon presidential primaries. The situation in the western state offers optimistic possibilities to Iowa's candidate and information from the Cummins forces there has been to the effect that the presence of Senator Cummins himself there before the election would be of great assistance in the election of a delegation instructed for him at the national convention. Mr. Rawson said that the situation as it has developed in the east is encouraging.

Several delegates have been secured for Cummins in which support was not anticipated. Marine Strike Still Unsettled. NEW. YORK, May conference here today, the third held thus far in an attempt to settle the marine engineers, strike was unavailing. A reprenentative of the employers said later that the engineers had refused Beauty Hint by Mary Fuller This charming film star guards her precious complexion with "The Pink Complexion Cake." And this is what she says: "Your Sempre Giovine has stood for every test that I could put it to and I wish to pliment you on making a preparation that lives up to its Take the hint.

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AURAL ANDERSON. CITY IN BRIEF Deputy United States Marshal G. W. Vanderwilt returned yesterday afternoon from Leavenworth, where he took Mike Petticchio, the Italian sentenced to the prison for a term of four years on charge of passing bogus $50 bills in Des Moines. Mrs.

Grant McPherrin has gone to Chicago for a week's visit with her sister, Mrs. R. J. Hamilton. From there she goes to Madison, to visit her niece.

Madge Vaughn, who is a senior in the Wisconsin university. The regular meeting of the Men's! club of St. John's Lutheran church, Sixth and Chestnut streets, will be held this evening, and lunch will be served at 6:30. The principal speaker will be H. L.

Eddy. ANNOUNCEMENTS, The members of Mother Ward hive No. 678 of the L. 0. T.

M. M. will hold their regular meeting tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at the Y. W. C.

A. OBITUARY. Charles R. Johnson. Charles R.

Johnson, East Thirtyeighth street and Douglass avenue, yesterday morning at 9 o'clock. He has been the master mechanie for Maple Grove Coal company for the last twenty-five years. His widow, one daughter and one son survive. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afterhoon at 2 o'clock from the Day Saints church Interment made in Laurel Latter, Hill cemetery. Stanley Bodd.

Stanley Bodd, 7-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Bodd, of Peoria, died yesterday at South East Ninth and Maury streets. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be made in Glendale cemtery.

Funeral Notices. Funeral services for Frank Mundy, who killed himself early yesterday morning, will be held from Lilly Brothers Undertaking parlors on West Sixth avenue at 9 o'clock this morning. Burial will be made in Glendale cemetery. Funeral services for August Schenk, who died last week at Chugwater, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from McDermott's Undertaking parlors. Burial will be made in Woodland cemtery.

Mrs. Minnie Shortell, a daughter, accompanied the body to Des Moines, which formerly was Mr. Schenk's home. State House Notes Estherville soon will have a new bank. The First Trust and Savings bank of Estherville, was yesterday a capital of $35,000.

W. T. and F. A. Rhodes are the incorporators.

The state automobile department has isued license numbers for 000 automobiles so far this year. Upton Sinclair received one vote for president on the socialist ticket at the April primary, according to a certified report of the primary prepared yesterday. The total vote on April 10 at the primary was 281. Cumming' vote was 40,257. Roosevelt received 2,348, or about 5 per cent of the republican vote.

The fireproofing of the attic of the state house, under the direction of Adj. Gen, Guy E. Logan, has been completed. The last general assembly made provision for the work. Col.

J. H. McConlogue, member of the state board of control, will leave for Lyon county this morning to look after the newly purchased state stone quarry. T. H.

Mac Donald, state highway engineer, will accompany him to make a survey of the property. Persons in Kenton, have written to Governor Clarke asking him to warn the public that William Garwood. a. blind man from Ohio who comes to Iowa to beg, is a wealthy man. He has extensive property interests and a big pile of cash, the Ohio officials say.

The state executive council spent all of Monday afternoon hearing objections made by the city of Iowa Falls against permitting the Commonwealth Power company to issue $200,000 stock. The officials claim the holdings of the company are not worth that amount. W. S. Allen, secretary of state, has granted the request of W.

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