The New Era from Humeston, Iowa • Page 1

'-1 Entered at the Postoffice at Humeston. Iowa, as Second-Class Mall Matter. NUMBER HUMESTON, WAYNE IOWA, OCTOBER 1ft, 81.25 PER YEAR. HECK SAN FORD, M. O.

Editor. Business Manager. There is some talk that an extra session of congress will be called on November n. Reports from many counties in the northern part of the state indicate the prevalence of hog cholera. Manawa, in this state is going to establish a beet sugar factory.

This industry is beginning to attract a great deal of attention in Iowa. Pocahontas enjoys the distinction of being the only county-seat in the state without a railroad. Pocahontas county has two railroads, but neither reaches its capital. Large shipments of grapes are being made from the Iowa "grape belt" through Davenport to the northern market. The fruit is of excellent quality and brings cents per pounds.

Prof. Wiggins says that he has retired from the weather business and will never make another prediction. Now if the rest of the weather prophets will reform, the world will be happy. The largest farm under cultivation in Iowa is near Odebolt, in Sac county. It comprises 6,200 cres, and belongs to H.

C. Wheel- 'er. He manages the farm through a corps of about fifty men. The Iowa State Teachers' Association will hold its thirty-fifth annual session in Des Moines the last of December and the first of January. During the four days of the meeting an examination of candidates for life diplomas will be held.

In his speech at Ottumwa, President Harrison paid the citizens of Iowa a glowing tribute for their progressive spirit. That is just the kind of a compliment every body pays Iowa, and the best feature of it all is that all such good words are well deserved. The general committee of the Deep Harbor association, which is interested securing national aid to establish a deep harbor at some point on the gulf coast, were in sesoion at Des Moines last week. The time was occupied in discus- M'lg tht, course to be pursued in the future. Most of us would die if we had our necks broken, yet Leonard Mathews is claimed to have received that injury while brakeman on the Chicago and Alton railroad.

He is living all right, and has sued the companj' for $20,000 damages. He wears a rigging of iron and straps, making his head stationary. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, president of the Iowa W.

C. T. it is said has declined to serve in that office another term. Mrs. Foster gives as her reason that her continued residence outside of the state and the national and general character of her work preclude that special attention to the Iowa field which the president of the Iowa union should give.

The question as to whether marriage is a failure or not seems to grow more complicated all the time, Blackhawk county in this state had thirty-six marriages in the month of September, the largest number in the history of the county for one month. Mahaska seems to take the other side of the question by having twenty-four divorce suits on the docket for the next term of court. Kansas has a man she ought to trade off. He is said to live in Arkansas City, in that state, and he brought suit against his wife for alimony alleging that she is a strong, hearty woman, and asked that she be compelled to support him. Of course the courts decided against him.

A man who could be as outlandish mean as all that ought to be given a free passage to the cannibal islands and compelled to stay there. Last Saturday the G. A. R. post at Mt.

Pleasant laid to rest their comrad, Capt. Peter Fisher, who had the distinction of being the oldest soldier in the United States. He was born in North Corolina in 1795, and when the second war with Great Britian broke out he enlisted, serving under Willian Henry Harrison until the close of the war. He located in Mt. Pleasant in 1852, and when the rebellion broke out he enlisted in the graybeard regiment serving two years.

In politics he was a democrat, having voted for Andrew Jackson. Last Friday's despatches from Washington says that Justice Samuel F. Miller, of Iowa, the senior associate justice of the United States supreme court, was stricken with paralysis. At eleven o'clock, Monday night, the eminent jurist passed peacefully to rest. Justice Miller was one of the nation's greatest men, and one who was admired both for his acknowledged ability and purity of character.

He was appointed to the supreme bench by Abraham Lincoln in 1862. Already there are rumors afloat that Judge Gresham will be his successor. One of the most interesting attractions of the world's fair at Chicago will be Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home. A committee from Chicago in the interest of the world's fair visited Washington county, Tennessee, recently and purchased the log cabin in which Lincoln lived as a boy and where his father was married to Nancy Hanks, the certificate being still preserved in the county clerk's office. The price paid for this historic relic was $1,000 and it will be taken down and erected on a prominent site at the great exposition.

According to reports polygamy is a thing of the past in Utah. The despatches last week said that at a general conference of the church of Later Day Saints, the official declaration of President Woodruff, forbidding in the future any marriages in violation of the laws of the land was read and the congregation, numbering nearly ten thousand persons, including apostles, bishops and leading elders of the church, by an unanimous vote recognized the authority of the president to issue the manifest and accepted it as authoritative and binding. The action taken settles the vexed question and places an effectual bar against future polygamous marriages in Utah. It is an important step and one which will rebound to the credit of the church. The hardest thing to thoroughly understand is nature, for it is continually furnishing problems that is beyond the solution of man.

It is said that out some twenty-five miles from Chicago, on tne C. B. Q. railroad is what might be called a sink hole that is so peculiar it attracts much attention. The grade embankment which there crosses a marshy tract of ground continually sink away.

The company has labored for months in the endeavor to make certain the stability of the embankment so that it could be widened for laying another track, but in vain. If left but for an hour or two the place be- dangerous for passing trains. The hundreds of loads of filling have sunk away and all placed upon this spot follow suit. The services of over a hundred men are required constantly to keep the stretch of track in repair, and no one has yet offered any satisfactory explanation of the phenomenen. Here is certainly a good chance for a shrewd engineer.

Crime is always followed by a bitter penalty. Sometimes the penalty is more bitter than usual but it is always bitter enough. Up at Fort Bodge Frank Hopkins is locked in a gloomy jail cell, charged with burglary. The other day he received news that his mother was dying at Manson, twenty miles away. The sad tidings broke him down completely and he wept like a child.

He begged to be allowed to go to her bedside, but stern discipline would not permit. Even when he learned that she was dead he found that he could not attend her funeral, and his grief was almost unbearable. It was tough, all will admit, but such is the penalty of crime. Had Frank shown that love and devotion to his mother all through life, he would not only have escaped such bitter grief, but the chances are that his loving mother would still be on earth to bless him. Hard as were his own sufferings, even in his dingy prison cell, his mother probably suffered tenfold more over his wayward career.

If young men would think of these things before committing crime, many would be the heartaches and bitter recollections the world would escape. The story of a baby's bravery comes from Gray, Iowa. While playing around its father's well, the little two and a half year oJd daughter of the postmaster of that place the other day, the little girl managed to open a door in the well platform and fell to the bottom, thirty-four feet, nine feet "of water being in the well at the time. She fell between two pairs of cross braces that hold the pump tube to its place that are about twelve feet apart, also missed the lower curbing, which is of brick and is nine feet from the bottom to the surface of the water. When found she was clinging to the pump tubing and her little feet resting on a coupling of the tube that happened to be about fifteen inches below the surface of the water.

She had been there probably ten minutes but was soon rescued, and is apparently Hawkeye. J.D. HA8BKOUCK. HOME BANK BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. at ton per cent, interest.

A general banking, exchange and collectio business transacted with fidelity and promptness. HU W1EBTON, IOWA, Union Nat Bank, Chicago, continental Nat. Bank, New York. HUMESTON NORMALCOLLEGE AND COMMERCIAL INSTITUTE. Ten De ait ttients in charge of Ten well qualified Instructors.

Students can enter at any time. New and commodiousbuildings. Extensive Library. I Latest Works of Reference. Best and Latest ImproveaMapstUUWUIlllUHLCharts and Instruments.

Good Home Board, well furnished Boom and Tuition DDflPDPQQIVC at the low rate of $27 for 1O Weeks, 4O Weeks only rnUUnCOOli in Adra'nce The MUSICAL Depar ment is equal to the best. FINE ART A I A I Department. Complete instruction in SHORT-HAHD and TYPElllHll I luftL. WHITING, also in TELEGRAPHY. All worthy and competent students aided in securing positions.

Last year's students are earning from $40 to $100 per month. Next term begins Nov. 4. Address E. J.

GANTZ, President, Humeston, Iowa. Sanford Barnes, I KCuraeston, OF TfflMBER BnildLing Material AT F. G. CHASE GO'S. Bottom prices guaranteed.

Estimates cheerfully furnished on application. Don't fail to give us a call before purchasing. AN ABUNDANCE Or The Best Coal AT BOTTOM PRICES. Dealer in all kinds FRESH ME ATS SAUSAGES, LARD, ETC, HUMESTON, IOWA, Bed-rock prices guaranteed. Cash paid for hides, furs and poultry.

Fat hogs and cattle wanted. PARLOR AND BEDROOM SETS In now and elegant designs, and all kinds of I Of the latest patterns, at the very lowest prices. Special attention given to Undertak ng and embalming. Will furnish, a hearse and a careful driver for funeralo, when de- red. L.

M. Tin is tfl Ti W. EX. IDEXISKf THE JEWELER, Plas the largest and finest line of Watches, Clocks, Silverware, Etc. In Wayne county.

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