Eldora Herald (Newspaper) - March 22, 1917, Eldora, Iowa VOLUME XLIV NUMBER 12 HARDIN MARCH 1917 PER YEAR BOTH HOUSES BUSY ON IMPORTANT BILLS Highway Legislation Stopped by Fail ure of House to Law Modification Still Over Bills in House and COURT NEWS District Court Will Convene In Eldora Next Monday With Judge Wright Divorce By jr Des March highway legislation restrained of the failure to get any of the measures both houses have busy the past week clearing the calendar of an accumulation of to place the marking of The district court county will convene in Eldora next Monday EMENY AND CITY COUNCIL OF ELDORA UNABLE TO WORK TOGETHER HARMONIOUSLY WILL ORGANIZE Thoroughbred Livestock to Form Permanent Association Here March is called for Tuesday Among with Judge Wright The jury j Seem to He Working at Cross Purposes in Paving Falls Sign lint Declares He Has Refused to Do Passes Resolution Discharging Committee Appointed to Confer willi Elec People of Which His Honor Was the cases that have been docketed are the following Peisen Soper have brought action against Jay and John Rains barger for for professional services rendered the two men re Mary Fowler is asking judg ment against the Penn Mutual Insur ance for due her on policy of her late Ray Irma Horton has brought an action for divorce her teachers examination papers and the I Horton alleging cruel and in issuing of certificates back into the I human treatment and Mabel Smith also has filed her pe tition asking for a decree of divorce from her Charles claiming desertion by the defendant as reasons why the court should grant her release from the bonds of matri Mary Nobles is thru a petition filed in the office of the clerk of courts of the of the estate of the late Robert on a certain judgment obtained by plaintiff against the sen ior Frederick which has never been Edwards will ask the district court at its March session to give him hands of the county superintendents was receiving only 23 have a hearing be iore the joint meeting of the commit tees from both houses and the meas ure will soon be up for The modification of the Sunday observ ance enactment is still unsettled as tar as committee action is concerned The teachers pension the creation of another judge of the supreme new buildings on capitol extension grounds for several state an appropriation for to be used in law bills pertaining to insurance the land registra tion system and various and sundry other prominent measures are still pending after having been passed upon nc nao the by Over 500 bills have damages to that amount by fu and the introduced in the house and son of certain injuries to one of his the were do nearly as many in the in a provided tne were no The city council of Eldora and His Honor the Mayor are not what the French council would seems call en The to be a unit for one thing and the mayor is a unit for something Last Monday night the council met with the intention of ap proving the paving contract but the mayor had not yet signed the docu When asked if he intended to the mayor evaded the question by say Ing he had not finished getting advice in the matter or learned all he wanted to about the The council then passed a resolution authorizing the paving committee to sign the When this was done the mayor declared the council was go ing too far and stated that he had never said that he would not Finally on condition that His Honor would make up his mind what to do by next Monday night the council re considered their action and expunged the resolution from the Other matters were considered by rudiment for W 000againstFred the among them the proposi that he has sus tion to four more in alleging ne nas if h j Farming without livestock in j most cases if investment security is given says John a successful stock man for a quarter of a century in the states of Illinois and in a little booklet bearing the Modern Cattle Feeding This statement as it further that the plan niak from a practical stockman of the ing charges for steam heating sor corn has considerable significance IS SHOULD THERE BE HR Champ Clark Declares Session is Ab Many Changes in Next Likely to Speaker as Republicans Favor The j hands while acting as a workman in a certain blacksmith shop belonging to matted of a revision of the code is no a solution than it was when the urged by the A sug gestion has found its way into a TAPT AT MARSHALLTOWN provides that three district r judges shall sit as a code revision j William Howard former presi commission and that the work of these j dent of united will deliver judges in their several districts shall I the commencement address before the be taken care of by judges in districts i class of 1917 of the Marshalltown high where the work is Lieutenant v Governor Moore has let it be known he is not favorable to the appoint f ment of sifting He be klieves that both houses should get down to business and pass upon all meas rather than commit hundreds of the whims and prejudices dozen men in either Fay for Reckless Shooting of Monroe is back on a that proposes to divert one I half ofthe hunters license fee and it deposited in the treasury of school on June Superintendent Palmer received word from Taft Tuesday accepting the hable and geese each year because of hunt ers poor Crime to Print the Flag SUPERINTENDENT PYE School Board Unanimously Elects Monday Night Schools Making Headway Under His At the meeting of the school board AL UL U Some years ago a law was passed Monday the elected Superintendent crime to use the flag in any kind that nothing could be printed i Pye to head the Eldora school for the next two During tho past year the Eldora schools have been the flag nor could the flag be kj t progress nls upon any article of mer of the The law was patterned after I the Nebraska only the latter ex newspapers from the operations B of the It has been decided by high legal authority that a newspaper is an article of merchandise and there lore is illegal to run the cut of a flag head of the editorial col u In order to obviate the of Clinton introduced la in the and Fosket and J Greene in the exempting news papers and certain articles of stationery and the like from the oper fation of the May Oil Streets and Alleys The Broxam provides that and cities may oil streets and alleys upon petition of property own lerp the cost thereof may be taxed such The signing of j petition carries consent for taxa I Lobbying to be Outlawed During the excitement over the bills Woodworth of avenport of the Greater lowa was endeavoring to line up some recreant supporters to the Elwood when Speaker Pitt espied was ordered to put soon forgot the injunction lipon the sergeant at arms was in to escort him from the house of was at his desk with a note ed by out of a delegation of en farmers who had come all tho to interview The note asked call in the cloak but in stead he sent note to the Speaker evidence lobbyists were trying to get In their The delegation V farmers was publicly rebuked by These and similar inci induced Senator Knigsland to a providing that all lob must register their names and alze tho measures for which they with the secretary of Ho would also exclude from senate and house chambers all not specifically Invited to tho to of sea in a that it shall be un for any state commis or to influence legisla n punishable by a One by ex n from Headlight on passed the model head dimmer law advocated by the Automobile If J the machinery of the educational system has been running most smoothly and the patrons and pupils are contented and The Herald is pleased to note the expres sion of confidence the board has made and it entertains hope that the peo ple of this community will continue to give the superintendent and the teachers the loyal support they have given them tlie past Reaver and the newly elected members took the oath of office at the meeting Monday and Reaver was unanimously reelected president of the The board has also started the movement to have street between the two school buildings vacated and ar rangements to that end have been partly made with the adjacent prop erty The vacation of the street will enable the board to prop erly grade the apace of ground be the new building and the high school and make the whole property nuch more valuable for school pur In the report of the council meeting will be found further in along this pd Her than road for 76 In front of by the Carl Newcomer and the mayor agreed to see that this was The following resolution was then presented by Councilman Newcomer and unanimously adopted the officers of the Iowa River Light Power Company having met with the city council last spring and announced that they were maki a reduction of 10 per cent in rates to become immediately and asked that the council dis turb their rate schedule before Jan uary until they had time to make many needed improvements and determine what the plant was capable of and asking that a committee j be appointed from the council to con fer with them and go over the rate sit thoroughly in time to report tho result of their findings to the council before the 1917 and as a result of said request a prevailed instructing the Mayor to a THAT for some months the Mayor failed to appoint such commute and that subsequently at the request of the Mayor the motion was so amended that the Mayor was authorized to appoint himself a member of that hat he then did appoint said cnm littee consisting of Council man Star and THAT although the committee was as authorized by the coun il failed to make any report of heir findings to the council in time o take any action prior to January 1917 and have in fact entirely fail id up to the present time to make NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the said by the Mayor on authority of the council be his day discharged and relieved from further responsibility in the mat AND WHEREAS tho council be ieves that there is much ion among the patrons of the Light Company with the rates charged for whether well founded or not lie council being at this time unable o state owing to its inability to ob ain a report from the committee ap for the purpose of making the and for the MANY TRANSFERS Deeds of Land Valued at Twelve dred Thousand Dollars Filed With Recorder Between and Hardin county land gets more valu able every year and Just as many farms seem to change hands with each coming March This yoar the total consideration of the deeds filed for record with Record er between February 20 and March the time when transfers are usually amounted to tho enor mous sum of The value of the mortgages filed during the same period was A TREAT Prior to a groat missionary conven tion to be held in April in Cedar Rap six group conventions wil be held in other centers Eldora has been chosen as one of these six March 2829 Is the date and the Methodist church is the This group includes Iowa Union and Delegates are ex from these The which IB cordially in will be anxious to hear the Pr rent from Bulgaria will portray In that bloody war W form Porto Rico vice seems to be indefinite and unset NOW THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER That a consisting of Councilman Wartchow together with Martin and Carl Newcomer be and are hereby appointed a committee to at once con fer with the officers of the Light Com pany with a view to determining whe ther the rates now charged for elec tric current are equitable as between the Light Company and the consumers or whether they should be also that the question of rates to be charged heat should be thoroughly investigated and a method submitted to the council for a just and equitable and that a report of the findings of the committee and its rec shall be made to the city council not later than the regular May BE IT FURTHER that this resolution be published in The Eldora Herald witli the request from Council to the users of both elec ric current and steam heat that they urnish the members of this committee with any information in their posses sion which would be of assistance to he committee in arriving at a true and fair The information par desired is statements of cost of current or rather amount of light Jills under former management as with same periods under pesent Councilman Newcomer moved tho adoption of the seconded jy Councilman An aye and nay vote resulted as follows aye aye aye Mar The Mayor then declared the mo tion The following resolution was then presented by Councilman Wartchow and unanimously adopted The burden of taxes i now somewhat heavy so far as perI iii our School District aird after j the street between the two school houses has paved there will be more danger to the school children automobiles and other and after the completion of the new school house many more of the school I children will be obliged to pass be tween these buildings that formerly and for the reason that the space between the school buildings can be readily and deeming it a matter of enough importance to the people of Eldora to warrant investi gation it is hereby That the Ordinance committee of the city council be ap pointed as a special committee to take By The Eldora Herald March Speaker Champ Clark has comment ed that if there should be war it might be a good thing to have con gress on Champ Clark pies a peculiar position in the affairs of the After of tlie last session of congress a great many members were wondering whe ther or not it would be necessary for them lo return to Washington for an extra Champ Clark told the Whits that congress is up la the air and I would like to know right away whether there is going to be an extra session or standing the fact that the president was confined to his room from the ef of an inauguration cold a spe cial session was immediately called for April In Washington there is almost a blind confidence in the ability of President Wilson to deal with the for eign there is a feeling of satisfaction that congress is to since if there should be war congress would at least serve as a check upon the individual power as vested in the The House Organization The numerous deaths among mem bers of congress will likely have no effect upon the organization of the next House of which is scheduled to convene in Washington April The Republicans claim a nu Cook has begun suit against Nevertheless they do to those men who have assumed the responsibility of keeping up the pro power of the More es should this be important to those forerunners of the breeds in teaching others that the best is none too Getting team and co operation are modern expressions of doing The breeders of the breeds in Hardin county are going to get together Saturday March 24 at Eldora for the purpose of completing the first livestock breeders association in Hardin Those farmers who are coming to realize the importance of the livestock industry in keeping up the productiveness of the soil should Those farmers who are beginning to realize that only those animals that are built right are the profit makers in the long run should themselves with the Har din County Breeders Professor ono of the leading livestock authorities in the will be present and address the ASKS FOR Cook Wants Recompense From Carr for Alleged Injuries lie Last Carr asking for the sum of for alleged injuries sustained when the automobile driven by the defendant struck Cook on South Washington not expect that all Republicans will consent to vote for James Representative Gardner has openly declared that he will not vote MAN NAMED TOWER SUICIDE AT THE FALLS breaking three ribs and throw for Chicago There ing his out of are others who are supposed to enter tain the same The Republi can when confronted with these reply that in case Mann cannot be elected that Representative Lenroot of Wisconsin will be it seems unlikely that Lenroot will be any more able to poll the entire Re i publican voto than Both men have bitter opposition in their On the Democratic side all are united for Speaker Clark and with one two or three votes outside of the straight Democrats he is sure of re i There is not a Republican member of the house who is not per A man named Tower has lowa Ialls toi g to succeed i Given as Frank Fonner ly Employed liy Light Com pany at That Been Liv ing His the matter of street up with the the vacation of this Board of Educa years was found hanging by his neck in a barn in that city The lan was formerly employed by the Light Company at that has been living with his V few years ago his father hanged about ten feet from the lace whore the son also committed lie unnatural He is no relation o the Towers who live in this tion and owners of the abutting property and ascertain whe ther satisfactory arrangements can entered intd between Board of Educa cation and Burling and the city council for the vacation of said street being street from the south of 11 th avenue to the north line of 12th and if so to report to this council at its regular April mooting the result of its findings and with an ordinance vacating said street if in the judgment of the committee satisfactory arrangements can be The council then adjourned until March 26 at WAR WITH GERMANY Stuto of War Now Actually Exists He That Country and the United Since the sinking of several Ameri can ships and the killing of American seamen by German submarines the jast week a state of war now actually exists between Germany and the United Congress hag been call ed in extra session on April 2 to make plans for carrying on the of battleships and destroyers and submarines is now being carried on at top speed by this government aud every precaution is being taken to intercept any German spies or agents that may attempt to do damage to any part of this MASS MEETING A mass meeting of citizens interest ed In the was held Sat night at the court About ono hundred persons wore The matter of the proposed paving was Addresses were made by Ryan and While the mayor did not say so directly he left the Impression with the audience that he would never sign the paving contract and that is the un took away with NOTICE The fulled to send out the cartoon The Herald on Ui ned to run the will not until FIGHT AT WRITTEN Causes Mixup Two Men in One Deputy Sheriff Collins and Marshal of this wore called to Whitton Monday to assist in quelling a It seems that Nick Hutchens and Brooks got Into a which resulted In Brooks get ting a badly cut Hutchens was arrested and brought before Mayor who continued the case on pro hearing until was the cause of tho Hutchons gave bond for his appear ance at tho Tho first reports that camo to El dora wore that one of the men has been shot through the of Buckeye last Thursday at his home following an illness of several Litt schwager was a prominent resident of that part of tho country for many years and active In the democrat poll tics of the MORE FLOUR The standard sack of flour Iowa lii the future will contain fortynine instead of fortyeight in ac cordance with the passed Wednesday by the The meaa ure already bad the H U charged that in other the fortynine pound aack has been the mid that the M to tor tho MWl SOCIAL EVENTS he Girls Club a Tot Luck Supper at Their Monday The Pythian Sisters held their rogu ar meeting Tuesday Dele gates to the Grand Temple to be held n Des Moines wore appointed as James Ona 3rown and Frank Re were served and a pleasant evening Miles Sayer was host at a slug party Tuesday evening of thin week when on of his friends were guests at oyster a jolly social evening with cards and music Those pres ent harles Noil Morris Harold Mc Donald and Frank and Ed William Kuser entertained a com pany of twelve young people very at a Patricks dinner arty Monday evening of this Patrick decorations wore cleverly The evening was spent in games and all present enjoy d the occasion and Herrald enter a company at a Patrick dinner party Tuesday Miss Louisa Nuckolls will entertain a company young folks at a dinner Saturday evening In celebration her thirteenth ENTERTAIN CLERKS and Haas entertained their clerks at eix oclock dinner Tues day Covers wore laid for The evening was spent In var ious amusements and a delightful timo enjoyed by Newcomer and K Welsh went to Pea Tuesday to attend the state meeting of the Daugh ters of the American is held there this SOCIETY The Congregational Ladles Society will be by Mrs About in political patronage depends upon the for should the Democrats loss the all of tho employees in the House of Repre will be replaced by Republi Still more important to the themselves the fact that lie chairmanships and principal laces on always go to the arty in control and in case of a Republican speaker being elected here would be a new chairman for very committee in the House of Rep Most of the important chairman hips are now held by Southern Demo ratic who camo into heir positions through seniority of The northern Democrats are now and as good con from the south are seldom and never voluntarily release he safe berth of being a hero seems little that a con of the Democratic regime on Hill will result to the benefit if the many who are aspiring north ern Democrats who would like to bo t the head of big 1resH Censorship A measure providing for press con in the United States failed to MSB in the late When the issued his order for armed Secretary of tho Navy who himself is a newspaper editor by met a group of ho Washington correspondents and through thorn made a general request o lliu newspapers of the country to from publication of any news concerning the time of departure of American Tho probabilities are this request will be rigidly com although it is entirely n tho rights of tiny publication to give information with reference to ships Its Most of the newspaper men of the country are represented In Washing and among these Is this The existing codo between officials of government and ms been so closely observed in the past years that it IB the universal practice of the government to release important matters of news many days in No violates this release and if he he would likely be reprimanded or dis missed by his In view of tho distressing conditions of tho country at the present the newspapers will undoubtedly carry their own and there no probability that requests men that made by Secretary will bo The of debate tft the hat been put to tht the hours It usually that
