Humeston New Era, The (Newspaper) - May 15, 1912, Humeston, Iowa The Humeston New Era I P Established 1880 HUMESTON IOWA WEDNESDAY MAY 15 1912 Number 1482 TOWNSHIP CONVENTION Republicans of Richman Township Held Convention Saturday at City Hall The republicans of Richman ship met in convention Saturday afternoon at the town hall for the purpose of nominating a full ship ticket a committeeman and selecting twelve delegates to attend the county convention at Corydon There were not many present at the meeting because of the able weather D P Goodrich was elected man of the convention and R L Bott was selected secretary The following ticket was P Goodrich and J L Berry W Fisher and B F Gardner McCulloch S Moore H W Reed and H T P Goodrich The following were chosen to attend the county J K Young Geo McCulloch Dave Bott Geo L Clark D P rich H T Morford S H Moore A D McCulloch Jas L Berry C W Fisher I C Morford and J C Boyce Closes Term of School Miss Judith Farquhar closed an eight months term of school at Green Bay in Richman township last Wednesday She taught her first term of school at Green Bay seventeen years ago Miss Farquhar has taught in many districts and is one of the most successful teachers in Wayne county There were 19 pupils enrolled and during the term the following received attendance certificates Carl Coffey Arline and Burdine Zimmerman Howard and Harry Boyce Howard and Leo Carter Carl Aten Wilma Richard and Margaret Van Zee Good Crop Outlook The last few days of favorable weather have worked the usual miracle in this section and farmers assert that the present outlook for all kinds of farm crops is extremely promising There is a great stand of oats pastures and meadows are recovering from the setback of last Hummer and the ground is being put into splendid condition for the planting of the corn If there is not a general crop yield this year it will be because of unfavorable conditions that will appear later on in the season A Very Happy Affair Mrs Fred M Kyner had as her guests Thursday afternoon the members of the Woman's Guild of the Congregational church and a few friends who report a very pleasant afternoon A delicious ten cent luncheon was served Mrs Kyner was assisted in serving hy Mrs J A Lane and eight dollars was realized for the church from this very happy affair Mrs Victoria Kyner will entertain the Woman's Guild at luncheon on June 6 assisted by Mrs James Storey Baccalaureate Services Held at The Christian Church mon By Rev Mathieson The baccalaureate services for the class of 1912 of the Humeston High school were held at the Christian church Sunday morning It was an ideal morning or the services and the church was The services were ul and impressive The sermon was delivered by the T H Mathieson pastor of Christian church and it was a most discourse The address vas filled with splendid thought interesting and greatly enjoyed by the large audience The subject was The Way Into Truest and it was handled in in able and effective manner The D H Howry and Orr bell assisted in the services was furnished by double quartet composed of Mrs J L Tavlor Mrs L G Mrs Roland Reed Miss Hattie and J L Taylor D W Efaw Harry Taylor and Chas under the direction of Mrs A D McGuire The altar was prettily decorated with house plants and lilacs The class is to be commended for the attractive appearance of the hurch The graduating class composed of Fern Bott Cleo Sponsler Mary Silvers Fannie and Fay Williams Supt Lyon Principal Mrs Waight Assistant Principal Miss Sawtell and the Junior class occupied seats ust in front speaker The commencement exercises will be held at the Princess Friday night The feature of the program will be play Miss by the Senior class Mothers Day Observed Mothers day was observed in Humeston Sunday evening at the Congregational and Christian chinches with special music and special sermons The services were interesting Nearly everybody wore a white flower or ribbon in memory of their mother Good Rain Saturday Saturday was a quiet and most day in town Rain fell during the entire day and three inches of rainfall is reported It kept the farmers out of the fields for a few days Fine Bunch of Hogs Theo Rice sold a fine bunch o hogs last week to Moser Bros Seven hogs seven and a half old an average 297 pounds He per hundred f BEAUTIFUL SERVICES Weather Ideal for Corn Crop May weather such as this is a godsend to Iowa This was the statement of State Food and Dairy W B Barney He says that the present ideal spring weather and the excellent condition of the soil are such as to cause even the weak seed corn planted to grow flourish Two weeks of this weather will mean great things for the Iowa corn Mr Barney said Trouble with weak seed corn will be lessened by 50 per cent if the weather tions continue like this for a night The seed corn outlook is more promising now than it was earlier in the season Our recent tests are showing a better quality of seed and all of the tests to date average about 80 The standard is 94 and the average should be from 85 to 90 but the tests as made show that the seed is much better on the whole than was at first Old Soldiers Elated The old soldiers of this vicinity are greatly elated over the increased pension which passed the senate and house last week and was signed by President Taft in the executive offices of the White House just Before midnight Saturday The carries an increase of for pensions during the first year of its operations and an average increase of during the next three years The provides increased pensions for veterans For veterans sixty-two years old and over the new rate provided in the new law for ninety days service is a month and it ranges to a month up to the three years of service for sixty-six years and over the rate is a month for ninety days and ranges up to for years for and over the rate for ninety is a month and ranges up to a month for three years at five years old and over the rate for ninety days service is 121 and ranges up to for three yean THE DEMOCRATS MEET Richman Township Convention Held at Town Hall Saturday and Ticket Nominated The democrats of Richman ship met in convention at the town ball Saturday afternoon for the purpose of nominating a township ticket committeeman and selecting ten delegates to attend the county at Corydon T E Doze was chairman of the meeting and O A Walters was secretary The following ticket vyas B Guinn and J P Gunzenhauser Miller and O A Walters Williams F D Kyner and Hiram Hart C Hinchliff nomination Arnold Mitchell R R Arnold F D Kyner Nick Kipper Sam Williams J T A P Kirby Alva Humeston J L Yates and O A Waltes C Z Brown for Member of Board The announcement of C Z Brown of Washington township as a for the office of member of the board of supervisors from the Second district subject to the de- of the republican voters at the June primary election is printed in the New Era today Mr Brown was born in Wayne forty years ago and has always the farm He is a progressive and substantial farmer and a good business man He is well acquainted with the needs of the county and would make a most capable supervisor Mr Brown has always been a staunch republican This is the first time he has ever aspired to public office and he will no doubt receive most liberal support The announcement of Mr Brown's will be pleasing news to his friends The Second district is composed of the following ington Richman Clay Benton and Jefferson Christian Church Notes Prayer meeting at o'clock Wednesday evening Regular Christian Endeavor ing Sunday evening at o'clock The Sunday school is planning to observe Children's day the first Sunday in June Ladies aid will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs McKinley A good attendance is desired Choir practice to be held day evening instead of Friday Note this change for this week only Regular services next Sunday morning and evening The pastor has prepared a special service for the evening the subject being Home The four sweetest words in the English language are Mother Home Jesus and Heaven Because of last Sunday being Mothers the subject of the evening discourse was Mother All are welcome to attend these services Little Girl Makes Good Record Miss Frances Farquhar closed an eight months term of school at Lucerne in Richman township last Wednesday She had good success during the school year and the pupils advanced rapidly in their studies Miss Farquhar had one pupil Mildred little daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Garton who was neither tardy during the entire eight months Thie is an unusually good record for a little girl considering the severe winter weather HANGS HIMSELF IN BARN Seymour Had Two Sensations last Week Due to Cain Found Dead by Neighbor Seymour had two sensations last week due to suicides The body of Fred Gookin aged fifty-two who took his life at Fayetteville Ark where he moved from the vicinity of Seymour last March and was engaged in the dairy business was brought back for burial and the funeral was held Monday For several years he had spells of despondency dating back to the failure of the Farmers and Drovers Bank it is said As people were returning from the funeral they learned of the second suicide William Cain aged seventy-five and a retired farmer killed himself by hanging in the barn caused by long suffering with neuralgia is given as the cause The aged man bought the rope from an Italian store and went direct to the barn at his home The rope was tied to the rafters Ben Walker who went to see Mr Cain discovered the body He went to the barn as directed by Mrs Cain who thought her husband was engaged in some chores Cain had been dead fifteen minutes when discovered The Value of Advertising Cedar Rapids The go papers have lost a great deal of money during the strike of the pressmen and But the publishers are not the only ones who have suffered heavily The store owners who depend on the papers to inform the public con- articles of merchandise and prices have lost big sums of money because the medium which con- them with the public had failed them The public too felt the inconvenience The buyer depends largely on his daily paper to furnish him the store news The daily paper's advertising section is a part of the daily life of the con- suming public and the public is at sea without its paper The newspaper does not live unto itself It is a part of the modern business essential part because so many people have come to depend upon it The newspaper serves the community in a way that some people do not appreciate We'll venture the suggestion that more people in Chicago appreciate the value of newspaper advertising than ever before Leon is furnishing eleven out of he twenty-one republicans who are mt for office in Decatur county Corydon The jail has been crowded to the past few days with drunkards and court in the mayor's office oes on most of the time Miss Laura Aten has been elected ashier of the First National bank Garden Grove She has been employed in the bank for several pears and is capable of filling the position in a satisfactory manner The infant child of Mr and Mrs F Roe of Allerton narrowly ed death when it fell fiom a second story window The child was being leld by an older relative when it ot away and fell out of the window arms were broken Mrs Catherine Lusk of Chariton who celebrated her one hundredth last October is now laid up with a broken hip the result of a fall She had been lying on a and attempted to get up when she lost her balance and fell rler condition is serious Two pairs of twins were born in Decatur county within 24 hours ast week Twin boys were born to Vlr and Mrs George Allen of Woodland township Wednesday and twin girls to Mr and VIrs Frank Garber of Center ship Thursday morning A special election will be held at Garden Grove soon to vote on a Democratic State Convention Alva Humeston and Dr R R Arnold of Humeston will attend the democratic state convention at Burlington tomorrow as egates from Wayne county The other county delegates all of whom are instructed for Speaker Champ Clark John K rouse J J Springer R E Guinn Dr J N McCoy D L Murrow W S ard J A Sinclair F A DeMar C A Sager M W B Perkins G Caviness W N Buoy B L Hoschar Ed R E and W H tieth The Eighth district candidates for national delegates J J Doty W H Dewey Chariton Dr J N McCoy don and J F McAuley Osceola of School Miss Maun has closed a successful eight months term of school at West Hill in Washington township A good program was by the Friday Cherries Heavy This Iowa's tremendous apple crop last year will give way to cherries and plums this year The theory is advanced that the apple trees sort of outdid themselves last year anc this year they will take a rest Upon the same hypothesis it is figured the cherry and plum trees rented up last year so that they make an excellent show ing this year In Humeston there is a noticeable scarcity of blossoms on the apple trees although cherry and trees are HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE bond issue for a waterworks system for fire protection It is the plan to erect a gallon steel on a seventy foot tower at the of the town hall and have the mains cover the business and dence district Hon lias been elected president of the Wayne County State bank of Corydon to succeed the late J W Freeland Although his is the oldest banking institution n Wayne county Mr is only the third president Lloyd ielby was president of the bank the irst four years after its organization John Ware of Seymour father of Ware the banker who was sent to prison for irregularities in he Seymour bank has been bound over to the federal grand jury on bonds for writing a ng letter to Dr Cover of Seymour in which he sought He vill be tried in Creston November 4 James Wilson of Leon and Orville Wills of Grand River who have been in jail at Creston for some weeks awaiting trial for selling liquor without a government license entered a plea of guilty in the United States Federal court at last week and were each sentenced to serve thirty days in the Creston jail and pay a fine of SI The jury of Taylor county heard the case of Thomas Maxwell Jr charged with placing ex plosives at the rear of the Bedford Theater Sunday night December IU re- turned a verdict finding that the act was committed while the de- fendant was insane Judge Thomas Maxwell committed the defendant TWO BOYS DROWNED Stuart Isreal and Willard Larimer Drowned in Pond at Chariton Monday Night Chariton On Monday evening May sixth Willard mer and Stuart Isreal the former being about ten years of age and the atter something over nine sons of Mr Frank Larimer and Mr G A unbeknown to their parents went to a pond just south of the Burlington tracks in the south part of town and in their boyish sports had improvised an old boat into a sort of raft and were riding it over the water it must have careened throwing them into the water On their not coming home a search was made for them and on reaching this pond portions of their apparel were noticed either floating on the water or lying on the bank and their lifeless forms were soon found underneath the Others arrived ut the place and p aid was ly secured but life had extinct for some time This was perhaps after ten o'clock The little fellows were seen playing about the pond near seven o'clock and it is not known at what time the accident happened It is certainly a severe trial for the parents and a fellow sympathy to them Continues in Darkness The Burlington Hawkeye Glidden is a town of less than people in Carroll county The people of Glidden wanted electric light and they had the nerve to invest in a plant and when the light was turned on a few nights ago Glidden was happy indeed And the next occasion that will gladden will be the time that the last of these bonds arc paid off Like the majority of smaller Iowa towns Glidden has never Glidden into debt up to her neck and she will be out of the hole before she becomes ed to the novelty and ceases to point with pride to her superior light What a contrast The state papers are all congratulating Glidden and showering her people with good wishes for their enterprise and But what about eston the city of the tallow candles and The editors are roasting the town proper They think the people are fortunate in having a mayor and council who are opposed to electric lights and in this progressive age it is nice for people to carry lanterns when they go out at night Do the people remember reading in the New Era I am in favor of a constructive not destructive policy Bee March 20 Towner on Canal Tolls Towner of the Eighth district has been asked to take part in the discussion of the canal tolls in the house This to the hospital cured at Clarinda until Doze Sells Two Ford Cars J G Moser has joined the auto drivers crowd He bought a Model T Ford five passenger touring car last week of the Doze Motor Co Cyrus Marble of Clio also bought a Ford car last week of the Doze Motor Co Every third car sold this year will be a Ford according to the Ford Motor Co Because the Ford is ridiculously low in its first wonderfully economical in its after manufacturers expect to sell Ford cars and in addition the nil roads be matter will be before the after the legislative is out of the way Judge Towner snid he would speak in favor of free tolls for vessels in coastwise trade would insist that not allowed to own lines using the canal He is busy pre- paring a speech to this effect Judge Towner takes the view that the question of tolls and divorcing the railroads from control of ship lines using the canal are bound together closely He says the free use of the canal hy ships in the coastwise trade is of the utmost im- portance to the Mississippi valley and it would he distinctly beneficial to Iowa Takes Position on Road A I- Marston has accepted a position as traveling salesman with the Co of calendars and advertising novel ties Cincinnati Ohio
