Jefferson Bee (Newspaper) - December 8, 1909, Jefferson, Iowa Jefferson DECEMBER 8, 1909. 49. "The Blue the Best Show Ever in Saturday CENSUS IS MERELY Front More Important Tlian people have a erroneous as to the main purpose of the decennial Governmental They appear to think the main feature is discovering how many people there are in the Of is an of the but it is leas important by than the statistics obtained at the same time by the Sam wants to know what the farmers have accomplished during the preceding what the manufacturera and other industries have - These facts are of great value in many and justify the large expenditure of money to obtain county is devoted almost wholly to agriculture and There is if any manufacturing of consequence within our consequently the farmer is the man Uncle Sam ia chiefly in this order that our farmers may have an idea what questions will be asked them next and thus be prepared to answer we publish herewith some of the facts the enumerators will seek to It might be a good idea to save the list for future of with all buildings and of of all improvements and including harness and all appliances and apparatus used in farming and value of domestic classified as before January 1, 1909. Cows and heifers kept for Cows and heifers not kept for Steers and bulls kept for Steers and bulls not kept for in 1909: steers and born in 1910.' horses born before January 1, 1909. Colts born before January 1, 1909. Colts born after January 1, 1910. born before January 1, Mule colts born after January 1, 1909. Mule colts born after January 1, 1910. Asses and burros born before January 1, 1910. Pigs born after January 1, 1910. born before January 1, 1910. Rams and wethers born before January 1, 1910. Lambs born after January 1, 1910. Goats and kids and value of poultry ever 3 months guinea and value of swarms of census will not ask the value of household nor that of grain or other farm crops on hand on April 15. These items should be by all desiring a complete inventory of their farm value given to the farm should aa nearly as can be the amount that could be obtained for it if offered for sale under normal Current market prices should be carefully considered in estimating the value of live advantages of always having on hand for ready reference a detailed written statement of one's farm property are readily understood by everyone and will be most keenly appreciated when the census 1909. calls with his list of questions next The value of the census figures of farm wealth depends upon their and accuracy can only be secured through the cooperation of tne farmers In no way can tne larmer extend more practical assistance to the census and in no way can he render himself a greater service than by getting out pencil and note book on the evening of April 14, and making up a of his farm Course at State College will offer its annual shore course in live corn judging and other branches from January 3 to 15, 1910. Thousands of farmers have availed themselves of this opportunity in past years to information to their daily The present prospects indicate a larger attendance tnis year than ever The courses have been carefully planned to meet the needs of the busy Nothing but practical work will be attention will be given to the caie and management of sheep and There will also be lectures on the most diseases and the best methods of combatting the A great deal of time will be given to the selecting and breeding of corn and other farm Soil farm dairying and horticultural subjects will also be taken up in a most interesting and instructive addition to the excellent herds and flocks of live stock owned by the arrangements have been made to secure a large number of the leading winners at the International Live Stock This will afford those present the greatest opportunity ever presented in any country to see and study the beat specimens of the leading special feature of this year's course will be the meat demonstration by Mr. John Kansas This will ba the most extensive and complete demonstration ever made on the American No live stock man or farmer can afford to miss this feature of the addition to the regular college staff of a number of the leading men of Canada and the United States will be to present different phases of the is being left undone to make this course more complete than any previous For further information address the Animal Husbandry Iowa State for circulars containing daily rates of Without game warden ran in an old maid over at Algona for hunting without a It was proven that she has hunted for a man for thirty-seven years without a She put in the plea that she was to pay for a but that the county clerk wouldn't issue one unless she named the party of the second part. She named an old bach of and then the clerk was so that he wanted the bach's signature to the The old refused to and called the old maid an old The court then found the old bach guilty of using fowl the clerk was found guilty of conspiring to form a merger the game warden was fined ten dollars on complaint of the old bach for an attempt to ensnare wild game out of then the old maid had the warden arrested and fined for false on the plea that the open season for old maids to hunt man continued throughout the whole year in The clerk then put in a claim against the old maid for attempt to get goods under false as she had signed her age as and he also had the old arraigned for breaking the speed ordinance in getting away from the The old bach had the warden arrested for using a decoy and hiding behind a then the clerk had the old bach arrested for not stopping and four hundred feet from a The last heard from the old bach was still running and the old maid after him with a writ of habeas and an information charging of BOYS WIN CUP ALMOST Time Ames Capture Place In International Stock Duplicate of our hunters have lost their and have made inquiry as to whether or not they could get a duplicate licenses are issued in blank by the game warden and are received by the county auditor in blocks of The auditor ia charged for each block sent him and he is required by law to either remit the money or return the blanks to the State The law also says that a hunter to enjoy the privileges granted him by the hunter's must have the license on his when thus be prepared to show it to the game warden or any other person who may make a demand for it. So be careful and not lose your or it will cost you another dollar to get man who believed in the a pin it all the day you will have good saw one lying near the the other Bending to get his hat tumbled off into the his eye glasses fell and broke on the his suspenders gave away he bursted the button hole in the back of his shirt and all but lost his false But he got the beautiful Xmas things than ever at W. C. N. number of the fast passenger trains and some of the heavier which pass through this city over the Northwestern says the Nevada now being hauled by the new type high speed engines which are being sent out from Ten of the new engines lor passenger service and fifteen for consolidated freight engines have been started from the Boone end of the Northwestern immense passenger built to combine high speed with power of hauling heavy are 77 feet 8 inches long and weigh 391,000 pounds a They possess three drive wheels and a the former being 75 inches in Com paring these new ones with the old engines which have been in use for some the old ones seem puny indeed with their 52 feet 10 inches in length and 163,000 pounds consolidated freight engines are equally immense but built upon a slightly different These engines are 71 feet long and weigh 382,000 The old style engines used for freight work were 53 feet 9 inches in length and weighed less than half as much as the or 165,000 fast as these engines can be sent from the Clinton they will leave the Boone station at the head of long Monday noon one of the new ones took No. 6 on its east Supt. Hammill at the throttle started it on its The run from Ames to this city was made in just six a distance of eight and one-third including the start at Ames and the stop only baking powder ' from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar from Purest Calenders For S. B. Anderson has just received a box of 1910 calendars from the Insurance of Cedar These calendars are a reproduction from a cut by the noted A. who has been furnishing the cuts for their celebrated corn calendars for several years They are beauties in design and coloring with large black figures on white Also beneath the twelve calendar is an additional calendar for same year for Vet will distribute tham among the many patrons of the in Greene county and to others as long as they A fine calendar from a good home Met the you go to New I wish you would inquire after my Jeremiah said the and wherever he went he asked for news of the but without One day he was introduced to a fine old Maori of advanced you ever meet with an Englishman named Jeremiah he A smile passed over the he I ate Schneider Stock H. C. the well known Junction township advertises to-day his 9th annual sale of thoroughbred Short Horn cattle and Poland China male Mr. Schneider expects to leave Iowa next and this is an unloading sale which will lovers of pure bred stuff a great hance to fill up their Sale will be held in a on December 10. the second time the representatives of Iowa State college at were successful in the judging contest at the International Stock show in and should they repeat their victory next year the trophy will be theirs permane They already own the Spoor and horse and this year's team coached by Professors Kennedy and Densmore have added more laurels to the work of the State college won the judging contest with a score of 4,940 out of a possible 6,000, breaking the records of all previous Agricultural college team takes second place with a score of 4,741, and Ohio falls in third with 4,722 points to their L. of was high man of the with a. score of 1,086 out of a possible 1,200. took first place on cattle hog Missouri first on horses and Ohio first on highest previous record made in the contest was a score of 4,580, made by Iowa in 1905. This year's team beat that record by 350 Highest previous record on individual men was 992 This year five men made higher Iowa had three of Ohio and Ontario won high man on sheep and horse judging and Iowa high man on cattle and As a result of this year's Iowa wins three of the scholarships awarded by Armour Ohio wins and Missouri standings of the contestants is as follows Grand totals by teams Final Results of out of a possible 6,000 of Individual out ox possible 1,200 Iowa 999 995 976 974 969 964 964 other Iowa took thirteenth place with a score of 955. the Old Man an Over is good for a man is good for and its a poor rule that won't work both Not far from Uvea a contented couple on a They think a great deal of each other and last March when the husband began to refuse his ration and kind of got sick it worried his Nothing seemed to suit his taste and he went about doing his chorea as if he were trying to save funeral Out in the barn his wife across a package of condition powders like they feed and after reading its good qualities printed on the she vowed to try some on her The next morning for breakfast she mixed a with his oat He ate it with The next day she repeated and before the end of the week he jumped a fence and turned a Before he had eaten a one pound package he threw the hired man three times during the noon and cut up several capers like a would Then the good tickled all over at her wonderful got another and before halt of it was fed up her husband got so frisky she could not keep him on the or home at He just wants to prance around and make eyes at all the and now his wife is in tears and talking about getting a OFF YEAR ON IS LARGELY of State In Vicinity lilt by the of Fast DOING ROUND Teli of to Folks or Without the of Greene overlook our line of cut fancy and beautiful colored all in our art department in rear of W. beautiful Christmas gifts for Ladies and to big display ad on 3. Prices For or Des Moines Lump Coal per Neola Elevator Graphic says of Miss Beatrice the daughter of the Presbyterian minister at who was recently seriously injured by an Booth is a little improved over her condition last Saturday and were very bad days for Her temperature was Sunday when 98J is counted A rapid pulse was also persistent at this But since Sunday there has been On the whole the progress of the case has been slow and rather physicians and friends all a satisfactory Sunday has delivered the eulogy upon the mothers of the until you come to the mountains of eternity and have a chance to read some of the mother names in God's Hall ot Fooling away time with a poodle dog and society will look mighty small To plant a good thought in the mind of a so that it will stick and stay and is a greater thing to do than to put in a great wheat and character building is a bigger work than building Get all the boys and girls started right and the devil will bank his fire and put crape on the door hell will be for Jefferson citizen declares he beard the following conversation between two little makes a horse act naughty when he sees an one this replied the is used to other things and they don't know what to think of 'em along without a I guess if you was to see a pair of pants down the street without a you'd be scared is the way the papers will write up weddings ten years bride looked very well in a traveling but ail eyes were centered upon the He wore a dark suit that fitted his form perfectly and in his dainty gloved hands he carried a small His curly hair was beautifully and a delicate odor of hair oil of the best quality floated down the aisle as he The young people will miss him now that he is He is loved by all for his many his tender grace and his winning The bride commands salary as a bookkeeper and the groom will miss none of the luxuries to which he has been A crowd of saw him off at the quickest way to fatten a Thanksgiving turkey is to ram a quart bottle of Scott's Emulsion down his neck and wring his nose while he Some turkeys are given to melancholy and cold feet and fatten slower than In carving a always begin with the starboard drumstick and trim toward the A delicious is made from beef suet smothered in If you want a for those new go to the mat with the neck of the turkey which has died of old When you get you won't be able to distinguish your gums fom a pound of For or Des Moines Lump Coal per Neola Elevator Greene county corn crop this year is a poor There ia no use in attempting to evade or disguise the There are instances of fine yields of sixty bushels to the acre and but they are and the general verdict is a What makes the situation is the fact that the corn is of poor parts of the corn belt this year are much more From some parts of Iowa bumper crops are The daily receipts of 300 and 400 cars of good in Chicago indicate that other people have been much more fortunate than the nation at large 1909 has been a banner prosperous ot all the place to which 1909 is entitled in declares Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in his thirteenth annual made public last The value of farm products is so incomprehensibly large that it has become merely a row of For this year it is a gain of over 1908. The value of the products has nearly doubled in ten report years of beginning with a production of and ending with A sum of for the period It has paid off it has established it has made better it has helped to make the farmer a citizen of the and it has provided him with means for improving his soil and making it more most striKing fact in the world's agriculture is the value of the corn crop of 1909, which is about It nearly equals the value of the clothing and personal adornments of 76,000,000 according to the census of 1900. This crop exceeds in value the average of the crops of the five proceeding years by thirty-six per ia tho crop in and this year's cotton crop is easily the most valuable one to the farmer that has been With cotton lint selling at 13,7 cents on the farm November 1, and with cotton seed selling for about per the lint and seed of this crop are worth about to the No cotton crop since 1873 has been sold by farmers for as high a price per pound as this in value is worth about at the and this largely exceeds all previous rhe November farm price was almost an even dollar a a price which has not been equaled since 1831. This is the third crop of wheat in point of with 725,000,000 hay crop is valued at oats at potatoes at and tobacco at nearly Beet and cane sugar and molasses and from farm and will reach the total of about The barley crop is worth flaxseed and 1,000,000,000 pounds of rice production of all cereals com is 4,711,000,000 an amount considerably greater than that for any other year except 1906. It exceeds the average of the preceding five years by 6,5 per cent. The value of all cereals in 1909 has never been equaled in a previous It is almost exactly or 34 per above the five-year with the average of the previous five all principal crops are greater in quantity this year except and cane but without exception every crop is worth more to the than the five-year is the year of the highest production for beet all and next to the highest production for oats and all Compared with 1908, gains in value are found ail along the the exceptions being buckwheat and Great first that watched the at the Lyric wore a grin that stretched from orchestra to is the way Charles Darnton in the New York Evening World wrote of Clyde Fitch's latest under the management of the comes to the Jefferson opera house next Saturday December 11. The farce came into popular favor over and New as Germany and France are still ia laughing A Salome dancer whose sobriquet is Blue is engaged by secretary to the president of a to impersonate his real wife and flirt with the president with the hopes of getting from him a Her same of course gets her into all kinds of and before the first act is well begun the real Mrs. her father from the real wife of the president and the sweetheart from turn There are three acts to the excruciatingly funny and the one of the largest ever required to present such a comedy Alma 0. E. Jack E. Frank V. H. N. Leo Lavinia Gertrude Jospehine Kemety and Inez JOHNSON EUGENE FOX LEAKAGE THE Pays Her in Spite of Hail YEAR RESIDENT OF Follows Protracted Illness and Gradually Due to Old Per Cent am prepared to make 5 per cent mortgage loans on Greene county real P. O. City Bank death of Thomas of father of Mr. W. J. Johnson of this occurred last bringing sorrow to many friends not only in the home but here in where he was well Thomas Johnson was born in April 2, 1835. At Preston he followed the trade of a broker until 1856, when he bade good-bye to his native land and sailed for Arriving at New he worked on a sailing vessel for a short after which he traveled to Illinois and there on a farm from fall of August 1865. Leaving there he moved to Volga where he purchased a farm and married Miss Sarah A. They raised three George William and Walter In 1876, they removed to Greene where he bought 160 acres west of He lived there and raised Cornelius Thomas Martha P. Clara N. and Etta He retired from the farm and moved into Cooper in 1908. His wife who had shared the joys of his divided the bitter pangs of death with leaving him with five sons and three daughters to cheer him in his Her death took place at June 14, 1908, who was a member of the Methodist lived a Christian caring for his He was taken sick and died December 2, 1909. All was done that could be done by loving and friends manifested kindness on every funeral services were held at the Methodist church in on Saturday in charge of the resident Rev. A. Suitable hymns were sung by the The interment took place in the beautiful cemetery at are paying 8i cents per pound for hens and 4 cents for old 9 cents for Prices subject to market Give us b Swift 45-tf funeral services of Mrs. Eugene died early Monday morning at the home of her Mrs. David were from the Baptist church yesterday afternoon at 2:30 In spite bitter a very large audience was present to evidence their love and respect for this noble character who has spent forty years in and the floral offerings were rarely Rev. discourse was based upon the thought that death is after all a friend of when the life work is and his handling of idea was The interment was in the where a prayer at the completed the funeral The pall bearers were Messrs. E. E. H. B. C. P. Lyon and George W. Ardella King was born October 14, 1861, in Dane the daughter of Augustus and Mary With her parents she moved to Greene county while still a the family settling here in the year 1869, since which time she has been continuously a resident of Jefferson or its immediate After reaching years of she engaged in the profession of and for fourteen years devoted her time to this For nine years she taught in the public schools of and many of the men and women of this city look back with fond recollection to the years they spent under her leadership in the school At an early age she accepted Christ as her Master and and united with the Baptist church in in which fellowship she has ever been a faithful working taking active part in all departments of the work of both the church and Sunday November 26, 1891, she was united in marriage with Eugene het with him on farm two miles west oi where she lived until the death of her some four years Since that time she has made her home with the relatives in chiefly with her Mrs. David Fox was a woman of splendid entertaining in possessed of the kindest of and never weary in good Since the death of her husband she has herself suffered much from ill a dropsical affection keeping her much at home and causing great weakness and She has borne her illness and misfortune with high Christian and when the end she was entirely reconciled and passed away with full faith and hope of awakening in that Batter where sorrow and tears are wiped of Clarence December 4:The funeral services of Clarence aged 23 son of Thomas and Margaret of Franklin Greene were held at the Methodist in on Thursday December 2, 1909. The services were conducted by the Rev. A. who preached on Redeemer's Tears at a Youth's The choir rendered appropriate hymns and the church was beautifully decorated with black and white draperies and many A large procession of mourners were in The interment took place at the cemetery at ENGLE MADE TO YOUR line Fall Winter AND work a Racket west side square Greene County Phone No. 262 Dec. 14 FAMOUS MUSICAL Girl All the Classy Organization of Pretty and Modest Young perfect in face and whose voices blend in real harmony and whose whirlwind dancing astounds by its Effects compare favorably with any attraction regardless of the scale of prices
