Pocahontas Democrat (Newspaper) - August 13, 1903, Pocahontas, Iowa AUGUST 13, 1903. of order to make for Fall Sell ' C ' B O V E O S BIG FOUR Financial Success and In But Plenty of never in history of the Ito fair held at was ever as large a number of entered for the races as l seen an the grounds last The number is said to have been 137, the running - The in fairly condition lid some splendid racing was seen exhibits were rather no doubt to the fact that it was ' a little early in the but not interfere only in the line of J Some fine iVere seen in the floral in of vegetables and was not much of a display other J school exhibit IMS exceptionally also the art poultry was the not being equal to the pens of thoroughbred l. Or three and one pens of was the extent of | live stocic J. Dooley showed some fine and as usual oft some of gebest Mr. met with loss when Top He wais one of test hogs in the country and Mr. Dooley had refused an of 9500 I the day he White of exhibited specimens of the Duroc Tiie number of places dl as 10 and 15 of all were ahead of the ordinary in A man could get or secure a of pay fifteen cents and look at with a lot of of throw rings at a dance the French see a women t a nine hundred pounds pony with f Mr or shoot - see the % and original several The family gave good each afternoon in trapeze people by as at and proved an excellent doing we insist on satisfying ourselves concerning Perhaps Bro. can inform Is it or that Fred C. Gilchrist voted against Hazlett for county attorney on the Republican Did or did he try to urge his relatives to vote against Mr. answers are will be able to judge whether we are upon to give a reply to the Sun or THE of Lizard Has Leg at Mt. superintendent of the Mt. Pleasant asylum for the recently made a showing the institution to contain 150 inebriates and gaye the following interesting 1 led 31 2 good liquor was and drug stores it or editor of the Laurens Sun does like what The Times f the county con r inere is a that will need is times to blame because some leaders oi have up over Does Ui he 1 of any over the Voi his home loyal of ear to the ' ' ' ' ' courtesy ditch contractors and to whom it may Is hereby given as provided in section 1944 ot the 97 code of that on the Sth day ot 1903, at 2 o'clock p. of Pocahontas at his in tlie court house at will let to the responsible contracts for the construction and completion of a tile drain drainage district No. 0, also an open Or ditch part of the way over the Bald district Is located on sections ai and 33, 93-Hl and section 0, all in Pocahontas said drainage district lius been divided into three each will be let said will be done under the charge ot a competent engineer whose plat profiles and are on file in the office ot said locution of each section of said drain Is as No. lis all part said ditch lying in the west of southwest 82,1)3-3). N o. 3 is all that part of said ditch lying In the southeast H of section 31-93-31, Section No. 3 is all that part of said lying in the west H of northeast H of section 0, 91-31. said drain to be constructed according to profiles and ot the now on flie in the office of which may be seen at any the constructions of said drain the contractors will be subject to the further instructions of the civil 1 in and bo bound by any made by party or contractor for any of said work win be required to a bond with sureties in an to ai per cent ot the estimated cost flied by tho Board of Supervisors ior the completion ot said drain Is January 1 1904 any or all bids under my hand Auditor of Pocahontas KATES TO ST. PAUL For the Minnesota SI to Sept. 6, the and St excursion tickets to St. for good to return Gallon agents for W 1 ire ' store at Havelock Is Robbed from go to Butter 13c. The Ladies aid met at Mrs. C. E. Fitz was a passenger for Des Moines Lewis and family drove to Emmetsburg Vinke drove over near Gilmore last Saturday C. Schroeder of Manson was seen on our streets W. E. Fitz returned to her horoe at Churdan B. F. Young of Manson was in our burg between trains Philson took in the races at Fonda last Thursday and to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wessels on Tuesday Aug. 11, a Frey went to Marathon Monday to look after his farm near that H. Pease returned Monday after a week's visit with relatives at Lent of Manson was in town Monday buying poultry for A. R. and John Peterson of Pomeroy called on some of our business men Anderson Ida Wendell drove over to to the fair last Tall went to Pomeroy Monday to visit his cousins Wolferd and Alfred and Mrs. A. W. Lewis and son left Wednesday for a month's outing in A. Marple ind wife of Pomeroy visited with Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Parker last W. Uttley and daughter Mable called on old friends at Laurens from Monday until J. Fischer and Oscar Anderson drove over to Gilmore City Sunday and visited at F. B. B. A. Hoffert Saturday for a two weeks visit with relatives and friends at Storm and Mrs. L. Hull and daughter spent Sunday with the Methodist minister in rustler for the Des Moines Daily News was here Monday and Tuesday rustling A. E. Marshall returned Saturday after a pleasant visit with her parents at number of our residents attended the confirmation exercises in the Swedish Mission church last and Mrs. W. Uttley have been enjoying a visit from their daughter Miss Mable of Ft. Dodge the past Schroeder has been running the business of the elevator Co. during the absence of A. W. Sargent finished putting on the tar roof on the bank building Satr and returned to his home at Sunday was an interesting day tor a while out at the Lisard a had gathered was G. Demaray was in Rolfe a few hours Sheldon was on the sick list a few days last Bonny of was town over Fitzgerald is taking few weeks Harris is enjoying a from his parents from Thorton and family moved into the Tilley B. Sheldon went to Minnesota on a business Monday Chas Miller and two children spent last Friday with friends in family of A. J. Holderness has moved into the rooms behind the G. Lighter and family of Rolfe visited friends and relatives here last and Mrs. Ray Green of spent Sunday at the Henry Goodchild J. Wonderlich is again a resident of Havelock after an absence of six G. H. Eaton visited with the Bert Jarvis family on the Shannon last of the young men from here went to Sunday afternoon to see will Gill and two children of Terrill are visiting at the C. J. Gill home this A. E. Wells of is spending a few days at the J. B. Sheldon this Harris who has been quite sick for the last two weeks with typhoid is gaining G. H. Hinkley is enjoying a visit from her Miss Gertie from southern Fitzgerald of is a guest at the home of her Mrs. F. E. of this Clarence Tompkins and Ruthie Smith entertained about a dozen children in lionor of their third Monday store was robbed last week of several bolts of silk and about twenty pairs of The loss was not discovered for three or four days as the boxes were left on the There is no clue to the whereabouts of the POSTAL Politicians Kake About until serious - Wm EliOD and hegatt ling when had the misfortune Ito get hU was wiio leg sei and bit bat 15c; butter corn 50c; oats 20c; hogs Deacon spent Sunday at the Boss Porath and wife visited friends and relatives in Saturday and Fox and family spent Sunday and Monday in Varina visiting relatives and a large number of relatives and friends visited at the home of Joe Morrison last and Mrs. D. Z. Roland have returned Rookwell and a store in the same building they moved out Arthur baby Is very and is the care of Dr. Foley of There is hope Of Henry who has been op the sick list for time has been under the care of Dr. and is DOW able to come to town Braskey unloaded a new threshing here last week to do a great business this We all that he will do Mrs. Watts and their Harv ie ftpd Mr. and Mrs. Post tor to the a very enjoyable Constitutional Provisions Alabama on the Subject of Since last week the postal officials have made another generous securing indictments August W. Machen and seven of his confederates who had according to the evidence presented to the grand divided among them funds of which the government has been defrauded to upwards of By this machinations Machen had secured a on every registered letter case on every carrier's satchel and on every mail box that had been Among those indicted with Machen Gordon manager of the Postal Device and Lock Long and Long was a protege of Senator Hanna's and had on several occasions represented Abner attempting to sell of which he claimed was the to the department and threat with as a result of McKinley's influence at the white those who refused to purchase the inferior grades of goods he The grand jury is still in session and is known to be working on cases and some more startling indictments are promised at an early of the people of said Representative S. B. Cooper to your correspondent this not tariff reformers of the Cleveland that is to say they want some incidental In other words they are more on the line of the late Samuel J. Randall's contention than on that principal of as reported from the ways and means In southwest Texas the sheep and cattle interests are important and those engaged in them are naturally opposed to the theory of the The same is the case in my where the rice and lumber industries are This large infusion of ideas of the Democratic variety to give popularity to such candidates for the presidential do not wish to push tariff beyond a safe Mr. Gorman is not only popular on this but also because of his attitude as what is known as the Force and that not only in Texas but throughout the I have some doubt of the accuracy of the interview telegraphed from New York upon his arrival there from Hei is not saying things which upon those in the party who differ from him on public Bankhead of who Is In on matters of interest to his observed in regard to the race question In that Is Our new constitutional provisions as to suffrage gives the negroes who can read and or who own hundred dollars worth of property the right to The amendment prevents some a from Time was afforded to all to prepare themselves for the and since January the list has gone into It was considered necessary to a constitutional check on because we had tried other checks and found for one reason or another in the It not do to - of vice and So law of suffrage was put on permanent basis and defended by the whites on the ground of the preservation of society and the efficiency of local It w ill work well in the future as it is working The southerner thinks that politics leads to social and he will never submit As for the attitude of the negro this remark All the blacks born in slavery times peaceable and Some of them are pensioners on the bounty of their former On my place there is an old couple who do no work because they ' are not They get food and clothing from the and are invited when they go there from their cabins to sit down and make themselves These were fully grown at the end of the civil war and did not go They said they could do better for themselves by staying witti people who knew them and would treat them kindly and They have never left the premises during all the long years since and now in their extreme old age and decrepitude they look to me and my family to smooth the pathway of for clear to the The old man's name is the old woman's They have some nephews who belong to the stock bora and grown up since the civil war and who are as different from them as chalk differs from Worthless and whenever they pass thru the yard they are required by my ' sons to lift their hats and step The newer darkies are insolent in manner and entirely worthy except some instances where the older ones have trained There will be no trouble on a large long as the older whites and the negroes bred under and those brought up by them i but when the black and which knew slavery is under the sod and those are left who have grown up after the and who become strangers and I apprehend there will be serious Nevertheless the white is the strongest race and Ihe white people of Alabama have nothing kind feelings for the and do all they can to aid their personal vancement making proper between the mental and social status of the two evening was any mote than to ihe dominance of vicious and paralysis of It also not do to make Ip The demoralisation no matter what the provocation and ESTATE Robert A Messer to Earl D und hf of s hf of nw qr sec 1" n hf of n hf of sw qr 93-34.................... 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