Spencer Reporter (Newspaper) - August 6, 1919, Spencer, Iowa THE LEADING NEWS PAPER OF NORTH WESTERN IOWA SPENCER TELL EM YOU SAW IT IN THE SPENCER REPORTER VOLUME TWELVE PAGES AUGUST 1919 TWELVE PAGES NUMBER 32 MOTOR TRAIN TO NAVY TRUCK DEVELOPMENT TOUR TO BE MADE IN IOWA DUR ING MONTH OF AUGUST HAVE A 25 PIECES Object Is to Secure Recruits to Navy Under Now and More Favorable Terms Enters Iowa Aug 6 The national motor truck devel comprising twentyfive ranging from one to two and onehalf tons will leave Chi cago today and enters the state of Iowa at Dubuque August and is accompanied by a navy band of twentyfive pieces and two recruiting officers for the purpose of spreading publicity relative to the new forms of enlistment In the United States which for the first time in the history of the three and fouryear at the option of the appli Men who have had previous service in the navy during the war are given a bonus of four months upon and In ad dition per month pay against their new enlistment for the time which they served during the war This inducement is being offered owing to the large Increase In the navy and the immediate need of men because of the large num ber of discharges given to men who enlisted through patriotic These men can go the sea board instead of first being sent to a training Below is the itinerary of the tour through Iowa August 67 August 7 August 7 August 78 Laporte August 8 August 89 Cedar August 91011 Belle August 11 August 11 Mar August 1112 August 12 Des August 12 13 August 1314 August 14 Iowa August 14 15 August Mason August 15161718 August 18 August 18 and Storm August Governor Harding After Profiteers Calls Session of County Attorneys To Lay Plans to Check Prices Grand Jury May Investigate Governor Harding has called the county attorneys to assemble at Des Moines next and at this s conference plans will be made to re duce the high cost of It is the prediction that in many places special grand juries will be called to make an investigation of il legal combination of and to investigate charges that dealers are limiting the amount of certain foods on the and other shortcomings that have a tendency to keep prices above where they should The governor has tackled a real mans but in the start he seems to have given the county attorneys the work to and the governor is simply going tcr be the The of is growing ir day by and some check must e Stories and rumors are of this and of mer fixing curtailing the amounts to be bought by purchas but there is nothing to hang on a and if the governor and the county attorneys can find the people want them to get The high cost of living is a ser ious is simply fierce the prices one is asked to and if there is a profiteer among the bunch from the grower to the let the public find him ARCHIE POSTAL FROM SERVICE ABROAD Archie son of Mc of this has just returned home from Archie went to France the latter part of November as a mail clerk in the American Post al He has been in the railway mail service in this country for many He was in charge of the money order and stamps at a field station at He left France in June and spent about a month in Scotland and and had delightful visit in those He especial ly enjoyed He sailed for home July and landed in New York July 28 and ex to remain here for a few days before going to to resume his run as a railway mall Archie visited a number of the battle seeing Chauteau Thier Rheims and other places of historic He saw nothing but but says the French people have smarted to rebuild and clean up the He likes Paris and says it is the most beautiful city he ever and that one could spend months there Uncle Sam Mag Move Is Asking for Bids on Floor Space of at Least Feet Bids To Be Filed by August 18th If there Is anybody in Spencer that wants to have a nice little post all their there is a gol den for Uncle Sam is advertising for a new He is not sore at his present but he does want more and in order to get just what he wants he is advertising for What Is Required The requirements are for feet or of floor and the location not to be any greater dis tance from the Milwaukee depot than where the present location While nothing definite is known to who or how many are there is no secret about some of the contenders for the honors of housing Spencers Nutting and who own the lot where the Walters livery was for many a block off Main street on East are going to file a They can fUr nish a very desirable being able to build their room wider than the usual 25foot lot on Main and Fred Moore and who own the lot just north of the Central are also figuring on making a and it is very likely that the First National Bank will have a bid for the present some arrangements being made to get additional Inspector Here Szarkouski of Sioux inspector for this was in Spencer Thursday conferring with those who might be interested in furnishing and equipping a suitable and he is to be here on Aug ust 18th to receive the nnd make a The gov takes a tenyear with the privilege of cancellation if they build a government building or are forced to have additional The present location has been a for many least thirty is is very centrally but the time is coming when Spender will have a and while it will take sev eral years to get yet the post is going to be moved some time nnd where is everybodys The city has outgrown the present It is so crowded that the business of the office cannot be dis patched easily or Postal Receipts Growing Postmaster Earl Bronson stated this morning that the receipts in July of this year was far in excess of July last and the postage rate for letters this July was only two cents as against three last The successful bidder must fur nish such as lock lockers and all furni and rent them to Uncle who will not agree to buy them when he VAN HOVEN HAS PURCHASED THE PERRY DICKENS Van who lived in Dickens for several has pur chased the Derry stock of general merchandise and took pos session Saturday Van Hoven is a young man with plenty of pep and will make this business and Derry are contem plating a trip to with a view of mailing the Lone Star state their future CALHOUN COUNTY IS FIVE AGAINST THE HARD ROADS Calhoun county went very strong against the hard roads at their elec tion on The vote was against and 595 for the propo Only two precincts in the county voted Calhoun makes the fifth county to vote They have joined Franklin and coun ties as being opposed to the hard surfacing of their primary COUNCIL WILL ADOPT NEW ORDINANCE TO PRO TECT CITY PAVEMENT Use of the paved streets in Spen cor by drivers of threshing machine tractors and other heavy machinery has demonstrated so clearly what damage such traffic will do to the particularly that City Attorney Cook has been ordered by Mayor Bender to prepare an or regulating the use of the by all heavy Un til the passage by the general assembly of a author ising such regulation by cities in the state it was the opinion of a good many lawyers that such ordinances not but now it seems to be clearly within the pro vince of cities and villages to make and enforce all reasonable and ne ordinances to protect the The new ordinance probably will among other for the use of paved streets by heavy that before driving upon paved streets the flanges or points with which the driving wheel surface is studded in order to give the wheels a grip on slippery soil shall be either removed or covered in some manner to give the tire surface a smooth Work Will A SUR PRISE TO THEIR NUMEROUS FRIENDS It may seem a little late to be telling about a wedding thirty days after the event has taken place but so long as it is still news its a good time to herald the glad John Heien and Miss Deina Margaret were quietly mar ried at the Lutheran manse at Roy Sunday July Wolfram The contracting parties to this cov enant kept it a secret until a short time ago when it came as quite a surprise to their many The groom is the oldest son of and John living near and the bride is the sec ond daughter of and John living near The groom is at present run ing a threshing machine and as soon as the threshing work ovey they expect to take a wedding trip after which they will live on a farm 7iear We join the many friends of this worthy young couple in wishing them happiness life and Start Soon Completed for Spencers New Hotel To Be Pushed Rapidly Nearly every person in Spencer is interested in knowing when work will commence on the new Tangney does not get possession of the Earling hotel until August He is busy now getting the plans and specifications ready for the Tiew building and expects shortly to be ready to get bids on the work of Tangney has not been in spencer but when he was here ast time he was not sure as to what disposition he would make of the old There is some talk that it will be sold to local parties who wish to convert it into apartment and this certainly would be a good solu tion for its The city needs the apartment and it looks like such a venture would give the parties a fair return on their invest Tangney is familiar with con struction having followed the business of contracting for a num ber of and he plans to start work at the very earliest and push it He to be able to have the building enclosed before cold weather so that it can be finished during the HARTLEY DOCTOR BOUND OVER TO GRAND JURY Conway of who was arrested last week for performing a criminal operation on Miss Mabel who died in Spencer July from the had his prelim inary hearing at Primghar on Sat and was bound over to the grand jury under bonds of which he Green who was called to see Miss Hanson and her Miss were the only wit nesses from Spencer besides the brother of Miss Henry Han sou Pioneer Settler Died Tuesday Griggs Died Tuesday Morn ing at Home of His Cas sius Funeral Held Today Tuesday morning at three oclock Thomas Griggs died at the home of his Cassius Griggs 732 west Fourth after but a few days Griggs was born at New June whre he lived until when his parents moved to Trumbull where Thomas grew to He had good school advantages and in his early manhood he was appointed to the position of superintendent of the penitentiary by Governor while later he was retained in the position by Governor serving in that capacity for three and a half Griggs afterwards removed to where he he was united in marriage on Dec ember to Miss Hannah Following their marriage they lived on a farm they purchased in Rock He con farming there for twenty eight when in 1884 he came to Clay and bought a fine farm in section Summit and continued to make this farm his home until in 1894 when his wife To them were born five Cassius who lives in whose home In at Twin Guy who lived in in North Dakota and who died last Minnie Scott who lives in South and Grace who lives at Sioux His Clifford and who has been visiting here for a few weeks started home a week ago but were still in Sioux City so that all the children are here for the fun Thomas Griggs was a splendid and had a large circle ol Since the death of his wife he has made his home with the chil and for the last few years he spent a large portion of his time at Sioux City with his He was a very active and only his most intimate friends who knew him well would have taken to be a man over ninety years of He loved the companionship of his and always enjoyed coming back to Spencer where he could vis it with the friends he knew so well and He was a man who will be missed by the large circle of friends in this He was a most kind and indulgent father to his Only a few days ago he was down town and visiting with a number of his old time friends and said that he was feeling better than he had been for some I The funeral services were held this afternoon at two oclock from the home of his and were conducted by Rev pastor of the Congregational church at Dick and interment was made in the Riverside KEEP INSIDE THE SLOGAN IS NOT OBSERVED Aint it we boast about our and if we were to be judged by our lots of folks would they cant If you are traveling along the west side of the busiest thoroughfare in Spencer these days when you come to the First National Bank you will spn notices directing you to go around the bungalow and to keep inside the if you were to say that those who violate this plain command cannot read you would be putting this community away down in the column of Why it would just main you laugh to see the care that some folks exercise to keep on the outside of the railing instead of the inside as if any accident should occur when you violate these plain you would think someone lia ble for Keep inside the railing OLD SETTLERS TO HAVE A COUNTY PICNIC AT LOST ISLAND The old settlers of Clay and Palo Alto counties will have their annual picnic at Lost Island Lake on Fri August The management of the Lakeside Electric Park is going to put on a special program and make the day as pleasant as possible for the old MINNESOTA MAN BUYS FINE PIECE OF LAND IN THIS COUNTY John Hargen of Min last week purchased 218 acre of land from Charles Pal mer of Sac the farm being located about four miles south and east of and known as the The price was per the sale being made by Knight Palmer bought this place about two months and paid per making a nice Steady Steady NORTH IOWA PIKE IS NORTH IOWA PIKE ORGANIZA TION FORMED CHICAGO TO YELLOWSTONE PARK HEW ELECTED Expect It To Be First Paved Road Across State Plans Being Made To Have It Completed Early The Milwaukee and Sioux Falls of the stone Park Highway was completed at a meeting held at the Hotel Zim merman in McGregor July Representatives and assurances of cooperation from the following towns Was had Sioux Emmets Clear Mason New Charles Madison and Nissen of Mason who organized the old North Iowa Pike road seven years ago was present and told of the plan ofthe new He has plans fov advertising and im proving a continuous trunk line from Milwaukee to Yellowstone Park and with this end in an organiza tion to be called the Park Highway was orga and this particular division to be known as the Sioux Falls kee A permanent organization will be perfected as Postville as soon as all the counties have elected their The director for Clay county is E secretary of the Spen cer Commercial Club and the Clay County Fair The Com Club of Spencer decided some time ago at a meeting that the sec of the club should act as di rector on all organized highways passing through the The possibilities of this road is The road from Chicago to Milwaukee Is nearly all and it is expected that the road from Mil to Madison wil be paved and then on to the Iowa Clay Palo Cerro Gordo and Floyd counties in all being counties through which the road will have voted favorably on the hard surfacing of their and with this showing there Is but lit tle likelihood but that the remaining counties will thus giving us a paved road across the State of Spencer Sends Big Shipment Over Pounds of Clothing Sent from Spencer for the Arme nian Sufferers Primghar Peter and Kay nor narrowly escap ed drowing at Okoboji one day last a young lady from and their stepbrother from South the boys were anchored in a rowboat oft Pillsbury Their C Schroeder of with his wife and some friends occupied another small boat short distance A young man named Bennett who was operating a launch on the came rapidly toward them and without seeing them crashed into the row overturning and throwing the occupants into the Kay nor an expert through four years service in the with a cool head kept the young who had assisted his young to regain con trol in the The father rowed as quickly as possible to the escene but the party were taken aboard another launch which luckily came up Lake In Session jGreat Preparations Have Been Made to Make the Session a Most Interesting Gathering The committee making the drive in Spencer for the Armenian suf ferers reported fine Tho drive was made on July and resulted in securing a total of pounds of making seven boxes nnd two gunny sacks They sent the shipment to Des Moines RUTHVEN HAD BIG DO INGS FOR SOLDIERS TUESDAY EVENING The Spencer Barid played for the big doings at Ruthven last Post American at that entertained the people of Ruthven and the surrounding country to a big mess army The supper was served after they had put on a lot of thrillers such as ball game between the east and west side of town which over five Innings to wear the play ers and then a big bowery dance was put the proceeds which went to Post 33 to swell the funds of that The mu sic for the dance was furnished by a jazz Two concerts were put on by the Spencer before and after the ball and the Ruthven people were well pleased with lh music furnished by the Spencer band VERY LUCKY ACCIDENT AND NARROW ESCAPE AT THE LAKES The sixth annual session of the Methodist camp meeting association convened Friday of last week for a two weeks The meetings are being held at the grounds of the about two miles due west of Spirit The meeting is under the direct tion of district superintendent of the Sheldon dis of Methodist Charles pastor of Calvary Pen will preach each afternoon and and Evangelist Frank Lindgren will have charge of the morning hour and give a Bible exposition and talk to ministers on Ministerial Methods each The music is in charge of Horace of Miss Younglove of Sioux City will care for the young peoples HAS BEEN A RESIDENT OF CLAY COUNTY FOR FIFTYFOUR YEARS John Watts called at the Reporter office yesterday and said it was fifty four years ago on August 5th that he landed in Clay He left Fort Dodge on August and walked to Sioux and the next day came up to Doug las township where his father was The father had moved there the year Watts says from Fort Dodgo to Sioux Rapids he did not pass a house or meet any About the only living he saw was and he saw them by the and they were full Watts expected to remain a few days and had decided to go to New York but here I he and I have been here ever He did not take a homestead until and a little later bought er and just this spring sold the for per Watts enlisted on July in Company 21st Iowa and was discharged on July and started soon after Clay TOWN OF PETERSON IS GETTING THE PAVING FEVER Word comes from Peterson that there is quite a little agitation for Now that the county road through that town is going to be the town wants to beat the county to and have a nice paved street for the county to hook their paving BUENA VISTA COUNTY FAIR AT ALTA FROM AUGUST 12 TO 15 The Buena Vista county fair will be held at Alta on August 14 and They have a big race and also have three big night with fireworks and Fred Henrys band of Des Moines is to furnish the Takes All Of Soldiers Money Prolongs Visit in Order to Earn Money to Return to Camp There is much controversy as to just who is the meanest man in the and just who he is still a but he most certainly liven in or near a brother of Al bert arrived in Royal last having secured a furlough from his services in the and expecting to spend two or three days On Wednesday he lost his pocketbook containing his fur lough papers and permit to travel nt soldiers rate of railroad Know ing just about where it had been immediate steps were taken to find which did not meet with until when Woods found the pocketbook lying where it was thought it had been and where It had evidently been placed by the finder after he had robbed it of the The generous reward of was offered for the return of the but honesty was worthless to the a man finding money and knowing the on keeping is mean enough to be a but a bird who finds money with which is absolute proof that it belongs to a a month soldier is unquestionably the kaiser of all mean the yellow dog camou as a Part of the money was a fifty dol lar Bills of this size are un and for the present will be regarded with suspicion in this com Due to his Private Juhl has been compelled to enjoy the bal ance of his furlough by going to work with a threshing so that he may be able to return to camp in Georgia at the of his County Officer Escapes Injury County Clerk Weaver Gets One in the Solar Plexus and Has to Take the Count our county last Saturday morning thought he would take time by the forelock and do some work before breakfast so he attempted to cover a window opening to keep out the Hies until the window could he put In or der to nail the cleats at the top of the opening he had placed the lad der on top of a not a very secure foundation as it He was perhaps a little more confident of his position than he should have been at any rate the thing tumbled and Charley lit with his lower ribs striking across a It not only knocked the breath out of him hut his voice as well and when ho began to come to for a while he could only make signs but gradually his voice came to him But it was enough of a jolt to keep him on his back all day Al though somewhat stiff he was In his office again last STARTED SATURDAY MORNING FOR CANADA TO CUT WHEAT accompanied by Lukins and Bob Betz of this and two men from left Saturday for Can where they are going to cut wheat Shonkwiler said the report from there was that the grasshop pers were pretty and getting close to the Maulsby wheat but If the old Ford held together they would be ahead of the They expect to be at their destina tion by Monday PAVING COMPANY GETTING READY TO PAVE THE ALLEYS The preliminary work of survey Ing and setting the grade stakes for the paving of the alleys in Spencer was done last week and work on this job will soon be William Peper of Everly has the contract for this BUYS STORE MIM OKI BUYS VARIETY STORE IN SPENCER GILLEAS RETAINS MEREST Will Handle Womens Wear Goods Exclusively Will Install New Fixtures A business deal of some magni tude was Spencer Monday when May Milford bought the Variety store building from Hugh and Karl retaining an interest in the It is the intention of own to instal new fixtures and carry a full line of womens May is a very successful merchant at where he has been for several He started there at an early ago as a clerk In a and has worked his way until today he is counted one of the real citizens of Dickinson and a very successful He does not expect to move to Spencer but will personally look af ter the He did authorize the Reporter to state that tho Spen cer store would be one of tho real uptodate of the kind in The camo to Spen cer throe or four years ago from Fort They are bright and alert young and They had very disastrous fire shortly after they got and left them without a place of busi ness until they got the new building and then came the war and enlisted in the army service and was gone about two but in spite of nil hin drances these young men kept go ing and built up quito a busi ness and made a host of friends The present stock of the store is to be much of it now being placed with Spencer mer and they expect to have it nearly all disposed of by the end of the May expects to have the open for business an early but cannot tell exactly when the opening date will First National Bank Attraction Sand Blast Being Used to ReNew the Front of First National Bank Building Its the new and the novel that attracts attention and that is so much attention is directed to the work going on on the front of the First National Bank building these Another reason why this work is observed with than ordinary attention is that it tho first time that work of this kind has ever been done in restoring a building in r The blast Is operated by compres sed air exerting a pressure of from 60 to 80 pounds per square Sand is driven by this force against the face of the stones and wears away the discolored portion of the surface making it look practically as it did when first placed in the It is certainly making a wonderful difference in the appearance of the The air compressing machine is op on the ground and the com pressed air is carried by a line of tubing to the portion of the building upon which the work is being The sand Is kept a container above the point where the operator is at The force of the the condensed air passing through the nozzle draws the sand with it thus doing the Flint sand is used for this The sand blast is very largely used in etching on A SPENCER YOUNG FOLKS TAKE SWIMMING HIKE AT THE LAKES Last Sunday afternoon Miss Ruth and Paul Ford swam from Des Moines Beach to Highland distance of over a half a the distance being covered in about half an This may not seem so a feat when com pared with some of the swimming stunts that arc frequently pulled off by young women at the but In spite of all this we call it something of a real accomplishment to be able to swim a half a quarter of a even less than for thorfe who have attained the ability to swim at all may learn Miss Seaton thinks that she can make the distance from Des Moines Beach to Arnolds She learned to swim in tho Lincoln Boys Club swimming pool in Spencer and did some swim ming in the pool at the State Col lege at It Is now a part of the education of each young woman who expects to graduate from the State College at Ames that they shall learn to It is certainly an accomplishment that every girl and young woman should EVERLY MAN SELLS 18 ACRES OF LAND AT BIG PRICE Flick of Everly was in Spen cer For several years Flick was engaged in the shoe re pairing work cind he also carried a df When cheap Flick managed to get hold of several acres within the corpor ate limits of the town and just a few days ago he sold 18 acres for This is somewhat better than per Verily the man who years ago staked his faith In Clay county land made no CLEANED UP NICE PROFIT IN LAND IN A FEW DAYS Cranston and who recently purchased 400 acres of land from west of for per have just sold it to Sac county parties for cleaning up close to in a short j
