Webster City Tribune (Newspaper) - January 18, 1889, Webster City, Iowa VOLUME WEBSTER HAMILTON JANUARY PER BUSINESS 4 AT LAW and Collection Webster on Second In Mercantile 3t CHASE A and Counselors at Webster Ant door west o wire Second lOyl KAMRAR AT Webster Will practice In all tho Courts of Trompt attention given to Office In Second Stroet and Will ions 0 front rooms over the 1st AND All calls promptly 7yl PHYSICIAN AND Calls promptly attended to day or bo at every lilt SYRENA Diseases of Ladles and Children a two doors north of Calls ans wered day or Physician and Surgeon 1893 Office he COUNTY Entered ns Moll at tho Post Office In Webster OF Ono one In One one It not paid In One one scut outside o OV Ono ono Local per per lino Washington The office of a capable examining surgeon is a good place to diagnos mor al as well as physical There comes the alleged nearly deaf The doctor examines Ho begins by yelling at and the claimant can hardly hear Gradually he gets him excited and finally is talking to him in a and the claimant hears Then the physician sudden ly renews his former and the discomfited countenance of the claim ant shows that he has been COUNTY H Booms at first between Dei and Wlllson Avenue Office 8 to 10 a to 6 and 7 to 6 Graduate o lt SURGEON Teeth extracted without pain by also by use of Oxide Gold filling and plate work a Office at residence on Willson Webster 1BOyl I Bales cried In Hamilton and A adjoining counties at reasonable rates faction Address Satis Attorney and Veterinary Sur Diseases of cattle and horses a spec Sales cried at reasonable rates In Hamilton and adjoining Office at four miles south ot of Webster City Briek Tile A superior quality of all sites of tile kept constantly on hand also pressed Graduate Dept Iowa Agl College Veterinary Physician and All calls by letter or telegram promptly Office and Infirmary Opposite Cooks Webster 16yl Office Immedi ately opposite store General Auctioneer Will cry Bale In Hamilton and adjoining coun ties at reasonable Address at Jewell Junc 16t AUCTION I AUCTION General Auctioneer Sales cried In Hamilton and Wright Satisfaction Inquire at CHICAGO Garys old oppo site Webster Cur rle 9yl Notary Heal Loans and to Loan on Improved Small Amounts on Chattel Wild Improved Dwell ings and Vacant Lots for Sale or also firstclass In doora south of Post Seneca Webster Baby WM ttt ktt cried When iba to NEW Having opened Meat Market In Webster 1 door ot BUlpp I endeavor to keep on band a fine Bait and Smoked Meats and prices shall always be the lowest and my stock the best to be had on the Prom Our So this great building and this army of clerks are adjuncts of your pension Your last war I be nearly a quarter of a century Thus spoke to me a surprised German Army a delegate to the international medical convention last What would my Teutonic friend say had he heard Representative Dockery tell the House last week that the attorneys fees in increase cases at per amounted to nearly last Our pension system is the most gigantic in the Fifteen hundred clerks work year in and year out in the pension bu reau adjudicating and the num ber of cases only north travel two hundred and fifty special examiners investigating the more complicated of these In the offices of the and Surgeon General twelve hundred Cass clerks ill in the years searching official Fremont records of In the Second office over a hundred clerks are Webster City employed in pension At the Independence agencies another hundred make Rose Grove Nearly three thousand people are Lincoln thus exclusively employed by the at an say of Hamilton per in salaries Enormous Marion buildings are devoted to the Clear Lake hundreds of tons of paper are ed and thousands of gallons of ink shed Scott in the In the Pension office accumulates faster than it can Stratford be disposed and Congress refuses Webster City the necessary number of clerks to ad Williams City judicate the claims within a reasonable yet the last war closed a quarter of a century The uninitiated reader must remem that our pension system has been of slow for although a general pension law was enacted in it was not until after the civil war that anything like a practice was estab and even then the practice had to undergo a thousand changes of de Today the laws and practice of the the decision of the Secre tary and the rulings of the Commis make quite a respectable vol There are a hundred grave de cisions on line of as many more as to rights of an avalanche of decision on minor and a wilderness of rulings under these And lastly there is an amazing list of rates from the per month allowed for the loss of a portion of a little finger to the per month Riven for the loss of both both legs or both There are fix ed rates for everything but The rates for diseases are fixed by And here enters the objection able feature of the All over this country are resident sur who devote a part of one day of each week to the examination of There are about a thous and of these and this branch of the service costs about In disease cases their decision generally fixes the rate Of course the doctors are not all and those who are not all A very large minority may be found either at one extreme or the the extreme of generosity or the extreme of distrust toward Very often a par grasping Board of surgeons will rate every claimant high in order to swell the amount of their own as the claimants soon learn in any dis where the easiest board lies and ask to be sent Politics sometimes bears u hand in fixing the rate I once saw going out of an examining surgeons office a county commis and local followed slowly by a painfully prematurely old I was not much surprised to learn a few months after ward that the commissioner had been allowed per some myster facial and the cripple had been increased to per month for his open and discharging wound of And my surprise was no greater when the surgeon was nominated for the State on a close vote by the ef forts of the aforesaid neuralgiac politi of the Board of Supervisors of Hamilton at their Session Continued from last THIRD Board met pursuant to All the members The board then proceeded with the semiannual settlement with County Treasurer and after check ing up all vouchers returned and count ing the cash on found everything with tho following balances on towit State 95 School 14 Insane 54225 Bridge Domestic Animal fund 439 00 Swamp land 43 Normal Institute 110 40 Williams Blairsburg 1090 8130 42 73 7081 1874 11084 0032 2474 4450 0015 8042 50 51 2210 1080 587 0139 910 1109 43 73 185 Williams District 301 53 Cass Fremont Freedom Webster City Independence Kamrar Liberty Rose Grove Lincoln l Ellsworth Lyon Jewell Saratoga Pleasant Hill Grand View Harmony Center Lake View Cairo Pleasant Prairie Fair View Hamilton Center Union Poplar Grove Bethel Harmony South Bend Coal Homer Webster Ind Marion Stratford Clear Lake Ellsworth Scott Williams Boone Health Clear Lake 200 11 520 83 422 08 10859 1106 04 208 17 81 07 25122 57 302 03 7904 22982 21892 83 50 151 80 80 88 133 32 28 04 18 20 74 01 4070 81 01 2470 3407 105 92 2791 13 78 20 08 50 97 47 97 179 18 17 219 25 171 09 25532 191 79 1 80 04 13890 Webster City Corporation fund 870 73 Williams 569 Jewell 1878 Stratford 3238 Blairsburg Cemetery 11 40 Hamilton 22 Webster 1200 Lincoln 13 Lyon 2 02 Webster City water 15487 Williams 842 Webster City Judgment 30 42 Webster City Sinking 7192 Webster City Sidewalk 69 49 2594 Temporary School 40 Permanent 109881 The following Official Bonds were or dered approved That Wesley Martin aa a member of the Soldiers Relief Liberty Lyon Constable Marion Clear Lake Ordered by tho board that tho peti tion of tho ask ing for tho redemption of lot 5 in block which was erroneously sold for be granted and that tho County Auditor make said redemption in name of Hamilton that tlu costs in case of Brinton Hamilton County bo and the Auditor is hereby ordered to draw warrants for the several all that the Auditor make con tract with as coun ty physician for the northwest his being the lowest and best that tho bid of Taylor for county physician for tho southeast and southwest bo it being the lowest and best and that tho Auditor make con tract for said that tho bid of for county physician in the northeast be it being the lowest and best and that tho Auditor contract with said Tedrow for such On the board to meet tomorrow morning at half past eight Board mot pursuant to adjournment the members present that the petition asking for an appropriation of per week to aid tho children of Thomas who are In needy bo Said allowance to be until Feb ruary fl that the classification of personal for the year bo the same as that for tho year I that the report of Coup ty Auditor on M sale of swamp land in Kossuth be that the County Auditor SB hereby east half of tho of thirtyfour eightynine 89 of range tho 6th for tho use of tho County Poor provided tho same can be bought for usum not to exceed two thousand that tho County Auditor is hereby instructed to draw warrant for the satisfaction of judgement of McCanon r gainst Hamilton chat tho petition asking for per week for the support of injured person now lying bo and that the Auditor draw warrants for same in of Said allowance to bo from January the sum of two thous and dollars b transferred from the county Bridge Fund to the County Tho board then proceeded to the business of auditing the claims against the as shown by the register of claims on and continued with the same until tho hour for On the board adjourned to meet tomorrow morning at 8 FIFTH The board met pursuant to adjourn tho members being The board then finished auditing the claims against the Sou list of Ordered by tho that the notice filed by publisher ot the Webster City and charging fraud upon the part of publisher of the Webster City Tribune as to state ment of tho bona fide list of the Tri bunes subscribers in Hamilton now furnished the and asking that a further contest bo and that a day be set for hearing further proof in the is hereby that the Webster City Tribune and Webster City Freeman are hereby designated the official papers of county for the ensuing in which shall be published all the pro of tho county board of sup Do You Know THAT CRANDALL Keep the finest Cheese and Lard in town Genuine Vermont 12i cents per Fish Hour glass and queens roasted and XXXX Mocha and Teas in great Lemons and in fact everything usually kept in a Gasoline and Coal Ruddy Harvester Oil for farm Call at the Corner Grocery ARE YOU GOING TO BOILD THIS YEAR If you or intend in will pay you give us a as we shall at all to please our customers in every and to make it to their interest to trade with We shall endeavor to keep constantly on hand a full and complete stock of TJ Building and in fact all kinds of Building Our prices will be as Low as the Will give particular attention to estimating and filling large We shall be pleased to have you call and sec at old Hungerford Everybody Satisfied everybody is satisfied that have bought Boots and Shoe at my I know you will be more than satisfied if you will call and examine my new Fall Winter stock of new styles School Shots have never been equalled in the SpeCial attention given to Repairing and Seven Wh of JOHN HANRAHAN Druggist and GENERAL DEALER IN White Lead Latest Styles In Wall Paper A Full Line of Heath Milli gans Colored the Best Paint on Earth ready for use costs less than per Quality Just a few more of those fine Sewing at to price to You can save One Hundred Per by buying as my stock is complete and too numerous to I will simply when in need of anything usually kept in a well selected stock of DRUGS AND BOOKS AND give me a as it is no trouble to show goods or quote Yours Very County Fund Overdrawn 54 The following Justices annual reports were approved Lincoln Clear Lake Lincoln Liberty Adorn Clear Luke the schedule of bills and the of the county together with such other notices per to the countys business ns may be that the petition of asking for the remission of cer tain personal property be not that the petition of for the refunding of certain be not The Auditor was instructed to lease on Eighth mm STOCK Miles South HAMILTON One of the largest Herds of Pure Bred Short Horns in the Numbering Over One Hundred The Bulls in Use are the RICHLY BRED ROAN DUKE LORD BARRINGTON OF ERIE DUKE Stock of Any or Sox at Very Reasonable We hare left a few rery desirable Poland China young Be Bankable paper taken 12 months at nix per cordially
