Webster City Tribune (Newspaper) - January 26, 1917, Webster City, Iowa County Auditor CITY ALL THE HAMILTON COUNTY ALL THE IH WEBSTER JANUARY NEW DEPOT AND FREIGHT HOUSE The Railway Review Says the Chi cago Northwestern Railroad Company Will Build Both BOTH WILL COST Expenditure for the Depot and fof the Freight It appears now to be quite defin settled that the Chicago Northwestern Railroad company is to mako some substantial improve ments in Webster City this year in the way of erecting a depot and freight The buildings are to lie separate and the depot is to cost approximately and the house The Rail way a very reliable railroad is authority for this which is contained in Its Issue of January It Is now up to the people of Web ster City who favor the most central location for the new the one that will accommodate the business districts the most equitably and pre sent the best It ap pears to the that the cito on Willson half block west of the present passenger station would bo the Ideal The depot could bo placed right in the street as the street ends at the com With this lo cation the depot would be in plain view tho entire length of Willson and could be seen by people traveling on Second street as they passed the It is the ideal location and no doubt the railroad officials will select it if its merits are brought to their We also the following in the Railway Review of January 13 Dodgo Des Moines Southern to build a 10mile extension between and Webster City and and rehabilitation of 13 miles of existing Crooked Creek purchased in This will provide service from Fort Dodge to Webster Dodge to Lehigh and Webster City to The company plans to build a steel and concrete bridge over Lincoln high east of at a cost ol and other permanent bridges amounting to the same It plans to build a new station and yard at at a cost of Has Its First Bank With other interesting ancient history of Webster City is the infor mation that the First National Bank still has in its possession tho first bank note issued by The bank note was a one dollar and was signed by at that time cashier of the First National and by the Ken dall The bank note belongs to the Kendall Young estate and will bo put on exhibition in tho nl building which this county will some time own and during the past There have been cases filed hrough the county clerks office In district court and 402 probate mat Thirtyseven persons have been to tho state hospital for he insane and flve to private Insanity is on the increase n this as in several al not in so alarming propor ions as In where tho ratio if increasing Insanity is giving great cause for Hamilton has averaged seven persons a car In mental derangement for last six Eighteen persons have been com mitted to the hospital for inebriates at during this period of n dozen years and most of these have been paroled and are out on Five boys wore sent to the boys at Eldora and one girl o the girls reformatory at Mitch during this Five children whose parents prov id either Incompetent or delinquent were sent from this city to the or phans home at Tho above includes an interesting array of work done In tho county clerks office during the six years past and furnishes also an equally line of statistics for the SIX YEARS IN COUN TY CLERKS OFFICE Something of the Work Done in That of the Im portant A general report of work tak en caro of by County Clerk Sterling his six years in office in county will be ot Inter est to the Through this of fice flows volume of court of all oases of committ ments to inebriate or re or other all cases of marriage or di During the past six years there have been 981 marriage licenses is sued in Hamilton In fines have actually been collected Many fines are im posed but not but this rev enue came from only six different ot which was collected Senator Chase and Rube Mc Ferren are Leaders in the Movement in the WILL BE A HARD FIGHT Governor Harding Also Opposed to Bonds as Now Issued by County BEAUTIFUL NEW 1911 QUARTER Idwin Waterman of Kamrar Froud Possessor of New Coin From Denver is of of Edwin young son and Waterman is tho possessor of a beautiful new 1917 quarter sent him by his Pearce ot direct from the United States Mint in that On ono side of tho coin Goddess of Liberty a shield in one hand and a sprig of laurel in the Liber ty appears in large letters at the top of the coin and the words In God We arc two words on either side of the 1917 is at tho base of tho The dove of peace appears on the opposite side of the quarter and above it in largo etters are the United States of while just below etters are the Latin Pluribus finely On either side of the new coin appear ho thirteen emblematic of tho original thirteen The Wat erman lad is also the possessor of a couple of 1916 dimes and a 1916 mlf JOAN OF ARC TO BE Webster City Choral Society Will Give Cantata at Armory Opera The Choral Society has now defin decided upon Friday as the date upon which the Joan of will be given at the armory Thu numbering about havo been engaged In all about six months upon the preparation of the cantata which will be given In the same manner as tho Rose Maiden a year The proceeds of tho affair will bo devoted to tho fund for a community House In this city and deserves unit ed public Other money raising plans have beon talked of by organizations in tho the pro to go to tho community houso Such a house Is something which has been dreamed and talked about in this community for years and the Choral Society havo boon the first to contribute towards the fund with the made from en of ono year Eugene who farms ono ofthe Marvel farms north of has returned from a brief trip to during which time he was married to Miss Lovetta Woodward ot The young people since the wedding have been visiting relatives and friends in and around and Blooming and went out to their farm home this SEEKING TO STOP ROAD BOND lockwell City running tho pending tho remainder of tho time Before coming Hull man had been a newspaper been compelled to give up the work because of poor For five years ho acted as and commercial editor n tho Des Moines Register and al o covered one term of tho uro for that For some llt le time ho was a member of tho re staff of tho Sioux City Swan of the Fort Dodgo will go to Clarion to be editor of tho Clipper with This will give Clarion wo newspaper men of the same tho new of tho eing no relation of Burt of the Clarion Des legislators who five have been selected by tho Johnston road crowd tp draft an commission are living their evenings and much of their extra time to working out the provisions of this The first was held Monday night anil he members expect to meet each ev ening until tho draft Is of chairman of tho highways committee of the is at the head of this ial of and of tho two other house are well known opponents of the highway Tho two Chase and are also recog as against the state highway Chase is a member of tho senate committee on Representative of Cal yesterday Introduced nto tho house a road bond Issue if will bar county su from issuing bonds to pay debts contracted for road work and This is in line with he recommendations of Governor who said In his Inaugural address that road Improvements should bo paid for out of tho regular current road Many of the counties of tho state lave been proceeding to build im proved roads on this bond provision of the which permits supervis ors to go ahead with road improve ments and then Issue bonds to pay for Representative Gray expects a stirring fight on this Ho believes that it is on tho question of bonds issues rather than on the high way commission law that the feeling is most keen and that tho bond issue Is the question on which tho legis lature itself will Tho senate on high of which Senator Balkema is had Its first meeting yes The senate has the Foster to provide for tho pa troling of road districts as suggested by the highway commission before It and ono or two other minor road Senator Balkema is framing bills which he believes will make the highway commission measures work a more Home from Hughes and managers of the Mercantile arrived homo today from Kansas City whore they havo been attending the United Mercantile Stores con vention and sale which was hold Mercantile In this city is a member of the above HARWOOD BUYS CLARION CLIPPER Hultman of This City Will be Associated With who the Herald in this city for ono month during going from hero to Rockwell whore ho pur chased tho has bought the Clarion Clipper of John who has beon con ducting tho Overland garage in this city for somo time will be associated with Harwood in publishing tho Advocate at Rockwell Mr Hultman went to Rockwell City this forenoon to attend to business mat tors and in talking to a Freeman Tribune representative said his plans for the w Commencing 1st Hultman said he will devot about three days of each week in Broken Dell 120 East Fourth fell upon the ice in her yard afternoon and sustained a roken The Injury Is quite and will lay Leopold up or somo Miss Mabel who recently her position as stenograph r for Barney is now employed n tho same capacity at tho Monarch lock Trough PAID AT COUN TY CLERKS OFFICE 1500 Paid by Bondsmen of the Pick pockets Caught Here on Watermelon In fines were taken In at tho of tho county clerk during the car Some years tho lines avo amounted to as high as other years they havo been Most fines of any pay able at the office of county clerk are although neither of the wo fines which mado up tho amount f this year wero from that of that sum was tho amount given as bond by tho thieves in this ity on Watermelon and vas forfeited in was a no collected on a assault with intent to do great bodily In This money will go to tho county chool as do most of tho mon es collected as fines at the of he county In liquor cases after tho payment of tho county at tho money over that amount goes also to tho general chool NEW CASHIER AND ASSISTANT ELECTED Changes Made in Farmers State Bank at At a meeting of tho directors ol ho Farmers State bank Kamrar hold January Howard Alexander was elected a director ol ho institution and also cashier of tho bank to succeed his father in Alexan der was elected assistant cashier and will take an active Interest in tho management of the Tho following resolutions were unanimously adopted and on the records of the bank Whereas by tho immutable de cree of an Almighty and Ing Fred Alexander has icon removed from among our num ber It is therefore that In his death this board has lost a valuable associate counselor and and this com munity one dfi its spirited cit and one whoso loss will bo deeply felt and mourned by his mul of that this board tq his widow and family our heart felt sympathy and condolence In their Elect Same At a mooting of the directors o tho National Sower Pipe factory a night or two ago tho officers win served tho company last year weri reelected to their former position president R vice president Hearn secretary That is the Latest Report From Tex Antonio Declares That all Soldiers Com ing ERSHING OUT OF MEXICO States Regulars Will Guard the Border According to Latest There have been many rumors ying about the past few weeks to he effect that the soldier boys now the Mexican border would soon o ordered Other reports to tho effect that some of them rould remain until spring and somo intil The following dis was sent out from San Antonio The war Is Tho men are go ng a mere regiment hero nd but all of Not a of guard will remain on the Every one is Not a will be left to toll the Tho want to go ionic prayers aro to bo he guard troops are to bo mustered The regulars will do the ighting in tho there is to o any The word comes that tho iiR movement has start that tho thing to be trans will bo the and hat it will weeks for the column to get out of Mex Tho boys who went into the and across the Rio Grande with hearts and smiling vith cheers and with bands with musli enthusiasm aro coming They ivre not They aro not There is no There Is no in their Those boys in livo drab who were told to go got and then reminded that mist not hurt nro lack to the land of tho stars and campaign is In tcad of words Remember Colum jus another motto is to bo Whats the Uso Thoy havo been cured of They havo boon aught to bo perfect littlo gentle And such they will Some day they may learn what they vent to Mexico The men of tho militia aro to bo homo without They uro to bo sent back and turned acing tho palm beach suits that they eft in tho armories last summer when they went marching away to bo Overcoats which the has permitted them to ise down hero in tho tropics will bo aken away from them when they their zero homo They havo given months to their and now they are to bo turned And every company must go Those will bo the orders issued with in a few It is believed that the first bunch to go will bo those In the Browns ville rere read and approved and the lection ol church officers then took was reelected a and was al o elected a Peterson vas reelected treasurer of the so and Brown d Bale of for lany years a member of this soci was present and gave an ble talk upon tho Alliance which met in Boston a few months ago and t which she was n delegate from ho Winnipeg church The members of the church and presented their Shook and his bride of a ow with a beautiful silver 1ft as a token of their affection and vas unable to bo present on account f Three now members were added to ho church roll tho company and the meeting was by ono of tho happiest nd harmonious in tho history of tho All departments arc in flourishing tho ladles society having ad a particularly successful nd the outlook for the months ahead s highly L OF UNIVERSALISTS Ladies Serve Bountiful Sup of Of The annual mooting of tho society was hold day afternoon and night in tha the ladles of tho aid society mooting early in tho afternoon holding their business A this meeting tho following officers woro elected for the ensuing year president Mru Robert Downs of vice president secre tary A good attendance was in evidence am at oclock tho remainder of the membership and congregation arriv ed and partook of a bountiful Following the report ot the different officers of the society The does good ob E A FIRE Chicago Northwestern Round house at Eagle Grove Scene of Quite a Eaglo erday destroyed a large portion of ho Chicago Northwestern round ouso at this Tho company lost their machine hop and boiler which is tho part of tho roundhouse Tho remaining sheds arc but hey served tho purpose of A portion of tho brick wall of the shops remains hough it is of littlo A year ago bluo prints woro rc for a new machine shed and joller and It Is hoped hero hat tho company will now erect a now and fireproof Tho lire started by workmen at to thaw out a frozen using A stiff wind was blow ng from tho northwest and before hey knew It a blazo was under 164 MARRIAGES 21 That is the Record of Hamilton County for the Year Ending January Tho shock of tho high cost of frightened sailors on tho sea of matrimony in the yeai of 1915 and that year tho county clerk issued only 157 licenses for Either that or tho wui certainly influenced tho marriage market which fell off perceptibly that In tho year 3910 Clerk Sterling is sued ICI marriage making sovon moro than wero Issued during previous The call to arms and tho departure of soldiers of this county for Brownsville had nothing do with tho for tho num ber of licenses full off dur ng Juno in this Tho extra number of worshipers of tho brought jy some other causo than On tho other tho number o divorces granted In this county dur Ing tho year 1915 and tho year loir wero exactly tho Just 21 bonds wero dissolved ii Hamilton county during tho pas year and tho your al though from different of tin stato has come tho wild cry that dl wore on tho Surely not so In Hamilton Card of Wo wish to express our thanks ti our neighbors and friends who by us so nobly during tho illness am death of our dear son and brother Wo wish also to thank you for th beautiful floral and Western and GERMAN WAR LOSS rational Zeitung Says Teutons Can Carry on Strife for Many TILL HAVE MEN aper Says Additional Troops Are Now of Mili tary tho otal German losses In tho war bout the National Zoil ug of Berlin says that there arc forces to carry n tho war for several yours ho newspaper gives available rcs of casualties and continues if tho total losses are calculate t about tho Gorman rn erves would still number ut of tho with which tho tnr was On the other hand argo numbers of young men have cached the ago of military tho According to a calculation Germany as had in this wuy an addition of to her A The other night as Arch Foster nd his assistant were returning rom with Iru Lavender at lie steering wheel of tho they met with a midden col at tho corner of Second anil streets which almost knock d tho breath out of As tho rounded tho corner at tho ity running at a speed of about miles an tho driver his car to avoid tho dummy and run squarely into tho lie filled with sand which had held ho tree and which had rozon to tho Lavon it is did not leave his seat ut held to tho steering wheel with uch firm grip that ho was almost Tho of the back seat attempted to tho front seat with most un and Foster was with difficulty from tho rivers tho sudden top had sent Tho auto front iad broken one bent the radl and other Injury and or tho atmosphere around he driver was An nothing but tho machine itself ap oared to bo tho party pro coded to tho where pristine glory was School Nurse Has Tho new school Miss Ella Buchanan of ias arrived In tho city and already upon her duties hi tho tor City Those who havo met her uro more than favorably 1m with her evident Miss as was stated a few days is a woman of laving been a school teacher for eight years before taking Since that time she has icon a surgical in in and jaino to this city from her position as manager of a training school for visiting nurses in FORCED FROM IOWAN MOOTS SELF Fred Son of For mer Boone a Would Be wuu received hero yesterday afternoon thai Fred son of Gallup of a former pion eer hud shot himself ut Now port Ho was reported badly but with a chance of Tho shooting followed dismissal from tho army as a result of trouble over topographical maps mado with outside An appeal to President Wilson failed to reverse tho finding ot tho court Gallups mind Is to havo become duo to hard work and
