Worth County Index (Newspaper) - December 30, 1897, Northwood, Iowa The Index PER IN ADVANCE WORTH COUNTY INDEX Volume 17 A Happy New Year LET'S SHAKE handt on Not an enemy or quarrel in sight SHAKE also any old shoes that got us ill-tempered iu this year of grace 1897 LET'S RESOLVE to have foot comfort and loot happiness during 1898 by wearing that wear long enough to pay for their purchase money Shoes that are guaranteed We are resolved to supply only that kind of shoes and to sell them to you for the halt money for high grade to you all Mi Shoes make glut TO OUR Our Store will be CLOSED FOR INVOICING Saturday January 1st Open for Business Monday January 3d We wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year N T CHRISTIANSON O Mora M D a i I I1 I hlor C 0 W Qr O A Hurd AS I root Brown Dr L O Hewitt r to In It OT roar or block Dr E Oneil H K Oco back iit to my n Dr J M Helgeson Ho AS mid over Unr Worth County Index SCAMMON 4 GILLRUP Publishers OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER The finest and most ment of Fall and Winter ii Northwood now ready for your in ion Miss 8 aoi SE PIO joj JO USTO JOJ JOJ jl JO spni ill I Al j H T ml 1 i- LAMB Smith M wooS oo a N K Dow M TO 4 M M A County IOWA GENERAL I w drawn on all th i y principal cities of Europe Shor i time loans made bought Ir paid on time deposits Collo receive prompt personal atten remittances made on day o Safety Deposit Boxes to Rent frost made light in th section Sunday night Northwood Iowa Thursday December 30 1897 Number 6 The Index DOW Job f at reasonable Only work turned out We wish our readers all the happi- ness of the happy season The listening ear of faith can almost hear the rustling of the turning leaves What's in a name besides The newspapers are telling of a prominent temperance woman who has just taken to herself a husband named Iva Jag This is the season when the average wanderer in this vale of tears takes heavy in the way of id those cement walks with which the court yard of hades is A new industry to be opened up in this country under the beneficent operation of the Dingley tariff law A German plant for the manufacture of velvet is about to be transplanted bodily from a town in Rheinish Prussia to be set up in Mystic Con- A Minneapolis man named wants to see the Twin Cities dated under the name of Pansey Mr should be a nine mate to the Kourth Iowa dis- own Pansey friend of the farmer and the laboring man the fellow who introduced bills in congress to have the Union spangled with step-mother flowers and the pansey blossom made the tional emblem Pansey Butler and would make a good pair of jacks to draw to He worried himself to death It is that that sentence literally expresses the fate of Thomas E Bryan of Floyd county and until recently the president of the now defunct Nora Springs bank who died in Charles City last Thursday of heart failure Mr Bryan was er of county four years anj ihon to Nora Springs and en- gaged in the banking business running a private bank trie directors of which were farmers The business depression ami punic caught them and Mr Bryan handed over all of his handsome fortune to satisfy the claims leaving him almost penniless Despite the efforts of relatives aud friends to cheer him Mr Bryan brooded over his misfortunes until he worried himself into his grave He of the and the Pythians and his in those orders is all the rotate he leaves He was a consul of William J Bryan the orator of the Platte Mills had a dry Christmas A day or two before the sacred the temperance people asserted themselves they raided and closed a where liquor has been retailed to young and old in utter defiance of law and and they had the station agent so startled that he refused to deliver an extensive assortment of jugs and cases which hid been shipped in to intensify the cheer Lake Mills has a witness to whisky's work in the person of one Amund lea who recently loaded up on Forest City booze then started to home and up by pasturing out over night on the prairie and nearly freezing to death The poor fool there are thousands of others just as foolish only a little more had to have both hia feet amputated to save his life and that let us hope is his last contribution to the whisky Almost every community can point to a similar witness to the ful effects of intemperance and yet the saloon is continually enlisting fresh recruits to take the place of its disabled or ruined victims Towns seem to have a lack of like individuals and it would doubtless be a nice question to try to discover just how far the trend or general tone of a reacts on the individual citizen and vice versa of a is to a certain extent responsible for fie of that community he can positively elevate it or lower weakly and indirectly er it by going with the merica is hardly likely to look to the Kingdom for its models of government still the method of making the head an of each neighborhood responsible r the peace and good order of that has a certain basis of use and reason in it However it is ith American cities that we have to o just now and surely in America he citizens make the city and the sentiment of the people the moral status of the town here are staid clean honest moral was of which anything good may be There arc other towns y very few which are veritable fairs fairly honeycombed with and immorality towns hose tone is false feverish and v towns of which almost anything may be expected A boom town has a sporty man for ayor and a shammy set of men for or board of In a town so dominated ant1 everything is apt to partake of swindling nature and all the finan ial and business institutions are liable T be built on rotten foundations hank heaven no town in this im vicinity can be classed in stich category Neither do we say thai Oelwein Iowa is such a town We say what the facts hat a few years ago this was the most town of ts in the United States It was a old day when the newspapers hail nothing to say of of growth railroad shops division ngs opera house aud other itan improvements materializing or Its with Butler at the naturally came in for its big share of fame later became notoriety the lent got having wandered away nto Indiana where he peddled book day and aired his eloquence ii revival meetings by night Oelwein's ast bid for notice grows out of the of its Citizens bank with stated at 545.000 assets un- known cash on hand coupled with the would-be suicide of the proprietor who had disposed of the same half in terest in the bank building to two ferent parties and being unable t make a satisfactory explanation fired a pistol bullet through his body but made a failure even of his attempt self-murder We suppose it was characteristic that he should regret that he had made a botch of It and state that he hac on such a strain so long that h felt it would be an intense relief to enu it all Of course we are not speaking of the fellow's failure to kiH himsel when TTC say that a desire to keep n with a miserable feverish is often largely for sue Instances of financial and moral fail urc And While there arc dif in towns and individuals there arc none so food but that the might be and towns like ir can turn over a new leaf and will do so whenever the better cle ments assert themselves We that the new year is just the time t begin the turning business THE PAST WEEK Thursday supreme court of Illinois hands down a decision ing the constitutionality of the State's civil service law It is be a body blow to the that is Chicago are those who profess to believe that people cannot get justice done them in justice court yet during a trial in an Ohio tribunal of that nature two scoundrels named Teeters and Brown received fatal wounds having his thick skull fractured with a spittoon and Elijah receiving a knife slash inches long and two inches deep piercing to the backbone Elijah was either as thin as an editor or else he was carved from the rear j is broken down with overwork We don't see what there is to worry a of war in this gentleman just from Cuba reports that the insurgents are building towns raising crops and manufacturing munitions of war and getting helves in holdout indefinitely contra a Spanish inspired dispatch tells of the installation of two autonomist mayors whom the people receive with shouts of Long live of the Ruiz iris warned that one would be regarded as a spy if he to the insurgents with peace not based on Cuban dence He invited his sad Blanco's blank policy is characterized as a of bribery and little better than policy in Gage to the Associated Press an open a strong foreign policy Japan aud England are said to be hunting in pairs in their opposition to German and Russian in China meetings the and most in- spiring in the of those states j and supplies for the inf gathered j in ail big Down Kast they are experiencing a siege of i down weather but the Great is having a Cuban junta think the U S of A rather than to send and of clo's for relief of the con- KENSK TT KOI N INGS Bret Finch is home for a few Jays C E Confer spent Christmas at home A number of sportsmen enjoyed a rabbit hunt Monday Miss Daley spent Christman at Northwood Dr Burns spent Christmas with fi in Kensett W F Roebuck has been to Springs term A large crowd from Northwood and Manly attended the Woodman tall FOR GOLD NUGGETS AND Strauss dt Gunderson's Store for YOU Can Go to Alaska put an end to distress by about and Leo the Cuban policy Of Tetter in reply to the Federation of Labor's recent resolution of strenuous opposition to the Gape financial i T sir Secretary clones his ahle remarks and an My present conviction mildly endorses the Cuban polic the fruit of sincere study and I Spain Gladstone the Brand reflection is that a break down in our I of and the world money standard would be a brutes his most disastrous blow to all com- Hayti an earthquake shock and industrial interests and which shakes it up as had an did tne that upon the workers as a class German fleet and a ire at Port an would be entailed the most serious Prince destroys eight hundred of the disaster r some of them the of the city THE UNION DEB A TING CIETY Hid rend by M Society Mor 1 society was must so bear witness Friday has an early fire destroying a fashionable restaurant wherein several persons are serious still the Coliseum building in which the last Democratic national convention was held rocs up in tire and smoke The Far back in the mist was used as us a debating s exposition and Mailed Its object the advancement Midway sideshow the rising generation morally in- The conflagration was The hot and heavy the Union Township Debating Society ter wreck in half an hour Several lire since its first conception by those wise fighters are injured and it is feared philanthropists its name never that at least half a dozen now missing known dishonor At home and abroad people may have perished in Hie names iu praises are sung at home Sherman in the u is true this ancient organization K president issues an urgent call to through its representatives have met le kindly disposed people of the with defeat but viewed as by the States to remember their famine Roman generals it wan a blessing in neighbors of Cuba at this disguise It has nerved their arm to eason of and sturdier action their minds to cabinet meeting it is de- er endeavor until now as we view the tied that the United States will take i past and present its ever changing o part in the general bobbery now be- pass before like an endless ng kicked up or along the panorama like the participants of a hinese borders great fast is the ranks are il eye on affairs and be prompt and swept away they are filled by stalwart inn in protecting American interests specimens of men and women advices state that Japan j giants ready at any time to oo will take no hand in the Chinese take off their coats and lay down their but just makec jives to preserve the sacred honor of A cablegram says in sub- this institution Many is the stormy ance that England has invited Italy winter that has been beguiled of half o co-operate with her in the far east its rigor by the good-natured wit and ut owing to her obligation to humor the sturdy honest intelligent Ul v vt o any Italy declines with here seems to be considerable turmoil n Europe and the Orient considering le season of peace and debater and the noisy flirting boo-boo in the back seat and many is the hour the delinquent has toasted his shins before a comfortable fire at home be- cause his name on the gram and many is the maiden who on ui lne rostrom Ana many 11 receive Christmas gifts in the Regret that fills the breast of our nape of an advance in The h president as he views the of the com- the Mats and to assess damages for seizure interest listens to the f British ships in sea are youths and maidens of other youths and maidens and verily says to himself The same thing over again And as time shall fade away into the dim future and we are severed from all those old tions our mind will wander hack over them in one grand retrospective view Again we see Czar Gottlieb clothed with presidential honors rising from his seat We hear the gavel fall and what was a moment be- fore an incoherent babble of jests and song and laughter and love making is hushed into somber stillness We hear of the last meeting read by an illustrious woman-suffrage maiden we hear the soul-stirring music from the the brothers theu listen to the bright instructive lessons in prose and poetry and song from and Cosgrove from Ehlers and Smith and from and Overholt and a host of And as the light and the decks arc cleared for the heavy guns are brought in- to position for the final debate We see the diminutive the corpulent Parker and the scholarly Tenney girding on their knapsacks of knowledge facts and figures and in the distance we view the illustrious and far-famed Rony the bright and Hill and the invincible and the next moment this martial array meet in mortal combat With a grand scholarly sweep ascends to the skies and literally rains hail and fire upon his opponent With a wild counter charge Rony catches up his diminutive assailant and whirls and twirls and literally tosses him into space Whereupon the drous Parker rushes into the combat with tones and for a moment the enemy is compelled to retreat but ours all hands had been fighting fire as tile and Laughlin discharge to confine it to its starting j heavy broadsides iato the opposition ade public The total against the S of A is It is considered aud reasonable The adjustment been pending for eleven years here was danger at one time oj rious international complications as n outgrowth of the he Chestnut street national bank of goes to the Chicago nd certain Iowa papers which have Sen Allison with truckling id cowardly in on with the efforts for currency form the senator emits an on of his conservative views in to finance etc Mr Allison probably in accord with the majority his state in regard to the quite formidable op- lo the senatorial aspirations f Mr Hanna is being centered on ov and it is reported that s friends are negotiating with the managers in order to votes The Democracy of Ohio nd the Nation would sacrifice a groat cal if they had it to defeat Mr a line for the t Madison Square Garden Jimmy the middle distance bicycle tampion of America meets Arthur hase the ditto of England and finds m easy Michaels makes the thirty ilex in aniels broke his own and the world's for a long jump ml skates ng twenty-one feet seven inches nme sweet day Frank will probably reak his head or something Sunday big British steamer even days out from Norfolk for Liverpool loaded with ittle cotton and grain puts into St with cargo burning For forty The banquet and ball given by the M W of A at Wilson's hall Tuesday evening was well Every one expressed themselves as well pleased with the Woodmen as Miss Tilla kins came up from Nora Springs to spend the holidays The union Christmas tree festivities it Wilson's hall were A Tine program was rendered and many costly presents received Mrs Arthur Finch returned a visit with parents near Spencer la CULLINGS Christmas is over New Years on the way Subscribe for the best county paper THE INDEX If you want the truth you will find in the INDEX C F Sterzbach and wife were visitors Tuesday Once more the grain is pouring in i this very good market Gee McGillivray spent Christmas with his parents at A C Roper at home wilh parents at Chester la C F spent Saturday P M i Austin the guest of friends and Mr Sanderson arid Miss Meta Selle at the home of 10 C vcr Mr S going back to his lome in Poynette Wis Monday The tree at the school house was as a brilliant success The presents verc numerous and costly dolls galore by the gross The were very nice At last after years of waiting Jnirlard and Germany came together ast Friday with Scotland and America aa seconds and Denmark as referee counted out in round two by Denmark Only two blows England struck Germany and Germany hit the floor time UNION DASHES A happy new year to all Mell Moore spent Christmas at home Kine sleighing and every one is Miss Frankie Smith has a vacation his week M Parker is having a hard vith Mr L A Mr aud Mrs W B are en- friends from Minnesota There will be another lively debate it the school house next Monday evening G A Roney has gone to St Paul Vc are informed that he will take culture while there Kruger is away down in sunny exas looking over the country with a icw o f locating Better stay right here n Iowa and Worth county As news is rather scarce down in we got a hold of good paper nd with permission to send it in along rith the Union Dashes and hope it he interesting to the readers of he Once upon a time Mexico thought he could whip the United it not for Texas And now we pre- mne Spain could trounce our Uncle 3 soundly if it were not for Rhode stand We paraphrase the following he Albert of yesterday it exactly expresses our The best wish it has for its and the worst wish it has for ts foes that the INDEX sincerely and extends to one and all is that or they may really and truly be with a Happy New Year eavy ranks the lost ground is recovered For hours the rages till both Aide's draw off and the decision is rendered Such has the Union Debating Society such will be the Union Debating Society in the future and such its memory handed down to posterity one kindly for us the author of New Year's reflation We deeds not years in not in out in figures on a 11 u man ij f lift to So ltd iif lace ill the amidships compartment they kept flooded with water ud steam The decks were almost with heat and the ship lay yet be a total dispatch roni London gives a most pathetic of life and death of some ot Condon's poor Fire broke out iu a cottage the squalid home f throe families A Mrs Jarvis and ft nine youngest a babe the upper room and the lan eked out a scanty existence by laking match boxes The ten J in the lire and the husband and alher who was in a hospital infirmary icd at about the same hour without laving heard of the awful Che Sunday pulpit and the Sunday get after each continue o work in discord even as of the pulpits of Christendom improve the occasion to seek o teach some lesson of peace on earth towards men Atlantic Iowa a Palmer attempts to assault a woman and ng kills her and then Members of the monetary commission ire working away at a financial more moderate than that of Sec Gage that will not go so far in in- the bonded debt A less i A lively discussion hat been earned Gage's might fill the 0.1 in the Mills Salisbury informs between some good Silver Lake people Hay that England in defi the matter in controversy being rence to the wishes of Canada declines to enter into with United States Russia and Japan to prohibit somewhat startling news comes from lingland has 17 Chemulpo Corca as a against Russia ami to say our statements mad the Corean kinp to restore a j werr never neve British he hud can be that what was unclean politic in favor of a is unclean still that what alleged protest Russia right ori occupies another Coreau with a formidable fleet of thirty vessels is off and ready to take a hand IQ the imbroglio Tuesday rumor that Sec Paris the city of ami Puris the beautiful are Miss Lilian epi- phrases in her letter in the Home she says exists the ten law Commit any offense you will provided yon submerge it in poetry and flowers principally the points rained last fal bv the concerning clean men for and clean methods in politics The election is over the majority have expressed their will We have tin sort of notion uf taking a hand ir this squabble but wi The closing of the year is a good hue for the business man roman and a business child in f very ine of to take account of lock and see where they are drifting The above list ludes the student and the professed Christian especially that specimen of he latter class who as the boy said isn't working at it It would be well or alt of us to begin The new year by ascertaining just where we are at then has not become now and of dis- cussion pan make it SO Yd a of education the exchange of views may be the clearly and forcibly pre- that as to overcome the wrong rumor that sec i the argument of one i- ft that itti The fowa Homestead is one of the that we would like to see in the mods of every farmer in this county the for we believe t would make hU work ul and we are specially interested in he success of our own community is the time of year when reading select their matter for he corning year In making the 100 we sincerely hope that every of our farmer will include the in hiti list whatever else the iie list may contain The value of the paper is greatly increased for the ical farmer by its Special Farmers which is published monthly and oftener and the largest amount of the practical experience from farmers Actually working on the farms that we lave ever seen collected in one ation If every farmer in the county Id see the issue ot the for the present week and the Special Institute 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