Worth County Index (Newspaper) - October 26, 1899, Northwood, Iowa WORTH COUNTY INDEX Volume 18 Northwood Iowa Thursday October 26 1899 Number 49 SAIL Carpets and Rugs CURTAINS 10 per cent off Fair Bed Blankets SOc TSc per pair Oc to yard Everything goes Regardless of Cost Fur Capes and Muffs Golf and Crushed Plush Capes tf Outing Flannels at jc ioc 150 per yard H each A complete stock of dren's Misses and Ladies Big Shawls at each each Prices the low for Children Misses Women Boys Youths and Men almost the old price Yours Holland Page like a Procession Someone Must Lead That is why we ahead of our competitors in new new ideas We are in the front and if tireless energy hustle and ambition are factors we intend to stay there is a few of the up-to-date styles in Jackets and Capes we sell Kvery garment is guaranteed not only to be the most ish and best grade but is offered you at lower figures thau you can possibly buy it for auy where else Ladies Jackets made of heavy sey Beaver Boucle and Whipcords at Plush Capes Ladies Plain Heavy Plush Capes Large assortment of Misses and Children's Jackets Goli Capes and Muffs at all prices Our enormously increased is satisfactory proof of the excellence of our atock both as to style ness and Christiansen Lund Our Is Bound to and following are some of the in- we are offering to 99 Everything in our line at the Lowest Prices but just now particular attention is called to the following bargains in Warm Goods Boys and Children's Fleece-lined Underwear at Men's All-wool Fleeced Underwear at A full line of Ulster Overcoats from to The largest lino of S in Northern Iowa The c famous Gordon FUl Ferguson make at ces which no competition can meet always and best It is to your interest to catch some of our stock Your Clothiers Strauss vote For Af livery make a point of endorsing administration with liis vule If you like tinier pond prices and good for continuance You know how Next Speaker and Hon s Fuller Haugen and are billed to speak tonight at a grand rally in West Union And just now they the Republican for pre- a car famine and lite oue ever known As usual the Democratic editors and speakers arc way uff in their charges and spcciftcatiuiis to Republican corruption efc hut that is uo reason for considering this an off year Republicans sue to it that you arc not off election your votes in the corn fields Republicans do your citizen duty this year of grace and If you are satisfied that the tion you helped elect wise and patriotic honestly and conscientiously striving to do its full duly in the face of unscrupulous detraction aud op- position if you are satisfied that the administration has done very much to restore confidence and prosperity anil to place this country on a prouder plain among the nations endorse that administration with your straight Republican vote Col Leper of lite fifty-first Iowa just from Philippines All is needed is an campaign with plenty of men and this will in short order The be whipped that the thing they will appreciate just now s town must be held and war conducted in stern fashion Col Loper it seems to us may be supposed to know quite as much about the demands of the situation ns any of those vociferous fellows who never saw the Philippines and hardly know they meaning the Philippines and themselves are at Chairman Weaver of the Republican central sounds this note of warning which should hear and The Democrats are bring Bryan bacV into Iowa for a few more to close up their campaign It win Bryan and free silver in and the people must prepare to meet the same old outfit that they met The best way to make thete preparations is to that every Re- publican vote is cast this year and then the skirmish for the campaign of as Bryan calls the campaign in Iowa this fall will result in a disastrous defeat for the free silver crowd which it mow under the cloak of anti-imperialism FOR RI EN VIAL ELECTIONS for nearly three months there has appeared in our columns and those of twenty-one other papers of Iowa a notice headed Proposed Amendment to the Constitution of Iowa We have seen no discussion of the question the public press and we doubt whether many readers have even taken the trouble to acquaint j with the contents of the it involves a matter of considerable i interest to alt Iowa citizens In any event it covers a which the people will be called upon to decide at I the coming election and most desire to vote intelligently Put popular language the question would read something like Shall hereafter hold our state elections biennially instead of every year years ago went on in favor of elections and there has occurred nothing since then to change our views on the subject Those who favor the present system do so probably it is the present system and they are naturally opposed to change because they make something out of ft or because they consider annual campaigns schools of education ami as such worth all they cost Those who favor the biennial method do so presumably they are not fond of upheavals and frequent political rackets witli one scarcely over before another begins and because they consider the annual election a heavy burden upon the tax payer and half of ifa wholly needless burden in view of the fact that the biennial election once established will answer every so ns public servants 5s concerned The Australian ballot system considering the advertising required under it the printing and distributing of big billots etc is an expensive luxury and the other necessary expenses of elections are heavier we think than people generally realise The claims allowed by the Worth county fathers for the constables judges and clerks cf the d an average of per precinct By actual count there are upwards of election precincts in Iowa and if the Worth county average prevails throughout the state then the cost for election officers alone was upwards of OOO At a low estimate the cost of advertising printing and distributing tickets must have been and there are ether ex- It is for the individual voter to judge for himself whether jear election is worth what it costs INDEX should be fied with things they are ic revenue from each election and as the paper of the county has a right to expect thit condition to continue and our revenues are none too large But we are not running self-interest sheet and do not public questions from the self-interest standpoint Nashua is putting in a complete system of sewerage i Editor Windle of the Ottawa 111 Galling Gun addressed the Democrats of Northwood Monday t ing mainly of trusts and He quoted Lincoln sly and admiringly just as the Democratic orator of the next mil be Pres of this town are that Orat or Windle quoted direct froua Gov Shaw inaugural that he the favored and thought the ing men getting too for Now if Gov Shaw said anything of the sort it is important and likewise accessible and for the next two issues before election we will carry it double leaded in this Re- publican paper if any Democrat will produce it Will the demagogues kindly put up or shut up on that NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES Hon A C Rankin the orator who has done so to mould the men will talk Republican politics at Osage tonight Decorah Manly tion has arranged for a lecture course the coining winter We have a healthy respect for a town of which this can be said The company building the new way from Blue Earth southeast across county has set November 1 as the date when the first engine will roll into Mason City The Daily Iowa Capital has sent one of its editorial writers Mr John Briar to San Francisco to report everything pertaining to the arrival of the first Iowa and Mr Briar is doing ex- work No other daily paper in Iowa has sent a special man to San Francisco Oelwein The grand jury found a true against Mayor B E Hough for gambling and his honor is now under bonds to appear at the next term of court The information upon which he was indicted declares that on the 20th day of September he did bet and play at cards the game commonly called poker for money and other property of value The trial will come off at the December term Unknown parties who are murderers at heart attempted to wreck an Illinois Central passenger train two southeast of City Monday night Fish plates had been removed and two rails four inches out of line The engine tender baggage car and Uvo coaches left the track and the engine is a total wreck There were seventeen passengers and a full train crew aboard and that none were killed seems almost a miracle The engineer was severely but not fatally injured A claw bar and some empty whisky bottles by the track are the only clues found to date The work is precisely similar to that attempted a short time ago on the B C R N just below Nora Springs and may liave been perpetrated by of the same gang The Department of Agriculture ia taking an effort to exhibit farm products at the Paris exposition next year and the farmers of Worth county are asked to contribute samples for that purpose Grain or seeds to the amount of about 4 quarts of each variety perfectly clean from foul stuff will be forwarded free of charge by T C Rone if left with him or at office Cora must be shelled and the Mame each variety to accompany each package also the name of the contributor R A large assortment of Caps Mi and Gloves at the Bee Hive Mittens
