Worth County Index (Newspaper) - March 12, 1903, Northwood, Iowa WORTH COUNTY INDEX Northwood Iowa Thursday March GETTING EXPERIENCE two ways of One is to buy it with good hard cash the other and by far the cheapest way is to be gained by the ex- of others The experience of all ing buyers in this community who have at all ferent places is that We sell the Best Clothing Not one penny higher Than others ask for common stuff to the great Masked strikers at Waterbury Conn ake possession of a car shoot down a wound the mot or man and the conductor into insensibility MONDAY Olean N Y- an oil tank train broke in two and the two parts collided causing the a mas In op of a aud the oil immediately blazed up lighting the sky for arnica around tank exploded In quick succession and twenty caught in the zone of fire were burned to death and twice as many were badly Father of Waters is on a biff spring rampage and many of his children in the West ami South are following their dad's Morgan is still trying to talk the Panama treaty to death TUESDAY talks The Mississippi and Ohio reach the danger from iii the flood are Chicago casket are out on New York from Naples has had six deaths from a disease resembling Cholera It is quarantined Very If For and Against the Mulct Joint There was a largely attended K at the council rooms Tuesday ght called to Uke some action ith regard to canvassing county Number 14 SPECIAL PRICES At The Crockery Store Will make the following 18 Ibs best granulated 20 Ibs C Sugar LOO 7 bars Lenox 6 bars White Laundry 7 bars Diamond C I 3 cans -25 i 2 cans FLOUR Best Best 3 Minneapolis Graham Flour io PHONE to bring them If they desire to put the liquor traffic under better control what is to hinder them from trying it on What special advantage is to n regard to canvassing me county hp bv whiskey out in saloons lawyer De J plain What is there about the atmosphere of a mulct saloon fleeting of Township Trustees A meeting of the township trustees of Worth county will be held at the court house in on day March 21 at one o'clock p n for he purpose of the new road bad perfect satisfactions is the place to get it HOLLAND A PAGE Villing was called So the chair the all being very faint and Merchant i Kaasa as secretary The which will have a sobering influence man stated the object of the meeting M and explained the revisions of What or old he mulct law aud pointed out the doe anybody know who not benefit in the way of of the saloon and t worth ue business and improved morality to arrange for another If which the mulct saloon might bring there are saloon in now o this town The assembly resolved hat would a mulct join be but an a Down Bast Edition to the If the pr own meeting and o far as peaking 1 condition so desperately went the opponents of the saloon were quite as much in evidence as the of it The latter based thei argument on the allegations that ic a failure that it cannot be enforced that there is more drunken ness in now than there was under the license regime that present are most scandalous and the saloon would bring relief and a marked improvement to the business revenues peace order safety apd morals of he town Of the two evils i the etc The opponents A of the saloon with at least equal EDITORS of THE I attended earnestness and sincerity are held last night to discuss jg to state things with all due mulct saloons and was much pleased took the positions that to observe that every one there tion is at least a partial success that essed to be opposed to the sale of Surg aw and adopting a uniform plan of working the roads the coming season Every township trustee is earnestly urged to attend and to consider him surety those who know so much about it are partly responsible for it 1 them make an honest effort to cure the I evils without the mulct saloon before asking prohibitionists to join them in effecting a cure by bringing what prohibitionists believe an 1 added and greater evil The temperance who have 1 thought a true effort to make it cleaner urge o a self invited without any further notice JOHN I M D JOHNSON Iowa March 11 Mr C B Wingfield of Fair Play Mo who suffered from chronic tery for thirty-five years says Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy did him more goad than any other medicine he had ever used For sale by G M Kmery druggist PROFESSIONAL CARDS Dr Hurd P nd So n ov ei stoto Wo blocks oT T Dr E H- Dwells i E Young hla und lliu Holland block C W Sanders Physician C lion is aL r present laws could be enforced if the but I am puzzled when I see some it P G i GOAL PHONE i i r b- BANKING A 11.10 4 p M IOWA GENERAL Bankins acted Drafts drawn on 11 the principal cities of Europe Short time loans made Notes bought In- terest paid on time deposits tions receive prompt atten tion and remittances made on day of payment Safety Deposit to Rent Give the world more sunshine and less moonshine says the Dallas News Amen Mason City had an exciting school lection The bone of con- was a proposition to bond the ity fora high school building Women in the election with enthusiasm The new school proposition had a clear majority of men and women voters Frank J Stillman Washington cor respondent for the Register and Lead er says in a recent Mr is understood to be well his committee appointments He ha been on agriculture and war claim from the first and has come to have great deal of influence especially as a member of the former Congress men Hepburn Hull and Lacy the re- spected and respective chairmen the committees of interstate and fo eign commerce military affairs an public lands arc the only Iowa repr who hold important chai which it is expected they will retain in the next congress Mr Haugen's satisfaction with his ments is in pleasing contrast to the sentiment of some Iowa members The Past Week WEDNESDAY congre Among the creditable bills assed and passed to their The an act en- bling the attorney uits under the law he has already availed himself of it in the big merger removal of tariff on coal act creating a department of people who know so much about booz ing and would help in enforcement that there is nothing like the liquors consumed under pro as under license as shown by statistics and by the fact that every brewer and distiller in the country the implacable foe of prohibition that of two evils we should choose that they want no revenues wrung from the misery of men aud the tears and the hearts blood of women and children that the saloon whether mulct saloon or other is evil and that pitfall in the pathway of young and old a menace to every who would oppose it by permitting 1 will challenge the world to answer this proposition If every man in Northwood will adopt my position of uniform and opposition the sale of liquor will in- stantly stop but if every man in wood adopted the mulct saloon plan the sale of liquor might continue for- ever FRANK March 11 1903 J rierberLDorey M IX s Dr G 0 oil SUTB.-OU usI O V o north torn o block S K Rice Ij Dunlin if ol t Dr S fl in of J B Kn block over iho uce Store Al every Filipinos It was a pretty good sion after all CHEAP KATES TO THK Railway will Ml o O P tT A Minn IOW RATH FOR On son City The public ing which seemed in danger of de- feat to on the last day of the late session of congress and under its provisions Mason City for a site And that means that the next doubtless a good round sum for the tion of a government building The results already obtained are mainly due to the good work done by men Haugen and Conner and the people of Mason City expressed their hanks and appreciation of our ber's efforts at a public meeting and in a series of earnest resolutions Com- menting on this case the ette well There is no question but what Mr commerce general army staff for general organization and great improvement of the militia the naval currency system for the good object and uplifting influence pines and appropriation for relief of and that being such they would op- pmc v pose it to the end be that end sweet or bitter On one point all the speakers seemed absolutely re the saloon as a great evil in and all were against it the difference being that one side was op- posed to the evil but just wanted it for the good it while the other side was opposed to it and wouldn't tolerate it if they could help it Witn malice none and a reasonable degree of charity lor all our syui pathies are wholly with the latter class There is always opportunity to claim that a reporter misstates the words sentiments of a speaker whom he quotes from memory but it can never be claimed that we misquote the follow lag from the official senate meets extra on call of President to consider the treaty with Colombia giving to the United States the right to build an and the Cuban reciprocity treaty The president's message The great far-reaching importance of these two treaties to the welfare of the United States and the urgent need for their adoption requires me to impose upon you the inconvenience of meeting at this new members of the senate including Apostle Reed Smoot are sworn in senate is at work New York Herald published a forecast a guess findings ed his hold Mason City by this e of aod the candidate ps up him in of the coal strike commission ing to which the miners will ly win every to be in- creased ten per cent union to be at least indirectly recognized and re- sponsibility for the strike to be placed upon the operators the boycott to be condemned and the principle laid down that laborers have the right to work without molestation If that is the official guess it is a good accordance with common sense SUNDAY H Blount land's celebrated commissioner para- mount to Hawaii and for Queen dies at Macon Ga He had been a congressman from Georgia for twenty of New Yorkers attend a Beecher memorial service years will liod a hard proposition con- fronting him Let it be understood that not nearly all who are favoring the mulct law want it because they really desire to have saloons Many of them are true earnest temperance men and their de- sire is to place the liquor traffic under better control They hope to succeed e in doing what the are not true earnest temperance have failed to do They would have the business conducted according to they would put the whiskey out in plain sight and compel the man who drinks it to step out and buy it in a lawful manner They would drive the out of business and compel the old soaks to sober up ists must admit that they have failed and that it is hardly possible to bring about a worse state of affairs than now exists If mulct saloons why not have Such was the tenor of much of the alleged argument at that meeting and frankly seems Neighborhood Notes Osage rejoices in the possession of the gem hotel of Iowa The women of saved the for a new school house in the election of Monday It was the hottest school election ever held in Grinnell A Lake Mills creature misnamed Trusty has been sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary for the crime of rape committed upon his step- daughter a girl of feeble mind and under the age of fifteen years The gives what appears to be good authority that an electric line will be built this year from Forest City to Kockford via Mason City Isn't it about time for that committee of the directors of the Northwood Electric Railway Co to report upon the Eli Murphy an employe of the new Mercy hospital at Webster City filled up on mulct juice Saturday night and later crawled into the hospital furnace to get warm If Get there it Murphy's motto he came mighty near living dying down Fortunately for Eli the furnace fire had mostly gone out but there was enough left to burn all his A Forbes LAW era l Kepler Attorneys Counly Stale low W fl Willing acd Collections Office over Bioli Co Iowa Attor butin J H- and J given ge lows all W L Collection Ton in all the of the stale attena a memorial whereat Mayor Low presides and ex- weak and inconsistent Why should Pres Cleveland makes a really fine j who not want saloons work ing off and roast one side of him pretty thoroughly Alden Minn is the victim of that visitation the mad scare One morning last week a stray canine ran amuck thro the village and bit at least half a dozen other dogs before a plucky citizen laid it low with a bullet which did not go astray Fortunately the excitement occurred before school children were several citizens narrowly escaped encounters with It is perhaps mark that since that day the canine population of Alden has been greatly CHOOSE FOR YOURSELF It matters little whether you select the fruit yourself or let us select it for you If you depend on us for selection we'll do the best we can Every bit of fruit we handle is good Some is better than but it's all good W H Northwood Iowa
