Worth County Index (Newspaper) - September 19, 1912, Northwood, Iowa WORTH TY Volume 31 Northwood Iowa Thursday September 19 1912 Number 38 THE WORTH A Fair Fair in Spite of foul Weather Senator Kenyon all Right MSW DROWNED DUI the county fairs where Democrats and people of nil beliefs creeda come together and talk things over as friends and neighbors We think every Worth countian who per sonally met Senator Kenyon was I ed with him and convinced of his During Wednesday forenoon the Would-be Record Breaker Bat Rain Second Day Program all Right Even ALL IN THE DAY'S 11 ic On slight change on account of the Ither Considering all circumstances tho was two exciting ball games the first be- Carpenter and Myrtle heing won bv the former 7 to 4 Later in the the second game Carpenter and Northwood competing The county fair of 1912 has pasted in- The Carpenters and joiners won again to profane history a partial had 6 to -1 solely on account of a equinoctial The horsemen who had been storm It is too bad for everything bore on expense since Monday which the management could control cj for carrying out of the speed had been for n program and two races were provided and despite Monday's lowering skies but wos not much to them and occasional showers the indications as track was heavy and unfit Tn of entry warranted the belief that the running race owned we were to have the most successful by Dr Higley of Albert Lea took first fair of recent years Tuesday morning the for all trot Prince opened but the skies Dr Hanson Osage took first soon clouded and by the middle of the Dr Hewitt was superintendent of the forenoon a drizzle set in which department but it should not be through the day and evening ex- surmised that he discriminated in cept in occasional change for the worse Of profession for he is eminently Meanwhile however the people liai fair as a manager of sports Time made come flocking into town ami people by n js riot stated for fear of [not] hundreds remained through the day and establishing records We could not tell evening draggled but good further of this feature and get to press and amusing as best they on time could Of coarse with ground The balloon ascension by one of the and sky the plans for races McKim of Des was ball games field sports generally auto sem ascension etc all Confident Colonel Capturing the Coast Bryan Treads on His Trail Wilson in Iowa bump In fact there was thing of Tuesday's advertised which really So tor which was ered under most unfavorable but were he total paid attendance was thi free admission of children and others half as many The management will about before brcak even the und which proved to be anything which under the circumstances but n affair for Mr a f yon IH in the show business Ho j was introduced by his friend and HY TKK Congressman j en The Senator's speech was largely J Mr Kenyan much mired somn Democrats You see he married of them and hus in the meantime doesn't pay to argue with a Democrat j He briefly reviewed the work the last Congress and in closing expressed hie hearty of gatherings Jike ntt In the In tlw uf Htt Wo muke it n every business transaction with our patrons shall be satisfactory We want each one to feel that they urc free lo come to us in all matters where our ence and help of When we speak of the Service rendered to our customers we mean the best you reasonably expect from your bank Our service includes a hundred and one little details J all of which go to make of our patrons satisfied customers We feel confident you will the Service we can render and are glad to have you avail yourself of it Yours for Service THE WORTH COUNTY STATE BANK Established 1869 Northwood Iowa TOYE Pres C H BECKETT Vice PreE T S HANSON Cashier C H DWELLE Cashier Farm Loans a THURSDAY 12 reaches Portland Oregon and his party passes from the colonel's car to their autos over a carpet of 17.000 The candidate makes five bus 1 busy Woodrow W likewise has a crowded day Fifteen hundred members of the Hudson County Ass reviewed by Wilson on parade have an exciting time when their excursion steamer runs on rocks in East River nnd has a hole stove m it Tho men arc landed fn Taft at erly Miss poses for the moving picture a hickory tree and then sits talking with Mrs Taft on the anda The films are spoiled in the Paul Peck holder of the American duration record is killed while attempting the spiral at Cicero field Johnson wife of the world's champion commits suicide in her over the champ's Chicago saloon b shooting herself in the head decent whites nor blacks would receiv since her marriage of New York on the strongest kind evidence of having killed voman client on July 1C last is waiting street car strik t is becoming serious FRIDAY That cur s getting no bettor very fast thi louble hoodoo day Angry mobs are ying the police destroying cum pan and heating up strike breal ors Gov being importune o troops says he wUI Gibson being rested and lodged in the tombs LO his this mo in again for he with Sees and Wilson too has a busy day meeting friends and dodging photograph eta and issues He speaks at the Syracuse N Y fair adhering strictly to Uie tariff and tional questions When tried to snap him wito -a lot of Dem politicians around him Take the rest of the ami bolts That man is level hemled not to be caught in poor and taken in entangling alliances if he avoid it SATURDAY published report to the contrary causes Wilson to de- he has given Gov Dix of New York no assurances of Democrats who arranged for Gov son's appearance At the Syracuse fair are said to resent some of Wilson's to headline which probably has nothing particular in it rebels are said to be at- tacking American miners shooting over and hunting for trouble Colonel is getting a great ovation in Allen and Wes Edwards Sid the chief ant both them members of the Allen gang which on 14 up the Virginia count room killing judge his and the county cutor are captured where labor under as names Of all that K goot probably that does not ap ply in this ing at dusk around the Cicero field course collide fifty feet in Nog and his wife high Japs commit hari kari oa a tribute to the late emperor whose funeral has been solemnized about al this week SUNDAY The Japanese papers greatly praise the of Gen and Countess Nogi as shown in their suicidal death It was Gen Nogi who ordered the change on 203 Meter hill in the war and his two sons his only children in the assault Later Gen Nogi secured the surrender of Port great damage is being done by a terrific along the Gulf of Colorado ant Arizona sustain a heavy snow storm with temperature at only 30 above There is a four-inch fall of the ful in takes partial vacation this day of Pres Taft anniversary at the home of hia Aunt Delia ir Worcester Louie Something tnd Gyp the Blood Some supposed to be the actual Hers of Gambler of New ork aro young -val ore missing doubtless cans drowned hy the swamping of eir sailboat in Lake Michigan MONDAY 1C Candid att Wilson starts n his western campaigning tour and akes several vigorous little speeches the way During his one hour in he and the Democratic chiefs st manage not to get together by sort of comedy of crosses Iowa trail of behind and begins talking his ay across gets tremendous greeting in which nda of women participate at Los Bryan following Col western itinerary ng on calls Taft a failure and It the most dangerous man in the government moves on works the International ester Co for its as a ul trust MR ABROAD Been Touring King Dominion Wonderful Winnipeg A CLEAN PROGRESSIVE British Peculiarities Law and Order R R Time from 1 to 24 Hours Sunday During Senator too brief tay in town Tuesday last he was en- by hia The two men in Afferent stations and sometimes in erent ways are working towards the same Rood Progressive ends and it is manifest that not riends but friends aft well On Tuesday evening about a dozen of Mr Haugen's Worth county were privileged to meet his guest at a most and elegant six o'clock dinner at the Haugen man- sion at which Johnson was charming hostess to her father's guests Senator Kenyon besides being one of the cleanest and ablest of our public men is a wonderfully bright ing and informing conversationalist Those who met him were his political friends but they are his sonal friends now People who come under the charm of bis personality could hardly help that even if they wished Crop Comparisons Reports made on September 1st hy crop correspondents of the Iowa er and Crop Service that the condition of corn was 95 per as compared the average on that in past years or a pain of 2 per since August 1st and cent than last year a basis of with Iry warm weather until the middle of October the present condition would be considerably above 100 per cent a a the crop IB heavily eared and it it matures before frost comes the yield wHl be the largest on record in tbe state It is that with con- ditions about 30 per cent of the crop will be safe from frost on September 54 jier cent on September 72 per cent on 87 per cent on October 10th ami 96 per cent on tober dry warm er until the middle of Left Minneapolis over Crack Soo adian Pacific Railway at p m Tuesday proved to be a Jonah engine failed to throb at Thief River Falls hours behind schedule time Delay proved to be a blessing u we had the oppor tuni ty to se e the coun try and crops by daylight Surface exceedingly fiat and dotted here and there with scrubby timber arid brush Very little wheat was cut but most of it ready to be cut oats turning yellow but barley and flax in a state Comparing crops with Iowa the country I saw from Thiel River Falls to Winnipeg is far Iowa this year being both thin anc abort Winnipeg is certainly a metropolitan city We counted from ten dozen 6 to 10 story buildings in course of con struction ami innumerable ones Not fine but is the fine spitting on the sidewalk and it is en forced and the consequence is thut found less thu Winnipeg street then we at Nortbwood The way the taw is not enforced and enforced is when the officials personal matters and feelings into official life to the detriment of gooc government That is not done there but I am not BO Northwood Passing thru the C P Ry depot th tall straight blue frocked says no in a pleasant way I quit it They are there with th goods and it is generally appreciate by both the offender and the ing citizen The principal business streets ar nd the consequence is thit 1 o'clock p is the 13th hour It IB ent and the ingenuity and the When I was Winnipeg in 1890 the population waa bout now they tell me it v a wonderful T he chocolate Red River winds its way ru the city making some beautiful rends on Its journey to Winnipeg Lake 13 on its bank's some of the residences privates and public rounds are located I left Winnipeg on the 23rd hour for M- West over the C P Ry Imperial comprising 11 coaches strictly carrying observation two ners pullman ond tourist cars ted on u road bed which proved to be mong the beat in the states When lorning arrived wo in the famous Province nnd we had the of viewing the surrounding on one of those beautiful sunny nd Canadian days The ace is fiat to undulating in the eastern nd portions and soil is of a ood quality evidence of which could seen on every hand by the abundance a well as the healthy look of the crops nd the well kept farm buildings Nothing cut however but wheat ready n a few days Fine auto roads all built on the liberal plan for the luture grounds of the various are studded to shrubs and Regina the capital of the province las a population of and is ng rapidly Twenty-eight are now dead and two more will die on account of the cyclone that destroyed a portion of the city this season Some evidence ot be seen but others already been replaced by better modern buildings The country is generally good until you get to Moose Jaw but after passing that town soil becomes lighter and surface be- comes more rolling and in the western portion it gets choppy and somewhat rough in places ally ger the crop will he out of The average condition of late toes waa 90 per or a loss of 4 points since August 1st dun to iky weather and blight sections of the state The reports indicate that only about one-third of the threshing has been done and up to time the average yields per acre of small are as Winter wheat 25 spring wheat 18 eate 46 baeley 33 rye 22 and timothy seed 4.8 The estimated acreage of timothy cut for seed is 800 acres Acres more than were harvested last laat year If the of 4.8 per acre is maintained alt the crop has been total yield will be about but all as to average yields axe subject to change when tba final report for the season has been tabulated about 100 feet wide from curb curb and the sidewalk ID to 12 feet wide and tho ia spread over ari immense containing beautiful waya and private residences equal to the best in the states Shruba and flowers us in the states ran be seen in profusion on every hand Bicycles and motor cycles are very much in evidence and the autos should not be forgotten speed limit is and in stopping they must stop right hand of street backed to the curb and left at ah angle ot about 45 degrees thus giving room for and it facilitates ine of the machines Practically itl streets are asphalted and are lighted by four lights on iron posts to the block The C P Ry Co enjoys the tion of largest railroad yard 3 in the world Winnipeg having 112 education Terr far from presenting an that be looked at that may For a large proportion at public la tht and than half of them bare had any special or aration for teaching in atates from 20 to 30 per of year are and in beat the average length of la thaa four Tbe of all public school in United the in ail our U ft day for the of the IBM thM murun or teM than a nra tte Work atatoa It lew than In it WM thaa ift two miles of trackage The best evidence Winnipeg's and Canada's prosperity large is the fact that by the last repor of the C P Ry Co the net profits were over year one- half going to dividends and one-half in improvements such as double tracking the road west from the city and whid is already in process of construction In dropping into Winnipeg you ar impressed by its magnitude by th splendor of the C P Ry station anc the Alexandria Hotel which adjoins i wherein made some of these notes Opposite the depot on private ground of the C P Ry you find the firs and original eagine of the road decor with flowers on either side and o the cow catcher and lettered on th you hare the C P K 1 Countess Du Turin Compar this engine with the modern engine o tke Imperial Limited train containing everything that is modern and on I left the city of Winnipeg o the you at once of the wonderful advance Canada has made The Canadian are nat only proud of it but Americans are We are fortunate in having a outer country that is in closa touch wit as and which in many respects ha Caught us valuable in govern mental SB well as in social advancement The sanctity of Sunday is protected by the act The Torrance law protecting titles are a few of the many which are appreciated I was told in the that the Imperial Limited left Winnipeg at 11 p but by tbe Canadian method of computation it lef on the 23rd hour which means the same the 23rd hour being tbe same II o'clock p m By this method i the a m and p m after the time and prevents the Twelve o'clock midnight the 24th hour and one o'clock U the lit hofer On November 1 day of Mrs there the wedding of Roe a scholarly young gentleman then of Grand Forks and Grace a remarkably nice young lady of wood We arenot mentioning this now or its news told the news at or near as preliminary o another story Some months Miss B had Boe the Boes Blunder buss look ing at the letter in his iand instead of the lady in who tad answered the bell asked Is your at Then a little ripple if laughter called his attention to a amused and mighty attractive maiden Well the husband has been it home since then but that isn't the story either Grace and Sigurd It seems were school children together m he old country Then circumstances and the Atlantic separated them Tor a while hut nine years after those childhood days the boy grown to a fine young down from Furgo to see the bid neighbor then in wood And then the inevitable again and the sequel is told in the opening sentence hereof Shortly after their marriage Sigurd and went on a wedding trip to the land uf their nativity They are still there and his people are anxious that they remain but we understand they will return to this bally money-mad tbe They certainly have accumulated something rich in the old country and THAT'S the story we started out to tell in this wise for you ace it is Friday and the quantity of space is and copy is On yesterday evening Mr Charles Dwelle loaned the writer a picture postal he had a am n difficulty in getting back it was so beautiful It disclosed a magnificent scene of mountain and sky anti fjord part in splendid sunshine and part in equally splendid and reflection The card waa from Sogn and this is Ita pleasant message Dear Mr and Mrs Ib baby boy arrived at our home this morning Aug 14 Grace and the baby are both fine and I'm very happy of the arrival Should like to hear from you soon With many kindly regards Grace and Sigurd
