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Hamlin Township received a new road grader Monday. Fred Shiflet and wife were Audubon shoppers Saturday.

A Savings Account will provide for you under all conditions of adversity, and if regularly added to while you are young, will pay you wages when you are old and gray. Every man owes it to those who are dependent upon him to make adequate provision for the "rainy day." A Savings Account draws 4 per cent interest compounded, semiannually in the

First National Bank

Marsh McNutt and family were visiting friends at Ross Sunday. Matt Thielen shipped a carload of •teers from here to Omaha Saturday.

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Mrs. R. H. Garnett is visiting relatives out in Greeley for a week or two.

John Shoesmith has just completed the building of a fine new residence on his farm.

Jas. Shoesmith is very ill at the home of his son out on the Guthrie County line, old age and a general breakdown of the system being the cause.

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Smoke curling up from the farmhouse chimney as the men are coming in from the fields, gives a pretty suggestion of a good supper and a comfortable home. But it also means a hot, tired woman, working hard over a blazing fire.

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Frank Maurer sold a car of cattle to Matt Thielen of Exira on Saturday.

Peter Mortensen and wife visited Elk Horn relatives the first of this week.

Fred Eby has just started the foundation lor a new residence out on his farm.

Mr. and Mrs. Nels Rattenborg are the parents of a flee girl born Thursday May 4th.

Hans Aagaard and wife visited over Monday with her parents out in the country.

John Moulgaard, wife and mother visited this week until Tuesday with relatives near Brayton.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bruhn and doughter visited over Sunday wirh Hans Johnson and wife.

The Lastine boys took the overlaud route to Stuart, Saturday, returning the same evening.

Henry Fredricksen and family visited at Peter Mortensen's from Saturday until Sunday evening.

T. H. Lastine is having a complete water system established on his farm besides having his buildings-nicely painted.

Mrs. C. H. Kirkhart of Ottumwa, la arrived Friday and visited a few days with her father, C. L. Christensen.

Wm. Masterson is reported quite ill at the home of a son out east ard his eon, M. I. Masterson is now visiting him.

Two traveling Auditors of the Rock Island R. R. and U. S. Express Co. were checking up the Agent's books Tuesday finding them all O. K.

Following is the Station Business Report for the month of April '11: Carloads Received: Sand 2, lumber 3 and 1 each of shingles, brick, stucco and coal.

Carloads Forwarded: Hogs 9, cattle 5, oats 3 and cement bleck 1. Ticket Sales $60 05.

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IOWA STATE COLLEGE DOING GREAT WORK

Superiority of Agricultural Course at Ames Shown by Prestige Which College Is Attaining in Other States and Abroad—Influence of Work of Graduates Seen in Farm Conditions.

The Iowa State college 1s located at Ames, close to the center of the state, on the Chicago and Northwestern railway. The college farm includes about 1.200 acres, of which 125 Is used for the campus and buildings. The Iowa State college has the largest and most beautiful campus of any college In the west. The trees, shrubs and walks have been arranged with a view to the finest landscape effect. Nearly every kind of tree and shrub that will grow in this latitude Is found on the campus.

The student body of nearly 1,800 is composed mainly of agricultural and engineering students, In nearly equal numbers. There Is also a liberal sprinkling of home economics, sciences, and veterinary students.

A new veterinary building which has Just been commenced will provide an equipment for this line of work that is not excelled anywhere. The requirements for entering this course have been raised recently and the course greatly strengthened.

The girls are provided for in a Jiew Home Economics building, just completed. A dormitory and dining hall for the girls is also provided on the campus.

The engineering department is well supplied with buildings and equipment. Engineering hall, a fireproof building of Bedford stone erected at a cost of $220,000, is the best engineering building west of the Mississippi. It is used for offices, lecture rooms, and laboratories. The engineering annex is a two-tory fireproof building. It contains the dynamo laboratory, mining engineering laboratories, and drafting and instrument rooms. A Ceramics building provides rooms for clay working, kilns, and for the chemical work of the engineering experiment station. In addition to these there are a number of smaller buildings such as foundries, forge and machine shops, etc.

With the completion of the New Agricultural hall the Iowa State college has an equipment for the teaching of agriculture that is equalled by very few, if any colleges in the world. The New Agricultural hall, like the other principal college buildings, is built of Bedford stone, and is fireproof throughout. It Is located directly across the main campus from Central hall, and its massive proportions add materially to the appearance of the agricultural side of the campus. The total cost of the building was $3,00,000, exclusive of furnishings.

The ground floor is occupied by the class rooms, offices and laboratories of the soils department, the bulletin offices, the agricultural journalism department, and the Iowa Agriculturist, a paper published by the Agricultural club. On the first floor are the offices of Dean Curtiss, the library and reading room, and the offices and class rooms of the animal husbandry department. The second floor is occupied by the horticultural and agricultural chemistry departments. The farm crops and extension departments occupy the top floor. At the back of the building is a semi-circular wing, containing an assembly room, with a seating capacity of nearly a thousand. This will be used for the meetings of the Agricultural club and other agricultural gatherings, and as a lecture room during short courses.

With the additional equipment provided by this new building, the college is in a position to do even greater work than ever before In spreading agricultural education. The superiority of the agricultural course offered at Ames is shown by the prestige which the college is attaining in other states and abroad. Students from colleges In all parts of the United States are coming to Ames to take post-graduate work. The University of Edinburgh has made a year's work at A.v.es a requirement in connection with its animal husbandry course.

The old agricultural building, now known as Agricultural Engineering building, is now being used by the agricultural engineering department. A large dairy building is occupied by the college creamery and the class rooms, offices, and laboratories of the dairy department. In addition to these buildings the college 1b well supplied with barns, judging pavilions, etc. A tract of two hundred acres about two miles south of the main campus is used for a dairy and poultry farm.

The greatest work that the college la doing, however, as far ae immediate

View of Part of the Iowa State College Campus Looking Southwest From Old Agricultural Hall. Central Hall and Morrill Hall in the Distance.

results are concerned, is in educating the farmers of Iowa. A large number of the young men who graduate from the four-year course each year go back to the farm to put their knowledge Into practice. In most cases the farms of these men are an object lesson to their community, and inspire others with a desire for agricultural education. Those graduates who do not go back to the farm take up teaching or investigational work, where their Influence Is even more keenly felt.

In order to aid the great majority of farm boys and girls who do not have the time nor money to take a full college course, the college has inaugurated a system of short courses. The largest of these is the two weeks' winter course at Ames. About 700 farmers attend this annually, and If one of them has ever gone away feeling that his time was wasted he has kept exceedingly quiet about It. In order to extend this work still further, the extension department four years ago commenced holding local short courses of" one week each at various places throughout the state. The demand for these short courses has become so great that the department can not begin to satisfy all requests with the men and funds now available.

In order to provide for the boys who have had a high school education, the college offers a two-year course in agriculture. A completion of the eighth grade in the common schools is all the preparation that is needed to enter this course. Although it was introduced only last fall, It is already very popular, having more than one hundred students enrolled.

For the benefit of school teachers, country preachers, and others Interested in agriculture who are unable to attend the winter shart course, a two weeks' summer short course is to be given this summer, from June 12 to 23.

In connection with the college la the agricultural experiment station. The experiment station men are continually at work to discover new facts that will be of benefit to the farmers of the state. One of these men has devised a hollow tile silo which is proving to be an Improvement over the other types. The veterinary section has been investigating tuberculosis in cattle with a view to perfecting plans for Its control. Some work in the control of hog cholera has also been carried on. The dairy section has done a great deal In Improving methods of butter and Ice cream making, and In creamery management. Experiments in plant, grain, and live stock breeding that promise great results are now under way. Taken in all its phases, the Iowa State college is the best paying investment that the people of Iowa ever made.

Ames Veterinarians Banquet. The annual verterinary banquet at Des Moines has come to be a landmark in the veterinary course at Iowa State College. This year the seventh annual banquet was held at the Savery hotel March 10. Mr. George Judlsch of Ames was toastmaster. The following toasts were given:

"Needs of the Veterinary Division". Dean Stanton "Course and Prognosis". Harry Havner "Pathological Alterations"

E. N. Wentworth

"Symptoms" Dean C. F. Wentworth "What the Veterinarians are Doing" Dean C. H. Stang

Following the toasts speeches were given by Lieutenant Governor Clark, State Dairy Commissioner Barney, Senator Fltzpatrlck, Representative W. P. George and Hon. Parley Sheldon.

Honor Agricultural Students at Ames. The following are the honor students In the agricultural courses at Ames: M. R. Tolstrup, dairy Howard Vaughn, animal husbandry B. A. Stewart, agronomy R. S. Porterfield, veterinary Shirley Storm, home economics. There is especial cause for congratulation that most of these honor students are n«t th« proverbial grinds that the word "honor students" brings to mind. Nearly all of them have bean very active in outside work and have not by any means sacrificed outside activities for the sake of securing scholarship honors.

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BUSINESSLIKE

When the delivery man had pocketed his bulging book and gone pounding on his way, the oldest daughter of the house shrugged her pretty shoulders and returned to her guest in the parlor. "Business is a great fraud," she declared. "I've always said so," responded her friend with some emphasis. "I've just signed an expressman's book to show that I've received something," the daughter of the house explained. "Now, why sign? I don't know what's in that box. It's large and heavy, but It may be empty. And yet a delivery man would drop dead if you stopped to look inside before you signed. No one ever does." "Certainly not," said her friend, warmly. "That would be quite unprofessional. What that box contains in a small matter, after all. The point is, did it come? When you are as old as I am, my dear, you will begin to understand how many yards of red tape men need to be truly businesslike. They put up an appearance of great caution—" "And do the saddest things ever heard of!" "Exactly. Leases that everybody breaks—" "Checks that any one can cash—" "Contracts that no one pays any attention to—" "Deposit slips that you always lose—" "Passes for the bearer only—but any one may be the bearer—and cards not transferable—" "Adele, I'm so glad to hear you speak so," cried the hostess. "I've always believed that business was so much pretense."

"A most cursory knowledge of business methods—improperly so called— shows how shallow they are." "I'm so glad you feel as I do, Adele. It's such a comfort to hear you express those convictions. Father has always scolded us girls for not being businesslike, and I've always tried to conceal my ignorance more or less. It seemed such a matter for scorn." "Scorn? My dear," said her friend in a tone of finality, "business Is Incompatible with high thinking." "Adele," said the girl suddenly, "how do you send money.." "Seal it up," snapped her friend. "How else?" "You darling! Of course how else! But as long as I can remember, whenever we sealed up money In an envelope and father found it out he would throw up his hands and Implore the fates to help us. Then he has gone about for days after, uttering instructions about 'money orders' and registered letters! But neither Ethel nor I had ever paid any attention to him until last summer when I went to the country. It was very funny. "I had been away only a short time when Ethel wrote In a rather superior tone that she had sent me a registered letter for $10. Just as if she had been in the habit of doing those things every day of her life! The money didn't surprise me, you know, because she owed it to me. But 'registered letter' sounded entirely too ambitious for our little Ethel. "Well, I went down to the postoffice every day for a week, insisting that there was a registered letter for me. The postoffice there was a poor excuse of a place, and It had a lot of suspicious looking clerks. So when my letter was overdue I just drew myself up and Insisted that the letter was there, and so was the money. But they did not seem greatly excited. "The people of the town began to Interest themselves In my financial condition. It was rumored that I was expecting a lot of money that hadn't come, so I had to spend money lavishly to show that I didn't really need it. Then I wrote Ethel that something was wrong. And I didn't hint that It served her right. "Her next letter was suitably humble. She couldn't understand what was the matter, but she Inclosed a little paper, which, she said, the man at the postoffice had given her as a receipt for her money. She said she had given my name and address quite plainly and she suggested that if I showed the receipt they might be able to trace the letter. So down I went to the postoffice with the little paper. 'Here's the receipt,' I said. Then, Adele, you never heard such a noise a& those crazy men made. You'd have thought they had been saving up that guffaw for the best part of their lives.

"As soon as they could frame words they asked me In a sort of chorus what I wanted. Naturally, I told them, when my sister had given my address and paid her money she expected that it would be sent to me. I can't tell you all they said. They showed me all the reading matter on that paper, which was enough to drive any one Insane. "But it seems, Adele, that after giving your money to the clerk at the postoffice you have to send on the little receipts yourself and put the person that gets it to the trouble of having it made back into money again. Could anything be more roundabout?" "Then you haven't seen the new forms for money orders?" "Don't tell me—" "I. won't. Only they've added some other kind of ticket—which makes three." "Goodness, Adele, what's the point? But tell me—if all that performance is only a money order, what In the world 1b a registered lettor?"

"Uncle Tom" Was Here

Terry's Uncle Tom's Cabin Co., exhibited under canvass in this city last: week Wednesday eveniDg and drew a crowded bouse just as they always do when tbey come here. The different features of the play were carried out1 and there was no room for criticism. One of the big features of the show ia their line military band and their concert on the street in the evening is always looked forward to. Their or. ohestra is also deserving of praise and the time taken up between acts was taken up with cake walks, songs, etc. Terry's Uncle Tom show visits Ashton every year and is always welcome again.—Gazette, Ashton, Illinois.

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