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Hall-Ekfelt's Unequalled Dining Table Values

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-Do you realize that it is something of an achieve­ment for a store to offer the very best values in the world in different lines?

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There are over a hundred dining table lines in Am­erica. There are nearly as many shades of values. There can be, of course, only one very best.

At the Grand Rapids Furniture Market where hun­dreds of thousands of samples are shown semi-annually, we selected the best tables, based on our own observa­tion. Then we found out their story and were confirmed

in our judgment. These St. Johns Tables are made right in the heart of Michigan's big for­ests, at Cadillac, which accounts for economi­cal raw materials. Then we found mechanical superiorities — the wonderful labor saving ma­chinery, possible only in the largest table fac­tory* in the world. We found cheerful, enthusi­

astic factory workers. We found strategic shipping conditions and finally we found men with an eye to style, a keen sense of good taste.

All these factors justify our belief that our St. Johns Tables are absolutely unequalled — anywhere — at our prices.

Just a part of this week's style show. A real opportunity for wise buyers

HALL-EKFELT FURNITURE CO. Homes Completely Furnished

CflAS. T. SULLIVAN Undertaker.

Walter Roseoe, Assistant.

Opposite T. M. C. A. building. Both phones. Call* in city and country attended day or night.

Private ambulance.

DRAIN TILE Tor prices and information write

Morey Clay Products Co ' ; OTTUMWA, IOWA .

Tri-Weekly Courier

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' -Mi». E. H. Cummings of Oskaloosa, la visiting relatives in Ottumwa.

Mrs. George Crawley of Eldon, has returned home, after' a short visit in this city. <

Mrs. R. E. Yates.of Pilot Mound, has gone to Boone after visiting with her daughter Mrs. H. Sawyer, who resides south of the city.

Mrs. Mary Strain of Kirkville, who has been visiting in Ottumwa tor sev­eral days has returned home.

Mrs. Philip Dotts of Eddyville, has returned home after visiting relatives In Eldon and Ottumwa.

. Mrs. A. Redmon of Omaha, returned home after an extended visit with re­latives in North English. Mrs. Red­mon made a short visit with friends in Ottumwa on her way home.

Mrs. J. H. Barnes of Mason City, has returned home after visiting for several days with Mrs. C. L. Barnes.

Mrs. W. E. Beyer, 552 West Fourth street, left for Oskaloosa where she will visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. IVfilliam Christie.

Mrs. George Calhoun of Mt. Pleas­ant, has returned home after a visit with relatives in this city.

Miss Mary Bates and Miss Jennie Zaring of Avery have returned to their homes after a short visit in Ottumwa.

Mrs. L. J. Shields of Frederick waa Tisiting in Ottumwa yesterday.

> Miss "FniiC" McGrath of Melrose.'

has returned home after visiting at the home of Dr. W. J. Herrick, 1316 Gara street, for several days.

Mrs. S. Moore has returned to her home in Avery after visiting with friends and relatives here.

Miss Fay Stevens of Cedar Rapids, who has been visiting with friends and relatives here for Beveral days, left yesterday for Chillicothe, where she will visit with relatives.

Mrs. R. D. Moore has returned to her home in Frederick after a short visit in this.city.

Miss Cora Gover of Richland has returned home after a short visit in Ottumwa.

Miss Ruby Tait of Blakesburg has gone to Rock Island, where she will resume her studies in Augustana col­lege. Miss Tait visited relatives in this city on her way to Rock Island.

Mrs. C. E. Double who has been.vis­iting for several days In this city has returned to her home In Avery.

Mrs. C. J. Johnson of Centerville has returned home after a short visit with friends and relatives in Ottumwa.

Mrs. Alice Morgan, 419 West Sec­ond street, left yesterday afternoon for Albia where she will visit with friends for a few days.

Mrs. J. R. Green of Douds-Leando has returned home after a short visit with relatives here. x

Watch our store for what you need in footwear. You will find what you want and the price is always less. We look after our customers and try to take care of their wants.—Church Shoe Co.

A Talk for You , Possibly you have given up hope of being cured after treating with several doctors. Chronic . diseases are deep rooted according to time of development. Because you haven't been cured is no good reason why you can't be cured. The longer a chronic ailment continues the harder It becomes to treat. I don't claim to cure every disease, because I can't do it. However, I do say I have cured many hard cases of what apparently were incurable diseases. My 35 years of medical experience has been en­tirely devoted to the treating of chronic diseases of every kind. Now if you wish to call on me, I will tell you candidly what can be done for you. Never give up, but give me the chance of at least examining your disease and hear what I have to say.

SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR RECTAu DISEASES

CONSULTATION AND EXAMINA­TION FREE. Special Arrangements Can Be Made For Care of Confinement Cases at my

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BRAY TALKS TO OnUMWA VOTERS ELOQUENT GRINNELL SPEAKER

MAKES CONVINCING REPUBLI­

CAN ARGUMENT/

Thomas J. Bray of Grinnell, one of the sixth district political leaders, and an able Bpeaker, addressed a big crowd in republican headquarters last night. Mr. Bray analyzed the third party situation completely, making a clear and concise argument to support his contention that there is no justification whatever for any republican voter in following Mr. Roosevelt in a bolt from the republican party. He paid a trib­ute to President Taft, Senator Kenyon, M. A. McCord, candidate for congress, and George W. Clarke and the other candidates on the state ticket and de­clared the honest and consistent thing for all republicans to do is to support the entire ticket. He reviewed the conditions that existed the last time the democratic party was given power and asked the voter if he should again take a chance. He ridiculed the plea made by the democrats that they will reduce the cost of living by declaring that they would probabily do it, "but after having reduced the cost of liv­ing they would have reduced us to an extent that we couldn't afford it." R. R. Ramsell was chairman and intro­duced Mr. Bray to the gathering.

"The proposition this year that every voter must determine," said Mr. Bray, "is a business proposition. Leaving aside the question of patriotism, cast­ing aside the question of duty, the voter must decide by his vote this year what the economic policy of the government is to be during the next administration, and the decision thus made cannot be recalled or changed for four years."

The Roosevelt Movement. Mr. Bray then discussed the various

Issues in this campaign. He took up the third party movement and 'made an appeal for those who have felt In­clined to follow Roosevelt to stay in the party and work out the needed re­forms within the republican party, which he showed had always been responsive to the public will. Touch­ing on the third party situation Mr. Bray said:

"Many believe that Theodore Roose­velt was cheated out of the nomina­tion last June and they say they will support his candidacy on that grounds. Let us go into this matter briefly. If Theodore Roosevelt had had votes enough to secure the nomination and had been denied that nomination then there would have been justification for his candidacy. Mind you, I am not assailing Theodore Roosevelt. He is a great man. But he would have been a greater man today If he had said: 'I am not out for a nomination, but

Daniel F. Steck, democratic candi­date for county attorney, is now serv­ing his first term in that office and in the nearly two' years of his conduct of that office has:

1. Tried about 75 criminal cases and convicted 80 per cent of the men tried.

2. Secured convictions in 16 out of 20 liquor cases tried.

3. Tried all these cases, except one, wltsout any assistance or extra ex­pense to Wapello county, including one case of murder in the first degree.

4. Seen to It that every man convict­ed served out the full sentence im­posed by the judge.

6. Tried one civil case which he won in both the district and supreme courts at a saving to Wapello county of $1, 200 and costs, without a cent of ex­pense to Wapello county.

6. Advised the board of supervisors and county officials in matters involv­ing many thousands of dollass without a dollar of loss to the county.

7. Conducted his office without the customary asistant allowed by law, a saving to the county of fl,200 in two years. "

8. Collected In fines in the neighbor­hood of $2,500 which went to the county.

9. Saved and earned for Wapello county in the two last instances about $3,700 which exoeeds the total salary and expense of the office for two years.

The above are matters of record at the court house and their correctness can easily be ascertained.—Political Advt.

for'a cause, and if there is some man upon whom this convention can unite, I will give him my hearty support.' But Mr. Roosevelt did not take such a course, as his candidacy now indi­cates.

"Roosevelt did not have the votes in the Chicago convention. If he did have the votes, why did he file 238 contests, and why did he make con­tests that were not brought in good faith? On the national committee which decided the Roosevelt contests and made up the temporary roll of the convention were eighteen men who were hearty Roosevelt supporters. These eighteen men composed one-third of the committee and yet they voted with the Taft supporters on the committee in deciding more than two-thirds of the contests against Roose­velt.

The Fraudulent Contests. ''Now, mark you, out of these 238

contests, in 166 all of the committee, including the friends of Col. Roose­velt, voted against Roosevelt. More­over Col. Roosevelt in all his public utterances has never claimed that he was defrauded out of more than 72 votes in that convention. Take 72 from 238 and you have 166, the num­ber of contests in which the commit­tee voted unanimously for Taft. Col. Roosevelt says he was robbed of these 72 votes, but I want to call your at­tention to the further fact that Gov. Deneen, one of the seven governors who brought Roosevelt out for the presidency, and a member of the Roosevelt steering committee at the convention, says that Col. Roosevelt asked him to limit the resolution con­cerning the contests to 34, and that is narrowing down to a small margin. I say that if those 34 votes were act­ually stolen it didn't do any harm. They would not have done Roosevelt any good as they would not have given him enough votes to win the nomi­nation. My iroposition is this: If to deprive him of the nomir/tion be­cause it did not involve a sufficient number of votes, and therefore it does not give justification for a bolt from the republican party."

Steam Roller Days Pa6t Mr. Bray recalled that. Gov. Hadleyj

was not willing to subscribe to charges' of fraud and burglary. Gov. Deneen did not find the Roosevelt defeat suffi­cient cause .to drive him from the party. "I say that no one has cause to go out of the republican party and support Col. Roosevelt when the na­tional committee didn't do anything to deprive him of the nomination," said Mr. Bray.

The speaker added that it' was fu­tile to support Roosevelt in protest against "steam roller" methods, be­cause the 1912 steam roller was the same roller used in 1908 with a dif­ferent pilot. "It is not necessary,'" he said, "to vote for Roosevelt to prevent a repetition of steam roller methods, because all parties and all candidates are united in favor of a preferential primary which will, let the people vote on presidential candi­dates themselves, and I believe one of the first acts of the next congress

will be to pass such a law. Republican Party Progressive.

"It is not necessary to vote for the third party from the standpoint of progressivism. The republican party always has been progressive. I ask you when has the republican party failed to pass any sane and reasonable law that the people wanted?" Mr. Bray reviewed some of the progressive state measures adopted by the repub­lican party, including the abolishing of the free pass, the adoption of two cent fares, the abolishing of the caucus and the enactment of a prim­ary law, the adoption of a -law pre­venting watered corporation stock. These are all progressive measures, he declared, and he asked how a party could be more progressive than the republican party.

The Real Issue This Year. Mr. Bray then turned his attention

to the real issue In this campaign, the question of whether the voters are ready to overturn the policy of pro­tection for another experiment with democratic tariff theories.

"My friends," he said, "if you be­lieve In the present economic policy of the government you can't vote the democratic ticket. And you are vot­ing for the democrats if you do not vote for Taft. Roosevelt cannot be elected. Therefore, a vote for Theo­dore Roosevelt is a vote for Wilson, an Indirect way of voting for Wilson. The real fight is between the republi­can party and the democratic party and that gets us back to our business proposition.

"Are you satisfied with present con­ditions? If you want a change how can you expect to better yourself? Everyone is employed at good wages, which makes good markets for the things the manufacturer makes and the farmer grows. Everyone is enjoy­ing the comforts of life; most every­one is enjoying the luxuries. It Is an unparalleled condition of affairs and it is due to the economic policy of the republican administrations you have sent to Washington. We have been enabled to set up a higher standard of living in this country than in any other country on the globe through the protective tariff."

Mr. Bray reviewed the wage sched­ules paid in foreign countries, in some of which workers are paid twenty-five cents a day, against which has been set a barrier in the form of a pro­tective tariff. "Remove this barrier," he said, "and an American factory could - not live." This barrier, this artificial wall, he added, enables us to equalize the cost of manufacture here and abroad and protects the high paid American labor from open competi­tion with cheaper foreign labor.

The Conditions in 1893-1896. "The democrats have a -different

policy," said Mr. Bray. "They. say protection is unconstitutional, a rob­bery,- etc. They said the same thing in their 1892 platform and you re­member you elected a democratic president and a democratic congress in that campaign. In that campaign, as in this, they said you were being robbed. They spoke of the unjust distribution. They said the cost of living ought to be reduced. It was a favorite practice of their campaign orators to hold up a dinner pail and declare that you paid a tax of five cents on each pail. So we voted to elect Cleveland;and we let the demo-; cratic congress have full sway to put their theories into operation and after that a man didn't have to pay a tag on a dinner pail because he didn't need the pail."

Mr. Bray then read a vivid descrip­tion of the panic of 1893-1896, pictur­ing the'distress in the land during that period. He added that the description thus givrtn was not written by the re-

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People of Iowa Praise the Treatment as given by

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Mr. Zeb Smltn, of Ottumwa, says: "I was cured of a very bad case of Piles after suffering twenty years."

Mr. D. O. Ross, Albia, says: "I had a suspicious cancerous growth on my lip. Dr. Bonham removed it by use of X-ray."

'Mr. Wm. Gibson, Albia, Iowa, says: "I was cured of a double rupture and am w^ll pleased." - * / : ' . ^ ^

Mr. Alex McCarty, Ash Grove, Iowa, says: "I was cured of a rupture which was large. After suffering thirty years I was a bad case."

Jas. Dugal, Hiteman, Iowa, say. "I was cured of rupture over a year ago and can recommend Dr. Bonham's treatment."

Mr. Lambert Funk, of Agency, says: "Several years ago Dr. Bonham - treated me for catarrh. I was cured and had no trouble since."

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m publican press, but by Woodrow Wil­son at a time when Mr. Wilson was not a candidate for president, ge. quoted Mr. Wilson again as saying that "it was not until the republican party came into power in 1897 that the crisis passed." Mr. Bray said if he were arguing the case before a jury he would quit right there and win the verdict, for no stronger indictment of democratic incompetency could be drawn than that given by the demo­cratic candidate for president himself.

"The democrats this year," said the speaker,, "have the same identical! tariff plank in their platform. Theyj propose to do the same thing they did! in 1893. Why do you want to take aj chance? The democrats in the lasti congress passed bills in line with that I platform. The tariff bills introduced' by the democrats in congress during the past year provided for lower duties j than were made in the Wilson bill { that brought on a panic before. Presi- j dent Taft has been vetoing these bills and saving the country from demo­cratic folly. If Wilson were elected there would not be a man in the ex­ecutive chair to safeguard the people's interests."

Taft and the Tariff. Mr. Bray defended the Payne-

Aldrich tariff law, giving particular praise to the tariff commission fea­ture, which was disregarded by the democrats and finally was abolished when the democrats cut off the appro­priation for the board. The maximum and minimum provisions of the bill he said had enabled President Taft to make trade treaties that resulted in the exportation of $500,000,000 more goods last year than ever before in a single year. "The country has been prosperous," he added, "and why, my friends, should Ave haggle over fine distinctions."

The accomplishments of the Taft administration were lauded. Mr.' Bray recalled that as secretary of war, Mr. Taft was known as the secretary 1

of peace. "And," he said,""if we had a fire eater in the white house in recent months there would have been a war between this country and Mexico befor'e this."

"Taft has been a commendable president," said the speaker, "and de­serves to be re-elected. He should not be defeated merely because he has not thrown his hat in the ring and cried 'Come on boys.'"

Keny.on and State Ticket Praised. Mr. Bray closed by giving praise to

Senator Kenyon and the candidates on tickets. Senator Kenyon was praised as a clean yening man, able and courag­eous, controlled by no corporation and financing his own campaign. He added that the voter does not vote direct for Kenyon, but to vote for him must vote for Frank Shane and W. W. Epps for members of the legislature. George W. Clarke and tho state candidates were praised as leaders in progressive legis­lation, as men who had been in the forefront of the movement which has placed Iowa in leadership ampng the states for the progressive latts it has adopted.

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Cases Are Filed. -The Cambria Steel Co. vs. The Ot­

tumwa Box Car Loader Co., is the title of an action filed in district court. The recovtry on a note and on an ac­count is sougijt in the petition. The aggregate of the judgment asked is $8,462.76. The Wabash railroad com­pany and S. J. Cole, engineer on the road, are made defendants in a dam­age suit filed in court. The plaintiff is J. W. Shelley, administrator for the estate of Thomas Shelly who was killed on the defendant railroad near Carbon station while walking on the tracks toward the station to board a train. The sum of $15,000 is sought as damages.

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