Toast Water

When making toast water see to it that the bread is browned to a turn. One particle of scorch will destroy the delicacy of the dish. Allow enough boiling water to cover the browned slices, and let them stand until cold. Strain the water, sweeten to taste—again care must be taken that this drink will not be unpalatable. Put a small piece of ice in the glassful.

Undertaker Lunkley yesterday received from Pacific Junction a request to come down and bring two men with him to bury a man and woman who died of small pox at that place yesterday morning. Mr. Lunkley did not feel inclined to go himself in view of the fact he had not furnished the caskets or had anything whatever to do with the matter, nor could he find two of the “great army of unemployed” who were willing to go and do the job and he so informed the Pacific Junction people. The undertakers at that place furnished the caskets and should have shown nerve enough to perform the balance of the work

Editor Nonpareil: If there is any one nuisance more tolerated in this city than another it is the chicken nuisance. The suburbs of this city are literally alive with chickens. The early morn is made hideous by the unearthly squalls of hugh roosters. Even city officials high in authority keep great, great droves of chickens and turn them loose on their neighbors to annoy and trouble them. Now if the people want to live in a city they ought to have more respect for the comfort of their neighbors than to put a nuisance under their nose. If they want to run a chicken farm they ought to move into the country where they can enjoy the company of the darling chicks alone. We have an ordinance and it seems to me that our city officials ought to see that it is enforced instead of violating it themselves. The following is a copy of the ordinance.

“It shall be unlawful for any person within the corporate limits of the city of Council Bluffs to permit any chickens, ducks, geese, or other fowls of any kind whatever to pass from or off the premises of the owner thereof, and any person owning or keeping said fowls shall keep the same confined upon their own premises. Any person violating this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of not less than $5 or more than $100, or by imprisonment as required by law.”

For the peace and comfort of our citizens this ordinance ought to be enforced.

An indignant Citizen

Wendel Leik, landlord of the St. Joe House on South Main Street, was in front of his establishment Sunday morning, when Art Gaines, Fred Weatherbee and Frank Gamerl came along. The young men were said to be loaded with joy juice and soon succeeded in kicking up a row with Leik. They piled onto him and were rolling him in the gutter, when Leik’s wife appeared on the scene and smashed one of the young men on the head with a brick or a beer bottle, and immediately the scrap came to an end and the trio of disturbers of the peace skipped out. Leik swore out a warrant for their arrest on the charge of assaulting beating and striking him, and yesterday they were hauled in by the police but were released again on their own recognizance to appear for trial this morning.

The council while on their trip of exploration down Indian Creek Thursday afternoon met with an accident. A wagon countering the light weights: James, Mynster, Seidentopf, Keating and Broadbeck, broke down in the middle of the creek where the water was about four feet deep and the mud deeper. The horses and driver got out all right leaving the big four of the council and the city engineer in the middle of the creek. Alderman Mynster commenced puffing and swearing. Judge James hooked his cane up under his left arm, gripped his cigar a little tighter in his pearly teeth and walked out on the wagon pole. Alderman Seidentopf attempted to follow and lost his hat. Keating took water, a surprise, and Brodbeck kicked to have the grade raised. The party finally made a landing and were compelled to walk into the city, about two miles. They are firm in their conviction that Indian Creek should be improved.

A man named Bresee was found early Monday morning digging vigorously in the northeast corner of Bayliss Park for a buried treasure. He claimed to have received positive information as to a treasure deposited beneath the sod in the historic square. It is said that Officer Weir had sufficient faith in revelation to lend the deluded man the tools wherewith to prosecute the search.

There appeared in the implement district yesterday a former dealer who is now an undertaker and something of a graveyard humorist. He declared that he is well quit of the implement business with all its annoyances in the way of gods that don't suit, machines that refused to work right and prices that the consumer insists on all occasion are exorbitant. "None of these troubles," he said, "are incident to the undertaker's trade. No one ever thinks of complaining over the prices. The coffin always fits and when in the ground it stays there and is never returned with the information that it does not suit.

A certain Carson undertaker is said to have recently sold a casket and agreed to be at the house of the deceased with his hearse, but when the day arrived for the funeral neither casket nor undertaker appeared. When asked to account for his conduct he explained that the day was too cold for him to be out.

One on the books now – Chief Richmond glad to enforce it.

Chief of Police Richmond says the assumption of some of the members of the council that there is no ordinance against spitting in street cars in incorrect, and in proof of his assertion, this morning produced a copy of the ordinance on that subject.

The regulation is stringent, and prohibits spitting, not only on sidewalks, but also on the steps, floors or gratings of street cars, or on the floors of public buildings.

Chief Richmond says he will be more than glad to cooperate with the street railway officials or others in enforcing the ordinance, and that if the names or identity of offenders are communicated to him he will take steps to have them punished.

Trenton, N.J., Oct. 22 - Cure of insanity by extracting diseased teeth, removing infected tonsils and clearing the gastro-intestinal tract, was announced here today by Dr. Henry A. Cotton, medicinal director of the New Jersey state hospital in a report to the state department of charities and corrections.

The report gives the results of eleven years of experimentation on a number of deranged patients. Causes of infected teeth were charged by Dr. Cotton to bad dental work, neglect and promiscuous kissing.

The friendly dispute that has been in progress for a number of years between the Smiths, Petersons, the Jensens and Johnsons of Council Bluffs is decided in favor of the Smiths in this year's (1924) city directory, which lists the names of 356 of the tribe. Second in point of numbers come the Petersons' who boast 332 of their clan in the city, Johnsons come next with 302 of the family domiciled in Council Bluffs. Last of all, the Jensens, formerly the most numerous of all the brotherhoods in the city, came a bad fourth in the race this year.

There are 21,756 names in the directory this year, indicating a population of 48,951. This result is arrived at by multiplying the number of names by 2-1/2 to allow for the number of women and children whose names are not in the directory. In canvassing for the names and information the geographical confines of the city were not arbitrarily observed. Small sections of territory immediately adjacent, which are parts of the city as far as business and social life are concerned, were included.

(Council Bluffs, Iowa, Nonpareil, Submitted by: Darlene Vergamini)

This is once George S. Wright, bachelor attorney whose famous "life insurance policy for a wake" made copy in the nation's press a few weeks back, tells on himself, a young woman walked in his office last week. "I'd like to sell you a chance on a plow," she said. "What in the world would I do with a plow?" Wright asked. "You could plow under some of that bull I've been reading about you in The Nonpareil." She turned on her heel and walked out.

(Council Bluffs, Iowa, Nonpareil, Submitted by: Darlene Vergamini)