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The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-10-28
HERE AND THERE.
Local items Of the Week Gathered For the
Busy Blade Readers.

Manager VanValkenburg has Sc
cured one Of the best companies on
the road to produce Rip Van Winkle
at the opera house on February 9.
The Plum Grove school opened last
Monday with Miss Ida Frakes teacher.
This district now has one of the best
and neatest country school houses there
is in the county.
| The Clifton Remedy Co. close q
weeks stand at the opera house Sat
urday evening. They give good
show Of clean comedy and have pleas
ed a large audience every night.
E. A. Olin returned from Kansas
Monday haying bought a quarter
section twelve miles from Fowler,
Meade county. He expects to move
to that place sometime between now
and next spring.
Before leaving for her new home at
Doniphan, Mrs, O. G. Macy called
and paid for THE BLADE year to be
sent to her son Arthur who has a
position in large department store
at Centerville, Iowa.
A halloween social will be given
at the Grand Army hall by the P. E.
O.'s next Tuesday evening. All are
cordially invited. An admission fee
Of ten cents at the door entities you
to refreshments that will be served
during the evening.
Word was received in Laclede
Wednesday of the death of Robert
Arnold at his home in Brookfeld. |
Mr.. Arnold was well known in La
clede having married Miss Flora |
Brock here several years ago. In her
bereavement Mrs. Arnold has the
sy mpathy OF ast Laclede.
TIE Stahl- Blake entertainment, the
first number of the lecture course, at
he opera house last Saturday night,
drew a large audience that thorough
ly enjoyed the splendid entertainment.
The receipts were $S5.75. If the
other four numbers are patronized as
we'll as the first, the committee will
be able to turn neat sum into the
public school library fund.
O. G. Macy loaded car Monday
and left for his new home at Doniphan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Macy have lived in La
clede for the past II years, Mr..
Macy organizing the first bank in La
clede and was its cashier for a number
of years, later engaging in the mer-
camille business. They have many
friends here who regret their depart
ure but take pleasure in recommend
ing them to the good people of Doni-
phan. \
The term Of Ned Cooper, who was
sent to Jail for disturbing the peace
IN Laclede on fair day, expired last !;
Monday, but before he was outside
he Jail building he was rearrested by 7
Constable Wood on the charge of ar !
ION. Justice of the Peace o. F. Lib !.
~ and Prosecuting Attorney Kathan
we're in the jail corridor and Cooper's :
preliminary was held at once, he be- !
ng bound over to the December term
f court. Not being able to file a !,
200 bond, Cooper was again locked :. !,
p.
Lomax & Standby have bought the b
hree rooms adjoining the bank on n
he east. A doorway viii be made +.
onnecting the bank with the room i;
ow occupied by the telephone CEN n,
ral, which win be used as the banks n
rivate office. The next two rooms, At
ow occupied by Drs. Burke, win be
= DR.. Standby used rs Office and
perating room. The rooms are to
> remodeled and fitted up especially n' =
II the business for which they are to le
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-10-28
D0INGS ABOUT TOWN.
Local Paragraphs Picked up by Punsent
Pencil Pusher.

The public schools had vacation
Thursday and Friday that the teach
ers might attend the county institute
at Brookfeld.
w. S. Robson and family left this
week for Doniphan, Ripley county,
near which place they have bought q
40 acre tract of land.
Rev. R. E. L. Prunty will ELL his
regular appointment at the Christian
church Sunday afternoon, to which
service all are invited.
Drs. J. L. and F. w. Burke were
called to Meadville Wednesday night
to attend Mrs. M. E. Burke, who has
been seriously i'll for the past few
days.
W. P. Bottiger who traded for the
j. P. Davis property, arrived We'd
nesday with his family, having come
through in a wagon from West
Plains.
John G. Brown, who represents a
range company in Wisconsin and
other northern territory, is home
spending few weeks with his parents
and friends.
Mrs. Siders, Miles Coleman and G.
N. Standby are among those who have
kindly remembered The BLADE the
past week with cash for renewal of
subscription.
Rev. Conner, a former pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Laelede, now
stationed at Milan, passed through
here Tuesday to attend the synod at
Rrookfeld.
Henry Jacobs, who took the rail-
road section over which John Peters
was foreman so long, moved his fam
lily here from Sumner Wednesday and
is occupying the Poison property.
H. G. Mccoy shipped car Of
cattle of his own feeding to Kansas
City Tuesday, and E. NJ Lockridge
shipped a car of hogs to the same
place. The cattle averaged little
over 1900.
President Standby and Cashier Lo-
max, of the Lomax & Standby bank,
accompanied by Mrs. Standby and
Mrs. Lomax, attended the bankers
meeting and banquet in Brookfeld
Wednesday night.
Mrs. Ida Hurlbut, of Carthage,
who is here visiting her mother, Mrs.
Eliza beth Ausmus, and family, in
with Mrs. w. W. Ausmus,
we're pleasant callers at this office
Thursday, Mrs. Hurlbut renewing her
Inscription for another year.
The revival meetings at the Meth
'dist church will continue through
he coming week. Rev. Grant A.
Robbins, of Brookfeld, will be pres
mt to assist in the meetings next
Veek. Preaching by the pastor Sun
ay morning and evening. All are
invited.
Word received yesterday from Ben
J. Edwards, who is in Kansas City
Or treatment, says he is steadily i'm
rowing and now feels better than for
,me time past. This is certainly
leasing to his many friends here, who
ope he may completely recover good
ealth.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Slaght were in
White City, Kansas, last week where
ley closed deal for an so acre farm
ljoining the city limits Of White
ity. They will remove to it next
,ring where Mr.. Slaght will engage
blacksmithing as weIl as conduct
g his farm.
Service win begin December 1 on
ute 8 out of Laclede. Those along
e route who expect to take service
IOuld get their boxes in place In
me to get on the list and be served
~ - rrsa.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-10-28
Some Evening Rsvsries.

1
to make the environments of hel
| home uplifting and ennobling. Lee
every mother make her home attrac
| tive. She can adorn the walls of hel
home with pictures, inexpensive ones
if necessary. A new tidy may be
m ade for a chair occasionally, table
co vers renewed, beautiful flowers kept
in view, and in other ways the rooms
may be made bright and cheerful. All
these as surely give touch and shape
to the child's mind as that the sun
Ishine paints the hues of the flowers.
A child who goes out into the world
from such home, home presided
over by a mother who has striven to
make it pleasant and attractive, who
has striven to keep high and noble
ideals before her children, one leaving
such home carries in his memory a
heritage that cannot be compared to
the riches of this world.
XXX
AS rule husbands are just what
you make them, (of course it won't
do to tell them this) and the better
material you have to start on the bet
ter job you can perform with the same
amount Of labor. If you haye bump
of cheerfulness developed in your ma
ture, don't marry a tombstone. AL
together be is about as genial as an
iceberg and you will go plodding
thr ough life with him to the dead
march of his own leaden thoughts.
You might be distant and dignifed;
you could freeze him colder than he
is; you may love and pet him, 1t is
waste Of ammunition, he can't be
thawed out. Above all things don't
marry dude. He is weak-minded,
contemplate apology for a man, there
fore let him pass for one; but one good
honest industrious young man is worth
all the floating fops in the world.
Unless they can choose wisely, or
learn to manage man, girls had bet
ter set their affections on cats or
poodles and let matrimony alone.
Whatever may be said of woman's
mission on earth and of her power,
social and otherwise, it is in the home
that she exerts the greatest influence,
moulding the character of her chill
dren and giving the impress of her
own life upon every member of the
household. That there are other
spheres in which she may take part is
not questioned. If she must support
herself, or if there are others depen-
dent upon her, we think she has the
right to select a vocation or pro-
Fession, but it is in the home that she
displays her powers to the best ad-
vantage.
X X x
AS the breath of dew on the tender
,lant, they fall gently upon the droop-
ng heart, refreshing its withered ten
lrils and soothing its burning woes.
Bright oases they are in life's greatest j
esert. Who can estimate the pangs
hey have alleviated, or the good !
Torks they have accomplished? Long {
fter they are uttered do they rever- ,
crate in the souls inner chambers =
nd sing low, sweet, liquid strains
hat quell all the raging storms that J
,ay have before existed. And, oh, 3,
hen the heart is sad, and like a
roken harp the sweetest chords of
leasure cease to vibrate, who can
I'll the power of one kind wordi One
tile word of tenderness gushing in :
pom the soul win sweep the long neg
ctedchords, and awaken the pleasant !.
rains.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-10-28

The farm of g. E. Bruins l mile
north of LAclede together with the
feed mill on it, all for sale. Price and
terms reasonable. For particulars
call on or address,
E E. GoULD, Agent.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-10-28
From Over the County.

IScN. LII. 0uayio, VI OhiOaSo, 10
lecture in Brookfeld on November Il
The November term of probat
court begins Monday, the 18th, a
Linneus.
| j. E. Robertson, of Gallatin, ha
taken charge of the Commercial hote
at Meadville.
| Miss Ida, daughter of John P
Frakes, has been appointed substi
tute clerk in the Brookfeld postofice
Rev. Thos. McClary will lecture a
the opera house in Linneus on Novem
ber 4, his subject being "The Ameri
can Home
j. Ell. Gordon, a prominent farmer
and civil war veteran, died at hi.
home in Baker township on Thursday
of last week of heart failure.
Rev. G. @. Hatcher, former pas
tor of the Baptist church of Laclede
now stationed at Hamilton, is attend
ing the state Baptist association at
Warrensburg this week.
An Oklahoma exhibit car was
in Marceline one day last week and
drew large crowd. 1t Is touring
Missouri with. an exhibit of farm prod
ucrt and minerals of Oklahoma.
The football eleven of the Brook
field high school went over to Chilli
cothe last Saturday and gave the high
school team of that place severe
fogging, the score being 45 to 0.
Isaac Waggoner, formerly of La
clede, who has been in the train SER
vice of the Burlington for the past
eighteen years, living in Brqokfeld,
resigned last week and will remove
to Quincy and engage in business.
The past week there has been much
doing at Brookfeld. The county
teachers association has heen in ses-
sion three days; the Presbyterian
synod five days; the farmers institute
two days and the state bankers one
day.
The executive committee of Mis-
souri, state dairy association have set
their goal to make the sixteenth an
nual meeting of the association, to
be held at Jefferson City November
1917, not only the best ever held by
the association but as well the greatest
and best dairy meeting ever held in
America.
All good republicans from this dis
trict Will wish Hon. Ed. Allen, of
Laclede, success in his ambition to be-
come internal revenue collector for
the St. Louis district. Allen is de-
serv edly popular and deserves recog-
nition at the hands of the party which
he has served long and faithfully
Moberly Tribune. /
Edward A. Carroll, we'll known in |
Laclede, died at his home in Brook
ield on Thursday of last week at the |
lge Of So years. He had lived in |
Linn county all his life, being born
It Linneus in 1847. He had been a
raveling salesman for st. Louis dry
foods house for many years and was
veil and favorably known over a
,reater part of the state.
Some truths about Missouri: Mis-
ouri has twenty-three state institu-
ions; it never had a general crop fail
re; it is the leading clover state in
be union; it has more stock farms
han any other state; it has the largest
creage of bluegrass of any state; it
as the largest permanent school fund /
the United States; it raises one j
NTH of all the corn raised in the !
Orld; it produces so per cent. of all |
Ne zinc mined in the world; it has {
,e-third more apple trees than any |
her state; its farm land has advanc- 4
40 per cent. in the last four yean; I
has the largest yield of cotton mar In
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-10-28

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The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1905-10-28

E. E. GOULD, Agent
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-29

ever line of railroad is the shortest
route to their various destinations.
The extent Of the yards Of the Trans
fer company may be best appreciated
by viewing them from the long Univer-
sity avenue bridge which crosses the
tracks. And yet, even then their real
total trackage of the yards aggregates
little over forty-two miles Of rails.
From the bridge. one end of an iron
clad building in the central part Of the
yards may be- seen. This building is
200 feet in length by SO in width and
is the office building of. the Transfer
company. Within this 40 clerks are
busy from morning till night. Along
side is platform shed 800 feet in
length, used for the loading and un-
fifty freight handlers are continually
busy here. Turnout the yard, sixty
switchmen are kept busy seeing to
proper guidance of the hundreds of cars
each day handled by eleven yard loco
motives.
In all, the Transfer company en-
ploys continually between 600 and 700
men. It's operating expense is about
100000 a year. About 100000 cars
are handled by the company every year
and fifty trains are disposed Of in the
ydruS every CWeHCy-IOuT hours.
The Minnesota Transfer company is
owned by the ten roads whose freight
it handles, the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy, Chicago Great Western, Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, Chi
cago. Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago,
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, Great
Northern, Minneapolis & st. Louis, Min
neapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie,
Northern Pacific and Wisconsin Cen
trail. The board Of directors Of the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-29

the establishment there in the near fut-
ture of retail yard.
A company for the manufacture of
telephone and telegraph poles is about
to establish large business adjoining
the. Transfer company's tracks. This
business, however, does not necessitate
the erection of a large building, most
of the work being done in the open. ,
Big Single Storage Yard.
The greatest single yard in the CEN
trail west for the storage Of Pacific
coast shingles has recently been estab-
lished at the Minnesota Transfer by
the Transfer Railroad company. Bust
ness conditions compelled the erection
Of such a depository 4. Pacific coast
shingles are every year in greater de-
mand in the central west. 1t has been
the practice of western coast single
dealers to ship carloads of shingles for
| the east without designation Of desti-
nation at time of shipment, and sell
them en- route, the terminal point be-
ing designated about the time the cars
reached the twin cities. Shipments
finally became so extensive that it was
impossible to sell them all en- route,
and 1t was necessary to use cars for
storage, sidetracking them till the sales
| were made. This every month tied up
more cars for the railroads, and finally,
as q way out of the dilemma, it was
decided to establish shingle storage
yard at the Minnesota Transfer. This
has has been done entirely by the Trans
fer company, at it's own expense and
on its own property. The yard occu-
| pies twenty-five acres. It was former
ly a wooded district and the ground
very uneven. A man was found who
contracted to clear it up in return for
the timber cut. Then came the grad
ing; Sixty thousand cubic yards of
dirt had to be, handled, and the whole
JOB represented an outlay Of $4,000.
The work of putting trackage thru
out this shingle-yard district is not yet
completed, but three tracks, each a
third Of mile long, will run thru the
yard. Use of this yard for storage will
release. hundreds of freight cars for
immediate use upon arrival, instead Of
compelling them to stand on sidetracks
as OF old, occasionally for weeks at a
In the wheeled rig line over a hun
dred styles of baby carriages are made
and sold. This includes willow and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-29

The building of the car shops at Uni
y,ersItty and Smelling is bound to have
Its effect on surrounding real estate.
The shops will employ upwards of 1900
men. They will wish to reside in, the
vicinity of their work. Many of them,
doubtless, will purchase property in the
nelghborhood. A new Midway village,
bordering on Merriam Park on the
bound to spring M on roe norm
district is already looked on as good
Investment for speculation, and many
deeds for lots have of late changed
hands, with still greater number
pending.
Barrett & Zimmerman, the we'll
known Midway horse dealers, are show
ing their faith in this district by hay
ing purchased considerable land at the
corner of Smelling and University on
which they will erect brick block 40
feet deep, with 225 feet front on Uni-
versity. .- ~ - ....... ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-29

rattan work Of the finest construction
and from the cheapest to, the most ex-
pensive patterns. There is also full
line of boys express wagons, coasters
and propellers, wire doll carriages and
various wheel toys turned out in large
department there is competition. but
with the freight rate favoring the con-
sumption of the Minneapolis product.
In the other two departments conlpe-
tition is practically minimum. The
wire feature of the business comprises
novelties and special goods such as
woven doormats, hammocks, spark
guards or fire screens, finely woven
tablemats for hot dishes, coat and hat
for domestic. use. The doormat is
unique in that a name, street number
or attractive device may be woven into
it without adding materially to the
cost, a feature controlled by the patents
Of Mr.. Lloyd, who is widely known as
a successful inventor.
The third or machine manufacturing
department. is without competition, the
machine made there being the only one
in the world which will automatically
weave wire such as used in wire mat
tresses. This is put out on yearly rentals
and less than 20 per cent Of the possible
users of this machine have been sup
piled. With, this machine one operator
can weave from 500 to 800 pounds of
wire a day against from $50 to 800
pounds in the old way, and with less
attention and better work. 49,.
The Lloyd plant is on Northern Pa
cifc trackage at Central and Eigh-
teenth avenue NE. Buildings and land
are assets of the company. The build
ings are two-story brick and are nealgy
new. The capacity Of the plant was
only half large enough with plenty of
yard room for expansion. One build
ing is warehouse and the other the
factory with storage room above. 1t
would require about quarter Of mil
lion dollars to retain the business in
capable of division into it's three de,
partments, thus allowing for three diff
ferent and well-defned industries in
stead Of one.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-29
GREAT TERMINAL PLANT
Minnesota Transfer Is all Enormou
Traffic Institution, +

There is one company in the Midway
which employs more men probably than
all the other Midway industries put to-
gether. 1t is the Minnesota Transfer
Railway company.
As in Italy, call roads lead to
Rome, = so from thruout the northwest
all roads lead into the Minnesota Trans.
fer yards. There ten railroads center
There the freight of these ten big lines
is sorted and reloaded where necessary
and all cars coming in from different
parts of the country sorted out accord.
ing. to the respective bills of ladina
and made up to be taken out on what.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-29

Minnesota Transfer company is COM
posed Of one representative from each
Of these ten roads. The officers Of the
Transfer company are prominent Off
GERS of the associated railroads, namely.
President, A. D. Sewall; vice president,
G. P. Lyman; secretary. L. A. Robin
son; superintendent. M. J. Dooley, (the
active head Of the transfer company.
and the agent, r. G.. Marshall.
Every year the Minnesota Transfer
company finds it necessary to enlarge,
it's yard trackage Recently spur tracks
have been built all thru that adjacent
section where so many Industrial plants.
storage houses and lumber yards are
being located.
The expense of maintaining the,
Transfer company is met by assessing
each railroad of the ten proprietary
lines according to the amount of BUSH
ness for each respective line handled.
by the Transfer company.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-29

Lumber company established yard
here. This company carries on hand
a large stock to fulfill the general re-
quirements of northwest retail yard
trade. Every variety of Pacific coast
timber is on hand ready for quick
order shipment.
The Citizens Lumber company also
has yard in this territory, and carries
on hand large assortment Of lumber
of all varieties and sizes, including
Pacific coast cedar shingles and large
dimension lumber. 49,
The R. B. Thompson Lumber company
facing on University avenne aA and cor:
templates erecting a lumber storage
house for retail business. Their proper.
ty is placarded with a sign announcing