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Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-03-30
ROWN MEMORIAL SCHOOL.

Eva Fish is out of school on ac-
count Of the illness of her mother.
Bessie Sparks is still detained at
home on account of sickness.
The Botouy students are jubil
ant over the arrival of a good mi
croscope-purchased by the class.
Miss Jordan and Miss Demores,
spent their vacation i'll Louisville.
Owens Mcneil now has the honor
of being the only man about the
dormitory.
Miss Henderson spent her vaca-
ton at Hot Springs, Tenn.
The recital, which was to have
been given March %, and was
postponed because of sickness, will
be given April Is.
FROM THE SCIENCE CLASS.
Liquid cir is clear sparkling
liquid, resembling water in appear
auce, yet it is not wet to the touch
1t is produced by submitting air to
great pressure. Bv this terrible
pressure whole room full of air can
be reduced to the space of a good
sized bucket.
Twenty years ago its existence.
was unknown. Prof. Dewn, of
England, produced the first ounce
that was ever made. at a cost of
$4,000, Mr. Triples of New York
City now manufactures it at the
rate of 20 cents gallon.
If a pot of liqid air is placed upon
a block of ice, the air will boil like
a tea-kettle,- so much warmer is
the ice than liquid air. 1t freezes
alcohol-and be it remembered
that alcohol does not freeze this
side of 2o2 degrees below zero.
Mercury, if poured in a vessel of
liquid air, Immediately freezes into
lump so hard that it can be used
for driving nails. Other metals al
so, are froze by liquid air. All the
precious metals, such as gold be-
come so flexible that they are east
ly bent by the fingers. Iron and
steel, on the other hand. are made
brittle. and will ,shatter like glass if
dropped on the floor.
Of course, large amount of ox-
ygen is present in this compressed
gas, indeed, SO much oxygen is
there, that if one end Of splinter
of steel is placed in lumber of the
liquid, and lighted match is ap
piled to the other end, the steel will
burn like wood.
This peculiar product has great
er explosive powers than even
nitro glycerine, but SO lohg as it is
not shut up tight. It can be handled
with perfect safety. As it evapo-
rates very rapidly when left open
there arises the disadvantage of
not being able to ship it long dis
tances or store it away.
Its value in the future will de-
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-03-30
advertising ,ates made knoaOm on
application

TIE good year of 1906 is indeed
proving a fruitful one for the tenn
perance workers, throughout the
land. The County Unit Bill pass
ed by the Kentucky Legislature
and the passage of a bill by the
Ohio Legislature. changing the
saloon license from $3.50 to $1,000,
means the doing away with OF
many a rum counter.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-03-30

The extra session of the Legis-
lature was worth more TO the State
than the whole of the regular Ses-
sion put together and vet only one
law WAS passed the rectifiers gal
lon tax on whisky.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-03-30

THERE would be less trouble
impending in China if lot of the
papers would call home their spec
ial correspondents who make their
living writing about it.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-03-30
ID EA T II :

Mrs Luraney Richmond, last
surviving mt mber of the. origl' al
Cumberland Presby teriau church,
is dead in Nashville.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-03-30

Mrs. Thomas Marshal of Bever
Creek, FLOYD county, Kv., gave her
own life III vain attempt 70 save
her child from burning TO death.
Mrs. Sarah ]. Wheeler, mother of
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, is dead at
Short Beach, Conn.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-03-30

In an address before louisville
medical and surgical society, DIR.
Charles A. L. Reed, of Cincinnati,
said Tuesday night that there is no
such thing as race sui cide in Amer
lea.
State Insurance Commissioner
Prewitt, has announced his seleC
ton of a Fire Marshal under the re-
cent act OF the General A sSembly
but will not give out the name MI
til the law becomes operative mex
June.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-03-30
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The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27
Stern Block


A happy home, new ambition to
rise awaits the drtinkard who says ] will
stop the acctirsed habit. a pleasant con-
genial home is provided while you re-
ceive the course Of treatment. Murray
Institute, 32r Thirteenth street south,
Fargo.
The executive board OF officers Of the
grand lodge, IA. %. u. WI, will hold an
important meeting, at the Office Of Re
corder Moore, early in May. This
year there will be no meeting of the
grand lodge Of the state and at the
meeting Of the officers a number ol
matters will be gone over.
Sstand UP for your rights--if by any
chance the liquor habit has the bestsof
dress the institute 3aI, Thirteenth street
YOU or is getting the best of yoil-- know
now that You can beat the demon who
would destroy yo,i Be a man take the
Murray Cure which Is a sure cure. Ad-
south, Fargo. ss
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27
I. D. Boz $50, Farce, n. D,

I. y - s -
The congregation Of the Norwegian
Baptist church. Fourth street and Sec
ond avenue north, has secured the SER
vices Of the Rev. Lee Of Park River
sto be the pastor, With his family Mr.:
! Lee will move To Fargo this week and
take formal charge of his work next
Sunday. The reverend gentleman IS
5reputed ready speaker both in n or
Wegian and English.
Winston Churchill. the English ati-
thor, has brought Upon himself CON
siderable amount Of good natured crit
icism OH account of pondercIis phrase
he invented Iii speaking of an IN
truthful statement made BY q political
opponent he referred to il as sterral-
noioqical iiiexactitude, One writer says
that should other authors follow Mr
+ sChurchill's example we may expect to
read something like this in q revised
version, of the George Washington
cherry tree story Paternal progenitor
4 I am constitufionally and ndanentally
incapable Of excogitatiIlg, ratl ocinatlf1e
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27

or insinuating 4 terrninological inexacti-
.tt1de.
Have knight Printing Co. print il.
Canniff paints signs best. Phone a5oL.
Ship your hides, pelts, furs to j. S,
Smith & Co., Fargo.
Honest fuel, coal and wood Of all
kinds, solid. full measure. Interior Llirn-
Der Co. Phone %.
Louis Hotop: I have all kinds oi
places and can place all the help who
calls. 400 Front street. Fargo.
Hannah Palmer. a young woman sem
up to the penitentiary from Fargo foi
one year for grand larceny, died sudden
ii at the institution Saturday morning
at q o'clock.
Friends Of Mrs. Henry r. Spragut
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Rice
and now living at Stanley, will regre'
to hear that her Ave year old son, Luth
er, died Sunday afternoon from an at
tack Of bronchial pneumonia.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27
CITY LOCALS.

TWeeden's bowling alleys reopened.
See Hatcher Bros. for fire insurance
stEl Sahir was 10 cents, now S cents
Guaranteed a 1oc smoke for SC.
Dressmaking and tailoring. Mrs. Mae
Hanson, 6To 9Th Ave. So: Tel 1o6I y,
Il Young & Co. will give YOU
claim check for your trunk SO YOU will
have no trouble at depot. Phone IS.
Presiding Elder Danford will preach
the sermon on the. occasion OF the
twenty-hftfl anniversary Of the estab-
lishment Of the Methodist church AT
Lisbon, next Friday.
Al copy of the 1905 Session Laws,
popular edition, and The Daily Forum
for three months in advance for $I.5o
at The Forum Office. This is only SO
cents more than the price Of the book
alone. 3s! I'm,
# Initial steps have been taken by the
store clerks in the city towards the
organization Of clerks union in Far
go and meeting for that purpose will
be held at the Hotel Metropole this
evening at 8 o'clock.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27
1 NOTICE OF ELECTION.

Notice is hereby given, that the annual
election in and for the city Of Fargo,
Cass county. North Dakota, will be held
on Monday, the second day OF April,
1000, at the following polling places in
the several wards Of the city, to-Wit::
# First Ward Precinct-At the Central
House. &, # S..
Second Ward Precinct-At the New
Fargo House. ,.s !...
e Third Ward Precinct-At the CITY
Water Works pumping station. .
Fourth Ward, First Precinct AT the
Courthouse.
"a Fourth Ward. Second Precinct-AtA
4. Walls lumber office, Front street
Fifth Ward, First Precinct AT the
City Hall building.
II Fifth Ward, Second Precincts at FL,
building, corner Broadway and Fourth
avenue north. .5 n q
Sixth Ward Precinct Sixth Ward
( (Lincoln) school building }
Seventh Ward Precinct Seventh
Ward Roosevelt school building.
Said election will be held for ths
election of mayor, treasurer, police
magistrate, city justice Of the peace, orit
alderman in each Of the First, Second
Third, Fourth. Fifth and Sixth ward:
and two aldermen in the Seventh ward
AT said election the polls will be KEEP
open from eight (8) o'clock in the fore
noon of said day until five go O'Clock
lin the afternoon thereof, and no longer
H Gibson, City Auditor.
CD. Mch 22 to Api. I, 1906.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27

Hjalman Cassel, Swedish engineer
who visited this country during the ST.
Louis fair, has written book Oh Anleri-
can Business Methods. In one chapter
Ehe asks the question; Is the superior
ity of American industry based on bet
ter machinery This. he thinks, is not
|the case, though he finds American tools
and machines superior to those Of Eu-
rope. The reason for the superiority lies
in the authors opinion, in the better
organization of Offices and factories, the
iaethodical supervision Of every detail,
the constant watchfulness that no single
branch of business fall behind, and
Hast but not least the minute division of
labor. Il
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27
PRESSED BRICK a.ss "a
Best Pressed Brick at Lowest Prices.
III you contemplate building, get
figures and samples from us.
Hebron Fire & Pressed Brick Co,
Hebron, N. d.

Yes; there are still some people in
this city who are not served by Peter
sons Vienna bakery good people too.
And that's the reason we keep on adj
vertising. All kinds Of pure, full weight
bread and pastry. 7I8 Front street,
Fargo, phone 647-L. s#s+ ss4l ..,..
Judge Fisk at Grand Forks pronoun-
|ced sentence on William Moore, the
colored man accused ofgstealing a trunk
from his roonl-nlate in this city some
weeks since. The sentence was heavy
two and a half years in the state peniten
tiary, the term to begin at noon today
He will be taken to Bismarck this even
/ inc. Ri
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27
COMING EVENTS.

Tuesday. March ~.
Fargo term of the supreme court opens.
Sprins term Fasgo College Conservatory Of Music
opens. I.
Wednesday. Masch 2s.
Conventlon Red RIVER Valley Genital Lutheran
isague, at Trinity Chursh, Moorhead.
Thursday. March 2s.
First Baptist church fusnu,age safe.
Closing sessions r. K. ". Lutheran league.
Lecture by Bishop Mann for she ST. Cecilia guild
Fsiday. March 80.
First Baptist church rurnfnage sale.
Entertainment by Qsesn Esther circle, First Mssh-
l church, isiss Ss 81
Monday, April 2.
ie "Wednesday. Asfif 4. Gas G
Annual meeting Children Home Auxiiiary board
Tharsdsy. April 5. a
Easter sale and suppsr BY ladies Of Pseabytsriar
church. tg5.S 55sf5 3a3338 me
Rich-stsndsr CONCERT a. Ssons's haif.
@s Fargo State Fair Dates.
The North Dakota State Fais Tor Fargo VIII B.
held on the fair grounds north Broadway, the weei
Beginning July 70, 1906. s85st
ss Note--All meetings are evenings unless
otherwise specified. These announcement
! win be kept standing, and we shall be glae
TO have notices sent In BY persons In In
steresf. III Y ~
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27
PROPOSALS. FOR BUILDING
SCHOOLHOUSE.

Sealed bids will be received by the
school board of Barton school district
number three 60 for the building and
construction of schoolhouse at Bar
ton, N. Dakota. .@
Plans and specifications can be seen
at the clerks office, Barton, or at the
Office Of the Grand Forks Herald, Grand
Forks, N. Dakota. Also at the Office OF
Hancock Bros, architects, Fargo N. Da-
kota.
All bids to be in the hands Of the
clerk of the district not later than 9
o'clock p. M, April 9, 1906.
Board reserves the right to reject any
and all bids. Z.
Carl Hilberg, Pres,
John Brusyen, Clerk.
Hancock Bros, Architects.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27
Miss EDNA SPENCE
New ENGLAND CONSERVATORY,
.S BOSTON. !
INSTRUCTOR PIANO FORTE
AND HARMONY. "A 2&-t'. &.
Studio No. IL, Stone Biock.
TO IMPROVE GROUNDS.

Outing Magazine: Our school
grounds and church lots, are, as a gen
eral thing, bare. and unattractiye. They
ought not to be so. They need not be
so, after a little, if the Neighborhood
Impro rovement society takes them in hand.
Trees and shrubs, properly arranged,
will make attractive places of them.
Flowers will give them grace and
beauty that viii appeal to every one IN
.terested, and arouse in them a desire
TO do still more in the way Of improve
.ment hat is one of the beauties OF
an organization for neighborhood bet
ternient. 1t grows by what it does, and
the more it does the more it wants to
do. S Il 5E4s5 * W
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27

Less wear and tear on your laundry
work Send your entire laundry to US:
and have it returned sweet and clean
at a very small cost. Our system en-
tirely eliminates the necessity of a
@dark Monday" at your home. We give
your cloths less wear and tear than you
would give them yourself Rough dry
work 6 cents per pound. Phone 600 for
one Of our wagons. Dixon Steam Latirl-
dry Co.
1t was suggested to Secretary Shaw
that the exit Of Ambassador Bellamy
Storer from the diplomatic service was
rather sudden and nsxpected 70, it
was not, said Serfetary Shaw re-
lmitIds me of the Story of two men who
stood on d iIIountaifl and watched al
funeral procession GO by. His death
was rather unexpected wasr't il 2 asked
one nlountaineer No, replied the other.
Several horses have disappeared lately
land john has been Under suspicion Tor
some time, Il es #
One of the busiest men in Virginia is
1.-The artist-priest, Rev. Johannes "A. Ger
ltel of Vienna, Fairfax county, known
Everywhere as the painter of the world
famous picture, The Rock Of Ages. AL
Though in his eighty-third year, he goes
Ito his studio every morning about dawn
land works until twilight, He is just
Isending off to Sewanee, Tenn., an i'm
Istallment of paintings to be placed over
1.-THE altar in the chapel now being built
/ for The use Of the students of its theo-
Illogical seminary by Mrs. Tellfair Iodg-
son, as i memorial to her husband, Vice
Chancellor Hodgson. n. ssis
Every now and then Secretary Shaw
bumps into a watchnlan who doesn't
know him even by sight. hat hap
lpened only a few mornings ago. The
Secretary was a little late. he rnle
LIS that when an enlploye comes in late
| HE must register his name and set down
4 the time he arrived he watchnlan
lwho didn't know the secretary opened
1.-THE door and asked him il he was an
4 Iemploye Of the treasury. Guess SO,
Irather rlonchalantly remarked the late
lcolier hen the books for yours,
4 Remarked the watchmarl; ssyoti know
lthe rules So the secretary walked
lover to the big book and wrote: y
il M. Shaw, o:o5 a. m. s3
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27
S Fargo Carpet 8 Rug Go.
5 io7 Eighth Street South. Phone Sis.
8 Make Rugs, Clean Carpets, Clean
Rent or Repair Sewing Machines,
Sell Repairs. Oil and Needles for
5 all Machines. Sell Wall Paper.
STUDYING Il HE BORGIA ART,

STUDYING q HE BORGIA AR a
New York Mail: ii is said that
Russian women repolutionists are IN
the University of Turin for the plir-
pose Of mastering the poisoning meth
ssods of the Borgias, intending later te
apply these arts to Russian princes
and officials, The lBorgias are popu-
larry supposed to have practiced poi
soning as fine art. Maybe they did
Caesar of that illk was certainly capa-
Bile Of it--but maybe they were not al
clever at the art as is supposed. ln
any case the Russian officials need not
Einsthe least fear the results Of any rlea
study of their methods. All the poi
sons that any Borgia could have usee
are now understood much more per
fectly than they were in the fifteenth
century and fortunately their effects ars
more easily traced and guarded
against.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27

the government the relatively small cost
of the improvement, there seems to be
no reason why this work of creation Of
value out of worthless waste, should not
go on indefinitely and provide homes
for millions more of rural population
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27
cor VALUE RECEIVED.

YanlSton, s. D., Press. Congress
men are deploring that there are no
more free passes being passed
around. The fact is. though, that there
never were any free passes. The rail-
roads always got full value of the
transportation.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27
A Few Left Prices Reduced
\ MASONIC TEMPLE q
SOUVENIRS 81
PRICE NOW ONLY soc. 5
]. O. McKendry, at Temple, or H. @.
E5@%a Plumley, at Forum. %
THE NEXT SCENE IN RUSSIA.

THE NEXT SCENE IN RUSSIA.
{ Pittsburg Dispatch: 1t is easy, with
the record OF the French revolution be-
lore us, to predict the next scene IN
the Russian tragedy. The government
having failed to learn the lesson &of
last years anarchy and revolt must be
taught it again A renewal of the rev
.olution is inevitable if the fatuous pol
icy of deceit is persisted in by the
#czar's present advisers. Perhaps a re-
Ealization of this is the basis of Whites
reported desire to get out from under
before the next storm.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-27
The 24th Annual Series

of the Fargo Building Association will
be issued April 1st Subscriptions for
shares of stock OF $50 viii be taken at
the office OF H. p. Lough, secretary. The
association has money to loan on city
property. III a 5.S
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-12-07
MORE SENSE AND
LESS SCIENCE.

IL is high time that n lot of expe-
rimenting doctors and yellow journ-
alists quit soaring the people TO
death, every day. More than one
half the illness of today is caused
by lively imagination fostered by de-
tailed publication of the theories OF
doctors They may act from the
best motives. but il would be well If
a good deal of their theorizing were
confined to medical Journals. where
it would be read by those who can
take it for what It Is worth. our fore
fathers ate what they wanted. drank
water from the springs and brooks.
with never thought of the mi
crobe and they lived to "A green old
age. We strain and filter and boil
ard examine and test and worry and
stew and most OF die untimely from
digestive troubles, If we escape an
operation for appendicitis. Let's
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

WEST VIRGINIA; by order of the
Circuit Court of tho County or Mer-
Ger ON the 2oth day OF November.
1906.
Julia Rogers Melcher. Complainant.
VS. In Chnncorv
Fernandum Clyde Melcher. Defend
ant
The object of this suit IL 20 obtain
divorce from tho bonds OF matrl-
mony la favor OF the complainant
and for general relief And it ap-
pearing from an amdavlt made and
hied with the papers in this cause
that the defendant F6rnandum CLYDE
Melchor, Is not resident OF the
state of West Virginia, Il is, on mo-
ton of the complainant, by her
counsel ordered that the said Fer
nandum Clyde Melcher do appear nj
the Office OF the clerk OF the Circuit
Court OF Mercer county within ono
month after the date OF the first
publication of this order and do what
may be necessary to protect his in
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Attest
w. b. HONAKBR. Clerk.
EARL RILEY, p. @.
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PAIRED EARLY
AND OFTEN

A number of years ago at "A small
town in Maine an important local
election was TO take place, and there
was strong rivalry between the re-
publicans and democrats. Old Hiram
Morse the blacksmith, was strong
democrat, but many of the farmers
were republicans on the morning
of the election farmer came TO have
his horse shod The blacksmith said
to him: "Wor'c both busy. You're
republican and I'm democrat.
Let's pair off. Wen neither of us
vote and it viii amount to the same
as IL both went to the polls" This
was agreed upon After election il
was found out that Morse had paired
OFT with five republican farmers. 49,
Boston Herald
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HOW DpTHERIA is CONTRACTED

one often hears the expression.
MY child caught severe cold which
developed into diptheria," when the
truth was that the cold had simply
left the little one particularly sus-
septible TO the wandering dlptheria
germ. When Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy t. given IL quickly cures the
cold and lessons the danger OF dip
iberia or any other germ disease be-
ing contracted For sale by all drug
glsts.
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The Pittsburg woman. Miss Ida
Veronica Simonton. who went to
South Africa last fall in order to
study the language Of monkeys, has
been heard from. She writes to her
mother that she IS getting along
finely with the simian talk. She has
followed DR.. Gamers example and
is living in a bamboo cage or hut
in the widest part of the Congo dis
trict." There's no Accounting for
tastes, as the provcrbial old lady said
when she kissed her COW.
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NOTHING NEW
UNDER THE SUN

Slang phrases i'm course of time he
come absorbed into the vernacular.
as has been pointed out i'm these col
umns. Just In the same way that
nonsense rhymes and nursery verses
become institutions. Take the fol-
lowing example. The famous lines
Mother may | go out to swim?"
Yes, my darling daughter:
Hang your clothes on a hickory limb.
And don't go near the water"
Pre- at least 1900 years old. being
found in book OF jests OF the sixth
century compiled by Hierocles!