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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Frank Spoo was called to Audu-
DON Tuesday morning on impor-
tant business which he declines to
divulge.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Mrs. Rebecca Hardenbrook left
Monday for her home at Arapaho,
Ok. after three months visit with
her daughter in Dexter and a eis-
ter Ars. Cameron near Audubon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

John Bishop, Jr. is i'll with a very
bad cold and a serious cough which
troubles him a great deal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Will Hay sold bunch of fat
hogs to our dealers last Friday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Attorneys Andrews and Rasmus-
sen were attending to court matters
Monday forenoon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

You're not in the push this week
unless you can show proofs of hav-
ing cold, both old and young be-
idg afflicted alike.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Mrs. Hunt left here Wednesday
for Des Moines where she has sew
ing engaged for the next two weeks.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Miss Bertha Young will have a
Chris.mas tree at No. 9, Greeley,
Christmas eve.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Mrs. Maria Hensley returned to
Avon, Monday after visiting for a
few weeks with her daughter, Mrs.
Bishop.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Mrs. r. g. Hamlin visited rela-
tives in Audubon, Monday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Mrs. F. M. Persing and daugh ter
Miss Hilmer Herrick visited in
Omaha this week, leaving Sunday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Before you buy Stock Food see
the Extra Coal & Feed Co. We sell
Gold Coin the best on earth.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Martin Jensen was attending to
business matters at the county seat
Tuesday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

"Does II cost you much to run
your automobile ?"
"Well yes; but it costs me more
when it won't run"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Ars. Ed Delahoyde entertained
her sister, Mrs. Schnur over Sun
day.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

A number Off o. T. Ms attended
a meeting Of the order in Atlantic,
Monday night.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19
Smile, and the world smiles with
you;
Crouch and you crouch alone.

"Man wants but little here below
But this was written long ago;
The saying now has little worth
For in these days man wants
the earth.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Gray Lining Water Proof Over
shoes at the Annex.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

N. p. Christensen went to Audu-
bon Tuesday ON business.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

G. Q. May and niece, Trola Ssibert
will spend Christmas at the formers
home in Shenandoah.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Christmas goods have been going
at a rapid rate the past as we'll as
the present week.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Andrew Baylor and VIM. Tibber
were county seat callers Monday
forenoon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Mrs. Sam'l L. Zike and two chill.
dren arrived here Monday evening
from Columbus, Kan, being called
here by the serious illnesss of her
mother, Nrs. Hellyer.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Jerry Hoover returned home
Monday from three weeks visit
with his relatives residing
in Racine County, Wis. and at
Rockford, Ill, come of whom he had
not see n for 22 years.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Eugene and Will Porter went to
Chicago Saturday to visit friends
and view the great city for a short
time.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Mrs. Dorr has been in poor
health the past week having several
bad sinking spells.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

w hen winds shrek high in fiendish glee
And enters winter with his key
Protect yourself, from disease be free:
Take HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea. Nick Doffing.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Miss Nary Campbell had busi-
ness in Audubon Tuesday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Mr.. D. r. Jones of Casey was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Wahlert
Saturday night.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Frank Kreamer was called to
Audubon Monday as Grand Juror.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Vim. Van Aernam returned from
the north, Monday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

There will be a special meetinR e
of the Star for initiation on the eve.
ming of Dec. 27.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Mrs. Kilworth had busines call.
ing her to the county seat, lest Sat
urday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Special prices on meme pants at
the Annex.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

James Channon marketed a like.
ly bunch of hogs, 20 in number one
day last week.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

! Readers amid Erfend@
The drawing close has prosperity
bon county farmers The earth has yielded abundany price
level hgh and the farmers bank account has great
The Journals bank account in the
small that the
usually during the dull crops
are growing 1t manages buing
ana Wheedlng and clustering until its ip
OF fat punches of letters with eances
But in November and December obruve They
break in all times the
editor with seuthke pertinacy Tafy soap they spew
from their mouths Notwithstanding season they
take to it with apparent gusto.
Now the Journal would tap bank accounts
They don't to need the the
studied diligently the methods the big Street.
ing to apply them to it's was con-
sidered capazing the thousand dollars
and selling the stock to its friends impossible to
postage
purchasers
result the to adopt the more honest
pooy OF telling the people what wants. instead taking
Ce Wl1ouC teamg What wants fifteen hundred
How much of this reader of this dis
course depends upon the figures his address
To be specific asking readers this week r
the hrst time IN more than two
labels compute their Indebtedness their own
hgures within the next next Iun
dernds that nine seconds much long
enough for the farmer account on
nine days away.
One touch OF nature burden of debt
not touch of nature; bear The Jour
nal has felt it, and has (though the secrets
has never dared to befre made
this
as independents financially the county farmer
and BY THE TOKEN will
Merry Christmas this where the made
Sincerely
THE JOURNAL.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

]. s. Walker was called to Allan
tic Monday on busipess.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Henry Tibben marketed a good
bunch of cattle in Extra, last Satur.
day.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19
Ball Band overshoes. The Annex

VIM. Bintner is reported better a,
gain after long spell OF sickness
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-12-19

Take Warning
Anyone seen hunting on our
farms will be prosecuted.
d 26 CHAS & L. S. KLEvER
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07

An English clergyman confesses IN
the London Tribune that once, rely
ing on his hearers fund of humor, he
made q joke at public meeting,
and was sorry for it very soon after
ward.
He was the speaker at q meeting in
Cornwall, and at the close of his
speech was complimented on his
knowledge of the Cornish dialect.
WELL" he replied, that Is easy
enough to understand, because was
a minor myself until l was Fl years
Of age"
Every praiseworthy, indeed! cried
out a gentleman from the audience;
and nobody seemed to realize that
every man was minor until he was
FL.
At the end of the week the clergy
man received copy of the local news
paper containing an account of the
meeting. In response to vote o.
thanks" ran one paragraph, "the rev
erend gentleman explained his ia
miliarity with the Cornish dialect b.
the fact that he himself worked IL
the Cornish mines until he was 2.
years of age."-Youth's Companion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07

was cracking nuts with ones teeth to
save the cost of nut-crackers. While
the husbands and brothers and their
fortunate assistants were relieved OF
all drudgery by labor-saving tnven'
lions, the wife and mother and sister
struggled on in the old crude, barbar
GUS ways, sacrificing complexion,
back, nerves, health. everything. No
wonder 1t was so much harder to
keep domestic help than office help,
when a woman had to get down on her
knees and rub the skin on her
knuckles scrubbing porches, while
men sat on cushioned spring seats
and simply thought, and obedient ma
chimes did the rest"
Pardon me, viii call"
"A moment, pray-but now you can
use the same gas and electric motor
which propels the laundry machinery,
dish-washer, etc., to run the patent
scr.bber and sweeper, while all wo-
man needs do is give 1t directing
| thought"
IT must call Mr.. Schofield. can't
| quite understand. You mention such
a bewildering variety of appliances"
ITO be sure; modern science has
come to the aid of the housekeeper in
such a beneficent way. And We are
familiar with all Of them, you know,
from the egg heater, mincer and hash
err. to the automatic wall-cleaner and
bed-maker."
do you really sell all these? How
can one mind master so much ma
chinery?"
sell? / sell nothing, madam.
fear l do not understand you. But
why should not a woman's mind be
mistress of machinery, as well as .
mans, master?"
pray explain, then, the object Of
, your CALL"
us it possible have been talking
u in the dark? And you mistake me fol-
an agent? Madam, read your adver
tisement for domestic help. / am,
, may say, the new hired girl; the frs
, graduate of the school of domestic
service"
{ Mrs. Schofield gave such q star
) that her elbow came sharply In con
tact with her chair arm. She heart
, something like smoker. She looke'
{ quickly up. There sat Mr.. Schofiel'
Z regarding her with intense amuse
; ment. She understood 1t all like
3 fash. SIZE had been asleep. 1t wa
ou a droam Would n ever hccom
D true?
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07

The recently completed census of
Oklahoma shows a population of L.
40s,73 In 1900 the two territories
which made up the new state had
total population of only 790,391. Only
20 states had. in 1900. a larger popu-
lation than Oklahoma has now. The
next reapportionment will probably in
crease the representation of Oklaho-
ma In congress; for while the enabling
act gives the state I'VE representa-
tives, the population, on the present
basis of apportionment, would allow
seven. The whole OF New England
could be set down within the limits
Of the new state and leave a fringe
of territory amounting to nearly 1000
square miles.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07
Gathering and Saving Cotton.

While 1t is well to pick the cotton
as rapidly as is necessary, we should
not do that at the expense Of every
thing else; and especially do we ad-
wise against the custom Of picking
and ginning Immediately. 1t will be
tar better to let the cotton lie In
hulk for some time before ginning,
provided the seed cotton is dry when
picked. No gin can make its best
turnout either in quality or quantity
IN green cotton. Again, when cotton
= ginned. put it under cover.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07

In competition last month in rifle
craftsmanship at Ottawa, Americans
won the Palm trophy, Canadians came
second. Australians third, and British
last. The Americans score is ten
points better than any score ever
made with any kind OF rifle, and in
this contest the rifles used were not
specially designed for target shooting.
but were the types furnished to the
armies for actual service. 1t is sig
nificant that the lowest score in this
contest is better than the winning
score In the last previous contest
That is. the whole standard Of skill
has been raised No wonder that
good sportsmen like King Edward and
President Roosevelt were delighted
at the result.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07
A GOLDEN BALL.
British Soldiers Played the National
Game With II.

Probably no game of ball, by pro-
fessional or college team; was ever
watched with such inner interest but
with such outward Indifference as one
described in Gertrude Vanderbilt's
Social History of Flatbush." 1t hap
pened in revolutionary times, when
the British soldiers were stationed on
Long Island. The inhabitants had hid
den their valuables in all possible
places. One lady concealed some gold
coins in ball-shaped pincushion OF
the kind worn by the Dutch house
wife, suspended at her side.
She was sitting sewing one day
when a party of British soldiers en-
tered the room. A young officer, spy
ing what to him was novelty, cut
with his sword the ribbon by which
the cushion was hung and began q
game of ball.
Soon the rest of the company Joined
the sport. Boisterously, from hand
to hand, the ball was batted to and
fro. It was roughly snatched and
tossed, and sometimes 1t fell into thu
ashes of the fireplace, and barely es
capped confiagration. Now and agar
a soldier would catch 1t on the tip o
his sword and send it spinning OF
with a rent in its side.
Every moment threatened to revea
the precious contents. To show tn
least anxiety was to betray the secret
and the owner was forced to sit un
moved, apparently intent on her work
and to see her fortune flying througl
the air, at the mercy Of the enemy. A
last the cushion, torn and battered
but still guarding its treasure, was r.
turned to its mistress. and the intrut
ers, tired of their play, left the house
Youths Companion.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07
KNOWLEDGE Is POWER.
The Power to Get the Most OUT !"
Farm With Least Energy

m. farmer may not crave politacaf
or social power, but II he 10 man
of ordinary ambitions he Graves 're
power to succeed in his business.
takes mower to succeed at farmms-
II nsed tn be said that when poy
wasn't good for anything else 'nas
he'd make a farmer. 1T taxes Drains
to be a merchant, doctor. or preacne,s
but farmer-why anybody can larm.
But times have changed, and farmins
successfully on high priced land is no
anap. The brains necessary to Wen
manage a farm would make for sue
cess anywhere after sufficient e1pell-
ence we're gained to know 1ne
rope
But It Is astonishing that so many
farmers are content to 60 along IL
such a reckless and Improbable way
They never have a definite knowledge
of their business operations. they
know not whether it is the cows OF
pigs that are carrying the mortgage
whether it is the sheep or the CHICK
ems or the cornfeld that is failing to
nav expenses. They feed timothy hay
because they have 1t, and they have
IL because 1t is easier to cure than
clover, and know not that there is
better feed than timothy and better
crop for the soil.
| The shackles of ignorance is hold
| ing many man down. KnowledgS
is the power that can set free. IT,
isn't enough to know how to hold a.
plow straight. He must know why
he plows. when best to plow, how
best to do for a particular crop or
season. 1t is not enough that he know
how to milk COW. He must know
how to feed her 80 she will DO her
best, and he must know how to breed
her 80 she will perpetuate better
race than her own. he must know
whether she is worth keeping at all or
not
It isn't enough to know how many
! pecks to SOW of grain, but how to
combat the fungous and insect pests
that lessen the yield. He must know
what one of great many varieties
!, of these grains is best adapted to his
. farm.
: knowledge Is power-the power to
. get the most out of farm with the
least expenditure of vital energy. the
!. least waste. and the greatest net pro-
: f,ts per acre.-Successfu Farming.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07
Take Your Eyes to the cornfeId.

Take Your Eyes to the Cornneio.
This is the time to selet the seed
corn in the field. provided 1t has not
already been attended to. 1t has been
fully demonstrated that varieties pear
ing two or more ears to the stalk
viii yield more corn per acre than
varieties bearing only one ear to the
stalk. At the Edgecombe Test Farm
last year there was difference at the
rate of about twenty-nine bushels per
acre in the yield of different varieties
of corn, and the yield at the other
Test Farm of different varieties bore
about the same ratio to each other.
These facts should impress us with
the importance of seed selection.
In field selection, we advise taking
for an ideal strong, vigorous, sym
metrical stalk, not too high, bearing
two or more good well-shaped ears
some four or five feet from the ground
and that have medium shanks so al
| to permit the ears to turn down and
shea the rain. We do not advise Sc
lecting ears that stand upright so al
to permit the rain to run in and cause
the grain to rot, neither do we ad
wise the long shank so often seen II
corn. A medium between the two ex
tremes is best. Use care in selecting
for II one selects only a dozen or tw'
stalks in day and the stalks so &c
lected are of the ideal type for plant
ing q seed plat, it will be time wei
spent. Make a start on such selectio
this month.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07
A NelahborIy Act.
LOUISIANA

Disorder in Central America Is Of
fensive to Mexico and to the United
States. 1t is as if the neighbors OF
two law-abiding citizens were continu-
ally pickering and carrying their quar-
rels over the fence into the grounds OF
the peaceful 1t is the duty OF the
orderly, not only for their own protec-
ton, but in the interest Of decency, to
persuade the disorderly to behave
themselves. The presidents OF the
United States and of Mexico acted as
benevolent international neighbors
when they rendered the good offices OF
their governments to the quarreling
republics in Central America to assist
in arranging plan for arbitrating all
disputes which cannot be settled oy
the republics themselves. Government
is in an unsettled condition in Central
America. Although nominally demo
cratic in form, in fact it is almost
military despotism. That aspiring
leader wins the election who can COM
mand the largest number of soldiers,
and the people have little concep-
ton of the nature of what we In
America know as representative insti-
tutions. There is little more respect
for the rights Of the neighboring coun-
tries than for the rights Of the opposi
ton party; consequently petty wars
are of frequent occurrence. This sur
vival of sort of petty feudalism,
group of little warning countries
squabbling over matters that othel
peoples to-day settle peaceably, can
not be tolerated. 1t is necessary, how
ever, remarks Youths Companion, TO
the United States to assume tina
these little countries mean to keep tn
peace save on the gravest provocs
ton. Yet its joint action with Mexic
amounts to little less than warnin
that II they do not behave in an orde
ly manner voluntarily. they will b
forced to submit to the power Of tn
stronger nations.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07

Haymaking claims the attention OF
farmers just now and should be
pushed with all possible vigor The
high prices that have prevailed should
stimulate hay making.
Crab grass is allowed to go to.
waste that could be made into a fine.
quality of hay If cut at the right time
and properly cured. Comparatively
few of our farmers cut crab grass as
early as it should be cut to make the
best quality Of hay. 1t should not be
allowed to stand until the seed are
ripe, nor should 1t be allowed to lie
in the sun after it Is cut until 1t is
sun-killed before cooking or stacking
Cut when the seed are in the milk or
dough state, permitted to take the
sun a day. then cooked and cured in
the cock, 1t makes hay ABOUT equal
to timothy hay.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07

labor has submitted to. But now
brains are enjoying your long-talKeo-
of triumph over Drawn. You have the
electric lights and day current SO
the electric irons are settled fact'
suppose, and for that matter the cleo
trio coffee heater and chafing dish.
Really, / must" feebly attempted
Mrs. Schofield, wondering II the wo-
man would be satisfied with less than
q sale of the entire electric establish
ment. She began to think she would
need summon Mr.. Schofield, but dis
liked to, since he prided himself on
his brusuue dismissal of agents, and
laughed at her want of self-assertion.
YES" resumed the genteelly modr
lated tones, land the laundry Is such
an important part of the house. But
with an inexpensive gas engine to run
washer, wringer and mangle, or an
electric motor If you prefer, super
heated steam for drying and DUMB
waiter service, the dreaded 'wash-day'
of our foremothers becomes a play
ground for the intellect. Both mis-
tress and servant are saved from bar
barous sacrifices by inventive genius
and raised somewhere near the Level
of those who work in offices, stores
etc."
"Barbarous sacrifices! The level o.
those who work in ofices!" echoed
Mrs. Schofield, almost unconsciously
She was almost startled by the sim
ilarity of these ideas with those MI
Schofield had been advancing.
ITO be sure" broke in the gin
tongued agent. That's just what
was. Domestic ladies were sacrifices
allowed themselves to be-by
| score of forms of drudgery made net
essary only by their conservation !
t regard to labor-saving inventions.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07

The fact that IL has been demon
strated by good farmers that oats can
be raised more cheaply than corn
should stimulate oat growing. With
tnis crop, as with wheat, the land
should be well prepared. and only good
seed should be used. For oats, sow
two bushels Of seed per acre of some
good winter variety.
Rye is another crop that should re-
ceive more attention than we are CIV
ing 1t. Almost any land will grow
some rye. bu. the better the land the
more rye we will get.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-07

A farmer who has long been keep
ing sheep and has observed their hab-
It's Of feeding says:
sheep are oftentimes spoken of as
q nuisance by some people, but wise
land owners give them credit as being
great renovators of rundown and worn
out farms and even call thief fertility
conservers.
"They are the latter. and more, too.
The life and habits of sheep make
them not only conservers Of fertility,
but distributors of it where most need
ed, If given an opportunity. Though
sheep are averse to water and always
seek an elevation for their resting
place, they do like the succulent
growth, even though 1t be weeds,
found in the lowland of field or pas
ture which mas been enriched by wash.
ings from the higher surrounding land.
these two peculiarities Of sheep
once came under very particular OBJ
servation. When turned some sheer
into clover field they at once sought
out the spots where the clover did moi
catch and eagerly devoured any weeds
or pigeon grass that had taken pos
session of the spaces. They ther
sought the weeds and succulent grass
in the low places and runs in the
fields, leaving the clover on the higf
land, where most needed to enrich thu
soil, untouched, only touching thi'
grass when practically everything els
had been eaten.
More than this. when night CAM
the sheep sought the higher portion
of the field for their resting place an
their droppings there deposited tn
fartility gathered during the day fror
the lower land, thus conveying bac
what had been washed away throug
the process of nature and cultivation
A farm upon which sheep are KEEP
ought to be not only fertile, but ais
evenly fertile.