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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11

10 check cold quickly, get from
your druggist some little Candy Cold
Tablets called Preventics. Druggists
everywhere are now dispensing Pre-
yentics, fer they are not only safe, but
decidedly certain and prompt. Pre-
venrics contain no Quinine, nc Laxative,
nothing rersh nor sickening. Taken al
the 'trnee1e stage" Preyentics viii
prevent Pneumonia, Bronchitis, La
Grippe, etc Hence the name, Proven
Tics Good for feverish children. As
Preventics 25 cents. Trial Boxes Sets.
Sold by Dahl Drug Store.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11

Nearly all Cough Cures, especially
those that contain op,ates, are consti-
pating. Kennedy's Laxative Cough
Syrup contains no opiates and acts
gently on the bowels. Pleasant to take.
Sold by o. E. Davis and A. j. Johnson.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11

Kodol for Indigesti on and Dyspepsia,
a combination of natural digestion and
vegetable acids, digests the food itself
and gives strength and health to the
stomach. Pleasant to take. Sold by
O. E. Davis and A. j. Johnson.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11

uranso Of
la la capable efmng such
uchti ING exec rd ION 20 offerings
}weec consul Il run am Il eaue inc mdethem wnag
famous
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11
MRS. MoOfKs.

(N@S>~4~>~~~~~~~~~-~~~ ~~~~~--~r~~~~-~S~-~s'
Mrs. Wilda Mooers, II. +. d. /,
( bents, Ore, member Order of Wash
) ingtOn, writes:
"For the past four years I was
5 wretehed woman suffering with
( troubles peculiar 10 my sex, causing
{ severe backaehe and bearing down
pains and leaving me so weak and
weary that it was only with diff
flculty that was able to attend to
my household duties. I used differ
ent remedies and injections, but
found no relief until / had tried
PeruHa, Within two weeks there
I was a complete change for the
better and in less than three months
J l was well and happy woman and
I all the praise Is due 10 Peruna.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11

Take De Wits Kidney and Bladder
Pills for backache, weak kidneys and
Inflammation of the bladder. Sold by
O. E. Davis and A. j. Johnson.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11
LIBERTY.

Liberty, September 7-Clara and
Ethel Mccall leave for Viroqua, today,
to resume their duties in the high
school Laura Paulsrud received
visit from her sister, Mrs. Herman
Hottie OF Westby Alice Hayter is
home for a visit till after the fair
Merl Mccall goes today to Viroqua to
enter the high school in that city .....
Frank Gore will resume his duties in
the Viola high scoool . George Store
and j. Paulsrud took load of cheese
from the Liberty factory to Viola, last
Monday -. Ole Wedwick of Harrison
Valley, has gone to Virginia for rest
from farming duties for few months
at least 49,. Sadie Officer has resumed
her duties as teacher in our school at
Liberty Ella Clements win teach in
the Robert Tate school the fall term.
..... Oscar and Lewis Silbaugh and
George White departed for the west a
few days ago in search of work ....
Several from here attended the tent
meeting at Brush Hollow, Sunday. and
had very enjoyable time. 49, Jessie
Craigo departed on Saturday, for
GAINESVILLE after two weeks visit here
with friends and relatives. i. 3: Mrs. Pete
Brigson attended the ladies aid at Mrs.
Anna Peterson ON Thursday. Mrs,
Geo. Jones visited Mrs. Arthur Mccall,
last Monday Threshing time is with
us again Con Favor and Thos. Cos
ling of Viroqua, were callers here.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11

Trial Catarrh treatments are being
mailed out free, on request, by DR..
Shoop, Racine, Wis. These tests are
proving to the people without a
penny's cost the great value of this
scientific prescription known to drug
gists everywhere as DR.. Shops Ca
tarrh Remedy. Sold by Dahl's Drug
Store
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11

Crank:ness is no more an indication
of brains than stinginess is of sound
financial policy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11

If you want to accomplish good
days work do not be in hurry in the
morning.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11

1t is better to be unborn than I'M
taught, for ignorance is the root of
misfortune.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11

is The touch of Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
It 5 the happiest combination of Arnica
flowers and healing balsams ever COM
pounded. No matter how old the sore
or ulcer is, this salve will cure it. For
burns, scalds, cuts, wounds or piles, it S
an absolute cure. Guaranteed by A. j.
Johnson, druggist 25c.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11
The Touch That Heals

Use very little salt in the mash fol
the hens. A little is good for them.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11

1t requires little exertion upon our
part to bring misfortune to ourselves.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11

A small cloud may hide both sun am
moon.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11
The New Pure Food and prua Law.

In time of sickness the soul collects
itself anew.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-09-11

Aver Pills increase the activity Of
the liver, and thus aid recovery.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-11

The national presidency of such an
organization as the Farmers Union
is no small job, as glance at Presi-
dent Barrett's routine will at once de-
monstrate, yet this wiry son of old
Georgia manages to carry most ad-
mirable poise of temper and a graft
flying condition of physical health de-
spite the fact that his meals and his
sleep are perforce most irregular by
reason of the wide range of distance
over which his duties call him.
Brother w. S. Miller, of Lake Creek,
Tex, member of the national board of
directors, accompanied President Bar
rett to Topeka to participate in the
delegate conference and his work was
such as to merit great applause. Broth
er Miller is a good solid Texan-as
solid as the great state from which
he hails-and his speeches before the
conference were noted for their force
and clear manner in which they touch
ed upon the issues under discussion.
The conference was success in ev-
cry particular and the general results
met with hearty approval from the
delegates. There are 140 locals in the
state and thirty-fve of these were
represented, coming from thirteen
counties
The conference was held in the city
council chamber and all of the work
was finished in one day, but in the ev-
ening many of the delegates and sew
eral organizers met President Barrett,
Director Miller and the new state or
ganizer, Brother J. E. McQuillen, at
the Farmers Advocate office, where a
sort of informal love feast was held
and in which there was a general ex-
change of congratulations over the
present bright outlook for the union
in Kansas.
Everybody is now looking ahead to
May 21 and % on which dates state
organization is to be effected
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-11

Should the farmers of America quit
their crops for six months the ma
tiOnal government would be bankrupt
ed before Christmas.
These facts are plainly known to
every economist and statesman of this
nation and of the earth Only the
farmers themselves seem to be ignO-
rant of their own Importance and ter
rible power!
In Kansas, however, where more
than once the farmers have shown
their compelling power whom organ
eager for new battle for their rights
On the 22d of May a State Union will
be formed, and it promises to become
one of the greatest and strongest in
the Union.
The July days are rapidly coming
on here in Georgia, and if the militant
farmers who won the glorious vic
tory of 1906 over the corporations, po-
litical rings and monOpolies, expect to
reap the due results of their revolt
and triumph, they must get together
in their Unions and prepare to make
the Georgia general assembly do the
duties for which it was elected and
instructed.
The corporations and monopolies
are preparing to confuse and defeat
the legislation demanded by the pro-
ducers of Georgia. They must be met,
resisted and defeated at the doors of
the State Capitol.
Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty!" S. W.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-11
GOOD FOR MISSOURI.

The great state of Missouri is now
in the union in a most substantial
and satisfactory manner
President Barrett and other nation
al officers conducted the formalities
incident to state organization at West
Plains on March 20 and it was a most
harmonious and satisfactory affair.
The following officers were elected:
N. H. Summit, Duncan county, vice
J. G. Wear, Butler county, president;
president; L. F. Luthy, Laclede coun-
ty, secretary and treasurer; J. J. Will
son, chaplain; John I. Barrett, Howell;
county, business manager; N w. Fish
er, Mississippi county, state organizer.
Verify the union grows and again we
say, good for old Missouri.-Farmers
Advocate.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-11

year. Such things should not be al
lowed to exist.
We can sight you-but you do not
need to be sighted-to organizations
which require a $12, 500 or even $50
initiation fee with S. to $18 dues to
keep them running, yet we hear moth
ing about graft in those organizations.
They are all right, we have no kick
on them; but if anyone should pretend
to exact two dollars from any man to
join farmers organization he should
be ducked under the ice. Honest now,
shouldn't he?
What nonsense! Whenever you hear
anyone talking such stuff you can
make up your mind to one of two
things. Either that person has a 2x4
intellect or he is getting a good deal
more than two dollars from the trusts
to do the talking. The trusts are
spending hundreds of thousands of
dollars to break up the Farmers I'm
ion movement. We can cite you one
instance where they have placed $780,
600 in one lump. But the organiza-
tlon will not down. You just watch
it.
Now, We will not lose our respect
for man if he opposes this move
ment. He can do so and be thorough
ly honest. But he can not be honest
and trump up the two dollar initiation
fee as being graft, because if he has
an ounce of brains he will know that
no man could make any big thing at
that kind of a deal. There is occa-
sionally 25c railroad fare, 15c meal
or 81 or so livery hire, and then
once in long time a man who works
such a graft has to buy a $40 "hand-
me-down" suit of clothes just the same
as the fellow who feels so bad about
his neighbors being grated for that
two dollars.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-11
POWER OF THE UNION.

National President Barrett has been
out west with the farmers of Missouri
and Kansas.
At West Plains, in the former state,
he organized a State Union and found
the agriculturists Of that great state
enthusiastic for the Unions extension
and growth into invincible numbers.
They realize that they belong to the
calling which was first ordered by the
Almighty, and upon whose products all
communal life, civilization, national
power and prosperity inevitably de-
pend. They begin to understand that
all artificial life and commerce Of the
nation is founded on the fruits Of the
farmers fields. Let a hundred thou
sand farmers quit work for a month
and New York, Chicago and Boston
would be shedding blood in bread riots
before the next snow flies!
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-11
Roster of National and State
Officers

Arkansas-J. B. Lewis, president,
Jonesboro, Ark; Ben L. Griffin, secre.
tary-treasurer, Conway, Ark.
Indiahoma-J. A. West, President,
Shawnee, 0. T.; B. G. Hanson, secre-
tary-treasurer, Shawnee, o. T.
louisiana. N. Holmes, president,
Bernice, L.; ]. w. Boyett, Jr., sec
treasurer, Tanhill, La.
Mississippi-J. NJ Bass, president;
Hazlehurst, Miss; G.. w. Russell, Sec
retary-treasurer, Hazlehurst, Miss.
Tennessee. e. Montgomery, pres
ident, Greenfield, Tenn; j. T. Brooks,
secretary-treasurer, Atwood, Tenn.
Texas-E. A. Calvin, president. Dal.
las, Texas; B. F. Chapman, secretary
treasurer, Dallas, Texas.
South Carolina-O. P. Goodwin,
president, Anderson, S. c.; B. F.
Earl, secretary-treasurer, Anderson,
South Carolina.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-11
MACHINES AND MEN,
(The Florida Times-Union.

(Ino FLORIDA I1meS-Un1On.)
The farmer is often reproved for
urging that it costs more to grow crops
than it did before; that where the
father made money on ten cent cotton
the son must starve. Very true, but
is not the trouble that the son in
sists on spending more than his faith
er thought necessary? Now the stand
ard Of living has constantly advanc-
ed, and what were luxuries to the faith
er the son considers necessities, and
We would not have it otherwise. If the
son could not live better than his
father did, there would be something
rotten in Denmark, for it would prove
that we had not progressed in the
most essential of all particulars, but
this fact does not prove that it costs
more to grow crop now than it did
fifty years ago. On the contrary 1t
costs less when the thought is equal
ly good.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-11
THE KANSAS CONFERENCE.
Farmers Advocate, Topeka.) }

(Farmers Advocate, Topeka.)
The able work of President G. S. Bar
rett in presiding over the delegate con-
ference held in Topeka, March %, has
demonstrated more than ever the ca
pability of the man for the high po-
sition he holds.
Always calm and conservative, fair
and decisive in his rulings, President
Barrett graces the chair with rare dig
nifty and ability.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-11
THAT TWO DOLLARS.
(Sylvan Grove, Kan, News.

(Sylvan Grove, Kan, News.)
A Mr.. Somebody seems to be won
derfully worried about the two dollars
that his neighbor is paying to join
the Farmers Union. Now, that some
body is just about too small to notice,
but the fact that it is such a small
thing makes it all the more disgusting.
Two dollars! The idea that anyone
should be asked to pay two dollars
for the privilege of joining an or
ganizatiop of farmers. What an out
rage it is for any man to be held up
for two dollars to help support an or
ganization whose object is to get for
the farmer five or ten cents per bushel
more for his crop of wheat-say 1000
bushels at five cent raise-$50 per
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-11
FIX QUANTITY AND PRICE.

FIX GUAM lily AND PRICE.
The problem of 1907 with the cotton
growers of the south will be the hand
ling of the crop. Appeals to them to
reduce acreage will affect some of the
most sensible and patriotic among
them, but it is doubtful that any sub
stantial lessening of acreage will oc-
cur this year Drought, flood, boil
weevil and lack of labor may do more
all these are incidents whose effects
can neither be calculated nor discount
ed in advance. The best work there
fore, that the Farmers Union can do
is to prepare the way for such busi-
nesslike handling of the gathered crop
as will absolutely control the bulk of it
and fix the price for the whole of it.
Unless the prosperity Of the cotton
farmers of late years has been alb
sorbed in paying ancient debts, or con-
sumed in luXuries or by speculatiOns,
the mass of the farmers in almost any
given locality of the south, by full or
ganizatiOn and strict obedience to the
plans of the organization, should be able
this coming fall to fix the price of their
cotton and hold it, without distress to
themselves, until the spinners pay
that price to the fullest farthing.
Do not be deceived by either one Of
the two speciOus cries used by the cot
ton middlemen and mill men to con-
fuse and deceive the cotton producer.
In the first instance they will fill the
air and the newspapers with masses
of figures to prove that the world at
large is Just aching" for cotton; that
the demand for cotton goods is increas-
ing all the way from Manchester to
the canal workers on the planet Mars.
They wish to impress the farmer with
the idea that he cannot plant too
much cotton, any more than a miner
can produce too much gold bullion
"the children cry for it everywhere"
But behind that spring-o f-the-year
cry is hiding the mournful ram's-horn
from which, in the fall-of-the-year,
these same conspirators will be toot-
ing the lamentation of "OverprOduc-
tion," while they hammer the price of
the raw cotton below the cost Of pro
ductiOn.
The farmers need organization and
self-education upon the facts of their
calling They should learn the truth
in their own way and securely know
the facts. And whether they over
plant or overproduce, let them find the
sure way to determine how much cot
ton shall go on the market and at what
price. The balance can be safely
warehOused to wait until the world
demand" grows up to it.
That is business sense! And that is
the plan of the cotton farmers saliva
ton! S. w. S.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-11
NATIONAL OFFICERS.

G. S. Barrett, president, Atwater
Georgia.
]. E. Montgomery, vice-president
Gleason, Tenn.
R. H. Mccullough, secretary-treas-
urer, Beebe, Ark.
L. N. Holmes, chaplain, Bernice,
Louisiana.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-11
STATE OFFICERS.

Georgia Headquarters-BarnesvilIe..
r. F. uckworth-President
w. P. Quinby-Vice-Pres
J. L. Barron-Secretary Treasurer.
]. L. Lee-State Organizer.
G. M. Davis-Lecturer
J. G. Eubanks-State Business
Agent.
Alabama. A. Worley, president,
Guin, Ala; E. J. Cook, secretary treas
urer, Pell City, Ala.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-04-04
Pointed Paragraphs.

No, Alouzo, all the musical
cranks are not attached to
hand organs.
Early to bed and early to rise
makes a man healthy, wealthy
Or otherwise.
A widows mite is spelled
mig hit when she makes up
her mind to marry again.
Love Is not always the least
harmful of the various intoxi.
cants that make the world :go
round.
Next spring many a man who
is old enough to know better
will pose as an amatuer gar
dener.
It's just as well to know
when to forego an advantage as
IL IS 10 know when TO grasp an
opportunity.
One sentence of a police mag.
istrate Is more effective than a
dozen sentences banded out by
a political orator.
A man may be failure with
out knowing it, but if he is a
success he not only knows it
himself but let's everybody else
know it.
When a man attributes his
success to the taking advantage
of an opportunity the opportu-
nifty is usually but another
names for an easy mark.-Chi-
cago News.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-04-04

a young clerk at Old Salem the
name of the river and of the
county known as Sangamon
lacked tie final "n." But as
"Sapgamo" see med awkward to
the vUcals organs of the Amer.
icau pioneers the present form
was sdopted-so gradually,
however, that Linculn's biogra.
pher. Rcrndon, was unable to
place the exact time at which 1t
received general acceptance.
The first settlers in what was
then the western.most county of
Virginia wrote and pronounced
the name as if il were ken
tuck-ee," and continued going
so until an act OF the Virginia
Legislature was received in
which the name was spelled
with finally instead of tbe'ee.
Legislative declarations as 10
the proper pronunciation of
State names are valuable rec
ords of State history only when
they are based on the conclu-
sions Of commission of histori.
ans and philologists. as Was
that of the Arkansas Legisla-
ture in 1881. But popular pro-.
nunciation changes with the gen.
erations. and is superior alike to
Legislatures and photographers.
The Arkansas Legislature, for
iDs,ar &c, accepted the report of
the learned commission which
had asc-rIained that the name
of the State. historically and
philologlcaIly, should be Ark
n.sa'.-the final IA having the
broad sound. And yet. it is doubt
fNl ii any man can be elected to
Office in the Bear State who
doesn't call it "Ark-an-saw."
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-04-04
Horses SnoMshOes in Dakota.

Horses wear snowshoes III Da-
kota in winter. Thus equipped,
they trot lightly over drifts
wherein they would otherwise
SINK out of sight.
In some parts of Dakota the
snow lies all winter long eight
or ten feet deep. But a crust
forms on it, and with suowshoes
men skim over it easily, Lately
their snowshod horses have also
SKINNED over il.
The equine snowshoes are
made of boards 90 inches loug
and IA inche wide. An indenta
tIUn to fit the foot is branded on
each board with a hot horseshoe
and the contrivance is fastened
on to the boof with an iron
clamp and bolt.
After day or two of practice
a Dakota horse becomes an ex-
pert snoWshoer Minneapolis
Journal.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-04-04
Ill El.NOY" AND "ARK-AN.SA."

If the II linois Legislature
should pass Representative
Murray's bill declaring that the
name OF the State should be pro-
nounced as If spelled ''Il.linoy,"
with the accent on the last syl-
liable, it would come very near
making Official record of the vo.
cables by which the State was
know to the early French voy-
agenrs.
The State takes ITS name from
the / llini Indians, whose wig
vans were in the upper part of
the valley of the Illinois River
when that region was first Wis.
tied by Marquette and Joliet.
by La Sale, Tonti and Henpe.
pin, in their exploration of the
Mississippi from Lake Michigan
to the Gulf of Mexico. some two
centuries and a quarter ago.
But the snort termination of
the Indian name did not roll
smoothly from French tongues,
and by degrees the suffix lois"
was added tor the sake of euph.
ony. And as the sound of 10y"
is about as near as the Ameri.
can vernacular can convenient
ly come to the sound of the Ere.
nch "ois," Mr.. Murray's bill re-
cords a fact in Illinois history
that 10 worth preserving and
popularising.
In tracing the Indian originals
of many modern names OF local
titles It must always be remem.
bered that many arbitrary addi-
tious or changes tor the sake OF
speech were made by French
and American pioneers.
When Abraham Lincoln was
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-04-04
Anything To ObllEe.

The clerk was most obhging,
but the youny woman customer
was hard to please. Roll after
roll of blankets did he patient.
ly take down and show to her;
nothing suited.
For some fifteen minutes this
mock sale went on, then the
young woman said condesceud-
ingly: "Well, I don. t intend to
buy. I was just looking for a
friend"
wait a moment. madam"
cried the clerk. There is one
more blanket left on The shelf.
Maybe you will find your friend
in it,"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-04-04
A Railroad Mans Prayer.

An old railroad employee was
converted at a meeting and was
asked to lead in prayer. He
hesitated a moment-theu with
trembling. but clear resounding
voice he said reverently; 20,
Lord; now that I have tagged
Thee. lift up my feet from the
rough road of life and plant
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-04-04
Come Again, Mr.. "SouareDeaIer.

Barney Sheridan of the KIN
sas City Post Dem Is warm an
der the collar muCntur Cu.idi,
by the way because Gov. Folk
overlooked his doubleleaded ad
vice not to call an extra session
for the Legislature. 1t is never
possible sor Bro. Sheridan, how
ever, to approve such a polite
an IS Folk. He prefers the Tom =
Kelly sort.-Topeka Capital.
The above is rather fresh.
coming as it does from a Repub.
lican editor who "squaredealt"
the city treasury of Topeka out
of So, $50. through padded vouch.
ers. and evaded prosecution by
paying the money oAck-got off
easy through the Intervention of
Republican politicians who are
now blatant Square dealers"
of Sunflower politics.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-04-04
The Kicker Kicked.

All that Governor Folk is
getting or will get out of this
legislature even his worst enc
mics will hardly begrudge him.
His pet measures are made foot
balls OF, which every little ma
chine Democrat who has the
chance takes delight in kicking
through the Legislature tran.
SONS Springfield Republican.