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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
Fine of 800 TOWN
the Rock Island R mile school, good level Good
cattle
cattle
several outbuidngs
Price $4,000 Journal
IS Acres at 500

Our No. 327. Three miles from r.
r. station, six miles from junction on
main line Rock Island. Rolling prai
RE, good soil, small improvements,
close to school and r F. d. A very
fine spring. Five hundred payment,
balance on long time.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
800 Acres at sos
To own this Farm would cause you
to remark, "lt's worth SIS, and
no man can get 1t for less"

No. 3O6. 800 acres miles from good
town, level roads, mile to school
100 acres bottom land, no overflow,
balance rolling, all could be farmed ex-
cept about 20 acres, 20 acres fine timber,
buildings and feed yards in timber, an
ideal stock and grain farm, has produced
80 bushels of corn per acre and will do it
yet. Price $65. per acre. Will take 80,
100 or 100 in exchange, good 5 room
house, barns, cribs, finely watered.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
A MODEL HOME
1t Can't be Duplicated in
Iowa for the Price,
500 per Acre.

No. 21O. 12o acres at s. 90. 3
miles from two good towns, Z miles
from fine town on main line of Rock
Island Ry, 1 mile to school, R. F. d.
at door, phone in house, lays some
what rolling but not rough, 100 acres
can be cultivated, balance good pas
ture land. All good soil, all fenced
with woven wire, two pastures, fields
hog tight. some orchard, plenty small
fruit, all in high state of cultivation.
TX story house 16x2S, barn 2Sx32 and
shed, wood house and other outbuild-
ings, cistern at house, deep we'll and
wind mill, small price and easy
terms. It's worth $4,000 per acre.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
Do You Need An Eighty

A very choice 80 acres for sale
All under cultivation. Lays we'll.
Good house, barn and sheds. Near
school. Fine new hog house. Near
good town, splendid roads. Cheap
at $75 90 On Rock Island Mail Line.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
IOWA DIRT
Short Quarter Near Thrifty Town On
Main Line of the Rock Island

No. W. All in crop. corn and oats,
fine pasture, fine spring piped to
house and yards, ROAD two sides,
house, granary, barn, beautiful grove,
and orchard. Near neighhors, no
waste land, ono mile to school. Take
it before the advance that is coming.
Small payment, long time on balance.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
A MODEL FART
Why Go to Canada and Leave
Such Bargains at Home.

A 6. $50 acres at $40 per acre.
One of the finest stock and grain
farms in the county, 51a miles from
a good town on main line of railroad,
40 rods to school, R. F. D. at door,
close to church. good neighborhood,
160 acres fine, almost level farm land
in cultivation. Deep black Iowa dirt,
no sand, no stone, no burs, 100 acres
of brush and timber pasture, all well
set to bluegrass, finely watered,
springs, deep wells and wind mill, 2
tanks, hog pasture lots, etc, big young
orchard, all kinds Of small fruit, q
monster barn 66xSO, almost few and
stone foundation, cattle sheds, hog
house, cribs, granary, double corn
crib, wood and coal sheds, fine
house, 2 story, stone cellar 9 feet
deep, an ideal location. $4,000 to $4,000.
Balance easy terms.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
Will Take Good Residence
In Extra or Audubon to
amount Of 100000 in
Exchange on this Farm.

No. III. 200 acres at s45,
about one.half in cultivation,
about 20 acres tame grass,
balance pasture with oak
grubs. Good comfortable
farm buildings located near
center of land, located near
two fine springs that supply
house and barn lots. This
land is only one-half mile
from railway station and four
from station on main line of
Rock Island. Price s45 per
acre; will carry SIS, 800 for a
term of ten years.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26

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The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01
SMART AID ARTISTIC COATS.
Suggestions of Spring Models Are
Most Pleasing.

The Directoire coats, as designed
for this next season, are wonderfully
artistic in conception, but depend
largely upon the figure and pose of
their wearer to make them as smart
as they are intended to be. One just
arrived from the other side shows a
duh blue silk With bolero blouse front.
This bolero is gathered closely at the
waist-line, so that the front is drawn
around to the sides, and from there
falls in two deep plaits to the knees.
The back is plated in similar manner,
caught in at the high waist-line with
a green gold buckle, the plaits escap-
ing in folds, which terminate in a sin
gle point some two or three inches
lower than the sides. The sleeves are
short, reaching only to the elbow, and
formed of box plaits, caught two
inches from the bottom, and left to
fare. There is a eve collar, pointed
in the back; the coat Is edged with
chenille ball fringe, and is altogether
wonderfully smart, and typical of
modes to come. Made of contrasting
materials, these bolero Jackets. and
particularly those with the skirts,
are especially effective, and are bound
The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01
THE STIRRING or THE SOIL.
It Is the Hinge Upon Which All Con-
ditions Revolve.

The breaking and stirring Of the soil
depth is the hinge upon which all the
other conditions ~revolve. The soil is
the home of the roots of the plants,
and this depth not only gives them
room in which to grow and spread
themselves, but assists ~favorably all
the ministering agencies which prop
erly supply these roots with food for
the plants. 1t conserves the moisture,
prevents washing and teaching, let's
in the sunshine and air to do their
beneficial work, and gives room and
favorable conditions for the develop
ment of all living bacteria which pro-
duce nitrates in the soil and increase
in other ways the soils productive
ness. Nitrogen is used by plants in
the form of nitrate, and many COM
pounds have to be broken up and
changed into nitrates. Depth Of soil
promotes or allows free circulation OF
air, which is very essential. Plant
roots, like fish, must have air as well
as water, in which to live and thrive.
Then, too, it allows the power of sun
sine to have full sway and stimulate
rapid growth. 1t keeps the mechan-
ical condition of the land right for
both heat and moisture to do their
perfect work.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01
To Render Plant Food Available

The majority of our southern farm
ing land is upland. Chemically there
is not so much difference in a cubic
foot of top rich soil and a cubic foot
Of clay two or three feet deep as you
would suppose. Both have nearly the
same amount of plant food, but in the
soil it is more available. To render
plant food available is one Of the
prime offices of the farmer, says a
writer in the Southern C%ultivator, ans
all the factors that tend to do this
and to increase this food supply in
the soil are of the utmost Importance
to him. Now, what are the factors
that regulate this food supply in our
upland soil? They are (a) depth OF
soil, (b) fineness of soil, (c) humus
in the soil, (d) wates ana its work.
(e) sunshine and it. work, () the
air and it's work, (g) living forms and
their work.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01
SEVER Pillow WHEN WET.
Break Land Thoroughly and Deeply
For Corn.

Land should be thoroughly and deep
ly broken for corn. cotton requires
a more compact soil than corn, and
while a deep soil Is essential to its
best development, it will not produce
as well on loose, open land, while corn
does best on land thoroughly broken.
A deep soil will not only produce o
heavily than a shallow soil with good
seasons, but it will stand more wet,
as we'll as more dry weather.
In preparing for the corr crop, land
should be broken broadcast during the
winter o~ne-fourth deeper than it has
been plowed before, or If much vege-
table matter is being turned under, it
may be broken one-third deeper. This
is as much deepening as land will usu-
ally stand in one year and produce
we'll, though it may be continued each
year, so long as much dead vegeta-
BILE matter is being turned under. It
may, however, be SUBSIDIZED to any
depth by following in potion of turn
pillow furrow, provided no more of the
subsoil than has been Girected is
turned up. Break with two-horse
pillow if possible, or better, with disc
pillow. With the latter cotton stalks
or corn stalks as large as We ever
make can be turned under without
having been chopped, and in peavines
it will not choke or drag.
Sever pillow land when It is wet, II
you expect ever to have any use for it
again.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01
TRUE SPIRIT OF COURTESY.
Impulse Prompted by Owners Noble
ness Of Heart.

Courtesy Is a quality OF the heart
and suggests a forgetfulness of self, a
refinement and delicacy of tempera-
ment that prompts the charming act
as impulse.
The gentle spirit OF courtesy be-
trays itself in the ann of address
ing a servant or a weary assistant be-
hind the counter as well as friends
and acquaintances. A lack of courtesy
often results from a mistaken idea as
to ones own Importance. The thought
is born in the heart; but a false idea
of independence presents action. 1t
merely is an act of courtesy and q
mark of %nobleness of mind voluntarily
to resign ones right in favor Of an
other.
1t Is the same mistaken idea that
confuses ~frankness with rudeness. It
is a virtue not to resort to the many
petty receptions that mar II social
system. While we turn with disgust
from the woman who bids her friend
an affectionate farewell one moment
and breathes a sigh of relief at her de-
parture the next, we can but admit
that a truly courteous heart will re-
frain from speaking an unpleasant
truth without imperiling the persons
veracity.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01

They are very rich in ammonia, but
deficient in p%hosphoric acid. The best
way to use seed is to mix them with
acid, or put the seed down in the
furrow and drill at the rate of 200 OF
acid phosphate per acre. A 1O-4 acid
will give a complete and high-grade
fertilizer. To get best results with
least labor drill down ten bushels cot
tonseed per acre and then put down
200 pounds of acid phosphate and list
on them before planting. putting the
seed deep enough to prevent sprout-
ing. Then plant cotton and corn above
them. To highly and at same
time cheaply for sandy land add 200
pounds of German kainit n drill
400 pounds per acre un the c%ottonseed.
This would not cost more than So
per acre in cash outlay ana ought to
give a bale per acre on all land well
prepared and cultivated, or if put in
corr should yield from 80 to 40 bush
els per acre.-Southern Cultivator.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01

to be popular, fashioned of all-over
embroidered linen, worn with n of
the pretty simple skirts. Another sug-
gestion for spring models is the Resto-
ration, or one-piece effect, which par
takes of some of the characteristics of
both Directoire and Empire. In it the
waist-line is just below the bust, and
is always defined either by a belt or
some arrangement which clearly stim-
ulates one, as tucks, straight rows of
braid, or a bias fold. From under
meath this hangs a long, straight skirt,
plain, as is the whole costume, except
for a broad band of fiat embroidery
down either side of the skirt. The
model shows the new shoulder treat
ment, the sleeve cap being a continual
ton of the upper part of the waist,
and cut without a seam. The long
shoulder is well defined in n way or
another in all the advance designs
that have been shown, and most of the
models are given the short, or three
quarter sleeve, eve in tailored effects.
To accompany the sloping shoulders
and blousing fronts, we are to have
the position back. That does not lea
that it is to be used only with the
blouse coat, for, on the contrary, quite
a feature will be made of cut-a-way
coats and boleros, which swing loose
in front, in connection with this postil-
ion back.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01
Jabots and Chemisettes.

To wear with the plain black or
dark blue cloth or serge costumes
which are so smart and useful, a most
attractive style of waist is made OF
crepe de Chine or chiffon cloth, trim
med with narrow pipings or folds OF
taffeta. Either the chemisette of lace
or lingerie, with cuffs to match, fin
ishes the waist or it is worn with one
of the new jabots or ties that are SO
popular this season. Crepe de Chine
and chiffon cloth are excellent ear
ing materials and for the many times
when a dark waist is required with a
plain costume there is nothing so salts
factory, and it is possible to obtain
quite a variety of design in the trim
ming Of taffeta. Velvet ribbon a be
used for the trimming also, but it is
by no mean so practical as the silk.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01
FAR1ER AND PLANTER
~ALL-coTToN
An Alabama Man Who Believes There
10 Something Better.

The year of our Lord 1906 demon
s4rated, certainly to every thinking
man, the utter foolishness Of "all-cot-
ton" farming. A late spring and an
extra early frost for us, together with
a bumper crop west of the Missis-
sippi river, ought to be a plenty to
teach us this lesson, as this may oc-
cur again any year, writes an Ala
bama farmer.
like to have some other money crop
besides cotton, but know of nothing
else to make"
Said I: Make butter"
Said he: Make butter?"
YES" | replied, make butter"
"Well,' said he, I'll never make
butter for my living"
This conversation shows where the
trouble lies: A large per cent OF our
people are gone clean daft in their
worship of King Cotton.
They follow him up and they follow
him down,
Each eager to place on his head a
crown;
The King gives back from his throne
in the town,
In the spring a smile, in the fall a
frown.
1t also shows the general prejudice
Of our people against dairying, and
their utter ignorance of it's great pos
sibilities. 1t remains for those who
have seen the light, and felt the jingle
of the golden dollar that gilt-edge
butter brings, to turn on the light
and keep it turned on until 1t shall
penetrate our section. We need a
campaign of education on this line to
drill into many more of our farmers
the great fact that our soil, our cli-
mate and our environments are adapt
ed to this line of farming.
A few years ago a man l knew
commenced to make butter to sell
from perhaps a half dozen COWS. He
had always been riding in an old
shackly shack, but in a snort while
he bought for his family a nice new
carriage, and paid for it with butter
money. On their first drive to church
some mischievous fellow wrote on the
back of 1t:
Who would have thought
What butter would have bought?"
Now, l know hundreds of farmer
families that need new carriages, and
scores of other new things, many OF
them not the Injuries, but the neces-
stiles of life; and l also know that
they will never get them with their
present mode of farming.
I commend to them the example OF
the man mentioned above.
Now, while I have great faith in
the possibilities of this line OF farm
ing, / am not unaware of the fact that
there are many difficulties in the way.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01
Valua of the Newspaper.

Some Republican congressman were
discussing the presidents suggestion
to shut out from the mails such Jews
papers as have been printing indecent
details of the Thaw trial in New
York. Mr.. Littleield of Maine in
dulged in a general review of the
press, it's powers, functions and priv
ileges. IF it were not for the vigilant
press of this country, with it's trained
corps of representatives in Washing
ton" he said, Il don't know whether
l would care to serve in congress. My
experience here has taught me that
the newspapers perform a service OF
inestimable value to the country. l
sometimes think that congress would
drift into many excuses If the press
gallery were not here to keep US in
bounds"
The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01
ALL COIFFURES HIGH
LoW-DREssED HEAD NOW THING
OF THE PAST.
Some of the Modes Are Trying and
Not Altogether Pretty-Sketches
of Ornaments That Are
Popular.

The low-dressed head is a thing of
the past. Every fashionable couture is
high, and there is a great vogue in
hair ornaments. All sorts of pretty
things are reQuisitioned for the decora-
tion of the hair, back-combs playing
an important part in the scheme OF
adornment, while such tribes as high
bows of ~spangled and p~ailletted net
and lace, butterflies of velvet and Sc
quins, semi-wreaths of flowers and
foliage, knots of roses, wisps OF tulle,
and plumes of various kinds are more
or less worn. According to present
fashions the hair is drawn up high
from the nape of the neck, fixed mid
way with an ornamental comb, and ar
ranged in various fancy ways on the
top of the head, the decree being that
the dressing shall be forward for the
winter season. The hair in front Is
either thrown well over the forehead
or drawn straight up from the brow in
a series of ~puff-curls, the couture
shelving off sharply at the back. in a
way that, it must be admitted, is
sometimes very trying, and far from
pretty. The really artistic couture is so
arranged that it forms a sort of frame
to the face; but the ultra-smart are
prone to lose sight of the artistic ele-
ment in their mode of couture, think
ing only of the Importance of illustrat-
ing the last word in Embarrassing fash
ions. Nothing could be uglier than
some of the modes of couture that are
reckoned as smart where the hair is
dragged up to the top of the head in a
way that is at once hard, ~ungraceful,
The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01

or take an interest in the surround
ings thereof.
Home trading makes home indus
tries, brings more to the town and
keeps them there, and it helps to build
up the place. But the town will be at
a stand-still SO long as the people per-
sist in this way of robbing the home
merchants of the right to live and do
business among them.
If the people will keep their money
at home there will be no need for
complaint. The place will assume a
lively air, it will take on a m%etrcpoli-
tan look. and the people will say to
their neighbor that business is good,
and it will be, as long as the people
continue to trade in the home mar
kets. The least that a person can do
toward the betterment of the COM
munity and his own interests, Is to
keep the money at home and see to it
that it is put where it is most needed
and wanted.
This should be a vital question to
all concerned in the welfare of his
community and it should be an estab-
lished rule that one should not seek
for things in other parts that he can
get at home.
FENTON J. LAWLER.
The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01

be turned down by the teller OF these
articles when he wants anything in
the merchants line. He should be the
first one to be consulted when the
farmer intends buying. He should be
seen and arrangements made for the
purchase OF the article, If he does not
carry 1t in stock.
The home merchant advertises or
should advertise, in the home paper.
This keeps the home paper in the held
and helps the community along. The
people take the home paper because
it gives all the local news that they
cannot get any other way and thus the
advertisements of the merchants are
read by them. If the people do not
patronize the home merchant he can
not afford to advertise, and without
advertising a paper will soon prove a
failure. Soon the home paper is sent
to the wall for the want of support
from the merchants; it may have a
large circulation, but without the mer-
chants help it will soon be lost to
sight. Then the merchant is next to
get out of business for the want OF
support, and the town will decrease in
population, and the people will won
der what the trouble is when the
editor and the merchant leave town
together.
The home merchant contributes to
the support of the church, he pays
his taxes to keep the schools up, ne
contributes to the horse show, the fall
festival, and the hundred and one
things that he is supposed to help out
and give his support to. He is at the
head of the list for everything that is
for the good of the community and he
deserves the honest and hearty CO.
operation of all the people, all the
time, that are interested in the well
fare of the community in which they
live. The merchant helps to elect the
men that are to represent them in the
city, county, state and national af-
fairs, and he is ever on the go looking
to the interests of the people.
The people like to be entertained
and they will come many miles to
some amusement given by the mer-
chants Of the town where they are
ever ready to go to sell their farm
products. The merchant cannot give
these entertainments unless he has
the support of the people and it is not
fair to expect this Of the men that are
striving for a livelihood, when the peo-
Pile send their money to a concern in
some far away city that will neither
contribute to any of these enterprises
The Tupelo journal., 1907-03-01

that they are in reality paying more
for an inferior grade of goods than
those sold by the home merchant,
which probably cost them a few cents
more.
Since the catalogue house has
sprung into the commercial world and
begun operations in the United States,
all kinds of schemes have been tried
and worked to get the money from
the people that are always looking for
bargains. No expense has been spared
in their struggle for the almighty o
lar of the country people, and they
have been so far successful, at the
great expense Of the home town of the
people that sent their money to these
%ncern
Magazines have been started for
the sole benefit of the catalogue house,
and these circulated among the coun-
try people at ten or Is cents a year.
They build up a circulation on this
low price of hundreds of thousands;
this circulation brings to them mil
lions of dollars in advertising from the
catalogue houses and this money ex-
pended for advertising is more than
doubled from the sales of these con-
Germs to the country people who are
losers by the transaction.
Catalogues are sent out telling the
people that the house from which they
came is the cheapest place in the
country to buy, and it is, if the person
receiving this catalogue wants a cheap
article, not only in price, but also in
make and material. The farmer re-
ceives this catalogue, looks it over,
and after reading the well composed
guarantee or assurance that the goods
described in it are the very best that
can be found anywhere, sends in an
order. The house receives the order
and Immediately ships the articles
wanted. The farmer drives many
miles to get them and when the box Is
opened it is found to contain some
thing much below his expectations,
but this does not satisfy his mind on
the fact that he has been duped and
that he is not getting his full money
value. In a second order he may be
treated the same as the first one, but
still he may think that he has saved
money by buying it where he could
get it cheap.
At the same time the merchant at
home has the goods on the shelf in
mis- store waiting for them to be taken
away so that he can replace them with
newer goods, thereby keeping his
stock fresh and ~up-to-date. If he has
not the article wanted he a order it
from the wholesaler or manufacturer
and it will be sent to the purchaser
in as good condition and short time
as if it had been ordered from a cata-
logue house. The home merchants
business must be kept up and in order
to do this it is absolutely necessary
that the people at home patronize
him and help him keep up with the
times, or else he will o be out OF
the struggle for existence among the
country people.
The home merchant should not be
expected to pay the highest price for
produce and farm products and then