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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-30

favor Of the selection of John r.
Lynch. the first negro ever selected to
preside over national convention as
temporary chairman.
The nominees of this convention
were James G. Blaine of Maine for
president and John A. Logan of Hi
nois for vice president. =
At the convention of 1888 in Chi
cago Chauncey NJ. Depcw was Il lead
ing candidate. John Sherman and
Blaine were also far to the front
in the running Colonel Ingersoll was
there, but he was strongly opposed to
the nomination of his Planned Knight"
Blaine was travelling in Europe at the
time Ingersoll favored Judge Walter
@. Gresham "of indiana and Illinois,
John Sherman led on the first and
second ballots. Depew, who ran
fourth, then withdrew. Ore delegate
voted for Mckinley. who arose and
declared that he was for John Sher-
| man and could not permit his name to
go before the convention. After Il
struggle LASTING six days Depaw's New
York strength was thrown to Benja-
min Harrison, who received the nom
nation for president. with Levi 2.
| Morton of New York as the vice presi-
Dental nominee.
/ William Mckinley was permanent
chairman and J. Sloat Fassett of New
York temporary chairman of the 1885,
convention in Minneapolis beginning
June 8. In this convention for the
first time women delegates sat. two o!
that sex bong accredited from tho
state of Wyoming, where women vote
Speaker Thomas 3. Reed was spec
tator in Exposition hall. close to tht
falls of st. Anthony, on the Missis
sippi river. where the convention sat
Mr.. Depew also was there with {
speech. Mckinley was "the most dra
matte figure in the hall. the man VIII,
looks like Napoleon" President Har
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-30

idency Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was
nominated on the second ballot, his
chief competitor being Cassius MARCEL
lus Clay of Kentucky.
In 1864 the convention met in Balti-
more June Z, the temporary chairman
being the venerable Rev. DIR. Robert J.
Breckenridge Of Kentucky. William
DennisQn of Ohio was permanent
chairman. The Front Street theater
was the meeting place, and the body.
was called by some northerners the
National Union convention. prescrva-
ton of the Union being the paramount
issue. Lincoln was renominated for
president on the first ballot
The celebrated PEARSON" Brownlow Of
Tennessee placed before the house for
the vice presidency the name Of An
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-30

riSon was re-
nominated on
the first ballot.
and for vice
p L e S i d e n t
Whitelaw Reid,
editor of the
New York Trib-
une, was named
unanimo on sly.
Dope S elO-
Quent speech in
IL o IN / II a t ing
Harrison was
the hit of the
co n V e n t ion.
b | a n e again
was placed In
nomination, re-
ceivin g 1S2
votes. McKin-
ley, t h on 6 h
chairman, re-
ceiyed 1872 votes
fer the nomina-
ton. Harrison
and Reid were
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-30


Etude Club Annual Meeting.-The
annual meeting and closing study re-
cital of the Etude club was held Thurs
day afternoon at the home of Miss
Selma Drumming, Davenport. The otfi-
GERS for the past year were reelected,
as follows
President-Mrs. j. M. Sherier.
Vice President-Mrs. Frederick Rel
mers of Rock Island.
Second Vice President-Miss Elsie
Haak.
Secrctary-Miss Selma Stolley.
Treasurer-Miss Pauline Dittman.
Librarian-Miss Hattie Jordan.
Program Committee Miss Hattie
Jordan, Miss Frieda Schricker of Dav-
EXPORT Miss Gertrude Carse of Rock
Island.
The program was given by Miss Ger
trude Carse, Mrs Slaughter, Miss Erie
da Schricker, Carl Martzahn, with Miss
Elsie Haak and Miss Drumming as ac-
companists. The annual picnic of the
club will be. given at Fejervary park
June Is, which will formally close the
season. ~
Morgan Lyford. - The marriage OF
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-30

tiOnal con-
vention of the
Republican par
ty will meetJ June
IL in the Coli
scum at Chica-
go to nominate
candidates for
president q II d
vice president of
t h e L n i t G d
States. Among
the well known
men who in all
prni,alilitv will
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-30
SOCIAL AFFAIRS

ISociety news, written or telephoned
to the society editor of The Argus, will
he gladly received and published. But
In either case the identity OF the serdcr
must be made known, to insure relia-
biIity Written notices must bear sig
nature and address,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-15
The Plan

For many years this Company has been issuing
covering certain period Of time. These instaIments
bear per Compound interest, the of
the term repay you the entire in GoId-the in
stalnents plus per cent. compound interest.
To introduce our 10 year bonds throughout Indiana,
will sell 1000 of them under a special proposition;
100 of these bonds have been allotted to Richmond.
These 10 year bonds $3.50 per for 10
years; of $4,000. then bond
n1ond EVERY DOLLAR received this plan
PLY ENTIRE toward HOMES
FOR OUR BoNDHoLDERs.
Thus after selling the hundred bonds monthly
from Richmond will be $4,000. This company
will add, each month, just twice this s1,32ooo
making $3.50 in ALL and apply the entire
ward building house No. 1.
This house will be erected any location desired
by the bondhcIder, and sold Bondhoder I,
any payment down except monthly charge not
to exceed $500, which applies payment
home. It is not necessary to a lot
continue building until the first 100 bondholders have
been provided with homes. It remember
ed that many other bonds will
eli Of the original to secure their property
without any great delay.
AS the bonds bought you will be qiven your
number. that you will know definitely regarding
time which may eIapse before conmenonq work on
your property.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-05-15
The Home

All houses erected by the Company will be of the
modern construction, and absolutely guaranteed
in every way. They will built any desired plan
suit the bondhoIder in any location which he may
select
Everyone, period Of his life. desires to
but it is often hard the few
dollars necessary take such step. The
Kirby Realty Company the originator Of the only plan
devised for providing the thrifty with
the opportunity Of acquiring his property WITH
OUT THis LARGE CASH PAYMENT, and any one re-
which will again.
BY this original plan. the Kirby Realty Company
you a home lending you the money necessary
buy property, and builds the house. allowing you
paying low rent
No other Company in the world has made such
liberal proposition, given the wage such a
splendid chance become independent. You will
it in quicker, safer way than by
buying Of these bonds
Are you going work all your life FOR A LAND
LORD? That's what you do when you keep paying
whom you lease It. Buy Kirby Registered Gold Bond
you your OWN Iandord-your rent pays
for the house, by month.
Can you afford let this opportunity 90 by?
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-12-13

The subject
Beaver Valley the then
Bath County Kentucky within the limits of
the city of Frenchburg Menefee County He first the light
of day the 18th of August 1S41. He the first born
to his parents with three elder sisters and two brothers and
sisters being Morrison
Mccormick Mccormick and
sisters all lived maturity married and had families of their
This midway of whom this sketch written named
George William Mccormick
Even his derived from both his maternal
paternal he nher admxture of blood Of
naonalies grandfather
of English German and Jewish His grandfather
of Scotch Welsh and Irish blood In the latter part of the
seventeenth century his paerna grandfather with other mem
bers his family made pack of themselves and wendell
way along blue River from
Northeastern Virginia the Allegheny Mountains the Ohio
River Pburg where they made of light floating
mer placing their belongings aboard just drfed with the
historic Limestone Maysve Ken
lucky these pioneer pilgrims the Blue landed
and for thereafter the Mccormick
family the building of the public roads for which this
section of Kentucky into almost national fame
lework of George William Mccormick began when he
years His duties carry the
for the best the best home
wooden architect that his mother
The beauty of character found the fact that she
kind afecionate polite truly conslderae of the
happiness These principles in
sed the minds of her children and without effect
With all boy, subject strong,
and the desire of his parents that he should receive
classical education Fate against him. however for he
got beyond the mountain district schools and the in
they gave, "eadn rn rihmetic" the
order Later in life he mbbed the notion that the
Almighty Dollar the ruling of the nation that 1t di
controlled thoughts teachers
preachers, priests, and kings.
In 1877 he slipped from father and mother wife and
children having about thousand dollars his pocket
he Cincinnati where at the of Fifth and Vine
the West end of Fountain Square he established
paper of The Peoples Dollar" issued weekly with
which circulation of 10000 In its columns he ad
Peoples Banks condemned the
banking and script He also advocated
the Peoples Religion and condemned all religious systems that
especially resisted the third term" ideas
President which he denounced towards dcta
torshp that he seeds
good ground speech delivered
banquet in Cincinnati to Grant by Grcesbeck which set
hopes people 1890 the Re
publican National being held Chicago and
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-12-13

when baloting Southern
votes, William Mccormick Sterling, Kentucky
the following telegram
Warner Bateman Member Chicago Convention:
stand fast We dreaming Grants third
term the empire and despoism We are wide awake with shr
peace, plenty and the Republic
"Old Kaintuck"'
In the summer of 1888 wrote copyrighted and
thousand copies of pamphlet of 100 entitled The
White Uses Abuses of the Devil" In
enterprise spent dollars
spent his life attempting destroy
kngcra priesca secret societies. mongering and
government banking.
When approached by 1890 gave
business occupation being that of political and religious
weekly in search of a acting
the suggestion here given adopted Agiator, name
years ago he copyrighted a consisting folding
This credited with being the only book
ever written or printed all
according capable of doing good for
humanity and fully obeyed than other book
the reading world The and wording is
follows: "DO RIGHT"
it looks almost too simple to be regarded
and doing is thing and to study
inquire and learn and then find out what
right is another thing Having found out what is right
keep doing these points will
phase addition to this he has order
pending copyright
hopes inserted the correspondence the
the national postal card:
a Of sufficient intelligence be account
the best
of life real happiness but the great trouble
people to be taught to think and to
lear right, for all"
friends, the Blade with truth,
When trials AMI tribuaions
seemed almost nsurmountabe difficulties
with financial and
today he is
whom the Blade depend in emergency
notions, all religions that depend
grossly brutal and
depressing their influences To briefly his views in
this respect, he says-
maintain that kindness and equity should be made
insignas of civil life and usefulness, and these
should be made the working notices Of the powers or
government hope the time will come and that may live to
witness its dawn when will regard his brother man as
and destructive the representative Of all
that is noble and grand good realize that matters
stand the of but must work to
change the system"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-09
with A Silent Gnnrd.

Modern science seems TO spend its
time undoing its own efforts. Take,
for instance, so-called burglary-proof
safes.
The up-to-date burglar soon found
that by means of compressed oxygen
and acetylene gas he could produce
flame so hot that the steel doors
of safe would fuse In 1t like lead
in an ordinary gas Jet.
In addition, the accessories requir-
ed are of handy size, and there is
no noise. Observation is all the safe
breaker has to avoid.
Now 1t is suggested manufactur-
ers should add a simple apparatus
to the material used In making safes
which would liberate certain chemi-
calls, rendering 1t dangerous--or even
fatal--to tamper with the walls or
door.
No doubt in time the scientific
burglar will find a means OF over
coming this, but for a little while.
at least, protection can be obtained
against the scientific cracksman.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-09
TrxEf6 and
Qz1olnY

appeal to the Well-Informed in every
walk of life and are essential to permanent
success and creditablc standing. Accor-
ingly, it is not claimed that Syrup of Figs
and Elixir of SIENNA is the only remedy of
known value, but one of many reasons
why it is the best of personal and family
laxatives is the fact that it cleanses,
swcetens and relieves the internal organs
on which it acts without any deblitating
after effects and without having to increase
the quantity from time. to time.
1t acts pleasantly and naturally and
truly as a laxative, and its component
parts are known to and approved by
physicians, as it is free from all objection
able substances. To get its beneficial
effects always purchase the genuine
manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co., only, and for sale by all leading drug
gists.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-09
VERITABLE "HOUSES
OF The CHILDREN"

Les Maisons des Enfans," as they
are called, have only just been estab-
lished in Paris, but they are looked
upon as the beginning of an i'm
mense movement to house, not only
the larger families of thousands of
the middle classes whose business call
for the presence in the heart of the
city of the head of the family.
Before the Houses of the Chill
dren" came into being, such parents
might spend day after day wearily
walking the streets in search of fam
lily accommodation, and almost going
down on their knees in vain to jani-
tors and landlords, whom nothing
could induce to admit a family of
children into their exclusive" and
high-priced apartment houses.
Needless to say, this association,
and several others recently formed or
now forming. backed by philanthropic
capital and with the same end in
view, do not care for any particular
return from their money so that flu
ture citizens be housed in light and
airy rooms and their comfort ca
tered to by architect, landlord and
concierge. Branch societies are put
ting up apartment houses, also for
very large families up to ten and
twelve children, with gardens as play
grounds for the little ones. The
sites chosen, however, will naturally
be a little out of Paris in places
where the price of land is not alto
gether prohibitive. But the fact re-
mains that France is so alive to the
"depopulation peril" that some of
her foremost citizens are building
Houses of the Children" and posi-
lively advertise for tenants with
large families only.
The rents, as usual, will barely
pay the expenses of management:
and In the new piles are being erect
ed there will be the same generous
provision of air and sunshine, with
gardens filled with flowers, trees and
spacious lawns, SO that the little ones
may be brought up in close COM
munion with nature. 1t is highly
instructive to call upon certain house
holds in these blocks. One man and
his wife were Just sitting down to
de1euner with their seven bright
eyed healthy children. The father
earned only SIS a week-the salary
of girl stenographer in New York
yet on this Monsieur s. con-
trives to feed his family well, clothe
them respectfully, give them all a
good education and pay his rent with
exemplary punctuality. How
Paris Provides for the Housing of
Large Families" in the American
Review of Reviews.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-09
Town OF Big Peoplc.

According to BENJAMIN w. Klemm,
a travelling glove salesman, Kansas
City orders are for the biggest glove
made, with the smallest sizes omit
ted.
People out there are the biggest
in the United States" said Mr..
Klemm; ready made clothing mer-
chants say so. All tailors know that
to be the fact. The biggest differ
ence is in the width between the
shoulder blades. put 1t down to
so many of the Kansas people hav-
ing been on the farm in their youth,
or engaged in hard work, instead
of STOPPING over desks or standing
behind counters. Tailors' patterns
all run large. l also know that or
ders for shoes are for larger sizes
than those sent In from any other
city of like size In the country, and
1t is not the first time l have heard
about assorted sizes in gloves being
above the average.
Senator Warner could not find a
hat to fit him here in Washington
or New York when he started home
last spring. He had no trouble get
ting one In Kansas City, though" -
Washington Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-09
EXPLOSION IN STEEL
CONVERTER.

Pittsburg Especially Two men
were killed and thirteen others were
seriously injured by an explosion in
converter No. of the Edgar Thomp-
son plant of the United States Steel
Corporation at North Braddock.
In dead are Paul Kurisck, aged
80 years, and Stephen Doviah, aged
80 years, both of Braddock.
SIX OF the injured were Americans
and the Others Slavs. All were re-
moved to a hospital in this city
where IL was said their injuries were
not serious.
NO official statement on the cause
OF the explosion has been issued but
old converter mill men say the cause
could hardly he other than that some
or the molten metal sifted through
the soapstone lining of the converter
and came in contact with the steel
sheathing, which perhaps was damp.
When the explosion occurred. the
bottom of the converter dropped out,
throwing fifteen tons of molten metal
into the pit where fifteen men were
working at the ladies. There was no
explosion when the hot mass of steel
struck the bottom of the pit, but
instead flames of burning gas were
sent up, which burned the men in
the pit. The two men who were
Killed had been working under the
converter and their bodies we're ter
ribly mangled.
The force of the explosion blew
the sheet-iron roof off of the con-
verting mill and caused two of the
walls to collapse, besides breaking
all OF the windows in buildings in the
vincinfty, and partially destroying
the enginehouse and warehouse near
the converting mill.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-09
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Lancaster Especially. - George M.
Gable, who disappeared from this
city eighteen years ago and was sup
posed to be dead. appeared in Or
phans' Court and was awarded an in
heritance OF over S11 600.
The circumstances surrounding the
affair were romantic. In 1890, Ga
BILE, who was an expert machinist,
after experiencing domestic trouble,
left his wife and three small children
and disappeared. All efforts to locate
him failed, and he was given up for
lead. Three years ago the courts
disposed OF his estate, declaring him
legally dead.
But when he recently became heir
TO a considerable sum OF money; at
torneys made special efforts to as
certain whether he was living. FL
nally he was located in Sacramento,
CAL, where he holds a responsible
position with the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company Being apprised
of his fortune, he came East and a
half dozen of his old friends identi-
fed him in court, where he was also
confronted and identified by his wife.
who, believing him dead, remarked,
becoming the wife of Constable A.
NJ. Keesey. of this city.
II is said that Gable has effected
an arrangement with his wife, where
by he has reimbursed her for his de-
sertion and the raising of his chill
dren
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-09
SIakS AND DRAINS A FIRE.
0UENT CAUSE OF TYPHOID

rurify These and You VIII DC Safe
From Contagion - DisinfcctIng
the Only Preventative--Borax, IL
Simple, Safe and Sure Method.
How to keep our homes clean, sweet
and free from germ influences is a
question.
While there is no occasion for
alarm, 1t is always well to be fore
armed on the theory that "An Ounce
Of Prevention Is Better Than a Pound
of Cure" and no ounce of prevention
has yet been discovered that is more
simple. more direct and more effec-
tive. yet harmless to the human sys-
TEN. than 3orax.
Borax has been known and used for
generations as purifier and preven-
tive against epidemic influences orig
mating from uncleanly conditions re-
sulting from unsanitary sinks and
drains, and when used as a hot solu-
tion in the proportion of two table,
spoonfuls to gallon of hot water
flushed through the offending loca-
tions, removes every trace of disease
germs and renders the pipes clean
and wholesome.
Dorax in addition to its hygienic
qualities is a household necessitv
and can be used for numberless do
mestic purposes. 1t softehs the water,
makes linen dazzling white, will
cleanse every article in the kitchen
or dining room and make it bright,
will prevent moths, gotten and whiten
the skin, remove dandruff and cleanse
the scalp, and for cleansing ana ster-
ilizing baby's milk bottle and nipple
has. no equal.
Borax, unlike every other cleanser
and disinfectant, is absolutely harm
less to the system, and is safe, simple,
economical, and can be purchased at
any druggist or grocery. A dainty
book in colors, called the Jingle
Book, will be sent free TO any Mother
sending name and address of her baby
and tops from two one-pound cartons
of "20-Mule Team" Borax, with SC. in
stamps. Address Pacific Coast Borax
Co., New York.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-09
HOMEMADE PRESERVES.

Harrisburg Especially .-One of the
topics of especial interest which will
be discussed at the annual meeting
of the State Horticultural Associa-
ton at Lancaster, January IA and
15, is Home Preservation of Fruit." "
A paper on the subject will be read
by Mrs. II. A. Surface, of Mechanics
burg, wife of the State economic
zoologist.
Mrs. Surface, like her husband,
takes deep interest in economic
science and in the matter of preserv-
ing fruits for use out of season has
an enviable reputation. Her discus
sion of the subject will deal princi-
pally with the value of preserving
fruits for household use only but
will also treat of the commercial sue
cess to be attained by marketing pure
canned and preserved fruits and jel-
lies.
This subject is important to far
mers' wives now as since the rigid
pure food laws have been enacted
valuable market for good "home-
made" canned fruit and preserves
has been created.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-01-09
STATE REVENUE DECLINES.

Harrisburg Especially About s2,-
100000 was withdrawn from State
repositories during the month of
December by State Treasurer Berry
to meet current expenses and comply
with the provisions OF appropriation
bills. Some of the repositories pro-
tested against the Withdrawals on
account of the financial stringency,
but the State Treasurer found it
necessary to make the demands.
The revenue OF the State has fallen
considerably behind that of last De-
cember, owing to the business de-
preston. The total receipts so far
this month have not been much over
half a million.