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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-30
A Dangerous Amendment

A constitutional amendment, known
and to be designated on the ballot as
amendment No. ,, is to be voted IN at
tais election aud it ia of great import
ance that thu people should fully under
stand it, Ike Standard News is OF n s.
ed to IL and believes that its adu ton
would be disastrous and entail enor-
IN Gus expense the COMMITTEES and end
less confusion and litigation. This
amendment proposes to abolish til,
pro 1ate conrts and have district
Judge In each county. 1t also provides
for boiling another election in Decem-
Der of this year-a time when the
weather il such that only pc ople in the
tow 1s will be able to get out TO the
pol and cast their votes, and such an
, ection will cost the state, or rather
he cou ties, over fifty thousand dol
ars. This money will be spent for
bsolutely nothing, as there is another
lroyision in the amendment to the
feet that il shall not go into effect.
and the newly elected judges shall OF
take ice until January. 1911. This is
| lorsensical and useless waste of
money, rs we will have another gener,
election in November, 1910 Under
his proposed amendment each county
will have to pay the salary for court
stenographer. Ia addition to this, when
We have district court open all the year
aroun in county it will mean havir e
a jury in attendance ON the court a
greater portion of the time, and iury
9 ,penses will simply sw imp the county.
A ,ain, it will mean going into tie
district court with nearly all the little
petty Justice court business that is now
trie by a justice of the peace, and
hav ng these cases tried by a jury al
thu expense of che county. 1t is esti.
m sted that the average jury case in
the district conrt costs the comfy
seventy FIVE dollars to try it, and it car
be seen at once that the county would
b. bankrupt in trying the scores o
petty ueig hood quarrels that pro
p rly belong in the justice courts.
We are safe in saying that the ma
jofity of the people and the substantial
md leading members of the bar of IL,
'tate, will be opposes to this amendmen
when they come to understand 1t, ant
that it gets practically all the suppor
it has from those attorneys in tn
several counties who want to becom
lndidates for election as judges
Z Everybody shond vo NO ON thi
amendment. Let us Keep our couutie
G Dat of bankruptcy -Standard-News
GrangeYille.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-30
Democratic County Platform.

We, the democrats of Bear Lake
county assembled in convention, AT
Montl elier, this 9TH day of Oct 1908,
adopt as a declaration of principles the
following platform:
We approve and indorse the platform
of the National Democratic larty M
written. and indoi sed at the Denver
conyention, and pledge our support to
its principles and candidates If hat
convention in order that the principles
of true democracy may be restored to
the government through the election of
orr great leader, VIM. ]. Bryan.
We indorse the platform and prin-
ciples of orr state democratic conven-
ton and promise orr support to Hon
Moses Alexander and his associates on
the state ticket nominated at Wallace
on Aug. 6, 1908.
We pledge the support of our dele
gates in the legislature to the Hon c..
O. Stockslager as U. S. Senator, and
approve of such laws as shall make the
election of United States senators ac-
eomplished by the direct vote of the
people.
We denounce the republican officials
of this county for their expensive
management of the affairs of the county,
resulting in heavy increase of taxes
without any improvement to justify
the same, and pledge the nominees OF
this convention, il elected to al
economical administration of oul
county affairs.
We denonnce tie arbitrary RAISING
of valuation of taxable property il
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-30
COU lTY TICKET

state Senat lr
Edward NJ. Pugmire, st. Charles
Represent ltives
Wili,em ] Hr, ter, Marlboro
Edward G. Rich, Montpelier
Sheriff
Henry II. Dalrymple, Montpelier
SIS 'ssor and Tax Collector
Alnasa Rich, Paris
Probate Judge
Edward J Paddock, Bloomington
Prosecuting Attorney
Charles E Harris, Montpelier
Treasurer
George r. Spencer, il, Paris
Superintendent of Schools
Surveyor
Robert A. Birch, Montpelier
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-30
ADVERTISEMENT
NATIONAL AND STATE TICKET

For President
William J. Bryan Of Nebraska
For Vice President
John w. Kern of Indiana
For Presidential Electors
Thos. G. Galloway of Washington
John G. Rice of Canyon
Marga d. Mills of Neg Perez
For T. s. Senator
G. o. Stockslager of Blair e
For Congressman
James l.. McClear of Ko oterai
For Governor
Moses Alexander OF AZ a
For Lieutenant Governor
Cornelius O. Boyd of Bannock
For Secreta y Of State
Watson w. Smell Of CAnyC n
For Attorney General
Frank L. Moore of Latah
For State Auditor
Jerome A. Eradburry Of Idaho
Fol- Supt. of Public Instruction
Gertrude +. Noble or A( a
For Inspector of Mines
Harry Moore Of Sho jhone
For State TREASURER
David L. Evans of Oneida
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-30
HAVE YOU
REGISTERED?

You must remember that you
cannot vote this year unless you
REGISTER. II makes no differ
ence whether you registered two
years ago or not; you must reg
ister this year or you can't vote.
The registration books close Sat
urday night, Oct. 81.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-30
ELECTION B ALL.

The management of the pavilion b;
arranged for special service next Tnes
day night and will give the electio
returns from the nation, state ant
county. The returns will be receive
over the pavilion phone as fast as the,
come in and announced The dane
will continue until 2 or 3 o., lock
Tickets to dance S1.0). Refreshl ents
served.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-30

Coroner
George +. Sparks, Dingle
Commissioners
First district
Ola Transtrum, St Charles
Second district
Edward 7. Shepherd, Sharon
Third district
Henry II Hoff, Georgetown
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-30
Notice

There will be meeting of the Cali
fornia Copper Company, Nov. 9Th al
Office of the Bonanza Mining Co.. ir
Ritter Bros. block for the purpose OF
transacting busir ess of Importance
All stockholders are requested to b.
present
NJ l.. | JULIEN, President
TEos. ENOs, Secretary.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-10-30

Folcy's Kidney Re NEEDY viii cure any
case OF kidney or bladder trouble that is
not beyond the react OF medicine. No
medicine can do more. Modern Phar
macy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04

Companion of the Rich.
Black care sits behind the rich man
on observation-disclosures.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04

which the west produces moving east
in the direction of Aberdeen, you
would have seen blue-coated minion
of the law stalking along the passen-
ger depot squirting tobacco juice at
the station agents dog, but today
even the dog is missing from the
scenery thereabouts.
Moving day started several months
ago and the freight train conductor,
leaving with the last load of live cat
tie which was to pass out of this
typical American city, was almost
moved to tears as he stood on the
rear platform Of his caboose when the
train reached a rise in the plain and
looked back upon the town which had
been his "hang-out" since he entered
the employment of the road.
The writer, making quick trim
from Evarts to Aberdeen, was loung.
ing in the caboose. The sight became
unbearable to the railroad man and
he re-entered the trainman's apart.
ments. I've seen that there burg grow
up from the time when ole Jess Atkins
lived in shanty down by the river
just south O. town and owned six head
O. cattle. There warn't no spur from
Aberdeen then" he soliloquized, "but
Jess used to drive his COWS across the
prairie to where the river jines the
Moreau and there they'd ferry the hull
outfit across for a couple o. dollars
Then he'd have nice long ride to
Aberdeen.
"Once when Jess wife and darters
came down to live with him, the ole
man was ketched by some rustlers
from up north and they stole b,s
pony, COWS and money. Jess had IN
hoof it back to his shack. Wen
sence thet time y'd be s'prised how
the place has growed. l was on a river
sidewheeler then. / was the nilot
Well, pretty soon Evarts was boomad
and all us young cubs got the fever
to stake off bit o. land and set up in
some kind o bizness, we didn't care
much what and we didn't know what
it'd turn out to be when we staked.
"Well, finally 1 accepted a loocra-
tive job as brake on this line and five
years ago got permoted to con.
ductor. l amt goin' to suffer, whom.
soever as they've give me Job doin,
tn same thing from Oakes to Aber.
deem when l get through with this
trip"
And the conductor is not a ro.
mancer but his feelings were echoed
through the western air and In eyerv
home in Evarts when It became
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04

known that the railway was to builo
a bridge which would take the busi-
ness away from this town and allow
the building Of a new city where the
river was spanned.
Appropriately the new town became
known as Mobridge and 1t is to-day
what Eyarts was several years ago. q
fiourishing, hustling little burg with
everything ahead of its inhabitants,
and whatever their past may have
been, is forgotten.
While Glenham received many OF
the Evarts people with open arms, the
greater majority went to Mobridge,
for they declared they saw greater
possibilities there because business
could be more easily transferred from
Evarts to Mobridge.
So if you should happen TO be In
the vicinity of Mobridge, ask the post
master, the man at the wharf, the sta
ton agent at the depot or almost any
body the road to where Evarts once
was and take jaunt down that way.
It's only a few miles south and when
you imagine what the little city once
was and what it is to-day, perhaps you
will be repaid for the stroll. Mo
bridge is to-day typical little west
ern town where some one or other is
continually erecting shack which he
and his family call home. Homes
spring up in the night and when their
owners grow tired of them they are
either sold for fire-wood or some one.
perhaps poorer, accepts them for a
small sum.
Western hospitality, tradition,
which is told in fiction works and
which actually exists, is one of the
first themes of Mobridge and the
stranger, poor or wealthy, is just as
sure of welcome under Mobridge roofs
as he would be under his own. OF
course there are cattle rustlers in
that part of South Dakota, but thanks
to real western cow tactics, they are
few. Vigilance committees have made
stealing cattle such hazardous
method of ekeing out living that few
care to risk their health in that man.
ner
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04
FULLY FILLED THE BILL.
Aunt Mandy Was Thoroughly Satisfied
with New Husband.

Aunt Mandy is an old colored wom-
an who for years has done washing
for several families. She has had
several matrimonial experiences, and
when her last husband died one OF
her customers attempted to condole
with her.
Il was very sorry to hear of your
husbands death, Aunt Mandy" shs
said.
"Ya'as, maam," said Aunt Mandy.
"He was powful good man.
What did he die Off"
"Ah really don't know, ma'am"
you don't know Gracious!
Couldn't the doctor tell you?"
"Ah didn't have no doctah, am, II
said Aunt Mandy. He jes done died
a natch'ral death
1t wasn't long, however, before Aunt
Mandy had another husband.
Il hear you are married again. re-
marked her patron one day.
"Ya'as, ma'am," giggled Aunt Mandy
II was done married las Sunday"
"And is your new husband equal tc
the last?"
"Ya'as, indeedy. ma'am," said Aunt
Mandy. He's jes as equal, il moi
equalizer"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04
REMAINS THE SAME.
Well Brewed Postum Always Palatable

The favour of Postum, when boiled
according to directions, is always the
same-mild, distinctive, and palatable.
1t contains no harmful substance like
caffeine, the drug in coffee, and hence
may be used with benefit at all times.
believing that coffee was the cause
of my torpid liver, sick headache and
misery in many ways" writes an Ind.
lady, II quit and bought package OF
Postum about year ago.
my husband and have been so
we'll pleased that we have continued
to drink Postum ever since. We like
the taste of Postum better than coffee,
as 1t has always the same pleasant
favour, while coffee changes its taste
with about every new combination or
blend.
"Since using Postum / have had no
more attacks of gall collie, the heavi'
ness has left my chest, and the old
common, everyday headache Is a
thing unknown" There's a Reason
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
Intsrest
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04
What is Pe-ru-na.

Are we claiming too much for Peruna
when we claim it to be an effective
remedy for chronic catarrhf Have we
abundant proof that Peruna is in real
ity such catarrh remedy? Let us see
what the United States Dispensatory
says of the principal ingredients of
Peruna.
Take, for instance, the ingredient
hydrastis canadensls, or golden seal
The United States Dispensatory says
of this herbal remedy, that 1t is largely
employed in the treatment of depraved
mucous membranes lining varioua
organs of the human body.
Another ingredient of Peruna, cory
dalis formosa, is classed in the United
States Dispensatory rs n tonic.
Cedron seeds is another ingredient OF
Peruna. The United States DISPENSE
tory says of the action Of cedron that
it is used rs bitter tonic and in the
treatment OF dysentery, and in inter-
mittent diseases as q substitute for
quinine.
Send to us for a free book of testi-
monials of what the people think of Pc
runa as catarrh remedy. The best
evidence is the testimony of those who
have tried 1t.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04
MUCH UP AGAINST 1T.
Old Ladys Description Of Ills Some
what Confusing.

Mrs. Rhoda Holmes Nichols, the ar
tist who spends the summer at Glou
cester, Mass, where she teaches q
numerous sketch class, tells of an
old woman who lives on the out
skirts of the town and whom she has
known for a number of years. The
old lady has often been sketched by
the students of Mrs. Nichols class
and is known to them and to every
body else as Aunt Sally.
When Mrs. Nichols went TO Gl2u
cester this year she called at the
quaint little cottage and found thS
old woman rather more bent thar
last year and looking good deaI
older as she tottered along her little
garden leaning on a stick.
well, Aunt Sally" said the artist
how have you been since last sum
mer?"
"Oh, not very we'll" she replied
shaking her head, mot very we'll"
rs the rheumatism still bad?"
"Oh. yes, miss, it's that bad nova
days l can't set and l can't scarcely
lay"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04

bridge, received most of the Evarts
people. When everybody had left, the
railroad tore down its depot, great
gangs of men jerked the tracks from
their cedar ties and the short line
from Aberdeen was a thing of the
past.
Across the barren plains between
Aberdeen and Evarts millions upon
millions of cattle of every description
had been carted in great long freight
cars to be eventually disposed of in
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Louis, New
York, Buffalo and in fact all of the
big eastern marts of trade. On August
1, 1908, came the official ending of the
town. All its books were closed on
that date; its employees were officially
dismissed then and their salaries to
that time were paid them, although
most of the public officials and their
families had left Evarts several weeks,
some of them months before.
The casual observer, perhaps in a
launch may go up to the landing at
the center of the town and there tie
his craft for tour of inspection, but
his efforts to unearth the mysterious
about what was once Evarts will be
fruitless, for everything of any value
whatsoever has been carried away
and scarcely stick of wood was left
by the economical natives, who now
call themselves citizens of other
South Dakota villages.
Scores of towns have suffered the
same experience which befell Evarts,
but the latter's passage to oblivion
was perhaps more sudden, more spec
tacular and more regretted than any
which have got into the public prints
in decade or more.
If you had happened" into Evarts
two years ago and then dropped a few
days ago you would pinch yourself
twice to see if you were awake. This
by reason of the contrast. Two years
ago you would have seen roughly clad
cattlemen hurrying hither and thither.
engines putting along the sidetracks,
trainloads of some Of the best cattle
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04

MEXICAN towns and cities,
especially in the west, spring
up in a night and generally
they flourish and develop
with each year. Evarts, sit
uated on the Missouri river
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04
SIZE.
What He Wished.

The freight-paying end of the mat
rimonial combine had been trying to
read his paper for an hour, but was
frequently interrupted by his wife's
remarks. Finally he gave it up.
Il WISH" he said, that possessed
the knowledge of the ancient Egypt
ians"
"Why?" queried his better half.
Judging from the mummies have
SEEN" he replied, they understood
the art of making a woman dry up
and stay dried up"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04
Money in Apple Orchards.

Tasmania has long been known as
the apple land of the south, but few at
home have any real idea of the money
that can be made, and Is being made,
out of apple growing in that island.
Last year, for instance, there were
many small orchards in the south
which returned as much as 1900 BUSH
els to the acre, and one owner of four
acres, who picked over 5000 bushels
of marketable fruit, which he sold at
four shillings bushel, reaped a gross
return of $500. AS his expenses at
the outside would not be more than
a100, his profit an acre worked out
at something like e175. OF course,
this was an extreme case, but or
chards of 20 acres and upward aver
aged full 500 bushels an acre, and
yielded clear net profit of quite
R1,5OO in each case. The area actu-
ally planted at the present time in do
mestic and commercial orchards is
about 10000 acres, and upward of half
a million cases of apples were ex-
ported to this country last year.-Bri-
tannia.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04
loo Much Afraid of Dirt.

It is quite true that cleanliness Is
next to godliness." but in this day OF
fads and scientific frills the question
is whether we are not getting alto
gether too afraid of little dirt. Dirt
has been defined as matter in the
wrong place. and hygiene is the
science of keeping it in the right
place But we are inclined to think
that we are all little bit too much
up in the air on the matter of cleanli-
ness; little too afraid of coming in
contact with the clean-smelling kind
ly earth, and are in danger of becom-
ing nasty-nice-Washing Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04

Paris Pattern No. 25OO, All Seams
Allowed tauor-made in
style is this jaunty shirt waist which
may be developed to advantage in any
material Three broad shoulder tucks,
stitched to nearly the bust line, give
ample fullness to the lower part of the
waist, and the long tuck either side of
the center-front box plait is stitched
from shoulder to waist line. The
sleeves are made in full length, with
link cuff, or in seven-eighths length
with a roll-up cuff. The back of the
model is plain. with the exception OF
two tucks at the center, having the eff
feet of box-plait. The pattern is in
six sizes, 32 to AZ inches bust meas
ure. For 36 bust the waist requires
five yards of material 20 inches wide,
3H yards 27 inches wide, 2% yards
SO inches wide, or 21a yards AZ inches
wide.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
to "Pattern Department" of this paper.
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number OF pattern.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04

Paris Pattern No. 2519, All Seams
Allowed.-Made up in nainsook, Per
sian or Victoria lawn, thin cambric.
dimity or jaconet, this dainty little
night garment is very simple in con-
struction. 1t is slipped on over the
head and gathered in around the
neck with rbbon-run beading The
round neck and lower edge of the
sleeves are scalloped and embroidered
by hand with white mercerized cotton,
and, If desired, they may be further
ornamented with a simple embroidery
design, worked in solid stitch with
the same cotton. The pattern is in
five sizes, eight to sixteen years. For
a girl Of IL years the nightgown re-
qures 3h yards of material 36 inches
wide, or 2B yards AZ inches wide,
with 1h yard of ribbon.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
to Pattern Department" of this paper.
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number of pattern.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04

4 "A UP in a night and generally
they flourish and develop
IS with each year. Evarts, sit
uated on the Missouri river
in the north-central part of South Da-
kota, was no exception to the rule in
its early life, but to-day if you should
happen to paddle up the Missouri past
where the waters of the Moreau enter,
the first thought that would enter
your mind when you struck the former
site of Evarts, would be that cyclone
had wiped out the place.
However, such is not the case.
Eyarts is now only a western plain
and this by its own volition. Only a
few weeks ago Evarts was the big
igest cattle-shipping center of the
United States. To-day there is no
track; the big shipping depot has
been torn down, here and there a
splinter left when the buildings were
taken away, tells the tale of once
fiourishing city.
And the whole reason for the people
vi INdlIb 6Clllu6 OuI VI SuObGl
town was because the railroad wanted
to find a suitable spot on the Missouri
river to build bridge. The railway
officials were extending their line to
the coast and the worst obstacle in the
path of the gigantic enterprise was
to find a place to hang the bridge.
Eventually the engineers settled upon
a site several miles north of Evart5
and at that point a .fiourishing town,
known as Mobridge sprang up Bvarts
people we're offered any site for their
town that they might select along the
extension.
Then the exodus began. Husky cat
tlemen hitched horses and oxen to
their houses and barns, some tore the
edifices down, and they were hauled
across the prairie, much like the
schooners of 40 fame. Glenham and
MobrIdge, the latter's name being a
contraction of the words Missouri
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04
The Largest elver.

| want to tell you of an inquiry of
my little five-year-old Helen. She at
tends Sunday school regularly. Re-
turning home on Sunday, she said
Mamma, every Sunday the man
reads how much money each class
gives, and then he tells how much
Total gives, and Total gives more
than anyone. He must be rich man.
Who is Total, mamma ?"--Delineator
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04
dona.kona,s Zine Harmon.

The Hong Kong harbor has water
area of ten miles, and is regarded as
one of the finest In the world.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-09-04

It sometimes happens that a man
doesn't ask his wife to sing because
he is fond of music.