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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-11
LlekIna and Hardin Dry.

Columbus, O.-Licking county on
Monday voted dry in a local op-
tion election by a majority of 700.
Eighty-four saloons were knocked out.
Hardin county also voted dry by ma.
iority of 2,O75. Twenty saloons were
put out of business.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-11

lame, weak, run
down to a mere
skeleton. My back
was so bad / could
hardly walk and
the kidney secre-
tions much disor-
dered. A week after
l b e G an usin 6
Doan's Kidney Pills
/ could walk with
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-11
enIIk Granted Reprleve.

Springfield, Ill-Herman Billik, the
convicted murder, was granted
reprieve until January 30. He has
six times escaped execution by stays
Dr. r-soltes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-11
VIII Send in Recess Appointments.

Columbus, o. = In an interview
on Monday Gov. Harris said he
would send in his recess appointments
for confirmation. He had not decided,
he said, whether he would send in the
name of j. C. Morris for reappoint-
ment to the railroad commission.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-11
What Willie Saw.

When Willie saw the peacock for
the first time he said to his mother:
"oh, mamma, you should have seen
I'll Electric lights all over the ferns,
and turkey underneath. ."-Delinea-
tor.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-11

out cane, and as / continued my
health gradually returned. was so
grateful l made public statement OF
my case, and now seven years have
passed, 1 am still perfectly WELL"
Sold by all dealers. soc a box. Fos-
terMilburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-11
A Great pinerenoe-

Margaret, it was very naughty of
you to make such fuss, You said If
I'd buy you that new dollie you'd go
to the dentists without murmur"
81 didn't murmur, muvver, l
screamed. d."-Lippincott's.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-11
To Be .Antl.saIoon League Official.

Columbus, O.-Rev. James Albert
Patterson has resigned as pastor
Of the Central Presbyterian church
10 become New York state superlnten-
dent of the Anti-Saloon league.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-11
FLORIDA
ATTRACTS OHIO MEN
FoRTY-TWo FROM OHIO, SOME
FROM KENTUCKY, WEST vIR.
GlNlA, PENNSYLVANIA AND
NEW YORK WENT TO HILLlARD,
FLORIDA, ON NOVEMBER "a.
1T WAS A TRIP TO lNVESTI
GATE AND BUY FRUIT
AND TRUCK FARMS.

It Is Reported That ia Farms of Ten
Acres Each. Were Purchased by the
Investigators After Carefully Going
Over the Land, and Making Selec.
tions for Themselves and Their
Friends.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-12-11
PROVED BY TIME.
No Fear Of ANY Further rrorbIe.

David Price, Corydon, Ia, says; II
was in the last stage of kidney trouble
The Washington times., 1908-04-12
Speech Started a Row.

That speech started the biggest row
ever witnessed in Waterbury. The
merchant was surrounded by a howl
ing mob OF laborers. who had visions
of Their easy work being taken away
from them. He was pushed and drag
ged about the room and finally showed
into seat, while the chairman rushed
through the appropriations.
Iilley then started a campaign in
the press advocating the consolidation
of the city and town governments with
one responsible head He exposed the
craft possible under the old dual sys-
tenn and proved that tickets good
for one days work on the city roads
were passed over saloon bars to regu-
lar customers
His advocacy Of city and town con-
solidation prompted a committee Of
prominent Republicans to call on Mr.
Lilley and urge him TO go the State
Legislature and continue his fight for
clean government there and have the
charter revised. Having no desire to
enter politics the merchant declined.
Afterward the committee again visit
ed Mr.. Lilley and said that II he was
sincere In his desire for clean govern
ment the way was open to aim through
the Legislature. Finally the man.
now grcwn from a poor milk boy 10
a wealthy merchant and real estate
operator, consented TO go to the Legis-
lture II he received the unanimous
nomination from the Republican con-
vention.
The Washington times., 1908-04-12
A Deal in Potatoes.

When Lilley was seventeen years
old his father. who had established
himself in the retail provision bust
ness, sent him to Boston to buy a
large quantity Of provisions. including
a carload OF potatoes. The boy found
that jobbers were selling potatoes at
a dollar a bushel. At one OF the
wharves he found a schooner loaded
with potatoes from St. Mary's Bay,
Nova Scotia. and he learned from the
captain that the iobbers in Boston
would realize a profit of about 80
cents a busheI. He wired his father
TO go 10 Boston Immediately and take
S2,c0O with him. That gentleman
reached the city late in the afternoon.
fearful that his son was IN serious
trouble. The young merchant then
unfOlded his plan
He proposed to go 20 Nova Scotia
and buy cargo of potatoes and make
the 80 cent profit enjoyed by the
jObbers. When he reached Matagau,
n s, he found that potatoes had ad-
vanced 30 cents a bushel. thereby
eating up all Of his prospective profits.
At the town grocery. however. he saw
flour sold for $3.50 pc barrel The
grocer told him that the price was IN
usually high because the natives had
little or no money and usually traded
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team the young man climbed in be-
hind and said:
do you want to buy some eggs2'
Yes answered the man with
smile. Got any to sell?"
i've got a cargo of them" respond
ed Lilley. and the two went to the
wharf where LiIley sold his eggs at
nearly double the price he paid for
them in Nova Scotia. His father
cleaned up a handsome profit on the
potatoes. With his own money young
Lilley went 10 Fall River, Mass.
and bought a boarding stable. which
he conducted for three months. and
then sold for a profit of S1.00O.
His next move was the first step to
fortune. although il had a lowiy be-
ginning, and at that time held out
no prospects for either profitable or
enjoyable employment. Lilley OBJ
tanned employment in the Worcester
b-S- n - the Swift Wholesale beet
nd Pro.is'On business. He drove a
delivery wagon at a salary OF s. per
day for two or three weeks, and was
then advanced to the position of sales
man. at a salary of Sl5 a week.
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their farm products FOR the groeer's
merchandise.
After chartering from the grocer
the same potato schooner he had seen
in Boston. which was due TO sail
nOrthwaTd in two or three days. Lii
ley walked three miles and telegraph
ed his father to put 200 barrels Of
flour on the schooner the following
day. He then started out among the
natives, arranging to trade a barrel
OF flour for five barrels Of potatoes
on the day the schooner arrived IN
the harbor, all sorts OF queer looking
teams arrived from outlying towns
and villages. There were double and
single teams. occasionally a COW was
yoked TO an OK, or a horse to a COW.
and the teams were lined up In single
file as far as the eye could reach.
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Keen Eye to business.

Young Lilley stood on a packing
box on the wharf, and as fast as a
farmer had unloaded five barrels of
potatoes he gave him a barrel Of
-four With the hold full Of potatoes.
Lilley took on a deck cargo of eggs.
at IA cents a dozen. He took a stage
TO Yarmouth and went from there to
Boston by boat. Arriving there. he
went TO a wholesale house to sell
his eggs. The dealer and a prospec-
tive purchaser were agreeing to dis
agree about the price OF eggs. Lilley
followed the purchaser out of the
store. and as he drove away in his
The Washington times., 1908-04-12
International Linnelight in a Day.


Legislature attempts had been made TO
bring about the consolidation Of the
city and town governments in Water
bury and each time It failed of pas
sage. Mr. Lilley went into the fight
tooth and nail and in the face OF a
strong lobby and i've lawyers employ
ed BY the town government. his con-
solidation bill was passed in both
houses by a practically unanimous
vote
During the same session the famous
attempt OF the New York. New Haven
and Hartford railroad 10 bar the Con-
nectieut Western railroad from build
ing q connecting link In Connecticut,
which would make possible a through
line from the West TO Boston. was
brought up. Mr.. Lilley stood for open
The Washington times., 1908-04-12

the entire world as the author of
Charges against the Electric Boat
Company of New jersey in con-
nection with submarine legislation
enacted by Congress?
He is, first of all, a fighter for
business methods in Government
affairs without being a reformer.
He has never made an active cam
paign for any office in his life. He
is Self-made man in every sense
of the word, having travelled the
road Of poverty and arrived finally
at haven of wealth and compare
tive leisure only after he had lit
orally fought his way up the lad
der Of success.
He is, apparently, on the thresh-
old Of his political career, for he is
serving his last term in the House
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Positions DeIuged Him.

year later. when he was nine
teen years old, a competitor of the
Swift house offered 10 double his sal
airy. Lilley refused the orfer. and
got So raise from his employers. A
year later. before he was twenty-one
years. old, he had two offers to be-
come a partner in wholesale beer
houses. and at about that tine he
resigned from the Swift house.
Two days later he was asked 70 On
10 Boston 10 see Mr. Swift. the beod
OF the packing industry. The result ar
that Visit was the cO-partnersnip o.
Liiley' swift q Co. at Waterbury
Conn. where Mr.. Lnley has condueteG
the business for twenty-eigh. years
althouS'' during the last ten or twelve
years the packing business has s.ean
under the management Of his broth
er. John A. Lilley. the Representative
oonfining himself TO real estate opera
lions.
Representative Lilley's entrance IN
TO politics was the result OF peculiar
conditions N Waterbury. where dual
government fiourished. While driving
In from his summer home at Lake
Quassapog one day. just before The
primaries. he found a gang OF 80 mea
on the road 0stensibly for the -purpose
Of repairing the town road, but, IN
fact. not over a dozen men could work
in the gravel banks at one zine. The
others were loahng or distributed on
farm owned by the superintendent OF
ne town roads. In September. 1900.
Mr.. Lilley stopped his horse at the
farm. where town laborers were clear
ing ap@'y the brush. Who's paying
these men for working this farm" he
asked lie foreman
You know as we'll as I do" the
Latter replied as he turned on his
heel and walked away.
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votes at home What is good for the
whole country is good for Connect
cut" IS the way he studies legisIa-
ton.
Mr. Lilley is one Of the members OF
Congress who adorned the famous
black list kept by Samuel Gompers.
president u the American Federation
OF Labor The fight made by Gompers
against the Connecticut Representa-
tive only served TO illustrate the re-
markable following he has at home.
Gompers had sought the assistance
OF Lllley in his labor legislation, es-
pecially because IN Waterbury there
are more union men in proportion TO
the population than in any other city
in the country. Mr.. LIIley Informed
GomPers that he would not support
the measures until they had been re-
ported from the various committees
and there had been exhaustive debate
on the floor or the House.
This brought down the wrath OF
GOmpers. who went 10 Connecticut
and stumped the State to defeat
Liley. The sum total OF the labor
leaders efforts resulted in Mr.. L5iley
being returned to Congress by q ma
jOrity OF 1900 votes greater than in
his first election and a majority OF
about 21.000 over the Democratic can
didare opposed 10 him, Charles J.
Donohue. himself labor union man.
MI Lilley is now being groomed by
his friends as the Republican candf-
date for governor Of Connecticut next
fan
The Washington times., 1908-04-12
SMALL FAMILIES
RULE IN FRANCE

The following data. taken by Consul
Chairman Coleman Of Roubaix. from
the latest official statistics Of the pop
uIation OF France, contains some sup
Elementary information TO the recent
reDort on the same subject from Consul
General Mason:
~AccordIng 10 these statistics the to
tai REGULATION Of France Gin Europe) Is
81 81 ~ The female sex exceeds the
TnascuIfne in number, the figures being
RESPECTIVELY. I9.5S3.S99 and lS.Sl6-SSS- on
the other hand. 81 excess in the num-
Der OF the unmarried Is shown on the
masculine side, the respective figures
being 9,Sl7.Is7 and 91l4356. There are
. 81. SS7 widows and divorced women, as
against 1905. SS4 widowers and divorced
men
'.T5le number Of French families Is
97Sl.ll7 of which I.3l4.773 are without
chi drg-i: 2.149, 81 have but one child
20lSt65 have two: 1.246.264 have thrsei
74S 81 ave four; 1913 have five; Z4s,-
159 havc six, 1870 have seveni 81
have q ht, and 33.si7 have nine CHI
Gren p
The Washington times., 1908-04-12

When he entered Congress he chafed
at the easy manner IN Witch millions
OF dollars were disposed Of Having
practiced economy ali his life he could
not reconcile the lack of business
methods and the apparent extrava-
gance 10 the strict duty OF a Con-
gresham, who is virtually a custo-
dian OF the peoples funds. AS such
trustee he believes IL his duty 20
guard the funds. 50 far as he can.
as carefully as he would the
funds OF an estate which haC been
entrusted TO his care. He believes
that the Government should get
value received for every dollar ap-
propriated- He has no axes 20 grind
and never looks at a bill from the
viewpoint that it VIII or will not make
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families did not keep servants. or at
the most only one was employed Now
every family keeps help. or Il they
do not they live IN a fat where the
work Is so light that the help isn't
necessary. Much OF the food Is bought
ready cooked. or Al least so far pre-
pared that little need be done to il.
The consequence is. there is almost
nothing for the daughter OF the house
10 do What is the result? As soon
as she leaves the high school al her
thoughts are centered On society and
clothes. This is true even II she isn't
a member OF what IS known as real
society. Every class Of society has It's
leaders. and followers. and the girls
enter into whatever life OF that sort
their birth or financial standing entItle
them TO.
And what is the result2' went on
the man. earnestly You need only
to look about you wherever you 90
70 find out The women speak for
themselves. They rush hither and
yon. dressed absurdly. Ike dolls, in
deed spending their time in the most
foolish ways. and all because they
have 50 little IN their heads. II they
had been through a college course
some stability. at least would have
resulted. some desire 20 read OF OBJ
serve. They would look higher than
the latest style in hats. and inspire
those women with whom they are
associated with something better than
mere social rivalry
"I tell YOU I wouldn't have my
daughters grow up % be mature
women doing nothing definite after
they leave the high school; no, not
If I had 70 mortgage my home 70
interest then IN something worthy
IA rather zee them dead than that
they should grow up fat and hOrid
AID loud in their pursuit OF mere
pleasure. and far rather would have
them display the most serious degrees
TO be obtained at college than have
their mirrors decorated with prizes
won at this game OF cards OF that
PLAYED all afternoon long.
None Of my girls at present shows
anv particular talent for music or
anything OF that sort, They are just
bright. normal girls. but If they con
slider their education finished when
they graduate. then heaven pity them'
Their mother was brought up in a
home where there were many chill
dren and no help was kept She led
q useful life and had a good time as
well. Such a life is impossible for
the average city girl these days III
see that my daughters have as good
substitute for It as possible"
Do you agree with this manT
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"All My Daughters
Must Go to College"
Says This Father
By IRENE GARDNER.

VSHALL send every one OF my
daughters 20 college 81 q takes
every cent I make 20 do it.
This was said by a man who 10
the father OF four bright girls. ranging
N age from nine 90 seventeen. Then
he added: It's about the only hope FOR
girl these days unless II happens
that she possesses some unusual tai
ent- In that case would educate
her along her special line"
But why do you take this view7- I
asked, somewhat surprised because 50
many men do not approve or a college
education for women.
I advocate a college education for
all my girls because If they don't have
Il they are liable 70 become like the
distorted feminine m0nstroslties that
are 50 common nowadays Conditions
have changed The time was when
girl could live al home until she was
married and be as busy as a bee at
necessary work. too. The majority Of
The Washington times., 1908-04-12
Gave His TIfImafnm.

Mr.. Lil;sy drove directly to the Office
Of the fist selectman. and delivered
his ulumatum-:
"If those men are at work WREN I
return 10 Lake Quassapog this after
noon you will hear from me In a nan
ner you won't like q"
When Mr.. Lilley returned over The
road that afternoon the men were
missing. hut ne discovered them a day
or two later on ar obscure and I'M
travelled road in the woods ana out
Of sight. In all 500 men had been put
10 work or the town roads two weeks
before the primaries and kept there
until election day. These men had
their own votes, and eontrolis1 the
votes of the family. and in this ,naI-
ner the town officials were enabled 10
perpetuats themselves In office. The
town election was IN the first Monday
IN October, and the own meeting fol-
lowed the same evening. The town
hall hed a capacity OF about 1000. and
on election night It was packed with
the 600 Iaborers, and their friends
who voted. in town meeting style, TO
aoprove the budget Of the town Of
fiCials.
THuey went to the meeting in Octo-
her 700. and when the chairman
asked the meeting 10 approve an ap-
propriation for $4,000 for repairing
town roads during the year 1901 he
for the hrst time in his life. arose
and maze a speech, short, but to TIE
point.
Mr.. Chairman" he said, "it is IN
necessary to appropriate $4,000 for
the repair Of roads. I VIII sign a con-
tract to put the roads IN better shape
than they have been for ten years past
and the est will be only 1900"
The Washington times., 1908-04-12

n EARLY forty years ago George
nj L. Lilley was an obscure farm
IN er boy doing mans work be-
fore he had entered his teens.
That his name is now known through
out the world is demonstrated ~ the
numerous editorials, introduced as evil
dence, in which Mr.. Lilley and his
charges are discussed at great length
in every country which supports a
navy.
George L Lilley was born at oxford,
Mass. August 3. 1859. When he was
ten years old he was compelled to be
gin work at clock in the morning
His father owned a small farm and
sold his milk to the factory hands who
lived within a radius OF eight miles.
This milk was delivered by young
Llley who, when he finished his early
morning drudgery. walked a mile to
the village school.
When he was eleven years old the
family moved TO Falmouth. on Cape
Cod. but three years later George
Lllley returned TO Oxford to take
charge of and work a small farm
which his father had purchased. The
boy was provided with ten mich cows
and a horse and wagon and ne lived
alone in the big farm house He again
peddled milk and an 3D., far,n work
The Washington times., 1908-04-12

competition then as he does now In all
matters. Lilley was on the joint COM
mi-tee on railroads and despite the
fact that he was z heavy shipper over
the New Haven road, and that dozens
OF HIS most Intimate friends were
closely relateu 10 the roads affairs
he was the stanch friend Of the Con-
necticut Western and resisted all pres
sure TO get his vote. When the final
vote in committee was taken the New
Haven only had a majority OF one
vote. which showed how badly his
vote was needed
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Unique Life StoTU of the Sub
marine Scandal investigator,
Who Began His Career As
a Milk DELIVERY BoU.

unassisted except during a period Of
two weeks when he hired a man to
help him harvest the crop OF hay.
In the fall he sold the milk route at
a profit OF $500 and during the winter
he went TO school when he did not
drive hay to Worcester to be sold on
the public hay stand
The Washington times., 1908-04-12

with every reason to believe that
on January 1, 1908, he will be in
augurated as governor of the State
of Connecticut.
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He Did Things There.

The nomination was made unani-
mously and although Waterbury was
normally Democratic by between 1000
and l.50o AT that time, Mr.. LiIley was
elected by a majority of Leo votes.
At three previous sessions of the
The Washington times., 1908-04-12
Chafed at ExtraIagance.

Although he had served but one
term in the Legislature. Mr.. IAlley
The Washington times., 1908-04-12
HAT manner of

Al manner of
man is this
George Lii
ley, Represen-
tatiye-at-large
from Connec-
ticut, who in
a night be-
came known
throughout
The Washington times., 1908-04-12

was proclaimed as the logical eandi-
date for either governor or represen-
tative-at-large. Again he declined TO
make a fight for the nomination. but
said that If named ne would run for
election In a convention OF SO dele
gates he received all but ninety-nine
votes on the first ballot.
The Washington times., 1908-04-12

EARLY forty years ago George
i. Iilley was an obscure farm
er boy doing a mans work be-
The Washington times., 1908-04-12

EkV SHALL send every one OF my
daughters 20 college 81 It takes
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-01-16
RaYenous Raf.

It Is estimated that the rat does
$4,000, 900 worth of damage d year In
England. In slaughterhouse near
Paris rats In a single night picked to
the bone the carcasses OF thirty Ave
horses. There is very little that they
will not eat; eggs, young birds and an
imals are among the dainties which
they snap up in the ordinary course
of business. But when pressed by
hunger they will eat anything through
which they can drive their terrible
teeth; Rat will eat rat. The idea that
a trapped rat will bite off an impris-
oned leg and so escape Is now said to
be wrong; 1t is the other rats which
do the biting. They eat the captive.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-01-16
PETTIBoNE NOT GUILTY.

Western Federation Mine Official
Tried for Murder Is Acquitted.
George A. Pettbone, an official of the
Western Federation Of Miners, was ac-
quilted at Boise, Idaho, of the murder
OF Governor Steunenberg. ti ia
Pettibone's acquittal follows that Of
Secretary Haywood, who was tried on
the same charge. Pettibone, as Hay
wood, was tried on Confessions. of Har-
ry Orchard and Steve Adams implcat-
ing, them in numerous bloody plots in
which scores of human beings were
killed.
Members Of the Western Federation
all over the country have expressed
themselves pleased at the verdict. John
Mitchell, president of the United Mine
Workers Of America, stated that the
verdict was highly satisfactory to him
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-01-16
PLIES CUnrp IN Q TO "a DAYS.

PAZo OINTMENT Ia guaranteed to cure an,
case OF Itching. Blind, Bleeding or Protrud-
Ing Piles In to IA days or money refunded.