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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-23
CHAUTAUQUA
Opened tuesday Under Favorable
Conditions. The Attendance
Was Satisfactory

The Chautauqua opened Tuesday
afternoon in our city with large at,
tendance. The Stelzl Quartet fur
nished splendid music both afternoon
and evening. The lectures In the af-
ternoon were enjoyed by all. The
Pueblo Indians in the evening enter
tanned the people with their song and
dance. Lheir mode of living was ex-
planned. A queen reigns all the time
and she owns the property.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-23

| G. E. Mertz and wife took tent
and camping fixtures and went down
to Audubon Monday evening to at
tend the chautauqua all week.
A visit to the home of T. Batten-
dorf near town found him busy maxi
ing hay. He is one of the prosperous
farmers Of the county as his crops
will attest.
! Lou Shingledecker's forehead is
healing nicely where he got it cut
with a tub falling and hitting him.
1t tool: several stitches and plaaters
to hold it in place.
Mrs. Mabel Martin and Rose Lud.
wig, with lady friend, spent We'd
nesday eve with their aunt, Mrs.
George CARRIER, on their way to Dee
Moines to visit their parents.
Mr.. John CARRIER fell off a load of
hay cut at the George Ross place
Friday afternoon. 1t bruised him up
and hurt his back quite badly but by
Sunday he was able to be out with
the aid of cane.
Elsie WEIGH returned home Mon
day evening from quite visit with
her brother Will down in Guthrie
county. Mrs. Frank Welch also.
made short visit down there and
returned with her.
A big crowd attended the Nj. e.
service Sunday evening. Some six
or seven were baptised and taken in-
to the church. Rev. Golden will
preach again in the evening two
weeks from last Sunday.
Ross Higgins is up at Manning
running the shop for Thomas Wilson
while he has gone east with his
mother to Pennsylvania and West
Virginia. She will make quite
staa but he will soon be back.
| Qaite wind and rain storm, with
hail for five or ten minutes, Tuesday
morning about one o'clock. We UNI
derstand at Ora Corners it ruined
the oats and corn each about seven or
eight dollars an acre anyway.
/ The Farmers Exchange Bank at
Gray is having the most prosperous
business in its history, they having
reached $4,000 in time deposits IN
May last. Ed is hustler and enioys
the confidence of his many patrons.
Mrs. Maud Lathrop and little
daughter started Monday for Car
lock, South Dakota to visit her sister
Mrs. Howe Eaton and family. IN
Gle Billy McWilliams and Mrs.
Denton went as far as Manning
with her.
e. Jessen who is buttermaker at
the Liberty, reports very thriving
business. He has been there less
than year but in that time he has
had the satisfaction of seeing his
patronage increase from sixty-five to
: ono hundred and seventy. They are
madiBg eighty-five tubs of butter
each week now and the prospects
were never better. The assistant is a
A brother to the creamery man at West
Z Hamlin.
Q Foley's Orno Laxative the new laxa-
tive, stimulates, but does not irrtate. 1t
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-23
Carro1lSaloons

Attorney General Byers has directed
injunction proceedings to close the
saloons Of Carroll County. County
Attorney Wissler having the proper
complaint has put two out of business
the past year. The Attorneys will
move against them all along the line.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-23
Mourn Infants Death

Viola, the infant daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel White of Melville
township died very suddenly last
Monday July 10, age one month. Rev.
c. d. Wendell conducted the funeral
services Tuesday and the little body
was laid to rest in the Maple Grove
Cemetery.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-23

in the furniture business since Smutney landed in
Audubon! Keep your eyes open and count the
changes on your fingers and see how they come and
go; all are retired millionaires and have taken
much needed rest after showing us merry time.
But we are still here and no one ever did defy us
on our low prices We don't have to ask for time
We buy at the lowest prices direct from the manu-
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-23
VETERINARIAN

I shall be pleased to answer
your call whether it be in
day time OF night, in sun
shine or in darkness, if you
need my services inform me.
I'll come. After years of con
slant study and practice | am
prepared to handle any case
you may have. Phone
George Weighton VS..
Audubon, Iowa
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
FOR HIS LAST RESTING PLACE.
This Man Has Prepared Monuments
for Himself and Wife.

The contemplation Of ones last rest
ing place is not an agreeable pastime
for the normal human being. He pre-
fers to prepare himself for life rather
than death.
This is not the case with John s.
Cook, a prosperous farmer Of Newton
county. Georgia, who has just com.
pleted at a cost OF $500 monuments
to himself and wife and walled tomb
In which their bodies are TO be placed
after death. Mr.. Cook has taken great
delight In the work and goes out TO
the cemetery frequently to contem.
plate the shafts. Each shaft bears an
appropriate inscription, the date OF
death only being left blank
Mr.. Cook is related to prominent
families in the section in which he
lives. He has several married chill.
dren and he and his wife are living all
alone In their little home In Coving-
ton. He is a member OF the Primitive
Baptist and also of the Missionary
Baptist church.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02

Occasionally, but only occasionally
a nuisance abates itself. Away back
into the history of the proceeding
generation there has been an sevi-
dent feeling of disgust every two
yeaIl because OF the unseemly
scramble for the position OF chap
lain of the House and Senate, but be-
cause the men who participated in
the biennial bear dance, as one state
paper describes it, we're connected
with organizations which we have all
been taught to hold in respect, out
spoken condemnation, such as would
have been administered in many
cases, has either been withheld OF
has been tempered to mild ridicule
The race for these two comparative
ly Insignificant positions has this
year been marked by a more pro
nounced lack of dignity than usual
but the pastor who announced that he
was Tin the speedway" for the House
job, while he apparently told the
truth, has awakened feeling of in
dignation and contempt that will re
suit in ultimate good. A more whole
some respect for the position of chap
lain and higher realization of the
dignity of the places to which they
have been called on the part of the
politician-pastors ought to grow out
of the incident.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
PRIMITIVE WEAPONS OF WAR.
How the Aneients Who Inhabited Mex
leo Fought with Clubs.

Clubs were the weapons OF primitive
and savage man. Ancient specimens
from Mexico are heavy sticks grooved
along the side for the insertion Of
blades Of obsidian-thRt is, volcanic
glass The Sioux club is a fat piece
of wood, curving and widening away
from the grip and terminating in a
spherical head, which in modern times
carries a long spike. while the blades
Of several butcher knives are com.
monty inserted along the margin. The
national museum OF the United States
possesses a great variety Of these
shocking weapons, designed, as the
frontlersmen say, to knock down the
white man and then to brain him and
cut him into mince meat" The Kings
mill islanders and other Polynesians
make dreadful slashing weapons by
securing rows Of sharks teeth along a
haft OF wood
These weapons vary from few
inches to 16 feet in length; and II has
been said that in all the range Of
weapons devised by mankind there is
nothing more blood-curdling to behold.
They show how the sword may have
been evolved from the club. even by
tribes pnacquainted with the use OF
metals. African weapons. again. are
exceedingly complicated, owing to the
acquaintance OF the natives with iron.
The standard club is converted into
a sort Of tomahawk by the addition OF
blades, or into a primitive spear by
the addition OF a sharp spud. The
plain clubs in the African area are
used chiefly for throwing.
The small knobbed clubs. or "ker-
ries," such as are found among the
Kaffirs and other African tribes, are
generally used as missiles. Whereas
the club proper was soon brought to
perfection among savage tribes, and
was long ago abandoned as a weapon
OF civilized warfare, the missile
typified by the thrown clubs. or "ker-
ries"-ls still being improved upon IN
boomeraugs bows and arrows, cross
bows and frearms.-Chicago News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
A Cowboys Breakfast.

T. b. Sweet, a Topeka capitalist,
stopped at Abilene in the early days
at the best hotel In the city, relates
the Kansas City Journal. He asked for
his breakfast. The walters took no
special notice OF his appearance. or
at least did not guess that his appe
lite was different from the average
patrons.
GIVE me some eggs" said Mr..
Sweet. and waited.
In a little while the waitress came
back. In a bowl she had full dozen
eggs, all hard boiled.
Sweet gasped and ate what he
could. protesting that she had brought
him too many and that he didn't
Just know how hard boiled eggs would
strike him for his first meal Of the
day
why. that's a regular cowboys
breakfast" responded the waitress
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
TREATMENT FOR
BRICHTS DISEASE
(Honolulu Evening Bulletln)

AAAbhNAhAu AsN'Aihb puiANNAAAf
II is curious but satisfactory fact
that chronic Brights Disease, which,
according to medical authorities, is an
incurable and fatal disease, is now &C.
tually being cured We have not at.
tached Importance to the statement OF
recoveries we have seen I'm the papers
from the States, but that they are not
all rumors is now evident from sew
eral recoyeries here.
A. II. Otis, OF the Honolulu Drug
Co., tells us of two interesting cases.
One was swollen with dropsy due to
advanced Brights disease and both
the patient and his physician had
given up hope. Otis kept urging a
trial of the new treatment until the
patient finally consented. Recovery
was complete, the patient leaving a
few months later for California,
where he now resides.
Another case was that OF an officer
on one OF the Island steamers. He
was in q hospital and considered
hopeless when put on the treatment
He has now been back at his post
for some time.
Otis says there are very few fail
ures, but that It requires patience
Honolulu Bulletin.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
MRs. suckHAM PRESIDENT
Woman's Board Of Congregational
Missions Ends Convention.

Mlh1lDUo EiAo 00llNEVAiVUs
Rutland. Sept. SO.-The Seth annual
convention of the Vermont branch OF
he Woman's Board Of Congregational
missions closed here this evening af-
ter four very profitable sessions. A
large audience heard an interesting
address this evening by the Rev.
Charles Trowbridge Riggs of Constan-
tinople on "The New Era In Turkey
which constituted the evening pro
gram.
Several reports were read at the
afternoon session when rs delegates
were present The treasurer, Miss
Mary e. Marley Of Pittsford, reported
that S4,400 had been sent by the board
to Boston during the last year for
foreign mission work. The current
expenses OF the society in Vermont
for the II months amounted to $500.
Mrs. John Gibson Of st. Adams,
secretary, reported that there are now
10S organized branches Of the society
in Vermont, 81 having made reports
of their work for the year to the Sec
rotary.
These officers were elected: Presi-
dent Mrs. NJ. II. Buckham, Burling-
ton; vice-president, Mrs c. b. Stew
ems, St. Johnsbury; county vice presi
dents, Mrs. J. s. Wilcox of Orwell,
Mrs. L. II. Hemenway of Manchester,
Mrs. Il. S. Truax of St. Johnsbury,
Miss Florence Lyman of Burlington,
Mrs. Charles Webb of Guildhall, Mrs
.C. w. Gates of Franklin, Mrs. James
Holmes Of Johnson, Mrs. ]. b. Hall of
Newbury, Mrs. s. H. Peason Of Coven
try, Mrs. j. w. Ross of Rutland, Mrs.
o. G.. Stickney of Barre, Mrs. Mary l..
Henshaw Of Brattleboro, Mrs. Horace
Pease of Hartford, Mrs. L. S. Hayes
of Bellows Falls; recording secretary,
Mrs John Gibson, St Adams; home
secretary, Mrs. G. s. Mills, Benning.
ton foreign secretary, Miss Mary C.
Torrey Burlington; secretary young
peoples work, Miss NJ. p. Goulding,
Wilmington treasurer, Miss Mary e.
Manley, Pittsford; auditor, Mrs, w.
T. Dennison, Pittsford.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
su.nlelous.

Senator Penrose, a few days before
no set out on his hunting trip In the
Rockies. said OF political movement
10 A political reporter OF Philadelphia.
"Thelr words are suspicious. like
the words OF a wine merchant and his
wife.
This couple we're inspecting a
building on the Ponrose estate that
they thought cf renting. The water
was. unfortunately, poor.
Tasting the water, frowning, AID
shaking his head, the merchant said;
1T would do, at a pinch, for my In
ierior wines but how about my cha
teau and vintage wlnesr
Couldn't you otter itr the wife
ked."-rhiladelphia Record.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
FOR PIMPLES, TOO
New Discovery Cures Eczema and
Eradicates Minor Skin Troubles
Overnight.

Overnight.
A few months ago the dispensers
OF poslam, the new discovery for the
cure of eczema, decided to allow the
druggists of the country to handle IT,
Previous to that time it could only
be obtained direct from the labora-
tories.
Since this change in the method OF
distribution, poslam mas met with the
most phenomenal success OF anything
introduced to the drug trade in the
last 80 years. All leading druggists,
including w. l.. Gokay In Bennington
are now carrying the special 5O-cent
size recently adopted, also the So Jar.
This great success is not surpris-
ing when II Is remembered that, in
eczema cases, poslam stops the Itch
ing with first application, proceeds to
heal Immediately, and cures chronic
cases in a few weeks. In minor skin
troubles such as pimples, blaokheads
acne, herpes, blotches, rash, etc, re-
suits show after an overnight appli-
cation. Experimental samples OF
poslam are sent TO anyone by mail
free OF charge, by the Emergency
Laboratories, 30 West Twenty-ffth
Street. New York City.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
FRANK B. HOWE, Editor and Publisher

If there is any hesitancy in Yer
mont toward the adoption of a pri-
mary election law because Of the ad-
ditional expense to be incurred a por-
ton of the money needed could easily
be saved by doing away with the
double election in this state every
four years.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
To Live Ones Own Life.

To live ones own life is matter
Of such poignant and absorbing inter
est that 1t insenslbly creates an indi.
vidual atmosphere which obscures the
larger known phenomena OF nature
Mary Stewart Cutting, in The Way.
farers."
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
Too Much Talk.

One of the dangers of the age is
that Of speaking too much Judging
from the frequency with which a few
people. give the world the benefit OF
their views on every possible subject.
1t might be thought that they we're
qualifying for the post OF lecturer to
the human race.-Child's Guardian.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
Mrs. winslOw's Soothing Syrup

ia. been u,,d for over sIxTY-FtvE YEARS By NIL
LIONS Of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE
TEErIftN0, with PERFECT SUCCESS. i SOoIhhs
ne uuILD, sOFrENs the GUNS, ALLAYs all PAIN
CURES WIND collie, and 10 the best remedy for DiAH
RrEA. Sold BY Druggists In every part Of The world
Ne and ash for Mrs. Winslovs goolhlng Syrup,
and take other Kind. Twenty-Five cents bottle Guar
aneed under The Food and Drugs Act juno h, ll hcfs
Number i0oS AN OLD AND WELL TRIED REMEDY
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
Best Part Of It.

A New York woman fired at a burg
lar who was entering her window OF
course, she missed him, but the best
part of it is that she did not kin an
innocent passer by.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
Learn for Yourself.

1t is a most beautiful and salutary
order OF things that you should first
bear the burden you place on others
and learn from yourself how men
should be ruled-St. Bernard Of Chair
vaux.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02

Kodol will, without doubt make
your stomach strong and will almost
instantly relieve you OF all the symp'
toms OF indigestion. Get a bottle OF
It today II is sold here by d. A.
Ward.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02

w. l.. Gokay and b. A. Quinlan
heard about this and sent for II in
the interest Of patients here. | Will
be pleased TO give any one calling
full information.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
Camp ArsSon.

Owing to press Of duties l cannot
continue to meet the people as adver-
tised. can be seen at Camp Aragon
], p. Bradley,
sec'y., Fraternity Of Duxanlmae.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
Europe and Heaven.

One difference between Europe and
heaven is that people who make their
money in America can't go to heaven
to spend It,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
State Ealr Notice.

A State Fair Number of The Yer
monter" is being prepared which
will delight readers. The fair will be
pictured in all its aspects from the
work of an expert photographer and
the showing of various departments
is to be described by superintendent
The issue will give opportunity to
show our friends how Vermont runs a
big show. Send editor Chas. r. Cum
mings, White River Junction, a dol
lar for a subscription beginning with
the State Fair number, or 10 cents
for a single copy Of that issue of the
magazine.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
Learn This Today

The courtesy with which receive a
stranger. and the civility l show him,
form the background on which he
paints my portrait.-John Paul Rich.
ter.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
Or the Luhrloatlnn OIL.

VT the LupTlcdtlnO Oll'
Love makes the world 90 round, but
money buys the axle grease
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
Misplaced kindnesses.

Kindnesses misplaced are nothing
but a curse and Observation-Disclosures.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
Expensive Luxurles.

Castles in the air cost vast deal
20 keep up.-Lytton.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02

DeWitt's Carbollzed Witch Hazel
Salve is the best thing to use for
Piles. Sold by d. A. Ward.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-02
WHATEVER

your wants may be in the groc-
cry line be sure to send your
order to Puffer & Walker and
twill receive the same attention
as though you came in and gave
it yourself. BY doing this you
not only get thu best but the
purest of food products obtain
able.
Our Klimax Coffee is the
talk Of the town-at 25c.
PUFFER & WALKER
CASH cRocERs:
Sole Agents for Upton COffees
The Delta independent., 1908-10-30
Delta 4 Wonder.

The year 1907 was proclaimed as a
damaging one to Delta because the
frost injured the fruit crop. Still
property demands advanced clear
through that year and improvements
were made to the tune of s25o,o
But the wise ones said: Look out
for l9Osl If we have another frost
experience the whole bottom will drop
out" 1"
Well, we had the other frost expert
bumps.
These followed a silly little panic
precipitated last fall and merged into
the broader wake of an unsettling
presidential election year.
And what has been the result.
Delta and Delta county have ad-
vanced even faster than in 1907.
Delta's building record for this year
will probably reach fully sS0o,0 as
against $3.50. 600 last year, and the
country around has been keeping pace
with substantial building improvements.
This makes positive, proof of what
the INDEPENDENT has repeatedly as
serted, that the frost "bugaboo," the
seepage 'bugaboo" and the other
sorts of scares, count for little. singly
or in pairs, as against the manifold
crop resources and high productiveness
of our soil.
Delta county soil produces such a
variety of crops that partial failure
of one or two but stimulates the out
put of others.
Then, too. nothing has produced an
entire failure of any crop.
Fruit crops have been cut in two by
frost effects, but there renamed Il
good amount and what ripened proved
to be not only of better quality than
would have been the case if the trees
had been crowded, but it brought bet
ter prices.
We doubt if there is another section
of the United States today where land
is paying to its owners so much money
in crops as is the land in Delta county.
or where markets are as good.
So we have the best of fruits despite
the frosts. which may not bother again
for years. And we have our immense
sugar beet crops, our grains, our alfal-
ia with three cuttings per year; our
fine potatoes, melons, vegetables and
almost all field and garden crops. We
have our great stock industry, manu-
factt.riucy md conl mining
Is it any wonder that Delta grows?
And our markets seem to be always
good. Small fruits sold high through
cut their season. Peaches brought a
good price. Apples, which predictions
early in the season estimated would
bring no more than 81 box for win
The Delta independent., 1908-10-30

States are concerned, this argument
has considerable weight, for not more
than one person out of twenty in the
United States is directly or indirectly
concerned in the growth of the sugar
industry. We happen to be among the
exceptional ones who are.
The Republican Party, upon being
returned to power in 1896. placed a
tariff upon sugar of two cents pound.
under the stimulus of which, great
strides have been made in the home
production of sugar.
The figures that are quoted in this
article are taken from the year book
of the Department of Agriculture for
year 1907, issued by the United States.
In the year 1907, there was produced,
as stated on Page 6s5 of said report,
9s4 600 tons of 22i0 pounds in the total
United States, excepting the Philip
pine islands,, of cane sugar and ALB, 953
tons of beet sugar. OF this amount,
Color ado from the 1907 crop produced
33s, ,573, eco pounds of sugar (Psge $50
of the report). This amount of sugar
not alone was the greatest produced in
any beet sugar State of the Union, but
was in excess of the quantity produced
by both of the next two highest States,
California and Michigan. 1t can thus
be seen that Colorado is the leading
State of our Union in the production
of beet sugar, and We who reside here
Ill ic
but beginning of the industry in Col
orado.
Now when we are just commencing
to thrive under the fostering protection
of Republican tariff, would it MOI
seem to be folly of the most censurabl'
character for US TO throw away our cp
portunities by pursuing the presen
vagaries which Mr.. Bryan is following
Should we vote against the establish