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Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

So much has been said about
President Theodore Roosevelt's
being de facto president even
after the Inauguration of Presi.
dent-elect VIM. H. Taft that it
looks at this time as though Mr..
Taft is preparing to resent this
impeachment of his manhood
and is actually going to appoint
his own cabinet. President
Roosevelt has an ambition to
have his present private seore.
tary, VIM. Loeb, named as a
member of Taft's cabinet, and if
Mr.. Loeb is turned down a
breach between Roosevelt and
Taft is expected. The wider the
breech the better for the country
at large.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

THE Salisbury Democrat bold.
ly admits that the two terms q
year of the Charlton county cir
cult court at Salisbury were
created in the hope that liti.
cation would be increased, but
says that litigation has deoreas.
ed instead of increasing. Then
since there is not as much litiga.
ton now as there was before the
two terms of circuit court were
established at Salisbury why not
lessen the number of terms in
propotion to the decline in liti.
cation? This would be both sane
and sensible. There being no
longer nee essity for more than
two terms of circuit court in
Charlton county they should
both be held at Keytesville, the
county seat. When Representa-.
tive John D. Taylor introduces q
bill to abolish the two terms of
circuit court ut Salisbury it
ought to carry, even according
to the argument ? put up by the
Salisbury Democrat.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

Gov. HERBERT S. HADLEY was
sworn in Monday, January II.
He is the first Repub lican COVER.
nor Missouri has had for 80
years. If he makes as good an
official record as his Democratic
predecessors the state will be
none the worse off because of his
election. But we shall see what
we shall see, although we must
confess that it makes US sick when
We realize that q Kansas Jay
hawker has been elevated to the
position of Missouri's chief ex-
ecutive over one of her native
and most gifted sons, Hon. VIM.
8. Cowherd of Kansas City.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

THE Republican papers have
not got to the point where they
call the nice,slarge sized panic of
1907 a little financial furry, like
the little brief flurries of snow
that sometimes fall in the early
fall or late spring to fill the air
with snowflakes for a few bri
moments to give place to bright
er sunshine, observes the Cass
County Democrat. If at a tail
end of a panic, which for ruin
and devastation far outclassed
the Cleveland panic which our
Republican brethern have been
holding up to'us for years as the
historic panic, they can not pass
the matter up so lightly, how
long do you suppose it will be
before they will be willing to
take oath that there was not
even Q financial furry?
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

AN appropriation of our
S5, 900, 900 will be asked of the
Missouri legislature by the
various state institutions this
year. The state university
wants the modest =? sum of a
little more than 81, 100000. AS
long as such enormous sums are
given the university the little red
schoolhouse must remain in the
background. This suggests the
idea that a much stabler monu-
ment would have been erected to
the memory of the last Missouri
legislature had it swelled the
public fund with the war claim
of SAFE, 900 allowed this state by
the federal government instead
of dribbling it out on the public
roads, not a dollar of which in
the way of benefits is visible to
the naked eye to- day.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

THE recent sudden change in
Missouri weather may be likened
unto rapid transit from the
sunny slopes of Florida to the
frigid zephyrs of ''Greenland's
icy mountain" Still we should
be grateful for an ice harvest so
the ice man can't dig quite so
deep down into our jeans next
summer. 1t is, indeed, an ill
wind that blows nobody good.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

The Columbia Statesman
thinks that with a pretty fair
crop year, the coming IL months
should be full of healthy com
mercial activity throughout the
country. There is plenty of sur
plus money in the land and there
is no natural raason why ii
should not begin seeking chan.
nels of investment, although q
good crop always affects things
more or less.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15
The city of Macon has been

The city of Macon has been
asked to respond in damages for
the mis-. step of a mule at the city's
coal mine down on the river.
The plaintiff is Mrs. Louena
Bachtel, and in her petition she
says that her animal was six or
seven months old, and that il
departed this life October q,
1906, through no negligence of
it's own. There was no fence or
anything protecting the opening
to the mine. Mrs. Batchel asks
the sum OF $50.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

IT would be amusing if it were
not 80 disgusting to note the an
tics of some people who have
suddenly become surpliants for
public favors, when they really
despise the people and the town
whose patronage they now seek
and have said 80 time and time
again. Hypocrisy covers q null
titude of sins-until it is found
out.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

THE Whitman Record, publish. L.
ed at Bosworth by G.. K. Cal.
vert, made it's first appearance
last week. It is a five.columr
folio with q patent interior
and is we'll patronized by the
local business firms of Whitman.
In his salutatory the editor says
that "We will boost everything in
Whitman that deserves boosting
during this year aid roast every
thing that deserves roasting
until further notice. That's
good. Long may the Record
live and flourish.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

The Kansas City Star is au.
thority for the statement that a
new fashion among women has
struck New York. They are
wearing psntaloons, coats and
vests similar to the men style
way back in the early seventies.
They have long since took the
slouch and derby hat, the neck.
tie and the COLLAR, now as they
are to take everything that q
man has they ought to be salts.
fed and never more complain
about woman's rights. This new
style may astonish a few people
yet it should be remembered that
it has been charged for many
years that a few women in every
neighborhood have been wear.
ing the trousers. Now that the
style is to be general, even in the
West, we might just as we'll hang
our harps in the willows and let
the women have the day. They
will always get what they want,
they always have. When this
custom is adopted it will be pret.
ty hard to tell whether it is Bill
or Jane going down the road.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

OWING to the cold weather,
Morton H. Pemberton, represen.
tative from Boone county, did
not walk to Jefferson City to at
tend the present session of the
legislature. The 'hoofing" Mr..
Pemberton was to do to the state
capital was in payment of an cleo.
ton wager. 1t is unlawful tc
place a wager on an election, anc
If losing or winning a bet il
wrong Mr.. Pemberton should
have himself arrested and prose.
cuted for cheap notoriety.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

The Fulton Telegraph and the
Fulton ounihave been consoli.
dated. In this day of an over
crowded field of journalism those
who make one newspaper flourish
where two formerly eked out a
miserable existence are nothing
short of public benefactors. A
tax without representation is un-
just, while taking two or more
newspapers where only one is
needed is an unnecessary burden
if not a downright nuisance.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

THE Missouri Legislature con.
vened Wednesday, January 6,
and we doubt not that a lively
session will result. The lower
house is Republican and the
senate Democratic, but unless
enough Democrats are unseated
in the lower branch to change
the present complexion of that
body the Democrats will have
majority on joint ballot, and
Sen ator VIM. j. Stone, Demo.
crat, will be elected to succeed
himself as United States senator,
A real Kilkenny cat time is ex.
pec.ed over the lieutenant. gov
eI,norship to which VIM. f,
Painter, Democrat. and jacob
Gmelich, Republican, both
claims to have been elected the
3rd of last November. The
Democratic members of the
legislature should ask nothing
in this controversy but what is
right, and that they should figh,
for to the last ditch.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

AFTER all, how many men voted
at the late election out of pure
patriotic motives for the good of
the country? asks the Cass Coun-
ty Democrat. Is it not fact
that the great majority just voted
the ticket that they believed
would benefit themselves indi-
vidually, regardless of what the
effect is upon the future of the
government? No doubt there
were men who held office under
the federal administration that
voted the Republican ticket be-
cause they wanted to hold their
job, although it was against their
principles in way; there were
men who believed in the splendid
doctrines taught by Bryan, and
who admired his courage and
statesmanship, in short believed
him to be the one fit man for the
presidency, but the scare that
hard times would follow Brysn's
election and that it might affect
their individual "business inter-
ests," went into the booth and
cast their ballot for Taft; the Ia.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

A BOSTON couple love each
other, but can't live together.
She says ''he's splendid man"
and he says ''she's good WON.
an and a fine housekeeper, but I
can't live with her." Anybody
got q remedy fo- cold feet?
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

HON. D. TAYLOR, representa-.
tive from Charlton county, is
much incensed because of the
appointment of three or four
negro clerks in the lower house
of the Missouri legislature. But
as he can't help himself he's
glad it's January instead OF
July.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

THE Standard Oil Co. is still
doing business in Missouri, not
withstanding theIouster decision
of the supreme court. 1t begins
to look as though John D.
Rockefeller is good deal bigger
than the court.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

AN Illinois farmer has crowned
with success his efforts to propa.
gate cobless corn. We now
have seediess raisins, seedless
oranges, oysterless oyster soup,
wireless telegraphy, smokeless
powder and cobless corn. Yet the
Lexington Intelligencer is moi
satisfied and longs for "boneless
beat. steak"
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

A REPUBLICAN congress has
become tired of President Roose.
velt's dictation and is dishing out
cold shoulder to his excellency
in great gobs.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

JOHN E. BURTON is to be the
new Republican U. S. Senator
from Ohio. Chas. P. Taft, q
brother of President-elect VIM.
H. Taft, and Senator J. B. For.
aker both wanted the job. but
couldn't get it and retired from
the contest as gracefully as
possible.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15
TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE,

The Columbia Statesman says
that it's sympathy goes out to the
fellow who is struggling with q
new years resolution-especially
if it has anything to do with
"smokin,' chawin' or cussin'."
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

IT has nows been over three
weeks since President Roosevelt
has called some man a liar. Can
it be that his Nibs has run out of
material for the Ananias club?
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

The weather of the past week
has been such in the North that
we are easily able to see where
President. elect Taft is right in
spending the winter in the South.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

THE state law makers at JEFF.
ferson City are now getting out
side of a good many rabbits.
This thing has been kept for
years, and probably account for
a number of I Missouri's poor
laws.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

''REsoLvED, That Christmas
Isn't Worth the Money" is q
question with which thePungtown
Debating society is soon to
wrestle.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

THE political sun of President
Theodore Roosevelt is rapidly
setting, and it's going down be.
hind a mighty black cloud.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15

CHAs. P. BURNETT has super.
seded Olga Meals as deputy
county clerk of Monroe county.
The question now is: How will
Olga manage to connect with
his meals.
Chariton courier., 1909-01-15
CHARLTON COURIER
c. vAne,vsa. GpIros AND PROP.

THERE'S many a man who
would gladly have his wife get a
divorce if it wasn't for the ali.
mony she would ask,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18

In replacing sparkling plugs in hot
cylinders they should not be screwed
up too tightly or difficulty will be ex-
perienced later in any attempt to re-
move them.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18
APPERSON GOING
IN CODE RACE
RULES ANNOUNCED FOR THE
INDIANA CONTEST
DISTANCE WILL BE OVER FOUR
HUNDRED MILES
Course Is Said to Be One of the Finest
on the American Continent
and Records Are
Expected

AS soon as the rules were announced
Edgar Apperson Immediately entered
by telegraph an Apperson stock chassis
to compete for the Cobe trophy on June
10. Cars to be eligible for this race
must conform to the following named
rules:
First-Maximum piston displacement
of motor 525 cubic inches.
Second-Minimum weight with tanks
empty 2250 pounds
Thrd-Ten or more 1909 or earlier
models of exactly the same type en-
tered must have been built, or if 1910
models are entered a $4,000 bond must
be given as a guaranty than ten or
more of the same type of car shall be
built prior to October /, 1909.
The course is ideal and not surpassed
in excellence by any other course in
America. 1t is about twenty-four miles
long and crosses no railroads and goes
through only one small town. 1t is
nois, and is only forty-five miles from
Chicago, with many large cities all
around it.
The distance of the race for the Cobe
trophy will be approximately 40 miles.
By permission granted by the COVER
nor of Indiana the First Regiment Hi
nois National guard will protect the
course during the two days of racing.
The regiment will turn out nearly 800
men, together with it's own commissary
and hospital corps. A signal corps of
about 300 men will look after the tele-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18
BERT LATHAM CASTS
LOT WITH NEW LOVE
Popular Racing Driver and Salesman
Leaves Stearns to Join the
LocomobiIe Forces

Bert Latham. the popular racing
driver and salesman who has been
identified with the Stearns Motor Car
company for many months and who
made many friends by his splendid
work back of the Stearns wheel in the
recent contest between that car and
the Locomobile, has severed his con-
nections with that company and has
attached himself to the sales depart
ment of the Locomobile.
Latham made a decided impression
on Manager Leavitt as a result of his
work during the recent race and was
offered a position with the Locomobile
twenty-four hours after the race was
concluded. He has been slow, how
ever, to give up his first love-the
Stearns-but during the past week de-
cided to make the change, and he says
that after seeing just how good bat
tleship the Locomobile is as a racing
opponent he believes that he will have
no difficulty in falling as deeply in
love with his new choice. Indeed, he
has already become a good booster for
the car that showed him the way
across the finish line three weeks ago.
ANYBODY who would no able to find
address in the dictionary would be able to
ind your CLASSIFIED al.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18
FRANKLIN RUNS
BACKWARD RACE
MAKES TWENTY-MILE TRIP IN
THREE HOURS
LAST PART OF FEAT OVER A
STEEP ASCENT
Climax of Achievement Comes at Dod-
son Hill, Near Kansas City,
Which Was Covered
by Deep Mud

A feat said TO be without parallel in
the history Of automobiling was recent
ly performed by Franklin touring car
at Kansas City, when it was driven
backward for twenty miles over coun-
try roads, the last five miles including
the ascent of the Dodson hill, known to
automobilists as the scene of the an
nual Kansas City hill climb.
The distance was covered in three
hours and seven minutes, and despite
the fact that running backward is d
supreme test for an air-cooled motor,
as it eliminates that part of the air
current produced by forward motion,
the air-cooled engine in this car was
unheated at the end of the twenty
miles. The finish was twelve miles
from the start by direct road, and on
completing the test the five occupants
changed the direction of the motor car
from backward to forward and were
whirled back to Kansas City by the
shorter route in tWenty-four minutes
This event was devised by L. A. Rob
ertson in connection with the Kansas
City motor car show. Mr.. Robertson
is manager of the Franklin Motor Car
company the Kansas City dealer for
the II. H. Franklin Manufacturing
company, and he publicly challenged
every automobile man in the show to
follow him and put any rival car
though the test laid out for the Frank
lin. At first it. appeared that five or
ten would take the challenge with an
equal number of water-cooled cars, but
as the time approached they withdrew
after consultations with their mechan-
les.
Thereupon the Franklin. a 2Shorse-
power car, WAS sent out under the guild
ance of John Burns. who is from the
Franklin Headquarters in Syracuse, and
who in the course of visits to automo-
bile shows in the west has acquired the
name of 1.-The technical kid" Alone it
went over. the course measurement of
the distance being accomplished by
changing the right front wheel. carry
ing the speedometer gear. to the left
side, this making the speedometer reg
lister as it would ordinarily with the car
going forward.
The climax of the achievement was
attained in the hill climb. When Dod-
son hill was reached it was found to be
covered with about an inch of soft mud,
this increasing the natural difficulties
of the ascent; however, the top was
reached without hitch, and the rec
ord breaking performance on the re-
verse gear was complete.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18
READING STANDARD
TO BEGIN SHIPPING
Word Received by John T. Bill COM
pany That Delays at Factory
Finally Have Been Over
come

Good news was received by John T.
that the Reading Standard factory in
side of the next week or ten days ex-
poets to begin steady shipments of
that motorcycle to California to fill
long pending orders in all portions of
the state, for which section the Bill
company has the exclusive agency.
Bill & Co. are now nearly a hundred
orders in arrears from Los Angeles
and out-of-town purchasers, who have
been compelled to wait for weeks, and
in some cases for months, to have their
orders filled.
The delay in some cases has been
enough to cause Mr.. Bill nothing short
of a nightmare, unable as he has been
to. give any definite information re-
garding shipments from the factory.
This delay on the part of the factory
has also been responsible for the new
racing machines, for which Mr.. Bill
has been looking for the past few
weeks, not coming through promptly.
The cause of this delay has been ex-
planned by the factory as having been
due to the failure of the steel concerns
who manufacture the gears of the
Reading Standard machine to make
prompt deliveries under their season
contracts. These gears are made from
an extra quality of steel and are manu-
featured by a concern engaged in that
line of work exclusively. After a most
exasperating delay, these gears began
coming through to the Reading Stand
ard factory and 1t looked as If the
work of assembling and shipping the
machines thenceforth would proceed
with rush, day and night crews hav-
ing been put TO work to manufacture
all other necessary parts and to rush
the work of assembling.
1t was then discovered at this i'm
portant stage that the gears that had
been delivered would not Withstand the
unusually severe test imposed upon
them by the factory experts. and the
entire shipment had to be thrown out
and the entire order had to be dupli-
Gated.
Thus the entire delay originally ex-
perienced had to be gone through the
second time, and it is only now that
the new gears, properly standardized,
have started arriving at the factory.
Hundreds of machines are in readiness
to be shipped, once these gears can be
installed. and thus the near future will
see Reading Standards arriving in Cali
fornia.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18

Trouble is often experienced with mag
netos through over oiling. Sufficient oil
to Intricate the bearings properly is all
that is required, and any excess will
sooner or later find it's way on to the
contact breaker points. and interfere to
a greater or lesser extent with the con-
tact This in turn prevents the proper
working of the machine.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18
DEALERS TRANSACT
IMPORTANT BUSINESS
White Garage Company WithdraWs
from Membership in Associa-
ton Without Com.
ment

The formal resignation of H. o. Harrison as
secretary of the Dealers association &C
copied by unanimous vote of the members last
Wednesday evening, and Acting Secretary l..
G.. Conwell was promptly named as his sue
cessor, thus confirming the recess appointment
of President W. E. Bush H. D. Ryus was
also selected as the treasurer of the associa-
ton
The following self-explanatory letter was
read at the dealers meeting the past week:
1--WE hereby request that you accept our restg-
nation from the Automobile Dealers Associa-
tion of Southern California. We would also
request that check be forwarded us at your
convenience covering such proportion of treas
ury funds as we may be entitled to.
(Signed) WHITE GARAGE CO.,
"By F. C. Fenner, president.
The resignation accepted and the secre-
tary was instructed to notify Col. Fenner that
there would be no remittance on account of
the resignation under existing conditions
An effort was made by formal communication
to have the membership of the W. J. Batchel-
der company transferred to the Stearns Motor
lowing previous precedent established in a
number of cases.
felicitous resolution was adopted by the
association directed to the Automobile Club
o. Southern California, thanking that organza-
ton for the splendid work it is doing in posting
signs throughout Southern California and as
surfing it of the cooperation of the Dealers
association in securing new membership.
Two new firms have identified themselves
with the association. the Brierely and Young
company, agents for the Columbia, and HERES
hoff cars. and the II. T. Brown company.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18
WOMEN DRIVERS IN
ARMS AGAINST MEN
SCREAM ALOUD BECAUSE OF
BEING BARRED
Claim That A. A. A. Is Afraid That
They VIII Make Perfect Gid
den Tour Scores Against
Their Brothers

Il am heartily in sympathy with
Miss Alice Potter in her contention for
a national woman's tour" said Mrs.
Joan Newton Cuneo. in talking of the
probable action of the A. A. A. and
the manufacturers committee in clos
ing out the ladies from the annual tour
of the A. A. A.
Nothing can stop my making the
route providing 1 care to do So" con-
tinued Mrs. Cuneo, and, although !
had no real intentions of entering for
the tour, 1 may decide now to make
the trip, anyway, for I don't believe
that experienced drivers, such as Miss
Potter and myself, should ever be
barred.
''Why, it is a fact that the trip this
year is a grand one, as a matter OF
course, and ladies without number in
tended to enter. Miss Potter when she
made that trip from Elgin, ILL.,, to New
York and return in her Haynes car
with none but ladies with her GER
tainly proved herself grand driver,
and I was really anxious to meet her
in the tour this year and give her a
run for the trophy.
However, if Miss Potter and myself
are to be banished from the ranks be-
cause it may be possible that we may
secure a perfect score against the
men, then it is time for us OF go out
and organize a national tour annual
ly for ladies, and am quite certain
that Miss Potter will enter with her
Haynes and that many other women
drivers will enter also. We can make
a tour and carry it through without
the aid of the A. A. A., providing
Chairman Hover and his associates
want to be so discourteous as to shut
us out of the contest, owing to our
ability shown in previous runs. 1 am
rather surprised at Chairman Hover,
whom l had always considered very
highly, both as a sportsman and
gentleman"