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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
READY FOR THE WAR.
Clear Lake Protective Association II
Officers Have

Clear Lake, Aug. 25.-The Clear
Lake Protective association was in
corporated at meeting held here
and a full corps of officers are elected.
H. H. Shepard of Mason City is the
president and among the officiary are
Judge ]. NJ. Weaver and Judge J. J.
Clark.
The object of the Incorporation is to
protect the game fish, the birds, the
cottages and other property as well
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
OLDEST RESIDENT DEAD.
Andrew Zybarth Passed Away at lu.
theran. Home; Reached Age of
Eiqhty Years.

Boone, Aug. 25.-Andrew Zybarth
who was the oldest of the great mum
Der of inmates of the German Lu
theran Orphan and Old Folks Home
has passed away after an illness OF
almost a year. The old man attained
the age of eighty-six years and his
death was due to senility. For the
past six months he had been very
feeble and the excessive heat of the
past month fastened his demise. Mr.
Zybarth was native of Germany
and came to the home five years age
from Melven, Ill.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
RAISES PRIZE CORN.
S. c. Bedding Produces Corn With
Ears on StaIk-Grain Is of Bur-
pee's Earliest Catawba.

Mason City, Aug. 25.--S. G. Bedding
is exhibiting with considerable pride
a stalk of corn which has produced
three normal ears of corn this year,
all three ears of normal length and of
normal development. He expects to
take the prize offered at the coming
district fair for the stalk of corn
which is able to produce two or more
ears and Mr.. Bedding has a stalk that
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
Another Farm Changes Hands.

Mt Pleasant, Aug. 25.-The J. w.
Dean farm of 140 acres two miles
from Yarmouth, has been sold to ]. A.
Nelson of Lee county for $4,000, or
at the rate Of S175 per acre.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
Treasurer G. F. Crane. cleal

Treasurer c. F.. Crane, Cleal
Lake.
Directors-Judge j. NJ. Weaver
Iowa Falls; J. E. E. SMarkley, Mason
City; John NJ. Etzel, Clear Lake;
H. Lepper, Mason City; Judge ]. I,
Clark, Mason CITY,
Bonaparte, Aug. 25.- Especial. y
Referee in Bankruptcy William J.,
Roberts of the southern district OF
Iowa has issued an order to sell the
Meek Bros. wooden mills and clothing
factory Tuesday, Sept. Z, to the high
lest responsible bidder.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
kentucky First.

A recent investigation made by the
Office of Public Roads shows that
Kentucky now stands first among all
the States in the total mileage of
roads surfaced with stone, fourth in
the total mileage Of macadam roads,
and eighth in the percentage of i'm
proved roads. The improved roads
have been taken as those surfaced
with stone, gravel and other mater
ials more or less permanent. For
the year 1904 Kentucky ranks if
teenth among the States in total eX-
penditures, seventeenth in total cash
expenditures, and, during that year,
thirteen States appropriated money
from their State treasures to aid in
the construction of roads, but Ken
lucky made nc such appropriation.
Statistics compiled for the same year
show that Kentucky had 57,137 miles
of public road, of which sixteen and
six-tenths per cent. had been i'm
proved up to the close Of that year,
even though during the year 1904
a cash or property tax of s1,161,194
and a labor tax valued at s9S7,4S5,
or a total of. s2,14S,6S9 had been ex-
pended On its roads.-Good Roads
Magazine. NM
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
Highway Fences

When time, labor and money have
been expended upon the beds of coun-
try roads and highways there is the
hope Of compensation in the way of
improvement.
If the farmer west of the Missis-
sippi is blessed with a good road lead
ing to and from his farm, why should
not ne pay some attention to the
roadside? In most cases the roadside
is the seeding ground Of the noxious
weeds with which he holds an annual
combat in his fields.
There are instances where he has
an excuse. A rank growth of weeds
and briars may be more pleasing to
look at than the fence they hide;
but where land is worth $50 or more
per acre, he forfeits that excuse.
A good, we'll constructed tence
along the highway will arouse a GER
tain amount of pride which acts as
an incentive to get busy with the
scythe and AK and clean up.
Many county supervisors and men,
bers of Iowa Good Roads Associa-
ton are advocating the building of a
good highway fence-one which will
be an efectual guard against tres
pass, and add beauty to the land
scape as the real solution of the clean
roadside problem.-Good Roads Mag,
azine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
Provers and Phrases.

He that knows most, grieves most
for wasted time.-Dante.
Charm strikes the slight, but merit
wins the soul.-Anon.
Look around the habitable world, how
few
Know their own good, or, knowing it,
pursue. Dryden.
1t is curious to see how the space
clears around a man of decisive spirit
and leaves him room and freedom
John Foster.
Men who live for self never succeed
in satisfying self, or in quite satisfy
ing anybody else; men who live for
others in Godlike unsel6shness, have
JOY themselves while giving JOY to
others.-H. Clay Trumbull.
A good salesman is seven-eights'
confidence. He gets that confidence
by knowing all about his firms buel-
ness and a good deal about the bust
ness of the men he sells goods o
only he doesn't tell the buyer about
the later.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
An Extreme Case of Eczema
Cured.
Winator.snlem. ii. 81. July Isl. l9O

winstor Salem. N. c.. July, 10. 1905.
Mr.. J. T. Shuptrine. Savannah. Ga
Dear Sir:-Nothing gives me greater
plea the when | co am sIde slh rs bsvo 5ns
doubt one Of the best skin preparations
ever offered the. suffering ones.
Some ten years. ago no mortal could
have been in O worse state rom eczema
than myself. I had tried every remedy,
blood purifier. skin ealve. yet seemed
worse. until I was one mass OF Itching
sores. life simply a burden ]. could not
s1een. Could do no work. The physicians
could not help, me. was simpiy aes3
receiTed from a lady in Texas who.Trote
YOU ~teInnz~her condition and what Tet-
terine bad done for her; her case wa1 SO
much like mine that l conciuoee that
receive 40 great a benefit 1t might help
me. After two or three applications l
never saw such 4 sudden change: l am
happy; to say that am wen aga,H. MY
have never known 1t to foil to cure everY
case yet. 1 make a special oIer to any
one suffering with letter. Ringworms
and Eczema, etc. that II II 10 used
properly and fails to cure l WI, Ietuna
one. whenever 7 see any one here suf-
fering from letter. Ringworm. etc. l
prevail on them tn get a box. stains to
their money back. / have had the pleas
urc Of curing many with i.
Sincerely yours. rs. early.
Tetterine cures Eczema. Tetter. KIM
Worm. Ground Itch. Itching Piles. In
fant's Sore Head. Pimples. Bolts, Rough
scaly Patches on the Face, Ola Itching
Sores, Dandrur. Cankered Scalp. Bun.
ions. Corns. Chilhlains and every form OF
Skin Disease. Tetterine Doc: Tetterine
Soan 25c, Your DRUGGIST, or by mail from
the manufacturer. The shuptrine Co.,
Savannah, Ga.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
Here and There

The manswho makes the proposition
should be studied as closely as the
prop sition itself. .,
Your mistake often is as big as the
other fellow 's-but the other Fellows
looks worse.
Women spend most Of the money,
otherwise there would not be enough
to do business with.
It takes a wise man to teach anoth-
eS to do right, but a fool can show
him how to do wrong.
There are those who, if they owned
the world, would still have that which
they could not operate.
1t may be all right to be strenuous
IL some one else will stand the expense
and let you reap the profits.
We are strong in the muscles we
use, and it is SO with every faculty of
the soul, and every attribute Of the
mind.
a good tonic; Halve you food,
double your drinking water, treble
yoEr consumption of pure air, and
sparduple your laughter.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17

given me, and I am recommending it
to all my friends."-Mrs. w. S. FORD,
1888 Lansdowne ST., Baltimore, Md.
The most successful remedy in this
country for the cure of all forms Of
female complaints is Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. 1t has
stood the test Of years and to-day is
more widely and successfully used than
any other female remedy. 1t has cured
thousands of women who have been
troubled with displacements, infiam-
nation, liberation, 6broid tumors, IT.
regularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing-down feeling, flatulency,
indigestion, and nervous prostration,
after all other means had failed.
If you are suffering from any of these
ailments, don't give up hope until you
have given Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound a trial.
If you would like special advice
write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Mass, for it. She has guided
thousands to health, free OF
charge.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
ozster Raised ON a RottIc.

Captain Willard Thomson, vice.
president of the Baltimore, Chesa-
peake and Atlantic Railway Company
and the Maryland, Delaware and Vir-
ginia Railway Company, has a pecu-
liar freak in the way of an oystersa and
a whisky bottle. A medium sized
oyster has grown into the mouth of
the bottle, which is partly filled with
water and mud. 1t was brought here
from the Patuxent River by Captain
James Gourley, of the steamer Vest
moreland, about three weeks ago.
The oyster seems to be alive. and
Captain Thomson believes it sucks
the water from the inside of the bot,
tle.--Baltimore Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
Advertising Value Of Roads.

Advertising has become one OF the
most important branches of business
1t may be termed the dynamo of conf
merce. 1t gives. publicity to what
one has to sell and is intended to at
tract purchasers. From the newsboy
who yells Special extra" in the
streets to the broker who offers gilt
edged" securities in the financial col
umns of the morning newspaper, ey-'
cry one attempting to do business I'd
yertises, with the possible exception
of the farmer.
Municipal advertising is a. recog-
nized division Of the profession. and
there are bureaus which make a spe-
cialty Of giving publicity to the ad-
vantages offered by this or that city
in the way of business opportunity,
health, culture, recreation, ETC.; to in
duce people to their particular local
titles is one of the chief Offices OF
boards of trade.
At a recent meeting of the White
Mountain IN. H.) Board of Trade the
question Of good roads was discussed
from several standpoints. Among
other speakers was C. E. Farnsworth,
advertising manager of the Boston
and Maine Railroad, who took his
speciality as the subject of his re-
marks and spoke Of the benefits of
advertising for a community or a Sec
ton. Some of his suggestions are
worthy of earnest consideration by
che jewellers of country districts.
az think you will all agree" said
the speaker. shat the public do not
go to the Adirondacks or the White
Mountains because Of the mere fact
that. the railroads operate to these
points" Hotels, it was declared, are
necessary to induce guests, while it
is equally true that guests are essen
tial to the support of hotels.
at has now become a necessity to
steadily create the desire among the
public to travel, to see. to visit, to OBJ
tain recreation, rest and entertain
ment, which are all within the vaca-
ton idea, which is no longer a fad,
but is firmly established as n of
the necessities among all classes"
Mr.. Farnsworth asserted. The patrons
and guests of hotels must not be con-
fined, however, to piazzas and door
yards when seeking recreation in the
country.
The very best advertisements
pecially in this motor age-that can
be put forward to induce summer Wis
itors or permanent residents. is a sys-
tenn of good roads.-Good Roads
Magazine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
Protein in a Ration For Cows.

J.. H. R., Schell, W. Va, writes: I
am feeding milk COWS equal parts OF
cornmeal and bran. Would an addi-
ton Of cottonseed meal be beneficial?
How should it be-fed in proportion to
| the cornmeal and bran? Is there any
danger attending the feeding of cot
tonseed meal?
Answer by Professor Soule: Your
grain ration would be improved by
making it equal parts of cornmeal,
bran aud cottonseed meal. Presum-
ing that you are feeding as much as
ten to twelve pounds of grain a day
to a COW weighing 800 to 1000 pounds
the mixture might. consist of four
pounds of cornmeal three pounds CT
wheat bran, and three pounds of cot
tonseed meal. We have fed a ration
of two-thirds cornmeal and cotton
seed meal to cows with very good re-
suits, particularly where we were
maintaining them on silage and feed
ing some leguminous hay derived
from clover, alfalfa or cowpeas. Cot
tonseed meal can easily be fed to
cows without any danger whatever II
nationally used. You should remem-
Der. however, that a pound Of cotton
seed meal contains more than three
times. as much digestible protein as q
pound of wheat bran, and that 1t is,
therefore. a very concentrated food
stuff, and can not be fed carelessly or
in too large amounts without a likeli-
hood of deranging the digestive or
gans Of your COWS. Those who have
fed cottonseed meal and found 1t IN
satisfactory have generally not ham
died It in an intelligent manner.
While three pounds is about the right
amount to feed a. COW per day, even
four or five pounds have been fed
for long periods without injury under
good management. We would prefer
to see the cottonseed meal limited to
two or three pounds FER head per day,
rs its great virtue is to supply protein
to balance up the corn and other one
sided grain crops produced on the ma
jority of our farms.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
uwn m m gD 80 sample treatment
Ed - I'm E CRoss Pile and
f.. e. @ SSlB Fistula Cure and
Book sent by mail
VWWTTTyEHE3NJEME1y FREE.
REAco. DEPT. B.A MINNEAPOLIS. MIMI.
Making Good ~

A bashful dentist upon being pre-
sented to a fashionable bud could
think of nothing to say. At length
the situation became decidedly EN-
barrassing, and, swallowing the lump
in his throat with a desperate gulp,
he ventured timidly: Miss Smith, I
hope I may consider that we are not
entirely unacquainted-I pulled a
tooth for your father last Monday"
The bud faded away, and the dentist
is still wondering why his fraternity
friends made him settle for "four
rounds. Bohemian Magazine for
February.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
Raise Your Own Meat.

Years ago I wrote of visiting a
mans farm, where all the land was
in cotton right up to the house stand
ing implanted in a bare field. A
hopeless looking woman was frying
some Western bacon for the dinner,
while the man toiled in the cotton.
And / got to thinking over the mat
ter. There was no stock on the place
but the mules that worked the cotton.
And as I saw that bacon I thought
that some farmer out West raised
that hog, and probably made some
thing out Of it. Some railroad car
ried it to Chicago, and certainly made
money. Some packer bought and
cured the meat. and grew to be a mil
lionaire. Another railroad brought It
South and paid dividends by doing 1t.
Some merchant bought 1t, and sold it
to that man out there in the cotton
field at a big prcfit-and ne works all
summer in the cotton making all
these people prosperous out Of his
one crop, while at the end of the year
he is as poor as ever, and his land
grows less and less productive, while
ne might have made all those profits
himself in raising the bacon at home.
The Western farmer makes corn,
the railroads haul 1t, the merchant
buys it and sells it to the man who
could raise the corr at more profit
than the Western farmer If he i'm
proved his land. Yet he goes on in
the old hopeless way, imagining that
cotton is the only thing to get money
out of, and that corn, oats and wheat
are only supplies" and the Western
farmer gets gich supplying him.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17

- 81 -. INN = ID grG-
When will the cotton farmer get
out of this slavery to. everybody else?
Not till he goes to farming Just as the
Northern and Western, farmers do.
He has a crop that is far superior as a
money crop to any they have, and a
r that fits into an improving rota-
ton of crops fully as well as any they
have North or West, and while they
get rich in sending him supplies" he
gets poor furnishing the crop that
maintains the trade balance between
this country and Europe, and selling
the cottonseed that .fatten the cattle
that make the meat he buys In va
rious forms. 'a
Now, then, is the time to resolve to
change all this. Plan q rotation for
your farm and stick to it, grow plen-
ty of forage and make manure, and
when you once have manur enough
to cover a cornfield you will be on the
road out of this slavery to the North
and West.
Nine-tenths of the letters I get from
farmers ask what fertilizer I shall
use for this, that or the other crop,
when the man who farms right will
need to buy little, and that only Of
the mineral forms Of acid phosphate
and potash, or but one of these, per-
haps.
I have been hammering away at
this for many years, and yet how few
have taken the idea But I do hear
now and then from farmers who have
broken loose from the old ruts, and
are succeeding. Would to God that
1 could get all of them to do SOL
Professor Massey, in Progressive
Farmer.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
IN AGONY WITH ECZEMA
Whole Body a Mass of Raw, Bleeding,
Torturing Humor- Hoped Death
Would End Fearful Suffering
Tn Dacnoir. (H,rrod bv Guticura.

W llOiC bO0J IL "a VI - AtS
Torturing Humor- Hoped Death
Would End Fearful Suffering
In Despair: Cured by Cuticura.
Words cannot describe the terrible &c
zema l suffered with 1t broke out on my
head and kept spreading until it covered
my whole body. | " almost a solid mass
of sores from head to foot. l looked more
like a piece of raw beef than a human being.
The pain and agony l endured seemed more
than I could bear. Blood and pus oozed
from the great sore on my scalp, from UNI
der my finger nails, and nearly all over my
body. My ears were SO crusted and swollen
| was afraid they would break off. Every
hair in my head fell out. / could not sit
down, for my clothes would stick to the
raw and bleeding flesh, making me cry out
from the pain. My family doctor did all
he could, but | got worse and worse. My
condition was awful. l did not think /
could live, and wanted death to come and
end my frightful sufferings.
"In this condition my mother-in-law
begged me to try the Cuticura Remedies.
l said / would, but had no hope of recov-
cry. But oh, what blessed relief / expert
enced after applying Cuticura Ointment. 1t
cooled the bleeding and itching fesh and
brought me the first real sleep had had in
weeks. 1t was as grateful as ice to a burn
ing tongue. l would battle with warm
water and Cuticura Soap, then apply the
Ointment freely. | also took Cuticura Re
solvent for the blood. In a short time the
sores stopped running, the flesh began to
heal. and ! knew | was to get well again.
Then the hair on my head began to grow,
and in q short time | was completely cured.
1 wish Iscould tell everybody who has &c
zema to use Cuticura. Mrs. VIM. Hunt. l35
Thomas ST., Newark, n. j., Sept. %, lsoS.'
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props.
of Cuticura Remedies. Boston. Mass.
A drop of fortune is worth a cask
nP n-;clnrn II ntin
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
Changing an Order.

"Has your order been taken?"
asked one of the walters. Yes
said Mr.. Wellbroke, Fifteen minutes
ago. If it isn't too late, though, I'd
like to change It," ITO change your
order, sir?" Eyes, if you don't mind,
I'll change it to an entreaty Chic
ago Tribune.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
A Convenient Portable Fence.

The panels in the portable fence
shown here are made of four-inch
fencing, fourteen feet long, with six
inch spaces between the boards, thus
making a fence three feet high by
allowing the cleats to project two
inches. II the fence is to be used for
pigs the lower space may be reduced
to four inches and the upper one in
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17

creased to eight inches. The fence IL
held in place by triangular frames.
The ends of the panel overlap about
six inches and fit into notches for the
top and bottom boards. The brace
should be on the outside Of the lot.
It may be necessary in some cases
to stake the panels at the braces to
secure Krasrer stability. :.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17

o 1rre8ulari-
ties, terrible drag
ging sensations,
extreme nervous
ness, and that all
feeling in my
stomach. / had
given up hope of
ever being we'll
when 1 began to
take Lydia E.Pink-
Vegetable
Compound. Then
I felt as though
now life had haen
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17

Don't leave your stock thrown
around "any old way" 1t may look
as though you had been busy, but
you lose the benefits of "frst i'm
pressions."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
tee.hing, %softens the gums reduces lniiamm,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17

A feast is worth nothing without
its conyersation.-Irish
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17

Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
The Human bye.

A friend to everybody is a friend
TO ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
HoH,sThis?

- slllS.
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for my case Of Catarrh that cannot DO
cured Ly Halls Catarrh9 Cure.
F.. J.. CHESEY& Co, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known 7: u.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made BY his firm;
WALD1Na, KIINAN d MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, o:
Halls Cutarrh Cure is taken internally, act
n gdirectly upon the blood and mucuous sur.
faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Fake Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Shrewd buyers size up proposition
by studying the man who puts it. The
first thing they have to be sure of is:
Does he believe this himself?
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17

OF MISERY
Cured by Lydia E. Pink
Vegetable Compound

Baltimore, Md. -"For four years
nv life was a misery to me. 1 suffered
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17

Pave. Ointment is guaranteed to cure any
case of Itching, Blind. Bleeding ord 'rotruding
piles ID 6 1 o IA days or money refunded. 600.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17

A fattering speech is honeyed pois-
on.-French.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17

For WEADACH E-HfckHyCA UUGN
Whether from Colds. Heat. Stomach or
Nervous Troubles. Capudine will relieve you.
IT'S liQuid-pleasant TO jtake-ncts tmmedi-
ately. Try 1t. l0c.,, Csc, and SOC. at drug
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17

Sin beginneth pleasantly.-Bible.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-02-17
Piles Cured in 6 to q Day.

A fool at forty will never be wise