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Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-01-08
Tortured On q EForse.

"For ten years couldn't ride a horse
without being in torture from piles"
writes L. s. Napier, of Rugless, KY,
when all doctors and other remedies
failed, Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured
me. "Infalliable for piles, Burns, Scalds,
Cuts, Boils, Fever Sores, Eczema, Salt
Rheum, Corns, 25c. Guaranteed by
Johnston's Pharmacy.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-01-08

'ROUNDABOUTTHE STATE.
Cleaned from mExchanges--Made by the Shears,
( the Pencil and the Paste Pot--Some Origi-
nal, Some Credited. and Some Stolen.
but Nearly All Interesting Reading.

Livingston County.
Several days ago two Holt
County boys met in st. Louis,
viz: John Garrett, new president
of the Missouri Bridge & Iron Co.. /,
and Fred W. Hagloch, construct
ing engineer and general super
intendant of the three Million
dollar Catholic Cathedral now be-
ing erected in the swell west end
of st. Louis. They congratulate
ed each other in their being de.
feated for surveyor of Holt Coun-
ty, Mr.. Garrett being the candi-
date in 1892, and Mr.. Haglock in
1895. The Hagloch Brothers
used to run a granite and marble
works in Mound City and left
there about ten years ago.
Jacob Winter was in town Mon
day. He was hauling alfalfa and
selling it at sS12 o ton. He tells
us that during the past year after
he had figured up the whole
years output Of his patch Of
alfalfa, he found that he. had
grown i've tons TO the acre. He
cut the alfalfa four times. Sell
ingsatSt2 ton he has made his
land bring a gross income of $50
an acre. And he says he would
notcare il his whole farm were in
alfalfa. .---DeKalb County Herald.
Henry Broermann, living four
miles west Of Westboro, last week
purchased another 120 acres Of
ss.ass lssown az the Logan farm,
paying Si24 per acro for same.
This makes MFR. Broermann's
land estate amount to 800 acres,
all Of which is excellent land and
well improved. W. H. Broer-
mann, father Of this gentleman,
could have purchased any Of this
land now in the younger mans
possession at 81 per acre when he
first arrived in Atchison County.
, The Princeton Telegraph does
not know why farmers wives are
discontented, but knows why one
in Mercer County isn't. Since
June this woman has cleared
about S400 by selling poultry,
eggs and cream. On Missouri
farms these things usually are
regarded in the light of by-pro-
ducts, and the proceeds from their
sale goes to the farmers wife as
pic money. That means about
$500 a year pin money.
The Wabash station at Sails
bury was robbed Tuesday morn
ing at $40 o'clock by two men
who forced che night operator, C.
G. Mcdonald, to unlock the
money drawer, which contained
$50. 40. This The robbers carried
away. The safe in the office was
not molested.
AT Jefferson City a farmer who
had sold nine dozen eggs taken
from an incubator because they
would not hatch and who Dragged
about his sale of the eggs was
arrested and fined s75. which
with the costs, amounted to about
$50. under the pure food law.
John W. Nell, q well known
man Of Sedalis, who was shot
through the abdomen by A. H.
Ray on Thursday night. died
from his wounds Saturday night
ct the city hospital. Ray Is con-
fined to the city Jail charged with
murder 10 the firs. degree.
/ It isreported. says the Holden
Progress delicately. thata certain
disease Is quite prevalent in town
and school that to pronounce one
must have q very good medical
understanding to give the proper
accent, but ID our boyhoed days
was known as sseatch.s'
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-01-08
Old 1905 a Reeord-Smash-
ing Year.

promises to have written itself
1down for all time as a year of
records"
American crops, from wheat to
lwhiskey, from petroleum to pea
nuts, have left far, far behind the
old familiar figures.
East to west, north to south,
the same story has been told
things bigger or faster, smarter
or stranger, have been the rule,
mot the exception.
] The first motor car ever to honk
through Jerusalem's streets set
the people there lodging in
March, and. troubled Persia has
despatched ap ambassador to
Athdns for the first time in a little
matter of 1880 years.
On the other side of the Globe
Alaska sends down word of a
50, 100000 gold output for the
spring season, while Southern
California figures out that never
before had she had such lots and
lots Of lemons.
When Sesaphimoff, master
gardner of Voronesh, Russia.
proclaimed to the world that he
had really grown a black rose;
when G. H. Healy, of Melbourne,
Australia, succeeded in playing
fifty and half hours on a piano
without stopping, they merely
broke two more records.
An East St. Louis contractor
broke the record&in building and
furnishing a house in one work.
ling day. AT eight a. m. the
foundation trench was finished
at noon thirty-one workmen were
finishing the roof; at four p. m.
the sashing and clapboarding
was completed and at seven p.
I'M. thSneighbors helped the bride
and bridegroom move into a four
room dwelling, with plumbing,
gas and electricity all complete.
Many were the records broken
on the water.
In February, United States
cruiser Maryland, steaming in
battle formation, ten knot speed,
made 8.43 hits per minute in a
target 12x2l feet, 1,700 yards
away.
In June the United States scout
cruiser Salem, off the Main coast,
attained a speed of 26.8S knots
over a measured mile.
! In the same month the United
States cruiser North Carolina,
coaling at Newport, took on 487
tons in an even three hours,
which included the time Of rig
ging the gear.
In August the Cunarder Lusi-
tama made the "short course"
westward in four days fifteen
hours and twenty live minutes.
Great Falls, Montana, set up
the worlds largest smokestack,
its 10000 tons Of concrete leading
to height Of 5O6 feet.
New Yofk's Metropolitan
building ran up a 700 foot tower.
The Equitable building is to climb
to 900 feet, and the Mills building
is to top that again by another
hundred, equalling the Eiffel
structure. But what of all thisf
Architects and engineers have
now figured out that > 1000 foot
building Is practical. II would
cost some 100000, 900, but the
chances are fair that il will be
erected soon, leaving st. Peters
at Rome in q yeritable valley and
| dwarfDg old Storm King Noun
tain.
! Apropos Of mountains, Augusl
! saw a ST. Bernard climb Mounl
Blanc in search Of master whc
! had left him behind at Chemou-
mix; while, In the same month, 3
J Bostonian broke all local climb
!, ing records by ascending chs
peaks Of the Jungfrau. tn,
! Mosnch and the Elger in one day
49, - l. - - -. a.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-01-08

refused to- order an election to
vote on local option for that city.
The Herald notes that the Urich
girls who are peaches" are try
ing hard to preserve their beauty.
BY the burstingof a flywheel on
wood saw a young man named
Harvey Courtney was killed near
Bethany last week.
Even at a considerable distance
from big cities acre farming pays.
One farmer near Smithville made
$500 from one acre this year.
Albany's canning factory has
been temporarily converted into
a county poor house. 1t is to be
hoped that none of the inmates
will be canned.
President Roosevelt would be
"delighted" ovec the school cen-
,sus report OF Joplin. There are
not less than 1000 children Of
school age in that city.
The products Of Missouri's
mines for the past year ore yaia-
ed at S26, 1874, ,422 in the report Of
the state mining bureau, trans-
misted to the governor this week.
A Pierce City wife asked her
husband If he, thought it was true
that we were once male OF dust.
tNo,' replied the husband 1'if it
were you would dry up once in a
wl,ile."
IAeah naaoa. p MArear Count Y
farmer, compiitted suicide last
week hy shooting himself in the
fereheqd with target riils. He
was -foriy-secen years old and
owned line farm.
II you don't believe that this is
a charitable world. says the Henry
County Republican, watch some
people fight-a progressive move-
ment that would affect thom, in
the interest of the widows and
orphans"
Harry M. Ruby, chairman of
the Democratic state committee,
is 10 be the president OF the new
Commercial National Bank of
st. Louis, which is now being
organized with a capital stock OF
a million dollars.
Raymond Cul'enbur, seventeen
years old, was sleeping by camp
fire in the railroad yards at Mon
Ell Tuesday night, when his cloth
ing caught fire. He was SO
severely burned that he died a
short time afterward.
Bishop Daniel s. Tuttle lost his
.hatin Columbia the other day and
3 was unable TO secure another one
large enough in that town. Uni
versity students, you know, some
times have big heads but rarely
wear big hats on them.
A student at the Springfield
normal became i'll while going up
stairs, fell over the banister and
down three stories, but received
only q few bruises. IL 10 not
known whether he was a football
player Of was soaghened merely
BY hazing,
Jesse Hurst Of Carthage was
blown to pieces in mire near
there early Friday morning.
Hurst was sorting some powder
and sparks fell into the explosive
from the lamp on his niner's hat.
A widow and several children
survive him.
Seeking recognition for bis race
fossheir loyalty 10 the Republicsn
ticket. Herbert Beach. loeal
eoIored politician, has filed his
application with 0osernoF-eIee
IIadley for appointment 70 ths
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-01-08

Alex Oabalr or Marceline, aged
twenty three, fell into a turn
table pit in the Burlington yards
at Brookfeld Saturday night at
about 10 o'clock, and when the
operators Of the table, not know
ing the young man was there,
turned it, his back was broken
and he died from his injuries next
morning at 8 o'clock.
One of the largest land deals
made this year in southern Mis-
souri, was closed last week by the
Koshkonong Land Co. composed
of T. NJ. Culver and j. T. Rich
ardson at Koshkorong. Colorado
parties purchased 240 acres of the
Oregon County Orchard Com
pany's peach orchards for a con-
slderation of S39. 900.
The truth of one of Mercer
County's old legends is to be
ascertained, the first of next week,
when force of men will dig into
an old we'll on the farm of L. j.
Yates, two and one-haIf miles
southwest of Mill Grove, and un.
covered its secret. Old residents
say that a man was buried alive
there seventy years ago.
City Marshal Frank Cain of
Higbie was fatally wounded and
Elmer Magruder, deputy, instant.
ly killed, at 10 O'Clock Saturday
in the city hall here, by one of
three men whom Cain had arrest
ed on a charge of robbing the
Wabash railway station at Sails
bury, that morning Of its cash by
holding up the night operator.
1t will be something Of q sur
prise to a great many Missouri
ans that the report from the office
of commissioner of internal reve.
nue. shows that in the year just
closed Missouri was the biggest
tobacco producing state in the
union. One Missourian raised a
crop of 71,212,212 pounds. The
second state was North Carolina
with a crop Of 5000, 900 pounds
less.
Jake Jennings, who was sent
from Atchison County to the Mis-
souri, state penitentiary in May,
1905, for sixteen years, for the
killing of his brother-in law, was
released under parole last week
by Governor Folk, and returned
Immediately to bis mothers home
in Rock Port. The young man
is telling all of his friends to fol-
low in the path of right, as he has
learned a lesson which he will
never forget and does not care oil
to repeat. He has served abou
three and one-half years, being
a model prisoner during his term,
which accounts for his release at
this time.
The days when Ulysses S.
Grant was interested in the de-
velopement of Missouri were re-
called Monday at the local Unit
ed States land Office when the
record entry of the Grant farm
lin Maries County was found in
the musty iedgers OF the office,
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-01-08

John - What kind Of tea do you ii,ts
best2' Piiscilla,~ 60 tees, soma. but
Rocky Aeshtnln Tea hestYs John
SWAY Hoillstsf's Roeky MoHntain Tea
BEST PFiseilla--'slt spesks for itself.
john. (Makes lossIy eofaplexinsis.
Jallns.on Pharmacy.
Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-01-08

thihg more than So,UU0 feet up IN
the air, and in the Peruvian
Andes Miss Peck has reached
the $4,000 foot of summit OF
Huascaran.
Massachusetts claims (unchal.
lenged) the butter championship
of the world, with Johanna, "
who anteed up S5.22 pounds in
one working wesk. Her yearly
milk output totals at 27,433
pounds.
Illinois puts in her bid with the
announcement OF sheltering the
worlds best ploughman. In
September Alvan Stark, of Joliet,
drove a single sulky plough with
three horses.over an acre lot with
out the variation of half an inch
in his. burrows, measured at both
ends and in the middle.
Vermont has the record wood
chopper, Edward Mott, of
Weatherfield, in an hour and a
half under the sunrise to sunset
period of a September day, cut,
chopped, split and piled five and
an eighth cords.
South Dakato has produced
the years heavyweight farmer,
Caton Hoblett, of Clark, weighs
little matter of 512 pounds, and
still attends strictly and actively
to his 800 acres.
In September ten -year-old W.
j. Sidis, of Brookline, passed his
entrance examinations for "The
Tech," Boston's high grade
scientific college, where the aver
age age of first year students is
twenty-one.
Three months earlier Mauric,
Moriarty steamed from New York
for Ireland for his first vacation
in ffty-four years. He was an
Iemploye of the Cheney Mills, al
Manchester, Conn.,, and had
worked week days and Sundays
for more than thirty years, and
six days out of every seven for
the remainder Of this time.
Glasgow, Scotland, has pro-
duced a family Of five whose
combined ages aggregate 384; ;
Altendorf, Hungary, has witness
ed a marriage between a husband
of 120 and a wife of 102; and
Chikuga, Japan, has located the
Oldest man in the world within
her picturesque limits Mr.. Rosa
buro Futimatsu is III.
Upto the day OF this discovery
Andreiff Schmidt, son of a Ger
man, once resident in wilma, Rus
sia, had been held the veteran oI
living venerables, with 1875 years
to his credit; when he heard he
had fallen to second place he
walked over to Warsaw just tc
show he was not inoapacitated
by the news. The distance be.
tween the cities is some two
hundred and fifty miles.
Another travel record was made
when !. three-yesr-old Wilfret
Stevens made the 11,00O. mil'
trip from South Africa to New
York, in charge only Of a mother
ly stewardess.
A candle ten feet tall, warrant,
ed to burn for more than twc
years was made for New York.
Icathedral.
Major Henry Lethwaite Arm
strong, of the British forces il
India, achieved what has beer
held impossible in killing will
one bullet from his service re,
volver q man eating tiger. /
measured nine feet three incheI
from nose to tail.
]. G. Milsap, Of Brady. Texas
found in the San Saba river, nea
j Menardville, a fresh water pear
4 about the size Of a hens egg an,
weighing a trifle more than on,
thousand grams.
i The biggest clock in the work
was started in May in the towe
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-11-04
AN ORDINANCE.

Whereas, on October Q, 1862 an cleo
ton was held in School District No. 8.
in Ward One of the Parish of Caddo,
State of Louisiana, pursuant to the au-
thorlty of Act ia of the Acts of the
General Assembly of the State of Louis
lana of the year 1902, and duly author
lied by the action of this body based
upon a petition in accordance with law,
to take the sense of the property tax
payers of School District No. 8 of the
Parish of Caddo, State of Louisiana, on
the question of voting a special tax of
FIVE go mills for a period of ten years
commencing with the year 1910, for the
purpose of building and furnishing a
public school building in said School
District No. s, and,
Whereas, at said election so held and
from the returns legally made, it ap-
pears that large majority in number
and amount of property taxpayers of
said School District No at said cleo
ton did vote in favor of the levy of
said special tax,
Now, therefore, pursuant to the au-
thority of said Act 174 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of the State of
Louisiana of the year 1909, and ma
jority of the votes in number and
amount of the property taxpayers of
said School District No. 8 of the Par
ish of Caddo voting at said election, be
it ordained by the Police Jury in regu-
lar session convened, majority being
present and voting for this ordinance,
that a special tax of FIVE mills on the
dollar of the assessed valuation of all
property subject TO taxation within the
limits of said School District No. 8 be
and the same is hereby levied for the
term of ten years for the purpose of
erection and furnishing of a school
building in said School District No. 8
in the Parish of Caddo.
w. T. CRAWFORD, Pres.
A. L. DURINGER, Clerk. 1919.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-11-04
AN ORDINANCE
October 8, Iot

Whereas, on October g. 1909, an cleo
ton was held in School District No. g
in Ward Three of the Parish of Caddo,
State of Louisiana, pursuant to the au-
thority of Act ia of the Acts of the
General Assembly of the State of Louis
lana of the year 1902, and duly author
lied by the action of this body based
upon a petition in accordance with law,
to take the sense of the property tax
payers of School District No. 9 of the
Parish of Caddo, State of Louisiana, on
the question of voting special tax OF
three (3) mills for period of FIVE 90
years, commencing with the year 1910,
for the purpose of building and furnish
ing a public school building in said
School District No. 9, and,
Whereas, at said election so held and
from the returns legally made, it ap-
pears that large majority in number
and amount of property taxpayers OF
said School District No. 9 at said cleo
ton did vote in favor of the levy OF
said special tax,
Now therefore, pursuant to the au
thority of said Act ia of the Acts Of
the General Assembly of the State Of
Louisiana of the year 1902 and a ma
jority of the votes in number and
amount of the property taxpayers o.
said School District No. 9 of the Parish
of Caddo voting at said election, be /
ordained by the Police Jury in regula
session convened, a majority being pres
ent and voting for this ordinance, tina
a special tax of three 80 mills on tn
dollar of the assessed valuation of al
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-11-04
EsTRAY NOTICE.

Taken up by Eli Tatum three miles
below Forbing and estrayed before me
the undersigned justice of the peace,
one bay horse, 9 or 10 years old, no
marks or brands. The owner will come
forward, prove property and pay
charges, or the same will be sold at my
Office at Lucas, La, on the grid day of
December 1909. B. R. JACOBS,
Justice of the Peace, Eighth Ward of
Caddo Parish, La. 1928.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-11-04
sHERIFFs SALE.
No. 8748-First Judicial District Court
of Caddo Parish, Louisiana: Hicks

No. 8748-First Judicial District Court
of Caddo Parish, Louisiana: Hicks
Company Limited, VS.. ]. Thomas.
By virtue of writ of ieri facias to
me issued in the above numbered and
entitled suit, from the Honorable First
Judicial District Court of Caddo Parish,
Louisiana, | have seized and will offer
for sale at public auction, for cash, &C
cording to law, at the principal front
door of the court house of Caddo Par
ish, Louisiana, during the legal hours for
sales, on
SATURDAY, NOV. 20, 1909,
An undivided one-half interest in
northwest quarter of southeast quarter
of the northwest quarter section S,
township II, range 10, containing ten
acres, more or less; also 8 acres re-
mainder of northeast quarter of south
west quarter of the northwest quarter
section s, township II, range Is, all IN
the Parish of Caddo, State of Louis
lana, together with all of the buildings
and Improvements thereon, being the
same property acquired by S. A. Hud-
nall from Mrs. Anna Dorcus Cook on
August 10, 1885, and Anna Dorcus Cook,
by donation, from Robert Cook, as per
act in book x, page 354. There is ex-
cepted from this sale that certain one
acre square in the northeast corner OF
| the northwest quarter of southeast quar-
ter of northwest quarter of section s.
township II, range 10, sold by 5. A
| Hudnall to Mrs. Louis Willoughby or
| October II, 1887. Also that certain
three acres off the north end of that GER
tain acres acquired by Mrs. S. A. Hud
nall, from Mrs. A. D. Cook, on Au
gust 10, 1885, which three acres was do
mated to Mrs. Fannie E. Painter to Mrs
Is. A. Hudnall on August 9, 1888. Ais
that certain one square acre of land II
southeast corner of the northwest quar-
ter of the southeast quarter of north
west quarter section 5, township II
I,range 10, sold by Mrs. S. A. Hudna
to John Curvin, on December II, 1892
: After making the above deductions leaV
!, ing the number of acres seized 10.
The above property seized as belong
ing to the said defendant and to be sol
to satisfy the debt specified in the sal
writ say in the sum of $26o685, wit
e interest thereon from April IS, 100
until paid, at the rate of s per cent pc
: annum, and all costs of suit, includin
q 10 per cent on said sum and interest
attorneys fees.
n J. P. FLoURNOY,
: Caucasian, Oct. II. Sherii
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-11-04
AMENDED CHARTER
Of the Kalmbach Company, Limited.

State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo:
Be it remembered, that on the goth day
of September 1909, at meeting OF the
Stockholders of the KalmbaCh Company,
Limited, duly held at the Office of the
company in Shreveport, for the purpose
of considering the questions hereafter
mentioned. all of the stockholders being
present, either in person or represented
by proxy, and the forms and require
ments of Act I4o of 1898 of the Cen
eral Assembly of the State of Louisiana
having been complied with, the meeting
having been called to order, and
stockholder, J. New. Ford, having
been elected chairman, and stockhold-
er, C. D. Kalmbach, having been elected
secretary, the objects of the meeting
having been duly explained, the follow
ing resolution was offered by John Hen
drick and seconded by c. D. Kalmbach:
BE it resolved that Article of the
charter of Kalmbach Company Limited
be and the same is hereby amended by
substituting the words 'Kalmbach-Ford
Company Limited in lieu of the words
'Kalmbach Company Limited and tAst
said article remain unchanged in all
other respects.
The same being put p Snte, was
unanimously carried.
The following resolution was offered
by John Hendrick, stakeholder, and
seconded by C. D. Kalmbach:
BE it resolved that Article V of the
charter of Kalmbach Company Limited
be and the same is hereby amended by
substituting the words board of direct
ors to be composed of five stockholders
and three directors shall constitute a
quorum in lieu of the words board OF
directors to be composed of three stock
holders and two directors shall const1-
tute a quorum and that said article re-
main unchanged in all other respects.
The same being put to vote, was
unanimously carried.
The following resolution was offered
by John Hendrick, stakeholder, and
seconded by c. D. Kalmbach
BE it resolved that Article " OF
the charter of the Kalmbach Company
Limited be and the same is hereby
amended by substituting the words
'seventy-fve thousand dollars in lieu
of the words twenty thousand dollars
and that said article remain unchanged
in all other respects"
The same being put to vote was
unanimously carried.
Done and passed before me, notary,
and w. H. Mourning and ]. M. Craw-
ford, competent witnesses, on this the
goth day of September 1909.
J. New. FORD,
President.
C. D. KALMBACH,
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