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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-22

Have your I'LL garments cleaned
by our sanitary process. The Elks'
Cleaning and Dyeing Co.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-22

Dr.. Samuel Dodds, vice-president
occupied the chair in the absence OF
Or. S. b. Cary, president OF the a.
ISOLATION,
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We have dyed for others, let us
dye for you The Elks' Cleaning
and Dyeing Co.
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Expert repairing, coats refined,
by an expert tailor. The Elks' Clean
ing and Dyeing Co.
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!, sun and . Moon .

sun Will rise today. $40 a. NJ
sun will set today $3.50 p. m.
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Foil wing the regular literary
program luncheon was served.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-09-22

meeting. The discussion on the
subject was led by DR.. II. A. Davis
and was participated In by all pres
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22

twenty pounds of seed per acre.
We have noted from personal OBJ
servation that many of the farmers
in our district are Inclined to plant
the seed too deep. Beet seed
should never be planted more than
three-fourths to one and one-h alf
inches deep, care should be taken
that the soil is well packed around
the seed by the press wheels in or
der to draw the moisture neoes-
sary for termination.
The deeper the seed is planted
and especially SO in heavy soil
the weaker the plants will be. pro-
vided they come up at all: there
fore avoid deep planting.
Thinning
The next operation Is the thin.
ming. We consider this the most
delicate and most important; In
fact. the one upon whach the re
suits of the beet cror, largely de-
pends.
The farmer. after having decid.
ed upon the distance he wishes his
beets to be thinned. should stipu-
late this distance In the written
agreement with his thinning con-
tractor. and he should closely SUI
perintend the work in order to sat
isfy himself that 1t is being properl
performed.
The most favorable distribution
of the beets in the field is as fol-
lows: II planted In eighteen inch
rows. by thinning them eight inches
apart. or. II planted in sixteen inch
rows. by thinning them nine inches
apart. which will give in either case
a stand of 1850 beets to the acre.
We. of course. cannot advise or
recommend an arbitrary distance
between beets. as much depends on
the productiveness of the land and
Also on the eveness OF the stand.
The average poor stand of last
year was due partly to the fact
that the beets came up very un-
evenly. owing to the Irregular dis
tributton of moisture. but 1t was al
SO due to the careless work of
the thinners.
To sum up, We suggest in order
to improve the stand of beets and
consequently the gross returns of
the farmer:
First-To plant at least twenty
pounds of beet seed to the acre.
Second-To avoid planting too
deep.
Third-To supulate In the thin
ming contracts the average distance
between beets In the row.
Fourth-To carefully supervise
the work of the thinners.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22
GOOD ROADS
The Most Important Question Now
Before the Legislature AND
the People

The question of good roads and
the best methods of securing them
Is by far the most important issue
before the people of all agricultural
sections of the country at the
present time.
Much good temporary work may
be done in the line of repairs and
dragging and such methods, bu,
after it all Is done there is still in
q short time Just as great neces-
sity as ever for repairs. There Is
one genuine good road and that Is
a solid substantial one that will
stand continual wear. This is ex-
pensive to construct but once con-
structed can be kept up at very
small expense.
Such roads 1t has been demon-
strated will stand permanent ben
efit to be enjoyed by many gener-
atoms to come, and there Is no
good reason advanced by any one
why some of the generations should
not assist the present one in pay
ing for these roads.
The total amount which the
county can raise for road purposes
will construct only few miles of
first-class road each year and as
the taxes are raised from all sec
tons of the county. and the rest
of the county Is not going to stand
by and see the whole fund spent
in one section. 1t naturally follows
that first-class roads will never
be secured under the present sys-
tam.
There Ia only one way that they
can be either Justly or possibly Sc
cured and that is by issuing bonds
in sufficient amount to construct a
first-class system of roads reaching
all the farming sections OF the
county. The interest on these
bonds and the small repairs neces-
sary on such q system Of roads will
not equal the amount now neces-
sarily spent by the county In keep
ting up repairs on poor roads.
II bonds can be issued under
the present law II should be done.
and II they cannot the taxpayers
and good roads associations should
ask our representatives in the
legislature to push a bill or amend
ment to the constitution. " neces-
sary. that will give the taxpayers
such right.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22

Roosevelt was vociferous in his
praise of the performance of 1.-The
House of q Thousand Candles"
when that play was produced at
the National Theatre In Washing
ton. d. C. The Ex-PresLdent and
his party occupied the right hand
stage box which was decoarted in
his honor. In speaking OF the play
the Washington Post says: 'H's a
highly thrilling play and was greet
ed with round upon round of ap-
plause."
The original production as seen
at the Hacketf Theatre in New
York and Garrick Theatre in Chi
cago will be seen at the Opera
House on February 2Sth.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22
..Running a Country Newspaper

A former Lamar young man. w.
C. Markham, recently read paper
to the Kansas Editorial Associa-
ton on the above subject that
covered the subject SO thoroughly
that 1t has been republished in
many of the large daily papers OF
the country. We wish we had
room for all of it. but the following
extracts will show some OF the
fine points both in a literary and
business way. and proves both MI.
Markhams eAperience and del
study of the subject. He Is editor
and proprietor of the Baldwin
(Kansas) Ledger.
Many people are inclined to
think that running a newspaper in
. conutry town is an easy task.
And so 1t is for a few. but 1t takes
. larger and broader preparation
to run a paper in a country town
than to fill a niche. however brill
Nantly. in a large city daily.
The definition of a country town
changes almost withsthe phases OF
the moon. Last year a country
town included all communities with
sufficsent Inhabitants to have a
mayor to abuse; to own a town
pump; to possess a postoffice where
more calico was sold than postage
stamps; to support a good sized
church quarrel on infant damnation
the perseverance of the saints or
the various theories of the Atone
ment: whose town hall. with to-
bacco stained wall. was happy
when Ee-echoing the strain Of "Old
Dan Tucker" or the intense lyceum
debate on the momentous ques-
fion, "The pleasure of anticipation
Is greater than that of realization
But today this same town, al
though 1t may have less than 1000
Inhabitants, has several beautiful
parks. its town pump has been
turned into a large waterworks
plant with complete sewer system;
electricity has displaced the'candle,
the odl lamp and even the acetelyne
plant. The motor huns in the
place of the much abused gasoline
engine. and the electric fan oools
the brow of the fellow who for
merly couldn't make the engine
spark. Corn cobs soaked in coal
oil are not necessary to start the
fire in the kitchen stove for the
gas range has long since superced-
ed the coal and wood stove. FL
ped with pipe organ. club rooms.
dining rooms and accessories are
centers OF mems gatherigs as well
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22

The man who is eternally harping
about an eight-hour schedule Will
always be an eight-hour man. NO
man ever became the proprietor OF
anything on an eight or even
ten hour limitation. Time is the
greatest asset the country news
paperman has. II may take him
several hours to hunt down a little
ten-hne item and yet that ten-line
item may mean much to some OF
his eager readers
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22
OF SEED BED
FOR SUGAR BEETs

The most Important point In or
der to secure a goodstand IN to
thoroughly prepare the seed bed.
After the field has been pulverized
and narrowed, both In dength and
crosswise. pack the top soil we'll
for about two TO three inches IN
depth.
II rain Is expected soon after
planting. do not roll your land as
the rainfall will pack the surface
soil sufficiently to insure uniform
sprouting of the beet seed. Prepare
your land as quickly as possible.
and begin planting Immediately af-
Tor 1t is worked down. in order to
avoid drying out of the seed bed.
as beet seed requires considerable
moisture TO produce termination.
Planting
The next important step in the
cultivation of sugar beets is the
planting. Early in the season the
farmer should thoroughly examine
his beet drill to see that II is in
perfect working order when plant
ing time arrives.
The time TO plant depends upon
the season, as we'll as on the rain
fall and the nature of the soil.
Not less than twenty pounds of
beet seed to the acre should be
planted In order to secure a good
and profitable stand under all con-
ditions. because should dry weather
prevail, enough seed will generally
germinate to make a satisfactory
stand. Furthermore. should a
crust be formed on the field after
heavy rain. one plant will help
its neiehbor to break through the
crust Therefore. SOW at least
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22

The Milwaukee Evening WILSON,
sin calls attention to the fact that
more than thirty years ago. in one
of his lectures the late Theodore
Tuton, AZ one time editor OF the
New York Independent and one OF
the most gifted men intellectually
In his time. predicted a time would
come when plant growth would be
IS imulated by currents of electricity
running Into the ground. BY such
means. he conceived, It might be
found possible to produce particu-
larly large and fine growths. or to
SECURE in a single year a succession
OF crops from the same soil. His
suggestion. which WAS purely spec
ia,aiive at the time. Is recalled by
a statement of what has reached
an experime ntal stage at Birming-
ham. England.
A cable dispatch from that place
says that one can now buy an cleo
tiical apparatus for shocking crops
into rapid growth. Sir Lionel
Lodge ts one of the directors of
the company making and selling
the device. which is the outcome of
experiments conducted by Sir Oliver
Lodge, thewellknOwn Scientist, who
is the principal of Birmingham UNI
versity.
Here 10 the account of the de-
vice and what 1t Is expected to do:
THE apparatus consists Of an
engine running a special machine.
which sends only positive electric
ity along the wires. These wires
are very thin. and therefore they
discaTge . lot OF electricity Into
the air. The current is sent along
them at very high pressure The
wires stretch across the field or
garden at the heighth Of twenty
feet. The escaping current reaches
the plants and stimulates their
growth. An increase of 80 per
cent in the electricity crop
as compared with one grown un-
der ordinary conditions. rs not
considered high. The treatment
is not good for peas or beans. 1t
acts 90 a stimulant and not as q
food. having the same effect on
the plants as sunshine. Plants are
always taking electricity from the
air. and the apparatus only sup
plies them with more. II ts work
cd from spring until the end Of
summer"
Seven installations, 1t states,
have recently been effected In
Germany, and there are two in
Scotland, and two in England. A
set of apparatus ds now on the high
seas on the way to Java. where
II wiM be used to stimulate the
growht of sugar cane. An associa-
ton of sugar growers there has
bought 1t. and purposes giving it
exhaustive trials notwithstan ndins
q realization that the conditions OF
the climate there are adverse. The
stations in Great Britain are NOR e
or less experimental. but the Ger
man installations have been put
up as commercial undertaking.
National Farmer.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22

as the ever faithful and highly
commendable organization-the La
dies Aid Society. The postoffice.
finished with metal ceiling. tile
floor and quarter sawed oak trim
mings throughout. has long since
substituted the combination lock
box for the call box that so often
didn't call and the twist of tobacco
ard peck of beans must be secur-
ed ait some other establishment.
The best concert troupes and plat
form speakers appear before the
pc ople every year and the Largo
fl ON Handel or the March from
TAnnhauser. as well as the elo-
quence of a Hills or a Dolliver are
as fully apprecinated by her ciu-
zens as when they are given in
the Music Hall. of Boston. or Mad
is IN Square Garden.
This Is a country town as you
have it today and this is the place
where you must work If you run
a paper in a country town.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22

1.-THE House Of u Thousand Cam
dies"
It is said that Ex-President
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22

You can't run a country news
paper on an eight-hour schedule.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22

1t may not be necessary. to sue
essfully run q country paper. that
one should be q thorough mechanic,
but you should know the case, and
have q keen sense of the relations
ard sizes OF type. No country print
ing office can live alone on the
newspaper income but 1t must have
a job department whose mechanical
Sc nse is alive to the best in the
pI Lnteris art. Blending of colors
is just as important as blending of
crts and we are expected to give
o. patrons ideas instead of them
he lping us. We often get a half
p sge ad because we know what to
say and how to say 1t where other
wise the profit side Of the ledger
81 ow an entry for q 5-inch single.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22

he iping us. We often get a half
d .ge ad because we know what to
say and how to say 1t where other
wise the profit side OF the ledger
81 ow an entry for q 5-inch single.
til town will not make you q mem
ber of the stock exchange nor
heavy holder in stocks and bonds.
The editors chair doesn't rest on
a gold mine nor is the makeup
table covered with daisies and but
teroups. Your bank book will have
on its credit side more words that
read like Kindness town PRIDE"
public spirit. "civic improve
ment." better schools" q ureless
worker" and "a stalwart citizen"
rather than dollars" dollars"
d" dollars"
But properly managed . country
n swspaper can be made to yield a
comfortable living and that at the
p -esent prices for the necessities
Of life. However. this cannot be
done II the office is run in a hap
hazard manner. II is just as es-
sPniial for the success of a coun-
try newspaper that a correct set
Of books be maintained as IL is for
o country bank. You should know
ever. year to a cent Just what you
have laid out for labor. for print
iag mat erials. and every item OF
expense, as we'll as to know how
much cash came in on subscrip-
tons, on advertising and on job
work II is Just as necessary for
you to know the cost of an edition
of your paper as II Is for the en-
CINE builder to know the complete
cost of its construction. There are
many men who have run country
newspapers for years and manage
to pay their honest debts but they
never know whether they have tax
en- in more on advertising this year
than last or whether their job de-
partment is a failure or success.
Every printing office. large or
small. should do its work on the
cost system method. Every Kansas
editor who attended the re-
cent cost convention at Wichita
is thoroughly convinced that II this
system of running a printing plant
we're adopted IN the towns of Kan
sas, there would be fewer calls for
the newspaper man to apply for
the position of postmaster. or work
real estate deals and insurance
gratis in onder to make ends meet.
The cost congress was worth doz-
en- editorial association meetings to
the craft and 1t is to be hoped that
the sessions of this convention will
not close without some steps being
taken to organize the printers by
counties or congressional districts
to install this very essential meth
cd of doing business and getting
what has long since been due the
newspapers and printers of this
state in return for their efforts to
obtain a livelihood.
It seems but as yesterday when
many people expected to pay their
subscriptions in produce from the
farm or Let 1t run without any pay
ment at all. They would not think
of going to a bakery and asking the
baker to give them an extra loaf
of bread simply because they had
purchased one. but 1t is hard yet
to make people think they ought
to pay for extra copies of little
country paper which is as much
the product of a certain mans
brain and hands as that of the
baker. The only difference is that
the baker worked in white and the
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22

Through tourist sleepers to Los
Angeles and San Francisco are
electric lighted and have smoking
room for men and extra dressing
room for women.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1911-02-22
Hair Dressing Shop

All of the latest Electrical Appu-
anoss Tor Hair Dressing, Shampoo
Ing and Aassaging. Nanicunux.
Shampooing and NaAaAxiux for
gentlemen.
Call Lamar % flor appointments.
Room II First National Bank Bhs.
Mills Bartholoasw. Manager.
-.t.. .al 49,!
Miliss BArthol3ns~. Mr.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-25
PLANS COMPLETED FOR FIFTY BOY
SCOUTS FROM HONOLULU TO ENJOY
A MONTHS CAMP ON M0LOKA

The plans being made are for about
fifty boys to go from Honolulu, the
camp to be established in July and
the boys to stay month The boys
to go into camp are to range in age
from 10 to Is years. 1t is expected that
there will be many lads anxious to en-
icy the camp.
The Boy Scout organization has
spread rapidly and effectively. In
Manila, P. l.; the Canal Zone, San
Juan, Porto Rico, there are patrols of
scouts who are being trained in vari-
GUS activities. In addition the move
ment has spread to Cuba and Mexico.
In the various territories the troops
of Boy Scouts have been organized by
Americans who appreciate the value
of spreading the principles of Scout
craft. They realize that the Boy
Scout activities not only train the
boys mentally and physically, but
also develop patriotism, The boys
have been trained to salute the flag,
and to do many other things empha-
sizing the principles of American cit
izenship. 1t is the hope of the scout
leaders and the other men interested
in the Boy Scout work in the terri
tories that the boys will help in
arousing still great respect among the
natives Of the respective colonies for
the American principles and institu-
tions.
H. e. Shaffer, Scout Commissioner
for Porto Rico, who has several hun
dred boy scouts under his charge,
writes that the organization is in
reality the only patriotic organiza-
ton on the island; that the boys by
their example to their brothers and
fathers are really working revolution
in the attitude of Porto Ricans toward
Americans. Similar efficient work is
being done in the Philippines by Ell
wood S. Brown, Scout Commissioner of
Manila He has organized several
patrols Of Boy Scouts, and is planning
tc form troop of Filipino Boy Scouts.
Down in the Panama Canal Zone, Boy
Scout patrols have been formed in
Gorgona, Satun, and in several places.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-25
ARMY AND NAVY

Great interest is felt in the salts
factory progress that is being made
in the artesian we'll that is being
bored at Diamond Head for the fu-
ture use of the coast artillery corps
post, by the Cosmopolitan Well Bor-
ing Company of Honolulu, under the
supervision of Captain Frank B. Ed
wards, constructing quartermaster.
u. S. army.
Work has been going on at the
we'll for about six weeks and in a
ouple of weeks more the we'll cop-
tractors hope to have pure artesian
water ready to fill the new reservoir
that is now in course of construction.
The reservoir will not be completed
for some time yet, as an immense
amount of work is necessary in the
undertaking.
In the first FIVE feet OF the well
boring only light soil was encount-
tered by the drill. Then there was
three feet of coral; hard lava to the
extent of eighty-six feet came next.
After this another bed Of coral one
hundred feet thick had to be pierced.
A compact clay, very sticky, next met
the dFill. This clay gave some trou-
BILE on account of its great sticking
qualities, but perseverance and fifteen
horsepower finally conquered, and
twenty feet through this compact
clay has been made up to today.
Two hundred and fourteen f ct
down has been successfully accom-
plished so far. A depth of five hun
dred, or possibly an additional fifty
feet more to this, will be done, when
water is reasonably expected to be
found in ample quantities.
This artesian we'll, which is being
watched with great expectations by
the military service and naval author
tiles of this district of Hawaii, has
been guaranteed to furnish one mil
lion gallons of water day to supply
the reservoir of Diamond Head.
The pipe used for this military ar
tesian well is not the common well
casing usually employed for such
wells, but it is of extra heavy
wrought iron twelve inches on the
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-05-25
GOVERNOR WILSON, PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE TALKS ABOUT POLITICS
TO A CALIFORNIA AUDIENCE

SAN FRANCISCO, January 10
Governor Woodrow Wilson OF New
Jersey made 400 members of the Har-
ward, Yale and Princeton Clubs gath
cred at a banquet in his honor at the
Fairmont Hotel last night, squirm with
mingled emotions. Some of them
laughed, others blushed.
The former president of Princeton
University and the possible candidate
of the Democratic party in 1912 for
President of the United States, is
very candid man. Also he hits straight
from the shoulder.
He arrived in San Francisco from
Los Angeles yesterday morning for
two days visit 1t is the first time he
has ever been on the Pacific Coast. He
spent the day in meeting Democratic
politicians and old college chums, and
in the evening analysed his impress
sions.
"This is the newest part of the con-
tinent, and the rest Of the continent
is projecting people into California
without their being united into Cali
fornia. l was saying the other day N
Pasadena that had the impression as
1 met man after man, of meeting
fragment broken off from somewhere
else. Now, each individual fragment
shows the stratification of the rock
from which it is taken but you can't
be sure where the rock is that was
the mother of the fragment, and am
inclined instinctively to ask, where
are you from?
ct is interesting to find that the
distinguished Republican with whom
sit was born in California, and it is in
teresting to meet so rare specimens
those whose lives have been spent
here-whose connections are local,
whereas the rest of you represent in
your individuality an individuality
which is of another place rather than
California.
Political Significance.
"Now that has a very great political
significance to my mind There are
some very sharp divisions, under
stand, in California politics. And those