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Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
q REPUBLICAN
 SINGLE SHOPPER.

Last Thursday night there was sent out from Prescott a telegram stating that the discovery had been made that forty democrats in single pre- cinct in Yavspai county had banded together to single shot" in the inter- est Of Mir Ashurst On the face of it the story seemed unreasonable for a conspiracy ss thai sNrt would not likely be givon publicity.
 However. t is learned that the re- port is based upon q circular or state meht issued by one c. M Willard of a precinct on the Verde setting forth that forty voters Of that pre- ciuct have agreed to support a list Of candidates including all on the dem oeratic ticket excep. Mr. smith
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
A PUZZLED KANsAN
Can't Find Out Now Many Bushels
 of Corn His Crib Holds

A farmer living near Chanute built corn crib Is feet long, s feet wide. and feet high When the rural mai carrier came along the farmer asked him how many bushels of corn the crib would hold.
 T don't know" said the carrier.
 You ought to know" said the farmer.
 Maybe that's right" said the car rier. "Ill tell you what I'll do. I'll find out for you and let you know tomorrow
 That evening he asked his Gaugil. ter, who is still in school, to make the calculations for him. He told her to find the number Of cubic feet in the crib and reduce it to inches While she was doing this he overhauled his reference books to find out how many cubic inches there are in a bushel.
 The first statement he came to in. formed him that 2.150 should be the divisor. After the quotient had been obtained the superintendent of calcu. lations remembered that this would give contents in shelled corn but that the farmer would, of course, crib his corn in the ear.
 Telling his daughter to take the div idend and start over again, he hunted for an ear corn divisoT, and found it vas 3,3i0 By the time a new quo tient had been figured out, though. he discovered another place in the book which stated that 2,TSi should be used as divisor.
 This mixed him all up, so he tele- phoned to the grain buyer and asked him how he figured the contents of a crib.
 Tt depends on the corn,7 said the grain man. If it is a good grade of corn, use 4,l00. Usually, thought 1 4,500 is about right"
 When the carrier started out the next morning. he met a graduate or the Kansas University Nno is also a practical farmer, and he told him to divide by 5,200.
 Then he began stopping farmers in the road and asking if they knew None of them could tell him what be should use for a divisor, but they all agreed that a wagon bed ten feet long and three weet wide would hold a bushel for each inch that it was filled.
 " ASu ne Sct lO Nheie tue CliD Was being built he had a list Of answers running all the way from 432 bushels to 6l0
 T don't know which one of these is right" he said. I've asked so many that I got a full assortment and brought the whole batch along. You can take your choice. and If none of them suit you the best thing to do win be to measure the corn as you put it in
 But suppose I don't have enough 10 fill the crib" the farmer remarked.
 Well, buy enough to make up the difference and find out. I'd really like to know myself. Kansas City Jour nal
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

This movement if it exists outside the imagination of Mir Willard is with out any significance since Willard is not a democrat and never has been. He has been for many years re- publican with mania for seeing his name in the newspapers at the end of articles containing rules and regulations for the conduct of the government and the universe in general Something more than year ago Mir. Willard discovered that he had got far in advance Of the reguIar republican party and as there was no progressive" organization inc at- tempted to ,ake the democratic party Of the territory under his wing.
 There is no law, moral or statutory against republicans Of any shade or complexion single shotting" in behalf Of any democratic candidate though 1t would be reprehensible thing for a democrat to do. IT all the republicans in Arizona were to engage in it the chances are no democratic candidate would be impsFiisa
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
THE CHRISTMAS EDITION
THE BISBEEDAuY REVIEW
Next Sunday December 17th
Will Be Issued

XxTe do not call this special edi- w tion, but 1t will be an unusually good number of what is generally con ceded to be Arizona's best newspaper and it will be a paper you will enjoy reading. Some of the features of this will be:
 Compliments Of the Season."
 a Christmas story by o. Henry
 "The Christmas Home Song"
 poem by Wilbur D. Nesbit.
 "The Remorseless Yaqufs," an
 article by Eugene P. Lyle, IT,,
 author of '0The Transformation of
 Krag."
 "A BashfuI Sanfa Claus" story by Wilbur D. Nesbit.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
T7gIN. N.THE.SPUR E5StF~. .M0MENT
 ST&} By ROY K. NOULTON.

work, the check draft leaves a hole large enough to throw a cat through. The shaker is too crooked, the damp. CT in the pipe binds, the front door hinges squeak, we use 3 long handled shovel when we should use a short one. and the patent On the furnace has expired. He omitted tO mention that our grandfather was once ar rested for stealing a horse or that our uncle eloped with a manicure person. But he mentioned everything else that is the matter with our fur mace He was a perfect gentleman about it all. too. If any Of the brothers
 or sisters have any doubt as to what
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
PARTY MANAGEMENT IN COcHIsE COUNTY.

IN cocHisE COUNTY.
 One of the chief contentious of Ths Review has been for a strong and bus iness-like county government and We have urged that the democratic record in the county has been better than the republican record There has been some loose and meaningless talk by the republican speakers of late on this subject and now we will pre-. sent some concrete facts and figures.
 Beginning with 1909 when the board of supervisors was republican the tax rate in this county was s42g The next year, the democrats secured control and the tax rate was reduced to s3.5O; the following year under democratic control 1t was reduced to S3.20; the next year to s2sO. then in 1906 to S2.65 and finally in 1903 to s2.0O. the lowest point ever touched. This rate was maintained the next year under democratic man. agement.
 In 1909 the republicans were in control and the rate was advanced 10 s2.3O. in 1910 It was s,ill further increased to s2.75 which is also the rate for the present year.
 Meanwhile the democrats were do ing something else beside reducing the tax rates. From 1903 to 1908. period under democratic control bonded indebtedness amounting to s11S,OO0 was paid Warrants to the amount of s8,67S.55 were noated in 1907 and the following year warrants amounting to S9S,553.21 we're paid During 1908, the last of democratic control, year distinguished by more public improvement than any other. warrants amounting to S117, 7,9OS.T2 were issued. The republicans dwell upon the heritage Of a floating indebt edness which came to the republican board in 1909, but they do not dwell upon the fact that warrants amounting to sl1S,O95 q were Laid in January of that year, less than month after the republicans came into office. They found the money for the pay ment Of the floating debt already in the treasury.
 Now here is the republican record with respect to foating indebtedness. Warrants amounting to s94,0S6.O1 were issued in 1909. The followins year warrants were paid only to the amount of s52,39O.SG The same year warrants were floated to the extent of $240,O34S9 and in January of this year warrants amounting to only St56.7O4.75 were paid. During the present year to November there were issued warrants amounting to S20s, @90.19. Approximately s15.OO0 of this amount has been paid, leaving $780, GOO outstanding on Nov l. a deficit of s8O,G00. a circumstance that nevei attached 10 asdemocratic administrs- tion within the period Of control 1902 1908.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

A Brooklyn, Mass, man offers Sl,000 to any scientist who can con vince him that the earth is not square and stationary. He states. however, that the task is an impossi ble one. for he has figured the -hlng 900 tn..lf If the man lived in Arr. zona he would be among those who think the state will go republican to. day.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
THIS DATE IN HISTORY"
December i2.

i612-A monthly post was established
 between New York and Boston 1774-Pennsylvanla indorsed the pro
 ceedings iof the First Cont;-
 mental congress. 1S13-Iachariah Chandler. Michigan
 statesman, born. Died Nov. 1,
 i79.
 Mississippi admitted Co the
 Union as the twentieth state fS33-Slayery abolished in the island
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
NOT QUITE CLEAR.

Say lend me g.. will you?"
 q suppose you are an honest man" Certainly! 1 tell you it pays to hs honest"
 Docs it? Then why the dickens haven't you got g. of your Own?-- Boston Transcript.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

"The Lost Bonds" by Gardner
 Ladd Plumley--the fifth of the
 series of Good Stories of the Busi-
 ness World, "a story of real heart
 interest that you are sure to enjoy. And all the regular features of The Sunday Review, including: "On The Spur of the Moment" by Roy K. Moul- ton; Thought for Today" by Mrs. La Toilette; The weeks Mining Newsof the Warren District; In Bisbee Lodge World, etc., etc.
 An unusually attractive colored cover which will please the children and the grownups as well, will beanother pleas ing feature.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
ouR EuRNAcE sYMPosIuM

O9H vr Y OnNHOI '.,-l ..Ssi. f"roe'om r'' S.,,,. found out what is the matter with our furnace. We had a furnace man to look it over the other day, and ne informed us that the trouble with our furnace was that 1t was
 that it was worn out, that it was no good when it was neg. that the chimney has no circulation, the gIate clogs, the hot water tank leaks, the hre-pot is cracked. the registers are too close io the floor, We have been building the fire too near the top Of the furnace. we use the wrong kind of coal, tue iront draft doesn't
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

publican candidates may congratulate themselves upon having conducted Q clean fight. There have been. of course, here and there. instances of nttleness and dirtiness. but they have been pleasingly infrequent
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

TsOR all advertisers space in this paper will be of unusual value It will appear at the
 heighth of the Holiday shopping season and will have an increased circulation As the edition will be larger than the regular Sunday Review it will be necessary to reserve space and furnish copy early to insure insertion of ads.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
DOLL SALE

The Woman's Home Missionary so. ciety of the Methodist church will hold doll and fancy article sale and serve light refreshments at social hall, next to the church. Tuesday evening. Dec. 12.
 The attendance and patronage Of the public is solicited. 1e
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

We understand that the editor of The Douglas Dispatch still insists that as a native of Illinois that he is not a sucker" All right. let him be q prairie" if he insists, either rolling or fiat but treeless.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

Place cross today in the square in front Of the words. For Constitu- tional Amendment" otherwise you will fail to vote for statehood.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

Floral emblems for lodges, funeral and other services of choicest designs on shortest notice at Hatcher Nurser ies, Douglas. Arizona. Phone 357.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
of Jarnaica.

ol JdindlCd- 1S56-The cathedral in Montreal was
 destroyed by fire lIi-Women were authorized to vote
 10 hold office in Wyoming. lS9S-William Black. noted English
 novelist. died Born in 184l l904-Eari Grey assumei office as Governor General Of Canada.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

will hang on the wall and gild it Trim it with blue baby ribbon. He can stic% lis pipes ugat r'"oi oi4l, the wire and they will stay there beautifully F. D. h. writes: "The best home made Christmas present I know Of is a plum puddin'. Ladies, take notice.
 OUR HASH SYMPOSIUM
 Patience" writes: For several weeks a poor little dog with a can tied to his caudal appendage hung around the kitchen door at our board ing house and has now disappeared There is some speculation among the boarders as to his whereabouts. Oi course, don't mean to cast any in. situations, at all, but that dog CCr- tainly had a pathetic look Coming events cast their shadows before them, and the shadow of great grief certainly spread the features of that faithful canine Did he have a pre- monition that his young life was soon to end? The boarders would give a great deal to see that dog alive, and well right now, and not for purely sentimental reason either"
 Biscuit Shooter says: Say, hon. est to goodness. the things l could tell about the way the hash was made at the last boarding house where I worked would fill a book and that would make Webster's Unabridged Dictionary look like a vest pocket al- manac. Honest, l saw--(the remaind- CT Of the letter is sUppressed.)
 Young Man" writes: There is oh we are going 10 get to eat at our boarding house. lt comes under vari- ous aliases, but it always tastes the same. Horace Fletcher, the famous chewologist, would never get any in spiration here. because we don't have to chew. But still. I found the wire dishcloth in mine the other day THE LAY OF THE LONE DINER Hot roast pork and apple sass.
 Roast Beet and brown gravy It's enough to make man
 Go and join the navy
 Twenty-Five cent table q hote.
 Same old menu ever.
 Oh, could ] my lifelong ties
 With that cafe sever
 Everything tastes just alike
 Cant tell beans from bacon. Orphan fly dead in the soup
 Unknown and forsaken Walter yells in strident tones:
 "Cowmeat for a gummer." Wears the same old meanwhile coat
 That he wore last Summer. So long in this atmosphere
 Have l grimly tarried. I'm most deSDerate enOughp
 To get married.
 But not quite.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

should send for a furnace man and he will tell them every symptom down to ringbone and spavin."
 ACCORDING TO UNCLE ABNER
 The soapbox statesmen down to the grocery store have started in to dis. cuss the 1912 presidential situation, and 1t begins to look as though 1912 will be an of year for farm work
 Red flannel underwear ain't so much of a sign of aristocracy as it was back in pioneer days of the lumber industry.
 There ain't nobody who is such a bore as the feller who has been to New York once and only once.
 There is no woman theatre fend who will brag that she saw Uncle Toms Cabin with the original cast
 One of the hest ways know of to get hard cider quick is to set 1t out doors and let it freeze. Then you kin make it So hard you have to break it off with an ax and eat it like mo- lasses candy.
 There aint no one-armed restau- rants's pumpkin pie like mother used to make.
 You kin always tell a restaurant boarder when he gifts to banquet for he always wipes off his plate with his napkin, and never takes the top piece of breed off'n the pile
 One of the most embarrassin things in this world is an engagement ring that begins to turn green after she has had it a week or two.
 Outside O sending a high rollin kid 10 college, about the surest way to die poor is to start in bein' a good feller" yourself.
 It is hard to do some people favor and keep their respect.
 There are more people writin' poet " than there are people readin' il.
 No man can trHthfully say that he has experiendced all the pleasures Of this life until he has tried to run a siX-column newspaper in a one-col- Wnn town Most of us have.
 There are two kinds of men who don't know anything about women and they are the married men and the single men.
 HOMEMADE CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
 Mrs. R. F. D. writes: You can make an elegant smoking jacket out Of an old bathrobe that has been dis carded- Cut off the tails Sew some braid on the front and trim it around the bottom with point lace Your hus- band gill never wear a smoKing jack ct anyhow. and there isn't any use in buying him an expensive one"
 Miss c. J. T says: "A perfect love Of a pipe rack can be made out of the wire frame of aU old Easter bonnet First natten it down slightly so 1t
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
TE esBE b vMeE ARzON TUESDAY MoRNNe pEctMBER R 1sii

IT DEMOCRATIC STATE AND CON.
 GREssioNAL TICKET
 For U. S. Senators Mark A. Smith. Tucson. Henry F. Ashurst, Prescott For Judge of Supreme Court Alfred Franklin, Phoenix. Henry D. Ross. Prescott D. l.. Cunningham. Tomhstone. For Representative in Congress Carl Hayden, Phoenix.
 For Governor George W. P. Hunt. Globe.
 For Secretary of State Sidney F. Osborn. Phoenix.
 For Auditor J. c. callaghan. Bisbee.
 For Treasurer David Johnson, Douglas.
 For Attorney General George Purdy Bulard, Phoenix. For Superintendent Of Public In
 struetion c. 0. Case, Jerome.
 For Corporation Commission F. A. Jones. Phoenix. ". F. Geary, Winslow. A N. Cole. Douglas DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET
 For State Senator c Nj. Roberts W. ?. Sims.
 For State Representative Samuel B. Bradner J. NJ. Ball. George D. Craig A G. Curry. James F. Duncan. w. J. Graham Carleton B. Kelton.
 For Judge of Superior Court Fred A. Sutter.
 For Clerk of Superior Court J. E. James.
 For Sheriff Harry c. Wheeler.
 For Recorder Owen E. Murphy
 For Treasurer Frank Ramsay. For School Superintendent H. H. Hotchkiss.
 For County Attorney V. c. Gilmore.
 For Assessor E. A. Hughes. For County Road Superintendent J. J. Benton.
 For Surveyor J. S. McNeish.
 For Supervisors August Hickey William Riggs. John Rock. Warren District Precinct Ticket.
 For Justice of Peace. John w. Hogan, Bisbee. Samuel L. Inge, Bisbee. George R. Smith, Lowell.
 Fer Constable. James L. Cannon, Bisbee. John ]. McCrea, Bisbee. L. R. Bailey, Lowell
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

However the election may turn ont today, both the democratic and re-
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

is the matter with their furnaces they should send for a furnace man and he will tell them every symptom down to ringbone and spavin."
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET

For State Senator c Nj Roberts W. ?. Sims.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

'But not quite
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

For State Representative Samuel B. BFadner J. NJ. Ball. George D. Craig A. G. Curry. James F. Duncan. w. J. Graham Carleton B. Kelton.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

For Corporation Commission F. A. Jones. Phoenix. ". r. Geary. Winslow. A N. Cole, Douglas
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

Warren District Precinct Ticker.
 For Justice of Peace. John w. Hogan, Bisbee Samuel L. Inge, Bisbee. George R. Smith, Lowell
 Fer Constable. James L. Cannon, Bisbee. John J. McCrea, Bisbee. [. R. Bailey. Lowell
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12
DEMOCRATIC STATE AND CON
 GRESSIONAL TICKET

For U. S. Senators Mark A Smith. Tucson. Henry F. Ashurst, Prescott.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-12

For Judge of Superior Court Fred A. Sutter.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-12
WOODSTOCK NEWS
President Thomas III.

Woodstock friends of President
John M. Thomas of Middlebury col
lege will regret to hear that he is in
some danger following an operation
for appendicitis. He was operated
upon at the Champlain Valley hos
pital at Plattsburgh. N. Y, by DR..
John b. Wheeler of Burlington. The
operation which was serious one,
was successful, but for few days
there viii be danger from blood
poisoning or peritonitis.
President Thomas went to PIatts
burgh Saturday intending to preach
there Sunday. He was stricken
Saturday evening and went to the
hospital where it was found upon
examination that he was suffering
from appendicitis.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-12
WaIton's Vermont Register.

Walton's Vermont Register, an
old friend of hundred years, comes
around for the year 1871 with many
new features-good binding, good
paper, and vast amount of valuable
information for reference by bust.
ness men and by every citizen.
Under each town heading are
given the town officers for IoII-I2;
it contains election returns, village
and school returns to date, names of
health officers, game wardens, ETC.,
area OF every town, mail and stage
facilities.
1t is printed by Tuttle & Co. of
Rutland. Send 80 cents for copy
by mail prepaid il you cannot buy Of
your local dealer for IS cents.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-12
A FRIED CHICKEN CRISIS.
II Enabled Thomas Jsfisrssn 20 pedss
General Tarieton.

II Enabled Thomas jefferson 20 Dedas
General Tariston.
It is startling statement, and
yet il is said to be true, that an inn
portant crisis in the American Rev.
olution was passed in safety by the
help of a dish Of fried chicken. The
tradition is kept in the Walker fam
lily of Virginia.
In 1881 tho Virginia Legislature.
adjourned from Richmond to Char,
lottesville. The British General.
Tarleton started to capture it with
large force Of cavalry and infan-
try. He stopped for breakfast at
the plantation Of DIR. Joseph Wal
ker, about twenty miles from CAar-
lottesville. Rations were distributed
among the men and the cook made
haste to prepare a real Virginia:
breakfast for the general and his
staff. Meantime a messenger from
the village rode on in hot haste to
warn the legislature and Thomas
Jefferson, then governor of Vir-
ginia, who was at his home in Mon
ticello, outside of Charlottesville. !
Twice the cook prepared q de-
licious dish of fried chicken and
cream gravy, and twice. when her.
back was turned, some Of the hun
CRY British soldiers dashed into the
kitchen and carried it of. Tarletoni
was also hungry and enraged at the
delay, which the host explained and
told the general that what there
was Of the meal could be served at
once If he deeired IL. But il he
wished chicken he t'must set n cor
poral's guard to protect the cook. +"
Tarleton was glutton. He hesi-
tated moment and said: 'T will
wait for the chicken. Adjutant, set
a corporal's guard over those ras-
cally thieves" The guard was set,
the chickens were cooked and eaten.
But the delay enabled the messen-
ger to reach Charlottesville and
give the alarm. Mr.. Jefferson and
the legislature escaped from the
town before Tarleton with his
troops entered it. Their capture
would have been stunning blow to
the fortunes Of the young republic.
New York Press. er 4at
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1911-08-12
Fair Dates for 1911.

Vermont fairs for 1911 include
the following dates and places:
White River Junction, September
1922;
Addison county fair, Middlebury,
August 2o-September Il;
Caledonia grange fair, East Hard
wick, September 70;
Caledonia fair, ST. Johnsbury,
September 1918;
BattenkilI Valley Industrial soci-
ETY., Manchester, September 1927;
Franklin county fair, Sheldon
Junction, September 5-Si
Lamoille Valley fair. Morrisville,
August ao-3I;
Dog River Valley fair, North
field, September 1914;
Valley iair, Brattleboro, Sep
tember a6-28;
Springfield, September SO;
Rutland county fair, Rutland,
Labor week, Bradford Agricultural
and Trotting association, Bradford,
August a3 a.;
Windsor county fair, Woodstock,
September Is-I4.