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The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1911-06-30
LACLEDE, MISSOURI FRIDAY, JUNE 9O 1911
M. E. Church Notes

Ou6 W6eh LFOm u0AI MOuudy
the time for the regular officia
board meeting.
The topic for the League service
next Sunday night is, IAN Appea
to Patriotism" 2 Sam. 1912.
| Owing to the absence of botE
superintendent the pastor had
charge of the school Sunday morn.
ing.
The blues" made a gain of &c
points Sunday and the reds" are
leading by only 50 points in the
totals.
Under the supervision of the
Ladies Aid society the church was
thoroughly cleaned and the carpets
relaid last week.
The Junior League, under the
supervision of Miss Englehart, has
been doing fine work the past
quarter. They adjourned Sunday
to meet the first Sunday in Sep
tember.
By vote of the Sabbath school
board at their last meeting, the
second Sunday in July was set
apart for the birthday offering for
missions. A penny for each year
is asked. If each of us do our
part, our apportionment will be
easily met.
The notable things about the
Sunday services were the attendance
of 1877 in Sabbath school with
$7.85 collection. Bro. Lomax had
20 in the Bible class with 81 .O3
collection, while No. 9 with II
present maintained their excellent
record and took the banner with
$1.65 collection. There were Is
young men present in Mrs. Fore
mans class andlthey reported 81. 50
i'm the collection. Miss Helga
johnson is substituting for Miss
Heath during her absence, and
Miss Ruth Shane is looking after
Miss Daugherty's class. The
splendid condition of the school
can be accounted for largely by the
fact that the teachers have been
faithful and regular in attendance.
Quite number have been present
every Sabbath during the quarter,
while others have only been absent
a time or two.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1911-06-30
TOWN AND COUNTRY IN BRIEF
Local Events Of The Past Week Recorded For
Busy Blade Readers.

Pajamas for sale at Rummell's.
Rompers and play suits at
Rummell's.
The swellest line of neckwear in
Brookfeld at Rummell's.
Sunday school at the Baptist
church at 10 a. m. every Sunday.
Prayer meeting Friday night.
All are cordially invited.
Mrs. w. H. Woods and daughter,
Miss Violet, left yesterday for a
visit with the formers brother,
V. A. Williamson, and family.
and other relatives at Lincoln,
Neb.
Mrs. G. F. Johns and daughter,
after weeks visit with her bro
ther, F. G.. Adams, and family on
route two, left Tuesday to join
Prof. Johns in a visit with relatives
at Milan.
Mrs. Dora Lockridge and daugh-
ter, Miss Frances, of Los Angeles,
Cali, have comeback to spend the
summer with Linn county, relatives
and friends aud came over Friday
for visit with Laclede friends.
Mrs. Kate Edwards and family
have gone to Seattle, Wash, and
will reside with her daughter there.
The best wishes of their many
Laclede friends go with them to
their new home.
A letter from James Wilkins of
Walnut, Kansas, says the Laclede
colony there are we'll and happy
since the rains, and they will cele-
brate the Fourth with reunion
and basket picnic at .aEalnntr NJ
Another delightful program has
been arranged by the Laclede Con-
cert Band for a concert in the park
next Wednesday night, The stores
will close at s O'Clock as usual.
Come and bring your friends and
enjoy a pleasant evening.
DR.. 2. T. Standby accompanied
Rev. L. G. Powell to st. Joseph
Monday, where the. latter had an
operation performed on his eyes,
which have been in bad condition
for some time. Rev. Powell ex-
poets to be able to return home
Saturday.
Rummell's will cut prices on all
mems and boys suits this week as
the sizes are now broken and they
need the room for new clothing
coming in. You can save from
$3.OO'to $500 by buying that fair
and chautauqua suit now. Browns,
tans, S:avs 81. the nobbiest shades
and styles.
The following basis of valuation
has been fixed by the township as
of Linn county for this
year: Horses 1 year old, $15; 2
years old, $25; 3 years old, $50; !
mules l year old, 500; 2 years old,
$50; 3 years old, $40; cattle,
steers l year old, So; 2 years old,
b12; 3 years old, SIG; heifers l
year old, Sc; 2 years old, So; COWS,
BIZ; sheep, ST. per head; hogs, 2I
cents per pound. All other per-
jonal property at One-third cash
value. Farm lands and town
at ene-third cash value.
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The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1911-06-30
To Be Discontinued

On July 1 we will stop giving
Fish stamps or other trading
checks. Parties having Fish
stamp books uncompleted can get
stamps to finish them or we will
redeem them at our store at any
time. J. B. PATRICK.
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Some Evening ReVeries.

|
than enjoyed. The Fourth of July
means the death of hundreds of
children by explosives of various
kinds. The daily papers on the
fifth of July never fail to contain
column after column of death
notices from toy pistols, fire
crackers and various kinds of ex-
plosives. In New England the
growing disgust that day that
should be hallowed by patriotic
memories should be degraded into
day marked by the killing and
manning of hundreds if not thous-
ands of children and into a day of
torture for the sick and nervous
and of dread and anxiety for the
strong and we'll. The hospitals
of the large cities on the Fourth of
July are filed with youngsters, of
all ages, cut and burned, with their
hands torn to shreds and their sight
destroyed or injured, and the deaths
due to lockjaW alone would, if we
were not all calloused by custom,
cause such an outcry that those who
sell or parents who put into the
hands of their children the deadly
toys would be held up to general
execration. There is no eXagger
alton in this statement of the case
is borne out by the newspapers
of the morning following the Fourth
of July in every city in the country.
Among the sick and those who are
in the least nervous the constant
din and the sudden ear-splitting
explosions cause a degree of misery
that in itself would justify the sup
preston of all explosives even if
they were entirely harmless to those
that handle them and to surround
ing property. No one has the ight
to subject others to torture merely
to amuse himself. To bring children
up to deliberately disregard the
comforts and we'll being of others
is to teach license, not liberty, Ou
the day that should be consecrated
to liberty.
The days come to us like friends
in disguise, bringing priceless gifts
from an unseen hand; but if we
do not use them, they are borne
away, never to return.
Each successive morning new gifts
are brought, but if we failed to ac-
cept those that were brought yester-
day and the day before, we became
less and less able to turn them to
account, until the ability to appre
ciate and utilize them is exhausted.
was it said that lost wealth
may be regained by industry and
economy, lost knowledge by study,
lost health by medicine and temper
ance but lost time is gone forever.
Some of us, at any rate, on both
sides of the Atlantic have begun to
realize that serious study is less
likely to injure than pinched waists,
ate hours, hot rooms and unwhole
some food, and we think it is better
iOr our girls to be graduated at
schools for science than schools for
scandal. We think it will better
prepare them for the grave response
1ilities of matrimony and mother
lood than rapid life in which per-
iOnal adornment is their chief aim,
md how to kill time and secure a
'ich husband their chief anxiety.
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WHAT HOME FOLKS DO AND SAY
Local People and Events Briefly Mentioned and
Other Matters OF General Interest

VtUOI Whal6IS VI uOil0Idb bul6TOSL
Hot weather suits at Rummell's.
Rummell's sell Mentor under
wear.
Three rooms to rent. Inquire at
this office.
Order your -four and feed from
Laclede Mills.
Old settlers reunion at Linneus
July 27 and %.
Fanchon -four is ST. 80 at Laclede
Mills. None better.
Meadville Chautauqua August
19 to 26, inclusive.
Porous knit underwear for men
and boys at RummelPs.
The Brookfeld fair will be held
August l to 4, inclusive.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. J. w. Reed Monday.
The Milan Fair and race meet
will be held July 4, 5, and 6.
The best soc work shirts in
Brookfeld are sold at Rummell's.
Forker, Purdin, Browning and
Marceline will celebrate the Fourth.
After today, season tickets to the
Meadville chautanqua will cost
more.
Mrs. J. A. Cooke spent the latter
part of last week with Brookfeld
friends.
Regular meeting of the Phil
Kearney post, G. A. R., Saturday
afternoon.
RummelI's boys department is
loaded with browns, ,tans, land grays
and serges.
Mrs. G. E. Smith spent last week
with her mother at Cora, returning
home Sunday.
White canvas shoes for women
and children at Rummell's for
exactly one-half price.
H. E. Garside is carrying the
mail on route one while Carrier
Harter is taking a vacation.
The Woman's Foreign Mission
ary society will meet with Mrs. F.
w. Groes Wednesday, July 5.
Rummells sell the Sealpact
handkerchief. Each in a separate
box, sanitary and clean. All prices.
You can buy the famous Huis-
kamp work shoes at RummelPs.
Their Barnyard shoes cannot be
equalled at $500.
The best painters in town use
the only strictly pure paint
Mound City Co.'s Horse Shoe
brand. J. B. Patrick.
A new car of FanchOn flour and
feed Just received at Laclede Mills.
Fanchon, $1.3O per sack; white
shorts $1.35; bran $1.2O.
Big line of Cluett dress shirts will
be sold at Rummell's S this week for
exactly one-half off. The chance
of your life to load up on them.
Ny blackberries will begin ripen-
ing July 3. Those wishing to pick
their own berries should arrange to
begin nextweek. T. M. Hogan.
DIR. J. Fl. Kittredge, dentist, OF
Chillicothe will be at the Anderson
bouse the 25th and 26th of each
month and stay until all work is
finished.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. Watson have
purchased Mrs. Kate Edwards
residence in the southwest part OF
tn own and will move into it In a
few days.
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Outing trousers at Rummell's.

Outing trousers aC hummeI s.
Have you paid your dog taxi
A new city ordnance goes into ef-
feet July / and provides a tax Of
81 for male dogs and s. for females.
All dogs on which this tax is not
paid viii be promptly killed.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1911-06-30
SHORT PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
Brief Mention Of Those Who Come and GO
During the Week

W. R. Shane was at Cora on
business Monday.
Ward Welsh was over from
Brookfeld Wednesday.
Henley Osgood went to Marceline
Friday to visit relatives.
Henry Durocher returned to his
home at Kansas City Monday.
Mrs. Clyde Dale went to Monroe
City yesterday to visit relatives.
Rev. Calvin Allen and Roy
Welsh returned from st. Louis
Friday.
Buel and Byron EccIes returned
Monday from a visit with relatives
at Shelbina.
Miss Agnes Morgan of New
Cambria is the guest of Miss
Catherine Moore.
Miss Ellen Garside returned Sat-
urday from a two weeks visit with
friends at Meadville.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Bundren of
New Cambria are guests s-nf Ah-----
and Mrs. L. F. Moore.
Miss Ruth Rocker of Brookfeld
is visiting the families of Fl. G.
Mccoy and E. R, Barton.
F. F. Pratt came up from New
Cambria Monday afternoon for a
short visit with home folks.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Handy
of Chillicothe were guests of Miss
Grace Sissons over Sunday.
Mrs. E. w. Pease of Forker spent
Monday afternoon withher parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Tooker.
Miss May Rucker of Brunswick
visited her cousin, II. E. Garside,
and fa1nily fronaa s1IhnrsclaSs 4Sunz@
day.
Mrs. Chloe Wolfe OF route one
spent the first of the week with her
aunt, Mrs. G. j. Arnold, in Brook
field.
Miss Louise Haight went to
Minneapolis, Mimi, yesterday for
a visit with her brother, Geo. E.
Haight.
Mrs. Ida Phillips and baby are
visiting her grandmother, Mrs.
Andrews, and other relatives at
Sumner.
Miss Josephine Mustapha OF
route two left Tuesday for Brook
lyn, Iowa, to visit relatives and
friends.
Elbert Kailer of Naperville, ILL.,,
has been a guest at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. johnson the
past week.
Mrs. L. B. Jones went to Brook
field Wednesday to visit her father,
George Anderson, who is in very
poor health.
Mrs. O. F. Libby, Jr., and three
children came down from Kansas
CITY Monday for a visit with La
clede relatives.
Mrs. c. E. Smith and children
left Friday for a visit with her
mother, Mrs. Fannie McGrew, and
family at Chillicothe.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. P. Byars and
family of Crowder City, Okla,
were guests of the family of NJ. F.
Clay Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Louese Lippitt and little
son spent a few days this week with
Laclede relatives, guests of her
parents, DIR. and Mrs. j. L. Burke.
H. Eccles came home from
Oregon Monday night to assist the
family in preparing to remove to
their new home at that place next
week.
Mrs. S. D. Evans and little
daughter of Meadville have spent
he mast week with her sisters, Mrs.
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NoHcs

My blackberries viii be ripening
by the fourth. Anyone wanting
berries write, call or phone
g. W. ESTES.
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LORETTA'SL OOKING-GLASS
She Holds II Up to the Bargain Counter ThraII

that this insertion Is pressing In upon
your brain with the weight Of tons
Of bricks? No. Lulied. lured, fasci-
mated by the Bargain Counter Witch.
you wrestle with this chain Of lace,
then, for change, for diversion to your
tattered nerves you rush downtown
and shop! You pick up more bar
gains.
Have you no eyes for the signs OF
near rebellion in your family? Are
you unwarned by the stiff upper lip
It is held so to keep it from trembling
that your small daughter wears! She
sees you making for the bargain
trunk! She needs party dress" She
knows that trunk. Her small heart
has had the Joy squeezed from 1t be-
fore by the extracted contents Of that
hateful trunk. The last time she drew
a hideous challis. A dull. horrid pink.
with queer little brown buglike wads
that you vainly tried to tell her were
rosebuds. OF course, it is an excel
lent piece of goods 1t will wear well
too well. Curses on It for the power
it has to kill joy in that little mai
denis bosom!
Men do not hunt bargains.
ElcN lEe OlQ bargain counter "lICH
and the storekeeper, too, I reckon.
laughs In her sleeves as she sees
women fight for a chance to buy At a
two-cent reduction what they would
have sneered at when It lay on G
counter and had its normal price at
tached. The two cents extra would
have been small pay for shopping IN
comfort with a stool supporting the
nerve centers of the back and q mind
free from the divided duty OF protect
ing corns and hanging on like grim
death to a piece Of bargain" But
no! Rather tramp and be trampled!
The Old Hag Chortles
The old bag chortles and hugs her
shaking sides. She gloats over the
bent backs and ruined digestions OF
the slaves who make her wares. She
revels IN the worn nerves and weary
feet of the slaves who buy.
oh, II some God-taught sculptor
would carve her hideous face and
crouching maniacal figure so that
you, enchanted ones might see truly
the evil genius who makes you thralIs
and oppressors, too! You help her to
kill your sisters, who toll to make the
bargains with which she enchants you.
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stock don't know. anyhow. so 1 guess
II won't hurt her.
- This Is all about cider. Mrs. Bag
stock loves cider, and every day or
SO they get their old brown jug filled
with fresh fermented. But it has to
be some fresh. because Mrs. B. is
wildcats on the liquor question, and
nothing stronger than ginger ale is
ever allowed to pass down old Bag
stocks main portico.
It seems that the old man Is some
authority on cider. 30 the old lady
totes him along every time to taste
the brew before she hands over the
Jug. Well. don't know whether
the boss ever talked 1t over with him
or not, but believe me, it's not the
cider that goes into the jug that old
man Bagstock tastes. It's the hard
est kind of hard cider, hard as nails
and then some. And you ought to
see the old fellow smack his lips and
tell his wife it's ali right" Well,
what she don't know
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THAT Is the sixth dressmaking cat
aclysm through which that in
sertion has passed. And you are
at II again. You tried II in some cur
tains. and they looked as II you had
hung your petticoat fiounces up at the
windows.
tits the sign Of your thraldom. The
Bargain Counter Witch has got you.
She insinuated the suggestion into
your mind that it was a wonderful
bargain. Marked down from 50 a yard
to 20 cents. Think of it!
Brain Force
Think of II, That's about all you
have been able to do since you ac-
quired It. You have spent enough brain
force on trying to make It serve some
purpose to have conducted a model
dairy or made pin money pickles and
a fortune.
Can you not accept the knowledge
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MR.. PEEVED PROTESTS

Say no more about IT." commanded
Mr.. Peeved. You'll get no more Of
my hard earned money for fool
eucher prizes. and that's all there is
to it. I gave you money enough to
buy prizes for an army. and you're
at 1t again. Confound It. Mrs.
Peeved. DO you think I'm a mint"
mo. John" replied his wife. meek
ly. but the money you gave me was
only enough to buy the first and Sec
ond prizes. and now I haven't any
third prize. The ladies'
Enter the Shirt
Hang the ladies'" retorted her
husband. IF two prizes aren't enough,
call off your old eucher. Now, that's
the last of 1t! Let's change the sub
3ect to something cheerful Did you
see that peach OF a shirt I brought
home tonight?"
NO" said Mrs Peeved, and Mr..
Peeved hurried upstairs to get 1t.
HIM" commented Mrs Peeved,
when he had brought 1t down. H m"
We'll, what does that mean?" de-
msnded Mr.. Peeved. HIM. fiddle
6tlckSI II you don't ike the shirt
don't hesitate to say so. ! always
have told you I'm open to fair criti
cism"
ira never have selected it. ad-
United his wife.
why wouldn't you? It's a SO dol
lar shirt, and the salesman told
NC
Us II returnable7"
"why-er-no: as a matter Of fact.
they don't take anything back at
that store. But the salesman told
0e"-
That's just the trouble with you"
Interrupted Mrs. Peeved. You take
whatever the 81 .,sman tells YOU for
gospel. Now a. reality, blue never
did become you and you know It.
You look exactly like a carpenter or
omethlng in blue. I'll never say you
have good taste again"
He Meant Well
Blue calculated Mr.. Peeved, try
ing to appear surprised. rs that
shirt blue? could have sworn.
down at the store. it was green.
natter myself that I have never
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specialized street gamins of one an
other Has some unspeakable scoun-
drel split an infinitive or is II merely
a murder?"
All, twas merely a murder A
thoughtless chauffeur had run down
and killed a pedestrian.
Back. Back! Make way for the Of
ficer!
You've ran that man down" &C.
cused the policeman person.
DO you mean ! have RUN him
DOWN. sneered the chauffeur, and the
policeman fell back in ashamed hor-
TOR. He couldn't arrest the fellow.
after making break like that! Shud-
dering,. the crowd shrank away from
him, and the chauffeur, laughing de-
moniacally. honked off to freedom.
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tryin prove everybody
thinks he Is
don't Roosevelt amt really the prize pumpkin Belle ony
matter what the pfesso this funny world
eepted valuation and lead dime has
big print because he knew how make like silver.
Bluff a Little; It's Good For You
Modess O the desirable little qualities ifes
Partment but know what's good for Belle don't
into the It's Hb1e in The fellow
that tells his girl he knows he amt enough runnin
awful chance He doesn't beve himself but she might; and
though may unreasonable when girls loon' for
body her through likes
the satisfaction ben able brsg that she the biggest bundle
in the matrimonial grab bag
And the girl ought give little in while,
just she forgotten blow may
her feel like illustration Robert W. Chambers
whispers that he loves her for herself alone but she's she
won't harp much the fact that her cookn ability
maxim burned molasses candy and that her experience in bn
economical is limited savin for matinee tickets.
And amt enough TO refrain from apoogizin
eonn Belle; every you hole in the conversation
with both what
little fellow And the absence of testimony the
Deop take word tell their friends
there's really than they thought first You have
idea what
learn play it right
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LITTLE MIXED

Captain" exclaimed the young
wife on her first tropical voyage, IF
my husband comes on deck tell him
1 am taking a siesta. You know
what that means?"
The BLUM old captain looked some
what bewildered. but he bowed cour-
teously and made the promise. Some
minutes later the husband came up
the companionway.
Captain" he called, have you
seen anything of my wife,"
I have, sir" responded the old
salt an she told me to tell you
that she is taking a souwester."
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knowingly brought home a shirt yet
that didn't look we'll on me-"
oh. I don't doubt that 1t was q
mistake, but as long as it's not 70.
turnable. what can you DOR
oh, I'll get another one tomorrow,
and you can give that to some de-
serving person."
Mrs. Peeved said nothing, but after
a while she Eu.reptitiously marked
third prize" on a card ar slipped 1t
in the box with the shirt.
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Our Grocery Clerk
Saws Drink 'er Down

What you don't know won't hurt
YOU" Say, the old fellows that
thought up all these old proverbs
and things must have gone through
grammar school, all right. Mrs. Bag
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Miss Fortune
Was Her Name

She always comes at lunch time.
She always smiles the same;
I always take her out to lunch
Miss Fortune was her name.
It happens ever payday.
Now. tell me who's to blame?
I always sign the lunch check
Miss Fortune was her name.
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she planning Ireland that the baby
the world might be born the Emerald Isle that the little child
would be fathees because husband planning her
for another She shot him when found she had lost
his and the asking punish
her swiftly.
Her story her suffering questions whether
the country
But how about the other Is sympathy for
ber No pity for the lonely who dshonored
In the world,
lost dreams and haunted by the fact that her love that
wrecked his home and brought death him?
That the other side of the picture isn't it? And of the three
who aray the girl
wild jealousy him. the third
accepted his first believing him unmarried
when she learned he had wife loved him we'll give him upi
Which?
Then what does the wife husband it, What
does the wife she the other What
gain she shoots her husband What does the by killing
his unfaithful wife her
If revenge all they seek,
should dragged into If Is love which prompts
love should also their hand and after all has the wife
right consider personal happiness when there little
Children be thought Of and the question the honor of the
their and daughters bear o be remembered?
That the side of the question that the
forth will making greater
than a question of love, unlikely il