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The Adair County news., 1911-05-17
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The weather is fine at this
writing farmers are planting
corn in our neighborhood.
Mrs. Joe Clayton is not i'm
proving very much.
The Sunday School at this
place is progressing nicely with
large attendance. -
Mrs. Lille Edwards, Misses
Ella Helm, Eula Holt, Olga and
Sallie Lawless went to see the
big river Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mr.. Sam Coffey and
little grandson visited at w. ].
Lawles' one day last week.
Irene and Vernon Nor. ison are
visiting their grandparents Mr..
and Mrs. w. ]. Lawles.
Mrs. Mary Jane Long visited
her daughter Mrs, M. L. Owens
last Thursday.
Mrs. Bell Lawles spent the
night with her son Liston last
Thursday night.
Our prayer meeting is Citing
along fine.
Mrs. Valeria Order and Miss
Idell Simms made flying trip
to Russell Springs last Saturday.
The Adair County news., 1911-05-17
Rows X Roads.

We put up William Wilborn's
tombstone last Saturday. There
was only three Soldiers there.
You fellows that hates coffee cool
ers and Bounty jumpers won't
have to hate them much longer
they will soon be out of your
way.
We had the biggest rain last
Saturday night and Sunday
think | ever saw. There was
much damage done. The loss on
the river is great, in the way of
logs and cedar post and polls.
Jim Oaks lost a whole raft of
cedars.
DR.. Barger was here Sunday
night, he had bad luck. He lost
his big Odd-Fellow speech at
jamestown and his dinner. |
hope that the Doctor will get
over it in due time.
Brother Petry and wife, of
Kansas, City Mo-, Sunday school
Evangelist, will commence here
at the Oak Grove church May
18th. Come and hear them.
Born, to the wife of Beldon
Helm, a boy April 30th. l wish
you could just see Bill. It's
grand father Bill Cock, just STEP
ping around saying, honey don't
cry.
Bill Cook has got a good Pea
cock colt. 1t is just a dandy.
DR.. Tom Jones was in these
parts last week doing dental
work. Tom is still able to grunt
yet.
Oliver Hadley, George and
Willie Cook, have just got back
from the river and report a big
river and much damage. A big
loss to the timber men and
many land slids in the river hills.
The Adair County news., 1911-05-17
President Taft opened the
third National Peace Congress in
Baltimore scores of eminent cit
liens of this and other countries
being present.
Do Ghosts Haunfs Swamps7

No, Never. Its foolish to fear fam
cied evil, when there are real and dead
ly perils to guard against in swamps
and marshes, bayous, and lowlands.
These are the malaria germs that cause
ague, chills and fever, weakness, aches
in the bones and muscles and may induce
deadly typhoid. But Electric Bitters
destroys and casts out these vicious
germs from the blood. 'Three bottles
drove all the malaria from my system, -
wrote VIM. Fretwell. of Lucama, N. c.,
"and I've had fine health ever since. "
Use this safe, sure remedy only. SOC at
PAUL. Drug Co.
The Adair County news., 1911-05-17
KENTUCKY FAIR DATES.

The following are the dates fixed for
holding the Kentucky Fairs for 1911 as
far as reported. Officers of fairs are
requested to report to us any omis-
sions or correction of dates:
Versailles, August % days.
Lexington, August 7-6 days.
Uniontown, August S-5 days.
Vanceburg, August "a days.
Lawrenceburg, August 15-4 days.
Leitchfie!d, August l5-4 days.
Burkesville, August 15-4 days.
Broahead, August I6-3 days.
Fern Creek, August, 16-4 days.
Columbia, August "a days.
Shepherdsville, August pa days.
London. August PA days.
Erlanger, August 23-4sdays.
Germantown, August 24-3 days.
Nicholasville, August 29-9 days.
Somerset, August 29-3 days.
Bardstown. August 80 days.
Monticello, September 5-4 days.
Alexandria, September SIS days.
Mount Olivet, September 5-4 days.
Hodgenville, September 5-3 days.
Sanders. September Ga days.
Kentucky StatesFair Louisville, Sep
TENDER 1l-6 days
Horse Cave, September 90 days.
Mayfield, September PA days.
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Craycraft.

The farmers of this neighbor-
hood have commenced planting
corn.
Wheat crops are looking fine in
this community.
Mr.. Lum Dixon's baby was
buried last Tuesday.
Mr.. Calvin Maupin is moving
his saw mill to the Walker Bryant
set.
Mrs. Nancy l.. Hughes cele-
brated her 9th birthday last
Tuesday.
The ordination of Bro. Luther
Young at Shiloh cburh last Sun
day by Elds. F. J. Barger, Tobias
Huffaker and z. T. Williams was
a beautiful and grand affair.
We are glad to have the honor
of the next musical association at
Concord.on the Bird Sunday in
May.
Mr.. ]. O. Policy is able to be
on the mail route again.
Mrs. Kent Bryant fell down a
flight of stairs last Sunday after
noon bruising her head very bad
ly.
The Sunday school at Concord
is progressing fine and the inter
est increasing.
Mr.. S. |. Blair is the owner OF
a fine mare colt.
The Adair County news., 1911-05-17
was in our midst last week.

was in our midst last week.
Miss Florence Ruberts is spend
ing this week with friende at
Columbia.
Misses Matte and Fannie
Evans visited relatives at Pleas
ant Grove last Saturday and
Sunday.
Several from this place attend
ed the funeral and burial of Mr..
Ben Tupman last Saturday at
the Tupman grave yard near Mt.
Pleasant.
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Program.

Program of the musical Asso-
citation to be held at Concord
school house the Third Sunday in
May, beginning at $50 a. m.
l. song led by Anderson Muir
rel.
2. House called to by order
Chairman.
8. Devotional exercies, |. NJ.
Grimsley.
a. Song led by Rucker P. Grim
sley.
5. Welcome address, w. F.
Neat.
6. Response, Frank Hughes,
z. Solo, Ida E. Bryant.
8. Reading the minutes of the
previous meetings.
9. Quartette, Pearl Combest,
Rucker P. Grimsley, Wonnie
Grimsley, John Burton.
10. Music and the Sunday
school discussed by Capt. VIM.
Bradshaw, Rev. Joseph Pierce.
II. Song No II, by class.
II. Music and the public school
discussed by ]. F. Turner, P. NJ.
Bryant, Nathan Murrell, |. NJ.
Grimsley and w. F. Neat.
II. Duet, Evils B. Bryant and
Wonnie L. Grimsley.
IA. What is music, discussed by
/. M. Grimsley, A. G. Hill and
VIM. Stapp.
Is. Quartette, Rucker P.
Grimsley, Pearl Combest, Cortez
BRYANT, Ida Kimble.
16. How key a piece of music,
A. G. Hill, Rucher P. Grimsley,
George Blair, w. c. Bryant.
II. Duet, Olive Leach, Rosa
Combest.
Is. Transposition by Sharps,
George Blair, by Flats, Anderson
Murrell.
10. Solo, Curtis McGaha.
20. Solo, Taylor Sullivan.
81. Value of music in everyday
life discussed, |. NJ. Grimsley, A.
G. Hill, w. F. Neat and Frank
Hughes.
%. Quartette, D. M. Moore,
Sam Walkup, Sam Royse and l..
E. Reynolds.
%. Song by Pleasant View
class, led by l. M. Grimsley.
"a, Song by Concord class, No
107, in perfect Praise.
Benediction.
V. T. Bryant,
Howard Leach, Committee
John Combest
James Wood son of a promi-
nent Morris Gill; family was ar.
rested while taking away a
package which had been placed
as a decoy in answer to letter
doroord;no e1 000 frovn CISCO,
The Adair County news., 1911-05-17

James Wood son of promi-
nent Morris (Ill.) family was ar
rested while taking away a
package which had been placed
as a decoy in answer to a letter
demanding $1,000 from Oscar
Collins
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-14

Harvesters and 'hoppers are racing
for possession of the oats crop in
the vicinity of Titonka, in northern
Iowa. Last Sunday the 'hoppers seem
ed to hatch out by the millions and a
good many farmers went Immediately
into their oats harvest, although it
was quite green for the sickle. The
destroyers invaded the green oats
fields first and in many cases ruined
entire fields in a single day. Some
farmers report that the grasshoppers
were SO thick in the fields that at
times they would clog the binder SO
that the driver would have to stop
the machine and clean them out. A
section man on the Chicago. Rock g.
land e Pacific is quoted as saying
that in some places along the track
they were so thick that they could not
run their handcar through them and
had to shovel them off the track.
Trey seem to be worse In the fields
adjoining hay fields.
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MODIFYING THE COMMISSION

We learn from the Cedar Rapids
Republican that in Lockport they have
evolved still another plan of govern
ment It is based almost entirely on
the plan Of the business corporation.
The people will elect commissioners
or directors but these commissioners
instead of taking each department
of the city government, will have
merely legislative and appointive pow
ers. They will proceed to elect a
manager for all the business affairs
of the city and he will manage the
affairs of whole city The Republi-
can says of the innovation:
AT the present time under the com
mission plan there is really not
enough managing to be done to keen
each of five men busy. But there is
enough to look after to keep one man
very busy and keepinq a man very
busy is often equivalent to getting the
best results ont of him
The New York town. we hone. will
nut its plan into operation and lemon
strate what can he done with it II
lit is any better than the nresent com.
mission plan. we want to hear of It.
As we have often said before. no civ
that has tried the new plan is likely
70 90 back 70 the old aldermanic plan,
hut II ANYTHING better is shown. thew
may be willing to go to that The key
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OUR NATIONAL COINAGE.

The bureau of the United States
mint has just issued report for the
year ending June 80, 1911, and 1t
shows a large increase in the coinage
product of that department More
than five hundred millions of pieces
of coin were issued from the mint
For the Philippines nearly one mil
lion of pesos we're issued, half mil
lion twenty-centavos. and three mil
lions one-centavos. For the govern
ment of Costa Rica, about eight hun
dred thousand five and ten centimos
were made out The production of
foreign coin for the colonies of the
United States has doubled with the
progress of ownership and respon-
sibility, but the report shows that
more American coin is in circulation
than was expected in so short time.
1t is not easy to educate the natives
to using our coin.
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The olary Of a Deserted Husband.

George Fitch In Peoria Herald
Transcript: July s: Spent an hour
this morning hunting for my hand
kerchiefs. Finally telegraphed Mir
anda. The answer came this after
noon. 1t read as follows: Silly.
Lower left hand drawer chiffonier or
wash in basement I have written
her for the code and in the meantime
have bought some new handkerchiefs.
Received letter from Miranda this
morning. 1t is still cool on the lakes
she says and will please pack up her
brown skirt and plaid waist and her
bronze shoes and her light spring
wrap and the baby's pink dress which
/ will find in the basement among the
washed clothes and express all of
them to her. And will also hunt up
the washwoman and pay her and tele-
phone the milk man not to bring any
more milk and match a piece Of silk
which she encloses.
Maybe / will I am now in execu-
tive possession over the matter.
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Since the open saloons In Ottumwa
were put out of business on July
no less than 112 government licenses
have been issued to persons in that
city. AS men do not pay for liquor
permits for their health, the presump.
ton is that they propose to engage
in the sale of intoxicants clandestine-
ly, without payment of the mulct tax
and without restrictions of any kind
While the blind pig and the bootleg
ger are thus waxing fat the munich
pality will worry along as best 1t can
without any revenue from that source.
It is easy to foresee that Ottumwa's
second state, like that of the man in
the scriptures. will be worse than its
first
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CHARLESTON.
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There surely isn't any danger Of our
forgetting we live on the wonderful.
"Waubonsie Trail" as the autos are
numerous enough to keep the dust fly.
ing. Some of the drivers are too busy
watching the scenery to give the re
CURED warning at the crossings.
The lawn social at the home of J. A
Vermazen Saturday evening was well
attended
Geo. Snider of Donnellson was
here Thursday buying cattle.
Mrs. NJ. E. Kerns who had an alb
normal growth removed from her side
Thursday by DR.. Haines, OF Argyle. is
resting very comfortably and her
friends hope for a speedy recovery.
The school board have elected Prof
Woodson OF Mt. Pleasant principal
and Miss Kate Cochrane of New Bos
ton as teacher for the ensuing school
year. The good work they have done
here was rewarded by an increase OF
salary.
Mrs. John Junkins and Miss EtheI
and Merle spent Sunday with rela
tives near Viele.
John Woke was Montrose Gale,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. VIII Swinderman are
the happy parents of son who came
to their home June 10Th.
Walter Bassett is now installed as
help at the Donnellson depot.
G. A. Swinderman's team INDUCED
In lively runaway Wednesday. Star.
ing from the barn lot they dashed
out the main road, breaking the wag
on tongue, they freed themselves and
ran on dashing through town going
out the Fort Madison road. They
were caught by Joseph Wahrer and
found to be injured.
Chester Summers returned from
Mooar Monday.
Mrs. Albert Pickering and daugh.
ter OF Monmouth, ILL.,, are guests OF
Mrs. Maria Pickering OF Goose Creek
Adam Hopp had the misfortune
Wednesday to drop a piece of railroad
iron on his foot, badly bruising IT
Mr.. and Mrs. Brumbay of West
Point. Ill. arrived Sunday to visit
Mrs. E. c, Davis who still continues IN
feeble health. Mr.. Brumbay returned
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-14

Concrete paving is being used in
many places in Iowa with satisfactory
results to date. In Mason City it has
been put down at cost Of SIPS per
square yard, in Sioux City at s1.23, in
Fort Dodge at s163, In Usage at s1.39,
in Eldora at s1.36, in Glenwood at
s1.23. in Toledo at s1.52. Among the
towns outside of Iowa where such paw
ing has been successfully used are
Kansas City. ST. Joseph, Springfield,
Mo-, Troy, N. Y, Knoxville, Tenn,
New Orleans, Chicago, Gary. Ind,
Fond du Lac. Wis, Lynn, Mass. and
Portland, Ore
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Concerning Cherry Pie.
b who would hum the cherry.

Concerning Cherry Pie.
oh who would hunt the cherry.
Elusive, shy, and wary.
Through the maze of decoction in a
glass both cool and high?
When Its sweetness lies before you
Just as nature made it for you
Neatly done up and upholstered in a
cut of cherry pie?
Who would spend dime and nickel
For cherry in pickle
Made of soda, whiskey, bitters. acid
arsenic and gin?
Cheaper than this weird collection
Is luscious quarter section
With half peck Of cherries slowed
beneath its cover thin.
George Fitch.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-14

The acme Of pleasure is not far re-
moved from an evening spent in a
capacious and speedy launch on the
Mississippi river in the vicinity of
Keokuk these bright moonlight nights.
Such an outing affords welcome relief
from the intense heat and there is no
surer or more satisfactory means OF
freeing ones self from "the cares that
infest the day" Blessings on the
head of the man who invented the
motor boat!
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GALLAND.


Mrs. T. ]. Harrington, daughters Mel.
lie and Anna, were among Keokuk call.
ers Friday.
Mrs. l. Hemmingway was in Keo.
kuk Thursday and Friday of last
week.
Miss Wenona Gill of Quincy is Wis.
iting at the home OF her aunt. Mrs.
Timothy Boyle.
Misses Marie and Jennie johnson
spent Sunday In Keokuk with rela.
tives.
Mr.. Ed. Hemingway was a caller
in Montrose Monday afternoon.
Miss Gertie Johnson returned home
from keokuk Thursday for an indef.
mite time.
Miss Blanche Osburn, who was ope-
rated on a few weeks ago, is reported
as getting along nicely.
William Johnson is able tn he aroun =
again after an attack OF typhoid fever
The dredge, Etna, is working lust
above town.
A crowd Of young people from here
attended the excursion to Fort Madi.
son Saturday afternoon, given bv ST
Francis de Sales church of Keokuk
Mrs. Andrew Philip, who resides
west of town, spent Sunday morning
with her mother, Mrs. Martha Hem.
mingway
Misses 3. ]. Harrington and G. e.
-.
Hemmingway of Keokuk enioyed Sim.
day with home folks.
Robert Noonan of Montrose attend.
ed the ball game here Sunday.
timothy Boyle and son, Bernard
and John Johnson were cal,ers l.,
Montrose Monday.
RAYMOND Johns of Bluff Park visited
felatiVes here Sunday afternoon.
ryyr.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-14

The attorney general has decided in
response to a query from Carroll
county that while the constitution OF
Iowa says "All minors obtain their
majority at marriage" this does not
affect the voting right of men, but
that minor who marries has all the
rights of an adult in entering and
patronizing saloons Just wait, though,
until the Iowa supreme court has a
chance to take whack at this ruling I!
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LA HARPE, Ill.
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The balloon Topeka II, one of the
seven. which started from Kansas
City in the national race, was forced
to come to earth few couple OF miles
west Of La Harpe Tuesday morning
at sos. The balloon was sighted by
number of our citizens, and as it
seemed to be having difficulty In
landing, quite crowd drove out in
autos and assisted the occupants.
Messrs. Jacobs and Emerson to come
to earth. The gentlemen had been
through quite a thrilling expert
ence. After having sailed along nicely
all night. the heat from the morning
sun caused the balloon to expand and
1t assembled at rapid rate and reach
ed an altitude far above three miles.
The instrument with which they were
equipped registered only that height.
Mr. Emerson found the valve locked
that permitted the gas to escape and
after trying all known methods to
check their flight upward, he became
unconscious. AS a last resort, Mr..
Jacobs, the aid, climbed to the outer
rigging and pulled the rip cord just
far enough to allow small percent of
the gas to escape and they made a
gradual descent to safety. Mr.. Elmer
son was somewhat indisposed all day
from the effects of his experience
Both men remained in LaHarpe dur
ing the day and drove to Dallas City
in the evening to return to Kansas
City via Sante Fe
The Hancock County Old Settlers
reunion will be held in La Harpe.
Oct. and 5. Our citizens and bust
ness men will assist the G. A. r.
in furnishing entertainment and
amusement for the visitors.
W. B. Kasier. j. C. Mayor and F. F.
Vidder went to Dallas City last We'd
nesday and defeated team Of tennis
players. R. B. Williams and C. S..
Coulson accompanied them.
Misses Eff1e NJ. and Edna Coulson
are spending their vacation with rela-
tives in Chicago and Washington
City, Ind.
Deputy Grand Master Francis B.
Comstock, installed the officers of the
LaHarpe Rebekah lodge Monday ev-
ening. After lodge closed all present
went to the Sperry restaurant where
refreshments were served.
Eulalia and Harold Brundage of
Chicago are visiting their grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. l. Brundage
Mrs w 3 Hall and sons Warren
and Thomas of Palestine, Texas, have
arrived for a three months visit
with Mrs. Emma Warren and sons.
H. e. Claycomb, wife and son, Wen
dill went to Canada last week to look
at the land with view OF purchas-
ing.
Miss Laura Rich is home from the
Gem City business college and will
probably leave in two weeks to take
position in Macon, Ga.
A. c. Keemlee, depot agent is TAX
ing vacation and with his family
are visiting relatives at Eubanks, III.
Mrs. L. ]. Rhea and grandson, Rhea
Hull are at home after visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Hallowell of Quin-
cy, III.
Miss Amy Wassom, of Canton, IS
here this week visiting reatives and
looking after property interests.
Mrs. j. M. Law and daughter Maha-
la, returned home Monday from a
weeks visit with relatives in Mon.
mouth
Attorney C. w. Warner has pur-
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note Of city government is going t
be progressive
URBAN LIFE OF TOMORROW.


Official statistics fer the decade clos
Ing June 80. 1910, show that 53.7 per
cent OF the population Of the United
States was then rural. Consequently.
for the economist and the ethical
teacher, the politician and the philan-
thropist, the dweller in country dis
tr1cts and villages of less than $500
inhabitants is still the typical Ameri-
can. But will he be in 1920? Not IL the
rate OF increase of urban population
continues to maintain the speed that
has kept UP during the past two dec
ades- Twenty years ago only SOL per
cent OF the population lived in cities
and towns of more than $500 inhabi-
tants. Now 1853 per cent do. This ex-
hibit prompts the Christian Science
Monitor to say:
Had city planning been the rule
rather than the exception in America.
were most Of its urban centers alive
to the waste that comes from conges-
ton OF population and housing In
quarters that forbid normal life, and
were the fight against political mis-
rule and graft farther on the way to
victory, the drift of population city
ward would be looked upon with more
complacency by some patriots whose
conscientiousness is above question
But there are more signs of hope for
the advocate Of city life on the horizon
than there were decade ago. The
ideal Of deliberate constructive action
of communities bringing to pass Wis
ions of civic beauty has taken root
among American urban dwellers at a
surprising rate during the past decade,
and already is showing practical re-
suits. If there is drift Of population
toward the city at large, there is an
equally marked drift from the heart of
cities out into the suburban territory
with which they are surrounded
Greater Boston grows faster than Bos-
| ton proper. Cheaper and more rapid
transportation, multiplicity of vehicles
and modes of locomotion, are all tend
| ing to relieve the congestion of the
| cities as places of residence, and to
encircle them with the group of lesser
| communities in which workers of all
grades of income reside and live un-
der decent and inspiring conditions.
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Have You Been Greeted by eree.er,

The Greeters have taken new club
rooms and II you don't happen to
know who the Greeters are they are
mainly those who welcome you ia
town in the various hotels. The club
was started in 1908 with a member.
ship of fifty. Since then the numbe,
has increased to 800. The nationa.
order, which sprang out of the lorna.
ton OF the New York club, now mum
bers $500. The membership Of tho
local club comprises hotel clerks.
cashiers and managers.--New York
Sun.
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Odd Names in Fort Madison.

Washington Democrat: 1t has been
long time since we noticed the odd
names that appear in the local
columns of the Fort Madison Demo
crat and now we are almost afraid to
say anything about them, as Mel.
Roberts seems rather fierce when he
gets "riled" UP. But here are few
names culled at random: Letta Artz,
VIM. Wenke, Bertha Eoff, Alpha va
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BEGINNING with the first Of the pres.
ent month rural letter carriers on
routes twenty-four miles in length
will be paid $1,000 a year and those on
shorter routes in proportion. This is
five times the pay of rural carriers
when rural free delivery was first
established fifteen years ago There
were then only eiehty-eight carriers.
Now there are 41.562 and their salar-
les aggregate s4o,o0O,0o0 a year. Some
progress, certainly.