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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-06-14
DRAWINGS
Can Be Entered Now For
Knox County Fair

School children under 16 years of
age desiring to exhibit drawings at
the Knox county fair next September
will bring their work to the Super
iintendent's Office at the Central
building Thursday afternoon ut
o'clock.
Premiums will be offered for
drawings of landscapes, flowers, and
fruit IN water colors, crayOla and ink
Best display of six pieces In water
color. crayola, and Ink. There will
be- no charge for entries In the chill
dren's department.
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INSTRUCTOR
Of Order Of Moose Visits
HiaWalha Lodge

National Instructor l.. Carver of
the Loyal Order of Moose was pres
ent at the regular meeting Of Hiawa-
tha Lodge Of Moose on Wednesday
evening. He gave very interesting
and instructive address. The home
for aged Moose, which has been under
consideration for the past several
months, will be located at Anderson,
Indiana. according to information re-
ceived Wednesday. 1t was hoped
that the institution would be estab-
lished in Ohio. but conditions are
such that Anderson. Ind, has been
chosen az more favorable location.
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lot In FIedericgo n, $1,000.
II. VI. Greer, adm, to Lorenzo
Marshall. lot in city, s1,il0.
V. I. Clawson to Elmer Loney IS
acres In Berlin, 81.
Mamie Lane to Burton d. Heron,
lot In city 81.
Mary Myers to Clementine Ogg, lot
In city. $4,000.
BANNER WANT ADS PAY.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-06-14
BICYCLE STOLEN

Edward Horst reported to the po.
lice Thursday morning that bicycle.
belonging to him, had been stolen Mt
about o'clock Wednesday evening
by an unknown person. He stated
that he had left the bicycle In front
of the Hanley repair shop on Null
berry street for period OF only q
few minutes and that when he re-
turned 1t was gone. A search Is be.
ing made for the missing property.
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EIGHT MORE FOR TAFT

Chicago, ILL.,, June 13-The dele
gates from the Second, Fourth, Sixth
and Seventh Mississippi districts
were voted to President Taft today
by the national committee.
An editor always tiles to make It
sound as II 1t were at considerable
personal sacrifice that he favors the
principle Of the income tax.
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Mrs. Alice Harrison

Mrs. Alice Harrison. wife of Elmer
Harrison, died at her home about two
miles southeast of Martinsburg We'd
nesday morning at o'clock after a
several months illness caused by tu-
berculosis. She was - years OF age
at the time of he. death and is sur
vived by her husband, one son and
one daughter. The funeral at Mar
tinsburg Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock
Rev. Cook officiating. Interment In
the Martinsburg cemetery.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-06-14
DEATHS

Mrs. Emily HsrrIck

Mrs. Emily Herrick died ut her
home On the Newark road. just south
OF the city, Thursday evening ut Z
o'clock after an illness Of two months
duration caused " a complication Of
diseases incident to old age She
was widow, born April 26th, 1885,
and Is survived by one son, G. A. Her.
rick.
The funeral at the house Friday aft
ernoon at l o'clock, Rev. j. 7, Black
officiating. Interment In Mound View
cemetery.
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NEx FACES
Will Be Seen 10 Line Up Of
Athletics Sunday

Manager Taylor Of the Athletics
stated Thursday morning that new
faces will be seen in his outfleld In
the game with the Hiawathas Sunday
afternoon. The team will be shaken
up and the outneld strengthened con-
siderably. Surprises are promised.
Pipes, who has been out of the
game for some time owing to an in
jury to one of his eyes, will again be
In the lineup
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-06-14

An Englishman has obtained a pat
ent on an airship invisible from earth
when 1000 feet aloft. VIII he please
equip 1t with apparatus that can be
dropped without smashing the heads
of the earth-dwellers?
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PEACE WARRANT
Sworn Out BY Rose Roberts
Against Lucy Pelton

Rose Roberts appeared In Squire
Harter's court Thursday morning and
filed an affidavit against Mrs. Lucy
Pelton. In the affidavit she states
that she fears Mrs. Pelton will.
strike, wound, and kill her son. Troy
Roberts, 1t Is repol ted that there has
already been considerable trouble
which led up to the action In the JUS
tees court,
A peace warrant was issued by
Squire Harter and II was placed In
the hands OF Constable Alex Bumpus
to be served.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-06-14

Mr.. William N, Coup returned this
afternoon from n business trip 10 To
Iedo
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1912-06-14
Big sum


at the meeting Of the city council
Wednesday evening after having been
examined by the finance committee
at meeting Tuesday night. The
amounts asked for by the various city
departments are as follows:
General fund--$8,0S3.50.
Public health fund-32,225.
Public safety fund-311,199.
Public service fund--$17,385.
Library fund--$1 ,924.
Interest and sinking fund-S18,S4S..
81.
Deficiencies on account Of the cut
In the levy of 1911-$1c.300.
New indebtedness in the sinking
fund :or pavements and sewers-$3,-
81G.5O.
Total--s71,791.s4.
The school budget has been fled
with the budget commission and
shows the following figures:
Tuition fund--$35, 900.
Contingent fund-$20,00
Interest and sinking fund-$3.000.
Total-$58,000.
The budget commission met Thurs.
day morning, but did not take final ac-
ton.
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
ACCESSORIES FOR
SUMMER TOILETS.
--sAS-t 10 -
White FTlIIs and Belts O0nned
With GoIored Costumes.

No one seems TO have tired as yet Of
the white accessories which have been
one of the most striking characteristics
of the earlier seasons fashions. With
colored gowns and suits white frllls,
white collars and cuffs, white buttons,
white belts, even white jewelry and
shoes and gloves, as well as white hat
trimmings and white parasols, continue
TO flourish. Brown linen suits and
linen suits in old Chinese blue are de-
seryedly popular with such accompani-
ments.
Buttons do much this summer in help
ing out cOlOred or colorless schemes.
White waists with striped or colored
collars have buttons that match the
collar in tone. Where touches Of
bright color are desirable, lines of
tiny buttons repeat the hue Of the Wv
id Innings that appear in turned back
revers. collars and cuffs. Colored ball
shaped buttons are also continued in
favor for such purposes. On evening
gowns one finds buttons made of n
single flower or of group of little
flowers. often with pendent buds drop
ping from the center. These trim skirts
and waists and often catch back drap
cries.
In coats smart styles multiply, but
a few ideas that dropped out in the
spring are still among the leaders for
summer. Notable among them is the
/ black coat of satin or chiffon lined with
| white satin, which appears in the
plainly finished fat collars and cuffs.
! Such a coat has no dangerous rival
when ii comes TO its style and useful
ness with lingerie gowns. Bright red
coats with black belts are one of the
smart things for black gowns. A great
many coats, by the way, are belted
and belong in the Russian blouse class.
although they may have departed ma
terialIy from the original type.
And, speaking Of popular fancies, one
cannot pass by the pork pie" turban,
which is seeing the light again-the
turban that used to sit high on the
Empress Eugenle's chignOn. 1t is
usually black with white trimmings,
but the girl of today pulls it low over
her head, perching it over one ear,
where it sits higher than anywhere
else.
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
THE SOCIAL CODE
AT WASHINGTON.
Experience Of a Visitor at a
White House Reception.

Jeffersonian simplicity, of which so
much is said, received quite jar at
one of the recent White House recep-
lions. One of the guests, who was
not in the best Of health, felt so faint
and I'll after the ordeal of standing
for an hour in a dense thrOng before
she could pass along the receiving line
of the presidential party that the SEN
ator who accompanied her took her
behind the line' and found chair
for her. The woman, who was from
a distant city, had never attended a
White House reception before and did
not know that the etiquette Of foreign
courts was being grated on official
society in Washington. The senator,
telling her to sit there until she felt
better, crossed the room to speak TO a
friend. She had been sitting only a
minute or two when woman of COM
handing figure approached her and
said pointedly:
Mrs. Taft is still standing"
lis she?" inquired the guest inno-
Gently.
at is not considered proper for any
one to sit when Mrs. Taft stands" eX-
planned the commanding one, who was
evidently of the receiving party.
"Well," said the guest, 81 can't help
it | felt so faint that Senator Dash
told me TO sit here, and l still feel
very ILL.,"
THAT makes no difference" retorted
the other. 1--WE have to stand until we
drop. You'll have to get up"
But as this decree was not backed
up with actual force theSguest contin-
ued to sit.-ChicagO Record-Herald.
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"Labby" Wanted a Place.

1t is hard to think of Henry Labou-
chere in any other occupation than
that of hitting heads and making
faces, in a good cause. TO lie sure, Int
still with much gusto and impish giee-
But we are assured by G.. W. Z. Rus
sell in the COrnhiu Magazine that
LabOuchere for time cherished that
most bourgeois of ambitions place
in the cabinet or in the high diplomatic
service. When Gladstone organized
his last cabinet, in 1892, La5OucAere
confidently expected that his valiant
services to the party during six years
Of Tory ascendancy would he reward
ed. but before Gladstone submitted
his list of ministers to the queen ne
had received a direct intimation that
the name of the editor Of Truth must
not appear there. On this point he's
majesty was reported to be very
stiff" Later LabOuchere was an &C
tive candidate for the Enthusiastically
at Washington.
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
TIMELY HINTS
FOR FARMERS
Grading Up the Dairy Herd.

Systematic grading up of our COM
mon stock with pure bred male from
large producing ancestry will result in
a highly profitable dairy herd in FIVE to
seven years, says the Kansas Farmer.
The greatest improvement should re
suit in the first cross. and We are con
fdent the right kind of sire will in
crease the milk yield of first generation
80 per cent over the yield of the best
common cows. The percentage named
is conservative. We have seen in
stances in which the increase was 100
per cent in the heifer's first milking
This, of course. is unusual. but a 30
per cent increase should not prove in
the least disappointing. BY the use of
the right kind of sires the milk and
butter fat yield Of each succeeding
generation can be increased with alb
sOlute certainty.
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
OLD Time Deiicacies.

Swans are coming back into favor as
n dish for the table. This reversiOn 70
the tastes of our fOrefathers may lead
TO a demand for other deIicacies once
held i'm high esteem. In the thirteenth
century the heron, the crane. the crow,
the cormorant and the bittern were
considered excellent food. But for
some undiscovered reason the hare aud
the partridge were despised. and in the
houses and of the mobiles neither was
ever seen. Another dish favored 10y
our ancestors was dillegrout. This
must have been special delicacy. for
the lord OF the manor of Arlington
held his tenure on the condition of his
presenting the king every year with
dish called dillegrOut, and if fat be
added then it is called malpiseryum.
London Standard. 80
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
TEMPLE OF BAALBEK.
This Syrian Shrine Has the Largest
Quarried Stones In the World.

This Syrian Shrine Has the Largest
Quarried Stones In the World.
Probably the largest stones ever used
IN any building are seen in the west
ern wall of the great temple Of Baal-
bek in Syria, and the problem IS still
unsolved as to the methods used in
conveying them from the quarrieS and
of placing them in position.
The quarrieS from which these blocks
were undoubtedly cut can be seen
about half a mile to the southwest Of
the temple. The three stones lie hOri-
zontally and form part of the outer
wall of the building. They are not on
the lowest part of the masonry, but
are twenty-three feet above the first
row of stones. Each stone is over six
ty feet long. thirteen feet high and ten
feet thick.
The most wonderful block of ali still
lies in the QuarrieS, for something
must have occurred to stop the work
of separating it completely from the
rock, and the great stone has lain
there for centuries awaiting compile
ton. This stone is seventy feet long.
fourteen feet high and thirteen feet
wide The three sides and part of the
fourth have been beautifully chiseied
and are smooth and even.-San Fran
cisco ArgOnaUt. -.-..
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HUMOR OF THE DAY
His Bio Hit.

A number of actors were discussing
their art and recalling the hits they
had made at various times. Actors
occasionally speak Coh, yes. always
very mOdestly. of course) about the
triumphs they have achieved.
81 think the biggest hit | ever made"
said one, was in Julius Caesar
when l played with Booth. l had
been playing a minor part until one
evening the artist who had the role of
Mark Antony was taken sick suddenly
and | was given that part. Gentle
men. when l had finished the funeral
Grafton there was hardly a dry eye in
the house"
Several others told thrilling stories
of the manner in which they had
moved audiences to tears or caused
them to indulge in unusual outbursts
Of enthusiasm, and finally Il man who
looked more like a discouraged hack
driver than an actor got a chance to
speak.
"rll never forget one night" he
said, when 1 was playing with Rich
dTu MduSHelu. i caused the enJlre du-
dience to rise to its feet and cheer"
What part did you have?" he was
asked.
1t wasn't much of a part You re-
member the scene in The Partisan
Romance where Mr.. Mansfield, as the
baron, rose at the table and offered a
toast? 1t was the scene in which
Mansfield made his first big hit"
Everybody present remembered it,
and the speaker was urged to go on.
"Well, I merely had to wear a gray
wig and sit at one end of the table. l
didn't have a solitary line to speak"
How could you. playing such a
part, make an audience rise and
cheer" a skeptical member of the
company demanded.
ut was on rhe night of the presi-
Dental election. and was allowed to
read some a. the bulletins from the
stage."-EXcLange
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
Diversified Farnoin1

We read and hear great deal about
diversified farming. This in reality is
nothing more or less than balanced
farming. This kind of farming is most
easily and successfully brought about
by the keeping of a few COWS and the
sale of dairy products. Cows necessa-
rily result in the growing Of calves and
pigs. The chOre keeping for cows,
calves and pigs will, in our judgment.
give much greater return than the
same time expended on any worked
crop.-Kansas Farmer.
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
How, She MANAGED IL.

"How can YOU manage to dress so
well on salary of 50 a week?' asked
the woman who was always prying
into the business of other people.
WELL" replied the pretty girl at the
ribbon counter, assuming mysterious
air, If you will promise not to tell
anybody l will let you into the secret"
Speak out freely. You may trust
me. Confession is good for the soul,
you know"
YES, 1 have heard so. Well, you see,
make quite a nice sum of money
aside from my regular salary every
week" 49,. = = 7tsr-
"And howf"
u keep a list of the questions that
foolish people ask me and sell them
to a literary man who works them into
his humorous articles. You have no
idea how much material l manage to
pick up."-Chicago Record Herald,
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
The Waxside Economist.

"Tn tell you what I'll do said the
brisk woman You go out and pick
me two or three quarts of blueberries
and I'll put some of them into pie
and bake it for YOU"
Lady" replied Flooding Pete. a. q
afraid you don't read de paper. In
desc days de producer of raw MAJ .eriaI
an de ultimate consumer is kic' Kim SD
hard dat 1 couldn't consider A trans
action where I'd be both Of 'em at
once Washington Star.
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14

A Il.
contained the worst whisky ever
known. Perkins was shot in the shin
at Shiloh"
do not know what that last remark
had to do with the story. but the
speaker Omits no interesting details.
He continued:
IA fellow named Tom Peters got full
of those bitters and went after Per-
kins with a bowie knife. Perkins shot
him with a one barreled pistol, which
had been made by blacksmith. They
school to see il.
Proctor Knott sent down to Spring
field and got meal bag full Of law
books-first ] had ever seen.
During the trial an old doctor about
three-fOurths full of whisky was called
to testify as TO whether Peters would
get we'll. The doctor said he would.
that he'd get as fat as a butter ball.
that he'd die in three years, but before
he died he'd turn green. because he
a.z p-rn s shot through tie liver. 1t
was the first time | ever knew mat
man had a liver.
81 watched that fellow like a hawk.
He did get as fat as butter ball. He
started for California and died IN the
Rockies in just about three years.
Whether he turned green or not new
er knew.'-New York Tribune.
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
GETTING RESULTS
ON The DAIRY FARM
Good Feed and Pure Water
Essential to Success.

Dairying, in my opinion. is among
the best paying propositions for an!
farmer If properly handled. writes y.
J. Nelson in the American Agricuitur
list. Those having Suffcien! acreage
to raise their own feed. of course, can
make it more profitable than he who
must buy. For my part. l raise all !
need and a little besides, especially
when the crops are good. A milk COW
needs to be we'll cared for In order to
produce the best results. \ good.
warm, we'll ventilated barn in which
to be housed in the winter and plenty
of clean water and pasture during the
summer will keep her in good health
and enable her to work at her utmost
capacity.
1t has been my experience that when
milk COWS are compelled TO drink
dirty water during the summer II VIII
be apt to bring bad results in the tall
and winter. Feeding healthy animal
improper food and providing poor drink
are most certain to result in loss.
have handled milk cows as suggested
for twenty years and never have had
an animal get sick nor show any symp-
toms of illness caused by careless feed
ing or poor water. In fact, l have not
lost a single COW during this entire
| time.
The dairyman should always endeav-
or to keep the cows and sire healthy.
and If he has good quarters for his
herd he invariably will have good
crop Of calves. When dairying is han
died wisely and on businesslike basis
it proves one of the most profitable
industries in connection with general
farming. -sZs-ss-S-,,S5ss,,isAr,.,
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
Fashions Eancies.

Frocks of changeabe taffeta are
trimmed with narrow velvet ribbon.
Coats of white serge or cloth with
scalloped edges are fashionable for lit
tie girls. = i
A lovely jabot Of plated cream tulle
and lace has small roses embroidered
on the tulle I'm tones of pink.
A collar of sheer linen embroidered
and edged with narrow Irish chochet
lace gives a touch Of daintiness to a
smart suit. =. :egsr7s''rr
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
Care of Younq TURKEYS.

Teach the young turkeys to come
home every night for feed and to roost
1t will save many long, weary search
for them this fall, make them tame and
more easily caught when market time
comes and prevent them from falling
a prey TO the varmints. Then we
never could see the difference between
a drove of turkeys fOraging on a neigh
Dor farmers crop and herd of cattle
breaking into his field and destroying
the crop.
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
TUNNELS UNDER RIVERS.
They Are Built on a Plan Taught 10
Man by Worm.

lheJ are 6uIlt on Plan Taught 70
Man by Worm.
There are now many great rivers
with tunnels under them. Even when
one is sunk to such depth and car
ried SO far along as the one under the
Hudson at Storm King for the aque-
duct it eXcites only moments won
der.
Such tunnels are generally driven I'M
der the water on the same plan, and
that plan was taught to an engineer by
a worm. The first attempt TO make
tunnel under river of any size was
the Thames tunnel in London, which
was built by the famous engineer Bru-
mel. He had so much trouble with the
water that oozed through that he came
near giving up the job as impossible
when he happened to see a piece Of
rotten wood into which a worm had
bored under water.
AS the worm ate its way into he
wood it left a deposit like lin" all
around the hole. and this got quite hard
and waterproof. so that the worm could
always get out the way il came, and
the hole remained true and firm
Brunei did the same thing. He made
large steel tubes and pushed them into
the earth, and then he forced cement
in between TIE tube and the wet
ground about ii, so that it set as hard
as a rock. All tunnels under water are
built on the same plan nOw.-New York
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
Collecting the Butter.

To separate butter from the butter
milk get a yard of cheesecloth, wet y
in cold water and spread over the top
of a crock. Pour the buttermilk and
butter into the cloth from the churn
then, taking the cloth up by the cor
ners, work it back and forth. All the
buttermilk thus will soon be drained
out, leaving the butter to be worked
and sailed.
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
The Proud Duke.

An English importer told a story H.
Illustrative of the pride of the late Duke
of Fife.
"a very rich woman in Grosvenor
square," he said. "once asked the duke
TO dinner in terms like these:
"'Mrs. Parvenu's social secretary is
desired to invite the Duke of Fife to
dinner on the eth instant at s o'clock
"To this invitation came back the an
swer:
1.-The Duke of Flies piper is desired
IN inform Mrs. Parvenu's social secre-
tary that the Duke Of Fife declines her
invitation - Washington Star.
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
A Soft Answer.

You seem to be an ablebOdied man.
You ought to be strong enough to
work" 81 know, mum. And you seem
to be beautiful enough TO go on the
stage, but evidently you prefer the
simple life" After that speech he got
a square meal and no reference to the
wood pile.-Detroit Free Press.
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
Feather Eating Hens.

Lice sometimes causes feather eat
ing. The hen, in attempting to ease
herself of the annoyance caused by
the irritating presence of the lice, picks
at the base of the feathers, occasion
ally pulls one out and, finding it succu-
lent, continues till she becomes a con-
firmed feather eater. e
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
"And how?'
The impolitenes;s Of Curiosity.

The goose had been carved, and ev-
erybody had tasted it. 1t was excel
lent. The negro minister, who was the
guest of honor, could not restrain his
enthusiasm
Oats as fine a goose as | evan see,
Bruddah Williams" be said to his
host ''Whar did you git such fine
gooseY
well, now. pahson," replied the
carver of the goose, exhibiting great
dignity and reticence, when you
breaches a speshul good sermon l new
er axes you whar you got it. | hopes
you will show me de same cOnsidera-
Unpopular Magazine.
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
Snrav the Cows.

1t takes a little time to spray the
cows before milking every evening.
and 1t also costs little cash for hand
sprayer and fly repellent. but the cows
will return the cash in the form OF
milk. and the time spent In spraying
Fan be made up while milking because
here will be no time spent in fighting
lies
The Adair County news., 1912-08-14
Mot So Difficult

How did he manage to escape from
the penitentiary? | thought it was well
nigh impossible" well, he figured it
ont on scientific lines. Somebody SNUG
glei him a pair of trunks, and after
he got outside everybody thought he
was running Marathon. kansas
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