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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1912-11-30
Wilson Turkey Fattenine.

New York.-Robeit English Of Del
mar Is fattening a turkey to present to
President-elect Wilson at his inaugural
dinner. 1t now weighs thirty pounds.
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= different point Of view after his wife
makes up her mind.
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A Civil Answer.

"Do many strangers settle here
landlord"
no more baggage than you got settles
in advance"
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Dr. .Plerce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invig-
orate stomach, liver and bowels. Sugarcoated,
tiny granules. Easy to take as candy. Adv
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Not tho Same.

You used to call your wife Kit
len.'"
Il know. but she has grown since
en."-Judge.
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Chance.
! always embrace

I always embrace an oppor,
tunity."
But, then, you must be careful you
are not hugging a delusion"
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OF course, we all feel sorry for peo-
pie who don't like us.
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The Tender Spot.

The Tender Spot.
What have you done toward pun
ishing lawbreakers?"
We'll" replied the shady police Of
ficer. Il have done a great deal to-
ward hurting their feelings by taking
their money away from them"
Their Class.
How would you describe these let
ters of a chiropodist?"
"Td class them as foot notes"
OF course, we all feel sorry for peo-
The Keota news., 1912-10-25
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
MPL Publisher O2ST
Department of the Interior

U: 3. Land Office at Sterling. Colorado. Octo-
ber ). 1912
Notice i. hereby given that Max Waessel. of
2b3 York St. Denver. Colorado. who on May
20. 1858. made Desert Land Entry, No O1ss7. for
South Halt, Section 4, Township n. Range 81
w. 9th Principal Meridian. has filed notice of
intention to make Final Proof. to establish
Clcrk OF the District Court at Greeley, Colo
rndo. on tho 18th day OF December, 1912.
Claimant names as witnesses: Leonard a.
Jackson. of keota. Colo: william X. Boxles,
Of keota. Colo; Prank l.. Markham, OF Keota
Colo; James ID. Banks. Of Denver. Colo.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Publisher Serial No. O66l
Department of the Interior
U. s. Land Once At Denver. Colo. Keota Colo.
September l9. 1912.
Notice Is hereby given that John J. Peart. of
stead Entry No. 2596l. for IA. Section IS.
Township y N. Range 81 w. p. Meridian has
filed notice Of intention to make 6nal three year
proof to establish claim to the land above described
before Ira S. Griffin. U. S. Commissioner at Keota.
Colo. on the 20 day Of November. 1912.
Claimant names y Witnesses John Hobbs. Of
Thomas Rooney oi Keota, Colo; chsries Ross. Of
Keota. Colo.
Is CD FORD. Resisser.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Pubiisher Serial No. O296
Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Once At Denver. Colorado Keota.
Colo. September 9. 1912.
Notice Is hereby Given that Mabel c. Moreland
formerly Mabel C. Sutton. of Sligo: Weld Co.. Coio
who. on July IA. 1908 made Homestead Entry. No
02s6. for NV IA. Section 10. Township 9 NJ
Range 81 w. 6 p. Meridian. has filed notice Of In.
tention to make final three year proof to establish
claim to the land above described. before Ira S.
Griffin. u. S. Commissioner. at keota Colo. on
Nov. Is. 1912.
Claimant names as witnesses: Mabel Vinegar
of Sligo. Colo: james Moreland. OF Sliso. Colo:
John G. Bell Of Sligo. Colo: Laurence B. Schack
of Sligo. Colo.
IS c D. FORD. Register
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Publisher Serial No. O9532
Publisher


U. 8. Land Office at Denver. Colorado. October
I. 1914
Notice is hereby given that William A. John
son. OF buckingham. Colo, who. on June H.
1909, made Homestead Entry. No. 09l:2. for T.
IL, Section II, Township n. Range 60 ", & P.
Meridian, has filed notice OF intention to make
final three year proof to establish claim TO tho
land above described. before Ira =. griffin u.
$. Comm, ssioner. at keota, Colo, ON Dec. 10,
l9I2
Claimant names as witnesses Melvin T.
Johuso OF BuckinRhan. Colo Dora Johp,o
o! Buckingham. Colo: Jane. II johnson. OF
Buckingham. Colo. Ada ". johnson. OF Bucs-
inghsm. Colo.
rs c. D. FORU, Register.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Publisher
Department of the Interior

Department Of the Interior
u. S. Land Once at Denver Colorado. keot1
Colo. Sept. 10. 1912.
Notice Is hereby given that George w. Pointer Of
Sligo. Colo. who on jan 2 1909 made Homestead
Entry. No. O323O. for Sc Ia. Section 1. Town.
ship 9 N. Range 81 w. 9th p Meridian. and on
May FL. 1909. made additional Homestead Entry.
No O9255. for NE IA. Section l. Township 9 n.
Ranse 81 w. 9Th P Meridian. has filed notice Of In
tenfIon to make final three year proof to establish
claim to the land above described before Ira S.
Grimm. u. S. Commissioner. at keota. COLORADO.
on Nov. Is. 1912.
Claimant names as witnesses: John Scheub. Of
Sligo Colo. Caroline Scheub. Of Sligo. Colo. H. c.
Miller. Of Sligo. Colo. H. s. Jones' Of Fall City. Neb.
IS c. d. FORD Register.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Publisher Serial No. OlO7o6
Department Of the Interior
U. S. Lard Office at Denver. Colorado. Keota
Colo. Sept. Is, 1917.
Notice is hereby given that Benjamin F.
Rh"adarm rmer. OF keota, Colo. who on Sept H.
1853. made Homestead Entry. No VlO7Ob, for
+ ~ section Is. Township n, Range. COW. p
final three year proof. to abiish claim to the
land above described. before Ira =. Grimm, U.
>, Commissioner. at keota. Colo. on Nov. -.
1919.
Rhoadarner. of keota. Colo Harley G. job
bins, Of kcota. Colo: William Il Short. Of
keota. Colo. John h. Craig. Of Keota, Colo.
Is G. ID. FORD, Register.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Publisher OlAO57

Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Once At Sterling. Colorado. September
~. 1912.
Notice Is hereby given that William Keoush. Of
Kaufman. Nebraska. who. on March 22. 1911.
made Homestead Entry. No. O14O57. for Lots and
2. Section 20. Township IL N. Range So w. 9Th
Rrneipal Meridian. has filed notice Of intention to
make FIVE year proof to establish claim to the Land
above described before United States Commissioo-
q. At Grover. Colorado. on the 25th day Of Novem-
ber. 1912.
Claimant names 1s Witnesses: Arthur r Masters
q Kaufman. Nebsaska; Aaron A. Brown. Of KauG.
man. Nebsaska: Harien NJ. Gillespie. Of Kaufman.
Nehxaska: Ivan BrittelL Of Kannman. Nebs1ska-
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Publisher Serial No OlO7O5

Department of the Interior
u. s. Land Once at Denver. Colorado. keotA.
Colo. Sept. Is. 1912.
Notice Is hereby given that Harry E. Rhoadarmer
keota. Weld Co.. Colo. who Sept. IL. 1909.
made Homestead Entry. No. OlO7O5. for w l-2.
Section IS. Township 8 N. Range 60 w. p
Meridian has filed notice Of intention to make final
three proof TO establish claim to the land above
described. before Ira S. Griffin. u. s. Commissioner
at keotA. Colo. on Nov. l8. 1912.
Claimant names witnesses: Robert Bussins Of
keotA. Colo. John K Craig Of Keota Colo. Benja-
min r. Rhoadamer. of keota. Colo. James A.
Rumsey. OF keota. Colo.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Publisher Ol225s

Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Ofiiee at Sterling. Colorado. September
~. 1912.
Notice Is hereby given that Abel B. Sparks Of
keota. Colorado. who. ON April llth. 1910. made
Homestead Entry. No. O12259. for ~ NE -
SW ~ NE ~ and Sc - NV "a. Section 81.
Township N. Range SO w. 9Th Principal Meridian
has filed notice Of intention to make three year
Proof to establish claim to the land above described
before United States Commissioner. at Keot1. Colo
Esdo. on the 25th day Of November. 1912.
Claimant names as Witnesses Charles O. Dodder
Of keota. Colorado John J. Pert. Of Keota Colon
do: Frank E. Quackenbush. Of Keota. Colorado:
David w. Schoonover Of Keota. Colorado
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Publisher Serial No. OlO975
Department of the Interior
u s. Land Once At Denver. Coloeado. October 9,
1912.
Notice b hereby Owen that John N. Walker of
keot1. Colorado. who on October S, 1909 made
Additional Homestead Entry. No. Ol0975. for E
p. Meridian. has fled aotire Of intention to make
final three year proof to establish claim to the land
above described. before Ira S. Griffin. U S. Commits
sioner. Of keota. Colo, on Dec. IL. 1912.
claimant names u Witnesses: William X. Bowles.
Of Ksota. Colo: leasie Bossles. Of keota, Colo:
Charles O. Dodder. Of Keot1. Colo: Ida Dodder of
keotA. Colo.
79 c. d. FORD, Resister.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Publisher Serial No OSl96 oi044s
Department Of the Interior
U. S. Land Office at Denver. Colorado. Sept
Is. 1912.
Notice il hereby given that Herbert Waxham.
Of Grover. Colo, vho on Sept. H. 1907. made
Homestead Entry. No. 2s79l, for W -. Soc
tion q. Township n. Range 81 W.6P. Asri-
dian, and On Sept. st.. 1902. made additional
homestead entry. No. 0ioaa6. for z IL. Sec. D..
Tp.9 ON. r. 81 W. 6P. n. has filed notice Of In
tention to make final three year proof. TO o.
tablish claim 70 tho land above described. be-
fore Ira s. Griffin, u s. Commissioner. at
Ksota. Colo. on Nov. -. 1912
Claimant nAnes- A. witnesses Harry B.
Zimmerman. OF Sligo Colo; Charles 8. Nor.
gan, OF sligo. Colo: Laurence B. Shack. OF
Sligo. Colo Earl Waxbam of Sligo. Colo.
Is CD FORD, Register.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Publisher Serial No. O9544
Department of the Interior
U. s. Land Once At Denver. Colo. Sept 10. 1912
Nottee Is hereby Owen that Melvin Ernest Johnson
of Buckingham Colo. who on June II. 1909. made
Homestead Entry. No. O95A4. for l-2 Section 2
Township N. Range so w. p. Meridian. has
fled notice Of intsntion to make final three year
proof 10 establish claim to the land above described
before Ira s. Griffin. u. S. Commissioner. at keota
Colo. on Nov H. 1912
Claimant names Witnesses: William A. Johnson
Of Buckingham. Colo. Maud Johnson. Of BuekinR-
ham. Colo. James H. Johnson. Of Buckingham.
Colo. Ada w. Johnson. Of Buckingham. Colo.
IS c. D. FORD REGISTER.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-03-13
A Girl Of Shirt.

Representative Henry Of Texas, in
an eloquent and caustic speech in the
house last session, condemned the
American heiress who marries, for the
sake Of his title, the nobleman ruined
in health and prospects by dissipation
Discussing this speech with a re-
porter, Mr.. Henry said:
II want to see our hale young girls
marry hale young men. 1 want to see
them all showing the spirit of a girl I
know In Waco. She was proposed to
by a rich bachelor Of fifty, and she
refused him. Afterward, talking over
the rundown with a mutual friend.
she said:
eyes, l refused him. He has, you
know, a past. He has a dreadful past
"'Oh, but said the mutual friend, a
man can always blot out his past
eyes, that may be- replied this
splendid Waco girl, but he shan't use
me for a blotter.
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things he na0 done since he was ten
years old. He was for giving ME the
boot as they stood him up. but he
couldn't get the proper swing tt his
leg.
Well. it was estimated that I had
damaged the road $4,000, but had
saved about a thousand lives. and so l
was shaken hands with and advised to
come in out of the wet and be at least
a deacon. One enthusiastic minister
went further. He passed around among
the grateful people and collected the
rum Of 30 cents and placed the same
in my hands without keeping back any
commission! ! was about to express
my most profound thanks when the
engineer drew me aside and gently
said:
You shut up! You know this road
would far rather have killed every soul
Of that crowd than to have had all
those cars smashed. and you are Ger
tain to have the president after you.
He'll take the conceit out of you
mighty student"
"Then I'm not u hero" l asks.
"Naw! You're only a dub!'
"But think Of all those ministers and
elders and deacons being rushed into
eternity"
An Uneratefui President.
But the president will be thinking
of the six cars of lumber! Say. hobo.
you'd better light out. l think you
meant well. but you did just the wrong
thing, and the D. O. II. road never for
gives"
His advice seemed good and I took a
skate. but they caught me three days
later and I was carried into town and
before the president of the road with
the darbies on.
80 you are the Internal idiot that
smashed six cars of lumber for me!'
be yells.
ain the interests of human life.'
says l.
Human fiddlesticks! If we'd killed
the whole thousand it wouldn't have
cost us $50. We could have laid it to
spreading rails and act Of Providence.
Almost $4,000 for those lumber cars!'
Pm sorry. sir" says l, with deep
humility.
Sorry! Sorry! You blamed jackass
of a vagabond, but do you think such
excuses go with the stockholders! I'm
going to have you sent to prison for
life!"
His Reward.
But I didn't go there. In came two
or three Of the preachers who'd been
saved to see about rewarding me. The
president made a lightning change. His
face was wreathed in smiles, he took
my hand and he said the road would
see that such heroism as mine did not
pass unrequited.
1T was a gallant Decd" says one of
the preachers.
think of his presence of mind,'' says
a second.
"What a slaughter there would have
been!" tails along the third.
"Gentlemen, you can leave it to me-
answers the bland president in his
blandest voice as he bowed them out.
Then he calls me more names and
makes me a brakeman on a freight
train. I was there for a week, and then
got fired for allowing 7G5 hoboes to
ride free. They had it down as 7S5, but
that was to get the dead wood on me.
The true number was only $50. That
vas all there were in the state at the
time.
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years been n Of the most popular
members Of the faculty. This senti
ment Is expressed in a verse in the "a
nous Faculty Song" which is sung
on the steps of Nassau hall by the sen.
1ors In the spring evenings. 1t is one
Of the few surviving verses Of the orig.
inal song as it was first sung sixteen
years ago, and it runs:
Here's to Hibben-we call him Jack
The whitest man In all the fac!
The Princeton spirit he does not lack.
Here's to Hibben! We call him Jack!
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dull drab hue. There is nothing in
except George Washington Goethals.
For four mortal years the colonel has
been on the job there. clad in wrinkly
white 1auncls or mud despatched
white duck and a Greasy panama hat.
He has sweated through some 1900
days and nights Of Panamaniac eli
mate, wherein an overcoat is an incu-
bus and underwear is calculated ut
times to make Of its victim a beast of
burden.
Women will not find the zone u para
disc of social advertisement, and yet
they will discover that eve away
down there where the land ligament
that links together the continental ST.
amese twins of Americas hemisphere
is so narrow that 1t has been said a
Waltonian angler can sit on the lock
ledge of Culebra cut and catch fish
from the Pacific ocean while he splits
Missouri tobacco Juice in the Atlantic,
society of the big initial flourishes.
For be it held in mind that there is an
Official social circle in the Panama Gu
nal zone made up Of men who can
grace a ballroom or a barroom and Of
women who have shown in times past
amid the gayety galaxies Of Bar Har-
boz. Old Point Comfort and other
points more comfortable than Panama.
The colonel is accounted a man who
does things. Though only a colonel,
Goethals commands an army numer-
lcally large enough to make up several
corps. He has 10000 men under his
command. Among them these 10000
men speak forty-ive languages. 1t is
a polyglot collection of workmen that
is scooping out the canal ditch and
building the locks.
Excepting a comparatively small ele-
ment Of natives all these men are Il
long way from home. Some Of them
are as far from their firesides as 12,-
600 miles. Every month those who
have families send a part of their earn
ings to the home folks, who long for
the day when the canal will be COM
pleted and the father or son or brother
will come home to stay.
Colonel Goethals Is a sort Of father
to his 10000 men. During the six week
days he sees that they do their work
as efficiently as may be under the d.
rection of his large corps Of assistant
engineers, superintendent and fore
men. Not even on Sunday is Colonel
Goethals free to do as he pleases. Sun.
day is court day for the colonel. An
hour or so spent in the big office room
where Colonel Goethals hears griev.
ances from 7:30 to 1920 a. M, will give
an insight into the workings Of the
Goethals mind.
Colonel Goethals is both Judge and
Jury In this court. He hears CON
plants and grievances from my Of his
10000 men, day laborer and section
superintendent alike, and passes upon
each case with an eye single to the alb.
solute Justice Of the matter.
Colonel Goethals was born in Brook.
Ign on June %, 1858, and was gradu.
ated from the United States Military
academy in 1880.
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DR.. JOHN G. HiBBEN.

He Has Just Been Elected President OF
Princeton University.
DR.. John Grier Hibben. the new pres.
ident Of Princeton university. was born
in Peoria. Ill.,. in 1862. the sou of a cler.
gyman. He was graduated from Prince,
ton in 1882. He studied ut the Prince
ton Theological seminary and the Uni
verSity of Berlin and was ordained tn
the Presbyterian ministry in 1887.
Since 1891 he has been professor of
logic ut Princeton.
From the standpoint of alumni and
undergraduates DR.. Hibben has for
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ness don't pay 2 per cent on the in
vestment, but you are going to do
something for the sake Of the poor
heather of Africa and take your pay in
cocoanuts when you go over there. If
those runaway cars pass you they'll
collide with something down the road,
and that something may be a Sunday
school excursion on it's way to Niagara
falls. Get a move on you, me boy!"
There was a pile of old ties neal at
hand, and l had four of them across
the rails in half the time it would
have taken me to eat a mince pie.
Then stood aside to watch things.
Not a brakeman to be seen and the
conductor on the platform of the ca
bOose on his knees in prayer. While
yet a long way off l recognized him as
the conductor who had kicked me off
a train bound out of Fort Wayne. l
told him at the time that I would get
even with him some day.
Gee, but he was a scarf man! His
hair had pushed his cap off. his face
was as white as xxx -four. and he
was promising Providence that he'd be
good all the rest of his life.
you're going to get it in the neck!"
I yells at him from 200 feet away.
"Oh, hobo. again." he walls.
"1t's going to jolt you"
"Goodby, wife and kids!"
"Shut your teeth or you'll bite your
tongue off"
Hobo, pray for me-"
Tho Crash.
I'm rather slow at that sort of bust
ness. and there wasn't time. There
came a grand crash, and then those
lumber loaded cars flung themselves
over forty rods Of track. Some of the
boards flew as high as the tree tops.
Some Of the a wheels rolled along
into the next county.
No hurry to look for the remains of
the conductor. The weather was beau
tifully cool, and they would keep for a
day or two. l heard q train coming
from down the track and l bumped
along and waved it to a stop before it
struck the wreckage. Folks of all sorts
came piling out and at the head the
conductor, who hustled up to me and
demands:
snow then-now then, what is it,"
"Six lumber loaded freight cars and
n freight conductor scattered over
North America" I answered.
"And who did itT
81, sir-l, with my little old ties on
the track"
"Then you'll hang"
And that'll make an extra holiday
for labor unions. What you loaded
| with?"
Five hundred and forty ministers.
234 Sunday school teachers. 80 elders,
Is deac0ns and q few stray mission
aries"
After the Accident.
"And I've saved that crowd from CO.
ing straight to-
was given in charge of three or four
elders to hang on to. and they did their
duty until the engineer OF the broken
train came backing down and swore
by the beard o: his father that | was a
hero ind had done the right thing.
Then l was released and we found the
freight conductor seated under a tree
forty rods away. He wasn't much
hurt. but the nervous shock was max
ing him babble and tell Of all the mean
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Col. 6. W. Goethals,
Builder Of
Panama Canal
LIONEL GEORGE WASHING
non rnErry A G h,c hoon +bc

~oLoNEL GEORGE WASHING
TON COCKTAILS has been the
~ big boss down in the Panama
canal zone for foul years. BE
was Just q lieutenant colonel in the e
Eineer corps Of the army when he was
sent down there after two or three civ
ilian civil engineers had tackled the
mammoth job and found 1t too big for
their size. Now he is chairman Of the
canal commission. governor Of the ca
nal zone. chief engineer Of the whole
works and president of the Panama
Railroad company. And, most tmpor.
tant of all. he is digging the canal,
which is the job laid out for him.
A correspondent of Golfers Weekly
gives a most interesting impression of
the canal builder. Among other things
he says:
Colonel Cocktails has his ,headquar-
tiers at Culebra. where visitors will dis
cover him seated in a swivel chair at a
big fat desk in the middle of a spa
cious room that looks like the grand
reception hall of n wholesale hay barn.
This structure IA erected by the
French under the late Count de Les
seps when the European republic made
its Intellectual effort to cut a canal
through the isthmus.
The French engineers used it as
headquarters and administration build
ing. Colonel Cocktails makes similar
use of the building. His expansive Of
fee room is unfinished as to interior
walls, painters apparently amateurish
having daubed their woodwork with a
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-03-13

in politics for q number of years. blu,
is specific to explain that she is not q
suffragette.
Miss Hadrich has recently been the
executive clerk in the governors Office.
She had been his secretary for seven
teen years previous to his entering pub.
lie life. During his gubernatorial cam
paign she had charge of his Sault Ste.
Marie headquarters.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-03-13

This bank solicits accounts, and
offers to depositors absolute security.
prompt and careful attention, and the
most liberal treatment consistent with
safe and profitable banking. Buys
and cells foreign exchange, drawing
direct on all principal American and
European cities, and issues its own
Letters of Credit.
Interest paid on time deposits. The
highest cash price paid for approved
state, county, city and school bonds
and warrants.
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Fered becomes n source Of real gratif.
cation OF honest pleasure and accom-
plishment.
ANY young mar a get rich, a
succeed In business, II he saves, II he
mas a definite and honest purpose and
Is so filed with the purpose that work
ceases to be a hardship.
Look at things with optimism in
your heart.