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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-04-25
\ Bankers View Of Good Roads

A Bankers View of Good Roads.
When the executive committee
of the Hannibal and St. Joseph
Cross-State Highway Association
met recently at Chillicothe, the
Chillicothe Commercial Club ten
dered the committee a dinner. Fol-
lowing the dinner, short talks were
made on the value of the cross
state highway.
Mr.. w. H. Elliot, president of the
Peoples Savings bank at Chillicothe
was called upon. Mr.. Elliot is a
practical business man and looks al
the road question from a purely
practical standpoint. 1t is not 6
theory or a dream that Mr.. Elliot
sees, when he takes up the question
of the cross-state highway. but {
great, big, practical everyday propo
sition. which business men can af
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-04-25
Luck.
Statesman

Max O'Rell says luck" means
rising at six in the morning; living
on a dollar day if you earn two
minding your own business and not
meddline with other peoples; the
appointments you have never failed
to keep; the trains you have never
failed to catch; luck means trusting
n God and your own resources.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-04-25

ways will mean to the towns and
rural communities which will be so
fortunate as to lie in their course.
There can hardly be in the coun-
try anywhere a more important
stretch of this long distance high
way than the proposed one from
Hannibal to St. Joseph. 1t is bound
to be a road of great use, not only
because of the dense and increasing
population of the region through
which it passes, but because Of the
enormous travel will originate in the
great state of Illinois, and even
farther east. and because of the at
traction of the West and the mum
tain regions for travellers from those
parts. Now. then, it can but be
true that the towns and farming
communities through which this
travel passes in automobiles and
otherwise, will derive great bene-
fit. 1t is impossible for any coun-
try to be seen and known to so
good advantage through any other
merns of travel than by means of
the automobile, aud the great farm
ing region of North Missouri will be
advanced in its alreay increasing
prestige with people of the East
and of the West when they come to
see it at close range from their au-
tOmObiles as they may 90 back and
forth.
The time to seize the opportuni-
ty for any great trunk line of aay
kind of travel is, when through its
general region it is being located.
Once established it is difficult to
move. So, if one would have it, he
must take it when it is offered.
These great through highways, no
doubt, in time through aid from the
national government and from the
state, will be brought to a high
state of perfection. The possibility
of this should not be lost sight of
or minimized at this time. These
through roads also will unquestion-
ably give an. immense impetus to
the building of district highways
where they will be needed in every
section through which they pass.
The cities along this route especial.
ly should understand the import
ance of this fact. Through one OF
these great highways the farmers
owning farms along it, will find not
only a great convenience. but a
means of increasing the actual mar,
ket value Of their property because
they will be brought into the view
and knowledge of thousands of peo-
pie who never would know of them
were they situated in more remote
and obscure localities.
The farmers are rapidly becom-
ing great automobile travellers. The
practicability of now establishing
this road and maintaining it by
dragging is well understood, thu;
making it exceedingly valuable and
efficient for present use; but as
am pursuaded the chief value Of
action at this time is to seize upor
an opportunity which offers for the
future advantages and benefits
which the imagination at this time
is too poor even to estimate" Han
nibal Journal.
Look Out For That Boy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-04-25
Best Freds for Pushing Calves.

To the Missouri Ruralist: Last
spring tried two or three different
ways of feeding calves and found
the following made the best growth:
Each calf had 2 quarts of oats per
day in two feeds with one-fourth
pound of cottonseed cake in two
feeds also. In addition they had as
much nice, bright prairie hay as
they would eat. These were buck
ct calves and weighed 600 pounds at
five months old. John M. Guy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-04-25
Champ Clark Is Generous.

Champ Clark's refusal to permit
the use of his name against any
candidate in the latter's home state
on the ground. not only of courtesy
to rivals, but of his desire to build
up the party in every state rather
than injure it, marks the speaker
once more as a big, broad and true
Democrat. The bigness of Clark
will draw the strength from some
little mems states. Lebanon Rustic.
But Tollerton Gets His Salary.
Probably the most active official
in the state is Jess TollertOn, game
warden. He draws a salary of
$500 of the taxpayers money,
bu' lntely about all he seems to be
doiue, as Hadley's puppet. is work.
ing to throw the states delegation
to Roosevelt. He is so busy in pol
itics that little time is left for Off
cial duties. A great many people.
Republicans as well as Democrats,
are getting tired of his pernicious
political activity and neglect of
duty. and think a halt should be
called. Probably Tollerton thin ks
that as long as he has energetic
deputies who in their zeal for the
cause work 1865 days in the year at
so much per diem that there is lit
tie left for him to do.-Albany
Ledger.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-04-25
They Double the Dose.

Whenever the Republicans adver-
tise to have a convention this year,
they generally have two. Each fac
ton claims to be regular and each
accuses the other Of holding a
trump" Howell County Gazette.
The Way the Wind Blows.
At the election Tuesday Kansas
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-04-25
Will Nominate Champ Clark.

If the Republicans are telling the
truth about each other, any old
Democrat ought to be able to win,
but we will take no chances and
We will nominate our strongest and
most available candidate-Hon.
Champ Clark, all the way from Pike.
Boonville Advertiser.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-04-25
Well, Tell Us the Reason!

If the man who tolls fourteen
hours day, wears overalls and a
checkered shirt, and his wife wears
a poor quality of calico, how does it
happen that the fellow who never
works atoall wears, broadcloth and
his wife wears seal skim Boonville
Advertiser.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-04-25
What the 1tiSSO1~i
Editors Are Saying
The Seven Little Governors.

Seven little governors got in a
fix, one fell down and then there
we're six. Henry County Democrat.
If Missouri's Kansas Governor Could
If Hadley could only recall that
promise to Roosevelt he would like.
ly be a happier man. AS it is. he's
nothing. Memphis Democrat.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-04-25

City Topped from a city of 5000 Re-
pubicanS to the folds of Democra-
cy by a good majority of over 5000.
This already shows the way the
wind is blowing. What is the use
of oil this fight for Republican presi-
dental nomination. Bethany Dem
ocrat.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-04-25
Would Care for Hughes.

The big bosses in New York are
considering the elimination of both
Taft and Roosevelt and the substi-
tuition of Hughes, who wrote the ia
tai word for the people in the trust
law. Atchison County Mail,
Getting Money Under False Pretense
When the Kansas City Star adj
vertises as an independent news
paper and gets subscribers on that
ground, it is obtaining money under
false pretenses, and should be ar
rested and convicted. Milan Stand
ard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-12
How The Democrats EcOnOmized.

They cut the appropriations charitable benevolent and
educational institutions They appropra
High This will neeesstate
bill the Legislature for approximately
100000 bills amounting
principles They did
construction worthy mention
Special Session of the Legislature which enacted
just
suitable lock each These boxes
be the whole paid by
provides within twenyfour hours
ballots shall be the Secretary of
shall paid by the If
recount,
whose
bin amounting TO $7S4511S They
a
proceedings This 26s
pages They drew
heir mil a diem adjourned.
a political whistle, which cost the
primaries printing direct
Legislature itself, 100000,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-12

almost miraculous promptness, as the
pends upon his efficiency in this branch
of service. 1t is almost unheard of
for student 10 be taken i'll for even
one day without a report. In this way
a prompt step to check contagion has
been effected. and in addition the med
icai director has been able 10 get hold
of many cases in which medical atten-
dance would not have been called on
account of finanial reasons. In cases
when whole fraternity or dormitory
has been exposed to eontagion through
the illness of one of the inmates, the
development of secondary cases is
stopped by the removal of the patient
to the isolation hospital. the disinfee
ton of the whole house. and the care
full observation of every student who
has been exposed to contagion. Last
fall there were over thirty cases of
scarlet fever in the town of Hanover.
some of which had ccme in contact
with the students in various ways. yet
not a single case developed within the
college
This spring at attempt has been
made to purify the food supply and to
exterminate the flies. In order to inn
prove the condition of the milk supply,
the college has offered prize of SIS To
the dairyman who shows the greatest
Improvement along sanitary lines ON
his farm. The prize Will be awarded
the first of next May. The water sup
ply is obtained from a reservoir main
tained by the college, and is closely
watched at all times.
All these things the college is doing
in recognition of the fact that the loss
of time to the student and to the coll
lege through sickness is in many cases
a wasteful and a preyentable one.
Verify. il our institutions of higher
education, in their every day life, do
not set the example and the pace to-
ward cleanliness and health. where
from may we expect it? We hope 9TH
er institutions are doing as well as
Dartmouth, but we doubt it.
But what is the reason that like
measures should not be adopted in
fitting and primary schools?
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what they would do, suppose you take
a half hour off to consider what they
are trying to do at the present time.
That is only drop in the cup as COM
pared with what they would do If 1t
were not so useless. The years of pent-
up longing to try something desperate
is bound to burst forth in the Demo-
cratic House. even when it knows that
few sane men in the Senate, with
the Chief Executive will stand be-
tween them ana the country.
In the last regime of Democratic
gambling with the doctrine of social
lists and the demagogues, the mills and
industries stopped and cobwebs formed
in aisles and windows of stores and
shops.
Are you willing to punish innocent
millions who do not know and can
not understand, for the sake of maxi
ing these reckless ones take a sicken-
ing dose of their own fool medicine?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-12
We Can't Help Saying 1t.

Many husbands answer to some one
or other of the requirements. but the
ideal husband as type is myth,
figure of speech. He is a husband dis
cerned in the dim perspective of fem
mime fancy and never recognized in
closer acquaintance. No woman ever
marries him, though sometimes her
friends do. but If every woman waited
till she found him the Nation would
be menaced by celibacy. The ideal
husband, indeed, may best be de-
seribed as a feminine state OF mind.
But states of mind are subject TO mod
ification, and in that fact lies the hope
of the general run of husbands.-New
York World.
And, it might be remarked, candi-
dates. But this cleverness is futile.
The ideal man is as abundant as
swat-the-Ay pamphlets, and no wab-
bly, jointed, fiatfooted. fan-eared, bug
eyed three-foot humpback can thus
pull the wool over the eyes of our dis
corning feminine element to the en-
hancement of his own chances.
There's little sympathy with such de-
ceit among those designing creatures
who are camping on the trails OF the
Adonises like editors of the Bddeford
Journal. the Portland Press and the
Express &. Advertiser
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Heaven Forbid

The Democrats in congress would ac-
complish Just about as much If they
would turn their attention from tariff
revision to a revision of the Mosaic
Tables of Law.-Biddeford Journal.
Perhaps so, as long as a vetoing Re-
publican president and a standpat sen
ate stand in their way. But these OBJ
staeles are going TO be removed.-P
land Argus.
AS about all the legislation attempt
ed by the Democrats has been con-
ceiyed and pressed with the view of
putting the president, or the senate. or
both, in hole, we are almost willing
10 have those obstacles removed just
for the sake of seeing what the Dem
ocrats viii do when they are placed
in situation where they cannot shrlS
responsibility Biddeford Journal.
For your own sake. the peoples sake
and Heavens sake, DON'T Man alive,
can't you remember when they had il,
responsibility and all--hook, line, bob
and sinkef2 Don't you know what
they would do? Don't they always
perform SEINE fool stunt to twist this
country up Ia reoftV' tile minute tiieN
get the chance You remember, don't
you, how they reduced the high cost
OF living In cieyeland's day. until Their,
wasn't any living left for hundreds o.
thousands of hungry. ill-clad. worklesi
workers? If you don't remember i
turn back TO the files of any newspa
per of those days-preferably Sons
radical Democratic sheet or indepen
dent purveyor Of news. They told tn
truth about conditions in those days
while Republican papers We're conten
70 let bad enough alone and occasion
ally say. I'VE told you SO.
II you are almost willing to Sc
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Dartmouth's Good Health.


A subject of deep interest to us and,
we believe, OF great Importance to
boards of education everywhere, APP
pears in the Dartmouth Alumni mag
azine The article was prepared by
DIR. Howard Nelson Kingsford, medical
director of Dartmouth college, and
demonstrates that IAN ounce of pre-
gention is worth a pound of cure
Dartmouth has gone about solving
good health in a horse sense way. II
is effective. The men are seldom i'll.
AS a result, the illness and loss of
time from minor contagious ailments
has been reduced to a minimum. Es-
pecially is this true of bronchitis and
minor ailments of the throat and
lungs, such as colds, as is shown by
the following groups of statistics: In
the year 10000, with $50 men in the
college, there were on record 65 cases
of head colds and Sc of influenza. This
number was probably incomplete,
owing to the imperfect system of re-
cording sickness within the college. In
1906-07, when the present system of
sanitation was first put into force, the
number of men in college was about
1000, but there were on record only Il
cases of head colds, and 80 of infiu-
enza in the membership of the college
to 1880, the records show only is head
colds and IA cases of influenza, an
enormous decrease.
This result was accomplished by
taking cultures of the air in the reci-
tation and other halls. and determin-
ing the number of bacteria and other
organisms frequently found in cases
of colds in the atmosphere. 1t was
found that the air in the building at
times was surcharged with great
quantities of these organisms. and il
lures and to disinfect the rooms when
the number of organisms found grow
ing on the culture plates was above
thirty-fiVe, no account being taken of
the varieties. When the system was
first adopted, some of the rooms re-
qllired disinfecting every week, while
at present il is seldom necessary to
disinfect more often than once in six
weeks. Another procedure which has
been found practical when an especial
patient is very susceptible to colds has
| been to place formaline in his room
| would inhale more or less of it at all
| times. 1t has been found that the or
| ganisms causing the colds are killed
| by this practice, and the cases cured.
| The department of the college sani-
| tation in which the greatest advance
has been made, however, is in the
| registering of all cases of illness
| within the student body of the office
| of the medical director, and the inn
mediate assignment of medical atten-
dance. In the past 1t has been diff
cult to keep in touch with all the cases
of illness among students, as in many
| cases a physician would not be called
for some time after the development
of the disease, whatever its nature. In
/ this way, contagion spread before the
authorities had airy idea of its exist.
enee. At present all caess of illness
J in college buildings are reported will
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To Our Friends, the Candidates.

To Our Friends, the Candidates.
a primary election campaign is
Iong-draHn-out contest between mem
hers of me same political party to Sc
cure the nomination as candidates OF
that party. The canvass of every can
diaate before the primaries should be
prosecuted by himself and his friends.
One OF the main virtues of the direct
urinary law is its opening of COM
mon highway over which all candi-
dates must pass before receiving party
endorsement. Friends start side by side
for a common goal The best man wins.
and then. ane their only he entitled
te demand the support of his whole
party aud of the party press.
Fundamental tfhataxiomatic as these
truths may seem, they are sometimes
lost sight of by candidates They are
naturally eager to secure newspaper
support The endorsement of a rival
candidate rankles like a knife thrust.
Failure TO endorse their own candidacy
looms large on their horizon as a per-
sonal affront Their vision is obseured
by the mist of fancied grievances. Like
a child in The dark, they see things
where none exist.
Sucn, we have no doubt, has been
the experience of the newspapers of
election campaign. Such, at least. has
been the experience of the Kennebee
Journal in few instances.
Our Republican candidates before
the primaries, this year, are a SPLEEN
did aggregation of men. If occasionally
one OF them faneies he is treated un-
fairly because We do not espouse his
cause, We make due allowance for hui
man nature, and feel no resentment.
To the strain of an earnest campaign
must be attributed all such little ex-
hlbitions of nerves. and we prompt
~ forget 1t and try to remember the
candidate only in his more agreeable
role of gentleman and sportsman.
But it seems fitting at this time to
meet and lay any ghosts of unfair
ness which may have been conjured
up from the shades of wrought
imaginations. by plainly stating the
attitude of the Kennebec Journal to-
ward the candidates of its party.
In the United states Senatorial con-
test the Kennebec Journal has a can
didate- Governor Burleigh. AS to 9TH
er candidates in that contest. as TO
the candidates for gubernatorfal NOM
ination. and in the various other con-
tests, it has been careful not to in
dictate any preference, because all are
its friends. Every line that might
create bitterness or prejudice has been
carefully edited from its columns on
the other hand, 1t has never excluded
OF ordered the exclusion of anything
coming to it as news pertaining to any
mans candidacy. whether by way of
Associated Press, or from special cor
respondents. 1t has conducted clean
campaign. 1t has nothing to apologize
for, and nothing to regret.
The Kennebec Journal is a Repub-
iican newspaper every day in the
year, and when the primaries shah
have shown the choice of the Repub-
licans of Maine, the candidates there
nominated viii be supported by this
paper To the limit of its ability.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-12

over the crop of 1906, when the ship
ments TO June l, were 1925, 30S BUSH
els; and the 1905 shipments have stood
as record ever since until this year.
The above figures do not give any
credit for the amount gone forward
over the Canadian Pacific road. and
these shipments would probably bring
the total from the 1911 crop up To near
~ or quite iG,o00 o0e bushels. But no
crop. or the crop of any two years
combined. has brought the returns 10
the county in actual money as the
1912 yield, the price has averaged high
ever since the digging season began,
and there has been no rot The stock
has Kept firm and solid, there being
but very little shrinkage-
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Let's Watch the Carnival.

Mayor Mullen stopped the sale Of
booze for a time last year. But. he
won't Interfere with the business at
the carnival of the week of June 18th.
a BIGGER. Rrassier Boozier Bangor
Damariscotta Herald.
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Wednesday, June ~, 1912.

The rose saith in the dewy morn.
I am most fair.
Yet all my loveliness is born
Upon a thorn. =, ,,.-..t,
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Many summer cottages show sign;
of occupancy.--Bath Times.
Also For Sale or ITO Rent"

Paint your trowel handle a bright red
and YOU won't lose II in the garden as
often as you do.-Boston Globe.
We have reached a stage In our eff
forts at amateur gardening when we
would just as soon lose the trowel, the
spade and the whole pesky outfit
Portland Express.
Now II we ever reach that nnfortn-
nate state Of mind well take our
troweI and our spade. add "a mustard
can with perforated cover, and STRIFE
for the most promising corner Of that
garden.
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AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

ROSE OF SHARON CHAPTER, NO.
l3, o. E. s. Stated meetings the first
Wednesday evening of each month al
7.a0 All members sojourning In the city
are invited to attend.
ELIZABETH T. MERRILL, w. Nj
ELIZABETH A. THOMPSON, Sec
m -w-f r.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-12
ESTABLISHED 1926

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