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Ty Cobb
living increases joted all to pieces
spirit groans behold that stately Mcigander whose
BY WALT MASON

price has SCARED away up yander. to 10000 bones!
Of course, we know that Cobb's dandy; we all
declare that he's the candy when in spiked shoes
and trunks; he shines among the nations batters,
he's first in everything that matters-but forty
thousand plunks! There's joy on all our shining
faces when Cobb cavorts around the bases on
eager, rapid heels; he fills our martial souls with
ardor as harder yet he sprints and harder-but
forty thousand wheels! No worthy gift has been
denied him, and other players seem beside him
as slow as motor trucks he is too numerous to
mention, he gives the game the needed tension
and bucks! That gold, when duly mined and
" duke or earl that's belted, perhaps throne
,onder that when we are shopping, and find the
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LOCAL MENTION.
AMUsEMENTs TONIGHT.

NAtional-Otis Skinner in "Kismet"
- pm.
Belasco-"what Happened to Mary"
Is pm.
CoIumbia-"Her Little Highness." Sis
at
kciths-High Glass Vaudeville, s:1b
m
rolrs-The Poll Players I'm Mother"
= pm.
Scademy-Eugenie Blair in Madame
Sis pm.
.;ayety-The Bowery Burlesquers.
- pm.
cosmos-vaudeville and pictures:
pntinuous show. T to 1o:4o pm
,'asino-vaudeville and pictures CON
ntous show, 1:I5 10 3; $50 to 1880.
G.. 4. Muddiman & Go.
oil Heaters. Gas Radiators, Ell stoves
i6 i.th Double Store. 1904 @.
oatmeal Cookies, Zoe DOz. The Most
.clightful tea cakes to he had. Crisp.
delicious. fresh HOLMES BAKERY, 1O1
81 Ph NJ. i537.
Expert stove Repairing.
EbcrIy's Sons. Inc. rs It'll st. Nv.
Phone Your Want Ad to The star.
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$500 TO Luray, Va, and Return,
Sunday, October 5, Baltimore and Ohio.
from Washington, u. c., at S:15 am, re-
turning same ay.-Advertisement.
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&. 4. Muddiman & Co.
oil Heaters. Gas Radiators, FL. stoves
IL I.th Double Store. 1904 G..
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,n,meaI Cookies. Ioc Dor. The Mos,

Expert stove Repairing.
EbcrIy's Sons, Inc. us It'll st. n ".
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Phone Your Want Ad to The star.
s.ain 2440.
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Copyright 1913, b. ". Wsrner.)
The Tupelo journal., 1913-10-17

We have customers desiring loans on Bank Stocks,
Bonds and Real Estate. These loans will net you
Z and 8 per cent. Correspondence Invited.
MING MORTGAGE and REALTY COMPANY
2O2 "a, jefferson Co. Saving Bank Bldg. Birmingham. Ala
The Tupelo journal., 1913-10-17
Traffie and the CITY Plan.

There vas a time when the city
planning movement touched the prob
lem Of transportation very gingerly.
About the railroad company hung an
awful air of touch me not" The
most that the timid city planners
could hope to do with the railroad
company was to persuade it to plant
a few shrubs about the depot and to
hire a one-legged switchman to keep
the grass cut But now, praise be, the
city planning movement is growing
to be what it's name implies. 1t is not
afraid to move a railroad around when
it needs to. Indeed, the very first
problem which it attacks, in a given
locality, is the problem of Transports
ton. How do travellers get into the
city? How do the workers get to their
work? How do the commuters ar.
rive and depart?
The Tupelo journal., 1913-10-17
HAS NO PLACE IN STREETS
Authorities Give Warning as to the
Noxlous Character of the Orna-
mental Plane Tree.

Residents of towns where the plane
tree has been planted in the streets in
large numbers will feel considerable
interest in some remarks made o
corning hat tree by an Australian pa
per, from which the following is an
extract: "If you are planting orna-
mental trees beware of the planes. In
the height of the summers heat many
people will be found coughing and
sneezing, and, incidentally. blasphem-
ing the weather and the season gen.
orally. What has been the of
the epidemic? The victims have in
hailed the emanations or elections Of
the insidious plane tree. An English
authority on forestry. DR.. Henry, takes
the popular view to be correct, and
another authority adds that as far
back as 1873 the newly installed Ger
man authorities in Alsace were warn
ed against the danger. Nurserymen
complain Of ailments brought on them
by contact with the mild looking Upas
tree. A London paper brings classic
lore to the theme of abuse. The an
cient Greeks. we are told. were proud
Of their plane tree, which Xerxes much
admired; but their great physicians
were well aware Of the noxious Ia
ture Of the plane."-London Globe.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-10-17
Hometown
THelp5T
DOES NOT MEAN .PRETTINEss
Term "City Beautiful" Has Been Much
Misunderstood-ReaI Ends to
Be Attained.

That term "the City Beautiful"
sounds like tying pink ribbons around
lamp posts. Even as applied to civic
art, as distinct from city planning, the
name is sufficiently misleading. 1t is
the Idea indicated by that unfortunate.
classifying phrase that Raymond I'm
win, In his admirable Town Planning
In Practice" lampoons.
Civic art is too often understood to
consist of filling our streets with
marble fountains, dotting our squares
with groups of statuary, twining our
lampposts with wriggling acanthus
leaves or dolphins' tails, and our
buildings with meaningless punches OF
fruit and flowers tied up with impos-
sible stone ribbons"
1t is not the prettifying of cities that
is the object of city planners. The
building of intraurban, ~intercity and
interstate transit facilities, the n
struction of sewers, of cutters, OF gar
bage disposal plants, the destruction
of i~nsanitary areas to be replaced by
decent housing, the development of
port facilities, the upbuilding of the
health of the city through the crea-
ton of Fairgrounds and parks-parks
primarily as health agents, not prettl-
fication measures-all of these and
others are the chief aims Of city plan
ming. There will, of course, he a nee
essary improvement in the appear
ance of the city as the natural result
Of skill in city building, and that inn
provement Is an entirely proper ob-
ject, but 1t ought no to be permitted
to paralyze the whole movement
through the creation Of an entirely In
correct understanding Of the ends to
be attained.
Other phrases have been suggested,
which are useful as antitoxins to that
"City Beautiful" phrase, but they gen.
orally accent some one phase Of city
planning at the expense Of the others.
The City Practical" The City Use
full" The City Scientific" are exam
pies. One Of the best is negative. 1t
was coined by Robert w. De Forest
and represents the movement as aim
ing to exterminate the "Unregulated
City Hideous."
But no phrase yet suggested epito1
mizes the wide range of city planning,
and least of all can it be said that the
"City Beautiful" is the central thought
of its opponents.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-10-17
TREAT POTATOES FOR scAB
Corrosive Sublimate Solution and Bor-
deaux Mixture Applied to Seed
Gave Excellent Results.

At a German experiment station,
experiments with potato scab have
been carried on for two years.
Corrosive sublimate solution OF
0.O5 per cent, and Bordeaux mixture
Of two per cent, both applied to the
seed potatoes for III hours, gave Ak
cellent and about equal results in the
prevention of scab, as was also the
case with Bordeaux mixture OF two
per cent. applied to two lots for
three and fourteen hours. respective
ly, and with two lots treated with four
ky. per acre 1856 pounds per acre) OF
sulphur mixed with the soil, one lot
having been also thoroughly rubbed
with sulphur before planting. Apeat
mold dressing of IS I'm. depth ap-
peared to give some protection
against the development Of scab.
while a sand dressing Of the same
depth afforded none. On both the
plats treated with soil dressing the
next years crops were found to be
healthy.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-10-17

through it. Really, the most practical
way of getting rid of a small patch of
Canada thistles is to go over it every
week and cut off all leaves below the
surface of the ground. If a ~conscien-
tious job of this is done for the sum-
the next year, although it is best to
keep an eye open for them and cut
them off regularly. A careful job
must be done, for If the leaves are
allowed to grow very long in the SUM-
shine enough energy will be stored up
in the roots to hold the pest over foJ
a considerable length of time.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-10-17
TO KILL TENT CATERPILLARS
Single Spray Of Arsenate Of Lead
When Insects Are Observed
Would Stop Depredations.

II" a grower is spraying his fruit
trees faithfully with arsenate Of lead
from tent caterpillars, or the tents
may be crushed with the gloved hand.
when they can be reached. at q time
when the caterpillars are inside: or
burned by a torch on the end Of q pole,
twisted out Of their place by meal Of
q wire brush. attached to the end of a
long pole. these remedies are effect
ual only when the caterpillars are in
their tents, early in the morning, or
in stormy wet weather. A single
spraying of arsenate of lead, when
caterpillars are observed, would prob
ably stop their depredations.
The forest tent caterpillars can be
destroyed when they collect in bunch
es on the trunks of trees. Prune OF
and destroy the twigs holding the
eggs.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-10-17
COD LIVER OIL AND IRON
Two Most World Famed Tonics
Combined in Vinol.

AS
Cod Liver oil and Iron have proved
to be the two most successful tonics
the world has ever known-iron for
the blood and the medicinal curative
elements Of cod liver Oil as a strength
and tissue builder for body and
nerves, and for the successful treat
ment Of throat and lung troubles.
Two eminent French chemists dis.
covered a method OF separating the
curative medicinal elements Of the
Gods livers from the oil or grease
which Is thrown away , but to these
medicinal elements tonic iron is now
added. thus combining In vinol the
two most world famed tonics.
AS a body-builder and strength Gre
ator for weak, rundown people, for
feeble old people. delicate children,
to restore strength after sickness;
and for chronic coughs, colds, bron-
chitis or pulmonary troubles we ask
You to try Vinol with the understand
Ing that your money will be returned
II 1t does not help you.
Pound K~incannon- Elkiu Co., Druggists
Tupelo, Miss,
The Tupelo journal., 1913-10-17
Bad Feature Of Pavements.

That Of the wood block pavement
with which many streets of Manhat-
tan are relaid exude creosote on hot
days and causes the tracking of much
oil into hotels and business places
in the uptown section, became known
through a number Of complaints re-
ceived by William H. Edwards, street
cleaning commissioner. urging that the
department desist from "oiling the
streets" The streets have never been
oiled. Edwards will take the matter
I'D with the commissioners of public
works. They hope to persuade the
contractors who laid the pavement to
sand the streets.-NeW York Post.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-10-17
KILL OUT CANADA THISTLES
Most Practical Way of Getting Rid
of Patch Is to Cut Off All Leaves
Below Surface.

In response to a query as to the
best way of getting rid Of a patch OF
Canada thistles the .Wallace's Farmer
makes the following reply:
Anything which keeps Canada this
tie leaves from getting to the sun.
light for two or three months during
the growing season will give them q
severe setback, and in some cases
kill them. Putting a heavy coating OF
straw on the patch has in some cases
proved successful, but In other cases
the straw has become ~disarranged
and the thistles have grown ur
The Tupelo journal., 1913-10-17
BREEDING Draft Horses.

The breeding of heavy draft horses
is one of the most profitable branches
of live stock farming. Few farmers
realize the Importance Of size in a
draft horse, when put on the market,
either in public or private sale. A
horse that weighs less than 1,500
pounds is not considered a draft
horse in any of the horse markets of
the country, yet the mares kept on
the ordinary farms are usually light
er than that. This accounts for the
small, scrubby lot of horses that are
constantly being put on the market
at a loss to the breeder.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-10-17
Care Of Swine.

Two things which should be avoid
ed with swine in cold weather are,
first, do not let them sleep in or upon
heating manure, because they become
warm and then rush into the cold air,
frequently contracting colds, coughs
or severe pulmonary diseases that
are sometimes fatal: second. bed
them well in dry quarters where
there is no draft OF air blowing across
them.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-10-17
INTERNATIONAL
NUNNYSQlOOL
LESSON
(By E. o. SELLERS. Director of Evening
Department, The Moody Bible Institute,
Chicago.)
LESSON FOR OCTOBER 10.
REPORT OF THE SPIES.

LESSON TEXT-Numbers 1918. 1888.
GOLDEN TExT-'If God Is for US,
who Is against u.s." Rom 8:31.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-05-01
RIPLEY

Annie Greeley of Willimantic has
been stopping with her sister, Mrs.
John Pewett, who has been very i'll.
Ben Peaks of Dover was recently in
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Fleek of Lynn,
Mass, were recent guests in town at
Orville McPheters.
Mrs. T. Harris has returned home
from Shirley, where she was called by
the illness of her daughter
Mrs. Edna Chadbourne of Bath who
has been in town a few days, will re-
turn home, Tuesday.
Allie Randall has been passing a
few days in Dexter, guest at his
grandfather's Daniel Crocketts.
c. j. Cooley has been on the sick list
but is improving.
Reginald Farrar has returned home
from Portland.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-05-01
NORTH NEW PORTLAND

Mrs. f. F. Pratt spent Wednesday
and Thursday in Topsham visiting
her mother, Mrs. Alfred Hunter.
Edward and Blanche Tague return
ed to Pennington Monday, after at
tending the graduating exercises here.
Mrs. ]. S. Berry. Jr.. is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Warren Dunton at
Kingfield.
Alton w. Tracy from st. Adams
who has been principal of the high
school here for the past two years is
now teaching in Highland.
Arthur Plummer spent Saturday
and Sunday at home.
DR.. r. A. Derbyshire and wife
spent Sunday with Mrs. Derbyshires
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. II. A.fPlum-
mer.
Mrs. Mary Fletcher has carpenters
at work on her house raising the roof
to make a double tenement house. j.
S. Moulton has charge of the work.
T. B. Tague has purchased a house
lot of ]. Chase and intends building
a tenement house.
Alton Wilbur of Kingfield was in
town Friday.
Miss Angie Berry has returned
from Gray's Business College and re-
sumed her work as bookkeeper for
the C. n. Bartlett Mfg. Co
C. II. Bartlett was in Lexington
Saturday on business.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-05-01
INTERESTING ITEMS
THOUGH TRUE
Current Events Condensed

New York's department of educa-
ton last year employed 396 lecturers
who delivered 5,537 lectures.
Philadelphia Presbyterians are
campaigning to increase Sunday
school attendance % per cent.
FIR Gabrielle Nahapetian of Venice
wants to rearrange the calendar so
that Easter will become a fixed date.
In the densest parts of Bombay
there are 740 persons to the acre. Now
York has one thousand in the same
area.
The worlds whaling industry in
1911 resulted in obtaining about six
hundred thousand barrels of OIL
which was almost double that of the
year before.
Mrs. Dora Quillon, age thirtysix
of Whitesburg, Ky, is the mother of
thirteen children. including three sets
of twins and one set of triplets, all
living.
Mrs. Peter Yantz, who lives in a
poor little log cabin near Redwood
Falls. Mimi. has just fallen heir to
$4,000. She says she will not leave
her cabin.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton will this year eXpend $35, 900, 900
on construction work. This does not
include expenditures for proposed
Duluth and Sandwich plants.
The chairman of the canary bird
group of an pathological society in
Germany rejoices in this title which
ornaments his visiting cards: "Kar-
narienvogelzuchtve renscorstand."
American competition in the British
automobile trade is keener now than
it ever was before. There are now
about twenty-five distinct American
makes on the British markets.
The highest wireless tower in the
world is located at Nauen, Germany.
1t is nearly a thousand feet high and
1t is expected that the company can
send messages as far as from Berlin
to Chicago
Railroad and industrial corpora
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Parents, Read this Letter!

81 have letter from prominent Maine
clergyman in regard to sickness of one of
his children from which quote az follows:
"Our two-year-old baby was very sick
at two different times and we came near
losing her. We had the best doctors,
but they did not know what the trouble
was. In the first sickness she had high fever
for several days, and the doctor said it acted
like scarlet fever, but az there were no other
cases he did not think it could be. After
wards she broke out in rash all over her
body. The last sickness was similar and
the doctor was puzzled. She was very
nervous and we feared we would lose her.
Your DR.. True's Elixir was recommended,
and after two days use she passed several
worms from two to three inches In length,
and Is now well and strong and sleeps at
nights withoutfretting, tossing and starting
in fright as she did formerly
l viii be glad to furnish this clergy
mans name and address to anyone who
cares to write to me.
N.B.-True's Elixir is the best known
remedy for all stomach and bowel troubles.
Purely vegetable, pleasant to take and
entirely harmless. Expels stomach worms
and pin worms. All dealers, 35c; Soc; 81 90.
Yours for better health,
6~. L4.
10 Drummond St. Auburn, Me.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-05-01
CORNv|LLE LOSES ITS
OLDEST CITIZEN
John II. Whittier of COrnyilIe Died
Last Week at the Age OF 80

John Harrison Whittier, Cornylle's
oldest citizen and second oldest citizen
in the county, died last week in his
Tooth year, of paralytic shock. He
was born in Brighton, January 90, 1914
but had lived in Cornyille on the
same farm since 1867. In 1S43 he
married Mary c Hall of Brighton and
they lived together for 66 years, she
dying about three years ago To
them were born six children, four of
whom are now living; George Whit
tier of Cornville; Albert Whittier,
Fred W. Whittier of Topeka, Kansas;
and Mrs. Abbie H. Russell of Madi-
son.
He was a great great grandfather.
a Republican. voting for Andrew
Jackson for president for the first
time.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-05-01
SOMERSET COUNTY MAN
TALLEST IN MAINE
Or SO 1t Is Said. John J. Nugent
Being Six Feet, Nine and 81 Inches

John J. Nugent of Caratunk is said
be the tallest man in Maine. He is
feet, "a inches in all. and he
comes of a family of brothers, all OF
ers, all of whom are more than 6 feet
tall The brothers are Christopher
of Oklahoma, 6 feet, ! IL inches
Thomas of Skowhegan, 6 feet. 4 in
ches; James of Pennsylvania, 6 feet
inches; Michael, of New Hampshire,
feet, inches; William of Caratunk
IT., ! 1-3 in; Andrew, a conductor
on the Quebec Central Railroad,
feet, , inches; and Myles. of Van
couyer, feet. inches. There are
three sisters living, all above the
average height. The father, James
Nugent, who died some years ago, was
6 feet, > inches, and the mother had
two brothers. one feet l. inches,
and the other : feet, ! inch.
Mr.. Nugent is "a years old. He
weighs 225 pounds and is strong and
muscular. He is employed as a lum-
herman by an Augusta company in
the woods of the Caratunk region.
Ordinarily. the work of hauling to the
landing is done by team, but Mr.. Nu-
gent does this work himself on a sled
built for the purpose. feet long and
. l2 feet wide. Cutting and finish
ing up railroad ties is MIR. Nugent's
chief occupation, and he hauls all the
ties to the landing on his little sled
and often takes II of these ties at a
load. 1t is a record that, working
from midnight until o'clock the fol-
lowing afternoon, he has cut, trimmed
and hauled to the landing. half mile
away, a total of 81 ties. The best
an ordinary man can do, working
diligently, is between 30 and 60 ties
per day.
Mr.. Nugent uses an axe weighing
seven pounds, while the ordinary axe
is about half that weight He says
that he finds it hard to get tired.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-05-01
WHY HE DOES IT
Druggist G. r. Fogg Gives Reasons
for Selling at Half-Price

1t isn't often that | have faith
enough in the medicines put up by
other people to be willing to offer
to refund the money if it does not
cure, said druggist G. r. Fogg to one
of his many customers. but l am glad
to sell DR.. Howard's specific for the
cure Of constipation and dyspepsia on
that plan.
The DR. Howard Co. in order to
get a quick Introductory sale author
lied me to sell the regular fifty cent
bottle OF their specific for half-price,
% cents and although | have sold a
lot of it, and guarantee every pack
age, not one has been brought back
as unsatisfactory"
am still selling the specific at half
price, although | cannot tell how long
| shall be able TO do SO. Any per
son who is subject to constipation.
sick headache, dizziness. liver trouble.
indigestion or a general played out
condition, ought to take advantage OF
this opportunity. If the specific does
not cure them, they can come back TO
my store and l will eheerfully refund
their money.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-05-01
SOMERSET

Three showers with thunder and
lightning to date, make one think
they have lost reckoning.
The ice has not yet left Gilman
pond. Because of this, the logs be-
longing to the Newcastle Lumber Co.,
fill Sandy Stream as far as the farm
of Clark Luce, and still number OF
thousand at the dam.
Clifford Luce has gone to Green
Vile to teach the same school he did
a year ago.
Several from this town attended
the graduation and dance at North
New Portland, April 18th, among
whom were Mrs Sophia Durrell and
little daughter. Alma, Miss Flora
Luce, Evie and Charles Luce. All
report a fine time.
Schools in town begin April 28th,
under the instruction of Miss Alice
Cahil at the Mill school and Miss
Effie Wyman at the Center.
Mrs. Mary W. Luce, who has been
very i'll for number of weeks is now
much better.
Benjamin Taylor is about the house
at present by means of wheel chair;
that he may gain in health and
strength, is the wish of his many
friends.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-05-01

lions In the United States are now
making arrangements for securing
funds with which to take up matur-
Ing obligations which, during the next
eight months, will total at least $500,
100000.
Ever since the Gordon riots In 1850
the Bank of England has had military
protection. The military watch is set
every night. At O'Clock it marches
with bayonets fixed from the head
quarters of whichever guards regi-
ment has the duty for the week.
One of the few funds. if not the only
one, left for charity by President
of the United States is used in Lam
caster, Pa. for the purchase Of coal
for the poor at Christmas and for
other good uses. The fund was left
by President Buchanan, who was a
resident of Lancaster, and the income
now amounts to about $1,000 a year