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The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
Will Draw Water From Winnlpe
pesaukee.

Concord, n. 1.-THE Legislature
has passed a bill permitting the In
corporation OF the New Hampshire
Water Supply company, with capt.
tai stock of $1,0O0,0O0. The company
proposes to draw water fr+$m Merry
meeting pond, in New Durham, and
supply the southeastern section Of
the state.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
Maine Leads at Good VIII.

A recent report from Good VIII
Farm shows that there are 1i9 boys at
the homes, 81 girls. Seyenty-one boys
are from Maine and II girls from
Georgia; 81 boys from New York; n
from Massachusetts; 10 from Michi.
gan; and others from New Jersey.
Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New
Hampshire, Tennessee and Delaware.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
New. Of Fathers Death Fatal.

Webster.-Overcome by the news
OF his fathers death. which
was brought 10 him before he
had arisen. James Lynch. pro-
prietor OF the City Hotel in this town.
died before a physician could be sum
moned. lie was 30 years old.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
Compensation Act Postponed In
Maine.

Augusta, Me.--The Senate in con
currence with the House has voted
TO indefinitely postpone the work.
mems compensation act without com
ment on It's passage to De enacted.
The Senate refused 70 concur with
the House in passing the act 10 com
pei steam railroads TO sell books con
tanning 500 miles at the same uniform
rate as 100O-mile books over the gov
ernor's veto.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
Fire In a Station.

Fire was discovered in the baggage
room Of the b. & ". station at Som
ersworth early Friday morning which
would have resulted seriously but for
prompt action The damage 20 the
building was slight but smoke dam
AGED the goods ia the store Of Roscoe
Edgeriy 20 q considerable extent.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
ssp.Is. Trustees Vote Aid to Churches

Rutland. Vt-At meeting Of the
board OF trustees OF the Vermont Bap-
tist State convention held in Rutland
last week, II was voted that the board
aid the churches at Corinth and West
Corinth 10 the extent OF 800, the
churches at Huntington and Hunting
ton Center. $3.50, churches at East
Orange and West Topsham, $50.
The trustees will meet again at the
Baptist anniversaries az Poultney
September % and "a
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
5p.Hour Law Operative.

Montpelier, Vt.--The so-Called 58-
hour law went into effect April and
limits the hours OF labor OF women
and children TO IL hours in any "a
hours and rs hours In any week. Chill
dren OF school age must have a certi-
ficate sworn TO by parents or guar.
dians.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
No Free Dentistry.

Manchester, n. H.-A proposition
in Manchester which has attracted
considerable attention to fit up
room in one of the school buildings
for free dental treatment OF all schol.
ars came before the city government
at the meeting Friday evening, and
was turned down.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
Boulevard 70 MiddIesex FeIl..

Boston.--A boulevard from Boston
TO the Mlddlesex Fells is a possibility
OF the immediate future II report
which came TO the Senate from the
committee on metropolitan affairs is
accepted. The committee has had un.
der consideration for some time a pc
tition for such a highway.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
Lost Horse and Hens.

West Lebanon.-A large barn In
Butmanville owned by Representative
Thomas Waterman, was burned last
week together with all its coSAents.
Tt was occupied by II. f. Messenger,
who lost two horses, 40 hens, five
tons of hay, wagons, sleighs and farm
ing tools. The barn was insured for
$1,000 and the contents for $500. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
Paner Makers Dance.

Bennington, Vt.-The employees OF
the Monadnock Paper mills held n
concert and ball Friday evening at the
town hall which was attended by $50
couples II was attended by people
from all the surrounding towns and
was an unqualified success.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
1nmhstone crushen BOY.

South Norwalk. Conn. Apr. 6.--Lloyd
Cave. a choir boy In 81. Paurs church
here. was mortally injured today when,
In playing Ia the. yard OF the ebprch.-
he overturned a tombstone II fell on
him, pinnlng him 10 the earth.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
VIII Rebuild Factory.

Bennington. Yt--At a special meet
ing of the directors OF the Stamford
Chemical company OF Stamford held
March IS II. Was voted to rebuild the
portion OF the plant which was des-
troyed by FIRE March 20.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-11
Gives Farm In Sons Memory.

Meriden, n. H.-Kimball Union
Academy trustees at Meriden, n. H..
announce the gift OF a 70-acre farm
by Alfred S. Hall OF Boston and Win
chester as a memorial TO his son, who
died last August.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30
ELECTRIC LIGHT FOR FARM.

It is estimated that there are at
least two million gasolene and oil
engines on the farms in this country
at the present day and this number
is being added to at the rate OF 5oo,-
600 annually. The average size of
these engines is about seven horse
power.
already installed engines Cor power
purposes would also like to have cleo
trio lights for the house and farm
buildings and other electrical conven-
fences but DO not know how to go
about 1t to secure the necessary appa-
ratus
The necessary auxiliary apparatus
consists Of small electric generator,
a storage battery and the necessary
wiring and lamps.
i An electric generator large enough
to operate thirty of the new type of
metal fflament Mazda lamps can be
4 bought very reasonably and the neces-
sary wiring can be done by the farm
er himself If he is handy with tools
or competent electrician will do the
work for nominal sum. The genera
tor is belted TO the gas-engine and
run until the storage battery is
charged; then it is stopped and not
started up again until necessary
!, Generally two or three short runs
curing the week will be ufficient
: ana even less where only a few
/ lamps are used at time.
vi course It will be necessary tc
! OBTAIN the correct speed ratio be
! ."een the engine and the generator
- put this is easily figured out. A few
~ h TAX with an electrician while
: ne operates the system will be SUN
e'en' 70 teach anyone all that i,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Folk are having lot to say about
the growing distaste OF the modern
woman for good, old-fashioned work
about the home.
They say that the mothers and the
grandmothers of earlier days were
content not only to bake their bread,
but to make the yeast for the baking.
They spun and they wove; they
washed and ironed; they cooked.
cleaned, fashioned new clothes and
mended old; and they made a lot OF
other things that the present genera
ton is willing to let others do and
make.
For these modern mothers, so they
say, 60 to delicatessen shop for as
much of their food as they can buy
that way, and, failing in that they
take the products of the canneries,
whether they are good or bad, cheap
or very dear. They will not sew, will
not mend, If they can help It; and
when their houses need to be cleaned
they must have lot OF helpers.
Even the farmers wives are falling
in line with the rest. In .ne good old
days they MIXED the cows, weeded
the garden. made candles, soap and
sausage. They churned, made rolls
of golden butter. looked after the
small stock and did every bit of their
homework.
But now
These luxurious wives OF farmers
are not content without fireless
cooker, vacuum cleaner and tele-
phone to send in their orders and to
put them in gossiping ouch with
neighbors, They must have their help
ers in the kitchen, just like city wo-
men: yet the milking, the churning
and the making of butter have passed
into other hands, and SO has much OF
their other labor. And in their place
have come the clubs, the lectures and
other pleasure-invasions.
And as to the wives of workingmen
well, they are accused OF rushing
to pictures shows. of visiting the shops
on the foolish quest for bargains, of
feeding their families on canned
goods, and of doing anything, every
thing. but their legitimate Homework.
And these aspiring, shiftless wo-
men, who would far rather shirk than
work, must have someone come in to
help them clean and to lift from their
shoulders all the household drudgery
And so 1t goes, up and down the
woman-scale-not one of them wants
to work like they did in the days 81
long ago. And of course Mr.. Average
Man, Mr.. Farmer. Mr.. Workingmar
and all must pay the price.
For 1t takes an extra penny or SC
to buy all the things that the old
fashioned woman used to make.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30
Low Rates for Electric Cooking Cur.
rent

Popular Mechanics for May: Al
though the average charge for electric
current used for illumination In the
different cities OF the United States
is about ten cents per kilowatt-hour.
the special rates for electricity used
for cooking and heating differ widely.
Boston. for instance, charges ten
cents per kilowatt-hour for the first
twenty kilowatt-hours, and three cents
for all over this. Redding. Cal,
charges three to one and one-han
cents per kilcwatt- hour, with mini
mum charge of 81 per month; Salt
Lake City charges sc cents per kilo-
watt-hour, with So minimum and a
10 per cent discount, and Seattle
charges three cents per kilowatt- hour.
with minimum of So, In Omaha a
discount of per cent on all electric
ity used is made to customers who
install equipment enabling them to
use electricity exclusively for cook
ing, and the cooking rate is placed at
six cents per kilowatt-hour.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

up-to-date merchant under constant
necessity of keeping his goods NOV
ing and of keeping his shelves clear
for the newest offerings of the cen
trail markets. This means that he
must keep In close touch with the
public and must, from time to time,
put on special sales at reduced prices
in order to get rid OF old stock and
make room for the new which he
knows, but which his customers gen.
orally do not know, is coming. To
reach the public. newspapers offer
the only direct means OF communities
ton on short-notice sales.
The progressive, wide-awake mer-
chant advertises because he knows 1t
pays to do So To those who deny
the value of publicity as applied to
merchandise. the answer IL this: De-
livery wagons are daily loaded with
advertised commodities. A meritori-
GUS article that is not known has no
sale. The fact proves 1t, and that is
why more than s60O,0O0.0O0 Is spent
annually in this country for advertis,
ing. The bigger the concern, the
greater its facilities for handling
goods the more extensively It is adyer.
tises.
The merchant who has nothing to
say to the pubic is soon forgotten by
the public. He is credited by the ex
perienced shopper with having moth
ing on hand but shopwern goods, pur
chased at receivers or shcriffs' sales
and offered to the public at prices
charged by the progressive merchant
who does advertise.
The merchant who does not adver
tise is only one step removed from
the street "fakir" who disposes of hi.
unknown wares to unknown custom
ers, counts his profits and makes hi
getaway.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30
ASK FOR A SQUARE DEAL.

The manufacturers of rolled oats
and oatmeal are protesting against
the adoption of tariff bill H. R. 10
which places duty Of ten cents per
bushel on oats (raw materially and re-
Quest that oats be placed on the free
list. In a memorial to the finance
committee of the United States sem
ate the American manufacturers set
forth their reasons for objecting to
the house tariff bill. Iowa is a larse
oat producing state and has several
large factories using oats, one of
which is in Keokuk The enforce
ment of the proposed tariff law would,
lit is stated by those engaged in the
mandatory of rolled oats. practically
force their retirement from the field.
The memorial to the senate finance
committee by the American manu-
facturers is as follows and is worthy of
careful consideration:
To the finance committee United
States senate. Gentlemen:
| We beg to call your attention to two
items in the tariff bill H. r. 10.
Schedule G. paragraph 1879 places
a duty Of ten cents per bushel on oats
traw materially.
Free list Paragraph SGT admits
free the manufactured products of
oats namely oatmeal, rolled oats and
loaf bulls.
We believe the proposed tariff as to
free oatmeal. rolled oats and oat hulls
with duty on oats is unfair
A duty OF ten cents bushel on oats
with oat meal, rolled oats and oat
hulls free would give the mills in Can
ada an advantage of at least s100 per
barrel, as it takes ten bushels Of oats
to make a barrel of 1870 pounds OF
rolled oats Or oat meal
| Canadian oats average cheaper than
oats in the United States, and In adj
lditiot the Canadian bushel is thirty
four pounds as against thirty-two
pounds in the United States. There
fore, a duty of ten cents a bushel or
oats will prevent the independent
American millers, who have no plants
in Canada, from competing on ar
equal basis.
The largest manufacturer OF rolled
Ioats and oat meal in the United States
or. in fact. In the world has two large
mills In Canada.
The Canadian Cereal Company, with
headquarters in Toronto, Canada, /.
an oat meal trust, being combination
Iof cat meal mills with plants locater
at Toronto, Tilsonburgh, London
Mitchell. woodstock, Fergus. Windsor
Lindsay and Embro.
Should the proposed tariff become
"a law this largest American manu-
ifacturer and the Canadian trust could
Immediately combine and congress
will have placed the oat meal business
of the United States in the hands o
q foreign combination over which
they have no control
We do not ask for protection, bu
I've do ask for equity. and earnestl!
land respectfully protest against dis
termination, and request that oats b.
placed on the free list
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30
ST. FRANcIsvILLE, MO.
B . = . . . - = . - .

The topic OF the day with the ladies
Is housekeeping. garden making ans
what pretty fancy work they are max
ing for the bazaar to be held May
18th at the hall. Everybody is invited
to come with the intention OF eating
For those ladies' are famous for their
good cooking and this will mean big
eating on this day and evening.
A very successful term OF schooi
closed Friday. The teachers, Prof. ST.
Clair, went home and Miss Elizabeth
Campbell went to attend school at
Kirksviile.
Mr.. Vim. Mckee of Winchester,
was visitor in town Friday and Sat
urday
Mr.. James Fox who has been under
the doctors care the past week, Is
able to be up.
J. L. Mckee was a Wayland caller
Friday.
Charles Martin OF Quincy was cali
ing In town Friday.
Miss Mable Murray was visitor in
the city Of Keokuk Sunday.
Marie, little daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Nichols, who has been very III
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30
he Good Old Z INES

And somehow it sets one a-thinking
of the new-fangled ways of doing
business.
There's the one little matter Of let
ter-writing.
Years and years ago, men used to
sit at their desks and laborious!y
read and write every letter that came
to their hands.
But now
They are not willing to read, let
alone to write. And they count it a
hardship to sign their names, SO
sometimes they have nice little rub
Der stamps to do the work that their
grandfathers were proud to perform.
They must have stenographers here,
typewriters there and helpers, help
ers everywhre. Everything is index
ed and filed and carded and systema-
tized, but the men themselvs just
swing in their easy chairs.
In the good old days they counted
1t nothing to run about on an errand;
but now they touch button by the
side OF their desk, and, 10, boy IS
there in a twinkling. And II they
want to send in an order, they do not
bother to turn to the telephone, as do
the foolish women with their grocers,
their butchers and bakers. Oh, no.
they take life much easier than that;
they just signify their wish, and let
someone else do the ordering. And
their grandfathers we're SO very help.
full and independent! They used their
hands as we'll as their heads and
were not ashamed to own It,
And the farmers OF other days-no
labor-saving machinery for them!
They dug and they plowed and they
sowed and reaped in the good, old
fashioned way: but the modern tiller
Of the soil is not content even to
carry his produce to the market; he
must send 1t by parcels post. He
does not raise the food that his live
stock eats-he buys 1t from the West;
and he does not rise at the break OF
day, because there Is so much work
before him; for his farm is stocked
and stocked again with implements to
make things light and easy. But his
grandfather rose at the first crow OF
the rooster, and his grandfather nev-
err complained; and he did, oh, sc
MANY things. that the modern farmer
disdains to do.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30
keokuk, Iowa .....Apral 80, 1918
PRAYER.

PRAYER.
God, give us rest from the storm and
the food.
We weary of pain,
The stress of our kindred, the she'd
ding of blood.
The wind and the rain.
God. give US peace, and the beauty OF
spring,
The bud and the leaf.
Sad are the songs We are given to
sing
Bowed down in our grief.
Is life, then, precarious rather than
sweet
That we despair?
God give us courage for what we may
meet,
Or whithersoe'er.
What OF the love we bear kindred
and kind,
Is it in vain?
God give us respite from wave and
from wind,
And the sunshine again.
st. Louis Post-0spatch.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Charles Henderson. who conducts
milk business in Rockland. Me-. boasts
that he missed but two trips from the
head of the bay since 1854. Great
storms prevented him from having a
perfect record.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

1t Is estimated that an investment
of ss6O.ooo.ooo would be required to
produce mechanically as much nitro
gen as comes yearly from the nitrate
deposits of Peru.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30
.se1s,ooo.Ooo

Total ............. ~. solo,oVV,VVo
Before the days when advertising
had gained SO notable foothold, the
sale OF goods by the manufacturer or
iobber was promoted by the CONNER.
cial traveller, who appealed not to the
consumer, but to the merchant. Todag
conditions are changed. The people
demand the best and cheapest in the
market. The merchant who depends
upon routine business to unload his
stock never can pass beyond the cor.i-
try store level OF progress or success.
The public, demanding the latest
weaves, the latest styles and the lat
est brands Of merchandise, places the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

necessary to know about operating
such an electric power plant. A light
ing system Of this kind will last for
years and will supply all the electri-
city necessary for lighting the home,
the yards and the barn buildings.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Life insurance now in force in the
United States and Canada aggregates
$4,000, 100000. Companies yearly pay
out on demand to the insured or their
heirs 100000, 900.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Japanese statistical authorities at
Tckio place the production of cam
phor in Japan, including Formosa. at
100000 pounds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Oil paintings can be cleaned with :
cut potato, followed by wiping with
water, a drying with cotton and !
final polishing with silk handker.
chief
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

For the fact is that the world has
grown bit older and goodly bit
wiser than it was In those good old
times.
And things that were taken for
granted as hard necessities then have
been brushed aside by the advent Of
better things.
Butt is not women alone who
have changed their methods of work.
FRANCESCA.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

For telling trees motor.driven cir.
cular saw which travels on a track aa
1t cuts its way around tree has
been invented.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Match marks can be removed from
paint by rubbing with a cut lemon.
then with whiting and then washing
with soap and water.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

MY little son had a very severe
cold. was recommended to try
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and be.
fore small bottle was finished he
was as well as ever" writes Mrs. H.
Silks, 20 Bowling street, Sydney
Australia. This remedy is for sale by
Wilkinson 6 Co. Pharmacy and ]. f.
Kiedaisch & Son.--Adv.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Mrs. J. Rockwell coombs of For.
est Hills, \. j., who led an expedition
from Paris to Naples, will lead a
caravan trip across the continent, %
start in May, in behalf of woman
suffrage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

The United States supplies IA per
cent Of the imports of foreign coun-
tries, or s2,375 100000 worth
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

A st. Louis hobo was pinched for at
tempting to soak his glass eye for the
price Of an eye-opener.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Guy Lowell, the architect of the new
county court house in New York, Will
receive 100000 as his fee.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Niagara Falls wants larger police
force to handle the summer rush.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Nearly 100000 pounds o, chic,a
was imported in 1912 to keep going
the jaws of American gum chewers
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Chicago aldermen are about to begin
their spring investigation Of telephone
rates.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

There are twenty towns and four
counties in the United States bearing
the name of Wilson.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

In the last two years es7 persons
were killed by automobiles in New
York state.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Cities on San Francisco hay have
arranged to pull off a Joint fiesta" In
October
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Under a new law New York Office
holders must live in the state or quit
the jobs.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Tacoma, Wash, employees are dis.
placing elevator boys In favor of girls.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Dallas, Texas, has filed several fat
purses for the entertainment of Mystic
Shriners May 11-1s.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30

Boston is talking of building S.,
100000 convention hall.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-30
THE NEEpFuL,

THE NEEDFuL.
Storm clouds blacken.
Seldom slacken
It'll the rain storm comes;
Wild-winds gushing,
People rushing.
For they're frightened some.
Lightning, thunder,
Makes men wonder,
Then the rain drops fall.
No use frettin.'
We are gettin'
What We need, that's all.
Albert e. Vassar, st. Louis