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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-09-11
MISSOURI
Experts Consider War Prob.
lens Till CurfeW Rings

Macon (Mo.l Cor. New York Sum-
"The other night | heard just how
the European war ought to fought
out" said Herb White who sells gro
ceries on the road for a st. Louis
house. ut was in Macon county
town, where ! had some customers.
After supper at the hotel | went
around to the local shoemaker to have
an emergency job done on a pair of
soles. / found in session there the
Board of Strategy with a map of Eu-
rope spread out on a bench, kero-
sene lamp with blackened chimney
on an empty box nearby.
Uncle Henry, who wore white chin
whiskers, but no mustache, was trac-
ing the Kaiser's route to Paris. Judge
Bill, who was Justice of the township,
was arguing the way Uncle Henry
picked out was right by the French
forts, where the Germans would get
smashed. Then Colonel Thompson
butted in by showing how Austria
would sneak around and get the
French forts by the back door.
Then Doc Jones reached over and
made wiggly mark like the leading
citizen makes coming home the night
Of the rally and said:
"That's the road France must take
If she wants to capture Berlin-it's
the only way, SIR"
"He said he would lick anybody
who differed with him. #
after each had marked out the
way for everybody to win they fell to
talking about artillery and all kinds
of weapons.
Dock said the French had a big
gun that would shoot 100 shells a min
ute. Colonel Thompson said that Ger
many had a cannon that shot so fast
II was just like pouring water down
the pump so as to make it go-you
couldn't begin to count the number of
shells it would shoot; all you had to
do was turn a crank same as you
turned a grindstone.
Uncle Henry said he'd heard about
those guns, but they couldn't be COM
pared to new gun England had
rugged up. 1t was a triple gun, one
laid on two, like pyramid. They
first fired 1t by turning a crank, like
the one Colonel Thompson talked
about, but that was too slow, and so
they hitched on an electric motor,
and then it would throw three streams
Of shells just like fire hose. The on
ly trouble about that gun was they
had to pack it in ice to keep it from
getting 'overhet' and scorching the
gunners.
Then they talked about the move
ment of infantry and calvary, how to
maintain bases of supplies and to
guard against raids in the night.
"As the discussion warmed up they
would pound on the bench with their
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-09-11
HOLDS ANNUAL MEET
ING IN BOSTON

Boston, Mass, Sept. 9-The annual
meeting of the New England Water
Works Association began in this city
today and will continue through the
remainder of the week, Governor
Walsh and Mayor Curley delivered adj
dresses of welcome at the opening
session. Beginning tomorrow the
convention will engage in the discus
sion of numerous subjects of interest
to persons who are responsible for
the daily maintenance and operation
of water works.
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ant to be conducted incidentally while
husking. When selecting seed corn
give the process your entire attention.
Get the very best that is to be had and
preserve it well, and your increased
yields will return you more profit than
any other work you can do on your
farm.
The only proper way to select seed
corn is from the stalks standing where
they grew, as soon as ripe and before
the first hard freeze.
AS soon as the crop ripens, go
through the field with seed-picking
bags and husk the ears from the stalks
that have produced the most corn with
out having any special advantages,
such as space, moisture, or fertility.
Avoid the large ears on stalks stand
ing singly with an unusual amount of
space around them. Preference should
be given the plants that have produced
most heavily in competition with a full
stand of less productive plants.
In all localities the inherent tenden-
cy of the plant to produce heavily OF
sound, dry, shelled corn is of most i'm
portance.
Late-maturing plants with ears
which are heavy because of an exces-
sive amount of sap should be ignored.
| Sappiness greatly increases the weight
| and is likely to destroy the quality. In
4, many sections this fact is not suffi.
ciently appreciated.
In the Central and Southern States,
all other things being equal, short,
thick stalks are preferable. Short
stalks are not SO easily blown down
and permit thicker planting Thick
stalks are not SO easily broken down
and in general are more productive
than slender ones.
The tendency for corn to produce
suckers is hereditary. Other things
being equal, seed should be taken from
stalks that have no suckers.
The same day seed corn is gathered
the husked ears should be put in dry
place where there is free circulation OF
air, and placed in such a manner that
the ears do not touch each other Good
seed Is often ruined because it is
thought dry enough when gathered and
the precaution mentioned is consid-
cred unnecessary. Many farmers be-
lieve that their autumns are so dry
that such care is superfuous. Seed
| corn in every locality gathered at rip
ening time will be benefited by drying
as suggested. If left In the husk long
after ripening it may sprout or mildew
during warm, wet weather or become
infested with weevils.
The vitality of seed Is often reduced
by leaving It in sack or in pile for
even day after gathering. During
warm weather, with some moisture in
the cobs and kernels, the ears heat or
mildew in remarkably short time.
The department of agriculture has a
bulletin that gives in detail the best
manner of treatment for corn after il
Is gathered. The bulletin also des
cribes how seed corn should be stored
during the winter and tests of the
termination of seed corn. The bulle
tin may be had free by those who re
quest Farmers Bulletin No. 415, on
Seed Corn" from the Department Di
vision of Publications, Washington
d. G,
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-09-11
STREAM u RIMER

STREAM u RIMER
REAL ESTATE AND LOANS
Farms and city property bought, SOLD
and exchanged. Properties rented ana
rents collected. Fire insurance q spe
cialty. Representing IA old reliable
stock companies. Accident insurance.
live stock insurance. Plate glass in.
surance, automobile insurance, IN fact
we can insure any property you may
have. Surety bonds Of all kinds. Can
and see us. Room 1 sipe bldg, Sonth
MaiR 1t. Cit. phone No. 447 Black:
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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-09-11
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
L. B. HOUCK

ATTORNEY AT LAW
once Rogers' building, No. III South
NAL :. Get. Mt. Vernon, Ohio Rooms
and 3, second aoor.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-09-11
War of the rhrss ps,tioe.,,.

A sighting reference by Frederick
the Great TO Nine. POmpadour. who
was the ruling power In France foe u
score OF years In the days Of Louis
XIV. was one OF the chief causes OF the
Seven Years war. called by witty
Frenchman the war of the three petu
coats from the fact that Niue. Pom
padour OF france. Maria Theresa OF
Austria and Catherine IL. OF Russia
we're ON the same side In Il.
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AUTUMN THE BEST Time
TO SELECT SEED CORN

Washington, d. c., Sept 9-Autumn
is the time to prepare for profitable
corn crop the following season. At
this time the seed is most abundant
and the very best can be obtained be-
fore 1t has been in any way reduced
in vitality. Many let the opportunity
pass, expecting to purchase their seed
corn in the spring, but the Department
corn Investigations advises that the
autumn is the best time to select good
seed.
The best place for the farmer to OBJ
tain seed corn is from fields on his
own farm, or in his neighborhood, that
weer planted with variety which has
generally proved most successful in
that locality. OF course, If a communi-
ty has an experienced and honest corn
breeder on whom it may rely, the seed
corn may be obtained from him.
The corn breeder who has demon
strated year after year the superiority
| of his corn will demand a special price
for his superior seed. Such corn breed
ers are improving corn ascattle breed
ers have improved cattle. He has used
special methods that farmers general
w have not time to apply. Five dollars
a bushel is not too much to pay and
will be a profitable bargain for both
parties.
What Constitutes Good Seed corn2
BY far too many consider seed good
simply because it will grow. To be
first class, seed must be:
We'll adapted to the seasonal and
and soil conditions where it is to be
planted.
2-Grown on productive plants of
a productive variety.
Swell matured, and preserved
from ripening time till planting time
In manner that will retain It's full
vigor
The importance of the three require
ments just enumerated has been dem
onstrated experimentally by the De-
partment's Office of Corn Investlga-
ti0ns. The results given briefly, as
enumerated, are as follows:
1. For series of five years, IL
well-bred varieties were tested in 10
Northern States, equivalent lots of
seed being used in each state. Varle-
ties that produced most in some States
we're among the poorest in others.
2. Seed ears taken from the highest
yielding rows of ear-to-row breeding
plats have repeatedly produced better
than seed ears taken from poorer
yielding rows. Seed ears from the best
producing stalks found In a general
field produced more than seed ears
taken without considering the produc-
tiveness OF the parent stalks.
,. Four bushels of ears were divid-
ed into two equal parts, one part be-
| ing well taken care OF and the other
| placed in a barn as corn is ordinarily
cribbed. The well-preserved seed gave
yield on poor soil 12 per cent higher
than the poorly preserved and 27 per
cent higher on fertile soil, notwlth.
standing the fact that both lots of seed
| germinated equally we'll.
| Seed Corn Gathering Should
| Be Special Task
| At corn-ripening time drop all othe:
business and select an abundance OF
seed corn. The process is too import.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-09-11
PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.
Marasmus.


, Marasmus Is wasting disease
that occurs in babies, generally
In their first year. Without any
discOverable cause a child with
marasmus not only fails to gnin.
! but begins to lose weight slowly.
but steadily. At the same time
the bones continue TO grow, aud
the teeth come at the usual time.
) The poor child takes on a dis
tressing appearance; il becomes
) almost living skelton. although
. sometimes the abdomen is dis
, tended.
The child Is always hungry be
; cause II is starving, II cannot
asslmilate any food and Is as
; hungry II few minutes after eat
ing as II was before. Il cries
, most of the time, with fretful.
) whining cry Sometimes very
small bnby will sleep necessarily
! instead Of crying. Each case OF
marasmus must be carefully
) studied, for treatment that cures
one child quickly often has no
) effect on another Parents should
seek the best OF medical advice.
. Apart from its feeding. the
: marasmic child needs the great
> est care Owing to its extreme
: emaciation. bedsores often form;
. consequently the baby's posi-
: tlon should he changed frequent
. ly. and ii should be kept per
: fectly clean The child must be
> Kept warm. but IL also needs n
great deal o: fresh air both day
2 aud night. and It is good plan
. TO keep Il In the open air all
. the time and let II sleep on a
: balcony II possible Be careful
: to avoid chilling the little body.
. however After the daily bath
. Il Is helpful 10 rub warmed olive
. oil gently into the skin all over
the body
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-09-11

G. X. CONARD, nj. D.
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND
SURGEON
Office and residence, IS East Vine 81,
Citizens phone 81 ONCE hours: q
Co 4 ana Z TO 3 p. m.
Bell 253 r.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-09-11

THE FIRE INSURANCE MAN
WILL j. "Doc" WELSH
n you own anything, have
II Insured.
Citizens Phone 231 Red.
East Gambler street, Mt. Vernon, O.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-09-11
Faint Praise.

as the hoy trust worthyY"
II consider him so. ia trust him as
far as could see him or course I'm
mighty nesrsishted - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-21
bill FACTORY" is BIG
HELP TO LEGISLATORS
Drafting Department of Reference -
brary at Madison Saves Good
Laws From "Jokers"

Legal, technical assistance in draft
ing laws is furnished to any member
of the legislature by the drafting de-
partment Of the Legislative reference
library.
Many of the hard-heaJed. practical
men in the legislature have not the
legal, technical knowledge necessary
to properly draft a law so tina. 1t
cannot be misc0nstrued and become
the subject of expensive litigation or
possibly fail altogether to carry out
the principle the author had In mind.
In the old days, members employed
lawyers to draft the bills for them, or
permitted an old friend Tor more often
a new friendD to draw them. In the
first instance the member paid the
lawyer from his own pocket. In the
second instance the member fire.
quently was imposed upon, and, In
accepting the assistance of his new"
friend" he introduced a bill with q
"joker' in it. If the member drafted
his own bill, usually it had to be work.
ed over by committee to get 1t into
proper legal form, and often in the
end it did not express the purpose
of the author
To meet this evil, the legislature
created the bill drafting department OF
the Legislative reference library.
Three lawyers are employed during
the session of the legislature to do
this work for any or all the members
of both senate and assembly. Chief
Justice Winslow, Of Wisconsin Su.
preme Court, says Of this department:
81 can confidently say that it has been
of very material assistance to the leg.
islative branch of the government In
the careful drafting Of bills and in
placing within reach of the legisla-
tors the results Of legislation In other
countries, as we'll as the literature
bearing thereon. The effect of this
work is, of course, naturally helpful
to the court, because 1t tends to pro-
duce laws more scientifically drawn.
and to prevent crudities In laws"
The following resolution was adopt
ed at the American Bar Association
meeting, September. 1918:
Resolved, that In the opinion of
the Association, an official legislative
drafting and reference service, when
properly organized and directed.
forms an efficient agency tending to
prevent the enactment of unconsti-
tutional, obscure and otherwise de-
fective statutes and to secure the ut
most brevity and simplicity consist
ent with accuracy in the language OF
statutes, and we hereby recommend
the establishment and generous sup
port of such service at Washington
and in those states not now having
such service"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-21
DRUGS EXCITE YOUR
KIDNEYS, USE SALTS
If your Back il aching or Bladder
bothers, drink lots Of water
and eat less meat,

When your kidneys hurt and your back
feels sore, don't get scared and proceed
to load your stomach with lot of drugs
that excite the kidneys and irritate the
entire urinary tract. Keep your kidneys
clean like you keep your bowels clean,
by flushing them with mild, harmless
salts which removes the body's urinous
waste and stimulates them to their nor
NAL activity. The function of the kid
neys is to filter the blood. In "a hours
they strain from it 500 grains of acid
and waste, SO we can readily understand
the vital Importance of keeping the kid
neys active.
Drink lots of water-you can't drink
too much; also get from any pharmacist
about four ounces of Jad Salts; take
a tablespoonful in d glass of water
before breakfast each morning for few
days and your kidneys will act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined
with lithia, and has been used for genera
tions to clean and stimulate clogged kid
neys; also to neutralize the acids in
urine so it no longer is source of irri-
tation, thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
jure; makes a delightful effervescent
lithia-water drink which everyone should
take now and then to keep their kid
neys clean and active. Try this, also
keep up the water drinking, and no
doubt you will wonder what became Of
your kidney trouble and backache.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-21
WISCONSIN LIVE STOCK NOTES

Practically one-third of Wisconsin's
million and one-half cows lose mon
ey to their owners. One other third
just pay for the food they eat, and
the remaining third must make up
for the deficiency and produce all
the profit from that immense Badger
industry-dairy farming.
The Wisconsin Live Stock Breed
ers' Association has the idea that it
can help dairymen to learn that milk
records and the Babcock test are the
only factors which insure against
loss from robber COWS. That farmers
may know how many dairy COWS"
are working for them and how many
"just COWS" they are supporting, the
association has recently published a
Monthly Milk Record Sheet 1t is
simple in form, easily understood
and is suitable for use right in the
barn AS long as they last, a suffi-
cient supply will be furnished to far
mers to convince them of the ad
vantages of cow testing Apply to
the secretary's office, Madison-they
are free of charge.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-21
LEGAL NOTICES

State of Wisconsin, Rusk County, in
Circuit Court:
j. w. Adelman, as executor of the
last will and testament of Ben
Adelman, Deceased, Plaintiff, VS.
Catherine NJ Williams, R. F. Will
Jams, Myrtle M. Peterson and O.
e. Peterson, Defendants.
THE STATE OF.~WISCONSIN to the
said Defendants:
You are hereby summoned to ap-
pear within twenty days after SER
vice of this summons, exclusive OF
the day of service, and defend the
above entitled action in the court
aforesaid; and in case of your fail
ure so to do judgment will be rem
dered against you according to the
demand of the complaint; of which
a copy is herewith served upon you.
McGILL & WILLIAMS,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Postoffice Address, Ladysmith, Rusk
County, Wisconsin.
(First publication July "a, 1914 1929
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-21

number of persons, not less than Ave,
the purpose of conducting any agri-
cultural, dairy, mining, manufacturing
or other mercantile business on the
cooperative plan. No stakeholder
is permitted to hold shares ag.
gregating a greater par value than
$1,000 and no stakeholder is entitled
to more than one vote. Stockholders
are permitted to vote by mail. The
directors shall apportion the earnings
by first paying dividends on the paid
up stock not exceeding six per cent
and then there must be set aside not
less than ten per cent of the net prof.
its for reserve fund until the reserve
fund equals 80 per cent of paid up
capital stock Five per cent of the
net profits shall be set aside for an
educational fund to be used in teach.
ing cooperation.
The Milk in the Cocoanut.
The remainder of the net profits
shall be apportioned by uniform divi
dend upon the raw material delivered
If the association is a producing or
ganization, or upon the purchases Of
shareholders, If the association Is a
selling organization, and, in either
case, the uniform dividend shall be
paid also upon the wages and salaries
of employees. One-half of the uniform
dividend shall be paid upon the de-
liveries of raw material or purchases
by the non shareholders which pay.
ment may be credited to the account
of such Observation-Disclosures on account
of capital stock or the association.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-21
STATE PRINTING IS NOW
UNDER INVESTIGATION
Board Of Public Affairs Sees Oppor
tunity to Effect Great Saving
on This Kind Of Work.

Following a suggestion by the
Board of Public Affairs, the state
printing has been reclassifled, and the
contract for each classification now
is let to the lowest bidder. When the
printing contracts were made recent
ly, the bids we're such that by letting
each classification separately, the
state will save several thousands Of
dollars.
In addition to this. the Board OF
Public Affairs is making a thorough
study of the character, quantity and
quality of printed matter prepared by
the state, and it is expected that when
this investigation Is completed. recon-
.mendations will be made which will
save the state from twenty-five to fifty
per cent Of the money 1t now spends
for printing.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-21

Two hundred cooperative compan-
les have been organized in Wisconsin
since July l, 1911, according to the
State Board of Public Affairs. These
have been organized for the most part
by farmers engaged in the production
of cheese and butter Experience
shows that they have enabled the far
mers to successfully eliminate the
middle man. The profits of these CO.
operative associations are divided at
the end Of the year on the basis Of
the amount Of milk delivered to the
cheese factory or creamery, and the
affairs of these concerns are directed
and controlled on the basis of lone
vote for each stakeholder and not
more than one for any stakeholder"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-21
lone Man, One Vote"

Zone man, one vote" is a new busi-
ness principle in Wisconsin. Until
1911, when the legislature passed the
cooperative law, every company, CO
partnership or corporation, was sub
ject to control by the principle of zone
share of stock, one vote" The man
Who had one share of stock had one
vote, and the man who had twenty
shares had twenty votes" Today, In
companies organized under the CO.
operative law, every man who has
stock, whether one share or twenty,
has one vote, and only one.
The eagerness with which farmers
who are engaged in some phase Of
dairying have taken advantage Of the
new law may be accounted for by the
fact that they look upon cooperation
AS a weapon which the state has fur
nished them with which they can sue
cessfully fight trusts and combina-
tons which heretofore have fixed
prices and controlled also the supply
and demand of butter and cheese.
One instance of a successful fight
through cooperative methods against
a powerful combination is found in the
now famous Sheboygan county cheese
case.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-21
State of Wisconsin, County Court TO
RuSk County:

Rusk County:
IN PROBATE
Notice is hereby given that at a
regular term of the County Court to
be held in and for said County at the
court house in the city of Ladysmith,
in said county on the first Tuesday
being the first day of September,
1914, at ten o'clock in the forenoon
of said day, the following matter will
be heard and considered:
The application of Frank Park as
administrator of the estate of Alex
ander Park, deceased, late of said
county, to mortgage portion of the
real estate belonging to said estate,
described as follows: The Southwest
quarter (SWA) of the Southwest
quarter (SWA) of Section numbered
Twenty-four (24), and Government lot
two (2), in Section numbered Tween
ty-five (25), all in Township num-
bered Thirty-five (35) North, in
Range numbered Six Co West, in
the County of Rusk and State of
Wisconsin.
Dated July Thirty-first, 1914.
By order of the Court,
ID. w. MALONEY,
County Judge.
Charles KirWan, Attorney for Ad-
ministratOr.
(First publication Aug. T, 1914. 1920
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-08-21

Silos must be filled promptly.
Why not make some money filling
the silos in your neighborhood this
fall Write for catalog, prices and
terms to Ladysmith Implement Co.
Gummed advertising labels, in col
crs, for fairs, celebrations ETC., at
the News-Budget office.