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The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1914-07-17
TOWN and COUNTRY
About Local People and Events and
Other Matters ofInterest
Cattle pastured Phone 30.

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The state circulating library
books are now in place at the Rest
Room.
Mills Coleman has had q fine
monument erected on his lot in the
Laclede cemetery
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Byrne announce
the arrival Of ten pound boy at
their home yesterday.
DIR. f. w Burke has traded his
Ford run about bought last year
4 for a new FIVE passenger Ford.
The Laclede ball team is billed
for a game at Browning on Friday
Of next week with the Browning
team
Mrs. Elizabeth Reid does hair
work of the highest quality
Switches made from your own hair.
All hand work.
"A. g. Groes seems to be some
fisherman. He landed a 40 pound
cat and two others only a few
pounds lighter from Locust creek
this week.
The fine rain Of, last Sunday
night put the corn in better shape
to withstand the chinch bugs and
very little damage is being report
ed from the pests.
The electric light company took
on four new patrons the past week.
The Nichols furniture store, J. Fl.
Nichols residence, G. @. Haight' =
residence and. the city hall building
An alderman from east ward is
to be elected at the special election
to be held next Tuesday. The
polling place will be at the city
clerk S Office in the Benson build
ing.
Regular meeting Of the Mems
Brotherhood at the Rest Room next
Monday night. The standing COM
mittees should have reports ready
and every member who can should
be present promptly at 5 o'clock.
All those who have contracted
for advertising space in the school
catalog are requested to get their
copy in at once as the book goes tol
press next week Don't delay
longer but attend to it now.
The electric danger signal at the
main street railroad crossing is
now complete and in working or
der. If attention is paid to the
signal as it should be there will be
no more accidents and narrow es-
capes at this crossing.
Tom Willard sent a remittance
this week to renew The BLADE for j
the Willard family. Tom is work h
ing in Sacramento while the family J
still lives at Winters. Cali He
SAYS the weather is cool and fine
A A
there and last Saturday he enjoyed /
a trip up into Che mountains. h
Mr.. and Mrs. b. c. Mccoy have S
received box of very fine c
Valinchia oranges from their '
daughter, Mrs. Lonnie Bruins of q
Anabeim, Cal. Mr.. and Mrs. c
Bruns many friends here are glad
to hear they and their little daugh- t
ter are well and enjoying the fine J
California weather. Y
After turning down the PROPOSE p
ton six times since April the n
people Of the Purdin schQQI dis o
triet voted on Monday Of last week
to issue bonds to- tbe amount Of e.
IS 600 to erect 8 new and modern b
-.booi building. An effort win Be n
made 10 have the building ready g
III -. .Tl.arrrf5nr IoI
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1914-07-17

Have a car Of No. 2 yellow corn
for sale at 76 cents per bushel at
the ear. If you have wheat to be
ground bring it IN now
L. B. JONES.
The Laclede blade. (Laclede, Mo.) 1890-1945, 1914-07-17
PARAGRAPHS
Brief Mention Of Those Who Come
and Go During the Week

Il ~
] NJ. Epperson, blacksmith at
Power garage, is spending this
week in st. Joseph.
Mrs, Minnie Vorce and two
daughters of Brookfeld visited La
clede friends last Saturday.
John Carothers, wife and baby
of Kansas City have been guests
of their relatives here this week.
VIM Willard and family came
down from Cincinnati, Iowa, last
Sunday for visit with relatives.
Rev. Mendenhall of Laclede is
one of the speakers at the old
settlers reunion at Linneus today.
Misses Kathryn Brown and
Roxana Rankin visited over last
Sunday with friends at Browning.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Smart Of De-
troit, Ill, are guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Virgil Hogsett on route one.
|. John G. Brown made a business
trip to Kansas City the first of the
week.
Rev. and Mrs. Mendenhall and
B. Manly Garnett spent Tuesday
afternoon with relatives in Brook
field.
Master Wilford Carroll Ziegler
of Bethel is here visiting..his grand
parents, Mr.: and Mrs. William
Kraft.
Marsh Adamson of New Boston
was the guest of his niece, Mrs.
Ed. Finney in Laclede over
Sunday.
Mrs. j. E.. Kephart and children
Of Novinger are here visiting her
mother, Mrs. John Murphy and
family.
Mrs.R. 7. Dye returned home
Wednesday from a months visit
with relatives at Anabel and
Clarence.
Mrs. L. B. Jones and daughter,
Mrs. Blanche Brendel and two
children visited Mrs. J. D. Will
liams at Brookfeld the past week.
Mrs. E. NJ. Sipple and little
daughter arrived Monday from
Columbia for a visit with relatives,
guest of her sister, Mrs. N. Byrne.
Miss Hazel Mathiasch of Des
Moines, Iowa, visited her grand
father, Joseph Mathiasch, and
other relatives here the past week.
DIR. and Mrs. Standby and sons,
Horace and Harold, and Mrs. j. R.
McEfee, spent Sunday with the
sister. Mrs. j. H. B. Smith
in Milan.
Mrs. A, j. Caywood was hostess
TO the Kensington club Thursday
of last week, Mrs. j. Fl.
Brown being a guest Of the after
noon.
w. Fl. Brown. wife and daueh.
5er, Aletha. and Robert Baker and
family, all of st. Catherine, spent
tuesday and Wednesday with Mr..
md Mrs. Ed. Finney.
Miss orpha Phillips returned
home Tuesday after spending q
Feek visiting her sister. Mrs. Ed.
and family and other rel
itives aud friends at New Cambria
md Elmer.
Mrs. zeppa Mae Ovens, grand
natron of the Eastern Star, Of
and Mrs. SalIie N.
grand lecturer, Of st.
louis. out over the state on busi
less connected with the order.
pent Sunday and Monday in La
lede. guests Of BIr. and Mrs. c.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-10
How Girls Become Arsenic Eaters.

Are you an arsenic eater?
If you have the habit of chewing
up little pieces of white CLOSED paper,
you are eating the drug.
The danger of paper eating has
just been disclosed by the public well
fare commission of Tacoma, Wash
This commission has power to inves-
tigate all things pertaining to the
public welfare, issue reports and or
der arrests where the law is being
violated.
Public Morals officer Mrs. Winifred
Covel was called on to arrest a 16-
year-old girl. Shortly after the ar
rest it was found that the girl had
eaten half of a popular magazine In
Vestigation by the commission result
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-10
broken of the habit through special

broken of the habit through special
treatment.
Members of the commission say
that paper eating is common among
stenographers and that many people
nibble the corners of magazines. A
warning Of the danger of this habit
has been issued.
-O-O-
sit did Jack no good to marry his
stenographer, for she continued the
habit of the office in their home"
How so?" when he starts to die
tate she takes him down."
France is to take a census of its
automobiles and motorcycles capable
of being used in war.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-02-10

ed in a confession by the girl that
she had been eating paper for two
years.
Her mother had noted a letter
from an actor who had seen the girl
eating paper and told her to quit as
it contained arsenic. When an effort
was made to make her quit, the girl
ran away. Since then she has been
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-19
Cheap and
Easily Made, But Ends
q Cough Quickly
Cough Remedy at Home.
Fully Guaranteed.

This pint OF cough syrup is easily
made at home and saves you about $500
as compared with ordinary cough reme-
dies. 1t relieves obstinate coughs--even
whooping cough--quickly, and is splen-
2 did, too, for bronchial asthma, spas
modic Group and hoarseness.
Mix one pint of granulated sugar with
"a pint of warm water, and stir for 2
minutes. Put 21a ounces of Pinex fifty
cents WORTHY in a pint bottle, and add
the Sugar Syrup. Take a teaspoonful
every one, two or three hours. Tastes
good.
This takes right hold OF cough and
gives almost instant relief. 1t stimu-
lates the appetite, and is slightly laxa.
tive-both excellent features.
Pinex, as perhaps you know, is q
most valuable concentrated compound of
Norway white pine extract, rich in
guaiacol and the other natural healing
pine elements.
No other preparation will do the. work
of Pinex in this mixture, although
strained honey can be. used instead of
the sugar syrup, If desired.
Thousands of housewives in the United
States and Canada now use this Pinex
and Sugar Syrup remedy. This plan has
often been initiated, but the old success
full combination has never been equaled.
its low cost and quick results have made
1t immensely popular.
A guaranty of absolute satisfaction,
or money promptly refunded, goes with
this preparation. Your druggist has
Pinex, or will get it for you. If not,
send to The Pinex Co.. Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-19
Home Mission Anniversary

A well filled auditorium was the
scene that presented itself at Grace
NJ. f. church, when at 1880 o'clock
the anniversary of the Board of Home
Missions and Church Extension was
begun. J. S. Souser presided, an
nouncing as the first item on the pro-
gram a responsive Scripture reading,
which was taken up by the audience,
after which r. ]. Allen led in prayer.
The congregation stood and sang
''The Battle Hymn Of the Republic"
cipal speaker of the evening, the Rev.
Ward Platt, d. D., secretary of the
Board Of Home Missions and Church
Extension, of the Methodist Episcopal
church, was introduced.
He took occasion to explain why
there were two missionary boards in
stead of one, saying that it was simply
because there was too much to do for
one board and do it effectively. Speak
ing OF Americas opportunity on ac-
count of the desire Of eastern nations
for our learning and spirit he pointed
out our duty to stamp out the Amer
lean saloon and kindred evils. We are
the die that is stamping the world.
He said the American churches must
tie up to this whole question of car
ing for our foreign population.
The Dickinson Seminary alumni
banquet will be held tomorrow even
ing at o'clock in the Ridge Avenue
M. E. church. A good menu and pro-
gram have been prepared, and an in
vitation is extended to the students OF
this institution who are residents OF
the city of Harrisburg and vicinity.
Danville District Report
DR.. STEMS report of the Danville
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-19

of the conference year. In that crisis
he has rendered invaluable service,
not only to the local church, but to
the conference. And may l add here
that that church has merited the ad-
miration of the whole conference for
the way in which it has managed
both its local and connectional inter-
ests in the crucial experience through
,,iIch it has been passing. No church
could have done better.
This has been year of incessant
toll on the part of the superintendent
and of heartiest cooperation on the
part of pastors and people. 1 have
worked the same plan as heretofore,
giving about six months to special
work on the circuits and weaker
charges, with now and then a week to
some Of the stronger charges which
seemed to need me. The plan has
worked well, and I am more and more
convinced of its value, especially to
the rural work, where lies one of our
greatest problems in this conference.
with profound gratitude to God
for health and strength to do all my
work, with largest appreciation of the
courtesy and cooperation Of the
preachers Of the district, and with
earnest prayers for the divine bless
ing upon the years toll submit my
third annual report.
"a. S. FASICK,"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-19
METHODISM GROWS
THROUGHOUT CITY
AND ITS DISTRIC

Isaac w. Wiley. born and reared within
the bounds of our conference, pre-
sided. Bishop Thomas Bowman, re-
Gently deceased at the age of 81, also
born and reared within our bounds,
was present.
"Grace Church then had 475 mem
bers; Ridge Avenue, 210; st. Paul's,
$50; Fifth Street, 102, and Mount
Pleasant, 65. making total of LOOP.
Four of our churches in the city now
have nearly that many each. One of
these, Mount Pleasant, now Stevens
Memorial, was in grave peril at that
time. A special committee made the
following report concerning 1t: That
the Mount Pleasant Church case be
referred back to the conference, as
the committee are unable to suggest
or recommend any plan for its relief.
The facts in this case are these: The
lot costing S4,500. is mortgaged for
that amount. the mortgage to run for
ten years; seven and half years of
that time yet remain. The debt on the
building, and which has so imperiled
it's safety. is about $4,000.
Look at the Churches.
Examine the magnificent Stevens
Memorial property; visit Fifth Street,
one of the finest church plants in the
conference; inspect reconstructed Ridge
Avenue; consider the work and posi-.
bilities of the churches organized since,
Curtin Heights and Epworth: look es-
pecially into the influential position
and far-reaching work of Grace
Church, and then answer the question
whether we do not have some reason
for gratitude and just pride. Harris
burg Methodism is not all that it ought
to be, but it has been moving forward,
as has the Methodism of the confer
ence. Thirty weight years ago the con-
ference reported $4,000 members. We
now have about $4,000. The Harris
burg district alone is now giving al
most as much for missions as the
whole conference gave then.
Several years ago, in an address
before our conference Dr. John Krantz,
quoting from Wordsworth, or some
other poet, said:
He who whispers down a we'll
The things he has to sell
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-19

distance circuits OF which much as 20 miles
was in underground cables. BY 1906 UNDER
ground talking distance had increased to Do
miles. BY 1912 1t was possible to talk UNDER
ground from New York to Washington.
1t then that the construction of UNDER
ground conduits from Boston to Washington
was determined upOn,-not that 1t was ex-
pected to get through underground talk be-
tween those places, but in case OF storm or
blizzard, to utilize intermediate sections i'm con-
nection with the overhead.
Our persistent study and incessant experi-
mentation have produced results more remark
able still.
We have perfected cables. apparatus and
methods that have overcome obstacles hereto
fore regarded as insuperable both to long-d
tance overhead and underground conversation.
Underground conversation is possible be-
tween Boston and Washington, four times the
length of the longest European underground
line This enabled the Bell System in the re-
cent great Storm destructive on land and
sea, to maintain communication for the public
between all the principal points on the Atlantic
seabOard.
Telephone communication is established be-
tween New York and Denver, is potentially
possible between all points in the United
States and by 1915 will be accomplished
fact between New York and San Francisco.
In our use OF methods apparatus, are
committed to system. We own, control
or have the right to use inventions necessary
to operate any system recognized or accepted
as the most efficient. The Bell System must
always recognize and in Its selection must al
ways be governed by the necessities of u
tional service, with its complex requirements,
which is infinitely more exacting than local
limited service.
These achievements represent vast expendi-
lures of money and immense concentration OF
effort which have been justified by results of
immeasurable benefit to the public. No local
company unaided could bear the financial or
scientific burden of this work. Such results
are possible only through centralized general
staff, avoiding wasteful duplication of effort.
working out problems common to all, for the
benefit of all.
The pioneers OF the Bell System recognized
that telephone service they it, was in
the brOadest sense public utility; that upon
them rested a public obligation to give the best
possible service at the most reasonable rates
consistent with risk, investment and the con-
tnued improvement and maintenance of its
property.
Without this expenditure of millions and con-
centration of effort, the telephone art as 1t ex-
lists could not have been developed
What have done i'm working out these
great problems i'm the, past should be accepted
as a guarantee of what we Will do i'm the
future.
THEO. n. VAIL, President
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-19

IttIIFEU MDHS WOrK
II must not close this report with
out mention Of the services rendered
and the influence exerted by the re-
tired men who reside in the district.
What benediction they are to me!
What services some of them have
been rendering! A conspicuous illus
tration of this is the work of w. A.
Houck at Carlisle during large part
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-19

district showed that this part of the
Central Pennsylvania conference has
been the heaviest sufferer during the
year from the death of members of
the ministry. Five preachers of the
district died during the year, three
of them from the effective ranks.
They were Jacob p. Benford, Fred A.
Goeller, A. r. Miller, John w. Leckie
and Thomas Greenley.
DR.. Stein stated that during the
year greater results were procured
through the revival services than In
many years. Conversions in the dis
trict since the last conference number
3,840. Not only In the centers where
great tabernacle meetings were held
was this number gathered, states DR..
Stein, but also in many of the smaller
towns, villages and country circuits.
Speaking of the effect of the revivals
DR.. Stein said:
Zone of the bi-products of the tidal
wave of revival interest in the Danville
district is the aroused public con-
science with respect to the rum traffic.
The saloon has been entirely eliminat-
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-19
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-19
SIDELIGHTSON THE CONFERENCE
SEEN IN THE SESSIONS TODAY

The voice of that manly B. York is still
DR.. K.
ference Is moving the brethren
ona astro
is o
both ministers laymen
- DR. NJ
OF the Grand of Republic
ence and participating In the pToceedingsa s < ,,
who a
holding a
The Rev Max anz Curwensvie who
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Bishop
Methodist which
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He enlened
not your personal opinion but the truth
Ssnts D. Al sowe Benezette; BuIkholde
New Miport w Rose. of Williams
Wiliammee
of Selnsgrove, and r. s. Cuddy, of Brdgeton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-19
TELEPHONE ACHIEVEMENTS


In line of human endeavor has the I'm
ventive brain of the scientist contributed more
to the worlds progress than by. the creation
of the art of telephony, of which the Bell sys-
tenn is the embodiment
When the telephone born, nothing an
aIogous to telephone service as we now know
it existed. There was no tradition to guide, no
experience to follow.
The system, the apparatus, the methods-an
entire new art had to be created. The art Of
electrical engineering did not exist. The Bell
pioneers, recognizing that success depended
upon the highest engineering and technical
skill at once organized an experimental and re-
search department which Is now directed by
a staff Of over $50 engineers and scientists, in.
cludng former professors, postgraduate stu
dents, scientific investigators-the graduates Of
over 20 universities
From its foundation the company has con-
tinuOusly developed the art. New improve
ments in telephones, switchboards lines,
cables, have followed one another with remark
able rapidity.
While each successive type of apparatus to
the superficial observer suggested similarity,
each step in the evolution marked decided
improvement. These changes, this evolution,
has not only been continuous, but is continue
ing. Substantially all of the plant now in use,
including telephones, switchboards, cables and
constructed i'm the past 10 years.
Particularly in switchboards have the
changes been radical that installations cost
ing I'm the aggregate millions have frequently
been discarded after only few years OF use.
Since 1877 there have been introduced SO
types and styles of receivers and 73 types and
styles of transmtters. OF the 12,OO0,OOO tele-
phone receivers and transmitters owned by the
Bell Company January 1, 1914, none were in
use prior to 1902 while the average age is less
than five years.
Within 10 years we have expended for con-
struction and reconstruction amount more
than equal to the present book value of
tire plant
Long distance and underground transmits
sion was the most formidable scientific prob
lem confronting the telephone experts.
The retardng effect of the earth ou the teIe-
phone current often impaired conversation
through one mile underground as much as
through 100 miles overhead Overhead con-
versauOn had its distinct limitations.
No possible improvement I'm the telephone
transmitter could of itself solve these difficult
ties.
The solution was only found in the cumula.
tive effect of improvements, great and small
in telephone transmitter, line cable, SWITCH
board, and every other piece of apparatus or
plant required in the transmission OF speech.
While the limit of commercial overhead talk
ing had increased from strictly local to over
1906 that conversation could be had over long.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-28

free" From his " interpretation 81
what is necessary therefor. he l. very
near the goal. The House. with its own
part ~ the work done. not only sets the
seal ~ approval upon the programme
but will help concentrate public atten
tioB upon the Senate. And by the mld-
lie 1T July. the Representatives may be-
adiourning three days ut n time. Only
a handful ~ them need stay in Wash
Ington. The others may 20 home To at
tend la their precious campaigns Tor
reelection.
The line up on the antitrust bills in
the Senate will hardly be n partisan
one. That will he to the President \ adj
vantage. Just as has been h"~"ning IN
connection with the Canal tolls rxcmp-
ton repeal. While there are rnnScrva.
tive Democrats who at heart ~diSanprnvr
Of some az the antitrust provisions
most of the majority party will be for
those bills and with them will be Ger.
tain of that radical little Western cot
erie on the Republican side. Lafollcttr,
Bristow and Cummins. for example. Will
hardly vote against the regulation of
stock and bond issues hv railroads.
Republicans unqucStionahly helped
President Wilson into the White House
and one Republican faction or another
in the Senate has been helping him RICH,
along ever since he became President.
Often il has been these radical Western
erS. More recently ii has been some NJ
thcs aunchrst conservatives. Like Lodge
Root. Burton and Brandcgcc. who are
voting for the administration repeal
bill. Verify. Mr.. Wilson seems To have
gotten 'cm coming and going and
the lack NJ Republican cohesion bas
been his salvation.