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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-25

Mrs. Emma Brown of Hannibal
visited friends here the last of the
week. She expects to leave the
first of July for an extended visit
in Denver.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-25

Mrs. Ray Sorrell and baby return
turned home from a short visit near
HnnnewelI, Friday.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-25

Frank Collins and wife, of Sher-
borne, Mimi, Mrs. C. Garrison of
Shelbina, Mrs. c. w. Adams and
daughter, of Clarence spent Satur-
day with Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Will
son.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-25

If one is to believe some of our
exchanges, starvation is staring
thousands of people in the face be-
cause of their inability to get work,
Never in the history of this country
was work more easy to get. The
only trouble in securing it is wheth-
er a person wants to work or not.
The person who really wants work
has no trouble in getting it,-Queen
City Leader.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-06-25
Davenport & Mahan make Farm
Loans on best terms If

Misses Florence Pierson and
Mabel Swanson spent Saturday in
this city. They were enroute to
their home in Galesburg, ILL.,, after
a pleasant visit near Stontsyille.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-26
SAYS HE WAS OUSTED OFF THE
EASTMAN BUYING LIST

Buffalo, N. Y, June 26.-Because
he refused to pay a fine which he
said was imposed upon him by the
Eastman Kodak Co. when he pur-
chased several cameras at a heavy
discount from another source, John
M. Andrews, New York city, East
man photo supply dealer for % years,
testified he was "cut off, the East
man list of dealers and unable there
after to secure any of that company's
goods. Andrews was first witness in
government antitrust suit for dis
solution of Eastman Company on
ground that it is a trust.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-26
KILLS WOMAN AND SELF

Joseph Ponishkas, tailor, who
loved Mrs. Anna Andrykatiene,
widow, Az South Sangamon street,
killed her yesterday by firing bull
let into. her and then ended his own
life by pitching himself from the
third-story window.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-26
LOOKS LIKE PHONE DEAL WILL
BE ON SHELF FOR SUMMER

BE ON SHELF FOR SUMMER
1t looks as tohugh there won't be
anything doing on that telephone
merger stuff in the city council till
next fall after the city council sum-
mer vacation it's over and summer is
gone. Somebody wants it to go slow.
Three times now officers and dele
gates Of the Penny Phone League and
women's civic clubs have gone to a
meeting of the committee on gas, oil
and electric light. Yesterday as be-
fore, they were told Corporation
Counsel w. H. Sexton isn't ready yet
with an opinion on whether the city
has a right to seize and operate the
Automatic system if that company
hasn't 10000 subscribers as the fran
chise specifies
Once more the Penny Phone
Leaguers and others were told the
opinion will be ready next week Nor
ton L. Johnson, president Of the Pen
ny Phone League, said:
There is no good reason furnished
us why the city administration is de- |
laying on this. When delegation of |
North Side women went to Mayor |
Harrison Wednesday he told them,
My mind is open on this question and |
l would like to have all the facts
eff Mayor Harrison will do some
thing that will get quicker action
from his city law department, all of
us will be able to get at certain facts
a good deal earlier. We want action
and we're tired Of this stalling.
"Mr. Sexton himselfs knows this is
serious situation. 1t was warm
enough last year for him to make a
trip in September to see Attorney
General McReynolds on how the pro-
uosed merger was affected by the
antitrust law. We know that he saw
the attorney general, but we don't
know from him what the attorney
general told him. No report has ever
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-06-26

wait, and Ill ask my wire if can
go downtown with you"
''Is it customary for you to ask
your wife,"
mot at all-but today 1 happen to
know she wants me to go down.
town."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
Pastime-Thursday-Friiay,

A decidedly likable and thoroughly
romantic picture with its center Of in
terest in a little girl charmingly play
ed by Marguerite Resser, is GOOD
Pals" Patheplay in two parts. II
is story of life before the war. The
girls father goes west and it is re-
ported that he is dead. His money,
after some remarkably fresh and in
teresting adventures. is sent to her,
but is captured by her ogre aunt. a
miser, who makes her the roughes.
and hardest work and calls her beg
gar. She and "Shep," her good pal
manage to weather it through until
the father returns and rescues the
girl. 1t is just a dandy pipe dream
and it has the pleasing quality of a
dream all through; that Is, it is con-
sistently dream. Did anyone evel
find anything unpleasant in true
pipe dream?
ANDY Goes on the Stage" Edi
of Andy
"The Fallen Angel" Biograph The
cast includes Louise Vale and Gler
White.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
Local Playhouses
What the Press Agent Has to
Say of Present and Coming
Attractions.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

The Life of the Immortal COM
poser Richard Wagner" the great
motion picture attraction coming to
the Orpheum theater for an engage.
ment of two days to begin Saturday
afternoon, is the first OF the notable
Klaw & Erlanger film productions
which will include Ben Hur" "The
Roundup" and other OF their great
successes-to be sent en- tour. The
mere fact that this film bears an i'm.
print other than the firms own-it Is
from the famous Messter-Film, Ber
lin-is assurance that it is of a very
high order inasmuch as it would have
been more desirable to use the X. &
Z. brand in the Introductory presen-
tation. Just how we'll the American
purchasers of the pictures thought OF
them was shown when to the exclu.
sion of many other great attractions
that were clamoring for the chance
to use the theater they were placed
on view in the New Amsterdam the.
ater, New York, the worlds most
beautiful playhouse as a special holi.
day feature attraction The films are
still being presented there. now in the
seventh week of crowded houses. New
York is adding its plaudits to praise
that in Germany and England am.
ounted to a general furore.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
OAKLAND TO RAISE MILLION
FOR THE PANAMA FAIf

OAKLAND, Cal, Feb. 20.--Businesa
men of Oakland have pledged them
selves to make good on a promise oil
$1,000, 900 to the Panama-Pacific ex-
position. The pledge kas given at a
meeting here between Mayor Mott and
number of Oakland capitalists and
President c. c. Moore and Secretary
Il. ]. Taussig of the exposition.
Mayor Mott will soon confer with
the mayors of other cities In Alameda
county and a committee will be ap-
pointed to organize huge under
writing company by which the Legal
difficulties of immediate procuring
the money will be overcome.
Oakland, which will benefit as much
as San Francisco from the fair, will
make n huge exhibit at the big show
The promise Of s1,000.000 was made
when San Francisco was fighting be-
fore congress to get the exposition
and 1t will be carried out to the letter
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
GRANDMA USED SAGE
TEA TO DARKEN HAIR
SHE MIXED SULPHUR WITH 1T
TO RESTORE COLOR. GLOSS,
THICKNESS.

Common garden sage brewed into a
heavy tea with sulphur and alcohol
added. will turn gray. streaked and
faded hair beautifully dark and lux
uriant, remove every bit of dandruff,
stop scalp itching and falling hair.
Just a few applications will prove a
revelation if your hair is fading, gray
or dry. scraggly and thin. Mixing the
sage Tea and sulphur recipe at home,
shough, is troublesome. An easier
TNay is to get the ready-to-use tonic,
costing about so cents large bottle
al drug stores. known as "Wyeth':
Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy
thus avoiding a lot of muss.
While wispy, gray faded hair j:
not sinful. we all desire to retain oul
youthful appearance and attractive
ness. BY darkening your hair with
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur, no on.
car tell. because it does it so natural
ly. so evenly. You just dampen ;
sponge or soft brush with it and draw
ahis through your hair, taking on
small strand at time; by morning al
gray hairs have disappeared. and
after another application or two. you
hair becomes beautifully dark, glossy
soft and luxuriant.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
Coming to Alta Sunday,

The well known comedian Mr.. Vim
Moore will open at the Alta next
Sunday, February % for a weeks en-
gagement, and during that time, will
put on a new play each night, pre-
senting seven new plays.
During the week Mr.. Moore will
play: "Jim of the Mountains" as the
opening play; The Lonesome Trail"
a comedy drama; "The Parish Priest" /,
''The Trail of Steel" "The Four
Flushers'' comedy scream from start
to finish. and other plays new to this
city one show each night will be
given.
Mr.. Vim Moore is comedian so well
known, that he needs but little intro
duction here. and he has the best
company on the road in his support
| Mr.. Noorse carries supporting
company Of ten people each of whom
| have made good in road companies
and stocks for the past five years. All
of the plays presented IL not entirely
comedy are predominating In comedy
parts. Only one show each evening
House open at 1880 and curtain a,
S:l5. You will find that this company
deserves your patronage.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
Cosy.

Baby violetta and Company a
three people act, will have an entire
change of songs. dances and musical
numbers, with the exception of THE
Rosary" which Baby Violetta will re-
peat by special request. This little
actress viii sing two new songs. be-
sides her dances, the lady will put
on a "serpentine dance" and the pro-
fessor will play different selections on
the clarinet.
"Our Mutual Girl The second
picture of this interesting series. She
visits famous milliner and picks ou,
some of the latest hats, sees the Yale
Princeton football game and her
country sweetheart has number OF
adventures around the docks of New
Yorks water front.
"a Leak in the Foreign Office
Two Reels. Thanhouser From
THE Adventures of Diplomatic
Free Lance" the famous series o;
stories which have been running II
the Blue Book Magazine for the pas
! six years, and which are familiar tc
hundreds of readers. James CRUZ:
! and Flo La Badie have the leads.
AN Orange Bandit" Majestic.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20

quaint little shepherdess baskets are
perfect for the ruchings and panniers
and Watteau pleats of the present
picturesque modes.
silk crepes striped, flowered, bro
caded and embroidered offer allurins
inducements among the new maaeri-
ais and decided innovation is a fab
ric called "olfine" which is an all cot
ton material and has a corduroy eff
feet with a heavy velvet looking stripe
on thin crepey BACKGROUND. The
same effect in silk is called "railine.
As for the hats those that strive
for the greatest heights of favor seem
to be those that simply strive for the
greatest heights on some the os-
trich plumes and feather fancies actu-
ally stick up two feet in the air. The
stray shapes are hard little tight lit
tie affairs that turn up at odd angles
close to the crowns when they have
any; for the crownless hats worn
casually and internationally by the
most extreme dressers in Paris last
season have now reached us with a
vengeance and in profusion. In most
cases they are mere head bands WITH
high outstanding ruches of tulle or
moire silk all the way around or just
on one side to suit your taste or your
face.
Because of the playful custom Of the
customs TO pluck all feathers. by fair
means or fowl, from the incoming
French chapeaux the new modes from
the Rue de la Paix are shy of feath-
ers and profuse in the products OF
Flora or Pomona Camellias. pink
and white, are the smartest flowers
while tiny lemons and life sized or
anges seem to be the favored fruits
Ouills being permissible, however
they are used in literally killing ways.
Poised at such barbarous angles are
they that an unfortunate male or fe-
male in close proximity to one of
these quilted torture bonnets may not
hope to escape without the loss of at
least one eye.
Your nasal appendage seems to
have become the impregnable boun-
dairy line beyond which no really
fashionable veil may pass. You must
either wear a harem veil whose
heavily embroidered net covers the
lower half of your face and leaves
only your eyes exposed or the newest
little complexion wells which are
draped over the tiny brimless turbans
and high crowned hats and cover the
uper part of your physiognomy to
the tip OF your nose
In both instances your Roman or
retrousse feature. whichever the type
may be, gets under the veil by mar
row margin and thus saves its skin
from sunburn season.
This halfway taking of the veil
ought to make a decided hit with the
damsel whose features aren't all
quite up to Grecian standards. By
simply playing both ends against the
middle she is sure to win either by a
couple of orbs or pair of red lips.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
HAVE PRETTY HAIR
THICK, SOFT. FLUFFY AND NO
DANDRUFF-USE PARTISAN
SAGE.

If your hair is losing its natural
color. coming out and splitting, or
lacks that enviable softness. gloss and
beauty, do not despair-pretty hair
is largely matter of care. If it Is
too thin make it grow. If it is harsh
and brittle soften it up-lubricate it.
II you have dandruff it is because the
scalp is too dry and flakes off. Fresh
en- up the scalp with Partisan Sage
all dandruff disappears, falling hair
and itching head cease, your hair is
doubly beautiful.
Partisan Sage. sold by Tallman &
Co and at all drug counters. Is just
what you need-a large bottle costs
but 80 cents. 1t surely makes the
hair lustrous and seems twice as abun'
dant. You cannot be disappointed II
Partisan Sage.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
COUNT FIFTY! NO
RHEUMATIC PAIN
Rub Soreness from Joints and Mus.
cles With a Small Trial Bottle OF
Old st. Jacobs Oil.

Stop dosing rheumatism.
It's pain only; not one case in fifty
requires internal treatment Rub
soothing, penetrating "St. Josephs
Oil" right on the tender spot" and
by the time you say Jack Robinson
out comes the rheumatic pain and
distress. "St. Jacobs Oil" is a harm
les local rheumatism cure which new
er disappoints and doesn't burn the
skin. 1t takes pain, soreness and
stiffness from aching Joints, muscles
and bones; stops sciatica. lumbago,
backache, neuralgia and reduces
swelling.
Timber up! Get small trial bottle
Of old-time. honest est. Jacobs Oip'
from any drug store, and in a mo-
ment you'll be free from pains, aches
and stiffness.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20

committee under the new currency
law why Cincinnati should be favored
over Cleveland for the regional re-
serve bank in Ohio's district. The
committee, composed of Secretary OF
the Treasury McAdoo and Secretary
of Agriculture Houston will hold near
ings here tomorrow and will hear Gle
veland's side of the argument on Fep-
ruary 81, in that city The fight be-
tween the two Ohio cities wakes
warm. The committee returns TO
Washington February %.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
Student Dies at Pullman.

WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE
Pullman, Feb. 20.-Roy Hughes, stu
cent of the elementary department
died at the students hospital, attend
ed by three physicians and nurse
Intestinal trouble was the cause Of
death.
He had enrolled from Pasco,. Wash.
at the beginning of the year.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
MAN FINES OWN SENTENCE.
Judge Agrees to Probation for Two
Who Robbed Grocery Store.

LDS ANGELES, FEB. ZU.-IeOrBe
Crabtree. who confessed to having
robbed a grocery store, sentenced him
self in the criminal department OF
the superior court at the instance OF
Judge Willis, and accepted probation
for three years for himself and his
partner, Burr Anderson.
After the young men had pleaded
guilty. Judge Willis asked:
"Crabtree, if you were judge what
sentence would you give yourself?"
"As it is my first offense," Crab
tree replied; ~ should be lenient and
extend probation"
Judge Willis thereupon fixed three
years as the probationary term.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
Alta T1,eater Tonight.

Miracle Mary an intensely dram
attic offering by the Victor company.
This picture has been treated as big
feature all over and has aroused
much favorable press continent where
ever shown. Supplementing this
feature is a cracker-jack comedy by
the Nestor Co, Teaching Dad a
Lesson"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
SOME PERTINENT FACTS

A man who wants to build
house writs. why should Pay
more for a brick house than for
eav other kind?"
Now aint that a foolish thing to
ask? You can go to the drug store
and get kids ball for dime and
you can get a noaconst kind for
five cents, but neither Of them is
no good and you can buy ball
for a quarter. and one for fifty
cents. but IL you want ball that Is
a ball you gotter get a dollern
quarter ball that is ball. ! can
ham the stuffin outer five cent or
a dime ball in one lick. and quar-
ter ball won't last a whole gain
the fifty centers are better but
they are no good neither but the
1oilern a quarter ball is ball as
is ball and you can pound II
| around and it is just the same as
4 it was before you took it outer the
box"
| Weston Brick Yard
! p. r. Harbour, Manager.
Weston. oregon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
to have a board Of censors to pass
upon moving pictures II an ordinance

that will be brought up for action at
the next meeting of the council be-
comes a law. This measure provides
for the creation of a board consisting
of Mrs. C. L. Houston, Mrs. l.. J. Pix
ington. Mrs. f. M. Cherry, B. F. Stone
end Rev John Waters.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20

Cincinnati Seeks Regional Bank.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 20.-Cincinnati
bankers merged with civic organiza-
tions today to tell the organization
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20
THE SPRING MAID IS
HERE CLAD IN SILKS
DAME FASHION DEGREES THE
MATERIAL To BE WORN ON
THIS SEASON.

Margaret Mason Writes of New Styles
FVr Milady-.And Wells Too, They
Arc CERTAINLY to be Seen in all Odd
psslglis-Hsts Likewise Come i'm
Nany shapes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20

Dame Fashion has decreed that silk
This Spring shall be the thing,
And this is where the wee silk worms
Nov have their little fling
Proud beauties do not then Gisdain
The lowly of the earth,
For worms and even husbands, too,
All have their little worth.
NEW YORK. Feb. 20.-The Spring
maid has come TO town shimmering in
Silken sheen and even as the song OF
rhe first robins is heard on every limb
So is the rustic of taffeta herd on
every li--er hand. Into a Vatican
shepherdess. Natter beauty, a gay
Marquise or Dolly Warden, the new
silk model gowns will turn you for
they are all built on the piquant frill-
ed and panniered lines of these peri
ods and the silks themselves are ad-
orably sprigged and flowered and
striped You simply can't be plain
Jane this season and be in style at the
Very same time for there isn't plain
silk among the whole bewildering dis
play.
The bright hued Roman striped ef-
fects are the smartest of the new silks
while the delicate rainbow tinted taf>
fetas, soft as charmouse, blooming
with tiny garlands and rosebuds tied
with true lovers knots or peeping from
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20

Film CensOrs Wanted.
ASTORIA, Ore, Feb. 20.-Astoria Is
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-02-20

S9ly Margaret Mason. written for the
United Press.)
Proud beauties YOU must not disdain
The lovely OF the EARTH
Just think. but for the crawling worm
What would your clothes be worth
The Keota news., 1914-03-13
THE TOTAL STATE DEBTS.

Preliminary Census Figures Show In
crease Of Fifty Per Cent In Decade.
Washington. Preliminary figures
made public by the director of the
census. w. ]. Harris. show that the
total Indebtedness of the forty-eight
states of the union, less sinking fund
assets, on June 80. 1913. was $342.215.-
900. an increase of $107342.000. or
nearly so per cent over the total ten
years ago.
Including sinking fund assets, the
total debt amounted to $419.157. 900, of
which sum about $19,000.000 repre-
sented the floating debt.
Z The total debt of Massachusetts,, the
report said, represented 23.2 per cent
of the debt of all states in the United
States. Iowa. Wyoming and Oregon
each had less than one-tenth Of per
cent Of the debt of all the states.
while Pensylvania's sinking fund as
sets, exceeded the total debt. New
York had 25 per cent Of the total for
the thirty-eight states.
The Keota news., 1914-03-13
sAuDA MINES ACTIVE
RICH ORE RUNS THOUSANDS OF
DOLLARS PER TON.
Taylor ouIeh Workings Show Regular
Shipments Of Four or Five Cars
Per Month.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Salida, Colo.-Mining business is
looking up in the west end Of the coun-
try, as an evidence Of which ore ship
ments are constantly increasing.
The Lily mine in Taylor gulch,
owned by the Taylor Mountain Mining
Company. is shipping regularly four or
five cars per month Of to 10 per cent
copper ore to the Salida smelter. Only
small force is being employed at the
present time.
Harry Wysong is shipping a sui
phide. carrying silver and gold. and Is
taking out from five to six cars per
month. This is being delivered to the
railroad over the Lily tram.
The Jewell Company has shipped
four cars. This is high-grade lead
silver ore ard gives every promise of
being a regularly and steadily increas-
Ing shipper.
Fred Watson, who is leasing prop
erty adjoining the Lily, has shipped
five cars OF very high-grade copper
ore during the past few months.
The Madonna. at Monarch, is again
among the shippers. For some time
the winze at the end Of the sixth level,
where the very high-grade ore was
taker last summer, has been flooded
with water on account of inadequate
pumping facilities, but recently the Ca
pacity has been increased and the big
body of ore In this winze has again
been exposed.
The richest ore comes in a narrow
to the ton, but the whole vein is ore
Of good quality.
The Keota news., 1914-03-13
Thrs.-y..r.oId Boy Flaming Torch.

Thrse-year-oId Boy Flaming Torch.
Denver.-With his hands. feet, legs
and back literally cooked from fall in
a bed Of hot ashes. Richard Barker. g.
year-old son of Floyd Barker, ped
der, made no murmur of complaint as
his burns were being dressed by Po-
lice Surgeon McKelvey. "Ich Gebib-
.ble!" laughed the youngster, as he
raised ON his arm and called to his
mother. The child fell into an ash pit
In the rear of his parents home. He
ls in a serious condition, and 1t Is
feared that the shock and burns may
prove fatal. When rescued from the
pit by J. o. Gorsuch. a neighbor. the
child was a human torch. His clothes
were a mass of flames. 1t was neces-
sary to cut his shoes and stockings In
strips before they could be removed.