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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-17
springfield III

SDrinEdeid. III. ----
70 the Members % the Forty ninth
Gea~rai Assembly
T- caupllaacs with the eoastltu-
.1-aI provision. requiring the Gov
srr1r. az the commencement % each
session. % give 20 the Geaerai Assem-
hIy Information. b. message. OF the
condiuon Of the State and 70 recon
-aend such measures a. be may deem
sxpedient. I submit the foIloWinE mat
fsrr for your consideration:
Waterway.
F1r many years past there has been
Ii thIs state IN emphatic demand for
q vaferw4y between Chicago and the
Quiz % Mexico. The practieabiIity %
fa-e o. waterway was noted BY Pers
uar4ustte when be drst discovered
tsa portage between the Chicago River
ar9 the D-s Moiass River centuries
ar1 Its practicabHity vas further
rar4t b. the early pioneers Of this
STATE. and the boundary lines OF the
state were aN.d upon ifs admission 20
pc Union % States 90 as 20 provide
90 r. uatrrway.
LGr Congress OF the United States
see-a- lands % immense value 20 the
s.sfr 90 Illinois for the purpose Of
~-earIaE This waterway. In the early
q .-1ry of the state. a cut was made
AL a canal constructed. connecting
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-17

Some 5000 men in New York. Chi
cago and South America have already
offered, il is reported, to enlist with
Ricciotti Garibaldi in the Italian army.
if Italy goes 10 war. AS long az a man
of the famous fighting family Is left he
can be sure of response to his call
to arms. The name is a trumpet blast
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-17

European violin Instructor hiss
invented diagram printed on paper
to be pasted on he neck OF an in
strument 10 show a pupil where 90
place his fingers to produce desired
notes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-17
Highway Improvement.

In accordance with the recommended
ton made in my inaugural message,
/ the Forty-eighth General Assem- bly,
passed a State Aid Road and Bridge
Act, which went into effect July l,
1913, and has now been under trial
for eighteen months.
This Act, changed our entire system
of highway construction and mainte-
nance. and the first duty of the com
missioners, appointed under it, was to
construct a new organization for the
State and for every county desiring to
operate under the Act
a court test of the constitutionality
of the act caused much delay but so
vigorously and successfully has the
work been carried on that one hun
dred county superintendent of high
ways, whose qualifications have been
proved in competitive examinations,
are now in office. State aid routes in
ninety-four counties have been agreed
upon between the county boards and
the State commission. A complete uni
form system of auditing and account
ing for all road and bridge moneys has
been installed, allotments from the
State aid road and bridge fund have
been made TO all counties that have
qualified therefor. and contracts have
been awarded on seventy-four sections
OF roads having total length of
1927 miles.
In many parts OF the State work has
been completed on sections of State
aid roads and the public has had an CD
portunity to in-pect the type OF road
which the Highway Commission has
determined to require, This is a I'm
ished driveway thirty feet wide, divi-
ded into a pavement proper of brick
or concrete from ten to eighteen feet
wide, with earth or macadam shoulders
on each side to make up the required
width. The contracts which have been
let for State aid roads are distributed
among forty-eight counties.
complete engineering organiza-
ton under the State Highway Engi-
neer has been constructed, through
which the State Highway Commission
is enabled to provide plans for all
road and bridge work and supervise !
all construction with the assistance Of |
the county superintendent.
All the precautions which engineer
ing science and modern business
methods afford have been taken TO in !
sure that full value is given to the |
State for all money expended in high /
way construction and that the speci-
fcations OF contracts are met in every
detail.
recommend that careful consider
alton be given to the provisions of the
funds for the completion, in a reason
able time, of the construction of the
fifteen thousand miles of State aid
roads, consistent with the annual tax
State.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-17
Inspection of Private Employment
Agencies.

New life has been injected into the
supervision and inspection of private
employmnt agencies during the fiscal
year 1914. Three hundred sixty-seveu
licenses were issued TO private agen.
cies, an increase of thirty-eight over
1913.
The amount OF revenue from Iicen.
ses was S17,750, an increase OF sl,775
During the year. ss.7S5 were refunded
by agents to compliments. a gain OF
s4.S32. Inspectors made 1873 reports
on general conditions of agencies, an
increasce of 557. One thousand sever
hundred and sixty-seven complaints
were investigated. as against 432 in
1913.
The department has discovered thai
it is practice among straw bosses
on railroad and factory foremen &c
charge fee TO men for the privilege
of holding their jobs This practice
is probably an outgrowth of the
scarcity of work. II is being deal
with vigorously; several convictions
have been had in Chicago. one in Easf
St Louis, four in Granite City, where
our cases are pending in the courts
The department reports the neces.
sity of drastic methods to regulate tn.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-17

deaf and blind, the soldiers homes,
and soldiers orphans homes are not
surpassed anywhere.
| Most important in the improvements
effected in these institutions during
my administration has been the aboli-
| ton. In the schools under the Board
of Administration. OF corporal punish
ment The old policy OF repression
and severity has been replaced by pa
tent. persevering encouragement OF
the better qualities in inmates and
freedom from petty restrsint-that hu-
name treatment, in fact, which is
advocated by the best informed stu
dents OF delinquency as being most
effective for the building up OF self
control and self-restraint.
In the state hospitals all mechanical
restraint of patients, including seclu-
sion, has been abolished. Patience and
kindness combined with the curative
treatment known to medical science.
have worked wonders in obtaining dis
cipline hitherto thought impossible to
maintain without straps. straight
jackets, and close confinement.
The merit system among the en-
ployees is being faithfully and con-
scientiously enforced. The promo
tional system is In vogue in all
branches of the hospital service. The
Hospital tramp" is being weeded out.
Experience. fidelity, honest and faith
full work, humanity, and decency are
recognized. encouraged. and rewarded.
Standards of living and employment
are being elevated with all who serve
the State Wages OF employees, par
ticularly those receiving the smallest
pay, have been increased in all the
institutions. The eisht-hour system
has been adopted by the Board of Ad-
ministration in several institutions and
will be extended to others.
In the adoption Of the eight-hour
system for hospital service, Illinois is
the pioneer in the United States. Bet
ter living quarters are being provided
for the employees in the institutions.
In return for all these considerations
the State demands the highest degree
OF efficiency and humanity from its
employees.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-17
Executive Expenditures.

For a statement of expenditures,
made by me for this department from
funds subject to my order. your at
tention is directed to the biennial re-
port of the Auditor OF Public Accounts.
Vouchers for all such expenditures
Z. r. DUNSE.
Governor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-17
State Finances.

In relation 10 the finances OF tbs
State. they are in a most excellent con-
dition, the cash balance on hand in tha
State Treasury on January ]. 1855
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
NeA11s hlAk~seQ
Hoop Petticoats.

During the reign of Charles l the
hoop petticoat was worn only by
wives of the lower gentry and by the
wives of the citizens. In the latter
part Of the reign of Queen Anne it
rose again; this time in another form
that of an enormous hoop. This
grew to such immense proportions
that during the time OF George l and
II, eight yards was considered the
proper width.
These hoops had outstanding steel
or whalebone foundations at the bot
tom of the skirt. In Elizabeth's time
this whalebone had been used at the
top, near the waist, enlarging the
hips for several feet. Addison ex-
pressed himself about the subject as
follows, through his Sir Roger de
Coverley:
MY Observation-Disclosures has
on new fashioned petticoat, except
that hers is gathered at the waist.
My grandmother appears as If she
stood in a large drum, whereas the
ladies now walk as If they were in a
go-cart."
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
HOW TO SERVE LAMB
SUGGESTIONS THAT MAY BE NEW
TO HOUSEWIVES.
Preferences Of the Family Are, OF
Course, the First Things to Be
considered-Best Method Of
Utilizing the Broth.

"You know | said the other day that
! had some good recipes for neck and
breast of lamb" Mrs Happy Home
maker opened her manuscript cook
book" and proceeded to read:
THE neck may be used for various
kinds of stews. The neck cut in small
pieces is boiled with onions, turnips,
and carrots, and when almost done
add half cupful of flour made into a
thick, creamy paste with milk. Let
this boil with the stew for ten min
utes.
'Or use this recipe: Put the pieces
of lamb into frying pan with melted
butter, and turn until the pieces are
q light brown; then pour into a stew
pot with two or three large tomatoes
Tor can of tomatoes if the fresh ones
are not in season., an onion, and a
few carrots. When this is served 1t
makes an appetizing addition to circle
the dish with boiled rice.
THE breast may be used as a roast
with Drowned potatoes and vegetables,
and served with sauce Of tomatoes.
But this is the way the family likes
It best. Take the lamb bones, which
the butcher will take off the forequar-
ter in boning 1t for you, and to these
add the breast, putting all into a pot
to boil with one onion, one large car
rot, couple of potatoes for thicken-
ing, and two tomatoes for flavor.
When the breast is thoroughly cooked
carefully take out all the bones so as
not to break the meat. Press the
meat between two large plates, with a
weight on top so that the meat may
be nodded into an even roundness.
This may be served cold with a gar
nishing of lettuce and cold vegetables.
with salad dressing, and is delicious
hot day luncheon dish. Or the mold
may be cut into slices and fried in
bread crumbs.
"The broth which is made from the
liquor in which the breast has. been
cooked is very rich; add little bar
ley or rice and you will have a whole
some and ample supper for the little
folks.
In buying shoulder of pork ask
the butcher to bone it for you, then
tie into a round roast so it will keep
its shape. Rub we'll with salt and pep
per, and little thyme or sage, too,
gives pleasant flavor, and roast in a
medium hot oven. II you do not use
a self-basting rooster, the meat should
be basted often. A shoulder of pork
weighing eight pounds takes about 40
minutes to cook. This may be served
with epples baked in the same pan, if
an open rooster is used or with apple
sauce."-Kansas City Star.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
Eatlna to Grow.

A certain Columbus newspaper man
is proud of the precocity Of his FIVE
year-old niece. AS typical of her men,
tai agility, he tells the following:
I'VE were visiting recently at my
brothers home. When dinner was
called the child politely but firmly
announced that she had no idea of
dining and would remain away from
the table.
why, Mildred, you must eat three
full meals a day If you are ever to
grow up anu be lady remarked my
wife. who happens to be a woman of
substantial proportions.
Carefully surveying her gratuitous
adviser. the little miss said; 'Auntie,
do you eat four meals a dayT"-
Columbus Dispatch.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
ORDER OF NOTICE THEREON.

ORDER OF NOTICE THEREON.
Uuited States of America, Northern
Division of the Eastern Judicial
District of Missouri, SIS.
On the 9th day of October, A. D.
1915, on reading the foregoing petit
ton and also the report thereon of
the Referee in charge of said cause,
It is ordered by the Court, that a
hearing be had upon the same on the
9th day of December A. D. 1915, be-
fore said Court, at Hannibal, in said
Division of said District, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon: and that no.
tice thereof be published in Monroe
City Democrat, newspaper printed
in said District, and that all known
creditors and other persons in inter-
est may appear at the said time and
place and show cause, if any they
have, why the prayer of the said Pc
titioner should not be granted.
And it is further ordered by the
Court that the Clerk shall send by
mail to all known creditors certified
copies of said petition and this order,
addressed to them at their places OF
residence as stated.
Witness Ethe Honorable David p.
Dyer, Judge of said Court, and the
seal thereof. at Hannibal, in said div
ision of said District, this 9th day of
October A. d. 1915.
[ Seal w. W. NALL, Clerk.
By Sample A. Birch, Deputy.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
Mountaineering Foods.

Many foods which are nourishing
do not produce fat The two kinds
which create fatty tissues are fats of
all kinds, like butter, lard, drippings
Good cooked in them), and the large
group of foods classed as starches. If
eaten in excess starch will be laid up
in the body as superfuous or stored
fat.
Following is a list of nourishing
foods which will not produce excess
fat:
Light meats, like chicken, white
fish, lean beef; all vegetables except
potatoes, parsnips and other starchy
kinds; fruit of all kind except ba-
nanas, grain or cereals, except oatmeal
and rice; beans and cheese; milk, in
small quantity, eggs.
Milk and eggs will fatten unless
exercise is taken or the body is in a
very rundown condition. Cocoa is a
fattening drink also.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
Chicken TruffIes,

Chop the raw meat of a four-pound
chicken very fine; add four well-beaten
eggs. one at a time, with one-third
of a pint of thick cream and salt
and pepper to taste. Cook in buttered
timbale molds, garnished with trufies,
and set in a pan of hot water in a
slow oven. Cover with buttered paper.
Bake half an hour. Serve with this
sauce: Two tablespoonfuls each of
butter and -four, a cupful OF chicken
stock or milk turned onto the broken
yolks of three eggs.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
Notice of Final Settlement.

All creditors and others interest
ed in the estate of Felix Scnrlock
deceased, are notified that the I'M
dersigned Administrator of said es-
tate, intends to make a final settle
ment ofsaid estate at the next term
of the Probate Court of Monroe
County, Missouri, to be holden at
Paris, in said County. on the 9th
day of November 1915.
Patrick X. Scurlock,
Administrator.
Meriwether & Meriwether,
Attys. for estate.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04

OF a child is change worthy of
thoughtful consideration. Children
should be fed according to their
weight, age and development. Solid
foods should be introduced gradually
after one year of age in normal baby.
A cereal we'll cooked, an egg cooked
and mixed with bread crumbs or milk,
or Cruel, making one meal day. See
that the baby feeds slowly and masti-
cate. we'll. Habits of right eating may
be formed now which will go with him
through life. Fresh bread should
never be given. Cut in squares and
baked until brown, then served in
milk is good dish and one children
like. Add pinch of salt but no sugar
to such dishes. Milk and cream
should be used plentifully.
An hour before or an hour after
feeding tablespoonful or two of or
ange juice, pineapple Juice, strained
apple sauce or mashed pulp Of prunes
may be given.
Vegetables are now a necessity. Po-
tatoes thoroughly baked, and served
with butter or cream. Asparagus tips,
spinach and carrots crushed fine and
well seasoned with salt and butter.
Only one vegetable daily until the
age of two is reached. Meats should
be given but sparingly; a tablespoon.
full Of scraped rare beef may be mixed
with the baby's potato or bit of beef
steak gravy may be put on it. Up to
three years but little meat is given,
and it should always be finely cut.
Broths of mutton, chicken or beef
with rice or stale crumbs, or beet
Juice may be given, five ounces at a
meal; beef juice being more concen
trated, three ounces is sufficient.
Cereals of oatmeal, farina, barley
hominy, rice or cracked wheat, four
ounces, but 1t should be long and well
cooked. Serve with a pinch of salt
and plenty of milk and cream.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
Notice of Final Settlement.

All creditors aud others interest
ed in the estate of Andrew j. Sour
lock deceased. are notified that the
undersigned Administrator of said
estate. intends to make a final set.
Element of said estate at the next
term of the Probate Court of Mon
roe County, Missouri. to be holden
at Paris, in said County. on 9th day
of November 1915.
Patrick K. Scurlock,
Administrator.
Meriwether & Meriwether,
Attys. for estate.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
Notice of Final Settlement.

All creditors and others interest
ed in the estate of Mary B. Van
schoaick deceased, are notified that
the undersigned Executor of said
estate, intends to make a final set
Element of said estate at the next
term of the Probate Court of Mon
roe County. Missouri, to be holden
at Paris, in said County, on 9th day
of November 1915.
w. r. P. Jackson, Executor.
Meriwether & Meriwether,
Attys. for estate.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04

46O d(reS for S222
Think gift! You can
file on a 32O-acre
homestead in Wy
oming for only $22,
and under certain
conditions, buy an
additional 100 acres
Of Govern e n t
pasture land ad-
Joining for SIPS
per acre. l. heSc
lands are valuable
for mixed farming,
dairying, poultr y
and live stock rails
ing.
This is a splendid opportun-
ity for a man without much
money to get a flying start
on the road to independence.
Write me today about a loca-
ton before the good land is
all taken up. The railroad
employs me to help you To-
cate and my services are
free. S. B. Howard, Immi-
grafton Agent, Room 418,
1904 Farnam Street. Omaha,
Nebraska.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
Crane saao.

Wash one cupful of sage, and soak
It in three cupfuls of cold water for
two hours. Cook till transparent and
add one cupful of grape juice and one
cupful of sugar. Turn into mold and
serve very cold. Currant jelly may be
substituted for grape Juice by thinning
tumbler of the jelly with one cupful
of boiling water.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
stopplnn Him.

Il shall never ask you to promise
to come nome early again." she said
sorrowfully when he let himself in
at 2 q. m.
why not, my dear2" he inquired
quietly.
ITS bad enough to be married to a
nighthawk and loafer without max.
ing q liar OF you, too" she replied,
and he had no comeback.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
About Roast Pork.

When buying strip of pork to roast
get your butcher to saw the long bone
on the top of the strip lengthwise I'm
stead of cracking 1t at each chop
When roast is done 1t can be taken
OF and each slice cut without any
spIintered bones.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04

tistics tell us that
a large proportion
of little people die
with no chance to
fight tn cir o W n
way before they
are two years old.
To introduce solid
foods into the diet
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04

We do dry cleaning, pressing, re-
pairing and altering. Lane. Tailor
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
THI:RIz1{BEaN
G6ARlI,lNN[EE

II the burden seems heavy, the way
seems long,
Still lift your heart in a bit of song,
And that heart will lighter grow,
And one who follows, unseen by you,
May catch the strain and his strength
renew
In the courage you bestow.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
FOOD FOR THE YOUNG CHILD.

There is great need that mothers
study the feeding of the baby, as sta
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04

United States of America, Northern
Division of the Eastern Judicial
District of Missouri, IS.
l, Reed X. Nolakd, the petitioner
above named, do hereby make solemn
oath that the statements contained in
the foregoing petition subscribed by
me are true according to the best of
my knowledge, information and be-
lief.
REED K. holland, Petitioner.
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this 18th day of October. 1915.
Seal) Roy B. MERRlwETHER,
Notary Public.
Ny term expires July Ii, 1918.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04
IN BANKRUPTCY.

United States OF America, Northrl n
Division Of the Eastern Judicial
District of Missouri, ss.
In the District Court of the United
States, in and for said Division of
said District.
RE II S9f * M Mof'A n No. s74
Bankrupt. In Bankruptcy.
TO The Honorable David =. Dyer,
Judge of the District Courts OF the
United States for the Eastern Dis
trict of Missouri
Reed K. holland, of Monroe City,
in tn: County of Monroe and State of
Missouri, in said Division of sale
District, respectfully represents that
on the 18th day of June, last past, he
was duly adjudged bankrupt under
the acts of Congress relating to Bank
ruptcy; that he has duly surrendered
all his property and rights of pro-
perty and has fully complied with all
the requirements OF said acts and of
the orders of the court touching his
bankruptcy.
Wherefore he prays that ne may be
decreed by the court to have full
discharge from all debts provable
against his estate under said bankrupt
acts, except such debts as are except
al Nt, l,,,
REED K. holland, Bankrupt.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-11-04

Read The Democrat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-02-06
Don't Sacrifice Your Deferred Dividend Policies

We will pay you cash through your Bank, from 10 per cent to 50 per cent more than the Companies cash or loan values for policies maturing in 1915 to 1920.
 For further particulars call or ad- dress Nath R. Rodgers, Agt., 127 Nam St., Pine Bluff, Ark. 12-12-3m
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-02-06
Nutmea Poison.

\ German medical journal, tho Munich Medizinische Wochenschrift, gives curious story of two cases of poisoning iron. nutmeg. an article in daily use in food and drink. Two ser want girls partook of | mixture made up of two ground nutmegs, a small quantity of powdered cinnamon and nalf a liter about one pint. of hot wine. One girl drank the greater part the other but small portion. Both were taken to the hospital uncon- scious. The one who drank the great CT part remained in 8 stupor for three days and 1t was not until the fifth day that she recovered her senses The other, who like the first developed failure of memory. vertigo and som' nolence. was not so long in recovery. Nutmeg contains an ethertal oil that s 8 recognized poison.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-02-06

'Acc ording to. figures recently pub lished by the state inspector, thirty four per cent. of Kansas shop girls are getting less, than $e per week.