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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-18
Personal Paragraphs

1
James Davis has gone to Sey.
mour
CIV. Campbell of Macomb was
here yesterday.
Howe Steele of Hartvile was
here this week,
Siria Odle of Cedar Gap was
here this week.
ia, Edwards was in Mountain
Grove Tuesday.
Col. L. o. Nieder was at Birch
Tree this week.
Miss Julia May Behan spent
Sunday in Norwood.
Isaac Strong has been quite
sick with heart trouble.
John Bonfauti, the Mountain
Grove tailor, was here today
w. A. Black aud son Francis
we're in Macomb aud. Norwood
Saturday.
J. W. Miller and wife have re.
turned from a visit with relatives
at Springfield.
J.J. Newberry of Cody, Neb.,
has been looking. after business
matters here.
Al. Grantham went to Nevada
Monday returning Tuesday with
Mrs. Grantham
John r. Cnstard of Lamar Wis
tied his daughter, Mrs. J. A, Ed
wards, and family last week.
G. W. Freeman, president of
the Bank of Mansfield, has re-
turned from hia soiourn at Hot
Springs. Ark.
w. 8. Elrod, the Norwood in
surance man, has returned home
after taking medical treatment
for some time at Springfield.
E. s. Truitt, a prominent real
estate dealer of Kansas City, has
been here this week to look after
his 220-acre farm at Alwanda
and hunt 'possums.
P.W. Newton, wife and daugh.
tars Of Mansfield, aud N, J. and
n =. =. - Waai-hsl saas fasasss of
HartVille autoed to Mountain
Grove Tuesday and visited the
poultry station.
G. E, Cathcart and wife and
Mrs E. A. Sisk went to Mammoth
Spring. Ark, this week, in CON-
pany with Mrs, Cathcart's sister
who was returning to her home
in Mississippi, after a visit here.
Prof. W, H. Lynch, the veteran
educator of Springfield, passed
through here this morning en-
route to Houston, Cabool, Licking
and Rolla. He will attend the
South Central Missouri Teach.
ers' Association at Rolla
John Harvey attended the big
Shriner's banquet at Springfield
Monday night, at which about
500 were present, He made the
trip from Mansfield to Spring.
field with Division Superinten-
dent G. H. Baltzell of the Frisco,
who passed through Mansfield
Monday in his private car,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-18
Money to Loan

N. ]. CRAIG HAS SOME
MONEY THAT He DESIRES
TO LOAN ON GOOD, IN.
PROVED FARMS IN ETH.
Err WRIGHT OR DOUGLAS
COUNTIES. N. ]. CRAIG
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-18
Manifold Produce Market

Furnished by Mansfield Produce Co.
Eors ..... 22P Butter. ,l4y'
GreenHidesl0s Ducks -. 6F
FatTurkeys 1Oe Geese =, So,
1915 Springs,1I lbs. up ....,SF
Old Hens So
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-18
Mirrorettes

Sale DlllS dt tuiS ONCE
Old papers for sale at this Office
Cash Store for Bargains-Adv
' John Coday was in Norwood
Saturday
Bazar and Chicken Pie Dinner
Nov. 20 at G. A. r. Hall. See
ad. ADV.
The M. E Ladies' Aid Society
met with Mrs .D.Reynolds Fri
day afternoon.
J.E.Reynolds has just received
a nobby line of Mems Overcoats
and Caps.-Adv
A band of fortune telling Gyp-
sizes, with bear and a bob cat,
were here this week.
Buy your Christmas Presents
at the Razar at the G. A. R. Hall
Saturday, Nov. 2O.-Adv.
Go to D. Reynolds and buy a
John Deere Wagon and Buggy =
they will please you.-Adv.
Union revival services are be-
ing planned to be held in the M.
E church. Particulars later.
The OE S. of Mansfield is pre-
pairing to put on degree work for
the Seymour chapter this week.
D. N. Moore is suffering from
a severe case of blood poisoning
caused by a scratch on the hand.
FOR SALE OR TRADE
Stock of general merchandise
Address Box ia, Mansfield, Mo.
ADV.
Rolla is preparing to entertain
1000 teachers at the South Cen
trail Missouri Teachers Associa'
ton Nov, 25 -27.
Still plenty of Bargains III all
departments at the Cash Mer-
camille Co, the most of the best
for the east.-Adv.
10Th Annual Bazar and Chick
en- Pie Dinner by them. E, Ladies'
Aid Society at GA R Hall Satur-
day, Nov. 20. Adv. "
1sobert Erh OF 0idsI, soa Vi
Col. Erb of Cedar Gap, and Miss
Carrie Chaplin of West Plains,
were married last week.
G. G. Craig, teacher of the 9TH
and 5th grades of the Hartville
public school, was here yester-
day having dental work done by
DR.. +. H. Riley.
Rev. W. H. Anderson was here
this week on account of his sale
yesterday, which was we'll at
tended. He and his family have
gone to Sheldon to reside;
l have 6 fine thoroughbred
Single Comb White Leghorn
Roosters for sale at So apiece;
hatched from eggs from the
Poultry Experiment Station at
Mountain Grove.-Mrs. j. N
Craig, Phone 135. ADV.
All persons are forbidden te
hunt, shoot, or trap upon the
farms of j. M. THIRKIELD.
ROY D. HUGGANS
R. P. WILLIAMS
MARY E WILLIAMS
Adv. B. +. VElT
VIM. Newton and wife were
given a surprise dinner Sunday
in honor of his 6Oth birthday an
niversary. Mrs. Newton is "A
They have been married Sc years
They are pioneer residents oi
this section, coming to this com
munity many years ago.
Fred Carnall, Ezra Dennis, R
R. Wright, Cecil Brazeal, j. W
Brazeal, G. E Csthcart, &c. Viii
liams, Dora Woody, Prof. j. A
Hylton, Prof. Frank Hudson, F
A. Cole, Ralph Hylton, Earl eau
BILE visited the onyx cave neal
Macomb Sunday.
DEANEAEnED
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-18
Dynamite Magazine

Miners, prospectors and farmers, you
can buy your supply Of dynamite at the
magazine in West Mansfield. Adv.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-18
Qbanks0ivin9
Proclamation

Wbereas, Woodrow Wilson. President of
the United States. and Elliott w. Major Cover
nor Of Missouri. have issued procamations rela-
tive to 1bursday, Tasvembsr rs, 1915, as
Thanksgiving Day for the nation and state,
Gberefcre, l. F. n. Riley, Mayor of the
City of Mansfield. do hereby request all citizens
Of Mansfield to observe the day in accordance
with the spirit of such procamations, all business
houses closing in the afternoon of said day.
F. H. RILEY, Mayor.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-18
Wheel Scraper

Iron Wheel Scrsper for sale. Inquire
At Peanut and Popcorn Rooster. ADV.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-18
School Notes


( School Notes
Visit school often.
Encourage your children to do
their very best.
The high school glee club will
give an entertainment Saturday.
Dec. 4.
Attend the Parent Teacher
Association Friday afternoon,
Nov. 20.
Dr.. R. M. Rogers will be gald
to see the parents at assembly
Monday morning.
We are very grateful to Mrs.
J. A. Hylton and the other mem
bers of the VIC. T. U. for a sup.
ply of sanitary drinking cups.
The primary folks are prepar-
ing a Thanksgiving scene on their
sand table to illustrate the story
ofthe Pilgrims in New England.
The high school boys and a
team from the Roy school will
play a game of basket ball on the
school grounds Saturday after.
noon at o'clock,
Nearly all the pupils in the
fifth and sixth grades can tell q
we'll connected story of the first
Thanksgiving and the circun
stances that gave rise to it.
The literary program in the
high school department Friday
was quite entertaining. The mu.
sic was quite good and with q
very fexexceptions the program
was one both interesting and In
structive.
On the walls of the grammar
grades may be seen q number of
excellent drawing of scenes in
the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
These have all been made by the
pupils in their study of Irving's
popular story.
Thursday, Dec, l6, Miss Vic.
toria Lynn, very popular enter
tainer, will give . program here
in which the school is interested
both for tha pleasure It will give
and the money We hope to raise
by this means.
The second primary boys have
their goals up and are putting in
full time learning to play basket
ball. The ground is rough but
they play regardless of bumps
and bruises-oue of the things
that good basket ball players
have to learn to do,
Miss Osborn has arranged the
girls in two squads for basket
ball practice and each player is
working for place On the first
team. We hope to secure match
games with some of our neigh
boring schools soon.
Astronomy is the subject about
which the high school students
are looking up information in the
dictionaries and other sources
this week for opening exercises.
The list Of questions is found in
a little book supplied by the
Merriam Publishing Co.
The agriculture class made a
trip last week to the Rocky Hill
farm owned by Al. Wilder. The
object was to study at first hand
the legumes. They found plenty
of red clover, white clover, sweet
clover, and alfalfa to study and a
fine lot Of apples which Mr., Viii
der had left ungathered because
they were too high for him to
reach.
The senior class is doing some
very interesting work on Gold
smiths Deserted Village. Each
student is securing all the pic
lures he can from magazines,
catalogues and other sources and
using the pictures to illustrate
the poem, 1t is surprising how
many pictures pupils can find
and how appropriately they may
be used,
Parents should have heard DR.,
F. II. Riley talk on the structure
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-18
REMEMBER

4 The first door east of the Bank
of Mansfield is where you'll find
The Real Bargain Store OF
Mansfield!
A new and up to.date stock of
Groceries
Dry Goods Hosiery
Mems and Women's
Underwear
Mems Wool Shirts
Fat Meat, Bacon, Etc.
Call and get our prices on Gen
eral Merchandise before buying
H. M. NORCROSS
The new store in the old postofice build
ing, door east OF Bank OF Mansfield
Phone No. 70 for High-Class Service
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-18
Union m(enOrial
Gbattkseivino Service

On Sunday, November n. Union Memoir
al Thanksgiving Service will be held at the
Mansfield Opera House at II o'clock, with
appropriate sermon by Rev. ]. w. Needham. All
churches and citizens are invited to participate
A special musical program will be given in con-
nection with the service. the choir being in charge
of J. w. Brazeal, who desires all singers to meet
for practice Friday night.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1915-11-18

Call and get our prices on Gen
eral Merchandise before buying
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-20
Madison Square Tower in Spain.

mdutSon square IOWer in Spaln.
 I have kept the unique wonder of Seville waiting too long already for my recognition, though in it's 800 years it should have learned patience enought for worse things
 From it's great antiquity alone, if from nothing else, it is plain that the Giralda at Seville could not have been studied from the tower of the Madison Square Garden in New York, which the American will recall when he sees it.
 If the case must be reversed and we must allow that the Madison Square tower was studied from the Giralda, we must still recognize that it is no servile copy, but in it's frank imitation has grace and beauty which achieves originality.
 Still the Giralda Is always the Gir. aida, and, though there had been no Saint-Gaudens to tip it's summit with such a flying-footed nymph as poises on our own tower, the figure of Faith which crowns it Is at least good weather vane. and from it's office of turning, gives the mighty bell tower it's name.
 Long centuries before the tower was belfry 1t served the mosque, which the cathedral now replaces, as a min- aret for the muezzin to call the faith full to prayer. but it was then only two-thirds as high.-Harper's Maga- zine.
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In Venezuelan Forests.

There were many good rubber for ests in the interior of Venezuela in the old days, and for several years I was engaged, sometimes alone and some times in partnership, in outfitting- "grubstaking "-native rubber cutters. and then buying the crude rubber upon their return to my camps. writes an ex- plorer. My own profit on the rubber was about 500 per cent, but this did not, as you may think, represent an imposition on the natives. since my own posts were far in the interior, and l had lot of trouble in getting the product out to transportation. One of my routes of travel was by the many lagOons and rivers which indent the Venezuelan coast. by means of which men in canoes can penetrate far into the interior of that wild region. The Guawoona country was at the end of . considerable chain of lagoons. and where the ground rose rather abruptly into the hilly and almost inaccessible forests. This was good rubber country and though the Guawoonas themselves never brought down any rubber, they. were exceedingly jealous of anybody invading their chosen domain.
 had several bands of halfbreeds working for me who would hunt rub Der as miner does gold. No chances were too great if they promised good haul of rubber. Several sanguinary conflicts had occurred with the Qua woonas, and almost decided to forbid my men entering their territory. al- though there was little hope of con- trolling these resolute natives or knowing where their trails would lead once they plunged into the tropical jungles.
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 this officer entitled this aownce under the law 
 
  especially  o rent a $40 the  
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DON'T ANTAGoNIzE.

Nobody asks you to shelve your in- dependence or to forget your indi- viduality You have right to your opinion, and there is no reason why you should not express it and live up to your convictions. There is vast difference, however, between display ing manly courage and carrying chip on your shoulder.
 If you are in business, your success will be dependent, not wholly upon your trading ability, but upon your personality, and the way you treat your customers and those with whom you come in contact.
 Millions of dollars worth of trade has been lost because salesmen have vented their spleen upon their custom CTS, have annoyed them in little as well as in big ways, and aroused in them a feeling of antagonism, which is sure to react against the store, as we'll as against the salesman in it. A great many people will tell you that they avoid certain stores and cer- tain salespeople, simply because they are not treated with common courtesy, and because the sellers do not seem to be interested in them as buyers. Few salesmen seem to realize that courtesy-plain and simple politeness -is one of the greatest selling assets and that it contributes largely to suc- cess.
 One may not be by nature good seller of goods, and he may be defi- cient in many other respects; but, if he is uniformly courteous, if if he llfe SHOWS a marked interest fin the customer and IS obliging, he is likely to sell more goods than is an expert salesman who fails to realize the importance of courtesy
 The popular salesman not only makes, but holds, customers.
 Thousands of buyers will wait quarter of an hour, or even longer, in order to trade with their favorite salesman They feel at home with him. He meets them with smile, and is, or appears to be, interested in their affairs, although he is not obtrusive. The customer instinctively feels his friendship
 Courtesy is valuable in every walk of life, in business and out of it. The polite man or woman is always popu- lar, provided he does not carry his courtesy into flattery.
 The popular man is not always the man of great intellect, but he knows how to make friends, by a charm of manner, by kindliness of spirit, which is readily felt, by a real or ap- parent unselfish interest in those with whom he is associated.
 Popularity counts in business, and counts nightly. Popularity makes friends, and friends in the mart of trade mean customers.
 Those little things, which may seem to be of no account, frequently stand between success and failure.
 The great trouble with people now adays is that they look into the clouds and prepare themselves to handle mat ters Of importance, forgetting that things of consequence are but collec- tons of little things, and that nothing great can be accomplished until the accomplisher has perfected himself in the small matters which collective ly produce the finished product. Not what you do, if you are on the firing line of business, but how you do it, counts.
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OUpyIISHt. I51o' Uy tHS GETTING A BETTER POSITION.


 The stagnant pool is useless and a menace to health. It's water is unfit to drink and it's sluggishness will not turn a water wheel. It either dries up or it remains a blot on the land scape.
 The man who stays where he is, without thinking of bettering his con- dition is like the stagnant pool, for sooner or later, unless he attempts to create a current, he will, like the pool, dry up or else remain an unwei- come member of society
 Conversely, however, there is al- ways as much danger in attempting to rush as there is in remaining placid.
 The mountain torrent, although act i've, does not have the body or the quantity of energy necessary for util- ization
 However profitable your position may be, you have right to consider advancement, but when you carry this consideration beyond the lines of or dinary caution, and plunge, leap and run, you are likely to dash yourself to pieces and to be no better off-per- haps worse off-than you would have been had you remained at a stand still.
 Do not be dissatisfied with your lot to the extent of making yourself mis- erable. Be dissatisfied only in so far as it will encourage you to look ahead and to attempt, with the use of your common sense, to better your condi- tion.
 Do not make a move until you are reasonably sure that it will lead to improvement; and. further, do not take undue chances. -.------
 If yol~have family or others de- pendent upon you, you have no right to jeopardize their interests and your own by taking speculative chances.
 Plant yourself firmly upon the rock of your present position. Reach out into the unknown with both your hands. Look for opportunity. When you think you have found it, subject it to every reasonable test, for half of that which masquerades under the name of opportunity is no firmer than the idle wind which seems to come from nowhere and to go nowhere.
 Half of the failures of the world are due to stagnation, to placidity, to refusal to move when opportunity suggests it, and the other half is made up of those men who are forever dis satisfied, discontented, and over-ambi- f<>,. the first line that dangles before them, without waiting to see whether the other end is firmly fastened.
 Thousands of young men have thrown up present positions because something else seemed better. They knew how badly off they were where they were, and they lid not investi- gate the future or attempt to analyze apparent or real opportunity. They plunged ahead, leaving good founda- tion, that they might reach what ap- peared to be higher ground, and many of them f1oundered in the quicksand between.
 Keep your feet firmly planted upon the foundation of the present, always looking ahead and upward. But look, and keep on looking, for days, and weeks, and months, and years, before you allow this looking to influence your action, O. until you have reason able proof that what seems to be is a reality.
 The ship without an anchor is as unsafe to navigate as one with torn and battered rigging
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-20

one pound of high explosive-enough to blow flying machine to smither- eens or to infict dangerous damage upon Zeppelin or other dirigible.
 Commander Davis is the navy's foremost inventor. It was he who not long ago originated a new kind of torpedo gun which is under considera- tion by the department
 One remarkable feature of his 'aero gun" is that it shoots both ways. For loading, it is broken" in fb0 r.; ,@,,.1 1
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some Difference.

Nov, dis am de question, pahson: 2 stated Brother Shinpaw. When de millinnium comes will folks quit work. ing?"
 Mo, sah!" replied sage old Parsort Bagster. "Dey will quit bein' worked T Kansas City Star.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-20

scribed as verging upon graft. In some instances, it is admitted in the comptroller's office, the apparent graf" was perfectly regular under the law, but even in these Downey held it to be illegitimate and declined to approve vouchers which technical ly seemed to be correct.
 For example, an army officer sta toned in the tropics put in a claim for his fuel allowance" of $75 for heating his home,' and threatened kha comntrnller,a office with dire cOu-
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-20

Whlch one or them copied the lnforma- tion on the accompanying card.
 Curiosity is contagious. AS soon as the Chinese had passed on another person who had been watching from the fish pond went over to the case. At first sight the exhibit looked like cistern pump of old and rusty iron, and lying by it another piece of the same ancient metal that might be a sort of lever, say, about three feet long. It's dramatic interest for the Orientals lay in the printing on the
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-20

Don't nurse opportunity too long take 1t into active partnership with you at once. lest it leave you for other company"
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Lock and Key of Picking interested These Two

T Chinese
  evident their excitement speech the with
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Thy They Cheered Transfer of George E. Downey

ERs on the transfer of George Downey of which Downey had curtaied
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New Air Fighting Gun That Shoots Both Ways

NEW arfghng is undergoing N United States Commander Ceand Davis g. N
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  $65000
  bought buildings
  leased by the
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NEWS IF THE WEEK
 FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES
 BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News Condensations Re- viewed Without Comment-AIl Nations Find Something to
 Edify and Instruct.

Charles Flueter, night counter man in the railroad eating house at Mis- souri Valley, Ia., quit his job to be married in order to qualify for le- gacy of $17,000 left to him by an un- cle in New York City on condition he should marry before Oct. 1.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-20
Plans for New Public Buildings Are Deferred

tdhSu up at Che cal Aoot' poAoiO tHO lapse of two more years. Word has gone out to the heads of these de- partments that congress will not be asked to appropriate for federal con- struction before 1917.
 The reason for this postponement is economy at time when the treas ury is in a depleted condition, to- gether with the prospect that con- gress will be asked to appropriate for the national defense.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-20

Warden J. K. Codding of the Kan sas penitentiary plans to have the prisoners eat from tables instead of benches. He has installed one table as an experiment.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-20

Heavy Japanese guns, manned by expert gunners from the Japanese army, are being used by the Russians in the defense of Dyinsk.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-20

Two men who rode motor cycles held up and robbed Earl Smith, book keeper in the office of the Lattas Creek Coal coilpany, near Hymera, Ind, and escaped with $9,000.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-20

Alberto Garcia Grenados, former minister of the interior in the cabinet of Gen. Huerta, has been convicted of treason and sentenced to deatA.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-20

Despondent because of poor health, George W. Eikleberry, a farmer living near Fairfield, H., committed suicide by hanging himself with halter rein in his barn.
Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-10-20

Fifty tons of coal tar dyestuffs of German manufacture have arrived in New York, consigned to the secretary of commerce.