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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17
The Uplifters.

81 believe that humanity is born
with the desire to improve itself" said
the altruist.
II don't know about all humanity"
said the cynical person, "but I'm con-
vinced that half humanity is born with
a desire to improve the other half, re-
gardless of consequences"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17
That Kind of Woman.

IT hate Mrs. Gadcomb," said Mrs.
Flitterby, with flashing eyes and
trembling lip.
why so, my dear?" asked Mr.. Fit
terby.
when I said Nora was the car Of
our kitchen, she smiled and said, You
mean "czarina," don't your"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17
Bound With Leather.

A frock of georgette crepe is made
with three ruffles on the skirt, each
bound with narrow edge of black
leather. The same black leather is
used for a belt and to bind on the
bodice.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17

the spring blouses, net to speak of the
dainty vestees. 1t Is often cross
barred, that is, with back-hand stitch
IN black or colors, or embroidered
with flowers and the buttonholes done
IN the same color. Pieces of organdie
trim other materials such as crepe de
chine, batiste and other blouse mate
rials.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17
Blouse of Ornandie.

Blouses of organdie unless made OF a
very flne quality are found to be unsat-
isfactory SO that this charming mate
rial is used now more for trimming
purposes such as collars and cuffs OF
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17

hyuld II. flnknam 8
V e &c ia Bile Com
pound. When / first
began taking it I
was suffering from
female troubles for
some time and had
almost all kinds Of
aches--pains in low
er part of back and
in sides, and press
ing down pains. I
could not sleep and
~
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17

Look at that dog chasing his tall
He is only doing what you and
are trying to do-making both ends
meet"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17
DR.. Carroll Fox Is Uncle Sans Expert on FIeas

CARROLL FOX of the United
all is TO know about He
fea habits and characteristics and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17
MOVING Picture Machines Bought for the Army

department
picture machines
has set out whereby
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17
Postage Stamps Shown in the National Museum

ONE of the
"
time given the privilege viewing
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17
White House Gardeners Heave Signs of Relief

the propagng
the
been heavg signs relief semiofca
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17
mrs. LYONS
ACHES AND PAINS
Have All Gone Since Taking
Lydia E. Pinkharn's Veg
etable Compound.

Terre Hill, Pa" Kindly permit me
to give you my testimonial in favor of
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17


"Can a working girl shape her future
rs she will, or Is she bound hand and
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-17

A WORKING GIRLS LUCK.

Happy, happier far than thou
With the laurel on thy brow;
She that makes the humblest hearth
Lovely to but one on earth.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-16

of a few days at best before all are
put to pumping. The South Penn
OH Company's No. on the B. +.
White farm is now down to $50 bar
rels a day. insolvency and Com
pany's well on the Pierce lot Is pro
ducing 100 barrels. and the Wild
wood OIL Company's test on the Int
farm is producing 100 barrels. The
South Penn Oil Company has sue
ceeded in Earring the tools loose,
stuck in their No. i on the B. f.
White farm, and is now cleaning out.
This location is by far the most Inn.
portant of any in the pool and Will
show whether or not the third sand
producing streak extends to the
southeast. There is still division OF
opinion as to the most likely dtrec-
ton for an extension. Some Few are
inclined to the belief that 1t will be
found to extend to the West, and
leases in that direction have been
taken, for which liberal bonuses have
been paid. In the .windup 1t Will
have been found that the paying OF
bonuses for town-lot leases, as well
as for some of the farms, will In the
aggregate amount to no small sum.
The full capacity of the biggest
gasser ever drilled in this country, To-
Gated near East McKeesport. In YER
sailles township, Allegheny county
and completed a week ago last even
ing. has been turned into the Peo-
Piles Natural Gas Company mains
and the product Is being marketed
An accurate guage of the well has
been taken but the owner declined
to state the capacity OF the well. me
Carnegie Natural Gas Company, Will
make an effort to get pull at the
strong pressure and with that eng
in view is building the rig for wen
on the adjoining farm. located zOo
feet south of the gusher. BY the
time the Carnegie company gets It's
Spfegel lot will have had good pull
at the deposit in the vicinity and II
can scarcely hope to duplicate the
performance of the big well.
Lincoln county has come to the
front with a very fair gasser, located
in Sheridan district. 1t is the Column
bia Gas and Electric Company's NO:
4 on the Eliza Midkiff farm. located
on Four-Mile Creek and shows
capacity of 100000 cubic feet a
day from the Big Injun sand.
On West Fork river. Union dis
trict. Harrison county. w. Brent Max
well has completed No. % on his own
farm and has fair gasser in the
Fifth sand. On Blue creek, Elk dis
trict, Kanawha county, the United
Fuel Gas Company has drilled It's
No. on the Anderson farm through
the Weir sand and has five-barrel
bumper. In the same district, the
South Penn OIL company has drilled
Its No. 40 on the Blue creek tract
into the Weir sand and has show
for a good producer. The Un1ted
Fuel Gas Company has shot NO. 2
on the w. H. and Mary j. motifs
farm and increased it's production
from four to ten barrels DAY: n Tue
South Penn Company shot Its old NO.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-16
paoeaeeasaoueeeemueeeeseaee
0lL AND GAS


The wells now coming In on town
lots are the most Interesting in the
Evans City development. 1t will be
some little time before there will be
any new wells due on adjacent farms
and they will be OF the greatest i'm
portance, as the extension OF the pool
will depend on the result OF these
wells drilling in advance. As pro-
ducing proposition the town-lot wells
are no longer in the running. Pos
sibly a few of them may come in and
show a squirt of production at the
time of completion, but the dry-hole
list will get large number. What
looks to be the latest acquisition to
the duster list is Bradshaw & Sim
cox's well on the Fox-Zeigler lot. 1t
is now drilling at 1s feet in the
third sand and has no show. 1t
should have gotten the pay at sew
enteen feet in the sand. Unless a
pay is found at a lower depth than
in any of the previous competitions
/. will be a buster In all formations.
The O'Brien Oil Company has drilled
its well on the Sarah Dombart lot
into the sand and from the first pay
has a show for a five or ten barrel
pumper.
The one-time large producers in
the Evans City pool are. declining
rapidly and 1t will be but matter,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-16
PR|ZEe5
Are offered in the Athletic Con-
tests at the Tin Plate
Mems Picnic.

Merchants and business men OF
the city have offered prizes TO TUG
winners in the events on the big am
Ietic program to be carried out a.
Norwood park in connection Win tue
second annual picnic Of the employes
of the Phillips Sheet and TN RATS
Company as follows:
one hundred yard dash for men.
box of cigars by Brunswick pool
room: 1OO-yard dash for boys. ~
shirt by the Genteel shop; 5O-yard
dash for girls ober 18 years, pair OF
shoes by the United shoe store; oo-
ward dash for girls under 18 years.
one pair of silk hose by BroWns oe.
partment stores 50-yard dash Tor rat
men, a straw hat by Nusbaum; ovS
ward dash for fat women, wash tuo
nv the Barnes hardware store; high
lump. safety razor by Burke's drug
store; broad jump, baseball glove by
pike News Company; half mile race
$3.50 gold piece by I Wade German;
marathon race, SIS gold piece by >.
g. Denham; automobile race, silver
cup by Mayor G. II. Gordon; motor
cycle race, silver cup by the poilce
department; baseball game. tnree
gallons of ice cream by the Imperial
Zee Cream Company; creased pig,
pig given by Edmund Denham
championship fat mans race, $2.5o
gold piece by Charles G. Coffman; tug
Of war, two gallons of ice cream by
the Imperial Ice Cream Company.
AS only one prize is offered in each
event with the exception of the base
bali game and the tug Of war, the
prize will go to the winner In all
events but the two mentioned In
which the prize will be divided equal
Nv among the members OF the win
nj teams
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-16

tfon of state tree became necessary
a short time ago when 1t was decided
on holding tree planting ceremony
In connection with West Virginia
Day at the Panama-Pacific exposition
in San Francisco July 81.
The committee. headed by Colonel
Paul Grosscup, Investigated the mer-
It's of different trees and finally hit
on the sycamore. This selection was
made partly because of the fact that
the sycamore will flourish In Caltfor-
MIA as well as in West Virginia.
The tree to be planted before the
West Virginia building on the TWEEN
ty-first has been shipped from big
nursery at Point Pleasant and will
be on hand in plenty of time for the
ceremony Particular interest has
attached to the tree planting because
of the fact that heretofore West Viz
GINA has never officially designated
state tree.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-16

Il on the Albert Myers farm in the
Suuaw sand and increased its pro-
duction from two to five barrels.
The Pierce Oil Company has start
ed to drill wildcat, located on Ad-
dis Run, Grant district. Richie coun-
ty On Nutters Fork of Goose Creek.
Grant district, George Rinehart and
Company have started to drill test
on the ]. C. Carpenter farm
In the deep sand territory, in
Green township, Hooking county, o.,
the Preston OIL Company mas snot us
No. 6 on the Eliza j. Price farm ana
1t produced eighty barrels the ensuing
hours. In Jenerson
township. Knox county, the Farbing
Drilling Company's No. 2 on the w.
A. Barnes farm is producing forty
five barrels day. The staying quail
ties of this well does not equal that
of other wells in the deep sand terri
tory.
Light wells are in evidence in the
shallow sand districts. In the Mar
ietta township, Washington county,
Charles Amsler and Company have
completed a test on the Petit heirs
farm and have light pumper In the
second Cow Run sand. In Fearing
township, in the same district, James
/. Bunne1l has drilled his No. on
the Peter Spindler farm to the Berea
grit and has duster.
In the Duff City district. Allegheny
county, Pa, the Hazelwood Oil Com
pany has drilled it's No. on the
William Deer heirs farm, through the
1O0-foot sand and has snow for q
ive-barrel pumper. They will drill
through the thirty foot sand before
stopping to test in the 100 foot.
The Oil Market.
Pennsylvanta. 1.s5: mercer
black 81; New Castle OF; Corning
90; Cabeu 81; North Lima So; South
Lima SO; Princeton "a; Wooster
s1.05; Indiana 50; Somerset so:
Ragland 63;nlinois "a: Kansas 40;
Oklahoma 40; Corsicana. light As;
corsicana, heavy IS; ELECTRO 45;
3S degrees so; Caddo. 35 degrees SO;
ICaddo, 80 degrees 40; Caddo. crude
IS: Canada $1.28.
Producers and Refiners' Company
quotes $1.35 for crude of the Penn
sylyania grade.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-16

A famous entomologist says white
ants have attacked the lonely home
Of an indian farmer, and in short
time have eaten many of the sills and
floors of the house.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-16
The OH Market.

To avoid the use of towels In
public places there has been invented
a device In which persons hands
are dried with current OF electri-
city heated air.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-16

The death rate among under
ground workers In the United King
dom Increased from LIS In 1912 to
LA a thousand in 1913.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-05-14
Prettiest Vassar Girl,

Poughkeepsie. N. Y. May 3.-Miss
Julia Anita Parker of Hyde Park was
voted the prettiest girl in the sopho-
more class of Vassar college when she
was chosen as the grand marshal of
the bevy Of tw~enty-six girls who will
carry the daisy chain ut commence
ment exercises June 8. Miss Parker Is
tall and athletic, has dark hair and
brown eyes and an olive complexion.
This Is the first time that the bru-
nette type of beauty has been favored
in selecting a grand marshal.
The twenty-four chosen to carry the
daisy chain are:
Madeline Hunt. Brookline. Mass: Eloise
Cummings. Pittsburgh; Katharine Mac
Afee, Chicago: Margaret Hackney, Johns
town: Marion serrie. Lockport; Philina
Marshall, Philadelphia; Jane Lyday. De-
troit; Anna Goodenow, Jamaica Plain.
Mass; Anne Gardner. Mount Vernon; An
nabelle McEldowney. Pittsburgh: Joseph
inc Tailor. Englewood, N. j.; Dorothy
D%anforth, st. Louis: Dorothy Smith.
Waikiki: Katharine Tilt, Chicago: Doro-
thy Carter. Huntington. N. Y: Doris
Drummer, Hamburg: Helen Moore, Prince.
ton, N. j.; Margaret Buffum. East Hamp-
ton. Mass: Anne Smith, Memphis, Tenn.i
Laura Stilson. Cortland; Dorothy Copen'
haver, Washington; Rachel Beyner, Sa-
vannah; Alice Macllray. Tarrytown.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-05-14
ANCIENT ROMAN THEATERS.

When Rome was in her glory and
the theater most popular distinctions
between spectators long remained un-
known. When distinctions We're made
the best seats were not assigned to the
priests, for the drama had no such re-
ligious significance for the Romans as
It had had for the Greeks, but were
set apart for the more a%ristocratic por-
ton Of the community.
The orchestra was by law set apart
for the senator's. Later, perhaps after
67 B. c., the first fourteen rows back
of the orchestra We're, by the law of
Roscius Ohio, reserved at Rome for
the knights, says Art and Archaeology:
Similar arrangements obtained in Ro-
man theaters outside of Rome, though
in a provincial town like Pompeii as
many as fourteen rows of seats can
hardly have been necessary for the
knights.
Augustus regulated the Whole mat
ter afresh. He confirmed the special
privileges already granted to senators
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-05-14
CAPoNs THAT COUNT.


The best capons are Matched in early
spring and operated upon during early
summer, before extremely hot weather
begins. says the Country Gentleman.
The birds are then ready for market
during and after the holiday season.
Cockerels of any breed can be made
to increase in weight by being capon-
lied. The larger breeds will permit of
much greater gains and are therefore
more desirable. For the production Of
capons on the farm the Plymouth
Rocks are among the best fowls to
keep, since the females may be kept
for eggs and all surplus cockerels ca
poniZed.
June and July are the best months
for the work, because spring hatcled
chicks reach proper size then and also
because birds caponiZed at this time ar
rive at the proper age and weight for
marketing at the seaSo when there is
the greatest demand and the best prices
prevail.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-05-14
New British Chief Of Staff.

London, May 3.-Major General Sir
William Robert Robertson, quarter
master general on the staff of Field
Marshal Sir John French, with tempo
rary rank of lieutenant general. has
been promoted to be the chief Of the
imperial general staff to succeed Ma
ior General Sir Archibald james Muir
ray.
No explanation was given why Gen
eral Murray is to be succeeded by Gen
erAl Robertson. Twice in the present
war General Murray has been men
toned In reports. In September Cen
eral French spoke Of him as having
been nj Of those who had worked
day and night increasingly, with the
utmost skill. self sacrifice and devo-
ton" In October General French
again added him to his roll Of honor.
Sir William Robertson's work as quar-
terlnaster general of the British army
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-05-14
To Take Census Of New York.

Albany, n. y, May 4.-The census
enumeration Of New York state, about
to begin. promises to be one Of the
largest and most extensive single sta
tistical enterprises in the country. In
no other state or group OF states are
there so many people to be enumerated,
while the fact that the population Is
quite sparsely settled in certain parts
makes the problem all the more diff
cult and expensive.
Because the number and completely
of the interrogatories will be more ex-
tensive this year and a completion
within the short space of two months
set by the constitution is necessary. a
large number of supervisors and emu
merators, clerks and interpreters will
be required.
But the average person in this state
has little knowledge OF the tremendous
amount of work which must be under
taken under the direction Of the secre-
tary of state during the coming months.
Already extensive preparations have
been made IN anticipation Of the great
task. which in its simplest phase in
wolves the counting Of upward Of the
100000 of inhabitants now estimated
to be In this state.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-05-14
New Worlds Center.

Washington, May 3.-Confidence in q
speedy return to normal business con-
ditions was expressed by W. p. G..
Harding, member Of the federal reserve
board. Mr.. Harding also predicted that
the war in Europe would make New
York the worlds financial center.
"In some of the federal reserve dis
tricts. particularly in the west" said
Mr.. Harding, business conditions al
ready are normal, and the federal re-
serve banks are having few applica-
lions for r~ediscounts. Business is also
becoming normal in the south. The
advance In the price of cotton is bound
to be a wonderful stimulus to general
business conditions in the south, but it
is to be hoped that southern farmers
will not be carried away by this ad-
vance and plant another large crop.
They should be very conservative In
cotton acreage and should materially
increase their acreage of food crops"
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-05-14
Rockefeller Lake Drys Up.

Tarrytown, N. y. May 3.-John D.
Rockefeller has spent 100000 in max
Ing Il lake on the Buttermilk hill sec
ton of his Pocantico Hills estate.
Twice within the last six months the
bowl has been filled, and both times
the water has disappeared over night.
leaving a dry. sandy bottom.
The disappearance of the water was
a mystery to Mr.. Rockefeller until
some Of his workmen discovered quick
sand in the bed of the lake. 1t is said
that Mr.. Rockefeller will spend anoth-
er 100000 if necessary to overcome
the difficulty.
A year ago an artificial lake near
the Bedford road ON Mr.. Rockefeller's
estate disappeared e night. He is
greatly interested in the work on the
Buttermilk Hill lake, even %neglecting
his golf to oversee it. He spends much
Of the day there and rides home in an
automobile truck when the men quit
work at night.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-05-14
TO IMPROVE THE FRUIT.
Thinning Advised For Those Who Want
Product Of High Quality.

Thinning Advised For Those Who Want
Product Of High Quality.
To many it is a waste Of time and
labor to thin fruit trees, but with few
exceptions it should be done. When
the tree bears a light crop little thin
ming is necessary. but since most
trees bear too much it is necessary to
thin them to obtain fruit Of proper
quantity and quality. The purpose Of
thinning is to secure large, healthy,
we'll favored fruit in culling out the
knotty, diseased, i'll favored ones. In
order to prevent waste, feed the culls
to hogs and poultry.
Culling out can be gagged by no fast
rule. 1t is seldom overdone since the
fruit grows fast up to harvest time. It
is best to pull each wormy and blight
ed fruit. Such fruit will either drop
from the tree before picking o prove
worthless for storage or marketing.
Thinning will also prevent good fruit
from contamination. In addition. the
remaining fruit has a greater chance Of
development because the tree is not
called upon to nourish those infested.
The fruit produced from trees that
have been thinned is Of far superior
quality.-American Agriculturist.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-05-14
should be remembered that individuals
Of the improved breeds that have been

should be remembered that individuals
Of the improved breeds that have been
well handled and fed on a variety of
feeds will eat more grass and get more
out Of 1t than animals that have been
confined in yards and pens and fed al
most entirely on concentrates. With
the latter class the stomachs have not
been expanded, and they are not capa-
Bile of holding much coarse feed, and
consequently such hogs cannot give as
good returns for grass consumed.
1t is safe to say that pigs weighing
from 125 to $50 pounds will consume
ten to twelve quarts Of grass per day
while being fed Stops and a fairly good
ration Of grain feeds. An acre Of
clover growing on good rich soil in the
early part of the season will furnish
pasture for at least ten pigs of the
size mentioned. -Four or five brood
sOws, with their filters of pigs, can
also be pastured OF an acre Of clover.
Good judgment necessarily must be
used in this matter. Overpasturing is
not desirable, but an effort should be
made to keep enough animals on each
acre of pasture to keep the grass eaten
down before it attains a rank growth.
Swine eat only the short and tender
grass. Few Of the rank and coarse
stems are consumed. In case a suf-
ficient number Of animals to keep the
g ass eaten down cannot be kept in 4
field, as soon as the clover blossoms
It should be moved and cured for hay,
after which a new growth will start,
which the pigs will relish. In this
way the maximum results from the
clover will be secured.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-05-14
LIVE STOCK ON THE FARM,
How a Grain Grower Turned a Loss
Into Substantial Profit.

INTO ouDStdtSvdj ~ OuIs
\ number of years ago a North Da-
kota wheat farmer, whose exclusive
grain growing had put him deep in
debt. desired from his bank Il loan Of
$1,000. writes j. c. Mcdowell in the
Kansas Farmer. Except the horses
there was no live stock-not a COW, a
pig or even Il c%hicken-on the place.
The banker. a very shrewd business
man, was able to analyze the problem
and to discover the cause OF the farm
er's financial difficulties, and he agreed
to make the loan only Oh condition that
the borrower change his system Of
farming.
The system outlined by the banker
required that Il portion OF the loan
should be used to purchase two cows,
half a dozen pigs and Il small flock of
poultry. 1t also provided for a fair
sized vegetable garden. Grain farming
was to be continued as before. The
banker figured that the live stock and
the garden would, in poor as we'll as
in good seasons. fully support the
farmers table. He figured that in
poor years the farmer would be able
to play even and that in the good, and
even in the average year, the farm
would produce enough to gradually
wipe out the debt.
The farmer reluctantly agreed to the
bankers terms, received the loan and
met the conditions. In five years he
was out of debt and rated as a SUBJ
%stantial and prosperous farmer and
business man. To him farming had
ceased to be a game of chance and had
become a business.