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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-05-15
Tuesday, May Is, 1915
Horses

beginning at 1880 O'Clock a. no.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-01-26
COST OF INSECT RAvAeEs
IN DAMAGE TO CROPS

Scientific investigation is RESPONSE.
Die for the assertion that were it not
for birds. insects would render the en-.
tire American continent uninhabitable
within II lew years" says the February
Popular Mechanics Magazine. in an H.
Illustrated article. AS it is, the an
nual damage done Il trees and grow
ing crops by the ravages OF insects
represents a loss which has been as.
ttmntcd at more than $500. 0O0. 900, and
this mainly because the normal bal.
ance between bird life and insect life
has been upset by the destruction of
song birds. Nearly 80 per CEN of the
birds of this country. it is estimated,
have been eXterminatcd through the
various influences of commercialism,
sport Ignorance. and cats. Since the
preservation of the remainder is neces-
Sary from the standpoint of dollars
ana cents. the government has under.
taken to protect the insect-eating
birds and assist in their natural in
crease"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-01-26
CREATE AN ESTATE TO-DAY

WHAT are you working for? Isn't it
10 build up an independent future for
yourself: 10 provide for your loved
ones 50 that the comfort OF your home
and the happiness Of those about you
will not cease at yor death or in your
age? y great many men all TO re-
aliZe This desire through Incidence and
lack OF foresight in the very years
that should be The most beneficial.
Their intentions are good-but inten-
lions Il no bills, buy no food, dress
no widow II children, pay no rent
or interests, lift no mortgages, buy no
home, nor do they keep you in your
declining years.
IL you were offered a credit oil Il
few thousand dollars, to be paid to
your family at your death, or to your
self 20 years hence, should you be
alive, II in consideration of that
credit you pay a minimum annual
interest on that sum for 20 years.
YOU would consider it an easy way
OF securing an cstate-an opportunity
OF providing yourself and dcar ones
against possible al You would not
hesitate Il moment to grasp il.
That's Just What Insurance
Amounts To!
Why not insurance now, when you're
in health. II will sometime be too
late. The time is now, and here is the
logical place for right insurance.
II. S. TABER
Agent New York Life Insurance Co.
ELKO NEVADA
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-01-26

ance promises TO be large because of
the presence of many farmers and
others who will be attracted to the
university for the special instruction
outlined for the short courses in
agricultural and prospecting.
Dean Scrugham, who, with Deans
knight and Watson and a committee
OF the Reno Commercial club. has
beer active in perfecting the arrange
ments for the conference. announces
hat 1t is the hope that members of
the legislature will attend in a body.
Governor Boyle and former Governors
oddie and Dickerson will take prom
inent parts i'll the deliberations of the
conference and several members of
the legislature have agreed to make
short addresses.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-01-26
SIX FIREmEN MAKE
THRILLING LEAP FOR LIFE

Six firemen. caught on the roof of
Il burning grain elevator at Galveston.
Tex. $50 IT. above the ground. iump.
ed, II at a time, into a life net held
90 II. below. and with one N
escaped without serious INJURY. The
February Popular Mechanics Magazine
contains several interesting views of
the confiagration and of firemen in the
act OF escaping from il. The net was
held on the top of a brick shaft reach
ing 30 IT. up the side of the buildin-
which would only be gained by means
of extension ladders. In one case he
net broke from the hands of the res
cuers and the fireman was seriously
injured. The six firemen had mount
ed to the top of the building in the
freight elevator. Within a few minu-
ties the flames had run up the elc-
vator shaft, and with all retreat cut
of. the flremcn were driven out on
the lower roof of the building. This
roof was beginning to fall in as the
last fireman jumped. The elevator
was completely destroyed. with a re-
sultinG loss of about 49, OO, 900.
-O-
Read the Daily independent
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-01-26
SMALLPOX AT N

TWO cases of smallpox have been
discovered among employees in the
office of the Danberg Land and Live
stock company at Mindcn, and DR..
Maclean of Carson City has been
called upon to investigate and take
steps TO prevent a spread of the
disease.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-01-26
MOUNT LASSEN AGAIN

REDDlNG. Jan. ga magnificent
ly spectacular demonstration was Civ
on yesterday by Lassen Peak, perhaps
the most violent eruption of the series
since May. Subterranean rumblings
and tremors of the earth were heard
and felt at Volta. twenty-five miles
from the peak. Falling ashes covered
The snow fields of Macomber fiat. four
tee miles distant.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-01-26
FOREIGN CORPORATIONS
TAKE GRAVE CHANCES

1t g not cost a foreign corpora
lion, doing business in Nevada. but a
trifiing mount TO publish its annual
statement in conformity with law. but
it may be made rather expensive in
end if this formality is neglected.
In addition to being subjected TO a con-
siderable fine, a foreign company, fail
ing to publish such statement, loses
its standing in the courts.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-01-26
ARRANGEMENTS FOR
CONFERENCE COMPLETED

Arrangements are virtually complet-
ed for the state welfare and develop.
ment conference to be held February
5th and 9th under the auspices OF the
state university at Reno. The attend
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-01-26
BACK TO THE HOOPS

CHICAGO, ILL.,. Jan. 23.-Full
skirts, reinforced and made non
transparent by heavy lining, will be
next summers fashion, according to
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-01-26

the style bulletin Of the fashion art
league of America. Gowns of the
old %crinoline days will be approach
ed step by step.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-18
MAINE LIBRARIES
GIFTS DURING 1914

During 1914 the following towns
were among those which received spe-
cial library gifts and requests:
Bangor-Fine scientific Collection of
the late Ora w. knight. of Portland
Bingham-s1,0 900 by the will of Mrs
Lillian Washburn, with the provision
that this amount be used within IL
years toward erecting a library build
ing to cost not less than $4,000. -l:-
Blue Hill-s1, 600 by the will of Will
liam Paris Tenney, of Boston.
Buxton-A site, $1,000 for building,
81 900 for books, and also $4,000 for care
of the building, provided this last
named amount be left of the estate,
by the will of Andrew l.. Berry, I'M
der certain limitations.
Castine-$500 by the will of Eben
Blake Page, Of Winchester, Mass.
Farm:ngton-$5,0O 600 by the will of
Miss Belle w. Gilman.
Friendship-49 volumes from Will
liam d Lancey Howe, Of Boston, and
so volumes from DR.. and Mrs. F. w.
Jackson, to start a public library.
Houlton-s5,000 by the will of Miss
Emma Drew, former resident, the
bequest being in honor OF the late
Mcllen Drew, brother of the de-
cedent
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-18

Of education. Supt. Overlook, who
has the welfare of every schoolboy
and girl in town at heart, upon pre-
senting the diplomas to the class gave
a brief but concise address, touching
on the various phases of school life,
it's joys, sorrows, struggles and its
final reward-graduation. every word
Of which was listened to with deep in
terest by all present.
Excellent music was furnished by
the Bennett Sisters Orchestra Of Lib
erty, assisted by Fred Waterman OF
Appleton. The hall was filled with in
terested spectators, among them be-
ing a large number Of out-of-town
guests who came for this occasion.
Much credit is due the school commit
tee, superintendent and townspeople,
who work so untiringly for the main
tenance of our schools, and it is
hoped Mr.. Nichols can be induced to
remain as principal of w. H. S. for
another year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-18
short unit COURSES
FOR WAGE FARMERS and 4
FACTORY SCHOOL EXPERIMENT

in a New York City white goods fac
tory as the result of instruction in the
elements of English and arithmetic
given in an experimental factory
school. For the purposes of the COM
parison the earnings of 1C illiterate
girls We're studied in comparison
with those of 10 literate girls,
both groups of which We're made
up of girls Of corresponding ages and
of practically the same experience in
the work upon which they were en-
gagged. In period Of 80 weeks prior
to the opening of the school. the aver
age earnings per hour of the literate
girls exceeded those Of the illiterates
by 81 cents, equivalent to $1.85 per
week OF so hours. Throughout the pc
Rod OF school Instruction the litter
ate girls showed steady increase in
earnings per hour. At the end Of the
course of 16 weeks, their earnings had
Increased 2.7 cents an hour, or $1.35
per week. During the same period the
earnings of the 10 literate girls re-
manned practically unchanged. The
experiment was thus regarded as
highly successful, both from the
standpoint of the employer and Of the
employee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-18
FARMERS UNIONS
Still GROWING
Two new UNIONS

c. E. Embree of the Bureau OF
Marketing and Supplies on Thursday
May 10, organized the Westbrook
Farmers Union at Porters hall, Cum
berland Mills. The officers are:
Pres. w. T. Harper; V. Pres, E. A.
Mosher; Sec, Clinton F. Rines; Treas.
Roger Haskell; directors, w. T. Har-
per, E. A. Mosher. Roger Haskell, w.
7. Hawkes., Fred 0. Dolley; G. F. Rob-
erts, w. 3. Lowell.
Mr.. Embree on Friday, May IA or
ganized the Rockland Farmers Union
at the hall of Pleasant Valley Grange,
Rockland. The officers: Pres, F. E.
Post; V. Pres, ]. w. Anderson; Sec,
B. S. Thorndike; directors, F. E. Post,
j. w. Anderson, P. F. O'Neal, L. E.
Semon. Luke r. BREWSTER.
These two new Unions make a total
Of 10, all affiliated with the Farmers
Union of Maine. The Westbrook
Farmers Union is the first to be or
ganized in the vicinity Of Portland,
and now that the start has been
made it is planned to surround the
city with Unions and then all COM
bine for the purpose Of building and
maintaining a shipping house or store
on the line of the railroad where all
can sell and buy the many articles
used on the farm.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-18

morning, aged SO years, 26 days
Mrs. Sherburne was born April 20,
1927, daughter of Adrial and Han
nah Thompson. She attended kitch-
en- school and when Is years of age
went to Great Falls, N. H., where she
worked in a cotton mill. At the age
of q she was married to Nathaniel
S. Sherburne Of Norwood, N. H.
About 60 years ago Mrs. Sherburne
came with her husband to Sanford
Mrs. Sherburne never rode in a street
car, although the street railway has
been IN operation past her house for
nearly 20 years. Three children sur
vive, Mrs. Sarah l.. Downs, Fred s.
and Frank Sherburne, all of Sanford;
seven grandchildren, Mrs. Helen F.
Mildram and Mrs. Lillian M. Mitchell,
Sanford; Mrs. Stanton Newhall and
Miss Lydia Sherburne. Boston: Miss
Ida Downs. Portland: Fred Sherburne,
in the West, and Fred L. Downs, San
ford, and four great-grandchildren
Frank w. Moulton Of Sanford, Elinor,
Marion and Lillian Jones of Quincy,
Mass. The funeral will be at the home
Tuesday afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-18

EXERCISES AT WASH
|NGT t HIGH SCHOOL

Washington, Me-, May 17.-(SpeciaD.
The commencement exercises of
Washington High school, class of
1915, were held Friday evening at the
Grange hall and were very beautiful
and impressive. The hall was very
prettily decorated for the occasion
in evergreen and boughs intermingled
with the class colors, maroon and
gray, the stage setting being an en-
tire bank Of green with the class
motto, Tonight We Launch; Where
Shall We Anchor?" across the front
in white letters. The graduates were
L. /. Morton, Charles H. Slower,
Gladys Hall, and the following pro-
gram was rendered:
Salutatory, L. 1. Norton prayer, w.
F.. Overlook; grafton, Erosion in
Washington" G. H. Slower; address,,
Hon. L. NJ. Staples; Grafton, Where
the Dinner Came From" Gladys Hall;
Grafton, "A Citizen of Washington"
L. T. Morton; graduation address, S.
r. Oldham; presentation of diplomas,
Supt. W. E. Overlook: valedictory,
Gladys Hail.
The able way in which the graduates
carried out their parts was a credit
to the town, the school and to the
untiring effort on the part of the
principal, Mr.. Nichols, who has so
ably made the school success dur
ing the past year. The addresses by
Mr.. Staples and Mr.. Oldham of M.
c. I. were very pleasing as well as
instructive and showed deep thought
and study on the subject and value
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-18
YOU CAN INCREASE WEIGHT

Thin men and women who would like
to increase their weight with 10 or 20
pounds Of healthy stay there" fat should
try eating little Tonoline with their
meals for while and note results. Here
is good test worth trying. First weigh
yourself and measure yourself. Then
take Tonoline-one tablet with every meal
for two weeks. Then weigh and meas
ure again. 1t isn't question of how you
look or feel or what your friends say
and think. The scales and the tape meas
ure will tell their own story. and most
any thin man or woman can easily add
from to 10 pounds in the first two weeks
by following this simple direction, and
best of all, the new flesh stays put
Tonoline does not of itself make fat,
but mixing with your food. it turns the
fats, sugars and starch Of what you have
eaten into rich, ripe fat producing nour-
ishment for the tissues and blood-pre-
pares 1t in an easily assimilated form
which the blood can readily accept. All
this nourishment now passes from your
body as waste. But Tonoline stops the
waste and does it quickly and makes the
fat producing contents OF the very same
meals you are eating now develop pounds
and pounds more Of healthy flesh Tom
cline is safe, pleasant, efficient and in
expensive. as 1t costs only 500 for a Is
day treatment Mail orders filled by
American Proprietary Co., Boston, Mass,
For sale by Bowditch, Webster & Co.
ADV.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-18
HOW SHE ENDED
TEN Years OF
SKIN-TORTURE

Oct. 90, l9l4:-"I had eczema on my
face for ten years. Little red pimples
formed in small spot on my chin and
then spread all over my face. They
itched and burned me awfully. It was
certainly embarrassing to me, and I
would not go amongst people. I tried
almost every remedy and treatment
that could be used for this trouble, but
nothing did me any good. / used Res
mol Ointment and Resinol Soap, and
was relieved in day or two. In one
month I was cured. This was six
months ago and the trouble has never
returned. "-(Signedl Mrs. G. G. Rob.
erts, Weatherford, Okla.
The Resinol treatment speedily heals
eczema, rashes, ringworm, and other
eruptions, and clears away disfguring
pimples and blackheads, even when
other treatments prove worse than USE
less. Doctors have prescribed Resinol
Ointment and Resinol Soap for eigh.
teen years, and all druggists sell them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-18
REPORT ALL CASES
OF TURF Being
PLACED IN ROADS

The Maine Automobile Association
is sending to it's 5000 members cards
asking that they report violations of
the law regarding the placing of turf
in the highways. The notices are as
follows:
Members of the Association are re-
quested to notify the State Highway
Commission at Augusta Of towns that
are placing sods in the roads. State
the name or location of the road in
the town and furnish the CoDhmis-
sion with the names Of two persons
who have knowledge of the facts.
Towns placing sods in the road with
out cutting them up fine and covering
them up, forfeit their State aid. This
applies to all roads in towns, cities
and plantations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-18
CAMPMEET|NGS
FOR SEASON 1915
AT OLD ORCHARD

The Orchard Beach Campmeeting
Association has issued its program of
meetings to be held in it's enclosure
this summer. the total number Of
days engaged being a few less than in
previous years.
The Maine Evangelistic Association
has from July to July u, inclusive:
the Salvation Army July II, Is and
10: the Portland District Meeting
from July 20 to July 20. inclusive.
The Christian and Missionary ALI
ance has from July 80 to Aug 8; the
National Holiness convention from
Aug. Is to Aug. 20 and Hope Mission
from Aug. Is to Sept. 8. inclusive.
Meetings covering but one day each
are: The w. c. T. U. on August gath
and the annual Maine Women's Suf-
frage Day on August 11.-Old Orchard
News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-18

| Short unit courses for wage earners
and factory school experiment is the
| title of Bulletin No. 159, just issued
| by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
| the Department Of Labor. The best
method of assisting persons who are
| already wage earners SO as to increa Sc
| their skill, earning power, and oppor-
tunities for advancement has long
been a problem with educators and
employers, as we'll as with wage earn
ers themselves. The short unit course
| is designed for effectively solving this
problem for certain groups of work.
erS. 1t IS not a short cut to the trade.
The short unit course is an intensive
form of instruction in a limited num-
Der Of lessons. which is intended to
serve a specific need of a particular
group. Each course deals with one
part of the trade and is complete in it
self The courses include only what
has been found to be of practical value
in the trade. The material selected is
taught by a practical teacher, with
reference to it's adaptability 10 the
trade needs of the particule,r group.
BY eliminating all unnecessary pre-
paratory work, the courses economic
eho l4iiiC VI inc pupil
"A common Weakness Of the courses
frequently OFFERED for wage earners is
lid. theN are laid out to cover three
vi iouF years, and only a few pupils
remit IN in school long enough to COM
Blete the course. The short unit
course meets the difficulty by dealing
with one specific thing in each course
and by making the unit so small that
the pupil will be able to complete it
within the time the school can prob
ably hold him. If the unit course is
laid out for ten lessons, the pupil who
remains during the course gets all the
school has to offer on specific top
ic BY Offering a series of short unit
courses on the same subject, expert
ence goes to show that when one
course is completed the pupil is like
ly to return for the next one, and
thus actually remains in the school
longer than he would if the same work
were laid out in the form Of a contin-
uous course.
The method Of instruction by short
unit courses for wage earners has
proved successful in many localities.
Examples of such successful work
are the courses for specialized ma
chine hands in the evening classes of
the Newton, Mass Trade School,
those for piano tuners in the Murray
Hill Evening Trade School, New York
City, those for machine hands in the
furniture industry in the Evening
Trade School of Grand Rapids. Mich,
and those for steam engineers in the
Industrial School at New Bedford,
Mass. Numerous detailed examples of
the short unit courses in successful
use are given in this Bulletin.
One great advantage claimed for
the short unit course method is that
out of a study of the needs of the
worker new courses may be readily
developed. Some of the methods al
ready in use. particularly those deal
ing with the more ambitious. better
prepared, and ADLER workers engaged
for the most part in highly ski led
trades have long stood the test of ex-
perience.
This Bulletin also contains brief
study showing the effect upon the
earnings of illiterate immigrant girls
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-18
If You Have No Ambition
Take Wendell'S Ambition Pills

The Great Nerve Tonic. Good for that
tired feeling. 1t will help those Morning
Headaches and that Tired Feeling, re-
lieves Nervousness, Nervous Debility,
Weakness. Poor Blood Kidney and Liver
Complaints, Malaria, rheumatism. Neu.
ralgia, Exhausted Nervous Vitality, Ner-
vous Prostitution, Sleeplessness, De-
spondency, Mental Depression. Hysteria.
Numbness. Trembling. Nervous Head
aches. Dyspepsia. Indigestion. Loss of
Appetite, Constipation and all Affections
of the Nervous System.
Eowditch-Webster Co. is authorized by
the maker to refund the purchase price
if any one is dissatisfied with the first
box purchased.
Get them at Bowdtch- Webster Co.'s
and dealers everywhere for fifty cents.
Mail orders filled, charges prepaid, by
the Wendell Pharmacal Company, Inc,
Syracuse, n. Y.-Adv.
may4-l1-1S-25
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-18

Founder and President of the r. j.
Reynolds Tobacco Co.
just what two or three per cent. in adj
certising means in dollars and cents.
The Reynolds advertising account is
among the heaviest ever known.
In 1894 Mr.. Reynolds first realized that
properly applied and backed by tobacco
worth all he asked for 1t, advertising was
profitable. He invested $4,000 that year
and saw his business grow over 100000
pounds. Next year he spent five times as
much-and his business doubled!
From that period to the present the
r. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has
surged forward with sincere belief in the
quality of its brands-and firm confidence
in marketing them with intelligently con-
ceived and applied newspaper and maya
zine advertising.
The story of Richard J. Reynolds ca
reer is of real interest to every man in
business, because, humble as was it's be-
ginning, it proves what ambition and sim
cerity and a fine realization of square
dealing can produce in success. Prin-
ciples that governed Mr.. Reynolds work
AIOLl tue very SIslII dIS the lOuIludtiOu
Of the present enormous business.
Mr.. Reynolds was one Of the first men
to see the possibilities Of the culture and
manufacture Of tobacco in the world
renowned Piedmont region, and not lack
ing in courage and boldness, risked
everything he had to try it out. The
venture was not only blessed personally
the labor Of his own hands, but likewise
the labor OF thousands and thousands
who depend upon the culture or manu-
facture of tobacco for their livelihood.
Mr.. Reynolds is a firm believer in sur
rounding himself with able lieutenants
AS early as 1888 he effected an arrange
ment with some Of his employees, where
by they would share in the profits of tho
business. In 1888 company was formed
and Incorporated. The percentage Of pro-
fits that employees were receiving repre-
scented the percentage OF stock they Sc
cured in the company. number of the
ness today.
Newspapers and magazines have con-
stftuted the backbone of all our advertis-
ing" contineud Mr.. Reynolds.
Il believe that manufacturer who has
a good product with which he can make
a popular appeal. and will tell the truth
about 1t in the daily newspapers, backed
with good selling organization, will
ample experience with this form of ad-
vertising to prove. beyond any doubt,
that newspapers are. unquestionably. the
standard form Of advertising.
This business is international in its
scope. We, therefore. nave passed the
stage on several brands as far as local
advertising Is concerned. Hence. in con-
nection with newspaper advertising. we
use national publications. In establish
ing brands we cover the country section
by section, relying on newspapers for our
main advertising support.
when you consider the number Of
newspapers that daily go into the mil
lions of homes and how dependent we all
are upon them for the worlds news, it
would be hard to depreciate their value
as an advertising medium. After all, it's
simple matter Of manufacturing a good
article-and letting the people know the
truth about it.-Advt.