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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-07-22
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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-12-09
ABOUT THE CHURCHES
Interesting News Concerning the
Different Denominations.
This Column Closes Promptly at
9A. M. Each "Wednesday. ....

PRESBYTERIAN.
Regular services at II a. N.
Preaching at 7;30 p. m.
Sunday School at Gas a. N.
Christian Endeavor at $50 p. m.
The public cordially invited to all
services.
CHRISTIAN
Bible School 9:45 a. m.
Preaching II a. N. and 7:30 p. m.
Boys Club els p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday at
7:30 p. m.
Choir practice Saturday 500 p m
On Sunday Dec. 18th, the choir
will give a musical program using
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-12-09

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Missouri. as -rgnnd-class matter.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-12-09

Mr.. and Mrs w. Breshears were
Quincy visitors Wednesday
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1915-12-09

the evening hour The public cor
daily invited. w Garnet Alcorn.
GRACE BAPTIST.
closed a meeting of Is days in
Shelby County on Dec which re
suited 10 IL additions to Harmony
Grace Church. II were by baptism.
The results were wonderful consid-
ing we had the last two storms dur
ing the meeting. The writer has
witnessed 26 conversions and bap-
tized % during the last three
months. The pastor was greeted
with fine congregation at Grace
church last Sunday morning. Not so
good at night. Next Sunday S S.
9:45. Preaching at II a. IN. and 7
p. m. If any have been away and
neglecting your covenant with God
and the church. come out next
Sunday and renew your covenant
and God will forgive.
W. D. Cave.
METHODIST
At the morning service Rev.
Thompson will preach here. He is
home boy, and / do not care
whether you are interested in his
work or not, you ought to come out
and hear him. That is not all, he
was your P. E. for four years, and
a better one you never had.
At the evening service | will con-
tinue the theme l started few Sum
days back, and | want to look at
few more virtues the man we con-
sidered in the last service had.
The open programme Sunday
night, given by the young people
was fine. 1t could not be beaten
considering every one on the pro-
eramme had a cold in some fashion
and that the most of the people in
congregation had colds. The spirit
of the programme was Go-Forward
You may put it down. whenev
the young people say: we are 90
ing to put on play or programme"
it will be worth going to. I believe
every body enjoyed it, and it was
encouraging to see full house.
Sincerely, C. l. Hoy.
FIRST BAPTIST
Our services were well attended
last Sunday. all things considered.
There are great many who are
sick, but we trust conditions may
soon change for the better. Illness
in our home has made it impossible
for the pastor to call upon others
who are sick as he should done I'M
der other circumstances Sunday
School is at 9:45 a. m. The Supt.
will appoint committees next Sun
day to arrange for our Christmas
entertainment The hours for
preaching are II a. m. and 7 p. m.
The B. Y. P. u. will meet at 6:15 p.
m. The newly elected officers will
be in charge, and Miss Webb will
lead the meeting. The Luncheon"
at the home of Mrs. Baily Proctor
last Sunday evening was highly en-
joyed by about twenty-five or thir-
ty of our young people and it is
our intention to make these social
gatherings a feature of our work.
We want all of the young people of
our congregation enlisted in this
young peoples work. Let US all
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30
MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS.

Tn plea for every man and woman
in the United States to join in a
movement for annual or other peri
odic medical examination of them
selves. this movement to be formally
launched on December s, the National
Association for the Study and Pre-
vention of tuberculosis presents fig
ures in a bulletin issued Tecently
which show that very nearly 100 per
cent of the supposedly well people of
the United States over 30 years of
age have some physical defect or i'm
pairment. About 20 per cent of these
impairment were of a more or less
serious nature. There were besides
about 30 per cent of defects of a
minor character. GAS
The figures which the National as
sociation presents are based upon the
careful studies made by the Life Ex-
tension institute among two highly
specialized groups of people, the first
group consisting of workers in the
Ford Motor company of Detroit, and
the second group consisting, of EN-
ployes of commercial houses, banks
and trust companies in New York.
The records Of these examinations
show that practically none Of those
examined, men and women. are nor
NAL in the strict sense Of, the word.
Another striking fact in the examina-
tion is that only 10 per cent of those
who were impaired were aware that
there was anything the matter with
them. This fact alone. the National
tuberculosis association points out, is
sufficient to make every man and wO-
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30
INTERNATIONAL TOAST.

Next Saturday, which will be the
fourth day Of December, will mark
the closing of the Papama-Pacific In
ternatioual exposition at San Francis
co, which has scored a tremendous
success both froht an educational and
from the financial standpoint. And in
connection with the official closing
certain ceremonies will be observed
that. undoubtedly will attract wide
spread attention and arouse much in
terest. AT noon on that day, for in
stance. it has been arranged that an
international toast will be presented
bv President Wilson. and all nations,
organizations and institutions partic-
ipating in the exposition will be ask
ed to Join in this toast at the exact
hour of noon. San Francisco time
The toast itself, it is announced, will
be 'message of peace and good will
to all mankind" calculated to inspire
thoughts of world peace. world SER
vice and world patriotism.
The arrangement of this ceremony
was happy thought, and no more
opportune time possibly could have
been selected for carrying it out. 1t
has been worth something to the
world that while all of Europe has
been engaged in the destruction of
lives and property. and in exhibiting
the worst passions of the human race,
America has been exemplifying to the
world the beauties and advantages
of peace. While Europe has been
prostrate. America has entered into
a season of unprecedented prosperity,
which is growing larger and larger
with the passing months. The San
stanciseo exposition has been the
medium through which Americas mis-
sion in the world has been displayed,
and the service planned for the fourth
of December is as fitting as it is
unique.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30

may accomplish. Mr.. Davis original
ly undertook to promote this institu-
ton, and later when it became com
munity affair that gentleman was
named chairman of the commercial
organization committee which took
hold of the work and carried it to sue
cess. And that the succeeding events
will prove even more complete than
that of last Saturday there can be lit
tie doubt. The farmers Of the rural
realm are cooperating with their city
brethren and if this continues along
the line on which they have started
Sales day will not only become a per-
manent community institution, but
will be one Of the biggest and best
of its kind in the Willamette valley.
To the committee in charge of the at
fair much credit is due for its untir-
ing efforts.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30
PROSPERITY WEEK.

When business was Frustrated,
more than a year ago, and the wall
of the pessimism prevailed throughout
the land, the electrical industry, with
its investment of approximately $3,-
000,000,000, sensing demoralized
trade condition, determined to switch
the public mind from gloomy forebod-
ings, and as result Electrical Pros
perity week was developed with the
sole thought of wiping the fellow pos
sessing that depressed feeling off the
map. The magnitude of this impor-
tant event, which this week reigns
supreme in every community through
out the land, is great big example
of what can be accomplished by Co
operative effort. Although the coun-
try has passed back to prosperity
through logical chain of influences,
the promoters Of Electrical Prosperi-
ty week did much in restoring busi-
ness to normal conditions, having the
endorsement and hearty support of
other great industries in their under
taking. When the present week is
a matter of history, it may be said
with truth that the initiative and en-
terprise of the electrical industry has
again been asserted.
But. Electrical Prosperity week ac
complishes more than this. 1t shows
how industry may take advantage Of
recent progress in applying electricity
to improving business conditions, and
specially as regards transportation,
power, light, safety, cleanliness and
economy in production and distribu-
ton. In the language Of Thos. A.
Edison, "never in its history has cleo
tricity offered such wonderful help in
every commercial department of life.
1t promises horseless, smokeless, dirt
less, noiseless cities; and so many big
economic revolutionary things that it
would take a volume even to list
them"
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30
Heavy Tax For independence.

A twenty-mill tax levy was author
lied by the city council of Indepen-
dence on Friday evening. when the
vote of the previous meeting was rat
flied. Councilman Paddock was the
only dissenting voter, he maintaining
that an eighteen mill tax was sufffc-
lent. 1t seems to be a general opin-
ion that the twenty-mill levy was nee
essary in view of the conditions that
confront the city administrators this
year. but with cautious regulating
of the affairs of the city, hereafter,
such tax will not be required again.
Twice-a-Week Observer s1.50 a Year.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30
BRICK BUILDING TO GO UP.
Frame Destroyed by Fire Recently
Will Be Replaced.

A new two-story brick building will
be erected on the site of the recent
fire at Independence, and a cleanup
of the premises is already under way.
The remains of the Fowler restaurant
are being removed and the charred
timber, warped pipes and tin cans
that marked the scene of the disas-
trous fire of several weeks ago, will
soon entirely disappear. E. Fluke of
the Fluke & johnson grocery COM
pany is said to be the man behind the
operation, but several other persons
are interested with Mr.. Fluke. A mod
ern two-story building will be erect
ed. large enough to accommodate the
business houses that were forced out
by the fire.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30
URGING PEACE CONFERENCE.

Mrs. Henry Ford. wife Of the De-
troit automobile magnate, has con-
sented to finance new movement IN
tended to hasten the restoration OF
peace in Europe, through the calling
of peace conference Of neutral ma
tions to discuss the possibility of find
ing a just settlement Of the war. In
furtherance Of this project Miss Jane
Addams of Chicago, president of the
Women's Peace party, has dispatched
about 10000 kilograms to the local
president of women's clubs in every
state and section of this country, sug-
gesting an immediate telegraphic ap-
peal to President Wilson to call a
peace conference of neutral nations.
This evidently is intended to supple
ment and join with other similar
movements having in view the calling
of a neutral peace conference. And
unquestionably it is hoped to put SO
much pressure on President Wilson
that he will feel under obligation to
Join this movement by officially issu-
ing the call, as requested. COnceding
there is practically universal desire
for the restoration Of peace, however,
land this applies to the people OF the
fighting nations no less than to neu-
trail countries) /, the further fact should
not be overlooked that there also is
such thing as unwarranted outside
meddling at an inopportune time-a
mistake that might do more harm than
good There is nothing as yet to
show that the belligerent nations are
sufficiently ready for peace to make
concessions that would promise to be
satisfactory to the other side, and not
much chance of peace until this point
is reached. In other words, while
both sides naturally desire peace,
neither side is sufficiently victorious
to dictate terms to the other, and
neither side sufficiently exhausted to
be willing to accept harsh and arbl-
trary terms imposed by the other side.
Both are anxious for peace, but each
is stubbornly determined to "fght 1t
out" until it either is whipped and
thus compelled to submit to dictation,
or until the other side is placed In
this predicament.
This being so, it goes without say
ing that any outside movement to
coerce the belligerents would be re-
garded by the latter as perniclously
meddlesome, and such movement prob
ably would meet with speedy rebuff,
no matter how good the intentions
might be. 1t is case that parallels
our own experience during the civil
war. for if neutral nations had urged
settlement of the war while the lat
ter was in progress both sides unques7
tionably would have responded;
"Mind your own business or some
thing to that effect. And this situa-
ton has its counterpart in Europe to-
day, where neither side is truly ready
for peace, although hoping for and
the time when peace will
be restored However, no. harm prob
ably will result from the activities OF
individuals and organizations in try
ing to encourage and promote peace
talk and peace movements.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30
Put in the Brick. Z"

In the matter of the mail our I'm
Gle Samuel has some peculiar rules.
For instance the foreman of the En-
terprise mailed a package of printed
matter TO Thomas Prince of Dundee.
Ia distance of about three miles) this
week at a cost of % cents. The gem
tlemanly clerk stated that, had the
package weighed one and one-half
pounds more. the postage would have
been but Q eentsl So 1t seems that
half a brick could have been tied up
inside that package and a clear saw
ing Of IA cents made thereby in pos
tage-Newberg Enterprise.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30

William Jennings Bryan is good
illustration of man possessing the
confidence of large following, final
ly wearing out the patience and trust
of the very men who have backed
him. He is great talker and a
small doer; and is most seriously
lacking, like all great takers, in that
constructive common sense that MARKS
all true statesmen. Bryan has talk
ed himself to death politically.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30
NEED OF MORE REVENUE.

1he need OF more revenue Tor Cne
government, and how to get it, have
brought the present democratic ad-
ministration to something of dilem-
ma. For some time now government
expenses have exceeded the govern
ment income, which itself is cause
for worry. In addition to this, it
practically is a foregone conclusion
that congress at its coming session
will decide on program of greater
military preparedness, meaning anoth-
er large expense for the government
and calling for additional revenue
that simply must be provided in some
way or other.
Two things are plainly responsible
flor the fact that THE government
revenue has failed to keep up with
government needs-the disturbance to
foreign trade on account of the great
European war, and the reduction Of
the tariff by the last congress. As a
consequence there has been deficit
on the first Of July of nearly $780,
100000, and it is steadily piling up.
The cash balance in the treasury is
now down to about $100,000,000 and
it is decreasing steadily from day to
day. 1t is manifest that the Wilson
administration must "strike the rock
of the national resources as Hamil-
ton did to the end that "streams of
revenue may gush forth"
But the president is opposed to any
increase in tariff taxes. His party is
committed against that and so, ap-
parently, the easiest door for the
least unpopular kind of taxation is
closed. But if we are to spend large
ly increased sums of money in build
ing ships and organizing an army,
we must find some way to pay for it.
The people are not going to take
Kindly to a retention of the "war
tax" in time of peace. The little
stamp taxes irritate people out of
all proportion to the amount of rev.
enue produced. A bond issue to pay
the current expenses of the govern
ment proved unpopular in Cleveland's
day and would make people vince
again. The income tax might be i'm
creased; in fact, is likely to be. An
export tax on war munitions could be
made to give to the government
part of the huge profits now being
made by American manufacturers of
war materials. But when all is said
and done, the administration is going
to find it very hard to avoid a grow
ing deficit and eventually bond is
sue, unless President Wilson backs
water on his tariff position and gives
his consent to an advance in certain
tariff taxes for revenue purposes.
For these reasons, the recommenda- |
tions of the president on the matter
of government revenue will attract
more attention than any other por-
ton of his Forthcoming message to
congress. And according to Wash
ington reports the president is giving
many hours of anxious thought to
this problem, and regards it as one
of the most difficult questions he has,
faced since he assumed his present
office.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30
OTHER THINGS
A Rare and Curious Collection
of Fact snd Fancy.


The other night the writer stood
in the presence of small .assemblage
of Elks when the dial told of the
dying day, and obedient to the custom
of that fraternity they paused ito unite
in a salutation of sweet remembrance.
And we pondered anew over the grac
ious custom proclaimed by the eleven
chimes, which is to recognize an hour
for the direction of thoughts toward
absent brothers, toward friends of
other days; for reflection upon their
virtues, and for expression of hopes
as to their wellbeing. Be they cross
ed in adversely or joyous affluence,
Elks send to each at this stated hour
the message that absence shall but
endear and that affliction shall but in
tensify their lasting friendship. A 81
lent toast is mythically drunk Ito
those suffering the burdens of sick
ness and distress, to those denied the
companionship of friends, to those
weary and far from home. They drink
to youth and age, to those in the
portals of promise, and to those in
the vale of long shadows, ito those
crouched in anguish meath the majes-
tic wing Of death, and to all in every
land, who, under inirmity, dwell in
the twilight of peace. They drink to
those from among their number who
have gone to that bourne from whence
no traveller returns, and in memory's
hour pray that they may cluster
round, as in days agone, to listen to
the supplication that he who guides
O 'er all the universe shall
"Lead us on,
O 'er moor and fen, DER crag and tor
rent,
Till night is gone.
And with the morn, those angel faces
smile,
Which we have loved long since and
lost while"
1t was the well-taught lesson Of
brotherly love, the fundamental prin-
ciple upon which this great fraternal
organization, tie influence of which
is felt throughout the civilized world,
is founded. 1t was a lesson worthy
of emulation.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30

An exchange says there will be no
typographical errors in heaven. This
information is sufficient in itself 10
cause the worried publisher to forth
with seek everlasting salvation; and
especially so when he glances over
his sheet fresh from the press and
finds pottering spelled puttering," "
and incensed "incenced.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30

About the only thing not yet affect
ed by the European war is the Sunday
paper comic supplements. The origi-
nators of funny pictures apparently
see no chance to work the war into
their line of business.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30

man in the United States give care
full consideration to the necessity for
at least one physical inventory Of his
entire body year.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30

The second monthly Sales day, and
the first under the auspices of the
Dallas Commercial club. held last Sat
urday, was a pronounced success, al
though the attendance might have
been much larger. It showed. how
ever. what the persistency of one man
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30
Life's Two Mirrors.

The mirror that time holds up to
you today tells tale, pretty story
of a life that has just begun; of
hope and happiness; of illusion and
mystery; of youth and impulse; of
fun and folly. But sometime in the
by-and-by he will hold up another
mirror before your face, and You will
not want to look. 1t will tell a tale
of life well-nigh spent, of patience
and knowledge; of endurance of hap
piness and understanding; of wasted
opportunities; of deeds that are done
and cannot be undone, and perhaps
of remorse and repentance.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30

The European war has added to the
prosperity of this land, but the Eur
opeans are paying terrible price
for extending us this favor.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-30

District Attorney Sibley says he
will see that the county vaults, where
confseated liquors are kept, are as
"dry" after January l as any of the
city's well-known repositories.