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The Holt County sentinel., 1915-10-08

Is taking a vacation TIL, week, an
he and his wife viii visit with fiiends
IN ST, Joseph and Leaven~orth, Kan f.,
several days, and a few days with rel.
atiyes In Thurman, Iowa, Operator
u. J. Camp. recently from the Santa
lie lines, Is relieving Mr., So.leder.
Ike Addison, of Arkansaw neigh.
borhood, better known AS "John d."
MAS on our streets last Friday with .
load VI sorghum molasses made by
the Rulo, Neb., factory. Selling sor
ghum IL John d 5 long suit and he Is
q tirst.class salesman. too. Ike says
everything Is line and dandy over In
his part OF the country.
Word WAS received here telling OF
the marriage In Oregon, one day last
week, OF Miss VERNE Preston and Mr..
Russell Cotton. Miss Vernie 10 the
daughter Of Mrs. W. +. Preston and
has many friends here who wish her
much happiness on the sea OF matri-
mony. They will make their home
on . farm near Forest City.
Mrs. O. s. Herstine, Mrs. r. II.
Burns, accompanied Miss Lucille Ha.
last Sunday, Miss Lucille being on her
Woy w NVcoioot Sobst wstSse e"v %
poets TO make an extended visit with
relatives, Miss Lucille has been Wis.
iting with her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. G. Dodson, for several weeks.
Fred Bennett, who 10 attending
business college In Chiliicothe, and
who has been visiting with home
folks for . few days, returned to his
studies Sunday evening. Fred says
the Bigelow boys, Frank Wilson and
Orville Bridgmon. are working like
Turks In school. Frank Is taking .
course In civil service and Orville Q
commercial course.
The weather man Is starting out
this month In pretty good shape. So
far we have not had o rain In this
month, and every one Is wishing for
some nice weather. There Is Q whole
lot of farm work that Is needing at
tention, and very little Wild hay has
been put up. With favorable wealth
er from now on there will be several
carloads OF wild hay cut and stored In
the hay barns and quite lot will be
shipped out.
Mary Edna Bridgmon entertained
. few Of her little friends 1t her home
Thursday Of last week In honor Of her
eighth birthday; games were played
and she received many pretty and use.
full presents. Dainty refreshmennts
were served to the following guests:
MAvesret Mckee, Chsrlene Lsrkins,
Edith Walker, George Poyntsr, Lsle
and Vera DAVIS, Georgia Overlap,
The Holt County sentinel., 1915-10-08
COL. P. M. BABB, AuCtiOneer.
". II. RICHARDS, Clerk

Billie Larrabe, Catherine and Sarah
Mckee, May Smith,
Miss Lucille Wilson entertained q
number OF her friends al her home,
last sunday. Glen Wilson, better
known as "Saller corn" drove into
town after the folks In . biz wagon
and OF course the young folks enjoyed
the outing very much. The guests
were Julia Mckee, Mildred Walker.
Dorothy Bridgmon, bessie Hunt, Dali
~ Hunt, Nellie willisms, Mary Hin
kle, Glen Walker, Raymond Wilson.
Ralph Walker, Katherine Mckee and
I'm Mrs. j. VI. Gresham entert aimed
at her home last Sunday, j, Is, Bridg-
mon and family and Earl Gresham
and family, In honor OF j. Il. bridg'
mons birthday, which falls on Oct. 3,
and Earl's birthday, Oct. q. A big
dinner was served and . very pleasant
day was spent. Chances are the fam.
lies will remind Mrs. Gresham that
the boys have . birthday every year
and will expect 70 get their feet I'M
der her table because Mrs. Gresham
10 . hrst-clsss cook.
w. II. Richards, Oregon's promi.
nent attorney, likewise the mayor.
WAS In our town, one day, last week,
looking over the new court house site,
making several good suggestions by
the way, and he took pains TO inform
us that the Oregon people we're pay
ing for that new tile floor recent ly
laid In the court house hall, and that
we had been misinformed by his hon
or, George Gelvin, the sheriff, and
that the floor will not cost the tax
payers . cent, and We are very glad 10
make the correction. Walt Till we
see the sheriff, who got US In bad
Corning basketball team will be
here next Friday afternoon to play
the Bigelow team on the home court
and . fast game Is expected. Every
body Is invited to come and bring
their friends. The Bigelow team have
fixed up their court In good shape and
have ordered new suits, which are ex.
pected to be here In time for the
game Friday. The line up for Bige.
low will be: Murray Catron, II. f.;
Frank Hsigler, L. F.; Robert Asher,
G; Frank Cunning, L. f.; Julian vii
son. Il. g.; Paul Gresham and Nelson
Mckee, substitutes. Get out, folks,
and boost for your home team. This
Is . good line up and we should help
the boys out oil we can.
Waiter Bradbury and Dick Lara
bee rugged up their wagons with old
started west, crossing the river 1t
Rulo, Neb. When asked - TO whore
they were going, they replied, ANY
The Holt County sentinel., 1915-10-08
News from Bigelow

him twenty barrels Of choice apples,
one day, last week.
Attorney II. IL. Williams, better
known as Buck Williams" was down
from Craig, one day, last week, wear.
Ing that usual smile and looking after
some legal matters.
-Rolla Neal was over from Mound
lCity several days the first OF the week
running the electric light wires into
the new school building and install.
Ing electric light fixtures.
Mrs Walter bradbury Is visiting
with her sister. Mrs Blair Combs,
near CRAZY, this week, and will no to
Rock Port the latter part Of this
week TO visit with her mother for
several weeks.
n. L. Bridgmon was a Mound City
visitor last Saturday. II. L. has rent.
ed the Kahn Bros. farm Just west OF
Big Tark, west OF town. and will
move on the place just IS soon as the
roads will permit.
| Mrs. J T.. Slater, who has been
visiting With relatives near st. Louis,
for several days, returned home last
sunday morning, much TO the delight
Of John f., who has been baching
during her absence.
Mrs Robert Burns Is here this
week from Hardin, Mont. visiting at
the home OF her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. G. Dodson, and other rela.
tives. This T. Mrs. Burns first visit
here In several years.
johnny Stephens was 10 from ST.
joseph last Monday. visiting with
a. lIa.Ea lal,s, a.
Switching for the Terminal company
switch engine and crew.
Mrs T.. !. BuckmInster. Of Fargo,
Neb., who Was on her way 10 Council
Bluffs, Iowa, where she will visit with
relatives, stopped OIL here Monday
evening and visited with her daugh.
ter, Mrs .. W Iogrefe
Those who attended the big do.
ings In ST, Joseph last Friday we're
Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Bridgmon, Mrs.
Jennie Ilancher, c. s. Mckee, Guy
Jones, Harold Larrabee and all re-
ported . very pleasant trip.
Bill Stuart, Of Fortescue, wastry.
Ing ont ouy cement sidew alks. last
Monday. BIN says people up In South
Dakota where he has been selling ap.
oles for several years call him Apple
Bill" In Blpelow, It's pan Bill.
e. r Hurlbut, 4 Burlington pss
senger conductor, who used 10 rur, be.
tween here and Claripda for seyersl
years, and now has 8 run between ST.
Joseph and Charlton, Iowa, was here
Tuesday. renewing old sc0us,nt snces
E,,nt u.,yls, ,,s,,sd ~,,h ~,
b,o,hs, RusssI, IN H.n.ss C,,v NJ
las, Sa,urdav And SandSy Rnsssli
is attending an. automobile school in
K ansas CITY and we are told he is yet.
ting along very nicely With the work.
4 n Morris w.. 4, Nouna C,,,
l.., s.,n,Sav Viii u,uoninat =,
~a,srmslon: and = ~s,o"iosd
s"nasbes lie larvss, ~ uhich y s,,bsd
81, - ssy.n no"n5s Snms snr,sh .nd
u, II. sure knows how 10 raise them
p w Cunningham ~ Dragon
NJ Mo ,,ss h.an yisi,,,c ,,hkS1
niecs M,s WaIts, Hradhprv TO- s.,'
a,si a,ws J.f, IN. ia,,a, ~ i.s,
wssk ~, mdnhon ioua ugns, , ~ p..,,l
800 W, "uo, 800, "e VIZ
The Holt County sentinel., 1915-10-08

SAT credit six months will be given with bankabe
bearing from
complied with.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06

whole is today busy State, large
ly perhaps on account of the effects
of war orders upon its extensive
ammunition, firearms, machine tool
and metal industries. The Republican
yesterday printed a condensed list Of
Connecticut corporations whose
shares had lately shown remarkable
advances in price but in the list was
included only one of the war muni-
tions companies which form n spe-
cially favored class. Bank clearings
in New England are now running
rather consistently week by week in
excess of year ago. some of the
smaller cities like Lowell, Hartford
and New Haven, whose interests are
predominantly manufacturing, show
ing heavy increases. One finds, also,
an indication of much increased con-
fidence in the New England situation
in the present position of the New
England railroads. The price of New
Haven shares which is high for "a
dividend stock, doubtless reflects
somewhat the expectation of in
creased gross earnings on account of
the stimulus to manufacturing in the
roads territory. Even the price of
Boston and Maine shares has easily
held up above 30 in spite of the legis-
lative discouragements to the reor-
ganiZation project; in fact, the pros
pect of increased traffic and earnings
as the result of industrial betterment
in it's territory has been an agent in
stiffening opposition to the reorgani-
zation proposed. There are leased
line interests that want no reorgani-
cation, so long as receivership can
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
THE MUNICIPAL BUDGETS.

The city departments now submitting their
budgets to the Common Council finance committee.
OF the five budgets now in the hands of the COM
mittee the largest is that of the police department
the increase asked by the Fire Commission being
apparently small because of the fact that the old
board of commissioners had purchased about $40 900
worth of apparatus last year. to equip houses,
and had made building repairs that will not be items
of expense this year. The Police Commission wants
seventy five additional patromen for the department
The Recreation Commission increase of
$50 900.
Without reference to other departmental budgets,
those for police protection and recreation purposes
cannot be termed In any sense excessive. The police
force of Newark is adequate to properly
all sections of the city. There is better economy
than we'll oficered and equipped police department
Without a citys ordinances and the State laws
are not enforced they should be, the outlying
wards have insufficient protection and crime -four
ishes
The Recreation Commission has iurisdic-
tion all the Fairgrounds and other places dedi-
Gated to the physical well being of the population.
This is of the most important duties of
municipality. In former years the duty entirely
ignored. For the citys children it is mandatory, in
view of the perils of the Streets which may be fur
ther increased by jtney busses This is a considera-
tion which also emphasizes the request for better
police protection
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
TraVelette

Where a Travellers Baggage Is Made Up
of Presents.
To the north of eastern Bengal, in
British India, lies the independent
native state of Bhutan, to the north
of which is the strange land of Tibet
Practically all the traffic that crosses
the wilderness of the mountains is
the wool trade between Tibet and
Bengal.
Once a spiritual kingdom ruled
by the chief Lama, periodically re-
incarnated," Bhutan has become an
independent native state through the
recognition by the British government
Of a Maharajah. 1t was on a visit to
the palace of the Maharajah of Bhu-
tan that it fell to my lot to cross the
strangely silent mountains.
Before our party left eastern Ben
gal we were informed that 1t would
be wise to load our ponies and mules
with presents. 1t Is the custom in all
eastern countries to bear presents for
the host and his household, but no.
where is the guest bringing gifts so
eagerly welcomed as in Bhutan.
Indeed, the Bhutanese appraise the
Importance and social value of the
chance traveller by the number of
gifts he brings. Therefore, it be-
hooved us, If we wished an ardent
welcome and an easy passage through
the mountains to be well provided
with gifts for all that we CHANGED to
meet.
To balance our needed luggage with
the burden of the gifts that we bore
was extremely difficult We would
have been compelled to enlarge our
party, double the number of our SER
wants, and increase the already large
caravan of pack animals If we had
taken with us all that comfort seemed
to demand and pride in our reputa-
tion required to make our welcome
in Bhutan flattering. Necessity i'm
posed a certain modesty upon us and
our pretentions.
But we sacrificed our comfort more
than we thought to give space to our
gifts Indeed. the cold of the 13,000-
foot elevation made us pay through
three nights for the scantiness of our
equipment. However, we arrived in
Bhutan, received a royal welcome,
and turned our faces Calcuttaward
with lightened baggage.
But the hunting In the mountains
lured us to stock up once more with
trophies for our friends at home And
so we travelled to and from Bhutan
like modern Santa Clauses, sure of a
happy welcome at both ends of our
route.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06


From the Springfield Republican.
The increasing value of New Eng
land mill shares, says Fiber and Fa-
brio, lis a splendid sign of improve
,nent in the mill business, and this
advance in the selling price Of shares,
coupled with a growing demand on
the part of conservative investors,
shows TO us the most assuring evil
dence that we are on the edge of a
boom that will prove wonderfully
beneficial to all New England" This
is the forecast of an organ of tho
textile industry that has been any
thing but jubilant over the industrial
outlook in the past two years 1t
merely confirms reports of the most
solid and encouraging character.
The New England textile industry
has turned the corner. In the coarse
goods mills of Fall River there is
more production than before for
many months" one reads in an au-
thoritative review of mill operations.
The revolution for the better in
the fine goods department of the cot
ton industry is now matter of COM
mon knowledge. For months the
New England woolen industry mas
been going strongly and of late the
boot and shoe industry has revived.
With textiles prosperous, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island and parts of
Connecticut, New Hampshire and
Maine are always in a pretty sound
Industry, condition. Connecticut as
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
LOOKING INTO MUNICIPAL FINANCES.

The municipalities of the State could not get
local self-government the Legislature but they
did get Speaker Godfreys Investigating committee to
make general survey of their financial affairs. The
idea of the investigation is understood to be to pro-
mote uniformity, including accounting AS Chairman
Person. of the committee. explained yesterday, there
are hardly municipalities that pursue the same
system of financing, and this fact hardly be
dered at
Every municipality has originated it's peculiar
methods according to circumstances and without
reference TO any general rule. 1t is natural that
of them should not be in accordance with strict
business principles. The system of bond issues may
be instanced
There time when Newark issued bonds
without any sinking funds, but that was long ago.
Interest high per cent, and probably that
the But for many years every bond issue
has had its sinking fund and there is fine showing
in that respect the citys books. There lack
of proper system in the citys accounting until after
a trusted city auditor absconded. and then new
system introduced AS far Newark is con-
cerned the Assembly committee cannot fail to testify
that it doesn't need any change. 1t will, in fact,
serve a model for all the rest.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
THE ESCORT OF THE LIBERTY BELL

1t will require the services of twentysix members
the Philadelphia City Councils to escort the Liberty
Bell from Independence Hall to San Francisco and
back and it will take appropriation of $50 900 to
pay the expenses. But the cost of junket of this
kind is seldom restricted to the appropriation.
There is always excess of expenses to pay for
afterward. The aldermanc junketers will go in the
finest vestbuled palace and will fare uxurously
route. All points of interest will be visited and
the twentysiX patriots look forward entertain
ments galore at the Golden Gate.
The old Liberty Bell appeals to all cities and
towns in the land. All west of the Mississippi was
unknown wilderness when the bell rang out
tidings to the world of a nation born and of the
first government of the people established in the
world. But all the great West, now teeming with
population, claims a share of ownership of that bell
Might it not be possible for patriotic coyeousness
seize and appropriate the bell en- route? And it
not to guard against this that the devoted band of
twenty-six aldermen appointed a bodyguard? !?
Then call 1t not junket
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
UPLIFT TALKS
THE POWER OF FEAR
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.
Author of Pushing to the Front E'e
Copyright, 1915.

of death that he tells me he has never
been able to get it out OF MS hllilu
for a single day since he was pos.
He is always picturing himselt as pc
ing killed in some accident or dylhs
with some terrible disease
There are many people VINO suIIeI
great mental anguish from a dfead
of tuberculosis, believing that there
is a possibility of their having IN
herited this disease from some ances-
tor.
If everybody in the United States
could eliminate from their minds the
pessimism and terror caused by the
frightful slaughter in Europe, the
financial condition in this country
would undoubtedly jump up by leaps
and bounds.
Consider what we call the United
States as one colossal composite in
diVidual, made up of all the citizens.
When the great mass of people are
suffering with fear and doubt and
worry over the business conditions,
the whole country is in the same cen
dition that an individual would b9
who was suffering with mental Ge-
preston and terrified with fear.
Fear is one of the most deadly in
struments for marring human lives.
1t has a paralayzing, blighting influ-
ence upon the whole being. 1t i'm
poverishes the blood and destroys
health by impairing the digestion.
cutting off nutrition and lowering the
physical and mental vitality. II
crushes out hope, kills initiative and
courage, and so enfeebles the minds
action that it cannot create.
If, instead of giving up to his fear, u
man would persist in keeping pros
perity in his mind, assume a hopeful,
optimistic attitude and conduct his
business in a systematic, economical,
far-sighted manner, actual failure
would be comparatively rare. But
when a man becomes discouraged,
when he loses heart and grip, he is
not in a position to make the effort
which is absolutely necessary to bring
victory, and there Is a shrinkage all
along the line. Courage must lead in
any great undertaking. Efficiency
will only follow confidence.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
The Aged-Life's Pencil

But a few more days, then task Is
DER,
And the years we'll filled, plus triple
score.
But a few more steps, then that of
rest;
With peace of heart and of joy with
blest.
But a few more days, then stroke Of
bell,
So think not strange of a fond fare
we'll
But to meet again on other shore.
With the coming, and those gone
before
With pencils point to note of life's
years,
And with rubbered end erase its tears,
The pencil then of good to relate
But Gods mercy to swing wide the
gate.
WILLIAM JACOBUS.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
MoLLyCoDDLEs COUNTING NOSES

The Collegiate Anti-Militarism League, whose
sufficiently indicates the mollycoddle spirit of
the organization. has started literary propaganda
including poll of instructors and students in
lean universities and colleges and editors of college
papers with the object of showing the strength of
the so-called anti-militarism idea in those insitu-
tions.
These unpatriotic college youths evidently con-
fdent of majority against such features of college
training military camps drills and lectures which
have the high purpose of training young Americans
to be potential soldiers able to fight for their coun-
try when she needs them. Unless the patriotic feeling
in the faculties and student bodies of institutions
of higher learning is greatly misunderstood, these
"mamas boys due for big surprise and a
stnging rebuke when the returns come in But per-
haps result the will be carefully CEN
sored, suppressed altogether
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
EFFECTS OF LEGISLATIVE ECONOMIES

The pinch of the cut of $1,2O0,OO0 in the State
appropriations by the Legislature this year is begin
ming TO be felt. The National Guard is dismayed to
find, what it had not realized before, that all of
the summer activities in camp and field have been
ended for this year. and probably for 1916. The
annual encampment has been abolished.
This injudicious bit of legislative economy has
also incensed citizens who had looked to year of
unusual activity by the National Guard in view of
the present military unpreparedness of the country
But the National Guard is only department of
the State to feel the pinch.
Our most important State institutions have ex-
perienced blight, and among them is the great hos
ptal for the insane at Morris Plains, which houses
about 500 patients than 1t has the proper room
for.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06

Il became a member of Congress
few months after the close of Presi-
dent Johnson's administration, and I
remember well how cynical some of
the members of the House were when
William II. Stewards purchase of
Russian America for $7,200,000 two
years earlier was spoken Of" said
the late Judge Noah Davis to me.
We were chatting about the reported
discovery of gold in the Yukon dis
trict of Alaska, and Judge Davis,
who had been a warm personal friend
of William II. Seward, felt some
exultation that discovery of gold in
Alaska had been made, for In that
discovery was justification of one of
the predictions which was made by
Secretary Seward when Alaska was
bought.
Every few people knew at the time
the transfer of sovereignty from Rus
sia to the United States was made
that Seward had not then paid their
money to Russia. He did send repre-
sentatives of the state department
to Sitka, which was then the seat of
the Russian government in Russian
North America. I think there were
few soldiers there and a consul or
somebody who represented Russia.
The Russian minister, 1 believe, went
to Sitka to meet Secretary Stewards $
representative.
"They had quite an interesting
ceremony, although only a few took
part in it, I was told. We saluted
the Russian flag and then Russia
saluted our flag which WAS raised
upon the tlagpole over the Sitka bar
ricks. Then in few words Russia s
representative said to Stewards rep
resentative that he transferred the
sovereignty of Russian America to
the United States and Stewards rep
| resentative, with much dignity, an
| nounced that he accepted 1t for the
United States.
"By as simple a ceremony as that
we came into possession of what Is
now known as Alaska. I was curious
to know why Seward's representative
did not announce that the money had
not been paid over to the order of
Russia and upon making inquiry /
| learned that Russia sent word to
Seward that there was absolute faith
in the honor and credit of the United
States and for that reason the money
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-05-06
COUNTRY SCHOOL BOARD NEGLEoTs.

School district boards in this State should have
in proper order and have the necessary supplies
the next term early in the vacation period But not
a few of the district boards derelict in these
respects In many repairs not made and
cleaning is neglected.
The law requires that the district boards shall
provide text books stationery and all other necessary
supplies including fuel; but purchases too often
neglected until the opening of the school, and even
afterwards The stupid neglect of the board in such
cases dishearten the teachers and is a wrong to the
children.
State Commissioner Calvin N. Kendall has found
1t necessary to send out circular district boards
calling their attention to this neglect and admonish
ing them about their duty. OF course these school
board alterations do not in the cities 1t is
the country district board that has needed the prod
of the commissioner.