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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
a&sRlCA'S RICH POOR FARM
Dexter Asylum at Providence, r. l.,
Unique Among Institutions Of
Its Character.

The most remarkable poor farm"
in the United States, if not the
world, gives Providence a distinction
about which little is known, the
Providence (R ~ Tribune states.
1t IS the Dexter asylum, located
in the midst of wealth and fashion,
'on the hill" but more exclusive
IN its solitary state, behind substan-
tial walls, than any other estate on
the East side.
For nearly lightweight years
there has been a continuous process
sion Of living "freemen" of Provi-
dence, or their descendants, who had
settlements" within these planta-
lions, to the unique institution be-
hind the ST., 800 stone wall that it
took the city eight years to build.
Upward Of twenty-five hundred have
lived and died behind those gray
walls, and more than nine thousand
have been cared for out of the "Dex-
ter donation" and the ~benefcence of
the city of Providence-cared for
in a manner BETTING a charitable
people and in strictest conformance
with the will of Ebenezer Knight
Dexter, who bequeathed this now
most valuable property, out of "a
strong attachment to my native
town." can ardent desire to anchor
ate the condition Of the poor" and
'to contribute to their comfort and
relief" Gin fee simple forever the
"Neck Farm" in question and vari-
GUS other properties, most of which
the city still holds.
The value of the "Neck Farm" at
the time it was devised and be-
queathed to the city of Providence,
for the benefit of her poor, was in
the neighborhood Of $4,000, it is
claimed, but its assessed valuation
today, with the other properties re-
naming in the estate, is close to
$3.50, 900
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14

UNDIVIDED SUPPORT
Common Sense Urges His Re-
election, Says Shoe Manu-
facturer.

facturer.
George F. Johnson, Of the En-
dicOtt, Johnson and company,
leather and shoe manufacturers
at Endicott, N. Y, heretofore a
Republican favors the reelection
of President Wilson.
81 am in favor of the reelec-
ton of President Wilson because
he has handled the difficult prob
lens Of government splendidly,"
said Mr.. Johnson. mo man
could have done better under ex-
listing circumstances. He has
served the nation at a time when
service meant much to him and
to the nation. He has been
.shamefully attacked by politi-
clans, for political effect. He has
earned and is justly entitled to
the confidence and support of the
American people.
"The present condition of the
.coutry, the work in which he has
been engaged, the incomplete
and, at the present time, critical
condition of the work, the ex-
.perience which he has had, and
the ability he has shown, all in
dictate that it is a matter of com
mon sense and good Judgment to
see that he is retained to finish
the work now in process"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
Should SlOan's Liniment Go
Along.

V
Of course it should! For after
a strenuous day when your mus
Giles have been exercised to the
limit an application of Sloan's
Liniment will take the soreness
and stiffness away and get you
in fine shape for the morrow.
You should also use it for a sud-
den attack of toothache, stiff
neck, backache, stings, bites and
the many accidents that are in
cidental to a vacation. 1--WE
would as soon leave our baggage
as to go on a vacation or camp
out without Sloan's Liniment."
Writes one vacatiOnist 1--WE use
it for everything from cramps
to toothache." Put a bottle in
your bag, be prepared and have
no regrets.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
A Hacking Cough Weakens the
System.

Don't suffer with a hacking
cough that has weakened your
system-get a bottle of DIR.
Kings New Discovery, in use
over 40 years, and benefitting all
who use it, the soothing pine
balsam with tar heal the irritat-
ed air passages-soothes the raw
spots, loosens the mucous and
prevents racking the body with
coughing. DR.. Kings New Dis
covery induces natural sleep and
aids nature to cure you.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
M. U. Military School Sixth.

In the ratings assigned to the
educational institutions of the
country where military training
is given under the direction of a
United States army officer by the
war department, the University
of Missouri at Columbia received
sixth place. The University of
California ranked first, Cornell
second, and Illinois third.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
A GREAT TIME
FOR THE CHILDREN
Specialist at Chsutauqua 10
Give Them Time Of
Their Lives
CLOSES WITH BIG PAGEANT.
Wherein All Children Join In Spec
taeular cOStumed Exhibition Of What
They Have Enjoyed All Week.


The children are to be remembered
at Chautauqua again this year. Again,
as in former years, a trained child spe-
ciallst win be here to take charge Of
the Junior Chautauqua, and entertain
ment of a new and novel character is
being provided for all children under
fourteen years of age.
The children's department is coming
10 be looked upon as one Of the very
substantial features Of the Chautau-
qua. Each year has brought q differ.
ent set Of amusements, and these have
always been instructive and highly en-
joyable to the youngsters.
This season entirely new features
will be introduced, and these will
eclipse anything that has been offered
In the past Six forenoons win be de.
voted to high ilnks, and the final day
win close with a grand pageant in
special costumes that will set a new
mark In spectacular juvenile display
at Chautauqua. This win afford the
children a rare chance to show what
they have learned and to exhibit their
ability as actors on the big platform
before a crowd Of people.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
Rev. F. M. Burton went to Lees
Summit Friday for a visit
with his sister, Mrs. N. H. Nc
Cain.
Look Good-Feel Good.

No one can either feel good nor
look good while suffering from
constipation. Get rid Of that
tired, draggy, lifeless feeling by
a treatment of DR.. Kings New
Life Pills tonight. In the morn
ing that stuffed, dull feeling is
gone and you feel better at once.
25c at your druggist.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
Why Endure Summer Colds?

why OuhlItleI OOluSs
1t isn't necessary to have a
stuffed head, running nose. To
cough your head off as it were.
All you need do is to use DR..
Bells Pine-Tar Honey. The
soothing and healing balsams
open the clogged air passages
and in a short time you get re-
lief and start on the road to re-
covery. Your nose stops run
ming, you cough less and you
know you are getting better. Get
a bottle, use as directed. Keep
what is left as a cough and cold
insurance.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14

George and Philip Smith re-
turned Friday morning to their
home in Napton after a visit here
with Joel Ewing.
Robert Gruber of Kansas City
arrived Friday to spend the day
here with relatives.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14

G. H. Schmidt left Friday for
a visit with relatives in Milwau-
kee.
Gustave Drumm went to Ma
poleon Friday for a visit.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
OTHER EXTREME,

"You must admit that cur oratori-
cal friend doesn't use long words"
"No, He goes to the other ex-
treme and even works the little pro-
noun q"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14

Mrs. Worth Bates went to
Lincoln, Mo-, Tuesday for a
visit with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Brill.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
Sparrow-What's the matter?
POuter Pigeon-Somebody just
me what time the balloon went
IN
LONG AND
up.

"0ur friend with an eye to the
main chance has a long head"
eyes" replied Miss Cayenne
'but isn't having too long a head
likely to make a man narrow-mind-
ed?"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
DEVOTION TO Art.

care you fond Of music?"
emusic p exclaimed the enthusiast
tic young woman. 81 am perfectly
devoted to music. l could dance to
it all night"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
MEAN lNslNuArloN.

He-Sometimes | think l ought
to publish the thoughts that are in
my mind.
She-Bound in calf?
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
Irs ExrENr.

'When you won your wife's hand,
YOU won a treasure"
Il did, just We bought our au-
tomobile with her bridge winnings"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
ONE PINT SURE.

edo you think the tale Miss Flirty
told you was made up on the face Of
it?"
'Maybe not, but she was"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14

Miss Lizzie Yates left Tuesday
morning for a visit in Noble,
Louisiana.
Miss Lille Cope left Tuesday
for a visit with relatives in
Joplin, Mo.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14

Miss Genevieye Mcnamara
went to st. Louis Tuesday morn
ing for a ten days stay.
Mrs. Frank Kriehn went to
Kansas City Friday for a visit.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14

Mrs. Anna Wilker returned to
her home in Kansas City Friday
morning after a visit here with
her mother, Mrs. Amelia Kriehn.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
us ooLoR.

'Iife does not look particularly
pretty just now, does it?"
''No; with creditors after one con-
tinually, it is more Of a dun color"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
Mexico.

wanted war. In the days when
his opponents attacked him and
tried to goad him into the use
of the armed forces of the
United States, he remained
steadfast to his determination
that the blood of young Ameri-
can soldiers should never be shed
except as the last recourse in
the effort to uphold the honor of
the nation.
Once, when even graver even
Qualities were threatened, the
patience of President Wilson's
craftsmanship was rewarded by
diplomatic victory that made the
shedding of blood unnecessary.
1t was the Presidents previous
moderation that gave such force
to the ominous ultimatum which
brought full concession to the
rights Of America and humanity.
No President in the history
of the United States has ever
placed the cause of the people
of the United States upon a
higher plane. No President has
ever struggled more valiantly to
preserve peace with honor. His
critics have proved the case for
President Wilson. Their unam-
imous approval of his present
course has not dulled the edge of
his desire for honorable peace.
The immovability of tn Presi-
dent in the face of selfish and
partisan criticism, coming from
those who thought more Of per-
.sonal advantage than of the well
fare of the nation, has been the
best security of the American
people throughout the time the
world has been darkened by
warclouds.
If the sword Of righteous
ness must now be unsheathed,
the American people know that
it is because peaceful means have
been exhausted. If the sword is
raised to strike, it is because the
head Of the de facto government
of Mexico refuses to respect the
rights of America.
No President has ever tried so
hard to interpret the real spirit
of America. Mr.. Wilson has
said that he would rather know
what the men and women, gath
cred around their own Preside,
are saying than to listen to the
orations of the self-appointed.
In his handling of the Mexican
problem, President Wilson has
been guided by the single i'm
pulse to do what the American
people would have him do-to ex-
haust all the peaceful means at
his disposal to protect the lives
and property of Americans, and,
failing in that, to uphold the
honor and dignity of the nation
by the use of it's armed forces.
The note written by the State
Department to General Carran-
"a in response to his threat to
attack the American troops
presented the complete case OF
the American government
against Mexico. AS in the Eu-
ropean situation, when the ul-
timatum with its ominous note
brought full concessions, it
marked the end of President
Wilson's patience.
The lives of the American
soldiers in Mexico, who were
sent there to protect the border
from the raids of bandits, bent
on numbering Americans, had
been threatened.
In the might of righteousness,
the sword of America was then
raised to strike, and in the
] -A- IL AI.--A IL
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14

Miss Locke Arnold left Tues
day for a visit in GlenwoOd
Springs.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-07-14
Mrs, Nan SpGrry, Assistant
Labor Commissioner of Mis-
souri,, TO Speak Here.
THE NEEDS OF OUR HOMES.
Practical Experience Has Given Her
Keen Insight Into Problems of Ire
mendous Interest.

Mrs. Nan Sperry is coming to Chau-
tauqua to deliver a lecture on "The
Needs of Our Homes" She is emf
nently qualified to speak on this theme
out of a big experience in a great city.
She has held the Office Of factory in
spector of Kansas City, Mo, and was
afterward appointed assistant labor
commissioner of Missouri. IN discharg-
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-09

THE STORY OF THE TRUST COMPANIES
BY Edward Ten Brock Perino. New
York. q. p. Putnam's Sons. $500.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-09
Brief City News
Platinum Wedding Rings-Edholm.

Platinum Wedding Rings-Edhom
Have Root Print lt--New Beacon Press
Ties Cleaned, 10c, at Carey's. Web. S92,
Electric Reading lamps for Xmas. 81. 30
10 $50. Burgess Granden Company.
Baldwin Files Oath - Arthur Il.
Baldwin, one of the newly elected mu-
nicipal judges, filed his official oath
with the city clerk.
Robt. c. Drucscdow & Co., $50
Omaha Natl Bank. Listed and unlisted
securities: bank stocks; several Z per
cent guaranteed gilt-edge investments.
Funeral to Be Priyate-The funeral
of Miss Abigail Stanley will be private
and will be held at 2l24 Binney street
Saturday at p. m. Interment at Cal
houn. Neb
Frecmantel to Sing-Dr. Frederick
c, Freemantel will sing a solo at All
Saints church Sunday at the II
o'clock service. He will sing an aria
from the ''prodigal Son." by Sullivan.
Best Meal for the Money--Clairemr 1T Inn.
To Meet Bible Class Leaders-Mrs.
d. A. Foote will meet the Bible class
leaders at the Young Mems Christian
association Monday afternoon at 2:30
O'Clock. They will take up the life of
Abraham, beginning at Genesis, thir-
tenth chapter.
Thieves Get Notwithstanding was
the sum total of the loot taken Thurs
day night by burglars who broke into
the Adler d Block commission house,
1910 Howard street. An employe had
left the safe open and the thieves
smashed the strong box, but it con-
tanned nothing.
Does Not Sponsor Dance - The
management of the Western Union
wishes to deny that it is sponsoring
or back of dance which is being
billed ostensibly for the benefit of the
messenger boys. Tickets are being
sold on the pretense that the Western
Union and the American District Tel
cgraph are sanctionng the dance
There is no American District Tele-
graph in Omaha now.
r. Y. Blum to Lecturer. Y. Blum,
an attorney formerly of Kansas City
and national lecturer for the Amer
lean section of the Philosophical So
Ciety, will lecture in Omaha next Sun
day and Monday evenings at FOL Bee
building. The subject of Mr.. Blums
Sunday evening lecture will be Social
degeneration" and that on Monday
evening will be Another Reason Why
Capital Punishment Should Be Abol-
ished."
Andirons for Observation-Disclosures
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-09
Steel Contract is
Let for Telephone
Company Building

The Omaha Structural Steel COM
pany was awarded the contract for
steel work of the Nebraska Telephone
company's new exchange building to
be erected at the northwest corner
of Nineteenth and Douglas streets.
Announcement was made by the
company that ground will be broken
within short time after the first Of
the new year. The building will be
fifteen stories, and possibly higher
Owing to high ceiling necessities of
telephone exchange rooms, it is ex-
planned this building, if erected OH a
fiteen-story plan, will be fifty feet
higher than the ordinary building of
a similar number of stories
The steel contract calls for 1000
tons. George R. Prinz is the architect
The facing material of the building
has not been selected.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-09

THE INCREDIBLE HONEYMOON. by +.
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A happy story of love of youth and
OF adventure, OF wanderings through
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and a warm hearted heroine.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-09
Police Believe Merz
Swallowed the GoIdpieCe

Swallowing the evidence is the di-
gestive feat performed by T. A. Merz,
1914 South Seventeenth street, who
was fined $40 and costs in police court
Friday morning for stealing a 81 so
gold piece from a saloon acquair-
lance. Police admit that Merz did
not have the money on his person
when nabbed, but DR.. Charles F.
Shook suspects that he had it in his
person. All sorts of emetics were
administered to Merz, but he did not
give up the evidence. Because of the
peculiar nature of the case Judge Fos-
ter suspended the fine
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-09
6SmBooMpan

trust company undertakings OF old,
and as to our own times is a recital
Of deeds constantly outdone.
THE GROWTH OF LEGEND, By Fer
nand van Langenhove. New York. G. p.
Putnam's' Sons $26.
A refutation of the alleged tales of
francs -tireurs and atrocities perpe-
trated by the Belgian civil population,
1t is, as the author declares, not a
polemic, but piece OF careful work
based upon authentic German docu-
ments and conducted in accordance
with the methods recognized as APP
propriate to sociological investiga-
tons,
AMERICAS RELATIONS TO THE GREAT
WAR BY John Williams Burgess. Chi
cago. A. c. mcclure \ Co. 800
This volume is supplementary and
complementary to Prof. Burgess pre-
vious book, The European War Of
1914" 1t is written to enable the
American who stands for America
first and the welfare of the world
next. to grasp the real significance of
the situation.
THE BOY SCOUTS YEAR BOOK. Edited
by Walter p. Mcclure and franklin X.
Matthews New York. D. Appleton a
Co. $3.50.
An opportunity was presented last
year for the boy scout movement to
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by cooperating in the publication OF
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TO preserve in more enduring form
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rent publication in the scouts official
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SALADS, SANDWICHES AND CHATTING
DISH RECIPES By Marion Harris Neil,
Philadelphia, David Mckay. publisher.
$l.00.
The tested recipes offered in this
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lection from a collection made dur
ing period of twenty years and the
directions arc explicit.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-09

| miscellaneous.
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Omaha daily bee., 1916-12-09

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Evening star., 1916-10-01

less before him. They tailed thrice on
the Wheeling aspirant in the fourth by
reason of Elmer Smiths lengthy triple,
a walk to Judge. Henry's single and
Growers imitation of a croquet arch
on Jamieson's grounder. the latter bat
ting for Thomas
Nothing further transpired on behalf
OF the Nationals until the torrid ninth.
Then Leonard singled with one gone.
stole second and scored on Menoskey' 8
drive to right, Foster who had walked,
going to third. The Mack board of
strategy here found it advisable to yank
the fading Seibold in favor of Nabors.
who introduced himself with a wild
heave on which Foster scored Then
followed successive hits by Smith, Rice
and Shanks, the net result being four
runs and Washington victory.
The Nationals held the lead up until
the sixth when Thrasher's double,
StrunNs infield hit, his steal of second
and McInnis' Texas Lacquer into left
Following Schangs walk, chased in a
pair of runs, while third filtered
across when Judge put on trick Jug
sling act with Healey's easy roller.
one more resulted in the following in
nlng on Growers inf1eld hit and Thrash
ers second double. but after this Doc
Ayers, who had succeeded Thomas and
Goodwin on the mound, saw to 1t that
no unnecessary liberties were taken
with his delivery. The scores: