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Palisadian., 1916-01-22
The Wise Farmer

There was a man in our town
And he was wondrous wise
He knew that if he wanted crops
He'd have to fertilize.
ats nitrogen that makes things
green"
Said this man of active brain;
"And potash makes the good strong
straw,
And phosphate plumps the grain.
But it's clearly wrong to waste
plant food
On wet and soggy field;
I'll surely have to put in drains
If I'd increase the yield.
Now acid soils will not produce
A clover sod that's prime;
So if l have sour soil,
I'll have to put on lime.
And after doing all these things,
Palisadian., 1916-01-22
Some Postscripts

In some parts of Russia gold has
been mined without interruption
since 1744.
An Iowa woman is the patentee of
new form of horseshoe with re-
newable calks.
A bellows device has been invented
to be attached to a broom to collect
it's sweepings.
Greenheart wood from British
Guianea is said to outlast iron or
steel when used under water.
A novel measuring tape is per-
forated at each half inch so that
marks can be made through it.
Palisadian., 1916-01-22
Palisade Union Church
Committees Reports
Continued from page g.

Continued from page g.
siderable number of adults, who drop
in as they have opportunity.
The School as q whole has been
growing in attendance at the rate of
about ten per year of late years as
follows:
1911, average attendance, 38
1912, average attendance, 40
1913, average attendance, SO
1914, average attendance, 60
1915, average attendance, 20
The detailed statistics Of the past
year are as follows:
Number of sessions in 1915, AZ.
Average attendance for the 26 Sun.
days before vacation, 70 plus.
Average attendance for the year
Palisadian., 1916-01-22

To make success more sure,
I'll try my best to keep
From wasting the manure.
So I'll drain, and lime, and cultivate,
With all that that implies;
And when I've done that thoroughly
I'll manure and fertilize.
Palisadian., 1916-01-22

ses and business transactions, and
that he should get out instanter, he
did not venture a retort. No: he
merely smirked some more and waved
his books. He certainly was polite,
that book agent was.
He was deaf and dumb.-Wichita
Eagle.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-30

Rural free delivery carriers were
appointed as follows: Pennsylvania,
Arthur 8. DooNttle, Route l. Bradford
and Herman G. Pensler, Route l, Lin
den.
Falling from his hay loft and land
ing on his head on the barn floor
Brown Kelly, a farmer, near Carlisle
was found unconscious and seriously
injured.
Christmas gifts in the shape Of sal
airy and wage increases were passed
out to virtually all Altoona municipal
employees, save bureau heads, By
council.
Rev. DR.. ]. Max Hark, pastor OF the
Moravian church, Lebanon, has an
nounced his retirement effective on
March l, after forty years spent in the
ministry.
Court has permanently prohibited
Pottsville council from paying bis
sum to contractors for remodeltns
city hall-work that was let without
advertising.
Lester V. Starr, aged twenty-five
of Salamanca, N. Y, was killed when
he fell beneath the wheels of a B.
r. & P. freight train in the yards al
Johnsonburg.
Although past seventy years Of age
Major Stephen Drasher, Of Freeland
won the prize for being the handsom
est man at the charity ball of the
Freeland Elks.
Insurance to the amount of $4,000
has just been handed to Mrs. c. Q
Woods, Easton, widow of the late c
G.. Woods, who was killed in a fal
from the train.
Two cases of whisky were stole1
from the cellar Of the National hotel
MilIerstown, and at the home of VIII
liam Snyder a housekeeper helped
himself to a meal.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-30

Windows were shattered and holes
torn in the wall when waterback In
the home of Harry r. Engel, Boyer
town, exploded and badly lacerated
Mrs. EngePs face.
With little ceremony and in the pres
ence of only the faculty and some
students, ground was broken for the
new 100000 Dickinson Law school
building at Carlisle.
Bert c. Roos, of Luzerne Mines, near
Indiana, was selected mercantile ap
praiser for the coming year by the
county commissioners.
Because he became too persistent in
an argument, at Mahanoy, Walter
Serva broke John Witcon's jaw with
beer glass, and the county courts
will settle the argument
Police and county detectives are
searching for four men who bound and
gagged Samono Trache, Of Bradford
and robbed him of $95 and certificates
Of deposit aggregating $500
Mrs. Esther Irwin, widow of DR.
George B. Irwin, Of Washington, ia
tally injured by an automobile belong
ing to William Wylie, has filed suit fol
$4,000 damages against Wylie.
Stephen Fritz, the only man In
Palmerton who refused to comply
with the compulsory school law, by mo-
sending his children to school, was
fined 81 by Squire B. w. Shipe.
Experienced hunters say that il
spite of the fact that seventeen deer
were killed in Carbon county during
the season which recently closed
plenty of them are left for next year
Fred Brock, deserter from the bat
tleship wyoming, and Elmer Breene
of Baltimore, a tresspasser, who broke
Jail, have been returned to Lewistown
unable to stand the rigors Of the
weather.
Michael Gellish, of Highland, whit
moved his wire fence with him wher
he quit the mines and went to Free
land to reside, was compelled by Jus
tice Thomas Malloy to return it ant
pay damages.
The Carpenter Steel works, Reading
awarded the contract for the erection
of a steel and concrete house, ZIG by
76 feet in dimension and six stories
high, to the Reading Contracting com
pany for 100000.
Alleged to have stolen a seven-pas
senger limousine from the Pullman
Taxicab company, William Stevenson
Vincent P. Hytha and G. r. William
son, alf Of the North Side, were ar
rested at Rochester.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-30
The Aim Of the Foreign Language Papers
of America
A Voters Catechism.

R. 435. According to the pop
ulation one to every 211,OOO, (the
ratio fixed by Congress after each
decennial census.
D. Which is the capital of the
state of Pennsylvania.
r. Harrisburg.
D. How many Senators has
each state in the United States
Senatei
R. Two.
D. Who are our U. S. Senators I
r. Boise Penrose and George
T. Oliver.
d. For how long are they elect
edf
r. 2 years.
D. Who is our Congressman
r. 8. TaylSr North.
D. How many electoral votes
has the state Of Pennsylvania
r.. 80.
D. Who is the chief executive
of the state of Pennsylvania
R. The Governor.
D. For how long is he electedf
r. 4 years.
D. Who is the GovernorH
R. Brumbaugh.
D. Do you believe in organized
government
r. Yes.
D. Are you opposed to organic.
ed government
R. No.
D. Are you an anarchist?
R. No.
D. What is an anarchist?
R. A person who does not be
ieve in organized government.
D. Are you a bigamist or poll,
gamistY
R. No.
D. What is a bigamist or poly
g&misti
r. One who believes in having
more than one wife.
D. Do you belong to any Sc
cret Society which teaches 10
disbelieve in organized govern
ment?
r. No.
D. Have you ever violated any
Icws of the United States9
R, No.
D. Who makes the ordinances
for the City :
R. The board Of Aldermen.
D. Do you intend to remain
permanently in the o. 81
r. Yes.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-30

D. Have you read the Consti-
tuition of the United States2
r. Yes.
D. What form of Government
is thisY
r. Republic.
D. What is the Constitution of
the United States?
r. 1t is the fundamental law of
this country.
d. Who makes the laws OF the
United States7
r. The Congress.
D. What does Congress consist
of
r. Senate and House of Rep
resentatives.
D. WHO is our State Senator
R. TheO. M. Kurtz.
D. Who is the chief executive
of the United Statesi
r. President.
d. For how long is the
President of the United States
elected?
r. 4 years.
D. Who takes the place Of the
President in case he dies?
R. The Vice President.
d. What is his name?
r. Thomas r. Marshall.
D. By whom is the President of
the United States elected9
R. By the electors.
D. By whom are the electors
.elctedf e
r. By the people.
d. Who makes the laws for the
gtste of Pennsylvania.
r. The Legislature.
D. What does the Legislature
consist of
r. Senate and Assembly.
D. Who is our Assemblymani
r Wilmer H. Wood.
D. How many State in the un-
iOnf
r. 4e.
D. When was the Declaration
u Of independence signedi
r. July 4, 1776.
D. By whom was it writteni
r. Thomas jefferson.
d. Which is the capital of the
United StatesH
r. Washington.
D. By whom are they electedf
R. By the people.
D. For how longH
R. years.
D. How many representatives
are thereH :.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-30

The average person wastes lots OF
time telling other people things they
do not care TO hear.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-30

Tommy" said the teacher, how %
they ascertain the measurement Of q
vessel?"
81 guess they measure 1t with navy
yard" was the unexpected reply.-Chi-
cago News
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-30
OUADRI PATRIOTTICI

CartOIne Illustrate Llbrl dOgH specie detrO Ordlle
rnOmatO DZOVARO TASCABILE taIaRoIRgese VlceVePsa
edltO daI FfdfeII TreVeS dl MdnO.
La nuuVlsslma GRAMNATCl ACCELERATE del De GaudeRz
Corso complete per mparare sCrver parlare capr bene
Ia lingua inglese in tire mesi senza maestro
Agenzia Italiana
Indiana Pennsylvania
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-30
RGIGTkQ0I9 Success OIL IhNSG TGI0IIGd PhySCIuIS
in lhG TTGOlIGnl Of Chronic Diseases
Offer Their Services

The United Doctors, licensed by the
State of Pennsylvania, are experts in
the treatment of diseases of the blood,
liver, stomach, intestines, skin, nerves
heart, spleen, kidneys or bladder,
diabetes, bed-wetting, rheumatism,
sciatica, tape worm, leg ulcers, APP
pendicitis, gall stones, goitre, piles,
etc, without operation, and are too
well known in this locality to need
further mention Call and see them,
it costs you nothing,
laboratories. Milwaukee. Wis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08
At the Library
New Fiction
The High Priestess, Robert Grant.

The High Priestess, Robert Grant.
The problem to be solved in this nov
ell Is the modern married woman 5 prob
lem-The wish for an Independent ca
reer out in the world and at the same
time to have well-brought up children
and an ideal home life Mary Ran
dali S solution was the introduction
into her home of her dear and tried
friend, Svbil, who was to be a sort of
glorifed house mother thus enabling
Mrs. Randall to pursue her career as a
landscape architect untrammeled by
home cares. All worked admirably I'M
til in one of Mrs. Randall 5 long pro
tracted business trips her husband
grows fond of the glorifed house
mother. The wife returns, discovers
the situation and leaves her hus-
band fo- number of years. How a
reconciliation consistent with this
modern wife $ ideals is brought about
forms the climax of the story. After
reading the story one may well say
with Puck, Lord, What fools these
mortals be.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08
Milk Rate Investigation.
burlington News

The interstate commerce commission
has been asked TO conduct a thorough
investigation of milk rates throughout
New England, by the Massachusetts
public service commission. The Massa-
chusetts commission S request also
asks that the federal body prescribe
rates that shall apply on milk md
cream in all character of equipment,
in order that the rate on this commod
ity may be equitably adjusted and
that uniform system of rates be pre-
scribed in lieu Of the present irregular
system. The present system in many
cases results in there being no through
rates maintained where two or more
transportation lines are involved in
a haul. The question is one Of high
Importance to great number of Yer
mont farmers, and just and equitable
solution will be hailed with satisfac-
ton.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08
An Object Lesson in Good Roads.
{ Rutland News. J

Some surprising reports Of progress
were made at the international road
congress, held at Worcester, Mass, last
week. Perhaps the most notable came
from the Province of Quebec, Canada.
Five years ago there were practically
no macadam or gravelled roads in that
province. Today it has 1900 miles of
macadam, 500 of gravelled roads, TO-
600 new concrete bridges and cul-
verts, and $50 macadam plants push
ing new work.
When you consider that Quebec is
country of scattered people, few
cities of any size, and total po2ula-
ton of only 100000, this advance
seems remarkable How many of our
States are doing as well, in proper
tion to population or wealth. Quebec
win soon place its cattle, oats, hav and
apples on the market at lower rates,
and be still more formidable com
petitor.
Every State in the union should take
note of these developments elsewhere,
and ask if it is keeping up with the
procession. The cost of living is need
lessly high because of the cost of get
| ting food to the markets. Manufac-
tured products, loaded from factory to
a railroad side track, have not risen
much 1t is the food products. drawn
over poor roads in small loads, that
cost high.
! Every farm district needs a good
| hard road to serve the industrial com
munity efficiently. With such high
ways, big motor trucks win circle
about the back districts, and pick up
their great loads at a small cost.
1t is interesting to note that Que
bee got its new roads by treating the
road question as a state problem. It
did not attempt to make the local
community pay the whole cost. The
provincial government got busy and
borrowed $15,000,000.
In the United States. the consumer
in towns and cities will get quite as
much benefit from low transportation
costs as the farmer He should be will
ing to take his share in liberal State
taxes for road Improvement.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08
Fighting tuberculosis.
Concord \. H. Monitor


Figures Indicating the growth of the
anti-+uberculosis campaign in the Unit
ed States show that in the year 1905
about $5.000,O00 was spent in this
movement while during the year 1915
over $22. 500 600 was spent
In 1905 probably less than 100000
was spent for anti-tuberculosis work
other than the care of tuberculosis pa
tients in a few poorly equipped san
atoria and hospitals. In 1915 over 1,400
anti-tuberculosis associations spent
nearly $1,225,000 in organization and
education. Special tuberculosis dispen-
saries, of which there are $50, spent
over $1,l50,000 in examining. advising
and treating patients. Open air schools,
of which there were none in 1905,
spent more than $350000 in teaching
and treating anaemic and tubercular
children. Sanatoria AMI hospitals for
the care Of conservatives. nearly 600
of them spent $19,250, 900. Much of
this sum was contributed by private
pay-patients. but the greater part,
over 10000, 900 was paid by federal,
state, city and county boards for free
| treatment.
| As an indication of the way in
which the burden of the care of con-
sumptives is being shifted to the pub
! lies shoulders. where it rightly be-
longs the National Association points
out that in 1905, as nearly as can be
estimated, less than per cent of the to-
tal evpenditrre of $5,O00,0O0 for tu
berculosis was from public funds, while
in 1915, nearly 65 per cent or 1850
600. was from this source.
New York State again leads the
states with the LARGEST total expendi
ture of nearly $5,OoO,000 with Penn
svlvania second and Illinois third.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08
THE HEN
toward liam

The hen is modest barn yard orna-
ment whose mission in life is to lay
eggs and get run over b. red touring
ears. The high price of eggs now pre-
vailing in this country is due to 50
many hens getting on the right of
way and dying with a loud and mourn
full squawk. One can hardly take a
drive upon any of our main highways
without fitting past the silent forms
of dozen Frustrated hens which had
been stepped on by a 81 4 tire and
taken out of this world at the very
height of their usefulness.
There are many different varieties
of hens, but all of them produce what
is known as the cold storage egg. This
egg is laid in the latter part of March
and kept in the original package I'M
til December l. when it is sold to New
York people who have never met any
other kind. This is not the fault of
the hen, however, which keeps on lay
ing until run down by frenzied tour
lists who mistake the Lincoln highway
for the Elgin speedway.
The hen is remarkable for many
things. When If comes to making
money. she crowds j. p Morgan and
the Chicago packers into the back row
Protected by The Ada
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08

A great national child labor day IS
to be celebrated in all parts of the
country Jan. %. If the effect of the
day could be that the manufacturers
of New England could realize that
the mill men of the southern states
could compete with them on unequal
terms, they might spend their efforts,
not in the undoing of child labor laws
in our northern states, but in COMPEL
ing the rest of the country to come
up to our standards
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Ru of paper,
so cents an inch for first insertion; rs
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
ton. Limited space on first page a
double rates.
Space rates on application
Classified advertisements Five cents
a line first insertion with so per cen
discount for each subsequent insertio
without change of copy.
Reading Notices-Ten cents per line
first insertion with so per cent discount
for each subsequent insertion without
change OF copy.
Position 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08

of the bread line. The prairies Of this
broad land are dotted with humble
homes provided with all the comforts
of life by one conscientious hen and
a l00-egg incubator, working side by
side and filling the home with song
and kerosene SCOT. If it were not for
the faithful and unremitting toll Of
the Plymouth Rock hen and the
patient labor of a wife who is too
proud to get divorce, man. a man
would have to 90 out and look for
some work that is located outside of
the pool hall.
When a hen becomes so old that
she is about to retire from active bus
mess pursuits and take life easy, she
is beheaded by an ungrateful owner
and fed to the pastor Of the Method
ist church. 1t is a sad sight to see. an
aged, accomplishing hen, which has
paid the taxes and water rent for ff
teen years, led to the block to make a
Roman holiday for some minister who
could keep a hen of his own if he
could catch up with his salary before
the end of the conference year. Some
day a law will be passed putting the
hen upon the retired list and provid-
ing a suitable pension with funeral
benefits.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08
Don't Worry Into the Grip.
Hartford Courant. J


The newspapers are full of the de
structive sweep of the grip and kindly
offer advice how to avoid or cure it.
We beg leave to offer some original
and Independent advice, based on
something more than one hundred and
fifty years of experience as q news
paper The advice is, Forget it.
One of the best ways to get any Turk
ing and DESTROYS ailment is to think
you have got it. TIN usually oblige.
Get nervous and worryful and await
with anxiety the arrival of the grip
and you can depend upon its joining
you before long. Read twice over the
most of the advice as TO prevention
and You will note that it IS applicable
to practically all diseases In effect
and condensed. it reads, Keep well. y
Walk, breathe fresh air, be moderate
in diet, sleep well-these and similar
injunctions are to ward off grip, but
they will ward off the great majority
of the sicknesses that visit us. Above
all, "Don It worry
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08

Elihu Root sounded a note of warn
ing at the Republican love feast in New
York Thursday night, when he said
the most critical test of American pat
riotism is to Gene in the next four
years in the preservation of our in
stitutions and the country's place in
the world. Our greatest attribute is
not wealth, our thousands of miles of
railroads, or our tall buildings, but our
national character, which must be pre-
served. To successfully face our prob
lens we must conserve all our powers
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08

and Philadelphia. large part of the
traffic handled is fresh meat and per-
ishable goods. The extension of this
kind of service, which is sure to come,
brings up the question again of the
kind of roads which the future will de-
mand. With the steadily increasing
business with motor ears on the public
highways all of our plans for good
roads may be subjected TO modifica-
tions.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08

At least two companies of the Yer
mont National Guard are calling for
additional enlistments to bring their
total eurollments up to the govern
ment s standard of 65 men. Rutland
and Brattleboro are large enough com
munities SO that they might be ex-
pected to furnish 50 good eligible men
apiece for military service in piping
times Of peace.-Barre Times.
You are right, neighbor, and. we be
ieve both of these progressive com
munities win get the support they de
serve. But what about Barrel
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08
Magnificent Dividends.
Springfield Reporter. J

According to the Boston Herald, the
Windsor Machine company of Wind
sor, Vermont, which this week went
into consolidation with the National
Acme Manufacturing company of
Cleveland, Ohio, was sold to that COM
pany for $3,575,000. and paid divi-
dends aggregating 125 per cent profit
in the July and October cutting of
the melon. And this is in Vermont,
where it has been said that the in
dustrial opportunities are few and
meagre.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08

More cases of communicable dis
eases were reported to the Vermont
state board of health in 1915 than in
1914, but the number of deaths was
largely reduced. The additional num-
Der of cases recorded was undoubtedly
due to better work on the part of the
health officers and doctors in making
their reports.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08
Centennial of Savings Banks.
(Springfeld Reporter

current advertisement of the
Northfield Savings bank calls atten-
tion to the fact that 1916 is the cen
tennial year of the American Savings
bank the first one having been es-
tablished in 1916. Something of the
progress made by the country since
that time may be evidenced by the
fact that savings banks of the United
States at this time have deposits ag-
gregating about $4,7OO,O00 900 belong
ing to 10,500,0OO depositors. Yet this
sum, amazing as it is, could easily be
doubled if the people of this country
would practice one-half of the thrift
that the people of France have shown
since the Franco-German war 40 years
ago.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08

The Gettemy system of bookkeeping
has proved great success in the town
of Orange, Mass, in the opinion of G..
NJ Underwood of the board of select
men, The town year closed on Jan.
and within five days the entire trans
actions of the town for year in all
its departments were ready for the
printer This copy included $500 or
ders covering accounts amounting to
$162, SIG. The attention of some of
the town fathers in Vermont is called
to this statement without charge.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08

In talking about delegates to the
Republican national convention it is
well to remember that the honor is one
that many men cannot afford After
paying a variety of assessments in ad-
dition to. the usual hotel and travelling
bills some delegates in past years
have found that the little job with a
highsounding name was an expensive
advertisement
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-08

Probably the most notable profit
sharing plan in successful operation in
the Connecticut river Valley is at Hol-
yoke, where the Farr Alpaca company
yesterday distributed among its EN-
ployes checks aggregating 100000.