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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-05-12
Missouri Crop Report.

Despite unfavorable weather
conditions, almost one-ffth of
the state corn crop had been
planted by May l, according to
the Missouri crop report issued
today from the Office of the State
Board of Agriculture. The re-
port in full is as follows:
Farm work in Missouri during
April was retarded by continued
cool and cloudy weather. At
Columbia the mean temperature
for the month was 52.9 degrees;
total precipitation 2.68 inches.
There's need of warmth and sun
shine. The growth of vegetation
is being retarded and much seed
that has been planted is germi-
mating slowly. Soil condition is
83 as compared with 81 one year
ago.
CORN-Nineteen per cent Of
the Missouri corn crop has been
planted, according to reports
made to the state board of Ag-
riculture. Weather considered,
this indicates favorable progress,
as the 10-year average shows
but "a per cent of the crop plant
ed by May /. One year ago So
per cent of the crop had been
planted. The earliest planting
for the last decade was in 1910,
when AZ per cent of the crop was
in the ground by this date; lat
est was in 1912, with May
planting showing but 3.5 pei
cent. By sections, present plant
ing progress is: Northeast, 10
: Northwest, II; Central, Is
Southeast, 81. Estimates show
i. 81 per cent of corn land plowed
! as compared with 70 per cen
, last year. A preliminary es
, innate by correspondents show.
) an eight per cent increase il
e corn acreage as compared will
|, the 1915 crop of 1918, 800 acres
e WHEAT-Early in Apr.
4 wheat gave promise of improve
5 ment, but later in the mont
many fields indicated a los
rather than gain. While col
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-05-12

Miss Doris Griswold of Kansas
City arrived Thursday evening
. visit Mr.. and Mrs. F. Lee Wal
lace.
Mrs. Worth Bates returned
Thursday evening from a visit
in Lincoln, Mo.
Mrs. Albert Weber went to
Kansas iCty Thursday evening
for a few days visit.
Mrs. w. C. Allen of Kansas
City is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. I.
S. Fletcher.
Mrs. Ike Noyes went to Hig-
~ginscville Thursday evening for
a few days visit.
Col. w. M. Hoge returned
Thursday from a few days stay
in Fulton.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Molten
kamp spent Sunday in Higgins
vile.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Cauthen
spent Sunday in Buckner.
Miss Josephine liam spent Sun
day in Kansas City.
Miss Rachael Andreen and Miss
Nell Mars spent Sunday in
Waverly.
Miss Ella White went to Hig-
ginsvilIe Monday evening for
a few days visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Shepherd
of Kansas City spent Sunday
here as the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. B. M. Little.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-05-12
A r.AKERY FOR ALL.

If you want a nice cake for
your Suniay dinner or any other
special occasion call phone 500.
We make and deliver on short
notice Angel Food. Cream Puffs,
Carmel Roll, MarchmellOw Roll,
Jelly Roll DOuehnuts and Pies
of all KINDS. | also have the
Snowflake Wrapped bread,
Vienna Prcad, Rye Bread, Whole
Wheat Bread and the Twin
caves. The wagon makes trips
O town each day.
A. c. MEIERER.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-05-12
Improve Home Cured Mead.

Don't let the cured meat get
too salty. The practice of leav-
ing the hams and bacon in the
brine or dry cure for two or
three months will always give
meat that is too salty to be eaten
with any relish. Two days for
each pound weight of piece will
cure the meat thoroughly so that
it will keep all summer and will
usually make it so salty that it
will need some freshening be-
fore using. Shoulders that are
to be used up before hot weather
can be cured in a considerably
less length of time. Before the
meat is to be smoked soak
it two or three hours in warm
water. If it is too salty soak for
a full twenty-four hours and
then send to the smoke house.
P. F. T~rowbride, Missouri Agri-
cultural Experiment Station.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-05-12
We Certainly DO Love Work.

We Certainly Do Love Work.
We are prepared to do better
work and more of it than ever.
Why half mix your concrete the
old way? Let us mix your con-
crete the up-to-date way. We
have the best mixer on the mar
ket. Your concrete does not
lost you as much as it did the
I'D way. YET 1t is a hundred
DER cent better, because when
we mix it, it's mixed. That's all.
JOHN 1. ASHURST.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-05-12
Farm Loans

We will place loans on improv-
ID farms in Lafayette County il
mounts not exceeding $4,000
20 one person.
Morrison Wentworth BAN
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-05-12
Notice.

Big sale first quality fruit
trees, grape, gooseberries, cur
ants, roses. At less than half
price. Inspection solicited. $40
Franklin st.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-05-12

dition in a few counties has inn
proved, the state as a whole
shows a loss, since April /, of
three points. Present condition
is 62.8. By sections, condition
is: Northeast, 55; Northwest,
.72.5; Central, SO; Southwest, SO;
Southeast, GO. Wheat condition
shows 84.9. Lowest for the de-
.cade was 63.4 in 1912 when the
average acre yield was 1875
bushels. Highest was 101.8 in
1914 when the crop averaged
I'll bushels. With favorable
weather for corn planting and
with no further improvement in
wheat, it is estimated that 18 per
cent of wheat sown in fall of
1915 will be replaced by other
crops. However, only a small
per cent of this has been plowed
up at the present time. AS ac-
erage seeded for 1916 crop was
17.3 per cent short, a further re-
duction will, at best, mean a
limited total yield.
OATS-Practically the entire
oat crop has been seeded, the
only oat sowing remaining being
in the extreme northern count
les. Acreage, as estimated by
correspondents, shows 1904 per
cent as compared with 1,064,000
acres in 1915. But for unfavor-
able weather, this would have
been larger. By crop division
sections, acreage percentages
show: Northeast, SO; Northwest,
1918; Central, 100; Southwest,
108; Southeast, 90. Reports as
to condition of oats are general
ly favorable, showing 80 for the
state. Sections differ but little.
However, the Southwest, with "a
is slightly the lowest on oats.
OTHER C~ROPS-Condition of
all clover is 1915. New clover is
n good shape, while much old
clover is dead. Timothy con-
dition is go; alfalfa, 80.2. Pas
lures, especially where not graz
ed too close last year, have made
progress and stock generally has
been turned to grass. Condition
of pastures is 90.6. Cotton will
show an increased acreage over
; last years crop. This increase
may amount to ten per cent. A
. large per cent of the crop has
. been planted and there is feal
y that the cool, wet weather may
injure the stand. The outlook fol
+ a general fruit crop is 70, with
the apple prospect excellent
9 Peach crop outlook is placed al
\ 80, the Southeast section leading
. with sc. In the northern hal
/, of the state the few scattered
il peaches will be confined almos
! entirely to seedlings. The berr,
h outlook is excellent. In man,
&c localities cherries and plums wi
J. be light, owning to late frost.
LIVE STOCK-Live stock i
generally thrifty and in goo
health. There is, however, som
complaint of clover bloat, also q
cattle dying from eating oil
clover improperly cured unde
the unfavorable harvest cond
lions of last year. There is bl
little complaint as to hog choler,
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-05-12
Eggs For Hatching

Thoroughbred Rhode Island
Red Eggs for Matching , both
'ombs. Phone R 10 H.
MRS. G. H. LOGAN,
Bill mo.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-05-12

Advertise In the lnteIisencer,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
Hay Grades Changed

Columbus. Miss, July 17.-(SpeciaI) Hon. Walter E. Stokes of Macon, presi- dent of the Mississippi Hay Growers association; J. G. Weatherly, secretary manager of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, have returned from Cedar Roint, O., where they went to attend the annual meeting of the National Hay Growers association in effort to have the grades on Johnson grass changed. They succeeded In securing the estab- ilshment of the following grades on al- falfa and Johnson hay, which it Is be- lieved will prove satisfactory to both producers of and dealers in these le- gumes: Choice alfalfa and Johnson hay shall be three-quarters. alfalfa. of good color, sound and we'll baled, mixed with one-quarter of Johnson hay of good color. No. 1 alfalfa and Johnson mixed hay shall be alfalfa and John son hay, one-half each. of good color, sound and we'll baled. No. 2 alfalfa and Johnson mixed hay shall be alfalfa and Johnson hay not good enough for No. 1, and shall contain one-fourth alfalfa and three-fourths Johnson grass, with not more than 10 per cent of other na- tive grasses, same to be sound and well baled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
SELMA

Selma, July 17.-GSpecial.) )-Accompan by relatives and friends, the body of OlS Mathews, age 15, killed Sunday afterno} when he touched live wire, was shippl this morning to WestWlle, Fla, for l terment. The boy was killed while a boat on the backwaters of the Alabar river. and was the second victim claim since the water rose in East Selma.
 The electric wires at the spot, whe the boy was killed, are only few fe above the water, and it is said that jumped up and caught them on was' with his companions.
 The river at Selma slowly is fallir but it will be a week before all of t backwater is out and the families East Selma are able to move back ir their homes. In the meantime, city wof men are cleaning out the debris left the storm, and citizens are co-operati in spreading lime to prevent an epider of fever.
 Reports from over the county indics that the county roads are in bad con tion, the Montgomery-Selma road bel badly washed out just south of the city
 While the roads are being repaired, 6 relief committee in Selma is hard at we in an effort to provide food and clothis for the persons made homeless by q high water. Over $S000 already has bt collected, and it is thought that dou that amount will be necessary to ham present conditions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
GADsDEN

Gadsden, July 17.-(SpeciaL )-After hav- ing reached a stage of 315 feet, or about three and one-half feet under the stage begun falling Although the water did not go as high as in 1886, the damage is much greater, for crops were further ad- vanced this year.
 Twenty-six candidates have qualified for the 10 offices to be given out next Monday by municipal voters. There are four in the race for mayor, two for presi- dent of the council and 20 for aldermen Candidates are as follows: Mayor, C. M Adams, G. E. Christopher, w. P. John- son and W. T. Murphree; president of council. Edward Pickard and c. A Stew enson; aldermen, First ward, W. J. Beggs, T. F. Griffin, T. M. Burlington, G. H. Myrick; Second ward. w. P. Archer, G E. Gay, w. H. Mayben, Evans Owens Third ward, J. l.. Curry. J. H. Hooks Lee Purphy, W. H. Portner, R. W. Stock dale and J. R. Thompson; Fourth ward T. A. Jelks, A. M. Rattray, Roe G. Tins ley, B. V. Williams, J. R. Williams and w. M Wilson.
 Mrs. N. A. Hall today received news oi the death of her son, w. J. Marona, who when bridge over the Catawba river near Charlotte, N C., was washed. away Sunday night. He was employed by the Western Union Telegraph company.
 Seven recruits were sent to Montgomery Sunday by Capt. F. l.. Wyatt to join Company F, Fourth infantry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
Prudential Employees
 Insured Without Cost

Newark, N J., July 17.--Involving a total of more than s16,ooo0oo, the Prudential Insurance company today announced the institution of sys- tenn of insuring every one of its more than 16oo0 employees without expense to the workers This is said to be the largest single amount of life insurance ever covered by any company in the world. Officers and directors of the company are not provided for.
 The amount placed on the life of each man and woman has been determined according to length of service. Employ ment of year or less entities the per son to $500 and from that the scale advances to $2000 for those who have been 20 or more years in the company service.
 No actual policies are to be issued. Instead the risks are merely carried on the company's books and the com pany pledges itself to pay the insur- ance in case of death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
LyerIy to Entertain Masons

Lyerly. Ga.. July 17.-(Special.) )-I erly will be host to the Masons of Oh
 tooga county on Wednesday and Thu day, July 26 and 27, when the ann Chattooga county Masonic convent will be held here. An. interesting pI gramme has been arranged for the ocI sion and number of distinguished sons from all parts of the state are pected to be in attendance and address
 will be delivered by some of the sta{ best orators, among them being Dr.
 G. Hardman of Commerce. Ga.. who
 candidate for governor. Dr. Hal man will address the convention Thursday morning at 11:30 o'clock. SI ator Harbin of Calhoun, who is a cs didate for Congress from the Elevel district, in opposition to the Hon. G 'don Lee of Chickamauga, will addr
 the convention at II o'clock Thurse morning, and it is expected several o| CT speeches will be made during day. Dinner will be served on grounds both days. and it is expecH that more than 8 thousand Masons [
 their families will be in attendanct
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
B|G BUSINESS MAN HAD NO IDEA THAT
 T WOULD HELP HIM
Gains Ten Pounds and Use of Lower Limbs After Taking Two Bottles
 of Tanlac

Few men in Memphis or west Tennesset are more widely known than R. W. Beale the well known manufacturer who owns and operates a cereal plant at Paris Tenn and a kaolin mine at luka, Miss. and who resides at 957 Lamar avenue Memphis In telling the Tanlac repre- sentative recently of the benefits he hao received from this medicine Mr. Bealt said:
 T had lost the use of my lower limbs from my knees down, as the result Of 3 severe spell of yphoid-pneumonia, anc I had begun to fear that I would be a confirmed invalid for the rest of my life; and when I think of two bottles of Tanlac putting me in the perfect health I am today I can hardly believe it.
 "On December 4, 1915, I went to bed with typhoid-pneumonia, and l stayed there and suffered till February 7, l9l6 When I was able to sit up I found that I had absolutely no use of my limbs from the knees down and they pained me ter ribly all the time. l had no rest ana l simply can't tell you how much suffered. Besides, nothing I ate agreed with me or seemed to help me regain my strength
 "One day my wife said she was gong to get me some Tanlac, and l told her I wouldn't give 2 cents bottle for 1t and that I'd just as soon take stump water as Tanlac or anything else that wasn't prescribed for me. Well, she got a bottle anyway, and l took 1t just to please her; and, do you know, l began to improve before I had taken half bottle.
 q kept right on until I had finished two bottles, and I wish you would just look at me now! I'm in perfect health and as active as you are. I sleep fine now, my digestion is perfect, and l have such a good appetite I have actual ly gained 10 pounds in weight
 q have turned the tables on my wife, for she has become run down and is in need of a good tonic, and I am buying this bottle of Tanlac for her. I know it will get her to feeling better very soon. This medicine certainly has convinced me lit is wonderful, and I am willing to give 1t my highest indorsement I feel like can't say enough in praise of it. Tanlac Is simply priceless
 Tanlac is sold in Birmingham exclusive ly by Patton-Pope Drug Go. and Eugene Jacobs Drug Co.,, in Ensley by D. w.. Morris Drug Co.,, and in Bessemer by Pe- gram-Patton Drug Co.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
Two Veterans Answer Call

Mountain Creek, July 17-(Special) Death has claimed two inmates of the old soldiers home here. Veteran O. q. Armstrong, Company c, Fourth Texas regiment died on Monday morning at o'clock and his remains were sent to Do than for interment. The deceased was s6 years old and had a record of being :. splendid soldier during the four years of the Civil war. James Payne. age 73 years, died Sunday, July 16, and his remains were buried in the home cemetery Mon- day. The Rev. J. A. Cannon officiated at the funeral, which was largely attended by the inmates of the home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
ENGLAND W|LLNOT ALLOW RED CROSS
 ID AID TEUTONS
Permission to Ship Supplies to Germany and Austria Is Again Denied by
 Government

1 Washington, July 17-Great Britain
 again has refused a plea of the American
 Red Cross for permission to make condi-
 tional shipments of supplies to Germany and Austria. Foreign Secretary Grey in a note dated July 12 and made public here tonight reiterates that the allied blockade against such shipments is in &C., cordance with the Geneva convention, de- | clares there is no evidence that the sup plies are needed In the Teutonic nations, and says Great Britain cannot entertain l a suggestion that supplies be sent under guarantee that their distribution will be | supervised by a satisfactory commission l of Americans.
 The commission suggestion was made 1 by the Red Cross in letter written to Sir Edward Grey by former President Taft and transmitted by the state de- partment. It was intended to meet the objection of the British government that withdrawal of the Red Cross hospital units from Germany and Austria had left no guarantee that the supplies would not be put to military uses. Sir Edward s reply said:
 T have carefully considered thls proposal, but am at loss to under stand the suggestion made by the American Red Cross and quoted in your excellency's note that the pol icy pursued by his majesty's govern ment is contrary to the provisions of the Geneva convention. His majesty's government have in fact always taken the most scrupulous care to observe the provisions of this convention and they cannot appreciate how the pres ent subject at all falls within its scope
 His majesty's government have no reason to believe that there is an ab- sclute lack in the territory of the cen tral powers of the materials required for Red Cross supplies; they have, on the contrary, every reason to suppose the reverse, for, to give only one in- stance, not long ago a medical member of the Austrian general staff, Profess sor Hochenegg, wrote that there was no shortage and no prospect of shortage in medicines or bandages, nor even. in highly special medical reme- dies, so that Austria was hardly con- cerned in the success of the protest wade by the American Red Cross against the obstacles placed by the allies in the way of the export of such articles from America
 Tn these circumstances.- it is evident that if any deficiencies in these supplies exist, as to which there appears to be no evidence. it must be due to the fact that the central powers prefer to use the materials for other purposes and any steps that may be taken to give them further supplies would conduce, not to the increased welfare of the sick and wounded, but merely to set free larger quantities of s4ch materials for be1ligerent purposes.
 His majesty's government do not, therefore, feel able to create such an entirely new precedent as would be con- stituted by the supervisory commission suggested by the American Red Cross"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
REOOTLIWfTS@ |@ AnD 2SCREFN v
ny RICHARD F. LUssIER

A V intimate study of an even
 A dozen of this country's best \ known stage celebrities. their home life and families Is shown in How Molly Made Good" a six-part photoplay at the Majestic theatre to- day. The story of How Molly Made Good is centered about young Irish lassie CMiss Marguerite Gale), who breaks into the newspaper game in New York. Her making good' means the securing of interviews from stage stars and this she does quite suc- cessfully in the pictures. How Mol ly Made Good" is quite certain to prove the cleanest picture that has yet been shown at the Majestic theatre.
 THE SELFISH WOMAN"
 Just how selfish is a woman? That is the theme of The Selfish Woman" a five-part Lasky-Paramount photo play at the Strand theatre today. According to Manager T. s. Aber- nethy this unusual film drama, di- rected by George Melford and fea- turing Clea Ridgeley and Wallace Reid and the regular all-star Lasky Stock company, is fully up to the high Standard of the Lasky production, such as "The Cheat" and Maria Rosia" and "The Clown" The story of "The Selfish Woman" Is about the construction of a western rail- road in which everything is done to prevent the young contractor from carrying the project through as even his wife acts as the agent of the financial powers that oppose the plans. In the end of course, wife and hubby make up and the railroad is built in scheduled time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
Rotarians Meet

Cincinnati, July 17.-Over 5000 Rotarians, attending the seventh annual interna- tional convention here, hurried through the short business session today and be- gan lively programme of entertainment Mayor Puchta of Cincinnati officially well comed the delegates to the city, and Allen D. Albert of Minneapolis. international president, delivered his address. Gov ernor Willis of Ohio and Ralph A. Tingle, president of the Cincinnati Rotary club, also welcomed the visitors. Responses were made by past international presi- dents. Various departmental discussions followed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
DEUTSCHLAND MAY
 SAIL AWAY TODAY
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ternational law if the German submarine Deutschland crossed the three mile limit on her return trip submerged, state de- partment officials said they could see no objection to that method of evading the allied patrol provided the submarines movements were not such as to consti- tute menace to navigation. They were inclined to believe, however, that any att tempt to go a considerable distance be- meath the surface in the territorial waters of the United States would in it's nature menace navigation and therefore would not be permissible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
s1INRORNo
Subterranean Wireless
 Telephone Invented

San Francisco, July 17.-Dr. H. Bar ringer-Cox announced here today that he had perfected subterranean wireless telephone and that incidentally he had discovered a new law of physics-that electrical energy can be transmitted over single conductor.
 For the past five months Dr. Cox has been working at Los Olives Cal, with the United States forest service, in an effort to perfect a system of wireless signals for forest fires. While so en- gagged he made the discovery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
Road Meeting in CIanton

Clanton, July 17-(Special.)-A Jack son highway meeting will be held in Clanton on July 25. MT. J. E. Brooks, superintendent of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, in a letter addressed to Mr Barny NJ. Roberts, postmaster at Clanton, says that he has ordered fast train No. to stop at Clanton in or der to accommodate visitors from a distance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-18
Little Fever in Tuscaloosa

Tuscaloosa, July H.-(Special.)-The health report for Tuscaloosa county for the month of June as turned in by Dr. J. J. Durrett, county health officer, shows but one death from typhoid fever during the whole month. Only two cases of typhoid fever were reported to Dr. Dur rett for the month of June. The report shows 95 births and 67 deaths.